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BBC News", "Modern slavery gangmasters exploit care worker shortage - BBC News", "Israel judicial reform: Crowds confront police as key law passed - BBC News", "Worldcoin: Sam Altman launches eyeball scanning crypto coin - BBC News", "Arrest after man sexually assaulted on train to Cardiff - BBC News", "Spotify raises premium subscription price for millions - BBC News", "Alison Rose: The bank boss brought down by the Nigel Farage row - BBC News", "BBC News - BBC newsreader George Alagiah dies aged 67", "Greece fires: Drone shows fire-ravaged Rhodes - BBC News", "Twitter headquarters left with half a sign as police interrupt - BBC News", "Nigel Farage: BBC apologises to Farage over account closure story - BBC News", "Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years - BBC News", "Labour drops pledge to introduce self-ID for trans people - BBC News", "Brussels bombers found guilty after long murder trial - BBC News", "Watch: George Alagiah's extraordinary career - BBC News", "Police watchdog to review Croydon bus fare evasion arrest - 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BBC News", "Prince George: New photo to mark 10th birthday - BBC News", "Nova Scotia: Four missing after extreme rainfall hits Canada - BBC News", "Matty Healy: Malaysia festival cancelled after The 1975 singer attacks anti-LGBT law - BBC News", "Pulp: Jarvis Cocker celebrates the band's comeback at Latitude - BBC News", "Polarised Spain eyes the hard-right ahead of election - BBC News", "Biden chooses Lisa Franchetti to head Pentagon military branch - BBC News", "Lesbian couple drop NHS fertility treatment legal challenge - BBC News", "Uxbridge by-election: Khan defends Ulez after Starmer blames it for poll setback - BBC News", "Tom Jones questions Delilah rugby choir ban during Cardiff concert - BBC News", "London day travelcards to be phased out - BBC News", "Europe heatwave: Temperatures to soar in Greece as fires still burn - BBC News", "Fifa Women's World Cup: England beat Haiti but given tough test in opener - BBC Sport", "Seven AI companies agree to safeguards in the US - BBC News", "Gateshead match abandoned after hearse drives onto pitch - 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of the latest tech?", "Labour and Lib Dems achieve huge swings but Ulez opposition helps Tories clinch victory in west London.", "A judge rejects Mr Trump's bid to have the case delayed until after next year's White House election.", "Cambodia's authoritarian ruler has crushed all opposition - so what hope is there for voters?", "The remains have been donated by a US businessman to a university so they can be studied.", "The New York crooner who duetted with Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra and Lady Gaga, dies aged 96.", "Admiral Lisa Franchetti will become the first woman to lead a Pentagon military branch if confirmed.", "Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk says it is \"absolutely vital\" dangerous offenders are kept behind bars.", "Governments may need to give energy bill help this winter, says the head of the International Energy Agency.", "A large-scale Israeli military operation is under way, with at least three Palestinians reported to have been killed.", "Léon Gautier is being remembered as a \"defender of freedom\" for his role opposing Nazi Germany.", "Premature babies can now routinely be given the drug ranibizumab on the NHS, to prevent blindness.", "The ex-official was cleared to work for Labour by Parliament's advisory appointments body last week.", "Gunfire erupted at a large block party in the city, leaving two dead and 28 others injured.", "The Oscar-winning actor faces 12 sexual offence charges against four men, which he denies.", "French mayors denounce \"extreme violence\" of the protests which swept the country for almost a week.", "The actor denies 12 charges of sexual assault alleged to have been committed between 2001 and 2013.", "Gemma Germeney, 31, Lilly Peden, eight, and Oliver Peden, four, died in the flat fire.", "Watchdog says \"significantly lower\" prices likely due to competition with Republic filling stations.", "A member of the public asked the PCSO to go to a supermarket where a fight had broken out.", "Prosecutors are due to interview a witness after he posted a version of events online.", "The ceremony is part of an age-old ritual in which the reptile represents mother earth.", "Duwayne Brooks, who witnessed the murder, says he could have picked a sixth suspect from a line-up.", "Russia has mined vast swathes of Ukrainian territory its holds, inflicting casualties as Kyiv advances.", "Scientists found evidence that climate change made the warmer weather last month more likely.", "He was Cabinet Secretary between 2012 and 2014 during David Cameron's coalition government.", "A scene in the film features a map depicting China's territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea.", "King Charles was cheered by well-wishers in Bo'ness before being presented with the keys to Edinburgh.", "Parklife boss Sacha Lord writes to the home secretary urging her to allow safety tests to go ahead.", "Hallie, from Coventry, needs treatment which her family say cannot be provided by the NHS.", "The Marylebone Cricket Club suspends three members over altercations with Australia players at Lord's on day five of the second Test.", "Victoria Amelina, an award-winning writer, was in a pizza restaurant that was hit by a Russian missile.", "Elon Musk provoked a Twitter backlash after introducing limits to the number of tweets users can read.", "Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer says she is concerned banks are shutting accounts for the wrong reasons.", "Aslef drivers will refuse to work overtime for another six days, in addition to the current industrial action.", "The patient died after being found unresponsive and partially clothed in a car park.", "The government says the move is needed to stop councils conducting their own foreign policy.", "Nathan Law says his life has become more dangerous as Hong Kong police offer a bounty for his arrest.", "Officials say that without ministers they lack the legal authority for steps to balance DfI's budget.", "One of Nahel's relatives says the riots do not honour Nahel's death, and the family want them to stop.", "The New Conservatives group say the PM risks \"eroding public trust\" unless the numbers are cut by 400,000.", "Fifteen train companies based in England will be hit from Monday to Saturday this week.", "Emma Anderson, who has a heart condition, described her daughter Darcey as a \"wee superstar\".", "Last year's men's singles runner-up Nick Kyrgios withdraws from Wimbledon 2023 with a wrist injury.", "Some have lost access to their inboxes, and the firm cannot say when it will be fixed.", "Islanders on Westray were told of a genetic variant linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.", "A senior headteacher accused Ms Phillips of racism and bullying following a Twitter row.", "The Covid inquiry continues hearing evidence on how prepared the UK was for the pandemic.", "Emma Thompson and Richard Curtis say the bank is \"financing and profiting from climate chaos\".", "He was learning to be an electrician and played rugby league but died at a police check near Paris.", "James Carlisle also faces five other charges after a domestic incident in County Down.", "The chief medical officer and ex-Welsh NHS boss are being questioned on Wales' pandemic preparation.", "The PM's spokesman said Australia had broken the spirit of the game with the controversial stumping.", "The girl group become the first ever Korean band to headline a major UK music festival.", "Peers voted to reverse a government plan to remove existing caps in the Illegal Migration Bill.", "NHS whistleblowers are being victimised, risking another big hospital scandal, an expert tells the BBC.", "A new high-speed weather camera above Europe and Africa records the daily frenzy of lightning storms.", "Attackers tried to set the house on fire before firing rockets at the mayor's fleeing wife and children.", "Sussex Police apologise for the \"clumsy language\" used by a Police Community Support Officer.", "Novak Djokovic dries the court with a towel and urges the crowd to \"blow\" amid rain delay as he begins his Wimbledon title defence with a win.", "A total of 719 people were arrested as disturbances gripped Marseille and other cities with Paris quieter.", "Bosses at Lloyds, HSBC, NatWest and Barclays will meet the industry watchdog on Thursday.", "The Met Office will confirm on Monday if the record-breaking temperatures are linked to climate change.", "The islands' councillors will consider a motion to investigate alternative forms of governance.", "Palestinian militant group Hamas calls the \"heroic\" attack in Tel Aviv a \"natural\" response to Israel's operation in the West Bank.", "President Macron is fervently hoping the protesters give up and go home soon. For so many reasons.", "The Flash star posts a statement calling it an \"egregious misuse of the protective order system\".", "July's full Moon, known as a Buck Moon, is closer than normal in its orbit around the Earth.", "Amanda Pritchard told the BBC that July's strikes could be the worst yet for patients.", "Saju Chelavalel is jailed for at least 40 years for killing Anju Asok and their two children.", "One instalment of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg's nightly programme attracted 40 complaints to the regulator.", "US President Joe Biden will meet King Charles at Windsor Castle on 10 July.", "The pair are being treated for their injuries in hospital following the incident in Glasgow on Sunday.", "Nine Palestinians are killed as troops carry out an air and ground assault in the West Bank city.", "Elon Musk confirms the firm has a heavy debt load and income in June was not what had been expected.", "The item is under police guard as state and federal authorities work to identify its origin.", "The court is told she intends to plead guilty after the 82-year-old rugby club stalwart's death.", "The musician appeared via video link as a defence witness in the actor's sex assault trial.", "Three men are being questioned about the crash close to the Prince of Wales M4 bridge.", "Under a new order, the Danone and Carslberg units have been put in \"temporary management\" of the state.", "Victims say the fallout has been \"horrendous\" as a report calls compensation schemes a \"patchwork quilt\".", "Greatest Hits Radio's campaign around offenders attending sentencing is under scrutiny.", "Senior doctors are already set to strike this week - but now they will also strike for two days in August.", "Moscow blames Ukraine for the incident, which killed two people, but Kyiv has not said it was responsible.", "The unnamed firefighter died from injuries sustained working in the Northwest Territories on Saturday.", "Some of the emails reportedly contain sensitive information such as passwords and medical records.", "Construction workers and fishermen now face lower fees and requirements to qualify for skilled worker visas.", "Carlos Alcaraz wins the Wimbledon men's singles title for the first time by ending Novak Djokovic's recent dominance with a stunning victory.", "Mallory Beach died when a boat owned by the prominent South Carolina family crashed in 2019.", "Carlos Alcaraz beating Novak Djokovic to the Wimbledon men's singles title was primarily for himself - but it can also give hope to the rest of the younger generation.", "Russia has threatened not to extend the deal allowing Ukraine's Black Sea grain exports despite the war.", "Novak Djokovic is fined £6,117 for smashing his racquet against a net post in the Wimbledon men's final.", "With Ukraine aiming to deal a decisive blow to Russian forces, the bridge is a key target.", "The singer tells the BBC she wants to build better support for contestants on reality TV shows.", "The move comes after officials impounded 172 watches worth £10,700 from its rainbow-coloured Pride collection.", "Peers will have a chance later to insist on alterations in a series of late-night votes.", "The rare first-edition, unopened 4GB model sold for almost 400 times its original value.", "The move comes after the Welsh government axed support for free school meals.", "Temperatures in the Mediterranean are expected to peak on Tuesday as the heatwave continues.", "Former Wales star Rob Earnshaw says the help for players has improved drastically since he played.", "Just 15 were alive after the stranding and vets had to euthanise the survivors on welfare grounds.", "Mustafa Suleyman says he has chosen to locate his new AI company in the US.", "The barge, set to house 500 asylum seekers, arrives in Portland where it is expected to face protests.", "The latest plan to prepare the UK for intense heatwaves and flooding falls short of expectation.", "Kyiv has not officially claimed responsibility for the blast on the bridge linking the occupied Crimean Peninsula to Russia.", "The EU is sending firefighting planes to Greece as the country attempts to tackle fires amid the extreme heat.", "Experts are predicting that the developing El Niño is likely to make 2023 the world's hottest year.", "A guide to artificial intelligence, chatbots, image generators, deep learning and more. We explain how AI is trained, what different AI models can do and how you may already be using AI without knowing.", "The National Audit Office has found the project is behind schedule and not delivering value for money.", "The authors of a new report are calling for a change to how victims are compensated.", "Corrie Mckeague's mum says she feels sick after seeing unlocked bins where her son went missing.", "Death Valley in California did not reach its previous record but that didn't stop the tourists.", "In Phoenix, Arizona, temperatures have been above 109.4F (43C) for 17 days straight.", "The horses were \"terrified of humans\" when found but are expected to make a full recovery.", "Australia's women's team criticise the gender disparity in World Cup prize money and some nations not having collective bargaining rights.", "The controversial police unit enforces Iran's strict dress code and has been accused of brutality.", "Some students in Wales will not have their degree classification in time for graduation.", "Ministers will ask the regulator to restrict numbers on underperforming courses in England.", "Ian Hogarth said it was inevitable that more jobs would become increasingly automated.", "A woman is bailed after being arrested in connection with the Christmas Eve crash.", "Examinations are carried out on some of the 55 whales washed ashore on the Isle of Lewis.", "The corporation's director general says the case remains very complex and the internal inquiry will follow due process", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about Global Trade from across the BBC.", "The number of people signing up for nursing qualifications dropped \"significantly\" in the last year.", "The new entity is called xAI, and employs several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google.", "Sharon Loughran says her car was set alight during what police are treating as a sectarian attack.", "Eight major UK airports have increased fees for drivers to drop off passengers, according to new data.", "Young people say buying feels hopeless and they are penalised as renters are unable to save.", "This year's Twelfth of July parades included Ballinamallard, Magherafelt and Kilkeel.", "The House Of Cards actor, who denies 12 charges, is giving evidence in his defence.", "Nine in 10 UK dentists are not accepting new adult patients, while eight in 10 are refusing children.", "Police say no evidence of criminal behaviour over claims he paid a young person for explicit photos.", "People are being asked to separate household plastics to give them a chance of being recycled.", "As claims and counter-claims continue, one area under scrutiny is how the Sun has handled the story.", "An inquiry finds no precautions could have avoided Derek Roan's death on his farm near Dalbeattie.", "There's been anger at Eras tour tickets being resold on the secondary site for thousands of pounds.", "Thales Glasgow will continue a 100-year tradition of supplying periscopes to the Royal Navy", "The plan to reform NHS training and recruitment comes at a time of record-high waiting lists.", "The object, believed to be from the Chinese Ming Dynasty, sells after being found in a charity shop.", "The only child of music icon Elvis Presley died after being rushed to a hospital on 12 January.", "Allegations and speculation about a BBC presenter's behaviour and identity had mounted for days.", "The Federal Trade Commission's request to block the Microsoft-Activision deal was rejected by a judge.", "Young Italians object to the acquittal of a school caretaker who admitted groping a teenage student.", "Lt Gen Oleg Tsokov's death is announced on TV and by Russian war channels on social media.", "Some fear the controversial new barrier may make the crossing more dangerous for migrants.", "The families of Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber want to fundraise in their memory.", "A third consecutive night of strikes on Kyiv comes hours after the Nato summit.", "Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis is among the stars on the picket line for Hollywood's largest strike in decades.", "Hywel Williams says he was acting in self-defence when he pushed Peter Ormerod, who later died.", "The heatwave could potentially lead to record-breaking temperatures, forecasters say.", "Seventeen houses were damaged in east London during a heatwave last year.", "Three boys aged 13, 16 and 17, and two men, aged 38 and 60, have been charged with violent disorder.", "The presenter has been named as the BBC star at the centre of a string of damaging allegations in the Sun.", "Stars from the hotly-anticipated film attend its premiere in London's Leicester Square.", "New evidence further challenges the official version of last month's deadly sinking.", "Union leaders have come out in support of a new 6.5% pay offer and will recommend members accept it.", "A forensic pathologist tells a murder trial that Amber Gibson died from compression to her neck.", "Films and TV shows in production are affected as some 160,000 performers stop work in LA.", "Debt could rise to more than 300% of the size of the economy by 2070, the government's forecaster says.", "The economy shrank by 0.1% in May and has barely grown since 2019 before the pandemic.", "Teachers' unions welcome public sector pay rises, but other sectors fear cuts will be made to fund them.", "The Glasgow attraction secured the £120,000 Art Fund award - the largest museum prize in the world.", "A damning new report says China has penetrated \"every sector\" of the UK's economy.", "Bosses can no longer use agency staff to cover striking workers during walkouts, the High Court rules.", "Watch the moment a member of Wimbledon security is booed after asking a crowd member to return a caught ball during Christopher Eubanks' quarter-final against Daniil Medvedev.", "Ex-BBC DJ Tim Westwood is questioned for a third time over alleged sex offences, BBC News understands.", "The announcement is expected on Thursday, following formal sign off from the prime minister and chancellor.", "Former deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill was giving evidence to the Covid-19 inquiry.", "A damning report, by the Health and Social Care Committee, says more needs to be done, and quickly.", "Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot can now also talk and respond to visual prompts.", "Ronan Kanda, 16, had been buying a PlayStation controller when he was stabbed close to his home.", "Wages continue to rise strongly, raising the prospect of more interest rate rises by the Bank of England.", "There are concerns the RSF is targeting specific ethnic groups in the West Darfur region.", "A woman is collecting donations for the lifeboat crew who tried to save her partner's life.", "Drone footage has shown the scale of destruction caused by floods and landslides in Manali, northern India.", "The government had until 16.00 BST on Monday to hand over the ex-PM's messages to the Covid inquiry.", "The Conservative MP allegedly threatened to use her \"platform\" to find out why she was denied a peerage.", "The Royal Veterinary College says illegal acts, like puppies only viewed online pre-purchase, have persisted post-pandemic.", "Gen Ivan Popov says he refused to keep quiet over issues at the front line in Ukraine.", "US regulators are asking the maker of ChatGPT about protections for privacy and reputational risk.", "His wife said she issued a statement \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being\".", "Donald MacLeod, who owns some of Glasgow's most iconic venues, called the suggestion \"idiotic\".", "The party says it will create a new watchdog with powers to propose sanctions against ministers.", "Peers overturn several government amendments as the Illegal Migration Bill enters \"ping-pong\".", "Experts are predicting that the developing El Niño is likely to make 2023 the world's hottest year.", "The two-time Oscar-winning actor denies sex offences between 2001 and 2013.", "The inquiry is currently hearing from key figures about how well prepared the UK was for the pandemic.", "Ons Jabeur produces a superb comeback to beat Aryna Sabalenka and set up a Wimbledon women's singles final against Marketa Vondrousova.", "President Zelensky wants assurances Ukraine will join Nato after the war, but members chose strategic caution.", "Everton midfielder Dele Alli says he was sexually abused when he was six years old and started dealing drugs aged eight.", "Domestic women's football could become a \"billion pound industry\" in 10 years' time says former Lionesses midfielder Karen Carney - the chair of a major review into the sport.", "The cocaine was discovered this month in a part of the White House that is accessible to tour groups.", "Local authorities in England may be forced to use illegal children's homes, care providers warn.", "The Meta chief is hoping Threads, his new Instagram-linked app, will beat Twitter on numbers.", "Meta's new app benefits from its two billion Instagram followers that give it a huge shot in the arm.", "Will Russia's defences shatter or hold firm? The BBC gets the view from Ukrainian soldiers on the front line.", "Ms Edwards' father calls his daughter's killer, Connor Chapman, a \"coward\" as he is taken to the cells.", "The head teacher ended her life ahead of the publication of a report that downgraded her school.", "The Scottish government wants a change in UK laws to stop people found in possession of drugs for their own use being prosecuted.", "Connor Chapman shot innocent bystander Elle when he opened fire with a sub-machine gun at a pub.", "Andy Murray dazzles under the Wimbledon lights again as he leads Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in a late-night thriller on Centre Court.", "Police warn of the dangers of frozen lakes after the incident at Lincoln's Hartsholme Park.", "The White House defends the move, while acknowledging that such unexploded ordnance can harm civilians.", "In March it was announced that work on the new Euston station would be paused for two years.", "He is the first suspected right-wing extremist under this type of order since it was created in 2011.", "US national security adviser Jake Sullivan calls Ukraine's lack of artillery 'intolerable'.", "Robert Jenrick is reported to have considered the cartoon images in the Dover centre too welcoming.", "The firm posts a one-line statement saying it has stopped \"all exploration and commercial operations\".", "Piles of cash, weapons and a giant sledgehammer seen in pictures allegedly showing a raid on his home.", "One group of scientists reported a third global high calculated with satellites and computer models.", "A Met Office yellow weather alert is in place across England, Scotland and Wales until midnight.", "The BBC's Steve Rosenberg questions Mr Lukashenko at the Palace of Independence in Minsk.", "Nine people are injured after a car crashes into a primary school building in south-west London.", "A girl and a woman are in a critical condition after a car crashed into a school killing another child.", "Former Manchester United and Ajax goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is being treated in intensive care after suffering a bleed on his brain.", "The 26-year-old victim's family say they hope gunman Connor Chapman \"never sees Christmas again\".", "Countries have agreed to limit carbon from shipping by 2050 but green groups say the pact is flawed.", "Kenyan cheese factory employees were reportedly made to undress after a pad was put in the wrong bin.", "Margaret Griffiths was stabbed to death by her son John in a \"frenzied onslaught,\" family say.", "Tim Edwards says he wants to do all he can to stop the cycle of gun violence on Merseyside.", "The Hollywood star is filming scenes at Silverstone for a new F1 movie co-produced by Lewis Hamilton.", "A union for European air traffic controllers says it could strike in a row over staffing and pay.", "Selena Lau was described as \"an intelligent and cheeky girl adored and loved by everyone\".", "Three protesters ran on to court 18 during two games at the tennis championships on Wednesday.", "Tributes are paid to Jack Johnson, siblings Finlay and Samuel Butler and Thomas Stewart.", "Strikes hit England's schools for second time this week, as ministers consider next year's pay offer.", "The broadcasting watchdog is looking into a complaint about the network's Don't Kill Cash drive.", "Government data shows the decrease in Lula's first six months, reversing a years-long trend.", "Thousands have come together to dance to the song ‘Nutbush City Limits’ at an outback music festival.", "The Sun newspaper says an unnamed BBC presenter paid the teenager tens of thousands of pounds.", "The driver of a car which crashed into a school is questioned as floral tributes are laid at the scene.", "A fake advert circulating online features a computer-generated likeness of the money-saving expert.", "As the NHS turns 75, bosses say it can survive if \"overwhelming\" problems are overcome.", "Ford has made the Fiesta since 1976 but is modifying its Cologne plant to produce more electric vehicles.", "The Belarusian leader tells the BBC groups like Wagner must be watched closely to stop rebellions.", "Six cinemas close in the chain immediately, with the loss of 150 jobs, say administrators.", "PM Mark Rutte's conservative VVD party had been trying to limit the flow of asylum seekers.", "The previous government's \"Robodebt\" scheme drove people to despair, a landmark inquiry finds.", "In an exclusive interview, Alexander Lukashenko tells the BBC it’s “absolutely possible” his forces helped migrants cross into Poland”.", "Andy Murray's hopes of a fine Wimbledon victory on the 10th anniversary of his 2013 title win were ended by Stefanos Tsitsipas in round two.", "A woman is arrested after the crash into a school garden party in Wimbledon, south-west London.", "Junior doctors in Scotland had been due to strike next week in a row over pay.", "Nzembi Mosukulu says her business has allowed her to \"buy food and educate my children\".", "Two old rivals - Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka - meet in one of the highlights on day five of Wimbledon.", "The pop star says the incident near a restaurant in Las Vegas was a \"traumatic experience\".", "A robbery attempt took a turn when patrons and staff chose not to engage with the robber's demands.", "A girl has died after a Land Rover crashed into a primary school in Wimbledon, south-west London, on Thursday morning.", "Jamie Barrow deliberately started a fire which trapped a mum and her two daughters in their flat.", "Elle Edwards' father says he \"can't begin to understand\" the mindset of \"that thing\" who shot her.", "The four boys drowned after they fell through ice at the lake near Solihull in December 2022.", "The four boys died after they fell through ice at the lake near Solihull in December 2022.", "Its owner Elon Musk says \"competition is fine, cheating is not\" a day after the rival app launched.", "Senior Tory Caroline Nokes calls for clearer rules on conduct at Westminster in BBC interview.", "The singer, who is playing the festival on Friday, has put money behind the bar of five Glasgow pubs.", "Week of strikes to hit Tube services from 23 July in row over pensions and job cuts, RMT union says.", "Secret filming reveals that \"dangerous\" substances are widely available for sale around the country.", "The man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon at about 01:00 BST.", "The judge says the 2021 murder of the 66-year-old mother-of-three by two Iowa students was \"evil\".", "Four retired detectives who investigated the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence will not face prosecution.", "The council took legal action against a number of associated companies and business directors.", "Mark Zuckerberg has made a fortune selling ads on Facebook and Instagram. Will Threads be the same?", "The High Court says Cabinet Office must hand over unredacted documents to Baroness Hallett's Covid Inquiry.", "Storms in the country are battering areas in the north and south, with hail days after a heatwave.", "The attacker may still face the death penalty if convicted for murder charges in state court.", "A rare glimpse of a fractured conflict where the young are stalked by war and hunger.", "The work was recently confirmed to be by the Renaissance artist after work by two university teams.", "The Greek air force pilots had been responding to a wildfire near Platanistos on the island of Evia.", "The consumer goods giant sees profits rise by a fifth based almost entirely on increasing its prices.", "The SM UC-55 submarine which was sank in 1917 was identified by a team divers on Friday.", "Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death of the man, 41, and boy.", "The village, described as the first of its kind in the UK, is based on a Dutch model.", "Qin Gang's prolonged absence from public view, and the silence over it, is fuelling furious speculation.", "The impotence pill could have effects in the brain that may help fight dementia, say US researchers.", "The number living with serious health conditions will rise nine times faster than those of healthy working age.", "The video streaming app widens its uses as Twitter rebrands as X and Meta launches Threads.", "Former Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest midfielder Chris Bart-Williams dies aged 49.", "Men can now be conscripted into the armed forces up to the age of 30, an increase of three years.", "The German firm has set aside more than $15bn to settle potential lawsuits linking Roundup to cancer.", "As 10 men finally go to trial over the 2016 Brussels attacks, the BBC speaks to victims' families.", "The comedian who brought a whole new meaning to the term \"one-man show\" is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe.", "Scientists say the heatwaves seen in Europe, the US and China in July are no longer unusual.", "A former adviser to Boris Johnson joins the House of Lords as its youngest member.", "You always walked away from him liking the human race more - writes his friend and colleague.", "Connor Gibson has been convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his 16-year-old sister in 2021.", "Both crew members died when their firefighting aircraft smashed into a hillside on the island of Evia.", "This video was removed due to rights expiring.", "Plans are announced to make it more difficult for banks to close customer accounts.", "A victim paid just £2 an hour describes her ordeal as investigators make the care industry a \"top priority\".", "Police use water cannon to break up mass demonstrations as a controversial law is passed.", "Thousands of people scan their irises via an orb on launch day of \"dystopian\" crypto project.", "A man was sexually assaulted on a train after \"lewd comments\" were made towards him, police say.", "For the first time since 2011, the firm lifts the cost of a single-account premium subscription.", "The NatWest chief executive's resignation brings an end to more than 30 years at the bank.", "George Alagiah has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer", "Greece is grappling with devastating wildfires that have forced thousands to flee their homes and hotels.", "The microblogging firm pauses removal of its name at San Francisco HQ after changing its brand to X.", "The BBC says sorry to Nigel Farage over its report about the closure of his account at private bank Coutts.", "Banned for a century because of filthy water, bathing is to resume in parts of the river.", "The party says it will keep a requirement for a medical diagnosis to change legal sex if it wins power.", "Six of the 10 suspects are convicted of terrorist murder for the twin bombings that killed 32 people.", "George Alagiah, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67.", "A video of a mum shouting as officers handcuff her in front of her son is criticised on social media.", "Dame Alison Rose admitted a \"serious error\" in talking about Nigel Farage's relationship with its private banking arm Coutts.", "The British actor's body was recovered in June, months after he'd gone missing in the mountains.", "A rare glimpse of a fractured conflict where the young are stalked by war and hunger.", "But an inquiry hears concerns that NI will be in \"no-man's land\" between Great Britain and EU.", "A wave swept 11-year-old Zac Thompson to sea as he sat with his brother and cousin at a beach.", "Crowds in Iraq and Yemen protest against the acts of a far-right group in Copenhagen.", "The Crown Office is being urged to reconsider its stance after the footballer said he would go on trial.", "Workers in San Francisco were taking down the sign after Elon Musk's rebrand of the company.", "As the NHS celebrates its anniversary, a look at what needs to change to help it in coming decades.", "One family tells BBC News of their struggle to cope with two young children in a hotel room.", "Tourists describe their emergency evacuation and people being covered in ash on the Greek island.", "The plans would have required many frontline officers and staff to remove beards and moustaches.", "Dewi George accepted speeding points on behalf of his son, who was later involved in a fatal crash.", "The ex-Love Island host says she is exploring \"uncomfortable\" topics in her new documentary series.", "Staff at 37 NHS trusts in England will walk out over pay, from 08:00 on Tuesday.", "Flare-ups overnight have caused the flames to spread to new areas on the island.", "The iconic pair were a limited edition made in the 1990s only for employees.", "The chancellor has \"significant concerns\" about the conduct of Natwest CEO Dame Alison Rose, BBC News is told.", "Policing 515 protests since April is costing the equivalent of 23,500 officer shifts, the Met says.", "The award-winning journalist was a respected fixture on British TV news for more than three decades.", "Palermo’s airport was shut down overnight as wildfires burned around its perimeter.", "After being freed last year in a prisoner exchange with Russia, Trevor Reed is injured in Ukraine.", "Gretchen Harrington, eight, was abducted by a family friend during a Bible camp in 1975, police say.", "A government commitment comes after reports of women being advised to store remains in the fridge.", "Voters going to the ballots say they are certain Hun Sen's ruling party will sweep all seats again.", "The Farm Safety Foundation says the pace of change remains \"far too slow\".", "The expansion of the service is expected to benefit more than 400,000 children this year.", "Ffos-y-Fran produces two-thirds of the UK's coal and was supposed to close in September.", "In a change of tradition it was taken by a photographer, rather than George's mother, the Princess of Wales.", "The Canadian province of Nova Scotia is experiencing its heaviest rain in half a century.", "Matty Healy launched a lengthy attack on Malaysia's laws, before kissing his band's bass player.", "The band headline Latitude festival with a set that breathes new life into their old hits.", "Spain goes to the polls to decide its next government on Sunday, and a hard-right coalition is looking likely.", "Admiral Lisa Franchetti will become the first woman to lead a Pentagon military branch if confirmed.", "Influencers Whitney and Megan Bacon-Evans say same-sex couples face more barriers to treatment.", "The Labour leader urges the London mayor to \"reflect\" after the Tories hold Uxbridge and South Ruislip.", "Welsh legend questions decision to stop choirs from singing his song at rugby matches.", "The daily paper tickets will no longer be sold or accepted on Transport for London services.", "Officials warn this could be Greece's hottest July weekend in 50 years, with temperatures hitting 45C.", "England win their opening match of the Women's World Cup against Haiti but are given a stern test against the tournament debutants.", "White House says it's a 'critical step' towards the responsible development of the technology.", "Police are called as two vehicles are driven onto the pitch at half-time in front of stunned fans.", "Actor Jamie Foxx speaks publicly for the first time since being hospitalised earlier this year.", "Greece's fire service apologised for \"a mess\", but said the situation could worsen due to the weather.", "A rare UK first edition featuring the author's inscriptions has been digitised and placed online.", "Police say the 18-year-old driver has been arrested following the incident in Glenrothes.", "The United States launch their bid for an unprecedented third consecutive world crown with a comfortable win against Women's World Cup debutants Vietnam in Auckland.", "A series of records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice are \"unprecedented\", some scientists say.", "Rishi Sunak avoids three nil defeat - but these were huge by-election wins for Labour and the Lib Dems.", "Roger Jones, who almost died from a brain injury, recovered to be there for his daughter's wedding.", "Russian-installed authorities halt railway services in Crimea and say Ukraine was behind a drone strike.", "It may not have been a thrilling performance but England did what they needed to do in their opening Women's World Cup game against Haiti - win.", "A junior commander says lower-ranking mercenaries had no idea what was happening during the rebellion.", "The band headline Latitude festival with a set that breathes new life into their old hits.", "Former head of the UN climate science body told the BBC's Today programme he was very pessimistic.", "A resident filmed a twister in North Carolina tearing off a roof and tossing up debris in the air.", "The fire service has urged people to stay away from cliff edges following the landslide.", "The leadership will come under pressure to be more radical at a key meeting with unions and party members.", "An inflatables manager admits safety breaches following the death of Ava-May Littleboy, three.", "The PM vows to \"double down\" on his promises on the economy and migration, despite suffering two by-election defeats.", "The NI secretary says he doesn't think the UK will need to ask the EU for more implementation time.", "BBC Sport readers picked one of the Haiti players as the standout performer, despite England winning the Fifa Women's World Cup match between the two sides.", "A judge rejects Mr Trump's bid to have the case delayed until after next year's White House election.", "Labour and the Lib Dems take two safe Tory seats in by-elections, but Rishi Sunak avoids a clean sweep.", "England dodge the rain to take the vital wicket of Marnus Labuschagne but their Ashes hopes remain in the balance going into the final day of the fourth Test against Australia.", "Parts of Sardinia and Sicily will be the hottest in Europe with highs of 46C or 47C.", "The brewery says some of the cider has over-fermented causing some bottles to erupt.", "The New York crooner who duetted with Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra and Lady Gaga, dies aged 96.", "Allister Brown took on the challenge in memory of his late partner, who died from pancreatic cancer.", "She represented the Cynon Valley constituency for 35 years before standing down in 2019.", "A man has been arrested after allegedly setting fire to a bar after he was kicked out, officials say.", "The inquiry is waiting for some of the ex-PM's messages, due to problems accessing his old phone.", "\"Still a long way to go,\" Labour leader says, after losing by-election dominated by climate policy.", "Bryony Duthie, 18, fell ill earlier this month while holidaying with family on the Costa Del Sol.", "Regulators find that a Polish firm's \"Cosa Nostra\" Scotch whisky product \"glamorises\" firearms.", "A Florida hunter has wrestled and caught a 19-ft Burmese python, the longest ever documented in the state.", "Sunnah Khan, 12, and Joe Abbess, 17, drowned while in the water next to the pier in May.", "Last year's summer season was marked by widespread travel disruption. Will this year be better?", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 7 July and 14 July..", "The Home Office wants to use former airbases in Essex and Lincolnshire to house migrants.", "The action was met with boos and jeers from some members of the audience at the Royal Albert Hall.", "The rest of the UK is considered to be at low risk of the virus taking off.", "Jamie Robertson was unable to leave his flat for almost a week before the lift was eventually fixed.", "A judge says the government was entitled not to adopt escape plans for disabled high-rise residents.", "Protesters blocked the dump after officials said they would not search for the remains of two murdered women.", "The rocket set off from India's space port in Andhra Pradesh, and is due to land a rover on the Moon in August.", "Video journalist Arman Soldin was killed in a rocket attack close to Bakhmut in May.", "Security staff at Heathrow will no longer strike after accepting an improved pay offer.", "It is the latest attack on LGBT rights in the country, after another anti-gay law was extended last year.", "Nine in 10 UK dentists are not accepting new adult patients, while eight in 10 are refusing children.", "Police say no evidence of criminal behaviour over claims he paid a young person for explicit photos.", "A pregnant woman shares concerns ahead of meeting on the future of births at Causeway Hospital.", "Police say the married suspect in the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders is \"a demon that walks among us\".", "The sweetener is found in a variety of foods, from diet drinks to chewing gum and some yoghurts.", "The 3,000-year-old gold torc is the first to be reported to as treasure in Essex, says an expert.", "The object, believed to be from the Chinese Ming Dynasty, sells after being found in a charity shop.", "The only child of music icon Elvis Presley died after being rushed to a hospital on 12 January.", "A record number of 18-year-olds are picking computer-based courses, the university admissions body UCAS says.", "The Deepest Breath documentary reveals the lure and dangers of the extreme sport of freediving.", "The actress will narrate Jean Sibelius’s Snöfrid, in a concert that also features a world premiere.", "A Hong Kong official suggests those who light up in restaurants should be met with disapproving looks.", "Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt are among the cast of the eagerly-awaited film.", "Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis is among the stars on the picket line for Hollywood's largest strike in decades.", "Michele Bullock will succeed Philip Lowe, who has led the Reserve Bank of Australia for seven years.", "The industry's biggest shutdown since 1960 has already impacted major films and promotional events.", "The Hollywood actor denies 12 sex offences against four men between 2001 and 2013.", "With Chandrayaan-3, India aims to be the first to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.", "Seventeen houses were damaged in east London during a heatwave last year.", "Nearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories.", "The Hungarian bookseller was penalised under legislation restricting LGBT literature for under-18s.", "The Oppenheimer director says fully supports the \"jobbing actors and staff writers\" on strike.", "The leader of June's aborted mutiny did not want his mercenaries to become a regular unit, President Putin says.", "The former PM was not sure about the passcode, delaying access to his WhatsApps sent before May 2021.", "An eyewitness tells the BBC he saw dozens of bodies being dumped from a truck by a paramilitary group.", "A former star of US sitcoms, Fran Drescher is the union chief leading actors into battle with streamers.", "Three boys aged 13, 16 and 17, and two men, aged 38 and 60, have been charged with violent disorder.", "A union for European air traffic controllers says it could strike in a row over staffing and pay.", "Inspectors praised HMP Greenock staff but called for a new prison to replace the 100-year-old facility.", "Novak Djokovic believes his formidable Wimbledon record means he is the favourite to win the men's title going into Friday's semi-finals.", "Films and TV shows in production are affected as some 160,000 performers stop work in LA.", "Mary Somerville died almost two months after Jaime Carsi was found dead next to her in Majorca.", "Kim Sampson and Samantha Mulcahy died after giving birth in two East Kent NHS Trust hospitals.", "The heatwave could potentially lead to record-breaking temperatures, forecasters say.", "The scheme to help people who missed out on last winter's energy subsidy should be reopened, a senior MP says.", "", "The parents of Jade Ward want parental rights to automatically end if one parent kills the other.", "As actors strike in Hollywood, unions say they want more protection from artificial intelligence.", "Only 5% English councils say there is enough SEND childcare available during school holidays.", "Ons Jabeur faces Marketa Vondrousova in Saturday's women's singles final at Wimbledon, with both players aiming for a slice of history.", "Novak Djokovic reaches the Wimbledon men's final for the fifth straight year before Carlos Alcaraz books his place in his first SW19 showpiece.", "The European Space Agency says Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland may see extreme conditions.", "The footballer was accused of raping a woman and attempting to rape another at his Cheshire home.", "A damning report, by the Health and Social Care Committee, says more needs to be done, and quickly.", "Half of butterfly species in the UK are threatened with extinction due to extreme weather.", "An agreement over public sector pay doesn't mean the pressure is off altogether.", "A top Italian court rules a culling order for two bears should be suspended, backing activists.", "Ronan Kanda, 16, had been buying a PlayStation controller when he was stabbed close to his home.", "Care Forum Wales warns that care funding needs an overhaul to stop homes in Wales closing.", "The government hopes to pass the Illegal Migration Bill before the summer recess.", "ACC Bobby Singleton says he understands some staff will be disappointed by the move.", "The actors' strike is the largest shutdown Hollywood has seen for 40 years.", "A woman is collecting donations for the lifeboat crew who tried to save her partner's life.", "The walkouts in July and August could cause some disruption but their impact is uncertain.", "The Hollywood actor denies 12 sex offences against four complainants between 2001 and 2013.", "The star was accused of laziness in the band's early days, but she was actually in physical pain.", "The energy firm had denied breaching health and safety rules, after a 43-year-old man died in 2014.", "One woman says she has toast for dinner and is concerned there's a lack of help in the holidays.", "US regulators are asking the maker of ChatGPT about protections for privacy and reputational risk.", "Shekhar Kapur says diverse casting is \"a good thing\" but hides \"a greater, more fundamental issue\".", "Darren Haydn Meah-Moore's body was found in Cardiff in January.", "A number of trade unions warn NI's public sector pay could fall behind other UK regions.", "Experts are predicting that the developing El Niño is likely to make 2023 the world's hottest year.", "Tom Somerset-How was bedbound and malnourished for four years in his home in Chichester.", "Patients cannot get on waiting lists, despite having broken teeth.", "Ons Jabeur produces a superb comeback to beat Aryna Sabalenka and set up a Wimbledon women's singles final against Marketa Vondrousova.", "Climate envoy John Kerry made the remarks before he travels to China to discuss climate change issues.", "The BBC's statement felt inevitable after a weekend of front pages, says Katie Razzall, and many answers are needed.", "The Hollywood star films scenes at the F1 circuit for a new movie co-produced by Lewis Hamilton.", "The pop star issues her first statement since a serious bacterial infection left her in hospital.", "At least one person dies after a huge metal construction girder falls onto a busy road in the Thai capital.", "Nassar, who is accused of abuse by hundreds, is believed to have been stabbed in the chest, neck and back.", "Review bodies are advising the government on pay rises for public sector workers such as doctors.", "Allegations and speculation about a BBC presenter's behaviour and identity had mounted for days.", "The Rolling Stones drummer had a broad collection of first editions, including The Great Gatsby.", "The water company, which is struggling under huge debts, is facing the threat of nationalisation.", "An Ulster Bank survey shows the Northern Ireland economy grew in June but not across all sectors.", "The Nato chief says President Erdogan will drop opposition to Sweden becoming the alliance's 32nd member.", "Prof Sir Michael McBride tells the UK Covid-19 inquiry the lack of ministers pre-Covid had an impact.", "Five years after the Queen of Soul died without a known will, her heirs are in court over her estate.", "Former NI international Paddy McCourt was convicted for sexually touching a woman in a bar last year.", "The BBC's Alice Cuddy witnesses 86 migrants being pulled to safety from an overcrowded rubber boat.", "But the meeting in Lithuania will see disagreement over Ukraine's ambition to join the military bloc.", "While it rings out on social media, the actual clock in town is stuck on one minute past nine.", "Max Verstappen cruises to victory in the British Grand Prix for his sixth win in a row and a record-equalling 11th consecutive triumph for Red Bull.", "The singer-songwriter apologises to fans for the abrupt end of her Glastonbury set, as she plays in London.", "Councillors vote in favour of honouring the Birkenhead-born entertainer who died earlier this year.", "A man has been arrested over the deaths of three children, a teacher and two parents.", "The teenager is being questioned as the teacher who was stabbed is discharged from hospital.", "A teacher is in hospital and a teenage boy is in custody, Gloucestershire Police say.", "The BBC star has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photos, the Sun reports.", "Top seed Carlos Alcaraz shows why he is the man likeliest to stop Novak Djokovic winning another Wimbledon after reaching the last eight.", "The BBC still has questions to answer after lawyers representing the young person at the centre of the allegations disputed the mother’s account.", "Sir Michael McBride says the lack of a Stormont government had a major impact on pandemic planning.", "Three other boats with hundreds more people who travelled from Senegal are still missing.", "In a letter to the BBC, the lawyer says \"the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are rubbish\".", "Claims being made by the mother at the heart of the BBC presenter row are \"rubbish\", a lawyer says.", "The teacher, who was attacked at Tewkesbury Academy this morning, is in a stable condition.", "Joe Biden's comments came as he met UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London ahead of a key Nato summit.", "Scrutiny should be \"out of the political arena\", says the leader of Wales' Covid bereaved group.", "President spoke about climate change with monarch after meeting Rishi Sunak this morning", "Testing finds that potentially-toxic blue-green algae is moving towards Downhill and Benone.", "The meeting in Moscow took place days after last month's failed rebellion, the Kremlin says.", "Nuria Sajjad \"embodied joy, kindness and generosity\", her family said.", "The firm says the current social media app is an initial version and changes are planned.", "Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey denies sexually assaulting four men between 2001 and 2013.", "A woman re-painted her door in Edinburgh's New Town after a previous green makeover was rejected.", "Meta's rival to Twitter has surpassed a record set by Open AI's ChatGPT app since its launch.", "Four people, including a 61-year-old woman, are arrested after the house is extensively damaged.", "Belarusian Victoria Azarenka is booed off at the end of her fourth-round defeat by Ukrainian Elina Svitolina at Wimbledon.", "MPs will quiz the watchdog on Wednesday over whether it has been \"asleep at the wheel\".", "The bill is central to Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.", "Women rape complainants say the system is still weighted against them, even with programme pilots.", "The move comes after rioting sparked by last month's killing of a 17-year-old by police in Nanterre.", "The latest twist in Russia's mutiny saga surpasses Dostoyevsky for mystery, Steve Rosenberg says.", "North India has been witnessing heavy rainfall and flooding over the last few days.", "A senior midwife leading the inquiry in Nottingham says 1,700 families' cases will be examined.", "The US president is facing criticism over his decision to send the controversial weapons to Ukraine.", "Scientists say a new scanning method that can identify tiny tumours could revolutionise medical research.", "Nato faces a tricky summit focused on Ukraine as Kyiv presses to join the alliance, Katya Adler writes.", "It comes after videos emerge of the moment the 16-year-old was killed during an Israeli assault.", "A woman whose data was stolen says the scammers left her shaking and feeling \"violated\".", "Crew shortages meant 39 engines were not available to fight London's wildfires last July, a review finds.", "The Hollywood star says he is \"still floating a little\" after seeing the room where Thomas wrote.", "The music superstar delights a Stockholm audience after a mammoth global farewell tour.", "Europe's drugs regulator has been alerted to a possible link to thoughts of suicide among some users.", "Andrew Bailey tells an audience at Mansion House that it is \"crucial\" inflation falls back to 2%.", "Officials are warning residents to remain on alert as more rain is expected in the coming days.", "The former chancellor's wedding in Somerset was disrupted by a woman throwing orange confetti.", "England keep their Ashes hopes alive by beating Australia by three wickets in another nerve-shredding Headingley finale.", "A theatre apologises after indecent image appears during a screening of the children's film.", "Cardiff council says there is insufficient capacity in the grid to use more electric lorries.", "The prospect of Russian Wagner mercenaries moving to Belarus causes concern across the Polish border.", "The nurse is accused of killing seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others on a neonatal unit.", "Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk says it is \"absolutely vital\" dangerous offenders are kept behind bars.", "The charges against him relate to an \"extreme right-wing ideology\", counter-terrorism police say.", "The UK had criticised Hong Kong for placing bounties on eight pro-democracy activists based overseas.", "Sunak insists the government's plan to send migrants who arrive in the UK illegally to Rwanda is lawful.", "Premature babies can now routinely be given the drug ranibizumab on the NHS, to prevent blindness.", "The council leader accused the Scottish and UK governments of discrimination before his motion was supported.", "A US policeman who saved a driver trapped in a fiery crash has been hailed a hero.", "The former shadow chancellor says a \"right-wing faction\" has gained control of party selection processes.", "Ms Black became the parliament's youngest MP since 1832 when she was first elected in 2015 aged 20.", "The Met reopens probe into Tory HQ party but will not investigate Boris Johnson over further alleged breaches of Covid rules.", "The Oscar-winning actor faces 12 sexual offence charges against four men, which he denies.", "Two babies were reportedly among the injured after a missile strike in Ukraine's Kharkiv region.", "The pair say they are \"beyond excited\" to bring back the series, which ran from 1989 to 2006.", "Women's freedoms have steadily shrunk since the Taliban seized power in 2021.", "A judge tells Andy Pilley the case is a \"sordid tale of squalid lies and greed\".", "In one case, a woman says a detective pursued a sexual relationship with her and continued to harass her.", "Nigel Farage's account with the bank Coutts is not being closed for political reasons, the BBC is told.", "In his last UK interview, the actor said friends believed mountaineering had become too dangerous.", "Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer says she is concerned banks are shutting accounts for the wrong reasons.", "The patient died after being found unresponsive and partially clothed in a car park.", "The government says the move is needed to stop councils conducting their own foreign policy.", "Nathan Law says his life has become more dangerous as Hong Kong police offer a bounty for his arrest.", "Anthony Albanese says his country stands \"right behind\" its team after the controversy over a key wicket.", "A mayor in one of France's poorest areas wants the state to take tougher measures against rioters.", "The Edinburgh-based company says all of its main areas of practice achieved record income last year.", "The High Court quashes a Department of Health policy on paying for healthcare costs in nursing homes.", "The water regulator said talks with investors to raise the necessary funds were continuing.", "Emma Anderson, who has a heart condition, described her daughter Darcey as a \"wee superstar\".", "A barrister for five councils says expanding the ultra-low emission zone is beyond Sadiq Khan's powers.", "Agents are poring over visitor logs and footage for clues as to who left the drug in the West Wing.", "Five-time champion Venus Williams, 43, recovers from a dramatic slip to continue against Elina Svitolina in a gutsy Wimbledon defeat.", "The move is the latest in a rivalry between Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "A Palestinian drove into and stabbed people in the Israeli city before being shot dead, police say.", "The Covid inquiry continues hearing evidence on how prepared the UK was for the pandemic.", "Rishi Sunak refused to say whether Tories critical of an inquiry into Boris Johnson should apologise.", "Millwall's owner and chairman John Berylson dies at the age of 70 following a \"tragic accident\", the club announce.", "Unilever said exiting was \"not straightforward\" as its operations would be taken over if it abandoned them.", "Use our calculator to find out how much mortgage payments could go up for your household.", "Patrick Harvie will attend an anti-monarchy rally and Lorna Slater says that monarchy is \"nothing to celebrate\".", "Jamie Barrow killed his neighbour and her two young children when he set fire to their flat.", "A public consultation has been launched on proposals to close hundreds of station ticket offices in England.", "Barry Donnelly, 38, is given an indeterminate custodial sentence for killing his neighbour Aidan Mann.", "Peers voted to reverse a government plan to remove existing caps in the Illegal Migration Bill.", "Neither Israel nor Palestinians are in any mood to talk peace even when fighting ends in Jenin, Jeremy Bowen reports.", "New Stormont framework recommends teaching children about healthy relationships as a key action.", "Yelena Milashina had received threats from Chechnya's leader before, but went to hear a court verdict.", "Forest Green Rovers name Hannah Dingley as their new caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men's team in English football.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales hear from the first person born after the NHS was founded, in 1948.", "Novak Djokovic dries the court with a towel and urges the crowd to \"blow\" amid rain delay as he begins his Wimbledon title defence with a win.", "The Captain Tom Foundation is also no longer taking donations due to an inquiry into its finances.", "Bosses at Lloyds, HSBC, NatWest and Barclays will meet the industry watchdog on Thursday.", "The firm pumped millions of litres of sewage into rivers, turning them black and killing fish.", "The prime minister continues to back the Bank of England as mortgage pressure rises for homeowners.", "Police say the pair, both aged 22, will appear at court in Ipswich on Wednesday.", "The accuser alleges he was approached by the actor after he let his dog out accidentally.", "The men, aged 45, 47 and 58, have all been charged with preparatory acts of terrorism.", "Palestinian militant group Hamas calls the \"heroic\" attack in Tel Aviv a \"natural\" response to Israel's operation in the West Bank.", "July's full Moon, known as a Buck Moon, is closer than normal in its orbit around the Earth.", "We're not seeing the same market panic as last autumn, but people renewing mortgages will be affected.", "Russia's defence ministry says five Ukrainian drones were shot down in the Moscow region.", "There had been mixed feelings about the event taking place against the backdrop of civil unrest.", "Monday 3 July was the warmest day yet recorded with temperatures averaging over 17C for the first time.", "Eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer takes the acclaim of an adoring Centre Court and makes his presence felt among the current players.", "The pair are being treated for their injuries in hospital following the incident in Glasgow on Sunday.", "Washington and Beijing have been battling for influence over the semiconductor industry.", "Wimbledon supporters criticise the organisation of the queue after increased security checks slowed entry, causing frustrated fans to leave.", "Israel strikes Gaza in response to Palestinian rocket fire, as troops end major West Bank operation.", "Nine Palestinians are killed as troops carry out an air and ground assault in the West Bank city.", "The president has been detained and troops now say they are closing the country's borders.", "Andrew Malkinson, who served 17 years in prison, says he feels he had been \"kidnapped by the state\".", "The Greek air force pilots had been responding to a wildfire near Platanistos on the island of Evia.", "Will Kerr, from Devon and Cornwall Police, was suspended by the police and crime commissioner.", "The defence for the American actor summed up their arguments for the jury on Thursday.", "Russian and Chinese delegations are the first to visit after the country shut borders due to the pandemic.", "Tougher penalties are needed to stop \"nightmare\" dog attacks on livestock, farmers say.", "Victim Tony Parsons disappeared in 2017 and his body was found more than three years later.", "Prosecutors wrapped up their evidence against Kevin Spacey in his London sex assault trial today.", "The bank's boss, Dame Alison Rose, stepped down after admitting to being the source of an inaccurate BBC story about the ex-UKIP leader.", "The comedian who brought a whole new meaning to the term \"one-man show\" is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe.", "A day after the ceremony, Victoria Forbes and Mark Lyons climbed the Inaccessible Pinnacle.", "A new report says that for 10 years the British government under-estimated the Russian mercenary group.", "The Education Committee says it is vital the government gets the funding rates right.", "Dewi George accepted speeding points on behalf of his son, who was later involved in a fatal crash.", "But less than one-in-four countries have laws or policies prohibiting them, the United Nations found.", "The Oscar-winning actor cried as he was found not guilty of all charges at London's Southwark Crown Court earlier.", "Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer says she is concerned banks are shutting accounts for the wrong reasons.", "The musician appeared via video link as a defence witness in the actor's sex assault trial.", "The Nothing Compares 2 U singer sold millions of albums and was praised for her activism.", "The president's son was expected to plead guilty to tax charges in a deal that would spare him prison.", "The PM acknowledges the pain of those affected, but says decisions around compensation cannot be rushed.", "Plans are announced to make it more difficult for banks to close customer accounts.", "A $300m bond for Tottenham Hotspur tycoon Joe Lewis is secured by his luxury boat and private jets.", "Last year's record-breaking heat, driven by climate change, gives a snapshot of the UK's future weather.", "The Oscar-winning actor cried in court as he was cleared of all nine charges by a jury in London.", "The government says the new policy could save a million hours of police time every year.", "The Crown Office is being urged to reconsider its stance after the footballer said he would go on trial.", "Efforts are continuing to contain blazes in a number of Mediterranean countries.", "The TV chef has been asked to change his behaviour after complaints about his treatment of staff.", "Canada fight back from a goal down to beat the Republic of Ireland 2-1 and knock the debutants out of the Women's World Cup in Perth.", "The singer and activist has died at the age of 56, her family have announced.", "Video captured the moment a child was rescued after being accidentally locked inside a hot car during a heatwave.", "The iconic pair were a limited edition made in the 1990s only for employees.", "After being freed last year in a prisoner exchange with Russia, Trevor Reed is injured in Ukraine.", "Wildfires have claimed most lives in Algeria, but blazes are also widespread in Greece and Italy.", "The long-running comic book features guest appearances from Adele, Harry Styles and Stormzy.", "Three former members of the US military are questioned by a House panel on UFO sightings.", "The initiative is launched in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole to reduce harmful littering.", "British businessman Joe Lewis faces multiple counts of fraud in a Manhattan court.", "One person died as fire took hold of the ship as it burned off the Dutch island of Ameland.", "The shaven-headed Irish singer's turbulent life often threatened to overwhelm her music.", "MPs criticise HMRC over \"failure\" to keep young people informed about their Child Trust Funds maturing.", "The ex-UKIP leader says the whole board should go as the row over his account closure escalates.", "The NatWest chief executive's resignation brings an end to more than 30 years at the bank.", "The BBC says sorry to Nigel Farage over its report about the closure of his account at private bank Coutts.", "Six of the 10 suspects are convicted of terrorist murder for the twin bombings that killed 32 people.", "Wrexham beat 10-man Manchester United 3-1 but the newly-promoted League Two club's victory is overshadowed by a punctured lung suffered by talisman Paul Mullin.", "Dame Alison Rose admitted a \"serious error\" in talking about Nigel Farage's relationship with its private banking arm Coutts.", "One family tells BBC News of their struggle to cope with two young children in a hotel room.", "Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden says start-ups can help drive the green agenda.", "It comes after a row erupted over the sale of flags at an Apprentice Boys' parade last year.", "The American Beauty and Usual Suspects actor found his career derailed by a string of allegations.", "During summer months, tourists flock to this small protected beach in order to take pictures.", "The consumer goods giant sees profits rise by a fifth based almost entirely on increasing its prices.", "\"De-banking\" was on ministers' radar before the row that led to the downfall of Dame Alison Rose.", "Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death of the man, 41, and boy.", "Connor Gibson has been convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his 16-year-old sister in 2021.", "The US central bank offered few firm clues as to what it might do next.", "Ex-PSNI ACC Will Kerr was suspended from his role as chief constable in Devon and Cornwall earlier.", "The promotional video is dropped after viewers also spotted stock footage from Russia and Ukraine.", "Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson confirms he is leaving the club after 12 years, before an expected move to Saudi club Al-Ettifaq.", "Police hope scientific advances will finally lead them to Harry and Megan Tooze's shotgun killer.", "John Howard's remark comes ahead of a historic referendum on Indigenous recognition.", "The man is one of four charged with selling Michael K Williams heroin laced with fentanyl.", "All exercise is good for blood pressure but research suggests strength training is most effective.", "The walkout in England, beginning at 07:00 on 11 August, is the fifth round of strikes this year.", "The 81-year-old senator was \"light-headed\" during a Wednesday news conference but says he is fine.", "Flare-ups overnight have caused the flames to spread to new areas on the island.", "Dame Alison Rose is to resign after coming under pressure in row over Nigel Farage account.", "The public now has until 1 September to respond to the plan to shut hundreds of rail ticket offices.", "Victims say the fallout has been \"horrendous\" as a report calls compensation schemes a \"patchwork quilt\".", "Moscow accuses Ukraine of attacking its huge sea bridge with drones, killing two people.", "Nevada police search a Las Vegas home as part of an investigation into the rapper's 1996 killing.", "Bibby Stockholm is set to be in Portland Port for 18 months, housing 500 male asylum seekers.", "Theresa May leads criticism of the Illegal Migration Bill, but MPs overturn changes made by peers.", "The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil was reporting live when a technical fault caused her voice to sound squeaky.", "Mustafa Suleyman says he has chosen to locate his new AI company in the US.", "Specialist firefighting planes are being sent to Greece to help tackle fires amid the extreme heat.", "A senior official says regular testing would ensure the technology was operating smoothly.", "The home secretary makes the warning as she unveils her new counter-terrorism strategy for the UK.", "A pregnant woman shares concerns ahead of meeting on the future of births at Causeway Hospital.", "Opposition to the bill from peers and some Tory MPs, including former PM Theresa May, melted away.", "Security measures must be built in as artificial intelligence is developed, Lindy Cameron says.", "Louie Johnston, whose father was murdered in 1997, appeals to MPs ahead of a key Commons vote.", "The musician appeared via video link as a defence witness in the actor's sex assault trial.", "His arrival on the BBC Two quiz show was described as \"seamless\" following Jeremy Paxman's exit.", "Moscow blames Ukraine for the incident, which killed two people, but Kyiv has not said it was responsible.", "The bill is central to the prime minister's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.", "Lawyers speak at the last day of the inquiry's first module, which has been looking at pandemic preparedness.", "The brothers who founded the Dutch electric bike-maker said they were unable to save the firm.", "The minister says new UK defence plans are influenced by lessons learned from the war in Ukraine.", "With software getting better and venues cutting budgets, could AI replace DJs and producers?", "Nigel Farage says he obtained a copy of a report by the bank's wealth reputational risk committee.", "The soldier crossed the border \"wilfully, of his own volition\" the Pentagon has said.", "The EU is sending firefighting planes to Greece as the country attempts to tackle fires amid the extreme heat.", "Steve Easterbrook was fired in 2019 after the firm found he had had a consensual relationship with an employee.", "The Court of Appeal reduces Carla Foster's sentence for illegally taking abortion tablets.", "Death Valley in California did not reach its previous record but that didn't stop the tourists.", "Corrie Mckeague's mum says she feels sick after seeing unlocked bins where her son went missing.", "Gen Syrskyi, overseeing the renewed push in the east, says quick success is practically impossible.", "Tobias Ellwood says Afghanistan has been \"transformed\" and it is time to restart diplomatic relations.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Victoria says the cost of the tournament had ballooned to three times original estimates.", "The force covered up its failings in its investigation into the private detective's 1987 murder.", "Passports are about to be released with an updated wording for the reign of King Charles.", "Greatest Hits Radio's campaign around offenders attending sentencing is under scrutiny.", "People from NI who are living abroad or on holiday tell of their experience of the intense heat.", "Mallory Beach died when a boat owned by the prominent South Carolina family crashed in 2019.", "Steven Wilkinson went out to watch football, but never returned home.", "Six years on from the Weinstein scandal, McDonald's workers say they face a hostile environment.", "The BBC's bosses reflect on a week of allegations and speculation about a then-unnamed presenter.", "Temperatures in the Mediterranean are expected to peak on Tuesday as the heatwave continues.", "The embattled Chinese property giant has reported its long overdue earnings for 2021 and 2022.", "Documents show the ex-PM was told Ukraine's accession would help combat Russian expansionism.", "The actors' strike postpones filming of the Hollywood production, which was due to begin soon.", "Protests greet the barge's arrival in Portland, where it will be home to up to 500 asylum seekers.", "Scotland Yard says it is using anti-terrorist tactics to catch the worst 100 predators.", "ACC Bobby Singleton says he understands some staff will be disappointed by the move.", "Insiders say the move, revealed exclusively by the BBC, is the most significant investment in the sector since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s.", "It comes as a new survey suggests one in three managers have seen inappropriate behaviour at work events.", "Two young beavers, born last summer, were the first to be born in the area in 400 years.", "Tata will build the electric vehicle battery plant in Somerset which will create 4,000 jobs.", "An open letter organised by the UK professional body for IT says AI is not a threat to humanity.", "Some of the emails reportedly contain sensitive information such as passwords and medical records.", "Labour warns the move could mean families who have resettled in the UK could become homeless.", "Former Netherlands goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has been moved out of intensive care following a bleed on the brain.", "Novak Djokovic is fined £6,117 for smashing his racquet against a net post in the Wimbledon men's final.", "The United Nations command says Travis King was on a DMZ tour when he crossed without permission.", "Peers will have a chance later to insist on alterations in a series of late-night votes.", "A number of trade unions warn NI's public sector pay could fall behind other UK regions.", "A total of 41 jumpers combine to create the largest ever sequential formation dive in the UK.", "During her first week in Parliament, Charlotte Nichols says she was warned about other MPs.", "Experts are predicting that the developing El Niño is likely to make 2023 the world's hottest year.", "The Labour leader's refusal to scrap the limit will be raised at a meeting of the party's policy body.", "Sun and MailOnline publishers say they are looking into claims against the broadcaster.", "Dylan Lamb is told he has perhaps months to live so family are raising funds for treatment in the US.", "Tim Davie tells a Lords committee an investigation into the allegations against the host is ongoing.", "The government faces the possibility of losing all three seats in Thursday's polls.", "Robert Jenrick is reported to have considered the cartoon images in the Dover centre too welcoming.", "Police have launched an investigation into the crash on Lochee Road in Dundee.", "Britain's Katie Boulter faces the biggest challenge of her Wimbledon so far when she plays defending champion Elena Rybakina on Saturday.", "The UK is one the countries which bans the weapons but will continue to support Ukraine, PM says.", "The pop star says the incident near a restaurant in Las Vegas was a \"traumatic experience\".", "A former pupil at The Study in Wimbledon says the school is a tightly knit community.", "The Sun newspaper says an unnamed BBC presenter paid the teenager tens of thousands of pounds.", "Washington is supplying the weapons to Kyiv, but they are outlawed in more than 100 countries.", "A Met Office yellow weather alert is in place across England, Scotland and Wales until midnight.", "The driver of a car which crashed into a school is questioned as floral tributes are laid at the scene.", "Race director Christian Prudhomme says \"the Tour de France is sad\" after Mark Cavendish crashes out on stage eight.", "Rishi Sunak said it would be \"short-sighted\" to do something now that made inflation worse later.", "It is harder to make big promises when there is less cash to go around, says Laura Kuenssberg.", "A girl has died after a Land Rover crashed into a primary school in Wimbledon, south-west London, on Thursday morning.", "Years after deferring a place at art school, Ian 'H' Watkins returns to his first love.", "The attacker may still face the death penalty if convicted for murder charges in state court.", "Mark Cavendish breaks a collarbone as he crashes out of what is set to be his final Tour de France before retirement.", "The drugs are found after police responded to a report of a woman being threatened in a Belfast flat.", "A yellow alert for thunderstorms is in place across Scotland as thousands head for TRNSMT festival.", "Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calls on Beijing to invest more in efforts to transition from fossil fuels.", "England win the European Under-21 Championship for the first time in almost 40 years as they beat Spain in a dramatic final in Georgia.", "The island became a symbol of Ukraine's resistance after troops there defied a Russian order to surrender.", "The former BBC chairman, who resigned in April, says the licence fee system is \"regressive\".", "The head teacher ended her life ahead of the publication of a report that downgraded her school.", "Russia has killed hundreds of civilians in Kharkiv with indiscriminate weapons, according to a new report.", "Connor Chapman shot innocent bystander Elle when he opened fire with a sub-machine gun at a pub.", "Russia editor Steve Rosenberg says that, so far, only Belarusian troops appear to be on the site.", "Dozens of protesters, for and against the plans, gather outside a hotel set to house asylum seekers.", "After another early exit at Wimbledon, two-time champion Andy Murray waves farewell to an adoring Centre Court - but will he be back?", "The headliner closed the second night of the festival with pyrotechnics and confetti.", "Skeletal remains dating back 1,000 years have been discovered during the Bullitt development.", "PM Mark Rutte's conservative VVD party had been trying to limit the flow of asylum seekers.", "Former Manchester United and Ajax goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is being treated in intensive care after suffering a bleed on his brain.", "Andy Murray's hopes of a fine Wimbledon victory on the 10th anniversary of his 2013 title win were ended by Stefanos Tsitsipas in round two.", "Seoul is sitting on one of the world's biggest ammunition stockpiles but is reluctant to give it away.", "Another five people were wounded in the Russian shelling in the Donetsk town, authorities say.", "The presenter was pictured in his underwear \"ready for my child to perform for him\", their mother told the Sun.", "A theatre apologises after indecent image appears during a screening of the children's film.", "The White House says it is prepared to do \"hard things\" to free the American journalist from Russia.", "Wilna says she was \"surviving not thriving\" until she enrolled on a mental health course.", "Transport for London said the poster promoted \"foods high in fat, salt and sugar\".", "The riots in the country's suburban estates have subsided, for now, but deep divisions remain.", "The White House defends the move, while acknowledging that such unexploded ordnance can harm civilians.", "Katie Boulter's bid to reach the Wimbledon last 16 for the first time ends quickly as she is outclassed by defending champion Elena Rybakina.", "Selena Lau was described as \"an intelligent and cheeky girl adored and loved by everyone\".", "Storms in the country are battering areas in the north and south, with hail days after a heatwave.", "The headliner closed the second night of the festival with pyrotechnics and confetti.", "But the UK says it \"discourages\" the use of the weapon while Spain criticises the US decision.", "A man is charged with murder in connection with the deaths of Stephen and Carol Baxter in Essex.", "Special forces killed two Afghan parents and shot their two boys. No one was held accountable.", "The government says it remains committed to spending £11.6bn of its overseas aid budget on climate.", "One of the adverts, showing a model wearing a green plunge bra, has been spray-painted over.", "Regulators say the club's \"anti-competitive\" conduct may have led to fans paying higher prices.", "The monarch is presented with a sword, sceptre and crown to mark his coronation during a ceremony in St Giles' Cathedral.", "The Meta chief is hoping Threads, his new Instagram-linked app, will beat Twitter on numbers.", "Sources familiar with the process said they expect the punishment for the MP to meet the threshold for a recall petition.", "The man alleges he was grabbed by the Hollywood actor with \"such force it was really painful\".", "The council leader accused the Scottish and UK governments of discrimination before his motion was supported.", "The prince's case against the Sun is one of three damages claims he is pursuing against newspapers.", "Internal emails seen by the BBC show top special forces officers were aware of concerns over killings.", "In one of Marseille's most deprived neighbourhoods, residents say local despair fuels riots.", "The former shadow chancellor says a \"right-wing faction\" has gained control of party selection processes.", "Twelve Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed following clashes in the West Bank refugee camp.", "Ms Black became the parliament's youngest MP since 1832 when she was first elected in 2015 aged 20.", "The Labour leader warns a \"class ceiling\" is holding children back, but doesn't commit to free school meals for all.", "The Met reopens probe into Tory HQ party but will not investigate Boris Johnson over further alleged breaches of Covid rules.", "Relive wins for Novak Djokovic, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Iga Swiatek on day three at Wimbledon 2023.", "The confirmation follows years of BBC reports that the SAS killed scores of unarmed people in the conflict.", "Labour's deputy leader says homeowners are \"sick with worry\" but deputy PM says they will be supported.", "King Charles was cheered by well-wishers in Bo'ness before being presented with the keys to Edinburgh.", "Water companies are likely to seek bill increases to cover the cost of improving services, says the boss of Ofwat.", "More than a million LED lights assembled as a sphere are the latest addition to the strip.", "A funeral procession will include 200 motorbikes, two limousines and eight Rolls-Royce cars.", "Residents of Westruther say housing associations are \"ripping the heart\" out of their community.", "Steven Cull required life-saving surgery, and an arm amputation, after being mauled by a dog.", "Nigel Farage's account with the bank Coutts is not being closed for political reasons, the BBC is told.", "The head of the Welsh NHS will not rule out withdrawing care until patients make lifestyle changes.", "The goats have divided opinion - some believe they simply cause damage, others like seeing them.", "Ellis Heather, a drill rapper known as Rack5, has been jailed for 7 years and 9 months for firearm offences.", "Staff say abuses of power in Parliament are still common, and a new complaints process is too slow.", "New project bids to rid Rathlin of non-native predators threatening the seabirds' future.", "Treasury urges action after Nigel Farage complained his accounts were being closed for political reasons.", "The High Court quashes a Department of Health policy on paying for healthcare costs in nursing homes.", "The water regulator said talks with investors to raise the necessary funds were continuing.", "Agents are poring over visitor logs and footage for clues as to who left the drug in the West Wing.", "The BBC’s analysis editor assesses claims about the security of the Zaporizhzhia power station.", "Bowel cancer patients say they feel relieved after the NHS lifted a ban on treatment breaks.", "She enjoyed stardom in Asia and voiced the lead character in the Mandarin version of Disney's Mulan.", "The Elizabeth Sword, named after his late mother, will be used at a coronation event in Edinburgh.", "The demands on A&E are unrelenting, so new solutions are being sought.", "Dr Catharine Calderwood, who resigned during the pandemic after breaching restrictions, is among those being questioned.", "Katrina Rainey's husband has been jailed for 18 years for murder of wife he set fire to.", "The world's need for fossil fuels is \"desperate\", Shell's chief executive told the BBC.", "The deputy prime minister and Labour's deputy leader are standing in for their bosses, who are at an NHS event.", "Millwall's owner and chairman John Berylson dies at the age of 70 following a \"tragic accident\", the club announce.", "The British state is attempting to showcase and honour Scotland without encouraging nationalism.", "Crippling fuel shortages on the Caribbean island present opportunities for Russian companies.", "Patrick Harvie will attend an anti-monarchy rally and Lorna Slater says that monarchy is \"nothing to celebrate\".", "A public consultation has been launched on proposals to close hundreds of station ticket offices in England.", "Barry Donnelly, 38, is given an indeterminate custodial sentence for killing his neighbour Aidan Mann.", "The atmosphere in the West Bank refugee camp feels like Gaza after wars with Israel, says Tom Bateman.", "Neither Israel nor Palestinians are in any mood to talk peace even when fighting ends in Jenin, Jeremy Bowen reports.", "New Stormont framework recommends teaching children about healthy relationships as a key action.", "Forest Green Rovers name Hannah Dingley as their new caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men's team in English football.", "Secondary schools are being asked to restrict devices to try and improve students' learning.", "Lee Waters admits that voting against the government was \"embarrassing and frustrating\".", "The Prince and Princess of Wales hear from the first person born after the NHS was founded, in 1948.", "Play is interrupted at Wimbledon twice after Just Stop Oil protesters throw orange confetti on to court 18.", "The firm is still shipping gas from Siberia despite its promise to withdraw from the Russian energy market.", "Justin Welby leads a defeat of the government in the Lords over its Illegal Migration Bill.", "Jeremy Bowen reports from Jenin as violence between Palestinians and Israelis continues.", "The Captain Tom Foundation is also no longer taking donations due to an inquiry into its finances.", "The Women and Equalities Committee recommends compulsory relationship lessons in sixth form.", "Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the UK are seeking damages for the families of the 176 victims.", "Jaswant Singh Chail was caught with a loaded crossbow at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021.", "The media expert who drew up the rules says the lines are being blurred between news and opinion.", "The inquiry is critical to restoring the reputation of the military and the country, says its chair.", "Police say the pair, both aged 22, will appear at court in Ipswich on Wednesday.", "The television star pleaded guilty for her role in a sex-trafficking case related to the Nxivm group.", "Millwall owner John Berylson died after his car overturned and hit a tree in the US town of Falmouth, say police.", "The men, aged 45, 47 and 58, have all been charged with preparatory acts of terrorism.", "With more strike ballots taking place, the dispute over pay could continue into the autumn term.", "A service of thanksgiving has been held at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh to mark the King’s coronation.", "As the NHS celebrates its anniversary, a look at what needs to change to help it in coming decades.", "Ihor Humeniuk was at a hearing related to his involvement in a 2015 attack near Ukraine's parliament.", "As the NHS celebrates its anniversary, a look at what needs to change to help it in coming decades.", "Monday 3 July was the warmest day yet recorded with temperatures averaging over 17C for the first time.", "Officers say four people were arrested and a further four were issued with a recorded police warning.", "Israel strikes Gaza in response to Palestinian rocket fire, as troops end major West Bank operation.", "The president has been detained and troops now say they are closing the country's borders.", "Hundreds of children have gone missing from hotels, with concerns some have been groomed by gangs.", "Andrew Malkinson, who served 17 years in prison, says he feels he had been \"kidnapped by the state\".", "Victim Tony Parsons disappeared in 2017 and his body was found more than three years later.", "The 1970s golden era star says there is no doubt players after his generation will be worse off.", "A day after the ceremony, Victoria Forbes and Mark Lyons climbed the Inaccessible Pinnacle.", "Justice Secretary Alex Chalk urges the regulator to use the \"full force of sanctions\" at its disposal.", "England face a battle to level the Ashes after Australia enjoy the better of the first day of the fifth Test at The Oval.", "Police say she was found \"unresponsive\" and \"pronounced dead at the scene\" in London at 11:18 BST.", "Katya Voichenko and her daughters were homesick after nine months separated from the rest of their family.", "The portrait shows Charles wearing tartan, a white cockade in his bonnet, and the Order of the Thistle.", "Russians use layers of mines to prevent Ukraine's advance on the southern front.", "Ukraine's armed forces say they are solidifying positions after an advance east of Zaporizhzhia.", "Met Police sergeant Matiu Ratana was shot twice at point-blank range at a custody centre in south London.", "She says the off-duty officer flashed his badge to try to avoid being thrown out of the show.", "The Nothing Compares 2 U singer sold millions of albums and was praised for her activism.", "The president's son was expected to plead guilty to tax charges in a deal that would spare him prison.", "Scientists say the heatwaves seen in Europe, the US and China in July are no longer unusual.", "NI Korean War veterans recall their experiences while marking 70 years since the armistice.", "A $300m bond for Tottenham Hotspur tycoon Joe Lewis is secured by his luxury boat and private jets.", "The Scottish government has published the latest prospectus in its series of independence papers.", "Army spokesperson Col Maj Amadou Abdramane said defence forces had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions and closed the West African country’s borders.", "Fundraising for a statue of Joseph Merrick has been slowed by prejudice, the woman behind it claims.", "The rapper's spectacular show at the Egyptian landmark is officially cancelled at the last minute.", "A revised indictment in the Mar-a-Lago classified files case adds new charges against Donald Trump.", "Last year's record-breaking heat, driven by climate change, gives a snapshot of the UK's future weather.", "The Oscar-winning actor cried in court as he was cleared of all nine charges by a jury in London.", "Money for \"board and lodging\" in jail is sometimes deducted from former prisoners' compensation.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says he has made his summer free to hold talks over the Windsor Framework.", "Efforts are continuing to contain blazes in a number of Mediterranean countries.", "The retailer says crime levels in its stores have shot up by more than one third over the past year.", "PSNI arrest three people after a \"significant\" investigation conducted with Romanian authorities.", "A historian and biographer now says \"no-one is interested\" in her plan to honour John Merrick.", "The TV chef has been asked to change his behaviour after complaints about his treatment of staff.", "Striking shots from the life and career of the late singer and activist.", "Some undergraduates drop out of degrees after offers of roles by firms \"desperate\" for staff.", "The tech giant claims millions of people were sent a warning before the deadly earthquake earlier this year.", "Some 180 million Americans are under heat watches and warnings as extreme heat continues.", "There will be 5,000 more beds and better planning, but fears remain about staffing and funding.", "The Irish singer who has died aged 56 is remembered as \"radical and incredible\".", "The tour comes amid accusations that Pyongyang is supplying Russia with arms for the Ukraine war.", "Many carriers do not follow official guidance on reduced prices for care assistants, the BBC finds.", "Captain Lindsey Horan comes to the rescue of defending champions the United States after the Netherlands threaten an upset at the Women's World Cup.", "Jenny Hill reports from the village of Vati in Rhodes, as fires continue to spread across the region.", "One person died as fire took hold of the ship as it burned off the Dutch island of Ameland.", "The shaven-headed Irish singer's turbulent life often threatened to overwhelm her music.", "The star took an obscure Prince song and made it her own, much to his apparent displeasure.", "The historic royal tradition of \"swan upping\" reveals a sharp decline in swan young on the River Thames.", "Researchers believe this month will be the hottest ever recorded - even with several days to go.", "Handcuffed Louis De Zoysa shot Sgt Matt Ratana with an antique gun he smuggled into a custody centre.", "Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan is disqualified from the World Fencing Championships for refusing to shake hands with Russian Anna Smirnova.", "Two mothers were bereaved in extraordinary circumstances - and vowed to keep fighting for the truth.", "The English National Opera is given a deadline extension of several years to move out of London.", "Peter Flavel resigns as the boss of the private bank over the handling of Nigel Farage's bank account closure.", "The US central bank offered few firm clues as to what it might do next.", "LeBron James says his family is \"together, safe and healthy\", as son Bronny, 18, is discharged from hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.", "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg expresses pride in the launch of his new social media app.", "Sir Richard Branson and activists have called on authorities to spare Saridewi Djamani.", "The move is part of a new payment system which the government hopes will see more dentists provide NHS care.", "Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson confirms he is leaving the club after 12 years, before an expected move to Saudi club Al-Ettifaq.", "The French foreign minister says the coup is not \"final\" as Niger's army backs the plotters.", "Speculation mounts that Mr Trump will soon be charged over efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.", "The 81-year-old senator was \"light-headed\" during a Wednesday news conference but says he is fine.", "A judge rules that a High Court trial over the Duke of Sussex's privacy breach claims can go ahead.", "The BBC's Azadeh Moshiri has been to Glystra beach near Kiotari, one of the areas worst affected by wildfires.", "The miscarriage-of-justice victim talks about his first night since his conviction was overturned.", "Marius Draghici admitted the manslaughter of the 39 Vietnamese nationals found in a lorry trailer.", "The pop star issues her first statement since a serious bacterial infection left her in hospital.", "At least one person dies after a huge metal construction girder falls onto a busy road in the Thai capital.", "Scientists want to use sediments in Crawford Lake as a signifier for a new epoch in geological time.", "Allegations and speculation about a BBC presenter's behaviour and identity had mounted for days.", "Former first minister tells Covid inquiry UK government should have stepped in between 2017 and 2020.", "The Met Police have ended their assessment and say there is no evidence of a criminal offence.", "An MP who sexually harassed a staff member says his party lied to him when he was most in need.", "Five years after the Queen of Soul died without a known will, her heirs are in court over her estate.", "A report questions the language used for some checks, including assessing whether the baby is \"pink all over\".", "The BBC's Alice Cuddy witnesses 86 migrants being pulled to safety from an overcrowded rubber boat.", "The row about the BBC presenter has developed into a series of claims and counter-claims.", "Charles Manson cult follower Leslie Van Houten was convicted in the 1969 murder of a California couple.", "But the meeting in Lithuania will see disagreement over Ukraine's ambition to join the military bloc.", "Jayne Brady says civil servants have made £1bn of \"challenging\" budget decisions to date.", "The Hawaiian surfer, known for capturing footage from inside giant waves, died while surfing in Indonesia.", "Thirteen parties were charged after an investigation following the 2019 eruption which killed 22 people.", "The teenager is being questioned as the teacher who was stabbed is discharged from hospital.", "A suspect has been arrested after Stanislav Rzhitsky was gunned down in the Russian city of Krasnodar.", "Top seed Carlos Alcaraz shows why he is the man likeliest to stop Novak Djokovic winning another Wimbledon after reaching the last eight.", "The BBC still has questions to answer after lawyers representing the young person at the centre of the allegations disputed the mother’s account.", "The pop star was reportedly among four Americans stopped for riding e-scooters through a tunnel.", "Lilia Valutyte was stabbed in the heart by Deividas Skebas near her mother's workplace, a jury finds.", "Lawyers for the former US president argue a December trial would deny them reasonable time to prepare.", "They say they were sent abusive messages by the presenter and put under pressure to meet up.", "Claims being made by the mother at the heart of the BBC presenter row are \"rubbish\", a lawyer says.", "Analysts say Foxconn's decision marks a setback to the country's technology industry ambitions.", "Riikka Purra admits making the comments in 2008, while the PM vows no tolerance of racism.", "Theresa May leads criticism of the Illegal Migration Bill, but MPs overturn changes made by peers.", "The firm says the current social media app is an initial version and changes are planned.", "The announcement is expected on Thursday, following formal sign off from the prime minister and chancellor.", "The film star says he is \"healthier and fitter\" since deciding to quit drinking at the start of 2023.", "A woman re-painted her door in Edinburgh's New Town after a previous green makeover was rejected.", "Emma MacKenzie, from Canada, says she cannot renew her visa if she does not get her degree.", "A jury rules that a handwritten document found in Aretha Franklin's couch is a valid will to her estate.", "A judge is told Marius Draghici was an \"essential cog\" in the operation that killed the 39 people.", "Bank of America is ordered to pay $150m (£116m) in penalties after an investigation by US regulators.", "Nathan Law's parents and brother have been taken for questioning after police raided their home.", "The bill is central to Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.", "The US president is speaking about the continued support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.", "An Australian judge had ruled articles reporting Ben Roberts-Smith murdered unarmed Afghans were true.", "The couple announce the birth Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson, their third child together.", "NEAS chief executive Helen Ray says sorry \"for any distress\" after it covered up paramedics' errors.", "Jurors hear a 999 call in which Hywel Williams admits pushing retired maths teacher Peter Ormerod.", "She says having pupils going to the toilet during a lesson is \"massively disruptive\".", "Some parents and teachers said this summer's reading paper was so tough it left children in tears.", "The government intervened in eight takeovers of UK firms by Chinese buyers last year, figures show", "The Radio 2 host says fresh claims meant the presenter \"needs to come forward now\".", "Wages continue to rise strongly, raising the prospect of more interest rate rises by the Bank of England.", "An eruption has sent lava and smoke pouring on the Reykjanes peninsula following intense earthquake activity in the area.", "The popular path could be moved because the land is \"very unstable\", says a town council.", "The Court of Appeal rules the High Court was wrong to find the government had acted unlawfully.", "It comes after videos emerge of the moment the 16-year-old was killed during an Israeli assault.", "Ros Atkins takes a look at what we do and do not know about the BBC presenter row.", "Ukrainian Elina Svitolina says war in her homeland has made her mentally stronger after she reaches a surprise Wimbledon semi-final.", "Gal Luft is accused of illegal lobbying, arms trafficking and evading sanctions on Iran.", "The deal to end the dispute comes after 115,000 postal workers held 18 days of strikes last year.", "The 16-year-old victim died in hospital after being stabbed in an east London park.", "Eight-month-old Mabli Hall died from a brain injury after a car hit her pram, an inquest hears.", "A 15-year-old is charged with attempted wounding with intent and possession of bladed article.", "Nick Hungerford was inspired by his young daughter to set up a charity to support bereaved children.", "Jamie Sansom was attacked at Tewkesbury Academy but says he is expected to make a full recovery.", "The European Court of Human Rights rules in favour of double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya.", "The alliance says Kyiv can join \"when conditions are met\" as President Zelensky criticises \"absurd\" delay.", "Arsenal sign England midfielder Declan Rice from West Ham in a deal worth £100m plus £5m add-ons.", "Argentina forward Lionel Messi signs for American MLS side Inter Miami on a deal that runs until to the end of 2025.", "Osian Jones, 16, had three heart attacks and is recovering in intensive care after his operation.", "The defence secretary says the US wants the current head, Jens Stoltenberg, to stay on.", "The Labour leader is quietly preparing for power but he can't take anything for granted - here's why.", "Sunnah Khan, 12, and Joe Abbess, 17, drowned while in the water next to the pier in May.", "Last year's summer season was marked by widespread travel disruption. Will this year be better?", "After June's mutiny, Wagner troops were told they could join the regular Russian army or head to Belarus.", "Police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.", "The heatwave that brought temperatures above 40C across the Mediterranean will intensify next week.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 7 July and 14 July..", "The scheme to help people who missed out on last winter's energy subsidy should be reopened, a senior MP says.", "The vapes are a hazard for bin lorries, difficult to recycle and too appealing to children, they say.", "Health warnings for Rome and elsewhere come as extreme weather scorches southern and central Europe.", "The action was met with boos and jeers from some members of the audience at the Royal Albert Hall.", "Lab analysis finds vapes confiscated from teenagers at a school pose a potential risk to health.", "At least 40 people have died in floods and landslides in one of the country's worst monsoon seasons.", "A Hong Kong official suggests those who light up in restaurants should be met with disapproving looks.", "A squad will be set up to ensure shops in England do not sell the products to children.", "Shekhar Kapur says diverse casting is \"a good thing\" but hides \"a greater, more fundamental issue\".", "The industry's biggest shutdown since 1960 has already impacted major films and promotional events.", "The senior Tory will also step down as an MP at the next general election, he tells the Sunday Times.", "Nearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories.", "Ex-first ministers Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon were among those remembering the SNP trailblazer.", "Ons Jabeur faces Marketa Vondrousova in Saturday's women's singles final at Wimbledon, with both players aiming for a slice of history.", "Up to 2.7 million single-use vapes were littered in Scotland last year, a Scottish government report estimates.", "The latest twist in Russia's mutiny saga surpasses Dostoyevsky for mystery, Steve Rosenberg says.", "One of late director Stanley Kubrick's films is to be adapted for the stage for the first time.", "The defence secretary says the Ukraine war has exposed \"vulnerabilities\" as he seeks more money.", "Many believe they can help cut pressure on GPs, but say funding increases are \"insulting\".", "The leader of June's aborted mutiny did not want his mercenaries to become a regular unit, President Putin says.", "The European Space Agency says Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland may see extreme conditions.", "Tom Somerset-How was bedbound and malnourished for four years in his home in Chichester.", "The head of Unite warns the Labour leader against \"tinkering around the edges\" or \"apathy could win\".", "Footage from police shows officers chasing the biker through gardens before his arrest.", "A former star of US sitcoms, Fran Drescher is the union chief leading actors into battle with streamers.", "Declan Rice says it has been a \"tough\" decision to leave West Ham but \"it has only ever been about my ambition to play at the very highest level of the game\".", "ACC Bobby Singleton says he understands some staff will be disappointed by the move.", "Police say the married suspect in the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders is \"a demon that walks among us\".", "Thousands have evacuated their homes amid heavy rain and floods in the country.", "A murder investigation is under way after the teenager was attacked in north-west London.", "Inspectors praised HMP Greenock staff but called for a new prison to replace the 100-year-old facility.", "Czech Marketa Vondrousova becomes the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon women's title as Ons Jabeur's wait for a major goes on.", "The musician said she felt let down by the show after she was attacked by a hotel porter in 2012.", "The 3,000-year-old gold torc is the first to be reported to as treasure in Essex, says an expert.", "Voters going to the ballots say they are certain Hun Sen's ruling party will sweep all seats again.", "The popular tourist island has started evacuations after 19,000 had to leave Rhodes.", "Minister calls meeting with 19 banks over concerns accounts are closed due to political views.", "We tested Intel's new tool, \"FakeCatcher\", on videos of Donald Trump and Joe Biden - with mixed results.", "Ffos-y-Fran produces two-thirds of the UK's coal and was supposed to close in September.", "Brian Harman overcomes an early wobble to stroll serenely to his first major title with a six-shot victory at the 151st Open Championship in Hoylake.", "BBC Sport takes a look at what to expect from day four of the Fifa Women's World Cup, with Sweden facing South Africa, Netherlands playing Portugal and France taking on Jamaica.", "The conservative Popular Party wins a tight election in Spain but fails to secure a clear majority to govern.", "The BBC presenter has spoken about his seriously ill father's decision to end his life, aged 92.", "The Canadian province of Nova Scotia is experiencing its heaviest rain in half a century.", "Married couple Megan and Harry Tooze were found shot dead in their cowshed.", "This highly unusual election takes place at the height of summer, after four years of left-wing rule.", "A new medal will honour the \"unsung heroes\" who respond to humanitarian emergencies.", "Spain goes to the polls to decide its next government on Sunday, and a hard-right coalition is looking likely.", "A fifth of childminders in England have left the sector in the last three years.", "Officials warn this could be Greece's hottest July weekend in 50 years, with temperatures hitting 45C.", "The party says it has agreed an ambitious programme without the need for new spending commitments.", "Competitors in the 50th Rolex Fastnet Race set off from Cowes on the Isle of Wight on Saturday.", "Greece's fire service apologised for \"a mess\", but said the situation could worsen due to the weather.", "Actor Jamie Foxx speaks publicly for the first time since being hospitalised earlier this year.", "Police say the 18-year-old driver has been arrested following the incident in Glenrothes.", "A viral video of an attack on two women is encouraging other survivors to come forward.", "Bryony Duthie, 18, fell ill earlier this month while holidaying with family on the Costa Del Sol.", "The band has cancelled upcoming concerts in Indonesia - where homosexuality is shunned - and Taiwan.", "England's hopes of an Ashes comeback are heartbreakingly ended by rain that leaves the fourth Test as a draw and ensures Australia retain the urn.", "Prime Minister Hun Sen's son is expected to take over within weeks of the vote.", "Holiday firms are sending planes to the Greek island to rescue British tourists stranded after wildfires.", "A series of records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice are \"unprecedented\", some scientists say.", "Catalans weigh up possible outcomes of Sunday's poll and its impact on the independence movement.", "Tourists left in limbo after wildfires spreading across the Greek island forced thousands to flee hotels.", "Elon Musk says \"tweets\" will become \"x's\" in the billionaire owner's latest change to the firm.", "Russian-installed authorities halt railway services in Crimea and say Ukraine was behind a drone strike.", "It may not have been a thrilling performance but England did what they needed to do in their opening Women's World Cup game against Haiti - win.", "A junior commander says lower-ranking mercenaries had no idea what was happening during the rebellion.", "After a thrilling set, the trio tell the BBC that \"bands like us only come along every 15 years\".", "The Cornetto maker says it will comply with Russian law to permit staff to be conscripted.", "Greek officials warn the wildfires on the island could worsen, after about 19,000 people are evacuated.", "Tourists describe their emergency evacuation and people being covered in ash on the Greek island.", "The singer hit his stride with advice from a stunt company based in Hertfordshire.", "Women tell the BBC about what they will miss from salons before they close on orders from the Taliban.", "Resurgent nationalists in Spain aim to roll back the left-wing coalition's reforms.", "England dodge the rain to take the vital wicket of Marnus Labuschagne but their Ashes hopes remain in the balance going into the final day of the fourth Test against Australia.", "Israel's PM, who had a pacemaker fitted, is facing a showdown over plans which have caused uproar.", "A man has been arrested after allegedly setting fire to a bar after he was kicked out, officials say.", "Barbie has the year's most successful opening weekend for a film in the US and Canada, making $155m.", "\"Still a long way to go,\" Labour leader says, after losing by-election dominated by climate policy.", "At least one person was killed and 19 injured in the blasts, including four children.", "Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo narrowly wins but is held back by left-wing parties.", "Police removed protesters who briefly disrupted the parade which saw thousands gather to celebrate.", "France sees a third night of mass unrest, triggered by Tuesday's police shooting of a teenager.", "A boy and a girl were rescued from the Cambridge property but died later in hospital.", "The woman was found guilty of murdering the eight-week old and trying to murder his two-year-old sister.", "A mother, whose son has asthma, has asked the Housing Executive to fix the problem several times.", "Single mum says school holiday cut-off of government energy support scheme is \"worst timing ever\".", "The Russian president has popped up on TV screens multiple times since last weekend's dramatic events - but to what end?", "Ministers hoped to stop further unrest, but reports of violence are coming from several cities.", "The counter-offensive against Russia is advancing steadily but will be difficult, US Gen Mark Milley says.", "Justine Greening tells BBC Newsnight domestic policy should not affect efforts to tackle human rights abuses.", "At a crisis meeting, France's president condemns three nights of riots as \"unjustifiable\".", "The death of 17-year-old Nahel M, during a traffic stop, has provoked anger across the country.", "William J Burns says dissatisfaction with the conflict in Russia is a valuable recruiting tool.", "Racism killed Stephen and it was blocking the truth about the case - writes Daniel De Simone.", "Judge finds officer had 'objectively reasonable' belief the Tasering of Edwin Afriyie was necessary.", "A coroner found the mother-of-two drowned after accidentally falling into cold water.", "The launch is part of a mission that will map the cosmos to try and investigate so-called dark matter.", "It is believed Fifa has told the club to pay more than €11m (£9.45m) to cover the fee.", "The homes targeted are those of a current and former Alliance Party councillor in Portrush.", "Prosecutors are due to interview a witness after he posted a version of events online.", "Conservationists tracked it down amid deadly snakes and 50C heat in a forest known as 'hell on Earth'.", "The UK lifeboat charity says it will take action and on the issues raised in surveys of its workers.", "The woman is charged with murdering her eight-week-old son and the attempted murder of his sister.", "Mikey Lee Neesham has been jailed for dangerous driving following the incident in North Yorkshire.", "Two 22-year-olds who were \"known to the victim\" have been arrested on suspicion of murder, police say.", "The Euclid space telescope is launching from Florida on a mission to make a 3D map of the cosmos", "The drug and a key ingredient in magic mushrooms will be used nationally to treat PTSD and depression.", "Esther Wang disappeared in Golden Ears Park, Canada, sparking 16 search teams into action.", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was speaking publicly for the first time since he was shot in February.", "A record 25,000 people complained about the piece, in which Clarkson said he \"hated\" the duchess.", "A total of 719 people were arrested as disturbances gripped Marseille and other cities with Paris quieter.", "James Nutley's parents live with unanswered questions over their 25-year-old son's disappearance.", "Delyth Jones says she misses her children's events and feels \"isolated\" because of her migraines.", "Lord Howard, who led the privatisation of the water industry decades ago, denies move has failed.", "He was learning to be an electrician and played rugby league but died at a police check near Paris.", "England's final match on home soil before heading to Australia for the Women's World Cup ends in a disappointing goalless draw.", "A local police commander says the vehicle rammed into cars, motorcycles and people by the roadside.", "A relative of the boy whose killing by French police sparked riots calls for an end to looting and burning.", "Mr Biden pledged to find another way to forgive student debt following the Supreme Court's decision.", "Updated Foreign Office advice warns of potential disruption and urges people to remain cautious.", "That it's almost impossible to discuss alternatives to the NHS is a tribute to its longevity, says Laura Kuenssberg.", "Three boys, aged 14, 15 and 17, are charged with murder and robbery after the stabbing of Victor Lee, 17.", "The woman accepted she stabbed him and his sister on 27 July 2021 but had denied the charges.", "Lee Rowley says a trial, which a council leader says cut the need for agency staff, should end now.", "At least 150 people are arrested overnight over the shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic check.", "Three teenagers aged between 14 and 17 have been arrested on suspicion of murder.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spoken to leaders at the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) following a report highlighting discrimination in cricket.", "The Duke of Sussex alleges articles published by Mirror Group Newspapers breached his privacy.", "The town of Nanterre is shaken by nights of rioting after 17-year-old Nahel was shot by police.", "Elon Musk says verified accounts can read up to 10,000 posts a day while unverified ones are limited to 1,000.", "Maya Forstater is awarded £100,000 by a tribunal after she found herself losing out on a job in 2019.", "Dutch racing driver Dilano van 't Hoff dies after a crash at the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine.", "The BBC's statement felt inevitable after a weekend of front pages, says Katie Razzall, and many answers are needed.", "Review bodies are advising the government on pay rises for public sector workers such as doctors.", "England and Australia are all set for another Ashes nail-biter at Headingley as a series that continues to thrill reaches its pivotal moment.", "The UK is one the countries which bans the weapons but will continue to support Ukraine, PM says.", "A former pupil at The Study in Wimbledon says the school is a tightly knit community.", "The Sun newspaper says an unnamed BBC presenter paid the teenager tens of thousands of pounds.", "Washington is supplying the weapons to Kyiv, but they are outlawed in more than 100 countries.", "A Met Office yellow weather alert is in place across England, Scotland and Wales until midnight.", "Race director Christian Prudhomme says \"the Tour de France is sad\" after Mark Cavendish crashes out on stage eight.", "It is harder to make big promises when there is less cash to go around, says Laura Kuenssberg.", "Rishi Sunak said it would be \"short-sighted\" to do something now that made inflation worse later.", "Years after deferring a place at art school, Ian 'H' Watkins returns to his first love.", "Police clash with stone-throwing protesters as Eritrean tensions flare up in a central German town.", "While it rings out on social media, the actual clock in town is stuck on one minute past nine.", "The drugs are found after police responded to a report of a woman being threatened in a Belfast flat.", "Max Verstappen cruises to victory in the British Grand Prix for his sixth win in a row and a record-equalling 11th consecutive triumph for Red Bull.", "The BBC star has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photos, the Sun reports.", "Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calls on Beijing to invest more in efforts to transition from fossil fuels.", "England win the European Under-21 Championship for the first time in almost 40 years as they beat Spain in a dramatic final in Georgia.", "In a letter to the BBC, the lawyer says \"the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are rubbish\".", "Scrutiny should be \"out of the political arena\", says the leader of Wales' Covid bereaved group.", "The shadow chancellor tells Laura Kuenssberg she \"will not apologise for making sure our sums add up\".", "Testing finds that potentially-toxic blue-green algae is moving towards Downhill and Benone.", "Nuria Sajjad \"embodied joy, kindness and generosity\", her family said.", "Dozens of protesters, for and against the plans, gather outside a hotel set to house asylum seekers.", "Four people, including a 61-year-old woman, are arrested after the house is extensively damaged.", "The move comes after rioting sparked by last month's killing of a 17-year-old by police in Nanterre.", "MPs will quiz the watchdog on Wednesday over whether it has been \"asleep at the wheel\".", "Skeletal remains dating back 1,000 years have been discovered during the Bullitt development.", "Thousands of tourists attend the annual event, but animal rights activists have long-criticised the Spanish festival.", "USA forward Megan Rapinoe, one of the most successful players of her generation, says she will retire at the end of the season.", "Sammy's exploits aren't just a one-off, he's been joining surfers for a number of weeks.", "The US president is facing criticism over his decision to send the controversial weapons to Ukraine.", "But the US Treasury Secretary says the countries still have \"significant disagreements\" at the end of her trip.", "A theatre apologises after indecent image appears during a screening of the children's film.", "Lawson Wood went from the rock pools of the Borders to a career in underwater photography.", "The presenter was pictured in his underwear \"ready for my child to perform for him\", their mother told the Sun.", "Army veteran hoped to set a world record on Rockall in the North Atlantic - but had to be rescued.", "Another five people were wounded in the Russian shelling in the Donetsk town, authorities say.", "The Hollywood star says he is \"still floating a little\" after seeing the room where Thomas wrote.", "Wilna says she was \"surviving not thriving\" until she enrolled on a mental health course.", "The music superstar delights a Stockholm audience after a mammoth global farewell tour.", "Hundreds of thousands of people who live off grid did not apply for a £400 payment they were entitled to.", "The former chancellor's wedding in Somerset was disrupted by a woman throwing orange confetti.", "An inquest will be held for three UK passengers who died when a Boeing 737 Max airliner crashed in Ethiopia.", "England keep their Ashes hopes alive by beating Australia by three wickets in another nerve-shredding Headingley finale.", "Katie Boulter's bid to reach the Wimbledon last 16 for the first time ends quickly as she is outclassed by defending champion Elena Rybakina.", "The headliner closed the second night of the festival with pyrotechnics and confetti.", "Heavy rain in India's capital has caused the city to flood, leaving residents stranded and vehicles at a standstill.", "The Evening Standard's use of a photo of Susan Hall is described as having a \"whiff of misogyny\".", "The model's bags were searched as she arrived in the Cayman Islands earlier this month.", "The energy firm was found guilty after a worker fell through an open grating into the North Sea.", "Two people have been shot dead in the centre of Auckland just hours before the opening of the Fifa Women's World Cup.", "Attacks on Black Sea ports destroy 60,000 tonnes of grain and damage infrastructure, officials say.", "Tobias Ellwood is castigated for backing engagement with the Taliban but barely mentioning human rights.", "The biggest Fifa Women's World Cup - featuring European champions England and debutants the Republic of Ireland - will finally get under way on Thursday.", "Former Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy signs for French side Lorient five days after being cleared of rape.", "Nevada police search a Las Vegas home as part of an investigation into the rapper's 1996 killing.", "German authorities say investigations are continuing into the November museum heist in Bavaria.", "Workers with allegations should go through the firm's complaints process, says Rishi Sunak.", "The Hollywood actor was \"used to getting his own way\" and took advantage of his power, prosecutors say.", "Jason Aldean defends his song as it is yanked by Country Music Television and Sheryl Crow attacks him.", "Specialist firefighting planes are being sent to Greece to help tackle fires amid the extreme heat.", "Declassified papers also reveal how Margaret Thatcher praised Tony Blair for his support of the US.", "Many are silently appalled to see Russian forces pulverising Ukrainian cities, Sir Richard Moore says.", "\"Massive\" changes to travel patterns since Covid prompt summer review, top official says.", "The former Scotland striker has played in a friendly for a Glasgow team after several moves collapsed.", "The PM started the session - the last before three by-elections - with an apology to LGBT veterans affected by a pre-2000 ban.", "Costs for tenants have jumped again but house prices grew more slowly in May, figures show.", "Danielle Watts had gum disease and pulled 13 of her own teeth because there were no NHS dentists.", "The bill is central to the prime minister's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.", "Rishi Sunak says it was an \"appalling failure\" that service people were sacked because of their sexuality.", "Mace the Great and Sage Todz record a song after the channel mixed them up.", "Patients are warned to expect severe disruption as NHS senior doctors prepare for a 48-hour strike in England.", "Tory MP Maria Miller says illegal abortions should be dealt with \"compassion not punishment\".", "The actor is suing for defamation over articles accusing him of misconduct towards several women.", "Insurance now costs an average of £776 a year, £222 more than last year and the highest on record.", "Lill Saether's family were bound for New York but ended up in Newry - a twist of fate that would later save a life.", "Fiona Scott Morton pulls out of the EU role of Chief Competition Economist amid a storm of criticism.", "Nigel Farage says he obtained a copy of a report by the bank's wealth reputational risk committee.", "The soldier crossed the border \"wilfully, of his own volition\" the Pentagon has said.", "The murdered private detective's family was \"inexcusably let down\", Met chief Sir Mark Rowley says.", "Parts of Sardinia and Sicily will be the hottest in Europe with highs of 46C or 47C.", "Gen Syrskyi, overseeing the renewed push in the east, says quick success is practically impossible.", "Tobias Ellwood says Afghanistan has been \"transformed\" and it is time to restart diplomatic relations.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Great writers such as Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin and Robert Graves were all ruled out as poet laureate.", "New discoveries in the buried Roman city shed fresh light on life before Vesuvius erupted.", "Police are investigating how the 24-year-old suspect evaded the nation's strict gun control laws.", "Passports are about to be released with an updated wording for the reign of King Charles.", "Kenya is in a drought-hit region and Ukrainian grain has contributed to vital food aid supplies.", "The ex-UKIP leader accuses the BBC of falling for \"spin\", saying his account was closed due to his views.", "Concerns over the impact of AI are partly behind the first Hollywood actors' strike in 43 years.", "The announcement ends months of speculation over the Russian president's planned visit.", "Adil Iqbal filmed himself speeding at 123mph before he ploughed into Frankie Jules-Hough's car.", "Lower fuel prices contributed to the drop to 7.9%, while food prices rose less quickly than in June last year.", "Documents show the ex-PM was told Ukraine's accession would help combat Russian expansionism.", "Travis King spent time in a detention facility after getting into fights and hitting a police car.", "England's Stuart Broad becomes just the second pace bowler to take 600 wickets in Test cricket after removing Australia's Travis Head in the fourth Ashes Test.", "Eight SNP and two Conservative MPs have announced they will not contest the next general election.", "A damning report, by the Health and Social Care Committee, says more needs to be done, and quickly.", "Part of the advice on policies for trans pupils may be unlawful, the attorney general advises.", "Insiders say the move, revealed exclusively by the BBC, is the most significant investment in the sector since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s.", "The donation will go towards restoration work on Scotland's oldest ship, which is docked in Dundee.", "The museum says it condemns racism directed at any groups and is working to be more welcoming.", "Tata will build the electric vehicle battery plant in Somerset which will create 4,000 jobs.", "England chip away at Australia's batting on a tense and fluctuating first day of the crucial fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.", "A Grenfell Tower fire relatives' group criticises an extension to Ulster Rugby's shirt sponsorship.", "A BBC investigation finds some have been left with prolonged dental pain as they wait.", "Labour warns the move could mean families who have resettled in the UK could become homeless.", "Former Netherlands goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has been moved out of intensive care following a bleed on the brain.", "The United Nations command says Travis King was on a DMZ tour when he crossed without permission.", "The stars are joined by Self Esteem, Olivia Dean and Shura on an anthem for the England squad.", "Dozens more former and current staff allege facing bullying and harassment at the chain.", "Ella Mann, from Dovercourt in Essex, is in \"agony\" despite temporary filling, her parents say.", "The London assembly member faced only one opponent after Daniel Korski dropped out.", "The Labour leader's refusal to scrap the limit will be raised at a meeting of the party's policy body.", "Some claim leaving the EU may be to blame for the UK's stubbornly high inflation, but it's a complex picture.", "Taliban guards allegedly used tasers to disperse the women protesting in the capital Kabul.", "Sun and MailOnline publishers say they are looking into claims against the broadcaster.", "The government faces the possibility of losing all three seats in Thursday's polls.", "Families uncertain about a suitable school place for their child tell BBC News NI of their frustration.", "The monarch is presented with a sword, sceptre and crown to mark his coronation during a ceremony in St Giles' Cathedral.", "The Meta chief is hoping Threads, his new Instagram-linked app, will beat Twitter on numbers.", "Sources familiar with the process said they expect the punishment for the MP to meet the threshold for a recall petition.", "Man who accuses actor of sexual assault is cross-examined in court by actor's defence barrister.", "The man alleges he was grabbed by the Hollywood actor with \"such force it was really painful\".", "Marylebone Cricket Club members involved in altercations with Australia players in the Long Room at Lord's \"brought shame\" on the club, says the organisation's chair.", "The prince's case against the Sun is one of three damages claims he is pursuing against newspapers.", "More than 1,000 arrests are made during the UK's \"most significant\" ever crackdown on organised crime.", "Organisers of Tiree Music Festival said it had bussed people to homes and halls across the island.", "Ms Edwards' father calls his daughter's killer, Connor Chapman, a \"coward\" as he is taken to the cells.", "The Labour leader warns a \"class ceiling\" is holding children back, but doesn't commit to free school meals for all.", "Women will receive letters from the the UK's tax authority aimed at correcting state pension underpayments.", "Andy Murray dazzles under the Wimbledon lights again as he leads Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in a late-night thriller on Centre Court.", "Chester Zoo's new calf will help to reveal the secrets of \"one of the least known\" species, a keeper says.", "The £400m St Michael's scheme in Manchester city centre includes a five-star hotel and luxury flats.", "The confirmation follows years of BBC reports that the SAS killed scores of unarmed people in the conflict.", "The UK-based holidaymaker apologises and says he did not realise how old the Roman arena was.", "Researchers say the pandemic and cost of living crisis have contributed to worsening mental health.", "A funeral procession will include 200 motorbikes, two limousines and eight Rolls-Royce cars.", "Nathan Evans became an overnight star when a sea shanty he posted on social media went viral.", "A bid to restore the crumbling building is delayed after a protected species is found in a pond.", "Dalat Gulzar ignored signs and flashing lights at Llanbedr station, a court heard.", "The sanctions will send a \"clear message to the regime\", Foreign Secretary James Cleverly says.", "The firm posts a one-line statement saying it has stopped \"all exploration and commercial operations\".", "Piles of cash, weapons and a giant sledgehammer seen in pictures allegedly showing a raid on his home.", "The CPS made its decision after considering a file of evidence for nearly three years.", "New project bids to rid Rathlin of non-native predators threatening the seabirds' future.", "The climate activist blocked a port handling fossil fuels with a group of young activists in June.", "Nine people are injured after a car crashes into a primary school building in south-west London.", "The Covid inquiry asked for unredacted WhatsApps, notebooks and diaries - the Cabinet Office initially declined.", "Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in Baghdad by an Iraqi Shia militia, Israeli officials say.", "The BBC’s analysis editor assesses claims about the security of the Zaporizhzhia power station.", "The appeal by Tom Hayes has the potential to overturn not only his own case but that of nine other traders.", "British number five Liam Broady causes one of the biggest shocks at this year's Wimbledon with a remarkable five-set win over Norwegian fourth seed Casper Ruud.", "The girl went to Indiana to terminate the pregnancy after Ohio restricted abortion access.", "She enjoyed stardom in Asia and voiced the lead character in the Mandarin version of Disney's Mulan.", "Kenyan cheese factory employees were reportedly made to undress after a pad was put in the wrong bin.", "Some of the people using Threads on its first day tell the BBC what they think about the app and its future.", "Katrina Rainey's husband has been jailed for 18 years for murder of wife he set fire to.", "The Hollywood star is filming scenes at Silverstone for a new F1 movie co-produced by Lewis Hamilton.", "The world's need for fossil fuels is \"desperate\", Shell's chief executive told the BBC.", "The suspended Tory MP says he will reflect on watchdog's verdict, which could trigger a by-election.", "The star's hit single Flowers has been streamed 147 million times, says the Official Charts Company.", "Alexander Lukashenko says Prigozhin, who led a short-lived mutiny in Russia, is in St Petersburg.", "The defence department wants a new office for insider threats and systems to detect electronic devices.", "A tribunal has decided the Mermaids group was not legally entitled to challenge the other charity's status.", "The atmosphere in the West Bank refugee camp feels like Gaza after wars with Israel, says Tom Bateman.", "MG, which has roots dating back over a century, was made in the UK until production moved to China in 2016.", "The Belarusian leader tells the BBC groups like Wagner must be watched closely to stop rebellions.", "The firm is still shipping gas from Siberia despite its promise to withdraw from the Russian energy market.", "A woman is arrested after the crash into a school garden party in Wimbledon, south-west London.", "Justin Welby leads a defeat of the government in the Lords over its Illegal Migration Bill.", "The massive artwork now includes a new panel celebrating the royal visit and the Coronation.", "The big rocket that underpinned Europe's access to space for three decades heads into retirement.", "Residents of the city's refugee camp say homes were destroyed in the Israeli military operation.", "The television star pleaded guilty for her role in a sex-trafficking case related to the Nxivm group.", "Antisocial behaviour made 2022's Belfast parade the worst in decades, says an internal review.", "A girl has died after a Land Rover crashed into a primary school in Wimbledon, south-west London, on Thursday morning.", "The driver, a woman in her 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.", "Millwall owner John Berylson died after his car overturned and hit a tree in the US town of Falmouth, say police.", "The church's 1,200 capacity was filled, with about 800 mourners waiting outside the service.", "Ex-health minister Robin Swann says the political hiatus in Northern Ireland hit the health service.", "The party would also make it compulsory for new joiners to have a formal teaching qualification.", "Excavations revealed artefacts in deep Ice Age sediments preserved on a hillside in Kent.", "BBC News understands a deal has been negotiated over UK association with the Horizon programme.", "Its owner Elon Musk says \"competition is fine, cheating is not\" a day after the rival app launched.", "Officials say 35 buildings were damaged in the attack - one of the biggest on the west Ukrainian city.", "A new UK law to ban landlords from excluding families and people on benefits may extend to Scotland.", "Week of strikes to hit Tube services from 23 July in row over pensions and job cuts, RMT union says.", "The Labour leader is reluctant take sides in by-election dispute over expanding London's clean-air zone.", "Potentially toxic blue-green algae is found at Portstewart and Castlerock beaches.", "The judge says the 2021 murder of the 66-year-old mother-of-three by two Iowa students was \"evil\".", "Four retired detectives who investigated the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence will not face prosecution.", "The High Court says Cabinet Office must hand over unredacted documents to Baroness Hallett's Covid Inquiry.", "The will of one of Italy's richest men gives control to his two eldest children.", "Sales of appliances and electronics drop as customers struggle with cost of living, retailer says.", "Officers say four people were arrested and a further four were issued with a recorded police warning.", "The health minister says difficult questions must be asked for the service to cope.", "NHS Charities Together says £38m raised by Capt Sir Tom Moore is \"not under investigation\".", "The new first minister has faced a baptism of fire - so are things going to get any easier?", "Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti praises the \"fantastic\" Jude Bellingham after he makes his debut in a 3-2 friendly win over AC Milan.", "The popular tourist island has started evacuations after 19,000 had to leave Rhodes.", "Spain goes to the polls to decide its next government on Sunday, and a hard-right coalition is looking likely.", "The BBC's Azadeh Moshiri describes what it's like for people waiting at Rhodes airport.", "The radical preacher is facing three terror charges over his alleged membership of a banned group.", "The number living with serious health conditions will rise nine times faster than those of healthy working age.", "Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal are given permission to speak to Kylian Mbappe after making a world record £259m bid for the Paris St-Germain forward.", "Harrowing victim accounts of the disaster have been read in court before transport bosses sentenced.", "This highly unusual election takes place at the height of summer, after four years of left-wing rule.", "You always walked away from him liking the human race more - writes his friend and colleague.", "Highland falconers are training two Maremma sheep dogs to look out for large birds of prey in the sky.", "Charlotte Owen, 30, was included in the former prime minister's resignation honours list.", "Both crew members died when their firefighting aircraft smashed into a hillside on the island of Evia.", "Thousands of people scan their irises via an orb on launch day of \"dystopian\" crypto project.", "Recent political upheaval has impacted party's efforts to tackle discrimination, independent review finds.", "A victim paid just £2 an hour describes her ordeal as investigators make the care industry a \"top priority\".", "George Ezra, James, The Bootleg Beatles, Mimi Webb and Siouxsie appear on the final day.", "Anguished parents have thronged a hospital seeking official updates on their children.", "Police use water cannon to break up mass demonstrations as a controversial law is passed.", "The Shropshire-based singer-songwriter wrote material performed by Gladys Knight and Cliff Richard.", "The advice had seen some experts who had criticised ministers barred from government-organised events.", "The party says it has agreed an ambitious programme without the need for new spending commitments.", "Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer took £30m on their opening weekend in the UK.", "Moscow's mayor says there were no casualties after \"two non-residential\" buildings were hit in the capital.", "For the first time since 2011, the firm lifts the cost of a single-account premium subscription.", "The government is relaxing planning rules further as it faces an uphill struggle to meet housing targets.", "George Alagiah has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer", "The prime minister is facing pressure to water down green policies after an unexpected by-election win.", "Greece is grappling with devastating wildfires that have forced thousands to flee their homes and hotels.", "Russia is hammering Ukraine's port city of Odesa after quitting the grain deal. What happens now?", "A viral video of an attack on two women is encouraging other survivors to come forward.", "The climate activist was on trial for disobeying a police order to leave the protest in Malmö last month.", "The BBC says sorry to Nigel Farage over its report about the closure of his account at private bank Coutts.", "George Alagiah, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67.", "Prime Minister Hun Sen's son is expected to take over within weeks of the vote.", "Holidaymakers describe fleeing flames, sleeping on floors and getting help from local people.", "The attacks targeted grain for export along the Danube just across from the Nato member state.", "England's hopes of an Ashes comeback are heartbreakingly ended by rain that leaves the fourth Test as a draw and ensures Australia retain the urn.", "Kiri Allan's resignation, the fourth from the party since March, comes on the heels of a national election.", "Catalans weigh up possible outcomes of Sunday's poll and its impact on the independence movement.", "Elon Musk says \"tweets\" will become \"x's\" in the billionaire owner's latest change to the firm.", "Novak Djokovic withdraws from next month's Canadian Open in Toronto because of fatigue.", "Grizzly bear tracks were found at the scene near Yellowstone National Park, say investigators.", "Rape Crisis Scotland says club has sent \"clear message of disregard\" to survivors of sexual violence.", "The mum of a girl who died due to toxic air says children's health should be the focus of debate.", "BBC newsreader George Alagiah says: \"I don't think I'm going to be able to get rid of this thing.\"", "Former West Ham goalkeeper turned TV pundit Shaka Hislop is recovering after collapsing on air in California.", "The plans would have required many frontline officers and staff to remove beards and moustaches.", "Tourists describe their emergency evacuation and people being covered in ash on the Greek island.", "Former England international Trevor Francis, who was Britain's first ever £1m footballer, dies at the age of 69.", "Women tell the BBC about what they will miss from salons before they close on orders from the Taliban.", "The singer hit his stride with advice from a stunt company based in Hertfordshire.", "Staff at 37 NHS trusts in England will walk out over pay, from 08:00 on Tuesday.", "Charlotte Gainsbourg says she feels bereft as thousands say goodbye to her mother, singer Jane Birkin.", "The BBC newsreader says \"it's back to some tough stuff\" after a scan showed his cancer had spread.", "Former BBC correspondent Jon Sopel described the 67-year-old as \"the most decent, principled, kindest\" man he'd worked with.", "Iechyd da! Single malt Welsh whisky awarded protected status like Caerphilly Cheese.", "Israel's PM, who had a pacemaker fitted, is facing a showdown over plans which have caused uproar.", "What to expect from day five of the Fifa Women's World Cup, with Italy facing Argentina, Germany playing Morocco and Brazil meeting Panama.", "The BBC News at Six anchor was back on TV after more than a year off following bowel cancer treatment.", "People could get an extra second to cross the typical road, under new guidance for English councils.", "The award-winning journalist was a respected fixture on British TV news for more than three decades.", "UK competition watchdog will investigate unregulated legal services following complaints.", "Barbie has the year's most successful opening weekend for a film in the US and Canada, making $155m.", "A video of a mum shouting as officers handcuff her in front of her son is criticised on social media.", "Their song, These Are The Days, will see the band remembering their band member who died in April.", "At least one person was killed and 19 injured in the blasts, including four children.", "Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo narrowly wins but is held back by left-wing parties.", "The exiled Czech-French writer used satire to explore totalitarianism and the human condition.", "The government had until 16.00 BST on Monday to hand over the ex-PM's messages to the Covid inquiry.", "The NASUWT union says it will consider going on strike in the autumn term.", "The film, also starring Timothée Chalamet, will tell the backstory of famous chocolatier Willy Wonka.", "Scientists want to use sediments in Crawford Lake as a signifier for a new epoch in geological time.", "Allegations and speculation about a BBC presenter's behaviour and identity had mounted for days.", "The Glasgow attraction secured the £120,000 Art Fund award - the largest museum prize in the world.", "The wife of Huw Edwards issues a statement on his behalf, naming him as the BBC newsreader facing allegations.", "The Met Police have ended their assessment and say there is no evidence of a criminal offence.", "The launch comes after Pyongyang accused the US military of repeated air incursions.", "Rishi Sunak is at the Nato summit, where he has been holding talks with Volodymyr Zelensky.", "Prosecutors wrapped up their evidence against Kevin Spacey in his London sex assault trial today.", "Philippine censors said they were convinced the \"cartoonish\" map did not depict the nine-dash line.", "Speaking to the BBC, Ukraine's leader stresses that the counter-offensive is not a Hollywood movie.", "An image of the Sinn Féin vice president appeared on an Eleventh Night bonfire in Dungannon.", "A report questions the language used for some checks, including assessing whether the baby is \"pink all over\".", "Nato's decision suggests it wants continuity and experience as the war in Ukraine continues.", "The former deputy first minister of Northern Ireland addressed the hearing in London.", "Young Italians object to the acquittal of a school caretaker who admitted groping a teenage student.", "What television shows will be nominated for an Emmy? Who will be short-listed for best actor and actress?", "Charles Manson cult follower Leslie Van Houten was convicted in the 1969 murder of a California couple.", "The Conservative MP allegedly threatened to use her \"platform\" to find out why she was denied a peerage.", "Lt Gen Oleg Tsokov's death is announced on TV and by Russian war channels on social media.", "The star discusses his time in One Direction and fatherhood in his first interview for six years.", "It comes after Nato refused to provide Kyiv with a timeline for joining the alliance.", "The row about the BBC presenter has developed into a series of claims and counter-claims.", "The US comedian joins two other authors who claim their copyright was infringed to train AI systems.", "The BBC still has questions to answer after lawyers representing the young person at the centre of the allegations disputed the mother’s account.", "The new entity is called xAI, and employs several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google.", "Tourism cash is being lost due to poor marketing and transport links, warns the report.", "They say they were sent abusive messages by the presenter and put under pressure to meet up.", "One council has said it will dip into its reserves to feed vulnerable children over the summer.", "Sharon Loughran says her car was set alight during what police are treating as a sectarian attack.", "Watch the moment a member of Wimbledon security is booed after asking a crowd member to return a caught ball during Christopher Eubanks' quarter-final against Daniil Medvedev.", "His wife said she issued a statement \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being\".", "The heatwave could potentially lead to record-breaking temperatures, forecasters say.", "Riikka Purra admits making the comments in 2008, while the PM vows no tolerance of racism.", "Eight major UK airports have increased fees for drivers to drop off passengers, according to new data.", "Theresa May leads criticism of the Illegal Migration Bill, but MPs overturn changes made by peers.", "The announcement is expected on Thursday, following formal sign off from the prime minister and chancellor.", "An inflatable boat sank after those on board waited 10 hours for help last month in Gran Canaria.", "This year's Twelfth of July parades included Ballinamallard, Magherafelt and Kilkeel.", "The university lost its membership of the UCEA after it settled a staff pay dispute locally.", "Former deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill was giving evidence to the Covid-19 inquiry.", "An influential LGBT figure in Japan, Ryuchell was also criticised for their gender non-conformity.", "Emma MacKenzie, from Canada, says she cannot renew her visa if she does not get her degree.", "The US president is speaking about the continued support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.", "Ted Lasso, The White Lotus, Wednesday and Abbott Elementary are among the other nominees.", "Jurors hear a 999 call in which Hywel Williams admits pushing retired maths teacher Peter Ormerod.", "NEAS chief executive Helen Ray says sorry \"for any distress\" after it covered up paramedics' errors.", "Thomas Cashman, who shot dead schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel, is refused permission to appeal.", "Its ethics watchdog is also investigating a gold company over use of forced labour in China operations.", "The Radio 2 host says fresh claims meant the presenter \"needs to come forward now\".", "Wembley Stadium says the demand for accessible tickets has been \"unprecedented\".", "President Zelensky wants assurances Ukraine will join Nato after the war, but members chose strategic caution.", "Wages continue to rise strongly, raising the prospect of more interest rate rises by the Bank of England.", "A mother and daughters are sentenced after 54 dogs were found in filthy conditions in family home.", "An eruption has sent lava and smoke pouring on the Reykjanes peninsula following intense earthquake activity in the area.", "The moment a giant panda gave birth to twins for the first time in South Korea has been captured on camera.", "The presenter has been named as the BBC star at the centre of a string of damaging allegations in the Sun.", "As claims and counter-claims continue, one area under scrutiny is how the Sun has handled the story.", "A near-fatal stabbing in New York last year left the acclaimed author blind in one eye.", "Ros Atkins takes a look at what we do and do not know about the BBC presenter row.", "The deal between France's Renault and the Chinese maker of London taxis will support 19,000 jobs.", "Iowa joins several other Midwest states in bringing new restrictions since Roe V Wade was overturned.", "Andrew Bailey tells an audience at Mansion House that it is \"crucial\" inflation falls back to 2%.", "Eight-month-old Mabli Hall died from a brain injury after a car hit her pram, an inquest hears.", "A 15-year-old is charged with attempted wounding with intent and possession of bladed article.", "Ukrainian refugees living on a cruise ship in Leith have been moved into new accommodation.", "The alliance says Kyiv can join \"when conditions are met\" as President Zelensky criticises \"absurd\" delay.", "The blaze on Spain's La Palma has destroyed some 4,500 hectares of land since Saturday.", "Elon Musk confirms the firm has a heavy debt load and income in June was not what had been expected.", "One woman wants to return to work after sickness but feels there is not enough support available.", "Argentina forward Lionel Messi signs for American MLS side Inter Miami on a deal that runs until to the end of 2025.", "The English-French star, who rose to fame alongside Serge Gainsbourg, has died in Paris.", "Osian Jones, 16, had three heart attacks and is recovering in intensive care after his operation.", "The defence secretary says the US wants the current head, Jens Stoltenberg, to stay on.", "The Labour leader is quietly preparing for power but he can't take anything for granted - here's why.", "The Labour leader says his party will always invest in public services but reform is also needed.", "After June's mutiny, Wagner troops were told they could join the regular Russian army or head to Belarus.", "Police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.", "No-one was hurt but \"difficult conditions\" meant people had to be evacuated from nearby buildings.", "Novak Djokovic believes his eagerly anticipated Wimbledon meeting with Carlos Alcaraz is \"probably the best final\" there could have been.", "Senior doctors are already set to strike this week - but now they will also strike for two days in August.", "The heatwave that brought temperatures above 40C across the Mediterranean will intensify next week.", "The equalities minister did not specify the content of gender guidance for schools, due this week.", "The unnamed firefighter died from injuries sustained working in the Northwest Territories on Saturday.", "Carlos Alcaraz wins the Wimbledon men's singles title for the first time by ending Novak Djokovic's recent dominance with a stunning victory.", "At least 40 people have died in floods and landslides in one of the country's worst monsoon seasons.", "Russia has threatened not to extend the deal allowing Ukraine's Black Sea grain exports despite the war.", "Police say the boy died after a birthday party in north-west London..", "The singer tells the BBC she wants to build better support for contestants on reality TV shows.", "A fan causes a crash on stage 15 as Wout Poels claims his first Tour de France stage win and Jonas Vingegaard maintains his overall lead.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales and various Hollywood stars are watching all the action on Centre Court.", "The 15-year-old boy got in to difficulty while in the River North Esk in Angus on Saturday.", "The business secretary's comments come as she signs off a new deal with 11 Asia and Pacific nations.", "Just 15 were alive after the stranding and vets had to euthanise the survivors on welfare grounds.", "The senior Tory will also step down as an MP at the next general election, he tells the Sunday Times.", "Sony agrees deal with tech giant to keep franchise on PlayStation as Activision buyout moves step closer.", "Nearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories.", "The fast-moving story saw the dial shift on the balance between public interest, privacy and misconduct.", "The defence secretary says the Ukraine war has exposed \"vulnerabilities\" as he seeks more money.", "The European Space Agency says Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland may see extreme conditions.", "The National Audit Office has found the project is behind schedule and not delivering value for money.", "England are preparing for another Ashes fight as the multi-format series is tied with two games to play.", "In Phoenix, Arizona, temperatures have been above 109.4F (43C) for 17 days straight.", "Footage from police shows officers chasing the biker through gardens before his arrest.", "Australia retain the Women's Ashes with a dramatic three-run victory over England in the second one-day international at The Ageas Bowl.", "The controversial police unit enforces Iran's strict dress code and has been accused of brutality.", "Scottish Care says residential and home provision across Scotland is in an \"incredibly difficult\" position.", "Czech Marketa Vondrousova becomes the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon women's title as Ons Jabeur's wait for a major goes on.", "Ministers will ask the regulator to restrict numbers on underperforming courses in England.", "The business secretary signed the new trade deal this morning before speaking to Laura Kuenssberg", "The head of Unite warns the Labour leader against \"tinkering around the edges\" or \"apathy could win\".", "The musician said she felt let down by the show after she was attacked by a hotel porter in 2012.", "Former MP David Warburton says allegations of sexual misconduct against him have been withdrawn.", "The Evening Standard's use of a photo of Susan Hall is described as having a \"whiff of misogyny\".", "The former Brexit Party leader says his account had been closed because of his political views.", "Post-menopausal killer whales protect their adult sons from fights, research shows.", "Two people have been shot dead in the centre of Auckland just hours before the opening of the Fifa Women's World Cup.", "People living in Somerton and Frome give their views as they prepare to vote in a new MP on 20 July.", "The firm says 255 workers will be at risk of redundancy at the 39 stores due for closure.", "The defence for the American actor summed up their arguments for the jury on Thursday.", "Its foreign ministry announces the move amid worsening relations between London and Moscow.", "RMT members at 14 train firms walk out on Thursday as train drivers continue an overtime ban.", "The boss of the streaming giant also calls for an end to the strikes disrupting Hollywood.", "Police are investigating how the 24-year-old suspect evaded the nation's strict gun control laws.", "The five main political parties have been in talks with Chris Heaton-Harris over the current stalemate.", "Attacks on Black Sea ports destroy 60,000 tonnes of grain and damage infrastructure, officials say.", "Tobias Ellwood is castigated for backing engagement with the Taliban but barely mentioning human rights.", "Senior doctors are already set to strike this week - but now they will also strike for two days in August.", "The biggest Fifa Women's World Cup - featuring European champions England and debutants the Republic of Ireland - will finally get under way on Thursday.", "The ex-UKIP leader accuses the BBC of falling for \"spin\", saying his account was closed due to his views.", "The transgender girl died after she was found with fatal stab wounds in a park in Cheshire.", "Sir Tom Scholar was fired after Liz Truss vowed to change \"Treasury orthodoxy\" during her bid for Tory leadership.", "The warning comes as Octopus Energy's boss says customers prefer emails written by AI over humans.", "Plans are announced to make it more difficult for banks to close customer accounts.", "Rishi Sunak says it was an \"appalling failure\" that service people were sacked because of their sexuality.", "The White House says the controversial weapons are having an impact on Russian formations.", "The event happened on 10 June after Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans were killed in a crash.", "Between 1979 and 1993 holiday homes were targeted as well as estate agents and Conservative MPs.", "German authorities say investigations are continuing into the November museum heist in Bavaria.", "The NatWest chief executive's resignation brings an end to more than 30 years at the bank.", "Zak Crawley's astonishing 189 stuns Australia and keeps England on course for an Ashes comeback on an exhilarating second day of the fourth Test at Old Trafford.", "First-class degrees were given to 32.8% of students in England last year, down from 37.4%.", "A new Oxford University study pinpoints for the first time how high- and low-meat diets impact the planet.", "The panel resigned over controversial research about abortion and women's mental health.", "Residents in the south-western outskirts of the city are being told to stay indoors.", "Adil Iqbal filmed himself speeding at 123mph before he ploughed into Frankie Jules-Hough's car.", "Doctors use UV cameras to teach about skin cancer which makes up nearly half of Welsh cancer cases.", "Wayne and Tracy Phillips are the first to take part in a new nurse sponsor initiative.", "A by-election is being held in Uxbridge and South Ruislip following the resignation of Boris Johnson.", "Polls open in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Selby and Ainsty, and Somerton and Frome.", "Five whale sharks were found trapped in fishing nets in Indonesian waters.", "The consumer group claims Clubcard pricing is not clear enough but Tesco says it meets current rules.", "Travis King spent time in a detention facility after getting into fights and hitting a police car.", "Republic of Ireland manager Vera Pauw says her side have shown \"they are ready for this level\" after a narrow 1-0 defeat by co-hosts Australia on their World Cup debut.", "Vattenfall cites deteriorating market conditions in its decision to shelve the offshore wind farm.", "New Zealand's players had tears in their eyes after defeating Norway in the opening game of the 2023 Women's World Cup - while Australia's own winning feeling was one of relief.", "Former head of the UN climate science body told the BBC's Today programme he was very pessimistic.", "Staff were surprised to being asked to produce hundreds of sweet treats for the film set.", "Tobias Ellwood deletes a video where he said Afghanistan had been transformed under the Taliban.", "England's Stuart Broad becomes just the second pace bowler to take 600 wickets in Test cricket after removing Australia's Travis Head in the fourth Ashes Test.", "Co-hosts New Zealand open the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup in stunning style against Norway as they win on the global stage for the first time.", "The Australian dementia patient died after she was allegedly tasered by a police officer in May.", "The remains have been donated by a US businessman to a university so they can be studied.", "Vine's lawyer says Alex Belfield made false allegations in nine YouTube videos and eight tweets.", "Russia announces it will treat ships heading for Ukrainian ports as potential military targets.", "A former detective and a special constable reveal their experiences of serving with the Met Police.", "Banks could face conditions on their licences after Nigel Farage said his account was shut over his views.", "Greg Rutkowski is among the artists calling for more protection from artificial intelligence tools.", "The party wins Selby and Ainsty - while the Lib Dems claim Somerton and Frome, and the Tories retain Uxbridge.", "The pedestrian was caught between two cars that collided before careening away in opposite directions.", "Miranda Dickson will now keep the door of her historic Edinburgh home an off-white shade of pink.", "The technology giant says it could remove services such as FaceTime from the UK over potential changes", "England begin their Women's World Cup campaign against Haiti on Saturday and BBC Sport readers have chosen who they think should be in the starting XI.", "How to follow the Fifa World Cup 2023 on the BBC Sport, television and radio.", "The White House says Pyongyang has failed to respond to attempts to negotiate release.", "The monarch's traditional prime minister says he is being treated in a hospital in Eswatini.", "Police removed protesters who briefly disrupted the parade which saw thousands gather to celebrate.", "The health secretary says he is \"ready\" to talk to 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in Golden Ears Park, Canada, sparking 16 search teams into action.", "The equivalent of 75,000 staff are lost to illness, as the absence rate jumps 29% since before the pandemic.", "He was Cabinet Secretary between 2012 and 2014 during David Cameron's coalition government.", "The firm is still shipping gas from Siberia despite its promise to withdraw from the Russian energy market.", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was speaking publicly for the first time since he was shot in February.", "The Akita Inu has been lionised in Japan and beyond as a symbol of devotion and fidelity.", "A total of 719 people were arrested as disturbances gripped Marseille and other cities with Paris quieter.", "He was learning to be an electrician and played rugby league but died at a police check near Paris.", "The soap stalwart, who appeared in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Brookside, has died aged 86.", "US President Joe Biden will meet King Charles at Windsor Castle on 10 July.", "Transport network 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Stormont during her talks.\n\nThe DUP has insisted new legislation is needed before it will end its 18-month boycott over post-Brexit trade rules.\n\nThe party walked out of Stormont's power-sharing executive in February 2022 in protest over a Brexit deal which introduced new checks and restrictions on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary was speaking after holding a series of talks with the main political parties this week.\n\nHe said new legislation may be required at Westminster and the government now has \"a lot more clarity\" about what the DUP is seeking.\n\nSpeaking after her meeting at Hillsborough Castle on Thursday, Ms O'Neill said she made it clear to the secretary of state that the current political vacuum at Stormont was \"totally unsustainable\".\n\n\"All it is serving is to punish the public,\" she said.\n\n\"Whilst people in the DUP take themselves off on summer holidays, families are left struggling; workers and families are left struggling and worried about how they are going to deal with the cost of living.\"\n\nIf you'd asked me where we're at earlier today I would have said in a very bad place, but that's before we heard the optimism pouring out of Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nHe, let's face it, is in a better position to know than us.\n\nLet us see what happens in September before popping any Champagne corks.\n\nWe have to see what the DUP says, because no matter how much people don't like it, there will be no deal unless the DUP says there's a deal.\n\nWe are certainly not there yet.\n\nEarlier, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Doug Beattie predicted the executive would be restored by the autumn.\n\nMr Beattie said his delegation had \"a good conversation\" with the secretary of state at Hillsborough Castle but said he was a realist and admitted that \"the timings are getting tight\".\n\nMr Beattie said there would be a couple of weeks in September when a decision would have to be made and insisted \"that's down to the DUP\".\n\nThe UUP's Robbie Butler and Doug Beattie also met the NI secretary at Hillsborough\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), SDLP and Alliance Party met the secretary of state in London on Wednesday.\n\nAfterwards, the DUP said that the onus was on the government to introduce new legislation at Westminster from September.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak negotiated the Windsor Framework with the EU to address some of the problems created by the post-Brexit Irish Sea border.\n\nBut the DUP said it still had many concerns and submitted an 18-page document to the government outlining its demands before it will return to Stormont.\n\nThe Sinn Féin delegation told reporters that the party has not seen that document because, so far, it had only been shared with the government.\n\nThe talks are aimed at restoring Stormont's devolved institutions at Stormont which collapsed in February 2022\n\nSpeaking after meeting Mr Heaton-Harris on Wednesday, the DUP's deputy leader, Gavin Robinson, said the government knows what steps are needed to restore devolution.\n\n\"They are going to have to bring forward measures in the House of Commons that address the constitutional issues that we have highlighted,\" he added.\n\nHowever, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the DUP had been given \"far too much road\" and that it was time for the government to get much tougher on them.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, the Foyle MP said the DUP \"need to get back to work\" as local people are frustrated.\n\n\"We have a quarter of the population on hospital waiting lists and we have the DUP playing games,\" Mr Eastwood said.\n\nColum Eastwood says he is downbeat about Stormont being restored soon\n\n\"We are in this sort of de facto direct rule situation where the British government is making decisions when we need local people making those decisions.\"\n\nAlliance's deputy leader Stephen Farry said he was \"not entirely sure that the government and the DUP are on the same page\" in terms of requests for new legislation to deal with the DUP's concerns over the Windsor Framework.\n\nStephen Farry from Alliance said he was concerned about Stormont's worsening finances during the wait to restore devolution\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster that he too did not know exactly what the DUP has asked for.\n\n\"I hear the rhetoric at times from the DUP. I hear demands at times that are unrealistic,\" Mr Farry said.\n\nThe North Down MP added: \"I am concerned - and the longer this drifts, the worse the current financial crisis gets in Northern Ireland.\"", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEarps has made 34 appearances for England since her debut in 2017 Coverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website & app.Full coverage details; latest news England goalkeeper Mary Earps says it is \"hurtful\" that fans cannot buy a replica of her goalkeeper shirt. The 30-year-old was named the world's top goalkeeper at last year's Fifa Best awards following the Lionesses' win in the European Championship that summer. England's kit for this summer's World Cup is manufactured by Nike. \"Millie [Bright] said 'my niece is desperate to get your shirt, where can I get it?' and I was like, 'you can't',\" Earps said. \"All my team-mates have ordered a lot of shirts for their friends and family. \"They were talking about it at the dinner table, saying 'oh I wasn't able to get this'. And I'm thinking, 'I can't get it at all'. \"There are a lot of people who have spent a tremendous amount of money on outfield shirts and then put a number one and 'Earps' on the back, which doesn't sit well with me either.\" Replicas of Earps' kit with Manchester United, who she plays for in the Women's Super League, sold out last season. It has been reported that producing new women's goalkeeper kits for the public is not part of Nike's commercial strategy. The England home and away shirts are available to buy in men's, women's and children's sizes and retail at £79.95 for an adults and £59.95 for kids. A replica of the men's England goalkeeper shirt is not available on the England Store but is available with other outlets. Earps says she was not told her kit would not be available to the public and only found out when the outfield kit went on sale. From almost quitting football to cover star - Mary Earps \"For my own family and friends and loved ones not to be able to buy my shirt, I know that sounds like 'oh Mary, what a horrible problem', but on a personal level that is really hard,\" Earps added. \"I have been trying to go through the correct channels as much as possible, which is why I have not spoken on it publicly. \"On a personal level, it is hugely hurtful. There has been an incredible rise in goalkeeping participation.\" Earps started every game as the Lionesses won Euro 2022 and became the first goalkeeper to keep 50 clean sheets in the Women's Super League earlier this year. She said she had spoken to her team-mates about the issue and that they were also disappointed by the situation. \"I can't really sugar-coat this in any way, so I am not going to try. It is hugely disappointing and very hurtful,\" she added. Ex-Manchester City stopper Karen Bardsley, who was capped 81 times by England, said she believes the problem is part of a wider issue about goalkeepers being \"undervalued\". \"It has been a common theme for as long as I can remember,\" she told BBC Sport. \"There are only very few moments where my shirt was available in very specific shops and maybe one or two times where it was available online, but very fleeting. \"It speaks of a bigger picture around the position and how well it's valued in the game itself - I think it is massively undervalued.\" BBC Sport has contacted Nike for comment. The Football Association declined to comment.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "In Athens, Hellenic Red Cross workers have been distributing water bottles to keep people hydrated\n\nGreece is bracing for more intense heat this weekend, with meteorologists warning that temperatures could climb as high as 45C (113F).\n\nPeople have been advised to stay home, and tourist sites - including Athens' ancient Acropolis - will be shut during the hottest parts of the next two days.\n\nIt could turn into Greece's hottest July weekend in 50 years, one of the country's top meteorologists says.\n\nMeanwhile, firefighters are continuing to battle dozens of wildfires.\n\nEmergencies and civil protection officials are warning of a very high risk of new blazes across the country.\n\nWestern Attica - just west of Athens - is among the worst-hit areas, along with Laconia in the southern Peloponnese and the island of Rhodes.\n\nGreece's EU partners have provided help, including firefighting planes from France and Italy and more than 200 firefighters from Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. Neighbouring Turkey is also sending some aircraft to help.\n\nGreece - like a number of other European countries - saw a prolonged spell of extreme heat earlier this month.\n\nThe latest heatwave comes at one of the busiest times for the country's tourism industry.\n\nIn its latest bulletin, the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) warns that central and eastern regions of Greece are likely to see temperatures reaching 44C on Saturday.\n\nAnd it forecasts an even hotter Sunday, with 45C possible in central Greece.\n\n\"This weekend risks being the hottest registered in July in the past 50 years,\" said Panagiotis Giannopoulos, a meteorologist with state broadcaster ERT, quoted by AFP news agency.\n\n\"Athens is going to have temperatures above 40C for six to seven days, through to the end of July,\" he added.\n\nAfter a slight drop on Monday a new heat surge is expected on Tuesday.\n\nOfficials fear this could be the worst heatwave since the summer of 1987, when hundreds of deaths were linked to the extreme weather.\n\nAcross Greece, a number of people have already lost their homes to wildfires. In one region, several villages have been consumed by the blazes.\n\nOne man told the BBC he did not even have a bed to sleep on anymore, and was now living in a hotel.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to carbon emissions.\n\nSpain and Italy are among the Mediterranean countries which have also experienced intense heat this week, while parts of the US are also seeing records broken.\n\nOn Friday, Greek firefighters were tackling nearly 80 wildfires across the country", "The hearse was left on the pitch following the incident\n\nA football match has been called off in chaos after a funeral hearse and a car were driven onto the pitch.\n\nThe friendly between Dunston and Gateshead was abandoned at half-time amid extraordinary scenes which stunned watching supporters.\n\nFootage posted on social media showed the vehicles being driven in circles in the centre of the pitch.\n\nTwo men - who witnesses said were masked - then climbed out of the hearse and into the car and left the ground.\n\nGateshead FC fan Archie told the BBC the intruders \"apparently barged through the gate from the car park\" then broke through the railings along the edge of the pitch.\n\nHe said posters were thrown out of the car's window in an apparent protest before \"two people in ski masks\" jumped out of the hearse and into the silver car and drove off.\n\nThe posters included a number of personal allegations about two individuals.\n\nMatty Hewitt, a football writer at the Newcastle Chronicle, said Northern Premier League club Dunston's UTS Stadium was evacuated as a police helicopter circled overhead following the incident.\n\n\"Two cars driven onto the pitch with masked men getting out and leaving a hearse on the pitch,\" he tweeted, describing it as a \"terrifying experience with plenty of children about\".\n\nThe match was abandoned by the referee.\n\nDunston UTS FC said it was a \"family-orientated community club\" and apologised for \"any distress\" felt by its supporters and visitors, \"particularly the younger fans\".\n\n\"Thankfully nobody was physically hurt or injured,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We will be working as hard as ever to repair the damage caused to our pitch and perimeter fencing and look forward to the forthcoming season.\"\n\nNorthumbria Police said they had launched an investigation.\n\n\"Disorder will not be tolerated in the community and anyone found to be involved will be dealt with robustly,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"While inquiries are at an early stage, it is believed that those involved are known to each other and there was no wider risk to the public.\n\n\"We are also aware that images and videos of the disturbance are being circulated on social media.\n\n\"Members of the public are urged not to speculate and are encouraged to share any footage with police to assist the investigation.\n\n\"Police remain in the area to carry out inquiries and offer reassurance to the public and those with concerns are encouraged to speak with an officer on duty.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour and the Liberal Democrats have won seats from the Conservatives in two out of the three by-elections held on Thursday, with the Tories narrowly retaining the third.\n\nThe by-elections, in Selby and Ainsty, Somerton and Frome and Uxbridge and South Ruislip were triggered by the resignations of all three sitting Conservative MPs, including former PM Boris Johnson.\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said his party \"can win anywhere\" after Keir Mather overturned a Tory majority of 20,137 in the North Yorkshire seat of Selby and Ainsty to become the youngest MP in the Commons.\n\nMeanwhile in Somerton and Frome, Lib Dems' Sarah Dyke overturned a Tory majority of 19,000, following up on last year's by-election success in Tiverton and Honiton, and cementing the party's renewed vigour in the West Country.\n\nBut PM Rishi Sunak says the forthcoming general election is \"not a done deal\" after the Tories narrowly held the London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip - with London's Labour mayor Sadiq Khan's contentious ULEZ (Ultra Low Emissions Zone) extension dominating the vote.\n\nPolls opened in the three constituencies - which spanned the length of England - at 07:00 BST on Thursday, including Uxbridge and South Ruislip, in west London, seat of former PM Boris Johnson.\n\nCounting agents tallied the ballots throughout the night, after polls closed at 22:00 BST.\n\nThe results came in during the early hours of Friday - bringing joy to some and disappointment to others.\n\nAmong the triumphant, Keir Mathers became the youngest MP in the House of Commons - aged 25 - winning in the North Yorkshire constituency of Selby and Ainsty, a previously safe Tory seat.\n\nIn Somerton and Frome, the Lib Dems took the majority with Somerset councillor Sarah Dyke securing a convincing majority of 21,187 - leading to indisputable victory for Sir Ed Davey's party in another West Country seat.\n\nThe Conservative Party kept their Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat, however, despite fears it too might be snatched by the Labour candidate.\n\nIn a recount, Conservative Steve Tuckwell narrowly won a majority by just 495 votes, despite a 6.7% swing to Labour.\n\nThe by-elections also saw representations from other parties and independents, including independent candidate Count Binface in Uxbridge, and the Monster Raving Loony party in Selby.\n\nCandidates in Uxbridge staged an anti-ULEZ protest on stage after Conservative MP Steve Tuckwell won the seat - in what many argued was a one-issue contest.\n\nThe protesters included Leo Phaure (Independent), Kingsley Hamilton (Independent), Steve Gardner (Social Democratic Party) and Piers Corbyn (Let London Live).\n\nFollowing the announcement of the results, leaders of the three winning parties joined their respective candidates for a victory lap.\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner were also seen travelling up to Yorkshire by train.\n\nAnd newly elected Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Dyke, alongside party leader Sir Ed Davey. was festooned with confetti from a fake cannon after winning the Frome seat.", "Police are searching for an animal they believe is a lioness in the south-western outskirts of Berlin.\n\nA police spokeswoman said they received calls and a video alerting them to the wild animal at about midnight on Wednesday, and immediately began their search.\n\nAt least 30 police cars were deployed, and veterinarians were called to assist in the search for the big cat.\n\nResidents were told to stay indoors until it is found.\n\nOn Thursday evening, police told a local resident that they had \"just seen\" the lioness and that the search for the animal had entered a \"hot phase\", German outlet Bild reported, adding that officers shouted at joggers to \"get out of the woods quickly\".\n\nHowever, the animal remained elusive after nightfall on Thursday as police hunted with night vision and thermal imaging equipment.\n\nWhile the number of officers has been reduced, Beate Ostertag of Berlin police told public broadcaster RBB that police would \"be in action until the animal is found\".\n\nKleinmachnow Mayor Michael Grubert earlier said authorities had not been able to verify the initial reports of the animal sighting.\n\nA video shared on Twitter - which police believe is real - also appeared to show a lioness in a heavily forested residential area of Kleinmachnow.\n\nHowever, it is unclear where the animal came from. Local zoos, animal sanctuaries and circuses said no lions have escaped from their facilities.\n\nPolice spokesperson Daniel Keip told RBB that \"in the summer you often hear reports of crocodiles in swimming lakes and then it turns out all it was, was a big duck. In this case it's obviously totally real. We're dealing with a lioness that's roaming freely through Teltow, Stahnsdorf and Kleinmachnow.\"\n\nBut Michel Rogall, a circus director in Teltow who was woken by police at 02:00 local time, is not so sure.\n\n\"If it's a lion, I'll eat my hat,\" he told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. In addition, he told Reuters that there was no circus with wild animals on the road in eastern Germany, \"and they wouldn't escape either [if there was]\".\n\nResidents have been advised to stay indoors and keep their pets with them. Police have also told people to avoid the forest and seek shelter immediately if they see the lioness.\n\nMr Grubert said authorities were focusing their search on a large area next to a wood where people walk their dogs. Authorities believe the lioness may be sleeping there.\n\nHe added that there was \"no panic, no hysteria... but we do urge people not to go running or cycling in the woods\".\n\n\"Our hunters... are also equipped with ammunition,\" he said. \"The first objective is to capture. Other measures will only be taken by police officers if their lives or the lives of others are endangered.\"\n\nHelicopters have been deployed to find the elusive animal as well as drones and heat-seeking cameras, Mr Grubert said.\n\nVeterinarians and hunters with tranquiliser guns are also involved in the search, while local media reported that police were using an armoured vehicle normally deployed in anti-terrorism operations.\n\nFlorian Eiserlo of the Four Paws animal welfare organisation told the Rheinische Post newspaper that if anyone runs into the animal, they should not panic.\n\n\"Stand still, stay calm, try to head to a safe area such as a car or a building,\" they said.\n\nBerlin's local press is also full of tips on what to do if one does run into a lioness - which includes not running or panicking, and slowly backing away from it.\n\nVanessa Amoroso, head of the wild animals in trade unit at Four Paws, said if the animal was a lioness, it is likely to have been kept as a pet.\n\nShe said inconsistent laws across Europe made the trade of big cats much easier, as they are allowed as pets in many countries.\n\nMs Amoroso called on the German government to regulate those trading and keeping exotic animals.\n\n\"Germany's position as one of the world's largest markets for wild animals as pets demands effective measures to counteract the ease with which potential buyers can acquire animals through online platforms and exchanges,\" she added.", "Tony Bennett was the great interpreter of the American songbook.\n\nHe delighted generations of audiences - from the 1950s to the 2020s - with stylish renditions of classic songs.\n\nIn 1951, Bennett had his first big hit with Because of You. In 2021, Love For Sale - his second album of duets with Lady Gaga - followed it to the top of the charts.\n\nHe was the oldest man to have a number one album in the United States and, in a seven-decade career, sold more than 50 million records worldwide.\n\nHe won two Emmys and 20 Grammys (19 competitive trophies as well as a lifetime achievement award), but perhaps the greatest compliment came from none other than Frank Sinatra.\n\n\"Tony Bennett\", he said simply \"is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.\"\n\nFrank Sinatra called Tony Bennett \"the best singer in the business\"\n\nBorn in August 1926, Anthony Dominick Benedetto grew up in poverty in the Queens district of New York.\n\nHis father, John, was an Italian immigrant who scratched out a living as a grocer. After a long period of ill-health, he died when Tony was 10.\n\nBennett believed that his talent was inherited and that his father's early death pushed him to succeed.\n\n\"The legend in my family,\" he said, \"was that [my father] used to stand at the top of a mountain and the whole valley would hear him sing. That is the reason I'm singing.\"\n\nHis mother, Anna, encouraged his love of music. She worked long hours during the week as a seamstress but, on Sundays, she put on family concerts starring her children.\n\nBennett's opera-loving older brother, John, was good enough to perform arias as a teenager at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The press called him \"the little Caruso\", after the great Italian tenor.\n\nTony, on the other hand, preferred the popular tunes of the day: particularly Bing Crosby and the jazz and blues singer Al Jolson.\n\nHe also spent hours painting and drawing. At the age of 12, a local teacher spotted him creating a giant mural in chalk on the pavement outside Bennett's housing project - and took him under his wing.\n\nHe helped Tony win a place at the prestigious New York School of Industrial Art, where he studied artistic and musical technique. But Bennett was eventually forced to drop out, in order to contribute to the family income.\n\nThe job he found was as a singing waiter, which he greatly enjoyed - until everything was put on hold for the war.\n\nTony Bennett was forced to drop out of school to supplement the family income\n\nHe served with 63rd Infantry as it fought its way through France and Germany where, he said, he \"had a front-row seat in hell\". He was lucky to escape with his life on several occasions and took part in the liberation of a concentration camp.\n\nThe experience left him a pacifist, with a lifelong hatred of any form of conflict. \"Every war is insane,\" he wrote, \"no matter where it is or what it's about.\"\n\nAfter hostilities ended, Bennett stayed in Germany as part of a unit to entertain the troops. But, having been spotted eating with a black high-school friend - in an era when the army was racially-segregated - he was reassigned to survey war graves.\n\nOn returning home, he studied vocal techniques at the American Theatre Wing School, learning to improvise around the song.\n\nIn 1949, the famous TV entertainer Bob Hope saw him singing in a Greenwich Village nightclub. Bennett then performed under the stage name Joe Bari, but Hope asked him what he was really called.\n\n\"My name is Anthony Dominick Benedetto,' he replied. 'We'll call you Tony Bennett'\", declared Hope.\n\nHope asked Bennett to tour with him around the United States - and the name, like the performer, endured.\n\nSammy Davis Jr and Tony Bennett performing together on a television show in 1960\n\nTwo years later, he had his first hit record. Because of You was a lush, heavily-orchestrated number which topped the US charts for 10 weeks.\n\nA version of Hank Williams' country classic Cold, Cold Heart was also successful, and Bennett found himself performing seven live shows a day at the Paramount Theater in New York - starting at 10:30 each morning.\n\nBennett's wedding in 1952 was besieged by female fans in mourning\n\nIn 1952, he married Patricia Beech in a ceremony at St Patrick's cathedral in Manhattan. Two thousand female fans surrounded the venue, dressed in black to indicate mourning.\n\nThe rock n' roll revolution failed to dent his popular appeal. In the late 1950s, he had eight hits in the US Top 40 and a first UK number one, with a Broadway show tune, Stranger In Paradise.\n\nThen Bennett pivoted towards jazz. He abandoned the saccharine ballads that had made him famous, in favour of more 'Sinatra-like' arrangements.\n\nIn 1962, he released I Left My Heart in San Francisco. At first, it wasn't a huge hit - but the nostalgic elegy for life on the west coast of America became, by far, his most popular song.\n\nTony Bennett photographed in 1962, the year of his most famous hit\n\nA crooner like Bennett found it hard to be heard in the hysteria, and he struggled to get into the charts.\n\nColumbia Records pressured him to record contemporary rock songs. And he was forced to do albums like Tony Bennett Sings The Great Hits of Today! - including a cover of Eleanor Rigby.\n\n\"I actually regurgitated when I made that awful album,\" he recalled. \"I got physically sick.\"\n\nIt certainly didn't bring him commercial success. Nor did a misjudged attempt to become an actor in a television drama, The Oscar.\n\nThe advent of Beatlemania left Tony Bennett struggling for chart success\n\nA liberal by inclination, Bennett was encouraged by his childhood friend, the actor and singer Harry Belafonte, to lend his support to the civil rights movement.\n\nIn 1965, he joined Martin Luther King's third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to bring attention to the desire of African-Americans to exercise their right to vote.\n\nAfter the march, Bennett was driven to the airport by Viola Liuzzo, a white mother of five who had come to help the cause. Moments after she had dropped him off, she was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.\n\nThe lack of professional success told on his private life.\n\nHis marriage failed in 1969, after his affair with the actress Sandra Grant. Bennett and Grant married two years later.\n\nTony Bennett with his second wife, Sandra Grant\n\nBut, by the end of the decade, that relationship was failing, Bennett was addicted to cocaine and the tax authorities were trying to seize his home.\n\nIn 1979, he overdosed and had a near-death experience.\n\n\"A golden light enveloped me in a warm glow,\" he later wrote. \"But suddenly I was jolted out of the vision and I knew I had to make major changes in my life.\"\n\nHe turned to his sons, Danny and Daegal, who were rock musicians. \"Look, I'm lost here,\" he remembered saying. \"'People don't want to hear the music I make.\"\n\nDanny took over as manager. He made few changes to Tony's look and the music still came from the Great American songbook, but the focus was on a new generation.\n\nRegular slots were secured on MTV, The Simpsons and talk shows like David Letterman.\n\n\"We didn't make it cool to like Tony Bennett,\" Danny explained. \"We just put him in places that were cool to be.\"\n\nTony Bennett's music unexpectedly reached a new generation in the 1990s\n\n\"I realised that young people had never heard those songs,\" said Bennett, \"Cole Porter, Gershwin - they were like, 'Who wrote that?' To them, it was different. If you're different, you stand out.\"\n\nIn 1994, his MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett album - featuring duets with KD Lang and Elvis Costello - was declared album of the year at the Grammy Awards.\n\nTony Bennett released an album with Amy Winehouse shortly before her death in 2011\n\nFour years later, there was a rapturous reception at Glastonbury, dressed in an immaculate white suit. And, as a new millennium dawned, the 70-year-old was performing more than 100 shows a year.\n\nTo celebrate becoming an octogenarian, he released an album featuring duets with the likes of Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand and Elton John - which won more Grammy Awards.\n\nIn 2011, Body and Soul - a collaboration with Amy Winehouse recorded just before her death - made the Billboard Hot 100, making Bennett the oldest living artist to chart in its history.\n\nEven greater success came from a partnership with Lady Gaga. They collaborated on a new version of The Lady is a Tramp for his Duets II album in 2011.\n\nThey went on to record their first joint album, Cheek to Cheek, which sold three quarters of a million units in the United States and led to a successful tour.\n\nIn 2021, their second record - the Cole Porter tribute album, Love For Sale - was also a huge commercial success.\n\nIn his 90s, Tony Bennett recorded two successful albums with Lady Gaga\n\nTony Bennett's health was too poor to allow him to promote it. Six years earlier, he had been diagnosed with a degenerative condition: Alzheimer's.\n\nHe will be remembered as a natural entertainer; a timeless talent, whose career took off, hit the rocks and was then reborn for a new generation.\n\nHis partner, Susan, explained that the disease - in his final years - left him struggling to recognise \"mundane items like a fork or his keys\".\n\nBut, she said, \"he could still stride out into the spotlight and acknowledge the audience's applause.\"", "Rico Burton, 31, died in hospital after he was stabbed in Altrincham\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering the cousin of world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury with a knife during a bar brawl.\n\nLiam O'Pray, 22, was convicted of fatally stabbing Rico Burton, 31, in Altrincham, last year.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard the seven-inch blade almost completely severed a major artery in Mr Burton's neck causing massive blood loss.\n\nO'Pray, of Salford, had denied murder during the trial.\n\nHe was found guilty by a jury of seven women and five men after three-and-a-half hours of deliberations following a three-week trial.\n\nRelatives of Mr Burton, who packed the public gallery, shouted \"yes\" as the guilty verdict was delivered.\n\nO'Pray, who made no reaction in the dock, was also found guilty of wounding with intent by slashing and stabbing Harvey Reilly, who was 17 at the time and now 18, during the same incident on 22 August last year.\n\nThe trial was told trouble began after a fight between the defendant's friends and Mr Burton's family and friends at Goose Green, a courtyard of bars in Altrincham, Cheshire.\n\nDoor staff and witnesses told the trial that O'Pray had been a \"loose cannon\" and was \"very erratic\" that night.\n\nJurors heard that shortly after 03:00 BST, \"absolute chaos\" broke out after O'Pray's friend, Malachi Hewitt-Brown, was punched by Mr Burton's cousin, Chasiah Burton.\n\nSoon after, O'Pray struck the fatal blow with the knife to the left side of Rico Burton's neck.\n\nJurors heard that O'Pray had a previous conviction for having a knife in public in 2019, but he claimed to be \"not a violent person.\"\n\nOutside court, Harvey Reilly's mother Sarah said the families were now going to \"put time and strength and effort into campaigning against knife crime\".She added: \"It is every day. It needs to stop. There are laws and legislation that exists that are not being used, it needs to be policed more robustly.\"\n\nNicola Carter, senior crown prosecutor for the North West, said this case was \"yet another example of the fatal consequences of carrying knives\".She added: \"I can only hope that knowing O'Pray has been brought to justice will provide some comfort to their family and friends. My thoughts are with them.\"\n\nJudge Alan Conrad KC said he will pass sentence on 4 August, but the defendant is facing a mandatory life sentence for murder.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Cell phone footage captured a strong tornado in North Carolina tearing off a roof and tossing up debris in the air. The tornado left sixteen people injured, two of them with life-threatening injuries, according to the National Weather Service.", "One of the busiest roads in Johannesburg has been severely damaged after a suspected explosion from an underground gas pipeline.\n\nVideos show sections of the road have collapsed and cars have turned upside down.\n\nOne person was killed and dozens were injured.\n\nSome eyewitnesses reported feeling the ground shake then hearing a loud bang at the time of the blast.", "Chris Heaton-Harris said he doesn't think the UK will need to ask the EU for more time to implement the deal\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has said he believes the implementation of the Windsor Framework remains on track.\n\nThe framework, which is intended to ease post-Brexit trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, was agreed by the EU and UK in February.\n\nSome major parts of the deal are scheduled to take effect in October.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said he does not think the UK will need to ask the European Union for any more time.\n\nThe framework modifies the Northern Ireland Protocol, the 2019 deal which kept NI inside the EU's single market for goods.\n\nThat arrangement keeps the Irish land border open but has meant products arriving into Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK are subject to checks and controls.\n\nThe new deal should reduce the frictions on Great Britain to Northern Ireland trade, primarily by expanding a trusted trader scheme and introducing a system of green lanes and red lanes at Northern Ireland ports.\n\nThe green lane/red lane system is due to start operation at the start of October alongside new labelling requirements for some food products entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nRetailers have said labelling is a key practical issue which they need more clarity on\n\nFurther parts of the deal will then be implemented over the next two years.\n\nIn May, representatives of major retailers said labelling was the key practical issue and they needed more clarity on what will be required before October.\n\nThe government provided more detail last month.\n\nSome parts of the framework have already been implemented, such as a customs tariffs rebate scheme for NI businesses.", "Some NHS staff in England say they are not receiving an extra one-off payment awarded by the government as part of the latest pay deal for nurses and other workers such as ambulance crews.\n\nThe issue is affecting some \"bank\" staff, who provide temporary cover for hospital trusts to fill rota gaps.\n\nSome say they have not received the lump sum, of at least £1,655.\n\nIt was part of the new pay agreement for more than a million NHS workers, in addition to a 5% rise.\n\nThe Unite union has accused ministers of a cynical ploy.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said \"a small minority of staff\" who have chosen not to be directly employed by NHS organisations and instead benefit from being part of the flexible workforce, are likely to be employed on terms and conditions developed by local NHS employers.\n\n\"In these instances, it will be for the employing organisations to determine eligibility,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nUnder the new pay agreement, the government said all eligible staff on the Agenda for Change contract, including bank staff who also work directly for NHS organisations, will receive two one-off awards - worth at least £1,655 for full-time staff. This is on top of an award of at least £1,400 for full-time staff the year before, and a 5% pay rise for 2023/24.\n\nOne staff nurse, from Liverpool, has started a petition asking the government to ensure all NHS bank staff in England receive the non-consolidated payments.\n\nBank staff are not employed on the national Agenda for Change contract other nurses and healthcare staff fall under.\n\nThe bank allows NHS staff at a trust to work extra shifts - but some health workers work only for the bank, taking whatever shifts are offered, and some of these have found they did not qualify for the one-off payment, even though all their work is for the NHS.\n\nSome bank workers are paid the same rates as staff at the same employer, with some holiday and sick pay.\n\nBut others, in exchange for flexibility over hours, can be paid more per hour though without the same employment protection.\n\nDaniel Cartwright works as an NHS 111 call handler in a centre run by Yorkshire Ambulance Service. He is on a bank contract with no holiday or sick pay, but often does 30 hours a week on the same money as staff.\n\n\"I moved to the bank contract as I wanted more flexibility and to suit my personal lifestyle,\" he says.\n\n\"I did not want to commit to a set rota pattern and can choose my hours. I was shocked to hear I would not get the one off payment - it was not a nice feeling, especially as I was working more hours than some trust staff.\"\n\nAfter support from his union UNITE, Daniel has now received the payment: \"I am so much happier to have got it.\"\n\nAn official said: \"Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust reviewed the contracts of its bank-only staff and determined that they should receive the one-off payment as per contractual obligations.\"\n\nNorthumbria Healthcare which runs hospitals in the North East has done the same.\n\nBut the trusts that have chosen to have to do this from their own resources.\n\nOther employers have chosen not to and are being pressed by health unions to change their policies.\n\nUnite says the government should extend funding made available for trusts to make the payments to staff, to allow them to include bank workers.\n\nGeneral secretary Sharon Graham said: \"The cynical ploy of saying that NHS bank staff - or any other NHS staff - should get a pay increase on the one hand, but then refuse to fund it on the other, is yet another case of ministers robbing Peter to pay Paul.\n\n\"Telling local trusts that they must find cash out of existing funds means one thing and one thing only - more cuts to a health service already on its knees.\n\n\"More cuts means more overworked and demoralised staff walking away and on it goes.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the union Unison said: \"The union is running multiple campaigns urging trusts to give bank staff the lump sum and do more to persuade bank workers to become NHS employees. Then staff would receive every job benefit enjoyed by their directly-employed colleagues.\"\n\nHealth staff at other organisations, deemed \"non-statutory\", for example in nursing homes and GP services, have also missed out on the payments.\n\nThe NHS Confederation has called on ministers to intervene, warning there is a danger of a two-tier system being created.\n\nThe Agenda for Change pay deal covers most NHS staff, except doctors and dentists, who are on a different contract.\n\nIt was reached after a series of strikes by workers over concerns about rising inflation outstripping pay awards.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Four suitcases were removed from a sewer in Horbury on Wednesday\n\nFour suitcases dumped into a sewer in West Yorkshire caused sewage to flood into the River Calder.\n\nThe luggage was found blocking a drain in Engine Lane, Horbury, on Wednesday and caused wastewater to back up and spill out via an overflow.\n\nYorkshire Water said it took three hours to remove the items and return the sewer to normal.\n\nThe firm said: \"It is vital people do not use the sewer network as a way of getting rid of unwanted items.\"\n\nMiles Cameron, head of customer field services at Yorkshire Water, added: \"We believe a cover was removed to allow these items to be disposed of into the sewer.\n\n\"Unfortunately, they caused a significant blockage within the network, which led to wastewater being discharged into the River Calder.\n\n\"Thankfully our teams responded quickly to alerts that indicated a problem with the overflows and were able to remove the items and return the network to full working order, stopping the discharge to the river.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of Tube staff were set to walk out from 23 to 28 July\n\nTransport unions have called off planned strikes on the Tube next week following last-minute talks.\n\nMembers of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) were set to walk out from 23 to 28 July, and Unite and Aslef members were due to strike on 26 and 28 July.\n\nBBC London transport correspondent Tom Edwards said it followed a \"major step forward\" in talks.\n\nHe said any changes to pensions would not happen until 2026.\n\nChanges to working conditions would be subject to further negotiations.\n\nIt is the latest development in a long-running dispute between unions and Transport for London (TfL) over job cuts, changes to pensions, and working conditions.\n\nIn a statement, the RMT said \"progress\" was made in the talks after \"significant concessions were made by TfL where their original plans for jobs cuts and pension changes will not be carried out\".\n\nThe union continued: \"There are now longer guarantees on protection of earnings, no pension changes for at least three years, and so-called productivity proposals, which would have damaged the terms and conditions of RMT members, have been halted.\"\n\nHowever, the RMT's general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"This is not the end of the dispute nor is it a victory for the union as yet.\n\n\"RMT's strike mandate remains live until October and we are prepared to use it if necessary,\" he added.\"We will continue to negotiate in good faith as we always have done with TfL, and it was only the steadfast commitment of our members in being prepared to take sustained strike action that has forced the employer to make significant concessions.\"\n\nThe Tube network was last disrupted by strikes in March\n\nBBC London's transport correspondent Tom Edwards said: \"The pensions issue is a really thorny one and this has been stuck in the weeds for a year - TfL was reviewing its pension as a condition of the government bailout during the pandemic.\n\n\"What broke the deadlock was confirmation from government that any changes would involve legislation and it wouldn't be until 2026 at the earliest.\n\n\"That was enough for the unions as it puts the plans beyond a general election, and if there's a new government, who knows if changes to TfL pensions will be a priority for legislation?\"\n\nHe added that given \"there are still warnings from the unions that this isn't the end of the matter\", the announcement \"may just be a pause in the dispute\".\n\nTfL's chief operating officer Glynn Barton said: \"This is good news for London and we will continue to work closely with our trade unions to discuss the issues and seek a resolution.\"\n\nIn a statement, TfL said it \"has provided assurance that there are no current proposals to change pension arrangements\" and any future proposals \"would require appropriate consultation and extensive further work\".\n\nIt added \"no employee will lose their job or be asked to work additional hours\" as part of the range of proposals being considered.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan, said: \"It is really welcome news for Londoners that the trade unions have suspended their planned strikes next week and that commuters won't face disruption.\"Negotiation is always the best way forward and this shows what we can achieve by working with trade unions.\"I've been in close contact with the TfL commissioner throughout this week, and I'll keep working with our TfL unions and staff to deliver the best transport system in the world for Londoners.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Dyke of the Liberal Democrats has won a by-election in the constituency of Somerton and Frome, receiving 21,187 votes.\n\nTory MP David Warburton previously held the seat before resigning earlier this year.", "Boris Johnson says WhatsApps before May 2021 that are due to be handed to the Covid inquiry have now been downloaded.\n\nThere has been a delay in getting them to the inquiry, as they were on the former PM's old phone and he could not remember the pass code.\n\nTechnicians feared that getting it wrong could lead to the data being wiped.\n\nBut there was a breakthrough last week, when the government found a record of his Pin code.\n\nA spokesman said technical experts had now \"successfully recovered all relevant messages from the device\".\n\n\"The inquiry process requires that a security check of this material is now made by the Cabinet Office,\" the spokesman added.\n\n\"The timing of any further progress on delivery to the inquiry is therefore under the Cabinet Office's control.\"\n\nThe department said it would carry out the checks as soon as it was given access to the material.\n\nThe inquiry has requested the WhatsApp messages as part of its investigations into UK government decision-making on Covid. Hearings for that part of the inquiry are due to begin in October.\n\nIt has requested messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat that was set up to discuss the response to the pandemic.\n\nIt has also demanded his one-to-one messages exchanged during the pandemic with around 40 politicians, advisers and officials, including then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Simon Case, the UK's top civil servant.\n\nThe government had attempted to block release of the raw messages, arguing that some of them were irrelevant to the inquiry and that it should be able to redact - or blank out - these before handing them over.\n\nBut it was ordered to hand over the messages unredacted earlier this month, after a legal challenge it mounted was struck down in the High Court.\n\nIt has previously said the \"unambiguously irrelevant\" WhatsApps it held included messages about disciplinary matters, family information, and \"comments of a personal nature\" about individuals.\n\nCrossbench peer Baroness Hallett, who chairs the inquiry, has also revealed the government redacted WhatsApps about \"relations between the UK and Scottish governments,\" and how WhatsApp itself should be used to discuss policy.\n\nShe has also disclosed an initial decision was made to blank out messages between Mr Johnson and his advisers about how the Met police enforced Covid laws at a March 2021 vigil following the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nWriting in May, she said the redactions were later removed but \"it was not a promising start\".\n\nMr Johnson was forced to change his mobile phone in 2021 after it emerged his number had been publicly available online for 15 years.\n\nThe former prime minister has insisted throughout that he is happy to share the messages on his old phone when they are accessible.\n\nThe eventual release of the messages to the inquiry does not necessarily mean the public will see them in full.\n\nThe Cabinet Office can apply to the inquiry to make redactions before they are sent to so-called core participants, including other witnesses, government departments and bereaved family groups.\n\nThe inquiry could apply its own redactions. It could also decide not to make the messages public at all.\n• None What is the UK Covid inquiry and how does it work?", "Tom says he's intrigued by the two coming out at the same time Image caption: Tom says he's intrigued by the two coming out at the same time\n\nTom Davidson is a film fan who is ready to watch both movies this weekend. He spoke about the juxtaposition between the pomp of Barbie and the seriousness of Oppenheimer.\n\n“This has been a long time coming but there’s no getting away from how different these two films are.\n\nOne is a two-hour movie about a doll realising she’s a doll and the other about the journey before and after of the world’s first atomic bomb.”\n\nTalking more specifically about Barbie, Tom said it’ll be interesting to see how screenwriter and director Greta Gerwig adapts the story around the 20th century doll.\n\nHe said: “There’s so much hype around the movie on social media, there’s a lot of pressure for it to perform. It’s an IP without a story, Barbie has nothing, she is a doll. So Greta Gerwig had a free rein to use her own license.”\n\nTom explained he thinks the hype around \"Barbenheimer\" is there because the two are so different but coming out on the same day.\n\nHe added: “With the attention on Barbie it’ll be interesting to see how Oppenheimer does. The two target audiences couldn’t be more different.”", "Martock is a large village in the Somerton and Frome constituency\n\nAt the half-way point of the campaign to elect a new MP for Somerton and Frome, things are hotting-up on the by-election trail.\n\nBBC Somerset has been speaking to people across the constituency to hear what will be on their mind come polling day on 20 July, when former MP David Warburton's replacement will be confirmed.\n\nAt Martock's weekly community social club, Sharon O'Callaghan-Evans has strong thoughts for the candidates.\n\n\"There's a lot of poverty in rural areas that affects opportunities for education, housing, and (NHS) services are being rationed so much now they're hoping people die before they get a medical appointment,\" she said.\n\nSharon O'Callaghan-Evans, pictured with guide dog Quinn, wants to see more disabled people in employment\n\nMs O'Callaghan-Evans, who is registered blind, said: \"I want to still work, I've worked since I was 14, but there are assumptions about people like myself and there's a lot of talent being wasted and people being denied opportunities.\n\n\"Clubs like this are worth investing in because without clubs like this people like me would just fall through the cracks.\n\n\"What happened to the humanity in this green and pleasant land? The only green I've got is the mould on my bedrooms walls.\"\n\nAmong others at the club was a woman whose husband is having to move away to earn more money as a lorry driver due to the cost of living, another calling for British Sign Language to be taught in schools and a man who wants more support for community allotments like the one he has helped set up in the village.\n\nIan Banks recently retired to Martock. What will be in his mind come polling day I asked.\n\n\"The complete powerlessness of anyone in authority,\" he said.\n\n\"It's going to take a particularly impressive leader to begin to put their foot down and have the courage of their convictions.\n\n\"We have with the NHS, for instance, this aversion to privatising any part of it and yet if you look in France and Germany, who privatise big parts of it, there are no waiting lists.\n\n\"We have this ideology that says 'you cannot have profit in the health service' and we live with our queues as a consequence,\" added Mr Banks.\n\nDaisy Bell wants an MP who will think about the community\n\nAt Somerton Tennis Club, Daisy Bell and her mum Barbara Foster are regular players.\n\nThey are among those who seem angry at the situation with the previous MP who was suspended from the Conservative Party for more than a year over allegations of drug taking and sexual harassment.\n\nMr Warburton has now admitted to taking cocaine, and stood down in June.\n\nMs Bell said: \"I want someone who will be fair and think about the communities they are serving and not be disingenuous.\"\n\nOn the priorities for the new MP, Ms Foster said: \"I think children have suffered hugely in the last few years and older people as well - there's a lot for him or her to get to grips with.\"\n\nPenny Richardson welcomed the by-election but said she had not heard too much from candidates.\n\nShe added: \"I'm very glad it's come - it can't come fast enough as far as I'm concerned.\n\n\"I think I've seen two posters for the Lib Dems and I've had one flyer through the door for the Conservatives.\"\n\nNeil Driver thinks mental health should be a priority for the new MP\n\nNeil Driver was coaching the ladies' training session and wants mental health to be made a priority.\n\n\"I think mental health is very important.\n\n\"Post-pandemic where a lot of people's mental health was stressed and now with the cost of living crisis, mental health and the NHS is very, very important,\" he said.\n\nPamela Slater says the Liberal Democrats are \"flooding\" her hometown of Wincanton\n\nOn the southernmost boundary of the constituency, members of Blackmore Vale U3A were gathering in Henstridge Village Hall.\n\nPamela Slater lives in Wincanton where she said the Liberal Democrats were \"flooding us with leaflets and knocking on doors\" when in the past she had seen very little activity from the party.\n\n\"Things like transport are a big issue. They're encouraging us not to use our cars but cutting public transport.\n\n\"Access to doctors is also a big thing. They're building more houses but we don't have the capacity in the surgeries, so it's very difficult,\" Ms Slater added.\n\nThere are eight candidates standing in the by-election and the learn more about them click here.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Virgin Money will close 39 of its UK banks as fewer people use bricks and mortar branches and move to online banking, the firm said.\n\nThe news comes after several High Street banks including Lloyds and Halifax have shut branches.\n\nThe Unite union said \"access to a bank and cash is a fundamental need\" for local High Streets.\n\nVirgin Money said the closures amount to a third of its banks and 255 workers will be at risk of redundancy.\n\nChief operating officer Sarah Wilkinson said the firm would \"pursue all options\" to retain as many staff as possible within alternative roles.\n\nThe banks that will close are: Belfast, Croydon, Harrow, Newton Stewart, Bournemouth, Derby, Hexham, Norwich, Brighton, Durham, Irvine, Oxford, Bristol, Ellon, Kendal, Reading, Bromley, Enfield, Kensington, Southampton, Cambridge, Exeter, Kingston, St Albans, Cardiff, Fort William, Liverpool, Swindon, Chelmsford, Golders Green, Lochgilphead, Turriff, Cheltenham, Gosforth Centre, London Haymarket, Wolverhampton, Chester, Guildford and Milton Keynes.\n\nLast year, Lloyds Banking Group said it would close 66 branches between October 2022 and January 2023.\n\nIn a further announcement in January, the group said Halifax would close 18 sites, while Lloyds would shut another 22 between April and June.\n\nBut closures have led to cash shortages in some instances. When Lloyds Bank in Herefordshire closed traders were forced to travel miles with their takings.\n\n\"The number of customers using bank branches for day-to-day transactions has been on a downward trajectory for a number of years,\" Virgin Money said. It added that the branches closing had seen a reduction of 43% in customer transaction volumes.\n\nSome 96% of customers use the branches less than once a month, it added.\n\n\"Each store closing is less than half a mile from the nearest Post Office, which customers can use to carry out day‐to-day transactions,\" Virgin Money said.\n\nIn May, Age UK said older or vulnerable people could struggle with online banking and called for more \"banking hubs\", which are spaces shared by several High Street lenders, meant to help communities that have seen all their bank branches close.\n\nVirgin Money said that after the closures it would have a network of 91 stores across the UK.", "Safety inspectors said passengers were at risk by leaning on doors and hanging out of windows\n\nServices on the \"Hogwarts Express\" steam train have been cancelled in the Scottish Highlands over safety issues.\n\nThe popular tourist train The Jacobite was made famous by its appearances in the Harry Potter films.\n\nSafety inspectors said door locking issues put passengers at risk of falling from carriages or being hit while leaning out of windows.\n\nThousands of Potter fans visit every year to ride the train and witness it crossing the iconic Glenfinnan viaduct.\n\nThe train operates on the West Highland Line between Fort William and Mallaig.\n\nIt relies on an exemption granted by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) that allows the continued use of heritage rolling stock.\n\nOperator West Coast Railways said all services had been suspended while it reviews concerns raised in the ORR report.\n\nThe Hogwarts Express appears in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n\nThe train has been out of action since the weekend and West Coast Railways had hoped to resume services this week.\n\nHowever, the operator said an unannounced visit by ORR inspectors found \"a couple of issues of concern\".\n\nThe ORR highlighted problems with procedures around secondary door locks and found West Coast Railways were putting passengers \"at risk of serious personal injury\".\n\nIts report, seen by BBC News, stated that train stewards were not preventing passengers from operating the door locks.\n\nThe ORR also found that stewards were not stopping passengers from leaning on train doors or hanging out of open windows while the train was moving.\n\nHarry Potter fans from around the world travel on The Jacobite over the Glenfinnan viaduct\n\nIn a statement, West Coast Railways said: \"As of now, passenger journeys on the Jacobite, have been suspended while West Coast Railways review the concerns raised by the ORR to reach a satisfactory and swift solution to the issues raised.\n\n\"Please accept our sincere apologies for these cancellations.\"\n\nWest Coast Railways supplied Warner Bros with the locomotive and carriages used in the Harry Potter film series.\n\nThe Jacobite train makes two trips a day, using some of the same carriages that were used for filming.\n\nThe operator said it was offering a full refund to passengers and it hoped to run services again \"as soon as possible\".", "Jonathan Drakeford has since changed his name to Jay Humphries\n\nA convicted rapist created a secret online dating username while on licence from prison.\n\nJay Humphries, 36, was jailed in 2018 under his previous name Jonathan Drakeford. He is the son of First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nCaernarfon Magistrates' Court heard he used an unapproved profile name on the Fab Guys website and deleted internet browsing history from his phone.\n\nHumphries admitted both offences and will be sentenced on 11 August.\n\nHumphries was arrested in Bangor, Gwynedd in March after being released from prison on licence.\n\nThe hearing on Friday was told use of the Fab Guys account had been approved by police, but the name he used - naughty 5007387 - was not.\n\nAn agreed name was required to allow police to monitor his online activity.\n\nThe court was told he claimed deleting the internet history from his phone was an accident, but prosecutor Catherine Elvin said his guilty plea indicated it was a deliberate measure \"to conceal\" his actions.\n\nWhile no individuals had been harmed by the breaches, Ms Elvin added: \"Sexual harm prevention orders are put in place for a reason.\"\n\nDefending Humphries, Gemma Morgan said he had been struggling to come to terms with his personal situation after being released from prison, and being forced to live in approved accommodation in north Wales away from his family.\n\nThe court was also told he was also dealing with the death of his mother Clare Drakeford in January.\n\n\"He was suffering emotionally,\" said Ms Morgan.\n\n\"He was speaking to other men on Fab Guys expressing his feelings.\"\n\nThe court was told those feelings and his actions were compounded by learning difficulties and being autistic.\n\nMagistrates were told Humphries had since been recalled to prison in May after other breaches of his release licence, including leaving an abusive phone message for a probation officer.\n\nIn 2018, Humphries was handed an eight year and eight month sentence at Cardiff Crown Court after being found guilty of rape and inflicting actual bodily harm. He also admitted to a child sexual offence after messaging a girl on Facebook who he thought was 15 years old.\n\nAfter Humphries's 2018 conviction, Mark Drakeford said it had been a \"distressing period\" for the family, adding \"our thoughts are with all those caught up in it, especially the victim\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wuxi East railway station, in eastern China, has been hit by flooding that caused waterfalls to form, with water seen cascading down escalators and staircases.\n\nParts of central and eastern China have been hit by a wave of extreme weather in recent months - including heavy rain and flooding.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Nigel Farage says he 'wants answers' after bank apology\n\nBanking boss Dame Alison Rose has apologised to Nigel Farage for \"deeply inappropriate\" comments made about him in a document on his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nThe boss of NatWest Group said in a letter to Mr Farage that the comments did not reflect the bank's view.\n\nUKIP's ex-leader has said his Coutts account was closed because the bank did not agree with his political views.\n\nMr Farage said Dame Alison should now be questioned by MPs about the issue.\n\nDame Alison's apology came after the government announced new plans to force banks to explain account closures.\n\nShe said that as well as apologising to Mr Farage, she was \"commissioning a full review of the Coutts' processes\" on bank account closures. Coutts, a private bank, is owned by the NatWest Group.\n\nIn the letter to Mr Farage she said she believed \"very strongly that freedom of expression and access to banking are fundamental to our society and it is absolutely not our policy to exit a customer on the basis of legally held political and personal views\".\n\nMr Farage had put in a request to the bank to see documents relating to the decision to close his Coutts account.\n\nThe BBC had previously reported that it had been told that Mr Farage had fallen below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, citing a source familiar with the move.\n\nThe 40-page document given to Mr Farage, published by the Daily Mail, included minutes from a meeting in November last year reviewing his suitability as a client.\n\nIt stated continuing to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts's \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nIt mentioned Mr Farage's retweet of a Ricky Gervais joke about trans women and his friendship with tennis player Novak Djokovic, who is opposed to Covid vaccinations.\n\nIt gave several examples, including his comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to the Taliban, and his characterisation of the RNLI as a \"taxi-service\" for illegal immigrants, to flag concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\".\n\nOn Thursday Dame Alison also reiterated her offer to Mr Farage of alternative banking arrangements with NatWest and said she wanted to ensure they provide \"a better, more transparent experience for all our customers in the future.\"\n\nFollowing her apology, Mr Farage was asked if he thought that she should now resign.\n\n\"I think what needs to happen is the Treasury select committee needs to reconvene, come out of recess, and let's give her the opportunity to tell us the truth,\" he told reporters.\n\nMr Farage also said the Telegraph had reported how the BBC's business editor Simon Jack had sat next to Dame Alison at a dinner on 3 July and the next day he had then been called by Mr Jack and told \"the reason my bank account had been closed was that I had insufficient funds in the account.\"\n\nHe said: \"I want to know, did Alison Rose breach my client confidentiality? Did she break GDPR rules?\"\n\nParliament is now in recess until September.\n\nAsked whether it would reconvene in the meantime to discuss the issue, a spokesman for the Treasury Select Committee said it will be calling on \"relevant people as witnesses and keep our programme under constant review at our regular meetings\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe apology to Mr Farage came after the Treasury announced plans to subject UK banks to stricter rules over closing customer accounts.\n\nBanks will have to explain why they are closing accounts and they will have to give a notice period of 90 days before closing an account, to allow people more time to appeal against the decision.\n\nThe new rules are likely to be brought in after the summer, the BBC understands.\n\nThe changes will not take away a bank's right to close accounts of people deemed to be a reputational or political risk.\n\nInstead, it will boost transparency for customers, the Treasury said.\n\nTreasury minister Andrew Griffith said: \"Banks occupy a privileged place in society and it is right that we fairly balance the rights of banks to act in their commercial interest with the right for everyone to express themselves freely.\"\n\nDame Alison said she welcomed the plans and would implement the recommendations.\n\nThe Treasury began looking at the issue in January after PayPal temporarily suspended several accounts last year.\n\nOn Wednesday Rishi Sunak warned it \"wouldn't be right if financial services were being denied to anyone exercising their right to lawful free speech\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How might the by-election result affect UK politics?\n\nIt was a night of contrasting results.\n\nThe Conservatives unexpectedly held on to seemingly vulnerable Uxbridge, but lost supposedly safe Selby to Labour.\n\nMeanwhile, in Somerton and Frome, the Liberal Democrats pulled off a spectacular victory.\n\nAs a result all three main parties had a prize they could celebrate.\n\nLabour needed just a 7.5% swing from the Conservatives to capture Boris Johnson's former Uxbridge seat. That was well below the 15% swing to the party in the latest national polls.\n\nIt was also less than the average swing of 11% Labour had previously secured in by-elections in three safe seats that have taken place since the demise of former PM Liz Truss.\n\nYet the party fell a little short of what was needed.\n\nNevertheless, at the same time Labour captured Selby and Ainsty on a 23.7% swing, the second biggest ever swing from Conservative to Labour in a post-war parliamentary election.\n\nIndeed, Labour have not previously secured a by-election win in a seat that was previously so safe for the Conservatives. The last time Labour secured swings of over 20% was in the 1992-7 parliament, which, of course, concluded with the Conservatives being ejected from office.\n\nMeanwhile, in Somerton and Frome the Liberal Democrats secured as much as a 29% swing from the Conservatives.\n\nThat was slightly less than the swing the Liberal Democrats enjoyed in their previous by-election victories in North Shropshire and in Tiverton and Honiton - yet it still represented the fifth biggest swing from Conservative to Liberal Democrat in any post-war by-election.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have been making the spectacular seem routine.\n\nBut what broader lessons, if any, can be discerned from such a contrasting set of results?\n\nBoth the Conservatives and Labour agree that a local issue - London mayor Sadiq Khan's proposed extension of London's low emission zone to the capital's outer boroughs - played an important role in helping shore up the Conservative vote.\n\nIndeed, the newly elected Conservative MP himself suggested the issue was crucial - and did not give Rishi Sunak and his government any credit for his success.\n\nTogether with the heavy scale of the party's losses in Somerton (a fall of nearly 30%) and in Selby (a drop of 26 points), it would seem unwise for Tory MPs to draw any conclusion other than that their party is still in deep electoral trouble.\n\nMeanwhile, as in previous by-elections over the last couple of years, voters registered their dissatisfaction with the Conservatives by switching to whichever opposition party appeared best able to defeat the local Conservative candidate.\n\nIn Uxbridge and in Selby, the already low Liberal Democrat vote was badly squeezed, while in Somerton, Labour were pushed into fifth place. In a general election such a pattern of tactical voting could seriously accentuate the scale of Conservative losses.\n\nYet at the same time, Labour's failure to take Uxbridge will raise questions about the effectiveness of Sir Keir Starmer's electoral strategy. Characterised as it is by few promises and a focus on the centre ground, his critics may well argue that Labour's appeal proved too brittle when confronted by a difficult local issue.\n\nOf course, Sir Keir himself may well feel the outcome illustrates the risk of promoting radical policy options.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader, Sr Ed Davey, will be delighted with his party's fourth by-election gain in this parliament - the party has not taken so many Tory scalps since the 1992-7 parliament (again a bad omen for the Conservatives). But whereas Labour is riding high in the national polls, the Liberal Democrats have still made little advance nationally.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader still has to find a way of turning his by-elections successes into a springboard for a wider revival for his party.\n\nBut it is Rishi Sunak who has the biggest headache. The coalition of Leave supporters that delivered Boris Johnson his majority in 2019 has collapsed - nearly half are no longer supporting the party, while Brexit itself has lost its allure for some voters.\n\nThe Tory leader needs to find a new tune for his party. But with living standards falling, the economy faltering, and public services struggling, enticing voters back into the Tory fold still looks far from easy.\n\nJohn Curtice is Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde, and Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Social Research and The UK in a Changing Europe.\n\nWhat is your reaction to the results? How did you vote? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A former Derby leisure centre where gold medal swimmer Adam Peaty trained could be demolished.\n\nQueen's Leisure Centre on Cathedral Road has stood empty since May 2022, having operated for 90 years.\n\nMr Peaty has said he regularly visited the venue as a child, learning how to become a competitive swimmer.\n\nThe council said all options remained open but it was exploring the \"regeneration potential\" of this part of the city.\n\nThe centre was popular with city residents, but closed shortly before the opening of the city's £42m Moorways Sports Village complex, with the council saying it was no longer fit for purpose.\n\nMr Peaty said he learned competitive swimming at the pool, under the guidance of former Olympian Mel Marshall.\n\nHe made a special visit to the site ahead of its scheduled closure, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nDerby City Council's new cabinet member in charge of the city centre, Nadine Peatfield, told a full council meeting: \"All options remain open at this stage.\n\n\"The council has been exploring the regeneration potential of this part of the city centre and is in the process of procuring a delivery partner in order to determine the best possible outcome for the future of the QLC site and the wider area.\n\n\"A development brief is being prepared to support that process. While demolition of the site is a possible option, retaining use of the building or part of it will also be considered, in light of our climate commitment.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak has been spared becoming the first prime minister since 1968 to lose three by-elections in a day.\n\nBut this is still a bad set of results for his party. They have just lost two sizeable majorities, with a historic shift to Labour in Selby and Ainsty and another massive swing to the Lib Dems in Somerton and Frome.\n\nBoth results paint a bleak picture for the Conservatives nationally.\n\nThey show that Rishi Sunak has been unable to stop the party shedding seats at by-elections.\n\nAnd they illustrate again that he is struggling to change the electoral weather.\n\nThe blow is softened a bit by the surprise result in former PM Boris Johnson's old seat Uxbridge and South Ruislip. Labour thought they would win here and they didn't.\n\nThe Conservatives put opposition to the expansion of Ulez (the low emission zone that requires Londoners to pay a daily charge to use less eco-friendly cars) at the heart of their campaign.\n\nThat worked - and raises questions for Labour about the future of the scheme in outer London.\n\nThe Uxbridge result means the picture this morning is a bit more complicated.\n\nThe Lib Dems are cock-a-hoop and think they are back in business in the West Country.\n\nLabour aren't as happy as they could have been.\n\nThe Conservatives have been spared a rout, but still have a lot to be concerned about.", "The firebombing campaign lasted from 1979 until the early 1990s\n\nA convicted firebomber has admitted for the first time how he was involved in burning down cottages 30 years ago.\n\nSion Aubrey Roberts, from Anglesey, described how he was part of Meibion Glyndwr, which set fire to 200 English-owned holiday homes in the 1980s.\n\nDuring a 12-year campaign, Westminster and English cities were also targeted.\n\nNobody was ever convicted of being a member, while it is alleged officers tried to gain a false testimony that MP Dafydd Elis-Thomas was involved.\n\nRoberts described how he had a poster of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands on his wall as a child, and that his first order on joining Meibion Glyndwr was to \"break into a house and burn it\".\n\nWhile he was jailed aged 20 for 12 years in 1993 for sending incendiary devices in the post and possessing explosives, police were not able to prove he was part of the wider conspiracy.\n\nBut he admitted his full involvement on BBC documentary series Firebombers, saying: \"The movement was five years old when I joined.\n\n\"Growing up, Meibion Glyndwr were my heroes. We couldn't afford to buy houses in our own area, it was impossible.\n\n\"As more and more were being sold, prices kept going up, and local people couldn't afford them.\n\n\"We agreed one thing - something had to be done and we had to strike.\"\n\nSion Aubrey Roberts described targeting a holiday home alongside two other men\n\nAs the campaign gained widespread publicity in the 1980s, Roberts said \"police were watching everywhere\", but by using timers on devices, the firebombers could evade arrest.\n\n\"We were off the road by nine at night, we weren't at it late at night,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't want to draw attention to ourselves. It was hours before they caught fire.\"\n\nHe said they had \"disappeared\" by the time the holiday home was alight, adding: \"We were just shadows.\"\n\nThese are what police were chasing from the first two attacks in Pembrokeshire on 13 December 1979 until the early 1990s, according to former BBC journalist Alun Lenny.\n\nHe described finding out who was behind Meibion Glyndwr (Sons of Glyndwr) as something that would have been \"one of the greatest journalistic scoops\".\n\nBut he said it was \"impossible\" to even get a lead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first victim of arson attacks, Pembrokeshire-based cottage rental business owner Leonard Rees, said: \"The whole property had gone up in flames. It incinerated remarkably quickly.\n\n\"The whole roof was consumed and collapsed along with the internal floors.\"\n\nA further two properties were targeted on 13 December 1979, with three more in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, the next day.\n\nWithin six weeks, 17 second homes in north and west Wales had been destroyed, and police now warned all those owned by English people were at risk.\n\n\"It was total devastation,\" said Kelvin Griffiths, who was a North Wales Police officer.\n\n\"Because they were so remote, these houses were burning down unbeknown. It was only when someone drove past and thought 'oh the house has been burnt down'. Nobody had even seen it.\"\n\nThe remoteness of properties in counties such as Gwynedd made it easier for the group to carry out the attacks\n\nHe described it as a \"nightmare\" for policing, adding: \"The percentage chance of getting caught was zero and they knew it.\"\n\nTourism had boomed post-war, with visitors, often from wealthy parts of England, starting to buy holiday homes in what were predominantly Welsh-speaking areas.\n\nBy 1978 this had become a problem, according to activist Adrian Stone, with villages empty for large parts of the year.\n\n\"Suddenly there wasn't a post office, pubs were closing, suddenly houses that maybe people's grandfathers and grandmothers had lived in were being sold to people who behaved with a lot of cultural insensitivity,\" he said.\n\nIn the next decade, second homes would number 20,000, according to Welsh Office figures, with 50,000 people on the council house waiting list.\n\nAttacks increased, with 20 in just over three weeks in February 1980.\n\nMargaret Thatcher was now in power, and bombs unsuccessfully targeted Tory offices in Porthmadog and Shotton, Flintshire, as well as the home of Welsh Secretary Nicholas Edwards in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.\n\nMore than 50 people were arrested, most released without charge, as police tried to find who was responsible, and Mr Stone went on trial along with others believed to be members of organisation Workers Army for a Welsh Republic.\n\n\"They wanted Dafydd Elis-Thomas who was an MP at the time,\" he said.\n\n\"They wanted me to say quite untruthfully that Dafydd was head of the second home campaign.\"\n\nWhile two men were found guilty of being in possession of detonators, there was no evidence anyone was part of the wider campaign.\n\nDafydd Elis-Thomas (left) - with other Plaid Cymru politicians Gwynfor Evans and Dafydd Wigley in 1974 - was mentioned in police interview, according to Adrian Stone\n\nResponding to Mr Stone's allegation, South Wales Police said: \"Investigations then were totally different.\n\n\"Today's investigations are supported by technology, forensic evidence, disclosure rules and safeguards.\"\n\nBy the mid 1980s more than 100 properties had been firebombed, including one owned by Ben Davies' family - who described his mother being in tears after it was attacked.\n\n\"Obviously we didn't have a lot of sympathy for the people who did it, we thought it was grossly unfair, rather cowardly, burning people's property while they weren't there,\" he said.\n\nThere is a mural of Bobby Sands in Belfast - he was an Irish Republican who died in prison in 1981 after a 66 day hunger strike\n\nRoberts, who joined Meibion Glyndwr around 1984, said Thatcherism was why so many people were inspired to join the movement.\n\n\"In 1979, Wales voted four to one against devolution, and Thatcher had taken over,\" he said.\n\n\"It was the Thatcher effect in the 80s that created people like me. I started with the Welsh Language Society but I knew that was not going to be enough for me.\n\n\"I wanted to do something far more than that.\"\n\nHe described going on protest marches while growing up in an Irish family in Gwalchmai, Anglesey.\n\n\"Even when I was 10 years old, I had pictures of the hunger strikers on my bedroom wall,\" he said.\n\n\"Bobby Sands talks about the 'undauntable thought', the thought that says you're right, the conviction that you know what you're doing is right.\n\n\"That's why there's no fear.\"\n\nThe population of Abersoch, in Gwynedd, jumps from 600 to 30,000 in summer\n\nAttacks were set to move into England, and Roberts added: \"In any campaign, you have to adapt.\n\n\"Once a hundred or so had gone up, it's not news, is it?\"\n\nIn February 1988, three bombs went off at estate agents in Chester, with another 20 following in places including Warrington, Bristol and Cheshire.\n\nJulian Beresford Adams - whose company was targeted - said 85% of his sales in Abersoch, Gwynedd, were second homes.\n\nDozens of businesses were targeted in the town between 1988 and 1990.\n\n\"At the end of the day people are born in one area and a lot of people don't end up being there because they can't afford to be there. That's life,\" he said.\n\n\"That's nothing to do with second homes.\"\n\nGraffiti had appeared in rural Wales during the 10-year period of the campaign\n\nWith nobody charged for being part of Meibion Glyndwr, singer Bryn Fôn - who wrote a song about the movement - said the police's attempts to identify members became viewed as a \"farce\".\n\n\"After 10 years of investigating, all they had to show was a plimsoll and cagoule that everyone wore,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone was talking about the police and everyone was laughing at them across the country, so I thought I'd crystallise that feeling.\n\n\"I just thought it was a farce.\"\n\nWhen a device was allegedly found in the dry stone wall of his home he was arrested, along with his partner, and questioned for more than 50 hours before being released without charge.\n\nThe whole thing \"stank\", he said, with it never discovered who planted it.\n\nIn summer 1990, suspect packages were sent to Westminster for three Tories, including Welsh secretary David Hunt.\n\nPembroke MP Nicholas Bennett said a package \"would've blown my head off\" had he opened it, adding: \"It is terrorism pure and simple.\"\n\n\"One device in London was worth more than 50 devices in north Wales,\" Roberts said.\n\n\"You'd get more publicity from it and that was the whole point.\"\n\nIn 1991, a breakthrough came. Roberts, David Gareth Davies and Dewi Prysor Williams were all arrested after being filmed at a protest march in uniform.\n\nSion Aubrey Roberts was cleared of being part of the Meibion Glyndwr movement, a charge that would have carried a longer prison sentence\n\nJanuary 1993 saw the three men appear at Caernarfon Crown Court for what would eventually be a 40-day trial.\n\nProsecutors said Roberts had been seen in forensic clothing and assembling devices, but the defence questioned the accuracy of surveillance and found inconsistencies in MI5 reports.\n\nAll three were found not guilty of the conspiracy, but a jury did find Roberts guilty of sending four incendiary devices in the post and possession of explosive substances. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.\n\n\"You have to be ready to go to jail before you start,\" he said.\n\n\"If I'd been convicted of conspiracy, I'd have got 25 years. I thought I'd be out in eight years, that isn't too bad.\"\n\nNo Meibion Glyndwr attack has happened since Roberts' conviction.\n\nHe was eight when the firebombings started, and so was not a ringleader. He has instead been described by some journalists as \"a foot soldier\".\n\nFormer reporter Alun Lenny said he doubts the identities of others who were involved will ever be revealed.\n\n\"We may never know who any of them are unless we get a deathbed confession from someone,\" he said.\n\n\"But Meibion Glyndwr, like Owain Glyndwr who they get their name from, have disappeared into the mists of history.\"\n\nBoth episodes of Firebombers are currently available on iPlayer. The second episode transmits on Thursday 27 July on BBC1 Wales at 21:00 BST iPlayer.", "The proportion of students in England awarded first-class degrees has fallen for the first time in over a decade, the university watchdog says.\n\nThe Office for Students (OfS) says 32.8% achieved top grades in 2021-22, down from 37.4% in 2020-21.\n\nBut the percentage remains higher than before the Covid pandemic and concerns remain about the overall increase since 2010-11, when it was 15.5%.\n\nUniversities say they are \"committed to addressing unexplained increases\".\n\nThe National Union of Students (NUS) said it \"regrets\" students were having \"doubts cast upon their achievements\".\n\nUniversities UK, which represents 140 institutions, said they were \"rowing back on increases that occurred during the pandemic\".\n\nIn a statement, it referred to guidance it has published on how universities should classify degrees to \"protect the value of qualifications\".\n\nThe fall in the proportion of top grades in 2021-22 coincided with many universities ending \"no detriment\" or \"safety net\" policies designed to protect grades from being negatively impacted by disruption during the pandemic.\n\nThe policies often meant students' grades were based on their performance up until the pandemic.\n\nThe OfS report does not analyse the impact of policies and guidance.\n\nIt does look at whether differences in students' \"characteristics\" from year to year might explain the long-term rise in first-class degrees - such as their A-level or equivalent grades or choice of subject.\n\nBut OfS chief executive Susan Lapworth said half of first-class degrees remained \"unexplained\".\n\n\"We are encouraged to see a reduction in the proportion of unexplained top grades but universities and colleges know that they need to continue to take the steps necessary to protect the value of their qualifications, now and over time,\" she said.\n\n\"We recognise there are likely to be a range of factors - including improved teaching - that could lead to an increase in the number of firsts awarded.\n\n\"But the sustained increase in unexplained firsts and [upper seconds] since 2010-11 continues to cause us concern.\"\n\nUniversities UK said universities \"remain committed to addressing unexplained increases in their degree-classification awards\" but the research \"must be careful not to assume that those with lower entry grades, typically from more disadvantaged backgrounds, cannot achieve first-class degrees\".\n\n\"Some of the improvements are certain to be attributable to increased investment into teaching from universities and the hard work of students,\" it added.\n\nChloe Field, of the NUS, said it \"regrets the suggestion that students who have worked hard, received quality teaching from excellent staff and have achieved good results have doubts cast upon their achievements\".\n\nThis \"distracts from the real problems\" in higher education, such as the cost of living, she added.\n\nThe OfS report comes as some students face delays receiving their grades this summer because of a marking boycott by staff.\n\nThe University and College Union says it could affect more than half a million graduations.\n\nMore than half the universities that responded to a survey by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), said some of their students would be affected. The UCEA estimates that 13,000 students - 2.6% of final-year graduates - will be affected\n\nUniversities are taking independent decisions about how to minimise the impact, so the effect on students will vary.\n\nGrade inflation - especially since the pandemic - has also been a concern for schools and colleges.\n\nThe proportion of top GCSE and A-level grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2022 was lower than 2021 but still higher than before the pandemic.\n\nOfqual says it expects this year's GCSE and A-level results to be similar to 2019.", "Last month Gianluigi Donnarumma celebrated PSG's title victory with his partner in Paris\n\nItaly and Paris St-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and his partner have been attacked and robbed at their home in Paris.\n\nThe couple were targeted by several people and tied up at their flat in the eighth district in the centre of of the capital, police sources have told French media.\n\nThey are then said to have to escaped to a nearby hotel.\n\nThe alarm was raised by hotel staff and the couple were taken to hospital.\n\n\"An investigation has been opened on charges of armed robbery in an organised gang and aggravated violence following the events that took place overnight at Mr Donnarumma's place,\" a spokesperson for Paris prosecutor's office told the BBC.\n\nUnconfirmed reports on the news site Actu17 say the attackers made off with jewellery, watches and luxury leather goods worth as much as €500,000 (£430,000).\n\nThe footballer was lightly injured while his partner, model Alessia Elefante, was unharmed, sources told Agence France Presse.\n\nIn a statement, his agent said Gianluigi Donnarumma, 24, and his partner \"are in shock at what happened but doing well under the terrible circumstances. Both are assisting the police with their enquiries\".\n\nThe prosecutor's office said France's special BRB police unit targeting armed robbery and burglaries had begun an investigation.\n\nThe goalkeeper moved to Paris two years ago and was due to join the Paris St-Germain squad later on Friday ahead of the club's first pre-season friendly match against Le Havre and a tour of Japan and South Korea.\n\nHe is not the the first PSG footballer to have been targeted by gangs, but most previous attacks have taken place while the victim is not at home.\n\nLast January, two men were given jail terms for a robbery in March 2021 at the home of Brazil footballer Marquinhos in Yvelines to the west of Paris.\n\nMarquinhos was playing at the time of the incident but his father was in the house along with his two teenage daughters. The father was hit in the face and ribs but was otherwise unhurt.\n\nThe home of Marquinhos's team-mate Angel Di Maria was burgled on the same day. Other players have been burgled in the past while playing for PSG, including Thiago Silva, Dani Alves and Eric Choupo-Moting.\n\nHigh-profile footballers have also been targeted by gangs in the UK and the Netherlands.\n\nLast year PSV footballer PSV striker Eran Zahavi was attacked in his home in Amsterdam and his wife and children were tied up. Months later his house was broken into again.\n\nEngland's Raheem Sterling had to leave the World Cup in Qatar last December when his home in Surrey was burgled. He had already been targeted by burglars when he lived in Cheshire in 2018.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Lib Dem leader stages a cannon stunt to celebrate his party winning the Somerton and Frome by-election\n\nSarah Dyke has become the latest Lib Dem MP, winning the former Conservative stronghold of Somerton and Frome.\n\nShe managed to overturn a 19,213 majority in the Somerset seat - a swing of 29% away from the Conservatives.\n\nThe win makes her the tenth female Lib Dem MP, meaning there are twice as many women as men in the Commons cohort.\n\nIt represents a big change compared to 2015 when defeats in the general election left the Lib Dems without a single female MP.\n\nThat election represented a low in the party's recent electoral fortunes, as voters punished the party for going into coalition with David Cameron's Conservatives.\n\nForty-nine Liberal Democrats lost their seats including high profile figures such as Sir Vince Cable and Sir Danny Alexander.\n\nIn 2019, the party failed to capitalise on its anti-Brexit stance, particularly in the leave-supporting west country, an area once considered something of a Liberal Democrat heartland.\n\nHowever, since then the party has made steady progress in regaining seats - currently there are 15 Liberal Democrat MPs in Parliament.\n\nOver the past two years the Liberal Democrats - led by Sir Ed Davey - have overturned huge majorities to win Conservative seats in North Shropshire, Tiverton and Honiton and Chesham and Amersham.\n\nFollowing the party's most recent victory, polling expert Sir John Curtice says they have been making the spectacular seem routine.\n\nHowever, he adds that the party now needs to find a way of turning by-election successes into a springboard for a wider revival.\n\nBy-elections allow the Liberal Democrats to pour their resources - money and people - into single seats. That will not be possible come the next general election when 650 seats will be up for grabs.\n\nLiberal Democrats have also traditionally benefitted from by-elections, which some voters see as an opportunity \"send a message\" to the government of the day, by abandoning their usual party preferences in favour of the candidate most likely to beat the candidate of the ruling party.\n\nSeats won in by-elections aren't always easy to defend come the next general elections - as Sarah Olney found to her cost when she lost in Richmond Park in 2017 (although she won it back two years later).\n\nWith a healthy 11,000 majority Ms Dyke will feel more confident of being able to hold on to Somerton and Frome come the next general election.\n\nThe new MP, born in 1971, comes from what her party calls a \"Somerset farming family\" with links to the local area going back 250 years.\n\nShe attended Warminster School in Wiltshire before going on to study agricultural and business studies at Harper Adams University in Shropshire.\n\nShe owns 60 sheep - something evident from photos on her Instagram page - along with four dogs and one cat.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sarahdykesf This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition to being a Somerset councillor, she also runs a business called Vintage Ghetto which sells second-hand goods.\n\nSpeaking after her election, she promised to be an \"active, hard-working champion\". She also thanked Labour and Green supporters who \"lent\" her their votes.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"This stunning victory shows the Liberal Democrats are firmly back in the West Country.\"\n\nThe by-election was triggered after David Warburton resigned as an MP.\n\nMr Warburton had been sitting as an independent MP after being suspended from the Conservatives in April 2022, when claims of drug use and sexual misconduct were made against him.\n\nHe admitted drug-taking but denies any sexual misconduct and an investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations were withdrawn.\n\nResponding to his party's defeat, David Fothergill, leader of the Conservative group on Somerset Council, said: \"Clearly there's a national picture and we recognise what's happening in the polls but equally there's the local stuff as well and we've had an MP here who stood down 15 months ago with some really serious accusations against him.\n\n\"Some of which he has admitted to since and I think people are pretty grumpy about that.\n\n\"The circumstances here are very different because we had that local element of an MP really that went rogue.\"", "Visitors to Dorset's Jurassic Coast have been warned after a large section of cliff collapsed on to a beach.\n\nThe overnight landslip occurred at Seatown Beach, near West Bay, along the same section of coastline as another collapse in 2021.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service urged walkers to \"stay away from cliff edges and don't sit at the base of the cliffs\".\n\nIt added there was a greater risk of cliff falls due to recent dry weather.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDorset Council also issued a warning that said the slips continued to move and were still \"dangerous to walk over\".\n\nIt said the latest landslip seemed to be \"another movement of the older slipped material\".\n\nDorset Council said it would continue to monitor the situation\n\n\"This movement may leave the remaining vertical faces even more vulnerable to further collapse now, especially where any remaining cracks are still present,\" the council added.\n\nThe authority said it would continue to monitor these and other active cliffs along the Jurassic coast.\n\nDorset Council said the coastal path at the top was moved back three years ago from the edge due to the cracking\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amsterdam's council has banned cruise ships from the city centre as the Dutch capital tries to limit visitor numbers and curb pollution.\n\nPoliticians said the vessels were not in line with the city's sustainable ambitions.\n\nIt means the central cruise terminal on the River IJ near Amsterdam's main train station will close.\n\nIt is the latest measure to clamp down on mass tourism in the city.\n\nCruise ships have become a symbol of the problem, with more than 100 mooring in the capital every year.\n\nThe council has been trying to scrub up the city, banning cannabis smoking on the streets of the red-light district.\n\nIn March the city launched an online campaign urging young British men considering holding their bachelor parties in Amsterdam to stay away.\n\nAmsterdam has become a victim of its own popularity, attracting 20 million annual visitors - some drawn by its party city reputation.\n\n\"Cruise ships in the centre of the city don't fit in with Amsterdam's task of cutting the number of tourists,\" said Ilana Rooderkerk of the liberal D66 party, which runs the city along with the Labour party and environmentalists.\n\nMs Rooderkerk recently compared cruise tourists to a type of \"plague of locusts\" descending all at once on the city.\n\nOther Amsterdam officials have baulked at that kind of language. But Mayor Femke Halsema complained last year that cruise tourists were let loose for a couple of hours, ate at international chains and had no time to visit a museum, consuming the city but doing little for it.\n\nThe other key reason for removing cruise ships is to lower air pollution levels in Amsterdam. A 2021 study of one big cruise ship found that it had produced the same levels of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in one day as 30,000 trucks.\n\nOther mooring sites away from the city centre have been under consideration for some time but no decision has yet been taken.\n\nIn a separate development, Amsterdam has announced plans to beef up night-time culture for young people.\n\nThe city has outlined its aim to find nightclub locations such as disused tunnels and garages to develop the talent of \"creative young people who want to organise something at night\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Ava-May Littleboy was with family in Gorleston-on-Sea when the tragedy happened\n\nThe owner of a beach inflatable has admitted breaching health and safety regulations following the death of a three-year-old girl in 2018.\n\nAva-May Littleboy was thrown in the air when the inflatable trampoline exploded at Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk.\n\nCurt Johnson and his company Johnsons Funfair Ltd both indicated guilty pleas to two counts of breaching health and safety laws at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court in Essex.\n\n\"The events of 1 July 2018 had, and continue to have, a devastating effect on the parents of Ava-May Littleboy and on the wider close-knit family,\" said a spokesperson for Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC), which prosecuted the case alongside the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\n\"GYBC and HSE again extend their sympathies and condolences to all of the family of Ava-May Littleboy.\"\n\nThe three-year-old was thrown into the air when the inflatable trampoline exploded\n\nAva-May, from Lower Somersham in Suffolk, was with family at the beach when she was taken on the trampoline.\n\nWitnesses described her being thrown \"higher than a house\" when the inflatable burst and that she appeared to be unconscious before she hit the ground.\n\nOne other child, aged nine, was on the inflatable but did not sustain \"significant physical injury\", GYBC said.\n\nAva-May Littleboy's parents previously described her as a \"bright, funny, beautiful girl\"\n\nAn inquest jury in March 2020 concluded no procedure was in place to safely manage its inflation, that it had not been checked by an independent third party and had no instruction manual.\n\nParents Nathan Rowe and Chloe Littleboy described a \"bright, funny, beautiful girl\" and said they hoped \"people see the serious risks these attractions can pose\".\n\nJohnson was operations manager of the company at the time, which traded under the name Bounceabout, and the trampoline was imported from its Chinese manufacturer in 2017.\n\nJohnson and Johnsons Funfair Ltd did not obtain safety instructions for the inflatable, did not prepare a specific risk assessment and the trampoline was not certified by the ADIPS scheme - GYBC said.\n\nThe two defendants pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.\n\nThe pair will be sentenced pending a two-day Newton hearing due to take place at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on 9 November.\n\nAva-May's parents said they hoped \"people see the serious risks these attractions can pose\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ernest Moret was detained by police at London St Pancras International railway station in April\n\nThe Met Police abused anti-terror powers when it stopped and arrested a French publisher, an independent report has found.\n\nJonathan Hall KC said the arrest of Ernest Moret was at odds with the rights to freedom of expression and protest in a democracy.\n\nMr Moret, 28, was stopped in London in April over his alleged involvement in the French pension protests.\n\nThe Met has referred itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct.\n\nMr Moret, who works at Paris-based publisher Editions La Fabrique, was detained at St Pancras railway station after travelling on the Eurostar to attend the London Book Fair.\n\nHe was bailed and later released under investigation. Last month, police said he would face no further action.\n\nMr Hall, the UK's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said the Met should have decided \"not to exercise\" Section 7 powers to carry out the arrest.\n\nSchedule 7 powers, listed under the Terrorism Act, allow police to stop anyone at the border without any grounds for suspicion to check if they are terrorists.\n\n\"The problem with exercising counter-terrorism powers to investigate whether an individual is a peaceful protester or a violent protester is that it is using a sledge-hammer to crack a nut,\" the report said.\n\nThe KC wrote: \"I have reached the clear conclusion that this examination should not have happened, and that additional safeguards are needed to ensure it is not repeated.\n\n\"Schedule 7 power, however useful and justified in some cases, is powerful. It must therefore be exercised with due care.\n\n\"In my view, based on the information provided, police both could have decided not to exercise the power, and should have decided not to exercise the power,\" he added.\n\nMr Hall said police wrongly told Mr Moret that he would never be able to travel internationally again if he was convicted for not sharing the PINs to his confiscated iPhone and laptop.\n\nThe warning was \"exaggerated and overbearing\", his report said.\n\nThe report will also recommend to the government that the code of practice for Schedule 7 is amended so it cannot be used in such circumstances in the future.\n\nMr Hall warned that there was a risk of it happening again if \"modest\" safeguards were not made.\n\nMr Moret's employer, La Fabrique Editions, and Verso Books - La Fabrique Editions' British sister publisher - condemned the arrest at the time, describing the detention as an \"outrageous and unjustifiable infringement\".\n\nThey said officers told Mr Moret, who works as a foreign rights manager, he had taken part in demonstrations about President Emmanuel Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in France.\n\nPamela Morton, senior books and magazine organiser at the National Union of Journalists, said it \"seems extraordinary\" that British police used terror legislation to arrest a publisher \"who was on legitimate business here\".\n\nCdr Dominic Murphy, who leads the Met's counter-terrorism command, said: \"Schedule 7 is an important power in protecting the borders of the UK and remains a vital tool in our efforts to counter the terrorist threat and keep the public safe.\n\n\"But the public rightly expects that the use of such powers is always carefully considered and, as Jonathan Hall KC states, that there is constant vigilance and attention to safeguards to ensure it is not used in a way that is contrary to individual rights and the wider public interest.\n\n\"We will now take time to fully review the report's finding and its recommendation in relation to further amending the code of practice and we will also look to consult with our operational partners on this.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on by-election win: Starmer: \"First time I have been able to say: Well done Keir\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer says Labour can now win anywhere - but Rishi Sunak insists his party is still in the game after three very different by-elections.\n\nLabour secured a massive 23.7% swing from the Tories in Selby, with its 25-year-old candidate Keir Mather winning by 4,000 votes.\n\nThe Lib Dems overturned a big Tory majority to take Somerset and Frome.\n\nBut in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the Tories narrowly held on to Boris Johnson's old seat.\n\nThe Labour leadership blamed their failure to take Uxbridge and South Ruislip by 495 votes on the planned expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez)- a charge for the most polluting vehicles - to outer London.\n\nThe winning Conservative candidate, Steve Tuckwell, said Sadiq Khan's \"damaging and costly Ulez policy\" had lost Labour the seat.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said Labour's Mayor of London needed to \"reflect\" on the policy, but stopped short of saying it should be scrapped.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak also attributed the Conservative win to voter anger over Ulez - and claimed the result showed the next general election was not a \"done deal\".\n\nMr Sunak said: \"When people are confronted with a real choice, a choice on a matter of substance, they vote Conservative.\n\n\"That's what the general election is going to be about.\"\n\nBut overall, the trio of by-election results show what the opinion polls have suggested for months - Mr Sunak faces a deep challenge at that election, which is expected to take place next year.\n\nHaving three by-elections on the same night is unusual, especially for a prime minister less than a year into the job.\n\nThe last time Labour secured a by-election swing as large as it did in Selby and Ainsty was in the 1990s - which ended with the Conservatives suffering a landslide defeat.\n\nKeir Mather, 25, is the first MP to be born after Labour's victory in 1997.\n\nHe will also become the youngest MP in the House of Commons after overturning a 20,000 Conservative majority.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We've got to double down and stick to our plan - Sunak\n\nCelebrating the victory in the rural North Yorkshire constituency on Friday, Sir Keir claimed it represented a \"cry for change\" from voters.\n\nHe said it was a \"vindication\" of the changes he had made to the party since taking over from Jeremy Corbyn as leader, showing Labour \"can win anywhere, including places that were Tory strongholds\".\n\n\"I know people have put their trust in us, and we will deliver on that trust,\" he added.\n\nThe Labour leader has ditched many of the policies promoted by Mr Corbyn, who has been suspended from the parliamentary party while other left-wing figures have been sidelined.\n\nOn Friday, the chair of Uxbridge's Labour party resigned with a parting shot at Sir Keir.\n\nDavid Williams, who said his resignation was \"nothing to do\" with the by-election result, told the BBC he was unhappy with Sir Keir's leadership and the party's \"move to the right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Lib Dem leader stages a cannon stunt to celebrate his party winning the Somerton and Frome by-election\n\nIt was a good night for the Liberal Democrats, who overturned a Tory majority of 19,000 in Somerton and Frome in Somerset.\n\nThe party leader Sir Ed Davey said it showed voters were uniting to defeat the Conservatives.\n\nSarah Dykes, a local business owner and sheep farmer, becomes the tenth female Lib Dem MP - meaning there are now twice as many females as males in the Commons cohort.\n\nSpeaking after her election, she promised to be an \"active, hard-working champion\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Does social media video show an escaped lioness in Berlin?\n\nA member of a notorious German crime family has offered his help in capturing a suspected escaped lioness in the southern outskirts of Berlin.\n\nPolice have been searching for more than a day after being notified about a wild animal on the loose but have yet to find it.\n\nNow, the son of the head of the Remmo family has said he can \"lead the lioness back to her enclosure\".\n\nFiras Remmo has urged the authorities not to shoot the creature.\n\nIn a post on social media, he asked for anyone with information about the animal's whereabouts to \"let him know first\" so he can step in \"before some idiot shoots her\".\n\nIt is not the first time he has been linked to big cats. In December, he posted a video online of himself and a tiger cub featuring the caption \"my new favourite pet\", prompting a police investigation.\n\nIt is still not clear if the animal being sought is a lioness as no paw-prints or DNA material, such as animal waste, have been found in the areas where the animal was supposedly spotted.\n\nHowever, police have told the BBC they believe a video widely circulating from the Kleinmachnow area is authentic.\n\nThey said two officers had seen the animal about 20m (65ft) away overnight on Thursday and identified it as a \"big cat\".\n\nOthers are not so sure. One expert told Berlin local radio station RBB that, from footage he had seen, the animal looks more like a boar, which are common in the region.\n\nLocal zoos, animal sanctuaries and circuses said no lions have escaped from their facilities.\n\nPeople who encounter a lioness are urged not to run away but to avoid making eye contact\n\nThe search for the animal has been intensified on Friday, after being scaled down overnight on the recommendation of experts.\n\nAround 120 police officers and wildlife experts, such as vets, are now scouring local wooded areas. Drones, helicopters and heat-seeking cameras are also being used.\n\nKleinmachnow Mayor Michael Grubert said the first object of the mission to locate the animal was to capture it but that \"other measures will only be taken by police officers if their lives or the lives of others are endangered.\"\n\nAround a dozen possible sightings of the animal were reported to police overnight, including in the wealthy Zehlendorf area, which is within Berlin's city borders.\n\nHowever, officers were not amused when young people started playing loud roaring lion sounds on a speaker near to the area where the search was going on.\n\n\"That helps neither the local community, nor the police in their search for the animal,\" police spokeswoman, Kerstin Schröder, told RBB.\n\nPaul Landau, who lives in the area initially being searched, told the Reuters news agency he thought a dangerous person was in the area.\n\n\"At first it wasn't clear it was a about a lioness, or a wild animal, they just said keep doors and windows shut and don't let anybody in the house,\" he said.\n\n\"So, we thought it was about a person, not an animal.\"\n\nResidents have also been told to keep their pets with them and to avoid forest areas.\n\nWild animal expert Heribert Hofer, from Berlin's Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, told Reuters that anyone who encounters a wild animal should stop rather than run away.\n\n\"You should also avoid, if at all possible, turning your back to the animal. And you should also avoid looking the animal directly in the eye.\"\n\nThe authorities had been focussing their search on a large area next to a wood where people walk their dogs, as they thought the lioness may have been sleeping there.\n\nOn Thursday evening, police told a local resident that they had \"just seen\" the lioness and that the search for the animal had entered a \"hot phase\", German outlet Bild reported, adding that officers shouted at joggers to \"get out of the woods quickly\".\n\nAccording to Mr Hofer, while it is illegal to keep big cats privately in Berlin, it is possible in the neighbouring state of Brandenburg - the state encircling Germany's capital.\n\nHowever, the owner must have a certificate and meet other stringent requirements, he told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.\n\nVanessa Amoroso, head of the wild animals in trade unit at Four Paws, said inconsistent laws across Europe made the trade of big cats much easier, as they are allowed as pets in many countries.\n\nShe called on the German government to regulate those trading and keeping exotic animals.\n\n\"Germany's position as one of the world's largest markets for wild animals as pets demands effective measures to counteract the ease with which potential buyers can acquire animals through online platforms and exchanges,\" she added.\n\nLoïs Lelanchon, from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said the trend of keeping of exotic pets has been fuelled by social media, with big cats seen as a status symbol.\n\n\"This reckless trend needs to stop to prevent animals suffering and risking human lives,\" he said.", "Morgan was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in 2021 when he was two\n\nHundreds have gathered to say a final goodbye to a three-year-old boy who died of a rare cancer.\n\nMorgan Ridler, from Swansea, died in palliative care last month after he was diagnosed in 2021 at the age of two.\n\nHis parents, Matt and Natalie, invited mourners to wear items of yellow clothing at the celebration of his life.\n\nMatching bright yellow bows lined the pews at St Catherine's Church in Gorseinon, Swansea on Friday.\n\nThe celebration of life service followed a procession from Frampton Road.\n\nThe service was streamed online and also played out on speakers outside the church so people lining the street could hear.\n\nA sea of yellow could be seen at St Catherine's Church to celebrate Morgan's life\n\nA version of Coldplay's Yellow was played as Morgan's coffin was carried into the church.\n\nStop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis was later sung, and a poem entitled Love Wins, written by Morgan's auntie Victoria, was read.\n\nMorgan's dad spoke of how his son was \"loved unconditionally\" in his short life.\n\n\"No matter what Morgan faced, he always smiled,\" Morgan's dad continued.\n\nHe said Morgan especially loved his little sister Rhiannon, and formed a \"special bond\" with the other children on the Rainbow Ward at Noah's Ark Children's Hospital.\n\n\"Although Morgan's life was short and difficult, he embraced life,\" he said.\n\n\"He created an army of people to ensure no one fights alone when it comes to childhood cancer. And that is the best tribute to Morgan.\"\n\nMorgan underwent treatment for his tumours and eight rounds of chemotherapy.\n\nDuring hospital treatment in Birmingham, a nurse wrote comforting phrases in Welsh so colleagues could soothe him, which went viral on TikTok.\n\nHis parents decided to set up their own charity, Morgan's Army, raising thousands of pounds for families of children diagnosed with cancer.\n\nYellow bows were tied in and around St Catherine's Church, to celebrate Morgan's life\n\nThe vicar leading the funeral also oversaw Morgan's christening just three years ago.\n\nThe vicar said Morgan was \"super proud\" to be a Swansea City AFC mascot and season ticket holder.\n\nHe said Morgan loved cars, and even had the opportunity to go flying on a light aircraft the week before he died.\n\nMorgan's parents set up a charity, raising thousands of pounds for families of children diagnosed with cancer\n\nMorgan's teachers said he loved school, especially making classmates laugh and playing jokes such as mixing up the staff members' names.\n\nThe vicar said Morgan \"always had the ability to look at the fun in everything\".\n\n\"Even in the middle of a tantrum, he'd always be polite, saying please and thank you.\"\n\nHe added: \"Don't forget Morgan, remember his legacy. Let it live on in you.\"\n\nA Welsh translation of You Are My Sunshine was sung by Bethany Davies before Morgan's coffin was carried out of the church.\n\nA wake is being held at Swansea City AFC stadium from 14:30 BST.", "Scientists say they have completed the world's largest release of seahorses into Sydney Harbour to boost population numbers. The White’s Seahorse is endemic to Australia’s east coast and became endangered in 2020 due to pollution and habitat loss.\n\nEarlier this year, the Sydney Institute of Marine Science captured three pregnant males and helped raise their babies in captivity to improve their chances of survival. The 380 juveniles were released with tags that will enable researchers to monitor their growth and reproductive success in the wild.", "Labour's Keir Mather has won the seat for Selby and Ainsty in North Yorkshire, with 16,456.\n\nThe seat was previously held by the Conservative Party's Nigel Adams, who resigned earlier this year.", "He was photographed in Windsor wearing a checked shirt and teal trousers\n\nA new photograph of a smiling Prince George has been released in celebration of his 10th birthday on Saturday.\n\nThe picture shows George - who is second in line to the throne - sitting on a set of steps at Windsor.\n\nIn a change of tradition it was taken by Millie Pilkington, rather than George's mother, the Princess of Wales, who has often photographed her children for past birthdays.\n\nMs Pilkington had photographed Prince Louis for his fifth birthday in April.\n\nPrince George has just finished his first year at his new school, Lambrook School in Berkshire. He started there with his siblings Charlotte and Louis last September following the family's move to Windsor.\n\nHis first few weeks of the summer holidays have been eventful, with a visit to the royal box at Wimbledon last Sunday to watch Carlos Alcaraz win the title against Novak Djokovic, where he was pictured alongside his parents and sister Charlotte, eight.\n\nA few days earlier, George and his younger siblings privately visited an airshow at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.\n\nAnd at the start of the month he was pictured with his father at the Ashes cricket at Lord's.\n\nGeorge was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London, weighing 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).", "Aaron Hewson was described by the judge as a 'Jack the lad' when he was sentenced in April\n\nA part-time judge who described a convicted sex offender as \"Jack the lad\" during sentencing has been criticised by a Court of Appeal judge.\n\nRecorder John Hardy used the phrase when sentencing Aaron Hewson, 33, for three sexual assaults at Norwich Crown Court in April.\n\nLady Justice Macur, who oversaw an appeal hearing on Thursday, said she \"deplored\" Recorder Hardy's indication.\n\nHewson's sentence was increased after being considered unduly lenient.\n\nThe Rape Crisis charity said \"language really matters\" when talking about sexual assault.\n\nHewson, from Cromer, Norfolk, had been jailed of three years and 11 months in April after a trial.\n\nThree appeal judges - Lady Justice Macur, Mrs Justice Cockerill and Mr Justice Murray - increased that term to seven years at the Court of Appeal after concluding that the original sentence was unduly lenient.\n\nThey upheld an appeal by Solicitor General Michael Tomlinson.\n\nCharles Burton, who represented Hewson, had argued that the sentence was not unduly lenient and should not be increased.\n\nAppeal judges heard that Hewson had convictions for violence and, when a juvenile, had been convicted of sex offences.\n\nHe had also admitted possessing an \"extreme\" pornographic image.\n\nLady Justice Macur said appeal judges had concluded that there had been \"significant flaws\" in Recorder Hardy's approach to sentencing.\n\nShe said he had indicated when passing sentence that evidence suggested Hewson was a \"Jack the lad character\".\n\n\"We deplore the judge's description as indicating that the defendant was 'Jack the lad',\" she said.\n\nJayne Butler, chief executive at Rape Crisis, said: \"Words or phrases that normalise abusive behaviour or downplay its severity are not only damaging for victims and survivors but for society as a whole.\n\n\"They play into what we call 'rape culture', where sexual assault is minimised, accepted or laughed off.\n\n\"It's crucial that sexual assault, and all forms of sexual violence and abuse, are spoken about in a way that acknowledges its immense impact on victims and survivors.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook and Instagram. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia's foreign ministry has imposed tight travel restrictions on British diplomats working in the country.\n\nIt said they must give at least five days' notice and provide extensive travel details if they want to leave a 120km (75-mile) \"free movement zone\".\n\nOnly the British ambassador and three senior diplomats are exempted from the measures, the ministry said.\n\nIt comes amid worsening relations between Moscow and London following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nDespite the two countries being at odds over the war, both have continued to operate diplomatic missions on each other's soil.\n\nThe Vienna Convention - which the UK and Russia are both signed up to - is clear that governments must give accredited diplomats \"freedom of movement and travel in its territory\".\n\nSo governments rarely actually stop diplomats from travelling - but they can make it very difficult by imposing rules and regulations, such as the Russian government has.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said British diplomats will have to provide details of accommodation, transport, planned contacts and the purpose of any trip before travelling within Russia.\n\nThe restrictions will also be applied to diplomats working at the British consulate in Yekaterinburg, a city around 1090km (880 miles) to the east of Moscow.\n\nThe resulting bureaucratic demands are time-consuming and onerous but are just within the letter of the Vienna Convention.\n\nIn truth, this is just one of many irregular ways of making life difficult for diplomats.\n\nThey could find visa applications take time. They and their families could be subject to greater or lesser surveillance.\n\nOne diplomat once told me that she returned to her flat in Moscow one evening to find the magnetised letters on her fridge had been re-arranged to spell FSB, the Russia security service.\n\nAnother found her cat frozen to death outside her flat. She suspected it had been shut out deliberately.\n\nSo it is not unusual for authoritarian states to make life difficult for diplomats. For many, it goes with the territory.\n\nThe announcement was made shortly after the UK's interim charge d'affaires attended a meeting with Russian officials and was informed of the decision.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has disputed the Russian foreign ministry's claim that the senior British diplomat had been \"summoned\", describing it as \"disinformation\".\n\nA spokesperson for the department said: \"This was a planned meeting, held at our request, as part of standard diplomatic practice.\"\n\nIn a statement confirming the restrictions, Russia cited the UK's support of the Ukrainian government.\n\nIt accused the UK of conducting \"hostile actions... including the obstruction of the normal functioning of Russian diplomatic offices in the UK\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has not said how it will respond to the move.", "McDonald's has launched a new investigation handling unit after the BBC reported on dozens of abuse allegations at the fast-food chain.\n\nAlistair Macrow, chief executive of McDonald's UK and Ireland, said the claims he had heard this week are \"personally and professionally shocking\".\n\nHe apologised to anyone affected.\n\nHowever, current and former workers that the BBC has spoken to said it's \"too little too late\".\n\n\"How can he be shocked? How can you be CEO of a company and not know this is going on?\" asked Warren, who says he was sexually harassed by his manager at a Hampshire restaurant when he was 16.\n\n\"He's either out of touch with reality or he's just saying this now because they've had this negative publicity.\"\n\nEmily, who says she was groped by her manager at a branch in the North West when she was 17, said she was sceptical about whether the new unit would make any difference.\n\n\"We've been let down time and time again,\" she said. \"I'm glad they're trying a new system but I'm not sure it's going to be any more effective than what they've already tried to do.\"\n\nA BBC investigation was told workers, some of them teenagers in their first jobs, are being groped and harassed almost routinely.\n\nMr Macrow said: \"The unit will have oversight on all cases and the power to refer the most serious cases to a third-party legal team staffed by specialist investigators.\n\n\"The unit will be run by human resource and legal professionals full-time until at least the end of this year.\"\n\nMore than 100 current and recent staff at UK outlets of McDonald's alleged that they worked in a toxic culture of sexual assault, harassment, racism and bullying.\n\nSince the BBC's report was published on Tuesday, more stories have surfaced, putting further pressure on McDonald's.\n\nAs well as setting up the investigations unit, McDonald's is appointing external experts to independently examine how workers' claims are \"escalated\". This can mean looking at when and how complaints are passed to other departments or more senior managers.\n\nMany workers have alleged that their complaints were not escalated in an appropriate and timely way.\n\nMr Macrow said he wanted to ensure people had the confidence to speak out.\n\n\"It is crucial that people feel safe and able to speak up,\" he said. \"Clearly this has not been the case in some parts of our business.\"\n\nMr Macrow added: \"Any substantiated breaches of our code of conduct will be met with the most severe measures up to, and including, dismissal.\"\n\nMr Macrow said the company had \"clearly fallen short\" in some key areas.\n\n\"I am determined to root out any behaviour or conduct that falls below the high standards of respect, safety and inclusion we demand of everyone at McDonald's,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, MPs have written to Mr Macrow demanding answers in the wake of the BBC's probe.\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the Business and Trade Committee, asked him what action the company takes to ensure that franchises comply with UK labour laws.\n\nMost workers are not directly employed by McDonald's because the company uses a franchise system. This means that individual operators are licensed to run the restaurants and employ the staff.\n\nMr Jones also asked what processes are in place for McDonald's workers in the UK to raise complaints.\n\nMcDonald's has until 11 August to respond to the letter.\n\nThe fast-food chain is one of the biggest private sector employers in the UK. It has more than 170,000 people working in 1,450 restaurants.\n\nMr Macrow also said he would assemble a panel of restaurant workers as an advisory group \"to help embed 'speak up' confidence throughout our business with special regard for our tens of thousands of younger employees\".\n\nSome of the names in this story have been changed to protect people's identities.\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "There will be a \"national memorial\" commissioned for the late Queen, but limits are put on using her name\n\nBuildings, parks, pubs or businesses cannot be renamed after the late Queen Elizabeth without specific permission, the Cabinet Office has warned.\n\nThe name of the late Queen is going to be \"closely protected\" in terms of how it can be used, says new guidance.\n\nThe Cabinet Office says permission for using the late Queen's name will only be \"sparingly granted\".\n\nAn \"official national memorial\" to the late Queen is also to be commissioned, says the Cabinet Office.\n\nThere are many places and businesses named after historic royal names - from the Royal Albert Hall to the Queen Victoria pub in BBC TV's EastEnders soap opera.\n\nBut official guidance has recently been issued by the Cabinet Office warning about the limits on using modern royal names and titles.\n\nIn particular there are concerns about ensuring the late Queen's name is only used in \"dignified and appropriate\" ways.\n\n\"The full title of Queen Elizabeth II will continue to be closely protected to preserve the rarity of the honour,\" says a government spokeswoman.\n\nOne of the late Queen's last official engagements last year was in London, to open the Elizabeth Line, named after her\n\nWith the anniversary of the Queen's death approaching in September, the guidance points to the \"commissioning of an official national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II\", which will be announced \"in due course\".\n\nBut the Cabinet Office says that many local organisations or community groups might want their own memorial to the late Queen, such as naming a park, or local amenity, or business or street after her.\n\nBut there's a warning that \"strict standards are applied\", with inquiries in England and Northern Ireland managed by the Cabinet Office, and by the governments in Scotland and Wales.\n\nThe use of \"Queen Elizabeth II\" will \"only be granted for applications with strong royal connections,\" says the government guidance.\n\nPubs have been named after previous royals, including EastEnders pub the Queen Victoria\n\n\"Requests that incorporate 'memorial' or 'remembrance' in a proposed name are likely to be looked upon favourably, where possible,\" says the advice for applications to use the name.\n\nThere are already some projects named after the late Queen, including the Elizabeth Line on the London underground.\n\nThis was one of the last public projects opened by Queen Elizabeth. There had been doubts about her attendance, but she surprised people by carrying out the official opening, at Paddington Station in May 2022.\n\nRead the latest royal news in a free weekly newsletter - sign up here.", "German police have called off a search for what was suspected to be a lioness on the loose in Berlin. A local mayor said that they now believed that the animal that was causing alarm was a wild boar.\n\nEarlier, police said they believed that a video circulating online was \"authentic\" and that a \"big cat\" was also seen by two officers.\n\nThe video appears to show the animal in a heavily forested residential area of Kleinmachnow.\n\nRead more on this story: Crime family member issues plea for missing lion", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe White House has confirmed that Ukraine is using US cluster munitions against Russian forces in the country.\n\nNational Security Spokesman John Kirby said initial feedback suggested they were being used \"effectively\" on Russian defensive positions and operations.\n\nThe munitions scatter multiple bomblets and are banned by more than 100 states due to their threat to civilians.\n\nThe US agreed to supply them to boost Ukrainian ammunition supplies.\n\nUkraine has promised the munitions will only be used to dislodge concentrations of Russian enemy soldiers.\n\n\"They are using them appropriately,\" Mr Kirby said. \"They're using them effectively and they are actually having an impact on Russia's defensive formations and Russia's defensive manoeuvring. I think I can leave it at that.\"\n\nThe US decided to send cluster bombs after Ukraine warned that it was running out of ammunition during its summer counter-offensive, which has been slower and more costly than many had hoped.\n\nPresident Joe Biden called the decision \"very difficult\", while its allies the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Spain opposed their use.\n\nThe vast majority sent are artillery shells with a lower than 2.35% \"dud rate\", a reference to the percentage of bomblets which do not explode immediately and can remain a threat for years.\n\nThe weapons are effective when used against troops in trenches and fortified positions, as they render large areas too dangerous to move around in until cleared.\n\nThe Ukrainian counter-offensive has been slower than many hoped\n\nRussia has used similar cluster munitions in Ukraine since it launched its full-scale invasion last year, including in civilian areas.\n\nReacting to the US decision to send the weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country had similar stockpiles and they would be used \"if they are used against us\".\n\nOleksandr Syrskyi, the Ukrainian general in charge of operations in the country's east, told the BBC last week that his forces needed the weapons to \"inflict maximum damage on enemy infantry\".\n\n\"We'd like to get very fast results, but in reality it's practically impossible. The more infantry who die here, the more their relatives back in Russia will ask their government 'why?'\"\n\nHe added however that cluster munitions would not \"solve all our problems\".\n\nHe also acknowledged that their use was controversial, but added: \"If the Russians didn't use them, perhaps conscience would not allow us to do it too.\"\n\nA Russian bomblet fired in Kharkiv earlier in the war", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland produced a lacklustre performance against tournament debutants Haiti in their opening match of the Women's World Cup but held on for a narrow victory in Brisbane.\n\nGeorgia Stanway's pinpoint re-taken penalty gave England victory despite an underwhelming performance by the Lionesses.\n\nThe midfielder kept her cool after the Video Assistant Referee adjudged Haiti goalkeeper Kerly Theus had stepped off her line too early as she saved her first attempt.\n\nMuch like their display in the opening match against Austria in Euro 2022, which England went on to win, Sarina Wiegman's side looked short of creativity and sharpness.\n\nHaiti, ranked 53rd in the world, were dangerous in attack - especially hugely impressive teenager Melchie Dumornay, who was the most effective player on the pitch.\n\nThe 19-year-old was involved in Haiti's biggest chances as England were heavily tested in defence, with captain Millie Bright struggling at times on her first appearance since March following knee surgery.\n• None Lionesses rusty and predictable but get job done\n• None How you rated the players\n• None What do you know about the past 24 hours at the World Cup?\n\nStriker Alessia Russo, given the nod ahead of Women's Super League Golden Boot winner Rachel Daly, was also denied by Haiti goalkeeper Theus on numerous occasions in each half.\n\nWhile England had opportunities to extend their lead in the second half, their goalkeeper Mary Earps pulled off a brilliant save to push away Roseline Eloissaint's strike from close range in what was one of the biggest chances of the match.\n\nThe Lionesses, who have lost just once in 33 games under Wiegman, take on Denmark in their second Group D match on Friday.\n\nEngland came to Australia having failed to score against Portugal and Australia in their most recent matches and they did little to create momentum against Haiti.\n\nThe stadium was filled with English support, including plenty of ex-pats living in Brisbane among the 44,000 in attendance, but Haiti fully entertained those cheering on their side.\n\nIt was a stop-start opening half as VAR was called into action a few times - firstly to deny England a penalty after a foul by Russo in the box then later awarding them one for handball by Batcheba Louis.\n\nDayana Pierre-Louis was perhaps fortunate not to receive a red card when her studs dragged down Chloe Kelly's shin in the first half. That challenge resulted in a booking for the Haiti defender but VAR ruled out a penalty because of Russo's foul in the build-up.\n\nStanway gave the European champions the goal they craved from the penalty spot when Louis' inexplicable decision to raise both hands prevented Lucy Bronze getting on the end of a cross.\n\nBut hopes of England finding more of a spark in the second half did not materialise and it was Haiti instead who posed a greater threat even when Wiegman introduced her wildcards Lauren James and Daly.\n\nThere was a subdued response by England's players at full-time, with Wiegman and Barcelona midfielder Keira Walsh deep in conversation as 'Sweet Caroline' was sung by fans in the stands.\n\nWhile England's performance will need to improve if they are to advance deep into the tournament, Haiti's opening effort will fill them with confidence as they look to cause an upset in Group D.\n\nTeenager Dumornay showed why one of Europe's biggest clubs, Lyon, fought off competition for her signature as she dribbled past defenders, tested goalkeeper Earps with a long-range curling strike and played without fear on the game's biggest stage.\n\nShe had five touches in the opposition box - only Kelly and Russo had more - and the crowd in Brisbane rose with excitement whenever she was in possession.\n\nIt gave England plenty of food for thought in defence as Lucy Bronze's attacking urges left gaps in the right-back position, Bright's lack of match sharpness was evident and England's midfielders were often on the back foot.\n\nHowever, just as they did last year at Euro 2022, they did enough to secure three points and a first step to qualifying from their group.\n\nThe squad might well remember how they went on to thrash Norway 8-0 in their second match at last year's major tournament after a similarly lacklustre opening.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt missed. Roseline Éloissaint (Haiti Women) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rachel Daly (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucy Bronze with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ella Toone.\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (England) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Rachel Daly (England) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chloe Kelly with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "When Dame Alison Rose landed the top job at NatWest she became the most powerful woman in UK banking.\n\nIn the notoriously male-dominated sector, women at her level are still incredibly rare.\n\nDame Alison oversaw a bank with about 19 million customers in the UK and 60,000 employees globally.\n\nDame Alison spent some decades climbing the ranks, starting out over 30 years ago as a trainee at the bank after graduating from Durham University.\n\nWhen she secured the top job in 2019, she carefully cultivated her image and was frequently heard on the airwaves and appeared in print.\n\nIn interviews she was typically careful, reciting lines which had clearly been prepared and at times she could sound wooden.\n\nIt was part of a media-savvy strategy to be visible and open, but also very careful - she never put a step wrong and never said anything she wasn't supposed to say.\n\nThat's why the latest development is so surprising - Dame Alison made what she admits was a \"serious error\" in speaking about Nigel Farage's relationship with Coutts, the private bank owned by NatWest.\n\nIt is out of character and a shock misstep in a career which, until now, has been remarkably flawless.\n\nDanni Hewson, head of financial analysis at stockbroker AJ Bell, said Dame Alison was \"massively respected\" and her actions had \"caught a lot of people by surprise\".\n\n\"She held her employees to a high standard. She was pushing NatWest to achieve higher standards, to be more inclusive, to deliver more for the customer. And, you know, with one comment, she has undermined years of hard work.\n\n\"She has been hugely instrumental in changing the culture of banking and propelling forward the reputation of NatWest from a time when the banking sector was really persona non grata. So, I think it is incredibly surprising that she has been so careless.\"\n\nWhen NatWest, then called Royal Bank of Scotland, almost collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis and had to be rescued by a £20bn taxpayer bailout, Dame Alison was integral in rebuilding the bank and its reputation.\n\nIn contrast, the then-chief executive Fred Goodwin was blamed for expanding the bank too rapidly and was subsequently stripped of his knighthood.\n\nDame Alison is one of the few senior bosses to have survived at the bank after the public fallout.\n\nShe has also been lauded for her work to boost the number of female entrepreneurs and leaders.\n\nIt was this work which helped her be named as a Dame Commander of the British Empire by King Charles III at the start of this year.\n\nAs boss at NatWest, she has drawn headlines for changes, such as granting up to a year of leave to new fathers and ending new loans to oil and gas companies.\n\nAnd she was a relatable role model. The 53-year-old mum-of-two told the Daily Telegraph in 2021 that running NatWest during the pandemic, despite its challenges, \"was much easier than managing home schooling\" during lockdown.\n\nShe called the financial crisis in 2008 a \"pretty traumatic period\" for the industry.\n\n\"There was the experience of watching everything we had been working on change, and the terrible situation that RBS found itself in,\" she told the Evening Standard in 2016. \"That was a pretty emotional and difficult experience.\"\n\nIt's likely that this latest episode will prove more traumatic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We've got to double down and stick to our plan - Sunak\n\nThis set of by-elections amounts to a single question: just how badly did the Conservatives do?\n\nBut not as badly as they had feared.\n\nThe prospect of a crushing three-nil defeat - beaten everywhere - was averted.\n\nLabour managed to win - and win really big - in rural North Yorkshire; the kind of spot some distance from usually fertile political territory for them.\n\nAnd yet they lost in north west London, where they had expected to win.\n\nBut, but, but: the Tory obliteration in Somerset will sow panic among many Conservatives in the south west of England.\n\nSo let's unpick where this leaves us, because on the face of it is a rather messy picture.\n\nTo what extent were these contests atypical, by-election quirks rather than true indicators of the national mood?\n\nFirstly, Labour's victory in Selby and Ainsty is off the scale big.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on by-election win: Starmer: \"First time I have been able to say: Well done Keir\"\n\nAnother Keir joins the ranks of Labour MPs, Keir Mather. It's a name rich in Labour history: Keir Hardie was the party's first leader.\n\nIf Labour won on this scale nationally, they would be in government with a colossal majority.\n\nThe party that has campaigned so fruitfully for so long on the perceived failings of Boris Johnson has failed to take Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the very seat he used to represent.\n\nJust days ago, the Conservatives were ready to blame what they described privately as \"Long Boris\" to explain away their losses.\n\nIn other words, don't blame us, blame the prime minister before last.\n\nBut now they have won where he was the MP, and lost in two places where he wasn't.\n\nDowning Street had not anticipated a photo opportunity where smiles would feature today.\n\nBut before some of us had reached for the breakfast cereal Rishi Sunak was beaming in Uxbridge.\n\nAnd his message is one we will keep hearing, I suspect: the general election is not a done deal, and where voters see what he will claim is the \"reality of Labour\" they vote Conservative.\n\nTo hear Conservatives this morning talking about Uxbridge was to hear those swimming through the roughest of rough political seas, and then seeing an unlikely raft upon which to climb, and breathe a brief sigh of relief.\n\nLabour are disappointed to lose in Uxbridge.\n\nPublicly, and more candidly in private, they blame the expansion of London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone (Ulez), a policy idea blamed by many voters on the Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\n\"If you run on a ticket about the cost of living but you are blamed for adding 90 quid a week to the cost of living for some, it's going to be difficult,\" acknowledged one party figure.\n\nThe Ulez daily charge is £12.50 a day. If a driver fails to pay the charge, or broke the penalty charge rules, the bill could be higher.\n\nLabour's failure to take Uxbridge presents three niggles for the party, as they look to the general election:\n\nEqually, if you are one of the innumerable Labour figures desperate to not sound complacent, losing in Uxbridge rather helps.\n\nAnd what about the Liberal Democrats?\n\nTheir win in Somerton and Frome was huge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Lib Dem leader stages a cannon stunt to celebrate his party winning the Somerton and Frome by-election\n\nThey hope it is proof of a revival in the West Country, a former heartland for the party before the near oblivion that followed their years in coalition at Westminster.\n\nAnd there is plenty of evidence of that revival: last year's by-election win in nearby Tiverton and Honiton and their control of Somerset Council for starters.\n\nBut: they are a small party with limited resources.\n\nThey threw everything at Somerton and Frome, managing to knock on 15,000 doors on polling day alone.\n\nThat kind of operation is much harder to do at a general election - when they are likely to be trying to throw everything at around 30 seats, not just one.\n\nPrivately, party figures acknowledge that this by-election campaign was helped hugely by former Conservative cabinet minister Nadine Dorries having not yet resigned her seat in Mid Bedfordshire, another Lib Dem target.\n\nHad that contest happened on Thursday too, it would have split their resources in half. At a general election, the demands on staffing would be even more brutal.\n\nBut the party does now have ample evidence that they have overcome the paralysing hangover of the coalition years, and are competitive again - and dangerous, particularly to the Tories.\n\nOverall, the scope for Conservative comfort anywhere after these results is very slender.\n\nBut not as slender as it might have been.", "Hours after he was detained in his flat, Igor Strelkov appeared in court in Moscow\n\nOutspoken pro-war blogger Igor Girkin, who has fiercely criticised Russia's military strategy in Ukraine, has been remanded in custody by a court in Moscow, accused of extremism.\n\nThe hardline nationalist, also known as Igor Strelkov, could face up to five years in jail.\n\nHis wife said he was detained on Friday at their Moscow flat while she was out.\n\nA former FSB intelligence colonel, Strelkov played a key role in Russia's 2014 landgrab of Crimea.\n\nHe went on to lead Russia's proxy army in the ensuing war in eastern Ukraine.\n\nIgor Strelkov was one of three men convicted in absentia by a Dutch court last November of murder for his role in a missile strike in 2014 that downed a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over the conflict area, with the loss of all 298 people on board.\n\nBut as the full-scale invasion of last year became increasingly bogged down, Strelkov's criticism of military failings and the commander in chief, President Vladimir Putin, became more vociferous.\n\n\"We have already lost,\" he told social media followers last year.\n\nA few days ago he called the Kremlin leader \"a nonentity\" and \"a cowardly waste of space\", says BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg.\n\nStrelkov's lawyer, Alexander Molokhov, said that after he had been detained his flat had been searched.\n\nStrelkov later appeared at Meshchansky district court in the north-east of the capital, where the judge rejected his request for the hearing to be held behind closed doors, Ria Novosti agency reports. He will now remain in pre-trial detention until at least 18 September.\n\nThe war-blogger has been allowed free rein to criticise the president and the military for a long time, so it is unclear what led Russia's Investigative Committee to charge him at this point with using the internet to appeal for \"extremist activity\".\n\nEver since the start of the war, opponents of Russia's so-called special military operation in Ukraine have been handed lengthy jail terms for far milder remarks.\n\nBut earlier this week a retired Russian intelligence officer, Vladimir Kvachkov, was charged with \"discrediting\" the Russian army. He and Strelkov had created the \"Club of Angry Patriots\", livestreaming their criticism of Russia's political and military leadership.\n\nFor many years Strelkov, 53, had been considered untouchable, says BBC Russian's Ilya Barabanov.\n\nThat was partly because of his previous role as a colonel in the FSB security service, but also because he was identified as a suspect and later convicted of downing flight MH-17 while he was commander of Russia's proxy force in occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nRussian investigative website Agentstvo suggested that authorities had revised a previously unspoken rule allowing pro-war bloggers to vent their anger as much as they liked.\n\nCommentator Tatiana Stanovaya said this was a moment that many among the siloviki - the president's inner circle - had eagerly awaited.\n\nStrelkov had long ago \"overstepped all conceivable boundaries\", she said, but the failure of mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin had left the army command with greater leverage to quash its opponents.\n\nPrigozhin's Wagner group has had its powers cut since the botched mutiny last month, and the warlord himself has held back from his earlier expletive-laden tirades against the defence minister and army chief.\n\nThis week he appeared in a video, apparently filmed in Belarus, welcoming his fighters and saying that Russia's campaign in Ukraine was a \"disgrace we want no part of\".\n\nReports say that of the estimated 25,000 Wagner mercenaries, 10,000 are heading for Belarus while the others are going \"on leave\". One independent report said that Vladimir Putin had made a final decision that Wagner would cease to exist in Russia itself.\n\nUkraine's main intelligence directorate welcomed Strelkov's detention as a sign that those inside the Kremlin were approaching an \"active phase of internal confrontation\".", "The scenes at the end of both games on the opening day of the 2023 Women's World Cup told the story.\n\nFans danced in the stands as players shed tears of joy after New Zealand got their Women's World Cup campaign off to a winning start on an emotional and historic night at Eden Park.\n\nFor Australia a few hours later, it felt more like getting the job done as they beat Republic of Ireland through a Steph Catley penalty, the Arsenal player taking the captain's armband after Sam Kerr was dramatically ruled out shortly before kick-off with a calf injury.\n\nTwo 1-0 victories, two different perspectives - with the New Zealand perspective one of \"tears\" and \"goosebumps\".\n\n\"Seeing them have tears in their eyes and enjoying it in front of their family and friends at the end, I will never forget these moments,\" New Zealand boss Jitka Klimkova said after Hannah Wilkinson's winner against Norway.\n\nEven Prime Minister Chris Hipkins joined in the New Zealand celebrations, hours after he addressed the nation following the deadly shooting in Auckland that had cast a shadow over what was supposed to be a day of celebration.\n\n\"He came to the locker room and was very proud for this team,\" added Klimkova, the Czech coach who was appointed in August 2021 and spent the first few months of her reign unable to step foot in New Zealand due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe Football Ferns had waited a long time for Thursday's big moment.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\nThey had failed to win a game at their previous five World Cup appearances and few outside New Zealand gave them much hope against Norway.\n\nIf they defeat World Cup debutants the Philippines on Tuesday then New Zealand can start planning for the knockout rounds for the first time.\n\nIn front of a passionate crowd of 42,137 - a record crowd for a football match in New Zealand - they produced a memorable performance that will live long in the memories of those present.\n\n\"I still have goosebumps and emotions,\" Klimkova said an hour after the final whistle.\n\n\"We have waited for this moment for such a long time. Hearing our fans getting behind us like that, it's an unforgettable moment for me. It's an incredible feeling.\"\n\nExcitement had been building across Auckland as the city prepared to kick off the Women's World Cup, the culmination of years of effort to bring the largest ever standalone women's sporting event to its shores.\n\nThe Football Ferns have been hard to ignore as they stared down from giant billboards, while some of the players' faces were projected onto the city's Sky Tower - a 328-metre tall tourist attraction - on the eve of the tournament.\n\nWilkinson, whose goal earned her country a famous win, spent the last few minutes of the match with her head in her hands, sitting on the bench as Norway threatened a late equaliser.\n\nThe hosts had to endure 10 minutes of stoppage time before they were able to celebrate.\n\n\"There were a lot of doubters because of the [recent] results we had, but we believed - we believed in ourselves this entire game,\" said veteran defender Ali Riley, who is playing at her fifth World Cup.\n\n\"This is what dreams are made of.\"\n\nThere was plenty of emotion at Stadium Australia too as the co-hosts also got off to a winning start, thanks to Catley's coolly taken spot-kick seven minutes after half-time.\n\nThis was more like a pressure valve being released. Catley steamed away to the sidelines in celebration, her nine outfield team-mates trailing after her like a yellow comet tail.\n\nHowever, Australia could never quite shake off the threat of a disciplined Republic side, and the pressure valve was back on by the time keeper Mackenzie Arnold had to make a low sprawling save from Irish captain Katie McCabe in the sixth minute of stoppage time.\n\nNevertheless, three points are the same no matter the fashion of the win. At Euro 2022, England started with a scrappy 1-0 victory over Austria before going all the way to a historic triumph as hosts. Australia will now look to do the same.\n\nHow much of the on-field mission Australia will have to negotiate without captain, all-time top scorer and talisman Kerr remains to be seen.\n\nThe 29-year-old - winner of three successive domestic doubles with Chelsea and twice on the Ballon d'Or podium - was a shock absence from the team as it emerged she had suffered a calf injury in training on Wednesday.\n\nKerr will also miss Australia's second game of the World Cup against Nigeria on 27 July, and Catley indicated the Matildas are preparing to be without their focal point for even longer.\n\n\"We were losing the best player in the world, and for her as a person we were heartbroken,\" Catley said. \"We had to gather ourselves quickly, and use her spirit - that's what it will take for however long she misses.\n\n\"She is our spiritual leader, her role will be massive, whatever it will be.\"\n\nThe big screen at Stadium Australia cut to Kerr barely a minute into the match, and went back to her several times during the game as she looked at various stages of pensiveness.\n\nAustralia must be less reserved for the remainder of their World Cup if they are to reach their goals - while for New Zealand, the expression of joy following an uplifting win could be the beginning of something special.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We've got to double down and stick to our plan - Sunak\n\nRishi Sunak has insisted the Conservatives can still win the next general election, despite suffering two damaging by-election defeats.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems overturned big Tory majorities in Somerton and Frome, and Selby and Ainsty constituencies.\n\nBut the Tories held the London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, despite predictions they could lose there too.\n\nThe result showed the next election was not a \"done deal\" for Labour, the prime minister said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party's \"incredible\" win in Selby and Ainsty was a \"cry for change\" from voters.\n\nHe added the result, where his party overturned a Tory majority of more than 20,000, was a \"big step forward\" ahead of the next general election, expected to take place next year.\n\nThe Tories' narrow victory in the suburban seat of Uxbridge, which they won by 495 votes, spared Mr Sunak the humiliation of being the first PM for 55 years to lose three by-elections in one night.\n\nThe party managed to capitalise on local anger over the planned expansion of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone (Ulez), a tax on polluting vehicles, to outer London boroughs by the capital's Labour mayor.\n\nVisiting a cafe in the constituency, Mr Sunak said it showed that people would vote Conservative when confronted with the \"reality\" of Labour in power.\n\nBut the other two results suggest the Tories face a difficult path to possible victory at the next election, with the party trailing Labour in the polls nationally by significant margins.\n\nAsked what the defeats meant for his party, Mr Sunak replied: \"The message I take away is that we've got to double down, stick to our plan and deliver for people.\"\n\nHe vowed to renew his focus on his government's five flagship priorities of halving inflation, growing the economy, reducing debt and NHS waiting times, and stopping small boat crossings.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg called on Tory MPs to \"row in behind the prime minister,\" adding that \"divided parties don't win elections\".\n\nHowever, a former cabinet minister on the right of the Conservative Party told the BBC the \"eye-watering swings\" in Selby and Somerton showed the party needs a \"complete change of direction\".\n\n\"Uxbridge provides no get-out-of-jail-free card for Rishi,\" they added.\n\n\"It is becoming increasingly clear that a failure by the party leadership to act now and change course risks electoral Armageddon.\"\n\nProgress towards the prime minister's pledges has so far been slow, with inflation in particular falling more slowly than predicted by many economists at the start of the year.\n\nConservative chairman Greg Hands conceded there was a \"lot of work still to be done\" to meet the promises, adding they \"weren't designed to be an easy thing to meet\".\n\nTory peer Lord Frost, a former minister, said his party needed to give people \"something to vote for,\" arguing the results were mainly down to its voters staying at home.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, he renewed his calls for the party to promise tax cuts, reduce levels of legal immigration, and delay net zero targets, adding it was currently offering voters policies too similar to Labour's.\n\nLabour won with a 23.7% swing in the rural North Yorkshire seat of Selby and Ainsty, breaking the record for the largest Tory majority it had overturned at a by-election since 1945.\n\nAnd a 29% swing to the Liberal Democrats in the Somerset seat of Somerton and Frome showed they could be a stronger challenger to the Tories in the West Country than at the last election in 2019.\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice said the Conservatives' vote share across the three by-elections showed the party was in \"as deep an electoral hole as the opinion polls have been suggesting\".\n\nHe added that its two defeats in Somerset and Yorkshire had both seen tactical voting to eject the Conservatives locally, spelling \"bad news\" for the governing party.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said his party's victory was \"nothing short of spectacular\", and showed his party were \"back in the West Country\".\n\nHe added that there were 15 south-western seats with smaller Tory majorities, making his party \"best placed\" to defeat the Conservatives in the region.", "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked his country's ambassador to the UK.\n\nVadym Prystaiko had recently criticised the president's response to a row over gratitude for British military aid.\n\nHe had called Mr Zelensky's promise to thank the UK defence minister every morning \"unhealthy sarcasm\".\n\nKyiv gave no official reason for the dismissal but confirmed that Mr Prystaiko was no longer ambassador.\n\nEarlier this month, Ben Wallace said he had warned Ukraine that its allies were \"not Amazon\", saying Kyiv needed to show gratitude for weapons it received in order to persuade Western politicians to give more.\n\nHe was speaking at the Nato summit after President Zelensky criticised the military alliance for delays in making Ukraine a member.\n\nMr Wallace's remarks had stirred anger in Kyiv and he later said his words had been \"somewhat misrepresented\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reacted by saying he had been \"struck\" by how much Ukraine valued the UK's support.\n\n\"How else can we show our gratitude?\" Mr Zelensky said in response to the defence minister's comments. \"We can wake up in the morning and thank the minister. Let him write to me and tell me how to thank him.\"\n\nMr Prystaiko said last week there had been a \"little bit of sarcasm\" in his president's response, which he believed was \"unhealthy\".\n\n\"We're not expecting anybody to fight for us, we only ask for equipment,\" he said, adding \"Ben can call me and tell me anything he wants,\" he told Sky News.\n\nHe had been in his post in London since 2020 but on Friday Mr Zelensky issued a presidential decree announcing his sacking, saying he had also been removed as Ukraine's representative to the International Maritime Organization.\n\nFormer British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that he was \"sad to say goodbye\" to Mr Prystaiko, calling him \"a great Ukrainian ambassador and friend to this country\".\n\nUK government minister and MP Robert Halfon (left) and Harlow leaders held flags of Ukraine and the UK at the unveiling ceremony\n\nIn a separate development, the first road to be officially named after President Zelensky in the UK was unveiled in Harlow, a town just north of London.\n\nMr Prystaiko was due to be at the event on Friday morning where Fifth Avenue was renamed Zelenskyy Avenue - but the ambassador was fired as he was in a car on the way to the Essex town, it is understood. The president's name is officially spelt with a double y, but the single y spelling is now widely used.\n\nOnly last week Mr Prystaiko was spotted watching the Wimbledon tennis championship in the royal box, when Ukraine's Elina Svitolina was knocked out in the ladies' singles semi-final.\n\nPresident Zelensky has fired ambassadors before, dismissing five at once a year ago in what was seen as a reshuffle.\n\nBut it was the controversial ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, whose sacking was particularly notable.\n\nKnown for his outspoken social media presence, he had become a familiar face in Germany with repeated appeals for military aid to Ukraine.\n\nHowever, he was seen to have stepped out of line when he accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of acting like a \"sulky liver sausage\" when the German leader was slow to take up a presidential invitation to visit Kyiv.\n\n\"This is about the most brutal war of extermination since the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, it's not kindergarten,\" complained Mr Melnyk, who is now Ukraine's deputy foreign minister.", "Labour grins in North Yorkshire, Liberal Democrats' delight in Somerset, beaming Conservatives in outer London. But beneath that made-for-the-cameras joy, a more complex picture to unpick.\n\nThe landscape remains bleak for the Conservatives. A trouncing in two former rural strongholds leavened mildly by narrowly clinging on in a suburb of the capital.\n\nBut Labour’s record-breaking triumph in rural Yorkshire was punctured by public awkwardness from both the party leader and Labour’s Mayor of London over the soon-to-be-expanded emissions scheme the Mayor is blamed for.\n\nThe Lib Dems are jubilant – proud to have rediscovered and solidified electoral vitality after the near-death experience of much of the last decade.\n\nIn truth, this set of elections probably leaves all three of these parties where they already were psychologically.\n\nThe Lib Dems asking themselves how much they can replicate this at a general election, when their efforts are more thinly spread. Labour - starting to believe they can win but with lingering jitters about what might stand in their way. The Conservatives - up against it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment Labour wins the seat for Selby and Ainsty\n\nLabour's Keir Mather has become the youngest MP in the House of Commons, aged just 25.\n\nHe won the Selby and Ainsty by-election after overturning a 20,137 majority and has been nicknamed the \"baby of the House\".\n\nBut who is Labour's new MP for the North Yorkshire constituency?\n\nAccording to his party biography, Mr Mather was born in Hull in 1998 and grew up near Selby.\n\nAs a child, Mr Mather joined the youth parliament and set up a Labour group for young people in Hull, his mother has said.\n\n\"He just loves speaking,\" said mum Jill Tambaros, adding that he had studied Speech and Drama in school and enjoyed performing in plays.\n\n\"We both just really enjoy politics, it's just part of our life,\" she told BBC News. \"If ever I was cross with him he'd go, 'mummy, shall I put on BBC News?' - to cheer me up.\"\n\nHe was named after James Keir Hardie, one of the founders of the Labour party, Ms Tambaros added.\n\nAfter school, the young Keir went on to study history and politics at Oxford University, graduating with a first-class degree - according to his LinkedIn profile.\n\nMr Mather has previously worked as a parliamentary researcher for shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, and more recently as a senior public affairs adviser at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).\n\nHe also became a political leadership scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government, according to the University of Oxford.\n\nIn a video on Labour's website, Mr Mather says he grew up in Brough, a village in the East Riding area of Yorkshire, and supports the rugby league team Hull Kingston Rovers.\n\n\"There isn't much I love more than being down on the terraces, a place where people come together, where you're part of a community and you sing with one voice.\"\n\nAfter winning his seat in the North Yorkshire constituency, with a majority of 4,161, Mr Mather said he \"understood the enormity of what has just happened\".\n\nWhen asked how he felt about becoming the \"baby of the House\", he joked that he had \"heard far worse\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The winning candidate’s mother in Selby and Ainsty says \"never say never\" on him becoming PM\n\nMr Mather's mother described her son as articulate, observant and genuine, predicting he will do \"very well\" in the House of Commons.\n\n\"Nothing really fazes him, he doesn't get stressed... he just takes things in his stride, one step at a time,\" said Ms Tambaros.\n\nAsked is he could be a future prime minister, she replied: \"Why not? Never say never... he's 25 and he's done all of this!\"\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said the new MP would be a \"fantastic MP who'll deliver the fresh start that Selby and Ainsty deserves\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, described the result in Selby and Ainsty as a \"historic win\", adding she was \"pretty certain [Mr Mather]... understands some of the challenges his generation faces\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Rayner said: \"Being 25, he's of that generation that is looking at insecure work, looking at not being able to ever own their own home - and looking at the challenges that they face with cost of living now, that leaves them in this spiral of not being able to get on in life.\"\n\nAlthough Mr Mather's victory sees him become Westminster's current youngest MP, he is not the youngest person to be elected to the House of Commons.\n\nPrior to Thursday's by-election, Labour's Nadia Whittome, 26, was the youngest MP. She was elected in 2019, at the age of 23.\n\nAnd SNP MP Mhairi Black was aged just 20 when she was elected in 2015, becoming Westminster's youngest MP since 1832. She has announced she is stepping down at the next election.", "Grace's mother described her as \"a perfect gift\"\n\nThe father of Nottingham attack victim Grace O'Malley-Kumar has described his daughter as an \"angelic girl\" in a poignant eulogy at her funeral.\n\nMore than 1,000 mourners attended a service for the 19-year-old at London's Westminster Cathedral on Friday.\n\nUniversity of Nottingham students Ms O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, also 19, were stabbed to death in Ilkeston Road on 13 June.\n\nSchool caretaker Ian Coates, 65, was also killed in the attacks.\n\nRelatives of Barnaby Webber, who also died in the attacks, attended Ms O'Malley-Kumar's funeral\n\nDuring the service for medical student Ms O'Malley-Kumar, her father Dr Sanjoy Kumar, said: \"No father should be called upon to give a eulogy for their child.\n\n\"It's not the natural order of things. It generally means something really unnatural has taken place and unfortunately for me, my beloved daughter Grace has been taken away from us.\"\n\nDr Kumar spoke about his daughter's dedication to medicine and mentioned she had volunteered to vaccinate people when he became the operations lead for a Covid vaccination centre in Waltham Forest.\n\nThe congregation heard Ms O'Malley-Kumar had wanted to apply to the Royal Army Medical Corps to further her medical training, inspired by her father and uncle, an orthopaedic surgeon.\n\nDr Kumar said: \"I look back now and I am astonished by her resolve.\n\n\"Here we have a child who wanted to outdo her father and her uncle in public service.\n\n\"I have to ask, what kind of angelic child tries to outdo others in serving her country and her community, but that is exactly the sort of girl Grace was, she was truly amazing.\"\n\nHer mother Sinead O'Malley told the service her daughter had been \"cruelly and inexplicably taken\".\n\n\"She came into our lives here in Westminster at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington,\" she said.\n\n\"Her birth registered here, and it is now from Westminster that she will leave.\n\n\"Grace was such a perfect gift to us.\"\n\nA funeral for Mr Webber, a history student, was held at Taunton Minster in Taunton, Somerset, earlier this month.\n\nMr Webber's parents, Emma and David Webber, attended the funeral of Ms O'Malley Kumar as did Sir Kenneth Olisa, the King's representative in Greater London.\n\nFormer University of Nottingham student Valdo Calocane, 31, was charged with the murder of Ms O'Malley-Kumar, Mr Webber and Mr Coates.\n\nMr Calocane, of no fixed address, is due to enter pleas before Nottingham Crown Court on 25 September.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Michael Grubert, mayor of Kleinmachnow, said the spotted animal on the loose was most likely a boar\n\nGerman officials have called off their search for a suspected lioness after finding no evidence of a big cat on the loose in Berlin's suburbs.\n\nPolice were searching for more than a day after being notified about a wild animal by members of the public - but found no trace.\n\nAfter speaking to experts, they now believe the creature was a wild boar.\n\nNo paw-prints or DNA material, such as animal waste, was found in areas where the animal was spotted.\n\nThe frantic search was triggered by a short grainy video shot by a member of the public in the early hours of Thursday. It appeared to show a wild animal, possibly a lion, roaming in a wooded area in the town of Kleinmachnow.\n\nAs the search unfolded, two police officers said they saw a \"big cat\" about 20m (65ft) away on the same day.\n\nBut at a press conference on Friday, Kleinmachnow Mayor Michael Grubert said that \"everything indicates it is not a lioness\".\n\nHe held up photographs which he said proved that the animal from the video did not have the long, curving neck characteristic of lions.\n\nAnd what looked in the video like a long tail with a bob, the mayor said, could in fact have been a shadow cast by vegetation.\n\n\"There is no acute danger,\" Mr Grubert said, adding that police would remain alert in case the situation changed.\n\nMeanwhile, Kleinmachnow town spokeswoman Martina Bellack said two experts - including one from South Africa - had been called in to analyse the footage.\n\n\"Both came to the conclusion there was no way it was a lion,\" she said.\n\nAnother expert told Berlin local radio station RBB that, from footage he had seen, the animal looked more like a boar, which are common in the region.\n\nAt one stage earlier on Friday, as many as 120 police officers and wildlife experts were involved in the search.\n\nDrones, helicopters and heat-seeking cameras were also used before the search was called off.\n\nThat was after around a dozen possible sightings of the animal were reported to police overnight, including in the wealthy Zehlendorf area, which is within Berlin's city borders.\n\nOfficers were not amused when young people started playing loud roaring lion sounds on a speaker near to the area where the search was going on.\n\n\"That helps neither the local community, nor the police in their search for the animal,\" police spokeswoman, Kerstin Schröder, told RBB.\n\nResidents had been told to stay inside, to keep their pets with them and to avoid forest areas.\n\nExperts also issued advice on how to deal with the wild animal if someone came upon it, such as standing still and avoiding eye contact.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Does social media video show an escaped lioness in Berlin?", "Many of the fatal accidents involve farm machinery\n\nAn average of more than five people every year died on Northern Ireland's farms in the past decade.\n\nNew figures from the Health and Safety Executive NI (HSENI) show 53 people were killed between January 2013 and December 2022.\n\nIt comes as the Farm Safety Foundation says the pace of change is \"far too slow\".\n\nThis week marks the 11th year of Farm Safety Week, which is organised by the foundation.\n\nStephanie Berkeley, manager of the Farm Safety Foundation, said the key message of Farm Safety Week 2023 was that farmers needed to value themselves.\n\n\"Everything is replaceable, you are not,\" she said.\n\nMs Berkeley added that the organisation was still having to roll out the campaign because farming continues to have the poorest safety record of any occupation in the UK and Ireland.\n\nShe said things were improving and that farmers knew they needed to take their safety seriously.\n\nThe HSENI said there had been two fatalities on farms in 2023.\n\nBoth victims were men over 60 and both incidents involved machinery.\n\nIn 2022, there were three deaths - a fall from six in 2021.\n\nMs Berkeley said those who died were mostly older people.\n\n\"The next generation of farmers have better attitudes and behaviours in relation to safety - but the pace of change is far too slow,\" she said.\n\nWilliam Irvine, deputy president of the Ulster Farmers Union, said it was important to keep safety awareness high.\n\nHe said the work was pressurised and that most accidents on farms tended to be related to falls, animals, machinery and slurry.\n\n\"Agriculture tends to involve a lot of lone workers who work with machinery and animals,\" he said.\n\n\"These things can be unpredictable and campaigns like this are important to keep awareness high.\n\n\"The message is getting through, but there is still a way to go and there is more to achieve when it comes to farm safety.\"", "By-election winner Keir Mather after the results were declared in Selby\n\nSelby and Ainsty's new Labour MP Keir Mather joked he had \"heard far worse\" when asked how he felt about becoming \"the Baby of the House\".\n\nThe 25-year-old will become the youngest MP in the Commons after overturning a 20,137 majority in the North Yorkshire constituency.\n\nLabour have said Mr Mather was born in Hull and grew up near Selby.\n\nSpeaking after his by-election win, Mr Mather said he \"understood the enormity of what has just happened\".\n\nHe said: \"The people of Selby and Ainsty have sent a clear message. For too long, Conservatives up here and in Westminster have failed us, and today that changes.\n\n\"Over the past few months, speaking to hundreds of people on the doorstep, I've encountered so much hardship. Hardship made worse by 13 years of negligence and complacency from the Conservatives.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment Labour wins the seat for Selby and Ainsty\n\nSpeaking after the results were announced at Selby Leisure Centre, Mr Mather said: \"As a young person in politics, I really hope to be a representative for the power that young people have to make a difference.\"\n\nAsked if he could fully understand voters' concerns at the age of 25, he said: \"Well, I'm a taxpayer too, I feel the pressures like anyone else.\"\n\nMr Mather said his first priority would be setting up support centres in the area for people to get expert help with issues including mortgage payments and energy bills, as the cost-of-living crisis was the number one issue on the doorstep throughout the campaign.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The boss of one of Britain's biggest banks has apologised to the former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage after a row over the closure of his Coutts bank account.\n\nAlison Rose, chief executive of Natwest, which owns Coutts, said comments made about him were \"deeply inappropriate\".\n\nMr Farage said his account had been closed because his political views did not align with the bank's values.\n\nThe government has announced that banks will now face tougher rules over closing customer's accounts in a move designed to protect freedom of expression.\n\nThe BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at the dispute in more detail.", "David Hunter waved to the media as he was led away from court after being cleared of murder\n\nA British man who killed his seriously ill wife at their home in Cyprus has been cleared of her murder.\n\nDavid Hunter, 76, was instead convicted of manslaughter after suffocating 74-year-old Janice Hunter at the property near Paphos in December 2021.\n\nThe retired miner from Ashington, Northumberland, maintained her death was assisted suicide and his wife, who had blood cancer, had begged him to end her misery.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 27 July.\n\nHunter's lawyer argued the death was assisted suicide because Mrs Hunter was suffering and she asked him to do it. His trial heard he had attempted to take his own life after she died.\n\nAs the three judges handed down their verdict at the district court in Paphos, Hunter hugged his legal team and told the BBC he was \"happy and elated\".\n\nHis lawyer Michael Polak, from Justice Abroad, said the verdict meant there was a \"very good chance\" his client would receive a suspended sentence and be able to return to the UK to live with his daughter.\n\n\"This wasn't a pre-planned act,\" Mr Polak said. \"He acted on the spur of the moment because she was in so much pain.\"\n\nMr Polak said the judges accepted Hunter had a \"loving\" and \"dream\" relationship with his wife of more than 50 years and \"on that morning she asked him to end her life\".\n\nJanice and David Hunter had been together for more than 50 years\n\nMr Polak said his client was \"speechless\" and \"too tired to smile\" after being cleared of murder, adding: \"He said he hadn't slept for three or four days, but he is very pleased about what happened.\n\n\"He would like to thank everyone who supported him in this case. This is the result he was looking for.\"\n\nA plea deal, which would have seen Hunter admit manslaughter, was agreed with prosecutors in November but the murder trial went ahead after the Cypriot authorities made a legal U-turn.\n\nThe couple's daughter, Lesley Cawthorne, said she was \"genuinely stunned\" by the verdict.\n\n\"My dad's not a murderer,\" she said. \"My dad's never been a murderer. Now everybody knows that. It's just incredible. I can't believe it.\"\n\nMs Cawthorne said her father now had a \"real chance\" of seeing \"the light of day again\".\n\n\"He had almost two years of being a prisoner during lockdown, and then he went straight from that into prison. He's had over three years of his life that have been lived at somebody else's kind of whim.\"\n\nDavid Hunter's daughter said he would want to spend time at his wife's grave after 19 months in prison\n\nShe said he would probably choose to stay in Cyprus for a little longer \"to spend some time with my mum\" and visit her grave, which he has never seen.\n\nMs Cawthorne said Hunter would also need \"time and space to acclimatise\" before he could be the \"best version of himself\" and see family again.\n\nShe said the past 19 months of his incarceration had been exhausting but now there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nAs David Hunter walked into the courtroom, his friend Barry, who made the journey here from Northumberland, reached out and held his hand.\n\n\"Hello mate,\" he said. \"You've got 166 messages of support from people back home.\"\n\nFor a brief moment, the 76-year-old accused of murdering his wife had a smile.\n\nOver the past year and a half, he has been coming to this court hoping he could make the judges understand the sad and sorry situation he was in.\n\nJanice was \"sick of life\" he told them. He was making nappies for her and she was ashamed to leave the house. She was hysterical because of the pain.\n\nHe \"loved her so much\", he said, but she begged him to end her suffering.\n\nThis was an emotional case, but for the judges it came down to one thing. Was this premeditated murder? By discussing a suicide pact, did that mean it was planned?\n\nToday, a judge told the court Hunter wasn't cold enough, not calculated enough to murder his sick wife.\n\nAt that point, David Hunter's lawyer looked up at his client and winked. The former miner who came here preparing for a life sentence, then knew there was hope.\n\nAs he left the courtroom, the pensioner hugged his legal team and told them he wanted to smile, but didn't have the strength.\n\nDavid Hunter admitted killing his wife and he will be punished for that, but his daughter Lesley said: \"This is the best possible outcome for my dad.\"\n\nIn May, Hunter told the court his wife begged him for five or six weeks to end her suffering.\n\nHe broke down in tears as he said he would \"never in a million years\" have taken her life unless she had asked him to.\n\n\"She wasn't just my wife, she was my best friend,\" he said, adding her pleas became more intense each day.\n\nHe eventually relented and suffocated her after she became \"hysterical\", he said, adding: \"I was hoping she would change her mind. I loved her so much.\"\n\nDavid Hunter killed his wife at their home in Tremithousa, Cyprus\n\nHunter told reporters his time in a Cypriot prison was \"nothing\" compared to the last six months of his wife's life.\n\nSpeaking in June 2022, Ms Cawthorne told the BBC her mother had been \"in absolute agony\" in her final months.\n\nBarry Kent, a friend of Hunter's who has raised thousands of pounds from people in Ashington to help fund legal costs, had travelled to Cyprus to be in court for the verdict.\n\nHe said: \"I am looking forward to having a beer with him and spending some time with him, whether it is here or back in England.\n\n\"To be honest, he needs a good feed. He looked terrible. If we had a meal together we would have a full English.\n\n\"He is an absolute shell of himself. When this case started he was a bit more sprightly.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "London Mayor Sadiq Khan has defended expanding a tax on polluting vehicles, despite his party leader blaming it for a disappointing by-election result.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) had cost Labour victory in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nHe called on Mr Khan to \"reflect\" on his plan to expand it to outer London.\n\nBut the mayor said the measure was \"the right one\", though he added he would listen to Londoners' concerns.\n\nConservative candidate Steve Tuckwell held the outer London constituency for his party by 495 votes, after campaigning against Ulez.\n\nLabour overturned a much bigger Conservative majority than the one the party had in Uxbridge in another by-election held on the same day in North Yorkshire.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said Uxbridge and South Ruislip was always \"going to be tough - we didn't take it in 1997 when we had a landslide victory\".\n\nHe said Ulez was \"the reason we didn't win there yesterday\", saying \"we've all got to reflect on that, including the mayor\".\n\nHe declined to say whether he believed the Ulez expansion should be paused or scrapped, despite being repeatedly pressed by BBC Political Editor Chris Mason to say what he meant by \"reflect\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader is pressed on what he means by the need to \"reflect\" on expanding London's Ulez zone.\n\nSadiq Khan said he was disappointed Labour had not taken a constituency previously held by former prime minister Boris Johnson, but noted it had \"never been Labour in my lifetime\".\n\nHe said clean air was \"a human right, not a privilege\", adding \"Londoners are struggling through this cost-of-living crisis, but Londoners are also suffering the consequences of air pollution\".\n\nHe acknowledged that some people were worried about the costs of Ulez, but took a swipe at the government, saying it was \"a shame\" ministers had not offered \"a penny of support\" towards a scrappage scheme for polluting - generally older - vehicles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Mayor of London defends the Ulez expansion which was a big issue in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election.\n\nMr Khan has argued that making the clean-air zone three times larger from 29 August will improve London's air quality, but it has proved hugely contentious in outer London areas like Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nDuring the campaign, Labour's candidate Danny Beales said he wanted the expansion halted because of the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nIn his victory speech, Mr Tuckwell said Mr Khan's \"damaging and costly Ulez policy\" had lost Labour the seat.\n\n\"This wasn't the campaign Labour expected and Keir Starmer and his mayor Sadiq Khan need to sit up and listen to the Uxbridge and South Ruislip residents,\" he\n\nHe later met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a cafe in Uxbridge, where Mr Sunak said that \"when confronted with the actual reality of the Labour Party, when there's an actual choice on a matter of substance at stake, people vote Conservative\".\n\nEarlier, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the Uxbridge result was related to Ulez and showed that \"when you don't listen to voters, you don't win elections\".\n\n\"There is a concern that we have to make sure that whatever is implemented is not at the cost of working families,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nMs Rayner added that cities needed clean air, but people who had to replace polluting vehicles also needed \"proper compensation and support from the government\".\n\nAsked whether she would be urging Mr Khan to drop the policy, she said the party would be \"getting round the table\" and would continue to work with the London mayor \"to get a decent scrappage scheme\".\n\nAn ultra low emission zone was initially proposed by then-Conservative mayor Boris Johnson in 2013 and introduced in central London in 2019, expanding a previous low-emission zone for larger vehicles like buses, lorries and coaches that was itself introduced in 2008.\n\nUnder Mr Khan, it was extended to cover the area within the North and South Circular roads in 2021.\n\nThe new expansion will see the zone's outer borders reach Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey.\n\nDrivers must pay £12.50 per day if they drive a vehicle which doesn't meet modern emission standards: generally, diesel vehicles that are more than seven years old, or petrol vehicles that are more than 17 years old. If they do not pay, drivers face a maximum £180 fine.\n\nThe by-election took place in Uxbridge and South Ruislip after Boris Johnson decided to step down as an MP last month.\n\nDespite its disappointment in failing to take the outer London constituency, Labour made history by overturning its biggest majority at a by-election since 1945 in Selby and Ainsty.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats won the Somerton and Frome by-election by more than 11,000 votes.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to buy time while he works out how to deal with Yevgeny Prighozin, says the director of the CIA.\n\nMr Prigozhin is the head of the Wagner mercenary group who led a mutiny in Russia a month ago.\n\nThat mutiny exposed significant weaknesses in the system of power Putin has built, CIA head William Burns said.\n\nHe told the Aspen Security Forum that Russia's leader may still seek retribution against Mr Prigozhin.\n\n\"What we are seeing is a very complicated dance,\" the CIA chief said on Thursday.\n\nMr Prigozhin has moved around but had been in the Belarus capital of Minsk recently as well as Russia, he said when asked about a recent video apparently showing the Wagner boss in Belarus.\n\nMr Putin is likely to be trying to buy time as he works out how best to deal with the leader of the Wagner group, Mr Burns added.\n\nThat mercenary group still has value for Russia's leadership in places like Africa, Libya and Syria and so it was likely that Mr Putin would try and separate the group from its leader.\n\nAnd the CIA chief said that Mr Putin may wait to exact revenge.\n\n\"Putin is someone who generally thinks that revenge is a dish best served cold,\" Mr Burns said. \"In my experience, Putin is the ultimate apostle of payback so I would be surprised if Prigozhin escapes further retribution.\"\n\nEarlier this month, US President Joe Biden suggested there was a risk the Wagner boss could be poisoned.\n\n\"If I were he I'd be careful what I ate. I'd keep my eye on my menu,\" the president quipped.\n\nThe CIA director echoed that line saying: \"If I were Prigozhin, I wouldn't fire my food taster.\"\n\nThe intelligence agency did indeed have advance knowledge of the mutiny, Mr Burns said, confirming previous reports.\n\nA senior Russian army general, Sergei Surovikin, who was reported to have known about the Wagner mutiny in advance, also does not currently have \"freedom of movement\", the CIA chief added.\n\nWilliam Burns confirmed the CIA had advanced knowledge of the mutiny\n\nThe mutiny was the most direct assault Mr Putin has seen in his 23 years in power, including by directly challenging the Kremlin's justification for the war in Ukraine, with Mr Prigozhin saying it had been built on lies, Mr Burns said.\n\nHe added that what was most remarkable was that Russia's leader felt compelled to do a deal with a man who used to be his caterer, the CIA chief said.\n\nMr Prigozhin is often referred to as \"Putin's chef\" as he first came to prominence after providing catering services to Mr Putin and the military before founding the Wagner group.\n\nMr Putin has projected an image of himself as the arbiter of order in Russia, and so the 36 hours of the mutiny will have left many in the country with the question of \"whether the emperor had no clothes or at least why is it taking him so long to get dressed\", Mr Burns said.\n\nThis would have resurrected deeper questions in the Russian elite about Mr Putin's judgement, which have been there since his decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nIf Ukraine makes further advances on the battlefield then that could lead more Russians to pay attention to Mr Prigozhin's critique of the war, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt should not come as surprise that Ukraine's counter-offensive was proving a \"hard slog\", the CIA head said, given that offence was harder than defence and the Russians had months to prepare.\n\n\"It is going to take time and it is not going to be easy to make progress. I am however an optimist,\" Mr Burns said.\n\nHe also said that there were signs that Russia might be considering a false flag operation by attacking shipping in the Black Sea and then blaming it on the Ukrainians.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The government borrowed less than expected in June, helped by higher tax receipts and a big drop in debt interest payments.\n\nBorrowing - the difference between spending and tax income - fell to £18.5bn, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIt is £400m lower than last June and below predictions by the government's independent forecaster.\n\nBut the ONS said borrowing is still the third highest for June on record.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) had expected public borrowing to reach £21.1bn.\n\nMeanwhile, the ONS said that borrowing for April and May had been revised down by £7bn.\n\nRuth Gregory, deputy chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt \"now looks likely to have a little more wiggle room in the Autumn Statement to fund a few pre-election giveaways\".\n\nBut she added: \"With the full upward impact on borrowing from higher interest rates and weaker GDP growth still coming down the line, we continue to think any package of pre-election net tax cuts will probably need to be modest or swiftly reversed.\"\n\nMr Hunt said it was important to \"avoid reckless spending\".\n\n\"Now more than ever we need to maintain discipline with the public finances,\" he said.\n\nThe ONS said that the interest paid on government debt hit £12.5bn, below a record £20bn in June last year but still historically high.\n\nSome of the interest that the government pays on its debt is linked to the Retail Prices Index measure of inflation which remains stubbornly high despite a slowdown in June.\n\nThe Bank of England has also been raising its key interest rate since December 2021 to curb rising prices.\n\nTax receipts were stronger than expected in June, at £77.4bn. This was higher than the OBR forecast and £5.6bn more than the same month last year.\n\nOverall, public sector net borrowing between April and June reached £54.4bn - £12.2bn ahead of the comparable period in 2022 but less than the £61.9bn forecast by the OBR.\n\nProviding energy bill support was always going to bump-up public spending, while interest payments on the government's debt have increased too due to higher inflation and interest rates.\n\nBut bigger tax receipts meant a smaller deficit in June than expected.\n\nInflation has meant that there is an increasing number facing higher tax bills, given that the threshold at which different rates of income tax apply aren't being raised in line with the cost of living.\n\nThose receipts also reflect a more resilient economy than some reckoned. Separate official figures showed the volume of retail sales rising by 0.7% in June.\n\nAdd in some revisions to earlier figures, and three months into the financial year the public finances appear on a better track than the official forecasts - leaving some to query if the chancellor may be able to afford modest pre-election tax cuts and meet his own self imposed rules.\n\nPersistent inflation and the risk of a slowdown in activity due to higher interest rates could yet to mean more pressures on the public purse in the months come.\n\nFigures from the ONS on Friday showed that retail sales rose by 0.7% last month.\n\nDepartment stores and furniture retailers said demand was boosted by good weather and summer discounts.", "Edward Weeks was jailed for eight years for raping Tina Lewis\n\nA woman took her own life after she found a video of her partner raping her on his phone.\n\nTina Lewis, 24, was raped by Edward Weeks while she slept at his home in Cwmbran, Torfaen, in December.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard Ms Lewis found footage of the attack on Weeks' phone the following day after he recorded the attack on motion-sensitive cameras set up in his bedroom.\n\nWeeks, 33, was jailed for eight years after admitting rape.\n\nProsecutor Matthew Cobbe described Ms Lewis as \"child-like\" and dependent on Weeks during the course of their five-year on-off relationship.\n\nMs Lewis, who was autistic and described as \"very vulnerable\", stayed at Weeks' home just after Christmas, where he raped her after she fell asleep.\n\nWeeks let Ms Lewis use his phone to play a game the next day when she found the video.\n\nMr Cobbe said it \"was the processes that followed the complaint\" that appeared to have had the most \"extreme impact\" on Ms Lewis.\n\n\"In the weeks that followed she agonised about the process itself but also about the effect it was going to have on the defendant,\" he added.\n\nMs Lewis' sister, Saffron, described the pain of losing her sister in \"such upsetting circumstances\".\n\nShe said Weeks had become Ms Lewis' full-time carer and that she relied on him for many tasks.\n\n\"The effect on our family has been devastating. I have lost my best friend,\" she said.\n\n\"Tina was the greatest inspiration of my life.\"\n\nJulia Cox, for Weeks, said: \"This is a tragic case and nothing that I say in mitigation detracts from that.\"\n\nShe said Weeks was also autistic and described his relationship with Ms Lewis as \"complex\".\n\nWeeks admitted rape and assault by penetration and judge Jeremy Jenkins told him he had committed \"a very wicked act\".\n\nAs well as his prison sentence, Weeks was placed on the sex offender register for life.", "The candidates for the upcoming by-election in Uxbridge and South Ruislip have been announced.\n\nThe by-election was triggered when former Prime Minister Boris Johnson quit ahead of the judgment of the Privileges Committee.\n\nThe election has been confirmed for 20 July.\n\nAll voters are now required to bring photo ID with them to the polling booth.\n\nThese are 17 candidates running in the election (listed alphabetically).\n\nThis page will be updated as we learn more about the candidates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Blaise Baquiche on why he should be the local MP\n\nHe is a former policy adviser to the Conservative Party in the European Union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Danny Beales on why he should be the local MP\n\nA Camden councillor and cabinet member responsible for planning and regeneration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Cameron Bell on why he should be the local MP\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Count Binface on why he should be the local MP\n\nA self-proclaimed interplanetary space warrior, who stood against Boris Johnson in 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Piers Corbyn on why he should be the local MP\n\nA long-term weather forecaster who is the older brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Laurence Fox on why he should be the local MP\n\nAn actor who set up the Reclaim Party in 2020 and came 6th in the 2021 London mayoral election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Steve Gardner on why he should be the local MP\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Ed Gemmell on why he should be the local MP\n\nAn independent councillor in Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire and leader of The Climate Party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Sarah Green on why she should be the local MP\n\nA local campaigner who runs a boat trip business on the Grand Union canal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Kingsley Hamilton on why he should be the local MP\n\nAn independent candidate standing on an anti-ULEZ platform.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Richard Hewison on why he should be the local MP\n\nMr Hewison, an anti-Brexit campaigner, runs a company that offers training courses in the financial sector.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Howling Hope on why he should be the local MP\n\nThe leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: 77 Joseph on why he should be the local MP\n\nKnown formally as Tom Darwood, he is a writer from Southend-on-Sea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Rebecca Jane on why she should be the local MP\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Enomfon Ntefon on why she should be the local MP\n\nMs Ntefon is a nurse who works in Uxbridge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Leo Phaure on why he should be the local MP\n\nAn Uxbridge based father who is a business analyst.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Steve Tuckwell on why he should be the local MP\n\nThe Conservative Party candidate has been a councillor for South Ruislip since 2018.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Charisma.ai is one company that is exploring how AI can be used in storytelling, these characters are part of a demo on how it works\n\nArtificial Intelligence will lead to more jobs in the video game industry, one of the bodies representing games developers has told the BBC.\n\nDr Richard Wilson, boss of TIGA, says AI will \"reduce the cost of making games and speed up the process\".\n\nVideo games have been using forms of artificial intelligence for decades.\n\nBut use of the latest technology in games creation is concerning some who worry that it could cost jobs and create legal issues for studios.\n\nUKIE, another organisation that looks after games companies in the UK, said it recognises there are concerns, but added the developments in this field were an \"exciting opportunity\" for the industry.\n\nEven in the 1980s when players would put their coins into an arcade machine to help Pacman (or Ms Pacman) collect white dots on the screen, it was a type of AI that told the ghosts how to hunt the player down.\n\n\"This is a much simpler form of AI compared with what we're talking about today, but fundamentally the core principles are the same,\" says Dr Tommy Thompson, an AI in games expert.\n\n\"It's helping make intelligent decisions by looking at a snapshot of a game and from that characters can make intelligent judgements on what to do.\"\n\nPac-Man was first released in 1980 and used a more basic form of AI to operate the non-player-characters\n\nBut while AI has been used to influence what happens on screen for years, it could now influence the process of getting games onto screens in the first place.\n\nBeing able to quickly create hundreds of pages worth of scripts, voice background characters or draw thousands of pieces of art could be a game changer for the industry according to some senior figures.\n\n\"It should allow games studios to make routine aspects of game development automated, and then use that space to be more creative and focus on other areas,\" Dr Wilson says.\n\n\"Reducing the overall cost of development will mean more games studios which should, therefore, mean more jobs.\"\n\nGuy Gadney, one of the co-founders of Charisma.ai, a technology platform that allows generative AI techniques to be used in games, thinks it will give makers a new way of telling stories.\n\nIt all comes down to how computer-controlled characters can interact with the player.\n\nInstead of a handful of pre-prepared lines that are regurgitated to players at random, AI can allow for characters like these to 'think' and respond more intelligently depending on the story that has been written for them and the behaviour of the player.\n\nThe Kraken Wakes is an example of a Charimsa.ai game that uses AI to control non-playable-characters\n\nHe explains: \"In games, players are often running through the three-dimensional environment, we want people to stop and engage more.\n\n\"We want players to have deep dives in moments, where they sit and have natural conversations with characters. Previously this happened by giving you four conversation choices on screen, which is very limiting, it's only an illusion of choice. We want more than that.\"\n\nFor Guy Gadney unlocking the potential of non-playable-characters will change how games tell stories, by allowing players to interact with what's in front of them differently to how they do it now. Charisma.ai is also working with companies like Warner, Dreamworks and Sky about how this technology might also work in other forms of storytelling.\n\nThis week BBC News is focussing on AI, how the technology affects our lives and what impacts it may have in the near future.\n\nDr Tommy Thompson, who also has a dedicated YouTube channel for AI in gaming, is excited about the potential of the technology. But he also warns that the industry needs to be cautious.\n\nHe says using widely available, open access AI tools in their current form in games \"is not practical\" for studios.\n\n\"Who owns the copyright? With image generation for example, there's several ongoing lawsuits where people are asking if their art was used as the basis for image creation, and was appropriate consent given?\n\n\"If you're generating assets for your game using some AI platforms then you don't own any of that copyright on a legal basis. If you were to ship that game anyone could use those assets and put them in another game and there'd be zero legal basis to stop them. The law will say, 'well, actually you didn't own copyright.'\"\n\nSome games studios are creating their own AI platforms to get around these issues, but that is time-consuming and expensive. For small games companies who might be drawn to open source AI tools, the risks outweigh the benefits at the moment, according to Dr Thompson.\n\n\"I think it is important that we step back and look at the larger implications of this,\" he says.\n\n\"It is not something that's going to get solved overnight. That isn't to say that generative AI tools aren't being used internally in studios in new and really interesting ways, but I don't think it's going to be the Nirvana that people are imagining.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Daniel Wood, UKIE co-CEO, said: \"The video games industry is always at the cutting edge of technology so we are already using AI in many areas including production, art, interaction with in-game characters and community management to create even more exciting and engaging experiences for our players.\n\n\"Whilst UKIE and the wider industry will continue to look at topics such as copyright and the fast-changing skills needs of games businesses, the future possibilities of AI promise a lot of exciting opportunities for our sector.\"\n\nFor more gaming stories listen to Press X to Continue on BBC Sounds.", "The Conservatives have suffered two heavy defeats, but have narrowly held on to former PM Boris Johnson's old Uxbridge seat, after a night of three dramatic by-election results.\n\nIn Somerton and Frome the Lib Dems overturned a majority of more than 19,000, with a 29% swing.\n\nAnd Labour made history, overturning a 20,137 majority to take the North Yorkshire seat of Selby and Ainsty.\n\nBut it was disappointed as the Tories clinched Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nDespite a 6.7% swing to Labour, the Tories managed to capitalise on local anger over the the planned expansion of the Ulez Ultra Low Emissions Zone to outer London under Labour mayor Sadiq Khan, winning the seat by just 495 votes.\n\nIt meant Rishi Sunak was spared the prospect of being the first prime minister for 55 years to lose three by-elections in one day.\n\nHowever, it was still a bruising night for the Tories, who are trailing Labour in the national polls ahead of an expected general election next year.\n\nOn a visit to Uxbridge, Mr Sunak said the Tory victory there showed the next general election was not a \"done deal\" and he vowed to \"double down\" on his priorities, including halving inflation and stopping small boats crossing the Channel.\n\nIn Selby and Ainsty, Labour managed to achieve a 23.7% swing and broke the record for the largest Conservative majority it had overturned at a by-election since 1945.\n\nKeir Mather, 25, will become the youngest MP in the House of Commons, after he secured 16,456 votes compared to Conservative candidate Clare Holmes's 12,295.\n\nThe safe Conservative seat, which is largely rural, had been held by the party since its creation in 2010.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment Labour wins the seat for Selby and Ainsty\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"This is a historic result that shows that people are looking at Labour and seeing a changed party that is focused entirely on the priorities of working people with an ambitious, practical plan to deliver.\"\n\nMr Mather said his party had \"rewritten the rules on where Labour can win\".\n\nHe said voters were \"extremely frustrated\" at the way the area's previous Tory MP had stood down but that the cost-of-living crisis was the top issue on the doorstep.\n\nThe resignation of Mr Johnson's ally Nigel Adams came after he was not included in the former prime minister's honours list - although he has not said this was why he quit.\n\nIn Somerton and Frome Lib Dem Sarah Dyke, a Somerset councillor with a farming background, secured a dramatic victory, winning 21,187 votes, while Conservative Faye Purbrick trailed in second with 10,179 votes.\n\nIn her victory speech Ms Dyke thanked \"lifelong Conservative voters\" who had voted Lib Dem for the first time, as well as Labour and Green supporters who had \"lent\" their votes.\n\nShe said the public had been \"let down and taken for granted for far too long\" by the Conservatives, with the government \"too busy being a circus of chaos\".\n\nThe by-election was triggered by the resignation of former Tory MP David Warburton, following allegations of drug-taking and sexual misconduct.\n\nMr Warburton, who had held Somerton and Frome since 2015, resigned as an MP last month, admitting he had taken cocaine but denying the claims of sexual harassment.\n\nMs Dyke accused Mr Warburton, who was suspended from the Conservative parliamentary party last April, of being an \"absent\" MP and said people had been \"left without a voice in Parliament for far too long\".\n\nSouth-west England was a former stronghold for the Lib Dems until their near wipe-out in 2015 after they went into coalition with the Tories.\n\nHowever, last year they overturned a majority of more than 24,000 in the Tiverton and Honiton by-election to win the Devon seat, and they also took control of Somerset Council from the Tories.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the \"stunning victory shows the Liberal Democrats are firmly back in the West Country\" and that the public are \"fed up with Rishi Sunak's out-of-touch Conservative government\".\n\nIt is the party's fourth by-election gain since 2019, although this has not translated into major advances in national polls.\n\nDeputy leader Daisy Cooper told the BBC there were around 15 seats with smaller majorities than Somerton and Frome in the West Country, which the Lib Dems would be targeting at the next general election.\n\nPressed on whether the Lib Dems could still persuade Labour supporters to lend their votes in a general election, Ms Cooper said: \"It has been done in a general election [before] and we hope very much we can do at the next general election as well.\"\n\nLabour had hoped to deliver a triple by-election defeat for the Tories by taking the west London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, which had a majority of 7,210.\n\nBut Conservative Steve Tuckwell edged ahead in a closely fought contest which saw Conservative and Labour votes recounted.\n\nMr Tuckwell, who opposed the Ulez expansion, made the issue central to his campaign, with activists saying it was raised frequently by voters on the the doorstep.\n\nLabour's Danny Beales, who came second with 13,470 votes compared to Mr Tuckwell's 13,965, had sought to distance himself from the policy, arguing it was not the right time to expand the charge amid a cost-of-living crisis.\n\nHowever, the Tories highlighted how the expansion of the daily charge for cars which fail to meet emissions standards to outer London was the policy of a Labour mayor.\n\nSteve Tuckwell is a councillor in Hillingdon - and is the new MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip\n\nIn his victory speech, new MP Mr Tuckwell said Mr Khan's \"damaging and costly Ulez policy\" lost Labour the seat.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the Uxbridge result was related to Ulez and showed that \"when you don't listen to voters you don't win elections\".\n\n\"There is a concern that we have to make sure that whatever is implemented is not at the cost of working families,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nMs Rayner added that cities needed clean air but people who had to replace polluting vehicles also needed \"proper compensation and support from the government\".\n\nAsked whether she would be urging Mr Khan to drop the policy she said the party would be \"getting round the table\" and would continue to work with the London mayor \"to get a decent scrappage scheme\".\n\nConservative Party chairman Greg Hands accused Labour leader Sir Keir of a \"flip-flop approach to politics\", saying he initially backed the Ulez expansion before appearing to change his mind. Sir Keir refused to take a side on the issue in a BBC interview earlier this month.\n\nMr Hands told the BBC his party had \"defied the odds\" by holding on to Uxbridge but blamed Tory voters staying at home for losses in Selby and Somerton, vowing to retake the seats at the next general election.\n\nThe by-election in Uxbridge was triggered by Mr Johnson's resignation, after the former prime minister claimed he was \"forced out\" by an inquiry which found he misled Parliament over lockdown parties at Downing Street.", "Prosecutors say Mr Trump illegally held onto classified files at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida estate\n\nFormer President Donald Trump will go on trial for alleged mishandling of classified documents in spring next year, a court has ruled.\n\nJudge Aileen Cannon set the case for 20 May. Mr Trump had wanted the trial held after the November 2024 election. Prosecutors wanted it this year.\n\nThe high-profile case will begin with the election campaign in full swing.\n\nMr Trump, 77, faces serious charges over the storage of sensitive files at his Florida home.\n\nProsecutors say he illegally kept secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office and obstructed government efforts to retrieve them.\n\nThe former president has maintained his innocence, lambasting the case as an attempt to destroy his election campaign.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Mr Trump said that the trial date is a \"major setback\" to the justice department's \"crusade\" against him.\n\n\"The extensive schedule allows President Trump and his legal team to continue fighting this empty hoax,\" the former president said.\n\nOn Friday, Judge Cannon, a Trump appointee, said the two-week trial would take place in Fort Pierce, Florida.\n\nFor prosecutors to secure a conviction in the Mar-a-Lago case, the jury's decision must be unanimous.\n\nJurors will be selected from around the Fort Pierce division, which includes several counties that Mr Trump won in 2020.\n\nThe former president pleaded not guilty to 37 federal counts during an arraignment in Miami last month.\n\nLawyers for both sides argued in the Fort Pierce court earlier this week over when the case should be held.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How much do you know about classified documents?\n\nProsecutors said the evidence was not complicated and there was no need to delay the trial. They wanted it to begin in December.\n\nBut lawyers for Mr Trump had argued that the \"extraordinary\" nature of the case required more time to prepare.\n\nThey said their client could not get a fair trial before the November 2024 election.\n\nOpinion polls indicate Mr Trump is the runaway front-runner in the race to become the Republican party candidate who will challenge the Democratic nominee, in all likelihood President Joe Biden, next year.\n\nThe Mar-a-Lago case is one of several legal challenges Mr Trump is facing.\n\nIn April, he was charged with falsifying business records in the state of New York.\n\nMr Trump announced this week that he expected to be arrested soon in connection with a federal inquiry into the US Capitol riot two years ago and his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.\n\nState prosecutors in Atlanta, Georgia, are also investigating whether the former president broke the law with his attempts to overturn the poll results in that state three years ago.\n\nDepartment of Justice-appointed special counsel Jack Smith is leading twin investigations into the Capitol riot and the Mar-a-Lago files.\n\nIn an indictment last month, his prosecutors alleged that when Mr Trump left office, he took about 300 classified documents to his oceanfront home in Palm Beach.\n\nThey say he stored the sensitive documents in several spaces, including a ballroom and a bathroom.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Mr Trump also told a personal aide, Walt Nauta, to move boxes containing classified files from a storage room at the resort before federal investigators came to look for them.\n\nMr Nauta is also charged in the case and has pleaded not guilty.\n\nIn New York, Mr Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for the alleged concealment of hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.\n\nThe former president faces a trial in that case on 25 March 2024.", "Cambodia was set up to be a democracy in the 1990s but its strongman leader Hun Sen has refused to give up control\n\nA few years ago, Cambodia's ruler launched the most ruthless crackdown of his career to annihilate his opponents.\n\nFacing popular opposition, Hun Sen used the courts to dismantle the political party threatening his rule. Ranks of MPs were thrown out of parliament while the leaders were arrested.\n\nHaving crushed his rivals, he cruised to victory six months later at the 2018 election, winning all 125 seats in Cambodia's parliament.\n\nFor voters heading to the polls again this Sunday - it's déjà vu with their only alternative banned.\n\n\"It's a rigged election because there are no real strong opposition parties,\" one voter, an aid worker in Phnom Penh, told the BBC.\n\nHun Sen, now 70, has ruled Cambodia since 1985. A former Khmer Rouge official who defected to Vietnam before the regime's fall, his survivalist grip on power has led to his boast that he is the world's longest-serving prime minister.\n\nFor nearly 40 years, he has consolidated power through a network of interests, including the military, police and intelligence groups.\n\nHe has seen off opponents over the years by co-opting, jailing, exiling or otherwise side-lining them.\n\nThe UN set Cambodia up to be a democracy in the 1990s after the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime. But political analysts say it's now an authoritarian one-party state, and Hun Sen is by most standards, a dictator.\n\n\"I feel hopeless for the current situation,\" the voter in Phnom Penh said. A decade ago in his early 20s, he had voted for the opposition, impassioned by thoughts of change.\n\nBut Hun Sen crushed that movement. These days there is fear around criticising the government at election time.\n\nCambodia remains one of the poorest countries in Asia - and locals are struggling with fuel prices and stagnant wages. Corruption is endemic, public accountability weak. Land grabs and rising crime make life even more intolerable.\n\nBut everyone knows that in Sunday's vote, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) will win again.\n\n\"This will lead to no representative voices in parliament that can speak about the problems of the people, who can protect the interests of the people,\" the voter said.\n\n\"That's why the people have remained silent this time around.\"\n\nHun Sen has flagged he will hand over to his son some time after this election. When he'll let go, no one knows, but he has become increasingly erratic, repressive and vindictive as his era nears an end, experts say.\n\nHun Sen, seen in the late 1980s (L) and in 2023 (R), has been in power 38 years\n\nFor this year's election, he strung the only credible opposition along for months before banning them.\n\nThe Candlelight Party emerged last year from the ashes of the former opposition. Despite widespread intimidation and evidence of tampering, they won 22% of the vote at local commune elections last year.\n\nThat to Hun Sen was intolerable. So he \"suffocated Candlelight\" well in advance of them becoming a significant threat, says Lee Morgenbesser, an expert on dictators at Australia's Griffith University who has monitored Hun Sen for years.\n\nAfter threatening Candlelight leaders with lawsuits in February, Hun Sen banned the party in May - getting the electoral office to disqualify the party on a technicality.\n\nThere are 17 other parties on the ballot but they are so small or aligned with the ruling party as to be inconsequential.\n\n\"We put our heart and resources into organising and running our campaign, we were fielding candidates in every seat,\" a Candlelight representative told the BBC this week.\n\n\"To be disqualified in the final stretch due to an administrative requirement that had never existed before - he just changed the rules in the middle of the game.\"\n\nThe BBC has spoken with a few Candlelight leaders this year. But it has become increasingly dangerous for them - with many arrested in recent weeks. Two leaders were captured in Thailand last week by Thai police, as they tried to flee to the UN's refugee office in Bangkok.\n\nCambodia's elections - despite decades of international help - have always been marred by violence and irregularities.\n\nBut until the 2018 election, they were still considered competitive. Opposition parties could view the ballot box as offering a genuine path to power even if that path ran steeply uphill, writes Associate Prof Morgenbesser.\n\nHowever in late 2017 Hun Sen grew alarmed by a strengthened and united opposition. An alliance known as the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), led by two veterans Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, shocked him when they captured 44% of the national vote in 2013.\n\nAt one point that night, the CNRP looked to have even pulled ahead of the CPP - prompting the government to pull the live feed of the vote count on televisions all across the country.\n\nCambodians had felt regime change within their grasp - with tens of thousands turning out to rallies that year.\n\n\"The political energy, triumphant and wild, was palpable on the streets, especially among youth,\" says analyst Astrid Noren Nillson, who was in Phnom Penh in 2013.\n\nThe opposition led protests for months afterwards, contesting Hun Sen's victory. Facing the biggest challenge to his power to date, he gave up some powers and negotiated his way to a truce.\n\nThe opposition CNRP party led mass protests after the 2013 election\n\nBut in 2017, when the CNRP challenged again at local elections, he didn't hold back.\n\nHe used the CPP-controlled parliament to pass a law to dissolve any party on security grounds. Then he used his new powers to get the Supreme Court to disband the CNRP.\n\nAbout 100 CNRP members were prosecuted, prompting several senior party figures to flee into exile.\n\nHun Sen also went after other democratic institutions - forcing newspapers like The Cambodia Daily to shut down and expelling rights groups and US Peace Corps volunteers. The international community was shocked by the crackdown, \"whose scope and severity was without precedent\" describes Associate Prof Morgenbesser.\n\nThe US launched sanctions in 2019 against senior Cambodia officials, and the EU trade sanctions in 2020, for alleged abuses. But Hun Sen remained indifferent, having retained China's support.\n\nThere is a clear dividing line in Cambodia before 2017-18, when politics was competitive, and nowadays, says Dr Noren Nillson, who is in Phnom Penh again this week.\n\nOne Western diplomat, who didn't want to be named, told the BBC: \"Everyone is pretty depressed, dispirited. Pretty much from the first of January - as soon as he handed over the Asean chairmanship - he leapt into gear with this new wave of crackdowns.\"\n\nFirst, Hun Sen went after the Candlelight leadership, threatening criminal charges like \"incitement\", and seizing the home of a party elder accused of insulting his party.\n\nIn March, the courts jailed former CNRP leader Kem Sokha for 27 years on what the US said was a \"fabricated conspiracy\". The punitive sentence was condemned by several Western embassies and the UN human rights commissioner.\n\nHun Sen also shut down the remaining free press outlet Voice of Democracy, and threatened de-registration of NGOs.\n\nPolice arrived at Voice of Democracy's Phnom Penh newsroom in February to stop them operating\n\nAnd throughout, he has kept up his intimidation and harassment campaign.\n\nAnalysts say Hun Sen's playbook is well known. He targets people with bribes and payoffs, promising government jobs and land. There have been a wave of defections this year, from not just Candlelight, but trade unions and farmer groups.\n\nWhen he doesn't succeed in co-opting, he aims to crush them, says Associate Prof Morgenbesser.\n\nHun Sen will issue threats in his public speeches, warning opponents they will be beaten up if they incur his wrath. He regularly drops the names of the people he's displeased with in wildly lengthy statements on social media.\n\nIn March and April, Candlelight members reported public assaults by masked men. This week, Human Rights Watch reported the government had intensified harassment and arbitrary arrests of party members.\n\nIn villages, CPP agents have gone around buying votes and threatening voters who can't be bought. \"They've gone door to door,\" one person in Phnom Penh told the BBC.\n\nAnalysts have also noted the sweep of electoral laws rushed through in recent weeks. With Candlelight now out of the vote, Hun Sen is obsessed with deflecting criticism of the poll that could be shown through low voter turn-out or high levels of spoiled ballots.\n\nIt's now illegal to advocate for a boycott, and spoiling a ballot risks a 20 million riel ($,5000; £3,800) fine. To stand for future office in Cambodia, you must also vote in this year's poll or be ruled out of future races.\n\nInitially Candlelight had been torn about what to do after it was disqualified in May. Some leaders called for supporters to take to the streets. From exile Sam Rainsy called for an election boycott.\n\nThe messaging was confused from what is these days a diminished, rag-tag opposition. \"To use a sporting analogy, we're all third or fourth-string players who are left now,\" an insider told the BBC.\n\nCandlelight ultimately chose to bunker down to keep its flame alive.\n\n\"We will try and survive the next two or three months... after that we will rebuild again,\" he said.\n\nLike everyone else, Candlelight are looking to a time when Hun Sen will be gone.\n\n\"And by gone, we mean dead,\" says the Western diplomat.\n\n\"We are doing what we can to support what there is of the civic space that is left, but there's a view where everyone's just sort of looking towards a post-Hun Sen Cambodia.\"\n\nThere is some hope things could improve when Hun Manet, his Western-educated son who commands the army, takes over.\n\n\"I don't think he's the great democratic saviour of Cambodia, but I think he is reform-minded and will want to improve relations with the West,\" the diplomat said.\n\nHun Sen is expected to control the strings even when Hun Manet (pictured) takes office\n\nOthers are frank about their fears over dynastic rule. \"We're a democracy,\" one voter told the BBC. \"From father to son - that's not very democratic, is it?\"\n\nExperts also warn against placing false hope in the sons of dictators, noting how other family regimes have played out. The apple rarely falls far from the tree, Associate Prof Morgenbesser says.\n\nSo is there still hope for Cambodian democracy?\n\nHe says there's always hope - inside people.\n\n\"What the Cambodian people think about Hun Sen or the ruling party is not being expressed publicly any more. So what they think in private, they don't say in public.\"", "Beethoven, who suffered from several ailments, had asked for his body to be studied\n\nA US businessman has donated fragments of what is believed to be Ludwig van Beethoven's skull to a Vienna university for study.\n\nPaul Kaufmann said he felt \"very privileged to be able to return the Beethoven skull fragments, which I inherited, to where they belong\".\n\nAn Austrian coroner said the fragments, which have already been studied in the US, had \"great value\".\n\nThe composer suffered ill health all his life and died in the city in 1827.\n\nThe businessman said he found the fragments in 1990, in a small box with \"Beethoven\" scratched on it inside a family safety deposit box held by a French bank.\n\nIt is thought that Mr Kaufmann's great-great-uncle Franz Romeo Seligmann, a Viennese doctor, received the fragments in 1863 after Beethoven's bones were exhumed for study.\n\nThere are 10 fragments in total, including two bigger pieces - one from the back of the head and one from the right side of the forehead.\n\nMr Kaufmann shows the fragments to journalists at the Medical University of Vienna\n\nThe Rector of Vienna's Medical University, Markus Mueller, said that it was of paramount importance to handle the remains in an ethically responsible way.\n\n\"It's about finding the right balance between understandable public interest and respect for a deceased person,\" he said.\n\nAustrian coroner Christian Reiter said the fragments were \"really valuable material\" that they hoped to continue to research over the coming years. \"That was Beethoven's wish too,\" he added.\n\nBeethoven, was born in Bonn in December 1770 and died on 27 March 1827. He had suffered ill health for much of his life and reportedly explicitly asked for his body to be studied after his death.\n\nEarlier this year, researchers led by Cambridge University analysed five locks of hair to sequence the composer's genome and revealed that Beethoven had a likely genetic predisposition to liver disease and suffered a hepatitis B infection months before his death.\n\nHe first began suffered hearing loss around 1795, a condition that worsened throughout his years and was exacerbated by severe tinnitus, leading him to be functionally deaf by 1818.", "Sir Elton John, Carole King and Hilary Clinton were among those paying tribute to Bennett (pictured in 2017)\n\nTony Bennett was \"singing at his piano\" just days before he died, his representatives have revealed.\n\nThe legendary New York pop and jazz singer died on Friday aged 96.\n\nA statement posted on his Twitter account said: \"Tony left us today but he was still singing the other day at his piano and his last song was Because of You, his first #1 hit.\n\n\"Tony, because of you we have your songs in our heart forever.\"\n\nSir Elton John, Carole King and Hilary Clinton were among those paying tribute to the star on social media.\n\nBennett was known for songs such as The Way You Look Tonight, Body and Soul and (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco.\n\nHe also collaborated with star performers from Lady Gaga to Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra, who called him \"the best singer in the business\".\n\nDuring a career that spanned eight decades, Bennett sold millions of records and won 20 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award.\n\nBennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016\n\nBennett's death was confirmed by his publicist Sylvia Weiner in a statement to the Associated Press.\n\nShe said he died in his hometown of New York. No specific cause of death was announced, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016.\n\nSir Elton John led the tributes on social media, writing in a statement posted on his Instagram that he was \"so sad to hear of Tony's passing\".\n\n\"Without doubt the classiest singer, man, and performer you will ever see,\" Sir Elton said. \"He's irreplaceable. I loved and adored him. Condolences to Susan, Danny and the family.\"\n\nThe White House released a statement saying that \"Tony Bennett didn't just sing the classics - he himself was an American classic\" and praising his enduring contributions to American life.\n\nFormer US first lady Hillary Clinton described Bennett as a \"true talent, a true gentleman, and a true friend\". She tweeted: \"We'll miss you, Tony, and thanks for all the memories.\"\n\nSinger Carole King said: \"RIP Tony Bennett. Such a big loss. Deepest sympathy to his family and the world.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Bennett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement to Rolling Stone, singer Billy Joel said: \"Tony Bennett was the one of the most important interpreters of American popular song during the mid to late 20th Century.\n\n\"He championed songwriters who might otherwise have remained unknown to many millions of music fans. His was a unique voice that made the transition from the era of Jazz into the age of Pop.\n\n\"I will always be grateful for his outstanding contribution to the art of contemporary music. He was a joy to work with. His energy and enthusiasm for the material he was performing was infectious. He was also one of the nicest human beings I've ever known.\"\n\nDirector Martin Scorsese added: \"Tony Bennett was a consummate artist. All you have to do is listen to any one of his hundreds of recordings to recognise that.\n\n\"Very early on, his music quietly wove itself into the fabric of our lives. His voice felt as familiar and as close as the voices of our loved ones. I know that this was true for millions of people around the world.\"\n\nBennett (pictured in 2003) won 19 competitive Grammys as well as an additional lifetime achievement award\n\nBorn Anthony Dominick Benedetto, to a family of Italian immigrants, Bennett was just nine years old when his father died, plunging the family further into poverty.\n\nAs a teenager he became a singing waiter before enrolling to study music and painting at New York's School of Industrial Art.\n\nHe was drafted into the US army in 1944 to fight in France and Germany towards the end of World War Two. \"It's legalised murder,\" he said of the scarring experience in an interview with the Guardian in 2013.\n\nAfter returning home, his singing career continued - first under the name Joe Bari - and his breakthrough came in 1951 the song Because of You, which gave him first number one.\n\nHe changed his name to the Americanised Tony Bennett on the say so of fellow entertainer Bob Hope.\n\nBennett soon became a teenage icon, releasing his first album in 1952. The same year his wedding was besieged by female fans in mourning.\n\nHe went on to chart in the US in every subsequent decade of his life, building a reputation for making timeless swinging jazz-inflected pop hits - like Blue Velvet and Rags to Riches - and, later, show tunes and big band numbers.\n\nBennett pictured performing with singer KD Lang in New York in 2002\n\nHis 1962 version of a song from the previous decade, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, sent his star into an even bigger orbit, winning him two Grammys.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs about his love of the excitement of jazz he said: \"Jazz artists live for the moment.\"\n\nBennett was a supporter of the civil rights movement and took part in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches while also refusing to perform in apartheid-era South Africa.\n\nHowever, with the arrival of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones into the US, as the decade rolled on his relevance faded.\n\nPersonal problems followed, including the end of two marriages and drug addiction.\n\nHe performed through the pain, recording two records with pianist Bill Evans.\n\nAfter hiring his son Danny to become his manager and reuniting with his pianist and musical director Ralph Sharon, his fortunes began to change.\n\nHe enjoyed a revival in the 1980s and 1990s, when Grammy awards flooded in for the star, then in his sixties.\n\nHis 1986 comeback album, The Art of Excellence, got the ball rolling again for the star who had returned to New York from Las Vegas.\n\nBennett, pictured on the BBC Breakfast show in 2010, became the torchbearer for the Great American Songbook, releasing more than 70 albums in total\n\nHe followed it with the chart-topping Perfectly Frank, a tribute to his musical hero Sinatra, before 1994's MTV Unplugged saw Bennett win the Grammy for album of the year.\n\nIn an interview with the Independent in 2008, Bennett said he had not been surprised by his renewed success.\n\n\"Good music is good music,\" he said. \"I'm not concerned with whether someone who listens to me is old or young. In fact, in many ways, I'm not interested in the young at all.\n\n\"I'm interested in age. People learn to live properly when they get of an age, you know? The late Duke Ellington once said to me that he was really offended by the word category.\n\n\"Music has no category; it's either good or it isn't, and I sing good songs, great songs, written by the best songwriters. It's that kind of quality that makes them last. Trust me, people will be singing these songs forever.\"\n\nBennett remained perpetually cool enough to win over new legions of fans.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by tonybennettVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe collaborated with a host of younger artists - who adored him - including Amy Winehouse, Queen Latifah and Carrie Underwood on the follow-up to 2006's Duets: An American Classic, which had earlier seen him sing with Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and George Michael.\n\nin 2014, his joint album with Lady Gaga, Cheek to Cheek, made him the oldest living act to reach the top of the US charts, at 88, breaking his own previous record.\n\nGaga described the results of working with the \"legend\" as \"the most important album of my career.\"\n\nShortly after his 90th birthday he told the New York Times: \"I could have retired 16 years ago, but I just love what I'm doing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gaga inspired Bennett so much that he went backstage to meet her after a concert to line up his next collaboration\n\nIn 2021, five years after his 2016 Alzheimer's diagnosis, Bennett performed his final shows alongside Gaga, with whom, for younger fans, he became closely associated.\n\nHe posted on social media at the time: \"Life is a gift - even with Alzheimer's.\"\n\nAway from music, as a keen painter, Bennett had his work displayed in galleries. He also founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in his hometown Queens.\n\nHe is survived by four children: Danny, Dae, Joanna and Antonia, as well as his wife Susan Crow.\n\nPaying tribute to the singer, musician Nile Rogers said \"My most heartfelt condolences go out to Tony Bennett's family and friends.\"\n\nSinger Ozzy Osbourne said he was \"very sad to hear about Tony Bennett's passing,\" while Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards posted a 2015 photo of himself with the singer and wrote: \"May you Rest in Peace, Tony Bennett.\"\n• None Tony Bennett: 'The best singer in the business'", "Lisa Franchetti is on track to be the first woman to head one of the US military branches\n\nUS President Biden has chosen a female admiral to lead the US Navy - the first time a woman has been nominated to head a Pentagon military service branch.\n\nLisa Franchetti is a former head of the US 6th Fleet and US naval forces in South Korea, and has also served as an aircraft carrier strike commander.\n\nHer nomination by Mr Biden must still be confirmed by the US Senate.\n\nOne lawmaker is currently blocking the Senate from confirming military leaders to protest a military abortion policy.\n\nIf confirmed as Chief of Naval Operations she will be the first woman to become a member of the elite group of senior military officers who make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\n\nA 38-year veteran, she was only the second woman to achieve the rank of four-star admiral.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Biden hailed what he called her \"extensive expertise in both the operational and policy arenas\" and said she \"will again make history\" when she is confirmed for the role.\n\nAccording to reports in US media, Adm Franchetti was not the first choice of the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, who instead recommended TOPGUN graduate Samuel Paparo as the next Navy chief.\n\nMr Biden also promoted Adm Paparo, nominating him to become the commander of the US military forces in the Pacific.\n\nThe US Coast Guard is currently led by a woman - Admiral Linda Fagan - but that military branch falls under the Department of Homeland Security rather than the Department of Defense.\n\nAdm Franchetti is due to take up the position in the fall when the current chief's four-year term expires. But she will begin the job in an acting capacity, as it's unlikely that she will be quickly confirmed by the divided senate.\n\nAlabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville is currently blocking the senate from confirming more than 270 military promotions over a Pentagon policy that pays the travel expenses of service members who have to go out of state to have an abortion.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Biden criticised the senator, saying \"what Senator Tuberville is doing is not only wrong—it is dangerous\".\n\nHe added: \"He is risking our ability to ensure that the United States Armed Forces remain the greatest fighting force in the history of the world. And his Republican colleagues in the Senate know it.\"", "Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth\n\nThe Lord Chancellor has asked the Parole Board to reconsider its decision to allow child killer Colin Pitchfork to be released from prison.\n\nPitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two teenage girls in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.\n\nLord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said it was \"absolutely vital\" dangerous offenders were kept behind bars.\n\nHe said there was an arguable case the board's decision was irrational.\n\nPitchfork became the first murderer to be convicted using DNA evidence.\n\nHe was jailed for a minimum of 30 years in 1988 for the murder of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.\n\nThis was later reduced to 28 years for good behaviour.\n\nDawn Ashworth and Lynda Mann were raped and murdered by Pitchfork\n\nThe 63-year-old was released from prison in 2021 but was arrested and sent back to prison two months later.\n\nHe was granted parole in June following a hearing held in private in April.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Mr Chalk said: \"My thoughts remain with the families of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, whose lives were changed forever by the heinous crimes of Colin Pitchfork.\n\n\"My number one priority is public protection and after careful assessment I have asked the Parole Board to reconsider their decision to release him.\n\n\"It is absolutely vital that every lawful step is taken to keep dangerous offenders behind bars.\"\n\nThe Lord Chancellor is a senior member of the cabinet and heads the Ministry of Justice.\n\nHis intervention comes after the Conservative MP for South Leicestershire Alberto Costa called for the parole decision to be challenged.\n\nMr Costa said: \"I am very grateful to the justice secretary for listening to me and my constituents by challenging the Parole Board's deeply disappointing decision.\n\n\"Like many, I was aghast at the recent decision.\n\n\"The Parole Board now has a further opportunity to get this decision right and to ensure that Colin Pitchfork stays in prison where he belongs\".\n\nAfter the decision was made public last month, a Parole Board spokesperson said: \"Parole reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care. Protecting the public is our number one priority, however our sole focus in law is risk, not punishment, and must be based on evidence.\n\n\"This case is eligible for reconsideration if any party thinks the decision is irrational or unfair.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Energy prices could spike this winter forcing governments to step in and subsidise bills again, the head of the International Energy Agency has said.\n\nIf the Chinese economy strengthens quickly and there is a harsh winter, gas prices could rise, putting pressure on consumers, Fatih Birol said.\n\nHe added that governments should push for energy-saving and boost renewables.\n\nHowever, a UK government spokesperson said annual energy bills are set to fall by an average £430 this month.\n\nGas prices soared after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, driving up energy bills around the world.\n\nA number of governments then stepped in with support for households, including in the UK, to try to soften the blow to consumers.\n\nThe IEA is an agency that works with governments and industry to provide data, analysis and recommend policies.\n\nMr Birol told the BBC's Today programme that many European governments made \"strategic mistakes\", including an over-reliance on Russia for energy, and that foreign policy had been \"blindfolded\" by short-term commercial decisions.\n\nHe said this winter \"we cannot rule out\" another spike in gas prices.\n\n\"In a scenario where the Chinese economy is very strong, buys a lot of energy from the markets, and we have a harsh winter, we may see strong upward pressure under natural gas prices, which in turn will put an extra burden on consumers,\" he said.\n\nThe Chinese economy had been bouncing back after Covid restrictions were lifted, but recently its economy has been slowing down.\n\nRatings agency S&P Global this week cut its forecast for Chinese growth, saying \"the risk is that its recovery loses more steam amid weak confidence among consumers and in the housing market\".\n\nInvestment banks including Goldman Sachs have also been cutting forecasts for Chinese growth.\n\nNevertheless, Mr Birol said governments including the UK should \"continue to push measures to save energy, especially as we enter the winter\".\n\nThey should also push renewable technologies so they \"see the light of day as soon as possible\" and cut the time it takes for them to get permits, and look for \"alternative energy options\", he said.\n\nHe said he \"wouldn't rule out blackouts\" this winter as \"part of the game\".\n\n\"We do not know yet how strongly the Chinese economy will rebound,\" he said.\n\nNational Grid said last winter that short power cuts were a possibility - in the end, this was not necessary.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"We spent billions to protect families when prices rose over winter covering nearly half a typical household's energy bill, with them set to fall by around £430 on average from this month.\"\n\nDomestic gas and electricity bills in the UK fell at the weekend after a change to the energy price cap came into force, and a further, smaller fall is expected this winter.\n\nHowever, with the annual energy bill of a typical household set to be about £2,000, costs are still much higher than the pre-pandemic norm.\n\nLast week the head of Centrica, which owns British Gas, warned energy bills were likely to stay high for the foreseeable future.\n\nRussia's war in Ukraine led to a \"gold rush\" of new fossil fuel exploration, and the UK defied climate warnings by issuing a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas.\n\nMore than 100 applications have been submitted to drill for new oil and gas in the North Sea.\n\nThis was at odds with international climate scientists who say fossil fuel projects should be closed down, not expanded.\n\nThey say there can be no new projects if there is to be a chance of keeping global temperature rises under 1.5C.\n\nMr Birol said \"if the world is serious\" about the \"climate cause\" then \"we have to reduce the use of oil and gas significantly in the next years to come\".\n\nIf we can reduce consumption, existing oil and gas fields will be enough to meet declining demand, he added.\n\nHe said he has discussions with the chief executives of UK oil companies.\n\nMr Birol said he has \"no problem\" with oil firms making profits, but if they say: \"I am going to increase my production by four million barrels per day, and my company's strategy is in line with the Paris Climate Agreement - it doesn't work, there is a problem here.\"\n\nThe Rosebank field in the North Sea, which has the potential to produce 500 million barrels of oil, could be approved by the government within weeks.\n\nThe UK government said it was \"committed to reaching net zero by 2050 and have already come a long way to meet that target, cutting emissions faster than any other G7 country while keeping the economy growing and with low-carbon sources like renewables and nuclear providing half of the UK's electricity generation\".\n\nBut a spokesperson added \"the transition to cleaner energy cannot happen overnight and we will continue to need oil and gas over the coming decades, as recognised by the independent Climate Change Committee\".\n\nEmma Pinchbeck, the chief executive of Energy UK, which represents British energy companies, told the BBC's Today programme that the long-term solution to high bills \"is to invest in renewables and energy efficiency to make sure that we're not reliant on volatile international gas\".\n\n\"We expect that investment in more infrastructure in renewables and energy efficiency and alternative technologies to deliver cheaper bills in the long run... and that's why it's so important that we move quickly, particularly with increased international competition for these technologies.\"\n\nHere are some energy saving ideas from environmental scientist Angela Terry, who set up One Home, a social enterprise that shares green, money-saving tips:\n\nAre you struggling to pay your energy bills? Are you concerned about a potential spike in prices this winter? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Israeli army has launched a massive military operation on the Jenin camp in the north of the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe Palestinian Health Ministry said at least three Palestinians were killed and more than 20 others wounded in the ongoing raid.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were striking \"terrorist infrastructure in the Jenin area\".\n\nFootage from the area shows smoke rising over Jenin.", "Léon Gautier took part in the D-Day landings during World War Two\n\nThe last surviving member of a French commando unit that took part in the Normandy landings during World War Two has died at the age of 100.\n\nLéon Gautier served with the Fusiliers Marins Commando - the only unit of Free French troops to go ashore during D-Day on 6 June 1944.\n\nMr Gautier later called war a \"misery\" that \"ends with widows and orphans\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron described Mr Gautier and his comrades as \"heroes of the Liberation\".\n\n\"We will not forget him,\" Mr Macron wrote on Twitter.\n\nRegional Mayor Romain Bail described Mr Gautier as \"a local hero whom everybody knew\" and who was \"an ardent defender of freedom\".\n\nMr Gautier was born in Rennes, in France's north-western Brittany region, and enlisted in the French navy as a teenager soon after World War Two began, as he was too young to enter the army.\n\nHe escaped to Britain in 1940 before Adolf Hitler's forces swept through much of western Europe, including France.\n\nIn London, Mr Gautier joined the Free France movement, which maintained a government-in-exile and military that coordinated with the Allies against Nazi Germany.\n\nHe fought in Congo, Syria and Lebanon, before joining a unit of marine riflemen known as the Kieffer commandos, which trained in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nDuring the Battle for Normandy, more than half of his unit of 177 Free French were killed.\n\nThe D-Day landings by the Allied forces of the US, UK and Canada began an attack that lasted for 11 months. It eventually led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the liberation of occupied Europe.\n\nMr Gautier posed with current members of France's Commando Marine at a D-Day memorial event last month\n\nLater in life, Mr Gautier settled in the Normandy port town of Ouistreham, and became a campaigner for peace.\n\n\"Not all that long ago... I would think perhaps I killed a young lad,\" he said in an interview with Reuters news agency in 2019, when he was 96 years old.\n\n\"Perhaps I orphaned children, perhaps I widowed a woman or made a mother cry... I didn't want to do that. I'm not a bad man.\"", "For the first time on the NHS in England, premature babies can now routinely be given a drug treatment to prevent blindness, advice says.\n\nInjections of ranibizumab can stop scarring caused by unusual blood-vessel growth in the back of the eye.\n\nIt is an alternative to laser therapy, which is not always suitable for tiny babies at risk of this sight problem affecting the retina of the eye.\n\nRetinopathy of prematurity (ROP) can be avoidable with the right treatment.\n\nAll premature and low-birth-weight babies are screened for it, with eye tests. Up to one in 20 may require treatment to avoid damage that can lead to sight loss.\n\nRanibizumab injections into the eye can block the action of vascular endothelial growth factor, which promotes growth of new blood vessels.\n\nVery high levels can grow abnormal vessels that turn into scar tissue in the retina - the part of the eye that detects light and sends messages to the brain to enable sight.\n\nMillie Swan, from Surrey, was born prematurely at 23 weeks and developed ROP.\n\nWhen she was three months old, the condition became so severe in her left eye she needed urgent treatment to save her sight.\n\nBut when doctors gave her the sedative to prepare her for laser treatment, she did not tolerate it at all, so they could not start the procedure.\n\n\"At this point, we thought she would end up blind in her left eye,\" Millie's mother, Natalie, said, \"but we were lucky enough to get offered this new treatment, which was an injection into the eye.\n\n\"I stayed with her for the procedure. Millie needed to have her eye clamped open but I was used to seeing that happen for her assessments. And the treatment was finished in a couple of minutes. That was much quicker than the laser surgery would have been. After the procedure, Millie spent a couple of days recovering.\n\n\"Millie will be three years old in July and her eyesight is now normal and she enjoys looking at the pictures in her books and aeroplanes in the sky.\n\n\"We feel so lucky that she got to have this procedure and avoided almost certain blindness in that eye - and now other families will be able to benefit from it too.\"\n\nAround 20 babies a year in England might need the drug treatment rather than laser therapy, experts believe.\n\nNHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said: \"The impacts of vision loss can be absolutely devastating, particularly for children and young people, so it's fantastic that this treatment will now give families across the country another life-changing option to help save their child's precious sight.\n\n\"The national rollout of this lifeline treatment for babies who are too poorly to undergo laser therapy is a vital step forward in preventing avoidable vision loss.\"\n\nPeter Bradley, from the premature baby charity Bliss, said: \"It is absolutely brilliant to see this sight-saving treatment being rolled out nationally. Retinopathy of Prematurity affects many babies born premature, and can become very serious.\"", "Former official Sue Gray broke civil service rules after failing to declare contact with Labour over a job offer, the Cabinet Office has said.\n\nMs Gray, who led a probe into lockdown parties in Downing Street, was cleared to work for Labour by Parliament's appointments adviser last week.\n\nIt said she could start as Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff in September.\n\nLabour said all rules were followed and branded the finding a \"political stunt\".\n\nThe party said the Cabinet Office had \"spent weeks wasting time on this Mickey Mouse nonsense\".\"We're looking forward to Sue Gray joining us this September as we continue to show the country that only Labour can build a better Britain,\" a Labour spokesperson said.\n\nLabour said Ms Gray only had one phone call with Sir Keir before she resigned in March, and the conversation did not relate to any government business.\n\nCivil servants - who develop and implement government policies - are expected to be politically impartial.\n\nIn a statement, Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin said the government's inquiry found the code \"was prima facie broken as a result of the undeclared contact between Ms Gray and the leader of the opposition\".\n\nMr Quin said Ms Gray was given the opportunity to make representations but chose not to do so.\n\nHowever, the Cabinet Office cannot impose any retrospective punishments, as Ms Gray is no longer working for the government.\n\n\"The rules and guidance that govern the conduct of civil servants are clear and transparent,\" Mr Quin said. \"It is deeply unfortunate that events have transpired in this way.\"\n\nMs Gray was thrust into the public spotlight last year when she led an investigation into gatherings in government offices during the Covid-19 pandemic, while Boris Johnson was prime minister.\n\nHer report found staff attended events on multiple occasions while the rest of the UK was in lockdown, and partly blamed the leadership in Downing Street.\n\nMr Johnson faced calls to resign following the report, which contributed to the Tory disquiet that led to his downfall as prime minister.\n\nSome Tories had expressed anger that Ms Gray was offered a job as the Labour leader's chief of staff, arguing it undermined the impartiality of her inquiry into lockdown-breaking parties.\n\nLast week, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) said Ms Gray had to wait until September to start her new role with Labour.\n\nMs Gray told Acoba she received a call from Sir Keir in October last year, when he raised the idea of her working for Labour in a senior capacity.\n\nThe committee said it was \"quite normal for individuals to discuss the possibility of new roles before leaving office\" but \"any potential conflict must be declared\".\n\nThe committee said there was no evidence her contact with Labour had impacted her actions in her civil service role or her ability to remain impartial.\n\nHowever, it said there remained \"a potential risk to the perceived impartiality of the civil service that would be exacerbated\" if she took up the job immediately on leaving office.\n\nAs well as a six-month break, the committee also recommended Ms Gray should not be personally involved in lobbying the government on behalf of the opposition for two years from the date she left the civil service.\n\nWith a general election expected next year, Ms Gray will play a key role in helping Labour prepare for government, if it wins power.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice are searching for multiple suspects after a shooting in the US city of Baltimore left two people dead and 28 others injured.\n\nFifteen children were among those wounded when gunfire erupted at a block party in the Brooklyn Homes area of the city on Sunday.\n\nIt is not clear whether the attack was targeted, police said, and officers are hunting for at least two suspects.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday police announced a reward of $28,000 (£22,000) for information on the suspects.\n\nAuthorities said multiple weapons and bullet casings were recovered from the scene of the crime.\n\nPolice have yet to name a suspect, but said a young man who has been seen in footage circulating on social media appearing to pull a semi-automatic weapon from a backpack is one of the suspects.\n\n\"Anyone who had a weapon at the scene will be one of our suspects until we eliminate that they are not,\" said Baltimore Police Department acting commissioner Richard Worley.\n\nThe shooting began at about 00:35 local time (04:35 GMT) in a courtyard between a pair of rowhouses in the south of the city. Investigators spent hours on Sunday combing a large crime scene for evidence.\n\nPolice said 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez died at the scene, while 20-year-old Kylis Fagbemi was pronounced dead at hospital.\n\nThe victims were mostly teenagers, ranging in age from 13 to 19. The others were aged 20, 22, 23, 31 and 32, according to police.\n\nAs of Monday afternoon, seven victims remained in hospital, including four who are in critical condition.\n\nHospital officials said they worked under stressful circumstances with the assailants still at large to treat 19 patients, many of whom were minors and critically injured.\n\nBaltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said his office was dedicating every resource possible to finding those responsible.\n\n\"We will not stop until we find you - and we will find you,\" he said. \"This was a reckless, cowardly act that happened here.\"\n\n\"I hope that with every single breath that you take that you think about the lives that you took and you think about the lives that you impacted here tonight,\" he said.\n\nMr Worley told reporters on Sunday that the block party - an annual community gathering known as \"Brooklyn Day\" - was \"unpermitted\", because police were not warned about it ahead of time.\n\nHe added that officials would examine what actions officers took once they found out about the gathering.\n\nWitnesses said hundreds of people were at the party when the shooting unfolded\n\nWitnesses at the scene said hundreds of people were at the party when the chaotic scene unfolded.\n\nDanny Gonzalez, 57, who is not related to the woman who died in the shooting, told the Washington Post that he heard gunshots from his home and saw young people running away.\n\n\"It was at least 40 or 50 rounds,\" he said, adding that he and his neighbours were no strangers to gunfire in the Maryland port city. \"It's just another killing weekend. This is Baltimore, Murderland.\"\n\nThere have been 140 homicides this year in Baltimore, according to the Baltimore Sun newspaper. In 2022, the city reported more than 300 killings for the eighth year in a row.\n\nLocal authorities said the shooting would result in long-lasting trauma for the community, while Mayor Scott called for stricter gun laws across the US.\n\n\"This is our longest standing public health challenge, and we need to focus on gun violence regardless of where it happens,\" he said on Monday.\n\nThe US has seen more than 330 mass shootings this year, according to the non-profit Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed.", "Turning to why the accuser decided to come forward when the allegations against Spacey first emerged years ago, Patrick Gibbs KC queries whether the news of the claims had any influence.\n\n“Others had come forward,” the complainant told jurors. “I felt it was time to tell the truth. It was the right time, it had been long enough.\n\n“I was thinking about it before. Strength in numbers.”\n\nGibbs asked if it had occurred to the witness he might be able to sue the Hollywood actor.\n\n“No idea,” the complainant says. “Whatever it would be, it wouldn't be enough.”\n\nGibbs asks: “In 2022 you saw a bandwagon and decided to hop on board?\"", "Rioters run as French police officers use tear gas in Paris on 2 July\n\nRiots in France appear to be calming, after five days of violent protests in response to the shooting of teenager Nahel M during a police traffic stop.\n\nSunday night saw violence subside and fewer arrests were made.\n\nHowever, President Emmanuel Macron has asked the interior ministry to keep a \"massive\" police presence on the streets.\n\nOn Monday, mayors called for rallies to be held outside town halls to protest the violence and looting.\n\nIn Nanterre, Nahel's hometown, mayor Patrick Jarry said he was pleased the violence had subsided, but added that \"we shouldn't lose sight of the incident that sparked this situation and the continuing need for justice\".\n\nLater in the afternoon, several hundred people attended a rally in L'Haÿ-les-Roses in support of Vincent Jeanbrun, the mayor whose home was attacked by rioters who fired rockets at his fleeing wife and children, breaking her leg and injuring one of the children. The incident is being treated as attempted murder.\n\nA visibly emotional Mr Jeanbrun said: \"We saw the real faces of the rioters: they are murderers... They wanted to kill my wife and my two young children in their sleep by burning them alive.\"\n\nTo applause, Mr Jeanbrun also said that over the last week \"democracy itself was attacked... We need the majority of people who has so far been silent to say: enough!\"\n\nThe six days of riots have reportedly caused millions of euros worth of damage to public transport in the Paris region, the Ile-de-France transport network said.\n\nWhile Sunday night was far calmer, authorities were careful not to prematurely hail a return to normality on Monday.\n\nBuses and trams in the Paris region will again be halted early on Monday night, while President Macron has asked the ministry of the interior to maintain a \"massive\" police presence across France in order to guarantee a \"return to calm\".\n\nAbout 45,000 officers have been deployed across the country for the past three nights and will be out on the streets again on Monday, interior minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed.\n\nMore than 150 people were arrested on Sunday night, compared with more than 700 the night before.\n\nThere were 297 cars set on fire compared with Thursday's 1,900, while 34 buildings were damaged or set ablaze compared with more than 500 on Thursday.\n\nAt the weekend, the family of Nahel, the teenager who was killed by police, called for the violence to end.\n\nHis grandmother accused rioters of using Nahel's death as an excuse and urged them to stop destroying public goods.\n\nAnother relative told the BBC that the family did not want his death to spark riots, but insisted the law around lethal force at traffic stops must change.\n\nShe also said her \"heart is in pain\" about a GoFundMe page for the family of the police officer who shot Nahel, which as of Monday had raised more than €1.1m (£956,200) and was growing steadily.\n\nThe fundraiser, which was set up by a far-right media commentator, has been criticised by several politicians - but the platform told French newspaper Le Parisien that GoFundMe's terms and conditions were not being broken because the funds are destined for the officer's family and \"not meant for the legal defence of an alleged violent crime\".\n\nA fundraiser for Nahel's family was set up on a different platform and had raised €215,000 (£184,862) on Monday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, French regional authorities are starting to announce financial support measures for looted businesses and hospitality venues.\n\nGrants will be made available for business owners in Marseille and funding in the Paris region will help to restore the public buildings that were damaged and looted.\n\nBut there are concerns that the spate of violence might have a long-term effect on the tourism sector just as the summer season begins.\n\nFrench media outlet Le Point quoted a tourism official as estimating that up to 25% of hotel bookings in Paris had already been cancelled.\n\nThe regional transport network for Ile-de-France told AFP that €20m in damage was caused to public transport, including \"burned buses, a torched tramway, two damaged tramways and urban infrastructure which was smashed\".\n\nFrançois Rial said that the riots posed \"a real risk\" to the image of France: \"This is true even if the unrest subsides, as many tourists are allergic to risk.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, President Macron will meet the mayors of 220 municipal areas that have been affected by the violence.", "Kevin Spacey was a \"predator\" who would attack one of his accusers when the two were left alone together, a court in London has heard.\n\nThe trial of the actor heard testimony from one of the four men who accuse him of sexual assaults committed in the UK between 2001 and 2013.\n\nThe court heard the man was groped so forcefully on one occasion while driving that he swerved off the road.\n\nMr Spacey has pleaded not guilty to all 12 charges against him.\n\nAs the trial against him heard from its first witness, the 63-year-old sat in the dock of Southwark Crown Court and listened to his accuser detail the alleged abuse, which relates to seven of the charges against him.\n\nJurors were played a recording of the first complainant's police interview, before the man - who has lifelong anonymity under UK law due to the nature of the charges - was questioned in court by Mr Spacey's lawyer.\n\nThe man alleges Mr Spacey assaulted him up to 12 times, saying this happened when they were \"in a car or in a lift, any time when we became alone\".\n\n\"Multiple occasions he would try and grope me,\" he said.\n\nHe said that over a number of years Mr Spacey's behaviour progressed from \"eerie and awkward\" to physical groping and how the actor would \"laugh it off and change the subject\".\n\nThe complainant said Mr Spacey started making him feel awkward a few weeks after they first met, adding: \"Right from the get-go I would say he was grooming me.\"\n\nThe man added that Mr Spacey had told him he could introduce him to A-list celebrities.\n\nWhen Mr Spacey groped him, the complainant said he would make it clear the actor's behaviour was wrong, but he felt Mr Spacey \"was getting more excited by this\".\n\nIf he attended the American actor's south London apartment, Mr Spacey would be \"half-naked, if not naked\" and would \"try to touch me\" before he left, the court heard.\n\nHe said on one occasion Mr Spacey grabbed his crotch while he was driving, forcing him to come off the road.\n\nMr Spacey spent significant periods of time in the UK while serving as the director of the Old Vic theatre in south London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nCross-examining the complainant, defence barrister Patrick Gibbs KC questioned the timing of the alleged incident. The accuser said he was assaulted on the way to Elton John's White Tie and Tiara Ball, an annual charity event held by the singer for a number of years.\n\nThe barrister said it was \"completely untrue\" as Mr Spacey went to the ball once in 2001 - and the complainant said the alleged incident had taken place in the mid-2000s.\n\n\"You'll have to forgive me if I've got the dates wrong, it happened 20 years ago,\" the complainant responded.\n\nThe man said he would be relieved when Mr Spacey went back to the US on trips.\n\n\"I used to dread when he was coming back,\" the complainant told police, adding: \"My heart used to sink.\"\n\nThe complainant said Mr Spacey was \"pretending to be nice\" but was a \"predator\" who was \"aggressive\".\n\nHe described Mr Spacey as a \"slippery, snaking, difficult person\", adding: \"He would tell me he had a troubled childhood. He was a confused man. Didn't know at the time whether he was gay or straight.\"\n\nThe complainant alleged it was \"well-known he [Mr Spacey] was up to no good\" among those associated with the Old Vic theatre and young, good looking people were warned to \"be careful\".\n\nHe said he now cannot bring himself to watch anything featuring the actor and it \"makes me feel sick thinking about that man\".\n\nMr Gibbs asked the man if he found Mr Spacey's behaviour \"a bit exciting\" or \"a bit naughty\", to which he replied that he has a female partner and found it \"distressing\".\n\nAs questioning continued, he said: \"I was ashamed... after the event, yes I was ashamed.\"\n\nHe dismissed a question about his own sexuality as \"ridiculous\" and refuted any suggestion he had solicited attention from Mr Spacey or reciprocated contact.\n\nThe complainant said: \"You're trying to suggest we had something going on which we... a million per cent didn't.\"\n\nThe man said it was \"not true at all\" that he reported the allegations to police because he \"saw a bandwagon coming\" and decided to \"hop on board\".\n\n\"It was the fact that it was in the news and it was all coming back to me. It made me have those feelings that I had then, thinking some others have been brave enough to come forward. It caused me to come forward and tell the truth as well,\" he said.\n\nIn January, Mr Spacey - who is referred to in court proceedings by his full name, Kevin Spacey Fowler - pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nIt is these 12 charges which Mr Spacey is currently on trial for and he continues to deny them.\n\nAll four accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.", "The fire broke out on Sackville Close in King's Hedges, Cambridge, on Friday\n\nAn e-bike was the most probable cause of a fire that killed a mother and her two children, investigators said.\n\nGemma Germeney, 31, died at the scene on Sackville Close in King's Hedges, Cambridge, on Friday.\n\nLilly Peden, eight, and four-year-old Oliver Peden died later in hospital.\n\nCambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze started accidentally and, following an investigation, it was thought the most probable cause was an electric bike that was charging.\n\nA man in his 30s remains in a critical condition.\n\nFamily members who visited the scene said were \"devastated\" by the \"tragic\" deaths.\n\nFlowers and soft toys have been left at the scene since Friday\n\nThe fire service's area commander Stuart Smith said a thorough investigation was carried out over the weekend by police forensic teams, special fire investigators, the fire service and a fire dog.\n\nHe urged anyone with e-bikes and e-scooters to be aware of possible dangers.\n\n\"We know e-bikes and e-scooters are popular modes of personal transport at the moment and we are urging anyone with one to be aware of the potential risks and follow simple precautions to reduce the likelihood of the batteries overheating,\" he said.\n\nMr Smith urged people to check their homes for all potential fire risks.\n\n\"It isn't just e-bikes and e-scooters, we have so many electrical gadgets these days that all require charging,\" he said.\n\n\"People just need to be aware of the risks and put steps in place to ensure they are being charged safely.\"\n\nA fire safety team would be in the Sacksville Close area in the coming days to share advice and offer reassurance, he added.\n\nA e-bike that was charging was thought to be the most likely cause of the fatal fire\n\nHe recommended anyone with concerns about general fire safety to speak to the team or visit the service's website.\n\nA collection of flowers and soft toys have been left at the scene since Friday.\n\nFollowing the fire, the East of England Ambulance Service said an infant from an adjoining property was also taken to hospital for assessment.\n\nThe fire service made a number of safety recommendations related to e-bikes and scooters:\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Petrol and diesel in Northern Ireland is cheaper than in other parts of the UK because of competition from filling stations in the Republic of Ireland, a competition watchdog has suggested.\n\nThe UK's Competition and Markets has been investigating the operation of the UK's road fuel market.\n\nIt found that competition isn't working as well as it should be, driving up prices.\n\nIt has recommendations to help people find the cheapest prices in their area.\n\nThese include a new \"fuel finder\" scheme that would be similar to a fuel price checker provided by the NI Consumer Council which enables consumers to compare the highest, lowest and average petrol and diesel prices in each town in Northern Ireland and is updated on a weekly basis.\n\nHowever, it does not indicate prices for individual filling stations.\n\nThe CMA has recommended that the government uses legislation to create an open data fuel finder scheme.\n\nThis would require retailers to share their prices on an open, real-time basis, meaning that drivers can easily compare prices in any area of the UK.\n\nThe CMA says this would \"increase incentives on retailers to compete hard on price and make it easier for consumers to identify where they are not doing so\".\n\nIt has also recommended a \"fuel monitor function\" within an appropriate public body, to monitor developments in the market, both nationally and locally.\n\nAs part of its investigation the CMA looked at the extent to which average prices vary by region, and compared them to London, which it used as a baseline.\n\nOn average, the cheapest region was Northern Ireland, where petrol was on average 2.8p per litre cheaper, and diesel 1.4p per litre cheaper than in London.\n\nIt said: \"The fact that we observe prices that are significantly lower in Northern Ireland is likely due to the fact that filling stations there are competing with filling stations across the Irish border, which are subject to a range of different competitive and fiscal dynamics.\"", "A Police Community Support Officer has been filmed refusing to respond to an alleged assault in a supermarket.\n\nSussex Police has apologised and said it was reviewing the incident.\n\nThe force added: \"A police officer attended the incident as an emergency. The PCSO also then attended the scene.\"", "A video still from the fatal Paris traffic stop shooting\n\nProsecutors have begun piecing together what happened before the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M by a police officer.\n\nThe officer has been charged with homicide and remains in custody.\n\nIn their outline of events after questioning eyewitnesses and reviewing CCTV footage, prosecutors say the teenage driver had already ignored a police demand to stop, when officers caught up with the car and drew their weapons.\n\nMeanwhile an account has been posted online by one of the passengers, which French media say they have verified but the BBC has not.\n\nIn this account the passenger, also a teenager, says the officers hit Nahel M with the butts of their guns three times, causing him to take his foot off the brake of the car.\n\nProsecutors are due to talk to this witness on Monday.\n\nAround 08:00 on Tuesday, two policemen on motorcycles spotted a Mercedes with a Polish number plate driving fast in a bus lane, Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache told journalists.\n\nTurning on their siren, the officers caught up with the car at a traffic light. Three young men were inside.\n\nThe officers told the driver to stop but the vehicle pulled away, ignoring the red light. The officers gave chase and notified their unit by radio.\n\nAt 08:16, the Mercedes stopped in heavy traffic. Both officers got off their motorcycles, drew their weapons and approached the car.\n\nThey later told prosecutors that they pointed their guns at the driver to \"deter him from driving away again\".\n\nThey asked the driver to turn off the ignition, but the car moved forward. One of the officers fired, fatally wounding the young man in the chest.\n\nAfter the car ran into a roadside barrier, one of the passengers was arrested and the other fled on foot.\n\nThe passenger says the three friends were driving around Nanterre when the car strayed into the bus lane and was chased by two policemen on motorcycles.\n\nAfter Nahel stopped the car, the young man says in his video and in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper, one of the officers hit the teenage driver with the butt of his gun.\n\nHe alleges that the second policeman also struck Nahel before the first officer again hit him.\n\nHe told Le Parisien that the blows left Nahel M \"a little stunned\".\n\nThe third blow, according to this account, caused Nahel to take his foot off the brake and the vehicle to move forward. After the officer fired, Nahel M slumped forward and his foot pressed on the accelerator, the passenger said.\n\nWhen the car came a standstill, the passenger said, he decided to flee because he was afraid he would be shot too.\n\nQuestions have been asked about the car, a Mercedes A class AMG. Officials describe it as a rented vehicle.\n\nThe passenger who fled said that someone had lent it to the three youths, without giving any details.\n\nAccording to the French motoring website Autoplus, German sportscars with Polish number plates can be hired for €300-3,000 (£260-2,600) a day.\n\nThis type of short rental is popular with young men in French housing estates, Autoplus says.\n\nNahel M did not have a criminal record but was known to police.\n\nHe had previously been cited for driving without a licence - he was too young to have one - and for refusing to comply with an order to stop.\n\nHe was due to appear before a juvenile court in September.", "A mayor of a small Mexican town has wed a caiman bride in an age-old ritual for prosperity. He could be seen kissing the reptile, whose snout had been tied shut.\n\nThe seven-year-old caiman, nicknamed 'little princess', is thought to represent a deity linked with mother earth. Her marriage to the local leader symbolises the joining of humans with the divine.\n\nThe tradition likely dates back centuries to Oaxaca state's Chontal and Huave indigenous communities. \"It is the union of two cultures. The union of the Huaves and the Chontales,\" Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa told reporters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Duwayne Brooks \"certain\" he could have identified sixth murder suspect\n\nStephen Lawrence's friend has said he could have identified a sixth suspect in his friend's murder if he had been given the opportunity.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Duwayne Brooks said he would have picked out Matthew White, who died in 2021, in a line-up.\n\nOn Monday, White was named as the sixth suspect in the racist killing 30 years ago, following a BBC investigation.\n\nStephen, 18, was killed in Eltham, south-east London in April 1993.\n\nMr Brooks was waiting for a bus with Stephen at the time.\n\nThe failure of the first police investigation prompted a landmark public inquiry which concluded the Met was institutionally racist.\n\nAsked whether pictures of White broadcast by the BBC investigation were of the same person he had described to police, Mr Brooks said: \"100%. Not only did I describe him as best I could, you had other witnesses at the bus stop who also described him.\"\n\n\"I am 100% certain that if that person was put before me, and the other witnesses, in the initial stages of the investigations on an ID parade, we all would have picked him out.\"\n\nIn 1993, Mr Brooks and eyewitness described an attacker who bore a plain resemblance to Matthew White, but police did not treat White as a suspect for years.\n\nThe BBC investigation included statements and artists' impressions from the time.\n\nMr Brooks said it would now be \"impossible\" to remember what the attacker looked like from memory, but \"there is no doubt in my mind, from what I described, from those drawings, what you can see from the other witnesses, that that is the person who was there. At the scene, on the night.\"\n\nAn artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\", Matthew White and a police e-fit\n\nHe said the way his evidence was dealt with in 1993 involved \"corruption\" and \"decisions made back then were a deliberate act of sabotage\".\n\nWhen approached for comment the Met said it would not be issuing a new statement.\n\nMr Brooks originally spoke to the Sunday Mirror, before being interviewed by the BBC.\n\nThe Met Police has consistently said there were six white men involved, as Mr Brooks said on the night.\n\nFive prime suspects became widely known after the murder, but the public inquiry said there were \"five or six\" attackers.\n\nDavid Norris and Gary Dobson were given life sentences for the murder in 2012. The other three - Luke Knight and brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt - have not been convicted of the crime.\n\nWhite was arrested twice, in 2000 and 2013, and files were sent to the Crown Prosecution Service in 2005 and 2014. But on both occasions prosecutors said there was no realistic prospect of conviction.\n\nIn May and June 1993 Mr Brooks and eyewitnesses to the murder attended identity parades which included the prime suspects in the case, but Matthew White was not part of the parades.\n\nIn the same BBC interview, Mr Brooks said the criminal justice system doesn't work for victims \"at this moment in time\". He added that an apology from the Met would be a \"tick-boxing exercise\".\n\n\"The way I have been treated is a disgrace. My experience should never have happened.\"\n\nBaroness Doreen Lawrence, Stephen Lawrence's mother, has also criticised the police handling of information about a sixth suspect in her son's murder, saying there should be \"serious sanctions\" against the police officers who failed to investigate White.\n\nIn response to the naming of Matthew White as a suspect, the Met Police confirmed he was seen again in 2020, but there was insufficient witness or forensic evidence to progress further.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said: \"Unfortunately, too many mistakes were made in the initial investigation and the impact of them continues to be seen.\n\n\"On the 30th anniversary of Stephen's murder, Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologised for our failings and I repeat that apology today.\"", "Ukrainian sapper teams come across dozens of Russian mines every day\n\nA Ukrainian soldier drags himself through the long grass, one leg trailing limply behind him. Seconds later, a flash of bright orange and a cloud of white smoke mark the spot, just a few metres away, where yet another land mine has been triggered.\n\nAs a second badly wounded soldier pulls himself up on to the relative safety of a nearby armoured personnel carrier - arms flailing like a swimmer trying to cling onto a lifeboat - a thick smudge of dark red blood marks his agonising progress.\n\nAll this was captured, live, last week, by a Ukrainian army drone hovering overhead on the frontlines south of the Donbas city of Bakhmut. From above, the cratered minefield looked like it was covered in a haphazard rash of dark brown crop circles.\n\n\"Mines are terrifying. They scare me more than anything else,\" said Artyom, a 36-year-old soldier from Ukraine's 108th Territorial Defence Brigade. Two days earlier, two of his colleagues had stood on \"petals\" - small, green, anti-personnel mines - that had recently been scattered across a field by Russian rockets.\n\n\"Our guys were experienced. But it's hard to have eyes everywhere. Both have leg amputations. One leg each. We have [mine] injuries after every fight,\" said Artyom, a trained sapper, explaining that the rockets enable Russian forces to plant new mines in places that have already been liberated and cleared by Ukrainian forces.\n\nAs Ukraine's long-anticipated counterattack has not yet achieved the sort of speed and momentum that some had hoped for - including President Volodymyr Zelensky who admitted it was \"slower than desired\". A range of soldiers we've spoken to on different sections of the frontline have blamed Russian minefields for at least part of that delay.\n\n\"Of course, it slows down the movement of troops,\" said the commander of a nine-man sapper squad with the call sign Dill. He'd just finished a de-mining mission on the nearby frontlines to the east of the tiny, ruined village of Predtechyne, outside Bakhmut. He laid out an array of deactivated Russian mines on the ground beneath a tree, taking care to make sure he could not be spotted by Russian drones overhead.\n\n\"The enemy has no mercy for their own soldiers. They're used as cannon fodder. But we're trying to move forwards with the minimum of casualties,\" said the Lieutenant Serhii Tyshenko from the 3rd Assault Brigade, speaking from the shelter of a nearby bunker.\n\nSome three hours' drive further south, across a succession of lop-sided pontoon bridges, Ukrainian sappers crouched by the side of a cratered road, carefully deactivating a powerful anti-personnel Claymore mine that had been hidden near an electricity pole, poised to send shrapnel into infantry or vehicles.\n\nSpecialised Ukrainian sapper teams are trained to deal with mines when troops come across them\n\n\"I hate this job,\" said Artyom, a red-bearded former garage mechanic, moments after he'd finished making the mine safe. There was a whistle, then a boom as a Russian artillery shell hit the fields nearby.\n\nOver the lip of a nearby hill, Ukrainian infantry were slowly advancing southwards beyond the newly captured village of Rivnopil. Artyom's anger was not just a response to the dangers of minefields, but to the \"sly\" mentality that he felt must lie behind the act of laying mines and boobytraps, rather than fighting your enemy \"man to man\".\n\nLater, in their temporary base in a cottage several kilometres away, the soldiers expressed frustration about a lack of mine-clearing equipment, and a shortage of sappers - four of whom had been injured in recent weeks.\n\nBut then Artyom showed us a large antenna and brought out a laptop to begin playing recordings of what he said were recent radio intercepts of Russian soldiers. The expletive-ridden messages appeared to indicate a degree of chaos and low morale.\n\n\"Our kamikaze drone hit [our own] car. We have one dead, another injured. Get the [expletive] out of there.\"\n\n\"The [soldiers] are running away. Some of them are stealing cars… 50 people have fled. They [expletive] ran away…\"\n\nThe radio intercept suggested that Russian soldiers were deserting their positions after a Ukrainian artillery bombardment.\n\n\"This happens from time to time. In groups of 10 or 20 - [Russian] people disappear and leave without permission. The Russians realise we can eavesdrop on their communications but sometimes they forget,\" said Artyom.\n\nHe described himself as a \"realist\" regarding Ukraine's counter-offensive, believing that too many people \"in the media and in society are in a hurry\", and expecting sudden progress.\n\n\"I believe the worst option is always possible. The worst is slow [progress],\" he said.\n\nThe Ukrainians say they are making slow progress\n\nTwo Ukrainian fighter jets flew low overhead with a deafening roar, followed by a succession of booms from the frontlines further south. Soon afterwards, we could hear artillery and what sounded like a longer-range HIMARS rocket system pounding Russian positions.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive may be slow, and relatively cautious at this stage. But one officer, speaking on background, suggested that this patient approach would soon pay off in dramatic fashion, as long-range strikes destroyed Russia's ability to rearm frontline units, and low Russian morale provided opportunities for strategic breakthroughs by Ukrainian forces.\n\n\"You will see this soon,\" he said.\n\nAs for the vast stretches of minefields still lying in front of Ukraine's counter-attack - Dill, the sapper squad commander near Bakhmut, was quietly confident.\n\n\"We are learning to improvise and to invent ways to make quick, safe paths through the minefields. But we are fighting a very vicious enemy,\" he said.", "The UK had the hottest June on record, the Met Office has confirmed.\n\nThe average monthly temperature of 15.8C (60.4F) exceeded the previous highest average June temperature, recorded in 1940 and 1976, by 0.9C.\n\nClimate change made the chance of surpassing the previous joint record at least twice as likely, scientists also said.\n\nRecords were broken in 72 of the 97 areas in the UK from which temperature data is collected.\n\nAs well as the overall UK June record, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each recorded their warmest June since the Met Office started collecting the data in 1884.\n\n\"It's officially the hottest June on record for the UK, for mean temperature as well as average maximum and minimum temperature,\" said Met Office's Climate Science Manager Mark McCarthy.\n\n\"An increase of 0.9C may not seem a huge amount, but it's really significant because it has taken the average daytime and the night time temperature for the whole of the UK,\" Paul Davies, Met Office chief meteorologist and climate extremes principal fellow, told BBC News.\n\n\"That's significant in a warming climate and because of the consequential impacts on society,\" he added.\n\nHe also said that while the UK recorded a higher one-off temperature of 40.3C last summer, the difference last month was the sustained heat both day and night.\n\nThe west of the UK was often hotter than the east, which had increased cloud levels suppressing daytime temperatures, the Met Office said.\n\nRain was also in short supply for much of the month, with just 68% of the average June rainfall.\n\nWales was particularly dry, with just over half of its average monthly rainfall.\n\nThe Met Office used a supercomputer to analyse the temperatures and identify the fingerprint of climate change on the weather.\n\n\"We found that the chance of observing a June beating the previous joint 1940/1976 record of 14.9°C has at least doubled since the 1940s,\" explains Mr Davies.\n\n\"Alongside natural variability, the background warming of the Earth's atmosphere due to human-induced climate change has driven up the possibility of reaching record-high temperatures,\" he added.\n\nClimate change is driving extreme weather events around the world.\n\nThe world has warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial revolution about 200 years ago.\n\nGreenhouse gases have been pumped into the atmosphere by activities such as burning fuels, which have heated up the Earth's atmosphere.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nDr Richard Hodgkins, senior lecturer in physical geography at University of Loughborough says it is notable how the warm weather \"fits expectations of a changing climate in the UK\".\n\nHe said researchers have been predicting patterns where weather appears to get \"stuck\", which would mean longer heatwaves.\n\nThe hot June was \"somewhat like a typical weather event for the UK, but stretched out in time much longer than normal,\" he added.\n\nThe dry and warm weather last month affected wildlife and nature with environment groups warning of fish deaths and flowering plants wilting.\n\nNature is being \"pounded by extreme weather without a chance to recover\", the Wildlife Trusts told BBC News.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Lord Kerslake, a former head of the Civil Service, has died at the age of 68.\n\nLord Kerslake, who had been diagnosed with cancer, died on Saturday, his sister and daughter announced on Twitter.\n\nHe led the Civil Service between January 2012 and September 2014, during David Cameron's coalition government.\n\nHe had recently been working with the Labour Party on its preparations for the next general election.\n\nBath-born Lord Kerslake started his career in local government with the Greater London Council, and was knighted in the 2005 New Year honours list for services to local government.\n\nAs Bob Kerslake, he served as chief executive of Sheffield City Council between 1997 and 2008, before heading to the Homes and Communities Agency.\n\nHe was permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2015 - he retained this role when he became the head of the Civil Service.\n\nHe left the Civil Service in 2015, he became chair of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and chair of the board of governors at Sheffield Hallam University.\n\nHe was also president of the Local Government Association from 2015 to 2021, and chaired the independent investigation into the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, which reported in 2018.\n\nHe was introduced as a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords in 2015.\n\nFollowing the news of his death, senior Labour figures paid tribute, including party leader Sir Keir Starmer, who described Lord Kerslake as a \"talented public servant, utmost professional, and a good man... rightly respected across Westminster for his experience and wisdom\".\n\nShadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy described him as \"an endless source of advice and encouragement,\" adding that his knowledge of both central and local government was \"unparalleled\".\n\nThe chairman of the FDA union, David Penman, said he was \"an engaging and committed leader of the Civil Service\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said Lord Kerslake's \"kindness and commitment to improving our city and country will always be remembered\".\n\nAs well as his political commitments, Lord Kerslake was the chair of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. The theatre group said they were \"deeply saddened\" by his death.\n\n\"Lord Kerslake guided the organisation with generosity, passion and kindness,\" the statement from the Crucible Theatre added, \"we are so grateful for his huge contribution to our theatres and our city\".", "Margot Robbie plays the lead in the Barbie movie\n\nVietnam has banned the upcoming Barbie film over a scene featuring a map depicting contested Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea.\n\nVietnam is among a number of countries that contest China's claim to almost all of the South China Sea.\n\nThe film about the famous doll, which has already taken over social media, is due to release in cinemas on 21 July.\n\nIt is unclear which scene depicts what a senior official called the \"offensive image\" of China's nine-dash line.\n\nThe nine-dash line is used in Chinese maps of the South China Sea to show its territorial claims.\n\nBeijing has been building military bases on artificial islands in the area for years and also often conducts naval patrols there in a bid to assert its territorial claims.\n\nIn 2016 an international tribunal in The Hague ruled against Chinese claims in the South China Sea, but Beijing did not recognise the judgement.\n\nFilm studio Warner Bros' Barbie is not the only production to be banned by Vietnam for featuring the nine-dash line.\n\nIn 2019, the DreamWorks animated film Abominable was pulled for the same reason. Three years later, the Sony action movie Uncharted also fell foul of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films.\n\nTwo years ago, Australian spy drama Pine Gap was removed from the Vietnamese market by Netflix, following a complaint from authorities.\n\nChina, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei all have competing claims in the South China Sea.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "King Charles III meets members of the public during his visit to Kinneil House, marking the first Holyrood Week since his coronation\n\nKing Charles III was greeted by crowds as he arrived in Scotland for a special week of events.\n\nHe met two Fair Queens in Bo'ness, Falkirk, before travelling to Edinburgh where he was presented with the keys to the city.\n\nEarlier a practice procession was held in the capital's Old Town ahead of a special ceremony of thanksgiving.\n\nKing Charles will be presented with the Scottish crown jewels during the event at St Giles' Cathedral on Wednesday.\n\nThe celebrations mark the first Holyrood Week since his coronation in May.\n\nAn early morning practice procession has been held in Edinburgh's Old Town\n\nAmong those who met the King on Monday was Bo'ness Fair Queen, Lexi Scotland, who was wearing her ceremonial robes and a crown.\n\nShe was joined by May Garrow, 99, who won the title in 1936.\n\nAfterwards Ms Garrow said: \"I've never actually shook hands with him before. I'll not wash that hand anymore.\"\n\nThe King then met with Sustainable Thinking Scotland, which operates from Kinneil House on the outskirts of the town.\n\nThe organisation grows sustainable food which in turn is given for food parcels.\n\nKing Charles III attended a tour of the Royal Yacht Britannia, to mark 25 years since her arrival in Edinburgh\n\nLater the King took part in the Ceremony of the Keys on the Palace of Holyroodhouse forecourt before he joined former Royal Yacht Britannia sailors in reviving an old navy tradition.\n\nThe King drank a tot of rum as he returned to the vessel the Royal Family called home at its dock in Leith.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla are also expected to visit the Great Tapestry of Scotland, seeing a newly stitched panel dedicated to the couple.\n\nBefore the service at St Giles' on Wednesday, there will be both a royal procession and a people's procession along the Royal Mile.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe people's procession will consist of about 100 people representing different aspects of Scottish life.\n\nThe Stone of Destiny will be present at the ceremony in St Giles' Cathedral, where the King will be presented with the Honours of Scotland.\n\nAfterwards there will be a gun salute at Edinburgh Castle and a flypast by the Red Arrows.\n\nEach year the monarch traditionally spends a week based at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, known as Holyrood Week or Royal Week in Scotland.\n\nKing Charles III received the Keys to the City of Edinburgh from Lord Provost Councillor Robert Aldridge during the Ceremony of the Keys on the forecourt of the Palace of Holyroodhouse\n\nEdinburgh City Council has said those wishing to view the processions should plan ahead.\n\nLord lieutenant Robert Aldridge said: \"The eyes of the world will be upon us once again as we mark the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty Queen Camilla.\"\n\nHe warned residents to expect disruption across the city, particularly in the Old Town.\n\n\"We're working with our partners to manage this as best we can and to keep residents, businesses and visitors updated on the events,\" he added.\n\n\"For those who wish to enjoy the royal and people's processions, I urge you to please plan ahead and keep an eye on our website and social media channels for the latest advice and guidance.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Larger festivals like Glastonbury say they've used private companies to test drugs\n\nA festival boss has formally threatened legal action against the government over drug checking at festivals.\n\nParklife founder Sacha Lord has written to Home Secretary Suella Braverman urging her to allow on-site testing in \"pop-up labs\" to go ahead.\n\nHe says festivals had been doing this for at least 10 years until last month, when the government told him a licence would be needed for the first time.\n\nThe government says a licence has always been required to test drugs.\n\nDrug-checking is where illegal substances are tested and notifications put out if any are found to be dangerous.\n\nSupporters say these warnings save lives and also give medical teams a better idea of how to treat anyone who becomes seriously ill after taking drugs.\n\nUK festivals have most recently employed \"back-of-house testing\", which uses samples of confiscated or surrendered drugs.\n\nLarger festivals like Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds have told BBC Newsbeat they've used private companies to do this.\n\nIndependent festivals have tended to use charity The Loop, whose professional volunteers have been able to test at events without a licence due to agreements with local police and councils.\n\nSacha Lord, who's an adviser to Manchester's Labour Mayor Andy Burnham, says he's worried about the safety of festival-goers this year\n\nMr Lord's letter says the Home Office was \"well aware\" of these arrangements and former ministers have publicly said the department wouldn't intervene to stop them.\n\nHe argues that the department made a \"flawed decision\" when it insisted on licences being obtained this year.\n\nThe letter says festival organisers had a legitimate expectation they would be able to test as normal this year and weren't properly consulted beforehand.\n\nIt says notification of the licence requirement - two days before Parklife in Manchester began - came too late for it to be possible to obtain one in time.\n\nThe letter, co-signed by trade body the Night Time Industries Association, demands the government allow testing without a licence to go ahead as before, or take steps so organisations have enough time to comply with the licence requirement.\n\nThey've given the government a deadline of 7 July to provide a meaningful response, and say they'll begin legal action if this isn't met.\n\nThose behind the letter say they'll apply for a judicial review and ask a judge to examine the Home Office's decision.\n\nThe Home Office told Newsbeat: \"Our position hasn't changed for 50 years.\n\n\"Festivals aiming to test drugs off their site this summer must work with the police and a Home Office licensed drug testing provider.\n\n\"We continue to keep an open dialogue with any potential applicants.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Hallie is described as \"so gentle and kind-natured\" by her aunt\n\nAn appeal for a million pounds has been launched to pay for leukaemia treatment for a 20-month-old girl.\n\nHallie, from Coventry, was diagnosed at Birmingham Children's Hospital when she was eight months old.\n\nBut when her last stem cell transplant failed to work, her family said they were told their best option might be to pay for treatment in the United States.\n\n\"It seems a very big mountain to climb,\" Hallie's aunt, Hannah Dugdale, said.\n\nHallie was first diagnosed in the summer of 2022 while on a family holiday in Spain and was flown home for treatment.\n\nShe has a rare form of leukaemia known as JMML and has undergone chemotherapy, blood transfusions and two stem cell transplants.\n\nMs Dugdale said they discovered on Thursday the latest transplant had not worked and a consultant at the Birmingham hospital suggested their only remaining option was CAR T-cell therapy.\n\nHallie first started showing symptoms while on holiday in Spain, aged eight months.\n\nCAR-T works by removing a type of immune system cell, called a T cell, from the patient's blood.\n\nThose cells are then genetically modified in the lab to make them more effective at targeting cancer cells, multiplied, and infused back into the patient drop by drop.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) described them as \"personalised immunotherapy treatments\" which are \"usually given as a one-off treatment\".\n\nA trial is due to start at Great Ormond Street Hospital in the coming months, but Hallie's aunt said they would prefer not to wait that long and were hoping to take her to the US instead.\n\nIt will require a third transplant, which the family said the NHS would not fund.\n\nMs Dugdale said she and her sister had talked about having children for a long time and said Hallie was \"the sweetest little girl, she's is so gentle and kind-natured\".\n\nHer niece \"deserves to be given every chance at a long and happy life\", she added.\n\nShe said her sister, Kim, was \"devastated as any mother would be\" but also overwhelmed by the support she received and the appeal had already passed £180,000.\n\nMs Dugdale said she hoped they would be able to start the treatment before they raised the full amount through the Go Fund Me page.\n\nBirmingham Children's Hospital said: \"Sadly, a third transplant isn't a current treatment option for Hallie, who has a rare form of leukaemia.\"\n\nIt also said its teams were continuing to explore options for her, including the possibility of experimental CAR-T therapy, as part of a clinical trial.\n\nNHS England have been contacted for a response.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nThe Marylebone Cricket Club has suspended three members over altercations with Australia players at Lord's on day five of the second Test.\n\nTelevision footage appeared to show clashes between Usman Khawaja and David Warner and spectators in the Long Room as Australia walked off for lunch.\n\nThe incident came after England's Jonny Bairstow was controversially stumped by Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey.\n\nThe MCC said it had apologised \"unreservedly\" before confirming it had suspended three members identified from the incident.\n\n\"They will not be permitted back to Lord's whilst the investigation takes place,\" the MCC added in a statement.\n\n\"We maintain that the behaviour of a small number of members was completely unacceptable and whilst there was no suggestion by [Australia captain] Pat Cummins in the post-match press conference that there was any physical altercation, it remains wholly unacceptable to behave in such a way, which goes against the values of the club.\n\n\"MCC condemns the behaviour witnessed and once again we re-iterate our apology to Cricket Australia.\"\n\nKhawaja said the behaviour of the members was \"really disappointing\", while Cummins added he thought some could lose their memberships as a result.\n\n\"Lord's is one of my favourite places to come,\" said Khawaja. \"There's always respect shown at Lord's, particularly in the members' pavilion in the Long Room, but there wasn't today.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that was coming out of the members' mouths is really disappointing and I wasn't just going to stand by and cop it. So I just talked to a few of them.\n\n\"A few of them were throwing out some pretty big allegations and I just called them up on it and they kept going, and I was like, well, this is your membership here.\n\n\"It's pretty disrespectful, to be honest. I just expect a lot better from the members.\"\n• None Superb Stokes century not enough to deny Australia\n• None I wouldn't want to win in that manner - Stokes\n• None TMS podcast: Super Stokes goes down in vain\n\nAustralia asked the MCC to investigate, initially saying players had been \"physically contacted\" as well as verbally abused.\n\nBased at Lord's, which it owns, the MCC acts as custodian and arbiter of the laws and spirit of cricket.\n\n\"We have unreservedly apologised to the Australian team,\" the MCC said in a statement.\n\nTempers flared after Carey threw down the stumps to dismiss Bairstow, who left his crease after seemingly believing the ball was dead at the end of the 52nd over in England's second innings.\n\nAustralia's players were booed and players from both sides exchanged words as they walked off the field at lunch before Khawaja and Warner appeared to be confronted by members.\n\n\"MCC came and apologised for the behaviour of some of the members,\" said Cummins.\n\n\"I think some of them might lose their memberships over the way they behaved. Other than that one time, they were fantastic all week. Normally fantastic, really welcoming.\n\n\"They were just quite aggressive and abusive towards some of our players, which I know the MCC weren't too happy with.\"", "Victoria Amelina was one of Ukraine's most celebrated young writers\n\nThe award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday.\n\nThe war crimes researcher becomes the 13th person to have died in the attack.\n\nThe writers' association PEN Ukraine said doctors \"did everything they could to save her life, but unfortunately the wound was fatal\".\n\nKramatorsk is under Ukrainian control but is close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.\n\nAmelina, 37, was dining with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers in the city's popular Ria Lounge when the missile hit. Around 60 others were injured in the attack.\n\nShe was rushed to hospital in Dnipro, but succumbed to her injuries on Friday, PEN Ukraine said.\n\n\"It is with great pain that we inform you that the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on 1 July,\" the group said in a statement.\n\n\"In the last days of Victoria's life, her family and friends were by her side.\"\n\nAmelina was one of Ukraine's most celebrated young writers who started documenting war crimes after Russia's full-scale invasion last year. She also started working with children near the frontline.\n\nLast year she unearthed the diary of children's writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was abducted and killed by Russian troops in the city of Izyum soon after the invasion.\n\nHer first non-fiction book in English, War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War, is due to be published.\n\nIn an earlier statement confirming that Amelina had been injured in the attack, PEN Ukraine and war crimes watchdog Truth Hounds said that members of both groups had travelled to the frontlines with Amelina.\n\n\"Now, Victoria has become a victim of a war crime herself,\" they said.\n\nA post pinned to her Twitter profile shows Amelina taking a photo of a bombed building in Ukraine.\n\n\"It's me in this picture,\" the post reads.\n\n\"I'm a Ukrainian writer. I have portraits of great Ukrainian poets on my bag. I look like I should be taking pictures of books, art, and my little son. But I document Russia's war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems. Why?\"", "Confusion at Twitter appears to be continuing after owner Elon Musk introduced limits to the amount of posts users can read in a day.\n\nThe billionaire announced the \"temporary measure\" to address extreme levels of data scraping on the site.\n\nInitial limits were quickly increased by Mr Musk at the weekend.\n\nWhile many users reported no longer seeing limits on Sunday, some said a \"rate limit exceeded\" notification had returned on Monday.\n\nMr Musk - who took over Twitter in October 2022 had said previously that he was not happy about artificial intelligence (AI) firms using Twitter's data to train their large language models.\n\nChanges to the platform at the weekend saw it impose an initial 600-tweet limit for unverified Twitter users who are not paying for a subscription to the platform, but Mr Musk said this had increased to 1,000 on Saturday evening.\n\nHe has not yet provided an update on whether the limits will remain in place.\n\nResponding to a user flagging issues with site features, Mr Musk said in a tweet on Saturday morning Twitter had imposed the measures as a result of \"EXTREME levels of data scraping\".\n\nThe process is a key method of gathering content and information from web platforms, and involves extracting data from sites, often at great scale, to make it accessible and readable in local formats, such as in a spreadsheet.\n\n\"Almost every company doing AI, from start-ups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data,\" Mr Musk added in his tweet.\n\n\"It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup's outrageous valuation.\"\n\nSimilar concerns over the mass use of platform data to train AI models in part sparked Reddit's decision to make companies pay to access its data.\n\nData scientist and ex-Twitter employee, Dr Rumman Chowdhury, told the BBC it was unclear if AI organisations had been scraping data from Twitter, but suggested financial issues could be behind the changes.\n\n\"Frankly, I think I'm in a majority of people who believe that it's due to his lack of payment of his bills... and he's attempting to reduce his costs,\" she said.\n\nAn Australian project management firm has filed a lawsuit against Twitter in a US court seeking cumulative payments of about A$1m (£534,000) over alleged non-payment of bills for work done in four countries, court filings show.\n\nIn May, a former public relations firm filed a suit in a New York court saying Twitter had not paid its bills, while early this year US-based advisory firm Innisfree M&A Inc sued it, seeking about $1.9m (£1.4m) for what it said were unpaid bills after it advised Twitter on its acquisition by Mr Musk.\n\nSince Mr Musk bought Twitter he has focused on reducing costs by laying off half the workforce and introducing the subscription service, which offers the sought-after \"verified\" badge for a monthly fee.\n\nFor a platform that requires engagement, limiting posts seems to go in the opposite direction. It is a \"very extreme and unprecedented tactic\" which is \"already failing\", said Dr Chowdhury.\n\nTwitter saw advertisers flee amid worries about Mr Musk's approach to content moderation rules, affecting its revenue.\n\nWhen Mr Musk spoke to the BBC in April, he said the company was now \"roughly breaking even\", claiming most of its advertisers were returning.\n\nThe limit on tweets saw some journalists, who use Twitter to find information for live reporting and verification of stories, confronted with the curbs.\n\nBel Trew, chief international correspondent for The Independent, tweeted that limits to how many tweets she could read on the platform had left her at a \"complete loss\" while reporting on Sunday.\n\nAnd a reporter in the US city of Baltimore was left unable to view tweets from the local police department's Twitter account in the wake of a shooting that left two people killed and a further 28 injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC reached out to Twitter for clarification and received an automated message of a poo emoji.", "The Culture Secretary has said she is concerned banks may be closing customer accounts for political reasons following claims from Brexiteer Nigel Farage.\n\nLucy Frazer said it is something banks \"should be thinking about carefully\".\n\nLast week, Mr Farage said his bank was closing his accounts, claiming it was \"serious political persecution\" from an anti-Brexit banking industry.\n\nThe government is investigating payment providers over account closures.\n\nLast year, Paypal closed accounts run by Toby Young, who is general secretary of the Free Speech Union. They were later reinstated by the US payments company.\n\nThe government subsequently announced a review into payment services regulations, including the practice of firms apparently closing down the accounts of people or businesses that hold views the lender does not agree with.\n\nMs Frazer told LBC, the radio station: \"I'm concerned people's accounts might be closed for the wrong reasons and it's something they [the banks] should be thinking about carefully.\n\n\"Banks are regulated, and those are the sort of things regulators should consider.\"\n\nMr Farage said that he was told two months ago that his bank, who he did not name but is understood to be Coutts, was closing down his personal and business accounts.\n\nThe BBC has approached Coutts' parent company NatWest for comment.\n\nMr Farage, who is the former leader of UKIP and a former member of the European Parliament, suggested that the reason for the decision could be related to laws that banks follow on \"politically exposed person\" or PEPs.\n\nThese are people who hold a prominent position or influence who may be more susceptible to being involved in bribery or corruption.\n\nBanks are required to do extra due diligence on PEPs.\n\nMr Farage said he was told by his bank that closing his accounts was a \"commercial decision\".\n\nUK Finance, which represents the banking industry, said lenders should discuss the closure of an account with a customer \"so far as is feasible and permissible\".\n\nIt said though there will \"be situations where it may not be appropriate or permissible for a bank to engage in a dialogue to explain their reasoning\".\n\nThis would include a breach of terms and conditions, \"abusive or threatening behaviour to colleagues\" or if banks have been directed not to by \"regulators, HM Government, police and other authorities\".\n\nMr Farage said he approached seven other banks to open personal and business accounts and was turned down by all of them.\n\nHowever, he claimed there were other reasons why his existing bank acted.\n\n\"Either for reasons of being active in politics, or having opinions that modern day corporate banks don't agree with, far too many accounts have been closed in recent years,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I hope that my case blows the lid off the whole thing and that we can get changes to legislation. Everyone in the UK should be entitled to a bank account.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Monday, security minister Tom Tugendhat, said \"This sort of closure, on political grounds - if that is indeed what has happened and after all we only have the allegation of it at this point - should be completely unacceptable.\n\n\"PEPs is there to prevent the corrupt use of banking facilities by politicians in corrupt regimes. It is not here to silence individuals who may hold views with which we may or may not agree.\"\n\nThe result of the government consultation on payment services regulations is expecting in the next few weeks.", "Train drivers in the Aslef union have announced a fresh overtime ban, which will see services further disrupted.\n\nDrivers at 15 train companies based in England will refuse to work overtime from Monday 17 to Saturday 22 July.\n\nIt will coincide with strike action by rail workers in the RMT union also taking place later this month.\n\nAnd it follows the overtime ban currently taking place over pay and conditions which is disrupting services across the rail network.\n\nMost train companies rely on drivers working overtime to run their full schedules, which Aslef says is a consequence of operators not employing enough people.\n\nStrikes by other rail workers in the RMT union are set to take place later this month, on 20, 22 and 29 July. Many will reduce their service levels, and passengers are being advised to check before they travel.\n\nAmong the disruption expected this week:\n\nThe announcement of the new overtime ban comes after Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan had warned that further industrial action was likely.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme on Monday the Rail Delivery Group's latest pay offer, worth 4% for two years in a row and linked to reforms, was like a return to \"Victorian times\".\n\nThe long-running pay dispute by train drivers centres around union members accepting a deal which would have brought drivers' average pay to £65,000. This offer has already been rejected by Aslef.\n\nBut it would have been dependent on changes to working practices, which the employers and government say are needed to cut costs and modernise how the railway runs.\n\nMr Whelan said the situation was a \"Westminster ideological problem\" and claimed the union did not have issues in Scotland, Wales, with freight, the London Underground, Crossrail or Eurostar.\n\n\"We did 14 pay deals in the last 12 months. The only place we can't get a pay deal is with the Westminster government,\" he added.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said Aslef had rejected a \"fair and affordable offer\" without putting it to its members.\n\n\"We ask Aslef to recognise the very real financial challenge the industry is facing and work with us to deliver a better, more reliable railway with a strong long-term future,\" it added.\n\nMeanwhile, the strike action between operators and the RMT over pay, jobs and conditions has lasted for more than a year.\n\nWith only 12% of tickets sold from ticket offices according to the RDG, train companies are preparing to move ahead with plans to close hundreds of station kiosks.\n\nUnder proposed changes staff would be moved on to concourses to help and advise more customers, an RDG spokesperson said.\n\nBut RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said last week his union would not \"meekly sit by and allow thousands of jobs to be sacrificed or see disabled and vulnerable passengers left unable to use the railways as a result\".\n\nThe union suggested it could take further industrial action over the issue.", "The pair had met at a car park in Wrexham\n\nA nurse has been sacked after a patient she had a secret relationship with died following a late night meeting in Wrexham.\n\nPenelope Williams didn't call an ambulance after the man, known as Patient A, collapsed in January 2022.\n\nHe was found unresponsive with his trousers down and died of heart failure and chronic kidney disease.\n\nMrs Williams has now been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for bringing the profession into disrepute.\n\nThe hearing was told the patient was found in the back of his own car after the pair had met in a car park.\n\nThe panel heard Mrs Williams, who worked as a general nurse on a renal unit, had met Patient A about a year before.\n\nHe had multiple health conditions, the hearing was told, and received treatment in the unit where Mrs Williams worked.\n\nOn the night, Mrs Williams had gone to the home of a colleague, before meeting with Patient A.\n\nJust before midnight, her co-worker took a call from her.\n\nShe was \"crying and distressed and asking for help\", the panel heard.\n\nAfter telling them someone had died, Mrs Williams was advised to call an ambulance, but did not.\n\nWhen the colleague arrived at the car park, they called 999 on finding Patient A partially clothed and unresponsive.\n\nHe was pronounced dead shortly after.\n\nMrs Williams initially told police and a paramedic she had gone to the car park after Patient A messaged her saying he was unwell.\n\nThe next day, she admitted to police they had been in a sexual relationship.\n\nBut in February, she denied this to health board officials.\n\nShe said they had sat in the back of his car for 30-45 minutes \"just talking\" before Patient A \"started groaning and suddenly died\".\n\nAt a May disciplinary hearing, Mrs Williams admitted both the relationship and not calling an ambulance and was sacked.\n\nThe Nursing and Midwifery Council panel found failing to mention the relationship \"put her own interests ahead of the wellbeing of Patient A\".\n\nIt said while Mrs Williams was remorseful, she had limited insight about the damage her relationship could cause to nursing's reputation or its effect on public safety.\n\nThey found this amounted to serious misconduct and her fitness to practise was impaired.\n\nStriking her from the nursing register, the panel concluded there were no mitigating features.\n\n\"Mrs Williams' actions were significant departures from the standards expected of a registered nurse, and are fundamentally incompatible with her remaining on the register,\" it said.\n\n\"The panel was of the view that the findings in this particular case demonstrate that Mrs Williams' actions were so serious that to allow her to continue practising would undermine public confidence in the profession and in the NMC as a regulatory body.\"\n\nAn earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the incident happened in the car park at Spire Wrexham. This was based on information incorrectly provided to the Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise hearing. The article has been updated to reflect that the incident did not happen in the Spire Wrexham car park.", "A picture shows the Jewish settlement of Kedar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in June 2023\n\nThe government has been urged to rethink its plans to fine public bodies which initiate boycotts against Israel.\n\nThe proposals received initial backing but have been met with criticism from both Conservative and Labour MPs.\n\nCommunities Secretary Michael Gove said the bill would guarantee foreign policy remained a UK government matter.\n\nBut Labour says the bill undermines the UK's longstanding foreign policy towards the Occupied Palestinian Territories.\n\nThe party warned the bill also risked undermining support for people around the world facing persecution, as well as placing \"unprecedented restrictions\" on elected councils, undermining freedom of speech and having potential \"widespread and negative impacts\" on local authority pension funds.\n\nThe Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill seeks to prevent public bodies, including councils, from campaigning against, boycotting or sanctioning a particular international territory - unless that is endorsed by the UK government's own foreign policy.\n\nFirst published last month, it received initial backing by 268 to 70 votes after several hours of debate in the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nMuch of the debate on the issue has focused on boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.\n\nThe Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement calls for broad-based economic and cultural boycotts of Israel and Israel settlements - similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.\n\nSuch boycotts are backed by Palestinians who see them as applying pressure on Israel to end its military occupation.\n\nThe Israeli government, on the other hand, sees the entire BDS movement as unjustly singling out Israel and describes it as antisemitic.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Gove said there had been an \"increase in antisemitic events following on from the activities of the BDS movement\".\n\nHe added that although there were \"legitimate reasons to criticise the Israeli government\", the BDS movement was asking councils to \"treat Israel differently from any other nation on the globe\".\n\n\"Nothing in this bill prevents or impedes the loudest of criticisms of Israel's government and leaders,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour - and a number of Conservative MPs - raised concerns about the bill's potential impact on UK foreign policy.\n\nDame Margaret Hodge, who served in Labour governments under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said the proposed legislation was \"flawed, poorly drafted and will have damaging consequences both here and abroad\".\n\n\"The bill is not a considered attempt to bring about peace, provide better security for Israel or respond to the threats posed by BDS,\" she said.\n\n\"It's about using Jews as a pawn in the government's political game.\"\n\nConservative MP Alicia Kearns, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, said the government must remove references to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories from the bill.\n\nShe said the bill \"essentially gives exceptional impunity to Israel\", adding: \"This is something we should not give to any country and I would be standing here making the same request if any country was named.\"\n\nLongstanding UK government policy calls for an end to Israel's military occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories as part of a negotiated \"two-state solution\".\n\nThe UK has for decades endorsed the position of international law, under which Israeli settlements are seen as illegal - although Israel disputes this - and sees their expansion as an \"obstacle to peace\".\n\nThe bill does not stop public bodies from complying with UK-wide sanctions, and it gives the government the power to make certain countries exempt from the restrictions.\n\nFor example, the government intends Russia and Belarus to be exempted.\n\nBut the bill does not allow the rules to exempt Israel, the Occupied Territories or the Occupied Golan Heights.\n\nIn doing so, it groups the three territories together, which critics including Labour argue undermines the UK's foreign policy position by suggesting boycotting Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Golan Heights would be the same as boycotting Israel - despite the illegality of the former two under international law.\n\nCritics have also raised concerns that the bill would limit campaigns against human rights abuses in other parts of the world - such as against the Uyghur in Xinjiang, China.\n\nAhead of the vote on Monday, the government spokesperson said: \"Public bodies should not be pursuing their own foreign policy agenda.\n\n\"The bill will not hinder the robust action we are taking against Uyghur forced labour in supply chains as it contains exceptions to the ban for labour related misconduct, including modern slavery.\n\n\"The ban on boycotts does not apply to individuals, including publicly elected officials, when carrying out private acts that are protected by the Human Rights Act.\"\n\nA Labour amendment to the bill was defeated in the Commons by 272 votes to 212 - a margin of 60.\n\nThe amendment had sought to decline the bill a second reading over concerns it \"risks significantly undermining support\" for groups around the world facing persecution, for example the Uyghur, who are \"currently victims of grave and systemic human rights abuses\".\n\nIt said it opposed any \"discrimination\" by public bodies in how they spend their money and says all public bodies must act \"without bias\" when making decisions on procurement and investment.", "A pro-democracy campaigner who fled Hong Kong has told the BBC his life has become more dangerous because of a bounty offered for his arrest.\n\nNathan Law, who lives in the UK, is among eight exiled activists wanted by the territory's police.\n\nAuthorities are offering rewards of HK$1 million (£100,581; $127,637) for information leading to their capture.\n\nMr Law said he needed to be \"more careful\" about divulging his whereabouts as a result of the bounty.\n\nThe eight activists targeted are accused of colluding with foreign forces - a crime that can carry a sentence of life in prison. The offence comes under Hong Kong's draconian security law, which was imposed three years ago after widespread pro-democracy protests took place in 2019.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the UK would \"not tolerate any attempts by China to intimidate and silence individuals in the UK and overseas.\"\n\n\"We call on Beijing to remove the National Security Law and for the Hong Kong authorities to end their targeting of those who stand up for freedom and democracy,\" he said in a statement.\n\nUnder the national security law, hundreds of pro-democracy campaigners have been arrested and convicted in Hong Kong.\n\nBeijing has said the law is needed to bring stability to the city, but critics say it is designed to squash dissent.\n\nThe eight named in this announcement are all based in the UK, the US and Australia - countries which do not have extradition treaties with China.\n\n\"They have committed very serious offences that endanger national security,\" Steven Li, chief superintendent of the national security department, said.\n\nHe added that while Hong Kong police could not arrest them while they remained abroad, they would not stop chasing them.\n\nMr Law, one of the most prominent figures in the pro-democracy movement, said that while he felt his situation was \"relatively safe\" in the UK, he would have to be more vigilant as a result of the bounty's announcement.\n\n\"There could possibly be someone in the UK - or anywhere else - to provide informations of me to (the Hong Kong authorities). For example, my whereabouts, where they could possibly extradite me when I'm transiting in certain countries,\" Mr Law said.\n\n\"All these things may put my life in to dangerous situations if I'm not careful enough of who I meet or where I go. It makes me have to live in a more careful life.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Law urged others not to cooperate with the authorities on the matter and said: \"We should not limit ourselves, self-censor, be intimidated, or live in fear.\"\n\nThis sentiment was echoed by one of the other exiled activists - Anna Kwok, executive director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council - who said the bounty was aimed at intimidating her and her fellow activists.\n\n\"We are united in our fight for freedom and democracy in our home, Hong Kong,\" she said in a statement.\n\nAustralia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong said her government was \"deeply disappointed\" by the announcement and said Australia \"remains deeply concerned by the continuing erosion of Hong Kong's rights, freedoms and autonomy.\"\n\nThe other six activists named in the announcement are Ted Hui, Dennis Kwok, Mung Siu-tat, Elmer Yuen, Finn Law and Kevin Yam.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Department for Infrastructure says it faces a remaining £112m funding gap\n\nRoad repairs could be drastically reduced due to budget pressures facing Stormont's Department for Infrastructure (DfI).\n\nDfI warned it will inevitably overspend this year if current political arrangements are unchanged.\n\nGovernment departments in Northern Ireland are being run by civil servants in the absence of local ministers.\n\nDfI officials believe they lack the legal authority to take measures necessary to balance their budget.\n\nThese also include turning off street lights and stopping waste water treatment.\n\nCivil servants have been running departments since October 2022 as a result of the DUP's ministerial boycott in protest at the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThey are working with a budget imposed by the Northern Ireland secretary which will see overall day-to-day spending fall by 3.3% in real terms this financial year with all departments having to make cuts.\n\nHowever, that average 3.3% figure disguises much bigger pressures in some departments.\n\nInfrastructure has calculated that it needed £691m for day-to-day spending to provide a standard service across its areas of responsibility.\n\nAlready-announced cuts in areas such as road maintenance and flood risk management reduced the gap to £112m.\n\nIn recent weeks the department has been consulting on further possible cuts and believes it will be able to reduce the shortfall to around £55m.\n\nIt will primarily aim to do that by cutting £53m from the combined budget of Translink and NI Water.\n\nBut officials believe any remaining options for cuts cannot lawfully be taken by them and would require a minister - either the secretary of state or a Stormont minister in a restored executive.\n\nThe officials' powers were laid out in the Ireland Executive Formation Act last year and further amended by the Northern Ireland (Interim Arrangements) Act this year.\n\nIt is understood that DfI faces particularly difficulties because so much of its spending is statutorily defined, leaving little flexibility for cuts.\n\nTurning off street lights would save the the DfI about £3m in energy payments\n\nThe department was also able to make a large one-off saving last year when Translink used £60m of its reserves, a measure that cannot be repeated.\n\nDfI Permanent Secretary Julie Harrison said: \"Around 95% of the Department's resource budget delivers essential frontline services, the vast majority of which are regulated, statutory or contractually obliged.\n\n\"This leaves very limited scope to make the kind of cuts to spending that are required. That challenge has been exacerbated by decisions that had to be taken last year and which cannot be repeated.\n\n\"I have had to make difficult decisions to ensure DfI and its delivery partners (DVA, Translink, NI Water, and Waterways Ireland) do everything possible to reduce spending and balance their budgets, while at the same time meeting responsibilities to deliver multiple statutory functions and keep people safe.\"\n\nA Northern Ireland Office spokesman said this year's budget allocation from the government had given the department an allocation of £523m, an increase of £2m above the 2022-23 budget.\n\n\"The decisions required to live within this budget continue to rest with the Northern Ireland departments,\" he said.\n\n\"We are clear that we hope NI parties will restore locally elected, accountable and effective devolved government as soon as possible, which is the best way to govern Northern Ireland,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Nahel's family say violence won’t bring justice for the boy they lost\n\nA relative of the French teenager shot by police has told the BBC the family did not want his death to spark riots, but insisted the law around lethal force at traffic stops must change.\n\nNahel M was shot point-blank by police after failing to stop for a traffic check last Tuesday.\n\n\"We never called for hate or riots,\" the relative said.\n\nFrance has seen five days of violent rioting.\n\nBut the unrest ebbed again on Sunday night, with 157 arrests reported by the early hours of Monday morning.\n\nThe previous night, there had been more than 700 arrests.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC near the family home in Nanterre, the relative said the rioting - which has seen thousands arrested, shops looted and hundreds of vehicles set alight across France - did not honour Nahel's memory.\n\n\"We didn't ask to break or steal. All of this is not for Nahel,\" they told the BBC, speaking on condition of anonymity because tensions are so high following Nahel's shooting.\n\nThey said they had called for a \"White March in the street. Walking in memory of Nahel. Walking, even being angry in the street, demonstrating, but without outbursts\".\n\nNahel M was shot dead by police on Tuesday, sparking days of protest and unrest\n\nThe relative said French authorities must now change the law that allows police officers to shoot during traffic stops.\n\nNahel's relative called for \"better training for the French police, weapons regulation for police, and reviewing the law that allows police to use lethal force if a young person refuses to stop at a traffic stop\".\n\nFrance's penal code was changed in 2017 to allow for a broader use of firearms after police said they were facing increased levels of violence.\n\nCritics argue the increase in traffic related shootings is a direct result of that change, which they say is much too vague because it leaves officers to determine whether the driver's refusal to comply poses a risk.\n\nSo far this year, three people have been killed during police traffic stops - following a record 13 people killed in traffic stop incidents last year. According to Reuters news agency most of those victims have been of black or Arab origin.\n\nAnais, a family friend and neighbour also told the BBC that being a young black man in France's suburbs meant being subject to racism, violence and racial profiling on a daily basis.\n\n\"They [the police] humiliate, insult and don't speak properly to them. And now they kill them! Nahel was covered by the press, but it's not the first time this has happened,\" she said.\n\nNahel's relative said as a result of the ongoing chaos, the family had not had a moment to sit down together and remember him.\n\n\"We want everything to calm down. Social media, riots, everything needs to calm down. With all of this, we haven't had time to sit down for five minutes together and think about how he's gone now,\" they said.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Nahel's grandmother also called for an end to the violence and accused rioters of using Nahel's death as an excuse.\n\n\"Don't destroy the schools, don't destroy the buses. It is other mothers who take these buses,\" Nadia, Nahel's grandmother, told BFMTV.", "Rishi Sunak has been under pressure to reduce migration to the UK\n\nA group of Tory MPs is calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to drastically cut migration, warning the failure to do so \"risks eroding public trust\".\n\nThe New Conservatives have issued a 12-point plan to cut net migration by about 400,000 before the next election.\n\nThe group of MPs recommend closing visa schemes for care workers, increasing salary thresholds, and capping refugee numbers.\n\nBut critics say the proposals would have consequences for the UK economy.\n\nMr Sunak's official spokesman said the government believes it is \"striking the right balance between keeping migration as low as possible while providing staff for key areas\".\n\nThe UK's overall population grew by more than 600,000 people last year, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe ONS said the rise was largely driven by more people from outside the EU arriving on student and work visas, and refugees fleeing conflict and persecution in Ukraine and Hong Kong.\n\nThe sharp increase represents a huge political challenge for Mr Sunak and the Conservatives, who have repeatedly promised to reduce net migration since taking power in 2010.\n\nThe party's 2019 manifesto committed to getting the number down, without setting a specific target, while former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron once pledged to bring net migration below 100,000.\n\nIn a report launched on Monday, the New Conservatives say the British public \"did not vote for mass migration and the social and economic harms it brings\".\n\n\"Without swift action to get migration under control, the Conservative Party will further erode the trust of hundreds of thousands of voters who lent the party their vote in 2019,\" the report says.\n\nThe report was written by Tory MP Tom Hunt and backed by a group of like-minded Conservatives, including the party's deputy chairman, Lee Anderson, Miriam Cates and James Daly.\n\nAt the report's launch, Mr Hunt, Ms Cates and Mr Daly insisted they were loyal to the prime minister, but felt his government could go further on cutting immigration.\n\nOne of the report's main recommendations is closing temporary schemes that grant eligibility for worker visas to care workers.\n\nThe report says this policy will reduce visas granted by 117,000, leading to a reduction in long-term inward migration to the UK of 82,000.\n\nPart of this proposed policy involves only allowing in skilled workers who earn £38,000 a year or more.\n\nA report by the Skills for Care charity said the number of vacancies in social care was at its highest rate on record, with 165,000 unfilled posts in 2021-22.\n\nSam Monaghan, chief executive at Methodist Homes, said not being able to recruit carers from overseas would put more pressure on the sector.\n\n\"Cutting off a key supply of care workers at a time when 500,000 people nationwide are waiting for care is not the answer,\" Mr Monaghan said.\n\nMr Sunak's official spokesman said the government was not planning to remove care workers from the shortage occupation list.\n\nThe government was \"using the flexibility we have through our migration system to ensure we have sufficient staff in key areas\" and \"looking to boost the numbers of domestic care staff that are available\", Downing Street said.\n\nMs Cates told the BBC the UK needed to cut off the supply of cheap foreign Labour and encourage from British people to fill jobs in the care sector.\n\nShe said scrapping temporary visa schemes for care workers would force \"employers to look at recruiting local young people\".\n\n\"We are never ever going to make that possible unless we close the immigration route first,\" the Tory MP said.\n\nBut fellow Tory MP Tim Loughton said while the principle of reducing met migration was right, there was a shortage of care workers in the UK.\n\n\"It's not as simple as just putting the salary thresholds up as well,\" he said. \"There's quite a lot of skilled but lower paid people that we need coming into this country.\"\n\nSome of the report's other proposals include:\n\nMadeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said \"trying to predict the impact of individual policy changes on migration is very hard\".\n\n\"Even the most fastidious attempts to model the impacts of policy on numbers - and this isn't one of them - will usually be wrong,\" she said.\n\nShe said immigration policy was a \"political choice\" and there was \"no reason the UK couldn't choose to be more restrictive\".\n\nBut she said the report does not \"engage with any of the trade-offs that more restrictive measures involve\".\n\n\"For example, one of the reasons demand for care workers has been so high is limited public funding in the care system,\" Ms Sumption said.\n\n\"International students have been a growing source of revenue for universities, so proposals that would reduce student numbers cannot be considered in isolation from the funding of higher education.\"\n\nShe said some of the proposals in the report were \"a bit outlandish\".\n\n\"Net migration is expected to decline anyway over the coming years even without policy changes,\" she added. \"However, if they want more significant restrictions it requires an honest conversation about the wider consequences and how to mitigate them.\"", "Rail passengers are being warned of disruption for the next six days, due to an overtime ban by train drivers in the Aslef union.\n\nFifteen train companies based in England will be hit from Monday until Saturday, in the latest move in the long-running pay dispute.\n\nMany will reduce their service levels, and passengers are being advised to check before they travel.\n\nAslef said the latest pay offer was like a return to \"Victorian times\".\n\nStrikes by other rail workers in the RMT union are set to take place later this month, on 20, 22 and 29 July.\n\nMost train companies rely on drivers working overtime to run their full schedules.\n\nAmong the disruption expected this week:\n\nThe long-running pay dispute by train drivers centres around union members accepting a deal worth 4% two years in a row, bringing drivers' average pay to £65,000. This offer has already been rejected by Aslef.\n\nIt would have been contingent on changes to working practices, which the employers and government - who dictate what is under discussion in talks - say are needed to cut costs and modernise how the railway runs.\n\n\"They wanted to go back to Victorian times, in relation to how we roster, how we recruit, how we do things,\" Aslef general secretary Mr Whelan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"The word 'reform' is 'want productivity for nothing'.\"\n\nThe union argues members, who have not had a pay rise in four years, should not have to sacrifice working conditions in return for a below-inflation wage increase.\n\nLast month, Aslef members at 10 operators backed further strike action, meaning it could last for another six months if there is no settlement.\n\nMr Whelan said the situation was a \"Westminster ideological problem\" and claimed the union did not have issues in Scotland, Wales, with freight, the London Underground, Crossrail or Eurostar.\n\n\"We did 14 pay deals in the last 12 months. The only place we can't get a pay deal is with the Westminster government,\" he added.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said Aslef had rejected a \"fair and affordable offer\" without putting it to its members. \"We ask Aslef to recognise the very real financial challenge the industry is facing and work with us to deliver a better, more reliable railway with a strong long-term future,\" it added.\n\nAslef does not have any further strikes planned at present but said more dates could \"quite possibly\" be added soon.\n\nMeanwhile, workers such as train guards in the RMT union are expected to walk out later this month in their dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions.\n\nThe strike action has now lasted over a year. With no resolution in sight, the train companies are preparing to move ahead with plans to close hundreds of ticket offices.\n\nThe RDG said only 12% of tickets were now sold at station kiosks.\n\nIts spokesperson said under proposed changes staff would be moved on to concourses to help and advise more customers. They added that employees and the public would be consulted about any changes.\n\nBut RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said last week his union would not \"meekly sit by and allow thousands of jobs to be sacrificed or see disabled and vulnerable passengers left unable to use the railways as a result\".\n\nThe union suggested it could take further industrial action over the issue.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From a young age, Darcey knew her mum had a \"sore heart\" and she could call for help on Alexa.\n\nA Scottish mum who received a heart transplant has told how her six-year-old daughter saved her life twice using a smart speaker.\n\nEmma Anderson, from Robroyston in Glasgow, was 15 when she was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.\n\nFrom a young age, her daughter Darcey knew her mum had a \"sore heart\" and she could call for help on Alexa.\n\nNow Darcey has used Alexa twice to raise the alarm when her 27-year-old mum has been unwell.\n\n\"I set up the Alexa so that if I passed out or was feeling unwell all she had to do was say, 'Alexa, call help', and that would call my mum who lives around the corner,\" Ms Anderson said.\n\n\"And she's had to call on Alexa a couple of times, she even called an ambulance on her own and that time I was in a really bad way.\n\n\"I'm so proud of her, she is a wee superstar.\"\n\nEmma said her heart was so damaged that she was hospitalised whilst waiting for a transplant\n\n\"Basically it means that the muscle surrounding the heart starts to grow too thick,\" she said.\n\n\"The way I was kind of described it was instead of beating against a cushion, it's like every beat the heart is beating against a brick wall so it's getting more and more damaged each time.\"\n\nMostly managed by medication through her life, she was told at a routine check-up that she needed a life-saving heart transplant urgently.\n\n\"Alexa, call help!\" allowed Darcey to alert nearby family members to help Emma.\n\n\"I went in for my routine check up and was told that it had gotten really bad and I couldn't wait on the routine list at home anymore, I had to come in and be put on an urgent list because basically if I left the hospital I didn't have much time left,\" she said.\n\n\"I went into hospital and a few months in my heart completely failed.\n\n\"I ended up on an aortic balloon pump which kept my heart beating for me until we could hopefully get a transplant.\n\n\"And then it was about 10 days after going on that, we got a call saying a donor heart was available.\"\n\nEmma received the transplant in April, 2022 at the NHS Golden Jubilee hospital in Clydebank.\n\nSince her transplant, Emma has been able to do things she had never done before like take her daughter to swimming and to the park\n\nWhen first diagnosed, she had an internal defibrillator implanted inside her chest, which \"fired\" three times last year.\n\nShe said the heart transplant had been transformative and she was able to marry her partner Conner last July.\n\nMs Anderson said: \"Since my transplant I have a totally new life now.\n\n\"I can actually walk to school and pick Darcey up and walk back again, something I could never do before.\n\n\"Over Easter, I managed to take Darcey swimming and to the play park, the farm park, simple things I wasn't able to do before, I can do now. I'm able to be a mummy now.\"\n\nAfter her transplant, Emma learned to walk again, being discharged around a week before her wedding\n\nAbout 28,000 Scots have an inherited heart condition, the most common being hypertrophic cardiomyopathy according to the British Journal of Cardiology.\n\nMs Anderson said she was eternally grateful to her donor and their family for what they have done for her.\n\n\"Getting a transplant is a very hard road, it's not easy,\" she said.\n\n\"I was on life support and all sorts of other treatments after my operation for a long while, and my muscles deteriorated so much I couldn't walk any more.\n\n\"The only thing I seemed to care about once I was better was learning to walk again so I could walk down that aisle and get married.\n\n\"I was literally discharged just over a week before the wedding, I still had stitches in walking down the aisle.\"\n\nEmma now stars in Tom Walker's the Best is Yet to Come music video\n\nWhile recovering in hospital, Ms Anderson created a TikTok video with images of different stages of her heart journey using Scots singing star Tom Walker's song, The Best Is Yet To Come.\n\nThe singer was so touched by the video he invited her to London to appear in a video featuring people who had inspired him.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nShe said: \"Tom contacted me and asked me to go down to London and be part of his music video to raise awareness.\n\n\"So I went down and did that with other people who were absolutely incredible, who had been through a lot in life too, and it was so nice of Tom to recognise that through his inspiring music.\n\n\"Like the lyrics say, I definitely think the best is yet to come for me thanks to my organ donor.\n\n\"It's a horrible situation to be in but…I'm eternally grateful. There are no words I could put into…what that donor family has done for me and my family and my child.\"\n\nChief executive of NHS Golden Jubilee, Gordon James, said: \"As we celebrate 75 years of the NHS, Emma's inspiring story shows us how valuable and crucial the life-saving care the NHS provides is to our patients.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with comprehensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website, BBC Sport mobile app and Red Button.\n\nNick Kyrgios has withdrawn from Wimbledon 2023 with a wrist injury.\n\nThe Australian, 28, lost to Novak Djokovic in last year's men's singles final and has only played one tournament this year because of a knee injury that required surgery.\n\nKyrgios announced on Sunday evening that he had torn a ligament in his wrist during his comeback.\n\n\"I'm really sad to say that I have to withdraw from Wimbledon this year,\" he posted on Instagram.\n\n\"I tried my hardest to be ready after my surgery and to be able to step on the Wimbledon courts again.\n\n\"During my comeback, I experienced some pain in my wrist during the week of Mallorca.\n\n\"As a precaution I had it scanned and it came back showing a torn ligament in my wrist.\n\n\"I tried everything to be able to play and I am disappointed to say that I just didn't have enough time to manage it before Wimbledon.\"I'll be back and, as always, I appreciate the support from all my fans.\"\n\nKyrgios was seeded 30th in SW19 and was set to face Belgian David Goffin in the opening round.\n\nWimbledon responded to Kyrgios' withdrawal by wishing him a \"swift recovery\" on social media.\n\n\"Sorry to hear your news Nick Kyrgios. Wishing you a swift recovery and hope to see you back on our courts next year,\" Wimbledon tweeted.\n• None Who's playing who? Details of the Wimbledon draw\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nThe start of an injury-hit season saw Kyrgios pull out of the Australian Open in January, a decision made on the eve of the tournament that left him \"devastated\".\n\nSurgery on a cyst growing in his meniscus quickly followed and he was not able to return to competitive action until June.\n\nKyrgios suffered a first-round loss to China's Wu Yibing at the Stuttgart Open, struggling with his movement during a straight-set defeat, then pulled out of the Halle Open the following week.\n\nHe had been practising at the All England Club this week, saying his body felt \"OK\" after sets against fellow Australian Jordan Thompson and American Maxime Cressy.\n\nKyrgios, known for his fiery temperament as well as his exciting tennis, reached his maiden major final at Wimbledon last year. He took the opening set before losing in four sets to Novak Djokovic.\n\nBritain's Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram, three-time major men's doubles champions, were due to face Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinaki in their opening doubles match.", "Some Virgin Media email users have been unable to access their inboxes for over two weeks, with no date for when the issue will be fixed.\n\nVirgin Media said all users can now send and receive emails again but some still cannot access messages from before the disruption.\n\nOne user, a retired IT professional, told the BBC he wasn't \"100% sure these emails are ever going to be recovered\".\n\nPhil Westlake, who used to design IT systems for several large UK companies, has lost access to his historic emails and said that in his experience disaster recovery plans in large organisations would stipulate that the situation should be resolved in a few hours.\n\n\"I'm struggling, and I guess anybody with any IT background, would struggle to understand why that's so difficult to to get it back,\" he said.\n\nIt has previously said that all emails were \"safe and secure\".\n\nThe firm operates several email services including @virginmedia.com, @ntlworld.com, @blueyonder.co.uk and @virgin.net.\n\nThe BBC has asked the company how many people have been affected.\n\nIn an email to customers sent on 23 June, Axel Wehrle, director of customer service for Virgin Media wrote: \"Unfortunately a part of the hardware that manages our mailbox platform experienced a failure, which overloaded the servers and caused service disruption for some email users.\"\n\nOne Cambridgeshire customer, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC the extended problems were \"frustrating\" and \"upsetting\". Her emails contained messages of condolence following her husband's death. She also needs access to the email as executor of his will.\n\nAnother user, Ian, who is based in Merseyside, said the problems had disrupted charity auctions he was organising.\n\n\"[My inbox] has all the details of the donors, donations, and everything else to do with the campaign... and I simply must not have lost any information/contacts/emails etc. or it will be catastrophic.\n\n\"My entire life is on that email account as I have had it for approximately 25 years,\" he said.\n\nA Virgin Media spokesperson told the BBC: \"Following a recent issue with our email service, all Virgin Media email users are able to send and receive emails as normal.\n\n\"Unfortunately a small proportion of impacted users are currently unable to view historic emails in their inboxes.\n\n\"We know that this will be frustrating for those who have important emails and documents saved in their inboxes, and we apologise unreservedly for the inconvenience this is causing.\n\n\"Fixing this issue is taking longer than we anticipated but our teams are working flat out to fully restore all historic emails as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe company has reported the email issue to the Information Commissioner's Office, but stressed that the incident was not a data breach and no users' data or personal information had been accessed or compromised in any way.", "Prof Zosia Miedzybrodzka first began to suspect the Orkney link 25 years ago\n\nGenetic testing has begun on the Orkney island of Westray for a gene variant linked to a higher risk of breast cancer.\n\nA landmark study found one in 100 people with Orcadian grandparents had a specific mutation of the BRCA1 gene.\n\nResearchers found most of them could trace their ancestry to Westray, which has a population of just 600 people.\n\nAll adults on Westray who have grandparents from the island are being offered the test for the gene variant.\n\nThere are many other BRCA gene variants which can leave women at a higher risk of ovarian and breast cancer.\n\nBut the Orkney variant BRCA1 V1736A is believed to be the first time a geographic ancestral link has been made in the UK.\n\nGina Rendall, operations manager at the Westray development Trust, is one of the first taking part in the testing scheme.\n\nShe said: \"It is hugely important that testing is rolled out, we're just a pinpoint in the whole thing.\n\n\"Knowledge is power in this case, it's giving you information for making a proper healthcare plan for the rest of your life.\n\n\"There are a lot of anxious folk out there, if we can be preventative on this, it is going to save money and save lives.\"\n\nGina Rendall will be one of the first to take part in the scheme\n\nThe Westray Development Trust is providing £15,000 towards the testing programme.\n\nMs Rendall added: \"When the link to the variant was discovered the news had a deep impact on our small community.\n\n\"I'm really proud to be from Westray and of the Trust's pledge to support the pilot.\"\n\nEarlier this year a team of geneticists visited Westray to tell the community about the gene and the plans to offer testing and support.\n\nIdentifying the variant was the result of 25 years of research by Zosia Miedzybrodzka, professor of genetics at Aberdeen University and director of the NHS North of Scotland Genetic Service.\n\nResearchers believes the Orkney link arose from a single founder hundreds of years ago on the isle of Westray\n\nProf Miedzybrodzka said: \"We highlighted that this gene alteration started some 400 years ago in Westray.\n\n\"It will not have come without a price. Some people will have found that scary, daunting, maybe a bit upsetting.\n\n\"What we are offering is for people to have a test and take control of their destiny by being able to take preventative healthcare measures.\"\n\nProf Miedzybrodzka says she wants testing to be successful so it can be rolled out to others in Orkney and the rest of Scotland.\n\nBRCA genes are present in every person, both men and women, but when a fault occurs in one of them it can result in DNA damage and lead to cells becoming cancerous.\n\nPeople with a genetic variant have a 50% chance of passing it on to their children.\n\nAwareness of the faulty gene was raised a decade ago when Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after discovering the BRCA1 variant.\n\nThe operation was said to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer from 87% to 5%.\n\nHowever, the NHS advises that risk-reducing surgery is not the only option.\n\nIt also advises awareness of changes to breasts, annual breast screenings and MRI scans can help detect breast cancer, while lifestyle changes like healthy eating and exercise can \"sometimes reduce risk\".\n\nThere is currently no reliable screening test for ovarian cancer, it adds.", "Labour MP Jess Phillips is not racist, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson has said, following a social media row involving Ms Phillips and a prominent headteacher.\n\nKatharine Birbalsingh - from the Michaela Community School - has accused Ms Phillips of racism and bullying.\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Phillipson said Ms Birbalsingh should raise any concerns through a formal parliamentary process.\n\nMs Birbalsingh had already written to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThe Twitter row began after Ms Birbalsingh posted a picture in May of the late popstar Tina Turner alongside Ms Turner's abusive ex-husband, Ike Turner, with the caption: \"Good times.\"\n\nIn response, Ms Phillips, who is shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, wrote: \"Domestic abuse is never OK and we will defeat those who prop up the status quo.\"\n\nShortly afterwards Ms Birbalsingh deleted the tweet, then posted: \"To the lunatics accusing me of celebrating wife beating - I tweeted a gif with a number of photos of Tina.\n\n\"For some reason it rested on one photo which I didn't notice when I tweeted... nor did I know that was Ike.\"\n\nShe added that \"the explanation is not that I like wife beating\".\n\nLater that same day - 24 May - Ms Phillips wrote on Twitter: \"Seems that far from holding any kind of line that headteacher woman seems not to be able to take criticism of her actions. I'd be keen to hear of domestic abuse policies she has in her school or teaching plans, perhaps I'll write.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Ms Birbalsingh posted an open letter to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on her Twitter account, writing that Ms Phillips' behaviour was \"a clear example of 'unconscious bias'\".\n\nIn the four-page letter, she wrote that Ms Phillips \"hates me, despite not knowing me, because she subscribes to the idea that black and Asian individuals in public life owe a duty to voice opinions that match with a left wing view of the world, or they are worthy of her contempt\".\n\nMs Birbalsingh said that she was not suggesting Ms Phillips \"hates all people of colour\".\n\nShe added that Ms Phillips called into question her school's safeguarding policies \"in a deliberate attempt to challenge my competence as a headteacher\".\n\nShe said that after Ms Phillips' tweets, people contacted her institution saying it was \"unsafe for female teachers and pupils\". She said the Teaching Regulation Agency had been contacted with a demand that she be struck off.\n\nAsked on Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday show whether she thought Ms Phillips was racist, Ms Phillipson said: \"No, I don't. But I think it's important that, if people have concerns, if they're unhappy about the conduct of a member of parliament, that can be investigated as part of that process.\"\n\nMs Phillips did not refer to Ms Birbalsingh's ethnicity in any of her posts.\n\nMs Birbalsingh - dubbed Britain's strictest head teacher - attracted controversy during her time as the chair of the Social Mobility Commission between November 2021 and January 2023.\n\nShe came under fire last April for saying girls are less likely to choose physics A-level because it involves \"hard maths\" - later admitting her remarks had been \"clunky\".\n\nShe resigned as the government's top social mobility adviser in January saying that she was doing \"more harm than good\" in the role.\n\nMore recently, Ms Birbalsingh - who describes herself as a \"floating voter\" - spoke at the National Conservatism conference.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Ms Phillips for comment.", "That's it for today, and for evidence from Welsh officials for the time being.\n\nWe're now ending our coverage of the UK's Covid inquiry for today. Thanks for joining us.\n\nToday's live page was written by David Deans with analysis from Hywel Griffith. The page was edited by John Arkless and Emily McGarvey.\n\nYou can read more about the Covid inquiry here.", "Emma Thompson is among the signatories of the letter to the AELTC\n\nFilm stars and celebrities are calling on Wimbledon to end its new sponsorship deal with Barclays over the bank's support for fossil fuel projects.\n\nActress Emma Thompson and film director Richard Curtis are two of the campaigners who said Barclays was \"profiting from climate chaos\".\n\nWimbledon said Barclays was committed to creating access to sport for all.\n\nBarclays said it was one of the first banks to set an ambition to become net zero by 2050.\n\nThe All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) announced Barclays as an official banking partner of the Championships in November last year.\n\nAs the 2023 Championships get under way on Monday, Thompson and Curtis are among those to sign an open letter to the AELTC.\n\nThe letter is from Make My Money Matter, a campaign group co-founded by Curtis that seeks to transform the financial system to put \"people and planet on a par with profit\".\n\nIt also has the backing of retail guru Mary Portas, entrepreneur and Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and musician Brian Eno, among others.\n\nFour Weddings and a Funeral screenwriter Curtis said: \"With the great respect and love for Wimbledon - and all the magic from Billie Jean King to Andy Murray - the decision of the AELTC to partner with Barclays is a very bad line call.\"\n\nWriter and director Richard Curtis co-founded campaign group Make My Money Matter\n\nAddressed to the chief executive of the AELTC Sally Bolton, it states: \"Barclays is Europe's largest fossil fuel funder, providing over $190 billion to the industry since the Paris Climate Agreement was struck in 2016.\n\n\"Put simply, Barclays is financing and profiting from climate chaos, and accepting a sponsorship deal from them is an endorsement of these actions,\" the letter said.\n\nThe campaign group claims the AELTC's decision to team up with Barclays is \"not only bad for the environment, but also inconsistent with Wimbledon's cultural legacy and environmental policies\".\n\n\"As outlined in your 2023 climate strategy, your intent is to: 'Sustain… The Championships in a way that ensures we have… positive impact on our environment. We will be honest, transparent and act with integrity in what we can and cannot do.'\n\n\"We do not believe sponsorship from Europe's largest funder of fossil fuels is consistent with this approach,\" the letter states.\n\nIn a statement the All England Club said it welcomed Barclays as \"the latest addition to our family of official partners\".\n\n\"Barclays' commitment to creating access to sport for all is something that we are passionate about... our ambition to have a positive impact on the environment is central to our day-to-day operations and is a core part of putting on a successful Championships.\n\n\"We know this is one of the defining challenges of our times and we are fully committed to playing our part. From using 100% renewable electricity and offering low carbon options on our menus, to sending zero waste to landfill and promoting a culture of reuse, we're working hard to achieve a positive environmental impact across all of our operations.\"\n\nBarclays said it believed it could \"make the greatest difference as a bank by working with customers and clients as they transition to a low-carbon business model, focusing on facilitating the finance needed to change business practices and scale new green technologies\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'They've taken my baby' - Mother of teen shot by police\n\nThe killing of Nahel M, 17, has sparked riots in cities across France as well as the town of Nanterre to the west of Paris where he grew up.\n\nAn only child brought up by his mother, he had been working as a takeaway delivery driver and played rugby league.\n\nHis education was described as chaotic. He was enrolled at a college in Suresnes not far from where he lived, to train to be an electrician.\n\nThose who knew Nahel, who was of Algerian descent, said he was well-loved in Nanterre where he lived with his mother Mounia and had apparently never known his father.\n\nHis record of attendance of college was poor. Nahel had been in trouble before and was known to police, but family lawyers stressed he had no criminal record.\n\nHe had given his mother a big kiss before she went to work, with the words \"I love you, Mum\".\n\nShortly after nine in the morning on Tuesday he was fatally shot in the chest, point-blank, at the wheel of a Mercedes car for driving off during a police traffic check. At 17 he was too young for a licence.\n\n\"What am I going to do now?\" asked his mother. \"I devoted everything to him,\" she said. \"I've only got one, I haven't got 10 [children]. He was my life, my best friend.\"\n\nHis grandmother spoke of him as a \"kind, good boy\".\n\n\"A refusal to stop doesn't give you a licence to kill,\" said Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure. \"All the children of the Republic have a right to justice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNahel had spent the past three years playing for the Pirates of Nanterre rugby club. He had been part of an integration programme for teenagers struggling in school, run by an association called Ovale Citoyen.\n\nThe programme was aimed at getting people from deprived areas into apprenticeships and Nahel was learning to be an electrician.\n\nOvale Citoyen president Jeff Puech was one of the adults locally who knew him best. He had seen him only a few days ago and spoke of a \"kid who used rugby to get by\".\n\n\"He was someone who had the will to fit in socially and professionally, not some kid who dealt in drugs or got fun out of juvenile crime,\" Mr Puech told Le Parisien.\n\nHe praised the teenager's \"exemplary attitude\", a far cry from what he condemned as a character assassination of him painted on social media.\n\nHe had got to know Nahel when he lived with his mother in the Vieux-Pont suburb of Nanterre before they moved to the Pablo Picasso estate.\n\nShortly after his death an ambulance man, Marouane, launched a tirade against a police officer, explaining later that he knew the boy as if he was his little brother. He had seen him grown up as a kind, helpful child. \"He never raised a hand to anyone and he was never violent,\" he told reporters.\n\nHis mother believes the police officer who shot him \"saw an Arab face, a little kid, and wanted to take his life\". She told France 5 TV she blamed only the one person who fired the shot, not the police: \"I have friends who are officers - they're with me wholeheartedly.\"\n\n\"May Allah grant him mercy,\" read a banner unfurled over the Paris ring road outside Parc des Princes stadium.\n\nFlowers were left at the site where Nahel died\n\n\"Police violence happens every day, especially if you're Arab or black,\" said one young man in another French city calling for justice for Nahel.\n\nBut the family's lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, said this was not about racism, but about justice.\n\n\"We have a law and judicial system that protects police officers and it creates a culture of impunity in France,\" he told the BBC.\n\nNahel had been the subject of as many as five police checks since 2021 - what is known as a refus d'obtempérer - refusing to comply with an order to stop.\n\nWhen he was stopped by police, he was driving a Mercedes with Polish number plates, with two passengers and no licence.\n\nAs recently as last weekend, he had reportedly been placed in detention for refusing to comply and was due to appear before a juvenile court in September.\n\nHis name was on a police file called a Taj, used by authorities for a variety of investigations.\n\nLast September a judge imposed a \"disciplinary measure\". Most of the trouble he got into involved cars: driving without a licence or insurance and using false number plates.\n\nBut Nahel had never been convicted, said family lawyer Jennifer Cambla, and had no criminal record. Being known to police was not the same as a criminal record, because he had never been tried for anything listed on his police file, she told French TV.\n\n\"I think in this kind of suburb it's pretty rare that a young person hasn't been stopped by police or hasn't been in custody,\" Ms Cambla said.\n\nThe riots that his death has provoked are a reminder for many in France of the events of 2005, when two teenagers, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, were electrocuted as they fled police after a game of football and ran into an electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.\n\n\"It could have been me, it could have been my little brother,\" a Clichy teenager called Mohammed told French website Mediapart.", "A 42-year-old man charged with the attempted murder of a woman in a domestic incident in County Down on Friday has been remanded into custody.\n\nJames Carlisle, of Harbour Road in Kilkeel, appeared at Monday's short hearing at Newry Magistrates' Court via video-link.\n\nHe faces five further charges.\n\nThey are grievous bodily harm with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and two counts of intimidation of a witness.\n\nAn investigating officer confirmed that he was aware of the facts of the case and could connect Mr Carlisle to the charges.\n\nA defence barrister confirmed no bail application was being made on Monday but one would be made on 19 July, when Mr Carlisle will appear in court again via video-link.", "Wales' response to the Covid-19 pandemic will be covered by the UK-wide Covid inquiry\n\nSenior officials are giving evidence to the UK Covid inquiry about how well prepared Wales was for the pandemic.\n\nChief medical officer Sir Frank Atherton and former NHS Wales head Dr Andrew Goodall are being questioned on Monday afternoon.\n\nBoth men were key to Wales' Covid response, appearing regularly in live televised media briefings.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford and the then Health Minister Vaughan Gething are due before the inquiry on Tuesday.\n\nMr Gething became economy minister in May 2021 while Dr Goodall is now the Welsh government's permanent secretary, its most senior civil servant.\n\nThe hearings, chaired by former judge and crossbench peer Baroness Hallett, have heard accusations from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru group that there was a \"catastrophic failure\" to plan for such an emergency by Welsh ministers.\n\nAhead of the hearing on Monday, group member Margaret Williams, whose mum died in a care home in April 2020, said she believed the Welsh government's lack of preparedness for a pandemic resulted in them acting \"like headless chickens\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast programme: \"It's a very significant week. I am hopeful that we get some answers from these people. We haven't had any up to now.\n\n\"I think as a government they had a duty of care and I think it was well within their remit to do a full plan.\n\n\"A lot of people died, my mum included, and I don't feel there was any preparation.\"\n\nGiving evidence on the first day of the inquiry last month, the group said the Welsh government \"do not appear to have taken sufficient steps to understand and plan for the risks of a pandemic\", despite UK-wide warnings.\n\nThe group's barrister, Kirsten Heaven, said this had led to \"much more severe consequences from Covid-19 for vulnerable groups and communities\".\n\nThe group also accused the Welsh government of trying to \"shift responsibility\" for pandemic planning on to the Senedd and civil service.\n\n\"Wales and the Welsh government did not have an adequate understanding of the risks posed to the people of Wales from the pandemic before and during the relevant period,\" Ms Heaven added.\n\n\"For example, pandemic preparedness failed to take account of the acute health inequalities in Wales, distinct from the rest of the UK, and that specifically included levels of chronic ill-health and disability in the older population.\"\n\nWales' pandemic preparedness is being considered as part of the UK-wide inquiry, with public hearings in Wales this autumn.\n\nThe Welsh government has rejected calls for a Wales-specific inquiry.\n\nA cross-party Senedd committee has also been established to see if there were any gaps in what the UK inquiry reports about Wales.\n\nIf it finds gaps it will review those areas, providing Members of the Senedd agree, but it would not be the full public inquiry that campaigners want.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRishi Sunak has accused Australia of breaking the spirit of cricket over the controversial dismissal of England's Jonny Bairstow on Sunday.\n\nBatsman Bairstow was stumped in the second Ashes Test after walking away from his position in the apparent belief the over had ended.\n\nThe contentious wicket has overshadowed Australia's 43-run win against the hosts at Lord's.\n\nAustralia captain Pat Cummins said it was a fair dismissal within the rules.\n\nBut his England counterpart Ben Stokes said although he agreed Bairstow was out, he would not have wanted to win a game \"in that manner\".\n\nThe incident led to the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which owns Lord's, suspending three members over confrontations with Australia players.\n\nBelieving the ball to be dead and the over to have concluded, Bairstow left his ground as wicketkeeper Alex Carey threw at the stumps and was given out.\n\nEngland coach Brendon McCullum said Bairstow believed the umpires had declared the over finished, which would mean the ball was dead.\n\nThe dismissal was referred to the off-field third umpire, however, who decided it was still in play and Bairstow was indeed out.\n\nAsked on Monday whether Mr Sunak believed Australia's actions were not in keeping with the spirit of cricket, his spokesman said: \"Yes\".\n\n\"The prime minister agrees with Ben Stokes. He said he simply wouldn't want to win a game in the manner Australia did,\" the spokesman added.\n\nDespite Mr Sunak's verbal shot at Australia's cricketers, the Bairstow controversy is unlikely to spark a diplomatic incident between the UK and Australia.\n\nWhen Mr Sunak met Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Downing Street this May, the pair said they looked forward to a summer of strong sporting rivalry between two nations.\n\nResponding to Mr Sunak's intervention, the Australian high commissioner to the UK, Stephen Smith, told the BBC that every cricket follower will have formed a view about what happened Lord's.\n\n\"And those views will invariably be strongly held and firmly put,\" he said. \"The Ashes has always had such moments.\"\n\nHowever his predecessor Alexander Downer took a more robust line, telling the Sun newspaper the incident had made England look like \"bad losers\".\n\n\"They lost and so they're now screaming blue murder about it and it wasn't fair. Boo hoo,\" he added.\n\nAustralia head coach Andrew McDonald defended his team's actions, saying he didn't see \"too many issues with it\".\n\n\"There is no doubt that when a player is leaving their crease that you take that opportunity,\" he added.\n\nCricket's laws say the ball is dead \"when it is clear to the bowler's end umpire that the fielding side and both batters at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play\".\n\nRishi Sunak is a keen cricket fan and attended the fourth day of the Lord's test on Saturday\n\nStokes said: \"When is it justified that the umpires have called over? Is the on-field umpires making movement... is that enough to call over? I'm not sure.\n\n\"I am not disputing the fact it is out because it is out,\" he added. \"Would I want to win a game in that manner? The answer for me is no.\"\n\nThe dismissal, which left England needing 178 runs with four wickets left, created a hostile atmosphere, with Australia's team being booed by the traditionally subdued Lord's crowd.\n\nIt also led to angry exchanges in the Long Room, an area outside the team dressing rooms, between Australia players Usman Khawaja and David Warner and spectators.\n\nThe MCC said it had suspended three of its members after the \"completely unacceptable\" scenes and apologised to the Australia team.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Blackpink had one of the world's top 10 albums in 2022\n\nBlackpink have made history by becoming the first ever Korean band to headline a major UK music festival.\n\nThe K-pop girl group played an electrifying set at London's BST Hyde Park to a sold-out crowd of 65,000 fans, some of whom travelled half way across the world to see them perform.\n\n\"We've been waiting for this since last year,\" said Jeangil Pagunsan, who had come to the UK from the Philippines.\n\n\"No words can explain the joy we feel right now. This night was so insane.\"\n\n\"We love everything about them,\" said her friend Rick Mae Vaporoso. \"Everything was so hype.\"\n\n\"Their songs are great, their personality is great, they're really energising,\" agreed Adrian and Jess Chan, who'd set off from Nottingham at 06:00 to make sure they secured a prime spot in the audience.\n\nThe gig involved a revamped setlist from Blackpink's current world tour, with new staging and choreography\n\nMother and daughter Michelle and Yazmin Glackin had a trickier journey - their early morning plane from Northern Ireland was cancelled.\n\nAfter an agonising wait, they finally grabbed the last two seats on the 15:30 flight, arriving at the concert with all of their luggage to make sure they didn't miss the show.\n\n\"It's been a long day, but it was all worth it. We'd do it all over again,\" said Michelle, whose daughter is \"absolutely besotted\" by the quartet.\n\n\"But I've seen nothing, 'cos she was on my shoulders the whole time,\" she said.\n\nFans queued all day to get to the front of the barriers at Hyde Park\n\nBlackpink aren't just one of the biggest K-pop bands in the world - they're one of the world's biggest bands full stop.\n\nFormed in an intense, six-year-long bootcamp, they're comprised of Lisa (real name Lalisa Manobal), 26, from Thailand; Rosé (Roseanne Park), also 26, who was raised in New Zealand and Australia; Jennie Kim, 27, who grew up in South Korea; and Jisoo Kim, 28, from Gunpo, about 20 miles south of Seoul.\n\nSince the release of their debut single Whistle in 2016, they've become the most followed act on YouTube and the first K-pop girl band to sell a million albums.\n\nTheir most recent record, Born Pink, entered the UK charts at number one, and the group have a combined 356 million Instagram followers.\n\nSo while they might have seemed an outlier on the UK festival circuit, where this year's headliners are largely safe, tried-and-tested acts like Arctic Monkeys, The Killers and The Strokes, Blackpink were a smart choice for the more adventurous BST line-up.\n\nThe band are currently in the middle of a world tour, with a finely-tuned show that combines their bombastic, confident pop songs with the sort of choreography that would make Strictly's professional dancers break into a cold sweat.\n\nThey burst onto the stage with two of their hardest-hitting anthems, Pink Venom and How You Like That, bathed in pink lights against a video wall covered in sharp, black thorns.\n\nThat's a dichotomy that's burned into the band's identity, from their name to their musical output.\n\nEvery sweetly-sung melody and pop hook is juxtaposed with a sinister EDM riff, or a frenetic rap breakdown; and their songs often end in a military style \"rum-pa-pum\" chant.\n\nAll of which works perfectly when you want to send an audience into a complete frenzy on a Sunday night.\n\nThe four-piece keep up a frenetic pace for the first 20 minutes, stomping down the catwalk and breaking into Fosse-inspired chair choreography during Pretty Savage.\n\n\"London, what a nice breeze you have,\" exclaims Rosé during a brief pause, grateful at the chance to stay cool amid the non-stop action.\n\nThe middle section of the show lets each member show off their solo material, and reveal a bit more of their personality.\n\nJisoo is all doe-eyed and demure as she plays the sweet-hearted love song Flower; while Rosé, Blackpink's most gifted writer, shows off her pop nous with a medley of the hit songs Gone and On The Ground.\n\nJennie, fresh from her co-starring role in the HBO drama Idol, shines through a playful version of Solo; while Lisa, who best embodies the band's in-your-face attitude, rips through the hip-hop track Money, then starts voguing in the dance breakdown.\n\nThe only slight hiccup comes when air cannons shoot thousands of streamers into the air during Rosé's solo set, only for a gust of wind to blow them backwards into the stage, where they hang off the lighting rig for the rest of the night.\n\nShrugging off the hitch, the band reunite for a high-octane third act that includes the summer dance anthem Lovesick Girls and the insistently catchy Shut Down (which samples Paganini's second violin concerto, La Campanella, to great effect).\n\nBut the highlight is Tally, whose strident lyrics - \"No one's keeping tally, I do what I want with who I like\" - are an unusual affirmation of sexual liberation in the notoriously buttoned-up world of K-pop.\n\nRosé introduces the song as being \"very special to us\", and the band drop their choreography to perform it side-by-side - like the Spice Girls doing 2 Become 1, only with more f-bombs.\n\nTheir undisguised affection suggests there's still life left in the band; despite speculation over whether they'll resign their seven-year contract with YG Entertainment, which is thought to expire next month.\n\nSome 65,000 fans watched the Hyde Park show on Sunday\n\nShould they take the opportunity to wrestle more control over their career, the edgier lyrical content of Tally feels like a signpost for where they want to go next.\n\nNot that any of those backstage machinations matter to the fans in the field, who holler out every word - even the Korean ones - as the show comes to an explosive finale with the gargantuan hooks of DDU-DU DDU-DU and the euphoric Forever Young.\n\n\"We definitely did not expect this much energy,\" declares Rosé, as she waves goodbye.\n\n\"I can't put it into words, but thank you so much for everyone who showed up today,\" adds Jennie.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that the Hyde Park gig involved a completely revamped setlist from Blackpink's current world tour, incorporating both new staging and choreography.\n\nAlthough the band previously delivered a version of the set when they played Coachella in April, they had to relearn all the changes while playing in Australia last week; and squeezed in a final dress rehearsal during soundcheck on Sunday morning, about 24 hours after flying into the UK from Incheon in South Korea.\n\nBut rather than letting jetlag get the better of them, onlookers said they were full of energy and perfectly locked in sync, performing as if they had a full audience in front of them.\n\n\"On any level, with any comparison, it's a spectacular, spectacular show,\" says Jim King, chief executive of European festivals at AEG Presents, who booked the band for Hyde Park.\n\n\"Playing Hyde Park or Coachella is very demanding on an artist, especially on a pop artist. And the level of detail in that show, combined with all the one-off elements, just shows how professional and talented they are.\"\n\nAnd while Blackpink are the first K-pop band to headline a UK festival, King, who is the head of European festivals for live entertainment giant AEG, says they won't be the last.\n\n\"This genre of music is only going to get bigger,\" he says. \"You've seen it today. There's great passion out there, even though many of these bands have never been to a greenfield festival before.\n\n\"I think that any resistance we may have felt before has been blown away by Blackpink - and that opens the door for many of their contemporaries to come through as well. \"", "The House of Lords has voted against government plans to weaken detention limits for children and pregnant women in its migration bill.\n\nThe legislation would scrap existing legal caps on how long they can be held ahead of being removed from the UK for arriving illegally.\n\nBut peers voted to preserve the current protections in a series of amendments.\n\nThey also voted to ban the deportation of LGBT migrants to nations including Rwanda.\n\nThe proposed changes are among 11 defeats suffered by ministers on the Illegal Migration Bill in votes on Monday evening.\n\nThey can be overturned when the bill goes back to the House of Commons, where - unlike in the Lords - the government has a majority.\n\nBut it raises the prospect of another clash between ministers and Tory backbenchers over contested aspects of the legislation.\n\nThe bill, backed by MPs in March, is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's high-profile pledge to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nIt would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe government says it is committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, despite the Court of Appeal ruling last week it was unlawful. It has already said it will appeal the decision at the Supreme Court.\n\nThere has been concern about how children will be treated under the new migration bill, as well as accusations that existing UK regulations to prevent modern slavery would be undermined.\n\nAlthough the legal duty to deport migrants would not apply to under-18s the bill would give ministers new powers to deport them in certain circumstances.\n\nIt would also get rid of the current three day-limit on how long children and pregnant women can be detained, as well as the 24-hour maximum for children unaccompanied by an adult.\n\nThe government argues detention powers are necessary to ensure migrants destined for removal do not \"disappear into the community\" - and says no one would be held longer than is \"absolutely necessary\" to ensure they are deported.\n\nIt adds that there is also an over-arching legal duty to ensure the length of detention is \"reasonable\", adding that leaving the UK voluntarily will \"always be an option for all\".\n\nHowever in series of votes on Wednesday, a handful of Conservatives teamed up with opposition peers to preserve the detention limits.\n\nTory peer Baroness Mobarik, who proposed the amendments, said \"verbal assurances\" from ministers were not enough and \"necessary safeguards\" had to be added to the bill itself.\n\n\"The psychological harms of detention on young children is significant and likely to impact them for the rest of their lives,\" she added.\n\nImmigration Minister Lord Murray of Blidworth said safeguards were already in place for the detention of pregnant women, whilst those in the later stages of pregnancy would be released on immigration bail.\n\nChild detention was also a contentious issue when the bill was debated in the Commons, with the government avoiding a showdown with Tory rebels by promising to listen to concerns.\n\nTim Loughton, who spearheaded the rebellion, said at the time he wanted a maximum limit to remain.\n\nIn other votes on Monday, the Lords voted to ban deportations of LGBT migrants to 10 mainly African countries, including Rwanda, Nigeria and Kenya - with a specific ban on trans men and women being deported to Brazil.\n\nWhen the proposed bans were initially debated last week, Crossbench peer Lord Etherton, who suggested them, said the countries were \"hostile and unsafe\" for LGBT people.\n\nPeers also approved an amendment to retain the role of the courts in deciding what a \"reasonable\" length of detention is - striking down new powers in the bill that would allow ministers to decide.", "Protections for NHS staff to speak out about wrongdoing may be insufficient to prevent another big scandal like that at the Mid Staffordshire hospital trust, an expert has told BBC News.\n\nSir Robert Francis led the inquiry into hundreds of patient deaths at Stafford Hospital more than a decade ago.\n\nHe says despite subsequent attempts to encourage whistleblowing, some still pay a heavy price for speaking up.\n\nAnd this victimisation discourages others from coming forward.\n\nThe NHS National Guardian Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark, whose job it is to protect whistleblowers in England, also says too many managers in the health service are still not protecting those who raise concerns from victimisation or bullying.\n\nA record number of more than 25,000 NHS whistleblowers came forward last year - up by a quarter on the year before - raising issues such as patient safety and bullying.\n\nTristan Reuser, a senior eye surgeon at the main hospital trust in Birmingham, became a whistleblower when he complained about a lack of nursing staff, after he felt he had to use a non-medical colleague to help with an urgent operation.\n\nBut instead of addressing the issue, management turned on him, he tells BBC News.\n\nThe Trust says that Mr Reuser's actions led to two serious safety incidents.\n\nMr Reuser says: \"If you whistleblow, you criticise, essentially, systems - systems designed by senior management.\n\n\"So you criticise senior management - and if you're in the position of a senior manager, you don't like that. So what can we do about this?\"\n\nMr Reuser was investigated, suspended and then sacked and reported to the General Medical Council - which found there was no case to answer.\n\nA subsequent employment tribunal found he had been unfairly dismissed.\n\nEye surgeon Tristan Reuser had been unfairly dismissed from his post, a tribunal found\n\nMr Reuser seems robust - but asked how he had coped with the emotional burden of the investigation, the GMC case, the employment tribunal, he falters.\n\n\"It was pretty bad,\" he says. \"And at times, I thought this is the end of it.\"\n\nThere is a long pause as he gathers himself.\n\n\"It's tough, career-changing,\" he says. \"Sometimes for some people, I'm sure, life-changing.\"\n\nAsked if, like some others who have spoken to BBC News he had thought about suicide, Mr Reuser says: \"I've had those thoughts, yup. But you know, a supportive wife makes it go away.\"\n\nA University Hospitals Birmingham official says the trust takes safety concerns raised by staff seriously.\n\nIt accepted and apologised for errors made in Mr Reuser's case but said it had acted in the interest of patient welfare.\n\nLike every NHS trust in England, UHB employs freedom-to-speak-up guardians to help whistleblowers be heard.\n\nThis system was set up in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire scandal that saw hundreds of patient deaths due to poor care between 2005 and 2009.\n\nBut when Sir Robert is asked whether he is confident it will prevent another catastrophe, he says: \"Am I confident, 100%? No.\n\n\"There is a danger of it happening again when pressures similar to those that existed at the time of Mid Staffs come about.\n\n\"But I think the way to stop it is to think all the time about the culture and make sure you've got an open culture, a supportive one and one that treats the patient first by listening to the staff's concerns about them.\"\n\nFailing to listen to staff concerns is often a sign of poor leadership, Sir Robert tells BBC News.\n\n\"Principally, it is a matter of the leadership of the organisations,\" he says, \"because the leadership, by which I mean the chief executive, the board, have to buy into and understand what this is all about.\n\n\"And probably people at that level - of a certain type - find it difficult to let go of control and one of the things about allowing people to speak up is... you're not entirely in control.\"\n\nOne of the problems reporting on this story is finding people willing to speak publicly about their experiences.\n\nMany of those who did speak to BBC News did not want to be identified - they spoke of being victimised and isolated at work, of the risk that, like Mr Reuser, they could be referred to the medical regulator or lose their jobs and careers.\n\nAnd many spoke of a climate of fear.\n\nDr A, so terrified of management reprisals BBC News has had to disguise their identity, also raised issues around patient safety only to find themselves being investigated.\n\n\"I've had sleeping difficulties, I've had counselling - it's been absolutely horrendous,\" Dr A says.\n\n\"It really has been a dismantling of me as a person - it's made me more fearful, more anxious.\"\n\nAnd the culture in their hospital is best described as \"management by fear\".\n\n\"My concern about doing this interview is that they would find out who I was and then the punishment that would come my way - because I'm absolutely certain punishment would come,\" Dr A says.\n\n\"It comes straight from the top - it's from the executive team.\n\n\"They have been instrumental in causing it but yet they are tasked with trying to sort it out - and that cannot be the case.\"\n\nDr Chidgey-Clark is calling on NHS England and the CQC to do everything in their power to protect whistleblowers\n\nDr Chidgey-Clark says the main healthcare regulator - the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - and NHS England itself could do more to protect individual whistleblowers and rein in rogue managers.\n\n\"I do call on them to do everything they can within their power to ensure there is accountability and these serious issues are looked into,\" she says, \"because without that, more high-profile cases will happen and, potentially, more patient harm and worker harm will happen. And in our society, in our healthcare system, we don't want to see that.\n\n\"Nobody should suffer for doing the right thing.\"\n\nNHS England admits too many staff remain afraid to raise issues - but, an official says, it wants all employees to feel they work in an organisation where their voices count.\n\nThe CQC, meanwhile, tells BBC News it examines how all hospital trusts respond to whistleblowers, as part of its inspection regime - and for any trust to restrict this information would be absolutely unacceptable.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can share your experience with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: a speeded up video of lightning across the Sahel, Europe and Central Africa\n\nSpectacular movies of lightning spreading across the Earth have just been released by the European weather agency Eumetsat.\n\nThey were made by a new instrument that was placed 36,000km above equatorial Africa in December.\n\nThe imager, once fully commissioned, will become a key tool for forecasters as they track the emergence of violent storms.\n\nLightning often precedes heavy rain, hail and even big gusts of wind.\n\nPhil Evans, the director-general of Eumetsat, described the movies as \"fantastic\".\n\n\"The Americans have had an instrument like this over their part of the world for a few years now, but this is the first one for Europe and Africa,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Our imager is more sophisticated in terms of resolution and performance, so there's a lot of excitement about how its imagery can be used.\"\n\nArtwork: Meteosat-12 is part of a multi-billion-euro upgrade to Europe's weather observing system\n\nEumetsat is the intergovernmental organisation charged with managing Europe's meteorological assets in orbit.\n\nIt's currently testing the recently launched Meteosat-12 platform, a next-generation weather-observing spacecraft that scientists expect to initiate a step change in so-called \"nowcasting\" - the forewarning of challenging atmospheric conditions on very short time horizons, in the order of just hours.\n\nMonitoring lightning behaviour will be central to this capability.\n\nMeteosat-12's lightning detector has four telescopic cameras focused on Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of South America.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: On 12 June, the imager tracked a lightning swarm across the UK\n\nTheir detectors continuously look for the light pulses produced by cloud-to-ground, cloud-to-cloud and intra-cloud lightning flashes.\n\nThey can do this day or night, and will catch even a single lightning bolt.\n\n\"The minimum duration of a lightning [detection] is 0.6 milliseconds; that means 1,000 times faster than the blink of an eye,\" said Guia Pastorini from Leonardo, the Italian aerospace company that designed and built the instrument.\n\nThere is an impressive movie of lightning over the UK on 12 June.\n\n\"The location of the thunderstorms was captured really clearly from the satellite, and made even more fascinating by the development of a 'Mesoscale Convective System' or MCS,\" said BBC Weather forecaster Simon King.\n\n\"This is a thunderstorm which under certain circumstances grows larger and spawns more thunderstorms. The satellite picks up this area of cloud initially in south-east England but we then see the flashes of lightning develop on its forward edge as it grows and moves north-west.\"\n\nLightning is often a tracer for extreme weather\n\nIn Europe, forecasters already have very effective ground systems to detect lightning. The ATDNet (Arrival Time Difference Network) senses a discharge from its radio frequency emission. Radar is also used.\n\n\"But those lightning networks tend to detect mainly the cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, rather than the cloud-to-cloud, or intra-cloud lightning,\" explained Simon Keogh, the head of space applications and nowcasting R&D at the UK Met Office.\n\n\"Those cloud-to-ground strikes make up only about 10% of the lightning activity in the atmosphere. So, the other 90% is lightning activity within the cloud, which is what the optical satellite is detecting. I see these systems as being totally complementary.\"\n\nMeteosat-12's view of Earth: Africa in particular should benefit from the new technology\n\nAnd in Africa, where most lightning on Earth occurs, there are fewer radio frequency systems. The Meteosat information will, therefore, be particularly useful to forecasters.\n\nThe same applies to ocean monitoring. The imager is watching what's happening out over the Atlantic, which should improve the safe routing of long haul airliners.\n\nClimate researchers are sure to be interested in the new imager's data. It'll help them develop much better statistics on the frequency of lightning over time.\n\nAtmospheric chemists, too, will be fascinated. The energy in lightning turns the \"unreactive\" nitrogen in the air into the \"reactive\" forms, which rain out as nitrates to fertilise soils.\n\nAnother potential benefit would be in helping to improve the models used to forecast where forest fires might start as a result of lightning strikes.\n\nTesting of the spacecraft will continue through this year. The national forecasting agencies, such as the UK Met Office, Meteo France and DWD (the German Meteorological Service), should be using Meteosat-12 information on a routine basis early in 2024.", "Attackers in France tried to set fire to the home of a suburban Paris mayor's home overnight and fired rockets at the official's fleeing wife and children.\n\nThe incident has caused widespread shock and is being treated as attempted murder. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne described it as intolerable.\n\nMayor Vincent Jeanbrun was not at home, but his wife suffered a broken leg and a child was also hurt.\n\nFrance has seen violent protests after police killed a teenager on Tuesday.\n\nThe suspects in the incident in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, south of Paris, have not been identified.\n\nMr Jeanbrun said he had been in his office overseeing the situation when the attack on his home occurred at 01:30 (23:30 GMT on Saturday).\n\nThe attackers used a car to ram through the gates of their home before setting the vehicle on fire so that the blaze would spread to the house, the mayor said in a statement.\n\nThen when his wife, Melanie Nowak, tried to flee with the children, aged five and seven, they were attacked with firework rockets.\n\n\"A line has been crossed,\" he said.\n\n\"If my priority today is to take care of my family, my determination to protect and serve the Republic is greater than before,\" he added.\n\nAttackers used a burning car to try to set Mayor Jeanbrun's home ablaze\n\nThe mayor, from the centre-right Les Republicains, has received widespread support from across the French political spectrum.\n\nThe public prosecutor's office has started an investigation for attempted murder.\n\nThe attack on Mayor Jeanbrun's home came during the fifth night of violent protests across France over the death of Nahel M, 17, who was shot by police at point-blank range during a traffic stop.\n\nAround 45,000 police were deployed in France on Saturday to control the protests and the interior ministry said Saturday night had been quieter, with fewer arrests overall.\n\nHowever there were more than 700 arrests across the country and more than 800 fires were lit by rioters during the course of the night, officials said.\n\nMr Jeanbrun had urged the French government earlier to impose a state of emergency in response to the riots, which President Emmanuel Macron has so far declined to do.\n\nThe French leader is due to meet with top officials later to discuss the crisis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A Sussex Police PCSO is heard on dashcam footage refusing to respond to an alleged assault\n\nA Sussex Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) was shown refusing to respond to an alleged assault in a supermarket, in a video posted on TikTok.\n\nThe video shows a man telling the officer about a fight in the Co-op store in Lancing which had been reported to the police.\n\nThe PCSO said: \"I'm not a response unit.\"\n\nSussex Police said it had launched an investigation.\n\nThe man who was filmed in conversation with the PCSO said members of the public were trying to stop a shoplifter.\n\nHe said to the PCSO: \"You need to get round to the Co-op. There's just been a fight round there, because people are trying to stop the shoplifter that you're doing nothing about.\"\n\nHe said: \"People have called the police and you're sitting here.\"\n\nThe officer responded: \"I'm not a response unit unfortunately.\"\n\nThe man said the sight of the police car would \"make them scatter\".\n\nThe officer replied: \"Yeah, but then I have to deal with it.\n\n\"That's why I'm here and not round there.\"\n\nIn a statement, Sussex Police said: \"We are aware of video footage of a single-crewed Police Community Support Officer being approached by a member of the public to report an incident in Lancing.\n\n\"The matter was reported to us and a police officer attended the incident as an emergency. The PCSO also then attended the scene.\"\n\nSupt Nick Dias said: \"We are sorry for the clumsy language used by the PCSO in this exchange and acknowledge the public's concern. A police unit was dispatched to the scene as a matter of priority. Our response to this incident is being reviewed.\"\n\nThe role of PCSO was introduced in 2002 to support police neighbourhood policing teams. They do not have powers of arrest, cannot interview prisoners or carry out the high risk tasks of police officers.\n\nThey may use reasonable force to prevent a person \"making off\", while waiting for a constable or accompanying them to a police station.\n\nKaty Bourne, Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner, said she shared \"the public's disappointment and understandable concern\" with the video.\n\n\"A member of the public sent me the video and I immediately shared it with the Chief Constable who referred the incident to the Sussex professional standards department.\"\n\nShe added: \"This is not the sort of response that I would expect and the public deserve.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Trust in police hanging by a thread, inspector says\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nNovak Djokovic dried the court with his towel and urged the crowd to \"blow\" in a farcical rain delay as his Wimbledon title defence began with a win.\n\nBut after the first set there was no play for 80 minutes, despite the closed roof, with Djokovic dabbing the grass before ground staff used leaf blowers.\n\n\"Every time I come out I normally have racquets, not towels - it was fun to do something different,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"It was a little bit [of] a strange feeling but hopefully you guys liked it.\n\n\"It was definitely frustrating for all the crowd waiting for us to come out on court. We both wanted to play but the conditions were not great and still slippery.\n\n\"Once the roof was open it was a different story and after five or 10 minutes we were able to play.\"\n\nDjokovic, aiming to secure his eighth Wimbledon title and match Roger Federer's record for a male player, will now play Australia's Jordan Thompson, ranked 70th in the world, following his five-set win over American Brandon Nakashima, 55th in the world.\n\nAmusing scenes as Djokovic tries to dry the court\n\nDjokovic, who has not lost on Centre Court since being beaten by Andy Murray in the 2013 final, was a break up in the first set, but complained the surface was getting slippery with drops of rain falling.\n\nHe wrapped up the set just before a shower at 14:20 BST, with the roof then fully closed 15 minutes later.\n\nBut in that time enough water had got on to the court before the covers came on to cause a lengthy delay.\n\nWith the covers off and the roof still closed, the players inspected the surface at 14:55, but were not happy with it and the crowd were told by the umpire that \"the court is taking longer than expected to dry\".\n\nThere followed some amusing scenes when Djokovic appeared with a towel, urged the 15,000-strong crowd to \"blow\" at the same time to dry the court, with him then wiping the grass himself.\n\nAfter that, three members of ground staff, each armed with a leaf blower, also tried to dry the surface, while the fans began to get restless with a half-hearted slow hand clap and then a Mexican wave.\n\nWith the leaf blowers and the towel not doing enough, the roof was reopened at 15:40 in an attempt to dry the grass naturally with the rain having stopped.\n\nIt did the job and play resumed just before 15:50 with Djokovic able to take control with two breaks in the second set against his opponent, who battled hard but was outclassed.\n\nIf he keeps winning, Djokovic will not have to play a top-30 ranked opponent until the fourth round at the earliest.\n\nRussia's seventh seed Andrey Rublev is a potential opponent for Djokovic in the quarter-finals and he began his campaign with a 6-3 7-5 6-4 success over Australia's Max Purcell.\n\nRublev, unable to play at Wimbledon in 2022 because of the ban handed out to Russian and Belarusian players after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was only in trouble in the second set at 5-2 down before he won five games in a row in a 6-3 7-5 6-4 victory.\n\n\"I feel really happy to be back, because I haven't played much Wimbledon - I was injured or it was the pandemic or then they ban us,\" said Rublev.\n\n\"It feels really special to play at one of the best tournaments and to get a win was a nice moment.\"\n\nAsked if he felt Wimbledon made a mistake by forcing the ban on Russian players last year, Rublev, who wrote 'No War Please' on a camera lens after advancing to the final at the Dubai Championships in February 2022, replied: \"We were talking and I think we could find the solution.\n\n\"If we really want to help or do what is better for tennis and for the people, obviously there were better options. Not just to ban, because in the end, [there] was no difference.\n\n\"But it is what it is. Now we are here, and I'm really happy to be back and to compete.\"\n\nNorwegian fourth seed Casper Ruud, who lost to Djokovic in last month's French Open final, was tested by Laurent Lokoli of France before eventually going through in four sets on Court One.\n\nRuud will play Great Britain's Liam Broady in the second round.\n\nElsewhere, there were successes for 14th seed Lorenzo Musetti and 17th seed Hubert Hurkacz against Juan Pablo Varillas of Peru and Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain respectively.\n\nBut there was a first-round exit for Canadian 11th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime, who lost in four sets to American Michael Mmoh.\n\nThe first three sets all went to tie-breaks before Mmoh, ranked 119th in the world and whose only previous singles appearance at Wimbledon was a first-round loss in 2018, closed out a 7-6 6-7 7-6 6-4 victory.\n\nNumber eight seed Jannik Sinner from Italy completed his victory over Juan Manuel Cerundolo on Centre Court at 21:20 BST, but ninth seed Taylor Fritz was one of the players forced off by bad light - the American is 3-2 up on serve in the final set against Germany's Yannick Hanfmann.\n• None Follow live coverage of the first day of Wimbledon\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None In an emotional interview he opens up about what motivated him despite his very humble origins\n• None Sue Barker travels the globe to find out", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrance has seen a quieter night of protests over the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range, the interior minister says.\n\nThere were fewer arrests compared to previous nights - 719 - with the worst clashes in the southern city Marseille.\n\nIn the Paris suburb L'Haÿ-les-Roses, attackers rammed a car into the house of the mayor, injuring his wife as she tried to flee with their two children.\n\nFrench cities have seen unrest since the police shooting of a teenager.\n\nNahel M, 17, was shot during a traffic stop on Tuesday. Large crowds turned out for his funeral on Saturday.\n\nIn a tweet, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin praised law enforcement for their \"resolute action\" which had led to a \"calmer night\".\n\nAround 45,000 police were deployed across the country for a second night on Saturday.\n\nMore than 1,300 arrests were made on Friday night and more than 900 on Thursday.\n\nOfficials hope that a turning-point may have been reached - that rioters are losing energy thanks to the security crackdown and the massive unpopularity of their exactions.\n\nHowever, until more nights of quiet confirm the trend, no-one is assuming anything.\n\nIn Marseille, heavy clashes took place between police and rioters throughout Saturday evening.\n\nIn footage circulating online, police can be seen using tear gas against people in the city.\n\nThe video shows the clashes taking place on La Canebière, the main avenue in the heart of Marseille.\n\nFrench media report that fighting took place between a large group of rioters and officers.\n\nThere was a heavy police presence along the iconic Champs-Élysée in Paris\n\nIn Paris, large numbers of police were seen along the iconic Champs-Élysées avenue.\n\nThere had been calls on social media for protesters to gather there but the police presence seems to have kept most of them away.\n\nThe capital's police said they made 194 arrests. The Paris region stopped all buses and trams after 21:00 for a second night running.\n\nL'Haÿ-les-Roses Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun said his wife and one of his children had been injured when fleeing an attacker who had rammed his house with a car and then set the car on fire.\n\nHe called it \"a murder attempt of unspeakable cowardice\".\n\nIn the northern city of Lille, police special forces were seen on the streets. Images from the city overnight showed firefighters extinguishing blazes in cars that had been set alight by rioters.\n\nTwenty-one people were arrested in the city of Lyon. Clashes were also reported in Nice and Strasbourg.\n\nNahel's funeral service was held at the mosque in Nanterre earlier on Saturday.\n\nSupporters of the family told the news media to keep away. All filming - even on phones - was banned: \"No Snapchat, no Insta,\" mourners were told.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNahel was shot after refusing to stop for a traffic check and died after emergency services attended the scene. A video, shared online in the hours following Nahel's death, showed two police officers trying to stop the vehicle and one pointing his weapon at the driver.\n\nThe officer who fired the fatal shot has since been charged with voluntary homicide and apologised to the family. His lawyer said he was devastated.\n\nNahel's death has reignited debate around the state of French policing, including a controversial 2017 firearms law which allows officers to shoot when a driver ignores an order to stop.\n\nMore widely, it has led to questions of racism in the force. The UN's human rights office said the unrest was a chance for France \"to address deep issues of racism in law enforcement\".\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron condemned the violence on Friday \"with the greatest firmness\" and said Nahel's death had been used to justify acts of violence - calling it an \"unacceptable exploitation of the adolescent's death\".", "Bank bosses have been summoned by the UK's financial watchdog over concerns interest rates on savings are too low.\n\nHigher interest rates have led banks to put up mortgage costs sharply, but savings rates are not rising as fast.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt says it is an \"issue which needs solving\", at a time when many households are struggling with the soaring cost of living.\n\nThe heads of Lloyds, HSBC, NatWest and Barclays banks will meet the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Thursday.\n\nThe City watchdog will press the banks on their savings rates and on how they communicate with customers, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the meeting.\n\nHSBC said it had increased its savings rates \"more than a dozen times since the beginning of last year, with every savings product seeing rates increased on multiple occasions during that time\".\n\nBarclays declined to comment on the meeting, but said it \"regularly\" reviewed its savings rates.\n\nLloyds and NatWest have also been contacted by the BBC for comment.\n\nIn a tweet, the chancellor said: \"@TheFCA has my full backing to ensure banks are passing on better rates as they should be.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has been steadily increasing UK interest rates since December 2021 as it tries to bring down soaring price rises.\n\nIts base rate - which has a direct effect on mortgage and savings rates - is now 5%, up from close to zero 18 months ago.\n\nThe Bank is trying to make it more expensive for people to borrow money, and more worthwhile for them to save - the idea being that they will spend less and price increases will cool.\n\nBut while average mortgage rates have soared above 6% in recent weeks, returns on savings and current accounts have risen by a much smaller amount.\n\nOn Tuesday, the average rate for a two-year mortgage deal hit 6.47%, while the average easy access savings rate was 2.45%, a gap of 4.02 percentage points.\n\nIona Bain, a financial writer and broadcaster, told the BBC that if savings rates did not keep pace with inflation, then people's savings were effectively \"being destroyed\".\n\nShe added that banks had been offering poor savings rates since at least 2008, in the aftermath of the financial crisis.\n\nPart of the problem was that the biggest High Street lenders effectively had a \"monopoly\", she said, even though challenger banks were slowly encouraging people to shop around.\n\n\"Current account switching has gone up but it is still very low,\" Ms Bain said. \"But until the public vote with their feet nothing is going to change.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Harriett Baldwin, chair of the Treasury Select Committee, said the committee had been putting pressure on the banks all year over the issue.\n\n\"We're quite sure these rates are measly and that the banks are not treating our constituents fairly,\" she said.\n\n\"We're particularly concerned about some of our older constituents who have savings, who are unable to use internet banking and find it difficult to switch,\" she added.\n\nBanks' profits generally rise in line with interest rates, but lenders argue that savers have access to a host of competitive deals.\n\nUK Finance, the trade body for the banking sector, has previously said saving and mortgage rates \"aren't directly linked and therefore move at different times and by different amounts\".\n\nHowever, the chancellor has said banks are \"taking too long\" to pass on increases in interest rates to savers and has raised it with chief executives, who faced questions from MPs in February.\n\nThe FCA has said it will produce a report by the end of the month on how well the cash savings market is supporting savers.\n\nAre you a bank saver? How do the rates of interest affect you? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Temperature reached 32.2C in June and the heat was long-lasting\n\nThe UK's hottest June on record caused unprecedented deaths of fish in rivers and disturbed insects and plants, environment groups have warned.\n\nNature is being \"pounded by extreme weather without a chance to recover\", the Wildlife Trusts said.\n\nThe Met Office will say later on Monday if the high temperatures were linked to climate change.\n\nPeople also used more water with demand increasing by 25% at peak times in some areas, said Water UK.\n\nThe Met Office said last week that provisional figures for June indicate that both the overall average and the average maximum temperatures were the highest on record.\n\n\"The reports of the number of fish death incidents in rivers for this time of year has been unprecedented. I would normally expect rivers to be affected later in the summer when it's hotter and drier,\" Mark Owen, from the Angling Trust, told BBC News.\n\nIn one case, sea trout were found dead on the River Wear in north-east England, he said.\n\nThe deaths are partly caused by less oxygen in the water as river levels decrease. Fish also die when dried-up pollutants from cars and lorries on roads wash into rivers during flash storms.\n\nThe Environment Agency said it received more reports of dead fish than the same time last year.\n\nMass fish deaths can be caused by a range of factors including low water levels, pollution, and disease.\n\nMany flowering plants, including orchids, wilted in the high temperatures, meaning insects like bees and butterflies that feed on nectar and pollen will have less to eat, Ali Morse from the Wildlife Trusts told BBC News.\n\nSpecies with short lifespans are particularly badly affected. Many butterflies are adults for only a short time, and if they cannot access food in that period, it stunts the population.\n\nThese impacts are more surprising considering the wet and cold spring and are earlier than last year, Ms Morse added.\n\n\"Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is. If we have a one-off pollution event or a wildfire, then there is normally time for nature to bounce back, but now it seems to be continually pounded by extreme weather,\" she added.\n\nMore frequent and more intense periods of warm weather are putting pressure on the UK's environment and water supplies.\n\nAs temperatures rise, people also use more water in their homes. Last July and August water companies supplied 1.2 billion litres more water than the same months in 2021, according to Water UK.\n\nPeople in Devon, Cornwall and parts of the south-east of England are under hosepipe bans.\n\nWater experts say that rivers and reservoirs, which provide much of the UK's drinking water, are in a healthier position than the same time last year.\n\nBut the dry weather is likely to have an impact on water supplies and if warm weather continues, those supplies could be depleted quickly.\n\nWater UK is urging homes and businesses to \"continue to save water to help safeguard against potential future drought conditions\".\n\nPeople can play their part in helping nature withstand the impacts of extreme heat with small, simple actions, Ms Morse explains.\n\nA bowl of water in a garden or yard can provide water for thirsty hedgehogs, bees and butterflies.\n\nAnd longer grass is more resilient in hotter weather and gives species a much-needed habitat to live in, so she suggests letting even small areas of lawn grow taller.", "A previous vote in 2017 did not back full independence for Orkney\n\nThe Orkney Islands could change their status in the UK or even become a self-governing territory of Norway under new proposals.\n\nA motion will go before the council next week to investigate \"alternative forms of governance\".\n\nCouncil leader James Stockan said Orkney does not get fair funding with its current relationship within the UK.\n\nHe wants to look at Crown Dependencies like the Channel Islands and overseas territories like the Falkland Islands.\n\nHe suggested another possible future could be like the Faroe Islands - which is a self-governing territory of Denmark.\n\nCouncillor Stockan told BBC Radio Scotland there were many areas where Orkney was being \"failed dreadfully\" by both the UK and Scottish governments.\n\nHe said: \"We are really struggling at the moment, we have to replace the whole ferry fleet which is older than the CalMac fleet.\n\n\"We are denied the things that other areas get like RET (Road Equivalent Tariff) for ferry fares.\n\n\"And the funding we get from the Scottish government is significantly less per head than Shetland and the Western Isles to run the same services - we can't go on as we are.\"\n\nCouncil leader James Stockan says Orkney does not get fair funding within the UK\n\nMr Stockan said an in-depth study of the finances had never been carried out.\n\n\"We know that we have contributed for the last 40 years through north sea oil, and the dividend we get back isn't sufficient to keep us going,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got a unique opportunity right at the heart of all the wind projects round our waters.\"\n\nMr Stockan is urging councillors to back his idea to find new ways for Orkney to get greater financial security and economic opportunities for Orcadians.\n\nOrkney Islands Council previously voted in 2017 to look at whether the islands could have greater autonomy.\n\nWhile they wanted to have a \"stronger voice\", they did not back full independence for Orkney.\n\nMr Stockan's motion also cites British Crown Dependencies Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man as potential models to follow.\n\nOrkney was held under Norwegian and Danish control until 1472\n\nBut he warns that a large amount of staff resource would be needed to investigate the options and consult the public.\n\n\"The council will decide whether it supports this motion and from there we will take our time, because we don't want to do this emotionally,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to look at all the practical implications and then we'll evaluate the results.\n\n\"We are looking for the very best position for future generations and our place in the world.\n\nMr Stockan also suggests that the council should investigate how Orkney could secure a \"Nordic connection\" with Denmark, Norway or Iceland.\n\nOrkney was previously held under Norwegian and Danish control until it became part of Scotland in 1472.\n\nThe islands were used as security for the wedding dowry of Margaret of Denmark, the future wife of King James III of Scotland.\n\nMr Stockan said: \"We were part of the Norse kingdom for much longer than we were part of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"On the street in Orkney people come up and say to me when are we going to pay back the dowry, when are we going back to Norway,\n\n\"There is a huge affinity and a huge deep cultural relationship there. This is exactly the moment to explore what is possible.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was providing £2.2bn to level up UK communities, including £50m to grow the economies of Scotland's Islands - including Orkney.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We will always be stronger together as one United Kingdom, and we have no plans to change the devolution settlement.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said in 2023-24 Orkney Islands Council would receive £89.7m to fund services, with an extra £4.6m from an increase in council tax by 10%.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said it was \"committed to supporting island communities\".\n\nThe motion will be discussed by Orkney Islands Council on Tuesday.\n\nAdditional reporting provided by Andrew Stewart at the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n• None Orkney steps up calls for more autonomy", "Israeli security and emergency personnel inspect the car used in the attack in Tel Aviv Image caption: Israeli security and emergency personnel inspect the car used in the attack in Tel Aviv\n\nA person who was at the scene of the car ramming attack in Tel Aviv today has been speaking about what they saw.\n\n\"I saw the grey pick-up pull up at peak speed and ram the bus stop, powerfully,\" Liron Bahash, a sports teacher who was on a lunch break, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"In the first seconds you think it could have been a mistake by the driver.\n\n\"He exited through the window, not the door, like in a movie, with a knife in hand and started chasing civilians. Now you understand it's an attack. We ran for our lives.\"", "There has been a tight police presence around the Champs Elysée\n\n\"Could you just go home?\"\n\nIt was a weary-sounding question, directed by a middle-aged French woman at a gang of youths pushing past her, as a mass of defence shield-wielding riot-police chased after them.\n\nIt was the early hours of Sunday morning on the Champs Elysées - the tourist shoppers' paradise in central Paris. The air was acrid with tear gas. Night number five of the street riots that have engulfed France since the killing of Nahel, a French Algerian teen, by a policeman on a Parisian housing estate.\n\nMy colleagues and I were filming the chaos all around when it struck me just how many people in France have posed the same question as the irritated lady.\n\nThe acts of violence across France dropped considerably overnight, the rioters shamed perhaps by Nahel's grandma, who took to French TV to appeal to the youngsters to calm down.\n\nI spoke to another family member who asked to remain anonymous because tensions are still running so high. Visibly agitated, she told me they ache for the rioters to stay home.\n\nNahel's relatives never called for acts of hate or theft or destruction in his name, she insists. In fact, they all worry the violence could distract from what they do want: justice. For them, that means the police officer who killed Nahel, sentenced and imprisoned.\n\nEmmanuel Macron is fervently hoping the protesters - and tag-along vandals - stay home. For so many reasons.\n\nHis second term as French president has been peppered by civil unrest - over pension reform and now, Nahel's death. It's not exactly improving his popularity ratings.\n\nTeacher Abdul - who lives on the same estate as Nahel, told me Mr Macron was fully to blame. His economic reforms are a disaster. France is crumbling - he told me - along with its education system.\n\nAbdul was convinced disgruntled, unemployed young men from disadvantaged neighbourhoods were at least partly responsible for the street violence. They're behind the scenes, pushing these teenagers, he said.\n\nAbdul's neighbours bring out their mobile phones each morning to photograph the smouldering remains of the latest riot-devastation. They also told us they wished the youngsters would stop. Student Celia said she worries the violence could end in a backlash against their whole community.\n\nOn Sunday night, the mums in Aulney, a working-class area near Paris, took to the streets themselves, waving banners calling for an end to the violence. President Macron appealed to the \"mamans et papas\" (the mums and dads) of the rioters last week to keep them at home and off social media, which, he said, allow \"inflammatory material\" to circulate.\n\nThe crisis is also weakening Macron politically, under fire from the political left and right over what best to do next. The left accuses him of neglecting the poor and the marginalised. The right demands he crack down harder on the violence, imposing a nationwide state of emergency.\n\nBut the optics would be tricky for the French president. He'd worry a crackdown like that could ignite an even greater rage on the streets - and further tarnish France's international standing.\n\nMr Macron was forced by this crisis to leave last week's summit of EU leaders where they discussed Europe's biggest emergency: Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And this weekend, the president had to cancel a much discussed state visit to important EU ally Germany - the first by a French president in 23 years.\n\nWhile in the world of sport, questions are being asked as to whether France can be trusted to safely host international events like the world's biggest cycling championship, the Tour de France. It concludes in three weeks on the Champs Elysées - a favourite spot for rioters, as we learned at the start of this article. The Rugby World Cup is due to begin in France in September. France is also set to host next year's summer Olympics. It escaped no-one's attention here that an Olympic swimming complex was targeted by rioters on one of the first nights of turmoil following Nahel's death.\n\nTalk to the protesters themselves and many say staying home on their housing estates is far from straightforward. They feel unsafe, they say, because of regular confrontations with police. The UN has accused France's security forces of systemic racism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Nahel's family say violence won’t bring justice for the boy they lost\n\nActivists like Assa Traore - whose brother died seven years ago following his arrest, told us being a young black or Arab man on a housing estate in France means being regularly exposed to police brutality and racial profiling. Until France recognises the problem is endemic, she says, there will be a lot more Nahels.\n\nBut the secretary general of one of France's powerful police unions, Unité SGP, flatly denies the allegations of systemic racism.\n\nJean-Christophe Couvy says France is \"not the US. We don't have ghettos\", he told me. \"Our forces represent France's multicultural society with officers from all backgrounds. You'll find maybe 1% of racists - like in the rest of society - but no more.\"\n\nMr Couvy didn't want to discuss the specifics of Nahel's case as it's an open investigation.\n\nSo I asked him how he would go about improving police relations with the estates.\n\nJean-Christophe Couvy denies there is systemic racism in the police force\n\n\"The best way forward is to return to a system of community policing in France, where we know each other by our first names.\"\n\nRight now in France, he told me, policing has become a box-ticking exercise of showing how many people each officer detains for questioning - to demonstrate he or she is working hard.\n\n\"The problem with that is it becomes like two opposing gangs on the streets: police vs the inhabitants of the estates.\"\n\nBack in January, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne launched a new action plan against racism but it's been criticised for its silence on racial profiling by French police. Last summer, the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance released its sixth report on France, highlighting \"little progress\" on curtailing the use of ethnic profiling by law enforcement officers.\n\nNot all the rioters on France's streets were triggered by Nahel's death, but those who were say loud protests are the only way that people like them get their voices heard in France. That's why, they say, they shouldn't sit quietly at home.\n\nFrance may be calming down. The large majority of the country fervently hopes so.\n\nBut the spectre of potential renewed violence hangs over France. On the streets and across social media here, French men and women predict, if relations between the authorities and housing estates such as Nahel's remain unchanged, France's streets could easily ignite again - as they've done many times in the past.\n\nHave you been affected by the unrest in France? You can contact us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ezra Miller plays the title role in recent DC Comics superhero film The Flash\n\nActor Ezra Miller has said they are \"encouraged\" and \"grateful\" after a temporary harassment order brought by the mother of a 12-year-old ended.\n\nThe Flash star was given the harassment prevention order last year after the woman reportedly made accusations about inappropriate behaviour.\n\nAlthough Miller had \"made mistakes\" at times, these were \"false allegations\", the actor's lawyer said.\n\nMiller said it was an \"egregious misuse of the protective order system\".\n\nLast year, the Daily Beast claimed the order was put in place after Miller shouted at the child's adult family members and neighbours, and other behaviour also made the youngster uncomfortable, including paying them undue attention.\n\nIn a statement after a court hearing in Massachusetts on Friday, Miller's lawyer Marissa Elkins said the actor was \"never alone with the child and never interacted with the child outside of two brief encounters which occurred in the presence of several other adults\".\n\nIt was one of a string of allegations and legal issues the actor has faced over the past 18 months. Miller, who uses they/them pronouns, began treatment for \"complex mental health issues\" last August.\n\nElkins said: \"Ezra does not deny that in the midst of their struggle that they have made mistakes and behaved at times in ways they wish they could take back.\n\n\"That, however, does not make every allegation, rumour, or false accusation true. There are real world consequences when claims like these are heedlessly amplified, without any regard for the facts or the truth.\n\n\"These false allegations, fanned by unscrupulous media, have threatened Ezra's recovery, and done terrible damage to their reputation and career.\"\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, Miller wrote: \"I'm encouraged by today's outcome and very grateful at this moment to everyone who has stood beside me and sought to ensure that this egregious misuse of the protective order system was halted.\"\n\nMiller said they had been \"unjustly and directly targeted\", and criticised the child's mother.\n\n\"On a personal note, I want everyone to know that I am continuing to do my best to preserve my own wellness and what I can to reverse the collateral damage this ordeal has brought upon me and those close to me.\"\n\nMiller had the starring role in DC Comics superhero film The Flash, which was released last month. Its North American box office takings of less than $100m (£79m) in three weeks are widely regarded as a disappointment.", "The moon illuminated the sky as it rose over the Russian Foreign Ministry building in Moscow, Russia\n\nThe Moon has left people gazing up at the sky after appearing brighter and larger than usual on Monday evening.\n\nJuly's supermoon is appearing full for up to three days, according to Nasa.\n\nKnown as a Buck Moon, it is closer than normal in its orbit around the Earth.\n\nThis is because the Moon's orbit is not a perfect circle due to the Earth's gravitational pull; instead it is elliptical, like an elongated circle or oval.\n\nBecause of this, there are times in the Moon's 27.32-day orbit when it is closer to the Earth and other times when it is further away.\n\nA supermoon happens when the Moon is at the closest point to Earth in its orbit and also in its full Moon phase.\n\nThe full Moon in July was given the Native American name of Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer are in full growth mode in July, according to the Royal Observatory. Bucks shed and regrow their antlers.\n\nThe Moon reached peak illumination at 12:39 BST (07:39 Eastern Time) on Monday, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.\n\nThe Almanac, which has published astronomical data for centuries, said the Buck Moon would orbit closer to the Earth than full Moons we have already had this year.\n\nAugust's full Moon will be the only supermoon closer to the Earth this year, the publication said.\n\nHere are some pictures of the Buck Moon from around the world on Sunday and Monday:\n\nThe moon was seen clearly in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday\n\nThe supermoon provided a captivating backdrop while a tractor ploughed a field near the city of Ashkelon, in southern Israel, on Monday\n\nThe Buck Moon lit up the blue sky as it rose over St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear on Sunday\n\nThe full moon rose above the Ancient Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, in Sounion, Greece on Sunday\n\nThe moon rose behind the Canton Tower in Guangzhou, China on Monday\n\nThe dark sky in Stockingford, Warwickshire, was illuminated by the orange tones of the Buck Moon on Sunday\n\nA full moon sets behind the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, in Istanbul, Turkey on Monday\n\nNew York City's iconic Statue of Liberty shared the skyline with the Buck Moon on Sunday\n\nSpectators watching a sports game do not appear to notice the full moon behind them in Kutaisi, Georgia on Sunday\n\nThe supermoon was spotted next to a street lamp light in L'Aquila, Italy on Sunday\n\nA bird flies past the Buck Moon as it rises in the sky over a lighthouse at the port of Malaga, Spain\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Patients paying the price\" for strikes, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard says\n\nThe head of NHS England has warned that July's planned strikes in the health service could be the worst yet for patients.\n\nAmanda Pritchard said industrial action across the NHS had already caused \"significant\" disruption - and that patients were paying the price.\n\nThis month's consultant strike will bring a \"different level of challenge\" than previous strikes, she said.\n\nJunior doctors and consultants will strike for a combined seven days.\n\nMs Pritchard told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that the work of consultants - who are striking for the first time in a decade - cannot be covered \"in the same way\" as junior doctors.\n\n\"The hard truth is that it is patients that are paying the price for the fact that all sides have not yet managed to reach a resolution,\" she said.\n\nLast month, junior doctors in England voted for five days of strikes in mid-July - their longest strike yet.\n\nThey will walk out between Thursday 13 July and Tuesday 18 July after rejecting a government pay offer.\n\nA few days after that strike ends, on 20 and 21 July, hospital consultants in England will strike over pay.\n\nNegotiators for consultants and junior doctors have been asking for a 35% pay increase to make up for what they say are 15 years of below-inflation rises - a figure Health Secretary Steve Barclay called unaffordable.\n\nInstead, junior doctors have been offered a 5% rise this year, which was rejected, while there has been no offer so far for consultants.\n\nConsultants are also calling for reforms to the doctors' pay review body to ensure the issue is \"fixed for the future\". Mr Barclay told Laura Kuenssberg he is \"ready to have discussions\" on other issues, such as how consultants' pay progresses over time.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said he was prepared to negotiate with consultants\n\n\"There's things we're open to discussing, but we need to get the balance right,\" he said.\n\nThe health service has been plagued by strike action throughout this year, with doctors, nurses, ambulance workers, porters and others walking out in disputes, mainly over pay.\n\nA breakthrough came in May, when unions representing all NHS staff except doctors and dentists backed a deal to receive a 5% pay rise.\n\nHowever, junior doctors and hospital consultants have still not reached an agreement with the government.\n\nHealth is a devolved issue, meaning this only relates to the NHS in England.\n\nMs Pritchard acknowledged that it would be several years before the situation in the health sector returned to anything like good enough, and stressed that the service was doing all it could to bring waiting lists down.\n\nNHS England says more than 600,000 appointments have been cancelled in previous strikes. The ongoing failure of the government and some of the medical unions to find agreement is only going to crank the pressure up still further.\n\nMs Pritchard called for the industrial action to be brought to an end as soon as possible, saying it cannot become \"business as usual in the NHS\".\n\nShe also discussed NHS England's new 15-year workforce plan, which she introduced alongside Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier this week.\n\nThe NHS currently has one out of every 10 posts unfilled, creating major pressure on staff and leading to long waiting times for patients.\n\nThe new plan is focused on training and retaining more staff. Ms Pritchard said the plan is not an \"overnight\" fix , but that it is part of efforts to \"treat people as quickly as possible, without delay\".\n\nAlso on the show was former Conservative health minister Lord Bethell who described the current approach to treatment in the NHS as \"rationing\".\n\n\"If someone has a need for an operation and you simply don't have the resources to give them what they need then you are going beyond the important protocols of allocating scarce resources in the best way possible and you are being defined by the amount of resources that you have available,\" he said.\n\n\"I think that there is a difference between reasonable allocation of resources and making tough decision which is part of every day life, and having to cope with a system as overwhelmed with illness.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police bodycam captured the Tasering and arrest of triple murderer Saju Chelavelel\n\nA father who strangled his wife and two children has been jailed for at least 40 years.\n\nNurse Anju Asok, 35, Jeeva Saju, six, and Janvi Saju, four, were found fatally injured in the family home in Kettering on 15 December 2022.\n\nA judge told Saju Chelavalel he had \"squeezed the life out\" of his wife while the children screamed for mummy.\n\nDet Insp Simon Barnes said: \"There is no amount of time behind bars that will ever be enough for what he did.\"\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Pepperall, jailed him for life at Northampton Crown Court, and ordered that he must serve a minimum of 40 years.\n\nThe bodies of Anju Asok, her son Jeeva Saju and daughter Janvi Saju were discovered after police forced entry into their home in Kettering\n\nOriginally from Kerala in India, Chelavalel said he believed his wife was having an affair and claimed he lost control while drunk, killing her at around 22:00 GMT on 14 December at their ground-floor flat.\n\nThe court heard Chelavalel had more than four hours \"to reflect on whether to kill his children\" before using a dressing gown cord to strangle them in the early hours of the following morning.\n\nMs Asok died at the scene and the children died later in hospital.\n\nPost-mortem examinations found all three victims died from asphyxiation, Northamptonshire Police said.\n\n\"While you were squeezing the life out of your wife, your young children were screaming for their mummy,\" said the judge.\n\n\"I cannot be sure if they were eyewitnesses, but it is clear that they heard what was going on and knew that she was being hurt by you.\"\n\nSaju Chelavalel, 52, admitted to the triple murder of his wife and children\n\nProsecutor James Newton-Price KC said there was no evidence to support the claim Ms Asok had been unfaithful.\n\nHowever, an examination of Chelavalel's phone showed that he had been searching dating websites for other women while she was at work.\n\nThe court was played an audio recording found on his phone of banging noises followed by the sound of a woman screaming or gasping and a child crying or calling out.\n\nMr Newton-Price said it was the prosecution's belief that it was a recording of Ms Asok being strangled.\n\nHe said the it also captured the sound of a blender being used to make a \"toxic\" mixture of chocolate and pills intended to send the children - pupils at Kettering Park Infant Academy - to sleep.\n\nThe court heard that police officers attended the flat after receiving a call from a neighbour who was concerned for the family's welfare.\n\nMs Asok had failed to turn up for work as an orthopaedic nurse at Kettering General Hospital and the children were not at school.\n\nBody-worn camera footage showed that, after breaking into the flat, officers found Chelavalel holding a knife to his throat. He asked the police to shoot him and said that he wanted to die, before he was Tasered.\n\nThe body of Ms Asok was found on the floor of an adjoining bedroom. The couple's children were described in a police statement as \"laying perfectly side-by-side on the double bed\".\n\nOffering mitigation, defence barrister George Carter-Stephenson KC said the circumstances of the case were tragic in the extreme for relatives of the victims.\n\nHe said: \"They are also tragic for this particular defendant. Whatever sentence the court imposes on him today he has to live with the knowledge of what he did on that particular night.\"\n\nIn addition to his jail term, Chelavalel was prohibited from contacting any of his victims' family members.\n\nDet Insp Simon Barnes from Northamptonshire Police said: \"Anju was a mother like many all over the world. She wanted to provide the best possible life she could for her children - Jeeva and Janvi.\n\n\"He [Chelavalel] has never fully accounted for what he did, or why, and will now spend the rest of his life with not much else to think about, but that.\n\n\"There is no amount of time behind bars that will ever be enough for what he did. His primary role as a husband and a father, was to protect his family from harm. They should have been at their safest, at home, with him, but he destroyed that.\n\n\"They leave behind them a devastated family in India, who are struggling to come to terms with what has happened.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Jacob hosts State of the Nation every Monday to Thursday evening on GB News\n\nMedia watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into a recent episode of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg's GB News show.\n\nThe 9 May episode of State of the Nation featured the MP covering a breaking news story about a civil trial verdict involving Donald Trump.\n\nOfcom said: \"We are investigating whether this programme broke our rules, which prevent politicians from acting as newsreaders, unless exceptionally, it is editorially justified.\"\n\nServing politicians are, however, allowed to host current affairs shows, as long as a range of views are reflected.\n\nSir Jacob, a former cabinet minister, hosts the hour-long evening show from Mondays to Thursdays.\n\nThe episode in question saw him discuss a US civil jury's ruling that Mr Trump sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll in Manhattan in the 1990s.\n\nGB News have been contacted for a comment.\n\nMeanwhile, the regulator will also investigate an episode of a Talk TV show presented by former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nAn Ofcom spokesperson said: \"We are investigating whether this programme broke our rules requiring news and current affairs to be presented with due impartiality.\"\n\nThe episode from 2 April received two complaints in relation to a discussion about the Scottish National Party (SNP).\n\nA TalkTV spokesperson told the BBC: \"TalkTV will engage with the Ofcom process and looks forward to defending its output.\"\n\nPhilip Davies and Esther McVey are husband and wife, GB News co-hosts and sitting MPs\n\nOfcom is also still investigating an episode of Saturday Morning with Esther and Philip on GB News, hosted by husband-and-wife Conservative MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies.\n\nThe rules around politicians presenting programmes were introduced in 2005.\n\nThey say politicians are not normally allowed to be newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in news programmes, but can front current affairs shows.\n\nThe watchdog recently launched a consultation into its rules.\n\n\"Given the rise in the number of current affairs programmes presented by sitting politicians and recent public interest in this issue, we are conducting new research to gauge current audience attitudes towards these programmes,\" it said last month.\n\nThe findings will be published later this year.", "The US president will meet King Charles III in London for the first time since he was crowned King. Here Mr Biden is seen with the then Prince of Wales at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.\n\nUS President Joe Biden is to travel to the UK to meet King Charles and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak later this month.\n\nIt is the first time the US president will have met the King since the Coronation in May.\n\nMr Biden's overseas diplomatic trip - in which he will also travel to Lithuania and Finland - will take place from 9 to 13 July.\n\nBuckingham Palace confirmed King Charles was due to meet the president at Windsor Castle on Monday, 10 July.\n\nMr Biden did not attend the King's coronation in May - but his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, and his granddaughter went instead.\n\nThe Bidens were at Queen Elizabeth's funeral at Westminster Abbey in September. On the eve of the funeral they attended a reception hosted by the King for world leaders.\n\nHis visit follows Mr Sunak's two-day trip to Washington in June, where both leaders discussed Ukraine, a post-Brexit economy and the pros and cons of Artificial Intelligence.\n\nThis month's meeting would \"further strengthen the close relationship between our nations\", the White House said.\n\nDowning Street put out a similar statement, saying that Mr Biden's upcoming visit \"reflects the strong relationship\" between the UK and US.\n\n\"The prime minister looks forward to welcoming President Biden in the UK later this month,\" a No 10 spokesperson said.\n\n\"This reflects the strong relationship between the UK and US, building on a series of bilateral visits and meetings earlier this year.\n\n\"We'll set out further detail in due course.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Biden stopped in Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, and briefly met Mr Sunak.\n\nAfter the UK, the US president will travel to Vilnius in Lithuania for the Nato summit, which takes place on 11 and 12 July.\n\nOn his final day, he will visit Helsinki, Finland for a US-Nordic Leaders Summit, where the focus of the talks is expected to be the Russia-Ukraine war.", "A man and a two-year-old child are in hospital after being hit by a train in Glasgow.\n\nBritish Transport Police said they were alerted to the casualties on the tracks at Garrowhill Station shortly before 19:30 on Sunday.\n\nOfficers said the man was in a serious condition, and the child's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nDetectives believe there were a number of people on the platform who may have witnessed what happened.\n\nThey said any witnesses who had not yet spoken to the police should get in touch with British Transport Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Explosions and gunfire as BBC reports from Jenin\n\nThere have been intense exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and armed Palestinian militants in Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe Israeli military began what appears to be one of its most extensive operations in the territory in years with drone strikes early on Monday.\n\nNine Palestinians have been killed and 100 injured, health officials say.\n\nIsrael said it was putting a stop to Jenin being \"a refuge for terrorism\". Palestinians accused it of a war crime.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent says its crews have evacuated 3,000 people - including patients and the elderly - from the camp to hospitals.\n\nIt says dozens of people had been detained by Israeli forces in their homes since early Monday, without being provided or allowed any food or drink.\n\nThe Israeli military said there was no specific timeline for ending the operation, but that it could be \"a matter of hours or a few days\".\n\nJenin has become a stronghold of a new generation of Palestinian militants who have become deeply frustrated by the Palestinian Authority's aging leadership and the restrictions of the Israeli occupation.\n\nThe city has seen repeated Israeli military raids in the past year as local Palestinians have carried out deadly attacks on Israelis. Other Palestinian attackers have hidden there.\n\nIn 2002, during the second Palestinian intifada, Israeli forces launched a full-scale incursion in Jenin. At least 52 Palestinian militants and civilians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed during 10 days of intense fighting.\n\nHundreds of Israeli soldiers were still operating inside Jenin on Monday night, more than 20 hours after the operation began.\n\nAs well as the hum of drones overhead, regular bursts of gunfire and the loud thuds of explosions came throughout the day from the densely populated refugee camp, which is home to some 18,000 people and is now declared a closed Israeli military zone.\n\nAcrid smoke from burning tyres lit during protests also hung in the air above the city centre. A few young Palestinians were out on the streets, standing close to shuttered shops and staring nervously in the direction of the camp.\n\nThe Israeli military has cut off telephone communications and the electricity supply to the camp, making it difficult to get an accurate picture of what is happening. Palestinian medics have also been struggling to reach the dozens of injured there.\n\nAt the Palestinian hospital by the main entrance to the camp the mood was grim.\n\nOne man told the BBC: \"I met my brother's friend. I went up to him and had barely said a few words when he dropped on the ground. I went to run away, then I got hit by two bullets.\"\n\nAnother man said there was a \"massacre\" in the camp.\n\n\"There are children and civilians and they're not letting them out,\" he added. \"Our electricity is cut, they have dug up all our roads. The camp will be destroyed.\"\n\nJovana Arsenijevic of the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières told the BBC she was at a hospital that had seen more than 90 patients wounded by gunfire or shrapnel from explosive devices.\n\nThe Israeli military said it was acting on precise intelligence and did not to seek to harm civilians, but many have been caught in the crossfire.\n\nThe military allowed about 500 Palestinian families to leave the camp on Monday night. Some raised their hands or waved makeshift white flags in a gesture of surrender.\n\nPeople told the BBC that some men and teenaged boys had been stopped by soldiers, and kept behind.\n\nHundreds of Israeli forces are on the ground in Jenin, said to be seizing weapons and explosives\n\nThe first drone strike overnight targeted an apartment that the military said was being used as a hideout for Palestinians who had attacked Israelis and as a \"joint operational command centre\" for the Jenin Brigades - a unit made up of different Palestinian militant groups including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.\n\nDrones were used for further air strikes and a brigade-size force of troops was deployed in what a military spokesman described as a \"counter-terrorism operation\" focused on seizing weapons and breaking \"the safe haven mindset of the camp, which has become a hornet's nest\".\n\nIn the past year and a half, Palestinians behind some 50 attacks targeting Israelis have come from Jenin, according to the military.\n\nAs armed Palestinians began fighting back from inside the camp, the Jenin Brigades said: \"We will fight the occupation [Israeli] forces until the last breath and bullet, and we work together and unified from all factions and military formations.\"\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry said nine Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces, including three in the overnight drone strike. They all appeared to be young men or in their late teens - some confirmed as belonging to armed groups.\n\nThe ministry warned that the death toll might rise because 20 of the injured were in a critical condition.\n\nAnother Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during a related protest near the West Bank city of Ramallah, it added.\n\nThe Israeli military said the Palestinians killed in Jenin were affiliated to militant groups.\n\nTroops had also apprehended some 50 militants during the operation, and seized weapons and ammunition, it added.\n\nOn Monday evening, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised its forces for entering what he called the \"nest of terrorists\" and asserted that they were doing so \"with minimal injury to civilians\".\n\n\"We will continue this action as long as necessary in order to restore quiet and security,\" he added.\n\nThere was a furious response to the operation from the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh.\n\n\"What's going on is an attempt to erase the refugee camp completely and displace the residents,\" he said.\n\nNeighbouring Jordan said the operation was \"a clear violation of international humanitarian law\", but the US expressed its support for what it called \"Israel's security and right to defend its people against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups\".\n\nIsraeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said the plan was not to expand the military operation outside Jenin, but already Palestinian protests have reached the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip. And the longer this action goes on in Jenin, the greater the risk of another dangerous, wider escalation.\n\nThe Jenin Brigade group has said its militants will fight back with their \"last breath and bullet\"\n\nThere has been a surge of violence in the West Bank in recent months.\n\nOn 20 June, seven Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin which saw the military's first use of an attack helicopter in the West Bank in years.\n\nThe next day, two Hamas gunmen shot dead four Israelis near the settlement of Eli, 40km (25 miles) to the south.\n\nA Palestinian man was later shot dead during a rampage by hundreds of settlers in the nearby town of Turmusaya.\n\nThat week also saw three Palestinian militants from Jenin killed in a rare Israeli drone strike.\n\nSince the start of the year, more than 140 Palestinians - both militants and civilians - have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, while another 36 have been killed in the Gaza Strip.\n\nTwenty-four Israelis, two foreigners and a Palestinian worker have been killed in attacks or apparent attacks by Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. All were civilians except one off-duty serving soldier and a member of the Israeli security forces.\n\nAdditional reporting by Rushdi Abu Alouf in Gaza City and Robert Greenall in London", "Twitter has lost almost half of its advertising revenue since it was bought by Elon Musk for $44bn (£33.6bn) last October, its owner has revealed.\n\nHe said the company had not seen the increase in sales that had been expected in June, but added that July was a \"bit more promising\".\n\nMr Musk sacked about half of Twitter's 7,500 staff when he took over in 2022 in an effort to cut costs.\n\nRival app Threads now has 150 million users, according to some estimates.\n\nIts in-built connection to Instagram automatically gives the Meta-designed platform access to a potential two billion users.\n\nMeanwhile, Twitter is struggling under a heavy debt load. Cash flow remains negative, Mr Musk said at the weekend, although the billionaire did not put a time frame on the 50% drop in ad revenue.\n\nIn a tweet he said: \"Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else.\"\n\nLucy Coutts, investment director at JM Finn, told the BBC's Today programme she thought Mr Musk would be able to turn Twitter around \"but it is just going to take longer\".\n\n\"But unfortunately he has got $13bn of debt to pay by the end of July so we may see more pressure on the shares in Tesla if he has to sell more of his stake in that company.\"\n\nMr Musk is also the chief executive and majority shareholder of electric car-maker Tesla, which will report its latest quarterly financial results on Wednesday.\n\nAfter laying off thousands of employees and cutting cloud service bills, Mr Musk said Twitter was on track to post $3bn (£2.29bn) in revenue in 2023, down from $5.1bn in 2021.\n\nThe development is the latest sign the aggressive cost-cutting measures have not been enough to ignite a return of advertisers who fled after changes to its content moderation rules.\n\nThat is despite an interview Mr Musk gave to the BBC in April, in which he suggested that most had returned to the site.\n\nHowever, Meghana Dhar, the former head of partnerships at Snap and Meta, which owns the new Twitter rival Threads, said the company had been struggling prior to Mr Musk's buyout.\n\n\"Elon and Twitter are in a candidly tough position right now,\" she told the BBC's Today programme. \"To be fair to Elon though, we've seen that decline in Twitter revenue and growth in revenue since pre-Elon - there's been kind of a steady decline.\"\n\nLinda Yaccarino, previously head of advertising at NBCUniversal, was taken on as chief executive of Twitter in June - a move suggesting advertising sales are still a priority for the company.\n\nMs Yaccarino has said Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships. It is said to be in early talks with political and entertainment figures, payments services, and news and media publishers.", "The mysterious object washed up off western Australia, about 250km north of Perth\n\nPolice have been baffled by a mysterious \"unidentified\" dome that washed up on a West Australian beach.\n\nThe giant metal object was found by locals at Green Head beach, about 250km (155 miles) north of Perth.\n\nState and federal authorities are investigating the item, which is not currently believed to be from a commercial aircraft.\n\nIt is being treated as hazardous, and police have requested people keep a safe distance.\n\n\"We want to reassure the community that we are actively engaged in a collaborative effort with various State and Federal agencies to determine the object's origin and nature,\" police said in a statement.\n\nThese include the military and Australia's space agency.\n\nGreen Head beach residents said the cylinder was about 2.5m wide and between 2.5m and 3m long, Australia's public broadcaster reported.\n\nResidents visited the site on Saturday night to see the cylinder, the ABC reported, with one local describing it as a \"great social evening\".\n\n\"It was a lovely, still night, the kids were digging sand castles around it,\" he told the ABC.\n\nAviation expert Geoffrey Thomas said the item was possibly a fuel tank from a rocket that had fallen into the Indian Ocean at some stage in the past 12 months.\n\nThe Australian Space Agency said it was possible the giant cylinder could have fallen from a \"foreign space launch vehicle\" and it would liaise with other international agencies.\n\nIf it is a fuel cylinder, experts believe it might be from an Indian rocket and could contain toxic materials.\n\nIt is hoped a serial or catalogue number will confirm whether or not this is the case.\n\nThere was some speculation the cylinder may have been a part of MH370 - a plane that went missing off the west Australian coast in 2014 with 239 passengers on board - but Mr Thomas said there was \"no chance\".\n\n\"It's not any part of a Boeing 777 and the fact is MH370 was lost nine-and-a-half years ago so it would show a great deal more wear and tear on the debris,\" he said.", "Ron Fealey died in hospital after being hit by a car on Christmas Eve\n\nA woman has appeared in court accused of a drink-drive collision on Christmas Eve which killed a great-grandfather.\n\nKatrina Mahoney, 33, appeared before Merthyr Tydfil magistrates court charged with causing death by driving without due care and attention while over the alcohol limit.\n\nThe court was told she intends to plead guilty in Merthyr Crown Court.\n\nRon Fealey, 82, was allegedly struck by her car and died in hospital from his injuries.\n\nThe case was adjourned to the crown court on 14 August.\n\nKatrina Mahoney was found to have 73 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the court heard\n\nMr Fealey was allegedly hit by her Nissan Qashqai on Avenue De Clichy in Merthyr on 24 December 2022.\n\nThe court heard she was found to have 73 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, more than twice the legal limit.\n\nA charge of failing to report an accident was dropped by the prosecution as the time limit had expired.\n\nIn a tribute released after his death, retired nurse Mr Fealey was described as \"one of a kind; funny, intelligent and caring\".\n\nHe was a \"stalwart\" of Dowlais rugby club, where he was a committee member who would \"always be respected and remembered\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Elton John has given evidence as a defence witness at actor Kevin Spacey's sexual assault trial.\n\nThe musician was asked about Mr Spacey's attendance at a party hosted by the singer at his home in Windsor.\n\nMr Spacey is alleged to have sexually assaulted a man who was driving him to the event. He denies going to the party in the year the prosecution claim.\n\nThe 63-year-old has pleaded not guilty to 12 sexual offence charges against four men between 2001 and 2013.\n\nSir Elton appeared by video link from Monaco. He answered questions around whether Mr Spacey had ever attended the White Tie and Tiara Ball that the musician held every year at his home.\n\nThe singer said Mr Spacey attended in 2001. One of the actor's accusers had given evidence to say a sexual assault happened on route to the ball in 2002, which Spacey denies attending.\n\nSpeaking about the ball in 2001, Sir Elton said: \"Yes, he came in white tie, and he came straight from a private jet. Yes, I don't think he'd wear white tie otherwise.\"\n\nSir Elton said Mr Spacey stayed overnight at his home in Windsor after the event, but could not remember him visiting the property after that.\n\nSir Elton's husband, David Furnish, also gave evidence and said he remembered Mr Spacey attending the event in question, adding \"as an Oscar-winning actor, there was a lot of excitement he was at the ball\".\n\nMr Spacey denies three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also denies four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nThe Hollywood star won an Oscar for Best Actor in 2000 for American Beauty as well as Emmy nominations for his role in House of Cards.", "The crash happened just after midnight on Monday\n\nTwo women have died in a two-car crash on the M4 near Bristol and three men have been arrested, police say.\n\nPolice were called to the eastbound carriageway between junctions 21 and 22 just after midnight on Monday.\n\nTwo women, who were passengers in one of the vehicles, were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe men, one man in his 20s and two in their 30s, were all arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nThey are in police custody after also receiving hospital treatment.\n\nThe crash caused significant delays on the bridge and into Wales\n\nThe three remaining occupants of the vehicle the women were in attended hospital, but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nThe motorway is now reopened.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia has taken control of the Russian subsidiaries of yoghurt maker Danone and beer company Carlsberg.\n\nThe units have been put in \"temporary management\" of the state, under a new order signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nMoscow introduced rules earlier this year allowing it to seize the assets of firms from \"unfriendly\" countries.\n\nThis came after many companies halted business in Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nDanone and Carlsberg were in the process of selling their Russian operations.\n\nSunday's order places the shares of Danone Russia and the Carlsberg-owned Baltika Breweries under the control of Russian property agency Rosimushchestvo.\n\nFrance-based Danone, which started the process to sell its Russian business last October, said it was \"currently investigating the situation\".\n\nThe firm added that it was \"preparing to take all necessary measures to protect its rights as shareholder of Danone Russia, and the continuity of the operations of the business\".\n\nCarlsberg said it had not received \"any official information from the Russian authorities regarding the presidential decree of the consequences for Baltika Breweries\".\n\nThe Danish brewer also said it had completed an \"extensive process\" to separate the Russian unit from the rest of the company. Last month, the company signed an agreement to sell Baltika Breweries but had not yet completed the deal.\n\n\"Following the presidential decree, the prospects for this sales process are now highly uncertain,\" it added.\n\nIn April, Mr Putin signed an order allowing Russia to take temporary control of foreign assets, in response to actions by the US and other countries that Russia said were \"unfriendly and contrary to international law\".\n\nAlso in April, it was announced that the Russian units of two energy companies - Germany's Uniper and Fortum of Finland, had been brought under state control.\n\nDanone's Russia operation is the country's largest dairy company, with around 8,000 employees.\n\nIt was estimated that the sale of the business would result in a €1bn ($1.1bn; £860m) hit for Danone.\n\nMeanwhile, Carlsberg subsidiary Baltika produces some of the most recognisable beer brands in Russia, with 8,400 employees across eight plants, according to Carlsberg's website.", "Shazia Saddiq and Sue Palmer said the scandal had had a \"devastating\" impact on their lives\n\n\"I lost absolutely everything. It has been absolutely horrendous.\"\n\nShazia Saddiq is one of many former Post Office branch managers wrongly accused of crimes due to accounting errors caused by a faulty IT system.\n\nAlong with Sue Palmer, who told the BBC the allegations \"ruined my life\", the pair are still waiting for full compensation several years on.\n\nA report on Monday called for action and law changes to stop issues \"blocking full and fair compensation\".\n\nThe head of an inquiry into the Post Office scandal, Sir Wyn Williams, said schemes set up to compensate sub-postmasters and sub-postmistress wrongly accused of crimes were a \"patchwork quilt with some holes in it\".\n\nBetween 2000 and 2014, more than 700 Post Office branch managers were given criminal convictions when faulty accounting software, called Horizon, made it look as though money was missing from their sites.\n\nThe cases constitute Britain's most widespread miscarriage of justice. Some people went to prison following convictions for false accounting and theft, and many were financially ruined. Some victims have since died.\n\nThere has been a public inquiry, led by Sir Wyn, which has been examining the treatment of thousands of sub-postmasters, and to establish who was to blame for the wrongful prosecutions and why nothing was done to prevent them.\n\nSir Wyn said on Monday that his criticisms over delays in compensation \"remain justified\".\n\nMs Saddiq, 39, along with fellow former sub-postmistress Mrs Palmer told the BBC the scandal had had a \"devastating\" impact on their lives.\n\nMs Saddiq, who used to run three Post Offices in Newcastle upon Tyne, said she had \"lost everything\" as a result of being accused of crimes a decade ago, including her home above one branch.\n\nShe did not end up facing criminal prosecution, but she had to leave the area with her two young children after being assaulted with flour in the street.\n\n\"I had to flee, me and my children overnight. They left their friends behind, they had to change schools,\" she said.\n\nMrs Palmer, who was found not guilty after a trial, said the allegations had \"ruined my life\".\n\n\"I was made homeless, I now live in a one-bedroom studio flat (because of the financial impact),\" she said.\n\nMrs Palmer, from Essex, had previously told the BBC she received a compensation payment in December, but soon realised it was not what it seemed, with a significant chunk of the money going straight to pay her creditors. She is now seeking proper compensation for the scandal.\n\nThe former postmistresses welcomed the latest report by Sir Wyn, but both called for the compensation process to be sped up.\n\n\"To keep a human being in this fight mode for such a long time, it's torturous. I want to be free from this now,\" Ms Saddiq said.\n\nMrs Palmer added: \"Words are no good now, we need actions. We need the Post Office to have accountability and the government.\"\n\nSub-postmasters and mistresses celebrated the quashing of their convictions\n\nIn the report laid before Parliament, Sir Wyn said there was no \"valid legal reason\" why the government and Post Office \"cannot give effect to the commitments they which they have made\" in providing \"full and fair\" compensation.\n\nThe retired judge said it was his job to make sure ministers and Post Office executives \"made good on those promises\" made to provide compensation to legitimate claimants \"promptly\" and to make sure the amounts paid out was \"recognised to be full and fair\".\n\nSir Wyn has long held concerns about the slow progress of compensation for Post Office staff.\n\nBut the Post Office chief executive, Nick Read, told the BBC's World At One programme that the \"sheer scale\" of the miscarriage of justice had \"gone above and beyond anything that anybody could realistically expect\".\n\n\"It really is a huge apology from the Post Office. We are all in this together and we are all on the same side,\" he said, but he rejected claims the Post Office was deliberately delaying proceedings.\n\nSir Wyn said it had been 16 months since he first started to hear the experiences of sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses, which he said \"consisted of graphic descriptions of hardship and suffering\".\n\nThe former High Court judge there were 438 applications for compensation still to be resolved as of 27 April, which he said the Post Office had accepted were \"difficult to resolve\".\n\n\"I am left with the distinct impression that the most complex cases have not been addressed as speedily as might have been the case,\" he said.\n\nAs the Post Office scandal has developed, three different compensation schemes have been set up.\n\nBut Sir Wyn said he was \"sure\" that if the government and Post Office were devising a scheme to deliver compensation to all involved now, there would not be three of them.\n\nHe also warned there was a \"clear and real risk\" that final compensation payments under one scheme - the Group Litigation Order set up by the government last year - \"will not be delivered to each applicant\" by the 7 August 2024 deadline.\n\nHe set out a series of recommendations, one of which was for payments to be made after the deadline, which he described as an \"entirely artificial cut-off point\".\n\nKevin Hollinrake, the Post Office Minister appointed last autumn, said the government would review the report and respond in due course.\n\n\"It is vital that we establish the facts behind this scandal and learn the lessons so that something like this can never happen again,\" he said.", "Former longtime BBC Radio 2 presenter Ken Bruce now appears on Greatest Hits Radio\n\nKen Bruce's Greatest Hits Radio show is being investigated by Ofcom over the station's campaign calling for offenders to be prevented from refusing to attend sentencing hearings.\n\nThe broadcasting watchdog said on Monday it would look at whether the station had complied with rules around impartiality and accuracy.\n\nThis year's Face the Family petition has been made directly to Parliament.\n\nIt was mentioned by a newsreader on Bruce's show on 13 April.\n\nThe broadcast also included clips in support of the campaign which directed listeners to a website.\n\nThe petition, signed by more than 13,000 people, was broadcast more than 30 times on the station, calling for new laws to \"require offenders to be in court for sentencing, to give victims and their families every chance to witness justice be delivered\".\n\nIt was explained that this could involve court and prison staff being \"given powers to use reasonable force to get offenders into the dock - as they do to transfer them from a court to prison.\"\n\nOfcom's spokesperson said the watchdog \"does not seek to question the merits\" of the campaign, which was broadcast more than 30 times on the radio station.\n\nBut they also noted how broadcasters are excluded from expressing views on \"political and industrial controversy or current public policy\".\n\nA Bauer spokesperson said: \"We are working with Ofcom to better understand the investigation into the Face the Family campaign, which ran in news bulletins in two local areas of the UK.\n\n\"The series is the latest in our tradition of local campaign journalism, which helps people who feel unheard have a voice. We are confident in our journalism and are committed to helping Ofcom with its investigation.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk this month said he was committed to proposals to introduce legislation so that convicted criminals would have to appear in court for their sentencing.\n\nSpeaking to ITV News, he said he was \"looking at what levers are open to us - whether you're talking about physically forcing people to court, or giving people an additional sentence as a result. We are looking very hard at this.\"\n\nIt comes after the killer of Zara Aleena in east London, Jordan McSweeney, refused to attend his sentencing, something her family described as \"a slap in the face\".\n\nThomas Cashman would not face the family of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel either, as he was jailed for life for her murder in Liverpool.", "NHS consultants in England have announced two more days of strikes over a long-running pay dispute.\n\nThey were already due to strike on Thursday and Friday - and now they will also walk out on 24 and 25 August, the British Medical Association (BMA) said.\n\nThe fresh dates were in response to a \"derisory\" 6% pay rise, said the BMA, a trade union for doctors.\n\nThe government said the rise, announced last week, was fair and called the new strike dates disappointing.\n\nDuring this week's strike and on the new August dates, consultants will provide so-called \"Christmas Day cover\", which includes emergency care and a small amount of routine work.\n\nLast week, the government announced the 6% pay rise for NHS medics just as junior doctors began their own five-day strike, which is due to end on Tuesday.\n\nThe BMA said the pay award amounted to \"another real-terms pay cut\".\n\nFor consultants, the below-inflation pay rise was \"nothing short of insulting\", the BMA said, and would actually boost pay by less than 6% once \"all elements of pay were considered\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government valued NHS staff, \"which is why we're giving consultants a fair and reasonable pay rise\".\n\n\"We've made it clear this pay award is not up for negotiation and it's disappointing the BMA are continuing with disruptive industrial action,\" they added.\n\nThe 6% pay rise is in line with pay review body recommendations, but far below what doctors are asking for.\n\nConsultant pay has fallen 27% since 2008 once the Retail Price Index (RPI) - one measure of inflation - is taken into account but the BMA says the cut is 35% once changes to tax and pension contributions are factored in. The government said it had acted on the BMA's request for pension reform, increasing the tax-free threshold on pensions contributions.\n\nUnlike junior doctors at the start of their dispute, consultants are not asking for full pay restoration in one go. Instead, they want the government to start at least giving pay rises that match inflation.\n\nDuring 2022, average NHS earnings exceeded £126,000 for consultants - this includes extra pay for additional hours and performance.\n\nDr Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA consultants committee, said the strikes were a last resort and that the union had \"been left with no choice\".\n\nHe said the government was \"devaluing consultants' expertise\" and showing a \"lack of regard for the impact this is having on the NHS\".\n\nHe said the pay body recommendation of a 6% pay rise showed \"the need to reform the pay review system\" and that the increase was a \"savage real-terms pay cut\".\n\nDr Sharma warned of further strikes after August, saying consultants were \"in this for the long haul\". More than 85% of BMA members backed walkouts in a previous ballot.\n\n\"The future of the NHS depends on there being consultants within it, but attacks on their pay will drive them away - from the health service and from the country - with devastating consequences,\" he said.\n\nAre you a consultant with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVladimir Putin has vowed to retaliate following a \"terrorist\" attack on the bridge linking Crimea to Russia.\n\nMoscow has blamed Ukraine for the incident - which left two people dead - but Kyiv has not officially said it was responsible.\n\nThe Kerch bridge was opened in 2018 and enables road and rail travel between Russia and Crimea - Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nRussia's transport ministry said the bridge's supports were not damaged.\n\nThe ministry said investigations were continuing, but unconfirmed reports said explosions were heard early on Monday.\n\nRussian authorities have accused Ukraine of attacking the Kerch bridge with two \"unmanned surface vessels\" (USVs) - drones that travel over water rather than through the air.\n\nAs yet, the BBC not seen any visual evidence to confirm this.\n\nBut a source in Ukraine's security service told BBC Russian it was behind the attack and that water-based drones were used.\n\nIn televised comments on Monday evening, the Russian president accused Ukraine of launching the \"senseless\" and \"cruel\" attack.\n\nThe attack on the bridge has damaged the road it carries but the railway line running parallel to it has not been damaged.\n\nThe bridge is an important resupply route for Russian forces occupying parts of southern Ukraine.\n\nAppearing on television with Mr Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said the bridge would be completely repaired by 1 November, while road traffic would resume in one direction from 15 September.\n\nMonday's incident created long traffic jams on the remaining road route out of Crimea and severe train delays on the railway were reported. The ferry crossing that runs parallel to the bridge was also affected.\n\nRussian officials urged holidaymakers stranded in Crimea to drive home through areas of southern Ukraine occupied by Russia since its army invaded last year. The officials said they would reduce curfew hours to let tourists through and that the army would keep the route \"safe\".\n\nCommercial flights between Russia and Crimea - a popular holiday destination for Russians since 2014 - have been suspended since Moscow's invasion.\n\nVyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the western Russian region of Belgorod which is close to Russia's border with Ukraine, said in a Telegram statement that a Russian couple had died in Monday's incident. He added that their 14-year-old daughter had been injured.\n\nUnverified photos posted by the spokesperson for Ukraine's military administration in the Odesa region showed debris on the road across the bridge, as well as damaged railings.\n\nDefence analyst Stuart Crawford told the BBC he believed that drones had been used to attack the bridge.\n\nHe also said details around what happened would likely remain unclear as neither side would want to release much information.\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of attacking the Kerch bridge with the \"direct participation\" of the UK and the US, but provided no evidence to back up the assertions.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there was no connection between the incident and Russia's decision to suspend its participation in a deal allowing Ukraine to ship out grain through the Black Sea.\n\nThe alleged attack is the second major incident on the Kerch bridge in the past year.\n\nIn October 2022, the bridge was partially closed following a huge explosion. It was fully reopened in February.\n\nEven now, the exact cause of the explosion last October remains unclear. Footage from the time showed a huge fireball erupting as a number of cars and lorries made their way across the bridge.\n\nThe latest incident comes amid a much-anticipated counter-offensive by Ukrainian forces which aims to retake territory in southern and eastern Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's forces have retaken 18 sq km (7 sq miles) over the past week in their fightback, Ukraine's deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said on messaging app Telegram.\n\nThe recent gains take the total area of reclaimed land to 210 sq km (81 sq miles) since the counter-offensive began.", "A wildfire raging earlier this month in British Columbia - where another firefighter lost her life in recent days\n\nA second firefighter has been killed in Canada as the country battles its worst season of wildfires on record.\n\nThe person, who has not yet been named, died from injuries sustained while fighting a fire near Fort Liard in the Northwest Territories on Saturday.\n\nIt comes just days after 19-year-old Devyn Gale was killed while working in neighbouring British Columbia.\n\nNearly 900 wildfires are currently burning across Canada, about 580 of which remain out of control.\n\nSo far this season, the fires have burned more than 10m hectares (24.7m acres) of land, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.\n\nThe figure is higher than for any previous year on record and more than three times the average for the previous 10 years.\n\nOn Sunday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was \"incredibly saddened\" by the news that a second firefighter had lost their life, and sent his condolences to their family.\n\nCaroline Cochrane, premier of the Northwest Territories, said the death was a \"tragic loss for the entire territory\".\n\n\"I extend my heartfelt condolences to their family, friends and colleagues,\" she said.\n\n\"The bravery and selflessness of our firefighters is an incredible gift to us all. Thank you for your service to our territory and to our country.\"\n\nMs Gale's death was the first death on the ground since the start of Canada's wildfire season - and reportedly the first in British Columbia since 2015.\n\nAfterwards, Mr Trudeau said Canadians \"must never forget the risks these heroes take every time they run toward the danger\".\n\n\"To firefighters... across the country who are doing just that to keep us safe: Thank you. We are inspired by your courage, and grateful for your service,\" he said.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nCanada is estimated to be warming twice as fast as the rest of the world and in recent years has seen extreme weather events of increasing frequency and intensity.\n\nThe wildfires have also sparked pollution alerts across North America as smoke is blown south along the continent's eastern coast.\n\nNineteen-year-old Devyn Gale was killed while fighting a fire in British Columbia", "A spokesperson said the defence department was aware of the issue and it was being taken seriously\n\nMillions of US military emails have been mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, because of a minor typing error.\n\nEmails intended for the US military's \".mil\" domain have, for years, been sent to the west African country which ends with the \".ml\" suffix.\n\nSome of the emails reportedly contained sensitive information such as passwords, medical records and the itineraries of top officers.\n\nThe Pentagon said it had taken steps to address the issue.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, which first reported the story, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier identified the problem more than 10 years ago.\n\nSince 2013, he has had a contract to manage Mali's country domain and, in recent months, has reportedly collected tens of thousands of misdirected emails.\n\nNone were marked as classified, but, according to the newspaper, they included medical data, maps of US military facilities, financial records and the planning documents for official trips as well as some diplomatic messages.\n\nMr Zuurbier wrote a letter to US officials this month to raise the alarm. He said that his contract with the Mali government was due to finish soon, meaning \"the risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the US\".\n\nMali's military government was due to take control of the domain on Monday.\n\nMr Zuurbier has been approached for comment.\n\nUS military communications that are marked \"classified\" and \"top secret\" are transmitted through separate IT systems that make it unlikely they will be accidently compromised, according to current and former US officials.\n\nBut Steven Stransky, a lawyer who previously served as senior counsel to the Department of Homeland Security's Intelligence Law Division, said that even seemingly harmless information could prove useful to US adversaries, particularly if it included details of individual personnel.\n\n\"Those sorts of communications would mean that a foreign actor can start building dossiers on our own military personnel, for espionage purposes, or could try to get them to disclose information in exchange for financial benefit,\" Mr Stransky said. \"It's certainly information that a foreign government can use.\"\n\nMali has become increasingly close with Russia since a 2020 coup unseated its former government\n\nLee McKnight, a professor of information studies at Syracuse University, said he believed the US military was fortunate that the issue was brought to its attention and the emails were going to a domain used by Mali's government, rather than to cyber criminals.\n\nHe added that \"typo-squatting\" - a type of cyber-crime that targets users who incorrectly misspell an internet domain - is common. \"They're hoping that a person will make a mistake, and that they can lure you in and do stupid things,\" he said.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, a spokesperson said the defence department was aware of the issue and it was being taken seriously.\n\nThey said the department had taken steps to ensure that \".mil\" emails are not sent to incorrect domains, including blocking them before they leave and notifying senders that they must validate intended recipients.\n\nBoth Mr McKnight and Mr Stransky said human errors were prime concerns for IT specialists working in government and the private sector alike.\n\n\"Human error is by far the most significant security concern on a day-to-day basis,\" Mr Stransky said. \"We just can't control every single human, every single time\".", "Visa rules are being eased for overseas builders, carpenters and people working in the fishing industry, the Home Office has confirmed.\n\nRoofers and plasterers have also been added to the Shortage Occupation List, which temporarily eases visa restrictions in areas where employers are struggling to fill vacancies.\n\nThe Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) advised adding builders to the list.\n\nNo 10 denied the move contradicted government attempts to cut immigration.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto at the 2019 general election committed to getting immigration numbers down, without setting a specific target.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"We've always acknowledged that in the short term we will need to flex and use our Brexit freedoms to enable us to fill short-term occupation numbers.\n\n\"We do want to ensure we have a specially trained domestic workforce,\" he added.\n\nAdvisors on MAC recommended five jobs for inclusion on the list:\n\nConservative MP Marco Longhi described the government announcement as \"nuts,\" adding: \"This country's addiction to immigration as a fix-all has to stop\".\n\n\"We need to reform universities and train our own people through apprenticeships and other means and produce people ready for work,\" he added.\n\nThe Home Office also added jobs in the fishing trade to the list, alongside connected \"elementary agriculture occupations\".\n\nThe government is easing restrictions on the fishing industry as part of a wider reforms on the fishing industry - which includes a £100m UK Seafood Fund.\n\nPeople on the shortage occupation list can apply for a skilled worker visa to work in the UK.\n\nThose working in a shortage occupation pay lower visa fees and can be paid 80% of the job's usual rate and still qualify for a visa.\n\nApplicants will still need a sponsored job offer from an employer and to meet English Language requirements.\n\nThe shortage list is reviewed every six months, with another review is expected by the autumn.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has previously complained migration into the UK is \"too high\", after net migration reached record levels last year.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), immigration saw the country's overall population increase by 606,000 in 2022.\n\nIn a speech in May, Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for UK businesses to train up British nationals in labour shortage areas in a bid to reduce immigration.\n\nMAC's construction and hospitality shortage review, published in March on the same day as the Budget, found vacancies rose sharply in both hospitality and construction, relative to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAdvisors on MAC did not recommend any hospitality occupations be included, although it said Brexit and the pandemic had \"significant effects\" in both sectors.\n\nVacancies are 65% higher in construction compared to pre-pandemic levels, the report found. This compares to an increase of 42% in the overall economy.\n\nAdding construction workers to the shortage list would not make a major difference to overall migration figures, MAC found.\n\nThe committee said its review was based on whether an occupation made up more than 0.5% of the sector workforce and earned below the current general threshold for migrants which stands at £26,200.\n\nIt said it also considered the \"strategic importance of construction for the UK economy\" and how its workforce was likely to change in the next decade, with \"demand likely to increase markedly\".\n\nSuzannah Nichol, Build UK chief executive, said she welcomed the news, adding: \"It is vital that construction is able to fill vacancies and quickly address shortages around particular roles.\"\n\nOn 3 July, a group of Tory MPs suggested policies it wanted to see to drastically cut migration, warning the failure to do so \"risks eroding public trust\".\n\nThey proposed only granting visas to skilled workers earning more than £38,000 a year.\n\nCurrently, in most cases foreign nationals have to earn at least £26,200 to qualify for a skilled worker visa, although this can drop to £20,960 if they are taking up a job on a shortage list.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCarlos Alcaraz won the Wimbledon men's singles title for the first time by ending Novak Djokovic's recent dominance with a stunning victory.\n\nSpain's Alcaraz, 20, fought back from a nervy start to win 1-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 3-6 6-4 against the defending champion.\n\nDjokovic was going for a fifth straight win, an eighth men's triumph and a 24th major - all record-equalling feats.\n\nBut the 36-year-old Serb was outlasted by top seed Alcaraz, who underlined his class by winning a second major title.\n\n\"It is a dream come true for me,\" Alcaraz, who was playing in only his fourth grass-court tournament, said.\n\n\"Even if I lost, I would have been proud of myself. To be able to play in these stages of these occasions - as a boy of 20 years old - is really fast.\n\n\"I'm really proud of myself.\"\n\nAlcaraz, who won his first Grand Slam title at the US Open last year, celebrated by falling flat on his face after taking his first match point and kicking a ball into the crowd.\n• None 'Wimbledon win the happiest moment of my life'\n• None 'Tough one to swallow' - Djokovic tearful after loss\n\nThe majority of a packed Centre Court, which included the Prince and Princess of Wales, actor Brad Pitt and two-time winner Andy Murray, rose to their feet to acclaim the All England Club's newest champion.\n\nAs tradition now dictates, Alcaraz ran up the stairs from the court to his box and embraced coach Juan Carlos Ferrero, along with his family and friends.\n\nAlcaraz is the third youngest man to win the Wimbledon title in the Open era after 17-year-old Boris Becker in 1985 and 20-year-old Bjorn Borg in 1976.\n\n\"You never like to lose matches like this but I guess when all the emotions are settled I have to still be very grateful,\" said 23-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic, who broke down in tears during his on-court speech.\n\n\"I won many tough matches here. Maybe I have won a couple of finals I should have lost so maybe this is even-steven.\n\n\"It is a tough one to swallow when you are so close. I lost to a better player, I have to congratulate him, and move on - stronger hopefully.\"\n\nBefore an eagerly anticipated men's final between the top two seeds, Djokovic further ramped up the excitement by predicting a \"feast\" between a pair with equally \"hungry\" appetites for success.\n\nA compelling contest - full of quality, drama and momentum swings - lived up to the hype.\n\nThe pair have been two of the leading players on the ATP Tour this year and jostled for position as the world number one.\n\nDjokovic won the Australian Open and French Open this year to move ahead of Rafael Nadal's tally of 22 major titles, knowing another victory would equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 victories.\n\nAt the opposite end of the career scale, Alcaraz was aiming to prove not all of the younger generation can be overawed by Djokovic's greatness.\n\nThe Spaniard had already been dealt a chastening experience when facing Djokovic, having suffered body cramps during their French Open semi-final last month because he was so overcome by nerves.\n\nOne of the plotlines going into the Wimbledon final centred on Alcaraz's state of mind.\n\nAlcaraz was confident that fear was out of his system going into Sunday's showpiece - but that did not look to be the case in a one-sided first set, which Djokovic won after just 34 minutes.\n\nDjokovic suffocated his opponent with his deep and consistent returning, forcing Alcaraz into hurrying his shots and making too many mistakes.\n\nAlcaraz slowly grew into the contest, finding more rhythm with his groundstrokes and introducing an increasing number of the drop shots for which he is becoming known.\n\nAfter turning the deficit into a lead, helped by edging a mammoth 27-minute game early in the third set, Alcaraz produced two loose errors at a crucial time in the fourth and Djokovic went on to level.\n\nHowever, Alcaraz's composure returned in the decider.\n\nHe broke for a 2-1 lead which led to Djokovic smashing his racquet on the net post and, continuing to play with power and variety, served out a stunning victory after four hours and 42 minutes.\n\nDjokovic still well placed to create further history\n\nThe tears from Djokovic after the match were indicative of the physical and mental effort he puts into creating even more history.\n\nThe defeat meant he was unable to equal Roger Federer's men's record of eight Wimbledon titles and Court's all-time record of 24 major wins.\n\nDjokovic also saw two mind-boggling runs - 34 successive match wins going back to 2017, and 45 straight victories on Centre Court stretching back to 2013 - ended by Alcaraz.\n\nDespite the disappointing manner of the loss, there was plenty to suggest the veteran is still well placed to at least equal Federer's and Court's tallies.\n\nHis game, physicality and elasticity remain as good as ever.\n\n\"I hope this will be the beginning of a rivalry for some time - for my sake,\" said Djokovic on the prospect of more duels with Alcaraz.\n\n\"He's going to be on the tour for quite some time. I don't know how long I'll be around.\n\n\"I hope we get to play at the US Open. I think it's good for the sport, one and two in the world facing each other in a five-hour, five-set thriller.\n\n\"It couldn't be better for our sport.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can you trust your best mate to be your best man? Find out in Jason Manford and Steve Edge’s new podcast\n• None Can certain foods make you hungrier? Professor Tim Spector takes Michael Mosley through his top food and nutrition tips", "A multi-million dollar settlement has been reached in a fatal boat crash involving the family of disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh.\n\nRelatives of Mallory Beach, 19, who died when the vessel hit a bridge support, will receive $15m (£11.4m) under the agreement.\n\nThe boat belonged to convicted murderer and ex-attorney Murdaugh.\n\nOfficials believe it was being driven by his drunk son, Paul, at the time of the February 2019 crash.\n\nThe convenience store that sold Paul the alcohol and Alex Murdaugh were defendants in the wrongful death lawsuit.\n\nAll legal action connected to the crash was settled on Sunday, lawyers said.\n\nA further $3m will be split between four other teenage passengers who were on the boat - Anthony Cook, Morgan Doughty, Miley Altman and Connor Cook - reports CBS 17.\n\nEarlier this year, a jury convicted Alex Murdaugh of murdering his wife, Margaret, and 22-year-old Paul in June 2021. The trial involving the well-known legal dynasty in South Carolina gripped the US.\n\nAlex Murdaugh (right) murdered his wife, Maggie, and his youngest son Paul in June 2021\n\nProsecutors argued that Murdaugh killed them to divert attention from his financial crimes and gain sympathy. He was sentenced to life in prison.\n\nAt the time of his death, Paul Murdaugh was facing three criminal charges over the boat crash, including boating under the influence resulting in death. He pleaded not guilty, but his father killed him before he could face trial.\n\nAll of the survivors except Paul testified that it had been him behind the wheel at the time of impact. A blood test later found his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit.\n\nA police report said the passengers were \"grossly intoxicated\" and alcohol was found on the boat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison\n\nPaul allegedly used his older brother's ID to buy alcohol from a shop owned by Parker's Corporation earlier that day.\n\n\"The Beach family believes this settlement will serve as a warning to all the Parker's of the world, who might make an illegal sale of alcohol to a minor,\" a family lawyer said.\n\nParker's said in a statement: \"This marks the conclusion of all the boat crash cases. We sincerely hope that all involved parties will find some measure of closure.\"\n\nThe victims of the crash will also receive a share of the court-controlled assets of Alex Murdaugh, though that sum has not yet been determined, said the Beach family attorney.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFor so long, the question had been: \"Why can't the next generation stop Novak Djokovic?\"\n\nCarlos Alcaraz, frozen by fear at the prospect of playing Djokovic in the French Open semi-finals, finally did it.\n\nNot only did the Spaniard beat Djokovic in a Grand Slam final, he overcame the 36-year-old Serb at the place where he has been unbeatable in recent years.\n\nAmid a feverish atmosphere on Centre Court on Sunday, the 20-year-old won a thrilling five-set final to claim the Wimbledon men's singles title.\n\nIt stopped Djokovic winning a fifth successive title at SW19, an eighth men's crown at the All England Club and a 24th major overall - all record-equalling feats.\n\nEchoing the thoughts of many onlookers, nine-time Wimbledon men's doubles champion Todd Woodbridge described Alcaraz's win as a \"changing of the guard\".\n\n\"I did it for myself, not for the tennis generation, honestly,\" said Alcaraz, who became the first player to beat Djokovic on Centre Court since Andy Murray in the 2013 final.\n\n\"Beating Novak at his best, in this stage, making history, being the guy to beat him after 10 years unbeaten on that court, is amazing for me.\n\n\"But it's great for the new generation, as well, I think to see me beating him and making them think that they are capable to do it.\"\n• None 'Wimbledon win the happiest moment of my life'\n• None 'Tough one to swallow' - Djokovic tearful after loss\n\nIt has long been asked which players would take on the men's game after the careers of Djokovic, Rafael Nadal - who is set to retire next year - and Roger Federer, who called it a day last year.\n\nDjokovic was bidding to win the seventh of the past nine Grand Slams he has played in, having already claimed the Australian Open and French Open titles this year.\n\nAlthough the Melbourne victory came in a tournament where Alcaraz was ruled out through injury, the young Spaniard was unable to stop him in Paris.\n\nAlcaraz saw his hopes in last month's much-anticipated semi-final against Djokovic ruined by full body cramps caused by nerves.\n\nThe aura of the then 22-time major champion loomed large. Factoring in Djokovic's technique, tactics, mentality on the court and resilience off it, he has created a formidable figure which has overawed his younger opponents.\n\nIn the past five seasons, Djokovic has lost only eight of the 52 matches he has played against opponents under the age of 23.\n\nAdded to that, Alcaraz was only the second younger opponent - after Daniil Medvedev at the 2021 US Open - to beat Djokovic in a Grand Slam final since 2020.\n\nDjokovic, Federer and Nadal have dominated the sport for much of the past two decades, with Alcaraz becoming the first man to win multiple Grand Slams since Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka in 2016.\n\nThe Spaniard is also the first man other than Federer, Nadal, Djokovic or Murray to win Wimbledon since 2002.\n\nAlcaraz's all-round game is a joy to watch. As well as power from the baseline, he has a deft touch around the net and is able to cover the court with his athleticism.\n\nSome have said Alcaraz's style takes elements from each of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal.\n\n\"I would agree with that. I think he's got basically the best of all three worlds,\" said Djokovic.\n\n\"He's got this Spanish bull mentality of competitiveness and fighting spirit and incredible defence that we've seen with Rafa over the years.\n\n\"And I think he's got some nice sliding backhands that have got some similarities with my backhands. Two-handed backhands, defence, being able to adapt.\n\n\"I think that has been my personal strength for many years. He has it, too.\n\n\"I haven't played a player like him ever, to be honest. Roger and Rafa have their own obviously strengths and weaknesses.\n\n\"Carlos is a very complete player. Amazing adapting capabilities that I think are key for longevity and for a successful career on all surfaces.\"\n\nDjokovic, who turned 36 in May and claimed \"36 is the new 26\" in the build-up to Sunday's final, has no plans to retire yet and showed again this fortnight his powers are not waning.\n\nBut with the end of his career coming into view, Alcaraz is primed to take over at the top for the long haul.\n\nAlcaraz became the only teenager to become the men's world number one when he won the US Open last year and remains top of the rankings by claiming his second major title at Wimbledon.\n\nSuch has been his emergence, a few of the players once heralded as the 'next generation' to succeed the 'big three' may be concerned they have missed the boat.\n\n\"Who's going to match this kid for the next few years?\" asked 1987 Wimbledon winner Pat Cash. \"It's hard to see anybody.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Watch all episodes of We Hunt Together on BBC iPlayer\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "More than 30m tonnes of grain and other foods have left Ukraine under the deal struck in July 2022\n\nThe last ship to sail under a deal allowing Ukraine to export its grain has left the country's Black Sea port of Odesa, a day before an extension deadline, MarineTraffic data site says.\n\nIt says the TQ Samsun left on Sunday - a claim backed by Reuters news agency.\n\nRussia has not agreed to extend the UN-brokered deal unless its demands on its own grain and fertilisers are met.\n\nThe 2022 deal was struck amid fears of global food shortages after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBoth Ukraine and Russia are among the world's top grain exporters.\n\nMarineTraffic says the Turkish-flagged ship left Odesa just after 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT) and was heading south to the Turkish city of Istanbul.\n\nUkraine has so far not publicly commented on the issue.\n\nOn Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said commitments to remove obstacles to Moscow's own food exports and other key provisions had not been met, signalling that Moscow could suspend its participation in the agreement.\n\n\"The main goal of the deal, namely the supply of grain to countries in need, including on the African continent, has not been implemented,\" the Kremlin leader said in a phone call to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nMoscow also wants its Rosselkhozbank - a bank that handles agricultural payments - to be reconnected to the global Swift payment network.\n\nEarlier this year, the European Union said it was not considering reinstating Russian banks sanctioned because of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was confident the deal would be extended again, after speaking to Mr Putin.\n\nThe deal is meant to be extended for 120 days at a time, but in March and May 2023 Russia agreed to extensions of only 60 days.\n\nSeveral days before the last extension, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held urgent talks with UN Secretary General António Guterres.\n\n\"We are interested in ensuring that there is no hunger in the world,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nUkrainian exports by sea from the country's Black Sea ports were initially blocked by Russian warships following the invasion in February 2022.\n\nMore than 30m tonnes of grain and other foods have left Ukraine under the deal providing a safe corridor across the Black Sea.\n\nMr Putin has criticised Ukraine for not exporting more to developing countries.\n\nBut the UN says the grain deal has benefited people throughout the world because it has brought more food products onto the global market and therefore reduced global prices.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic has been fined £6,117 for smashing his racquet against the net post during the Wimbledon men's singles final.\n\nThe incident occurred in the fifth set of his loss to Spain's Carlos Alcaraz when the 36-year-old Serb's serve was broken in the third game.\n\nUmpire Fergus Murphy immediately issued Djokovic a warning for a code violation for the transgression.\n\nThe money will be deducted from his runner-up cheque of £1.175m.\n\nDjokovic's frustration had built up in the decisive set of an enthralling contest on Sunday, having missed a simple chance at the net for a break to go 2-0 up.\n\nIn the very next game Alcaraz backed up the hold by breaking the serve of the seven-time Wimbledon champion, which prompted the emotional outburst from Djokovic and brought boos from a section of the Centre Court crowd.\n\nWorld number one Alcaraz took full advantage of the break to seal a 1-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 3-6 6-4 victory after four hours and 42 minutes.\n\nThe 20-year-old's victory at the All England Club denied Djokovic a 24th grand slam title.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video from Crimean TV shows damage to the bridge\n\nUkrainian officials are maintaining their customary ambiguity about the latest attack on the Kerch bridge, but its location and strategic significance mean it was always likely to come under renewed assault.\n\nWith Kyiv's counter-offensive aiming to deal a decisive blow to Russian forces occupying southern Ukraine, the bridge is a key target.\n\nThere aren't many ways for Moscow to reinforce its troops in Crimea and the southern Kherson region. The Kerch bridge is one of the most important.\n\nIf the bridge is out of action, even for a short time, this will complicate Russia's logistical challenges, a key aspect of the early phase of Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\nLast October's devastating explosion on the bridge - which Russia blamed on a massive truck bomb, organised by Ukrainian intelligence - came as Ukraine was pressuring Russian forces to abandon the city of Kherson. Now Kyiv wants to make life as difficult as possible for Russian forces occupying areas south of the Dnipro River.\n\nLogistics hubs across the south have been repeatedly hit using long-range weapons supplied by Ukraine's Western backers.\n\nIf, as seems likely, Kyiv was behind this latest attack on the Kerch bridge, it should be seen in the context of Ukraine's wider effort to liberate areas of the south occupied during last year's full-scale Russian invasion.\n\nUkraine's forces have retaken 18 sq km (7 sq miles) over the past week in their fightback, Ukraine's deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said on messaging app Telegram on Monday.\n\nThose gains take the total area of reclaimed land to 210 sq km (81 sq miles) since the counter-offensive began.\n\nMs Maliar also recently claimed that Kyiv's forces had destroyed six Russian ammunition depots in the space of 24 hours, a remark that hinted at Ukrainian tactics.\n\n\"We inflict effective, painful and precise blows and bleed the occupier, for whom the lack of ammunition and fuel will sooner or later become fatal,\" she said.\n\nBeyond that, Moscow knows that Kyiv would dearly love to take back the Crimean Peninsula, invaded and annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nFor Ukrainians, the Kerch bridge, inaugurated by President Vladimir Putin in 2018 amid great fanfare, is a hated symbol of Russian occupation. Last October's explosion, which briefly crippled the bridge, was greeted with euphoria across Ukraine.\n\nDespite predictions that repairs could last well into this summer, work on the damaged road spans was apparently concluded within two months, an indication of the importance Moscow attached to getting the bridge up and running again.\n\nIt's not completely clear what's been damaged this time. The bridge has parallel road and rail lines. From a military point of view, the rail link is the most important: it's been used to carry tanks and other heavy armoured equipment into Crimea from Russia.\n\nThere are no immediate signs that the rail bridge has been hit. Pictures and video circulating on social media suggest the latest attack is less devastating than the last.\n\nBut this is unlikely to be the last attack. The Kerch bridge is well within range of weapons such as the British-supplied Storm Shadow missile. As long as it serves any military purpose for Russia, it'll remain in Kyiv's sights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan has told BBC News that taking part in the show in 2012 felt like being in \"an abusive relationship\".\n\nShe has revealed the reason she left the ITV show abruptly after week three was because she had been raped, and was not ill, as reported at the time.\n\nThe singer-songwriter says the industry needs to change to better protect people taking part in reality TV shows.\n\nBoth ITV and Fremantle say they are evolving their duty of care processes.\n\nX Factor was made for ITV by Talkback Thames - part of production company Fremantle - and Simon Cowell's company Syco.\n\nSimon Cowell has described what happened to Spraggan as \"horrific and heartbreaking\".\n\nSpraggan has waived her legal right to anonymity, granted to victims of sexual offences, to speak to the BBC in her first broadcast interview.\n\nIn 2012, X Factor was one of the UK's most-watched TV shows and Spraggan became an overnight sensation when millions watched her audition.\n\n\"From that moment on, my life changed forever,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"From the beginning, they kind of make you into a caricature of yourself. It's almost like there's a storyline written for you,\" she adds.\n\nLucy sang a song she had written herself at her 2012 audition\n\nSpraggan, who was 20 at the time, says the contestants were immediately put under huge pressure.\n\n\"From the very first stage that message was reiterated and reiterated and reiterated to the point where that's all you believe - [that] 'this is the biggest opportunity of my life,'\" she says.\n\nNow 31, she says she has never since experienced a situation where \"somebody completely takes the reins of my life\".\n\n\"If I had experienced that again, as a normal human being, I would have said that I would have been in an abusive relationship.\"\n\nSpraggan details her experiences on the show in her new memoir, Process: Finding My Way Through, including the sexual assault.\n\nIt happened at a hotel where she and her fellow contestant - the broadcaster Rylan Clark - had been moved to, away from the others.\n\nThey had initially been staying at the luxury Corinthia Hotel in central London, where Spraggan says they were guarded by 24-hour security.\n\nShe says the show's producers told her the hotel had asked the pair to leave because they were \"causing too much trouble\". Headlines had branded them \"party animals\".\n\n\"So Rylan and I always sort of were under the impression that we were removed, because that supported the narrative,\" Spraggan says.\n\nThe pair were not given additional security at the new hotel, she adds.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story, please visit BBC Action Line.\n\nThe night they were moved, Spraggan attended Rylan's birthday party at a club in Mayfair.\n\nSpraggan says she can't remember what happened that night and has pieced together the incident through information from the police and others.\n\nShe knows she was not conscious - because she had been drinking alcohol at the party - when she was escorted back to the hotel by a member of the production team.\n\n\"The hotel porter that had offered his help to get me up to bed… got a key card, let himself into my room and raped me,\" she explains.\n\nIn 2013, the porter pleaded guilty to the attack and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\nRylan was the first person Spraggan told about what happened. \"He was unbelievable,\" she says, describing him as \"an angel\".\n\nSpraggan says being examined by police for evidence was \"one of the worst experiences\" of her life. But she also knew that the show - which turned unknowns into singing stars - was the biggest opportunity of her life, and the fourth live show was due to be filmed the following day.\n\n\"It was like, this extraordinary thing's happened. The police are here, I've just had this examination. And people still asking me, 'What do you want to do? What do you want to do?' And I was like, 'I want to carry on with the show.'\n\n\"It kind of shows you what kind of world you are in, in what kind of mindset you are in, to not be able to really measure what has happened, and what you should do now.\"\n\nLucy says the day after the attack she was put in another hotel room, with a security guard outside.\n\n\"I remember sort of having to peel myself away from jumping off the balcony. Like having to consciously do that.\"\n\nSpraggan's next album, called Balance, will be released in August\n\nShe decided to leave the show after week three of the competition. But she wasn't voted out by the public or the show's judges - she realised that mentally she couldn't continue.\n\nTo explain why she had left, ITV announced that she was ill. Spraggan says she feels she had to go along with the narrative at the time, but says she is now relieved she can tell the truth.\n\nSpraggan felt like she didn't get enough support in the aftermath of the attack - and in the following years her mental health deteriorated considerably and she abused alcohol and drugs. She has now been sober for nearly four years.\n\nFremantle said: \"Whilst we believed throughout that we were doing our best to support Lucy, as Lucy thinks we could have done more, we must therefore recognise this. For everything Lucy has suffered, we are extremely sorry.\"\n\nThe star is now calling for all production and broadcast companies to better consider employees' and participants' mental health - by setting aside a portion of their budgets to invest in mental wellbeing services.\n\n\"I don't want to destroy anything. I want to build a better infrastructure,\" she says.\n\n\"We need these shows, because there's a thriving community of talented people who just don't have the funds and the opportunity to get there.\"\n\nX Factor's creator, Simon Cowell was not a judge in 2012 because he was in America launching X Factor US. Spraggan says she was ready to give him \"a piece of my mind\" when he called her, after she had contacted his people to say she was writing her book.\n\nShe says he said, \"Lucy, before you or I say anything else, the first thing I need to tell you is that I am sorry.\"\n\nSpraggan reflects: \"It makes me emotional because no-one else said sorry. And all it took was this one man to treat me like a human being, 11 years later.\"\n\nIn 2021, Ofcom, the broadcast regulator, announced changes to its Broadcasting Code to better protect people made vulnerable by their participation in TV shows. The changes were introduced after suicides involving contestants from Love Island and The Jeremy Kyle Show in 2018 and 2019.\n\nEarlier this year, the BBC and ITV announced they were joining forces to recruit more registered psychologists to support TV programmes in their duty of care to contributors.\n\n\"My voice is extremely inconvenient for a lot of people. I've been petrified of telling the truth, because I'll lose what I have,\" Spraggan says.\n\n\"If I have to be the first person who says 'I'm actually not scared to stand up against you [the industry]', I will. And hopefully it inspires other people to be a little bit braver too.\"\n\nIn a statement, ITV said it had \"the deepest compassion for Lucy\". It said the production companies, Fremantle and Syco, were primarily responsible for the duty of care towards all of its programme contributors.\n\nBut it added it \"is committed to having in place… robust oversight procedures, to [ensure] that independent producers employ the correct processes to protect the mental health and welfare of participants\".", "Swiss watchmaker Swatch says it has begun legal proceedings against the Malaysian government for seizing LGBTQ-themed watches from its stores.\n\nThe move comes after officials impounded 172 watches from its rainbow-coloured Pride collection, on sale at shopping malls across Malaysia.\n\nSwatch wants damages and the return of the watches, worth $14,000 (£10,700).\n\nHomosexual activity is illegal in Malaysia under both secular and religious laws.\n\nIt is punishable by a prison sentence or corporal punishment.\n\nSwatch filed its lawsuit last month at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur. The case is expected to be heard later this week.\n\nThe Malaysian authorities said the watches were confiscated in May by the home affairs ministry's law enforcement unit because they featured \"LGBT elements\".\n\nBut Swatch said in its lawsuit that the watches were \"not in any way capable of causing any disruption to public order or morality or any violations of the law\".\n\nThe firm said its trading reputation had been damaged by the seizures, adding that its \"business and trading figures also suffered in the immediate aftermath of the seizure for some time\".\n\nIn its promotional campaign for the Pride-themed watches, Swatch describes them as \"loud, proud, uplifting and bursting with meaning\".\n\nThe firm refers to the Pride flag as \"a symbol of humanity that speaks for all genders and all races\".\n\nIn its lawsuit, Swatch said the watches \"did not promote any sexual activity, but merely a fun and joyous expression of peace and love\".\n\nThe lawsuit names the home affairs ministry and the government of Malaysia as respondents.\n\nHome Affairs Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has yet to comment publicly on the matter.", "The government has again overturned changes to its Illegal Migration Bill made by the House of Lords, despite some Tory MPs rebelling.\n\nThe Commons voted to reverse detention limits for children suggested by peers, as well as protections for potential modern slavery victims.\n\nThirteen Conservatives opposed the decision on modern slavery, fewer than had been predicted.\n\nThe bill now returns to the Lords, who could continue to demand changes.\n\nIn votes scheduled for late on Monday evening, they will be able to approve the amendments again, or suggest similar alternatives. Debate began around 22.15 BST, and votes could continue into the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nBut if they back down, it will pave the way for the legislation to become law before MPs begin their summer recess later this week.\n\nThe bill, backed by MPs in March, is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's high-profile pledge to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nIt would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe Rwanda plan was ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal last month, but ministers are challenging the judgement.\n\nMPs have been locked in a battle over the final shape of the bill with the House of Lords, where it has been repeatedly amended by opposition peers.\n\nThey voted down nine amendments made by the Lords last week, including one which would have placed a three-day limit on the time unaccompanied child migrants can be detained before they are deported.\n\nThey also overturned a suggested four-day detention limit suggested for accompanied children, and a ban on LGBT migrants from being deported to Rwanda and nine other, mainly African countries.\n\nMPs also voted down an amendment that would have forced the government to create new safe and legal asylum routes within nine months of the bill passing. Ministers have promised to do this by the end of 2024.\n\nSpeaking before the votes, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said the Lords amendments would have created \"exemptions, qualifications and loopholes\" that would make the legislation harder to implement.\n\nHe said the power to detain people who are due to be deported was necessary to stop people absconding, and exempting families with children would leave a \"gaping hole\" in the system.\n\nTim Loughton, one of 11 Tory MPs to rebel over child detention limits, said government promises that detention would be for the shortest period possible should be written into the legislation.\n\nShadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said the bill was \"unworkable\" and an exercise in \"performative cruelty\".\n\nHe added that Rwanda would only be able to take a tiny fraction of the migrants arriving in small boats, meaning the threat of being deported there would not deter people from making the journey.", "Usually iPhones plummet in value as soon as you take them out of the shop.\n\nBut there are some special cases, as seen at an auction in the US, where a first edition, unopened 4GB model sold for $190,372.80 (£145,416).\n\nNot many of these were made at the time, leading the model to be considered the \"Holy Grail\" by iPhone collectors.\n\nThe lot, run by LCG Auctions, attracted 28 bids in total and sold at nearly 400 times its original price.\n\nThe final fee includes the administration costs on top of the hammer price paid to the auction house by the buyer, known as a \"buyer's premium\".\n\nThe buyer's premium goes directly to the auction house and not to the seller.\n\nLCG Auctions described it as \"a popular high-end\" and \"red-hot collectable\", adding that two other factory-sealed, first edition iPhones had sold at record values in the last year.\n\nThe website described the model as an \"exceedingly rare, factory sealed, first-release 4GB model in exceptional condition. Virtually flawless along the surface and edges, the factory seal is clean with correct seam details and tightness\".\n\nOriginally retailing at $599 (£457), the lot was expected to fetch in the region of $50,000-$100,000 - but managed to smash all previous records.\n\nFirst released in 2007 by the then Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the tech giant made the decision to discontinue the 4GB model just two months after it was launched, due to lagging sales.\n\nMost people decided to purchase the 8GB model, which was launched at the same time, and gave users double the storage space, for just $100 more.\n\nEvery few months, some rare Apple memorabilia or relics of Mr Jobs' life and career sells at auction.\n\nThey include a poem he wrote in a classmate's high school yearbook, photos of him in college and a business card from 1978.\n\nIn 2011 the Apple co-founder died at the age of 56 after suffering from pancreatic cancer. Apple said he had been \"the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives\" and had made the world \"immeasurably better\".\n\nHe introduced the colourful iMac computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad to the world.", "In most parts of Wales, children getting free school meals will no longer have that support during the summer\n\nThree councils are set to fund free school meal vouchers for parents this summer after the Welsh government axed support.\n\nBut Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent and Powys councils have found the cash from their own budgets for the school break.\n\nThe Welsh government said the support was always \"time-limited\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Mark Drakeford said a number of groups would help families over the holiday, including the Welsh Rugby Union.\n\nSome council leaders expressed concern at how late the decision was announced, while Wrexham's council leader said financial struggles of the authority stopped it from stepping in.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader of Powys feared some children could suffer malnutrition without the programme.\n\nCouncils were told about the move on 28 June after the scheme had been extended until the end of the last half-term break, with councils either providing lunches, vouchers or payments.\n\nAt the weekend, Mr Drakeford also said that even if the money - estimated to be £15m - did become \"miraculously\" available, \"it couldn't be done for this holiday\".\n\nWithout extra money, it is unlikely the three councils will continue with payments beyond the summer.\n\nCaerphilly has already approved its decision - costing £900,000 - to fund holiday payments to families whose children receive free school meals.\n\nIts Labour leader Sean Morgan said the difficult financial situation facing local government was why many other authorities were not doing the same.\n\nHe said his administration found the lateness of the Welsh government's decision \"difficult\".\n\n\"We had residents that were expecting those free school meals to continue.\"\n\nMark Drakeford has confirmed that free meals would not be extended over summer\n\nHe blamed the Plaid Cymru co-operation deal with the Welsh government - which includes the roll out of universal free school meals in primary schools - for \"spending the money available\".\n\nPlaid Cymru said it was disappointed the support had been ended but the decision had not formed part of the co-operation agreement.\n\nBlaenau Gwent council is deciding on Thursday whether to continue the payments - costing £300,000 from its reserves.\n\nStephen Thomas, leader of the Labour-run authority, explained there were \"deep concerns\" in the authority that children could go hungry.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the funding is coming to an end but I understand the position that Mark Drakeford is in,\" he said.\n\nPowys council's cabinet will meet on Tuesday to consider a recommendation to run a free school meal voucher scheme out of their own funds, costing £280,000.\n\nCouncil leader James Gibson-Watt said that without the scheme he warned there could be a \"level of malnutrition\" that would be \"very evident\" when pupils returned after summer.\n\nMr Drakeford said he was grateful for councils \"doing more than they had originally planned\".\n\nHe added: \"There are a whole range of organisations that will be out there at community level helping families, helping children whether that's sporting organisations like the Welsh Rugby Union, youth organisations like the Urdd, whether it's faith organisations who are in every part of Wales.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said: \"This summer, a wide range of holiday projects will be available across Wales, including the Food and Fun scheme, which we fund and will be available in all 22 local authority areas for the first time.\n\n\"We continue to support families through the cost of living crisis and have invested more than £3.3bn in programmes and schemes which put money back into people's pockets.\"", "Temperatures in southern Europe are expected to peak on Tuesday, as a days-long heatwave continues.\n\nFirefighters have been battling wildfires in countries across the region, including in Spain, Greece, and Switzerland.", "The Dragon on My Shirt / EatSleep Media Robert Earnshaw, who features in the series, is Wales' highest scoring black footballer\n\nFormer Wales footballer Rob Earnshaw has said there was no help for players receiving racist abuse during his career.\n\n\"We'd have to face racism by ourselves,\" said Earnshaw, who retired in 2016.\n\nHe features in a new documentary series exploring Wales' black and Asian-heritage footballers.\n\nThe Dragon on my Shirt looks back and explores the work being done to make football in the nation more inclusive.\n\nEarnshaw, the highest scoring black player for the men's team, described the series as \"eye-opening\" and \"powerful\".\n\nThe Zambia-born 42-year-old moved to Caerphilly when he was nine.\n\n\"I was facing racism around every corner,\" he said of growing up in an area with just three other black people.\n\nThat racism also reared its head on the pitch after he started playing for Wales.\n\nIn 2003, Serbia's football governing body was fined for racist offences, which included abuse in a Euro 2004 qualifying match that Earnshaw played in.\n\nEarnshaw says racism would often come from opposing fans when he was on the pitch\n\n\"When I was playing, you're told to just play football and that's how you show them,\" Earnshaw said.\n\n\"We'd have to face it by ourselves... Now, I would react and challenge differently.\"\n\nNow, he said there was \"more support\", adding: \"Players will back their teammate and organisations will back their player.\"\n\nThe series can be seen on RedWall+, the Football Association of Wales streaming service. Series writer presenter Darren Chetty said it was another step in acknowledging Wales' diverse histories while reflecting on the challenges that remain.\n\n\"It was a fantastic experience to explore this further with people in The Dragon on My Shirt - including players that I've watched and cheered on from the terraces,\" he said.\n\nOne of these players was George Berry, the first black player for Wales in the post-war era.\n\nThe Dragon on My Shirt / EatSleep Media Former Wales player George Berry says racism fuelled him to play the best he could\n\n\"Going on to the pitch with the shirt on, the kit on, the crowd, was very emotional for me,\" he said.\n\nHe recalls some of the horrors of racism in the late 1970s and early '80s.\n\n\"It was just another battle. When they were chanting all the racial comments, it used to motivate me to play the best I could.\"\n\nThe Dragon on My Shirt / EatSleep Media Wendy Reilly made her debut for Wales aged 16 and went on to captain and coach the women's team\n\nWendy Reilly, the first Arab-heritage woman to play for Wales, made her debut at 16 and went on to captain and coach the team.\n\nShe said, unlike on the men's side, \"I didn't get a lot of racism\", adding: \"We were very lucky in the women's game.\"\n\n\"I think it is a lot easier now, there are still a lot of barriers to break down but a lot has been done.\n\n\"They've made huge progress on and off the pitch.\n\n\"I really do think it starts on a grassroots level - it starts with the children. If we can do things like that then I believe society and sport will be a better place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. About 55 whales were stranded on Sunday morning\n\nAn entire pod of 55 pilot whales has died after a mass stranding on a Western Isles beach.\n\nOnly 15 were alive after they washed onto Traigh Mhor beach at North Tolsta on the Isle of Lewis at about 07:00 on Sunday morning.\n\nMarine charity British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) attempted to refloat one of the more active whales but it was then restranded.\n\nThe decision was taken to euthanise the remaining whales on welfare grounds.\n\nWestern Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - has asked people to avoid the area as a clean-up operation began.\n\nThe BDMLR released an update on Sunday evening which said that one of the dead whales appeared to have had a vaginal prolapse.\n\nThis led them to suspect that the whole pod stranded due to one female giving birth.\n\nPilot whales are known for their strong social bonds, so often when one whale gets into difficulty and strands, the rest follow.\n\nAttempts continued throughout the day to give the surviving whales first aid.\n\nBut after the attempt to refloat one of the whales, it was found further down the beach.\n\nA further three whales then died, leaving 12 still alive - eight adults and four calves.\n\nA statement said: \"At about 15:30, the local vet along with the Coastguard, Fire and Rescue, and a forensics vet came to the conclusion that the shallow beach and rough wave conditions made it too unsafe to refloat the remaining animals.\n\n\"Considering how long the pilot whales had been out of the water in addition to the poor conditions, it was decided that they should be euthanised on welfare grounds.\"\n\nMembers of the Lewis community, Stornoway Coastguard, Stornoway and Shawbost Fire and Rescue, the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS), the Scottish SPCA, and Civil Air Support were all involved in the rescue effort, with vets and marine experts being flown in to help.\n\nSMASS will now carry out post mortem examinations of the bodies to conclude the cause of the stranding.\n\nPilot whales are small whales characterised as part of the dolphin family.\n\nPilot whales are social and therefore more likely to stick together when one gets into difficulty\n\nEarlier BDMLR's Welfare and Conservation Director Dan Jarvis told BBC Scotland that the longer the whales were on the beach, the less likely it was that they would survive.\n\nHe said: \"They have evolved to not have the ability to support their own weight on land. So when they are stranded they can crush themselves to death.\n\n\"Pilot whales don't usually come in to shore. They would be potentially disoriented, distressed from what has led to the stranding, and distressed from the stranding itself and being surrounded by family members who have died around them.\n\n\"This is one of the biggest incidents we've had in the last couple of decades.\"\n\nA Comhairle spokesperson said: \"Comhairle nan Eilean Siar asks that the public follow police advice and avoid Traigh Mhòr.\n\n\"The Comhairle has engaged with professionals and is now working with partner organisations to clear the beach.\"", "Mustafa Suleyman co-founder of DeepMind and founder of Inflection AI\n\nThe co-founder of leading AI firm DeepMind, which started as a UK company and was sold to Google, says the UK should encourage more risk taking if it wants to become an AI superpower.\n\nMustafa Suleyman added that he does not regret selling DeepMind to the US giant in 2014.\n\n\"The US market is not only huge, but also more predisposed to taking big shots,\" he told the BBC.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak wants the UK to be a global hub for AI.\n\nHe has pledged £1bn in funding over the next 10 years, and founded a UK taskforce with a remit of maximising the benefits of the tech while keeping it safe.\n\nThis week BBC News is focusing on AI, how the technology affects our lives and what impacts it may have in the near future.\n\nMr Suleyman said the UK had \"every chance\" of becoming an AI superpower and praised its research facilities, but added there were not the same opportunities for businesses to grow as there are in the US.\n\n\"I think the culture shift that it needs to make is to be more encouraging of large scale investments, more encouraging of risk taking, and more tolerant and more celebratory of failures,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is, the US market is not only huge, but also more predisposed to big risk taking, taking big shots and having big funding rounds.\"\n\nMr Suleyman has chosen to base his new company, Inflection AI, in Palo Alto, California, which is also home to the headquarters of Google, Facebook and Tesla.\n\nPalo Alto in Silicon Valley, California where Mr Suleyman has chosen to base his new company, Inflection AI\n\nDeepMind is often held up as one of the most successful AI companies to be grown in the UK.\n\nIt was sold to Google in 2014, for a reported $400m. The price paid was not made public.\n\nDeepMind is developing a program called AlphaFold, which has the potential to advance the discovery of new medicines by predicting the structure of almost every protein in the human body.\n\nAn earlier DeepMind product called AlphaGo beat the top human player of the Chinese strategy game Go, Lee Se-dol, 4-1 in a tournament held in 2016.\n\nHe later retired from the game, saying \"there is an entity that cannot be defeated\".\n\nIt was considered at the time to be a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence.\n\nMustafa Suleyman's views represent one of the challenges facing Ian Hogarth, a British entrepreneur and investor who has been appointed to lead the UK's AI taskforce.\n\nHe took up the position five weeks ago.\n\nIn his first interview since getting the job, Mr Hogarth told the BBC that while the UK was a good place for start-ups, it should also be easier for them to grow.\n\n\"We've had some great [tech] companies and some of them got bought early, you know - Skype got bought by eBay, DeepMind got bought by Google.\n\n\"I think really our ecosystem needs to rise to the next level of the challenge.\"\n\nThis week BBC News is focussing on AI, how the technology affects our lives and what impacts it may have in the near future.\n\nIt's a view I hear often from small tech firms - they aim to be bought up by a US tech giant, rather than become a giant themselves.\n\nEmma McClenaghan and her partner Matt run an award-winning AI start-up in Northern Ireland but they struggle to access the infrastructure they need to advance their product.\n\nThe week Emma contacted me, she said Twitter owner Elon Musk had purchased 10,000 specialised chips called GPUs, needed to build and train AI tools - and she had been waiting five months for a grant to buy one.\n\n\"That's the difference between us and them because it's going to take us, you know, four to seven days to train a model and if he's [able to] do it in minutes, then you know, we're never going to catch up,\" she said.\n\nIan Hogarth thinks perhaps a future solution is for countries, rather than companies, to own this infrastructure.\n\n\"It is going to be a fundamental building block for the next generation of innovation,\" he said.", "The Bibby Stockholm was pictured leaving Falmouth Harbour on Monday morning\n\nA large accommodation barge that will controversially house hundreds of asylum seekers has arrived in the south coast port of Portland in Dorset.\n\nThe Bibby Stockholm left Falmouth Harbour in Cornwall on Monday and was tugged along England's south coast.\n\nThe vessel will be a temporary home for up to 500 single adult male asylum seekers under Home Office plans to ease the pressure on the asylum system.\n\nBut the vessel's arrival in Dorset is set to be greeted by fresh protests.\n\nResidents in Portland have objected, concerned that the local community was not consulted and fearing the impact on local services like healthcare.\n\nCampaigners have worries about the conditions that people will live under, while others have argued using the barge will not save money.\n\nAt a meeting last week, Dorset councillor Laura Beddow said Portland Port was the wrong place to site the barge and added the council had \"serious concerns\" but had been told legal action was unlikely to succeed.\n\nThe barge will provide basic and functional accommodation and healthcare provision\n\nA spokesperson for Portland Port said: \"On arrival it will be connected to Portland Port's fresh water and mains sewerage network as part of preparations for the arrival of the first group of asylum seekers in the coming weeks,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe barge, which has 222 rooms in total, is contracted to be berthed at Portland for 18 months initially and was being made ready in Falmouth in Cornwall. Its use will be the first time migrants have been housed in a berthed vessel in the UK.\n\nThe government said it needed to reduce the cost of housing asylum seekers. It said there were currently about 51,000 asylum seekers in hotels across the UK, costing the taxpayer about £6m a day.\n\nBibby Stockholm was previously used to house homeless people and asylum seekers in Germany and the Netherlands. It has been refurbished since it was criticised as an \"oppressive environment\" when the Dutch government used it.\n\nThe vessel now has en-suite rooms, a TV and games room and a gym, according to a fact sheet from its owner, Bibby Maritime.\n\nDorset Council leader Spencer Flower said local authorities in other areas of the country had successfully obtained temporary injunctions against plans to accommodate asylum seekers based on planning laws\n\nBut after seeking advice from a leading barrister Dorset Council was advised there were not sufficient grounds for a legal challenge, he said.\n\n\"The circumstances at Portland Port are very different because where the barge is to be positioned is below the mean low water mark. This means that the barge is outside of our planning control and there is no requirement for planning permission.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Home Office said that \"using vessels as alternative accommodation, like our European neighbours are already doing, will be better value for British taxpayers and more manageable for communities than costly hotels\".\n\nOfficials were working \"extremely closely\" with local partners to prepare for the arrival of asylum seekers and \"minimise disruption for local residents including through substantial financial support\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK suffered extreme heat and wildfires last year likely made worse by climate change\n\nThe UK is still not treating climate change as a national priority, warn the experts who advise the government.\n\nThey criticised the latest government climate change adaptation plan for not containing any substantial new money or new legislation.\n\nThe five-year programme, released on Monday, includes measures to tackle overheating and flooding.\n\nSecretary of State for Environment Therese Coffey defended the plan as a \"step change\".\n\nThe Third National Adaptation Plan (NAP) outlines how the government intends to prepare the UK for climate change from health to housing.\n\nBefore publication the UK Committee on Climate Change (UKCCC) called on the government to make sure the third plan matched the scale of the challenge the country is facing.\n\nFollowing its publication on Monday, Baroness Brown, Chair of the Adaptation Committee of the UKCCC, said that the plan shows that preparing for climate change still needs to be made a more important priority for the country.\n\n\"This is progress on previous plans... but we are disappointed the government hasn't used this opportunity to go further,\" she said. \"In another summer of gruelling hot temperatures, water shortages and wildfires, it's hard to make sense of that decision. We are at the stage where promising further action is not enough.\n\n\"The scale of the climate impacts we are seeing make clear that resilience to climate change should be a much greater national priority.\"\n\nThe UKCCC noted almost all the measures are re-announcements of existing commitments from other plans like the Environment Act.\n\nTrudy Harrison, minister for climate adaptation, said: \"We are absolutely serious across government. What we have set out today is billions of pounds of investment to protect the most vulnerable communities.\"\n\nShe said the government had taken on board the climate change committee's comments.\n\n\"There's always more to do. This is a five-year plan,\" she said.\n\nNew proposals in the plan from government include:\n\nAs global temperatures continue to rise the risk of extreme events in the UK such as high heat, winter flooding and storm surge increases.\n\nLast year, during the most intense heat wave the country has ever faced, there were 25,000 wildfires from the moorlands of greater Manchester to the gardens of east London. Hospitals struggled to cope - around 3,000 more deaths in the over-65s than usual and 20% of operations were cancelled.\n\nAlongside flooding, overheating is one of the biggest risks the UK population face from climate change.\n\nDr Chloe Brimicombe, researcher in heatwaves at University Graz, told the BBC: \"The reason that it's a massive risk is that it causes significant health issues especially for vulnerable groups. It causes health issues like dehydration, heat stress which they might need to go to hospital for.\"\n\nThe government wants contractors who build new schools and hospitals to implement cooling measures like shaded windows, green roofs and more open spaces. But there is no new legislation or funding for updates to existing homes to make sure they are protected.\n\nUnder a scenario where global temperatures rise by 2C all homes in England and Wales are at risk of overheating according to energy consultants Arup.\n\nIn dense urban areas like London, Manchester and Birmingham populations are particularly at risk.\n\nRezina Chowdhury, Labour deputy leader of Lambeth council in south London told the BBC: \"Our communities feel the effects disproportionately with poorer households... and our residents live in flats without outside space.\"\n\nCity dwellers struggled with overheating homes last year during the UK heatwave\n\nBut she said that there is no secure funding: \"It is like Hunger Games where people are having to fight for pots of money to do the work we should all be doing.\"\n\nLocal authorities are being offered advice and information from a new climate advice service to help them tailor their response.\n\nThis move has been welcomed by Linda Taylor, environment spokesperson for the Local Government Association, the national body for authorities in England and Wales.\n\n\"But while access to Local Authority Climate Data could provide some good learning and understanding for councils, they crucially need the resources and money to take action on their findings,\" she said.\n\nThe UK is not just vulnerable to heat at home but also abroad. The UK only produces 16% of its fruit and 50% of its vegetables domestically, relying on imports, mostly from Europe, to fulfil the shortfall. Therefore any extreme weather events in Europe could effect the supply here.\n\nEarlier this year the UK experienced shortages of cucumber, tomatoes and other popular vegetables after poor weather in Spain, and now the same region is baking under an intense heatwave. which could further damage crops.\n\nThe UKCCC recommended in March that the government require, by law, all large food companies to assess the climate risks to their supply chains.\n\nThe government did not propose this in the NAP. It said that a new Food Security Strategy would be produced for next year but industry was best placed to deal with the issue.\n\nLow rainfall in Italy and Spain last year led to shortage of key vegetables in the UK\n\nFlooding and storms are the other major risk the UK currently faces. Memorable events such as Storm Arwen wreaked havoc with UK homes and key infrastructure. In November 2021, it left one million British properties without power and internet supply.\n\nThere are no targets in the plan for improving the strength of the communications sector, which was a key ask of the UKCCC in March - but said Ofcom would look at issuing new guidance to companies to prepare for climate change.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's developments in the conflict in Ukraine centred on two significant aspects: an explosion on a Crimean bridge and Russia's withdrawal from the Ukraine grain deal.\n\nThe day started with reports of an blast on the bridge linking the occupied Crimean Peninsula to Russia, and by evening, President Putin had vowed to respond to what he claimed was a \"terrorist\" act by Ukraine. Kyiv has not officially claimed responsibility for the blast.\n\nMeanwhile, today also marked the looming expiry of the Black Sea grain deal, which Russia had confirmed its exit from by lunchtime in Moscow.\n\nWe're pausing our live coverage now, but there's still plenty to read across BBC News, including the full story on the Crimea bridge blast and Russia's withdrawal from the grain deal, as well as an explainer on why it's not renewing the deal with Ukraine.\n\nToday's page was edited by Jack Burgess and myself, and written by Emily Atkinson, Adam Durbin, Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Ece Goksedef and Oliver Slow. Thanks for joining us.", "Attilio Scalisi: \"We are not prepared for this\" Image caption: Attilio Scalisi: \"We are not prepared for this\"\n\nThe streets of Palermo in Sicily are brimming with vitality, as tourists and locals bustle around the market and vendors sell arancini - deep-fried stuffed rice balls, a local speciality - and yell at each other from their stalls despite the extreme heat.\n\n\"We are at the front-line of a climate crisis,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nThe southernmost Italian region of Sicily is one of the hottest in Europe. This week it is grappling with a severe heatwave which has left its residents once again bewildered by the unpredictability of the weather.\n\n\"Summers have always been warm, but this heat is abnormal. Temperatures used to rise gradually, then reach their peak in the middle of August - but now it's all completely unpredictable,\" says Attilio.\n\n\"We have these sudden explosions of heat that last three or four days, or a week, with extreme temperatures rising, then dropping, then rising again.\n\n\"We are not prepared for this.\"\n\nChiara Mimì says people are to blame for climate change Image caption: Chiara Mimì says people are to blame for climate change\n\nWith temperatures expected to soar to record highs this week, locals find themselves confronting the harsh reality of climate change and its impact on their lives and the environment.\n\n\"Even flowers don't know when to bloom anymore,\" says Chiara Mimì, a tour guide who organises bike trips across the island.\n\n\"Climate change is also our fault. On the one hand we need to correct our habits and try to save our planet, on the other hand we need to adapt to this new normal, urgently.\"", "It is hot. Very hot. And temperatures show no signs of easing.\n\nNearly a third of Americans - over 113 million people - are under some form of heat advisory, the US National Weather Service said.\n\nAcross the US, temperatures are shattering decades-long record highs. In El Paso, Texas, temperatures have soared to above 37C - triple-digits Fahrenheit - for 27 consecutive days, overtaking a record last set in 1994.\n\nIn the UK, the June heat didn't just break all-time records, it smashed them. It was 0.9C hotter than the previous record, set back in 1940. That is a huge margin.\n\nThere is a similar story of unprecedented hot weather in North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.\n\nNo surprise, then, that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather forecasts said that globally, June was the hottest on record.\n\nAnd the heat has not eased. The three hottest days ever recorded were in the past week, according to the EU climate and weather service, Copernicus.\n\nThe average world temperature hit 16.89C on Monday 3 July and topped 17C for the first time on 4 July, with an average global temperature of 17.04C.\n\nProvisional figures suggest that was exceeded on 5 July when temperatures reached 17.05C.\n\nThese highs are in line with what climate models predicted, says Prof Richard Betts, climate scientist at the Met Office and University of Exeter.\n\n\"We should not be at all surprised with the high global temperatures,\" he says. \"This is all a stark reminder of what we've known for a long time, and we will see ever more extremes until we stop building up more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\"\n\nWhen we think about how hot it is, we tend to think about the air temperature, because that's what we experience in our daily lives.\n\nBut most of the heat stored near the surface of the Earth is not in the atmosphere, but in the oceans. And we've been seeing some record ocean temperatures this spring and summer.\n\nThe North Atlantic, for example, is currently experiencing the highest surface water temperatures ever recorded.\n\nThat marine heatwave has been particularly pronounced around the coasts of the UK, where some areas have experienced temperatures as much as 5C above what you would normally expect for this time of year.\n\nThe US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has labelled it a Category 4 heatwave. The designation is rarely used outside of the tropics and denotes \"extreme\" heat.\n\n\"Such anomalous temperatures in this part of the North Atlantic are unheard of,\" says Daniela Schmidt, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.\n\nAt the same time, an El Niño is developing in the tropical Pacific.\n\nEl Niño is a recurring weather pattern caused when warm waters rise to the surface off the coast of South America and spread across the ocean.\n\nWith both the Atlantic and the Pacific experiencing heatwaves, it is perhaps not surprising that global sea surface temperatures for both April and May were the highest ever recorded in Met Office data that goes all the way back to 1850.\n\nIf the seas are warmer than usual, you can expect higher air temperatures too, says Tim Lenton, professor of climate change at Exeter University.\n\nMost of the extra heat trapped by the build-up of greenhouse gases has gone into warming the surface ocean, he explains. That extra heat tends to get mixed downwards towards the deeper ocean, but movements in oceans currents - like El Niño - can bring it back to the surface.\n\n\"When that happens, a lot of that heat gets released into the atmosphere,\" says Prof Lenton, \"driving up air temperatures.\"\n\nIt's easy to think of this exceptionally hot weather as unusual, but the depressing truth is that climate change means it is now normal to experience record-breaking temperatures.\n\nGreenhouse gas emissions continue to increase year on year. The rate of growth has slowed slightly, but energy-related CO2 emissions were still up almost 1% last year, according to the International Energy Agency, a global energy watchdog.\n\nAnd the higher the global temperature, the higher the risk of heatwaves, says Friederike Otto, a climatologist at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change at Imperial College London.\n\n\"These heatwaves are not only more frequent, but also hotter and longer than they would have been without global warming,\" she says.\n\nExperts are already predicting that the developing El Niño is likely to make 2023 the world's hottest year.\n\nThey fear it is likely to temporarily push the world past a key 1.5C warming milestone.\n\nAnd that is just the start. Unless we make dramatic reductions to greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures will continue to rise.\n\nThe Met Office said this week that record June temperatures this year were made twice as likely because of man-made climate change.\n\nThese rising temperatures are already driving fundamental and almost certainly irreversible changes in ecosystems across the world.\n\nThe record June temperatures in the UK helped cause unprecedented deaths of fish in rivers and canals, for example.\n\nWe cannot know what impact the current marine heatwave will have on the UK, cautions Prof Schmidt of the University of Bristol, because we have never seen one this intense before.\n\n\"In other regions, around Australia, in the Mediterranean, entire ecosystems changed, kelp forests disappeared, and seabirds and whales starved,\" she says.\n\nThe world is effectively in a race.\n\nIt is clear we are speeding towards an ever hotter and more chaotic climate future, but we do have the technologies and tools to cut our emissions.\n\nThe question now is whether we can do so rapidly enough to slow the climate juggernaut and keep the impacts of global warming within manageable boundaries.\n\nWhat do you want to know about these heatwaves? We'll be putting your questions to experts in our coverage this week, so let us know what you're wondering or worrying about. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Have you got your head around artificial intelligence yet? In the past six months, chatbots, like ChatGPT, and image generators, such as Midjourney, have rapidly become a cultural phenomenon. But artificial intelligence (AI) or \"machine learning\" models have been evolving for a while. In this beginner's guide, we'll venture beyond chatbots to discover various species of AI - and see how these strange new digital creatures are already playing a part in our lives. The key to all machine learning is a process called training, where a computer program is given a large amount of data - sometimes with labels explaining what the data is - and a set of instructions. The instruction might be something like: \"find all the images containing faces\" or, \"categorise these sounds\". The program will then search for patterns in the data it has been given to achieve these goals. It might need some nudging along the way - such as \"that’s not a face\" or \"those two sounds are different\" - but what the program learns from the data and the clues it is given becomes the AI model - and the training material ends up defining its abilities. One way to look at how this training process could create different types of AI is to think about different animals. Over millions of years, the natural environment has led to animals developing specific abilities, in a similar way, the millions of cycles an AI makes through its training data will shape the way it develops and lead to specialist AI models. So what are some examples of how we have trained AIs to develop different skills?\n\nThink of a chatbot as a bit like a parrot. It’s a mimic and can repeat words it has heard with some understanding of their context but without a full sense of their meaning. Chatbots do the same - though on a more sophisticated level - and are on the verge of changing our relationship with the written word. But how do these chatbots know how to write? They are a type of AI known as large language models (LLMs) and are trained with huge volumes of text. An LLM is able to consider not just individual words but whole sentences and compare the use of words and phrases in a passage to other examples across all of its training data. Using these billions of comparisons between words and phrases it is able to read a question and generate an answer - like predictive text messaging on your phone but on a massive scale. The amazing thing about large language models is they can learn the rules of grammar and how to use words in the correct context, without human assistance. \"In 10 years, I think we will have chatbots that work as an expert in any domain you'd like. So you will be able to ask an expert doctor, an expert teacher, an expert lawyer whatever you need and have those systems go accomplish things for you.\" Can I talk with an AI? If you've used Alexa, Siri or any other type of voice recognition system, then you've been using AI.\n\nImagine a rabbit with its big ears, adapted to capture tiny variations in sound. The AI records the sounds as you speak, removes the background noise, separates your speech into phonetic units - the individual sounds that make up a spoken word - and then matches them to a library of language sounds. Your speech is then turned into text where any listening errors can be corrected before a response is given. This type of artificial intelligence is known as natural language processing. It is the technology behind everything from you saying \"yes\" to confirm a phone-banking transaction, to asking your mobile phone to tell you about the weather for the next few days in a city you are travelling to.\n\nHas your phone ever gathered your photos into folders with names like \"at the beach\" or \"nights out\"? Then you’ve been using AI without realising. An AI algorithm uncovered patterns in your photos and grouped them for you. These programs have been trained by looking through a mountain of images, all labelled with a simple description. If you give an image-recognition AI enough images labelled \"bicycle\", eventually it will start to work out what a bicycle looks like and how it is different from a boat or a car. Sometimes the AI is trained to uncover tiny differences within similar images. This is how facial recognition works, finding a subtle relationship between features on your face that make it distinct and unique when compared to every other face on the planet. The same kind of algorithms have been trained with medical scans to identify life-threatening tumours and can work through thousands of scans in the time it would take a consultant to make a decision on just one. How does AI make new images?\n\nRecently image recognition has been adapted into AI models which have learned the chameleon-like power of manipulating patterns and colours. These image-generating AIs can turn the complex visual patterns they gather from millions of photographs and drawings into completely new images. You can ask the AI to create a photographic image of something that never happened - for example, a photo of a person walking on the surface of Mars. Or you can creatively direct the style of an image: \"Make a portrait of the England football manager, painted in the style of Picasso.\" The latest AIs start the process of generating this new image with a collection of randomly coloured pixels. It looks at the random dots for any hint of a pattern it learned during training - patterns for building different objects. These patterns are slowly enhanced by adding further layers of random dots, keeping dots which develop the pattern and discarding others, until finally a likeness emerges. Develop all the necessary patterns like \"Mars surface\", \"astronaut\" and \"walking\" together and you have a new image. Because the new image is built from layers of random pixels, the result is something which has never existed before but is still based on the billions of patterns it learned from the original training images. Society is now beginning to grapple with what this means for things like copyright and the ethics of creating artworks trained on the hard work of real artists, designers and photographers. Self-driving cars have been part of the conversation around AI for decades and science fiction has fixed them in the popular imagination. Self-driving AI is known as autonomous driving and the cars are fitted with cameras, radar and range-sensing lasers.\n\nThink of a dragonfly, with 360-degree vision and sensors on its wings to help it manoeuvre and make constant in-flight adjustments. In a similar way, the AI model uses the data from its sensors to identify objects and figure out whether they are moving and, if so, what kind of moving object they are - another car, a bicycle, a pedestrian or something else. Thousands and thousands of hours of training to understand what good driving looks like has enabled AI to be able to make decisions and take action in the real world to drive the car and avoid collisions. Predictive algorithms may have struggled for many years to deal with the often unpredictable nature of human drivers, but driverless cars have now collected millions of miles of data on real roads. In San Francisco, they are already carrying paying passengers. Autonomous driving is also a very public example of how new technologies must overcome more than just technical hurdles. Government legislation and safety regulations, along with a deep sense of anxiety over what happens when we hand over control to machines, are all still potential roadblocks for a fully automated future on our roads. “I think where we’re going to land is that we want safer roads. And it’s a really interesting thing to talk about now, when humans and robots are maybe relatively close in performance. But over the next couple of years - given the rate of improvement that these systems have had - I think this is going to be a conversation that’s in the rearview mirror. Because they’re going to be so much better than humans and we’re not even going to have this debate.” What does AI know about me?\n\nSome AIs simply deal with numbers, collecting and combining them in volume to create a swarm of information, the products of which can be extremely valuable. There are likely already several profiles of your financial and social actions, particularly those online, which could be used to make predictions about your behaviour. Your supermarket loyalty card is tracking your habits and tastes through your weekly shop. The credit agencies track how much you have in the bank and owe on your credit cards. Netflix and Amazon are keeping track of how many hours of content you streamed last night. Your social media accounts know how many videos you commented on today. And it’s not just you, these numbers exist for everyone, enabling AI models to churn through them looking for social trends. These AI models are already shaping your life, from helping decide if you can get a loan or mortgage, to influencing what you buy by choosing which ads you see online. \"We have got to grow a language for talking about sophisticated scientific and technological issues. And one way to do that is to say: you don't have to know the difference between narrow and generative AI but you should be able to expect that the automated systems used in your life are safe and effective; that your data has been protected; that for a system used to make a decision about your access to a mortgage - for example - you should be able to get an explanation about how that was derived or you should be able to talk to somebody, if the decision doesn't go in your favour and you want more information.\" Alondra Nelson - former acting-director of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, which published a blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights in 2022 Will AI be able to do everything?\n\nWould it be possible to combine some of these skills into a single, hybrid AI model? That is exactly what one of the most recent advances in AI does. It’s called multimodal AI and allows a model to look at different types of data - such as images, text, audio or video - and uncover new patterns between them. This multimodal approach was one of the reasons for the huge leap in ability shown by ChatGPT when its AI model was updated from GPT3.5, which was trained only on text, to GPT4, which was trained with images as well. The idea of a single AI model able to process any kind of data and therefore perform any task, from translating between languages to designing new drugs, is known as artificial general intelligence (AGI). For some it’s the ultimate aim of all artificial intelligence research; for others it’s a pathway to all those science fiction dystopias in which we unleash an intelligence so far beyond our understanding that we are no longer able to control it. How do you train an AI? Until recently the key process in training most AIs was known as \"supervised learning\". Huge sets of training data were given labels by humans and the AI was asked to figure out patterns in the data. The AI was then asked to apply these patterns to some new data and give feedback on its accuracy. For example, imagine giving an AI a dozen photos - six are labelled \"car\" and six are labelled \"van\".\n\nNext tell the AI to work out a visual pattern that sorts the cars and the vans into two groups. Now what do you think happens when you ask it to categorise this photo?\n\nUnfortunately, it seems the AI thinks this is a van - not so intelligent.\n\nAnd it tells you this is a car. From the limited number of images it was trained with, the AI has decided colour is the strongest way to separate cars and vans. But the amazing thing about the AI program is that it came to this decision on its own - and we can help it refine its decision-making. We can tell it that it has wrongly identified the two new objects - this will force it to find a new pattern in the images. But more importantly, we can correct the bias in our training data by giving it more varied images. These two simple actions taken together - and on a vast scale - are how most AI systems have been trained to make incredibly complex decisions. How does AI learn on its own? Supervised learning is an incredibly powerful training method, but many recent breakthroughs in AI have been made possible by unsupervised learning. In the simplest terms, this is where the use of complex algorithms and huge datasets means the AI can learn without any human guidance. ChatGPT might be the most well-known example. The amount of text on the internet and in digitised books is so vast that over many months ChatGPT was able to learn how to combine words in a meaningful way by itself, with humans then helping to fine-tune its responses. Imagine you had a big pile of books in a foreign language, maybe some of them with images. Eventually you might work out that the same word appeared on a page whenever there was drawing or photo of a tree, and another word when there was a photo of a house. And you would see that there was often a word near those words that might mean “a” or maybe “the” - and so on. ChatGPT made this kind of close analysis of the relationship between words to build a huge statistical model which it can then use to make predictions and generate new sentences. It relies on enormous amounts of computing power which allows the AI to memorise vast amounts of words - alone, in groups, in sentences and across pages - and then read and compare how they are used over and over and over again in a fraction of a second. Should I be worried about AI? The rapid advances made by deep learning models in the last year have driven a wave of enthusiasm and also led to more public engagement with concerns over the future of artificial intelligence. There has been much discussion about the way biases in training data collected from the internet – such as racist, sexist and violent speech or narrow cultural perspectives - leads to artificial intelligence replicating human prejudices. Another worry is that artificial intelligence could be tasked to solve problems without fully considering the ethics or wider implications of its actions, creating new problems in the process. Within AI circles this has become known as the \"paperclip maximiser problem”, after a thought experiment by the philosopher Nick Bostrom. He imagined an artificial intelligence asked to create as many paperclips as possible which slowly diverts every natural resource on the planet to fulfil its mission – including killing humans to use as raw materials for more paperclips. Others say that, rather than focusing on murderous AIs of the future, we should be more concerned with the immediate problem of how people could use existing AI tools to increase distrust in politics and scepticism of all forms of media. In particular, the world's eyes are on the 2024 presidential election in the US, to see how voters and political parties cope with a new level of sophisticated disinformation. What happens if social media is flooded with fake videos of presidential candidates, created with AI and each tailored to anger a different group of voters? In Europe, the EU is creating an Artificial Intelligence Act to protect its citizens' rights by regulating the deployment of AI – for instance, a ban on using facial recognition to track or identify people in real-time in public spaces. These are among the first laws in the world to establish guidelines for the future use of these technologies – setting boundaries on what companies and governments will and will not be allowed to do – but, as the capabilities of artificial intelligence continue to grow, they are unlikely to be the last. “The answer to our future, if we were to re-imagine it, is not found in trying to control the machines or program them in ways that restrict them to serving humanity, it's found in raising them like a sentient being, and literally raising them like one of our children. And as we observe how humanity has been behaving in front of those machines – the way we respond to tweets or the way we interact with the news and so on – we are not being very good parents; we are not showing the best of us. And if the machines were to mimic our intelligence, and become more of who we are, we are in trouble. The only way we can get our future to be re-imagined as a Utopia, is to actually start behaving like the kinds of parents who could teach those machines the values that would make them want to care about us.” Mo Gawdat - author and former chief business officer of Google X", "The government is likely to miss its target to build 40 new hospitals by 2030, the spending watchdog has said.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said in a report that the project had been beset by delays. It also warned that cost-cutting and inaccurate modelling of future demand could mean new hospitals are too small.\n\nThe health department remained \"firmly committed\" to delivering the England building pledge, a spokesperson said.\n\nThe hospitals plan was a Conservative manifesto commitment during the December 2019 election campaign, and it was made policy the following year.\n\nWhen the health department officially set out the plan in October 2020, eight hospital construction projects already under way were not included in the target. But recent government statements about building 40 new hospitals include these eight projects, referred to as \"legacy hospitals\".\n\nAnd in May, the government changed the scope of the scheme to include hospitals in urgent need of repairs, including five judged to be at risk of collapse because of crumbling concrete infrastructure.\n\nNow the National Audit Office has analysed the plans and found that, by the definition set out in 2020, the target will be missed, and only 32 will be built in time. The NAO said the government has used a \"broad\" definition of \"new\", which includes refurbishment of existing buildings as well as completely new hospitals.\n\nThe 32 that will be built in time include 24 from the original new hospitals programme, five that were added in May, and three new mental health hospitals.\n\nIt said a further eight do not count towards the original definition of \"new\" because they were already under way when the commitment was made.\n\nQuestions have been asked for some time about whether the programme is on track and it is significant that the watchdog has now ruled that, judged by the original template, it is not.\n\nIn May, a BBC News investigation found that building work had not started on 33 of the projects.\n\nThe NAO said staff shortages mean a planned design for a standardised hospital has been delayed until May 2024.\n\nIt also warned that a push to meet the target at the lowest possible cost - combined with optimistic forecasts about how much care will be outside hospitals in the future - could result in new hospitals that are too small.\n\nThe government had failed to achieve good value for money, the NAO said, as it called for a review of the underlying assumptions behind the plans to make sure the new hospitals are fit for purpose.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay had already told MPs in May that some of the original group included in the new hospitals programme might not be completed by 2030.\n\nHe made the admission as he updated the department's building plans to deal with hospitals built with a lightweight concrete that was used in the 1980s and is now judged to be unsafe.\n\nBut he restated the commitment to deliver 40 new hospitals by the end of the decade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says delivering 40 new hospitals is \"one of the many things\" the government is doing for the health service.\n\nThe Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has also said the target will be met.\n\nHe described the plans to build the hospitals as one of the \"many things we're doing\" to improve healthcare, citing \"community diagnostics in local communities\" and the workforce plan as \"all ways we're backing the NHS\" and \"cutting waiting lists\".\n\nGareth Davies, head of the NAO, said the programme included \"innovative plans\" to improve efficiency and quality. But there are important lessons to ensure future major projects were affordable, transparent and delivered on time, he said.\n\nSir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, urged the government to \"shift gears\" to get the hospitals built and warned that costs had \"spiralled due to high inflation\".\n\nHe said many NHS trusts were \"deeply disappointed\" by delays and said the government \"could have better managed expectations about the funding available, given the uncertainty involved and the impact of inflation\".\n\nNHS leaders have warned some buildings desperately need to be upgraded\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said the \"utterly damning report demolishes the government's claims to be building 40 'new hospitals'\".\n\nShe called on the health secretary to make an urgent statement in Parliament addressing its findings, saying \"the public deserves answers\".\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: \"The Conservatives have overpromised, under-delivered, and they've been found out.\n\n\"Meanwhile patients are being treated in outdated, crumbling hospitals.\"\n\nA health department spokesperson said: \"The NAO's report acknowledges that despite changes to the original programme, 40 new hospitals are still expected to be delivered by 2030 and praises the programme's innovative plans to standardise hospital construction, deliver efficiencies and improve quality.\n\n\"We remain firmly committed to delivering these hospitals, which are now expected to be backed by over £20 billion of investment, helping to cut waiting lists so people can get the treatment they need quicker.\n\n\"Three new hospitals have already opened and more will open this year so patients and staff can benefit from major new hospital buildings, equipped with the latest technology.\"", "Respondents to the survey included those who survived the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017\n\nSurvivors of terror attacks in the UK have described the government's compensation scheme as \"broken\" in a new report.\n\nMore than 130 survivors from 11 attacks were surveyed by support network Survivors Against Terror.\n\nRespondents included survivors from the Fishmongers' Hall stabbings in London in 2019, and the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017.\n\nA government spokesperson said \"we know more must be done\" to address needs.\n\nMore than two-thirds of survey respondents said they felt the scheme was \"unfair and unreasonable\".\n\nThe Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) has been in place since the 1990s, and handles claims from people who have suffered physical or mental injuries as a result of violent crime in England, Scotland and Wales. It is sponsored by the Ministry of Justice.\n\nMore than half of survivors surveyed said they felt unable to speak to someone from CICA for help and some 60% did not feel it was easy to submit their compensation claim - and that the information provided by CICA was unclear or not easy to understand.\n\nOf the survivors asked, 62% did not feel treated with respect and empathy, compared with 17% who felt they were.\n\nSaskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed in the 2019 attack at Fishmongers' Hall\n\nIn 2019, the government committed to a new Survivors' Charter which would guarantee rights for survivors to mental health and legal support, something Survivors Against Terror said has not happened.\n\nSome members said they were still waiting for compensation, with one reporting that their file had been lost.\n\nJoanne McSorley, who was hit by 31 pieces of shrapnel in the Manchester Arena bombing, told the BBC that she had been \"degraded\" by being repeatedly told to prove the severity of her injuries.\n\nShe said she had been offered £25,000 after a process that took six years.\n\n\"I am housebound, really. I can't even put my own shoes on, or my coat. It is a life that's very, very different,\" she said.\n\n\"I put my faith in the systems and in the government. This was a terror attack, so I thought, well of course we'll be looked after. But that didn't happen.\n\n\"I feel totally degraded by the process because you're having to prove all the time you are still in that state.\n\nShe added that she had to give up her job at a local primary school, \"I loved it. I was a busy, working mum. A full life. And now, I feel like I'm just existing. I feel like I am being punished.\n\n\"I don't think you should have to apply for something. It should just be there,\" she said. \"No-one has got in touch to ask me 'How are you?' They don't care. It's just not fair. No one cares.\n\nDarryn Frost, who used a narwhal tusk to fend off a terror attacker in Fishmongers' Hall in 2019 and was involved in the survivors' survey, told the BBC that the CICA system was broken.\n\n\"It's a paper-based postal system, where you're in total darkness, you don't know where you are in the process,\" he said. \"And they keep asking for more evidence. You feel like you're on trial or scrounging.\"\n\nMr Frost said he experienced \"over a year of total silence\" from CICA and that the only \"proactive\" contact he had came in a phone call after he had appeared on the BBC in November.\n\nHe added that the government response to the survey was a \"disgrace\".\n\n\"We're quite clear about the things that are failing. It's really not rocket science. This is how terrorists win - when we see that our own country can't look after our people.\"\n\nThe report calls for a new compensation authority to be overseen by the Home Office with greater transparency in how awards are calculated and an ability to track them online.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was \"right survivors get the support they need, including through the publicly-funded Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme that has paid out more than £158 million to victims of violent crime in the last year alone\".\n\nThey added: \"But we know more must be done, which is why the government is reviewing the support available, to better address victims' needs.\"\n\nIt said this included £4.6 million for victims of terrorism since 2017.\n\nThe government said 836 of the 859 applications in connection with the Manchester Arena bombing had been finalised, with 436 of the bereaved or injured receiving criminal injuries compensation.\n\nBrendan Cox, who co-founded Survivors Against Terror after his wife, Labour MP Jo Cox, was killed by a far-right extremist in 2016, said: \"An organisation that is supposed to be helping survivors recover and rebuild is instead consistently doing them harm.\n\n\"If the organisation had poor processes and procedures but scored well on other areas, there would be hope for reform. There is not.\"", "Corrie Mckeague was based at RAF Honington in Suffolk\n\nThe mother of an airman who died after climbing into a commercial bin has spoken of her anger that more was not being done to stop similar tragedies.\n\nCorrie Mckeague was 23 when he disappeared in September 2016 after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.\n\nAn inquest last year concluded the RAF gunner died after getting into a bin which was tipped into a waste lorry.\n\nNicola Urquhart said she felt \"physically sick\" that locks had not been added to bins in the area.\n\nDespite extensive searches, including at a landfill site in Milton, near Cambridge, his body was never found.\n\nThe inquest jury concluded he died as a result of \"compression asphyxia in association with multiple injuries\".\n\nBiffa bins in the area Mr Mckeague is thought to have climbed into a bin now have \"danger of death\" and \"crush zone\" warning signs\n\nThe inquest jury also found Mr Mckeague's \"death was contributed to by impaired judgment due to alcohol consumption\".\n\nMrs Urquhart criticised Biffa Waste Services Ltd, which operate bins in that area, for not adding locks to the bins.\n\nShe said: \"It's infuriating. It does upset me because they've clearly learnt nothing.\"\n\nCorrie Mckeague went missing from Bury St Edmunds on 24 September 2016\n\nThe airman, from Dunfermline, Fife, was last seen on CCTV heading towards a bin loading area in Brentgovel Street. It is thought he climbed into one of Biffa's bins from behind a row of shops.\n\n\"What upset me so much this time is that Biffa have put stickers on some bins, not all of them, saying 'danger of death' and 'don't climb in bin'.\n\n\"To me it's just a public show and a waste of money.\"\n\nCCTV cameras showed Mr Mckeague going into the bin loading area and he was never seen coming out again\n\nInstead, she called on the company to refuse to pick up any bins that were unlocked, to force their customers to ensure bins were always locked.\n\nShe believed that would deter people from climbing into them in the first place.\n\nCorrie Mckeague went to this area where the bins were stored after a night out\n\n\"I know something needs to be done,\" she said.\n\n\"Clearly, this could happen again - they've learnt nothing.\"\n\nCorrie Mckeague, from Dunfermline, Fife, was based at RAF Honington which is about 10 miles (16km) north of Bury St Edmunds\n\nLast year a coroner raised concerns about bin safety, particularly around bin locks, in a prevention of future death report that followed the death of Mr Mckeague, who was based at RAF Honington in Suffolk.\n\nCoroner Nigel Parsley said if stronger locks were fitted, the number of reported incidents of people in bins was likely to be reduced.\n\nNicola Urquhart said she was angry and felt sick after she saw photos of unlocked bins in the area her son went missing\n\nA Biffa spokesman said the \"healthy, safety and wellbeing\" of staff, customers and members of the public was of \"critical importance\" and drivers undergo regular training about the risks of people in and around bins\".\n\n\"People seeking shelter in bins presents a challenge to the whole waste industry and we continue to work with our partners, colleagues and customers to address this issue,\" the spokesman said.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "Death Valley, California, hit a US record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.6C) in 1913. One hundred years later tourists are tracking to the desert to be there when a new record breaks. But not everyone is in a mood to celebrate.", "Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, has reached at least as high as 128F (53.9C)\n\nA heat dome over the US south-west has translated into extreme heat warnings from coast to coast, which continue to affect more than 110 million people.\n\nTemperature records could be broken in as many as 38 cities.\n\nIn Las Vegas, the intense heatwave was threatening to break or tie the city's record high of 117F (47.2C).\n\nIt comes as soaring temperatures are also hitting southern Europe and Canada is battling the worst season of wildfires in its history.\n\nScientists have long warned that climate change linked to human activities will lead to an increase in the severity and frequency of extreme weather events.\n\nElsewhere in the south-western US, hundreds of firefighters have been battling brush fires in blistering heat and low humidity on the outskirts of Los Angeles.\n\nTemperatures in Death Valley in California hit 128F (53.9C) on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). It is the site of the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth: 134F (56.7C).\n\nThe usually crowded streets of Las Vegas were considerably emptier than normal on Sunday, with security guards monitoring the fountains of casinos and hotels to prevent people from jumping in.\n\nThe famous strip was a quiet inferno. Some people walked outside, but mostly just to cross the street to the next casino. And those who did exit were mostly intoxicated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen one couple was asked why they were outside, they said referring to one of the most popular hotels and casinos on the strip: \"All roads lead to the Bellagio.\" Another group of young men shouted: \"It's Vegas baby! The heat's not going to stop us!\"\n\nBut elsewhere in Las Vegas, people were hanging on to any bit of shade, whether it came from the shadow of a building or even a small tree. At a taco shop on the strip, the tables were all full of patrons dripping with sweat and looking utterly wiped out from the heat. Workers too were draped in the booths, not speaking to each other, but fanning themselves down.\n\nInside the casinos, though, business continued. The air conditioning was blasting so high, people were wearing jumpers to stay warm, and there was no indication of devastating temperatures, other than the people walking in off the street with sweat streaming down their faces.\n\nEl Paso, in Texas, has seen temperatures of 100.4F (38C) and above for more than a month now, with no respite in sight.\n\nIn Phoenix, Arizona, temperatures have remained above 109.4F (43C) for 17 days. Thick cloud cover on Sunday meant the city was granted a modest reprieve from recent peaks, but daytime temperatures still reached highs of 114F (45.5C).\n\nThe heat is set to continue for the foreseeable future, and authorities are warning that vulnerable people - including children, pregnant women and the elderly - are at serious risk of heat-related illness.\n\nMobile clinics report treating homeless people suffering from third-degree burns. Public buildings in some parts of California and Nevada have been turned into \"cooling centres\" where people can take refuge from the heat.\n\nAmid the extreme temperatures being seen in Death Valley, Park Ranger Matthew Lamar said: \"We hadn't hit 130F (54.4C) here for over 100 years. And then in 2020, we got 130, in 2021 we got 130, and then we might hit it again this weekend.\"\n\nHe added that the weather was attracting tourists who wanted to \"experience the extremes\".\n\nBut some visitors said others should not lose sight of the fact that those extremes are a symptom of climate change.\n\nSpeaking to Reuters on Saturday, Tom Comitta said: \"People are coming out here to celebrate this. People are excited. It's not a milestone. I'm calling it Happy Death Day.\"\n\nA heat dome occurs when an area of high pressure pushes air towards the ground, compressing it and causing it to heat. The warmer air then rises again, setting up a cycle in which air sinks through the centre of the 'dome' and rises up its sides.\n\nThe pressure also prevents other weather systems that would cool the area - such as rain clouds - from forming.\n\nThe NWS has said that the current system in the southwestern US is \"one of the strongest\" of its kind to hit the region.\n\nThe Weather Channel has said the dome will expand across the nation's south by the middle of next week - meaning other southern US states will see temperatures rise.\n\nMeanwhile, other parts of the US are bracing themselves for severe thunderstorms and flash floods - and north-eastern states could experience another bout of poor air quality as a result of the continuing wildfires in Canada.\n\n\"As if the rain coming out of the sky isn't enough, if you start looking up tomorrow, you're going to see a similar situation in what we had a couple of weeks ago because of the air quality degradation [from the wildfires],\" New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a press conference. \"And as I said before, this is possibly our new normal.\"\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nAre you in the area? How have you been affected by the extreme temperatures? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The ponies were found on Gelligaer Common but no owner could ever be traced\n\nA group of ponies who were rescued after being found in \"terrible\" conditions are expected to make a full recovery.\n\nThe animals were found on Gelligaer Common, which spans the counties of Caerphilly and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nThe HorseWorld charity said the ponies were \"running wild\" on common land with \"no sign of anyone caring for them\".\n\nThe case was investigated for a possible prosecution, but no owner could be traced.\n\nHorseWorld said it worked with other charities to rescue 25 ponies in total from the common, before bringing five of them - now named Pretzel, Peanut, Pumpkin, Peaches and Plum - to live at their site in Bristol.\n\nThe charity said there had not been enough grazing to sustain the animals.\n\nA spokesperson for Caerphilly council said neither it nor Merthyr Tydfil council had responsibility for the horses.\n\nThe ponies are now \"safe for the rest of their lives\", rescuers say\n\nSarah Hollister, head of equine welfare at HorseWorld, said: \"The positive news is all five ponies are doing really well now and are expected to make a full recovery.\"\n\nShe said her team had started some \"very gentle\" rehabilitation training with the ponies to help them get used to being handled.\n\nMs Hollister added: \"For ponies like this, that have likely never had human contact, we start with a glove on a pole and slowly get them used to being touched with the trainer remaining at a comfortable distance for them.\n\n\"As they accept this, we can move a little closer. This is a long slow process which is never rushed, it takes as long as it takes.\n\n\"The welfare of the horses, their comfort and happiness, is paramount.\"\n\nThe charity is now training the ponies\n\nThe charity said it could take years for the ponies to be fully trained and ready to embark on the new lives ahead of them.\n\nIt added: \"Whatever lies ahead, once a horse or pony comes into HorseWorld's care we guarantee they have a home for life.\n\n\"They are safe for the rest of their lives.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nAustralia's squad have criticised the gender disparity in World Cup prize money and the fact some nations do not have collective bargaining rights.\n\nAll 23 Matildas players featured in a video posted by the Australian professional players union (PFA) three days before the tournament begins.\n\nThe squad also called for all of the players in Australia's A-League Women to be fully professional.\n\nAustralia are co-hosting the Women's World Cup with New Zealand.\n\n\"736 footballers have the honour of representing their countries on the biggest stage this tournament,\" said Australia and Everton midfielder Clare Wheeler in the video.\n\nWestern Sydney Wanderers' Clare Hunt added: \"Yet many are still denied the basic right to organise and collectively bargain.\"\n\nBrann midfielder Tameka Yallop said: \"Collective bargaining has allowed us to ensure we now get the same conditions as the Socceroos, with one exception: Fifa will still only offer women one-quarter as much prize money as men for the same achievement.\"\n\nThe total prize pot for the Women's World Cup, which starts on Thursday, is $110m (£84.1m), a 300% increase from the 2019 tournament, but significantly lower than the $440m (£336.4m) pot for the men in Qatar last year.\n\nThe A-League's minimum wage for players increased from $16,344 (£8,509) to $20,608 (£10,730) in the 2022-23 season and is set to rise again in the 2023-24 campaign to $25,000 (£13,011).\n\nThe league includes 12 teams with a regular season from November to April. The top four teams then play in semi-finals then a final to determine the champions.\n\nSydney FC's Cortnee Vine added in the video: \"Our sisters in the A-League are still pushing to make football a full-time career, so they don't have to work part-time jobs like we had to.\"\n\nA-League commissioner Nick Garcia said: \"We have readied ourselves for the World Cup over the last two years - the A-League Women has expanded by three teams in three seasons and the season has been extended to equal that of the English and US leagues.\n\n\"We all want our players to be full-time professionals and that should be the legacy of this World Cup. If we want to see generational change, now is the time for wider stakeholders including commercial partners and government to commit to grow the game.\"\n• None Listen to Sam Kerr: The making of a Matilda\n\nFootball Australia CEO James Johnson said of the video's release: \"We were aware of the video going out. [But] we weren't concerned as Football Australia at all because we know that our program is world leading and we know the PFA and the players agree with that as well.\n\n\"Fifa-wise, [the increase in money] doesn't get to where I think we are in Australia, but it's improved, there's room for improvement.\"\n\nSpeaking at the Fifa Congress in March, Fifa president Gianni Infantino said: \"Our ambition is to have equality in payments for the 2026 men's and 2027 women's World Cup. This is the objective that we set to ourselves. Fifa is stepping up with actions, not just with words.\"\n\nFootball's governing body have also said its \"ultimate aspiration\" is for equal prize money and \"we are on that journey\".\n\nEqual pay has been established in cricket, with the International Cricket Council announcing the milestone on 13 July.\n\nThe Matildas exercised their collective bargaining rights in an agreement in 2019 which gave them the same minimum percentage of tournament prize money as the nation's men's team.\n\nThis came after the women's team took strike action in 2015 for better pay.\n\nAustralia are not the only team to speak out on equal pay, with England in a bonus dispute with the Football Association.\n\nThe governing body has reportedly said it will not pay the Lionesses performance-based bonuses, with England defender Lucy Bronze calling the situation \"frustrating\".\n\nThe Matildas' video echoed the Karen Carney report, with the former England international saying the women's game could be a \"billion pound industry\".\n\nCarney added that professionalising the game and raising standards is the \"biggest issue\" in the sport.\n\nThis World Cup feels like a watershed moment in the fight for equal pay in women's football globally.\n\nFrom Nigeria to the UK, South Africa and Canada, there have been stand-offs between multiple teams and their football associations. The fights range from bonuses to basic equal pay. Some teams have even been threatening to boycott matches, take their football associations to their national parliaments - or even not get on the plane.\n\nIt is this wave of momentum that the Matildas' are building on with this video. Having won one of the most historic battles back in 2019 - when they were granted a collective bargaining agreement - the team see themselves as ambassadors who must vouch for teams without a voice.\n\n\"This Women's World Cup is another real opportunity to be able to talk about these bigger things, including equal pay,\" football analyst Sam Lewis told the BBC.\n\n\"It's still something that not just women footballers are striving for. It's what women everywhere are striving for. \"\n\nOne of the teams with a seemingly long way to go towards pay equality is Vietnam, who will take on the United States on Saturday in Auckland.\n\nFormer national star Nguyen Thị Minh Nguyet said one male player can make the salary of more than 20 female players combined while some players have to sell goods online to make ends meet.\n\nA major issue remaining is the discrepancy in the prize pot. Two billion people around the world are expected to tune in to watch this World Cup yet the prize money for women is a quarter of the men's.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino has said he wants to see this levelled by the next World Cup.\n• None Watch all episodes of We Hunt Together on BBC iPlayer\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "Iran's controversial morality police are tasked with enforcing the country's strict dress code (file image)\n\nIran's morality police are to resume controversial street patrols to enforce the dress code requiring women to cover their hair and wear loose clothing.\n\nIt comes 10 months after mass protests erupted in response to the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, who was held for allegedly wearing \"improper\" hijab.\n\nWomen and girls have burnt their headscarves or waved them in the air at the anti-establishment demonstrations.\n\nMany have even stopped covering their hair in public altogether.\n\nAuthorities attempted to enforce the dress code using other measures while the morality police patrols were paused, but they have been met with derision on social media and open defiance on the streets.\n\nUnder Iranian law, which is based on the country's interpretation of Sharia, women must cover their hair with a hijab (headscarf) and wear long, loose-fitting clothing to disguise their figures.\n\nSince 2006, special police units formally known as the Guidance Patrols (Gasht-e Ershad) have been tasked with enforcing those rules.\n\nMahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was detained by the force in Tehran on 13 September. She died three days later in hospital.\n\nThere were reports that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles while taking her to a \"re-education centre\". However, authorities blamed her death on an underlying health condition - something her family denied.\n\nMany Iranians expressed outrage and protests against the morality police and the wider clerical establishment swept across the country in its wake.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed and thousands more have been detained in a violent crackdown by security forces, which have portrayed the protests as foreign-instigated \"riots\". Seven protesters have also been executed following what a UN expert has called \"sham trials marred by torture allegations\".\n\nAs well as demonstrating on the streets, videos and photos posted on social media suggested that an increasing number of women and girls were not covering their hair in public.\n\nAuthorities responded by installing surveillance cameras to identify them and closing businesses that turn a blind eye to dress code violations.\n\nWomen and men who supported the rules also appeared to take enforcement into their own hands. Earlier this year, a video emerged showing a man throwing a tub of yoghurt in the face of two unveiled women.\n\nOn Sunday, police spokesman Saeed Montazerolmahdi confirmed that morality police patrols had resumed across the country to \"deal with those who, unfortunately, ignore the consequences of not wearing the proper hijab and insist on disobeying the norms\".\n\n\"If they disobey the orders of the police force, legal action will be taken, and they will be referred to the judicial system,\" he added.\n\nHowever, a university student identified only as Ismaili expressed doubt that the officers would be able to impose the dress code as they had before Mahsa Amini's death.\n\n\"The number of people who do not obey is too high now,\" she told Reuters news agency. \"They cannot handle all of us, the last thing they can do is use violence and force against us. They cannot do it.\"\n\nThe reformist newspaper Hammihan warned that the resumption of patrols could \"cause chaos\" in society, while reformist politician Azar Mansouri said it showed the \"gap between the people and the state is widening\".\n\nIranians also took to social media to condemn the move as well as the arrest on Sunday of an actor, Mohammad Sadeqi, after he urged women to defend themselves when accosted by morality police.\n\nMr Sadeqi claimed in an Instagram post that the state had \"declared a war\" on them and advised women to carry \"machetes\" to fight back. \"Trust me, people will kill you,\" he warned officers.\n\nHours later, the actor partially live-streamed a raid by plainclothes security forces on his home in Tehran during which he was forcefully detained.\n\nThe judiciary's Mizan news agency said he was accused of \"instigating violence through unconventional and unlawful comments online\".", "Some students in Wales will either be unable to graduate on time, or have to do some without their final marks\n\nSome students in Wales will not graduate on time or with their final grades due to a marking boycott.\n\nCardiff University confirmed some would graduate with an unclassified degree while Swansea University said up to 70 would have their graduations delayed.\n\nThe University and College Union boycott is part of a pay dispute.\n\nOn Wednesday, the new student union president at Cardiff University launched a petition calling for an end to the dispute.\n\nMeanwhile, Swansea University said a \"small group\" - less than 70 students out of a total of 2,500 - would be unable to graduate on time as a result of the marking and assessment delays.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are working diligently to ensure that award outcomes are promptly confirmed for all students. We encourage our students to reach out to their faculties should they have any queries or concerns.\"\n\nIn a joint statement with her fellow sabbatical officers, new students' union president at Cardiff University Angie Flores Acuña said the graduation disruption marked \"another failure for students\".\n\nThe petition said the support of students for those striking had been \"loud and clear\", adding: \"Cardiff University has the power to call for an end to this dispute by publicly supporting the reopening of negotiations.\"By standing back and doing nothing, Cardiff University is failing students who are finishing with provisional/no degrees despite having worked so hard throughout this unprecedented period.\"\n\nA Cardiff University spokesman said: \"The majority of our students will receive their marks, in full, and will not be affected\"\n\nThe petition calls on the university to reimburse tuition fees of those affected, retract pay deduction threats and engage in \"meaningful negotiations\" with striking staff.\n\nA Cardiff University spokesman confirmed some students would receive an unclassified degree \"for the time being\", and the university was \"currently unable to provide an outcome\" for some other degrees.\n\nThe university said it was \"painfully aware that those students who are affected are feeling deeply disappointed, worried and anxious\" and also confirmed it was aware of the petition started by the Cardiff students' union president.\n\n\"It is important to stress that this is a national dispute over levels of pay and working conditions. The University therefore cannot solve these issues independently,\" it said.\n\n\"We reject in the strongest possible terms any suggestion that we are standing back and doing nothing. The Vice-Chancellor has met with local representatives and we continue to keep communication channels open with Cardiff UCU and find there are many points of agreement between us.\n\n\"This type of language only serves to undermine the efforts of staff who have been doing everything possible, under extreme pressure and time constraints, to support those students most severely impacted.\"\n\nThe spokesman said graduation ceremonies will be going ahead later in July but students could postpone until 2024 if they wished.\n\nAberystwyth University said all students eligible to graduate would do so, 99.8% with their definitive degree marks.\n\nThe \"remaining students\" would be getting an honours degree, with the mark subject to be revised upwards at a later date.\n\nMany students have supported the strikes, leading to calls for the universities to act to resolve the dispute\n\nThe University of South Wales said: \"We are sincerely sorry that a small proportion of results have been affected by the marking and assessment boycott. We have contacted those students who have been affected.\n\n\"We are working hard to process and provide results as soon as possible whilst ensuring high academic standards are maintained. All final-year students will have received their initial results within the next couple of days.\"\n\nGraduating students at Cardiff Metropolitan University, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Wrexham Glyndwr University and Bangor University will all receive their final marks and graduate as planned, the universities confirmed.\n\nThe action by UCU union members follows a UK-wide dispute over pay and conditions and affects 140 institutions.\n\nIt began on 20 April and the union said it would continue until employers made an improved offer on pay and conditions.", "The OfS says nearly three-in-10 graduates do not progress to highly-skilled jobs or further study 15 months after graduating\n\nUniversities in England could be restricted in recruiting students to poor quality courses, under new government plans.\n\nMinisters will ask the independent regulator to limit numbers on courses that do not have \"good outcomes\".\n\nEducation Minister Robert Halfon said imposing restrictions would encourage universities to improve course quality.\n\nLabour said the move would \"put up fresh barriers to opportunity in areas with fewer graduate jobs\".\n\nThe advocacy group Universities UK said university was a great investment for the vast majority of students.\n\nA spokeswoman for the organisation warned any measures must be \"targeted and proportionate, and not a sledgehammer to crack a nut\".\n\nAre you a student or recent graduate with a view on this story? Get in touch.\n\nThe government said courses that do not have \"good outcomes\" for students would include those that have high drop-out rates or have a low proportion of students going on to professional jobs. It will also look at potential earnings when deciding if a degree offers enough value.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"The UK is home to some of the best universities in the world and studying for a degree can be immensely rewarding. But too many young people are being sold a false dream and end up doing a poor-quality course at the taxpayers' expense that doesn't offer the prospect of a decent job at the end of it.\"\n\nNearly three-in-10 graduates do not progress into highly-skilled jobs or further study 15 months after graduating, according to the regulator, the Office for Students (OfS).\n\nThe OfS already has the power to investigate and sanction universities in England which offer degrees falling below minimum performance thresholds - but the new rules would permit the regulator to limit student numbers for those courses.\n\nThe current thresholds for full-time students doing a first degree are for:\n\nThis announcement does not change these criteria, and other aspects of the policy are unclear, such as how many students may be denied a place at university in future and which subjects would be most affected.\n\nThe Department for Education would not say which courses would be at risk of recruitment limits as this would be for the OfS to determine.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Education Minister Mr Halfon said putting limits on underperforming degrees would mean those courses \"will then improve\".\n\n\"Students will be able to make informed choices,\" he said. \"If a course has poor outcomes they might choose to do another course at university, they may still decide to do that course but will have the recruitment limits on it.\"\n\nHe suggested the OfS would use \"existing powers\" to look into poor quality courses, saying: \"We can't order the Office for Students to do anything.\"\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said the announcement was \"an attack on the aspirations of young people\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says apprenticeships are an “equally high alternative to universities”.\n\nBut Mr Halfon dubbed that accusation as \"nonsense\".\n\n\"The Labour party has been obsessed with quantity over quality and had been party of poor standards in education,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson said the prime minister was \"out of ideas\" and had \"dug up a policy the Conservatives announced and then unannounced twice over\".\n\nShe said: \"Universities don't want this. It's a cap on aspiration, making it harder for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to go on to further study.\"\n\nUniversities UK said the UK had the highest completion rates of any OECD country and overall satisfaction rates were high.\n\n\"However, it is right that the regulatory framework is there as a backstop to protect student interests in the very small proportion of instances where quality needs to be improved,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe idea originated in a 2018 review set up under then-Prime Minister Theresa May. The same review also suggested that more money needed to be pumped into education and that tuition fees needed to be cut - but these are not being implemented.\n\nThe new pledge comes ahead of three by-elections in Conservative-held seats on Thursday.\n\nThe government also announced it would reduce the maximum fees universities in England can charge for classroom-based foundation-year courses, from £9,250 to £5,760. In 2021/22, 29,080 students across the UK were studying a foundation degree.\n\nFoundation year courses are designed to help prepare students for degrees with specific entry requirements or knowledge, such as medicine and veterinary sciences.\n\nHowever, the government said research suggested too many people were encouraged to take a foundation year in some subjects like business, where it was not necessary.\n\nUniversity Alliance, which represents professional and technical universities, said cutting fees for foundation year courses was \"disappointingly regressive\" and \"makes them financially unviable to deliver\".\n\nChief executive Vanessa Wilson said: \"Disadvantaged students and the 'Covid generation' will lose out if this provision is reduced or lost.\"\n\nShe added that the government had chosen \"to berate one of the few UK sectors which is genuinely world-leading\".\n\nUpdate 28 July 2023: This article was amended to make clear government plans apply to universities in England only.", "Tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth is five weeks into his role as chair of the government's new AI taskforce\n\nProtecting British jobs will be a challenge as artificial intelligence systems become more advanced, the new head of the government's AI taskforce has told the BBC.\n\nIan Hogarth said it was \"inevitable\" that more jobs would become increasingly automated.\n\nThe whole world will have to rethink the way in which people work, he added.\n\n\"There will be winners or losers on a global basis in terms of where the jobs are as a result of AI,\" he said.\n\nThis week BBC News is focusing on AI, how the technology affects our lives and what impacts it may have in the near future.\n\nThere have already been reports of multiple job losses as a result of companies choosing to use AI tools instead of humans, with BT recently saying it will shed around 10,000 staff by the end of the decade as a result of the tech.\n\nBut others believe these developments will also usher in a lot of new human jobs that do not currently exist, just like the rise of the internet did.\n\nA report released earlier this year by Goldman Sachs pointed out that 60% of current jobs did not exist in 1940.\n\nMr Hogarth, a tech entrepreneur and AI investor, said the aim of the new taskforce was to help the government \"to better understand the risks associated with these frontier AI systems\" and to hold the companies accountable.\n\nHe said he was concerned about the potential for AI to cause harm - for example with a wrongful arrest if used in law enforcement, or generating malicious computer code that results in increased cybercrime.\n\nHe also said that expert warnings of AI's potential to become an existential threat should not be dismissed, even though this divides opinion in the community itself.\n\nBut he was also cautious of not missing the benefits of these technologies.\n\nNotably in healthcare, AI tools are identifying new antibiotics, helping people with brain damage regain movement and being trained to spot early symptoms of diseases.\n\nMr Hogarth said he once built a tool that could identify breast cancer signs in scans.\n\nThe group he will lead has been given an initial £100m to oversee AI safety research.\n\nHe would not say how he intends to spend the money but that he thinks he will know if he has succeeded in the job if \"the average person in the UK starts to feel a benefit from AI\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made AI a key priority, and wants the UK to become a global hub for the sector. Someone who knows him put it to me more bluntly: \"He is obsessed with it.\"\n\nOpenAI, the firm behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT, has announced that its first international office will be located in London, and data firm Palantir has also said it will open headquarters in the city.\n\nBut the UK faces several challenges in positioning itself as a key player in this lucrative and fast-moving area of tech.\n\nEmma McClenaghan and her partner Matt run an AI start-up in Northern Ireland. They have built an AI tool called Wally which generates websites, and have ambitions to turn it into a more general digital assistant.\n\nThe company has won awards but they still struggle to access the specialised chips - called GPUs (graphics processing units) - they need to develop their product further.\n\n\"I think there is a lack of hardware access for start-ups, and a lack of expertise and lack of funding,\" she said.\n\nEmma McClenaghan says the best outcome for her and Matt Eaton's firm would be for it to get bought by a US tech giant\n\nShe said they waited five months for a grant to buy a single GPU - at a time when in the US Elon Musk was reported to have purchased 10,000.\n\n\"That's the difference between us and them because it's going to take us, you know, four to seven days to train a model and if he's [able to] do it in minutes, then you know, we're never going to catch up\".\n\nIn an email chat, Ms McClenaghan told me she thinks the best outcome for her firm, Gensys Engine, would be for it to get bought up by a US tech giant - something I hear a lot from UK start-ups.\n\nRe-nosing those ambitions to keep successful firms here in the UK and helping them to grow is another challenge.\n\nTrying to access GPUs might be less of an issue if they were available as part of a national infrastructure, like for example road networks or electricity cables, rather than being hoovered up by those companies which can afford them.\n\nIan Hogarth thinks this could be the way forward.\n\n\"I think we're going to enter a phase in which nation states start to see their role in directing critical AI infrastructure in a new way,\" he said.\n\n\"It is going to be a fundamental building block for the next generation of innovation.\"\n\nDespite the trials ahead, he is optimistic the UK can still take a seat at the centre of the AI revolution.\n\n\"I don't think we're too late,\" he says.\n\n\"I wouldn't have taken the job if I thought we couldn't do a lot.\"", "Ron Fealey died in hospital after being hit by a car on Christmas Eve\n\nFamily of an 82-year-old man who died after being hit by a car on Christmas Eve have paid tribute to the gym-loving great-grandfather.\n\nRon Fealey died of his injuries in hospital after the incident on Avenue De Clichy, Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nA 31-year-old woman has been bailed after being stopped on suspicion of causing serious injury by driving without due care and attention.\n\nHis family described him as \"funny, intelligent and caring\".\n\nIn a statement, they added: \"Dad was one-of-a-kind. Even though he was 82 years old, he was very fit and well, visiting the gym twice a week.\n\n\"He will be greatly missed by all the family especially his four grandchildren and his four great-grandchildren, his fifth was due in May.\"\n\nMr Fealey worked as an intensive care nurse, helped set up the care of the elderly high care unit at St Tydfil's Hospital and helped assist foster children to and from school.\n\nHis family said his \"love\" over the past 42 years was being an active committee member of Dowlais RFC.\n\nThe rugby club said Mr Fealey was \"incredibly loyal, supportive and uplifting\" and it had lost \"one of its all-time stalwarts and a true clubman in every sense of the word\".", "The whales stranded on Lewis will be moved to a landfill in Stornoway for post-mortem examinations\n\nScientists are carrying out a \"monumental\" post-mortem investigation on a pod of 55 whales that became stranded in the Western Isles.\n\nOnly 15 were alive after they washed on to Traigh Mhor beach at North Tolsta on the Isle of Lewis on Sunday morning.\n\nOne is believed to have been successfully refloated, but the rest were euthanised on welfare grounds.\n\nIt is the highest number of deaths following a mass stranding of animals in the UK for at least 70 years.\n\nLeading veterinary pathologist Dr Andrew Brownlow said the investigation would be a \"monumental task\".\n\nHe is director of the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS), whose team will carry out the post-mortem examinations.\n\nAttempts were made to give surviving whales first aid on Sunday\n\nThey will gather data from a select number of the whales as they would be unable to examine all 55.\n\nWeather could also impede the process though Dr Brownlow said conditions had improved since Sunday.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"It's going to be a monumental task.\n\n\"There are more animals sadly which are awaiting necropsy now than all of the mass strandings put together for the last decade.\n\n\"What we will try and do is triage these animals - we will select those animals that we think best represent the rest of the pod and make sure that we take samples and as much data that we can.\n\n\"Then it's simply a race against time, energy and weather. We will do the most that we possibly can to find out what's been going on here.\"\n\nPilot whales are known for their strong social bonds, so often when one whale gets into difficulty and strands, the rest follow.\n\nBetween 60-70 of the animals came into shallow waters in Sutherland in 2011 while 21 died during a stranding at Pittenweem in 2012.\n\nAccording to the Natural History Museum, the largest UK stranding took place in 1927 when 126 out of more than 130 false killer whales died in the Dornoch Firth in the Highlands.\n\nThere are also accounts of a mass stranding of pilot whales at Dunbar, East Lothian, in May 1950 with some reports saying 147 were found on the beach.\n\nMarine charity British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said the pod on Lewis could have followed a female on to the beach when she became unwell while giving birth - as happened at Staffin on Skye in 2015.\n\nHowever Dr Brownlow said there are a number of reasons behind strandings and his team will be looking to rule out human impact.\n\nHe said: \"Pilot whale strandings have happened for centuries - it's not necessarily the case that it's because of human impact.\n\n\"But that's one of the things we want to try and investigate and rule out - to see whether or not some of the things that can affect these animals such as underwater noise, interaction with fishing gear, accumulation of toxins or disease may have played a part.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. About 55 whales were stranded on Sunday morning\n\nOn Sunday attempts were made to give the surviving whales first aid.\n\nBDMLR attempted to refloat two of the more active whales - one successfully got away but another was later found further down the beach.\n\nThe whales are now being moved to a landfill in Stornoway where they will be buried after investigations take place.\n\nDr Brownlow said whales can be left to decompose on beaches as they form part of the natural nutrient cycle - but it the decision to move them was \"understandable\" as Traigh Mhor is one of the more popular beaches on the island.\n\nWestern Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - has asked people to avoid the area as the operation to remove the whales takes place.\n\nLast year more than 200 of the same species of whales were found stranded on a remote beach on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia.\n\nDr Brownlow said although 55 whales was a large stranding for Scotland, it was \"not unprecedented\" - but had nevertheless attracted interest from scientists around the world.\n\n\"Although this is pretty grim and a relatively challenging thing to do, you can actually learn a lot from these animals,\" he said.\n\n\"There is interest from all over the world - we've been contacted from the guys in Tasmania who have offered us support and best wishes but are also very interested to know what we find out.\n\n\"From the process of examining these animals we can learn a lot about the threats and pressures that affect not just the animals in our waters but globally. So I think there is some value in doing this.\"", "We're bringing our coverage of this story to a close now\n\nToday we've heard a number of media experts give their thoughts on how the story has unfolded, and we've heard from some friends and colleagues of Huw Edwards too. Meanwhile, the BBC has resumed its investigation into the presenter's conduct, and we now know senior BBC figures will be asked to talk about their handling of the story during a pre-existing Parliamentary committee session next week. You can find further coverage on this story here. Lastly, a reminder that as this story contains a lot of distressing and difficult themes - organisations offering help and support with a host of issues are listed at BBC Actionline. Thanks for joining us, have a good afternoon.", "UK agrees to join Asia's trade club - but what is it? , published at 02:32 16 July UK agrees to join Asia's trade club - but what is it?", "Applications to join nursing programmes in Scotland have slumped in the past year, according to new figures.\n\nUCAS data has shown a drop of 19% in applications in the 12 months up to 30 June.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has called the figure \"significant\" and a \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it valued student nurses and midwives and that they received the highest student bursary in Scotland.\n\nLatest figures reveal 6,450 applicants sought a place on Scottish courses, compared to 7,930 in 2022 and 9,010 in 2021.\n\nAnd the number signing up to study nursing at this point in the UCAS cycle is below the pre-pandemic number of 7,290 applicants from 2019.\n\nThe number of applicants was highest in 2021, reflecting an increase in demand for certain courses, including medicine and nursing, during the global health crisis.\n\nThe trend marks a further blow to NHS recovery as it already deals with high vacancy rates.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing said 8.5% of registered nurse posts remained vacant at the end of March.\n\nIn June it emerged that annual spending on NHS temporary staff in Scotland rose to a record high of more than £560m - an increase of over a third compared with the previous year.\n\nMeanwhile, data showed that in the year up to 31 March, £447.4m was spent on bank and agency nursing and midwifery staff.\n\nThe biggest health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, spent almost £130m to cover nursing and midwife shortages.\n\nRCN Scotland's director, Colin Poolman, said: \"This significant drop in applications to nursing courses in Scotland is a real cause for concern amid the stubbornly high registered nurse vacancy rates and ongoing workforce challenges which are compromising patient safety and the wellbeing of staff.\"\n\nHe added the nursing union's recent report on the costs of becoming a nurse highlighted the significant financial pressures that student nurses face.\n\nMr Poolman said: \"The prospect of starting a degree course during a cost of living crisis is bound to be having an impact.\n\n\"Nursing is a hugely diverse profession and relies on attracting people of all ages and all walks of life, often as a second career.\n\n\"The Scottish government needs to demonstrate that nursing is valued and a career choice worth pursuing.\"\n\nReacting to the drop in applications, Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: \"Scotland already has more than 5,500 nursing and midwifery vacancies and a workforce stretched to breaking point.\n\n\"This collapse in applications is incredibly worrying and risks creating a staffing timebomb that will pile yet more pressure on our NHS.\"\n\nScottish Conservative deputy health spokesperson Tess White said: \"The SNP's mismanagement of our health service is sadly putting people off wanting to become nurses, as they hear about the intolerable strain current staff are enduring.\n\n\"These figures need to be an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The attraction and retention of people into nursing and midwifery is a key part of the remit of the Nursing & Midwifery Taskforce.\n\n\"We continue to provide the highest non-repayable, non-means tested bursary support in the UK at £10,000 for eligible students, as well as reimbursement of expenses and a range of allowances.\n\n\"We value our student nurses and midwives and that is why they receive the highest student bursary in Scotland.\"\n\nHe added that Scotland's NHS Agenda for Change staff were \"the best paid anywhere in the UK\".\n\nThe spokesman also said that applicants could apply through UCAS for up to five undergraduate programmes at a time and could apply to nursing and midwifery programmes over the summer as part of the annual clearing process.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk has announced the formation of an artificial intelligence startup.\n\nThe new company is called xAI, and includes several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google.\n\nMr Musk has previously stated he believes developments in AI should be paused and that the sector needs regulation.\n\nHe said the start-up was created to \"understand reality\".\n\nIt is unclear how much funding the entity has, what its specific objectives are or what kind artificial intelligence the company wants to focus on.\n\nThe company's website says the goal of xAI is to \"understand the true nature of the universe.\"\n\nThe new firm will host a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday, which may reveal further details about its aims.\n\nElon Musk was the one of the original backers of OpenAI, which went on to create the popular large language model ChatGPT, which has - often controversially - become popular for uses such as assisting students with writing homework.\n\nHowever, the billionaire's relationship with the company has soured. He has criticised ChatGPT for having a liberal bias.\n\n\"What we need is TruthGPT\", Mr Musk tweeted in February.\n\nHe also disagrees with how ChatGPT has been run - and its close relationship with Microsoft.\n\n\"It does seem weird that something can be a nonprofit, open source and somehow transform itself into a for-profit, closed source,\" Musk said in a CNBC interview.\n\nIn March Mr Musk signed an open letter calling for a pause to \"Giant AI Experiments\", which to date has around 33,000 signatures.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in April Mr Musk said he had been worrying about AI safety for over a decade.\n\n\"I think there should be a regulatory body established for overseeing AI to make sure that it does not present a danger to the public\", he said.\n\nMr Musk has also pitted himself against AI companies due to the data they use to train chatbots - the software that learns how humans interacts by scraping masses of data from various sources to fuel its knowledge and interaction styles.\n\nThe billionaire believes vast amounts of Twitter's data is scraped from the platform, and that the company should be adequately compensated.\n\nMr Musk purchased the microblogging platform in a deal worth billions, before making sweeping changes which led to many leaving the platform in protest, including the producer of shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Bridgerton, Shonda Rhimes, as well as model Gigi Hadid and comedian and actor Stephen Fry.", "A car was set alight in the Damolly Village area on Wednesday morning\n\nAn arson attack in County Down is being treated as a sectarian hate crime, police have said.\n\nA car belonging to Aontú member Sharon Loughran was set alight at about 03:15 BST in Damolly Village, Newry, on Wednesday.\n\nMs Loughran said she is still trying to process the \"horrendous action\" that \"could have killed me\".\n\n\"I cannot for the life of me understand why they are targeting me,\" she added.\n\nSharon Loughran stood for Aontú in the Newry, Mourne & Down district during May's local elections, but was not elected to the council.\n\nThe all-island party was formed in 2019 when its leader, Peadar Tóibín TD, quit Sinn Féin over its stance on abortion.\n\nMs Loughran says that she woke up on Wednesday morning to to the \"smell and sound of an inferno\"\n\nIn a party statement, Sharon Loughran said she woke to the \"smell and sound of an inferno\" beside her house on Wednesday morning.\n\n\"I looked out the window to see my car parked in my driveway consumed by flames,\" she said.\n\n\"The heat was so much that the facia, pipes, electrics, and windows to my house have all been damaged by melting. My house is significantly damaged. I don't have electricity and can't use the water.\n\nPolice are treating the arson attack as a sectarian hate crime\n\n\"Ms Loughran said her house was previously targeted with sectarian graffiti but this latest attack is \"a radical escalation of that intimidation\".\n\n\"I had no involvement in politics before joining Aontú. I am paediatric nurse in Daisy Hill Hospital. I love my job and I am delighted to work for both communities,\" Ms Loughran continued.\n\n\"The only reason I got involved in politics was to stop the closure of key services in Daisy Hill Hospital and Aontú are very active on hospital campaigns around the country.\"\n\nMs Loughran said her house was previously targeted with sectarian graffiti\n\nAppealing for community leaders to \"bring about what influence to stop this shocking violence\", Ms Loughran added: \"I want to continue to work for my community. I have a human right to do so in peace.\"\n\nSinn Féin MP Mickey Brady said the attack \"was a sinister act of intimidation which could have resulted in serious injury or worse\",\n\n\"Sharon recently put herself before the people in the council elections and this action is an attack on the democratic process and the whole community and what makes this attack even more reprehensible is that Sharon is a health worker.\n\n\"All parties must stand united in condemning this appalling attack on Sharon and her family,\" he added.\n\nInvestigating officers have released details of a suspect who is approximately 5ft 10in tall, of slim build, wearing a light-coloured top and bottoms.\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone who may have been in the area, or who may have captured CCTV footage, to contact them.", "Airport drop-off charges for drivers have increased by almost a third at UK airports over the past year, according to the RAC.\n\nThese are initial fees charged for dropping off someone as close to a terminal as possible.\n\nThe biggest hikes in so-called kiss and fly charges are at Southampton and Belfast International, the RAC found.\n\nAirports argue the higher fees are to deter drivers from lingering around and help to keep flight costs down.\n\nThe Airport Operators Association, which represents airports in the UK, told the BBC the increased revenue helped \"keep charges to airlines lower\" and helped \"maximise the range of flights that can be offered to all passengers\".\n\nShort-stay parking areas around terminals usually have barriers for entry and exit. Drivers have to buy a ticket to get in and pay for the time they stay to get out.\n\nSouthampton International airport raised its fee from £4 to £6 for 20 minutes while Belfast International has hiked prices from £1 to £3 for 10 minutes.\n\nA spokesperson for AGS Airports, which owns and operates Southampton, said the funds received through higher charges were important in \"supporting the airport's operational costs, which have increased significantly\".\n\nBelfast said the higher charges would be used to fund a \"wider capital investment programme\". The airport is due to begin the construction of a new £20m security building.\n\nThe airport with the highest minimum payment is Stansted where the fee is £7 for 15 minutes, but other airports charge £5 for just five or 10 minutes.\n\nHowever, six of the busiest UK airports have frozen drop-off charges since last summer. Alongside Stansted:\n\nThree airports offer free-drop off outside the departure terminal. These are Cardiff, London City and Inverness.\n\nFor passengers that are being dropped off by taxis or private hire cars, they will most likely have fees added to their fares. Many airports offer free options for dropping passengers off in mid or long-stay car parks connected to terminals by buses.\n\nThe RAC argues that the increased drop-off charges are far too high to charge drivers for such short periods of time - particularly if they are dropping off people with limited mobility or young families.\n\nNicholas Lyes, head of roads policy at the RAC, has been tracking drop-off charges since 2016 and said putting them up had \"become something of an annual ritual\".\n\n\"Thankfully the proportion of airports hiking fees this year is lower than last year, but that will be little consolation as charges across the board have never been so high,\" he said.\n\nResearch. Check out the drop-off facilities and fees on the airport's website. Terminal forecourt drop-off areas are likely to be the most expensive.\n\nHave your payment ready. Once you have found out how to pay, ensure you have payment ready to hand.\n\nSay your goodbyes early. Bid your farewells before you get to the airport.\n\nCheck your taxi fare includes a drop-off fee. If you're booking a taxi to take you to the airport, check to see whether the fare includes or excludes any drop-off fees.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Freya says she does not know how people are expected to buy with the money they can borrow\n\n\"I have £50,000 saved but I still can't buy a house.\"\n\nFreya, 24, is just one young person trying to get on the property ladder with no end in sight.\n\nWith mortgage rates the highest they have been since the financial crash and rent costs soaring, she is not alone in worrying about her future.\n\nAnd those who are renting say they feel they have no chance of saving enough money even to get a deposit together for a house.\n\nFreya said some support from family meant she was able to get her own deposit, but high interest rates and a lack of affordable, \"liveable\" properties meant she was stuck paying almost half her salary on renting.\n\nShe has a well-paid job as a scientific content creator for an educational games company, but said she cannot see how single young professionals are expected to buy without further support.\n\nFreya says despite her position, it is too difficult for young single people to buy\n\n\"My salary isn't enough to cover the threshold to get a mortgage of £200,000,\" she said.\n\n\"I was told by previous generations 'get a good degree and the rest will sort itself' but it hasn't.\n\n\"Although I work full time I can't earn enough. I don't drink, I don't go out to eat more than once a month, normally for a friend's birthday.\"\n\nFreya, who pays £775 in rent a month, excluding bills, for her one bedroom flat in Cardiff, said: \"I wouldn't mind renting if it wasn't so expensive for a property that often comes with a huge amount of issues.\"\n\nShe said she often found properties in the Welsh capital were low quality, and a previous property she was in had a collapsed ceiling which meant she was \"so cold I couldn't sleep\".\n\n\"I think young people are disheartened. How can we save for the future when we can't save enough to beat the price hump from renting to owning?\"\n\nMark Drakeford has criticised the Bank of England's actions\n\nMortgage rates have risen to highest level for 15 years - a typical five-year fixed mortgage deal now has an interest rate of more than 6% - a level not seen since the financial crisis.\n\nThe Bank of England has said mortgage payments will rise by at least £500 a month for nearly one million households by the end of 2026.\n\nThe number of homes available is down by a third, adding even more pressure to buyers.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford criticised the Bank of England's actions, saying it was in \"real danger\" of overcorrection in raising interest rates to control inflation, causing \"avoidable\" misery to thousands.\n\nHe accused the central bank of being \"intent on inducing a recession\".\n\n\"It's very clear from what they have said that they are going to rise interest rates to a point where unemployment is going to be rising across the whole of the United Kingdom, and Wales will not be exempt from that.\"\n\n\"It will not have seen the impact yet of all the interest rate rises its put into the system so far,\" Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast..\n\nCiting Andy Haldane, the former chief economist of the Bank of England, he added: \"The bank is in danger of trying to squeeze the very last drops out of inflation, at the expense of avoidable misery in thousands and thousands of lives.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has been asked for comment.\n\nBut it is not just mortgages hitting housing costs. Data from Zoopla shows in the UK the average rent increase in the year leading up to January 2023 was 11.1%, while the rate in Cardiff rose by 10.8%.\n\nRent levels in Neath Port Talbot went up the most in Wales at 16%.\n\nAndrew Noel, 29, said people like him who rented were being discouraged from saving if they were not able to afford a mortgage anyway.\n\nAndrew, who also lives in Cardiff with a housemate, has been told he must leave his property in February but is having difficulty finding a new one.\n\n\"We've been trying to look for somewhere that won't completely strip our wages every month,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously, we want to have wages left for our energy bills, so we can't be spending £900 each as that is so much money to be able to afford when it really shouldn't be.\"\n\nAndrew Noel says more needs to be done to protect renters before they can even think about mortgages\n\nHe said the only option for average earners his age to buy was to live at home long enough to brace for the high interest rates or buy as a couple.\n\n\"From my point of view, buying right now is not an option unless something magical happens,\" he said.\n\nHe said he believes rent controls may the only way to curb the problem.\n\nInterest rates are set for the UK by the Bank of England, while housing is a devolved issue in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We believe everyone has a right to an affordable and decent home.\n\n\"We're committed to publishing a White Paper on the potential to establish a system of fair rents, as well as new approaches to make homes affordable for those on local incomes.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Thursday, Mr Drakeford also said the Welsh government would build \"20,000 affordable homes... for social rent during this Senedd term\".\n\nBut Housing Minister Julie James said last year the target was \"hanging by a thread\" because of the state of the economy.\n\nHave you been affected by the increase in mortgage rates? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Spectators on Railway Road in Coleraine watch the bands\n\nThe Orange Order and approximately 600 bands have taken part in parades at 18 locations on Wednesday to mark the Twelfth of July.\n\nAs well as Belfast and Ballymena, parades were held in towns including Ballinamallard, Magherafelt and Kilkeel.\n\nThe processions mark the victory of King William III over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.\n\nA young band member catches his baton as an Orange band makes it's way along the parade route\n\nSome banners referenced an Orange Order document which suggested plans to shorten the Belfast parade\n\nWilliam, a Protestant, had become King of England, Scotland and Ireland the previous year, after Catholic James II was deposed, and his victory secured his position.\n\nOrange Order Grand Master Edward Stevenson said the event was a \"day to remember\".\n\nHe said there had been \"extraordinary\" numbers of people celebrating.\n\n\"The weather conditions weren't entirely favourable for all throughout the day, but the rain could not dampen the spirits of those on parade,\" he said.\n\nHe said there had been visitors from Scotland, England, Wales, the US and Canada taking part in the parades.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I came to the Twelfth when I was a wee girl and now I bring my children'\n\nConfetti cannons were fired in Belfast city centre as celebrations started early\n\nThe sun came out for spectators in Coleraine, County Londonderry\n\nLast week, an internal Orange Order document suggested the institution was considering plans to shorten the Belfast parade.\n\nIt followed what the Orange Order described as \"abysmal\" scenes at the 2022 march relating to anti-social behaviour and excessive drinking.\n\nThe weather failed to dampen the spirits of those taking part in the parades\n\nLarge crowds turned out in Ballinamallard in County Fermanagh to see the parade\n\nThe organisation's grand secretary, Rev Mervyn Gibson said he hoped it would be a \"family friendly day where we go out and celebrate our culture\".\n\n\"Today is about the glorious Twelfth of July and celebrating victory at the Battle of the Boyne,\" he told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme on Wednesday.\n\nBefore the parade Rev Gibson said he was not worried about the forecast: \"I think if King William was scared of a bit of water, he'd never have crossed the Boyne so a bit of rain isn't going to dampen our spirits.\"\n\nThis year's parades are being held in:\n\nOn Sunday, the annual Rossnowlagh parade in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland took place, as is tradition ahead of the Twelfth.\n\nUp to 60 lodges from Donegal as well as counties Cavan, Leitrim and Monaghan were joined by lodges from across Northern Ireland.\n\nOrangemen in Lurgan began the day by marching to the town's war memorial\n\nOn Tuesday night, the \"Eleventh Night\" was marked by bonfires in many Protestant areas across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC will broadcast highlights from eight demonstrations in a special hour-long programme on BBC One at 21:00 BST and on BBC iPlayer.", "In the last few minutes, the defence asked an emotional Spacey: \"Were you once a rich man?\"\n\nHere's a look at the questioning that followed.\n\nSpacey: \"I have been very fortunate in the career I have had, yes.\"\n\nGibbs (his lawyer): \"Are you a rich man now?\"\n\nAsked where the money was, Spacey said: \"I have had no money coming in and a lot of legal bills and things to fight against. I had not paid it all off so I still owe money.\"\n\nSpacey said that when the British police wanted to interview him he had agreed to be interviewed and the police had come to the USA.\n\nGibbs: \"After the interview did you expect to be charged?\"\n\nGibbs: \"Did you say anything to the police about what you would do if you were charged?\"\n\nGibbs: \"What did you say?\"\n\nSpacey: \"That I would come back to London and defend myself in a court of law.\"\n\nGibbs: \"Is that what you have done?\"", "Nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK are not accepting new adult patients for treatment under the health service, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nIn a third of the UK's more than 200 council areas, we found no dentists taking on adult NHS patients.\n\nAnd eight in 10 NHS practices are not taking on children.\n\nThe Department of Health said it had made an extra £50m available \"to help bust the Covid backlogs\" and that improving NHS access was a priority.\n\nBBC News contacted nearly 7,000 NHS practices - believed to be almost all those offering general treatment to the public.\n\nThe British Dental Association (BDA) called it \"the most comprehensive and granular assessment of patient access in the history of the service\".\n\nWhile NHS dental treatment is not free for most adults, it is subsidised.\n\nThe BBC heard from people across the UK who could not afford private fees and said the subsidised rates were crucial to getting care.\n\nThe lack of NHS appointments has led people to drive hundreds of miles in search of treatment, pull out their own teeth without anaesthesia, resort to making their own improvised dentures and restrict their long-term diets to little more than soup.\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measure to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nNot only did we find that in many places routine dental care was difficult to access quickly, most practices did not even have waiting lists. For those that did, the majority told us the waiting time was a year or longer, or were unable to say how long people might have to wait.\n\nOne practice in Norfolk told the BBC it had more than 1,700 people on its list, while another, in Cornwall, warned that it would take five years to be taken on as a patient.\n\nThe British Dental Association, which represents high-street NHS dentists in the UK, said NHS dentistry was at a \"tipping point\" after a decade of under-investment.\n\nCaroline Young, from Blackpool, had crowns fitted to her damaged teeth by an NHS dentist, but when her practice stopped treating patients on the health service four years ago, she was unable to find a new one.\n\nAlmost every week she goes through the dentists in the phonebook to ask whether they are taking on new patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I've even called dental practices as far as 20 miles away, in Preston. I've re-called all my local ones many times. I can't even get on a waiting list,\" she said.\n\nMs Young's crowns gradually fell out and she has now resorted to improvised solutions involving a form of plastic, which she found on social media.\n\n\"It was supposed to be temporary, but my temporary became twice a week,\" said Ms Young.\n\nDentists warn that these homemade dentures are not only a dangerous choking hazard, but also food traps that can lead to worse tooth decay and gum damage.\n\n\"There are times when I've tried to fit it, and it's not worked, and I'll sit in floods of tears because I can't go out,\" she says. \"It's demoralising. I shouldn't feel that this holds me back, but it does. If I could afford private dentistry, I'd be there tomorrow.\"\n\nScotland had significantly better access to NHS dentistry for adults than the other UK nations, with 18% of practices taking on new health-service patients.\n\nWales, England and Northern Ireland had broadly similar rates of access, at 7%, 9% and 10% respectively.\n\nAmong the areas where BBC News researchers could not find a single practice accepting new adult patients were Lancashire, Norfolk, Devon and Leeds.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nMost of the UK's NHS dentists are independent businesses and are not employed by the health service directly.\n\nIf they fail to fulfil their NHS contract, the money that they have been paid is taken back.\n\nNHS England said it had recently made changes to the dentistry contract and would \"support practices to improve access, including giving high-performing practices the opportunity to increase their activity and treat more patients\".\n\nIt said discussions on further changes were \"still ongoing\".\n\nThe Welsh government also said it was working on reforming the dental system to improve access and quality of dental care. Wales announced in July that most adults would be offered dental check-ups once a year instead of every six months.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government said more than 95% of the population of Scotland were registered with an NHS dentist and it was \"in a position of relative strength in terms of workforce numbers and capacity\".\n\nAll the devolved governments pointed out that the coronavirus pandemic had affected the availability of NHS dental care. Northern Ireland's Department of Health said it was \"inevitable that access levels are not as favourable today as they were before Covid\".\n\n\"Patients who are currently not registered with a health-service dentist, and wish to become registered may unfortunately have to contact multiple practices and consider travelling further than normal,\" it added.\n\nAccess to NHS dentistry has been a problem ever since the health service was created. Free treatment ended in 1951, just three years after the NHS was formed, because it was deemed unaffordable.\n\nEver since, a subsidised system - where some patients pay towards the cost - has been in place.\n\nAlongside this, a strong private market has developed. An estimated one in seven adults relies on it. It leaves dentists with a real choice about how much NHS work they do.\n\nOver recent years NHS access has been getting harder.\n\nThe current NHS contract in England and Wales, which dates back to 2006, is unpopular with dentists, who feel unrewarded for the work they do.\n\nAusterity also squeezed budgets and then the pandemic hit, creating a backlog of patients with worsening oral health.\n\nThis combination of factors appears to have prompted more dentists to walk away - the numbers doing NHS work dropped by 10% last year.\n\nIt's fair to say the difficulties patients are facing are unprecedented.\n\nThe dentists' union blamed the current NHS contract for the lack of accessible dental care.\n\n\"There doesn't appear to be a commitment, really, from the Treasury to actually invest in [dentistry],\" said BDA chairman Eddie Crouch.\n\n\"Patients are having teeth removed because it's a cheaper option than actually saving the teeth. The whole system is set up for health inequalities, and that significantly needs to change.\n\n\"Many of my colleagues do not see enough emphasis on improving the situation in the short term.\"\n\nPaul Woodhouse, dentist and BDA board member, told BBC Breakfast emergency appointments at his practice were filled within five minutes of being open.\n\nHe said the government was only providing 50% of the funding the UK needed to care for every patient, meaning half of the population were being left without an NHS dentist.\n\n\"If you said that about GPs or cancer screening, there would be riots on the street,\" he said.\n\nNigel Edwards, chief executive of health think-tank the Nuffield Trust, said NHS dentistry was \"on life-support\" in some areas of the country.\n\nBut he added: \"I think it's premature to say we're witnessing the death of it.\n\n\"There doesn't seem to be any real appetite for the sort of big structural and investment decisions that are required to fix NHS dentistry.\"\n\nBBC researchers aimed to contact every dental practice with an NHS contract in the four nations to ask whether they were taking on new patients.\n\nUsing lists from NHS organisations, we identified 8,523 dental practices across the UK that were believed to hold NHS contracts and tried to call them all during May, June and July.\n\nWe then narrowed down this list, excluding practices that\n\nWe were left with a list of 6,880 practices.\n\nFor our analysis, we looked at the distribution of the practices across the UK's 217 upper-tier local authorities.\n\nWe classified a practice as accepting new child NHS patients if they would take on those under the age of 16.\n\nA practice that required a referral to take on a patient was not treated as accepting new NHS patients, since a referral requires an initial appointment with a dentist, which is a barrier to entry.\n\nAdditional reporting by Eve Mattison, Leah Dunderdale-Smith, Ellie Butler, Robert Tait, Lucy Gilder, Alison Benjamin, Becky Dale, Jana Tauschinski, Christine Jeavans and the BBC Data Journalism team", "The BBC is resuming its investigation into Huw Edwards, after police found no evidence of criminal behaviour over claims he paid a young person for explicit images.\n\nHis wife said he was in hospital with \"serious mental health issues\" as she named him as the presenter at the centre of the allegations.\n\nThe corporation said it would be mindful of its duty of care.\n\nSome BBC staff also made claims about inappropriate messages by Edwards.\n\nThe corporation's internal fact-finding investigation was paused at the Metropolitan Police's request while it carried out its own enquiries.\n\nOn the resumption of the internal probe, a spokesperson for the BBC said: \"We will now move forward with that work, ensuring due process and a thorough assessment of the facts.\"\n\nDirector general Tim Davie also said that he had asked for a separate review into whether the BBC's complaints protocols and procedures were appropriate, after it was revealed the corporation contacted the family who made the allegations about Edwards just twice - despite deeming them \"very serious\".\n\nThe initial allegations, first reported by the Sun online on Friday evening, were that the news presenter paid a young person for sexually explicit photos, beginning when they were 17.\n\nIn later versions of the story, the Sun changed the wording of this allegation to \"it is understood contact between the two started when the youngster was 17\".\n\nThe paper had quoted the person's mother as saying her child, now 20, had used the money that had been paid for the photos to fund a crack cocaine habit, and she was worried they could \"wind up dead\".\n\nA lawyer for the young person has since said the accusations were \"rubbish\" but the family are standing by the account.\n\nA statement issued by the Met on Wednesday said police \"determined there is no information to indicate that a criminal offence has been committed\".\n\nMeanwhile the BBC reported on Wednesday that Edwards also faced claims about inappropriate behaviour towards some junior staff members.\n\nTwo current BBC workers and one former member of staff said they had been sent messages that made them feel uncomfortable.\n\nAn employee at the corporation told BBC News they received \"suggestive\" messages from Edwards. BBC News has seen the messages, which refer to the staff member's appearance and were sent this year.\n\nOne said they felt it was an abuse of power by someone very senior in the organisation.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newsnight programme, the workers and former employee spoke of a reluctance among junior staff to complain to managers about the conduct of high-profile colleagues in case it adversely affected their careers.\n\nThe BBC said: \"We always treat the concerns of staff with care, and would urge anyone to speak to us if they have any concerns. We have clear processes for making complaints.\"\n\nIn a separate BBC News investigation published on Tuesday, a young person who did not work at the BBC said they had felt \"threatened\" by messages sent by Huw Edwards.\n\n\"This remains a very complex set of circumstances,\" director general Tim Davie told BBC staff in an internal email sent on Wednesday evening, \"Our aim must be to navigate through this with care and consideration.\"\n\nFormer controller of Radio 4, Mark Damazer highlighted the importance of the BBC exercising a proper duty of care.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, he said \"it is extremely important that Tim [Davie] and the BBC doesn't feel that it has to be rushed by other people's agendas to come to measured, appropriate and evidenced conclusions.\"\n\nEdwards was identified by his wife on Wednesday as the BBC presenter at the centre of allegations, after media outlets - including BBC News - initially took the decision not to name the him due to privacy concerns.\n\nVicky Flind said she was issuing a statement on her husband's behalf after days of speculation, saying he was being treated in hospital for \"serious mental health issues\".\n\n\"I am doing this primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children,\" her statement read.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Recycled plastics are used to make prosthetic legs by a charity in Indonesia for people who can't afford them\n\nRecycling can sometimes be seen as a bit of a hassle, but separating different types of plastic could help provide a person with a prosthetic leg.\n\nA new scheme is making that happen by reusing unwanted plastic rather than it being sent to landfill.\n\nPrecious Plastic is launching a project in Conwy and Rhondda Cynon Taf to recycle plastics into a variety of objects to help reduce waste.\n\nThe Welsh government has set a target of zero waste by 2050.\n\nProsthetic legs can be made out of oil bottles, cabins and chess boards out of bottle caps, and tote bags can be created from plastic bags.\n\nEifion Williams, of conservation group Circular Communities Cymru, said that getting the most out plastics is the big challenge in creating a circular economy - where materials are reused and not thrown away.\n\nEifion Williams says that plastics recycling is the big challenge to reducing waste\n\n\"There are seven different types of plastic and if they get compounded and made into a mixed compound it's very difficult to untangle that,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very expensive too, so if we can keep those polymers separate in the same way as we keep our paper, tins and glass separate then we will be making steps towards the circular economy.\"\n\nMr Williams said it was not a case of \"just telling people to do recycling because it's the right thing to do, this is giving them tangible benefits in their hands\".\n\nChess boards are made out of the bottle caps of recycled bottles\n\nAndromeda Thomas is the coordinator of the environmental group Crop Cycle Treherbert, which shares a site with Precious Plastic on land previously used as a petrol station in the heart of the town.\n\n\"I think people here can see things actually being put into action now, which is really good,\" she said.\n\n\"I think there's always a long way to go and there's always room for improvement, but this could act as an example to other people and at the same time we can explore different ideas and move things forward.\"\n\nAndromeda believes the idea of sorting different types of plastics for recycling is gathering pace\n\nGwynfor Jones, 18, started as an apprentice at the Crop Cycle scheme and he is now the youngest member of staff.\n\n\"Before this project came I thought a milk bottle was one plastic but no, with the lid being a different colour, shows it's a different plastic than the actual bottle itself.\n\n\"So you can get plastics with three, four different types in one object.\"\n\nAt the Nantycaws recycling centre, near Carmarthen, a new re-use project called Canolfan Eto is also helping to deliver a circular economy throughout the county as well as becoming a leader in recycling and re-use in Wales.\n\nThe aim is find new uses for unwanted items that have been thrown away.\n\nCustomers can buy items including furniture, paint, bicycles, gardening items and much more.\n\nThis chicken coop was made by Precious Plastics using recycled bottle caps with wood for support\n\nIt is hoped that schemes such as Precious Plastic will help ensure that Wales reaches its ambitious target to achieve zero waste by 2050.\n\nBased on the latest comparable international information to hand, Wales is third in the world when it comes to its recycling performance, behind Germany and Taiwan.\n\nWales' recycling efforts save about 400,000 tonnes of CO2 per year from being released into the atmosphere.\n\nThe Welsh government acknowledged the need to do more and said it would soon introduce workplace recycling regulations, a ban on single use plastic and extended producer responsibility.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As claims and counter-claims surrounding a BBC presenter continue to dominate the headlines, there are still many questions about what happened and how the story has been handled.\n\nOn Friday, the Sun newspaper reported that the unnamed BBC personality had been accused of paying a young person tens of thousands of pounds for explicit images, starting when they were 17.\n\nThere are still few firm facts, however. One area under scrutiny is how the Sun has reported the story.\n\n1. What evidence has the Sun seen that the young person sent explicit photos to the presenter when they were 17?\n\nThe Sun originally reported the presenter gave the teen \"more than £35,000 since they were 17 in return for sordid images\".\n\nIn more recent stories, its language around this detail has subtly changed, with one recent report saying: \"It is understood contact between the two started when the youngster was 17 years old.\"\n\nBut did that initial contact involve explicit photos? The age is a significant element of the story because if such images were exchanged before the teenager was 18, that could be a criminal offence.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Guardian reported that sources at the Sun were \"distancing themselves\" from the original line about the age and were \"claiming the story was not really about potential criminal activity\".\n\n\"Instead, they suggest it was more about concerned parents trying to stop payments to a vulnerable child with a drug habit,\" the Guardian reported.\n\n2. Did the Sun attempt to contact the young person before publication?\n\nThe lawyer for the young person said in a statement: \"Nobody from the Sun newspaper appears to have made any attempt to contact our client prior to the publication of the allegations on Friday 6 July.\"\n\nThe primary sources in the Sun's early stories were the mother and stepfather, who it said had given sworn affidavits.\n\nThe young person tried to contact the Sun themselves on the evening the newspaper published its first story, to tell them that it was \"nonsense\", their lawyer later said.\n\nSome have suggested the newspaper did try to contact the young person prior to publication.\n\nFormer Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"They have been trying to contact the kid for ages, and in the end, suddenly the young person pops up out of the woodwork and says 'This is all untrue', and funnily enough replicates those statements 48 hours later [via] expensive lawyers.\"\n\n3. Once it had the young person's denial, why didn't the Sun add that to the story?\n\nThe young person's lawyer said the individual sent a denial to a Sun reporter by WhatsApp on Friday evening to tell them the statement their mother had made was \"totally wrong and there was no truth in it\".\n\nNonetheless, the lawyer said, the newspaper proceeded to publish \"their inappropriate article\".\n\nThis raises the question of why the Sun didn't include the denial in its story, given that the young person is central to the story and it would be normal journalistic practice to include key information from someone in such a position.\n\n\"If you've got an alleged victim, and that victim has made contact with you and said there's nothing in this story, and you run the story without including that, that's pretty extraordinary,\" former BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman told 5 Live on Tuesday.\n\nBut MacKenzie said the paper's reporters may not have been prepared to give weight to \"a WhatsApp out of nowhere saying 'this is all cobblers'\" at late notice before publication.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the Sun said: \"This has always been a story about concerned parents trying to stop payments to their vulnerable child which was funding a life-risking drug habit.\"\n\n4. Why did the Sun not name the presenter?\n\nThe newspaper has not explained its decision to keep the presenter anonymous in their stories.\n\nIt will have been likely to have weighed up its evidence of wrongdoing, and whether that was strong enough to name the man in the public interest.\n\nThe Sun said the story \"was always squarely in the public interest\", adding: \"That is beyond dispute now as explosive new claims are reported by the BBC itself.\"\n\nIt continued: \"Here was a powerful household name, handsomely salaried via the licence fee, allegedly paying £35,000 to a vulnerable young person with a history of drug use who was sending him sexual pictures. That alleged abuse of power is central to this scandal.\"\n\nBut there are powerful legal reasons why naming the presenter could cause big problems. Legally, everyone has a \"reasonable expectation\" of privacy, and defamation law protects people's reputations from unsubstantiated allegations.\n\n\"We've had five days of headlines from the Sun and each day they have chosen not to name,\" BBC home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani said on Wednesday.\n\n\"I think the reason is... because of this enormous potential risk that if something in this is wrong, there could be a potential defamation case there. But also there could be a separate case alongside it for an invasion of privacy, because there's a real risk that that's where the courts will go.\"\n\nThe Sun has addressed its position in print and in statements, but editor Victoria Newton and the reporters who worked on this story have not done any interviews.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Sun several times with a variety of interview requests and invitations to appear on several programmes. The Sun has so far declined those requests.", "The inquiry heard Derek Roan was a respected member of the farming community\n\nAn attack by a cow that had recently given birth resulted in the death of a farmer in the south of Scotland, an inquiry has concluded.\n\nDerek Roan, 71, had tried to move the 550kg (1,200lbs) Galloway beef cow with her calf back to the main herd.\n\nHe died of severe chest trauma after the accident at Barnbarroch Farm near Dalbeattie in June last year.\n\nSheriff Joanna McDonald concluded there were no reasonable precautions that could have avoided Mr Roan's death.\n\nThere were also no defects found in working systems.\n\nAn inquiry was held at Dumfries Sheriff Court into the accident on the family-owned farm on 19 June 2022.\n\nThe family had featured on BBC Two's This Farming Life. They run two dairy farms and a milk delivery business.\n\nMr Roan was described as an \"experienced stockman\" and the risks associated with cattle-handing \"would have been well known to him\".\n\nHe had lived and worked at Barnbarroch his entire life and ran it in partnership with his wife and two sons.\n\nDerek Roan died in hospital following the accident at Barnbarroch Farm\n\nOn the day of the accident he had planned to move the cow and its calf.\n\nAt about 16:00 his son saw his father's quad bike in a field and assumed he was working nearby.\n\nAbout half an hour later he found Mr Roan lying on his side with injuries to his face and an ambulance was called.\n\nMr Roan was taken to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary but later died.\n\nThe hearing was told that his injuries were so severe, it would not have significantly improved his chance of survival had he been found any sooner.\n\nHis son told the inquiry that he believed the cow had felt threatened and attacked his father.\n\nSheriff McDonald said Mr Roan had been a \"respected member of the farming community both locally and nationally\".\n\nIn delivering her determination, she extended her condolences to his family.", "There's been a bit of Bad Blood from Swifties towards ticket resale sites like Viagogo this week\n\nYou might have seen lots of people this week trying - and failing - to get tickets for Taylor Swift's UK show.\n\nThe rush to bag a seat on the Eras tour has even hit the House of Commons, with one MP complaining his daughter couldn't get one for the Cardiff show.\n\nCardiff Labour MP Kevin Brennan said he was appalled when he found tickets on \"rip-off merchant\" resale sites for £3,352 within an hour of the main sale.\n\nBut the boss of Viagogo has told the BBC the site is a force for good.\n\nTaylor's one of several stars who've criticised resellers, sometimes referred to as secondary ticketing sites, where you'll often find tickets advertised at many times their face value.\n\nFans could only buy four tickets from official seller Ticketmaster - a measure that's designed to deter touts.\n\nThere have been warnings that tickets bought from sites like Viagogo could be at risk of cancellation or refusal at the venue.\n\nThe site's boss Cris Miller told the BBC companies like his exist because demand is bigger than supply for huge artists like Taylor.\n\n\"There's not going to be enough seats,\" he says.\n\n\"So from our perspective, ensuring that there's a secure, safe transaction that takes place is the single most important thing.\n\nMr Miller claims lots of fans actually prefer buying on Viagogo instead of buying tickets direct.\n\n\"They don't want to be forced to get up on Friday morning and wait in a queue that may or may not happen,\" he says.\n\n\"Maybe they don't know where they're going to be, nine months in advance, which is quite possible.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme - recorded just after the ballot for Taylor tickets opened last month - Mr Miller:\n\nMr Miller says the company \"may not be for everybody\" but he was \"not going to apologise for the service we provide\".\n\n\"I wake up every single day, as does every body else that works at the company, thinking about one thing, and that's getting fans into these events all over the world,\" he says.\n\n\"We're very very confident in it and been doing it for 20 years now.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Thales will manufacture optronic masts for the new Dreadnought submarine class\n\nA £169m contract for the UK nuclear deterrent programme will support more than 150 jobs in Scotland.\n\nThe order will see Thales Glasgow continue a 100-year tradition of making periscopes for Royal Navy submarines.\n\nThe site in Govan will build the integrated optronic combat system mast, the above water \"eyes\", for the future nuclear deterrent class Dreadnought.\n\nEvery Royal Navy submarine since 1917 has carried a Thales periscope or optronics mast made on the Clyde.\n\nThe Dreadnought version continues the tradition and the wider programme, from design through to build, will sustain around 30,000 jobs across the UK.\n\nThe work will guarantee 150 jobs at Thales Glasgow\n\nThe deal was announced as Scottish Secretary Alister Jack prepared to chair a working group of Scottish defence companies, armed forces and and trade body ADS, in a bid to \"turbocharge\" Scotland's defence sector.\n\nMr Jack said Scottish \"skills, expertise and innovation\" made a massive contribution to the UK's defence industry.\n\nHe added: \"With more than a century's experience of building periscopes and optronic masts for our submarines, it's great news that Thales' Glasgow workforce will once again be at the forefront of producing the state-of-the-art combat system mast for our round the clock nuclear deterrent.\n\n\"Defence plays a crucial part in the security of the United Kingdom and also contributes significantly to delivering high-skilled jobs and investment in Scotland.\"\n\nThales will fulfil the contract for BAE Systems Submarines.\n\nIt is already on contract to build the ultra-powerful Sonar 2076 system for the Dreadnought class which now means it will be providing the boat's \"eyes and ears\" behind the platform's operational capability.\n\nAlex Cresswell, CEO of Thales in the UK, said: \"We are extremely proud to say that our combat system mast and sonar will be providing the eyes and ears capabilities of the new Dreadnought Class.\n\n\"The boat build, led by BAE Systems and partners, will be another milestone showcase of UK engineering skills and innovation.\"", "Reducing waiting times in the NHS is one of the five pledges announced at the start of the year by the prime minister\n\nThe NHS is set to undergo the \"largest expansion in training and workforce\" in its history, Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the prime minister said the plans would reduce \"reliance on foreign-trained healthcare professionals\".\n\nIt comes at a time of record-high waiting lists in the NHS and junior doctors set to stage a five-day strike next month.\n\nThe full plans are expected to be published next week.\n\nPressed about the length of time it would take to see the results of the changes, Mr Sunak accepted it could take \"five, ten, fifteen years for these things to come through\", but that did not mean it was not the right thing to do.\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting accused the government of stealing Labour's plans on increasing the NHS workforce. \"Had the Conservatives trained the staff the NHS needs over the past 13 years, it would not be going through the biggest crisis in its history today,\" Mr Streeting said.\n\n\"And still they have no plan to stop staff leaving today, end the strikes, or to reform the NHS.\"\n\nAlmost everyone is agreed there needs to be a significant increase in the numbers of doctors and nurses going into training.\n\nThe current system for training UK doctors and nurses simply cannot keep up with the needs of the NHS. At the moment, around half of all new doctors and nurses joining the workforce in the UK have been trained abroad.\n\nWhile the workforce has grown over the past decade, the squeeze in funding that the NHS has received has left the service with fewer doctors and nurses per head than many of our European counterparts.\n\nThe pressures on the NHS mean services are increasingly finding it difficult to give students the time and support they need - so the challenge facing the government in terms of increasing training places is ensuring there are enough clinical placements for students to do during their training.\n\nThe new package of measures could see apprentice-doctor roles brought in to fill NHS staffing gaps in England.\n\nThe proposal would see people who finish the five-year apprenticeships becoming junior doctors - offering an alternative to the traditional medical degree route.\n\nThe plan also aims to expand the nurse apprenticeship scheme that already exists.\n\nOn the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show, Mr Sunak said the plans would \"mean people can have confidence that the doctors and nurses and GPs that we all need will be there\".\n\nHe said the \"long-term workforce plan\" would mean the NHS can recruit doctors, nurses and GPs \"not just today but for years into the future to provide the care that we all need\".\n\nReducing waiting times in the NHS is one of the five pledges announced at the start of the year by the prime minister.\n\nIn the first half of this year, the number of patients waiting for consultant-led elective care in England grew to 7.4 million, up from 7.2 million in January.\n\nIn March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, there were about 4.4 million people in England on an NHS waiting list.\n\nMr Sunak was pushed by the BBC on failing to secure a pay deal which would avert the strike action by junior doctors.\n\nThe action by the BMA union is the longest yet, and is being held between 13 and 18 July in protest over pay. It has rejected at 5% pay rise, which it describes as not \"credible\".\n\nHe said had he had reached agreements with \"over half a dozen NHS unions\" and was required \"to make difficult decisions as prime minister\".\n\n\"When it comes to public sector pay, I'm going to do what I think is affordable, what I think is responsible,\" he said.", "The green vase is believed to be from the Ming Dynasty\n\nAn £8.50 vase that \"sat in the corner of a downstairs loo\" has sold for £3,400 after auctioneers linked it to the Chinese Ming Dynasty.\n\nThe vase belonged to Amanda Lawler, whose daughter Mary bought it for her in a charity shop in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex in 2020.\n\nMrs Lawler said she used the ornament as \"an occasional doorstop\" and almost threw it away when she moved house.\n\nThe piece sold at Lockdales Auctioneers near Ipswich on Thursday for £3,400.\n\nMrs Lawler had kept the vase, saying she later saw an \"identical\" one on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, valued up to £10,000.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the auction, Mrs Lawler said she had tasked her daughter with finding an ornament for the WC, and was pleased when she was sent a photo of the vase in a shop with the asking price of £8.50.\n\nHowever, she had suggested her daughter try \"offering a fiver for it... which she would not do as it was a charity shop\".\n\n\"It just sat in the corner of the downstairs loo for quite a while,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\nMary Lawler found the vase for her mum in a charity shop and paid £8.50 for it\n\nOne day she spotted a post on social media about a Ming vase featured on an episode of Antiques Roadshow.\n\nThe programme's specialist Lars Tharp had valued a vase on the show at between £5,000 and £10,000.\n\n\"I looked at the pictures and thought, that looks very much like our vase,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\nShe showed it to auctioneers Lockdales - and their specialist Liza Machan agreed.\n\n\"It was one of those 'I'm just going to sit down for a little bit' moments,\" said Mrs Lawler.\n\nMs Machan said: \"The vase had the provenance of having an identical one on the Antiques Roadshow - and to an extent we were relying on the provenance of the BBC programme.\"\n\nShe said it seemed likely the Essex vase was one of a pair that had been donated to charity but split up, as they were both purchased from shops for a similar price - less than £10 each.\n\n\"There was a lot of interest in it pre-auction,\" Ms Machan said.\n\nIt was put into the auction with a guide price of between £3,000 and £4,000 - going under the hammer for £3,400.\n\nThe vase is understood to have been purchased by a private collector, probably from the UK.\n\nMrs Lawler said as her daughter Mary had found it and paid for it, she was likely to get the \"lion's share\" of the sale price.\n\nHer daughter's old VW Golf car needed some work, and she said the money would be used to do it up.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of Elvis\n\nLisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis, died of a bowel obstruction, the Los Angeles County medical examiner's office has said.\n\nThe obstruction was a result of adhesions caused by weight-loss surgery she underwent several years ago.\n\nPresley, also a singer, died after being rushed to a California hospital on 12 January. She was 54.\n\nHer last public appearance was two days before her death, at the Golden Globes.\n\nAt the time of Presley's death, local officials said first responders had been dispatched to her home in Calabasas, where they found her in cardiac arrest.\n\nElvis and Priscilla Presley with Lisa Marie at just four days old in 1968\n\nOn Thursday, the medical examiner's office ruled that she died of natural causes and said that the cardiac arrest was caused by a \"small bowel obstruction\".\n\nThis occurs when the small intestine is blocked, sometimes as a result of colon cancer, medication or adhesions (scar tissue) that form after surgeries. Some conditions that inflame intestines can also lead to small bowel obstructions.\n\nIn Presley's case, the report found that the adhesions were caused by weight-loss surgery, known as bariatric surgery, that she underwent several years ago.\n\n\"This is a known long-term complication of this type of surgery,\" the medical examiner's report noted.\n\nDr Angelique Campen, an emergency room physician at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, told the BBC's US partner, CBS, that deaths from small bowel obstructions are rare.\n\nIn many cases, patients in such cases experience significant pain and would probably be admitted to hospital.\n\nPresley, a singer and songwriter, was ultimately buried next to her son Benjamin Keough, who killed himself in 2020.\n\nAfter her death, her mother, Priscilla Presley, filed a legal challenge to the will's validity, arguing that she was unaware of a 2016 amendment that had ousted her as a trustee overseeing Lisa Marie's estate.\n\nLisa Marie was married to Michael Jackson in the 1990s\n\nInstead, the amendment named Benjamin Keough and a daughter, Riley, as co-trustees. Both were the children of Lisa Marie's first-husband, Danny Keough.\n\nThe legal dispute was settled in May. The details were never made public.\n\nBorn in 1968, Lisa Marie Presley followed in her father's footsteps as a musician and released three albums over the course of her career.\n\nShe was also well-known for four high-profile marriages, to Keough, pop star Michael Jackson, actor Nicolas Cage and musician Michael Lockwood.", "Huw Edwards has been named as the BBC presenter at the centre of days of allegations and speculation.\n\nThe Sun newspaper first reported that the presenter, who was not named, was alleged to have paid a young person for sexually explicit photos. Other people have since alleged inappropriate contact.\n\nHere is a timeline of events:\n\nThe parents of the young person contacted South Wales Police. The force said the information related to \"the welfare of an adult\", and that \"no criminality was identified\".\n\nA family member went to a BBC building to make a complaint about the behaviour of a BBC presenter, according to the corporation.\n\nThe family member made a 29-minute call to the BBC's audience services team, which then referred it to the BBC's corporate investigations team.\n\nThey decided the complaint didn't include an allegation of criminality, but did merit further investigation. It \"was very serious\", according to director general Tim Davie.\n\nThe investigations unit said they emailed the complainant to ask for more information so they could verify the claims, and carried out checks to verify the identity of the complainant.\n\nThe corporate investigations team had received no reply to the email so tried to call the mobile number provided by the complainant. They said the call didn't connect.\n\nHowever, the Sun later reported that \"the family say no-one from the corporation rang them for a proper interview after the initial complaint\".\n\nThe BBC said no additional attempts to contact the complainant were made after this date, but the case \"remained open\".\n\nThe Sun newspaper told the BBC via the corporate press office about allegations concerning Edwards. According to the BBC, the claims made by the Sun contained new allegations, which were different from those received by the investigations team.\n\nThe BBC said this was the first time Mr Davie or any executive directors were made aware of the case. They set up an incident management group to lead the response.\n\nA senior manager spoke to the presenter about the allegations, and Edwards first learned of the allegations on this day, his wife said. The BBC said it was agreed that he shouldn't appear on air while the allegations were being investigated.\n\nWhen later asked why the presenter was not spoken to sooner, Mr Davie said: \"You don't take that complaint directly to the presenter unless it has been verified.\"\n\nThe Sun's first story was published, about the mother's claims that an unnamed BBC presenter paid their child tens of thousands of pounds for explicit photos over three years, beginning when they were 17. That raised questions about whether the behaviour was illegal.\n\nThe paper quoted the mother as saying the young person used the money to fund a crack cocaine habit, and that she was worried her child could \"wind up dead\".\n\nThe young person sent a WhatsApp message to the paper on this evening denying the claims, saying their mother's statement was \"totally wrong and there was no truth to it\", according to a later letter from their lawyer.\n\nIn its first public statement, the BBC said any information would \"be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes\".\n\nThe BBC also made contact with the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe Sun published further allegations, quoting the mother as saying the presenter was pictured in his underwear \"ready for my child to perform for him\".\n\nThe BBC said it received some materials from the family member regarding the complaint on this and the following day.\n\nMeanwhile, following speculation about the star's identity on social media, BBC presenters including Gary Lineker, Jeremy Vine, Rylan Clark and Nicky Campbell denied involvement to publicly clear their names.\n\nThe BBC said it had suspended a male staff member and was \"working as quickly as possible to establish the facts in order to properly inform appropriate next steps\".\n\nThe Sun reported that the presenter allegedly made two calls to the young person and asked them \"what have you done\", and appealed to them to call their mother to \"stop the investigation\".\n\nRepresentatives from the BBC met detectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command, but there was \"no investigation at this time\".\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, the lawyer representing the young person at the centre of the original allegations disputed their mother's account of events, saying \"the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are rubbish\".\n\nThe letter claimed the young person sent the newspaper a denial on Friday, but that it proceeded to publish \"their inappropriate article\".\n\nIn response, the Sun said it had \"reported a story about two very concerned parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and the welfare of their child\".\n\nTheir complaint \"was not acted upon by the BBC\" and it had \"seen evidence that supports their concerns\", the Sun added. \"It's now for the BBC to properly investigate.\"\n\nThe parents told the Sun they stood by their account. The step-father was quoted as saying the allegations were originally put to the BBC \"for an hour\".\n\nDuring a press conference to launch the BBC's annual report and an interview with Radio 4, Mr Davie gave more details of the corporation's response.\n\nThe director general said he wanted to examine whether the BBC raises \"red flags quick enough\" when such complaints are made.\n\nThe BBC accepted there were \"lessons to be learned following this exercise\", and the organisation's group chief operating officer will assess whether protocols and procedures are appropriate.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, another young person told BBC News they had felt threatened by the presenter.\n\nThe individual in their early 20s said they were contacted on a dating app and pressured to meet up, but never did. When the young person hinted online that they might name the presenter, they were sent abusive messages.\n\nJeremy Vine said the presenter \"should now come forward publicly\" because the new allegations \"will result in yet more vitriol being thrown at perfectly innocent colleagues\" and the BBC \"is on its knees with this\".\n\nThe Sun alleged that the presenter broke Covid lockdown rules to meet a 23-year-old, who he had met on a dating site.\n\nThe paper also published what it said was an Instagram chat between the presenter and a 17-year-old, in which the presenter sent messages including love heart emojis.\n\nDetectives ended their assessment of the details and decided there was no information to indicate that a criminal offence had been committed.\n\nEdwards' wife Vicky Flind named him as the BBC presenter at the centre of the allegations.\n\nShe said she was doing so \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children\".\n\nEdwards was \"suffering from serious mental health issues\", she said. \"As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years. The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published.\n\n\"To be clear, Huw was first told that there were allegations being made against him last Thursday.\"\n\nMr Davie sent an email to staff saying an internal investigation would continue now police were no longer involved.\n\nThe Sun said it had no plans to publish further allegations, and would \"provide the BBC team with a confidential and redacted dossier containing serious and wide-ranging allegations which we have received, including some from BBC personnel\".\n\nThe BBC reported fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Edwards towards junior staff. Two current workers and one former member of staff claimed they were sent messages that made them uncomfortable.", "US regulator the Federal Trade Commission has moved to appeal against a decision to allow Microsoft to proceed with its $69bn (£53bn) purchase of games publisher Activision Blizzard.\n\nEarlier this week, the FTC's request to block the takeover was rejected by a district judge in San Francisco.\n\nThe technology giant's deal to buy the Call of Duty maker would be the biggest of its kind in gaming industry history.\n\nMicrosoft said it planned to fight the regulator's appeal.\n\n\"We're disappointed that the FTC is continuing to pursue what has become a demonstrably weak case, and we will oppose further efforts to delay the ability to move forward,\" Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a statement.\n\nThe FTC has alleged that the deal would hurt gamers and reduce competition by giving Microsoft, the maker of the Xbox, power to deny rivals access to Activision's games.\n\nThe FTC had sought an emergency ruling to block the deal while it challenged the planned takeover.\n\nOn Tuesday, US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said she did not think the FTC would win in its case.\n\nShe said the regulator had not shown that \"the combined firm will probably pull Call of Duty from Sony PlayStation, or that its ownership of Activision content will substantially lessen competition in the video game library subscription and cloud gaming markets\".\n\nThe ruling in the US is the strongest indicator so far that Microsoft's purchase would eventually go forward.\n\nAlso this week, the UK's competition regulator appeared to ease its opposition to the deal.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was the world's first regulator to block Microsoft's proposed takeover of Activision.\n\nIt had been concerned that the deal would reduce innovation and leave gamers with fewer choices.\n\nOn Wednesday, the CMA said it was \"ready to consider any proposals from Microsoft to restructure the transaction\".\n\n\"Microsoft and Activision have indicated that they are considering how the transaction might be modified, and the CMA is prepared to engage with them on this basis,\" it added.\n\nThe Microsoft-Activision deal, which is due to close later this month, has split global watchdogs.\n\nEU regulators have approved the deal, saying that Microsoft had addressed their concerns on competition issues.", "White Lotus actor Paolo Camilli was among those expressing their anger that \"a brief grope, if it's under 10 seconds, isn't considered a crime\"\n\nDoes it count as sexual harassment if an assault lasts less than 10 seconds?\n\nMany young people in Italy are expressing outrage on social media, after a judge cleared a school caretaker of groping a teenager, because it did not last long enough.\n\nShe described walking up a staircase to class with a friend, when she felt her trousers fall down, a hand touching her buttocks and grabbing her underwear.\n\n\"Love, you know I was joking,\" the man told her when she turned around.\n\nAfter the incident, which happened in April 2022, the student reported the caretaker, 66-year-old Antonio Avola, to police.\n\nHe admitted to groping the student without consent, but said it was a joke.\n\nA Rome public prosecutor asked for a three-and-a-half year prison sentence but this week the caretaker was acquitted of sexual assault charges. According to the judges, what happened \"does not constitute a crime\" because it lasted less than 10 seconds.\n\nSince the ruling, palpata breve - a brief groping - has become a trend on Instagram and TikTok in Italy, along with the #10secondi hashtag.\n\nItalians have posted videos looking at the camera in silence and touching their intimate parts for 10 seconds straight.\n\nCamilla posted this video referring to the caretaker's acquittal and the quote: \"Groping lasted just 10 seconds\"\n\nThe videos are often uncomfortable to watch but they have the aim of showing just how long 10 seconds can feel.\n\nThe first was posted by White Lotus actor Paolo Camilli, and since then thousands of people have followed suit.\n\nAnother video was reposted by Chiara Ferragni, Italy's most famous influencer who has 29.4 million followers on Instagram.\n\nAnother influencer, Francesco Cicconetti wrote on TikTok: \"Who decides that 10 seconds is not a long time? Who times the seconds, while you're being harassed?\"\n\n\"Men don't have the right to touch women's bodies, not even for a second - let alone 5 or 10.\"\n\nHe goes on to say that the judges' decision to acquit the caretaker shows just how normalised sexual harassment is in Italian society.\n\nA post on the Freeda Instagram account says: \"This sentence is absurd. The duration of the harassment should not diminish its severity.\"\n\nBut according to the judges, the caretaker did not linger. He groped the teenager only briefly, performing an \"awkward manoeuvre without lust\".\n\n\"The judges ruled that he was joking? Well, it was no joke to me,\" the student told Corriere della Sera newspaper.\n\n\"The caretaker came up from behind without saying anything. He put his hands down my trousers and inside my underwear.\n\n\"He groped my bottom. Then, he pulled me up - hurting my private parts. For me, this is not a joke. This is not how an old man should 'joke' with a teenager.\"\n\n\"That handful of seconds was more than enough for the caretaker to make me feel his hands on me.\"\n\nShe says she feels doubly betrayed - by her school and by the justice system.\n\n\"I'm starting to think I was wrong to trust the institutions. This is not justice.\"\n\nThe student fears the judges' ruling will deter girls and women from coming forward if they are subjected to such attacks.\n\nRecent figures from the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) suggested that 70% of Italian woman who had suffered harassment between 2016 and 2021 did not report the incident.\n\n\"They will feel that reporting abuse is just not worth it. But it is important, because silence protects the aggressors.\"", "Lt-Gen Tsokov has reportedly died following a missile strike in Berdyansk\n\nA senior Russian general has been killed in a missile strike in Ukraine, Russian sources have said.\n\nLt Gen Oleg Tsokov is said to have died in a strike on a hotel housing Russian military commanders in Berdyansk, on Ukraine's occupied southern coast.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has not officially confirmed his death. But it was widely announced by Russian war channels on the Telegram messaging app.\n\nTV host Olga Skabeyeva said \"absolutely all media\" were reporting it.\n\nLt Gen Tsokov was deputy commander of Russia's southern military district. Ms Skabeyeva who presents a talk show on the state-run Rossiya-1 channel said he was killed by a UK-supplied Storm Shadow missile.\n\nAndrei Gurulyov, an MP and retired general who appeared on her popular 60 Minutes show on Tuesday, said the general had returned to Ukraine despite being badly wounded earlier in the conflict.\n\nHe was hit last September while commanding Russia's 144th Motorized Infantry Division in the Svatove area of occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"Unfortunately, he died heroically. This man deserves huge respect,\" the retired general said.\n\nSeveral Russian war accounts on Telegram also reported his death, including blogger WarGonzo and Military Informant, a channel with more than half a million followers.\n\nIn the absence of official comment from Moscow, military bloggers have previously proven an insightful source of information on the Russian side.\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the death, which was also highlighted by Ukrainian officials.\n\nReports said he was caught up in a Ukrainian attack that destroyed a hotel accommodating Russian military commanders in Berdyansk, a city in the south-eastern region of Zaporizhzhia on the coast of the Azov Sea.\n\nImages and video from various parts of Berdyansk have circulated on social media, but none show the exact site of the blast.\n\nBBC Verify has confirmed that one photograph shows a column of smoke rising from the area where the Dune Hotel is located.\n\nSome users said the hotel had been completely levelled, affirming earlier comments from the Berdyansk city military administration, currently operating from Ukraine-controlled territory.\n\nAlthough there is no confirmation that a Storm Shadow cruise missile was used, the UK government said in May that it had donated an undisclosed number of the missiles to Ukraine.\n\nThe Storm Shadow has a range of over 150 miles (240km) - triple that of the missiles Kyiv had previously been using, making it much easier to launch precision strikes.\n\nUkraine has claimed attacks on Russia's military commanders in Berdyansk before, however, there was initially some doubt that Lt Gen Tsokov was there.\n\nRussia's defence ministry had given no official announcement that he had been promoted from his role as commander of the 144th Motorised Infantry Division in eastern Ukraine, to deputy commander of Russia's Southern Military District.\n\nThe military district has a far larger remit, including areas of southern Russia as well as occupied areas of Ukraine. The defence ministry has either been slow to detail changes in command or it has simply avoided announcing them altogether.\n• None Who are Russia's war bloggers and why are they popular?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTexas officials have begun installing a floating barrier along the banks of the Rio Grande river, which they argue will deter migrants from crossing into the US from Mexico.\n\nImmigrant advocates say it may be ineffective and potentially dangerous to migrants.\n\nThe barrier, made of large orange buoys, is already the subject of a lawsuit from a local kayak company.\n\nOfficials say the barrier will help secure the US-Mexico border.\n\nFirst announced in June, the floating barrier is eventually expected to cover about 305 metres (1,000ft) of the river.\n\nThe buoys will be connected with webbing and anchored to the bottom of the river in the Eagle Pass area, which has seen about 270,000 migrant detentions this fiscal year.\n\n\"We always look to employ whatever strategies will be effective in securing the border,\" Texas Governor Greg Abbott said of the barrier at an 8 June news conference.\n\nOn Twitter, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Chris Olivarez said that installation began on 10 July. Setting up the barriers may take up to two weeks.\n\nResearchers and advocates who study the border have questioned whether it will have any meaningful impact on the number of migrants who attempt to cross or dissuade them from trying.\n\n\"This is pure theatre,\" said Adam Isacson, a migration and border expert from the Washington Office on Latin America. \"It's less than a speed bump, ultimately, but it looks great for cameras.\"\n\nThe BBC has reached out to Texas officials for comment.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in June, Texas DPS director Steven McCraw said that the barriers would be a \"deterrent\" to migrants getting in the river, where migrants drown or are rescued regularly.\n\nDr Adriana Martinez, a professor at Southern Illinois University who has researched the impact of projects on the Rio Grande - and is a native of Eagle Pass - said the barriers may change the flow of the river, potentially making it more dangerous for migrants crossing.\n\n\"It certainly is going to make the water act unexpectedly,\" she said. \"And who knows what it's going to do once the water gets higher.\"\n\nAbout 270,000 migrants have been detained in the Eagle Pass sector this fiscal year\n\nDr Martinez added that tree branches and other debris might get stuck in the netting or under the buoys, potentially creating a hazard for migrants.\n\nJustine Ochoa, a Texas-based Nicaraguan activist, said that the barrier may also drive migrants to more \"inhospitable\" parts of the river. The organisation she works for, Texas Nicaraguans, regularly helps repatriate the remains of Nicaraguan citizens who drown in the Rio Grande.\n\n\"They will look for more dangerous areas,\" said Ms Ochoa.\n\nLast Friday, the owner of a local kayak tour operator filed a lawsuit against Texas government over the buoys, arguing that it will damage his business and destroy local ecosystems.\n\n\"I hope my lawsuit extends the message that we need to be together in how we promote for our state, for our communities, for our rural area. How to prosper,\" Jesse Fuentes, the owner of Epi's Canoe and Kayak Team, told the BBC's US partner, CBS. \"There should be no hindrance.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Abbott responded by saying that \"we will see you in court\" and that \"Texas has a constitutional right to protect our border\".", "Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were walking together when they were attacked\n\nThe families of two students killed in Nottingham last month are to create foundations in their name to ensure they \"leave a legacy\".\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, were stabbed to death early on 13 June.\n\nBoth sets of relatives have now set up online appeals to support causes the students particularly cared about.\n\nAn earlier fundraiser in memory of the third victim, Ian Coates, 65, raised more than £28,000.\n\nThe families of Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber attended vigils in Nottingham\n\nOn Wednesday, a GoFundMe appeal was launched by Ms O'Malley-Kumar's younger brother, James, six days after Mr Webber's mother, Emma, set up a similar fundraiser online.\n\nMr Kumar said: \"She leaves behind devastated and heartbroken extended family and friends but we all feel compelled that something good must come from the loss of Grace's life.\n\n\"In time an official 'Grace O'Malley-Kumar Foundation' will be created and donations will be used to further all that Grace supported and felt she would like to help with.\n\n\"To ensure that Grace's name leaves a legacy and to keep her memory alive we have created this fund.\n\nMr Kumar said all the money would go to the foundation \"once the finer details have been arranged\".\n\nSince being created the fundraiser has already raised more than £7,500 of its £10,000 target.\n\nThe attacks led to large parts of Nottingham being cordoned off\n\nMeanwhile, the appeal for Mr Webber has already surpassed its £5,300 goal, with almost £10,000 being donated.\n\nHis mother said: \"He leaves behind a family broken by grief and loss but determined not to let him be taken in vain.\n\n\"He lived his life with a simple 'if he liked you he liked you' mantra. With no time or judgement for creed, colour, sexuality, religion or background.\n\n\"His inclusivity, quiet patience with others, and sheer generosity of his time prove what an extraordinary 'ordinary' person he was.\n\n\"In time an official 'Barnaby Webber Foundation' will be created and funds will be used to further all of the qualities listed above and to keep his memory alive whilst reaching out to others.\"\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar was from Woodford in London and Mr Webber was from Taunton in Somerset.\n\nAn inquest into their deaths, opened on Friday, heard all three victims had died as a result of stab wounds.\n\nValdo Calocane, 31, is charged with their murder as well as the attempted murder of three pedestrians by driving a van into them in the city centre.\n\nCalocane, who has identified himself as Adam Mendes in previous court appearances, will face trial in January next year, pending a plea hearing on 25 September.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The overnight Russian drone strike left a gaping hole in this apartment in the Ukrainian capital\n\nAt least two people have been injured in an overnight Russian drone attack on the Kyiv, authorities said.\n\nRoughly 20 Iran-made drones were shot down over the city's airspace, according to the Ukrainian air force.\n\nIt was the third night of attacks in a row on the capital, coming just hours after the end of the Nato summit in Lithuania.\n\nDebris was reported in five districts and at least two people were sent to hospital with shrapnel wounds.\n\nThe air force reported that two Russian kalibr cruise missiles fired from a ship in the Black Sea were shot down by air defences, while information about the impact of an Iskander-M ballistic missile fired from Crimea was still being collected.\n\nThe previous two days' Nato summit in Vilnius saw Western support for Ukraine at the top of the agenda.\n\nMr Zelensky used his attendance to push for Ukrainian membership of the alliance, but was told this would only be possible \"when allies agree and conditions are met\".\n\nThis lack of a solid timeframe appeared to anger the Ukrainian president, who called it \"absurd\". He had earlier said there seemed to be \"no readiness\" to invite Ukraine to Nato or make it a member.\n\nHe also expressed concern that Ukraine's membership could be used as part of a bargaining chip during post-war negotiations with Russia.\n\nBut by the end of the summit, Mr Zelensky had a more optimistic take on developments.\n\nIn his nightly address on Wednesday, he said he was returning home \"with a good result for our country\", namely a reinforcement of weapons as well as a path towards Nato membership.\n\n\"We have put to rest any doubts and ambiguities about whether Ukraine will be in Nato - it will,\" he said, adding that for the first time \"a significant majority\" of members are \"vigorously pushing\" for it.\n\nHe also praised the signing of a wide-ranging security pact with G7 members, saying his country now had \"concrete security guarantees\" from the world's leading democracies.\n\nSpeaking at the summit, US President Joe Biden also praised Nato unity, something he said Russian President Vladimir Putin had underestimated when he launched his invasion against Ukraine.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Nato shows Ukraine it can't get everything it wants", "We're finishing our live coverage of today's strikes, which have brought Hollywood to a grinding halt.\n\nFamous actors have been picketing outside major studios in both Los Angeles and New York City alongside members of the Writers Guild of America.\n\nWe've heard from Screen Actors Guild president Fran Drescher, Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon and several other industry members.\n\nIt's not immediately clear how long these strikes will last, but the unions have made it known they are prepared to picket for as long as it takes to reach an agreement with the major studios.\n\nThis page was edited by Marianna Brady and Brandon Livesay and our writers have been Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Emily Atkinson, Catherine McGowan, Brandon Drenon, Nadine Yousif and Antoinette Radford.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Hywel Williams said he acted in self-defence when he pushed Peter Ormerod\n\nA TV director who pushed another man over, who later died, has said he was \"scared\" and acting in self-defence.\n\nHywel Williams, 40, from Cardiff, denies the manslaughter of retired teacher Peter Ormerod, 75, who died in hospital four days after being pushed.\n\nMr Williams, a director on Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm, told Swansea Crown Court he felt threatened by Mr Ormerod.\n\nThe pair got into a row about Welsh independence at a pub in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, on 24 September 2022.\n\nThe court heard Mr Williams was in the town visiting his mother and that he and Mr Ormerod had never met before that evening.\n\nMr Williams said he left the pub as he did not want to continue the conversation about Welsh independence, but said Mr Ormerod then approached him outside.\n\nAccording to Mr Williams, he told Mr Ormerod: \"I don't have time for this mate… I don't want any of this.\"\n\nMr Ormerod is said to have replied: \"Don't you ever speak to me like that again. How dare you speak to me like that.\"\n\nThe pair then exchanged expletives before Mr Williams said he acted in self-defence and pushed Mr Ormerod, claiming he had stepped towards him.\n\n\"I felt scared and pushed him… I thought he was going to get back up,\" he told the jury.\n\nMr Williams called the emergency services less than a minute after the incident, admitting to pushing Mr Ormerod. \"I did everything I could to help him,\" he told the court.\n\nCCTV footage showed Mr Williams telling his mother that Mr Ormerod \"can't come at me like that\".\n\nIt also showed him telling Mr Ormerod to \"go away\" - in more explicit language - and then insulting his weight.\n\nMr Williams claimed he did not recall saying these words but did admit it was him who said them, telling the jury he felt panic and adrenaline at the time.\n\n\"I haven't behaved like that before,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams denies the accusation of manslaughter, the trial continues.", "A heatwave is sweeping across parts of southern Europe, with potential record-breaking temperatures in the coming days.\n\nTemperatures are expected to surpass 40C (104F) in parts of Spain, France, Greece, Croatia and Turkey.\n\nIn Italy, temperatures could reach as high as 48.8C (119.8F). A red alert warning has been issued for 10 cities, including Rome, Bologna and Florence.\n\nOn Tuesday, a man in his forties died after collapsing in northern Italy.\n\nItalian media reported that the 44-year-old worker was painting zebra crossing lines in the town of Lodi, near Milan, before he collapsed from the heat. He was taken to hospital where he later died.\n\nSeveral visitors to the country have collapsed from heatstroke, including a British man outside the Colosseum in Rome.\n\nPeople have been advised to drink at least two litres of water a day and to avoid coffee and alcohol, which are dehydrating.\n\nTwo Australian tourists on the streets of Rome told the BBC they were \"really surprised\" by the heat.\n\n\"It does spoil our plans as tourists a bit,\" Melbourne friends Maria and Gloria said. \"We are trying to not go out in the middle of the day.\"\n\nMaria and Gloria, from Melbourne, are visiting Rome\n\nItalian tourists Andrea Romano and Michele La Penna told the BBC their hometown of Potenza, in the Apennine mountains, has \"more humane temperatures\" than Rome.\n\n\"We need to start doing something about climate change. We need to be more responsible. The damage is already done. We need to do something about it. But not only the government… It all starts from people. Each of us needs to do something: use less plastic, don't use the AC, use electric cars,\" said Andrea.\n\nThe Cerberus heatwave - named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that features in Dante's Inferno - is expected to bring more extreme conditions in the next few days.\n\nSpain has been sweltering for days in temperatures of up to 45C (113F) and overnight temperatures in much of the country did not drop below 25C (77F).\n\nThe Andalusian regional government has started a telephone assistance service for people affected by the heat which has received 54,000 calls since it opened in early June.\n\nA satellite image recorded by the EU's Copernicus Sentinel mission revealed that the land surface temperature in the Extremadura region had hit 60C (140F) on Tuesday.\n\nThe UK's national weather service, the Met Office, says temperatures will peak on Friday. BBC Weather says large swathes of southern Europe could see temperatures in the low to mid 40s - and possibly higher.\n\nBut as Cerberus dies out, Italian weather forecasters are warning that the next heatwave - dubbed Charon after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology - will push temperatures back up towards 43C (109F) in Rome and a possible 47C (116F) on the island of Sardinia.\n\nIt isn't just Europe that is hot.\n\nThis summer has seen temperature records smashed in parts of Canada and the US as well as across a swathe of Asia including in India and China.\n\nSea temperatures in the Atlantic have hit record highs while Antarctic sea ice is at the lowest extent ever recorded.\n\nAnd it is going to get hotter.\n\nA weather pattern called El Niño is developing in the tropical Pacific. It tends to drive up temperatures by around 0.2C on average.\n\nThat may not sound much but add in the roughly 1.1C that climate change has pushed average temperatures up by worldwide and we are nudging perilously close to the 1.5C threshold the world has agreed to try and keep global temperatures below.\n\nLet's set things in a historic context to give us some perspective.\n\nThe first week of July is reckoned to have been the hottest week since records began.\n\nBut scientists can use the bubbles of air trapped in ancient Antarctic ice to estimate temperatures going back more than a million years.\n\nThat data suggests that that last week was the hottest week for some 125,000 years.\n\nIt was a geological period known as the Eemian when there were hippopotamuses in the Thames and sea levels were reckoned to be some 5m (16.4ft) higher.\n\nA new study says 61,672 people died in Europe as a result of the heat last year. ISGlobal Institute in Barcelona - which researches global health - said Italy had the most deaths that could be attributable to the heat, with 18,010, while Spain had 11,324 and Germany 8,173.\n\nThe fear is that the heat could cause many more deaths this summer.\n\nCities in Spain with the highest risk of deaths caused by the heat are Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca and Bilbao, according to ISGlobal's research.\n\nA heatwave is a period of hot weather where temperatures are higher than is expected for the time of year.\n\nExperts say periods of exceptionally hot weather are becoming more frequent and climate change means it is now normal to experience record-breaking temperatures.\n\nAt present there is no indication the heat in southern Europe will reach the UK any time soon - with the UK remaining in cooler, Atlantic air throughout next week, according to BBC Weather's Darren Bett.\n\nThe UK is experiencing a July that has been slightly wetter than normal, with temperatures that feel rather low. But this is mostly in contrast to the weather in the UK in June, which was the warmest on record by a considerable margin - something which, according to the Met Office, bore the \"fingerprint of climate change\".\n• None The new normal - why this summer has been so very hot", "The fire broke out during last summer's heatwave\n\nA London Fire Brigade investigation has concluded the Wennington wildfire was likely to have started in a garden.\n\nA large grass fire in the village in Havering, east London, tore through 17 houses during scorching temperatures in July last year.\n\nWhile investigators were unable to determine the exact cause of the blaze, a large caravan was noted as an early area of where it began.\n\nThe brigade added it had not fully discounted that it was deliberate.\n\nAt about 13:00 BST on 17 July 2022, a neighbour saw white smoke coming from near a large willow tree in the garden, which turned into flames.\n\nIn total the fire spread across 40 hectares, damaging 17 houses, five garages, 12 stables, a car repair workshop and several vehicles, as well as numerous sheds and outbuildings.\n\nThe investigator wrote: \"Having called the brigade, [the neighbour] attempted to stop the fire spreading using a hosepipe, however, this had little effect.\"\n\nThe conditions were \"exceptionally hot and dry\", the investigator added, which meant the flames could easily move along the marshland to the rear of the properties.\n\nThe fire scorched fields as well as destroying homes\n\nAt the time of the blaze, the fire brigade was also fighting numerous other blazes including a 30-pump fire in Upminster.\n\nThe investigator said the brigade, which had a station less than 100m (328ft) from the site where the fire started, would have sent more than 15 pumps were it not for the \"unprecedented conditions\".\n\nHavering Council leader Ray Morgon said: \"Whilst the report does not provide a definite conclusion on the cause of the fire, one thing we can conclude from the findings and guidance is that fire safety is everyone's responsibility.\n\n\"As we enter the summer months and the likelihood of higher temperatures it is up to us all to take measures to prevent this type of horrific incident from happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A police van was set on fire after a protest turned violent on 10 February\n\nFive people - including a 13-year-old boy - have been charged following disorder at a hotel housing asylum seekers.\n\nA police van was set on fire and officers were pelted with missiles in violent clashes at the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, Merseyside on 10 February.\n\nThree boys aged 13, 16 and 17, and two men, aged 38 and 60, have been charged with violent disorder.\n\nThey have been bailed to appear before magistrates in Liverpool on 27 July.\n\nThe charges followed raids in Kirkby, Merseyside Police said.\n\nIn April, Jared Skeete, 19, from Aigburth was sentenced to three years' detention for throwing lit fireworks at police during the disturbances.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Edwards, who joined the BBC in 1984, is one of the UK's most high-profile broadcasters\n\nBBC News presenter Huw Edwards, who has been named as the presenter at the centre of an explicit photo row, is one of the UK's most high-profile broadcasters.\n\nHe has been the BBC's choice to front coverage of major national events, a reflection of how well-regarded he is by the corporation.\n\nTrusted by viewers, he has over decades built a reputation as a reliable and calming presence on screen.\n\nLast Wednesday, on what transpired to be his last day on air for BBC News before the scandal broke, Edwards was broadcasting from Edinburgh as Scotland prepared to greet King Charles.\n\nLess than a week later, the 61-year-old's broadcasting career is under serious pressure, after his wife issued a statement naming him as the BBC presenter facing a series of damaging allegations.\n\nHe joined BBC News as a trainee in 1984 and he eventually secured a job as political reporter for BBC Wales. Just two years later, he became BBC Wales's parliamentary correspondent.\n\nBy the early 1990s he was the BBC's chief political correspondent at Westminster.\n\nHe became a regular face on the BBC News channel, then called BBC News 24, after it launched in 1997.\n\nEdwards became one of the main anchors on the Six O'Clock News in 1999\n\nIn its early days, the channel was plagued by technical difficulties, but Edwards' confident and level-headed performance in challenging circumstances was said to have impressed BBC bosses.\n\nAround the same time, Edwards was working as an occasional cover presenter on BBC One's Six O'Clock News, one of the most-viewed television news bulletins in the UK, becoming one of the programme's main anchors in 1999.\n\nFour years later, he was promoted to the Ten O'Clock News, widely seen as the BBC's flagship bulletin, and was increasingly asked to present and commentate on major national events for the BBC.\n\nThey included the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (as they were known at the time) in 2011, the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh (2021), the Queen's Diamond and Platinum Jubilee (2012 and 2022) and the coronation of King Charles (2023).\n\nHe was also on air when Nelson Mandela died in 2013, and co-hosted the results of the Brexit referendum in 2016.\n\nBut perhaps the biggest single moment in Edwards' long presenting career came last September, when he announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nHe had started his shift early that day following rumours of the Queen's declining health, presenting rolling news coverage from 14:00 before confirming the Monarch's death to the nation that evening while wearing a black tie.\n\nHe went on to front coverage of the late Queen's funeral. He was widely praised by viewers, and the coverage won Edwards and his colleagues a TRIC award, presented last month.\n\nEdwards has presented the flagship News at Ten bulletin for the last 20 years\n\nAs well as major royal events, Edwards had recently become the face of the BBC's general election coverage.\n\nThe Welsh broadcaster was one of the BBC's top earners. In 2017, the first year the BBC was compelled by Parliament to publish the salaries of its star presenters, it was revealed Edwards made £550,000.\n\nFollowing a flurry of negative headlines about the amount of money the BBC spent on top talent, and the disparity between some of its male and female stars, Edwards took a pay cut, and six years later his salary stands at £435,000.\n\nEdwards made a cameo appearance as himself in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, presenting a BBC News report on a fictionalised attack on the British intelligence service MI6.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio Cymru in 2021, Edwards indicated he may not have many years left as the corporation's chief news anchor due to the demands of the role.\n\n\"The nightly news business, after 20 years, that can be taxing, even though I still enjoy the job,\" he said. \"But I don't think I'll be doing that for long… I think it's fair for the viewers to get a change.\"\n\nEdwards was named as the BBC presenter by his wife Vicky Flind on Wednesday\n\nIn the same year, Edwards made a Welsh-language documentary about his career, during which he revealed he had suffered bouts of depression over 20 years, and had been left \"bedridden\" by his struggle with his mental health.\n\nBut after a distinguished career at the BBC, there are now serious questions about Edwards' career.\n\nAfter the Sun published allegations on Friday that an unnamed BBC presenter had paid large sums of money for explicit images of an individual, there were days of speculation about who the presenter might be.\n\nOver the following days, the Sun, and later BBC News, released further allegations, keeping the story in the headlines.\n\nFinally, on Wednesday, his wife Vicky Flind confirmed Edwards' identity on his behalf, saying she was doing so \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being\" and to protect their five children.\n\n\"Huw is suffering from serious mental health issues,\" she said. \"The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.\"\n\n\"Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published.\"", "The hotly-anticipated Barbie movie had its premiere on Wednesday night in London's Leicester Square.\n\nThe film stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, and follows the pair as they leave Barbie Land behind and travel to the human world.\n\nIt was directed by Greta Gerwig, and will be out in cinemas on 21 July.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The migrant boat appears to be struggling when approached by oil tanker Faithful Warrior. Source: MEGA TV\n\nNew evidence found by BBC News casts further doubt on the Greek coastguard's version of events surrounding last month's deadly migrant boat sinking, in which up to 600 people died.\n\nTwo survivors have described how the coastguard pressed them to identify nine Egyptians on board as traffickers.\n\nA new video of the overcrowded boat foundering at sea also challenges the Greek coastguard's account.\n\nIt was taken when the boat was said to be on a \"steady course\".\n\nBBC Verify has confirmed the footage was filmed when the coastguard claimed the boat was not in need of rescue - and was in fact filmed by the coastguard itself.\n\nWe have also confirmed that the larger vessel in the background is the oil tanker Faithful Warrior, which had been asked to give supplies to the migrant boat.\n\nThe official Greek coastguard account had already been challenged in a BBC Verify report - but now we have seen court documents which show serious discrepancies between survivors' witness statements taken by the coastguards, and the in-person evidence later presented to a judge.\n\nA translator has also come forward with his account of a people-smuggling investigation last year, after another group of migrants were rescued by the coastguard. He describes how witnesses from that incident were intimidated by the coastguard. The legal case collapsed before it could reach trial.\n\nThe revelations raise fresh questions about how the Greek authorities handle such disasters.\n\nBoth the Greek coastguard and Greek government did not comment and declined our requests for interview.\n\nSoon after the 14 June sinking, nine Egyptian men were detained and charged with manslaughter and people-smuggling.\n\nBut two survivors of the disaster say migrants were silenced and intimidated by Greek authorities, after suggesting the coastguards may have been to blame for the tragedy.\n\nAhmad and Musaab spoke to Nick Beake. They say they fear the Greek coastguard\n\nFor the past month, allegations have been made that the coastguard used a rope to tow the fishing vessel, causing it to sink.\n\nThe two survivors we spoke to in Athens - who we are calling Ahmad and Musaab to protect their identities - say that is what happened.\n\n\"They attached a rope from the left. Everyone moved to the right side of our boat to balance it,\" says Musaab. \"The Greek vessel moved off quickly causing our boat to flip. They kept dragging it for quite a distance.\"\n\nThe men described how they spent two hours in the water before being picked up by the coastguard.\n\nWhen I ask how they knew it was that amount of time, Musaab says his watch was still working so he could tell.\n\nOnce on land, in Kalamata, they claim the coastguard told survivors to \"shut up\" when they started to talk about how the Greek authorities had caused the disaster.\n\n\"When people replied by saying the Greek coastguard was the cause, the official in charge of the questioning asked the interpreter to tell the interviewee to stop talking,\" says Ahmad.\n\nAhmad says those rescued were told to be grateful they hadn't died.\n\nHe says there were shouts of: \"You have survived death! Stop talking about the incident! Don't ask more questions about it!\"\n\nAn undated photo provided by the Greek coastguard shows migrants on board the crowded fishing vessel, 14 June 2023\n\nThe men say they are scared to speak out publicly because they fear they too will be accused like the Egyptians.\n\n\"If there was a fair system in place, we would contribute to this case,\" says Ahmad.\n\nThe men told us they had both paid $4,500 (£3,480) for a spot on the boat. Ahmad's younger brother was also on board. He is still missing.\n\nAs well as this testimony given to us by survivors, we have seen court documents which raise questions about the way evidence is being gathered to be presented in court.\n\nIn initial statements from five survivors, none mentioned the coastguard trying to tow the migrant vessel with a rope. But days later, in front of a judge, all explained that there had been a failed attempt to tow it.\n\nBut the same witness later told a judge:\n\nBBC Verify has not spoken to these witnesses and so we can't say why their accounts changed.\n\nThe Greek coastguard initially denied using a rope - but later backtracked, admitting one had been used. But it said it was only to try to board the vessel and assess the situation. It said this was at least two hours before the fishing vessel capsized.\n\nEighty-two people are confirmed dead in the sinking, but the United Nations estimates as many as 500 more lost their lives.\n\nThe Greek authorities say the charged Egyptian men are part of a smuggling ring and were identified by fellow passengers. They face up to life imprisonment if found guilty.\n\nSome survivors allege some of the nine suspects mistreated those on board - while other testimony says some were actually trying to help.\n\nBut Ahmad and Musaab told us the coastguard had instructed all of the survivors to say that the nine Egyptian men were to blame for trafficking them.\n\n\"They were imprisoned and were wrongly accused by the Greek authorities as an attempt to cover their crime,\" says Musaab.\n\nA Greek Supreme Criminal Court deputy prosecutor is carrying out an investigation, but calls - including from the UN - for an international, independent inquiry have so far been ignored. The European Commission has indicated it has faith in the Greek investigation.\n\nBut Ahmad and Musaab are not alone in their concerns about the Greek coastguard.\n\nWhen the nine Egyptian men were arrested in the hours after the shipwreck, it was widely reported as an example of efficient detective work by the Greek authorities.\n\nBut for Farzin Khavand it rang alarm bells. He feared history was repeating itself.\n\nHe says he witnessed Greek coastguards put two innocent Iranian men in the frame for people-smuggling last year, following the rescue of 32 migrants whose boat had got into trouble crossing from Turkey.\n\nMr Khavand, a UK citizen who speaks Farsi and has lived in the Kalamata area for 20 years, acted as a translator during the coastguard's investigation into what happened then.\n\nHe says the migrants - 28 from Afghanistan and four from Iran - explained that they had set off from Turkey and been at sea for eight days before being rescued.\n\nDuring this time, the Greek coastguard had approached the boat, before leaving, he was told.\n\nTwo Arabic-speaking men had abandoned the boat after the engine blew up, Mr Khavand was told by the Afghan migrants. They said that most people on board had taken turns to try to steer the stricken boat to safety - including the two accused Iranians, who had paid to be on board like everyone else.\n\n\"They [the Iranian men] were highly traumatised,\" Mr Khavand said.\n\n\"They were repeating to me that they'd never even seen an ocean before they set off in Turkey. And they kept being told they were the captain and they said: 'We know nothing about the boat. We can't even swim.'\"\n\nOne of the two accused - a man called Sayeed who was facing a long prison sentence - had been rescued with his young son, explained Mr Khavand.\n\n\"I asked him 'Why did you take a six-year-old child on a boat?' And he said the smugglers told us it's only two hours' journey.\"\n\nMr Khavand relayed their accounts to the coastguard, exactly as it had been told to him - but he says when he saw the transcripts, the Afghans' testimony had changed. He fears they altered their stories after pressure from the Greek authorities.\n\nHe says the Iranians told him that some of their fellow Afghan passengers had been leaned on by the coastguard to name them as the people-smugglers - to avoid being \"treated unpleasantly\", threatened with prison, and being \"returned to the Taliban\".\n\nThe case eventually collapsed. Mr Khavand says he was not willing to assist the Greek coastguard again. He says when Sayeed and his son were released from custody the €1,500 (£1,278) that had been confiscated from them was not returned.\n\n\"The scene ended with me thinking I don't want to do this again because they were not trying to get to the bottom of the truth. They were trying to pick a couple of guys and accuse them of being people smugglers.\"\n\nAll of these accusations were put to the Greek authorities by the BBC - but we have received no response. Our request for an interview with Greece's minister of maritime affairs - who oversees the coastguard - was also rejected.\n\nKalamata lawyer Chrysanthi Kaouni says she has seen other criminal cases brought against alleged people smugglers which have troubled her.\n\nShe has been involved in more than 10 such cases, she tells us.\n\n\"My concerns are around the translations, the way evidence is gathered and - later on - the ability of the defendants to challenge this evidence,\" she said.\n\n\"Because of these three points, I don't think there are enough safeguards according to the international law, and in the end I don't believe justice is done.\"\n\nA new study has found that the average trial in Greece for migrants accused of people smuggling lasted just 37 minutes and the average prison sentence given was 46 years.\n\nThe study, commissioned by The Greens/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, looked at 81 trials involving 95 people - all of whom were tried for smuggling in eight different areas of Greece between February 2020 and March 2023.\n\nThe study claims verdicts were reached often on the testimony of a single police or coastguard officer and, in more than three-quarters of the cases, they didn't appear in court for their evidence to be cross-examined.\n\nAhmad says he and the other survivors now want authorities to recover the shipwreck and the people that went down with it, but they have been told it's too difficult and the water is too deep.\n\nHe compares this to the vast amounts of money and resources spent on searching for five people on the Titan submersible in the North Atlantic in June.\n\n\"But we were hundreds,\" he says. \"It's not just a ship. It's our friends and family.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Teaching unions have recommended their members accept the government's 6.5% pay offer\n\nTeacher strikes are likely to end in England, after union leaders came out in support of a new pay offer.\n\nThe government has proposed a 6.5% pay rise, which both sides in the dispute said was \"properly funded\" and would not come from existing school budgets.\n\nThe four unions involved will now go back to their members and recommend they accept the deal.\n\nThey had been considering holding more strikes next term - but that will be off the cards if members accept.\n\nThere have been seven national strikes since February by National Education Union (NEU) members.\n\nTeachers from the four unions have been calling for an above-inflation pay rise, plus extra money to ensure any increase does not come from existing budgets.\n\nNEU joint general secretary Mary Bousted told Sky News she would be recommending members \"bank\" this offer, which is for September 2023.\n\n\"If members accept this deal, then the dispute we have currently with the government on pay is over for this year,\" she said. \"That's the end of this dispute.\"\n\nParents had to take days off work or find alternative childcare as many schools fully or partially closed during the national strikes.\n\nAnd with two daughters, in Year 7 and Year 9, Sally Haslewood, from Harrogate, N Yorks, is \"absolutely delighted\" they could be coming to an end.\n\nMother Sally Haslewood says it is a 'huge relief' the school strikes might finally be coming to an end\n\n\"It's a huge relief to think when they go back in September, they should get a full year of school with no disruption for the first time in three years,\" she says - referring both to teacher strikes and the Covid-19 virus.\n\n\"It's been a nightmare generally for parents to try and plan around it and it's been unsettling for the children. So all in all, it's just fantastic news.\"\n\nFather-of-two Sam, in Brighton, who asked that his surname be withheld, supported the striking teachers and is delighted with the resolution.\n\n\"I did have a lot of sympathy for the strikers because I know how difficult the schools situation has been - it feels like a service which has been underfunded,\" he says.\n\n\"But more action in the autumn was feeling like a bit of a nightmare, so to have that taken off the table is a big relief.\"\n\nThe government says it will give schools an additional £525m in 2023-24 and £900m in 2024-25, from the Department for Education's (DfE) budget, to fund the pay rise.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said savings would come from \"reprioritisation\" within government departments.\n\nIn the DfE, that would mean a reduction in civil-service traineeships and \"skills boot camps\", he added.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said ministers were \"painstakingly going through every single budget line and looking at where we think we don't need to use all of the money that was anticipated\".\n\n\"We think there'll be underspends for certain things or certain things will have changed,\" she said.\n\n\"We've basically got permission from the Treasury... to shift those to fund the additional pay.\"\n\nUnions say money will not be diverted from special educational needs and disabilities (Send) or further-education provisions - or from funding needed to ensure school buildings are safe.\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton said: \"Our understanding is that a proportion of the money will come from unspent allocations that would normally be clawed back by the Treasury.\"\n\nThis week, the National Foundation for Educational Research warned a 6.5% pay rise was unlikely to solve recruitment and retention problems in the teaching profession and called for a \"new long-term strategy\".\n\nJames Zuccollo, of the Education Policy Institute, said the 6.5% award \"still does not compensate most teachers for the increases in inflation over the past decade\". And some schools \"may find the funding insufficient and struggle to pay their teachers the full increase\".", "Amber Gibson - also known as Amber Niven - was 16 when she died in November 2021\n\nA 16-year-old girl found dead in a park died from compression to her neck, a murder trial has heard.\n\nConsultant forensic pathologist Gemma Kemp told the High Court in Glasgow that Amber Gibson's injuries were consistent with manual strangulation.\n\nShe initially saw the teenager's body at the scene, covered by bushes and branches and \"caked in mud\".\n\nConnor Gibson, 20, denies sexually assaulting and murdering his sister in Hamilton in November 2021.\n\nHer body was discovered in Cadzow Glen in the Lanarkshire town days after she was last seen.\n\nDr Kemp examined Amber's body and co-wrote a report which was reviewed in court on the sixth day of the murder trial.\n\nShe said Amber suffered bruising to the whites in both of her eyes, and she sustained signs of burst blood vessels to her ear, mouth and face.\n\nThe court also heard there were eight further bruises and grazes to Amber's neck.\n\nDr Kemp said: \"In combination (with the other injuries) these bruises and abrasions can feature in fingernail compression, nails and pressure of the fingernails around the neck.\"\n\nShe added \"This is consistent with manual gripping and strangulation.\"\n\nAmber also suffered internal injuries which included a bruise on her throat and a muscle in her neck.\n\nDr Kemp told the court that Amber also suffered significant blunt force trauma to her head, including a fractured nose.\n\nShe said this was likely caused by multiple blows, and they were likely to have been enough to knock her unconscious.\n\nThere were 15 separate head and neck injuries and 14 injuries to her body, Dr Kemp added.\n\nThis included bruises to both breasts, 10 injuries to her left arm, an injury to the right arm, armpit and fingers.\n\nAmber's right leg had bruises on it and there were grazes on her back.\n\nProsecutor Richard Goddard asked if all the injuries were consistent \"with clothing being ripped from the body, bra ripped off and thrown away\".\n\n\"She was pulled over a rough surface on the ground - could that accord with the injuries to her back?\"\n\nDr Kemp said: \"Yes, that could be caused in that manner.\"\n\nUnder cross examination by Anthony Graham KC, representing Mr Gibson, Dr Kemp said she could not say whether the person who delivered the blows to Amber's face was also the person who strangled her.\n\nAmber Gibson's body was found in Cadzow Glen in Hamilton, days after she was last seen\n\nForensic scientist Lisa Gray, 41, earlier told the court that she examined damaged clothing found at the scene.\n\nThis included a bra that belonged to the teenager, which Ms Gray suggested had been \"ripped apart\".\n\nA grey top was also damaged around the neck and a pair of jogging bottoms were covered in mud with signs that the wearer was \"dragged\".\n\nAnother man, Stephen Corrigan, 44, is also on trial in relation to the circumstances surrounding the discovery of Amber's remains.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Corrigan found her body, but rather than alert police he inappropriately touched her and then hid her remains under bushes.\n\nHe is accused of a breach of the peace and trying to defeat the ends of justice. Mr Corrigan has lodged a special defence claiming he was elsewhere at the time.\n\nBoth men deny the charges against them and the trial before Judge Lord Mulholland continues.", "A new tribe, the Metkayina Clan, was introduced in last year's Avatar: The Way of Water\n\nMajor films in production including the Avatar and Gladiator sequels are looking likely to be affected by Hollywood actors taking strike action.\n\nPromotional events such as red-carpet premieres will also be affected, such as Disney film Haunted Mansion, released later this month.\n\nEvents including the Emmys and Comic-Con may be rescheduled or scaled back.\n\nIn the industry's biggest shutdown for over 60 years, some 160,000 performers stopped work at midnight in LA.\n\nPicketing will begin on Friday morning outside the California headquarters of Netflix, before moving on to Paramount, Warner Bros and Disney.\n\nThe announcement of the strike followed similar strike action from the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and brought most US film and TV productions to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Screen Actors Guild (SAG) wants streaming giants to agree to a fairer split of profits and better working conditions.\n\nIt also wants to protect actors from being usurped by digital replicas.\n\nThe union is seeking guarantees that artificial intelligence (AI) and computer-generated faces and voices will not be used to replace actors.\n\nWhile the strike takes place, actors cannot appear in films or even promote movies that they have already made.\n\nOther productions which may be affected include Deadpool 3, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, along with Tim Burton's Beetlejuice sequel and a film adaptation of the musical Wicked.\n\nIt is also possible that HBO's House of the Dragon TV series may be hit by the strike, along with the second series of Netflix's The Sandman and Family Guy and The Simpsons on Fox.\n\nThe Sandman was first shown on Netflix last year\n\nUS networks have responded by expanding the amount of \"unscripted content\", like The Masked Singer, The Amazing Race, Survivor and Kitchen Nightmares, in their autumn schedules.\n\nPhil Clapp, the chief executive of the UK Cinema Association, told BBC News he did not think the strike would cause too much disruption for cinema-goers.\n\n\"Given the challenges UK cinema operators have faced in the last few years, all will be concerned by anything which might potentially threaten the supply of films to the big screen, and so it is very much hoped that there will be a quick resolution to the current dispute,\" he said.\n\n\"That said, there is already a strong slate of films locked in for the weeks and months to come, starting with Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, Barbie and Oppenheimer all in, or coming to cinemas very soon and - with other major titles stretching into 2024 - promising to entertain millions of cinema-goers.\n\n\"Unless the current strike is a protracted one, we are confident that cinemas we will see little if any disruption in the foreseeable future.\"\n\nThe union president Fran Drescher wants streaming giants to agree to a fairer split of profits\n\nActors Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt left the premiere of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer in London on Thursday night as the strike was declared.\n\nThe film's director, Christopher Nolan, told the cinema audience that they were \"off to write their picket signs\", adding that he supported them in their struggle.\n\nFor films in production, the strike means a large portion of work will become impossible. Even in cases in which filming has already been completed, actors will be unavailable for re-shoots and other essential elements of the filmmaking process.\n\nTV shows that are still being filmed will also largely have to stop, although in some cases side deals could be struck between performers and producers to allow work to continue.\n\nSeveral actors took to Instagram to voice their support for the strike, including Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk, Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon and Hollywood veteran Jamie Lee Curtis.\n\nSuccession star Brian Cox told the BBC's Newscast he \"could see [the strike] going on until the end of the year\".\n\nHe added the invention of streaming services \"has really shifted the power dynamic of particularly TV drama\", and said the income streams for actors had changed.\n\n\"In the US, we don't have a national health service, so it means you have to have private health insurance, and of course your residuals, that you depend on to pay for your health, are getting more and more difficult,\" he explained.\n\nResiduals are payments made to actors from repeats of films and programmes they've starred in. Residuals were traditionally paid when repeats of programmes were shown on terrestrial TV channels, but streaming has made this arrangement more complicated.\n\nJamie Lee Curtis shared her support for the strike on Instagram\n\nTo address concerns about the use of AI, the big studios have offered what they call a \"ground-breaking proposal\" that would protect the digital likeness of actors and require their consent when digital replicas are used in performances, or alterations are made.\n\nBut the union rejected the offer, made by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).\n\nThe SAG's national executive director and chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, said it was unacceptable.\n\n\"They propose that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day's pay, and their company should own that scan of their image, their likeness, and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity,\" he said. \"If you think that's a ground-breaking proposal, I suggest you think again.\"\n\nThe AMPTP said the strike was \"certainly not the outcome we hoped for as studios cannot operate without the performers that bring our TV shows and films to life\".\n\n\"The union has regrettably chosen a path that will lead to financial hardship for countless thousands of people who depend on the industry,\" its statement added.\n\nThe union is officially known as the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA.\n\nAs well as greater residuals, one of its demands of the streaming services is that actors should receive greater base pay.\n\nThe strike includes tens of thousands of actors who receive significantly less pay for minor parts than their A-list colleagues.\n\n\"In the old model, they get residuals based on success,\" Kim Masters, the editor-in-chief of the Hollywood Reporter, told the BBC. \"In the new model, they don't get to find out what's going on behind the scenes, because the streamers don't share.\"\n\nFran Drescher, SAG's president, said the strike came at a \"very seminal moment\" for actors in the industry.\n\n\"What's happening to us is happening across all fields of labour,\" she said, \"when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority, and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run.\"\n\nThe actors' strike could move across the Atlantic if US production companies shift filming to the UK because of the industrial action taken by their American counterparts, British union Equity said on Friday.\n\nThe body, which represents more than 47,000 performers in the UK, says the union stands in solidarity with US actors who are striking.\n\nEquity - which is not striking - told US companies it will be keeping a \"very close eye\" on any attempts to move productions to the UK due to the action called on Thursday evening.\n\nThe Writers Guild of America has been on strike since May\n\nA separate strike by the 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America demanding better pay and working conditions has been going since 2 May.\n\nSome writers have turned to projects that are not covered by the contract between the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.\n\nThe \"double strike\" by both unions is the first since 1960, when the SAG was led by actor Ronald Reagan, long before he entered politics and became US president. The last strike by actors took place in 1980.\n\nSpeaking during a gathering of industry leaders at an Idaho resort ahead of the SAG's announcement on Thursday, Disney chief executive Bob Iger said the demands of both actors and writers were impractical and damaging to an industry still recovering from the pandemic.\n\n\"It's very disturbing to me,\" Mr Iger said. \"This is the worst time in the world to add to that disruption.\"\n\nA third union, the Directors Guild of America, successfully negotiated a contract in June and will not participate.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The UK's public debt could soar as the population ages and tax receipts fall, the government's independent forecaster has warned.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said debt could rise to more than 300% of the size of the economy by 2070, up from around 100% currently.\n\nClimate change and geopolitical tensions also posed \"significant\" risks to government finances, it added.\n\nBut it called current government plans to reduce debt \"relatively modest\".\n\nIt comes as separate figures show the UK economy has barely grown since 2019 before the pandemic.\n\nCommenting on the OBR report, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the government would take \"difficult but responsible\" decisions on the public finances.\n\nPublic debt is the stockpile of money borrowed by the government over the years to fund its spending.\n\nMr Hunt has set a target of getting underlying debt to fall in five years' time.\n\nIn a report, the OBR said the 2020s were turning out to be a \"very risky era for the public finances\".\n\nIt said the pandemic, cost-of-living crisis and recent interest rate rises had hit the economy and driven up government borrowing costs.\n\nFrom this \"vulnerable position\", it said, the government now faced growing costs from an ageing society.\n\nThis will drive up pension spending in the short term, and by 2070 shrink the ratio of working age people to retired people.\n\n\"This puts downward pressure on tax receipts, upward pressure on primary spending, and leaves a growing gap between the two,\" the OBR said.\n\nThe forecasting body said that the government's debt interest costs were also set to surge. And it said borrowing would rise as government spending on defence increased to meet \"growing security threats in Europe and Asia\".\n\nDecarbonising the economy to reach net zero by 2050 would also cost the government billions in extra spending, it said.\n\nAll of these factors could lead to the size of the UK's debt compared to the size of the economy - as measured by the debt-to-GDP ratio - tripling over the next 50 years, the OBR said. It added that unforeseen shocks or unfunded policies could drive it even higher.\n\nThe OBR added that the government's current plan for stabilising and then reducing debt - as a share of GDP by 2027-28 - was \"relatively modest by historical and international standards\".\n\nCommenting, Mr Hunt said the government would take \"difficult but responsible decisions on the public finances, including public sector pay, because more borrowing is itself inflationary\".\n\nBut Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow chancellor, said the OBR's report showed \"just how far we are falling behind our peers\".\n\n\"There are serious decisions to be made by this Tory government to restore some security in our economy, to get a grip on inflation, and to stop people's bills rising.\"\n\nThe OBR's report also warned gas prices are expected to remain high until at least 2025.\n\nSoaring oil and gas prices have contributed to the rapid pace of general price rises, putting struggling households under pressure.\n\nAfter a massive 13-fold price jump in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, gas prices have fallen back - but are still more than twice as expensive as before.\n\nThe OBR said the hike in gas prices had made renewable energy cheaper than gas over its life-time for the first time.\n\nHowever, despite this, it said there was \"little sign of a step-change in renewable energy investment in the UK\".\n\nPlanned UK government investments in green technologies will not get the country to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, the OBR said.", "The UK economy has barely grown since 2019 before the pandemic, with one economist describing it as \"listless\".\n\nIt shrank by 0.1% in May, partly due to the extra bank holiday for the King's Coronation, which meant there was one fewer working day than normal.\n\nThe rising cost of living and higher interest rates have been squeezing households and businesses.\n\nWhen an economy shrinks, people might lose their jobs and find it harder to get pay rises that keep up with prices.\n\nInflation - the annual rate at which prices rise - is at 8.7%.\n\nThe Bank of England has been putting up interest rates to try to slow price rises but this is having a knock-on effect on consumer borrowing costs, driving up mortgage and loan repayments for millions.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said high inflation was hitting the economy.\n\n\"The best way to get growth going again and ease the pressure on families is to bring inflation down as quickly as possible. Our plan will work, but we must stick to it.\"\n\nMay's decline in economic activity followed growth of 0.2% in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nIt said the manufacturing, energy and construction sectors fell, along with sales at pubs and bars.\n\nBut it said the health sector recovered while the IT industry had a \"strong month\". Strikes also had less of an impact on the economy than in April.\n\nThe coronation - which meant there were three bank holidays in May, rather than the usual two - led to a slowdown in some industries, the ONS said, but benefited others such as those in arts and entertainment.\n\nFor most people, economic growth is good. It usually means there are more jobs and companies are more profitable and can pay employees and shareholders more.\n\nThe higher wages and larger profits seen in a growing economy also generate more money for the government in taxes.\n\nIt can choose to spend more on benefits, public services and government workers' wages, or cut taxes.\n\nWhen the economy shrinks, these things can go into reverse - but governments normally do still have a choice on public spending.\n\nCapital Economics said that the 0.1% fall in May \"isn't as bad as it looks as some of it was due to the extra bank holiday for the King's Coronation\".\n\nIt added that GDP - the official measure of the size of the economy - was on track to rise by around 0.1% in the three months to June.\n\n\"Our sense is that underlying activity is still growing, albeit at a snail's pace,\" said Paul Dales, its chief UK economist.\n\nBut Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, warned that May's figures showed growth \"remains listless\".\n\nAnd Martin Beck, chief adviser to the economic forecasting group the EY Item Club, told the BBC's Today programme that the \"bigger picture is the economy remains weak\".\n\n\"It didn't grow at all in the three months to May, and in May the economy was only 0.2% bigger than its size just before the Covid pandemic struck, so we've seen next to no growth since the end of 2019.\"\n\nHow is your small business faring in the current economic climate? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "We're wrapping up our live page shortly. Here's what you need to know about the day's events.\n\nMore than a million public sector workers - including teachers, doctors and police - have been offered pay rises of between 5% and 7% after the government accepted the recommendations of the eight independent pay review bodies.\n\nPolice and prison officers in England and Wales would get a 7% rise under the proposals, with teachers and junior doctors in England getting 6.5% and 6% respectively.\n\nPM Rishi Sunak said it would be funded by government departments finding savings and increasing visa changes and the NHS surcharge for migrants. But ministers said no frontline services at schools will be cut to fund it.\n\nHow have the unions reacted?\n\nFour education unions say the deal is enough for them to end their dispute and they're going to advise members to accept.\n\nBut the junior doctors union, the BMA, says the 6% offered is a real-terms pay cut and strikes will continue. The pay offer comes as junior doctors begin a five-day walkout today.\n\nThe Unite union described it as a \"rob Peter to pay Paul\" situation and predicted service cuts and a new wave of industrial action.\n\nWhat have politicians said?\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak says this is a final offer and would \"mean choices\" - but is \"not about cuts\". Health Secretary Steve Barclay says it's a fair offer and a chance \"for the NHS to move forward\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey accused the PM of \"taking a wrecking ball to our public services\" and said it would have a \"devastating impact\" on hospitals and schools across the country.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the pay offers were \"subject to negotiation\" and he wouldn't \"wade into that\" but \"if Labour cannot break the suffocating hold of low wages we will have failed\".", "The Burrell Collection has won the prestigious award a year after it reopened\n\nA recently refurbished Glasgow museum has won one of the world's most lucrative art prizes.\n\nThe Burrell Collection has been named the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023, which comes with a £120,000 award.\n\nThe winner was announced by artist Sir Grayson Perry at a ceremony at the British Museum in London on Wednesday.\n\nThe Burrell beat Leighton House (London), The MAC (Belfast), Natural History Museum (London) and Scapa Flow Museum (Orkney) to the title.\n\nThe Burrell Collection in Pollok Country Park houses the 9,000-object collection of Sir William and Constance Burrell.\n\nThe collection - which includes objects from Europe and Asia - was donated to Glasgow by Sir William in 1944.\n\nSir Hector Hetherington, former principal of Glasgow University, described the donation of the collection as \"one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world.\"\n\nKing Charles contemplated Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, one of the world's most recognisable sculptures when he officially reopened the collection\n\nManaged by the charity Glasgow Life, it was officially reopened by King Charles in October 2022, almost four decades after his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, first opened it.\n\nThe internationally renowned museum and gallery had been closed for a five-year £68.25m refurbishment.\n\nThe major redisplay aimed to celebrate diversity through the museum's rich and varied collection and create the most accessible, inclusive and sustainable fine and decorative arts museum in the world.\n\nDuncan Dornan, head of museums and collections for Glasgow Life, was presented with the cash prize.\n\nThe museum sits in the landscape of Pollok Country Park\n\nJenny Waldman, director of the Art Fund and chair of the judges for the competition, said: \"The Burrell Collection is extraordinary - a world-class collection displayed in an inspirational building, in harmony with the surrounding landscape of Pollok Park.\n\n\"Reopened in 2022, the sensitive renovation and collection redisplay invite exploration and delight, with innovative digital displays offering new ways of understanding the art and objects in the museum's light, welcoming spaces.\n\n\"All this was achieved with a strong shared purpose and with the involvement of local community groups in Glasgow.\"\n\nMary Beard, historian, broadcaster and fellow judge, called the collection \"a treasure trove of objects\", with everything from one of the UK's most important collections of Chinese art, to medieval tapestries and stained glass, and works of art by Rembrandt, Degas and more.\n\nSince reopening, the Burrell Collection welcomed over 500,000 visitors and contributed an economic impact of £20m for Glasgow in its first six months.\n\nThe other four finalists, including Scapa Flow, were awarded £15,000.\n\nNick Hewitt, team leader for culture at Orkney islands Council, told BBC Radio Orkney that being on the shortlist had brought the museum national and international coverage.\n\nSpeaking from the ceremony in London he said: \"We genuinely are thrilled to be here. It feels like we're all winners.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China \"represents a challenge to the world order\", the PM told the BBC in March.\n\nFailure to develop an effective strategy for dealing with national security threats from China has allowed their intelligence to aggressively target the UK, a report has said.\n\nThe report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee said China has penetrated \"every sector\" of the UK's economy.\n\nIt accuses the government of failing to recognise the issues involved.\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"keenly aware\" there was more to do.\n\nRishi Sunak said the government had taken measures to prevent interference by reducing Britain's reliance on Chinese technology, but he wanted to have \"open\" and \"constructive\" relations with China.\n\nAccording to the report, which is highly critical of the UK government, \"China's size, ambition and capability have enabled it to successfully penetrate every sector of the UK's economy\".\n\nThe level of resources dedicated to tackling the threat of China's \"whole-of-state\" approach \"has been completely inadequate,\" the report says.\n\n\"The nature of China's engagement, influence and interference activity may be difficult to detect,\" it says.\n\n\"But even more concerning is the fact that the Government may not previously have been looking for it.\"\n\nThe committee says that the intelligence agencies' focus on covert Chinese activity meant that \"they did not even recognise that they had any responsibility for countering Chinese interference activity in the UK.\"\n\nThe report also examines China's interference in UK academia, targeting of industry and technology, investment deals involving China and China's involvement in the UK's critical national infrastructure.\n\nChinese investment in the UK, the report says, has gone unchecked. It expresses \"serious concern\" at the fact that the government, in the committee's view, \"does not want there to be any meaningful scrutiny of sensitive investment deals\".\n\nThe government has \"shown very little interest in warnings from academia\", about China's leveraging of fees and funding, influence over UK academics \"through inducements and intimidation\" and the \"monitoring and controlling\" of Chinese students.\n\nSome academic institutions \"seem to be turning a blind eye\" to such efforts, \"happy simply to take the money,\" the report added.\n\nIn a section on the targeting of industry and technology, the report says overt Chinese acquisition routes have been welcomed by the government \"regardless of the risks to national security.\"\n\nCommittee chairman Julian Lewis said: \"We are on a trajectory for the nightmare scenario where China steals blueprints, sets standards, and builds products, exerting political and economic influence at every step.\"\n\nOn China's investment in the UK's energy sector, the report says it is \"naïve to assume that allowing Chinese companies to exert influence over the UK's civil nuclear and energy sectors is not ceding control to the Chinese Communist Party.\"\n\nIt adds: \"We question how any department can consider that a foreign country single-handedly running our nuclear power stations shouldn't give pause for thought.\"\n\nIn response to the report, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he still wanted to have \"constructive\" relations with China, but acknowledged it posed \"an epoch-defining challenge to the international order.\"\n\nMr Sunak, who has been under pressure from some members in his party to take a tougher stance on China, said: \"We are not complacent and we are keenly aware that there is more to do.\"\n\nThe prime minister also highlighted that the ISC probe began in 2019 and took most of its evidence in 2020, which pre-dated security reviews in 2021 and 2023.\n\nThese \"comprehensive\" national security and international policy reviews \"considerably strengthen\" the UK's position on China,\" he said.\n\n\"The government has already taken actions that are in line with many of the committee's recommendations.\"\n\nISC members say they are \"surprised at how long it has taken for a process to be put in place to identify and protect UK assets.\"\n\nThis, they say, is a \"serious failure and one that the UK may feel the consequences of for years to come.\"\n\nThe committee says it recognises the difficult trade-offs involved in balancing security and prosperity, but it urges the government to \"ensure that it has its house in order such that security concerns are not constantly trumped by economic interest.\"", "The change to the regulations was brought in by then-Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng\n\nEmployers can no longer use agency staff to cover striking workers during walkouts, the High Court has ruled.\n\nThe judgement, which follows a judicial review brought by 13 unions, overturns controversial government legislation introduced last year.\n\nThe TUC, which co-ordinated the action, called the ruling a \"major blow\" to \"ministers' attempts to undermine the right to strike\".\n\nThe government said it was disappointed and considering its next steps.\n\n\"The ability to strike is important, but we maintain there needs to be a reasonable balance between this and the rights of businesses and the public,\" a spokesperson for the Department for Business and Trade said.\n\nThe change to regulations, which became law in January, was a response to the wave of strikes over pay and conditions that hit the UK last year.\n\nIt was brought in by then-Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, who at the time said he wanted to remove \"burdensome, 1970s-style restrictions\" which made the use of temporary workers during strikes a criminal offence.\n\nBut the unions, which represent around three million workers, argued that the government had breached their rights by failing to consult them on the changes.\n\nOn Thursday, Judge Thomas Linden upheld their challenge in a written ruling, quashing the regulations.\n\nHe said Mr Kwarteng had made his decision to change the rules based on \"precious little information\", relying instead on a 2015 consultation which predated Covid and the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThis, he said, was \"so unfair as to be unlawful and, indeed, irrational\".\n\nTUC general secretary Paul Nowak said the ruling was \"a badge of shame for the Conservatives, who have been found guilty of breaching the law\".\n\n\"Bringing in less-qualified agency staff to deliver important services risks endangering public safety, worsening disputes and poisoning industrial relations.\n\n\"The government railroaded through this law change despite widespread opposition from agency employers and unions.\"\n\nRichard Arthur, head of trade union law at Thompsons solicitors, which represented the unions, called the ruling \"a significant victory\" for the trade union movement.\n\nHe added it would preserve \"a vital safeguard in ensuring the right to participate in industrial action is effective\".\n\nHis colleague Rachel Halliday said the regulations would be quashed from 10 August.\n\nThe government has the right to ask whether it can appeal against the decision, and it could also carry out a fresh consultation exercise.\n\nHowever, it would have to take into account the responses, and in his ruling Judge Linden said Mr Kwarteng \"did not even consider the information available as to the responses to the 2015 consultation\".\n\nThe Department for Business and Trade said it had believed the decision to repeal the ban on agency workers covering strikes \"complied with our legal obligations\".\n\n\"We will consider the judgement and next steps carefully,\" the spokesperson said.", "Watch the moment a member of Wimbledon security is booed after asking a crowd member to return a caught ball during Christopher Eubanks' quarter-final against Daniil Medvedev.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Tim Westwood worked for BBC Radio 1 for nearly 20 years\n\nFormer Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been questioned for a third time under police caution over alleged sex offences, BBC News understands.\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police confirmed they are investigating five accusations of non-recent sexual offences, alleged to have taken place in London between 1982 and 2016.\n\nDetectives say they interviewed a 65-year-old man under caution on 15 March, 4 April, and 11 July this year.\n\nThere has been no arrest.\n\nThis comes after BBC News and Guardian investigations uncovered multiple allegations from 18 women of serious sexual misconduct and abuse by Tim Westwood. He denied those allegations.\n\nIn April 2022, a number of women accused Mr Westwood, who also worked as a DJ on BBC Radio 1Xtra, of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour and touching, in incidents between 1992 and 2017.\n\nThey also accused him of abusing his position in the music industry. Some of the women told BBC News they encountered Mr Westwood when they were under 18. One said that she was only 14 when Mr Westwood first had sex with her.\n\nThe DJ stepped down from his Capital Xtra radio show in April last year.\n\nAn external report, by KC Gemma White, looking at what the BBC did and did not know about Mr Westwood's conduct during his near 20-year employment with the corporation, is due to be published this year.\n\nBBC News has tried to contact Mr Westwood for comment.", "Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have been taking part in strikes over pay\n\nThe government is considering pay increases of 6-6.5% for public sector workers, the BBC understands.\n\nOfficial pay review bodies for employees including teachers, junior doctors and police have recommended the pay rise. Inflation to May was 8.7%.\n\nThe announcement will be made on Thursday, following formal sign off from the prime minister and chancellor.\n\nGovernment sources have told the BBC any rises over 3.5% would need to come out of existing departmental budgets.\n\nThe BBC has been told that all of the independent bodies have all recommended pay rises of between 6% and 6.5% for public sector workers, also including prison officers, senior civil servants and the armed forces.\n\nBut there have been heavy hints from ministers in the past few weeks that they may not accept these recommendations, stressing their argument for wage \"discipline\" during a period of high inflation.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak says pay awards should be \"responsible\" to avoid making inflation worse. He has made tackling rising prices his top political priority.\n\nDepartments had told pay review bodies they had budgeted for pay rises of about 3.5%.\n\nThe salaries of NHS staff in England - apart from junior doctors and dentists - are not included in these recommendations.\n\nUnder a deal set out earlier this year, NHS workers will receive a 5% pay rise. Ambulance workers, nurses, physios and porters will also get a one-off sum of at least £1,655.\n\nIt's expected the PM and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will tell ministers any awards higher than this will have to be funded through cuts or savings elsewhere in their own departments.\n\nA decision not to accept the recommendations would prompt fresh tensions with unions, raising the prospect of continuing public-sector strikes.\n\nMr Hunt ruled out funding pay rises with government borrowing during an interview on ITV1's Peston programme.\n\nIncreasing public sector pay through borrowing would \"pump billions of pounds of extra money into the economy\" leading to businesses \"putting up their prices\" and driving further inflation.\n\nAnd in a speech to leading figures from finance and business at the Mansion House this week, he said: \"Borrowing is itself inflationary.\"\n\nThe prime minister spoke to journalists ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania\n\nSpeaking at a news conference at the Nato summit in Lithuania, Mr Sunak said his decision about pay would be guided by \"fairness\" to public sector workers and taxpayers, as well as \"responsibility\".\n\nHe said he did not want to do anything that would \"fuel inflation, make it worse or last for longer\".\n\nSpeaking on Monday during a visit to Avon and Somerset police force, Home Secretary Suella Braverman would not answer directly whether the government should abide by recommendations on public sector pay.\n\nPraising police officers, she said: \"They do incredibly heroic work, day in, day out, and they save lives and it's right that we properly reward them for their sacrifice and their dedication.\n\n\"We know that there's an ongoing process - it is a decision for the whole of government.\n\n\"I don't want to pre-empt that process and the conclusions of that consideration, but it's right that we properly reward frontline police officers and bear in mind that we're in a very challenging situation, economically.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner declined to say whether her party would accept pay body recommendations.\n\nShe said she hadn't \"seen the books\" but a Labour government would do its best to negotiate a deal that was acceptable to public sector workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's fiscal rules are “non-negotiable”, says its deputy leader, but there is \"room in the middle” for pay rises.\n\nMr Sunak has previously pledged to halve inflation this year to about 5%, as part of his top five priorities since becoming prime minister.\n\nThe rate at which prices are rising remained unchanged at 8.7% in May, despite predictions it would fall.\n\nPersistent inflation levels would make it hard to cut taxes before the next election, Chancellor Hunt said in an interview with the Financial Times.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said he and the chancellor were \"completely united on wanting to reduce taxes for people\".\n\n\"But the number one priority right now is to reduce inflation and be responsible with government borrowing,\" he added.\n\nAlmost half of public sector workers are covered by pay review bodies, including police and prison officers, the armed forces, doctors, dentists and teachers.\n\nThe pay review bodies are made up of economists and experts on human resources, with experience in both the public and private sector and are appointed by the relevant government department.\n\nTheir recommendations are not legally binding, meaning the government can choose to reject or partially ignore the advice, but it is usually accepted.\n\nSome agreements have been reached, including a pay settlement for more than a million NHS staff in England.", "Ms O'Neill became deputy first minister in the months before the pandemic\n\nFormer deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill has said there were \"ad-hoc and tick-box\" meetings between Stormont ministers and the UK government during the pandemic.\n\nMs O'Neill gave evidence to the UK Covid-19 inquiry on Wednesday.\n\nThe inquiry is focusing on Northern Ireland this week and its preparedness in the run-up to the pandemic.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was not an \"easy flow of information\".\n\nShe was being asked about the nature of communication between Stormont ministers and London.\n\n\"I found that meetings were called at short notice, documentation wasn't shared in advance and that would have been at the detriment of planning for the [health] minister,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill added meetings that did take place were to \"hand down\" decisions that had already been taken by the UK government.\n\n\"On many occasions they were what I would describe as ad-hoc and tick-box meetings.\"\n\nEarlier, the Sinn Féin deputy leader told the inquiry there was a distinct lack of resources to run the health and care system during her time as minister for health.\n\nMs O'Neill said health departments \"found it very difficult to manage within the resource that they had particularly as a direct result of austerity\".\n\nShe added austerity had been detrimental to all public services and it undermined the health department's ability to be resilient when faced with a pandemic.\n\nMs O'Neill said her priority as health minister was transforming the delivery of health services in Northern Ireland\n\nMs O'Neill said the first time she was briefed on the risk of an influenza pandemic was in October 2016, several months after she became health minister.\n\nShe was asked if she was made aware of emergency civil contingency plans in the event of a pandemic to which Ms O'Neill responded that her priority during her tenure as health minister was transforming the delivery of health services in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe agreed it would have been better if she had been briefed on the risks facing her department when she took over as minister.\n\nLead counsel to the inquiry, Hugo Keith KC, asked Ms O'Neill if she was briefed on the social care sector planning in the event of a pandemic as part of Exercise Cygnus.\n\nMs O'Neill said she did not recall \"any specific briefing\".\n\n\"But we are an integrated health and social care system which is distinctly different to the system in England and I would assume when we are testing our planning we do so across both health and social care,\" she added.\n\nExercise Cygnus was a three-day event simulation in 2016, carried out by the UK government to test the UK's flu pandemic readiness.\n\nIt involved 950 officials from central and local government, NHS organisations, prisons and local emergency response planners. It led to a series of recommendations, including some on personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nMs O'Neill agreed with lead counsel that politicians were faced with the consequences of a delayed emergency social care plan when Stormont was restored in January 2020.\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Sir Michael McBride told the inquiry there was \"no doubt\" the absence of ministers had a significant impact on Stormont's preparedness for a pandemic.\n\nMs O'Neill accepted that the absence of political leadership had made a significant difference.\n\nShe further explained that she regretted \"there wasn't the political leadership to carry on the work which (she) had started on transforming the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Sinn Féin vice president took up the position of deputy first minister two months before the pandemic hit in March 2020.\n\nNorthern Ireland's devolved government did not function from January 2017 to January 2020.\n\nHealth officials have argued this affected Northern Ireland's preparedness for health emergencies.\n\nThe inquiry is focusing on Northern Ireland this week and its preparedness in the run-up to the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive of the Public Health Agency (PHA) also gave evidence at Wednesday's hearing.\n\nAiden Dawson told the inquiry that he had concerns that the current emergency planning team was not big enough to take on all the roles the PHA needed in the future.\n\nHe said he would like a bigger emergency planning team but the organisation was currently undergoing a review to look at how it was formed, set up and the function it provides. Emergency planning will come under that.\n\nMr Dawson added that, in hindsight, he believed that the PHA should have employed a consultant epidemiologist and had the ability to have Northern Ireland specific modelling capabilities.\n\n\"One of the varying factors we have, which is not seen in the rest of the UK, is that we have an open land border with the Republic of Ireland, which may have had a variation impact on disease progression within Northern Ireland and therefore the ability to monitor and have real time modelling in NI was important,\" he said.\n\nDue to the system of government in Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill held equal powers to the first minister at the time of the pandemic, Arlene Foster.\n\nBaroness Foster appeared before the inquiry on Tuesday.\n\nShe said the UK government should have stepped in to make decisions in the absence of ministers at Stormont between January 2017 to January 2020.\n\n\"If there is a gap in resilience in part of the UK, surely that should concern the government of the UK,\" she added.\n\nBaroness Foster told the inquiry on Tuesday the UK government should have stepped in to make decisions in the absence of ministers at Stormont\n\nLast week, Robin Swann, who served as health minister during the pandemic, told the inquiry a lack of reform and investment in the health service hindered its response..\n\nAt a press conference in May 2020, Ms O'Neill and Baroness Foster told Sky News they had been brought closer together by the pandemic.\n\nHowever, Ms O'Neill was widely criticised the following month when she attended the funeral of senior republican Bobby Storey with hundreds of other mourners.\n\nRegulations at the time stated a maximum of 30 people were permitted to gather together outdoors.\n\nShe insisted she worked within the guidelines but later acknowledged Stormont's public health messaging was \"undermined\" by the controversy.", "The pain and distress of not being able to see an NHS dentist are \"totally unacceptable\", an inquiry has told the government.\n\nA review was launched after a BBC investigation found nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK were not accepting new adult patients.\n\nSome people drove hundreds of miles for treatment or even resorted to pulling out their own teeth, the BBC found.\n\nThe government says it invests more than £3bn a year in dentistry.\n\nBut the damning report, by the Commons' Health and Social Care Committee, says more needs to be done, and quickly.\n\nDental reforms - recommended to the government more than 15 years ago - have still not been implemented, it says.\n\nLast year's BBC's investigation found eight in 10 NHS practices were not taking on children.\n\nBetween May and July 2022, BBC News contacted nearly 7,000 NHS practices - believed to be almost all those offering general treatment to the public.\n\nIn a third of the UK's more than 200 council areas, the BBC found no dentists taking on adult NHS patients.\n\nResearchers could also not find a single practice accepting new adult patients in Lancashire, Norfolk, Devon or Leeds.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nCompared with other nations, Scotland was found to have better access to NHS dentistry for adults, with 18% of practices accepting new patients.\n\nHowever Wales, England and Northern Ireland were at 7%, 9% and 10% respectively.\n\nConservative MP Steve Brine said hearing about someone in \"such pain and distress\" that they used pliers to pull out their teeth \"demonstrates the crisis in NHS dental services\".\n\n\"Rarely has an inquiry been more necessary than this one,\" said the chairman of the cross-party committee which wrote the report.\n\nDeclining levels of NHS dentistry should be \"sounding alarm bells\", he said, adding: \"Today we register in the strongest terms possible our concern for the future of NHS dental services and the patients who desperately need access to them.\"\n\nNHS dental treatment is not free for most adults, but it is subsidised - if you can get an appointment.\n\nDanielle Watts, from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, found herself in a \"dental desert\" - an area where no dentists offer NHS care - and could not afford the thousands of pounds of private treatment needed to fix her teeth.\n\nOne by one, over several months, she pulled out 13 of her own teeth.\n\nDanielle Watts has removed 13 of her own teeth\n\nFollowing the BBC's report, a friend persuaded her to set up a crowdfunding page which has since helped raise enough money to enable her to have a set of dentures fitted.\n\nShe says the kindness of strangers has completely transformed her life.\n\nDanielle Watts shows off her new dentures\n\n\"I'm in no pain at all, there is no bleeding, my teeth are all facing the same way,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't have to hide any more. To be able to talk to somebody face-on, to be able to smile at somebody, is something I haven't done for several years.\"\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measure to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nEnsuring that everyone who needs an NHS dentist is able to access one within a reasonable timeframe and a reasonable distance, is one of the key recommendations in the report.\n\n\"We are concerned this will be too little too late for those dentists who have already left the NHS,\" the report says.\n\nIt adds the current dental contract, which pays dentists for batches or courses of treatments delivered rather than for every single item or procedure, such as a check-up or a filling, is not fit for purpose.\n\nThe system of paying NHS \"units of dental activity\" (UDAs) can be a disincentive to dentists seeing new patients, including those who have higher levels of disease and require more time to treat, the report warns.\n\nThe British Dental Association (BDA) told the committee: \"We have a higher award for treating three or more teeth, but many of the new patients presenting to dentists and their teams now have far more disease than that. People have not been able to present [during Covid restrictions]. They are presenting much later; they have far more disease and the disease is often more complex to treat.\"\n\nThe BDA says workload backlogs, made worse by Covid, will take many years to clear.\n\nSome dental practices are struggling to deliver their NHS contractual commitments, often simply as a result of being unable to fill vacancies, the association claims.\n\nThe government says it recently announced a 40% increase in dentistry training places and has made changes \"so dental therapists and hygienists can deliver more treatments\".\n\n\"We invest more than £3bn a year in dentistry and have already increased the funding practices receive for high needs patients to encourage dentists to provide more NHS treatments,\" said a spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nIt says the NHS dental contract has been reformed to encourage more dentists to provide NHS treatments and to allow dental therapists and hygienists to offer extra services.\n\nThe government also said it would set out further measures \"to improve access shortly\".\n\nLouise Ansari from Healthwatch England said: \"Ultimately, only a fundamental and fully resourced dental contract reform can tackle these deep-seated problems, and we call on the government to publish its dental recovery plan urgently.\"\n\nAre you struggling to find an NHS dentist? Are you a dentist with a view on this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Google's parent company Alphabet is rolling out its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard in Europe and Brazil.\n\nIt is the product's biggest expansion since its March launch in the US and the UK and heats up the rivalry with Microsoft's ChatGPT.\n\nBoth are examples of generative AI that can respond to questions in a human-like way.\n\nBard's launch in the EU had been held up after the main data regulator in the bloc raised privacy concerns.\n\nThe Irish Data Protection Commission said that the tech giant had not provided enough information about how its generative AI tool protects Europeans' privacy to justify an EU launch.\n\nThe company said it has since met the watchdogs to reassure them on issues relating to transparency, choice and control.\n\nIn a briefing with journalists, Amar Subramanya, engineering vice president of Bard, added that users could opt out of their data being collected.\n\nMr Subramanya declined to comment on whether there were plans to develop a Bard app.\n\n\"Bard is an experiment,\" he said. \"We want to be bold and responsible.\"\n\nGoogle has also now added new features to Bard, which apply worldwide.\n\nThese include the ability for the chatbot to speak its answers back to you and for it to respond to prompts that also include images.\n\n\"Starting today, you can collaborate with Bard in over 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi and Spanish,\" Google senior product director Jack Krawczyk said in a blog post.\n\n\"Sometimes hearing something out loud can help you approach your idea in a different way. This is especially helpful if you want to hear the correct pronunciation of a word or listen to a poem or script.\"\n\nHe said users can now change the tone and style of Bard's responses to either simple, long, short, professional or casual.\n\nThey can also pin or rename conversations, export code to more places and use images in prompts.\n\nThe hype around the capabilities of generative AI has prompted global tech figures to call for a halt on their development.\n\nDepending on who you speak to, AI could either lead to the end of humanity or solve climate change, or both.\n\nOver the last six months companies have been investing billions with the hope of generating much more in advertising and cloud revenue.\n\nMistral AI, a start-up that was just a month old, picked up an £86m round of seed funding to build and train large language models.\n\nThis week Elon Musk announced the formation of an AI start-up called xAI, with a team including several engineers that have worked at OpenAI and Google.\n\nMr Musk has previously stated he believes developments in AI should be paused and that the sector needs regulation.\n\nElsewhere American AI company Anthropic launched another rival chatbot to ChatGPT called Claude 2, which can summarise novel-sized blocks of text.\n\nClaude 2 is publicly available in the US and the UK and uses a safety method described by the company as \"Constitutional AI\", referring to a set of principles to make judgements about the text it is producing.\n\nNonetheless, novelty appeal in AI chatbots may be waning, with recent web user numbers showing that monthly traffic to ChatGPT's website and unique visitors declined for the first time in June.\n\nGoogle has also been hit by a fresh class action in the US over the alleged misuse of users' personal information to train Bard.\n\nThe complaint, filed in San Francisco federal court by eight individuals seeking to represent millions of internet users and copyright holders, said Google's unauthorised scraping of data from websites violated their privacy and property rights.\n\n\"Google does not own the internet, it does not own our creative works, it does not own our expressions of our personhood, pictures of our families and children, or anything else simply because we share it online,\" the plaintiffs' attorney Ryan Clarkson said in a statement.", "Ronan Kanda was mistaken by his murderers for his friend\n\nTwo 17-year-olds have been sentenced for stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in a case of mistaken identity.\n\nRonan Kanda was murdered close to his home in Wolverhampton after he visited a friend's house to buy a PlayStation controller in June 2022.\n\nA trial heard his attackers, one of whom had just collected knives bought online, mistook him for his friend.\n\nPrabjeet Veadhesa will serve a minimum term of 18 years and Sukhman Shergill a minimum of 16, the court heard.\n\nBefore passing sentence at Wolverhampton Crown Court, the judge, Mr Justice Choudhury, lifted reporting restrictions on naming the teenagers.\n\nHe made the decision in part to send out a strong message about the seriousness of knife crime, he said.\n\nRonan's mother, Pooja Kanda, said she had lost a lifetime of dreams and ambitions\n\nThe court was told Veadhesa was owed money by Ronan's friend and intended to confront him on 29 June 2022.\n\nThe judge said it was a \"tragic coincidence\" they saw Ronan leave the house where their intended victim lived and assumed he was the boy they were looking for.\n\nHe was just yards away from his family home, but was attacked from behind as he listened to music on headphones.\n\nEarlier in the day, Veadhesa had collected a ninja sword set and a large machete from a local post office after buying them online using a fake name.\n\nThe court heard Shergill carried the machete but Ronan was stabbed twice with the sword by Veadhesa and died at the scene.\n\nHe suffered a 20cm-deep wound in his back and hip area, and a 17cm-deep wound in his chest.\n\nThe pair fled after they realised they had attacked the wrong person, dumping their weapons and clothes.\n\nRonan's parents and sister as well as other supporters wore \"Justice for Ronan\" T-shirts at Wolverhampton Crown Court\n\nMany of Ronan's family, who were in the courtroom wearing \"Justice for Ronan\" T-shirts, sobbed as tributes were read during the hearing.\n\nRonan's mother, Pooja Kanda, read out a personal statement and said she replayed the last time she saw her son alive in her mind every day.\n\n\"I have lost a lifetime of dreams, hopes and ambitions,\" she said. \"He was the son that every mother needs.\"\n\nAddressing the defendants, who both looked at the floor as she spoke, she told them \"your evil actions have taken my son's life\" which left her with \"nothing but hatred for this world\".\n\nHis father, Chander Kanda, said the death of his son had destroyed his life.\n\nRonan's sister, Nikita Kanda, said she was \"no longer the same person\" and added \"my world has stopped, I feel empty and I'm just surviving\".\n\nAlthough Shergill, from Willenhall, did not inflict any blows, a jury found he acted in the joint enterprise of his murder and convicted both teenagers after a five-week trial.\n\nIn defence of Veadhesa, from Walsall, Adam Morgan said his client was of good character and was \"genuinely remorseful\".\n\nTimothy Hannam KC, defending Shergill, said his client should be treated more leniently as \"Veadhesa was the one who actually killed Ronan\".\n\nWest Midlands Police described it as an \"unbelievably callous and shocking case of mistaken identity\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK wages have risen at a record annual pace fuelling fears that inflation will stay high for longer.\n\nRegular pay grew by 7.3% in the March to May period from a year earlier, official figures showed, equalling the highest growth rate last month.\n\nHowever, despite the record increase, pay rises still lag behind inflation - the rate at which prices go up.\n\nThe pace of wage rises has come under increasing focus by the Bank of England as it tries to control inflation.\n\nThe Bank has raised interest rates 13 times in a row in an attempt to reduce the rate of inflation, but it has remained stubbornly high.\n\nIt currently stands at 8.7%, well above the Bank's target of 2%.\n\nThe concern is that strong wage growth will increase costs faced by companies and force them to push up prices for their goods even higher.\n\nOn Monday, the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said reducing inflation is \"so important\" as people \"should trust that their hard-earned money maintains its value\".\n\nWhile pay is growing at record rates, it is still not increasing fast enough to keep up with rising prices in the shops. Regular pay fell by 0.8% after the effect of inflation was taken into account.\n\nThe latest wage figures were higher than expected and Ashley Webb, UK economist at Capital Economics, said this \"won't ease the Bank of England's inflation fears significantly\".\n\nLast month, the Bank of England raised interest rates by more than expected, lifting its key rate to 5% from 4.5%.\n\nMr Webb said that while he expected the Bank to push rates to 5.25% at its next meeting in August, he added \"we can't rule out\" an increase to 5.5%, saying \"much will depend\" on next week's inflation figure.\n\nDeutsche Bank said that an increase in rates to 5.5% next month \"now looks more likely than not\".\n\nForecasts of more rate rises by the Bank have helped to push mortgage costs to their highest level for 15 years.\n\nIn January, when the UK's inflation rate was above 10%, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to halve it by the end of the year.\n\nMel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, told the BBC's Today programme that while forecasts still suggest that would happen, \"it is not going to be easy\".\n\nThe figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also showed:\n\nThere are indications that what is called \"tightness\" in the labour market - where there are too few workers to fit the jobs available - is starting to ease.\n\nHowever, business groups have continued to stress the difficulty of finding the right workers, despite the slight rise in unemployment and fewer vacancies.\n\nThe government is now offering all workers a \"Midlife MOT\" on their careers to help those in their mid-40s and above to retrain.\n\nThe ONS data showed that pay rises were highest for those in better paid sectors such as finance, and were lower in retail.\n\nThe most up-to-date figures for just the month of May seem to show wage rises beginning to slow. This raises the possibility that pay increases have now peaked, which could lead to a calmer path for inflation.\n\nKitty Ussher, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said that while wage costs remain \"very acute\" for companies there were some \"hopeful signs\" in the latest ONS figures, \"with the number of vacancies falling and more people coming out of inactivity back into the labour market\".\n\nThe Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, said: \"Our jobs market is strong with unemployment low by historical standards. But we still have around one million job vacancies, pushing up inflation even further.\"\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the figures were \"another dismal reflection of the Tories' mismanagement of the economy\".\n\n\"Britain is the only G7 country with a lower employment rate than before the pandemic and real wages have fallen yet again,\" he added.", "Thousands have been killed in three months of fighting in Sudan\n\nThe bodies of at least 87 people allegedly killed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan have been found in a mass grave, according to the UN.\n\nThe organisation said Massalit people were among those buried in a shallow grave just outside El Geneina.\n\nFierce fighting between the RSF and Sudan's armed forces has been continuing since April.\n\nBut the RSF and their allied militias have denied any involvement in the recent fighting in West Darfur.\n\nThousands have died and millions have been forced from their homes as a result of fighting between Sudan's regular army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF, led by al-Burhan's former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as \"Hemedti\".\n\nThe UN said at least 37 bodies were buried in the West Darfur region on 20 June, and another 50 at the same site the next day. Among those buried were women and children.\n\nUN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said he was \"appalled by the callous and disrespectful way the dead, along with their families and communities, were treated\".\n\nHe called for an investigation into their deaths and said the RSF was obliged to treat the dead \"with dignity\".\n\nEarlier this week, the RSF rejected allegations from Human Rights Watch that they had killed 28 members of the Massalit community and injured dozens of civilians before destroying the town of Misterei in May.\n\nAn adviser to the RSF leadership, Mustafa Mohamed Ibrahim, told the BBC the clashes there were part of an ongoing civil war between Arab groups and the Massalit \"which is old and renewed\".\n\nLast month, the West Darfur governor was killed shortly after he accused the RSF of carrying out a genocide against the Massalit people.\n\nThe Massalit people once lived under a sultanate in West Darfur, most of which was incorporated into Sudan more than 100 years ago.\n\nThey are predominately Muslims and have accused successive Sudanese governments of promoting \"Arabism\" - overlooking them for basic services such as education and health.\n\nThere are concerns that attacks by the RSF and Arab militias against the Massalit community could result in a repeat of the 2003 Darfur killings, when 300,000 people were killed by the Janjaweed militias, who later grew into the RSF.\n\nThe UN has already received reports of Arab militia targeting Massalit men and said the conflict has taken on an \"ethnic dimension\".", "Katie Macdonald planned to donate money to Colchester Hospital which supported the family\n\nA dad died after saving his young son from drowning in the sea, his grieving partner has revealed.\n\nDavid Cole and his three-year-old boy were caught by a rip tide while at a beach in West Mersea on 11 June.\n\nThe 30-year-old made sure his son was unharmed, keeping his head above water, but Mr Cole never regained consciousness.\n\nHis partner, Katie Macdonald, is raising money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).\n\nShe praised the crew as \"amazing\" for their efforts.\n\nMs Macdonald was on the beach with the couple's other son, aged one, when Mr Cole and their child got into difficulties.\n\nDavid Cole worked \"so hard\" to \"give us everything he possibly could\"\n\n\"Not being able to do anything, feeling helpless, was so hard - it was horrible,\" said Ms Macdonald.\n\n\"The lifeboat crew were just really good at splitting themselves between being with my partner and trying to resuscitate him and then looking after my three-year-old.\n\n\"It could have been my three-year-old son who drowned as well if it weren't for them.\"\n\nA paddleboarder and two lifeguards were first to help Mr Cole and his son before the RNLI crew arrived minutes later.\n\nThe Essex and Hertfordshire Air Ambulance and the East of England Ambulance Service also attended.\n\nTwo lifeguards and a paddleboarder were first to help Mr Cole and his son\n\nLand and air ambulances were called out to Mersea Island to help Mr Cole\n\nMs Macdonald, from Hertford in Hertfordshire, said: \"Dave was amazing. He was the best dad ever.\n\n\"He was like a big kid himself. All he ever wanted to do with the kids was have fun and make everything fun for the kids.\"\n\nShe said he worked \"so hard\" in his job as a roofer to \"give us everything he possibly could\" and added: \"He is just a hero. A hero in the sense he put his son before himself and saved his son's life.\"\n\nMs Macdonald's online fundraising page has received more than £3,500 donations since it was set up six days ago and she hoped to also give money to Colchester Hospital, where the family were treated and supported after the tragedy.\n\nThe local inshore lifeboat was also involved in the rescue\n\nRick Boreham, a volunteer lifeboat operations manager at West Mersea RNLI, said the crew was \"incredibly grateful\".\n\n\"The station's volunteer crew is really touched that she has set up the fundraising page,\" he said.\n\n\"Katie is cordially invited to visit the station anytime and will receive a warm welcome.\"\n\nThe RNLI says rip currents can reach up to 5mph (8kmph) and the charity has a series of tips for people wanting to swim in the sea.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support organisations listed at BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drone footage has shown roads damaged by flooding and landslides in the northern India state of Himachal Pradesh. Many districts received a month’s rainfall in a single day over the weekend. In the town of Manali, tourists were stranded along with their vehicles after roads were washed away.", "WhatsApp messages sent to and by Boris Johnson before May 2021 have still not been handed over to the Covid inquiry, because they are stuck on his phone.\n\nThe government had until 16.00 BST on Monday to hand over relevant material to the inquiry after the Cabinet Office lost a legal challenge.\n\nBut the BBC understands neither the government nor Mr Johnson's team can access messages on the phone.\n\nThe phone, which Mr Johnson used until May 2021, is with the ex-PM's lawyers.\n\nIt has prompted Whitehall officials to formally notify the inquiry why they have not yet been able to send them the correspondence.\n\nInquiry chair Baroness Hallett had requested access to WhatsApp messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat set up to discuss the pandemic response.\n\nShe also asked to see WhatsApp messages he exchanged with a host of politicians, including then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak, as well as various civil servants, including the UK's top civil servant Simon Case.\n\nBut the former PM's WhatsApp messages are held on a mobile phone which has been turned off and securely locked away since May 2021, due to a security breach.\n\nMr Johnson was forced to change his mobile phone in 2021 after it emerged his number had been publicly available online for 15 years.\n\nThe rest of the messages the High Court ruled should be shared with the inquiry were sent on Monday morning.\n\nBBC political editor Chris Mason says there is widespread irritation within government at the failure to comply with the inquiry's demand to be sent Mr Johnson's messages. Access to a mobile phone conventionally requires knowledge of a passcode - which only the phone's owner would normally know.\n\nMr Johnson's phone - which he used during crucial periods of the Covid pandemic - is currently with his lawyers.\n\nThe BBC understands government officials have attempted to help Mr Johnson access the data on the phone, while in the company of his representatives.\n\nBut the phone has never been in the sole possession of the government, as it belongs to Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Johnson's team say \"he will be happy to disclose any relevant material to the inquiry when it is accessible\" and insist \"full cooperation is underway\".\n\nThe government had attempted to block an order by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett to have access to Mr Johnson's WhatsApps, diaries and notebooks in full.\n\nIn an unprecedented step, the government launched a judicial review of the order. But the High Court rejected the government's argument, ruling inquiries should be allowed to \"fish\" for documents.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"more than happy\" for the inquiry to see his unredacted messages. The former prime minister previously said he had handed over WhatsApp messages, diaries and personal notebooks to the Cabinet Office in unredacted form.", "In June Nadine Dorries said she would resign her Mid Bedfordshire seat with \"immediate effect\"\n\nNadine Dorries has been referred to the Conservative chief whip by the UK's top civil servant over claims she sent \"forceful\" messages to officials.\n\nThe Mid Bedfordshire MP announced she would be standing down as an MP just before former PM Boris Johnson's resignation honours list was unveiled.\n\nMs Dorries has accused Rishi Sunak's team of denying her a peerage.\n\nSimon Case said he had flagged messages from Ms Dorries to the Commons Speaker and Tory chief whip.\n\nChief whips oversee discipline in political parties, while the Speaker presides over the House of Commons.\n\nTory MP and public administration committee chairman William Wragg, a frequent critic of Mr Johnson, asked Cabinet Secretary Mr Case if he was aware of \"any rather forceful communications\" sent by Ms Dorries \"to senior civil servants\".\n\nMr Wragg suggested Ms Dorries had threatened to use \"the platform of the Commons and indeed her own television programme to get to the bottom of why she hadn't been given a peerage\".\n\nMr Case said: \"Yes, I was aware of those communications and have flagged them to both the chief whip and Speaker of the House.\"\n\nAsked if he had taken legal advice on whether the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 could \"come into play\", Mr Case said he was \"seeking further advice\". The Act bans the sale of peerages or any other honours, such as knighthoods.\n\nMs Dorries initially announced she was standing down as an MP with \"immediate effect\", but later said she will not resign until she gets more information on why she was denied a peerage.\n\nShe has put in Subject Access Requests to get all correspondence between the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Office.\n\nSubject Access Requests allow an individual to receive a copy of all their personal data held by a government department. The right of access to personal data does not apply to data processed for the honours system, under the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nWhile Ms Dorries remains a member of Parliament, she can turn up in the House of Commons chamber to make her views known.\n\nThe Conservatives - who are trailing Labour in national polls - are facing three by-elections before Parliament's summer recess.\n\nBut if Ms Dorries keeps her party waiting to resign and bring about a further by-election, she could force them into a potentially divisive contest later on - for example, ahead of the autumn party conference season.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats called on the prime minister to withdraw the Tory whip from Ms Dorries - meaning she would no longer be a Conservative MP - while the claims are investigated.\n\nDaisy Cooper, the Lib Dem deputy leader, said: \"These allegations are staggering and it's crucial a swift investigation takes place into whether Nadine Dorries may have broken the law.\"\n\nIt comes as it was confirmed that the Ms Dorries has written a book titled The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson. It will be published days before the Tory Party conference in September.", "Jason, six-months old, is currently up for adoption at All Dogs Matter\n\nIllegal imports of puppies have continued to thrive following the pandemic, a study into UK purchasing practices suggests.\n\nThe Royal Veterinary College says the rise means dogs are at risk of being exposed to infectious diseases and a \"very impoverished environment\".\n\nThe report highlights other irresponsible practices from breeders such as only offering online viewings.\n\nThe government said buyers must go to a reputable seller or rehoming centre.\n\nThe rise in puppy smuggling came amid a surge in demand for puppies during the coronavirus lockdowns, with prices in some areas more than doubling to an average of almost £1,900 each.\n\nIn a study published on Thursday in the journal Animals and shared with the BBC, the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) highlighted trends in puppy purchasing across the UK.\n\nDr Rowena Packer, first author of the study, said the rise in imported puppies was concerning.\n\nThe study estimates 10% of puppies purchased in 2021 were imported, more than double the figure from 2019.\n\nBabaloo's owner, Ms Papantoni, describes her as \"a very lovely, happy, energetic, kind, sensitive, and a bit of a naughty dog\"\n\nIn December 2020, Vasiliki Papantoni, in London, legally imported a puppy from Serbia after carefully planning the dog's journey to the UK.\n\nShe said the breeder had a \"good reference\" from a friend and provided lots of paperwork.\n\nMs Papantoni said she started her search for a puppy in the UK, but found that waiting lists were \"very long\".\n\nShe said a previous attempt to purchase a puppy in the UK ended in her being \"scammed\" when a breeder stopped contact after receiving a £300 deposit.\n\nDr Packer warns not all imported puppies receive good care when taken across Europe. \"These could be puppies that were transported for several days without appropriate provisions, rest, food, water,\" she said.\n\nThe RVC say puppies brought into the UK are \"often under the minimum legal age\" of 15 weeks, unlike Babaloo.\n\nThe organisation asked UK puppy purchasers the same questions over three years via an online survey. They analysed 1,148 responses from 2019, 4,369 from 2020 and 2,080 from 2021.\n\nDr Packer warns \"poor welfare sources\" also exist within the UK, such as \"a breeder or a dealer or somebody who produces puppies without due regard to their health and welfare\".\n\n\"You can very rapidly and cheaply rear a puppy if you don't care about some of those factors,\" she said.\n\nIntroduced in April 2020, 'Lucy's Law' requires puppies bred in England be shown with their mother and purchased from the place they were born.\n\nThe law does not apply to rescue and rehoming organisations, Defra said.\n\nDr Marc Abraham OBE, a vet, founded the campaign. He calls it a \"first step in combating irresponsible breeding and selling practices\".\n\nBut he adds it was overshadowed by the pandemic.\n\nIra Moss, founder of charity All Dogs Matter, says she knows of multiple puppy purchasers who were only shown pictures of the dog's parents, or were not allowed into the property where they were said to have been born.\n\nThe RVC's study estimates people purchasing puppies in 2021 \"were more likely to rely on online viewings, rather than in person, and to collect the puppy from outside the breeder's property\".\n\nIn 2019, only 7% of respondents viewed the puppy they purchased via a live video call. In 2021, the figure was 18%.\n\nThe pandemic restrictions still in effect for parts of 2021 may have factored into that year's figure.\n\nDr Abraham says the pandemic also led to a \"huge surge in demand\" for dogs, pushing up the price for a puppy and leading to more first time owners.\n\nHe adds: \"There's so many inexperienced dog owners around that I'm not not sure people did enough investment in how to look after a dog.\"\n\nIn turn, he warns this has led to a \"spike in dogs being abandoned\".\n\nIn October 2022, RSPCA data showed the charity had seen a 25% rise in abandonment cases.\n\nAll Dogs Matter says the rescue sector now faces a \"rehoming crisis\". Ms Moss explains \"there are too many dogs, not enough spaces\".\n\nFurthermore, the cost of living crisis means \"charities are losing money with less donations coming in\".\n\nDr Abraham says \"rescue shelters have rules for a reason\".\n\n\"Please don't think…if they say no, that you should then go online and have a puppy delivered,\" he added.\n\nA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesperson said: \"Buyers must do their research and ensure they go to a reputable seller or rehoming centre when looking for a pet.\n\n\"We are committed to delivering the Kept Animals Bill measures individually, including on puppy smuggling, during the remainder of this Parliament and look forward to progressing these. We will be setting out next steps in due course.\"", "General Ivan Popov has been commanding forces in the Zaporizhzhia region\n\nA top Russian general says he has been removed from his post in Ukraine after telling military chiefs the truth about the dire situation on the front line.\n\nMaj Gen Ivan Popov was the commander of the 58th Army, which has been fighting in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nIn a voice message, Maj Gen Popov said he raised questions about high casualty rate and lack of artillery support.\n\n\"It was necessary either to keep quiet and be a coward or to say it the way it is,\" he said.\n\n\"I had no right to lie in the name of you, in the name of my fallen comrades in arms, so I outlined all the problems which exist.\"\n\nThe voice message was posted to telegram by Russian MP Andrei Gurulyov, who is a former military commander and frequent commentator on state TV. It is unclear when the message was recorded.\n\nAmong the issues Maj Gen Popov said he highlighted to his superiors were the lack of proper counter battery systems to help repel Ukrainian artillery attacks, as well as a lack of military intelligence.\n\nThe commander said his dismissal was demanded by senior commanders - who he accused of treason - and approved by the Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu.\n\nRussian military bloggers - often the most insightful form of information in the absence of official comment from Moscow - reported that the order to dismiss Maj Gen Popov had come from the head of Russia's armed forces, Gen Valery Gerasimov.\n\nThey said Gen Gerasimov accused Maj Gen Popov of \"alarmism and blackmailing senior management\" after he highlighted the need to rotate soldiers who had been in the front line for a sustained period of time and had suffered significant losses.\n\n\"The senior chiefs apparently sensed some kind of danger from me and quickly concocted an order from the defence minister in just one day and got rid of me,\" Maj Gen Popov said.\n\n\"The Ukrainian army could not break through our ranks at the front but our senior chief hit us from the rear, viciously beheading the army at the most difficult and intense moment.\"\n\nThe Russian defence ministry has yet to comment on the dismissal.\n\nHowever, a senior official of the pro-government United Russia party, of which Mr Gurulyov is a member, criticised the MP for making a \"political show\" out of Maj Gen Popov's remarks.\n\n\"General Popov's statement was not public and was posted on closed chats of the commanders and troops of the 58th Army,\" Andrei Turchak wrote on telegram.\n\n\"Let the fact that... Gurulyov somehow got hold of this and made a political show out of it remain on his conscience,\" he said, adding that Maj Gen Popov's conscience was clear and the country could be proud of commanders like him.\n\nZaporizhzhia and the eastern Donetsk region have become the focus of Ukraine's counteroffensive, which was launched over a month ago, but has struggled to penetrate well established Russian defensive lines.\n\nOn Wednesday, another Russian MP said former Russian commander Gen Sergei Surovikin, who has not been seen in public since the Wagner mutiny, was \"resting\".\n\nGen Surovikin was said to enjoy close relations with the former Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and there had been media reports that he had been arrested following the brief revolt.\n\nThere has been no official confirmation or comment about his whereabouts.\n\nMeanwhile, another senior Russian general - Lt Gen Oleg Tsokov - is said to have been killed in a strike in Ukraine's occupied south coast this week, although his death has not been officially confirmed by Russia's defence ministry.", "US regulators are probing artificial intelligence company OpenAI over the risks to consumers from ChatGPT generating false information.\n\nThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to the Microsoft-backed business requesting information on how it addresses risks to people's reputations.\n\nThe inquiry is a sign of the rising regulatory scrutiny of the technology.\n\nOpenAI chief executive Sam Altman says the company will work with the FTC.\n\nChatGPT generates convincing human-like responses to user queries within seconds, instead of the series of links generated by a traditional internet search. It, and similar AI products, are expected to dramatically change the way people get information they are searching for online.\n\nTech rivals are racing to offer their own versions of the technology, even as it generates fierce debate, including over the data it uses, the accuracy of the responses and whether the company violated authors' rights as it was training the technology.\n\nThe FTC's letter asks what steps OpenAI has taken to address its products' potential to \"generate statements about real individuals that are false, misleading, disparaging or harmful\".\n\nThe FTC is also looking at OpenAI's approach to data privacy and how it obtains data to train and inform the AI.\n\nMr Altman said OpenAI had spent years on safety research and months making ChatGPT \"safer and more aligned before releasing it\".\n\n\"We protect user privacy and design our systems to learn about the world, not private individuals,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nIn another tweet he said that it was important to the firm that its \"technology is safe and pro-consumer, and we are confident we follow the law. Of course we will work with the FTC.\"\n\nMr Altman appeared before a hearing at Congress earlier this year, in which he admitted that the technology could be a source of errors.\n\nHe called for regulations to be created for the emerging industry and recommended that a new agency be formed to oversee AI safety. He added that he expected the technology to have a significant impact, including on jobs, as its uses become clear.\n\n\"I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong... we want to be vocal about that,\" Mr Altman said at the time. \"We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.\"\n\nThe investigation by the FTC was first reported by the Washington Post, which published a copy of the letter. OpenAI did not respond to a BBCrequest for comment.\n\nThe FTC also declined to comment. The consumer watchdog has taken a high profile role policing the tech giants under its current chair, Lina Khan.\n\nMs Khan rose to prominence as a Yale law student, when she criticised America's record on anti-monopoly enforcement related to Amazon.\n\nAppointed by President Joe Biden, she is a controversial figure, with critics arguing that she is pushing the FTC beyond the boundaries of its authority.\n\nSome of her most high-profile challenges of tech firms activities - including a push to block the merger of Microsoft with gaming giant Activision Blizzard - have faced setbacks in the courts.\n\nDuring a five-hour hearing in Congress on Thursday, she faced tough criticism from Republicans over her leadership of the agency.\n\nShe did not mention the FTC's investigation into OpenAI, which is at a preliminary stage. But she said she had concerns about the product's output.\n\n\"We've heard about reports where people's sensitive information is showing up in response to an inquiry from somebody else,\" Ms Khan said.\n\n\"We've heard about libel, defamatory statements, flatly untrue things that are emerging. That's the type of fraud and deception that we are concerned about,\" she added.\n\nThe FTC probe is not the company's first challenge over such issues. Italy banned ChatGPT in April, citing privacy concerns. The service was restored after it added a tool to verify users' ages and provided more information about its privacy policy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The Huw Edwards story so far... in 87 seconds\n\nHuw Edwards is in hospital with \"serious mental health issues\", his wife says, as she named him as the BBC presenter at the centre of allegations.\n\nHis wife Vicky Flind said she was issuing a statement on his behalf after days of speculation \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children\".\n\nThe Sun has claimed he paid a young person for sexually explicit images.\n\nThe Met Police says Edwards, 61, will not face any police action.\n\nThe family statement said the news presenter intends to respond to the allegations personally when he is well enough.\n\nThe statement read: \"In light of the recent reporting regarding the 'BBC Presenter' I am making this statement on behalf of my husband Huw Edwards, after what have been five extremely difficult days for our family. I am doing this primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children.\n\n\"Huw is suffering from serious mental health issues. As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years.\n\n\"The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.\"\n\nIn the statement issued through PA News, she said she hoped confirmation of Edwards' identity would bring an end to speculation about BBC presenters unconnected to the allegations.\n\nShe said her husband had been \"first told that there were allegations being made against him last Thursday\".\n\nThe statement appealed for privacy on behalf of their family, and said it was publicly documented that Edwards had suffered mental health problems previously.\n\nMinutes before the family statement was published, a separate update was issued by the Met, which has been assessing the allegations in recent days after discussions with BBC executives.\n\nIt said: \"Detectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command have now concluded their assessment and have determined there is no information to indicate that a criminal offence has been committed.\n\n\"In reaching this decision, they have spoken to a number of parties including the BBC and the alleged complainant and the alleged complainant's family, both via another police force.\"\n\nIt said detectives are \"aware of media reporting of further allegations against the same individual\" but has received \"no specific details or information about these allegations... and therefore there is no police action at this time\".\n\nThe BBC said it would continue its \"fact finding investigations\" into the allegations. It had been put on hold at the Met's request while it carried out its own enquiries.\n\nA spokesperson for the corporation said: \"We will now move forward with that work, ensuring due process and a thorough assessment of the facts, whilst continuing to be mindful of our duty of care to all involved.\"\n\nIn an email to staff, BBC director general Tim Davie said \"this remains a very complex set of circumstances\".\n\nHe said the family statement \"is a reminder that the last few days have seen personal lives played out in public\", adding: \"At the heart of this are people and their families.\n\n\"This will no doubt be a difficult time for many after a challenging few days. I want to reassure you that our immediate concern is our duty of care to all involved.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'This is such dramatic news' - Katie Razzall talks about Huw Edwards\n\nLast night's statements \"have acted like a dash of cold water to the face of all journalists,\" Craig Oliver, Huw Edwards' former boss on the Ten O'Clock News, said.\n\n\"I think that one of the things that's really come of this, is should news just slow down and allow the processes to take place, allow the facts to emerge and then report the story?,\" he told BBC's Radio 4 Today programme.\n\nThe story has raised \"much bigger issues for journalism,\" former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis also told the programme.\n\n\"In what circumstances is it legitimate for a news organisation to investigate and report on the private life of somebody with a high public profile?,\" he asked.\n\nEdwards has worked for the BBC since the mid-1980s, rising from a trainee position to becoming one of BBC News' most recognisable presenters.\n\nAs well as hosting the Ten O'Clock News on television, he has led coverage of major news events, such as elections and the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe initial allegations, first reported on Friday, were that the presenter paid a young person for explicit photos, beginning when they were 17.\n\nThe paper's source was the mother and step-father of the young person - but a letter issued on the young person's behalf by a lawyer described their account as \"rubbish\".\n\nSouth Wales Police previously said it had told the young person's family there was no criminal wrongdoing after being approached prior to their complaint to the BBC and account to the Sun.\n\nIn another statement on Wednesday, the force said it had recently carried out further inquiries and had found \"no evidence that any criminal offences have been committed\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the BBC published an investigation after speaking to an individual in their 20s who said they said were sent abusive and menacing messages by the presenter.\n\nThe Sun then published another story claiming the presenter broke Covid lockdown rules in February 2021 to meet a 23-year-old he had met on a dating site, and sent what they described as \"quite pressurising\" messages.\n\nThe newspaper also published what it says is an Instagram chat between the presenter and a 17-year-old, where the presenter sent messages including love heart emojis.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify these messages.\n\nA spokesperson for the Sun said the newspaper has no plans to publish further allegations about Edwards and will co-operate with the BBC's internal investigation process.\n\nA statement read: \"The allegations published by the Sun were always very serious. Further serious allegations have emerged in the past few days...\n\n\"The Sun will cooperate with the BBC's internal investigation process. We will provide the BBC team with a confidential and redacted dossier containing serious and wide-ranging allegations which we have received, including some from BBC personnel.\"\n\nThe Sun's statement said it had not accused Edwards of criminality in its original front page story.\n\nThe newspaper had reported Edwards had paid the person for pictures when they were 17 - but it did not explain such actions could be an offence. Under-18s are classed as children in the law covering sexual images. This is higher than the age of sexual consent, which is 16.\n\nIn later versions of the story, the Sun changed the wording of this allegation to \"it is understood contact between the two started when the youngster was 17\".\n\nDespite allegations emerging publicly and being widely discussed, media outlets - including BBC News - initially took the decision not to name the presenter due to privacy concerns.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The boss of a bus company has come under fire for suggesting late-night buses could be driven by bar staff after a late shift.\n\nFirst Bus said passenger numbers were not enough to sustain the 11 night services in the city beyond July.\n\nHowever managing director Duncan Cameron told the Herald that the main issue was a lack of drivers.\n\nDonald MacLeod, who owns some of Glasgow's most iconic venues, called the suggestion \"idiotic\".\n\nFirst Bus said it had taken the decision to cancel the services because buses were regularly operating with as few as 14 passengers per hour.\n\nDrivers will be redeployed to the daytime network to support existing services.\n\nSpeaking to the Herald, Mr Cameron said: \"A driver behind the wheel is the biggest challenge.\n\n\"What's to stop somebody working in a bar being volunteered to be trained by First Bus and, as part of their shift, work for First Bus doing two journeys and the night late services?\n\n\"It might sound a bit of a wacky idea, but it would it would solve the problem and provide employment.\"\n\nDonald Macleod, who owns the Garage and Cathouse nightclubs in Glasgow and convenes the Glasgow Licensing Forum, called the suggestion \"idiotic\".\n\nDonald MacLeod criticised the suggestion that bar staff could drive the buses\n\n\"It negates all responsibility from their side,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"I believe a company like First Bus, after the millions of pounds of subsidies given to them during Covid - that's a public service.\n\n\"There should be legislation in place to force these companies to put services on at all times of day.\n\n\"I was not for nationalisation previously, but I really think it's something we should look at.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, 16 SNP MSPs representing Glasgow and the surrounding areas - including First Minister Humza Yousaf and former first minister Nicola Sturgeon - wrote to Mr Cameron, calling for the decision to be reconsidered.\n\nBut Mr MacLeod argued that the government should take more responsibility for improving public transport in the city.\n\n\"There should be an integrated transport policy in place that is supportive of people in these sectors,\" he said.\n\n\"That's a council and government responsibility and they've washed their hands of the problem.\n\n\"I think Glasgow is suffering a death of a thousands cuts here and none of our leaders are standing up for Glasgow as a powerhouse.\n\n\"A real failing of the city is the fact that there's no integrated travel policy - even the subway closing so early, especially at 18:00 on a Sunday is a joke.\"\n\nMr Cameron told the Herald he was surprised at the level of reaction \"because it's not representative of the level of engagement or the reaction in the sessions that we've had with those who were consulted with and who we sought support from.\"\n\nHe said First Bus had tried to solve the problem through regular meetings with stakeholder groups for six months, and the company was still open to exploring alternative solutions in the future.\n\nBut Mr Macleod said there had been little opportunity to engage with First Bus on the issue.\n\nHe said: \"They warned us that the service wasn't getting used and we said we would meet and come up with suggestions.\n\n\"And then this bombshells hits. They're not interesting in talking.\n\n\"And to not come back with any solution other than finding someone who's just worked six hours and giving them the key to a double decker - it's ridiculous.\"\n\nFirst Bus met with Glasgow City Council on Thursday to discuss the night bus services in the city and potential solutions.\n\nIt said the company absorbed losses for over a year, with an average of 4800 passengers a month on the night buses, before finally deciding that the service was unviable.\n\nA company spokesperson said the increased frequency on daytime routes will benefit over 600,000 passengers a month.\n\nGraham McNab, Unite's officer at First Bus Glasgow, said: \"First Bus are a well unionised workforce who would be very unhappy at the suggestion of casualisation being introduced.\n\n\"Our members would be concerned about the risks to the public if these suggestions ever came to pass.\n\n\"Carrying passengers should never be considered as a second job for someone already exhausted after working an eight hour shift in a busy bar.\n\n\"Our members wouldn't accept these proposals and the idea certainly won't be supported by Unite.\"\n\nBryan Simpson, Unite's hospitality organiser, said: \"For First Bus in Glasgow to even suggest that exhausted bar workers should be driving themselves home late at night is probably one of the most disrespectful comments we've heard to both bar staff and bus drivers.\"\n\n\"If the people of Glasgow needed any more reason to collectively demand the introduction of municipal Glasgow buses, just like Edinburgh, accountable to the people and not the shareholders, First Bus have just given them one.\"\n\nA spokesperson for First Bus said that the idea was \"by no means put forward as the solution - it was simply an example of the type of creative thinking that might be required by all stakeholders to overcome the labour challenges we and other sectors are continuing to face.\"", "Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said her party would \"clean up politics\"\n\nMinisters who leave government could be fined for breaching lobbying rules, under Labour's plans to reform the standards system for politicians.\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner has set out proposals for a new watchdog with powers to recommend sanctions against ministers who break the rules.\n\nIn a speech, Ms Rayner said Labour would \"clean up politics\" after \"Tory sleaze\" had eroded standards.\n\nThe idea of a new watchdog was first announced by the party in 2021.\n\nOutlining the proposal in more detail, Ms Rayner said an Ethics and Integrity Commission would streamline the standards system and bring in \"tougher rules and stronger enforcement\".\n\nThe plans include extending the ban on ministers taking up lobbying or other paid work connected to their government roles from two years to at least five after they leave office.\n\nIf the rules were breached, former ministers could face sanctions, including losing a proportion of their pension, or the severance payment they receive when they leave office.\n\nIntroducing a fine for breaching the lobbying rules was first suggested in a 2021 report by the Committee on Standards in Public Life, which advises the prime minister.\n\nMs Rayner said former ministers would face \"consequences they can feel in their pockets\", if the party won the next general election.\n\nWestminster has been rocked by a string of lobbying scandals in recent years, with former ministers and MPs coming under heightened scrutiny for taking on second jobs.\n\nAmong them was former Conservative MP Owen Paterson, who resigned in 2021 after he was found to have broken lobbying rules.\n\nMs Rayner said Labour's reforms were necessary because standards had slipped under the Tories, with a series of ministers - including Gavin Williamson, Nadhim Zahawi and Dominic Raab - forced out on misconduct grounds in recent years.\n\nIn a speech to the Institute for Government think tank, she said the current standards system had \"been tested to the point of destruction\" by the Conservatives.\n\nThe deputy Labour leader said the new commission would have the power to launch investigations and determine where rules had been broken.\n\nIt would replace the existing Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) and the prime minister's ethics adviser, which critics have branded toothless.\n\nAcoba recently reviewed whether Labour's leader Sir Keir Starmer's proposed appointment of former civil servant Sue Gray as his chief of staff risked undermining the rules, but found \"no evidence\" that her impartiality had been impaired.\n\nUnder the current standards system, the ethics adviser can open investigations into suspected ministerial wrongdoing only with the permission of the prime minister.\n\nMs Rayner conceded there would still be \"a role for the prime minister\" of the day under Labour's shake-up of the system.\n\nThe new commission's recommendations would be submitted to the prime minister, who would still be the ultimate arbiter of the ministerial code. That means the prime minister would still have the power to sign off sanctions, and hire and fire members of his cabinet team, as is currently the case.\n\nBut Ms Rayner said the \"strong processes in place\" would mean the prime minister would find it \"impossible\" not to take the action recommended.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak took office promising to lead with \"integrity, professionalism and accountability\", and appointed Sir Laurie Magnus as his independent ethics adviser.\n\nThe Conservative Party said Labour wanted to \"outsource ethics to a body of unelected bureaucrats chosen by Keir Starmer, instead of trusting Parliament to hold ministers to account\".\n\n\"It's unsurprising to see that Angela Rayner doesn't trust the leader of her own party to oversee ethics in Whitehall,\" a Conservative spokesperson said.", "The House of Lords has rejected an attempt by the government to extend the amount of time children can be detained in its migration bill.\n\nThe government's Illegal Migration Bill removes the existing legal cap on how long children can be held before being deported for arriving illegally.\n\nBut peers voted to reinsert protections more in line with current legislation.\n\nThey also voted to reinstate protections for people claiming to be victims of trafficking.\n\nMinisters suffered a series of defeats on the Illegal Migration Bill on Wednesday evening.\n\nEach vote added back in provisions which had been removed by MPs in votes in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nThese changes can be removed again when the bill goes back to the House where - unlike in the Lords - the government has a majority. Under usual parliamentary procedure, the House of Lords can require MPs to reconsider bills but cannot force the government to accept changes.\n\nBut it raises the prospect of another clash between ministers and Tory backbenchers over contested aspects of the legislation.\n\nThe bill, backed by MPs in March, is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's high-profile pledge to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nIt would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe government says it is committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, despite the Court of Appeal ruling it was unlawful. It has already said it will appeal the decision at the Supreme Court.\n\nThere has been concern about how children will be treated under the new migration bill, as well as accusations that existing UK regulations to prevent modern slavery would be undermined.\n\nAlthough the legal duty to deport migrants would not apply to under-18s the bill would give ministers new powers to deport them in certain circumstances detain them for extended periods.\n\nIt would also extend the limit on how long children could be detained before apply for bail from three days to eight. A previous version of the bill proposed allowing children to be detained without the ability to apply for bail for up to 28 days.\n\nThe government argues detention powers are necessary to ensure migrants destined for removal do not \"disappear into the community\" - and says no one would be held longer than is \"absolutely necessary\" to ensure they are deported.\n\nIt adds that there is also an over-arching legal duty to ensure the length of detention is \"reasonable\", adding that leaving the UK voluntarily will \"always be an option for all\".\n\nAhead of the vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Home Office offered to reintroduce a 72-hour time limit on the detention of pregnant women.\n\nAmendments passed by the House of Lords would also mean a 72-hour time limit on the detention of unaccompanied children. Detention of accompanied children will be limited to 96 hours under proposals approved by peers - which could be extended to a maximum of seven days if approved by a minister.\n\nThe government had previously watered down its child detention plans in the face of a rebellion by backbench Conservative MPs.\n\nIn other votes on Wednesday, the Lords voted to reinsert a ban on deportations of LGBT migrants to 10 mainly African countries, including Rwanda, Nigeria and Kenya - with a specific ban on trans men and women being deported to Brazil. The same proposals had previously been approved by peers in July.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "It is hot. Very hot. And temperatures show no signs of easing.\n\nNearly a third of Americans - over 113 million people - are under some form of heat advisory, the US National Weather Service said.\n\nAcross the US, temperatures are shattering decades-long record highs. In El Paso, Texas, temperatures have soared to above 37C - triple-digits Fahrenheit - for 27 consecutive days, overtaking a record last set in 1994.\n\nIn the UK, the June heat didn't just break all-time records, it smashed them. It was 0.9C hotter than the previous record, set back in 1940. That is a huge margin.\n\nThere is a similar story of unprecedented hot weather in North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.\n\nNo surprise, then, that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather forecasts said that globally, June was the hottest on record.\n\nAnd the heat has not eased. The three hottest days ever recorded were in the past week, according to the EU climate and weather service, Copernicus.\n\nThe average world temperature hit 16.89C on Monday 3 July and topped 17C for the first time on 4 July, with an average global temperature of 17.04C.\n\nProvisional figures suggest that was exceeded on 5 July when temperatures reached 17.05C.\n\nThese highs are in line with what climate models predicted, says Prof Richard Betts, climate scientist at the Met Office and University of Exeter.\n\n\"We should not be at all surprised with the high global temperatures,\" he says. \"This is all a stark reminder of what we've known for a long time, and we will see ever more extremes until we stop building up more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\"\n\nWhen we think about how hot it is, we tend to think about the air temperature, because that's what we experience in our daily lives.\n\nBut most of the heat stored near the surface of the Earth is not in the atmosphere, but in the oceans. And we've been seeing some record ocean temperatures this spring and summer.\n\nThe North Atlantic, for example, is currently experiencing the highest surface water temperatures ever recorded.\n\nThat marine heatwave has been particularly pronounced around the coasts of the UK, where some areas have experienced temperatures as much as 5C above what you would normally expect for this time of year.\n\nThe US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has labelled it a Category 4 heatwave. The designation is rarely used outside of the tropics and denotes \"extreme\" heat.\n\n\"Such anomalous temperatures in this part of the North Atlantic are unheard of,\" says Daniela Schmidt, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.\n\nAt the same time, an El Niño is developing in the tropical Pacific.\n\nEl Niño is a recurring weather pattern caused when warm waters rise to the surface off the coast of South America and spread across the ocean.\n\nWith both the Atlantic and the Pacific experiencing heatwaves, it is perhaps not surprising that global sea surface temperatures for both April and May were the highest ever recorded in Met Office data that goes all the way back to 1850.\n\nIf the seas are warmer than usual, you can expect higher air temperatures too, says Tim Lenton, professor of climate change at Exeter University.\n\nMost of the extra heat trapped by the build-up of greenhouse gases has gone into warming the surface ocean, he explains. That extra heat tends to get mixed downwards towards the deeper ocean, but movements in oceans currents - like El Niño - can bring it back to the surface.\n\n\"When that happens, a lot of that heat gets released into the atmosphere,\" says Prof Lenton, \"driving up air temperatures.\"\n\nIt's easy to think of this exceptionally hot weather as unusual, but the depressing truth is that climate change means it is now normal to experience record-breaking temperatures.\n\nGreenhouse gas emissions continue to increase year on year. The rate of growth has slowed slightly, but energy-related CO2 emissions were still up almost 1% last year, according to the International Energy Agency, a global energy watchdog.\n\nAnd the higher the global temperature, the higher the risk of heatwaves, says Friederike Otto, a climatologist at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change at Imperial College London.\n\n\"These heatwaves are not only more frequent, but also hotter and longer than they would have been without global warming,\" she says.\n\nExperts are already predicting that the developing El Niño is likely to make 2023 the world's hottest year.\n\nThey fear it is likely to temporarily push the world past a key 1.5C warming milestone.\n\nAnd that is just the start. Unless we make dramatic reductions to greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures will continue to rise.\n\nThe Met Office said this week that record June temperatures this year were made twice as likely because of man-made climate change.\n\nThese rising temperatures are already driving fundamental and almost certainly irreversible changes in ecosystems across the world.\n\nThe record June temperatures in the UK helped cause unprecedented deaths of fish in rivers and canals, for example.\n\nWe cannot know what impact the current marine heatwave will have on the UK, cautions Prof Schmidt of the University of Bristol, because we have never seen one this intense before.\n\n\"In other regions, around Australia, in the Mediterranean, entire ecosystems changed, kelp forests disappeared, and seabirds and whales starved,\" she says.\n\nThe world is effectively in a race.\n\nIt is clear we are speeding towards an ever hotter and more chaotic climate future, but we do have the technologies and tools to cut our emissions.\n\nThe question now is whether we can do so rapidly enough to slow the climate juggernaut and keep the impacts of global warming within manageable boundaries.\n\nWhat do you want to know about these heatwaves? We'll be putting your questions to experts in our coverage this week, so let us know what you're wondering or worrying about. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Actor Kevin Spacey has told a jury touching his accuser was \"in my mind romantic\", as he gave his defence during his trial for sexual assault.\n\nAppearing at London's Southwark Crown Court, the two-time Oscar winning actor said he had developed a \"flirtatious\" relationship with an accuser.\n\nHe told the jury he and the complainant had been \"somewhat intimate\", but denied assaulting him.\n\nThe 63-year-old faces 12 sexual offence charges, all of which he denies.\n\nThe court heard the complainant alleges the incident happened as he drove Spacey to a showbiz party in the early 2000s.\n\nWhen asked if he caused the accuser to \"come off the road\" when he grabbed the man, the actor replied: \"That never happened. I was not on a suicide mission on any of those years.\"\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Spacey told the court he had developed a \"flirtatious\" relationship over time with the accuser, and that he touched the man in \"romantic\" and \"intimate\" ways.\n\n\"Yeah, I am a big flirt,\" he told the court.\n\nSpeaking about touching the man, he continued: \"It did not happen in a violent, aggressive, painful way.\n\n\"It was gentle… and it was, in my mind, romantic.\"\n\nMr Spacey said the complainant said things like \"this is new for me\".\n\nHe explained the touching did not progress because the alleged victim \"made it clear that he did not want to go any further\".\n\nAsked by his barrister Patrick Gibbs KC for his reaction to the allegations by the complainant, he said: \"I was crushed. I never thought the (name of man) I knew over 20 years later would stab me in the back.\"\n\nAddressing accusations by another complainant who alleged Mr Spacey had grabbed his crotch \"like a cobra\" after using a \"vile comment\", the actor said he had never done that to anyone in his life.\n\nMr Spacey told the jury that allegations made by the man - that he allegedly met at a theatre in the mid-2000s - were \"madness\" because \"it never happened\".\n\n\"I never said any of the things that he claims I said to him and wouldn't and never have to anyone in my life,\" he told the court.\n\nSpeaking of allegations from another complainant, Mr Spacey said he did not recognise the accuser by name or appearance and his records showed he was not in the UK in August 2008, when the man claims the incident took place.\n\nMr Spacey said watching a video of the complainant who mentioned he was on a bus had sparked a memory of a sexual encounter he had with someone in his flat.\n\nThe actor said that when he returned from the bathroom \"it was like everything had changed\", adding: \"The person I had had this intimate moment with was suddenly awkward and fumbling.\"\n\nAsked whether he met the individual again, Mr Spacey said he did not have a strong memory of it \"but my instinct tells me that we may have seen each other again\".\n\n\"I believe I performed [a sex act] on him,\" Mr Spacey told the court.\n\nAfter breaking for lunch, the court heard Mr Spacey's defence against accusations from another complainant who claims he came into contact with the actor while he was working in a pub.\n\nMr Spacey said on the evening in question everyone was drinking and \"pretty much everyone\" smoked cannabis.\n\nThe actor said he remembered some of the details after seeing the complainant's interview video, but did not have a clear memory about conversations which took place.\n\nDiscussing the alleged incident, Mr Spacey said he \"made a pass and I am only happy that he testified that the moment he told me he wasn't interested, I stopped\".\n\nHe told the court he did not remember going back to the pub where the complainant worked the next day, but accepted he did based on witness testimony and said it was probably to apologise.\n\nAsked what happened when the first accusations were made against him, Mr Spacey said: \"My world exploded.\n\n\"I lost my job, I lost my reputation, I lost everything in a matter of days.\"\n\nSpeaking about his decision to come out as gay, Mr Spacey said he had been pressured to do so, and members of the LGBT community were \"upset\" that he came out while responding to an allegation.\n\n\"It wasn't that this story suddenly made me want to come out... I thought in the face of this terrible accusation [I could do something positive].\"\n\nThe prosecution finished their evidence against the Hollywood star on Wednesday, after the jury heard accounts from his four alleged victims.\n\nDuring their evidence they variously described him as a \"vile sexual predator\", \"slippery\" and \"atrocious, despicable, disgusting\".\n\nJurors heard of alleged \"aggressive\" crotch grabs against three men, while a fourth complainant accused Mr Spacey of having drugged him and performing a sex act on him while he was asleep.\n\nOn Wednesday, prosecutor Shauna Ritchie said Mr Spacey told police he was \"baffled\" by the claims by one man and did not recognise the others.\n\nThe actor said he may have made a \"clumsy pass\" at his final alleged victim but denied deliberately attacking him.\n\nMr Spacey is accused of sex offences against four men between 2001 and 2013.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty in January to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also denies four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nAll four accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.\n\nThe Hollywood star won an Oscar for Best Actor in 2000 for American Beauty as well as Emmy nominations for his role in House of Cards.", "Melanie Field, the EHRC's chief strategy and policy officer, said it's vital to have relationships with communities before a crisis hits Image caption: Melanie Field, the EHRC's chief strategy and policy officer, said it's vital to have relationships with communities before a crisis hits\n\nThis morning the inquiry heard from two equalities bosses - Marcus Bell, director of the government’s Equalities Hub, and the Equality and Human Rights Commissions chief strategy and policy officer, Melanie Field.\n\nOfficial figures show ethnic minorities were significantly more likely to die with Covid-19 in the UK. Because of this, the inquiry has also been looking into whether the government had thought enough about minority groups would be impacted by a pandemic.\n\nBoth Bell and Field told the inquiry their organisations weren’t consulted by the government in its preparation for a pandemic.\n\nBell told the inquiry two departments he was leading at the time - the Race Disparity Unit and the Disability Unit - had “no involvement in pre-pandemic preparedness within government”, and that the same applied to a third department, the Government Equalities Office.\n\nThe Race Disparity Unit, Disability Unit and Government Equalities Office were merged in September 2020 to create the Equalities Hub.\n\nField added that, to her, the government’s consideration of inequalities before the pandemic seemed “inadequate”.\n\n“The lesson for everyone is that, in a crisis - that’s not the best time to try and get everything right,” she said.\n\n“You need to have those systems and mechanisms in place, and have relationships and understanding of those communities, before you’re trying to respond in an emergency situation.”", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nOns Jabeur produced a superb comeback to beat Aryna Sabalenka and set up a Wimbledon women's singles final against unseeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova.\n\nJabeur's hopes were slipping away at a set and 4-2 behind but she rode a wave of momentum and raucous support to win 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-3 and reach a second successive final at the Championships.\n\nIt means there will be a new Wimbledon and Grand Slam champion on Saturday.\n\nShe is the first unseeded player to reach the Wimbledon women's singles final in the Open era.\n\nTunisia's Jabeur, the sixth seed, was beaten in last year's final by Elena Rybakina and was wildly supported by the Centre Court crowd throughout one of the best matches of the tournament so far.\n\n\"Thank you to the crowd that kept me in the match,\" Jabeur said in her on-court interview.\n\n\"Thank you very much for believing in me.\n\n\"I'm working a lot with my mental coach about this. I might be writing a book about it!\"\n\nThe women's singles final is at 14:00 BST on Saturday.\n• None I'm still the favourite for Wimbledon - Djokovic\n\nThe charismatic Jabeur, bidding to become the first African and Arab woman to be a Slam singles champion, gained a large following at SW19 on her run to last year's final.\n\nThat support was much needed as she fought back from the brink against the world number two.\n\nJabeur, who beat Rybakina in the previous round, had made most of the running in the first set, repeatedly applying pressure in Sabalenka service games - staying silent and composed as her opponent's shrieks echoed around under the roof.\n\nBut from 4-2 in the first-set tie-break a flurry of untimely errors from the Tunisian allowed Australian Open champion Sabalenka to take the opener.\n\nJabeur was visibly deflated at the start of the second and at 2-2, a forehand error and a double fault gifted the Belarusian a break of serve, despite the crowd's best efforts to lift their player.\n\nWith the match slipping away, Jabeur came out on the wrong side of two gruelling points - the second of which left her flat on her back on the grass in disappointment - but she still managed to break back to level.\n\nFrom 4-4 she won the next two games, the set sealed with a stunning backhand return winner after which she cupped her ear to a roaring crowd.\n\nWith the momentum behind her, Jabeur broke for 4-2 in the decider, despite two huge forehands from Sabalenka almost allowing her to wriggle free.\n\nTwo games later, Sabalenka saved match points with big serving but on her own serve, having seen two more chances slip away, Jabeur served an ace of her own to seal the win.\n\n\"It was very difficult with her shots and her serves,\" Jabeur said.\n\n\"I'm very proud of myself because maybe the old me would have lost this match today and I would've been back home already.\n\nRecent history has provided a number of shock Grand Slam finalists in the women's singles, but Vondrousova's progress is probably the biggest Wimbledon surprise since Eugenie Bouchard reached the 2014 final.\n\nVondrousova, ranked 42nd in the world, admitted before the semi-final she \"never thought\" she could do well on grass.\n\nClay courts have long been considered the Czech's best surface and she reached the French Open final as a 19-year-old in 2019, losing on the red dirt to Australia's Ashleigh Barty.\n\nSince that Roland Garros final she has not gone past the last 16 at a Grand Slam and has had two wrist surgeries, the latest of which kept her out until last October.\n\n\"I didn't play for six months last year and you never know if you can be at that level again,\" Vondrousova said.\n\n\"I'm so grateful to be here, be healthy and be playing tennis again.\"\n\nVondrousova has grown in belief during the grass-court major, cleaning out four seeded opponents before facing former world number three Svitolina.\n\nThat confidence was illustrated as she started strongly. Vondrousova targeted Svitolina's backhand and reaped the rewards with two breaks of serve in a run of three games against serve to lead 4-3.\n\nVondrousova's loopier forehand caused problems for Svitolina, who hits a flatter ball, and greater consistency from the baseline enabled her to break again in the ninth game to seal the set.\n\nThe run of Svitolina has been one of the storylines of the fortnight.\n\nNot only is she coming back from giving birth to daughter Skai in October, the Ukrainian is also dealing with the emotional aspect of the war back home, which she says she has used as added motivation to win matches.\n\nAs usual, Svitolina showed her determination and will to win even when she fell 4-0 down in the second set and the match looked to be quickly running away from her.\n\nBut she clawed back one break - and then the other - providing herself with hope of a remarkable comeback.\n\nHowever, Vondrousova managed to recover from her edginess to break again and held her nerve in a tense service game to secure victory.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None What happened to Annie Börjesson on a Scottish beach?\n• None The rollercoaster life and career of Kanye West AKA Ye", "UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said Ukraine belongs in Nato\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky may or may not be a Rolling Stones fan - but after this Nato summit, he is probably familiar with their song entitled You Can't Always Get What You Want.\n\nUkraine's president came to Vilnius, Lithuania, with high expectations.\n\nHe was looking for an assurance that his country would join Nato after the war with Russia was over. He wanted membership of the world's most powerful military alliance to be a beacon of hope for his people, the ultimate peace dividend that could ensure that never again would Russian troops despoil the Ukrainian homeland.\n\nInstead, Mr Zelensky was simply told Ukraine would be invited to become a member \"when allies agree and conditions are met\". So far, so noncommittal.\n\nNot surprisingly Ukraine's president hit the roof, saying it was \"absurd\" for Nato leaders not to give even so much as a timetable. The conditions, he said, were \"vague\".\n\nAnd he was furious at the idea that somehow Ukraine's membership of Nato would somehow be a bargaining chip for post-war negotiations with Russia.\n\nBut once President Zelensky met Nato leaders face-to-face, the diplomatic dust settled. They fell over themselves on Wednesday to assure him that things had changed, that Ukraine would join Nato.\n\nUK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the country belonged in the alliance. Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said they met as equals on Wednesday, but would do so as allies in the future. And President Joe Biden - who had done so much to limit what Nato said officially about potential membership - told Mr Zelensky that it was going to happen. Ukraine, he said, was moving in the right direction.\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the summit showed there was now a cultural acceptance that Ukraine belonged in Nato. He said that there were no longer any countries asking \"if\" Ukraine should join, only \"when\".\n\nThat is a lot of warm words for Mr Zelensky to take home to Kyiv in his summit goodie bag.\n\nAdded to that are several other tangible gains: a promise that the process of applying to join Nato will be curtailed, the creation of a new Nato-Ukraine Council which Kyiv can use to summon meetings of the alliance, and, perhaps most significantly, the promise of new, long-term security guarantees made by some of the world's biggest powers.\n\nG7 leaders said they would agree a package of new bilateral assurances of military and economic support for Ukraine, to deter Russian aggression before it joins Nato. That will include more air defences, long-range missiles and even warplanes, as well as more training, intelligence sharing and help with cyber technology. Mr Zelensky called this \"a significant security victory\".\n\nThe one discordant note came from Ben Wallace, who gave a briefing to reporters warning Ukraine it should show more gratitude for the support it has already given.\n\nThis was not a fit of undiplomatic pique, but rather candid advice from a supportive ally. He was saying that Ukraine should do more to understand better the political pressures constraining countries giving them military aid, especially the United States. Turning up in Washington with a shopping list of weapons, treating the US like a branch of Amazon, was, he said, inevitably going to cause a few \"grumbles\".\n\nNot surprisingly this caused a bit of stir in Vilnius.\n\nThe remarks were certainly undiplomatic at a summit designed to demonstrate Nato unity. Rishi Sunak had to disown them publicly, insisting Ukraine had always been grateful. And when Mr Zelensky was asked about the remarks at his own press conference, he looked puzzled and asked his own defence secretary - sitting the stalls - to ring Mr Wallace to find out what he meant.\n\nAll this will prompt some headlines that Nato - and the British government - might regret.\n\nBut perhaps Mr Wallace has unwittingly shone a spotlight on an interesting moment in this war.\n\nFor almost a year-and-a-half, Ukraine's demands have been heard and largely acted upon in western capitals. Kyiv has always been unsatisfied, it has always asked for more, and eventually the west has delivered - from shoulder mounted missiles, to armoured vehicles, to main battle tanks, and now even to cluster munitions.\n\nYet in Vilnius, no meant no. Nato - led by the United States - did not give in to Ukraine's demands and chose strategic caution over an automatic fast-track to membership of the alliance.\n\nSo for President Zelensky, perhaps a diplomatic reality check, that domestic political pressures are beginning to bite in the West and that will shape the global political environment in which he must now operate. A lesson that you can't always get what you want.", "Warning: Contains distressing details of sexual abuse and child cruelty.\n\nEverton midfielder Dele Alli says he was sexually abused when he was six years old.\n\nIn an emotional interview with former England footballer Gary Neville, Dele revealed the abuse he suffered as a child before he was adopted aged 12.\n\nHe said he was \"molested\" aged six, started smoking aged seven and was dealing drugs at eight years old.\n\nDele, 27, recently spent six weeks in rehab because of a sleeping pill addiction and mental health issues.\n\nOne of football's brightest young talents, Dele was part of the England squad that reached the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup and helped Tottenham to the Champions League final in 2019.\n\nHowever, his form dipped and he left Spurs to join Everton in February 2022 before going on loan to Turkish side Besiktas last season.\n\nDele, who earned the last of his 37 England caps in 2019, returned to Everton at the end of last season because of injury.\n\n\"When I came back from Turkey, I found out I needed an operation and I was in a bad place mentally,\" he told The Overlap.\n\n\"I decided to go to a modern-day rehab facility for mental health. They deal with addiction, mental health and trauma.\n\n\"I felt like it was time for me. You can't be told to go there. You have to know and make the decision yourself or it's not going to work. I was caught in a bad cycle. I was relying on things that were doing me harm.\n\n\"I was waking up every day and I was winning the fight, going into training, smiling, showing that I was happy - but inside I was definitely losing the battle. It was time for me to change it.\"\n\nIn a statement, Everton said: \"Everyone at Everton respects and applauds Dele's bravery to speak about the difficulties he has faced, as well as seek the help required.\n\n\"Dele will not be conducting any further interviews in relation to his rehabilitation, and we ask that his privacy is respected while he continues his recuperation from injury and receives the full care and support needed for his physical and mental wellbeing.\"\n\nDele said he had come out of rehab in the United States three weeks ago and \"could never have imagined how much\" he would get from it as \"a lot happened when I was younger that I could never understand and figure out\" and it had helped him on that front.\n\nHe later paused as he became tearful when talking about being \"molested\" by a non-family member.\n\n\"My mum was an alcoholic. I was sent to Africa [to stay with his father] to learn discipline, and then I was sent back,\" he said.\n\n\"At seven, I started smoking, eight I started dealing drugs.\n\n\"An older person told me that they wouldn't stop a kid on a bike, so I rode around with my football, and then underneath I'd have the drugs.\n\n\"Eleven, I was hung off a bridge by a guy from the next estate, a man.\n\n\"Twelve, I was adopted - I was adopted by an amazing family, I couldn't have asked for better people to do what they'd done for me. If God created people, it was them.\"\n\nDele said he is not in contact with his biological parents, adding he feels \"betrayed\" and \"let down\" after they claimed in 2018 his adopted family were taking advantage of him.\n\nHe said he does not \"blame\" his mother \"at all\" after going to rehab helped him \"understand her and what she was going through\" but the \"hurt\" caused by those claims means he does not want a relationship with her.\n\nSpeaking of his father, who last made contact when he was playing for England, Dele added: \"I don't want a relationship with him either.\"\n\nHe changed the name on the back of his shirt to Dele in 2016, saying he felt \"no connection\" with the Alli surname.\n\nDele made his senior football debut aged 16 for MK Dons in 2012 and impressed as the then-League One side beat Manchester United in the League Cup two years later.\n\nHe joined Tottenham in February 2015 and excelled for club and country before he fell out of favour for both.\n\n\"It's been going on for a long time without me realising it,\" said Dele. \"Things I was doing to numb the feelings I had: I didn't realise I was doing it for that purpose, whether it be drinking or whatever.\n\n\"It started with that and then I got addicted to sleeping tablets. It's probably a problem that not only I have but it's something going around more than people realise in football. Maybe me coming out and speaking about it can help people.\n\n\"I definitely abused them too much. I would stop sometimes and go a few months without them but I was never really dealing with the problem.\n\n\"It got really bad at some points and I didn't understand how bad it was but I was never dealing with the root of the problem, which was - when I was growing up - the traumas I had and the feelings I was holding on to.\n\n\"I was taking a lot. I don't want to get into numbers but it was definitely way too much and I had some scary moments.\"\n\nDr Michael Bennett, the director of player wellbeing at the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), said the union \"regularly supports\" members who have developed addictions, including to sleeping tablets.\n\n\"Even administered in small doses, prescription medications can be habit-forming,\" he added.\n\n\"If players are using sleeping tablets or any other prescription medication and are concerned that they may have developed a dependency, we encourage them to speak confidentially with the PFA and access the support we offer.\"\n\nDele, who praised the support offered by Everton, said he was speaking out about his experience sooner than he had planned as some tabloid newspapers had found out about him going into rehab.\n\n\"Unfortunately the way the world is now, the tabloids found out and they were calling my team a lot and saying they knew where I was,\" he said.\n\nDele's best form at Spurs came under the club's former manager Mauricio Pochettino, who was replaced by Jose Mourinho in November 2019.\n\n\"Pochettino - I couldn't have asked for a better manager, him and his team are amazing people,\" said Dele.\n\n\"It wasn't like a footballer and a manager relationship, it was deeper than that and that was what I needed at the time.\n\n\"He was so understanding of the decisions I was making. He cared about me as a person before the football.\"\n\nDele said his \"saddest moment\" came when he was 24, now playing under Mourinho.\n\nHe added: \"One morning I woke up and I had to go to training - this is when he'd stopped playing me - and I was in a bad place.\n\n\"I was literally staring in the mirror and I was asking if I could retire now, at 24, doing the thing I love. That was heartbreaking.\"\n\nHe added Mourinho did apologise for calling him \"lazy\" in the All or Nothing documentary.\n\nDele said he wanted \"to help other people to let them know that they're not alone in the feelings that they've got\".\n\n\"You can talk to people. It doesn't make you weak to get help, to be vulnerable - there's a lot of strength in that. To come out and share my story, I'm happy to do it,\" he said.\n\nOn the playing front, Dele expects to be sidelined for \"another few weeks\" before trying to show he still has the ability to perform in the Premier League.\n\n\"I want to be a better player, a better person,\" he said.\n\n\"I look back and I did good, but I'm not satisfied with that. You can't drive your car looking in the rear view mirror. The journey from here is just exciting for me.\"\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane said he was \"proud\" of his former Spurs team-mate \"for speaking out and sharing his experience to try and help others\".\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said the interview was \"very powerful and brave\" and wished Dele \"good luck\".\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association said: \"It's incredibly brave of Dele to tell his story with such honesty in this important interview.\n\n\"Hearing Dele speak with such openness will make a difference, and his desire to use his own experiences to act as an inspiration to others - inside and outside of football - is something he should be extremely proud of.\"\n\nDele's former club MK Dons said: \"We have always been so proud of Dele, none more so than now, seeing him show tremendous bravery to speak publicly on the matter of his mental health.\n\n\"Dele will always have the love and support of everyone associated with MK Dons.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nDomestic women's football could become a \"billion pound industry\" in 10 years' time says former Lionesses midfielder Karen Carney - the chair of a major review into the sport.\n\nHer 126-page report recommends the top two tiers of women's football in England being fully professional.\n\nIt also calls for a new regular broadcast slot for women's football to be made available on television.\n\n\"It is what needs to be done, to move the sport forward,\" Carney said.\n\nThe ex-Birmingham and Chelsea player added: \"Full-time is full-time. Go for it. Realistically the biggest issue we need to go after is professionalising the women's game and bringing standards up because that is a big problem.\"\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Can women's football be a billion pound industry?\n\nDescribing women's football as a \"start-up business\", Carney said everyone involved from sponsors, broadcasters and the Football Association \"has a responsibility to invest in the game and move it to the next level\".\n\nShe added: \"If you are starting something you have to have an influx of money and I really do believe that in 10 years' time this sport could be a billion pound industry.\n\n\"But these standards and investment are the foundations that lead us to this point. I really do think we will make it [money] back.\"\n\nAn independently club-owned, club-run body is poised to take over the Women's Super League and the Women's Championship next year as the English women's game looks to capitalise on its rapid rise, accelerated by the Lionesses' success at Euro 2022.\n\nA recent report by Deloitte showed Women's Super League club revenues rose by 60% in the 2021-22 season, showing signs of growth before even England's historic Euro 2022 victory.\n\nCombined revenue for the WSL clubs was £32m, an increase of £12m on the previous season thanks in part to a new broadcast deal, however clubs still recorded an aggregate pre-tax loss of £14m.\n\nCarney's findings have focused on several areas including audience reach and growth, the financial health of the game, its long-term financial sustainability and its existing structures - leading to 10 major recommendations, that include:\n• None World leading standards for players, fans, staff, and everyone in the women's game.\n• None To restore the talent pathway needed to create future generations of Lionesses.\n• None Professionalisation across the top two tiers to attract and develop the best players in the world.\n• None To address the lack of diversity across the women's game - in on- and off-pitch roles.\n• None The game's governing bodies to work with broadcasters to create a new dedicated time slot.\n• None More investment in grassroots facilities and better access for females.\n\nCarney, who has worked in the media since her retirement from playing in 2019, was asked to examine issues affecting the game at elite and grassroots levels in September 2022. by the UK government.\n\nThe women's game has made huge progress in recent years and, at grassroots level, has become the most played team sport for women and girls in England, with three million registered players and over 12,000 registered teams.\n\nHowever, both the Covid-19 pandemic and the men's game fan-led review highlighted the shallow resources within women's elite football.\n\nShe appointed a number of experts from across sport and business, including a senior NFL executive, with the UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer calling it an opportunity to \"revolutionise the game\" in a positive and sustainable way.\n\nIn a statement the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Maheta Molango called the report a \"brave, ambitious and detailed plan for the future of women's game\".\n\nAn FA spokeswoman said they would help \"address the challenges and opportunities in the report\" to \"deliver the changes needed\".\n\nThey said: \"These are exciting times for the development of the women's game and we share Karen's vision of creating world leading standards for players, fans, and everyone involved in women's football.\"\n\nWhile the 12-club WSL is fully professional that does not extend to English women's football's second tier.\n\nA significant drop in broadcast fees and FA central funding means that turnovers can be as high as around £7m in the WSL but as low as £150,000 in the Women's Championship, where player wages can be below £5,000 per year.\n\nReading's recent relegation from the WSL saw them revert to part-time football due to the financial implications.\n\nWhen it was put to Carney that more than £10m would be required to redress some of that balance, she passionately defended the need to attract additional income to the game.\n\n\"Do I want players to have to go on the NHS [for treatment of injuries]? No. Do I want players to have to use bin bags for curtains? No,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't want any of this situation any more. There was a lot of evidence in the review of the marketing strategy in place not being able to help the revenues grow.\n\n\"It is what is needed. It is not a negative to invest in women's sport, we have to change the mindset. I understand there is a reality to it.\"\n\nOn proposals to provide one source of funding from levelling FA Cup prize money across the men's and women's game, she added: \"I'd hope there would not be a backlash.\n\n\"There are so many issues and women's sport has struggled for so long I'd hope there'd be an understanding but with anything there'll always be someone who will challenge it.\n\n\"I could have said equalise prize money right now but that would have taken down the pyramid of men's football. We should absolutely be going for equal prize money [in the future] from the FA Cup and the FA should be putting a timescale on that.\"\n\n'Five weeks out can turn into five months' - injury improvements\n\nA long-standing issue that Carney is keen to see addressed urgently is the relative lack of medical support offered to female players in comparison to their male counterparts.\n\nA Fifa report in 2021 showed that a quarter of top-division women's clubs around the world do not employ a physio or team doctor and while there have been improvements Carney says there are still issues around the quality and continuity of care provided.\n\n\"There was a player who should have been out for five weeks and was out five months,\" Carney said.\n\n\"We've seen players pretty much say we are going to have to go into early retirement because of the medical situation. It is a systemic issue about women's health not just in sport but outside, it has to be better.\n\n\"Don't forget in the Championship there are players working three of four jobs. They are never going to be able to compete and it is not because they don't have the ability, it is the resources.\n\n\"Are they hydrated? Are they getting the right nutrients to perform? Are they fatigued? That is why we want minimum standards to come in to keep that competitive nature.\n\n\"We want all our players to be fit, available and playing because then the product is at its best because that's what the fans, broadcasters and players want.\"\n\nFootball's governing bodies have talked of exploring whether WSL fixtures can be televised on Saturday afternoons to help grow the audience.\n\nLast term, WSL matches consistently kicked off at 11.30am on Saturdays and 6.45pm on Sundays to avoid scheduling clashes with men's games.\n\nNo matches are currently shown during the '3pm blackout' slot in order to encourage attendance at games.\n\nHowever, Carney believes there is no simplistic solution: \"It's very clear we need to find a slot specific for women's football.\n\n\"Men's football is really easily signposted, it is really difficult for women's football to have a slot and stand out.\n\n\"We have to look at it, it is a really saturated market and this is what we are up against.\"\n\n'We need to keep pushing' - improving diversity\n\nCarney's 'raising the bar' review also identifies the need to create a workforce strategy for the women's game and the need to create greater diversity on and off the pitch.\n\nFormer Brighton defender Fern Whelan, who is now an equalities executive at the PFA, echoed those comments in response to the report.\n\n\"We can all see that there is a lack of representation across the women's game,\" Whelan said.\n\n\"That isn't by design, or something the game needs to be defensive about. It's something where we've acknowledged there is an issue and begun to take action, but we need to keep pushing.\n\n\"It's positive that the review has highlighted the lack of diversity across the women's game as something that needs to be urgently addressed.\n\n\"Are we doing enough to encourage girls and young women from diverse backgrounds into the game? Are we making the professional pathway accessible enough? It's often about practicalities as well as culture.\"\n\nThis is a highly significant moment in English women's football.\n\nThe report has strong backing from the PFA and FifPro, who have worked closely with the review board to ensure players from all backgrounds have been able to share their experiences in confidence.\n\nThere is a range of issues which will need long-term vision and patience to adapt to, but there are also clear short-term recommendations.\n\nAmong the most crucial are improved medical support, calls for fully funded union representation, better prize money and a dedicated WSL broadcast spot - all of which can be addressed immediately.\n\nThere are no legal enforcements given its an independent report, but the simple fact so many have come together to provide a detailed review suggests it will be hard for the likes of the FA - and the WSL takeover company - to ignore.", "The Secret Service said the investigation had ended due to a lack of physical evidence\n\nThe US Secret Service has closed its investigation into the discovery of cocaine in the White House.\n\nIt said it had attempted to determine a suspect through fingerprints, DNA traces and video evidence, but had not been able to do so.\n\nThe cocaine was discovered earlier this month in a storage area of the West Wing where visitors taking tours must leave their mobile phones.\n\nPresident Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland at the time.\n\nThe small plastic bag used to contain the drugs was discovered in an area that can be accessed by members of the public, and where mobile phones and other personal devices are stored before entering the White House.\n\nAfter it was first discovered, safety closures were put in place so it could be determined that the substance \"was not a chemical or radiological material that threatened the security of the White House\", the Secret Service said in a statement.\n\nTests on the material determined it was cocaine, and further analysis was carried out on the composition of the substance. Advanced fingertip and DNA analysis on its packaging were also carried out by the FBI's crime laboratory.\n\nMeanwhile, the Secret Service continued to investigate how the substance arrived in the White House, reviewing security systems in the day leading up to the discovery of the cocaine.\n\nIt produced \"an index of several hundred individuals\" who \"may have accessed\" the area where the drug was found.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Secret Service received the forensic evidence back from the FBI. This showed it did not have enough DNA evidence for comparison, and had not developed \"latent fingerprints\".\n\n\"Therefore, the Secret Service is not able to compare evidence against the known pool of individuals,\" it said in a statement.\n\nIt added that the surveillance footage had also not been of use, and it would mean trying to single out someone from \"hundreds of individuals\" who passed through the area - without having any physical evidence to do so.\n\nThe Secret Service added that it \"takes its mission to protect US leaders, facilities, and events seriously\" and it is \"constantly adapting to meet the needs of the current and future security environment\".\n\nCocaine is a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning it has a high potential for abuse, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.\n\nThe White House has said the drug was found in a \"heavily travelled area of the campus\", but the closure of the investigation without finding a culprit has sparked outrage among Republican lawmakers.\n\nSeveral lawmakers expressed dissatisfaction with the Secret Service after receiving a confidential briefing on Thursday.\n\nSouth Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News \"somebody needs to be fired for letting it happen\", while Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett said nobody is buying the \"clown show\".\n\nBut Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin said, while he found the incident \"troubling\", drug testing some 500 people who might have brought in the drugs would be an \"overblown response\".", "Hundreds of vulnerable children will be in illegal accommodation this winter because there are no places for them in children's homes, care providers say.\n\nIn March, the government extended a ban on unregulated homes to children in care aged 16 and 17, following BBC investigations.\n\nThe BBC found some had been forced to live in caravans and barges - and experienced organised abuse.\n\nA crackdown gets under way in October, when Ofsted begins regulating settings.\n\nAll unregulated care settings, which can include individual houses and flats in residential areas, will become illegal.\n\nBut local authorities - which have a legal duty to provide homes for children - may be forced to keep using them because they will have no alternative.\n\nAbout 80% of regulated children's homes in England are provided by private companies, which are suffering chronic staff shortages and a severe squeeze on places.\n\nMark Kerr, of the Children's Homes Association, this week warned MPs of an urgent need for more resources.\n\n\"We have a crisis now that's going to deteriorate,\" he told the Commons education committee, but \"despite repeated calls we are getting no joy from the department of education\".\n\nThe government banned local authorities from housing under-16s in unregulated settings in 2021. In March, it extended the ban to unregulated placements for 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\nBut many local authorities have continued to place children in unregulated accommodation.\n\n\"The reality is that hundreds of highly vulnerable children and young people will have nowhere to go,\" said a spokesperson for the Children's Homes Association, in a statement.\n\nIt said a workforce crisis and a rise in numbers of children coming into care - with a significant increase in those facing sexual and criminal exploitation - meant there would be a shortfall in regulated placements.\n\n\"We face an unprecedented crisis in residential childcare without urgent action to address workforce challenges,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nIn recent years, many local authorities have resorted to applying for court orders to restrict children's liberty as a solution to managing the risks they are facing, according to the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.\n\nSuch Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) orders can permit children to be kept under constant supervision behind locked doors and windows - in homes that need to be tailored to the risks they are considered to face.\n\nThe Children's Homes Association estimates that at least 800 children on DoL orders will have to be re-homed from October. It says it is these children - which it describes as the most vulnerable in the care system - who face the most acute shortage of regulated placements.\n\nLouise Gittins, chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: \"We have long raised concerns over the availability of homes for children in care and it is vital government works with us to address these.\n\n\"The need for children's home accommodation currently outstrips supply, and this is undoubtedly driving the increasing use of unregulated and unregistered accommodation.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said it was the responsibility of local authorities to provide safe placements.\n\n\"Local authorities are responsible for providing safe, appropriate homes for children, and are held to account for the quality of care they provide.\n\n\"We are investing over £142m over three years to make sure the transition to Ofsted registration is successful.\"", "Thirty million users have signed up for Meta's newly launched Threads app on its first day, the company's chief Mark Zuckerberg says.\n\nHe pitched the app as a \"friendly\" rival to Twitter, which was bought by Elon Musk in October.\n\nExperts say Threads could attract Twitter users unhappy with recent changes to the platform.\n\nBut Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino said though Twitter is \"often imitated\", its community can \"never be duplicated\".\n\nThreads allows users to post up to 500 characters, and has many features similar to Twitter.\n\nEarlier, Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform \"friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success\".\n\nBut Mr Musk responded: \"It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.\"\n\nWhen asked on Threads whether the app will be \"bigger than Twitter\", Mr Zuckerberg said: \"It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it.\n\n\"Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will.\"\n\nThe launch has had a warm response online, with one person telling the BBC they saw Threads as a \"much-needed competitor\" to Twitter.\n\nCompetitors have criticised the amount of data the app might use. This may include health, financial, and browsing data linked to users' identities, according to the Apple App Store.\n\nSome users have also expressed concern that it is not possible to delete your Threads profile without deleting the associated Instagram profile. Meta told the BBC: \"At this time, you can't delete your Threads profile without deleting your Instagram account. This is something we're working on. In the meantime, you can deactivate your Threads profile at any time.\n\n\"Deactivating your Threads profile will not deactivate your Instagram account\".\n\nDeactivation will mean your Threads profile, your posts and interactions with others' posts won't be visible, the firm added.\n\nUsers can download and delete Threads data by visiting their Instagram settings, Meta says.\n\nThreads is now available to download in over 100 countries including the UK, but not yet in the EU because of regulatory concerns.\n\nHave you signed up for Threads and what do you think of the app? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nMeta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, called the new app an \"initial version\", with extra features planned including the ability to interact with people on other social media apps like Mastodon.\n\n\"Our vision with Threads is to take what Instagram does best and expand that to text,\" the firm said prior to its launch.\n\nDespite Threads being a standalone app, users log in using an Instagram account. Their Instagram username carries over, but there is an option to customize their profile specifically for Threads.\n\nUsers will also be able to choose to follow the same accounts they do on Instagram, Meta says. The app allows users to be private on Instagram, but public on Threads.\n\nThe new app's release comes after criticism of Meta's business practices.\n\nLast year, Meta whistleblower Frances Haugen said the company had put \"profits over safety\" and criticised how the platform was moderated.\n\nThe company was also rocked by a scandal in which it allowed third parties, including British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, to access Facebook users' personal data.\n\nIn an apparent reference to this controversial past, Mr Musk joked on Monday \"thank goodness they're so sanely run\".\n\nThere are several alternatives to Twitter available, such as Bluesky and Mastodon, but these have struggled to gain traction.\n\nThreads has a significant advantage because it is connected to Instagram, and the hundreds of millions of users already on that platform.\n\nOn Threads, posts can be shared to Instagram and vice versa and can include links, photos, and videos of up to five minutes in length.\n\nHowever, some early users on Wednesday reported problems when uploading images, hinting at teething problems.\n\nUsers see a feed of posts, which Meta calls \"threads\", from people they follow as well as recommended content.\n\nThey are able to control who can \"mention\" them and filter out replies to posts that contain specific words.\n\nUnfollowing, blocking, restricting or reporting other profiles is also possible, and any accounts users block on Instagram are automatically blocked on Threads.\n\nWhile Meta stresses ties to Instagram, media coverage has focused on its similarity to Twitter, with some investors describing the app as a \"Twitter killer\".\n\nPosts can be shared between Threads and Instagram and can include links, photos, and videos\n\nOn Saturday, Twitter boss Elon Musk restricted the number of tweets users could see on his platform per day, citing extreme \"data scraping\".\n\nIt was Mr Musk's latest push to get users to sign up to Twitter Blue, the platform's subscription service.\n\nTwitter has also announced that its popular user dashboard TweetDeck will go behind a paywall in 30 days' time.\n\nSince Mr Musk took over, many users of Twitter have publicly expressed their dissatisfaction with the platform and his stewardship - citing erratic behaviour and political views.\n\nLast month, Mr Musk and Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg agreed - possibly in jest - to a cage fight, and Mr Zuckerberg's early posts on Threads mentioned his interest in mixed martial arts.\n\nWhile Threads will be available in the UK, it is not yet available in the EU because of regulatory uncertainty, particularly around the EU's Digital Markets Act.\n\nBut the company says it is looking into launching in the EU.\n\nThat act lays down rules on how large companies such as Meta can share data between platforms that they own. The sharing of data between Threads and Instagram is part of the issue.\n\nMeta maintains protecting privacy is fundamental to its business.", "Meta has launched its much-teased rival to Twitter, Threads, in the UK and US. The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman and North America technology correspondent James Clayton have both tried out the app. Here are their first impressions.\n\nIt was the middle of the night in the UK when my phone buzzed to let me know that Meta Threads, the new social network app I'd pre-ordered on the App Store, had been installed.\n\nGiven the timing, I wasn't expecting much to be going on from a UK location. I already have an Instagram account so within three clicks I had a profile, and I selected to follow everybody I already follow on the photo-sharing app.\n\nSuddenly it was like I'd walked through the door to a great big house party. Loads of people were signing up, writing their first posts, responding to others and commenting on the new surroundings.\n\nI had dozens of followers in the first five minutes, and nearly 500 as I write this. (I've still got fewer than 300 on another Twitter alternative, the Jack Dorsey-founded text-based network, BlueSky, which I've been on for weeks.)\n\nIf you're familiar with Twitter, you'll recognise the design of Threads instantly. Everything from the heart-shaped symbol to \"like\" a post, to the circle of arrows denoting the feature to repost, is the same.\n\nSome early complaints include the lack of a private messaging feature, no hashtags or trends to help navigate popular content, and no timeline curation options other than the ability to mute accounts or words, and block others.\n\nBut I feel we should add the word \"yet\" - Threads is officially only a few hours old (although it is its second outing following an earlier version in 2019 that was discontinued. Perhaps the world wasn't yet ready, or sufficiently annoyed with the goings on at Twitter).\n\nWhat stands it apart from other Twitter rivals is the instant integration of this vast, ready-made Instagram community. Two billion people use the photo-sharing app and this offers an easy way for them all to land on another platform.\n\nThis makes it instantly engaging, which will appeal hugely to advertisers, who I imagine will eventually fund it, although there will apparently be no ads for the first year.\n\nFirst impressions of Threads: can Meta do this? Is this not somehow plagiarism?\n\nThe app looks almost identical to Twitter. The news feed, the reposting. It's all incredibly familiar.\n\nMark Zuckerberg claims millions of people have signed up in the first few hours. You should always be sceptical when a tech boss says how many users have signed up to a platform. But it does feel like a lot of people are already on it.\n\nThat's partly because it's connected to Instagram. Meta isn't creating an app from scratch. It's benefiting from its two billion Instagram followers that are giving it a massive shot in the arm.\n\nPlatforms like Bluesky and Mastodon did not have this luxury. They started with zero users.\n\nBut whether this is \"fair\" or not, Mr Zuckerberg doesn't care. He's copied other apps before to great success (Reels is a clone of TikTok) and he's happy to do so again.\n\nKnowing the power of celebrity, Mr Zuckerberg has also utilised famous names on Instagram and managed to get some of them on Threads, like Shakira and Gordon Ramsay.\n\nMr Zuckerberg will be thrilled with the buzz around the app. When it comes to social media, it's all about the network effect. The more people use the app, the better the app is.\n\nWhen it comes to social media, the network effect can create a sort of tipping point. When so many of your friends or people you want to hear from are on a platform, you kind of feel you have to join.\n\nIt's very, very hard to create a network effect on a social media platform. But when it works, it really works. The reverse is also true. When communities leave a social media platform, they can do so quickly - and it can be devastating. Think Myspace or Bebo.\n\nLet's go to some of the problems with Threads, though.\n\nUnlike Twitter, which has two feeds - a recommendations feed and an option just to see tweets from those you follow - Threads has just one feed that blends your followers and content it thinks you will want. That could get annoying.\n\nIt doesn't seem to have desktop functionality yet - it doesn't work well on your computer. That's a shame.\n\nThere doesn't seem to be any trending information, so it's hard to see what's going viral.\n\nAnd when it comes to verification, users can still buy their blue ticks for a monthly fee, just as you can with Twitter.\n\nMark Zuckerberg described the app as an \"initial version\" - and that's what it feels like. It does the basics well. But this is a no-thrills app right now.\n\nThat said, Meta's boss will be over the moon with how this has gone so far. Considering the bad press he's got over the years, he is reinventing himself as the adult in the room - the sensible tech billionaire who wants a friendly social media platform.\n\nYou can tell this has riled Elon Musk. \"Thank goodness they're so sanely run,\" he tweeted sarcastically on Monday.\n\nBut if Mr Zuckerberg was nervous that disaffected Twitter uses would spurn Meta's offer, so far, it looks like those fears were unfounded.\n\nAnd if that is the case, with an app that works perfectly well, if not spectacularly, that could be a real problem for Mr Musk.", "Oleh was hit in the back by shrapnel from a Russian mortar\n\nAs the anaesthetic began to wear off, the Ukrainian soldier - a scrawny, mud-flecked 19-year-old - let out a low wail in the back of the ambulance, then fumbled with his oxygen mask and swore as he mumbled: \"Give me my rifle.\"\n\n\"They're often like this. So much trauma,\" said Dr Inna Dymitr, stroking the soldier's pale face as he slipped back into unconsciousness and the ambulance swerved, at furious speed, heading away from the frontlines south-east of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nThe young soldier's name was Oleh. In a trench that morning, shrapnel from an exploding Russian mortar had dug a large hole in his lower back, quite possibly severing his spinal cord.\n\n\"He's stable, but in a serious condition. We get so many like him,\" said Dr Dymitr, listing half a dozen other cases from recent days. She works for a private, Western-funded aid group, MOAS.\n\nAs the casualties from Ukraine's counter-offensive mount, it is easy to see why - on a rare visit to this closely guarded section of the southern front - some soldiers and observers are starting to wonder if a breakthrough is possible, or whether Russia's defensive lines, built up and heavily-reinforced over the winter months, are simply too much of a barrier.\n\n\"Without more [Western] help, I think we might lose this game,\" said Kyrylo Potras, a Ukrainian marine whose lower left leg was torn off by a Russian mine in 2020, but who has now returned to the frontlines. Potras said the presence of vast Russian minefields was proving a huge obstacle.\n\n\"These Russians… there are a lot [of them]. They have many anti-tank guns and missile systems,\" he said.\n\nAnd yet, one month into this long-planned counter-attack, there are plenty of soldiers and experts who vehemently disagree, judging that the opening phase is going according to plan, and that the active frontline - which stretches in a rough arc for more than 1,000km (620 miles) from the Black Sea Coast up to Ukraine's north-eastern border with Russia - was never going to be breached with the same abrupt speed that Kyiv's forces achieved last year.\n\nHaving spent the last few weeks visiting three separate sections of the front and talking to a range of people, I'm tempted to divide these differing perspectives into three broad groups: those who see Russia's defensive lines as if they're made of tin, those who see them as wood, and those who imagine them as glass.\n\nThe tin theory - malleable but resilient - was first sketched out for me, more than two weeks ago, by a weary medic I met at a field hospital close to the near-obliterated Donbas town of Bakhmut.\n\nAmidst the crash and boom of artillery fire, he described Ukraine's mounting casualties, warned that Russia had had too long to prepare its defences and had too many troops, and concluded that while Ukraine might be able to push the frontline back, perhaps even by tens of kilometres, it would struggle to do more than dent Russia's over-all strategic hold of east and south-eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"I think this war will not be resolved in the battlefield. It will end with a political deal,\" he said gloomily.\n\nThe wood theory - by which I mean a frontline more likely to snap and splinter, but not collapse - was brought home to me some three hours' drive southwest of Bakhmut, beyond the small town of Velyka Novosilka.\n\nIn the fields and rolling hills that stretch towards the Black Sea, Ukrainian forces were pushing forwards, finding ways through the minefields and attacking Russian positions from unexpected angles, and - slowly, but steadily - capturing significant chunks of territory and several villages and small towns.\n\n\"I'm a realist, although some people call me a pessimist,\" said Artem, a 36-year-old soldier, as a Ukrainian jet roared overhead. His view was that Russian troop morale was low, and that Ukraine was likely to make some significant breakthroughs in the coming months. But he could not see the counter-offensive turning into a rout, like it briefly did last November.\n\nArtem does not believe the Russians will be routed, as they were from parts of eastern Ukraine last year\n\n\"The media and society are in a hurry. [But] the worst option is always possible,\" he added, wondering what sort of \"price\" Ukraine would be prepared to make in terms of the likely casualties involved forcing a strategic break in Russia's frontlines.\n\nIt is notable that the gloomier perspectives regarding Ukraine's counter-offensive tend to come from soldiers closest to the frontlines and most heavily involved in combat operations.\n\nYou could argue that they have the most experience and the most realistic views. But it's also reasonable to point out that these soldiers are least able to see the bigger picture, focused, as they are, on small sections of a huge military operation.\n\nWhich brings me to the glass theory: the view - widely held by prominent western military analysts like Mick Ryan and generals like UK armed forces chief Sir Tony Radakin - that the counter-offensive is on course and that in weeks, or months, Russia's defences will shatter, allowing Ukraine to seize strategically significant territory and to advance close to (if not into) the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nThis theory's supporters urge patience, not pessimism, arguing that Ukraine's lack of airpower means it cannot do the vital early work of destroying Russia's \"operational system\" - meaning its logistical supply-lines and command centres - with the speed it would like.\n\nInstead, Ukrainian forces are using ground-based missiles to do the work, and at the same time attacking Russian positions in as many places as possible in order to tie up, and destroy, as much enemy manpower and equipment as possible.\n\n\"Starve, stretch and strike,\" was how Sir Tony, Britain's Chief of Defence Staff, described the strategy in parliament this week, concluding that Russia has already \"lost nearly half the combat effectiveness of its army.\"\n\nWe believe and wait... We just need to be patient\n\nIn another field hospital - where Oleh, the 19-year-old soldier with a severe back injury had briefly been patched up by medics before getting an ambulance ride to Zaporizhzhia - a Ukrainian doctor who asked that we use only his first name, Yevhen, summed up what I would still describe as the dominant, and optimistic, mood of most Ukrainian soldiers and officials I've met here.\n\n\"Everyone is waiting for [the breakthrough]. We believe and wait. We know everything will be fine. We just need to be patient,\" he said with a smile, sitting in the sunshine outside the well-organised field hospital, with the boom of outgoing artillery rounds echoing in the distance.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Elle Edwards was an innocent bystander when she was shot outside a pub\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering Elle Edwards who was shot outside a pub on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Edwards was an innocent bystander when Connor Chapman opened fire with a sub-machine gun as he targeted two men in the culmination of a gang feud.\n\nThe beautician, 26, was enjoying a night out with friends when she was shot outside the Lighthouse in Wirral.\n\nTim Edwards called his daughter's killer \"a coward\" as he was taken down to the cells at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nHe had tears in his eyes and stared at Chapman as the verdicts were returned and quietly said, \"yes\".\n\nSpeaking outside court, he said: \"It's a big relief because now we can start again.\n\n\"We've been through hell and we deserve now to be given a life back that we had before, which will never be the same.\n\n\"It's now a new chapter, it's a new beginning for our family.\n\n\"It's the worst day, but the best of the worst days.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tim Edwards describes Connor Chapman as a \"coward\" following the verdict\n\nCo-defendant Thomas Waring, 20, was also found guilty of the possession of a prohibited firearm and assisting an offender by helping to burn out the stolen Mercedes used in the shooting.\n\nMr Justice Goose said he would sentence Chapman and Waring at 14:00 BST on Friday.\n\nAs the judge told the security guards to take both men to the cells, Mr Edwards said \"coward\" to Chapman, who had hidden in the far corner of the dock to try to keep out of view.\n\nThe trial heard the attack followed a feud between gangs on the Woodchurch and Beechwood estates, on either side of the M53 in Wirral.\n\nConnor Chapman and Thomas Waring were convicted following a three-and-a-half week trial\n\nThe prosecution said Chapman was attempting to kill Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, both of whom were seriously injured in the shooting.\n\nThe pair, from the Beechwood estate, had attacked another man, Sam Searson, in the street the day before, the trial was told.\n\nThree other men who were unconnected to the feud, Harry Loughran, Liam Carr and Nicholas Speed, were also injured in the shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of Connor Chapman's attack, which killed Elle Edwards, is released.\n\nChapman lay in wait outside the pub in a stolen Mercedes for almost three hours before firing the weapon, which was capable of firing 15 rounds a second.\n\nHe told the jury he had not been using the vehicle, which he described as a \"pool car\" for him and other criminals, on the night of the murder but had given the car key to another man, whom he refused to name.\n\nCCTV footage showed Chapman drive away from the Lighthouse in the moments after the shooting and then arrive at Private Drive in Barnston, the home of Waring.\n\nHe was then seen in the footage appearing to drop the gun as he walked towards Waring's home.\n\nMs Edwards was fatally shot outside the Lighthouse pub\n\nChapman admitted a charge of handling stolen goods before the trial started.\n\nHe told the jury on 31 December he had travelled with the unnamed man who took the car key when the Mercedes was burnt out in Frodsham, Cheshire.\n\nHe denied that Waring had been with him, although mobile phone evidence showed Waring's phone travelled with the car.\n\nChapman fled to a holiday home in Montgomery in Wales and was arrested at a Tesco store in Newtown in Wales on 10 January.\n\nChapman was also found guilty of attempted murder, two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, as well as possession of a gun and ammunition.\n\nBoth men were convicted following a three-and-a-half week trial with the jury deliberating for three hours and 48 minutes.\n\nChapman used a Skorpion sub-machine gun similar to the one which was shown to the jury\n\nOn Thursday morning, before the jury was sent out to deliberate, Waring appeared in the dock with a red mark visible above his eye and on his cheekbone.\n\nIn a hearing which can be reported following the conclusion of the trial, William England, defending Waring, said he had been attacked after arriving back at HMP Altcourse on Wednesday.\n\nHe said: \"He was smashed around the side of the face with a kettle and told 'that's what happens to grasses'.\"\n\nMr England said the man who carried out the attack later said if he had not done it, he would have been stabbed.\n\nWaring did not give evidence in the trial but, in cross-examination, his barrister suggested Chapman had gone to his home on Private Drive, Barnston, following the shooting.\n\nChapman claimed he was at home all night and denied claims he was the man seen on CCTV near Waring's home.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Det Supt Paul Grounds said Chapman had \"continued to deny his involvement in Elle's death, forcing her family to endure the ordeal of a trial where they have had to relive over and over the last moments of her life\".\n\n\"His cowardly actions on that night rightly shocked the whole of Merseyside and the UK,\" he said.\n\nHe said Chapman's decision to fire at the crowd outside the pub showed the \"arrogance and contempt he had for anyone else\".\n\nWaring helped to burn out the stolen Mercedes after Ms Edwards was murdered\n\nDet Supt Grounds said the jury had \"seen through\" Chapman's lies and \"righty convicted him\", adding: \"I am pleased that we have secured justice for Elle and her family and that a dangerous man has been removed from the streets.\"\n\nMerseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell said the force has worked \"around the clock\" with many officers \"forsaking their own Christmases\" to support the victims, reassure people nearby and \"bring Chapman to justice\".\n\nShe said she wanted to thank the \"many brave witnesses\" who came forward with evidence \"to ensure this toxic individual was brought to justice and the wider community of Wallasey who pulled together with empathy and compassion\".\n\n\"Dangerous, ruthless individuals like Chapman will never be welcome in Merseyside.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Head teacher Ruth Perry took her own life in January\n\nThe school run by a head teacher who took her own life after a critical Ofsted report has been rated as good after a new inspection.\n\nRuth Perry died in January after being told Caversham Primary School in Berkshire was being downgraded from outstanding to inadequate.\n\nThe school was re-inspected after Ms Perry's death, which prompted an outpouring of anger about the system.\n\nOfsted has defended its one-word grades, which are not being scrapped.\n\nThe head teacher's sister Prof Julia Waters said it was a \"very bittersweet moment\", but confirmed \"what anyone who knew Ruth and the school knew all along\".\n\nShe said one-word grades do not give an accurate reflection of the strengths and weaknesses \"of a complex organisation like a school\".\n\nHer sister's case showed how it is \"terribly, potentially fatally dangerous to try to sum up everything in one word\", she told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight programme.\n\nHer loss has been \"absolutely devastating to so many people\" she said, adding: \"The ripple effect of her death is immeasurable. The harm done by that one word is absolutely immeasurable\".\n\nOfsted inspected the school again in June in line with government guidelines to monitor schools that need to improve - and not as a result of Ms Perry's death.\n\nIn their latest report, seen by the BBC, the watchdog said: \"The school's work to address previous weaknesses has been swift, thorough and effective.\"\n\nThe primary school was initially inspected in November 2022 and subsequently rated inadequate after concerns were raised over leadership and management.\n\nMs Perry's family said the inspection process caused her significant distress.\n\nFor Caversham Primary school this is a bittersweet moment for staff and parents.\n\nIt's just six months since Ruth Perry's suicide left a gaping hole in the school community.\n\nFor her colleagues this is recognition of everything they have done.\n\nFor her family it raises again the question of whether the stakes of Ofsted inspection have been far too high for headteachers.\n\nMPs are to hold an inquiry in the autumn looking at how the inspection system is working. It won't consider the circumstances around Ruth Perry's death, which will be examined by a coroner.\n\nThe new report said useful advice was sought from beyond the school straight after the last inspection.\n\n\"In particular, this helped leaders to understand fully the extent of the weaknesses in safeguarding arrangements and prioritise what needed to be done,\" the report said.\n\nIn a statement, the head teacher's sister Ms Waters said staff at the school who had worked with or been trained by Ms Perry had never been anything other than \"excellent, caring and professional\".\n\nShe added: \"The reversal of the previous judgement in a matter of a few months illustrates why schools should be given the opportunity to correct any technical weaknesses before the final report is published.\n\n\"An inspection should be about helping schools with independent scrutiny, not catching them out and publicly shaming them.\"\n\n\"That Ruth was left feeling suicidal as a result of Ofsted's previous judgement demonstrates, in the most tragic way possible, the intolerably high stakes created by the current inspection system,\" she added.\n\nAn inquest later this year will fully investigate Ms Perry's death, which also prompted a wider debate about whether one-word grades for schools make sense.\n\nIn their latest report Ofsted said the arrangements for safeguarding at Caversham Primary School were effective.\n\n\"A positive culture of safeguarding now pervades the school,\" it added.\n\nLast month, Ofsted announced changes to its inspection system.\n\nThese included allowing schools that were given an inadequate rating over safeguarding to be re-inspected within three months, giving them a chance to be re-graded if they have addressed concerns.\n\nOfsted previously said it always strived to make inspections \"as positive an experience for school staff as they can be\".\n\nMPs have now launched an inquiry into Ofsted's school inspections, looking at how useful they are to parents, governors and schools in England.\n\nAmanda Spielman, the watchdog's chief inspector, previously told the BBC the \"whole school accountability system\" was built around the one-word judgements.\n\nShe acknowledged there were issues around accountability at schools but said scrapping one-word judgements \"wouldn't really solve the underlying discomfort\".\n\nThe Department for Education has also defended one-word inspections.\n\nIt said they \"succinctly summarise independent evaluations on the quality of education, safeguarding, and leadership which parents greatly rely on to give them confidence in choosing the right school for their child\".\n\nIt said the government used them to \"highlight success, identify schools that need support and to trigger intervention where necessary.\"\n\nWatch the story of head teacher, Ruth Perry, who took her life after her school's rating was downgraded by Ofsted.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "The Scottish government has called for the decriminalisation of all drugs for personal use.\n\nIt wants the UK government to change the laws to allow people to be \"treated and supported rather than criminalised and excluded\".\n\nHowever, it would still be an offence to have possession of drugs with the intention of supplying them to others.\n\nThe government also wants the law to be changed to allow the introduction of supervised drug consumption facilities.\n\nDrugs laws are currently reserved to Westminster.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government has responsibility for health and social policies around drug consumption.\n\nOther proposals from the Scottish government include more substance checking services and increased access to emergency treatments for drug overdoses.\n\nAnnouncing the proposals, Scotland's Drugs Policy Minister Elena Whitham said the \"war on drugs has failed\".\n\nShe added: \"That's a fact. I don't think we can dispute that.\n\n\"Our current drug law does not stop people from using drugs, it does not stop people from experiencing the harm associated and, critically, it does not stop people from dying.\n\n\"In fact, I would say today here, that criminalisation increases the harms people experience. Criminalisation kills.\"\n\nThe call comes four years after the SNP backed decriminalising the possession and consumption of drugs at its party conference.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Illegal drugs destroy lives and devastate communities. We are committed to preventing drug use by supporting people through treatment and recovery and tackling the supply of illegal drugs, as set out in our 10-year drugs strategy. \"We have no plans to decriminalise drugs given the associated harms, including the risks posed by organised criminals, who will use any opportunity to operate an exploitative and violent business model.\"\n\nThe number of people who died of drug misuse in Scotland dropped slightly last year from 1,339 to 1,330 after eight consecutive years of increases, but the country continues to have by far the highest drug death rate recorded by any country in Europe.\n\nThe crisis prompted more than £250m of investment by the Scottish government into the country's addiction services.\n\nEfforts to establish drug consumption rooms in Scotland have been ongoing for years.\n\nCampaigners say the facilities - where people can inject drugs under supervision - are needed and are backed by the Scottish government.\n\nHowever, an attempt to set up consumption rooms in Glasgow was blocked by UK government, which argued a range of crimes would be committed in the course of running such facilities.\n\nIn 2021, a decision by the Lord Advocate meant people caught with Class A drugs in Scotland could be given a police warning instead of facing prosecution.\n\nCritics at the time said the move, which does not extend to drug dealing, was \"de facto decriminalisation\".\n\nScottish Conservative justice spokesman Russell Findlay added: \"It is madness to try and solve Scotland's drug death crisis, the worst in Europe, by essentially legalising heroin, crack and other class-A drugs.\n\n\"This would put more drugs on our streets. It would put more lives at risk. \"\n\nThe shift was also ruled out by UK Labour with shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves telling journalists during a visit to Scotland: \"I don't think this sounds like a good policy.\"\n\nA joint statement from 10 leading drugs charities welcomed the Scottish government's report, but said drug consumption rooms and drug testing facilities \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nIt's the first week of the Scottish Parliament recess. It's a Friday. It's the junior minister.\n\nAn unusual way to launch a major policy change on drugs.\n\nThe decriminalisation of personal drug possession is designed, as the minister says, to save lives.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has already said there's a presumption against prosecution for personal drug possession - but that's only a presumption.\n\nThis new policy draws a thick red line under that.\n\nCouple decriminalisation with drug treatment rooms and Scotland could have a very new approach to tackling a huge problem.\n\nWe have more than three times the deaths from drugs overdoses than any European country.\n\nThe Scottish government calls these plans ambitious and radical.\n\nPerhaps hard to argue with that. This is a significant proposal - but is it one to take seriously, given the circumstances of the launch?\n\nYes, say the government's partners the Scottish Green Party - and also the Scottish Liberal Democrats.\n\nScottish Labour don't think it's the right approach. One of the party's MSPs has consulted though on a potential bill for Overdose Prevention Centres.\n\nLabour add that communities blighted by drugs are often over-looked in the debate.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives think it's \"madness\" and Downing Street has already said \"no\".\n\nBoth Conservatives and Labour claim this is another, cooked-up constitutional grievance from the SNP.\n\nSo, once again more constitutional arguments - but some argue there's no time left for that.", "Elle Edwards had been enjoying a festive drink when she was shot dead\n\nThe gunman who shot dead Elle Edwards outside a pub on Christmas Eve has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 48 years.\n\nMs Edwards was an innocent bystander when Connor Chapman opened fire with a sub-machine gun as he targeted two men in the culmination of a gang feud.\n\nThe beautician, 26, was enjoying a night out with friends when she was shot outside the Lighthouse in Wirral.\n\nChapman, 23, was found guilty of her murder at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nMembers of her family shouted \"goodbye lad\", \"scumbag\" and \"rat\" as he was taken down to the cells.\n\nPassing sentence, Mr Justice Goose told him: \"What you did, Connor Chapman, was as wicked as it was shocking.\n\n\"You murdered Elle Edwards, bringing an end to her young life.\"\n\nHe described Chapman as a \"highly dangerous man\" who carefully pre-meditated and planned the \"revenge attack\".\n\n\"You spent the days afterwards removing or destroying evidence that would identify you as the gunman.\"\n\nCo-defendant Thomas Waring, 20, was jailed for nine years for helping Chapman burn out a stolen Mercedes used in the shooting.\n\nConnor Chapman and Thomas Waring were convicted following a three-and-a-half week trial\n\nIn a statement read to the court, Ms Edwards' mother Gaynor - who did not attend the hearing - said she \"cannot accept\" her daughter had gone.\n\n\"I still think she'll come home,\" she said.\n\n\"I cannot put into words how much I miss and love her.\"\n\nMs Edwards' older brother Connor said he had last spoken to his sister on the night she died.\n\n\"I was curious to know what the plans were going to be for Christmas day as Elle was going to be cooking Christmas dinner with mum for the first time, usually dad cooks,\" he said.\n\n\"I told Elle to have a good night, we said we loved each other.\n\n\"This was the last time we spoke.\"\n\nHe said he now went to bed each night \"with a constant hit of grief\".\n\n\"The days that followed were just horrific. Visiting my sister lying in the mortuary looking as beautiful as ever with a small patch above her right eye.\n\n\"That moment will never ever leave me, I shouldn't have been there and she didn't deserve this.\"\n\nHer grandmother described her as \"beyond caring, beyond kind, beyond generous and loving\", adding she was \"very special to me and my best friend\".\n\n\"If I were to die tomorrow, the coroner would write on my death certificate 'cause of death: she died of a broken heart'.\n\n\"I miss my angel princess so much it hurts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elle Edwards' father said he hopes her killer will never see Christmas again\n\nSpeaking outside court, Elle's father Tim said he hoped his daughter's killer would never see Christmas again.\n\n\"If I'm lucky enough to be around for a long time yet, I'll do my best to make sure he never comes out of jail,\" he said.\n\n\"Things need to change, and we've made a start with that. If you think about picking up a gun now you should think twice about it.\"\n\nMs Edwards was fatally shot outside the Lighthouse pub\n\nThe trial heard the shooting was the culmination of a feud between gangs on the Woodchurch estate, where Chapman lived, and the Beechwood, or Ford, estate on the opposite side of the M53.\n\nChapman lay in wait outside the pub in Wallasey Village for almost three hours before firing the weapon, which is used by some militaries and is capable of firing 15 rounds a second.\n\nThe prosecution said Chapman was attempting to kill Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, both of whom were seriously injured in the shooting.\n\nThe pair, from the Beechwood estate, had attacked another man, Sam Searson, in the street the day before, the court heard.\n\nThree other men who were unconnected to the feud, Harry Loughran, Liam Carr and Nicholas Speed, were also hurt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Justice Goose said what Chapman did was \"as wicked as it was shocking\"\n\nNigel Power KC, prosecuting, revealed Chapman had recorded a rap video while in custody last year after an aggravated burglary at his mother's home.\n\nIn the video, he made comments including: \"If I make it out of here I'm due to become famous because if you touch one of mine, I'll leave your soul on the pavement.\"\n\nHe also said: \"I know I've been a scumbag but I'm proud of that. \"\n\nChapman used a Skorpion sub-machine gun similar to one shown to the jury\n\nChapman's defence barrister Mark Rhind KC said there was \"very little\" mitigation.\n\n\"I cannot suggest there is remorse,\" he said.\n\nHe said Chapman had two children, one whom he had never met, and they would be middle-aged by the time he was released.\n\nArguing against a whole-life term, he said Chapman was only 23.\n\n\"People do not fully develop until the age of 25. Until then they may not see the full consequence of their actions,\" he said.\n\n\"Full-life terms are usually given to people much older.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChapman was also convicted of two counts of attempted murder, two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, as well as possession of a gun.\n\nHe pleaded guilty before the trial to a charge of handling stolen goods.\n\nWaring was convicted of possession of a prohibited firearm and assisting an offender and pleaded guilty before the trial to failing to comply with a disclosure notice.\n\nDet Supt Paul Grounds, from Merseyside Police, said: \"The cowardly actions of Chapman on that night, firing at his intended targets while they were stood outside in a crowd, shows the arrogance and contempt he had for everyone.\n\n\"Today Chapman is behind bars where he rightly belongs.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nAndy Murray dazzled under the Wimbledon lights again as he led Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in a Centre Court thriller stopped by a 23:00 BST curfew.\n\nBritain's Murray is ranked 40th but showed his pedigree on the SW19 grass to lead 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (7-2) 6-4.\n\nThe second-round match was stopped at 22:39 because of the restrictions put in place by the local council.\n\nMurray, who has regularly played late in recent years, and Tsitsipas will resume a captivating contest on Friday.\n\nMoments after 36-year-old Murray had wrapped up the third set, tournament referee Gerry Armstrong walked on to the court and discussed stopping play for the night with each player.\n\nMurray, who screamed out as he fell just before serving out for the lead, signalled to his team the match was being cut short, while 24-year-old Tsitsipas quickly packed his bags.\n\nThe pair will return to Centre Court after Spanish top seed Carlos Alcaraz plays France's Alexandre Muller in the first match, which starts at 13:30.\n• None Djokovic set for 'duel of the veterans of the tour'\n\nEyes were instantly drawn to this potential blockbuster when the draw was made last Friday and, after both players negotiated their opening matches on different paths, it was billed as the box-office match of the tournament so far.\n\nFurther fuel was added by the memories from their feisty clash at the 2021 US Open, where Murray said he \"lost respect\" for Tsitsipas after a lengthy bathroom break before a final set which the Greek won.\n\nThis time, all the drama remained on the court.\n\nMurray is a two-time champion at the All England Club and has been talking bullishly about his chances of going deep in the draw this fortnight.\n\nDespite missing out on a seeding, which left him vulnerable to a tough early test, the former world number one insisted he had the ability and nous to cause anyone problems.\n\nFor many people, Tsitsipas felt ripe to be on the end of an upset.\n\nWith grass not his favourite surface and a patchy record on the surface this year, there was an optimism among the home fans that Murray could earn his most notable Grand Slam win since having career-saving hip surgery in 2019.\n\nAfter cruising past Ryan Peniston on Tuesday, the Scot also had the benefit of a day off, while Tsitsipas only came through a five-set duel with Dominic Thiem at almost 20:00 on Wednesday.\n\nBut the 2021 French Open runner-up and 2023 Australian Open finalist looked sharp - physically and mentally - as he showed glimpses of the form which has seen him long tipped to win one of the sport's four major titles.\n\nThere were tense moments in a tight first set where both players dominated on serve, Tsitsipas taking control of the tie-break to move ahead.\n\nThe second set followed a similar pattern.\n\nTsitsipas was edging the rallies as he continued to find range with his forehand, leaving Murray struggling to cope with his ferocious and consistent hitting from that side.\n\nBut, like he has done so often over the years, Murray continued to battle and managed to hold his service games with few issues as neither player conceded a break point.\n\nThat teed up another tie-break - and this time it was Murray who dominated it after finding his first serve when it mattered.\n\nMurray playing under the floodlights on Centre Court always creates a special atmosphere and the player, by now demanding more noise from the almost-capacity crowd, thrived on the energy.\n\nAfter not having a serious look at Tsitsipas's serve in the opening two sets, Murray broke to love right at the start of the third and maintained the momentum to move into the lead.\n\nHowever, there was a serious scare when he fell on the baseline.\n\nThe sound of his scream, along with the knowledge of his injury history, left the whole of Centre Court anxious and there was relief when he clambered to his feet before serving out.\n\nIt had long felt the end of the third set was the natural point to suspend the match and once that was agreed, Murray walked off to a thunderous ovation.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Lincolnshire Police posted a picture of the frozen lake at Hartsholme Country Park on social media\n\nPolice have been called to reports of children playing on the ice on a frozen lake in Lincoln.\n\nOfficers were sent to Hartsholme Country Park on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nLincolnshire Police later posted an image of the pond on social media, saying: \"This may look like a picturesque frozen lake, but the ice is thin and unstable.\"\n\nA force spokesperson said: \"After the upsetting news in Solihull, we cannot overstate how dangerous this is.\"\n\n\"Falling into freezing water through ice can be fatal in minutes,\" they added.\n\n\"Please make sure you educate your children about the dangers of ice and cold water.\"\n\nFollowing the incident in Lincoln, Dan Moss from Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service said people should stay away from frozen lakes and ponds.\n\n\"Even if they look strong enough to take your weight, they might not be,\" he said.\n\n\"Never enter the water if you see someone struggling, as you are likely to get into trouble as well. This also applies to dogs or other animals who may have fallen into water.\n\n\"Call the emergency services and remain calm and give as much information as you can to the call handler.\"\n\nMr Moss went on to ask parents \"to always know where your children are playing and remind them about the dangers of frozen lakes and ponds.\"\n\nFour boys, aged 6, 8, 10 and 11, died after falling into an icy lake in Solihull in the West Midlands on Sunday.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US will send Ukraine a cluster munitions package to help in its counteroffensive against Russia.\n\nThe White House said it had postponed the decision for as long as it could because of the risk of civilian harm from such unexploded ordnance.\n\nUkraine has been asking for the weapons for months amid an ammunition shortage.\n\nCluster munitions - which are banned by more than 100 countries - are a class of weapon that contain multiple explosive bomblets called submunitions.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said in a cable TV interview that it was \"a very difficult decision on my part\" to send the bombs.\n\n\"I discussed this with our allies,\" he told CNN, \"I discussed this with our friends up on the [Capitol] Hill.\"\n\nHe said he had decided to send the munitions because \"the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".\n\nMr Biden could face questions from allies about the matter at a Nato summit in Lithuania next week.\n\nNational Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told Friday's daily White House briefing: \"We recognise the cluster munitions create a risk of civilian harm from unexploded ordnance.\n\n\"This is why we've deferred the decision for as long as we could.\"\n\nHe added: \"Ukraine would not be using these munitions in some foreign land. This is their country they're defending.\"\n\nMr Sullivan said Ukraine was running out of artillery and needed \"a bridge of supplies\" while the US ramps up domestic production.\n\n\"We will not leave Ukraine defenceless at any point in this conflict period,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe munitions are controversial because of their failure, or dud, rate, meaning unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years and detonate later on.\n\nMr Sullivan told reporters that the cluster munitions America will send to Ukraine have a dud rate of less than 2.5%, describing that as far below Russia's cluster munition dud rate, which US officials say is between 30-40%.\n\nIn a separate news briefing, the Pentagon did not specify how many cluster munitions the US will send to Ukraine, but spokesman Colin Kahl said they had \"hundreds of thousands available\".\n\nUS law prohibits the transfer of cluster munitions with bomblet failure rates higher than 1% - meaning more than 1% of the bomblets in the weapon do not explode - but President Biden is able to bypass this rule.\n\nA United Nations investigation found Ukraine has probably already used cluster bombs, though the country has denied doing so.\n\nEarly on in the war, the White House was asked about allegations that Russia was using cluster bombs, and then-press secretary Jen Psaki said it would be a \"war crime\" if true.\n\nOfficials are planning to send artillery shells to Ukraine, with each containing 88 separate bomblets, according to US media reports. They would be fired from Howitzer artillery weapons already deployed by the Ukrainian army.\n\nThe Biden administration's latest weapons package for Ukraine is worth $800m (£626m). It includes Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles, air defence missiles and anti-mine equipment.\n\nHuman rights groups have urged Russia and Ukraine not to use cluster munitions and have asked the US not to supply them.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights once again called on the countries not to use cluster bombs, arguing they were dangerous.\n\n\"Cluster munitions scatter small bomblets over a wide area, many of which fail to explode immediately,\" said office spokesperson Marta Hurtado. \"They can kill and maim years later. That's why use should stop immediately.\"\n\nSome US lawmakers have also asked the Biden administration not to send the weapons, arguing their humanitarian costs outweigh their benefits in the battlefield.\n\nDefence Department official Laura Cooper told Congress last month that military analysts had found that cluster bombs would be \"useful, especially against dug-in Russian positions\".\n\nMore than 120 countries have committed to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, agreeing not to use, produce, transfer or store such devices.\n\nThe US, Ukraine and Russia are not party to the agreement.", "The government still does not know what it is trying to achieve with the High Speed 2 (HS2) station at Euston, a parliamentary committee report states.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said this was despite the Department for Transport (DfT) spending over eight years planning and designing it.\n\nIn March it was announced that station work had been paused for two years.\n\nThe DfT said it remained \"committed to delivering HS2 in the most cost-effective way\".\n\nThe PAC report called on the DfT to use the current pause in construction on the project to establish the design and expectations for the station against what it is willing to spend.\n\nIt called the original £2.6bn budget \"completely unrealistic\", with estimates now suggesting the cost to build the station to be about £4.8bn.\n\nIt also said the department must provide greater transparency in its six-monthly updates to Parliament.\n\nPrevious updates on cost pressures at Euston did not disclose the risks that construction costs could be significantly higher than expected, the committee said.\n\nOther conclusions and recommendations from the PAC report included:\n\nDame Meg Hillier MP, chair of the committee, said the Euston project was \"floundering\".\n\nShe said the scheme had caused \"major disruption to the local community\" and pausing it was \"not cost free\", even though it had been done to save money.\n\n\"The government must now be clear what it is trying to achieve with this new station, and how it will benefit the public,\" she added.\n\nWork on Euston station has been paused for two years\n\nResponding to the report, a DfT spokesperson said: \"Earlier this year we made the decision to rephrase the construction of Euston to help balance the nation's books and work on an affordable design for the station.\n\n\"The National Audit Office recently acknowledged this will provide time to put the station design on a more stable footing and we continue to work at pace to ensure the transformational benefits of HS2 are delivered to passengers by better connecting our biggest cities, supporting thousands of jobs and helping grow the economy.\n\n\"We note the recommendations made in the committee's report and will respond to them in due course.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has become the first alleged neo-Nazi to be placed under special government powers for monitoring and controlling suspected terrorists, it has emerged.\n\nThe man, who is in his 20s, can only be referred to publicly as LXB.\n\nLast year, he was subjected to terrorism prevention measures which place strict limits on what a person can do.\n\nHe appeared in court on Friday after admitting he had breached the measures.\n\nLXB has previously been suspected by the authorities of having the potential to carry out a terrorist attack.\n\nLast week he pleaded guilty to two breaches of the measures by having a video camera and memory card without prior approval from the Home Office.\n\nDuring a hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, the defendant appeared by video link from prison and was remanded in custody. Sentencing was adjourned until 8 August.\n\nKate Wilkinson, prosecuting, said LXB had \"serious previous convictions\".\n\nTerrorism prevention and investigation measures, known as TPIMs, allow the authorities to monitor and control people considered to be terrorists - but who are not facing criminal charges.\n\nMI5 advises the government about who should be subjected to TPIMs.\n\nSubjects face measures such as wearing an electronic tag, being relocated to different parts of the UK, bans on internet use, and limits on who they can meet and where they can go.\n\nEveryone subjected to a TPIM is given legal anonymity and referred to using a cipher. If the measures are breached, the subject can be prosecuted and jailed.\n\nThe press and public only ever learn details of individual TPIM subjects when they end up in court for breaches, or for High Court reviews of the measures.\n\nThe BBC has previously investigated the use of TPIMs, including how the government was using them to limit activities of the banned al-Muhajiroun, a group which has been linked to multiple attacks and plots in the UK and abroad.\n\nLXB is the first suspected right-wing extremist to have been subjected to a TPIM since the powers were created in 2011.\n\nHe is the 29th person to be placed under a TPIM. All the previous 28 subjects were suspected Islamist extremists.\n\nThe measures are controversial, with the independent reviewer for terrorism legislation - Jonathan Hall KC - previously saying they were increasingly being used on people with mental health issues.\n• None The powers being used to disrupt a terror group", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The murals adorned the walls of the Kent Intake Unit\n\nMurals of Mickey Mouse and other cartoon characters designed to welcome child asylum seekers to a reception centre in Dover have been painted over, by order of the immigration minister.\n\nRobert Jenrick instructed that they be removed, reportedly because he believed they sent too welcoming a message.\n\nThe Home Office said the Kent Intake Unit (KIU) opened last November to look after unaccompanied child migrants.\n\nFacilities included softer interview rooms and an outside space, it added.\n\nThere were also prayer rooms, a larger reception area and improved security measures to ensure children's safety, the Home Office said.\n\nA spokesperson confirmed the murals were removed on Tuesday, adding: \"We do all we can to ensure children are safe, secure and supported as we urgently seek placements with a local authority.\n\n\"All children receive a welfare interview on their arrival at accommodation, which includes questions designed to identify potential indicators of trafficking or safeguarding issues.\n\n\"Our priority is to stop the boats and disrupt the people smugglers.\"\n\nLabour's shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock condemned Mr Jenrick's order, saying the idea that removing the murals would \"somehow stop the boats is utterly absurd\".\n\nHe said it was a sign of a \"chaotic government in crisis, whose failing approach means all they have left is tough talk and cruel and callous policies\".\n\nLabour had a plan to \"end the dangerous crossings, defeat the criminal smuggler gangs, and end hotel use by clearing the asylum backlog,\" he added.\n\nThe i newspaper, which was first to report the story, quoted sources as saying staff at the centre were \"horrified\" by Mr Jenrick's order and resisted carrying out the work.\n\nA report published last month by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons after visits to KIU, and the nearby processing centres at Manston and Western Jet Foil, found there had been improvements in facilities since previous inspections.\n\nBut continuing problems, including medical isolation practices at KIU. The report concluded: \"Inspectors found no examples of notable positive practice during this inspection\" at KIU.\n\nThe Home Office said it had taken action to address some of the recommendations.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What debris has been found and what does it mean?\n\nOceanGate, the owner of the Titan submersible that imploded last month, killing all five passengers on board, has fully suspended its activities.\n\nThe company posted a one-line note on its website saying it had stopped \"all exploration and commercial operations\".\n\nOn its website the company had also advertised tours of the Portuguese archipelago of Azores and the Bahamas.\n\nAn investigation is ongoing into how the sub imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck on 18 June.\n\nLed by the US Coast Guard, authorities said the inquiry would aim to prevent similar accidents in future.\n\nChief investigator Cpt Jason Neubauer said last month that the Coast Guard had convened its highest level of investigation, and that the probe would be run jointly with Canadian, UK and French authorities. The investigation would be able to recommend civil or criminal charges, Cpt Neubauer said.\n\nOn 28 June the Coast Guard said debris and human remains from the Titan had been recovered and returned to land - concluding an early stage of the investigation. Authorities said the debris would be taken to a US port for more analysis.\n\nCpt Neubauer said in a statement last week that there was still \"a substantial amount of work\" left for investigators.\n\nOceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush, 61, died on board the Titan alongside the four other passengers: British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleman, 19, British businessman Hamish Harding, 58, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, a former French navy diver.\n\nRush earned a reputation as an ambitious explorer and a passionate leader, one who occasionally broke rules to pursue his dream of exploring the sea.\n\nHe was on board the Titan for several successful dives, though he had reportedly ignored warnings over the safety of his sub.", "Russian state-controlled TV has embarked on an apparent campaign to discredit Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in the wake of his failed mutiny in late June.\n\nKey channels showed what they said were images taken during searches at his opulent home outside St Petersburg, arguing that his riches reflected very badly on him.\n\nThey also recalled his criminal past and suggested that he was driven by greed, but failed to mention Prigozhin's persistent and often crude criticism of Russia's military and of how it pursues the war in Ukraine.\n\nThis is the first time that the state media machine's reporting of Prigozhin has been so prolific, so personal and so full of damaging details about his biography.\n\nUntil recently, Russian TV would portray a positive image of the Wagner mercenary group, which has fought alongside the Russian military during its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPhotos said to be from inside Prigozhin's house appeared on state-run network Rossiya 1 on 5 July.\n\nOfficials released shots of what they said was the opulent interior of Prigozhin's home\n\n\"Let's have a look how this fighter for the truth lived, someone who has two criminal convictions and who kept claiming that everyone else was a thief,\" said a commentator on 60 Minutes, a talk show.\n\n\"Let's have a look at the palace built for this campaigner against corruption and crime,\" Eduard Petrov said sarcastically.\n\nThe footage showed piles of cash, various weapons, the house's opulent interiors and vast gardens - complete with a parked helicopter, an assortment of wigs and apparently fake passports issued to Prigozhin in different names.\n\nA cupboard of wigs was pictured during the alleged raid on Prigozhin's house\n\nLater, similar footage was shown as part of the channel's main evening news bulletin, one of the most popular in Russia. It also featured ingots of gold and \"suspicious packets of white powder\", which Rossiya 1 suggested could be an illegal drug.\n\nIt also dwelt at length on Prigozhin's criminal past.\n\nHe received his first criminal conviction in 1979, aged just 18, and got a suspended two-and-a-half year sentence for theft. Two years later, he was sentenced to 13 years in jail for robbery and theft, nine of which he served behind bars.\n\n\"They say that it is the experience and connections he received from crime lords behind bars which helped him walk the path from a hot dog seller to an authoritative master of cauldrons and pans,\" Rossiya 1's correspondent quipped, referring to Prigozhin's past role as a caterer for the Kremlin.\n\nThis role also earned him the nickname \"Kremlin's chef\".\n\nOne of the photos shown by Russian state TV showed a sledgehammer with the inscription \"Use in case of important negotiations\". This appears to be a reference to the brutal killing with a sledgehammer of a man Wagner accused of betrayal in November 2022.\n\nWriting on the sledgehammer appeared to read: \"In case of important negotiations.\"\n\nOn the same evening, state TV's Channel One suggested that Yevgeny Prigozhin was linked to Western intelligence, which was now \"too shy\" to admit involvement in his apparent mutiny.\n\nNTV, one of Russia's three most-watched television stations, argued that he was driven by greed and criminal past.\n\n\"What happened has obvious roots in his personality, business interests and his crime-ridden past,\" it said. As for Prigozhin's alleged riches, \"fighting for truth costs a lot of money\", NTV quipped.\n\nUntil several months after the start of Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine, officials, media and Prigozhin's own press service denied Wagner existed.\n\nFor a period of time afterwards, state TV celebrated Wagner's involvement in the \"special military operation\" in Ukraine.\n\nMentions of Wagner had all but disappeared from state media by the time Prigozhin embarked on his \"march for justice\", vowing to punish Russian military commanders whom he accused of incompetence.\n\nVast quantities of cash and gold bars were also reportedly found in the search\n\nPrigozhin himself, who has fallen almost completely silent on social media after his apparent mutiny, has not commented on the images.\n\nBut one channel linked to Wagner argued that it was not unusual for a businessman as wealthy as Prigozhin to own an expensive home: \"What's the wow factor here, then?\" it asked.\n\nAfter previously denying there were any links between Wagner and the state, President Vladimir Putin - speaking shortly after Prigozhin's mutiny failed - said the state fully funded the military company, spending an equivalent of about $1bn (£787m) on it in May 2022 to May 2023 alone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins considers the key questions over the whereabouts of Yevgeny Prigozhin", "In China, water canons are being used to help keep people cool\n\nThe world's average temperature has reached a new high for the third time in a week, unofficial records show.\n\nData analysed by a group of US scientists shows the global average temperature on Thursday was 17.23C.\n\nIt breaks the 17.01C record set on Monday, surpassed just a day later when the average temperature reached 17.18C.\n\nThe temperatures are being driven by human-induced climate change and the naturally-occurring weather pattern known as El Niño, scientists say.\n\nThe El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO as it is also called, is the most powerful fluctuation in the climate system anywhere on Earth. It happens every three to seven years, and in the warming phase, warmer waters come to the surface of the tropical Pacific and push heat into the atmosphere.\n\n\"Climate scientists aren't surprised about the global daily temperature record being broken, but we are very concerned,\" Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, said.\n\nIt \"should be a wake-up call for anyone who thinks the world needs more oil and gas,\" she added.\n\nBefore this week, the last time the record was broken was in August 2016.\n\nExperts warn that many societies have not yet adapted to more extreme heat and the impacts it has on people and the environment.\n\nThe temperature readings come from a tool called Climate Reanalyzer. Scientists at the University of Maine use a combination of readings from surface, air balloon and satellite observations as well as computer modelling to assess average global temperatures.\n\nThe readings are not an official government record, but they are closely watched as an indicator of how temperatures are fluctuating.\n\nOn Thursday the US weather service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it could not confirm records that come partly from computer simulations, according to Associated Press.\n\n\"But we recognize that we are in a warm period due to climate change,\" NOAA said.\n\nScientists warn that it is uncommonly hot and it is likely the records will continue to be broken this summer.\n\n\"El Niño hasn't peaked yet and summer is still in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, so it wouldn't be surprising if the daily temperature record is broken again and again in 2023,\" Dr Paulo Ceppi, lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, said.\n\nHigher global temperatures are likely to make heatwaves even hotter and wildfires more severe, he added.\n\nLast month was the hottest June on record, the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus said on Thursday.\n\nIn the UK, record-high June temperatures saw \"unprecedented\" fish deaths and threatened the survival of insects as plants they feed from wilted, warned environment groups.\n\nA study by the UK Met Office concluded that climate change made the June heat more than twice as likely.\n\nScorching heat is continuing to hit parts of the world, with North Africa seeing temperatures of near 50C and parts of China suffering under 40C.\n\nSouthern Europe could see more than 60 days this summer when conditions are dangerous for humans, the European Environment Agency warned in June.\n\nHigher-than-average heat also affects crops and raises the risk of wildfires.\n\nHeat increases in seas have also been detected in recent weeks, including a marine heatwave in the UK and Ireland.\n\nAnd Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest extent for June - 17% below average - since satellite observations began.\n\nGovernments globally are committed to reducing their carbon emissions to reach net zero - the point when humans will stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.\n\nGlobal temperatures will only start to approximately stabilise once the world reaches net zero, Dr Ceppi explains.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: After Saturday's storms, what can we expect for the next few days?\n\nThunderstorms have hit parts of the UK as a hot weather warning remains in place for regions across England.\n\nHeavy showers followed a humid start for many areas on Saturday, with afternoon temperatures approaching 30C in parts of the south-east.\n\nA Met Office yellow thunderstorm alert, which covers most of England and Scotland, has been in place since 09:00 BST and warns of potential flooding.\n\nRain also disrupted play at both Wimbledon and the men's Ashes.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK government's Health Security Agency and the Met Office issued a yellow heat-health alert for six regions in England: London, the South East, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, and Yorkshire and the Humber.\n\nThe alert, which is due to last until 09:00 on Sunday, was soon followed up by warnings of heavy showers, thunderstorms and potential flash flooding.\n\nThe Met Office's yellow thunderstorm warning took effect in parts of England, Scotland and Wales at 09:00 on Saturday and lasts until 23:59. A separate warning has been issued for the whole of Northern Ireland for Sunday, from 10:00 until 21:00.\n\nGenerally a Met Office yellow warning for thunderstorms means there is a small chance homes and businesses could be flooded quickly and communities cut off by floodwater, while public transport risks being cancelled in affected areas.\n\nAt-risk areas will most likely be across east Wales, England and into south-east Scotland, according to BBC Weather's Simon King.\n\nThe storms will be quite localised but \"could be nasty\" if you get caught up in one, the forecaster said, with torrential rain, lightning, hail, gusty winds and the risk of some localised flooding all possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLincoln, in the East Midlands, York in the north-east of England and Carlisle, which sits on the border with Scotland, had all experienced thunder and rain by midday on Saturday, according to the Met Office.\n\nIn Scotland, those attending the second day of TRNSMT music festival in Glasgow were warned to expect warm spells of 24C alongside high winds and thundery downpours.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced the Tiree Music Festival, usually held off the west coast of the country, could not go ahead due to gale force winds.\n\nFurther public events have been impacted by the weather in England - two major sporting events in particular.\n\nShowers disrupted play at Wimbledon, south-west London, but they should ease later this afternoon with increasing sunshine expected into this evening, BBC Weather's Simon King said.\n\nAs the sixth day of the tennis tournament got under way, some of the early matches - which began at 11:00 - were suspended after heavy rain began to fall on the outside courts.\n\nAt the men's Ashes, in Headingley, Leeds, play could only begin at 16:45 after persistent rain hampered proceedings on the third day of the cricket series.\n\nSunday will be a drier day for most of the UK, however there will still be some showers around with sunny spells in between, BBC Weather's Stav Danaos said.\n\nThere is a chance of rain across south-east England and East Anglia in the morning and some of this could be thundery as it pushes north-eastwards, he said.\n\nThe forecaster added that the main focus of the heavy showers and thunderstorms on Sunday will be across Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is expected to feel cooler and fresher with less humidity across the UK compared to Saturday.\n• None How do the new heat-health alerts work?", "The BBC's Russia Editor has questioned Alexander Lukashenko on nuclear weapons, after Russia recently said it is moving nuclear warheads to Belarus.\n\nDuring a four hour \"conversation\" with journalists at the Palace of Independence in Minsk, Steve Rosenberg asked the leader of Belarus whether he would allow Wagner troops to attack Ukraine from their territory and whether he would really use Russian nuclear weapons.", "Seven children and two adults have been injured after a car crashed into a primary school building in Wimbledon, south-west London.\n\nA gold-coloured Land Rover crashed into The Study Preparatory School in Camp Road just before 10:00 BST.\n\nA major incident has been declared and several people are being treated by paramedics.\n\nAn air ambulance is at the scene and firefighters have also been deployed to the area.", "A gold-coloured Land Rover could be seen on school grounds surrounded by emergency responders on Thursday\n\nAn eight-year-old girl is in a life-threatening condition after a car crashed into a school in Wimbledon killing another girl.\n\nA woman in her 40s is also in a critical condition in hospital following the crash at The Study Preparatory School on Thursday.\n\nThe Met Police said several people, including a seven-month-old girl, had been taken to hospital.\n\nThe driver of the car, a 46-year-old woman, has been bailed until late July.\n\nThe woman, from Wimbledon, had been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and was taken to hospital. Her condition was assessed as not life-threatening.\n\nBoth the family of the eight-year-old girl who died and the family of the eight-year-old girl in a life-threatening condition are being supported by family liaison officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said no school staff were injured and the adults hurt were parents or carers.\n\nInvestigators are expected to remain at the scene of the collision throughout the day while inquiries continue.\n\nDet Ch Supt Clair Kelland, local policing commander for south-west London, said the operation was \"the largest local policing deployment in south-west London since 2017\" and the scene was \"challenging and traumatic\".\n\n\"I understand many people will want answers about how this happened and there is a team of detectives working to establish the circumstances,\" she said.\n\nFloral tributes have been laid outside the school which is based on Camp Road near Wimbledon Common\n\nThroughout the day, numerous people have been visiting the school to pay their respects, many with their children.\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left, including one with a handwritten note saying: \"Our love and thoughts go out to you all.\"\n\nIan Hewitt, chair of the All England Club, visited the scene to \"offer our heartfelt sympathies to all affected by this tragic, tragic incident\".\n\nA former parent of the school also left a note offering help from the community, while some children wrote to express their sympathy and condolences.\n\nNumerous people have visited the school throughout the day\n\nA total of 35 police vehicles were deployed and officers worked with paramedics to give first aid to those injured.\n\nDet Ch Supt Kelland added the crash \"would have also had a significant impact\" on officers who were at the scene and the force would \"ensure their welfare is looked after\".\n\nThe Met said the car had been removed on Thursday evening for further examination, while officers have collected CCTV from nearby buildings and spoken with a number of witnesses.\n\nThe force repeated calls to avoid speculation while the investigation is carried out, but has said it was not treating the crash as terror-related.\n\nThe private girls' school, for children aged four to 11, is just a mile away from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club as it hosts the world-famous tennis tournament.\n\nMP for Wimbledon Stephen Hammond said the pupils had been gathered for an end-of-year celebration party in the garden. He described what happened as \"extremely distressing and extremely concerning\".\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it sent 15 ambulances to the scene and treated 16 people.\n\nSt George's Hospital in Tooting said it had received \"a number of patients who are being cared for by our specialist clinical teams\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Ajax goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is being treated in intensive care after suffering a bleed on his brain.\n\nThe 52-year-old is reportedly being treated in a hospital in Croatia, where he has been on holiday.\n\nAjax said the former Netherlands international, who won 130 caps for his country, is in a \"stable condition\".\n\n\"Everyone at Ajax wishes Edwin a speedy recovery,\" the Eredivisie club added. \"We're thinking of you.\"\n\nVan der Sar resigned from his role as Ajax chief executive in May after the side finished third in the Dutch league and failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since 2009.\n\nHe retired from playing after leaving United in 2011 before joining the Ajax board in 2012, and later becoming the club's chief executive in 2016.\n\nVan der Sar made 266 appearances for the Red Devils and helped them to win four Premier League titles and the 2008 Champions League.\n\nIn a statement, Manchester United said: \"Sending all our love and strength to you, Edwin.\"\n\nHe also played in the Premier League for Fulham and in Serie A for Juventus.\n\nFormer United defender Rio Ferdinand sent his support to his old team-mate, tweeting: \"Ed is a fighter. Our thoughts are with the Van Der Sar family!\"\n\nFulham also sent a message of support, tweeting: \"Everyone at Fulham Football Club wishes Edwin a speedy recovery. We're thinking of you.\"\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association tweeted: \"The thoughts of everyone at the PFA are with Edwin and his family.\"\n\nFirst as a superb goalkeeper, with Ajax, Juventus, Fulham and Manchester United, plus the Dutch national team, then as an administrator, at Ajax and with the influential European Clubs' Association, he has developed a first-rate reputation.\n\nI spoke to him in Istanbul, on the day of last month's Champions League final, when he talked about Andre Onana's likely influence on the game, Erik ten Hag's time at Manchester United and also his future plans.\n\nVan der Sar endured a difficult final season with Ajax but, despite leaving the club, gave the impression of someone not intent on staying out of the game long.\n\nThrough the recovery of his wife Annemarie, who suffered a brain haemorrhage when he was a player at United in 2009 and Sir Alex Ferguson, who collapsed in 2018, there are positive examples to reflect on in this uncertain time.\n\nFootball is worried on Van der Sar's behalf. There are many good wishes being extended in public and private as it absorbs this news.", "Video caption: Footage of Connor Chapman's attack, which killed Elle Edwards, is released. Footage of Connor Chapman's attack, which killed Elle Edwards, is released.\n\nCCTV footage shown at the trial captured Connor Chapman firing at the pub from a car park, next to the stolen Mercedes he used to travel to the Lighthouse pub on Christmas Eve last year.\n\nHis DNA was also linked to bullet cases found at the scene.\n\nFootage also showed him driving away from the pub in the moments after the shooting and later arriving at Private Drive in Barnston, the home of co-defendant Thomas Waring.\n\nHe was then seen in footage appearing to drop the gun as he walked towards Waring's home.\n\nChapman had admitted a charge of handling stolen goods before the trial started.\n\nHis defence told the jury Chapman had travelled with a man, who he refused to name, on 31 December, when the stolen car was burnt out in Frodsham, Cheshire.\n\nChapman denied that Waring had been with him at the time, although mobile phone evidence showed Waring's phone travelled with the car.\n\nAfter the trial, Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell said the force had worked \"around the clock\" with many officers \"forsaking their own Christmases\" to support the victims, reassure people nearby and \"bring Chapman to justice\".\n\nShe also thanked the \"many brave witnesses\" who came forward with evidence \"to ensure this toxic individual was brought to justice\".", "The global shipping industry has agreed to reduce planet warming gases to net-zero \"by or around 2050\", but critics say the deal is fatally flawed.\n\nShips produce around 3% of global CO2 but countries will now have to reduce this as close as possible to zero by the middle of the century.\n\nSmall island states have welcomed the plan but green groups are furious.\n\nThey believe the strategy is toothless and will do little to limit rising temperatures.\n\nThe global shipping industry is critical to world trade carrying up to 90% of commercial goods. But that trade is highly polluting, using some of the most carbon heavy fuels to power ships' engines.\n\nThese dirty smokestacks produce roughly the same amount of carbon each year as Germany.\n\nProtestors greet delegates outside the IMO meeting in London\n\nBut maritime transport has proved hard to regulate as ships are often owned in one country but registered with another.\n\nSmall states like the Marshall Islands, Liberia and Panama have huge numbers of ships sailing under their national flags but they have no real responsibility for these vessels.\n\nThis complex arrangement meant that shipping was omitted from the Paris climate agreement in 2015 when the world put in place a global plan to tackle rising temperatures.\n\nIn 2018 shipping did agree to cut carbon in half by 2050, but this was seen as totally inadequate by scientists.\n\nNow after growing pressure from a coalition of countries including the UK, the US, and Pacific island states, delegates meeting in London have agreed a new strategy that would bring emissions to net-zero \"by or around\" 2050.\n\nNet-zero means that any emissions remaining then would be cancelled out by actively removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.\n\nRicher countries and small island states had called for a 50% reduction by 2030 and a 96% emissions cut by 2040.\n\nBut with resistance from China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and others the new strategy that will see \"indicative checkpoints\" rather than hard targets and these would aim to see emissions from shipping fall by at least 20% by 2030, and at least 70% by 2040.\n\nFor both these checkpoints, the agreement says that countries should \"strive\" for a higher target of 30% by 2030 and 80% by 2040.\n\n\"This outcome is far from perfect, but countries across the world came together and got it done - and it gives us a shot at 1.5C,\" said Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's climate change minister.\n\nKeeping global temperatures under 1.5C is a key part of the Paris agreement and scientists agree that allowing the world to warm more than this level would be very dangerous.\n\nIndustry voices have also welcomed the new deal, but with reservations.\n\n\"It's a remarkable improvement that the revised strategy now aims to achieve net-zero emissions by or around 2050, and the introduction of indicative 2030 and 2040 checkpoints for emissions reductions sends an important signal to governments and industry,\" said Johannah Christensen, chief executive of the Global Maritime Forum.\n\n\"However, the revised strategy falls short to provide the necessary clarity and strong commitments for a just and equitable Paris Agreement-aligned transition.\"\n\nMany environmental groups were strongly critical of the new agreement saying that shipping's new plan would do very little to keep the world under that key temperature threshold.\n\n\"While the inclusion of 2030 and 2040 emissions reduction targets for shipping is not insignificant, this strategy will see the shipping industry exhaust its 1.5C carbon budget by 2032,\" said Madeline Rose, from the Pacific Environment campaign group.\n\nThe new deal also keeps alive the idea of a carbon levy on shipping that has been strongly supported by developing countries, who believe that this measure will be key in bringing down emissions over the decades to come.\n\n\"Ultimately it's not the targets but the incentives we put in place to meet them. So we in the Pacific are going to keep up a strong fight for a levy that gets us to zero emissions by 2050,\" said Minister Regenvanu.", "A manager at Brown's Food Company allegedly assembled female workers to find out who threw a used sanitary towel in the wrong bin\n\nThree people have been arrested after employees at a Kenyan cheese factory were allegedly forced to undress to check who was on their period.\n\nA manager at Brown's Food Company assembled female workers to find out who had thrown a used sanitary towel in an incorrect bin, an official said.\n\nShe made the women strip after attempts to get a confession were unsuccessful.\n\nBrown's says it has suspended the accused manager pending an investigation.\n\nThree people were facing indecent assault charges over the incident, police in Limuru told local media.\n\nIn a video posted to Facebook, Senator Gloria Orwoba said she had received a \"distress call\" about what happened on Monday night.\n\nA manager \"had found a used sanitary towel in one of the bins, and from what I gather, that dustbin was not meant for the disposal of sanitary towels,\" she said.\n\nThe manager initially gathered the women to ask who was responsible, and when she did not receive an answer, she \"needed to find out who was on their period so that she could punish the person that threw the sanitary towel in that bin,\" added Senator Orwoba, who campaigns against period shaming.\n\nShe said that despite her attempts to intervene in the issue, the company was unable to resolve the issue with their employees.\n\nIn a statement on its website, Brown's Food Company said it was \"saddened\" and that the matter \"does not reflect the procedures of the company as a whole\".\n\n\"We are further engaging a women's health expert to help sensitise staff, improve communication, and strengthen our existing policies and procedures,\" the statement read, adding that they are arranging for an independent investigation to take place.\n\nPolice told local media that officers \"conducted a thorough investigation and recorded statements from the victims before arresting three suspects.\"\n\nThey also said similar incidents had taken place in other companies in the area.\n\n\"We have reliably gathered that the demeaning and shaming vice has been going on for a long time. I want to warn any such employers that justice will soon be served to all their victims,\" local police chief Philip Mwania said.\n\nCampaigners say that period shaming is a major problem in Kenya.\n\nIn February, Senator Orwoba was ordered to leave parliament because of an apparent blood stain on her trousers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man with paranoid schizophrenia who killed his mother was failed by mental health services, his family has said.\n\nJohn Anderson Griffiths, 58, stabbed Margaret Joyce Griffiths, 87, at her Powys home on 27 August 2022.\n\nHis family said a mental health doctor was on site for at least 10 minutes before the attack happened and let Mrs Griffiths go back into the house.\n\nGriffiths admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitely.\n\nThey included 50 sharp force injuries to her face, four stab wounds to the neck, sharp force injuries to her chest and a number of \"defence type\" injuries to her forearms.\n\nMargaret Griffiths' family said she was \"much loved\" and \"adored\"\n\nAt 21:30 BST, Griffiths called the police and admitted stabbing his mother.\n\nEmergency services arrived at her farmhouse in Llanfrynach and she was airlifted to hospital, but died the next day.\n\nThe family said in a statement after the case that three mental health workers visited the family farm \"at different times in the dark\" having \"forewarned\" Griffiths of their arrival.\n\nThey added: \"We believe Mum's death could have been prevented.\n\n\"We never in our wildest nightmares imagined that John was capable of such a heinous attack.\n\n\"We don't think that any of us will ever get over how much mum suffered in her final hours at the hands of her son, our brother. We think this will haunt us for all of time.\"\n\nPowys health board and Powys council said: \"We extend our sincere condolences to the family at this time, for the tragic loss of Joyce and the impact felt across the whole family. Their voice will be at the heart of our learning from these events.\"\n\nMargaret Griffiths life on the family farm \"was governed by the seasons and a deep appreciation of the natural world,\" her family say\n\nGriffiths' family said he was \"historically kind, funny, clever and a caring dad to his daughters\" but his mental health deteriorated over the past 10 years.\n\nHe was sectioned and medicated with antipsychotic drugs while living overseas with his family, but \"lived a good life\" when released and medicated.\n\nHowever, this changed when he returned to Wales in 2020 and \"entered the care of the local mental health authority and stopped taking his intravenous medication\".\n\nThe family said Mrs Griffiths \"was a much loved mum, sister, mother in law, aunt and friend. Nanny Joyce, was also a much adored and committed grandmother to her eight grandchildren\".\n\nMr Justice Griffiths accepted the plea of diminished responsibility because of \"expert evidence on both sides\" detailing the \"emails\" he was sending at the time and detained Griffiths under the Mental Health Act.\n\n\"At the time of her death, Joyce Griffiths had taken you back to her home in Llanfrynach when your marriage and life abroad had broken down because of your mental illness,\" he added.\n\n\"This evidence all shows that you were floridly psychotic and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, including paranoid and persecutory beliefs of delusional intensity, when you killed your mother.\"\n\nGriffiths' family said he needed to be \"kept medicated and detained in a secure mental health facility for a very, very long time so that several generations of our family can try to begin to heal\".\n\n\"We have very grave concerns that should he be released, another life could be lost.\"\n\nThe health board and council said they were both \"fully committed to the independent review process that is taking place, the findings of which will be made public\".\n• None Man in court charged with murder of mother, 87\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tim Edwards, pictured on a climb of Mount Snowdon, with his daughter Elle\n\nThe father of Elle Edwards, who was shot dead outside a pub on Christmas Eve, has said his mission is now to stop gun violence on Merseyside.\n\nTim Edwards' 26-year-old daughter was killed when Connor Chapman, 23, opened fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun at the Lighthouse pub in Wirral.\n\nChapman injured five other people when he fired 12 shots before driving away from the scene in a stolen Mercedes.\n\nHe was found guilty on Thursday and will be sentenced later.\n\nFollowing his conviction, Mr Edwards said he wanted to do \"all I can\" to stop the cycle of gun violence in the area.\n\nLast year also saw the fatal shootings of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, Ashley Dale and Sam Rimmer.\n\n\"We need to be doing something now,\" Mr Edwards said.\n\n\"My focus is to stop another Elle Edwards, another Ashley Dale, another Olivia Pratt-Korbel and if I can be part of something that helps stop these kids doing these horrendous crimes, then I'll do all I can.\"\n\nHe added: \"The most powerful thing we have is the sense of community, it's still there in these places.\n\n\"I think a lot of people maybe are afraid because they're intimidated by these gangs who are hanging around, but if we stick together, we're going to win every time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Connor Chapman is arrested in a Tesco in Wales\n\nFormer Liverpool gang boss Sicarius McGrath, who now works with charities across the UK to prevent gun violence, said stop and search should be a tool used more readily on Merseyside.\n\nHe said: \"If we go back from 2009, up until about 2013 I was stopped daily, numerous times on Merseyside and it disrupted me.\n\n\"It made me more reluctant to carry weapons and it definitely reduced the amount of times I used a weapon and committed serious violence. So it definitely does work.\"\n\nHe added: \"You're never going to stop someone from getting hold of a weapon if they want one, there's a knife in every kitchen drawer.\n\n\"Guns are much more difficult to source but nevertheless, people are going source them one way or another. We're never going to stop it the only thing that can be done is to reduce it, and then manage it more effectively.\"\n\nMerseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell said there had been a \"huge amount of work done\" to crackdown on criminal groups but argued more cash was needed to help fight gun violence.\n\nShe said: \"We are still 450 officers short of where we were in 2010. We lost about 1,100 officers in Merseyside and that doesn't include our PCSOs and staff.\n\n\"But I've always said, you can't just turn the tap back on and expect things to go back to the way they were, we've seen 10 years of austerity that has damaged our public services.\n\n\"It's going to take time for us to build up that expertise again to get our officers trained up to support them, so they're in the best position to be able to tackle some of these issues.\"\n\nThe Home Office has been contacted for comment.\n\nChapman is due to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court later.\n\nMr Justice Goose has told the court he would consider imposing a whole life order.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hollywood star Brad Pitt was seen strolling among the crowds on Thursday\n\nHollywood actor Brad Pitt, who has been cast as an F1 driver in a movie, will be seen racing at Silverstone during the British Grand Prix weekend.\n\nPitt is to be filmed racing an adapted Formula 2 machine between practice sessions on Friday.\n\nBritish champion Lewis Hamilton is helping to produce the film featuring the American actor.\n\nThe 59-year-old Oscar-winner is playing the role of a veteran driver returning to the grid after a 30-year absence.\n\nThe plot line has raised eyebrows, given Pitt's age, but Hamilton said: \"Brad looks like he's ageing backwards. He looks great for his age.\n\n\"I can't tell you how excited I am to have Brad Pitt in Formula 1. It's incredible.\"\n\nF1 champion Lewis Hamilton is helping to produce the movie starring Brad Pitt called Apex\n\nWhile Pitt will be alone on the track at Silverstone in a modified car prepared by Hamilton's Mercedes team, it is believed the assistance of computer generated imagery will make him look as though he is racing on this season's grid.\n\nThe film crew will also have a presence on the grid ahead of Sunday's race.\n\nApex has had its own \"Pitt\" stop built trackside for the movie\n\nHamilton has been involved in preparations for the movie, including trying to make it as authentic as possible - a criticism levelled at previous motorsport films.\n\nHe said: \"It is massively exciting to know it is all coming together and we are starting to film this weekend.\n\n\"It's nerves because we have been working on it for so long and we want people to love it and [think that] we captured what the essence of the sport is all about.\"\n\nHamilton said he had spent time at a track in California with Pitt helping him to learn about race-driving.\n\nFilming for Apex is due to continue throughout the remainder of the 2023 season.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "European flights during the summer holiday period could be affected by strike action by air traffic managers.\n\nEurocontrol, which manages flights over Europe, has said one of its unions could take industrial action, although no dates have been announced yet.\n\nNegotiations are continuing with the union and other unions, Eurocontrol said.\n\nIndustry group Airlines UK urged Eurocontrol \"to reach agreement as soon as possible\".\n\nAnother industry body, Airlines for Europe, said the possible impact of any strike action \"remains to be determined\".\n\nEurocontrol said it was \"making every effort to keep negotiations open and to find a constructive way forward\".\n\nOne of its trade unions, Union Syndicale Bruxelles, has \"announced a period of six months during which industrial action could take place\".\n\nIt said the action could affect its Network Manager Operations Centre, which handles more than 10 million flights a year.\n\nPrior to the pandemic, it had daily peaks managing more than 37,000 flights, and Eurocontrol said the centre played a pivotal role in managing, streamlining and improving air traffic.\n\nEurocontrol stressed that it was in \"ongoing dialogue\" with the union.\n\n\"As no notice of specific industrial action has been received, it is premature to speculate on any potential impact,\" it said.\n\nAirlines for Europe said any strike action would not affect Eurocontrol's air traffic control services and \"therefore its impact on passengers could be limited\".\n\nThe BBC has approached Union Syndicale Bruxelles for comment.\n\nAviation in Europe is facing a particular set of challenges this summer.\n\nDemand for flights is returning to pre-Covid pandemic levels, and European airspace is being constricted by Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nBut there is a shortage of air traffic controllers, and some strikes are already planned - for example, there is an air traffic strike in Italy on Saturday 15 July.\n\nAirlines UK said its members were \"looking forward to a busy summer, meeting growing demand for travel and carrying millions of people on holidays\".\n\nIt said airlines have \"made huge efforts since the pandemic to build resilience into operations\".\n\nAn agreement between Eurocontrol and union members would \"avoid any potential disruption for airlines and their customers\", it said.\n\nIt added that air traffic controllers were already having to work within \"a more constrained European airspace\" due to Russia's Ukraine war.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder said the union involved did not have a reputation for militancy, and that instead this was a \"cry for help\" over staffing levels.\n\nDuring the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020, many older air traffic controllers retired, and have yet to be replaced, he said.\n\nHe said he expected this potential dispute to be resolved before it reached the stage of a strike.\n\nBut a more pressing concern was a lack of air traffic controllers in general, with impacts already being felt through \"a series of cancellations every day in the UK\".\n\nThis comes as demand for air travel rebounds after the pandemic, he added, with Friday being the busiest day for air travel since 2019.\n\nLast summer, holidaymakers were affected by sustained disruption to flights due to staff shortages, and across 2022 as a whole more than a third of UK flights were delayed.\n\nHaving axed thousands of jobs during the worst of the Covid pandemic, many aviation businesses including airports could not get new staff in place quickly enough.\n\nBut at Easter this year, airports and airlines told the BBC they were confident they had enough staff to avoid any travel chaos.\n\nThis summer, having raised staffing levels, disruption instead could come from industrial action.\n\nTravel to France from the UK has already been affected this year by some strikes.", "Selena Lau, eight, was \"intelligent, cheeky and loved\"\n\nAn eight-year-old girl who was killed when a Land Rover crashed through a school fence was \"adored and loved by everyone\", her family have said.\n\nIn tribute, they said Selena Lau, who died in Wimbledon on Thursday, was \"an intelligent and cheeky girl\".\n\nSeveral people including a seven-month-old girl were taken to hospital after a car crashed into the grounds of The Study Preparatory School.\n\nAn eight-year-old girl and a woman in her 40s remain in a critical condition.\n\nEarlier, the driver of the car, a 46-year-old woman who had been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, was bailed until late July.\n\nIn a statement released through the Met Police, the family released a picture of Selena beaming in her school uniform and paid tribute to the schoolgirl.\n\nThey said: \"Selena was an intelligent and cheeky girl adored and loved by everyone. The family wishes their privacy to be respected at this sad time\".\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left at the school, in south-west London, where the police cordon was removed on Friday.\n\nOne note left with flowers by a woman wearing a sling around her arm read: \"Dear Selena, you will always be our shining star. We will miss you so much.\"\n\nThe note included a picture of a star and had kisses on it.\n\nAn end-of-term tea party had been taking place at the school when the Land Rover crashed through the fence and into a building.\n\nA tribute left at the school said Selena would always be a \"shining star\"\n\nBoth the family of the eight-year-old girl who died and the family of the eight-year-old girl in a life-threatening condition are being supported by family liaison officers.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service sent 15 ambulances to the scene and treated 16 people after the incident. Twelve were taken to hospital.\n\nA local teacher, who asked not to be named, said her friend had children who went to the school and they had suffered injuries including fractures and a broken pelvis.\n\nThe driver of the car suffered injuries that were described as not life-threatening.\n\nOne line of inquiry is that she had suffered a medical incident, the BBC understands.\n\nA gold-coloured Land Rover could be seen on school grounds surrounded by emergency responders on Thursday\n\nMembers of the Wimbledon Common Golf Glub, which is opposite the school, held a minute's silence outside the school gates on Friday.\n\nClub chairman Peter Thompson said: \"It's just so sad to lose someone so young.\"\n\nThe school said in a statement it was \"profoundly shocked\", adding: \"Our thoughts are with the bereaved family and with the families of those injured at this terrible time.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Clair Kelland, local policing commander for south-west London, said: \"It is difficult to imagine the pain and upset the families of those involved are going through and we will do all we can to support them as our investigation continues.\n\n\"I understand many people will want answers about how this happened and there is a team of detectives working to establish the circumstances.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Activists threw orange paper petals and jigsaw pieces on the court\n\nThree people have been charged after climate change protesters disrupted two matches at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.\n\nOn Wednesday, Just Stop Oil activists stopped two contests taking place on court 18 by throwing orange paper petals and jigsaw pieces on the court.\n\nThe Met Police said three people had been charged with aggravated trespass.\n\nThey have been released on bail to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates court on 7 August.\n\nTwo of the games on court 18 were disrupted\n\nTwo protesters halted the match between Grigor Dimitrov and Sho Shimabukuro at about 14:10 BST, then another activist targeted a later match between Katie Boulter and Daria Saville.\n\nThe Met said Deborah Wilde, 68, of Wood Green, Simon Milner-Edwards, 66, of Manchester, and William Ward, 66, of Surrey were the people who have been charged.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jack Johnson (left), brothers Finlay and Samuel Butler and Thomas Stewart died after falling into the icy lake\n\nTwo young brothers and their cousin were three of the four boys who died when they plunged into an icy lake in the West Midlands.\n\nFinlay Butler, eight, and his younger brother Samuel, six, died, as did their cousin Thomas Stewart, 11, and another boy, Jack Johnson, 10.\n\nThey were pulled from water at Babbs Mill Park, near Solihull, on Sunday.\n\nThe families of the three young relatives have paid tribute to their \"beautiful boys\".\n\n\"As a family we are devastated at the loss of our beautiful boys Tom, Fin and Sam in such tragic circumstances,\" said their parents in a statement released by West Midlands Police.\n\n\"We would like to thank the emergency services for all they did in rescuing the boys and to the community for their support - it has been overwhelming.\n\n\"We would like to pass on our condolences to Jack's family at this very sad time, and ask for privacy from the media to begin to grieve.\"\n\nJack, Finlay and Thomas died in hospital on Sunday.\n\nOn Wednesday, police confirmed the youngest of the boys Sam had also died.\n\nThomas's older brother released a tribute to his \"beautiful\" and \"lively\" sibling with \"such a big heart\".\n\n\"He loved being outside playing with his mates. I love you Tom, big bro will take care of the family and I will see you soon,\" it said.\n\n\"Make sure you keep practising on warzone and get a win, will you?\"\n\nWriting before he learned his younger cousin had also died, the boy added he could not forget \"dinosaur man, Fin\".\n\n\"He loved dinosaurs so much and always showing me new things he built on Minecraft, and all the new stuff he learnt on it. Gonna miss you little man.\"\n\nAmbulance workers who tried to help the boys laid flowers at the scene\n\nSt Anthony's Catholic Primary School, where Jack was a pupil, said its community remained \"in a state of shock\" at the tragic news.\n\n\"Jack was a loving, bubbly pupil with a heart of gold. Someone who would always check in on others and make sure they were doing OK,\" said head teacher Cieran Flaherty.\n\n\"He was a joy to teach and a child who we are all so very proud of. A ray of sunshine who would never fail to make us all smile. We can only say thank you to him for brightening up our lives.\"\n\nStaff from the school visited the scene on Thursday to pay their own tributes.\n\nDr Toby Close, associate head teacher at Park Hall Academy, confirmed the death of their pupil, 11-year-old Thomas, \"with the heaviest of hearts\".\n\n\"Tom was a well-liked, caring pupil with real character who went out of his way to look after those around him,\" he said.\n\n\"He was a fiercely loyal friend to so many in our school community. In the short time he was at Park Hall, his outgoing personality, energy and wit shone through.\n\n\"We will miss him brightening every day with his great sense of humour. He radiated a love for learning with his infectious smile and enthusiastic manner.\"\n\nHundreds of tributes have been left near the shore of the lake in Babbs Mill Park, Kingshurst\n\nEarlier on Thursday a mass was held as a \"beautiful tribute to Jack\", St Anthony's Primary School tweeted.\n\n\"We were joined by Jack's family and our school family,\" it said.\n\nFirefighters from Sheldon fire station also attended the service. Crews from the station were among those who had tried to rescue the boys on Sunday.\n\nAmbulance workers who had tried to save the four boys placed a wreath near the scene.\n\n\"We are all human,\" said assistant chief officer Nathan Hudson.\n\n\"Nobody comes to work to perform advanced care on four children that have drowned in a lake, so it's a very difficult moment for them professionally.\"\n\nA police cordon at the scene of the accident was lifted on Wednesday evening, after specialist diving teams completed their searches.\n\nSupt Rich Harris, of West Midlands Police, said officers would remain in the area over the coming days.\n\n\"This is a tragedy beyond words and a grief that is unimaginable for the families and friends of the boys,\" added Supt Harris.\n\n\"The support from the community has been overwhelming, not just for the bereaved families, but also for the emergency services, for which we are extremely grateful.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "How much to pay teachers is a \"very difficult choice\", a minister has said, as strikes hit schools in England for the second time this week.\n\nRobert Halfon said the government wanted to be fair to teaching staff but also \"fair to the taxpayer\".\n\nMany schools are expected to be closed or part-closed as National Education Union (NEU) members strike over pay.\n\nThe union said whether strikes should continue in the autumn term was \"in the government's hands\".\n\nFriday's walkout is the seventh national strike day since February, but it is the eighth day that most schools in England have been affected by strikes, because of regional action.\n\nTeachers also walked out on Wednesday.\n\nFigures on school closures caused by this week's strikes have not been yet published, but more schools than ever were affected during the most recent action, in May.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Education said Friday's strike would lead to end-of-term events being cancelled, including Year 6 pupils' secondary school transition days.\n\nNext year's pay is being considered by the government after a report was submitted by the independent pay review body.\n\nThat body has reportedly recommended a 6.5% rise for teachers, and education unions have accused the government of sitting on the report.\n\nMr Halfon told BBC Breakfast he had not seen the final report and could not confirm that 6.5% had been recommended.\n\nHe said the government \"has a very difficult choice\" to make, saying decisions about teachers' pay should be balanced against the fact the government has \"got to spend billions of pounds helping people with the cost of living\".\n\n\"We've got to be as fair as possible to teachers and support staff, who work incredibly hard... but we also have to be fair to the taxpayer,\" he said.\n\nHe said the government would make a decision after the report was published.\n\nEducation unions say teachers are struggling to make ends meet\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the NEU's joint-general secretary, Dr Mary Bousted, called the reported offer \"credible\", saying it would be the \"biggest award announced by a pay review body\" and \"deserved for teachers\".\n\nShe said: \"I think members would accept 6.5% with one major addition, which is that it would be funded.\n\n\"Schools don't have the money to pay teachers 6.5%. We calculate there would need to be 3% on average [extra] funding for schools in order to do that.\"\n\nAsked whether she feared the government could overrule the pay review body, Dr Bousted said: \"Unfortunately I think that's entirely possible. We hope that that's not the case.\"\n\nThe NEU is balloting for further strike action in the autumn, which could involve co-ordinated strikes with three other education unions.\n\nDr Bousted said autumn strike action would not happen if a fully-funded 6.5% rise was offered, saying it was \"in the government's hands\".\n\nMost state school teachers in England had a 5% pay rise for the year 2022-23.\n\nThe NEU wants teachers to have an above-inflation pay increase, plus extra money to ensure any pay rises do not come from schools' existing budgets.\n\nAfter intensive talks, the government offered an additional one-off payment of £1,000. It also offered a rise for most teachers next year of 4.3%, with starting salaries reaching £30,000.\n\nThe Department for Education described it as a \"fair and reasonable offer\", and said schools would receive an extra £2.3bn over the next two years.\n\nAll four unions involved in the dispute rejected the offer.\n\nAlmost 40,000 full-time working-age teachers left the profession last year - the highest level since records began in 2010 - according to government data released last month.\n\nHowever, overall the number of teachers has increased by 2,800 to 468,400, because more teachers have entered the profession.\n\nAre you a teacher with a view on the strike? Are you a parent affected? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "GB News has been arguing against Britain becoming \"cashless\", something it is excluded from doing\n\nThe broadcasting watchdog Ofcom is investigating a complaint made against GB News' Don't Kill Cash campaign.\n\nThe campaign, which has more than 166,000 signatures, warns about Britain \"becoming a cashless society\".\n\nIt also calls on the government to introduce legislation to protect the status of cash as legal tender.\n\nOfcom said its guidelines require broadcasters to not express views on \"matters of political and industrial controversy or current public policy.\"\n\n\"Our investigation does not seek to question the merits of the campaign itself,\" the watchdog added in a statement.\n\nIn its recently launched campaign, the TV and radio channel, which launched in 2021, claimed the rise of card payment methods had meant \"people who rely on cash are increasingly being left behind by the relentless march of technology.\"\n\nThe TV and radio channel launched in 2021\n\nThe latest Ofcom investigation into the network comes in the same week that the watchdog began looking into a recent episode of one of its presenters, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg's show.\n\nIt is investigating whether the MP's programme broke rules preventing politicians from acting as newsreaders, \"unless exceptionally, it is editorially justified\", when covering a story about a civil trial verdict involving Donald Trump.\n\nThe media expert who drew up the UK's broadcasting rules in the 2000s, Chris Banatvala, this week urged Ofcom to decide whether politicians should be allowed to present such shows.\n\nLast month, the watchdog said it was conducting research into public attitudes towards the growing modern trend for current affairs programmes being hosted by politicians.", "Despite the reported progress in 2023, previous few years saw an alarming rise in deforestation\n\nDeforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell by 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's term compared with the same period in 2022, the government says.\n\nIts suggests the rainforest shrank by 2,649 sq km this January-June, down from 3,988 sq km in those six months last year under President Bolsonaro.\n\nThe released government satellite data has not been independently verified.\n\nLula has pledged to end deforestation, or forest clearance, by 2030.\n\nBut he faces a huge challenge to achieve this target, as the area of rainforest still reported to be lost under his rule is more than three times the size of New York City.\n\nThe past few years have seen an alarming rise in deforestation.\n\nThe Amazon rainforest is a crucial buffer in the global fight against climate change.\n\nThe new satellite data was presented by Brazil's National Institute of Space Research (Inpe) on Thursday.\n\n\"We have reached a steady downward trend in deforestation of the Amazon,\" Environment Minister Marina Silva told reporters.\n\nInpe singled out June as the month that saw a record 41% drop in forest clearance compared with the same period last year.\n\nLula, who took office in January, has vowed to reverse policies of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, who promoted mining in indigenous lands in the Amazon.\n\nEarlier this year, Lula decreed six new indigenous reserves, banning mining and restricting commercial farming there.\n\nIndigenous leaders welcomed the move - but stressed that more areas needed protection.\n\nAnd while deforestation was reported to have fallen, fires were up in the statistics.\n\nIn June alone, satellite monitoring detected 3,075 fires in the Amazon - the highest number since 2007.\n\nMany of the blazes - releasing vast amounts of carbon emissions - have been linked to the clearing of previously deforested areas.\n\nLula, who previously served as Brazil's president in 2003-2010, has also been pushing for the world's richest nations to pay for various initiatives aimed at saving the rainforest.\n\nIn April, research by Global Forest Watch monitoring network showed that an area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost last year around the world as tree clearance surged.\n\nIt said that some 11 football pitches of forest were lost every minute in 2022, with Brazil dominating the destruction.\n\nIt suggested that a political pledge to end deforestation made by world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in 2021 was well off track.\n\nThe Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and 60% of it is in Brazil.\n\nDue to the large number of trees growing there, it is often called \"the lungs of the planet\" on account of how the trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen.", "Thousands have come together to dance to the song ‘Nutbush City Limits’ in tribute to late singer Tina Turner, at Australia's most remote music festival, the Big Red Bash.\n\n5,838 participants danced for five minutes to set a new record for the largest Nutbush dance in the world, as adjudicated by the Australian Book of Records.\n\nThe ‘Nutbush’ has been dubbed Australia's unofficial national dance and is often performed in Australian schools, weddings and gatherings.", "A BBC presenter has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17, according to The Sun.\n\nThe newspaper reported that the unnamed male presenter had paid the alleged victim tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nIt is understood that the BBC is looking into the allegations, and that the star is currently not scheduled to be on air in the coming days.\n\nThe Sun said the young person's family complained to the BBC on 19 May.\n\nThe family is reported to have become frustrated that the star remained on air and approached the newspaper, but said they wanted no payment for the story.\n\nThe mother told the paper that the anonymous individual, now aged 20, had used the money from the presenter to fund a crack cocaine habit.\n\nShe described to the paper how her child had gone from a \"happy-go-lucky youngster to a ghost-like crack addict\" in three years.\n\nFollowing the reports, several high-profile BBC presenters have taken to social media to deny they are the presenter in question.\n\nBroadcaster Rylan Clark tweeted on Saturday that he was not the presenter, saying \"that ain't me babe\" and adding that he is filming in Italy for a BBC programme.\n\nSeparately BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine has also distanced himself from the Sun story, saying the allegations are not about him.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Just to say I'm very much looking forward to hosting my radio show on Monday — whoever the 'BBC Presenter' in the news is, I have the same message for you as Rylan did earlier: it certainly ain't me.\"\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker did not mention the allegations specifically, but writing on Twitter later on Saturday evening he said: \"Hate to disappoint the haters but it's not me.\"\n\nNicky Campbell tweeted that he has reported an anonymous Twitter account to the police over a post claiming he was the presenter.\n\n\"I think it's important to take a stand. There's just too many of these people on social media. Thanks for your support friends,\" he said.\n\nThe corporation said the information would be \"acted upon appropriately\".\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We treat any allegations very seriously and we have processes in place to proactively deal with them.\n\n\"As part of that, if we receive information that requires further investigation or examination we will take steps to do this. That includes actively attempting to speak to those who have contacted us in order to seek further detail and understanding of the situation.\n\n\"If we get no reply to our attempts or receive no further contact that can limit our ability to progress things but it does not mean our enquiries stop.\n\n\"If, at any point, new information comes to light or is provided - including via newspapers - this will be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes.\"\n\nBBC's culture editor Katie Razzall said many questions remain unanswered, including how the corporation has investigated the family's complaint and if it was appropriate for the presenter, who has not been named, to stay on air after a serious allegation was made.\n\nThe BBC's statement appears to suggest its initial investigation may have been hampered by a lack of response from the family, she said.\n\nThis allegation, if proven, would mean the career of a high-profile BBC presenter is likely to be over.", "The car crashed into the school at about 10:00 BST on Thursday\n\nPolice are continuing to question a woman over a car crash at a school which killed an eight-year-old girl, as floral tributes are laid at the scene.\n\nTwelve people were taken to hospital after a Land Rover crashed into The Study Preparatory School in Wimbledon.\n\nNone of the children injured on Thursday are in a critical condition, the chair of governors told the BBC.\n\nThe woman in her 40s remains in custody having been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nOne line of inquiry is that the driver had a medical incident, the BBC understands.\n\nThe Met Police has removed the car from the site, in south-west London, as part of its investigation and the cordon has been lifted. The force has said it is not treating the crash as terror-related.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Mark Lobel is at the scene the day after the fatal crash\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it sent 15 ambulances to the scene and treated 16 people.\n\nSt George's Hospital in Tooting said it had received \"a number of patients who are being cared for by our specialist clinical teams\".\n\nDet Ch Sup Clair Kelland, local police commander for south-west London, said: \"We would ask people not to speculate while we work to understand the full circumstances of what has happened during this tragic incident.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid outside the school for girls aged four to 11, which is based on Camp Road near Wimbledon Common.\n\nOne local teacher, who asked not to be named, told the BBC she knows some of the families affected by the crash and said they were \"distressed\".\n\nFloral tributes have been placed outside the school gates\n\nShe said: \"I wanted to pay tribute to this girl, her family and the school, and I'm really sorry.\n\n\"I wanted to pay my respects and for [my son] to see that's an important thing to do.\"\n\nMP for Wimbledon Stephen Hammond said the pupils had been gathered for an end-of-year celebration party in the garden. He described the crash as \"extremely distressing and extremely concerning\".\n\nJohn Tucker, chair of the board of governors, said \"the school community is profoundly affected by this tragedy\".\n\nHe added that activities planned at the school on Friday had been cancelled.\n\nThe school's website was replaced by a holding page with a statement reading: \"We are profoundly shocked by the tragic accident this morning at Wilberforce House and devastated that it has claimed the life of one of our young pupils as well as injuring several others.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the bereaved family and with the families of those injured at this terrible time.\"\n\nThe private girls' school is just a mile away from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club as it hosts the world-famous tennis tournament.\n\nIan Hewitt, chair of the All England Club, visited the school to \"offer our heartfelt sympathies to all affected by this tragic, tragic incident\".\n\nIan Hewitt visited the school to pay his respects on Friday\n\nHe added: \"I just want to offer condolences on behalf of the All England Club and everyone involved in Wimbledon Tennis.\n\n\"We feel closely associated with the community and we recognise what a tragic incident [it is].\"\n\nOn Thursday, a spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his \"deepest condolences\" were with the family of the girl who had died, and his thoughts were with all of those involved and injured.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMartin Lewis said he was left feeling \"sick\" by an online scam video featuring a realistic computer-generated likeness of him.\n\nThe widely-circulated ad, which attempts to solicit money for a supposed investment scheme, appears to use AI-powered deepfake technology.\n\nConsumer finance expert Lewis said it was \"weird and pretty frightening\" to have his face and voice imitated.\n\nHe warned people would be tricked out of money without industry regulation.\n\nIn the advert - which appeared on Facebook - a fake likeness of Lewis encourages people to sign up for what is claimed to be an Elon Musk-backed project, calling it \"legit\" and a \"great investment\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Lewis said: \"My name and face have been the subject of scam adverts for many years, I get countless reports every day.\n\n\"This is the first deepfake I've seen with me in it… it's already difficult enough to persuade people [about scams].\n\n\"I've had friends of mine get in touch with me at times saying 'hey, I've just put some money in that investment scheme you're advertising'.\n\nDeepfakes are images which have been convincingly digitally manipulated. Experts have long warned they could be used to spread disinformation.\n\nThe capability to recreate a person's likeness has been around for a number of years, but there are concerns that rapid advancement in machine learning could increase the power and availability of the technology.\n\nAsked about the deepfake video of himself, Lewis said: \"I don't think it's perfect but it's the first one and this technology is improving at a rapid speed.\n\n\"And frankly, it's disgraceful and people are going to lose money.\"\n\nHe said that regulation of the tech industry amounts to a \"wild west\" situation and called on the government to press ahead with legislation.\n\nLewis added: \"We are scared of big tech in this country and we need to start regulating them properly.\n\n\"Vulnerable people are being scammed and nothing is being done about it.\"\n\nLewis sued Facebook in 2018 over fake ads using his name, dropping the legal action after receiving commitments and a £3m donation to Citizens Advice from the US firm.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A three-day event involving handling mock emergency situations makes up part of the course\n\nFormer soldiers form part of an NHS training scheme aimed at preparing staff for challenges they will face.\n\nBorn of a perceived lack of preparation for Covid, the 10-month Climb programme includes training for unexpected emergencies and hostile environments.\n\nAs the NHS turns 75, bosses said it could survive if \"overwhelming\" problems were overcome.\n\nDr Jonathon Gray of Cardiff and Vale health board said new challenges needed \"different forms of leadership\".\n\nDespite pulling together to open the Dragon's Heart field hospital in the Principality Stadium during the pandemic, those in charge realised their team members were unprepared to deal with the situation.\n\nThe Climb programme culminates in a three-day event with tasks such as co-ordinating a full-scale emergency operation, rescuing bodies from collapsed buildings and dealing with unexpected emergencies.\n\nParticipants are guided through this by members of an international rescue team and former SAS soldiers.\n\nDr Gray, the health board's director of improvement and innovation said the challenges facing NHS staff were \"ever more complex\".\n\nHe added: \"When could possibly be better than the 75th anniversary of the NHS to be investing and growing the young leaders who will create the future NHS?\"\n\nDr Nikki Sommers says \"doing our hardest but still not delivering the best care we'd like\" is really hard for NHS staff\n\nNikki Sommers started her first shift as an A&E consultant at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Gwynedd, at the start of the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nDespite the unprecedented experiences of that time, Dr Sommers said emergency departments were faced with even bigger challenges today.\n\n\"People's expectations and needs have gone up and we have an ageing population and a system that is totally overwhelmed,\" she said.\n\n\"We're holding ambulances outside now when we never really used to do that. We're treating patients in corridors and that's really distressing for staff and patients.\"\n\nDr Sommers said being part of the programme helped her to assess her priorities and values.\n\nShe said it made her realise that she always wants to work in the NHS because of the importance of delivering free healthcare at the point where it was most needed.\n\nSara Edwards says issues facing the NHS have \"worsened\"\n\nDr Gray added: \"During the pandemic we all faced a huge challenge as everybody knows. We were particularly inspired by the young leaders who ran towards the fire.\n\n\"But we all agreed we'd never really trained those young leaders, or given [them] what they needed to work really well together.\"\n\nSara Edwards, an endoscopy service delivery manager at Hywel Dda health board, was part of the team that built the field hospital.\n\n\"We were a team of people who hadn't worked together before but we were pulled together at short notice to deal with a situation we hadn't been faced with before,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS had challenges before Covid but they have now worsened to some extent. There's never enough money and we're in a position now where there just aren't enough members of staff trained to care for patients.\n\n\"We really have to think about how we can do things differently and do things better.\"\n\nDr Sherard Lemaitre believes in a future for the NHS if it adapts\n\nDr Sherard Lemaitre, a GP in Cardiff, added: \"I think the NHS does have a future and we all think we're fortunate to have the health service.\n\n\"We need to think about how we can embrace the digital revolution and make sure we don't leave people behind.\"", "The Ford Fiesta was launched as a more fuel-efficient car in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis\n\nThe last Ford Fiesta will roll off the production line on Friday bringing to an end almost 50 years of history which made it the UK's best-selling car.\n\nFord will produce the final model in Cologne, Germany before its plant is modified to produce more electric vehicles.\n\nFirst manufactured in 1976 it became an instant hit with those wanting smaller, more efficient cars.\n\nMore than 22 million have been produced globally.\n\nDespite a huge choice in brands more Fiestas have been sold in the UK than any other car model, and it was the country's best-selling vehicle every year between 2009 and 2020.\n\nIt was the 10th most popular new car last year, with more than 25,000 registered.\n\nIn total, there were 1.5 million licensed for use on UK roads in 2022, figures from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) show, ahead of all other models.\n\nFord announced it would end production of the Fiesta last October after it scrapped its family saloon the Mondeo in 2021. Earlier this year it also stopped making the S-Maxx and Galaxy people carriers.Production of the Ford Focus will end in 2025.\n\nThe car giant is thought to be using electrification as an opportunity to reinvent the brand for eco-conscious consumers.\n\nThe Fiesta was produced in Dagenham for many years\n\nThe first model built in the UK was produced in Dagenham, Essex in 1977, but the car was first manufactured in Valencia, in Spain a year earlier.\n\nIt was originally designed as a more fuel-efficient, small car in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.\n\nAlex Buttle, co-founder of used car marketplace Motorway, said the car would remain popular with customers for years to come. \"We continue to see high demand for the Ford Fiesta, as our dealer partners remain keen to stock their forecourts with this modern-day classic,\" he said.\n\nThe average sold price of a used model had increased by 14% in the last few months alone and was testament to the popularity of \"this timeless model\", Mr Buttle said.\n\n\"The ceasing of production of new Ford Fiestas may mean the end of an era, but the used car market will continue breathing life into this much sought-after car for years ahead,\" he added.\n\nThe final two Fiestas will be kept by Ford - one will stay in Germany while the other will be shipped to the UK and placed in its heritage collection.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was Alexander Lukashenko who had brokered the deal to end the Wagner mutiny. So we're told.\n\nSo if there's anyone who can shine a light on this murkiest of stories, surely it's the leader of Belarus. Or so we hope.\n\nWe're part of a small group of journalists invited to the Palace of Independence in Minsk for \"a conversation\" with Mr Lukashenko.\n\nOnly a few weeks ago there'd been feverish speculation about his health. But the Belarusian leader clearly has stamina. The \"conversation\" lasts nearly four hours.\n\nInstead of shining a light, though, he muddies the waters on the recent Russian uprising.\n\nAccording to the agreement between the Wagner Group and the Kremlin, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was supposed to move to Belarus, along with some of his fighters.\n\nThat hasn't happened. Not yet anyway.\n\n\"As of this morning,\" says Mr Lukashenko, \"the Wagner fighters, very serious ones, are still in the camps they'd withdrawn to after Bakhmut.\n\n\"As for Yevgeny Prigozhin, he's in St Petersburg. Or perhaps this morning he flew to Moscow. Or perhaps he's somewhere else. But he's not in Belarus.\"\n\nI ask Alexander Lukashenko whether that means the deal is off.\n\nHe denies that. It feels as if there are conversations going on behind the scenes we're not going to be told about.\n\nSteve Rosenberg (L by the door) was among a group of journalists who spent four hours with Mr Lukashenko\n\nWhen it comes to discussing the mutiny, Moscow and Minsk have not exactly been on the same page.\n\nLast weekend Russian state TV declared that President Vladimir Putin had emerged from these dramatic events a hero.\n\n\"I think that no-one came out of that situation a hero,\" Mr Lukashenko tells me.\n\n\"Not Prigozhin, not Putin, not Lukashenko. There were no heroes. And the lesson from this? If we create armed groups like this, we need to keep an eye on them and pay serious attention to them.\"\n\nThe \"conversation\" moves on to nuclear weapons. In particular, the nuclear warheads Russia has said it is moving to Belarus.\n\nOnce a thorn in his side, Alexander Lukashenko became increasingly reliant on Vladimir Putin after the disputed 2020 election\n\n\"God forbid I should ever have to take the decision to use them,\" Mr Lukashenko had said recently, adding, \"But I won't hesitate to use them.\"\n\nI remind him of those comments.\n\n\"Joe Biden could say the same thing, and Prime Minister Sunak,\" Mr Lukashenko replies. \"And my friend Xi Jinping and my Big Brother President Putin.\"\n\n\"But these are not your weapons we're talking about,\" I point out. \"They're Russian ones. It's not your decision to take.\"\n\n\"In Ukraine a whole army is fighting with foreign weapons, isn't it,\" the Belarusian leader retorts. \"Nato weapons. Because they've run out of their own. So why can't I fight with someone else's weapons?\"\n\nBut we're talking nuclear weapons, not pistols, I reply.\n\nAs you can probably guess from his nuclear comments, Alexander Lukashenko is a controversial figure.\n\nThe US, EU and the UK do not recognise him as the legitimate president of Belarus. In 2020 Belarusians poured on to the streets to accuse him of stealing the country's presidential election. The protests were brutally suppressed.\n\n\"For months her relatives and lawyers have been denied access to her in prison. Why?\" I ask.\n\n\"I don't know anything about this,\" he claims.\n\n\"The last time I interviewed you in the autumn of 2021, there were 873 political prisoners in Belarus,\" I remind Mr Lukashenko. \"Now there are 1,500.\"\n\n\"There is no article in our criminal code for political crimes,\" he replies.\n\nThe absence of an article on political crimes doesn't mean there are no political prisoners, I point out.\n\n\"Prisoners cannot be political prisoners, if there's no article,\" he insists. \"How can they be?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Where is Yevgeny Prigozhin? And why does it matter?", "Empire Cinemas has collapsed into administration with the immediate loss of 150 jobs.\n\nSix cinemas in the chain have closed, with a further eight under threat.\n\nAdministrators BDO said the impact of the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis had \"significantly affected the companies' business\".\n\nLast month rival chain Cineworld, also fell into administration, hit by the pandemic and competition from streaming.\n\nThe Empire cinemas that closed on Friday are in Bishop's Stortford, Catterick Garrison, Sunderland, Swindon, Walthamstow and Wigan.\n\nThe closures leave Sunderland and Wigan with no main cinema.\n\nMeanwhile, the remaining sites in Birmingham, Clydebank, High Wycombe, Ipswich and Sutton, and the two Tivoli-branded venues in Bath and Cheltenham, will continue to trade as the administrators look for a buyer.\n\nStaff apparently turned up for work at branches on Friday to find notes on windows explaining they were closing down, according to local media reports.\n\nBDO said the cinemas employed a total of 437 staff across England and Scotland.\n\nIt said gift cards, ticket e-codes, guest passes and readmission tickets will continue to be valid at trading cinema sites. Advance ticket purchases at sites which have closed will be automatically refunded.\n\nCinema-goers have been reacting to the closures on social media.\n\nOne said they were sorry to read about the Sunderland branch closing, \"but when it's almost £5 for a regular coke let alone the price of admission constantly changing I'm not surprised that this complex has closed\".\n\n\"It's not just Covid that's caused this, not when there's a cost of living crisis, people just don't have the money these days.\"\n\nEmpire Cinemas was founded in 2005 following the mergers of Odeon and UCI, and Cineworld and UGC.\n\nThe Office of Fair Trading ruled that both new groups should lose a number of their cinemas which created an opportunity for Empire Cinemas to be created.\n\nUntil the closure of the six cinemas on Friday, the chain showed films on 129 screens, including on IMAX and IMPACT screens.", "Mr Rutte has been holding three days of talks to try to save his coalition\n\nThe Dutch government has collapsed because of a disagreement between coalition parties over asylum policies, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said.\n\nThe four parties were split in crisis talks chaired by Mr Rutte on Friday.\n\nMr Rutte then met King Willem-Alexander in The Hague on Saturday and agreed to lead a caretaker government until fresh elections, expected in mid-November.\n\nCoalition partners had objected to his proposal to restrict the scope for immigrant families to reunite.\n\nThe government was set up a year and a half ago but the parties have been opposed on migration for some time.\n\nMr Rutte gave no details of his talks with the king, which lasted about an hour and a half. \"It was a good discussion, but I'm not saying anything else because these discussions are confidential,\" he told reporters.\n\nHis conservative VVD party had been trying to limit the flow of asylum seekers, following a row last year about overcrowded migration centres. His plans were opposed by his junior coalition partners.\n\nMark Rutte said he would hand his resignation to King Willem-Alexander on Saturday\n\nAsylum applications in the Netherlands jumped by over a third last year to more than 47,000 and government figures said earlier this year that they expected roughly 70,000 applications in 2023.\n\nThis week, Mr Rutte tried to force through a plan which included a cap on the number of relatives of war refugees allowed into the Netherlands at just 200 people per month.\n\nBut junior coalition partners the Christian Union, a pro-family party, and the socially-liberal D66 were strongly opposed.\n\n\"The decision was very difficult for us,\" Mr Rutte told journalists as he announced his cabinet's resignation. The differences in views between the coalition partners were \"irreconcilable\", he added.\n\n\"All parties went to great lengths to find a solution, but the differences on migration are unfortunately impossible to bridge.\"\n\nA media scrum welcomed Mark Rutte as he arrived at the Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague to meet Dutch King Willem-Alexander\n\nA compromise proposal, known as the \"emergency brake\", which would only trigger the restrictions in the event of an excessively high influx of migrants, was not enough to save the government.\n\n\"The four parties decided that they cannot reach an agreement on migration,\" the Christian Union's spokesman Tim Kuijsten said. \"Therefore they decided to end this government.\"\n\nMr Rutte, 56, is the country's longest serving prime minister and has been in office since 2010. The current government - which took office in January 2022 - is his fourth coalition.\n\nHe said he still had the energy for a fifth term, but a final decision would have to await consultations with his party.\n\nHe has been under pressure on migration because of the rise of far-right parties such as Geert Wilders' PVV.\n\nThe Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), which became the biggest party in the upper house of parliament after a shock election win in March, said they will not serve in any future government led by Mr Rutte.", "The \"Robodebt\" policy vilified recipients of welfare, an inquiry has found\n\nA landmark inquiry in Australia has found an illegal welfare hunt by the previous government made victims feel like criminals and caused suicides.\n\nKnown locally as \"Robodebt\", it was an automated government scheme which incorrectly demanded welfare recipients pay back benefits.\n\nPeople received letters saying they owed thousands of dollars in debt, based off an incorrect algorithm.\n\nMore than half a million Australians were affected by the policy.\n\nThe scheme ran from 2016 until it was ruled illegal by a court in 2019. It had forced some of the country's poorest people to pay off false debts.\n\nMany were forced into worse financial circumstances - taking out loans, selling their cars or using savings to pay off a debt they were told they had to pay within weeks. Others described being vilified and feeling shame after being told they owed money.\n\nOn Friday, a royal commission inquiry into the scandal issued its final report, describing the scheme as a \"costly failure of public administration\" with \"extensive, devastating, and continuing\" ill-effects.\n\n\"Robodebt was a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal, and it made many people feel like criminals,\" Commissioner Catherine Holmes wrote in her 990-page report.\n\nA royal commission is Australia's most powerful form of public inquiry. This one ran for 11 months and drew hundreds of public submissions.\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the previous government's scheme as a \"gross betrayal\" of citizens, which had harmed the most vulnerable.\n\nThe inquiry found there were at least three known suicides as a result of Robodebt policy, and it was \"confident that these were not the only tragedies of the kind\".\n\nThe deaths by suicide included two young men Rhys Cauzzo, 28, and Jarrad Madgwick, 22, whose mothers gave testimony to the commission last year on their behalf. Kath Madgwick had previously told the BBC she holds the government partly responsible for Jarrad's suicide.\n\nJarrad Madgwick took his life after receiving a government debt notice\n\nOther victims told the inquiry how the stress of a debt demand had caused them anxiety and depression and led them to consider suicide.\n\nOne woman said she felt suicidal for a period of months with the debt hanging over her head, with the \"lowest point\" being the day the debt collector debited the money from her bank account.\n\n\"I felt desperate on that day; it was so upsetting that I could not afford to pay for my daughter's medical expenses and I felt powerless to improve my situation,\" she told the inquiry.\n\nAnother victim, who had experienced mental illness previously, said that upon receiving a $A11,000 (£6,300, $8,100) debt notice, he was in \"complete shock\", because it would \"set me back years and years and years\".\n\nHe explained that \"from a generalised anxiety disorder point of view, it's just… the biggest trigger you can give to somebody\".\n\nThe inquiry's final report on Friday criticised former Prime Minister Scott Morrison's conservative government for launching the scheme where \"little to no regard was had to the individuals and vulnerable cohorts that it would affect\".\n\nThe report also condemned Mr Morrison - who had been minister of the social services department at the time the policy was launched - for \"misleading\" Cabinet over advice that the switch to an automated system would not require legislative passage.\n\nIn response on Friday, Mr Morrison said he rejected \"each of the findings which are critical of my involvement in authorising the scheme and are adverse to me\".\n\nHe maintained he had \"acted in good faith and on clear and deliberate department advice\".\n\nThe report also accused the government of persisting with a cover-up of the scheme even when its \"unfairness, probable illegality and cruelty became apparent\" in 2017.\n\n\"It should then have been abandoned or revised drastically, and an enormous amount of hardship and misery... would have been averted,\" it said.\n\n\"Instead the path taken was to double down, to go on the attack in the media against those who complained and to maintain the falsehood that in fact the system had not changed at all.\"\n\nCommissioner Holmes also described a politicisation of welfare policy that had exacerbated a stigma often felt by recipients of social welfare.\n\nThe government also falsely exaggerated incidents of welfare fraud which were \"miniscule\" or less than 0.1% of cases, the report found.\n\nIn a sealed section of the report, the commissioner also recommended that a number of unidentified individuals involved in the policy be referred to criminal and civil prosecution.\n\nThe Morrison government abruptly ended the Robodebt scheme in 2019 after victims contested the legal basis in the Federal Court of Australia, where it was found to be illegal.\n\nIn its backdown, the government was also forced to refund over A$700m of payments to victims. It also settled a multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought by victims seeking compensation.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations in the UK which offer advice and support, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.\n\nIf you are in Australia, you can call Lifeline at 131114, Kids Helpline at 1800 55 18000 or visit the Beyond Blue website.", "Belarus's authoritarian leader says it is \"absolutely possible\" his forces helped migrants cross into Poland but denies they were invited.\n\nAlexander Lukashenko has been accused by the EU of orchestrating the border crisis with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent months in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Belarus for its brutal crackdown on opponents who took part in mass protests after the August 2020 election.\n\nWatch highlights of the exclusive interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nAndy Murray's hopes of a fine Wimbledon victory on the 10th anniversary of his 2013 title win were ended by fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in round two.\n\nStalled by Wimbledon's 11pm curfew on Thursday, the Briton lost 7-6 (7-3) 6-7 (2-7) 4-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 on Friday.\n\nShortly before Murray's loss, British number one Cameron Norrie fell 3-6 6-3 2-6 6-7 (3-7) to Christopher Eubanks.\n\nBritish number five Liam Broady lost 4-6 6-2 7-5 7-5 to Canadian 26th seed Denis Shapovalov in the third round.\n\nDefeats for the trio ended British interest in the men's draw and dampened the spirits of the home fans at the All England Club.\n\nTheir exits leave British women's number one Katie Boulter as the only remaining home player in the singles.\n\nOn Saturday, Boulter has the chance to reach the fourth round for the first time when she plays defending champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.\n• None Murray unsure he has motivation for Wimbledon\n\nMurray pushes one of the best but falls agonisingly short\n\nMurray is a two-time champion at Wimbledon, having also won in 2016, and had talked positively about his chances of going deep in the draw.\n\nA poor performance at Queen's in the build-up to the tournament saw him miss out on a seeding, leaving him vulnerable to a tough test early on.\n\nEven after the draw threw up the possibility of facing 24-year-old Tsitsipas, Murray insisted he had the ability and nous to cause anybody problems on the SW19 grass.\n\nAgainst one of the top players in the men's game, he was proven correct.\n\nOn Thursday, Murray grew into a contest played indoors under the floodlights and moved ahead just before the match was halted at 22:39 BST.\n\nUnlike the other Grand Slams, Wimbledon has a 23:00 curfew which has been imposed by the local council.\n\nThe end of the set felt like the natural moment to pause, coming at a time which seemed to suit both players.\n\nWhen they returned, now playing outdoors on a hot summer afternoon, the pair continued to dominate on serve.\n\nHowever, at 4-4 15-30, Murray missed a chance to challenge a line call which would have been successfully overturned and could have altered the trajectory of the match.\n\nThere was a sense of inevitability that the set would go to the tie-break and, when it did, Tsitsipas kept his composure to clinically level.\n\nUnderneath bright skies, the mood further darkened among the home fans at the start of the decider.\n\nMurray's serve came under severe pressure in the third game. A slice into the net by the Scot was followed by a beautifully-judged lob from Tsitsipas, before a double fault created three break opportunities.\n\nMurray was able to save two of them, but a forehand into the net handed over an advantage from which he could not recover.\n\nThe level of performance Tsitsipas was forced to find in order to advance - and register by far his best win of the grass-court season on a tricky surface - was testament to Murray's challenge.\n\nMurray waved goodbye as he received a standing ovation from Centre Court and, though he knows there will not be many opportunities to play there again in the future, he showed he is far from done.\n\nWhich player would benefit from the overnight break - Murray after a painful looking fall, or Tsitsipas after momentum swung away from him - was debatable.\n\nThe delay did provide the opportunity for the romantics to dream.\n\nMurray returned on Friday aiming to earn his biggest win by ranking since the 2013 final, 10 years to the day and at the scene of the defining moment of his career.\n\nThe realists felt the pause might suit Tsitsipas better - and were vindicated.\n\nThe 2021 French Open finalist and 2023 Australian Open runner-up produced another serving masterclass, like he did in the first two sets on Thursday, and did not face a break point as he turned around the deficit.\n\nAsked if the 18-hour gap benefitted him, Tsitsipas said: \"It did not help me that much. You are dealing with a lot of things.\n\n\"You are dealing with Andy Murray at the other side of the net. He can make it a marathon and I had to work extra hard.\n\n\"My legs are sore - he made me run left and right, up and down for how many hours.\"\n\nNorrie and Broady out as British men's hopes end\n\nNorrie, 27, reached the Wimbledon semi-finals last year but his bid to replicate that run came unstuck against an inspired Eubanks.\n\nOn Court One, 12th seed Norrie struggled to make a dent on the American's serve and lost four of the 13 break points he faced.\n\nEubanks described grass as the \"stupidest surface\" in a text exchange with former women's world number one Kim Clijsters earlier this summer, but won an ATP title in Mallorca last week after receiving advice from the Belgian.\n\nThe world number 43 looked confident from the start against Norrie, who said he could not cope with his opponent hitting \"absolute rockets\".\n\n\"I got outplayed. I couldn't really get into the match how I wanted. He came out and was hitting the ball huge, he didn't miss at all,\" Norrie added.\n\nWildcard Broady, 29, was unable to follow up the biggest win of his career as he lost to 2021 semi-finalist Shapovalov.\n\nThe world number 142 stunned Norwegian fourth seed Casper Ruud in the second round, but could not produce another memorable result as his impressive run - which generated a useful payday of £131,000 - ended.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "A gold-coloured Land Rover could be seen on school grounds surrounded by emergency responders\n\nAn eight-year-old girl has died after a car crashed into a primary school in Wimbledon, south-west London.\n\nParamedics treated 16 people for injuries after the Land Rover crashed into The Study Preparatory School in Camp Road at about 10:00 BST.\n\nThe driver, a woman in her 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nPolice say they have now removed the Land Rover from the crash site as part of their investigation.\n\nThe school is for girls aged four to 11 and located near Wimbledon Common, with the local MP saying pupils had been gathered for an end-of-year celebration party in the garden.\n\nA major incident was declared, but the Met said it was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Our thoughts are with girl's family - police\n\nAt a news conference Det Ch Sup Clair Kelland, local police commander for south-west London, became emotional, her voice breaking at times.\n\n\"This is a very difficult time for everyone here at the school and across the wider community,\" she said.\n\n\"We would ask people not to speculate while we work to understand the full circumstances of what has happened during this tragic incident.\n\n\"Our officers have already spoken to a number of witnesses and have viewed the CCTV.\"\n\nJohn Tucker, chair of the board of governors, said \"the school community is profoundly affected by this tragedy\".\n\nThe stationary Land Rover could be seen on school grounds, surrounded by plastic sheets and cordons.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service took 10 people to hospital, with St George's Hospital, in Tooting, \"receiving a number of patients who are being cared for by our specialist clinical teams\".\n\nAbout 20 ambulances were parked on Camp Road, along with two fire and rescue vehicles.\n\nFirefighters were seen carrying various cutting equipment away from the scene.\n\nA number of onlookers were earlier stood at the edge of the cordon at the top of the road, including worried parents who were turning up all morning.\n\nAn air ambulance could be seen parked on a field opposite the school\n\nOnce at the scene, they were asked to register their names and details with a police officer.\n\nMany of them were huddled in groups looking very concerned.\n\nMP for Wimbledon Stephen Hammond told the BBC part of the school where the crash happened was where pupils aged between four and eight would have been.\n\n\"It's extremely distressing and extremely concerning,\" he said, speaking earlier before police had announced the girl's death.\n\n\"The size of the response tells you how serious the incident is and there are a number of casualties, and I understand that a number of those are being treated as critical,\" he said.\n\nHe described the location as \"really quite remote\", adding it was situated roughly a mile from Wimbledon village and on the way to several nearby golf clubs.\n\nHe later added pupils were gathered for the last day of term, saying: \"I think it was a usual end-of-year celebration party. Just in the garden.\"\n\nHe also tweeted: \"My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone at The Study.\"\n\nThe school's website has been replaced by a holding page with a statement reading: \"We are profoundly shocked by the tragic accident this morning at Wilberforce House and devastated that it has claimed the life of one of our young pupils as well as injuring several others.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the bereaved family and with the families of those injured at this terrible time.\"\n\nIt added: \"It is still far too soon to fully understand what happened, but we are well aware of the significant impact this dreadful event will have on our pupils and their families.\n\n\"Their welfare remains our top priority and we will be doing everything we can to support them, especially those who suffered injuries.\"\n\nThe school, which costs £5,565 per term, is just a mile away from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club as it hosts the world-famous tennis tournament.\n\nWimbledon and Putney Commons Conservators earlier advised the public to stay away from part of the commons to allow emergency crews to reach the site more easily.\n\nThe Met said several people were treated at the scene for injuries\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his \"deepest condolences\" were with the family of the girl who had died, and his thoughts were with all of those involved and injured.\n\nMr Sunak described the incident as \"horrific\", adding it would have been terrifying for children, staff and parents.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"The incident this morning at a primary school on Camp Road in Wimbledon is absolutely devastating. My heart goes out to everyone affected.\"\n\nThe vehicle was removed later in the day by a police lorry equipped with a small crane\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said she was \"saddened to hear about the tragic incident at the school in Wimbledon this morning\", adding in a tweet: \"My thoughts are with everyone affected.\n\n\"I would like to thank emergency responders at the scene. It is important they are now able to carry out their investigation.\"\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper thanked the emergency services on site \"for their swift response\".\n\nShe said: \"Thinking of all the families, pupils and staff affected by the terrible incident at a primary school in Wimbledon this morning.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the incident in Wimbledon? If you'd like to get in touch, you can email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Junior doctors in Scotland have called off a planned strike after a new pay offer from the Scottish government.\n\nBMA Scotland said it agreed to suspend next week's strike while they consult members on the proposal for a 12.4% pay increase for 2023/24.\n\nAlongside a pay rise of 4.5% for 2022/23, this will give a total pay increase of 17.5% over two years.\n\nThey had been due to strike between 12 and 15 July after previously rejecting a 14.5% pay rise over two years.\n\nThe new deal also includes a commitment to future years pay, contract and pay bargaining modernisation.\n\nThe union has recommended that its members accept the offer.\n\nBMA Scotland met with Health Secretary Michael Matheson on Friday to discuss an improved offer which the union said would now be put to its members, who will decide whether to accept it or not.\n\nEarlier in the week, First Minister Humza Yousaf had promised to attend pay talks in a bid to avoid industrial action.\n\nHe had warned that a strike would be \"very significant indeed\" for the NHS and could would lead to \"tens of thousands of cancellations of appointments\".\n\nThe latest offer could end a months-long dispute over pay and working conditions.\n\nThe union has said previous pay awards for junior doctors in Scotland had delivered real-terms pay cuts of 23.5% since 2008.\n\nIt has called for a 23.5% pay increase for junior doctors - fully-qualified medics who are not specialty staff doctors, consultants or GPs.\n\nThey make up 44% of the doctors in the NHS in Scotland.\n\nBMA Scotland said the pay deal was reviewed by the Scottish Junior Doctors Committee (SJDC) in an emergency meeting on Friday.\n\nCommittee chair Chris Smith said the improved offer involved \"compromise on both sides\" and was a \"genuinely credible and workable pathway towards pay restoration\".\n\nDr Smith said: \"At this stage, our negotiation team feels we have reached the limit of what can be achieved this year and does not think strike action would result in a realistically improved offer.\n\n\"Equally, it could potentially endanger the commitment that the Scottish government has offered to work with us to achieve pay restoration as an alternative to a sustained and escalated industrial dispute.\n\n\"It is our view that acceptance of this offer is the best way of achieving full pay restoration for doctors in Scotland.\"\n\nThe SJDC has recommended that the offer is accepted.\n\nMr Matheson said: \"I hope this investment and the significant commitments we have given around pay and contract reform will show junior doctors how much we value them, and that we are determined to ensure that Scotland is the place for junior doctors to work and train.\n\n\"Some patients may have been contacted to say their treatment has been cancelled.\n\n\"We are working hard with health boards to make sure appointments that can go ahead do, and that any others are rescheduled as soon as possible.\"\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nzembi Mosukulu is now able to deliver water, thanks to her hand-powered bike\n\nDisabled people facing prejudice in Kenya have started their own businesses with micro loans from a Welsh not-for-profit organisation.\n\nTrevor Palmer founded ResponsABLE Assistance in Newport after seeing how disabled people were affected by the 2004 Thailand tsunami.\n\nThe charity's Fursa initiative provides loans between £3.45 and £34.50, as well as solar-powered mobile phones.\n\nTrevor, who has multiple sclerosis, said there were people across the globe \"not able to live or be included\".\n\nNzembi Mosukulu, from Kenya, is unable to use her legs, but has never had a formal diagnosis.\n\nLike other disabled people around the world, she has faced hardship and sometimes struggles to get food and water.\n\n\"Whenever the drought comes, we people with disabilities experience bigger challenges,\" she said. \"We don't have food and our neighbours don't have food, so no-one can help each other.\"\n\nHowever, she has received help from Wales and now has a new hand bike which she uses to deliver water in her drought-prone area.\n\nThe money she makes from her business \"has helped me to buy food and educate my children,\" she said.\n\nMutant Dauti was helped to start a fruit and vegetable business\n\nFrancis Mutuku, chairman of Kibwezi Fursa scheme, said before the support, people \"did not see themselves as capable of carrying out any individual business\".\n\nBut - along with the loans - they were given business training which he said gave them confidence and \"raised their self esteem\".\n\nThe World Health Organization estimates there are 1.3 billion disabled people in the world, 16% of the population, and believes that figure is growing.\n\nA study published in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal found almost a third of disabled children and teenagers had experienced violence, with children in less affluent areas especially vulnerable.\n\nNzembi is one of hundreds of disabled people who have benefited from the work of Trevor's organisation, which has received funds from the Welsh government.\n\nTrevor Palmer experienced first hand how disabled people were treated differently in different parts of the world\n\nTrevor said he was appalled at how disabled people were treated in some parts of the world, especially in disaster zones and emergencies.\n\nHe was caught up in a terrorist attack in Ethiopia and saw how disabled people were treated in hospital in the aftermath.\n\nHe said: \"I was in Addis Ababa and unfortunately I was involved in a terrorist incident, I got blown up.\n\n\"Trevor said he saw people \"shoved into corners and on floors and not treated the same as people who could voice their complaints\".\n\nHe added: \"We take things so much for granted here, we take it for granted that we receive certain benefits, that we receive inclusion in life, which is our right, which is good.\n\n\"But those things just don't exist and people don't realise there are people in other parts of the world who don't have anything, and they're not able to live or be included.\"\n\nResponsABLE Assistance has now been given permission to dig foundations for a solar-powered well in Makueni County to allow people access to clean drinking water.\n\nTrevor believes having a disability anywhere in the world is not a barrier if you have the support from those around you, and those a little further afield.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nDefending champion Novak Djokovic says \"it will be the duel of the veterans of the tour\" when he faces old rival Stan Wawrinka at Wimbledon on Friday.\n\nWawrinka, 38, has twice beaten Djokovic in Grand Slam finals but says he \"doesn't really stand a chance\".\n\nAndy Murray, 36, will finish his second-round match with 24-year-old fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, with the Briton leading by two sets to one.\n\nCarlos Alcaraz, Iga Swiatek, Ons Jabeur and Cameron Norrie are also in action.\n\nOne of the highlights of the day could well be the third-round meeting between three-time Grand Slam winner Wawrinka against 36-year-old Djokovic, who clinched his 23rd major at the French Open last month.\n\nTwo of Wawrinka's Slams have come against Djokovic - the 2015 French Open final and the 2016 US Open final - and the Serb has not forgotten.\n\nAsked what role 88th-ranked Wawrinka has played in his career, a laughing Djokovic, 36, said: \"Well, he took away two Grand Slams from me.\n\n\"No, I like Stan a lot. He's a great person and really inspirational what he's doing at his age. He's almost 40 and he still keeps going strong, that's something not many people can do.\n\n\"We can't forget he's a three-time Grand Slam champion, Davis Cup winner and also Olympic gold. He's had a fantastic career.\n\n\"We haven't faced in quite some time. It will be the duel of the veterans of the tour.\"\n\nWawrinka, who has suffered with numerous injuries and needed knee surgeries since his Grand Slam successes, says he will relish the match with Djokovic, although expects his tournament to end before the weekend.\n\n\"There's zero opportunity to win Wimbledon for me,\" said Wawrinka.\n\n\"It's an honour to play Novak here, I was missing that in my career - to play him in the Grand Slam in Wimbledon.\n\n\"Hopefully I can make a competitive match, but if you look at recent results, I don't really stand a chance.\"\n\nFirst on Centre Court at 13:30 BST is men's top seed Alcaraz and he warmed up for his second-round match against French world number 84 Alexandre Muller with an hour-long practice session with British number one Norrie.\n\nThe conclusion of the Murray v Tsitsipas match, in which the Briton leads 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (7-2) 6-4, will follow Alcaraz and Muller, not before 15:00.\n\nWomen's number one Swiatek comes after Murray. The Polish four-time Grand Slam winner, who has only dropped six games in the opening two rounds, is in third-round action against 30th seed Petra Martic of Croatia.\n\nAll the matches on Court One are in the second round with the schedule backed up because of rain earlier this week. Women's second seed Aryna Sabalenka opens proceedings at 13:00 against Varvara Gracheva of France, before Norrie plays American Christopher Eubanks of the United States with Jabeur against China's Bai Zhuoxuan third on.\n\nBritain's Liam Broady, a winner against fourth seed Casper Ruud on Thursday, will be looking to reach the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time when he faces 26th seed Denis Shapovalov of Canada on court two.\n\nElsewhere, Daniil Medvedev, the Russian third seed, needs only two games for victory against France's Adrian Mannarino. Medvedev led 6-3 6-3 4-4 when bad light ended play on court two on Thursday evening.\n\nThere are a host of matches in the men's, women's and mixed doubles.\n\nAmong those in action are Britain's Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram, the men's third seeds, all-British pairing Harriet Dart and Heather Watson and the duo of Britain's Neal Skupski and American Desirae Krawczyk, the second seeds in the mixed doubles.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our current fossil fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australian bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I didn't see what happened' says Victor Wembanyama\n\nBritney Spears accidentally hit herself in the face as she was blocked by security while approaching a basketball star, Las Vegas police say.\n\nVictor Wembanyama's guard, who the pop star alleged struck her during Wednesday's encounter, will not face charges, police said in a statement.\n\nSpears said she was \"backhanded in the face\" by the man, calling the incident a \"traumatic experience\".\n\nA copy of the police report summarising their investigation, obtained by the BBC, says: \"Detectives and I were able to review surveillance footage of the event which showed Britney going to tap the Spurs player on the shoulder.\n\n\"When she touched the player [the security guard] pushes her hand off the player without looking which causes Britney's hand to hit herself in the face.\"\n\nLas Vegas police also confirmed they had concluded their investigation into the alleged battery at the Aria hotel.\n\nVideo shared by TMZ shows a man block Spears as she reaches out to tap Wembanyama on the shoulder as he walks through a casino complex. Spears recoils, as she appears to hit herself.\n\nWembanyama has said he \"didn't see what happened\", but that someone was pushed.\n\nThe 19-year-old NBA top draft pick was in Las Vegas ahead of his first Summer League game when he visited a restaurant at the Aria, on South Las Vegas Boulevard, where Spears said she spotted him.\n\n\"I decided to approach him and congratulate him on his success. It was really loud, so I tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention,\" she said.\n\nSpears alleged that a security guard protecting Wembanyama struck her in the face with the back of his hand, causing her glasses to fall off as she nearly fell to the ground.\n\nThe singer said she had seen Wembanyama's account of the incident, which prompted her to share her own.\n\nThe French sports star told a local news reporter: \"I couldn't stop. That person was calling me, 'Sir, sir,' and that person grabbed me from behind.\n\n\"I didn't see what happened because I was walking straight and didn't stop. That person grabbed me from behind - not on my shoulder, she grabbed me from behind.\n\n\"I just know the security pushed her away. I don't know with how much force but security pushed her away. I didn't stop to look so I could walk in and enjoy a nice dinner.\"\n\nSpears said she wanted \"to urge people in the public eye to set an example\" and thanked the Las Vegas Police Department for its support.\n\nSam Asghari, husband to Spears, said he hopes the security guard \"changes his disregard for women\"\n\nMr Asghari, 29, came to her defence on social media, writing: \"I hope the man in question learns a lesson and changes his disregard for women.\"\n\nIn 2021, Spears was released from a controversial 13-year conservatorship which gave her father, Jamie Spears, sweeping control over her life.\n\nThe form of legal guardianship held power over her finances and career decisions plus major personal matters, such as her visits to her teenage sons and whether she could get remarried.", "A robbery attempt took a turn when patrons and staff chose not to engage with the robber's demands. The Atlanta Police Department is trying to find the failed thief.", "A girl has died after a Land Rover crashed into a primary school in Wimbledon, south-west London, on Thursday morning.\n\nThe driver, a woman in her 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nPolice say they are not treating the crash as terror-related.", "Fatoumatta Hydara died two days after her daughters Naeemah Drammeh and Fatimah Drammeh\n\nA man who murdered a mother and her two daughters by setting fire to their flat has been jailed for life.\n\nFatoumatta Hydara, 28, died along with Fatimah and Naeemah Drammeh, aged three and one, after their home in Clifton, Nottingham, was set alight in November.\n\nTheir neighbour Jamie Barrow was convicted of three counts of murder for deliberately starting the fire.\n\nBarrow, 31, was ordered to serve a minimum jail term of 44 years at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday.\n\nThe court heard Barrow took fuel from his motorbike, poured it through the letterbox of the family's Fairisle Close flat and set it alight in the early hours of 20 November.\n\nHe had admitted the manslaughter of the mother and her children but denied murdering them claiming he thought the flat was empty when he started the fire.\n\nMrs Hydara and her children died from smoke inhalation.\n\nSentencing, Justice Amanda Tipples said Barrow started a fireball that would have filled the flat with thick, toxic smoke within moments.\n\nShe said she was sure Barrow knew the family were inside and had heard Mrs Hydara's screams but did nothing to help.\n\nThe judge said Barrow had watched the fire take hold for five minutes before leaving the area with his dog as other neighbours rushed to try to help.\n\nHe later returned and pretended to know nothing about the fire, only later admitting to police that he started it.\n\nMrs Justice Tipples said: \"It is only you who knows why you did this. The reasons are impossible to understand from your evidence.\"\n\nShe said Barrow was in \"a dark place\" when he started the fire, having earlier consumed 10 or 11 cans of lager.\n\nBarrow had claimed he did not realise anyone was inside the flat\n\nBarrow was ordered to serve at least 44 years for each charge of murder.\n\nHe was also given 10 years having been convicted of arson that recklessly endangered the lives of other residents in the block of flats.\n\nAll the terms will be served concurrently.\n\nEarlier Mrs Hydara's husband Aboubacarr Drammeh had faced Barrow in court and called him \"a coward who knew exactly what he was doing and exactly when to do it\".\n\nMr Drammeh had been working in the US and had been planning to bring his wife and daughters to live with him when Barrow murdered them.\n\nHe was due to return to the UK a week after the blaze so the family could attend an interview for their visa application at the US Embassy in London, as part of their plans to emigrate.\n\nInstead, he flew back to the UK and spent his 40th birthday identifying his children's bodies in a hospital mortuary.\n\nMr Drammeh was in the US when Barrow murdered his wife and daughters, aged three and one\n\nHe said: \"Two little angels, their lifeless bodies laying next to each other. I held their cold hands. I wished I could switch with them.\n\n\"Only Allah knows why. I have to accept and prepare for the next chapter of my life. All I can say is I am sorry.\n\n\"I was not there, I should have been.\n\n\"I had a responsibility as a father and a husband to protect, that was my basic responsibility. I make no excuses.\n\n\"Because of you, and only you, I failed in my only responsibility as a father.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAddressing Barrow, Mr Drammeh said he still did not know why the defendant had started the fatal fire that took the lives of his wife and children.\n\nHe added: \"I am angry, I am sad, I am hurt, I am heartbroken. At the same time, I am grateful for them being a part of me. I am grateful for Fatoumatta and the kids, as they made me a better person.\"\n\n\"I have no hatred to anybody in the world, including you.\"\n\n\"You, Jamie Edwin Barrow, acted like the judge and jury on that night, and sentenced me to this.\n\n\"The only comfort I have is that you, as a person, cannot do this to anyone else in this world.\"\n\nDuring the trial, Barrow's lawyers said his actions were not pre-meditated and that he was sorry for what he had done.\n\nHowever, Mrs Justice Tipples told him: \"I do not accept you have shown any genuine remorse for what you have done. You have sought to minimise responsibility for what you have done.\"\n\nThe judge went on to praise the bravery of nearby residents who tried to help the family immediately after the fire and the police, paramedics and firefighters who were on the scene within minutes.\n\nAfter the hearing, Det Ch Insp Clare Dean, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: \"The sudden loss of Fatoumatta, Fatimah and Naeemah shattered a kind, gentle and compassionate family - and the senseless nature of their deaths has been incredibly hard for them to take.\n\n\"Barrow wasn't brave enough to admit these murders, but I hope he does one day find the courage to explain why he committed such an atrocious crime.\n\n\"Whatever the reason, he is a very dangerous man. He isn't safe to be in society which is why we welcome today's sentencing.\n\n\"While it doesn't bring back Fatoumatta, Fatimah and Naeemah, we hope it offers a degree of comfort to the family that the man responsible is behind bars where he can't hurt anyone else.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tim Edwards, pictured on a climb of Mount Snowdon, with his daughter Elle\n\nIt was the early hours of Christmas Day when Tim Edwards awoke to be told the worst news a parent can ever hear.\n\nHis 26-year-old daughter Elle, out having a few festive drinks with friends at a pub, had been shot dead.\n\nIt just did not make sense - Tim and Elle had spoken only a few hours earlier, talking about meeting to wrap presents.\n\nInnocent bystander Elle was shot twice in the head when Connor Chapman opened fire with a sub-machine gun, targeting two men who were standing near her as she smoked a cigarette outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village.\n\nThe attack was the culmination of a violent feud between rival gangs on the Woodchurch and Beechwood estates, on either side of the M53 in Wirral.\n\nTim, who regularly spoke to BBC Breakfast during Chapman's trial at Liverpool Crown Court, refuses to use the name of the man who murdered his daughter.\n\n\"That thing that pulled the trigger,\" he said. \"I hope he rots in hell. Even that's too good for him.\"\n\nTim said he simply could not fathom why any human being could have done what Chapman did.\n\n\"I can't begin to understand how someone's mind says 'we'll get in a car and we'll drive to a pub full of people, with a machine gun, and I'm going to open it up and fire it into that pub'.\n\n\"Where does that thought come from? Who has that thought?\n\n\"Oh, and they think they are getting away with it. This is not Grand Theft Auto. This is not a video game. This is real life.\"\n\nElle Edwards was shot dead while on a Christmas Eve night out with friends\n\nIn court watching the trial, Tim had a silver locket around his neck, containing a lock of his daughter's hair.\n\nTime and time again, jurors were played CCTV footage of the shooting.\n\nEvery time it played and a dozen shots could be heard ringing out, Tim said he fixed his eyes on the accused.\n\n\"I look for a reaction, and he hasn't given one yet - not one inkling of remorse or regret or anything.\"\n\nHe said he always stared \"right at him, and he knows that I'm staring at him\".\n\nElle Edwards was shot dead outside a pub just before midnight on Christmas Eve\n\nTim also spoke with huge warmth about his daughter, who worked as a beautician.\n\n\"How can I put across how she was to people who didn't know her? Great, beautiful, kind, giving.\n\n\"Always looking out for people, especially her family. Bubbly. Always had a laugh.\n\n\"She set her own goals and was achieving them. And she did it with a smile on her face.\"\n\nWhen innocent bystanders are killed it is often said they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.\n\n\"She was in the right place,\" he said. \"She should have been out enjoying herself on Christmas Eve with her friends, waiting for the day to come to spend it with her family.\n\n\"The person that pulled that trigger was in the wrong place.\"\n\nElle was killed outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral\n\nBy way of contrast, Tim reserved special praise for Merseyside Police after hearing many officers volunteered to sacrifice their Christmas plans to help with the investigation.\n\n\"They were turning officers away from the police station,\" he said. \"They all turned up wanting to do something. They physically couldn't fit them all in.\n\n\"They felt the need to give up their Christmas Day. To turn up and do what they can. Just shows you the standard they have, which I'll be forever grateful for.\"\n\nDespite his gratitude, on a personal level Tim admitted being \"ready to explode\" with anger at times during the trial.\n\n\"The kids and family are looking at me and if I go they'll go,\" he said.\n\n\"It tears you apart - as a family it will do its best to destroy you.\n\n\"He has taken the core of our family - ripped it out. We'll never have Elle back but... she's always here in our hearts.\n\n\"If anything, he's also strengthened our family unit, he's brought us something that is hard to put into words.\n\n\"He's made the glue that was there before with Elle stronger. That glue will never break.\n\n\"We'll carry on together for her.\"\n\nYou can watch a full interview with Tim Edwards on BBC Breakfast or catch up later on the BBC iPlayer", "Jack Johnson, brothers Finlay and Samuel Butler and their cousin Thomas Stewart died after falling into the icy lake\n\nFour boys died in an accident on a frozen lake after going to feed ducks, a coroner has concluded.\n\nFinlay Butler, eight, and his younger brother Samuel, six, died, as did their cousin Thomas Stewart, 11, and another boy, Jack Johnson, 10.\n\nThey went into the water at Babbs Mill Park, near Solihull, on 11 December.\n\nPolice formed a human chain to try to rescue them, with one officer attempting to punch through the ice to reach the boys.\n\nIn her summary, senior coroner Louise Hunt said she was satisfied \"emergency services did their utmost\", that \"treatment in hospital was good\" and \"everyone did all they could and should be commended for their actions\".\n\nJack was at the lake with one group of children while the other three were in another group, the inquest heard.\n\nJack then decided to go on to the ice and Thomas, Finlay and Samuel followed, Det Insp Jim Edmonds, from West Midlands Police, said.\n\nFinlay fell in first and then Thomas and Jack as they tried to help. No-one saw Samuel fall in.\n\nAfter they fell in, witnesses said they had seen the boys in the water shouting for help, but they could not get out and a short time later the boys went under the surface.\n\nVigils were held and flowers laid after the deaths of the boys\n\nDet Insp Edmonds said his officers had been at the lake 11 minutes after the first 999 call had been received at about 14:35 GMT.\n\nThey ignored safety advice, took off their body armour and waded in to try to reach the area where they believed the boys had fallen in.\n\nThey used their fists and batons to break through the ice, but Det Insp Edmonds said the water had been too deep to get to them.\n\nAt the start of the inquest, Ms Hunt read out short descriptions of the boys, written by their families.\n\nJack was described as \"a loving caring boy\" who enjoyed being outside and loved animals.\n\nTom's family said he \"always had a smile on his face\" and loved going out on his bike and meeting new friends at the park.\n\nFinlay was said to have \"adored the outdoors, regardless of the weather\" and enjoyed the park.\n\nHis family also said he loved Pokemon cards and would often give them away to friends who did not have them.\n\nSamuel was described as \"the most independent six-year-old you've ever met\" who had a passion for Ironman, dogs and fire engines.\n\nMemorial plaques have been left near the lake\n\nDet Insp Edmonds said the air temperature at the lake at the time had been 5C (41F) and the water temperature had been even lower, which had affected the ability of the officers to function.\n\nThere had been a big risk to the rescuers themselves, Jason Wiles, from West Midlands Ambulance Service, said.\n\nParamedics had shouted to the rescuers to get out and one of the police officers had been in the water up to his neck, he added.\n\nMr Wiles said the officer had probably only just got out of the water in time.\n\nA tribute to the boys is in place at the park\n\nThe last child, Finlay, was recovered from the water by firefighters at 15:05 GMT, half an hour after the first 999 call.\n\nMs Hunt said: \"Sadly the boys were under the water for between 22 and 32 minutes.\"\n\nDet Insp Edmonds said he did not know why the ice had broken but it was a \"terrible tragedy\".\n\nHe did not believe his team could have done anything differently, he told the inquest.\n\nThe boys all received the best treatment possible on their way to hospital but brain damage would have occurred minutes after they were submerged, Mr Wiles said.\n\nThere were tears from the families of the boys as Dr Sarah Denniston, from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, told the inquest efforts had been made to resuscitate the boys without success and drowning was the cause of death.\n\nThe air temperature on the day at the lake was 5C (41F) and the water temperature was even lower, the inquest heard\n\nThe temperature of the water in the lake would have caused the boys' bodies to go into shock, Alex Shapland, from West Midlands Fire Service, said.\n\nHe also said nothing more could have been done on the day by firefighters.\n\nHowever, the fire service would review its prevention work and planned regular safety campaigns in summer and winter to focus on the dangers of the water, he added.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said the deaths have deeply affected many of its staff\n\nAfter the inquest, area commander Alex Shapland said: \"Within days of the boys' deaths, we and colleagues across the country were dismayed to see people still risking their lives on frozen water.\"\n\nMr Shapland said an incident like the one at Babbs Mill lake could not be allowed to happen again.\n\nJames Williams, from West Midlands Ambulance Service, said it had been an \"incredible effort\" by the emergency services to try to save the boys and a \"tragedy\" they had been unsuccessful.\n\nHe said it had \"affected many of them deeply, knowing that those incredible efforts were just not quite enough\".\n\nSupt Rich Harris, from West Midlands Police, said after the inquest he was \"incredibly proud of those officers who showed such bravery and put their own safety to one side to try and save the lives of Jack, Tom, Fin and Sam.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jack Johnson, brothers Finlay and Samuel Butler and their cousin Thomas Stewart died after falling into the icy lake\n\nFour boys died when they went on to a frozen lake near Solihull after they fed ducks and skimmed stones, an inquest heard.\n\nFinlay Butler, eight, and his younger brother Samuel, six, died, as did their cousin Thomas Stewart, 11, and another boy, Jack Johnson, 10.\n\nThey went into the water at Babbs Mill Park on 11 December 2022.\n\nThe inquest heard Finlay fell in first, Thomas and Jack as they tried to help and no-one saw Samuel fall in.\n\nThe boys went initially to feed the ducks and skim stones, Det Insp Jim Edmonds, from West Midlands Police, said.\n\nJack was with one group of children and the other three in another.\n\nJack then decided to go on the ice and Thomas, Finlay and Samuel followed.\n\nAfter they fell in, witnesses said they saw the boys in the water, shouting for help, but they could not get out and a short time later they went under the surface.\n\nVigils were held and flowers laid after the deaths of the boys\n\nDet Insp Edmonds said his officers were there 11 minutes after the first 999 call at about 14:35 GMT.\n\nThey ignored safety advice, took off their body armour and waded in to form a human chain, he added.\n\nHe said the air temperature was 5C (41F) and the water temperature was even lower which affected the ability of the officers to function.\n\nThere was a big risk to the rescuers themselves, Jason Wiles, from West Midlands Ambulance Service, said.\n\nParamedics shouted to the rescuers to get out and one of the police officers was in the water up to his neck, he added.\n\nMr Wiles said the officer probably only just got out the water in time.\n\nA tribute to the boys is in place at the park\n\nThe last child, Finlay, was recovered from the water by firefighters at 15:05 GMT, half an hour after the first 999 call.\n\nDet Insp Edmonds said he did not know why the ice broke but it was a \"terrible tragedy\".\n\nHe did not believe his team could have done anything differently, he told the inquest.\n\nThe air temperature on the day at the lake was 5C (41F) and the water temperature was even lower, the inquest heard\n\nThe boys all received the best treatment possible on their way to hospital but brain damage would have occurred within minutes after they were submerged, Mr Wiles said.\n\nDr Sarah Denniston, from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, said efforts were made to resuscitate the boys without success and drowning was the cause of death.\n\nMemorial plaques have been left near the lake\n\nThe temperature of the water in the lake would have caused the boys' bodies to go into shock, Alex Chapman, from West Midlands Fire Service, said.\n\nHe also said nothing more could have been done on the day by firefighters.\n\nHowever the fire service would review its prevention work and planned regular safety campaigns in summer and winter to focus on the dangers of the water, he added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Twitter is considering legal action against Meta over its fast-growing rival app Threads.\n\nThreads, which was launched to millions on Wednesday, is similar to Twitter and has been pitched by Meta bosses as a \"friendly\" alternative.\n\nTwitter's Elon Musk said \"competition is fine, cheating is not\" - but Meta denied claims in a legal letter that ex-Twitter staff helped create Threads.\n\nMore than 70 million people have signed up for the new app, according to Meta.\n\nTwitter has an estimated 350 million users, according to Statista.\n\nAccording to an SEC filing from 2013, it took Twitter four years to build the same number of users that Threads gained in a day - though Twitter grew its userbase from scratch, while Threads was able to tap into the pre-existing two billion monthly users Meta says Instagram has.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe look and feel of Threads are similar to those of Twitter, BBC News technology reporter James Clayton noted. He said the news feed and the reposting were \"incredibly familiar\".\n\nBut US copyright law does not protect ideas, so for Twitter to be successful in court it would have to prove that its own intellectual property, such as programming code, was taken.\n\nAnd in 2012 Meta was granted a patent for \"communicating a newsfeed\" - the system that displays all the latest posts when you use Facebook.\n\nIn a move first reported by news outlet Semafor, Twitter attorney Alex Spiro sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday accusing Meta of \"systematic, wilful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property\" to create Threads.\n\nSpecifically, Mr Spiro alleged that Meta had hired dozens of former Twitter employees who \"had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information\" that ultimately helped Meta develop what he termed the \"copycat\" Threads app.\n\n\"Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,\" the letter says.\n\n\"Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice.\"\n\nBBC News, which has seen a copy of the letter, has contacted both Meta and Twitter for comment.\n\nMr Musk said that \"competition is fine, cheating is not\" in response to a post on Twitter that referred to the legal letter.\n\nOn Threads, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone posted that \"no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee - that's just not a thing\".\n\nSarah Kunst, managing director at venture capital firm Cleo Capital, told the BBC's Today programme Threads could offer a \"brand-safe environment\" for existing Instagram advertisers who \"feel they can allocate some budget and see what happens\".\n\nShe added that while the app reaching 30 million users could be the result of an initial rush, it will likely see a steady increase in users.\n\n\"They've made it very easy to cross-post to other platforms like Instagram, so I think that we'll continue to see growth,\" she said.\n\nBoth Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg have acknowledged the rivalry over Threads, which is linked to Instagram but works as a standalone app.\n\nAs it launched in 100 countries, Mr Zuckerberg broke more than 11 years of silence on Twitter to post a highly popular meme of two nearly identical Spider-Man figures pointing at each other, indicating a stand-off.\n\nShortly after, and as the word \"Threads\" trended globally on his platform, Mr Musk said: \"It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.\"\n\nTwitter CEO Linda Yaccarino said in a tweet on Thursday that while the platform, is \"often imitated\" it \"can never be duplicated\".\n\nBoth Meta and Twitter have undertaken significant layoffs this year, with Meta announcing in April that it would cut staff levels by approximately 10,000.\n\nTwitter lost a large proportion of its 7,500 employees, as high as 80%, in waves of redundancies following Mr Musk's takeover last October.", "A senior Tory MP says she has experienced inappropriate behaviour about 50 times during her 13 years in the House of Commons.\n\nCaroline Nokes, who chairs the women and equalities committee, told the BBC what some women working at Westminster had been through was \"horrific\".\n\nWhips, in charge of party discipline, needed to draw up a tougher and clearer code of conduct for MPs, she said.\n\nAnd she called for Rishi Sunak to send a signal he backed stricter measures.\n\nMs Nokes, MP for Romsey and Southampton North, told the BBC's Newsnight that behaviour had improved since she entered the Commons in 2010, and people who worked in Parliament felt they could speak out more freely.\n\nShe also said the \"vast majority of MPs work really hard, try to do the right thing and are absolutely free from this sort of suspicion\".\n\nBut pressed on how many \"inappropriate or weird or creepy\" incidents she had been subjected to in Parliament, Ms Nokes replied: \"Definitely more than 20, probably in the region of 50.\"\n\nShe added: \"I can think of an incident where a member of the House of Lords, in a restaurant, said hello to me, walked past, turned around, came back and stroked my bare arm in the presence of a journalist.\n\n\"I can think of other incidents where a Labour MP patted me on the backside and told me that I've done well to lose weight. Now he, in that instance, looked about as shocked as I did, and clearly instantly regretted what he'd done.\n\n\"But other incidents, where colleagues have put their hands on my thigh and told me at great length, how their wives don't understand them. It's just horrific.\"\n\nShe said there were people she would not get in a lift with and female MPs would \"provide information to each other on who to trust, who not to trust, who we think is a little bit creepy\".\n\nDespite the increasing number of women in the Commons, there was still a \"really laddish culture where the 'banter' defence is used - 'oh well, she just can't take a bit of banter'\".\n\n\"It's just not acceptable in the 21st century workplace,\" she said.\n\nShe called for a new code of conduct to be \"absolutely explicit\" in spelling out that touching colleagues or watching pornography in Parliament was unacceptable, urging whips in all parties to work together on new rules.\n\nChris Pincher is facing an eight-week suspension from the Commons\n\n\"There can't be any grey areas, and it has to apply equally to members of the House of Lords,\" she said.\n\nOn Thursday, the Commons standards committee found that former Tory MP Chris Pincher, who now sits as an independent, should be suspended from the Commons for eight weeks for drunkenly groping two men.\n\nMr Pincher's conduct at the private members' Carlton Club in London was \"profoundly damaging\" and \"especially grave\" because it amounted to an abuse of power and was an \"egregious case of sexual misconduct\", the committee said.\n\nDowning Street said it was a matter for Mr Pincher whether he should resign as MP for Tamworth, which would trigger a by-election. A by-election could also result if MPs approve the committee's report.\n\nThe prime minister has been absent for Commons votes on other disciplinary matters, including the Privileges Committee report that found that Boris Johnson had deliberately misled Parliament.\n\nMs Nokes said he should show support for the standards committee's findings in the Pincher case.\n\nShe hoped a vote would not be needed, with MPs endorsing the report without dissent, but Mr Sunak had \"a role to play in accepting the recommendations\".\n\nPushed on whether Mr Sunak should be in the Commons when Mr Pincher's case was considered, she said: \"I think the prime minister could do that for us.\n\n\"I think that would be a really strong signal that he's not going to tolerate it, and that would send a message to the chief [whip]: get this sorted.\"\n\nEarlier this week, five current and one former parliamentary staff members told Newsnight that inappropriate flirting and touching was common, with older MPs and staffers sometimes targeting younger women.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mhairi Black, the SNP's deputy leader at Westminster, announced she was stepping down as an MP at the next general election, describing Westminster as an \"outdated, sexist and toxic\" working environment.", "Heaton shot to fame in the 1980's and now performs as a solo artist\n\nSinger Paul Heaton is putting money behind five Glasgow bars so fans attending Scotland's biggest music festival can \"have a drink on him\".\n\nHeaton, formerly of the Beautiful South and the Housemartins, is set to appear on the main stage at TRNSMT on Friday.\n\nAbout 50,000 revellers are expected to attend the opening day of the Glasgow Green event.\n\nOn social media Heaton said the gesture was a thank you during what he dubbed \"the cost of greed crisis\".\n\nA post shared on the singer's Twitter and Facebook accounts said: \"Paul is leaving some money behind the bar at a few local pubs near to TRNSMT festival so that some of you can have a drink on him tomorrow afternoon (or until the money runs out, or the bar runs dry!).\"\n\nThis isn't the first time Heaton, who now performs as solo artist, has treated his fans.\n\nIn 2022, to mark his 60th birthday he paid for 60 drinks for those attending Neighbourhood festival and since then has carried on the tradition.\n\nPaul Heaton also paid for drinks at 60 pubs to mark his 60th birthday last year\n\nHeaton shot to fame with the Housemartins in the early 80s. The Hull-based band had two successful albums and a number of hit singles, including a cover version of Caravan of Love which reached Number One in the UK charts in December 1986.\n\nAfter the band split he formed the Beautiful South in 1988, which became one of the biggest-selling UK acts of all time, releasing 15 albums over nine years.\n\nThe pubs involved in his Glasgow drinks giveaway are:\n\nTRNSMT starts on Friday with Britpop legends Pulp, Sam Fender and The 1975 headlining over the weekend.", "London Underground workers will strike for almost a week from Sunday 23 July until Friday 28 July, the RMT union has announced.\n\nThe row is over pensions, job cuts and working conditions which the union said could put 600 positions at risk.\n\nThe tube drivers' union Aslef has also announced its members will walk out on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July.\n\nThe action is the latest escalation in a long-running dispute between the unions and Transport for London (TfL).\n\nIn March, thousands of London Underground workers walked out over the same issues.\n\nThe RMT has not yet confirmed which groups of workers will strike on which day, nor whether the action will last for a solid six days.\n\nTfL said it was \"disappointed\" by the union's decision to take strike action.\n\nGlynn Barton, chief operating officer for TfL said: \"There are no current proposals to change pension arrangements and, although we are discussing with union colleagues a range of proposals to improve how London Underground operates, no employee will lose their job or be asked to work additional hours.\"\n\nBut the RMT said staff stood to be poorer in retirement if proposed changes by TfL go ahead, claiming they will lose up to 30% of their pension pot.\n\nThe row comes after passenger numbers failed to recover after the pandemic which led TfL to claim it needs to make £900m in savings.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"This week of action will shut down the London Underground and show just how important the work of our members is.\"\n\nThe union's industrial action began last year and has led to a lot of disruption to services.\n\nHowever, this will be the longest strike to date in a sign of worsening relations between unions and tube bosses.\n\nThe proposals to axe several hundred jobs will leave stations with fewer staff, according to the RMT, which it says isn't safe.\n\nBut pensions appear to be a more crucial red line for the unions, and it is difficult to see how this will be resolved unless they stay as they are.\n\nThere are already separate rail strikes scheduled at 14 train companies on 22 and 29 July, around the time that most schools in the UK are on holiday for the summer.\n\nThose rail strikes also fall on dates of some of the summer's biggest sporting events.\n\nThe golf Open Championship is taking place at Royal Liverpool from 16 to 23 July.\n\nCricket fans travelling to the fourth and fifth Ashes Tests at Old Trafford in Manchester and The Oval in London could also have the challenge of navigating through disrupted services\n\nThe RMT train strikes in June 2023 meant that the Eurovision song contest which took place in Liverpool and the FA Cup final were affected.", "\"Dangerous\" muscle-building drugs are being sold illegally in shops around the UK, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nThe substances, known as Sarms, can cause erectile dysfunction, mood swings and liver problems, doctors warn.\n\nSecret filming by the BBC found they were widely available in shops that sell bodybuilding supplements as well as online.\n\nResponding to the findings, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) called for the law to be tightened.\n\nSarms - which stands for selective androgen receptor modulators - are body-enhancing drugs that mimic the effects of anabolic steroids, which increase muscle mass and strength.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) says they are categorised as an \"unauthorised novel food\" that \"should not be consumed\". It adds that \"placing them on the market in the UK is a criminal offence\".\n\nOriginally developed as an experimental drug to treat muscle-wasting conditions, they have become popular with gym-goers on social media who want to build muscle and lose fat.\n\nThe full range of effects of taking Sarms is not yet known, but some doctors warn they could have worse side effects than steroids.\n\nLaura Wilson of the RPS said some side effects observed include disrupted hormone levels, liver problems and breast tissue development in men: \"So our advice would be not to take them.\"\n\nThe BBC has spoken to people as young as 19 who say taking the products harmed their physical and mental health.\n\nBut despite not been approved for use, Sarms are easily available from online sellers based in the UK and overseas - and a BBC investigation has also found them being sold openly over the counter in shops.\n\nUndercover reporters visited 10 shops across the UK asking for advice on products that would make them \"bigger and leaner\" in conjunction with gym training.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Secret filming by the BBC found Sarms for sale in shops around the UK\n\nWhile some initially recommended protein shakes, all the retailers went on to advise on the use of Sarms to improve physique quickly and sold the products to the reporter.\n\nWhile one seller in Yorkshire said he did not recommend taking Sarms, he went on to sell them regardless.\n\nAnother in the West Midlands commented: \"They're not even strictly for human consumption, but they are effective.\"\n\nWhen the same seller was asked whether there were side effects he replied: \"Not really.\" He mentioned the possibility of lowered testosterone but added: \"You should be absolutely fine.\"\n\nWhen later asked for comment by the BBC, the business claimed it trained all its staff compliance and legality \"and would never advise anybody to take Sarms. If we get the feeling somebody will be consuming them we immediately refuse the sale\".\n\nAnother retailer in Merseyside told a BBC reporter that while every tub carried the message \"not for human consumption\" or \"research purposes only\", in reality \"everybody's taking Sarms\".\n\nHe added that while large chain stores do not stock Sarms, as an independent retailer \"we can sell and get away with it, like, we're not on the radar, so to speak\".\n\nThe labels on Sarms bottles carry disclaimers including \"research purposes only\" and \"not for human consumption\"\n\nThe products sold cost about £40 for 60 pills - to be taken once or twice daily.\n\nThe BBC approached all the shops to ask for their responses.\n\nNot all came back to us, but those that did expressed confusion about the regulations. One in Lincolnshire told us it had stopped selling all Sarms after our visit and was seeking guidance from the FSA.\n\nThe fact Sarms are unregulated means consumers can never be sure what they are buying, the RPS warns.\n\nRhys Bryant from Hull was 20 when he bought pills online that were marketed as Sarms. In fact he received a different performance-enhancing drug.\n\n\"I just kind of went in blind, not knowing what I was taking,\" he said.\n\nRhys Bryant feared his health \"wouldn't go back to normal\" after taking drugs he thought were Sarms\n\nHe says the website where he bought the drugs listed \"only positives\", and carried no warnings about possible side effects.\n\nBut within two weeks of taking the drugs, Rhys began to suffer from disturbed sleep, mood swings, erectile dysfunction and completely lost his sex drive.\n\nHe stopped taking the pills after a month, but says the side effects persisted long afterwards. \"I was worried [my health] wouldn't go back to normal,\" he said.\n\nOn a BBC Radio 5 Live phone-in, one caller - Daniel from Leeds - said he had just thrown away the bottle of Sarms he had been taking for a week after suffering side-effects. \"Just in those seven days, the headaches have been wild,\" he said. \"I definitely won't be taking any more.\"\n\nSam, a personal trainer from Maidstone, told the programme he had been considering taking Sarms until learning of the BBC's investigation. Because the drugs are so widely used in the fitness community, he had not realised they were illegal. Sam said: \"I kind of just assumed that, well, if everyone else is doing it, surely it must be safe.\"\n\nLaura Wilson of the RPS called for more research into Sarms and their impact. She added: \"Sarms do pose a danger to people who are taking them.\n\n\"We would like to see the laws around them tightened, we would like to see better control over them and an acknowledgment that they are not being used for 'research purposes' when they're being purchased.\"\n\nIn a statement, the FSA said: \"SARMs are not authorised for sale in the UK and should not be consumed. If consumers become aware of these products on sale, they should report it to the Food Standards Agency or to their local authority.\"\n\nDavid Pickering, of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said it will \"work with the FSA to identify any of these supplements that are found on sale and remove them from the market to protect consumers\".\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Metropolitan Police said when officers approached the man he threatened \"to harm himself\"\n\nA man who handcuffed himself to the gates outside Buckingham Palace in central London has been arrested.\n\nThe man approached the gates at about 17:30 BST on Thursday and handcuffed himself to them before threatening \"to harm himself\", police said.\n\nHe was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon at about 01:00 on Friday.\n\n\"He was taken to a south London hospital to be assessed before being taken into custody,\" the Met said.\n\nA large cordon which was in place while officers were at the scene has been removed.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nohema Graber, 66, was prominent in the Spanish-speaking community\n\nA teenager in the US state of Iowa who beat his teacher to death with a baseball bat over a bad grade has been sentenced to life in prison.\n\nWillard Miller, 17, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in April for his role in the 2 November 2021 killing of Nohema Graber, a Spanish teacher.\n\nMiller and co-defendant Jeremy Goodale, now 18, attacked Ms Graber, 66, after she marked down Miller's work.\n\nAged 16 at the time of the murder, both were charged as adults.\n\nOn Thursday, Miller was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole only after at least 35 years.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay at least $150,000 (£117,000) in restitution to the victim's family.\n\nBefore delivering his sentence, Judge Shawn Showers rejected defence arguments that Miller was too young at the time to understand the gravity of his actions.\n\n\"Evil does not have a birthday,\" he said.\n\nFamily members of Ms Graber told the court they did not believe Miller was remorseful.\n\nSeveral relatives mentioned that the murder led to the early death last month of Ms Graber's husband, Paul. He was buried a day before Thursday's sentencing.\n\nMiller apologised to the community and turned to address Ms Graber's relatives seated behind him.\n\n\"I am sincerely sorry for the distress I have caused you and the devastation I have caused your family,\" he said.\n\nPleading with the judge to forego the maximum sentence, Miller said: \"I don't want to be institutionalised so long that I forget who I am and where I come from.\"\n\nProsecutors said the evidence showed both Miller and Goodale had bludgeoned Ms Graber with a bat during the attack in Fairfield, a town of fewer than 10,000 people that lies 100 miles (160km) south-east of the state capitol, Des Moines.\n\nThe day after the attack, police found the mother-of-three's body hidden under a tarpaulin, wheelbarrow and railway sleepers in a local park where she used to walk after school.\n\nIn a police interview, Miller described frustrations with the way Ms Graber taught Spanish.\n\nHe said his marks in her class were lowering his Grade Point Average, an important score during applications for US colleges and scholarships.\n\nMiller met Ms Graber at Fairfield High School on the day of the murder to discuss his poor grade in her class. Goodale was also a student there.\n\nMexican-born Ms Graber had been employed at the school since 2012. She was part of the town's small but growing Latino community.", "The mother of Stephen Lawrence says she is \"bitterly disappointed\" that four retired detectives who ran a failed investigation into her son's murder will not face criminal charges.\n\nBaroness Doreen Lawrence said her \"hope has been in vain\" and the Crown Prosecution Service announcement was a \"disgrace\".\n\nShe said she would seek a review of the CPS decision.\n\nStephen was 18 when he was killed in a racist attack in south London in 1993.\n\nThe initial Met Police investigation failed to bring anyone to justice. Two of the murderers were eventually jailed in 2012.\n\nIn a statement, Baroness Lawrence said there was \"no mention, let alone consideration, of racism in the CPS decision as being the possible reason for the officers acting as they did\".\n\n\"Not a single police officer has been disciplined or will be charged\" over the investigation, she said, adding: \"In my opinion the police have, yet again, got away 'scot-free'.\"\n\nShe added: \"After 30 years in which there have been countless police investigations, a police complaint and a public inquiry I thought there might be some hope of holding those police officers who failed me and my son to account.\"\n\nBaroness Lawrence said the decision had caused her \"immense distress\".\n\nAnnouncing its decision, the CPS said it understood it \"may be deeply disappointing\" to Stephen's family.\n\nBaroness Lawrence said the CPS decision had caused her \"immense distress\"\n\nNick Price, head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said the service has offered to meet with close family members \"to explain our decision in detail\".\n\nMet Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said he did not \"underestimate the impact\" the CPS decision would have and recognised the strength of feeling still felt about Stephen's murder and the initial handling of the case by the police.\n\n\"I have already acknowledged that too many mistakes were made during the first investigation into his death,\" he added.\n\nThe officers had been investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), but the CPS chose not to pursue a criminal prosecution after considering a file of evidence for nearly three years.\n\nIn 1999 a public inquiry led by Sir William Macpherson said the first Lawrence murder investigation was \"marred by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism and a failure of leadership by senior officers\".\n\nThe Macpherson report was highly critical of Mr Crampton, Mr Weeden and Mr Ilsley for the decision not to make quick arrests - arrests did not take place for two weeks despite police receiving information implicating four of the prime suspects within 24 hours of the stabbing.\n\nIn 1997 an investigation by the police watchdog had also been critical, but only Mr Bullock was still serving in the Met and therefore available for a disciplinary process.\n\nThe IOPC investigation which led to the referral to the CPS first started in 2014 and looked into allegations of corruption against another officer - John Davidson - who worked on the first Stephen Lawrence murder investigation.\n\nThe investigation, which was carried out by the National Crime Agency (NCA) on behalf of the IOPC, followed an official review by barrister Mark Ellison KC, which said there were outstanding lines of inquiry into allegations that Mr Davidson was in a corrupt relationship with the father of David Norris, one of Stephen's killers.\n\nThe claims were made by Mr Davidson's former colleague, Neil Putnam, a corrupt officer turned super-grass.\n\nMr Putnam, who did not work on the Lawrence murder inquiry, alleged that Mr Davidson had admitted the corrupt relationship to him. Davidson denied the claims.\n\nJohn Davidson was told in 2019 that he was no longer under investigation because there was no evidence of corruption on his part in relation to the Stephen Lawrence case.\n\nThe NCA then investigated Mr Putnam and passed a file to the CPS to consider whether he should be charged with perjury or perverting the course of justice. The CPS has decided he will not be charged.\n\nThe IOPC investigation ended up focusing on the four senior officers from the first murder investigation, and their handling of the early part of the case.\n\nIn 2020, the IOPC passed a file of evidence to the CPS, which was asked to consider whether they may have committed the criminal offence of misconduct in public office.\n\nThe criminal offence of misconduct in public office is committed when the office holder acts - or fails to act - in a way that constitutes a breach of the duties of that office.\n\nLast week a BBC investigation identified a sixth suspect in the murder and exposed a series of police failings in relation to him.\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Stradey Park Hotel is set to house up to 241 asylum seekers\n\nA legal bid for an injunction to stop a hotel being used to house asylum seekers has failed.\n\nUp to 241 people are now set to be housed in Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, despite opposition.\n\nThe council took the action against a number of associated companies and business directors.\n\nThe Home Office said the plans were necessary and that the asylum system was under \"incredible\" strain.\n\nThe local authority argued using the hotel for asylum seekers would be a breach of planning conditions.\n\nAt a High Court hearing on Friday, Carmarthenshire council failed to get an interim order stopping migrants being sent to the hotel while their asylum claims are processed by the Home Office.\n\nThe local authority claimed sending them to the 77-bed site was a change of use from hotel to hostel and a breach of planning rules.\n\nIt said the change, which is set to take effect from Monday, would \"undoubtedly\" harm the economy.\n\nThis included potentially losing more than 25% of the town's hotel rooms, job losses, cancelled weddings and an impact on tourism, a High Court judge in London heard.\n\nLast month 50 full-time and 45 part-time staff at the hotel were told that their jobs would be terminated on 10 July, the same day asylum seekers are due to move in.\n\nThe hotel has seen faced local opposition since it first announced the plans\n\nA lawyer for Stradey Park's owner, Gryphon Leisure, said there was an \"urgent\" need for asylum seeker accommodation, arguing there would be no planning breach.\n\nThe court was told Gryphon director Robert Horwood had warned there was a \"serious\" risk the hotel would shut without its contract with accommodation provider Clearsprings Ready Homes.\n\nCraig Howell Williams KC, for the council, said there were \"good reasons\" to doubt Mr Horwood's claims the business could face closure.\n\nThe barrister said the former Edwardian stately home played a \"fundamental\" role in tourism.\n\nThe court was told there was limited information about how the site would be operated for migrants.\n\nThe use of bodyguards and perimeter patrols would be \"alien\" in the neighbourhood, Mr Howell Williams said.\n\nHe added there were \"concerns\" about community feeling, including the \"potential for unrest\".\n\nJenny Wigley KC, for Clearsprings, Gryphon, Mr Horwood and co-director Gareth Street, said in written arguments using the hotel was \"a temporary solution of last resort\".\n\nShe said if people were not accommodated asylum seekers were at risk of being kept in sub-standard conditions or being made homeless.\n\nPolice were called to the hotel on Friday after protesters blocked vehicles entering the site\n\nJudge Gavin Mansfield KC will give his reasons for dismissing the injunction bid at a hearing on Monday.\n\nAfter the hearing, Carmarthenshire council leader Darren Price said he was \"disappointed\" and that the authority would consider the judge's reasons on Monday.\n\nIn May, West Lindsey District Council lost its attempt to get an injunction against work to prepare RAF Scampton, in Lincolnshire, for asylum seekers.\n\nAnd in June Braintree council lost a High Court appeal over Home Office plans to house asylum seekers at a former airbase.\n\nA successful legal action pursued by Great Yarmouth Borough Council, in Norfolk, saw a High Court judge rule that seafront hotels there could not be used to house migrants.\n\nOn Friday, police were called to Stradey Park Hotel as protesters stopping cars from accessing the site clashed with security personnel who were pulling down fences erected by demonstrators previously.\n\nThe Home Office said the number of people arriving in the UK in need of accommodation had reached record levels.\n\n\"The Home Office is committed to making every effort to reduce hotel use and limit the burden on the taxpayer,\" a spokesman added.", "Tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have been joking about setting up a cage match. In the business world, the fight has already begun.\n\nLess than 24 hours after Mr Zuckerberg launched his alternative to Twitter, Threads, it had already claimed some 30 million sign-ups - lending it credibility as a serious contender in the world of social media.\n\nThat's still a small fraction of the hundreds of millions of Twitter users.\n\nBut analysts think it's a sign that Mr Zuckerberg's Meta has a good shot at wooing some of its gigantic 3 billion-plus users on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to the new offering - and bringing advertisers with them.\n\nAfter all, Mr Zuckerberg, whose Meta made more than $117bn in sales last year, has a monster track record when it comes to selling adverts - and none of the apparent qualms of Mr Musk, who has disdained advertising at his electric car company, Tesla, and been looking for alternative ways to fund Twitter.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said there would be no ads on Threads initially, giving the company time to fine-tune the app, which allows users to scroll endlessly through text-based posts.\n\n\"Our approach will be the same as all our other products: make the product work well first, then see if we can get it on a clear path to 1 billion people, and only then think about monetization at that point,\" he wrote.\n\nBut eventually, Threads adverts could add 1% to 5% to Meta's overall revenue, generating more than $6bn in the most optimistic scenario, Justin Patterson, equity research analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets wrote in a note.\n\nThat's not huge. But it's also not nothing, especially as the company continues to look for ways to combat the hit to ad sales sparked by stricter privacy rules from Apple.\n\nAnd it is well within striking distance of Twitter, which generated $4.5bn in ad revenue in 2021, before Mr Musk's takeover sparked upheaval.\n\nWhether that money materialises will depend on what Threads becomes, if anything, in the weeks and months ahead.\n\nMr Musk was ready on Thursday with the counter-punch, reportedly threatening legal action against Meta for stealing trade secrets.\n\nBut frustration with Twitter has left plenty of people hungry for an alternative; and Meta's promise of a \"saner, kinder place\" than Twitter \"supercharged\" early sign-ups, Insider Intelligence analyst Jasmine Enberg said.\n\n\"Posting. With optimism,\" quipped Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker, one of the celebrities jumping into the fray alongside Shakira, Oprah and Khloe Kardashian.\n\nSuccess will depend on winning over Twitter's power users or people who never signed up for the app in the first place - no sure bet, analysts said.\n\nThough the fashion and lifestyle content that is the bread-and-butter of Instagram clearly holds appeal for advertisers, it is not clear the world needs another platform to consume it.\n\nMr Zuckerberg also has a complicated relationship with news, one of Twitter's main functions.\n\nHe has said surveys show users want less of it on the platforms he runs and in Canada, his company is preparing to block local reporting, rather than pay news providers there for their content.\n\n\"News hounds and avid Twitter loyalists aren't likely to defect... and Meta will need to keep Threads interesting to maintain the momentum once the novelty wears off,\" Ms Enberg said, adding that Mr Zuckerberg - who has been skewered before for creating copycat products - has \"struggled\" with innovation.\n\nAdvertisers will also be looking for confidence that they are not spending money on a platform exposing them to risks tied to issues like misinformation and privacy.\n\nUnder Mr Musk, Twitter, which had struggled to be profitable, has alienated advertisers with abrupt changes to how the site moderates content and more recently, a new limit on how many posts audiences can see.\n\nAnalysts say Meta has already been one of the beneficiaries from Twitter losing business.\n\nBut Mr Zuckerberg is not coming to the table with a clean record either.\n\nHis company has clashed with marketers for years over the transparency and accuracy of its data, while its handling of user data and misinformation has drawn widespread criticism.\n\n\"Advertisers want a clean ... well-lit environment where content is moderated on the terms and conditions agreed to, on a consistent basis,\" said marketing veteran Lou Paskalis, chief executive of AJL Advisory. \"Overall right now social media is a bit of a dumpster fire.\"\n\nMeta shares popped 4% on Wednesday ahead of the launch - a sign of investor confidence that Mr Zuckerberg has the ability to make it work, despite flops like Facebook Dating.\n\nBut replicating the way that news breaks on Twitter will be difficult, Mr Paskalis said, leaving room for both platforms to exist.\n\nOr, he suggested, the presence of a serious threat could prove a \"wake-up call\" for Mr Musk.\n\n\"One of the keys will be how long will Threads eschew advertising,\" Mr Paskalis said. \"Whatever that period of time is, that's the period of time that Twitter has to right that ship.\"", "The inquiry requested to see messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat set up to discuss the government's pandemic response.\n\nThe government has lost its legal challenge to prevent the Covid inquiry from seeing Boris Johnson's WhatsApps, diaries and notebooks in full.\n\nThe Cabinet Office had argued it should not have to hand over irrelevant material, but inquiry chair Baroness Hallett said it should be up to her to decide what is relevant.\n\nThe government has accepted the ruling.\n\nIt would work towards handing over the material requested by next week, Downing Street said.\n\n\"All elements of this will be discussed in more detail with the inquiry\", No 10 added, describing the judgement as the \"sensible\" and the \"appropriate way forward\".\n\nThe Covid inquiry said it was \"pleased\" with the High Court verdict and added that inquiry chair Baroness Hallett expected to received the material by 16:00 BST on Monday 10 July.\n\nThe decision by the court is likely to strengthen the authority of the inquiry and its ability to demand evidence.\n\nIn its ruling, the court said inquiries should be allowed to \"fish\" for documents.\n\nIt said such exercises could potentially lead to the inquiry getting \"some irrelevant material\".\n\nLord Justice Dingemans and Mr Justice Garnham said Baroness Hallett would return documents she found \"obviously irrelevant\".\n\nThe judges also suggested the Cabinet Office could make its case directly to the inquiry about which documents should be considered irrelevant.\n\nThe court's ruling does not mean that the public will get to see the documents in full as the inquiry could apply its own redactions. It may also decide against making them public at all.\n\nResponding to the court's verdict, Deborah Doyle, a spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group, said: \"This judicial review was a desperate waste of time and money.\n\n\"A successful inquiry could save thousands of lives in the event of another pandemic, and it's a disgrace that the Cabinet Office is trying to obstruct it.\"\n\nDeputy Labour leader Angela Rayner accused Rishi Sunak of \"wasting time and taxpayers' money on doomed legal battles\".\n\nBaroness Hallett is chairing a public inquiry into the pandemic\n\nEarlier this year the Covid Inquiry - set up by the government to examine decision-making during the pandemic - requested to see WhatsApp messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat set up to discuss the pandemic response.\n\nIt also asked to see messages from other politicians including current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe request triggered a row between the inquiry and the government, but also Mr Johnson.\n\nThe former prime minister said he was \"more than happy\" for the inquiry to see his unredacted messages and threatened to send what material he had directly to the inquiry, by-passing the Cabinet Office.\n\nAt a hearing of the case last month, government lawyer Sir James Eadie KC said the Cabinet Office had challenged the inquiry's request with \"considerable reluctance\".\n\nHe argued that the government had a \"real concern\" about people's privacy and notes that some of the material included messages of a personal nature.\n\nIn a confidential submission to the court, the Cabinet Office also flagged \"messages about border incursions by one foreign state into the territory of another foreign state\", as well as \"the trial of foreign nationals in the courts of another foreign state\".\n\nRepresenting the inquiry, Hugo Keith KC said letting the Cabinet Office decide which measures were relevant amounted to the government \"marking its own homework\". He also said it would \"emasculate this and future inquiries\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Hail storms, heavy rain and flash flooding have battered towns across Spain, days after a heatwave.\n\nVideo recorded in the north of Spain shows icy water running through the streets, past chairs outside a cafe. The south east also saw heavy rain and strong winds.", "Over 20 people died from the mass shooting, and 22 more were injured\n\nThe Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 has been sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in federal prison.\n\nThe 24-year-old had pleaded guilty after federal prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.\n\nThe sentencing follows two days of emotional testimony from witnesses, as the murderer sat face-to-face with survivors and relatives.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history.\n\nAs police escorted Patrick Crusius out of the courtroom, Dean Reckard, whose mother, Margie Reckard, was killed in the shooting, shouted: \"We will be seeing you again, you coward.\"\n\nThe killer could still face the death penalty on capital murder charges in state court.\n\nOver 50 people sat in the crowded court in El Paso on Friday morning, while more gathered in an overflow area outside to watch the sentencing.\n\nCarrying an assault-style rifle, the attacker targeted mostly Hispanic shoppers when he killed 23 and injured 22 more in the US-Mexico border town of El Paso.\n\nThe gunman, who is white, had posted a hate-filled, anti-immigrant screed online minutes before he sprayed shoppers with bullets.\n\nIn February, he pleaded guilty to 90 charges, including 23 counts for hate crime acts that resulted in death, 22 hate crime acts that caused bodily injury, 23 counts of using a firearm in a federal crime of violence resulting in death and 22 counts of using a firearm in a federal crime of violence.\n\nSurvivors and family of those killed in the mass shooting spoke directly to the gunman for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThe attacker showed little emotion throughout the sentencing, where the loved ones of his victims delivered emotional statements, calling him a \"monster\", \"killer\", and a \"parasite\".\n\nSome family members rebuked the gunman for his reactions during their statements.\n\n\"You can roll your eyes, you can smile, you can smirk,\" said the granddaughter of David Johnson, who was killed.\n\nOne tearful girl said: \"I used to be a happy, normal teenager, until a coward chose to use violence against the innocent. I'm no longer as happy as I used to be.\"\n\nKathleen Johnson told the gunman she now has night terrors and post-traumatic stress disorder after losing her husband in the attack.\n\nHands and feet shackled, the gunman nodded \"yes\" on Thursday when asked by the son of another victim if he was sorry for his actions.\n\nThe judge requested he receive mental health treatment at ADX Florence, a maximum facility prison in Colorado.\n\nOn 3 August 2019, the gunman entered the Walmart parking lot dressed in protective ear muffs and safety glasses, wielding a high-powered assault-style rifle and opened fire.\n\nHe continued to shoot inside the store, injuring and killing victims in the checkout area, between shopping aisles and at a bank near the entrance.\n\nHe was arrested the same day.\n\nHe admitted to leaving his home near Dallas - roughly 650 miles away - to go to the border town, which is 80% Hispanic, to target Latinos.\n\nThose who were killed ranged in age from a three-year-old child, whose parents were also killed, to elderly grandparents. Eight of the victims held Mexican citizenship.", "Bader lost part of his right leg after being hit by a shell on his way home from school\n\nIf suffering had an address, it might be al-Rasheed Street, in Taiz, a Yemeni city ringed by mountains and rebel Houthi fighters. On this narrow street of rough-hewn homes, the young can't escape a grinding conflict the world tends to forget.\n\nA slight boy with a mop of dark hair leads us down the street, nimbly side-stepping potholes - with his crutches. Bader al-Harbi is seven years old, just a little younger than Yemen's war. His right leg has been amputated above the knee. The slogan on his T-shirt reads \"Sport\".\n\nIn the back yard of his family home, Bader sits on some breeze blocks, his stump exposed. His remaining foot has no shoe. His big brother Hashim is by his side, sharing his trauma and his silence.\n\nHashim's right foot has been mangled and he is missing a thumb. He fidgets endlessly with his hands as if trying to rub out the scars.\n\nThe boys were hit by Houthi shelling on an October morning last year as they came home from school on a break, according to their father, al-Harbi Nasser al-Majnahi. They have not been back to their classes since.\n\n\"Everything changed completely,\" he says, sitting cross-legged on a mattress. \"They no longer play outside with other kids. They are disabled. They are scared and have psychological problems.\"\n\nIn a small voice, sounding younger than his nine years, Hashim says he would like to go back to school.\n\n\"I want to study and learn,\" he tells me. I asked Bader if he wants to go too. \"Yes,\" he replies. \"But my leg has been cut off, so how can I go?\"\n\nTheir father says they have not been enrolled for the upcoming school year because he has no money for transport. And he has no way to get his family out of harm's way.\n\n\"Even though we are scared, we can't afford to live anywhere else,\" he tells me, \"because the rent would be higher. So, we are forced to stay here, whether we live or die.\"\n\nWhat began as a civil war has been fuelled by regional rivals backing opposing sides. Sunni Saudi Arabia supports Yemen's internationally-recognised government, weak as it is. Shia Iran backs the Houthi movement, formally known as Ansar Allah (or Supporters of God).\n\nNine years after the conflict began, Taiz bears the scars\n\nIn September 2014, the Houthis seized Yemen's capital, Sanaa, driving out the government. The following spring a Saudi-led coalition intervened, backed by the UK and the US.\n\nThe Saudis promised a quick operation to restore the government to power. Not quite.\n\nEight years, and thousands of coalition air strikes later, the Houthis still hold the capital. The Saudis now want a quick exit - militarily at least.\n\nAnd on the front lines in Taiz, Bader and Hashim still sleep and wake to the sound of warfare.\n\n\"I hear explosions,\" says Bader, \"and there are snipers. They shoot everything in the neighbourhood. I feel like there could be an explosion near me, or the house could be blown up.\"\n\nWe walk a few steps to the house next door - where another childhood has been ripped asunder.\n\nAmir appears on the doorstep - a three-year old in a yellow T-shirt, silent and sombre. In place of his right leg there is a metal prosthetic. His father, Sharif al-Amri, helps him to stand, bending often to kiss his forehead.\n\nAmir \"remembers every moment\" after the shelling that took his leg, his father says\n\nAmir was maimed on the same day as Bader and Hashim - just a few hours later.\n\nHe was in a relative's house across the road when it was shelled, killing both his uncle and his six-year-old cousin. Amir survived but has penetrating wounds of memory.\n\nAs Sharif puts his son's pain into words, Amir nods off in the stifling heat, cradled in his arms.\n\n\"He remembers every moment after the shelling happened until he arrived at hospital. He says, 'This happened to my uncle, and this happened to my cousin.' He talks about the smoke and the blood that he saw. When he sees children playing, he gets very upset and says, 'I don't have a leg.'\"\n\nEvery house on this street has its measure of fear. Munir's has more than most. The father of four leads me down an alleyway to his family home, which is right in the line of fire. Houthi gunmen are as near as his neighbours - he says about 20-30m away.\n\n\"There's a sniper is front of us,\" says Munir, crouching down by his living room window. \"I can see him now if I open the window. If you go outside to the garden, he will shoot.\n\n\"We live in fear here in Taiz. People don't know when they will be hit by a missile or a sniper. God willing there will be peace and Yemen will go back to being great.\"\n\nIn the hallway we meet his eldest son Mohammed, an animated 14-year-old who relies on a wheelchair. When his school was shelled the other pupils ran away, leaving him behind. Now he worries that, if his house is hit, his family could be hurt trying to rescue him.\n\nFor more than 3,000 days Taiz has been virtually besieged, a battleground between government and Houthi forces. And the young have not been spared.\n\nA local doctor told us that since 2015, he has treated about 100 child amputees - maimed by Houthi shelling, mines and unexploded ordnance.\n\nMost of children maimed and killed in Taiz over the years have been victims of the Houthis. Others died in airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition - in the early war years - and some were killed by government forces. All sides have blood on their hands.\n\nYemen's conflict is now on a lower flame - since a UN-brokered truce last year that held for six months. It's no longer all-out war, but it's not peace either.\n\nSaudi Arabia and Iran have shaken hands and made up. So far, so good. There have been talks between the Saudis and the Houthis, but sources tell us they have stalled. And there are no talks involving Yemen's own warring factions.\n\nThe country is increasingly fragmented, like a broken jigsaw that can't be reassembled. A separatist movement - backed by the United Arab Emirates - wants the south to be independent, as it was from 1967 until 1990. That is one more fissure in a fraying state.\n\nI've been coming to Yemen since the war escalated in March 2015. This is my seventh visit. While the international community talks of peace moves, on the ground there is weariness and despair.\n\nDuring three weeks on the ground in the south, many conversations felt like a farewell, a requiem to the nation.\n\nMany doubt that Yemen will survive in its current form. Many more doubt that the Houthis will make peace.\n\n\"They claim they have a divine right to rule,\" said a twenty-something professional in Taiz, who preferred not to be named. \"They claim the Prophet is their grandfather. I can't see them giving up their guns and going back to democracy and elections.\"\n\nOr put another way by Gamal Mahmoud Al Masrahi, who is in charge of camps for the displaced in south-west Yemen, \"the international community is living an illusion\" when it thinks the Houthis will make peace.\n\nWe wanted to take the temperature in the Houthi-controlled north, home to most of Yemen's population of 32 million. But after we arrived in the country, the Houthis revoked our permission. Human rights campaigners in Sanaa say the de facto rulers are increasingly repressive.\n\nAs we leave al-Rasheed Street, Bader has come outside, but he's sitting alone by the side of road. Amir is being wheeled along on the crossbar of a bicycle by his father. \"Don't be scared, my love,\" Sharif says, \"I am beside you.\"\n\nHe asks his son what he wants in the future.\n\n\"Buy me a gun,\" Amir replies haltingly, his words jarring with his babyish voice.\n\n\"I will load a bullet in my gun and fire at those who took my leg.\"\n\nIt was a three-hour journey on the back of a motorbike, across rough terrain - part road, part stones - in relentless heat. But this was the only way for Rajah Mohammed to get his desperately ill son, Awam, to a specialist children's hospital in Taiz.\n\nFirst, he had to spend 10 days earning the money to pay for the trip from their home in the Red Sea port of Mocha. The journey cost 20,000 Yemeni rials, the equivalent of $14 (£10.73).\n\nWhen Awam arrived at the Yemeni Swedish hospital - still so-called, though its Swedish benefactors are long gone - staff rushed to weigh and measure him. But the charts and scales were not needed to confirm he was severely malnourished. His wizened arms and painfully distended stomach told the story.\n\nRajah - who has four more children - has been battling to save his son for a year.\n\nRajah Mohammed travelled three hours by motorbike to take his son to hospital\n\n\"He always has a fever,\" he tells me, standing at Awam's bedside, fanning him with a piece of cardboard.\n\n\"We have been to all the hospitals in Mocha. We were told to bring him here. I can barely afford to feed my children. Sometimes all we have is bread and tea. It can be like that for a month or more.\"\n\nHunger is part of the bedrock of Yemen, but it has been compounded by the conflict which has destroyed livelihoods, driven up prices, displaced more than four million people and closed half the health facilities in the country.\n\nRajah is one of those made homeless by the war. \"We have been displaced six or seven times,\" he says. \"Every time we must move to a new place because we are scared of landmines.\"\n\nHunger has been stalking his child - and many others here - from birth. Nearly 500,000 Yemeni children under the age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition and are struggling to survive, according to the United Nations (UN).\n\nFor Awam, there is one more threat. Tests show he may have leukaemia and could require lengthy treatment.\n\nFor Rajah, keeping one son in hospital means risking his other children going hungry at home. He takes Awam back to Mocha the following day. He tells doctors he will try to earn more money to bring him back.\n\nDoctors say they are receiving many patients from the city - once famed for its coffee trade, now flooded with displaced families.\n\nWe travel there along the same bumpy road that Rajah took with his son, but in the comfort of a four-wheel-drive car.\n\nWe arrive at a rural health clinic, teeming with mothers clad head-to-toe in black abayas and face veils, holding up sick children. The air is heavy with the mothers' pleas and the babies' cries.\n\nThe three-room clinic is mostly closed these days but local officials decide to open it because we were in the area. The mothers surge forward, thinking we are foreign doctors, begging us to help their children.\n\nA local doctor appears but he tells us staff at the clinic are on strike and will not be treating any cases. \"We cannot do anything for them,\" says Dr Ali bin ali Doberah.\n\n\"We have not been paid for four months. Some of us are going to look for jobs that pay because we cannot feed our children.\"\n\nThe clinic is no longer getting support from foreign aid agencies who used to pay some of the salaries. Nine health centres have closed in Mocha and other areas of Yemen's west coast, because of lack of funding.\n\nAcross the country, aid agencies are scaling back. The UN World Food Programme has already made deep cuts, north and south. It says it will have to stop food supplies for between three and five million people by mid-September unless more money comes in.\n\nIn the middle of the throng there is an 11-month-old called Safaa - whose arms and legs are just skin and bone and whose face is contorted in pain. This fisherman's daughter is wasting away. She also suffers from a liver complaint.\n\n\"Sometimes she does not have food while her dad is at sea. We must wait for him to come back so we can buy her food,\" says her mother, Umm Ahmed.\n\n\"I am worried about her. I want to get help for her, but our circumstances are difficult.\"\n\nUmm Ahmed's head is bent low, her shoulder slumped. Her family history is like a summary of Yemen's war years, written in blood and suffering.\n\nShe tells us she has been displaced for seven years, her brother-in-law was killed in an air strike, and her niece was blown up by a landmine. She has buried four of her nine children, because of malnutrition and liver problems. Now hunger is menacing her baby girl.\n\nUmm Ahmed leads us the short distance to her home, which - like her country - has seen better days. The bright blue paint is fading from the walls. There is an ornate wooden door but little furniture and no toys. She puts Safaa in a hammock made from a shawl, swinging her back and forth to keep her cool.\n\nHer husband, Anwar Taleb, looks worried and weary. He's a third-generation fisherman with a bushy beard, who can barely feed his family.\n\nSafaa's parents cannot afford the five-hour journey to the hospital offering specialist treatment\n\n\"I go to sea for 15-20 days at a time and get what I can get,\" he says, \"but for the past three months I have not found any work. Sometimes the money we make only covers the cost of the trip.\"\n\nHe tells us he has married off his two daughters - aged 14 and 15 - because he can't afford to feed them. We ask to meet them, but he says that even if he agrees, their husbands will not. Two more childhoods cut short. Two more hidden victims of war.\n\nNow Safaa may be running out of time.\n\nWe give her parents a lift to a better-equipped local clinic - this one is functioning. She is admitted immediately, but doctors say she will need specialist treatment in the southern port city of Aden - a journey of about five hours that her parents cannot afford.\n\nAfter a few days we learn that she too has been taken back home, where there may be little to feed her.\n\nWar, hunger, and poverty are intertwined here. Yemen's children may escape one and fall victim to the others.\n\nAnd they are at risk of international neglect. The horrors of Ukraine are closer to home for many Western nations than distant suffering in the Arabian Peninsula.\n\nNow more than ever Yemenis fear they are easy to overlook.\n\nWho will help the wounded boys of Taiz - Bader, Hashim and Amir - and the starving infants of Mocha - Awam and Safaa?\n\nIf you'd like more information on the background to this story, the BBC World Service programme The Explanation has been speaking to Nawal Al-Maghafi - a BBC correspondent who has been reporting on the Middle East since 2012.\n\nShe explained how the complex war began between government-backed forces and Houthi rebels, and how it led to Yemen's current humanitarian crisis.\n\nListen here: How Yemen has been engulfed by civil war", "The Bradford and Nottingham teams found the de Brécy Tondo was highly likely to have been created by Raphael\n\nA mystery work which was recently found to \"undoubtedly\" be by Renaissance painter Raphael has gone on show in Bradford, the first time it has ever been seen on public display.\n\nTeams from the University of Nottingham and University of Bradford used facial recognition technology to examine the painting, known as the de Brécy Tondo.\n\nThey found the faces were identical to those in a Raphael altarpiece.\n\nIt will now be on display at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery for two months.\n\nThe de Brécy Tondo, which sits in a collection set up by Cheshire businessman George Lester Winward and which was thought by some experts to have been a Victorian copy, has been the subject of research and debate for more than 40 years due to its resemblance to Raphael's Sistine Madonna.\n\nThe similarity between the Madonnas in the two paintings was found to be 97%, the teams found\n\nIn 1995, two years before he died, Mr Winward set up the de Brécy Trust Collection, named after his French ancestors, to preserve his collection of paintings and drawings and make them available for art scholars to study.\n\nEarlier this year, using new facial recognition technology, it was found that the painting was highly likely to be a Raphael masterpiece.\n\nProf Hassan Ugail, the director of the centre of visual computing at the University of Bradford, said: \"Testing the Tondo using this new AI model has shown startling results, confirming it is most likely by Raphael.\n\n\"Together with my previous work using facial recognition, and combined with previous research by my fellow academics, we have concluded the Tondo and the Sistine Madonna are undoubtedly by the same artist,\" he said.\n\nCouncillor Sarah Ferriby, Bradford Council's executive member for healthy people and places, said she was delighted the city was \"the first place in the world to have this amazing art work on public display\".\n\n\"It is fitting that Bradford has been chosen for this honour, especially in the run-up to the district being UK City of Culture in 2025,\" she added.\n\n\"I hope as many people as possible take this opportunity to visit Cartwright Hall to view this and the many other great works of art we have display, including work by Bradford artist David Hockney.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Mystery portrait likely to be Raphael masterpiece\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo Greek air force pilots have died after a plane crashed while fighting wildfires on the Greek island of Evia, officials say.\n\nThe water-bombing plane crashed while battling a forest fire near Platanistos, the defence ministry said.\n\nThe pilots were named as 34-year-old Cdr Christos Moulas and his co-pilot, 27-year-old Pericles Stefanidis.\n\nAn intense European heatwave has also sparked wildfires across Sicily, Algeria and Tunisia.\n\nGreek TV showed the Canadair aircraft flying low to drop water on a fire before turning sharply into a hillside and bursting into flames.\n\nState broadcaster ERT said the plane crashed over the town of Karystos on the island, where a fire was burning.\n\nThe plane was among at least three other aircraft and about 100 firefighters tackling fires on Evia.\n\nDefence Minister Nikos Dendias said the pilots lost their lives \"in the line of duty... while attempting to protect the lives and property of citizens, as well as the environment of our country\".\n\nA three-day mourning period has been declared in the Greek armed forces, the defence ministry said.\n\nRescuers at the site of the plane crash after a water drop in Platanistos on the island of Evia, Greece\n\nEmergency teams were fighting flames non-stop on dozens of fronts on Tuesday, Greek government minister Vassilis Kikilias said.\n\nCrete, the largest Greek island, has been put on high alert, with residents warned there is an \"extreme risk\" of fire.\n\nMore evacuation flights are taking place from Rhodes, while more than 20,000 people have been evacuated from homes and resorts in recent days.\n\nAn international panel of scientists has said the current conditions could not possibly have happened without human-caused climate change.\n\nElsewhere in the Mediterranean, the Italian island of Sicily has been battling fires overnight after weeks of record-breaking temperatures.\n\nLocal media warned that the city of Palermo was \"encircled\" by fires, including a blaze that forced the temporary closure of Palermo airport on Tuesday.\n\nNorthern Italy has been reeling from violent storms and high winds that have uprooted trees and lifted roofs off buildings.\n\nIn some places, tennis ball-sized hailstones injured people, damaged cars and destroyed crops.\n\nFirefighters are battling flames near the village of Vati on the island of Rhodes in Greece\n\nAlgeria has also been battling to control wildfires along its Mediterranean coast that have killed at least 34 people.\n\nA number of people suffered burn injuries and smoke inhalation, while more than 1,500 were evacuated from fires in 16 provinces.\n\nAn outbreak of 97 fires had mostly been brought under control, but 13 were still raging on Tuesday afternoon, the interior ministry said.\n\nIn neighbouring Tunisia, where temperatures up to 49C (120F) were recorded, officials said authorities were investigating the causes of forest fires that had broken out across the country in recent days.\n\nOne of the most severe fires in Maloula, near the Algerian border, has been brought under control after thousands were evacuated.\n\nA forestry official has called for anyone found to have started the fires deliberately to be prosecuted \"with an iron fist\".\n\nCould powerful heatwaves and summer wildfires, which have devastated communities and displaced tourists in Greece, become the new normal in Europe?", "Magnum and Marmite-maker Unilever has reported profits soared over the first six months of this year, based almost entirely on raising its prices.\n\nThe consumer goods giant said that across the business, pre-tax profit rose 21% to €3.9bn (£3.34bn) but the number of goods that it sold fell.\n\nSupermarkets, such as Tesco, have been critical of suppliers lifting their prices amid high inflation.\n\nUnilever's boss said it had not passed on higher costs to its customers.\n\nChief executive Hein Schumacher added that he believes that inflation - the rate at which prices rise - had peaked.\n\n\"We do see inflation moderating by the end of the year and that will lead to more moderated pricing our end.\n\n\"We've seen high volatility because of drought in Europe and rice shortages in India, as well as geopolitical issues so we've had a lot to contend with,\" he said, referring to the costs the company has to pay for raw materials.\n\nSupermarkets, who themselves have been accused of so-called \"greedflation\" - exploiting high inflation to increase their profits - have accused suppliers of hiking prices. So too have some trade unions.\n\n\"Unilever's profits are greedflation in action,\" said Sharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite union. \"This isn't about the company shifting more stock - sales volumes have fallen.\"\n\nBut Mr Schumacher said: \"We have not passed inflation on to customers and as you can see we have felt higher costs through lower margins as a group.\"\n\nA profit margin is calculated by taking away all the costs of doing business, such as wages and energy bills, from the total sales a company generates.\n\nUnilever's profit margin edged higher to 17.1% in the six months to June compared with a year ago, but is lower than margins seen pre-pandemic. In 2019 the figure hovered around 19% for the company.\n\nAccording to analyst Emma-Lou Montgomery, associate director at the stockbrokers Fidelity Investment, it is clear that higher prices are boosting Unilever's profits, particularly with sales volumes largely flat.\n\n\"All in all, the cost of living is proving profitable for this global giant, with full-year underlying sales growth expected to beat forecasts,\" she added.\n\nA recent investigation into grocers' pricing by the regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, said it had found no evidence of profiteering by supermarkets but said it was important to keep the market \"under review\" and would now look into the wider supply chain.\n\nOverall, Unilever's total turnover rose by 2.7% to €30.4bn.\n\nThe number of goods - or volume - that Unilever sold fell by 2.5% in the six months to the end of June but its prices rose by 11.2%.\n\nOnly its personal care, and beauty and wellbeing divisions - which includes luxury make-up brands such as Hourglass - saw volumes rise over the six months.\n\nFood costs have been one of the biggest drivers behind high UK inflation, which measures the pace at which prices are rising.\n\nIn the year to June, food and soft drink price inflation slowed to 17.4% but remains close to historically high levels. Overall UK inflation eased to 7.9% in June, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nLast week, Premier Foods, the maker of Mr Kipling cakes and Oxo stock cubes, said it believed recent input cost inflation was \"past its peak\". It added that it would not raise prices for the rest of the year.", "The SM UC-55 U-boat had been laying mines between Shetland and Orkney when it was forced to surface.\n\nA World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland.\n\nThe SM UC-55 submarine was sunk about eight miles south-east of Lerwick by the Royal Navy in 1917.\n\nDivers aboard the Stromness boat Valhalla have become the first to inspect its wreckage.\n\nThe U-boat had been laying mines in the convoy channel between Orkney and Shetland before being forced to surface due to a technical fault.\n\nThe wreck site had been been known about since the mid-1980s when scanning equipment picked it up, but Hazel Weaver, the owner of the Valhalla, said that 10 years of planning had gone into the dive.\n\n\"This has been known about for a long time, the question was: is this the wreck we thought it was?\" she told BBC Radio Shetland.\n\n\"After three and a half hours of divers being in the water down to 110m (361ft), they came and confirmed yes, this is the UC-55.\"\n\nU-boats were used by Germany in both world wars, inflicting a heavy toll on merchant ships and military vessels.\n\nPictured here is the SM UC-5, another U-boat which was captured by British forces a year before the SM UC-55 sank off the coast of Shetland\n\nDespite their prevalence, only four remain intact today, while many, such as the SM UC-55, lie on the ocean floor.\n\nThe submarine met its end after a loss of trim resulted in it sinking below its maximum dive depth, resulting in some flooding but it managed to rise to the surface.\n\nShortly afterwards, two Royal Navy destroyers appeared and opened fire, sinking it.\n\nJacob Mackenzie, one of the divers who visited the wreck, said it was \"eerie\" being down there, given that the some of the crew had perished along with their vessel.\n\n\"You are aware of that, although I believe about 15 of the crew did escape, the rest of the crew of course didn't - so they are still inside and that's very obvious when you're looking around it,\" he said.\n\nThe diving team discovered the wreck more than 100 metres under the surface\n\nThe team were able to confirm the identity of the wreck because details of the damage had been recorded in the logbooks of the Royal Navy destroyers that sank the submarine.\n\n\"It certainly didn't sink by accident. This was wartime and if you haven't been to those depths before you won't appreciate that it's pitch black, it's very quiet, it is quite eerie when you swim around doing this,\" he said.\n\n\"In the back of your mind as well you have to remember the fact that this is essentially a grave for probably 20 men who didn't make it out alive unfortunately.\"", "Leicestershire Police officers were called to Hopyard Close on Monday night\n\nA man and five-year-old boy have been found dead in a house in Leicester.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Hopyard Close at 21:00 BST on Monday after the man, 41, and boy were found unconscious.\n\nEast Midlands Ambulance Service and an air ambulance also attended but the pair were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nLeicestershire Police is carrying out an investigation into the deaths, but officers are not looking for anyone else at this stage.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Sinski, from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit major crime team, said: \"Detectives are working to understand what happened inside the address last night.\n\n\"I can reassure people that there is no risk to the public.\"\n\nHe added the families of the man and boy were being supported by officers.\n\nAlan Potter said many residents in the area were in tears\n\nAlan Potter, 75, who lives next door, told the BBC he heard the boy \"running about\" - as he normally would before bed - at about 18:00 or 19:00.\n\nHe said emergency services arrived from about 20:30, \"dashing in and out of the house\".\n\nMr Potter added the man's cousin also lived at the address.\n\n\"It's awful - I wish it hadn't [happened], but can't turn the clock back,\" he said.\n\nHe paid tribute to the five-year-old's \"beautiful\" personality, adding that he used to buy him presents at Easter and Christmas.\n\nCarole Potter said the news was \"tragic\"\n\nMr Potter's wife Carole, 70, said they were \"great friends\" with the boy's mother, adding that they treated him \"like he was my grandson\".\n\n\"I didn't know anything until his mum came knocking on the door really loud,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm just so upset about it. It's tragic. I just can't believe that's happened on our doorstep.\"\n\nWayne Hurst said the deaths left him \"shocked\"\n\nNeighbour Wayne Hurst, 51, described seeing a \"load of ambulances\" and police cars on Monday night.\n\n\"I'm a bit shocked and scared, I can't say no more, really. I'm just shocked,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An artist impression image of what the new dementia care village in Haverhill could look like\n\nPlans have been approved for a self-contained care village for people with dementia that has been described as the first of its kind in the country.\n\nCare (Little Court) Ltd was given planning permission to develop land off the A143 at Little Wratting near Haverhill in Suffolk.\n\nThe specialist village for up to 120 people will enable residents to \"live life as normal\" backers said.\n\nIt is based on a Dutch model called Hogeweyk.\n\nCare (Little Court) Ltd said of the Hogeweyk philosophy: \"It's small-group living, meaningful occupation - so actually doing things, getting up in the morning and going out to do things, and also freedom to roam in a safe and secure environment.\"\n\nThe village would include clinic rooms, a pub, community hall and restaurant.\n\nResidents would live in a \"family-type setting\" of six-bedroom shared apartments.\n\nThe site was not in an area that West Suffolk Council had designated for residential settlement, meaning development was contrary to its planning policies.\n\nAn artist impression shows the new dementia care village in Haverhill would be surrounded by countryside\n\nBut its proximity to the Great Wisley Park housing development, coupled with the specific provision for people with dementia and the need for that to be in a quieter area, meant that the council's development control committee decided it was an acceptable departure, reported the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nConcerns were raised over whether the site was the right one and over potential impact on GP and other health services in the area.\n\nConservative councillor Susan Glossop said the development was \"laudable\", but questioned how secure the site would be to stop people wandering to the A143.\n\nIndependent councillor John Burns said that while he was supportive of specialist dementia care, he called the £33,526 contribution the developer must make to local healthcare infrastructure as part of the planning conditions \"a pittance\".\n\nThe village was expected to open in 2023.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Qin Gang is one of the most high-level officials in the Chinese Communist Party to have been absent for this long\n\nSpeculation on Qin Gang remained rampant on Wednesday, a day after he was removed as China's foreign minister just seven months into the job.\n\nNo reason was given for Mr Qin's removal, which was announced after an emergency meeting on Tuesday.\n\nHis predecessor Wang Yi has been reappointed to the post.\n\nOfficial silence over Mr Qin's unexplained disappearance from public view for the past month had sparked speculation both in China and abroad.\n\nSocial media on Wednesday was full of searches and speculation over his abrupt dismissal.\n\nTuesday's brief announcement on state media which said only \"China's top legislature voted to appoint Wang Yi as foreign minister\", has only added fuel to the fire.\n\nIt is unusual for rumours about such a senior official to be discussed on the Chinese internet without complete censorship, observers say.\n\n\"The absence of censorship makes people wonder if there is any truth to rumours about power struggles, corruption, the abuse of power and positions, and romantic relationships,\" Ian Chong from the National University of Singapore told the BBC last week.\n\nThis was reflected in the top search terms on Weibo which included queries about his wife and an alleged mistress.\n\nThe 57-year-old, seen as a close associate of Chinese President Xi Jinping, was one of the youngest appointees to the post in China's history.\n\nJust over a month ago, he met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing as the two sides sought to restore diplomatic contacts at the highest level.\n\nQin Gang's fall from grace was as unexpected and abrupt as his elevation, Daniel Russel from the Asia Society Policy Institute said.\n\n\"Since both moves are attributed to China's leader, this episode will be seen as an embarrassing lapse in judgment at the top.\"\n\nMr Qin's rise to become foreign minister was meteoric.\n\nAfter less than two years in the role of ambassador to the US, where he gained a reputation as a tough-talking \"wolf-warrior\" diplomat, he was named foreign minister last December.\n\nBefore that, he had been a foreign ministry spokesman and had helped organise Mr Xi's trips overseas - which gave him the opportunity to work closely with China's leader.\n\nIan Johnson, a senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, said the episode involving Mr Qin adds to \"a string of very public problems\" that Mr Xi has been confronted with in the last 12 months.\n\nA new foreign minister will likely be announced by the National People's Congress next March, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"That will give them time to vet everyone perhaps a little more carefully... and get somebody else in charge.\"\n\nUnder the Chinese Communist Party system, foreign policy is formulated by a high-level official, who then directs the foreign minister to implement it.\n\nQin Gang was one of the best-known faces of the Chinese government.\n\nWhen he disappeared from his normal duties a month ago and failed to attend a summit in Indonesia, the very brief official explanation given was unspecified health problems.\n\nMr Qin attended a series of events in June including meeting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken\n\nHis meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, initially scheduled for 4 July, was then pushed back by China with no explanation, further fuelling rumours.\n\nAsked about Mr Qin's whereabouts on Tuesday, hours before news broke of his removal, a ministry spokeswoman repeated her earlier line that she had no information - highlighting China's secrecy and the opacity of its system of government.\n\nMr Qin is one of the most high-level officials in the Chinese Communist Party to have been absent for this long.\n\nBut it is not uncommon for high-profile figures in China to go out of public view for long periods of time, only to surface later as the subject of a criminal investigation. Or they could reappear with no explanation.\n\nXi Jinping himself vanished for a fortnight shortly before becoming China's leader in 2012, prompting speculation about his health and possible power struggles within the party.\n\nWang Yi, a career diplomat who speaks Japanese, is returning to a post he held between 2013 and 2022. The 69-year-old has been standing in for Mr Qin in recent weeks.\n\nMr Wang was promoted to the Politburo of the ruling Chinese Communist Party last year and is concurrently the head of the party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission.\n\nObservers see his appointment as a move to stabilise Chinese diplomacy.\n\n\"Wang Yi has held the [foreign minister] position before. He's clearly a fireman or caretaker who has been sent in to right the ship to keep Chinese foreign policy going smoothly. And I think he'll do that because he's very, a very capable official,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nRorry Daniels, a senior fellow at the Center for China Analysis, said Mr Wang's appointment \"bodes well for continuing the stabilisation of US-China relations\".\n\n\"With a series of major international meetings coming up, Xi defaulted to someone who has relationships with many of his foreign counterparts. In times of uncertainty, China wants continuity and predictability in this position,\" he said.", "The impotence pill Viagra may be a useful treatment against Alzheimer's disease, say US researchers who have been studying its effects in the brain.\n\nTests in cells suggest the drug targets some of the proteins that accumulate in this type of dementia.\n\nThe Cleveland team also analysed a database of 7m patients and found men who were on the drug had a lower risk of Alzheimer's.\n\nMore studies on it are worthwhile, they say in the journal Nature Aging.\n\nWork like this is exciting, say experts, because repurposing an existing drug could be quicker, simpler and cheaper than finding and developing a brand new treatment.\n\nViagra, also known as sildenafil, was originally designed as a heart drug because of its main action - improving blood flow by relaxing or widening blood vessels.\n\nDoctors then discovered it was having a similar effect elsewhere in the body, including the arteries of the penis, and it was developed into a successful treatment for erectile dysfunction.\n\nBut experts think it could have other uses too. Sildenafil is already used in men and women for a lung condition called pulmonary hypertension.\n\nAnd scientists have recently been exploring whether it might help people at risk of vascular dementia - the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's - which occurs when reduced blood flow damages the brain.\n\nNow researchers believe it may help Alzheimer's as well.\n\nThe exact cause of this type of dementia is not fully understood, but doctors do know that abnormal protein deposits collect in the brains of people who have it.\n\nLead investigator Dr Feixiong Cheng said the findings were encouraging, but needed more exploring: \"Because our findings only establish an association between sildenafil use and reduced incidence of Alzheimer's disease, we are now planning a mechanistic trial and a phase II randomized clinical trial to test causality and confirm sildenafil's clinical benefits for Alzheimer's patients.\"\n\nUK brain research expert Prof Tara Spires-Jones, from the University of Edinburgh, said: \"More work will be needed to know whether this drug can indeed lower risk for Alzheimer's disease.\n\n\"While these data are interesting scientifically, based on this study, I would not rush out to start taking sildenafil as a prevention for Alzheimer's disease.\"\n\nDr Jack Auty, lecturer in the Medical Sciences at the University of Tasmania, said: \"In the field of Alzheimer's disease research, we have been excited by many drugs over the years, only to have our hopes dashed in clinical trials. I will be following this research group and the research around sildenafil closely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people living with major illnesses in England will rise nine times faster than the healthy working age population, projections show.\n\nBy 2040 nearly one in five will have health conditions such as dementia and cancer, up from one in six in 2019.\n\nThe Health Foundation, which did the analysis, said the population shift would have a major impact on the NHS.\n\nThe think tank said it would require a radical shift, with more care in the community, rather than hospitals.\n\nThe projections suggest there will be 9.1 million people with a major health condition by 2040, a 37% rise in the latest data from 2019.\n\nBy comparison, the number of healthy working-age people will increase by just 4%.\n\nMost of the increase is being driven by the ageing population, but there will be growing numbers of young people living in ill health too, the report said.\n\nThere will be particularly big increases in people living with anxiety and depression, chronic pain and diabetes.\n\nObesity is one of the major factors that will drive rises in illnesses.\n\nThis will more than offset the gains made by fewer people smoking, and lower cholesterol levels.\n\nLead researcher Anita Charlesworth said: \"The challenge of an ageing population with rising levels of major illness is not unique to the NHS.\n\n\"Countries across the globe face the same pressures. How well prepared we are to meet the challenge is what will set us apart.\n\n\"Over the next two decades, the growth in major illness will place additional demand on all parts of the NHS.\n\n\"But the impact will extend well beyond the health service too - and has significant implications for other public services, the labour market and the public finances.\"\n\nShe said while living with a major health condition would not necessarily exclude everyone from the workforce, many would be excluded.\n\nDr Layla McCay, of the NHS Confederation, which represents health managers, said the projections were \"worrying\" given the increased pressure and demand on the NHS which the changes would lead to.\n\nShe said there needed to be a greater focus on prevention to reduce the numbers living in ill health.\n\nAnd she added that investment in social care to support older people would also be needed: \"We know that investment in health will support our ageing population to live well with illness, as well as support economic growth.\"", "Chinese-owned video streaming app TikTok says it will offer text-only posts as competition between social media giants heats up.\n\nThe platform says the new feature gives users \"another way to express themselves\".\n\nEarlier this month, TikTok launched a new music streaming service to rival platforms like Spotify and Apple Music.\n\nAnd on Monday, Elon Musk's Twitter ditched its famous blue bird logo and switched to a black and white X.\n\nTikTok users will now be offered three options on the app - whether to post photos, videos or text.\n\nThey will also be able to customise posts by adding sound, location or Duets, which are video reactions to posts by other TikTok users.\n\n\"These features make it so your text posts are just as dynamic and interactive as any video or photo post,\" TikTok said.\n\nTikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, recently launched a new music streaming service, TikTok Music, in Brazil and Indonesia.\n\nLast week, the company also rolled out a beta version of the service in Singapore, Mexico and Australia.\n\nA spokesman said it would allow users to \"listen, share and download the music they have discovered on TikTok, as well as share their favourite tracks and artists with their TikTok community\".\n\nThe app is testing other features including a new landscape mode with select users around the world.\n\nIn 2021, TikTok became the world's most popular online destination as it had more hits than US search engine giant Google.\n\nThat year, the app also said it had more than one billion active users globally.\n\nCompetition between rival social media firms - such as Instagram owner Meta and X, Mr Musk's rebranded Twitter platform - have heated up in recent weeks.\n\nThis month, Meta's new Threads platform went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries, including the UK.\n\nMeta boss Mark Zuckerberg later said his company's Threads platform had signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days.\n\nAlso this week, the blue bird branding on social network Twitter was replaced by a logo featuring a white X on a black background.\n\nThe term tweets will also be changed to \"x's\", according to Mr Musk.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest midfielder Chris Bart-Williams has died aged 49.\n\nSheffield Wednesday announced he had died in the United States, where he was a coach and mentor.\n\nThe club added: \"We are deeply saddened at the passing of our former player Chris Bart-Williams.\"\n\nBart-Williams started his career at Leyton Orient and scored on his full debut for the club in a 4-0 win against Tranmere Rovers as a 16-year-old.\n\nHe joined the Owls in 1991 and made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nBart-Williams moved to Forest in 1995 and made more than 200 outings for the City Ground side before stints at Charlton and Ipswich Town.\n\nForest said they were \"deeply saddened\", adding: \"Our thoughts go out to Chris' family and friends at this truly difficult time.\"\n\nHis death came on the same day as that of Trevor Francis, who Forest made Britain's first £1m footballer when they signed him from Birmingham City in 1979.\n\nFrancis also managed Bart-Williams when he was in charge of Sheffield Wednesday and brought him on as a substitute in the 1993 FA Cup final, which saw the Owls beaten by Arsenal following a replay.\n\n\"Bart-Williams' untimely passing mirrors that of his manager at Hillsborough, Trevor Francis, who also died on this, one of the darkest days in our long history,\" added Sheffield Wednesday in a statement.\n\nFormer Sheffield Wednesday striker Mark Bright described Bart-Williams as \"a wonderfully gifted player, with a huge personality, and a very charismatic guy\".\n\nHe added: \"To know him was to love him, sending love to his family, friends and former team-mates.\"\n\nFormer Sheffield Wednesday keeper Kevin Pressman said: \"Devastating day, to hear the news of Trevor Francis passing and my former team-mate Chris Bart Williams, both taken so soon, RIP Trevor and Chris.\"\n\nAt Forest, Bart-Williams helped the club win the old First Division title in 1997-98 to achieve promotion to the Premier League.\n\nFormer Forest goalkeeper Mark Crossley posted on Twitter: \"I'm so upset to hear the news of Trevor Francis passing and my former team mate Chris Bart Williams, both so young, it is so sad , RIP Trevor and Chris.\"\n\nEx-England striker Darren Bent, who played with Bart-Williams at Charlton, said: \"RIP My former team mate Chris Bart-Williams, thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.\"\n\nFormer Coventry and Liverpool striker David Speedie tweeted: \"Just when I thought the day couldn't get any worse, I've heard the devastating news Chris Bart-Williams has passed away. My thoughts go out to the family and friends of Chris at this difficult time. RIP Chris.\"", "A poster on a bus shelter in Moscow encourages young men to join up for a \"real cause\"\n\nRussia is raising the maximum age at which men can be conscripted from 27 to 30, making more of them liable to serve in the armed forces.\n\nThe change was passed by the lower house of parliament on Tuesday.\n\nThe package of measures comes as Moscow seeks to boost troop numbers to defend territory gained in its invasion of Ukraine last year.\n\nA senior Russian MP said the new law was written with a major conflict in mind.\n\n\"It already smells like a big war,\" Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Russian parliament's defence committee, told MPs.\n\nHe argued that too many people were currently able to avoid military service.\n\nAll men of conscription age are expected to serve a year of compulsory military service.\n\nRussia is thought to have sustained heavy casualties in nearly a year-and-a-half of fighting, but the Defence Ministry is reluctant to release figures.\n\nLast autumn, the government announced a mobilisation of 300,000 reservists, but as a result, tens of thousands of men left Russia.\n\nIn a separate measure last week, the maximum age at which reservists can be called up was raised, meaning some men will now be considered available for military service until they are 55.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe State Duma passed the conscription bill in its second and third readings. It still needs to approved by the upper house and by President Vladimir Putin, but this is seen as a formality.\n\nOnce signed, it is due to come into force on 1 January next year.\n\nThe latest measures go further than the Defence Ministry's original proposal, which sought to change the conscription age range from 18-27 to 21-30. The lower age limit will continue to be 18.\n\n\"The wording of the draft law changed because the demographic situation is serious and affects the volume of the mobilisation resource,\" Mr Kartapolov told Russian media.\n\nHe added that \"many lads want to go and serve at 18\".\n\nThe draft law also bans men from leaving the country from the day of their call-up. Since April, conscription papers can be issued online instead of in person.\n\nIn addition, men who fail to report for conscription will be liable for fines of up to 30,000 roubles ($332), a tenfold increase.", "Germany's Bayer AG says it expects to take a €2.5bn ($2.8bn; £2.2bn) hit from a slower demand for its glyphosate-based products, including the controversial weedkiller Roundup.\n\nThe announcement came as the company lowered its outlook for the year.\n\nIn all, it has set aside over $15bn (£11.7bn) to settle lawsuits alleging its herbicides are linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other cancers.\n\nBayer has denied wrongdoing but said the payouts would end \"uncertainty\".\n\nOn Monday, the Leverkusen-based company said it expected a net loss of €2bn in the three months to the end of June.\n\nBayer said this was mainly due \"a significant further decline in sales of glyphosate-based products.\"\n\nThe firm also forecast that its pre-tax profits could fall to as low as €11.3bn this year, compared to the €13.5bn it reported in 2022.\n\nA Bayer spokesman told the BBC that more glyphosate-based products had entered the market following the pandemic, resulting in a lower demand for the firm's weedkillers.\n\n\"The normalisation of the competitive environment around glyphosate was more pronounced than we had expected. This was the principal cause of our outlook,\" the spokesman added.\n\nRoundup was originally launched by US firm Monsanto nearly five decades ago. It became known the world's best-selling weedkiller.\n\nIn 2018, Bayer bought Monsanto in a $63bn deal. The tie-up gave Bayer control of more than a quarter of the global supply of seeds and pesticides.\n\nThe same year, a California court issued the first ruling linking Roundup to cancer and awarded substantial compensation to claimants.\n\nIn the lawsuits, Roundup users blamed the weedkiller and its active ingredient glyphosate for their non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other cancers.\n\nIn 2020, Bayer announced a $10.9bn settlement aimed at resolving tens of thousands of lawsuits, while maintaining that glyphosate was safe.\n\nIn March last year, the company said it had resolved 107,000 out of around 138,000 cases involving Roundup.\n\n\"The Roundup settlement is the right action at the right time for Bayer to bring a long period of uncertainty to an end,\" Bayer's chief executive Werner Baumann said in 2020.\n\nHe repeated the company's view that the science indicates: \"Roundup does not cause cancer, and therefore, is not responsible for the illnesses alleged in this litigation\".\n\nGlyphosate is the active ingredient in many weedkillers, although the science about its safety is still far from conclusive.\n\nSome countries have banned herbicides that contain glyphosate, while others continue to allow them.\n\nIn the UK, there is no nationwide ban on glyphosate, although some councils in the country have stopped using it due to safety concerns.\n\nBayer is set to report earnings on 8 August.", "Mohamed El Bachiri lost his wife Loubna in the 2016 Brussels attacks\n\nOn a bridge overlooking a Brussels canal, Mohamed El Bachiri's face lights up in the winter sun as he remembers the mum of his three boys.\n\n\"Loubna was an angel, she was beautiful, she was always smiling, she was an extraordinary mother and wife,\" says Mohamed.\n\nThirty-four-year-old teacher Loubna Lafquiri was murdered on the Brussels metro on the morning of 22 March 2016.\n\nIn all, 32 people were killed by three suicide bombers in the attacks at Maelbeek station and Zaventem airport.\n\nTen men are now going on trial in the Belgian capital. Six of them have already been found guilty of involvement in the terror attacks in Paris in November 2015, which killed 130 people.\n\nSalah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the French trial who was detained four days before the Brussels attacks, is also among the defendants, along with others whom prosecutors claim hosted or helped certain attackers.\n\nOne of the 10, who is presumed killed in Syria, will be tried in absentia.\n\nBack in 2016, Mohamed El Bachiri was plunged into grief with the realisation he was now a widowed father to three children under the age of 10.\n\nHis immediate response? A Jihad of Love.\n\nThis, the name of the book he subsequently wrote, was intended to wrestle back the narrative from men who had grown up in his community and who had corrupted his Islamic faith.\n\n\"I needed to express a kind of anger - which is legitimate. My anger expresses itself in the jihad [struggle] of love. Sharing love. That's my way of violently responding to the terrorists. To deconstruct their ideology.\"\n\nI meet Mohamed in Molenbeek, one of the poorest districts of Brussels. It is where plotters of both the 2016 Brussels bombings and the Paris attacks had lived and were later given refuge amid a huge manhunt.\n\nWhenever such high-profile cases come to court, we the media often talk of an opportunity for justice to finally be done, or a moment where bereaved families can \"move on.\"\n\nBut Mohamed will not be attending the trial.\n\n\"I have three kids who really need my energy, who need strength,\" says Mohamed. \"It's not always obvious, but I really need to protect myself and I am sincerely afraid what the legal process might reawaken in me.\"\n\nDoes he ever allow himself to think about those who took away the \"love of his life\"?\n\n\"I think those men on trial, their thoughts are in hatred and darkness and negativity. And to wish them ill - I hold to the principles of humanism and I can't wish suffering on others. I don't have hatred, it brings nothing to your life. How to react to this is with a message of peace and love and not to be sad or negative.\"\n\nAs I and my Brussels colleagues began to think about how we would cover this trial in our adopted city, we considered which of the 32 bereaved families we would try to approach to ask if they felt able to talk.\n\nMohamed was an obvious choice, as a father of three who still lives in the community where some of the killers had plotted. So too was Charlotte Dixon-Sutcliffe, whose partner David was the only Briton murdered in the Brussels attacks; in early 2016, she and David had been living in Brussels with their son Henry, who was turning seven.\n\nWhat none of us knew was that an immediate, profound bond had been forged between Mohamed and Charlotte in the hours after the attacks, as photos of their respective missing loved ones David and Loubna circulated online.\n\n\"On my Facebook they always appeared next to each other and I was invested in her,\" says Charlotte.\n\n\"She was just so beautiful and she was with her three children. Her eyes were shining through the photograph.\"\n\nIn a park overlooking the River Thames in London, Charlotte tells her story with the same illuminated expression that Mohamed had when also describing Loubna.\n\n\"I just felt really attached to her and almost like - and this may sound ridiculous - but almost like their fates were intertwined.\"\n\nCharlotte lived with David and their son Henry in Brussels before David's death\n\nCharlotte says the connection with Loubna was overwhelming.\n\n\"It was almost like I was as invested in her being found as it was David. It's like she became a family member or someone that I cared about, even though I had never met her. It was heartbreaking for me with David. But it felt like I'd lost her as well.\"\n\nFor Charlotte, her treatment by the Belgian authorities had compounded her trauma as she had searched in vain for her partner.\n\n\"With my picture of David we were going into local police stations and they were gathering round and just saying, 'Well, it's nothing to do with us, it's a federal matter',\" she says.\n\nThree days after the attack, Charlotte got a call from a police social worker:\n\n\"It was dark. I was walking the dog around the streets. She said I had to prepare myself for the worst now. She basically told me that David was dead. She told me over the phone.\"\n\nCharlotte says the authorities became more supportive recently.\n\nMuch like how Mohamed channelled his grief into writing his book and sharing his message in schools, Charlotte founded an organisation called Survivors Against Terror.\n\n\"One of the big drives is to make sure that terrorist acts don't happen in the first instance. But if they do, having seen the poor treatment and some of the excellent treatment, it instils a massively strong drive to make a difference and to change things so that no one has to suffer in the way that we did.\"\n\nDefendants were surrounded by special police as the trial began on Monday\n\nAfter the attacks, she and her son Henry left Belgium to try to rebuild their lives but Charlotte has decided to return to Brussels for the start of the trial.\n\nThe defendants include Mohamed Abrini, who prosecutors say is the \"man in the hat\" who was captured on CCTV fleeing the airport after his suitcase of explosives failed to detonate.\n\n\"So many of them have already been found guilty and are serving sentences. But I think they weren't the only ones. I think that there was a huge misstep in the way that the Belgian state handled the attacks, [how it] behaved on the day of the attack and leading up to the attack.\"\n\nCharlotte points to intelligence failings in the run up to the attack and the decision to keep the metro running after the earlier airport bombings.\n\nThere were government resignations and apologies in the aftermath, but that is not enough for many bereaved families and survivors.\n\n\"Culpability obviously essentially rests with those who committed the attacks, but certainly there's a level of culpability by the Belgian state that I feel needs to be addressed,\" says Charlotte.\n\nAs well as shining a light on how the authorities acted, Charlotte welcomes the opportunity to give a victim impact statement.\n\n\"Me being able to present a picture of David in court will give me some peace. It will give me something that will help me connect a sense of justice for him.\"\n\nShe doesn't want her partner remembered as just one of 32 victims.\n\n\"David was incredibly funny, the power he had to be able to connect to other people, to be able to bring joy to people's lives - it's like it's the very polar opposite of the people in those boxes.\"\n\nThat's a reference to the glass boxes for the defendants in the specially constructed court at the former Nato headquarters where the trial will slowly play out over the next six months.\n\nIn September, the judge ruled the boxes should be reworked after defence lawyers argued they were like animal cages.\n\nIn all, the delayed trial is expected to cost up to 25 million euros ($25.9m; £21.5m).\n\nIn the greyness of the court and the grind of the legal process, Charlotte hopes her depiction of her David will provide some colour.\n\n\"I hope that joy stays with him. And I think maybe if I could bring to that place a sense of lightness and connection and love and happiness, then that's got to be something, doesn't it?\"\n\nIn the course of this working on this story we discovered the bond Charlotte felt for Loubna was reciprocated.\n\nWhen we had said our goodbyes to Mohamed, I asked if he was particularly attached to any of the other families of the victims.\n\n\"There was a British woman. She had a young boy and also lost her partner.\"\n\nWhen I explain we are also interviewing Charlotte and she is returning to his city for the trial a smile breaks out across his face.\n\nNeither knows how they will react to the coming months but both hope to meet each other and reinforce the solidarity and spirit the terrorists unwittingly created.\n\n\"They've created a network of people that talk about cohesion and love and community,\" says Charlotte.\n\n\"They destroyed some of us, but we come together and we're stronger. You know what? Our message is stronger. And that's why they won't win.\"", "Like many performers, comedian Robin Grainger hoped that the Edinburgh Fringe might be a springboard to stardom.\n\nThat may have looked unlikely when he only sold a single ticket for his show last year - but his decision to go ahead with the gig changed the course of his career.\n\nRobin knew the show must go on, so he went out on stage and brought a whole new meaning to the term one-man show.\n\nWhat happened next was the stuff of Fringe folklore.\n\nRobin, from Portsoy in Aberdeenshire, gave it his all - and by chance comedy reviewer Kate Copstick was waiting outside to watch the next performer.\n\nCommenting to a staff member that the gig sounded like it was going well, she was told there was one person in the audience. She was so impressed that Robin had gone ahead with the show that she tweeted about it.\n\nWhen BBC Scotland News picked up on the story, the tale went viral and before he knew it, Robin was a festival legend.\n\n\"It went mad,\" Robin said. \"The story went all over the world. I did 60 to 70 media interviews - 50 of them in the first week.\n\n\"And I sold out my Fringe shows.\n\n\"Off the back of that I went on a mini tour of the UK last year.\"\n\nRobin ended up doing a mini tour on the back of his Fringe success last year\n\nAnd - he said - \"weird stuff\" started to happen.\n\n\"Companies sent me clothes for free. And people sent me pictures of newspaper articles about me in Germany.\n\n\"Someone - a nurse - drew a portrait of me. And people would ask me for selfies.\n\n\"When I was doing a show in Newcastle a man was almost hit by a car running across the road to get a selfie - it's still baffling to me.\n\n\"Even now, every couple of days someone will still message me saying they heard of what happened. From places like Australia and Portugal.\"\n\nHe was even the subject of BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme's Thought For The Day slot.\n\nRobin is back at this year's Fringe. He is higher up the bill and has already sold 100 times the number of tickets he shifted for that first gig of his run last year.\n\nHis fan base is building - and includes the solitary man who came to see that show in 2022.\n\nRobin now counts radio executive Mike Cass as a friend, and he even features on the flyer of his 2023 show.\n\nMike travelled to Edinburgh to star in the flyer image for Robin's new show\n\n\"An audient with Robin Grainger\" throws back to Kate Copstick's review, where she called Mike the \"audient\" - which means hearer, the singular term for an audience.\n\nRobin said: \"I had the idea to get the biggest venue I could and have one person sat in the audience for the photo.\n\n\"The Playhouse let us use it and Mike agreed to travel up from Leicester just to have the photo taken in an empty Playhouse.\n\n\"He also surprised me on the last day of the tour, sneaking in to the back of the room.\n\n\"I asked him why he didn't heckle me and his comeback was: 'I wanted to see what the show was like with an audience'.\"\n\nThe events of last August have inspired more than the new show's title.\n\nRobin talks about what transpired at The Stand 2 in Edinburgh but the main theme of the show is overcoming fear.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"Last year I conquered the biggest fear as a comedian - not having an audience.\n\n\"I think I am a lot less scared of things now that I am not scared of a single-person gig any more.\n\n\"Now the routine is about conquering other fears. If you can get over that you can get over bigger things.\n\n\"I look at body image, feeling awkward, school days, mortality and grief.\n\n\"So far it has really connected with people - even the darker bits. I was worried about speaking about things like that but it has been well received because I think there is more relief when you can have a chuckle.\"\n\nRobin Grainger and his \"audient\" Mike Cass bonded after the show\n\nRobin's new fans include comedians Chris Ramsay, and Kevin Bridges and Iain Stirling both recommended the show on social media.\n\nHe can't believe he has sold tickets before the Fringe has even started.\n\nAnd while he may not be expecting to perform for one person, he still hopes he will get a boost from the run.\n\n\"I'm proud of this show. I'd love to do a wee tour after it. I'll just continue to try to build my audience and perform to as many people as possible.\"\n\nKate Copstick told BBC Scotland she was glad Robin used the platform he was given.\n\n\"I genuinely love it when I can help the unknown people, the weirdos, the risky guys,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to keep comedy crazy and wonderful and personal. Find another name for the corporate, industrialised, stuff.\n\n\"If Robin ever goes there, I will hunt him down and hurt him. And there is the title for that show, should he ever appear in the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.\"", "Temperatures reached 45C in Rome, Italy in the recent heatwave\n\nThe heatwaves battering Europe and the US in July would have been \"virtually impossible\" without human-induced climate change, a scientific study says.\n\nGlobal warming from burning fossil fuels also made the heatwave affecting parts of China 50 times more likely.\n\nClimate change meant the heatwave in southern Europe was 2.5C hotter, the study finds.\n\nAlmost all societies remain unprepared for deadly extreme heat, experts warn.\n\nThe study's authors say its findings highlight the importance of the world adapting to higher temperatures because they are no longer \"rare\".\n\n\"Heat is among the deadliest types of disaster,\" says Julie Arrighi from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and also one of the authors.\n\nCountries must build heat-resistant homes, create \"cool centres\" for people to find shelter, and find ways to cool cities including planting more trees, she says.\n\nIn July, temperature records were broken in parts of China, the southern US and Spain. Millions of people spent days under red alerts for extreme heat.\n\nExperts say extreme heat can be a very serious threat to life, especially among the elderly. According to one study, more than 61,000 people were estimated to have died from heat-related causes during last year's heatwaves in Europe.\n\n\"This study confirms what we knew before. It shows again just how much climate change plays a role in what we are currently experiencing,\" said Friederike Otto from Imperial College London.\n\nClimate scientists say decades of humans pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are causing global temperatures to rise.\n\nBut not all extreme weather events can immediately be linked directly to climate change because natural weather patterns can also play a part.\n\nScientists in the UK, US and Netherlands in the World Weather Attribution group studied the recent heatwaves to identify the fingerprint of climate change.\n\nUsing computer models, they simulated a world without the effects of emissions pumped into the atmosphere to the real-world temperatures seen during the heatwaves.\n\nThe North American heatwave was 2°C (3.6°F) hotter and the heatwave in China was 1°C hotter because of climate change, the scientists concluded.\n\nThe world has warmed 1.1C compared to the pre-industrial period before humans began burning fossil fuels.\n\nIf temperature rise reaches 2C, which many experts warn is very likely as countries fail to reduce their emissions quickly enough, these events will occur every two to five years, the scientists say.\n\nThe study also considered the role of El Niño, a naturally occurring powerful climate fluctuation that began in June. It leads to higher global temperatures as warm waters rise to the surface in the tropical Pacific ocean and push heat into the air.\n\nThe study concluded that El Niño probably played a small part but that increased temperatures from burning fossil fuels was the main driver in the more intense heatwaves.\n\nA run of climate records have fallen in recent weeks, including global average temperatures and sea surface temperatures particularly in the North Atlantic.\n\nExperts say the speed and timing is \"unprecedented\" and warn that more records could tumble in the coming weeks and months.\n\nDangerous wildfires in Greece forced thousands of people to evacuate hotels at the weekend. Experts say that the hot and dry weather created favourable conditions for fire to spread more easily.\n\nCould powerful heatwaves and summer wildfires, which have devastated communities and displaced tourists in Greece, become the new normal in Europe?", "A former adviser to Boris Johnson has joined the House of Lords as its youngest member.\n\nCharlotte Owen, 30, who sits as Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge, was nominated in the former PM's resignation honours list. She was a special adviser in both Mr Johnson's and Liz Truss's Downing Street Policy Unit.\n\nThe list, approved nine months after Mr Johnson’s resignation, included 38 honours and seven peerages.", "George Alagiah, who has died aged 67, was one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists. Being a friend and colleague of the award-winning foreign correspondent was a privilege - writes Allan Little.\n\nGeorge and I were thrown together when we shared an office in Johannesburg in the Mandela years. So when I think of him I see him not in a television studio in London but on some red dust road, bathed in the light of Africa.\n\nEmpathy was his great strength. He radiated it. It was rooted in the deepest respect for the people whose lives and - often - misfortunes he was reporting on. He could talk to anyone - from heads of state to children in a refugee camp on the edge of a war zone. And everyone wanted to talk to him. You saw him winning their trust, responding to his effortless warmth. He wanted to do well by all of them - to be true and honest and fair.\n\nOnce we sheltered in a stairwell, after three mortar bombs landed close to the hotel we were staying in Central Africa. A colleague reported that heavy shelling had, as they put it, rocked the city centre. Later, George said to me quietly \"Allan don't say that. Heavy shelling didn't rock anything tonight. Three bombs fell close to where we happened to be and gave us a fright. Keep it in proportion.\" And I thought, not for the first time, \"My name is George Alagiah and I'm here to calm you down.\" George didn't want to be dramatic. He wanted to be true.\n\nGeorge could talk to anyone - he charmed these diamond miners in Sierra Leone\n\nI came to understand that I was learning from him at a time when I was still trying to find my own distinctive broadcasting voice. What did I learn? That good reporting, honest and true, is rooted in respect for others. That the best reporters have almost no ego. That they are never the story, but the means by which the voices of others can be heard. I hoped that the values he embodied and lived would rub off on me.\n\nGeorge wasn't just a good reporter; he was a good man. He was completely without malice. He carried his profound decency very lightly without a hint of sanctimony. He seemed unaware of his own instinct for kindness. When we worked in dangerous and morally troubling places, I looked to him for guidance. I loved his unflappability, his calm authority, his extraordinary wisdom. I thought of him as something like an older brother - someone I quietly looked up to, whose success I could admire and celebrate without envy. I'm not ashamed to say that I felt looked after by him. I thought when I was with George nothing bad could happen to me.\n\nI am aware I am in danger of making him sound a bit saintly - he wasn't. He was great fun. He could be a witty and sometimes hilarious raconteur - with a gift for sometimes merciless mimicry. And like all of us, he enjoyed a bit of intrigue and gossip.\n\nGeorge never shied away from complex stories - he went to meet his former Rwandan interpreter in prison\n\nThere is a word in the Nguni languages of Southern Africa that was, I think, George's lodestar. He spoke about it at a party to celebrate his 60th birthday in 2015: Ubuntu. It expresses the idea that human beings are bound together in a shared responsibility for each other.\n\nGeorge and I both interviewed Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who'd helped end South Africa's racist system of white-minority rule. He defined Ubuntu like this: \"I am me because you are you. I can never be free while you are enslaved. I can never be rich while you are poor. We two are connected.\"\n\nA young George, in striped top, at school in Ghana\n\nGeorge had been a migrant twice by the age of 11. Born in Sri Lanka, moved to Ghana and then to a boarding school in England.\n\nAdapting to new cultures and thriving were formative experiences. And it planted in him something that was also key to his talent: he could see how the world looked from the point of view of the Global South - the view from Africa and Asia especially - and convey that perspective to the living rooms of the globally prosperous.\n\nHe later went back to visit his old school\n\nGeorge would never have made such a claim for himself. Off screen he was funny, clever, entertaining, a generous friend and confidant. I told him once that the pan in companion came from the Latin word for bread, that the word carried in it the ingrained human desire to break bread with those we love and care about. He laughed and said, \"How do you know these ridiculous things?\" But I have had some of the richest experiences of companionability and conviviality at George's table, breaking bread.\n\nFor George was also full of a kind of energetic hope. There was something infectious about his optimism. You always walked away from time with George liking the human race more, feeling better about the world.\n\nHe brought that cheerful disposition to his cancer diagnosis. I rang him when I heard the news. \"It's much worse than the public statement implies, Allan,\" he confided. \"But I have great doctors.\"\n\nYears later, when the cancer had returned and we knew it would never go away, I sat with him in the garden of the London home he shared with Frances, his wife of 40 years. \"I'm not afraid to die,\" he said. \"There's no point in that. The only thing I find unbearably painful is the idea of Frances being left here on her own.\"\n\nGeorge dreaded having to leave his wife Frances behind\n\nAlways that in George. Others before self. I saw him one last time shortly before he died. He was very weak. \"Is it wrong to say that there is something positive in all this?\" he said. \"I've had the time to reflect on my life and make sense of it. Time to say to people the things I want them to know. Not everybody is lucky enough to get that…\n\nAnd the next word he used pierced me - and I still feel the sting of it: \"Not everybody is lucky enough to get that luxury.\" And he added in a moment of self-doubt: \"Is it bad, is it taboo, to say that about cancer?\"\n\nI was guided by him, taught by him, at a key time in my own life. I think I will be guided by him all my days. Becoming his friend, being exposed to his abundant affection, has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.\n\nUbuntu: I watched George close up while working in Africa. I marvelled at the way he engaged with people, and the way they reciprocated with their trust.\n\nFor in George's reporting there was an outstretched hand - the outstretched hand of a shared humanity, of solidarity.", "Amber Gibson was 16 when her body was found at Cadzow Glen in Hamilton\n\nA man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering his 16-year-old sister in a park in Hamilton.\n\nAmber Gibson's body was found in Cadzow Glen on 28 November 2021, two days after she was last seen.\n\nConnor Gibson, 20, strangled Amber then got rid of clothes he had been wearing and called the children's home Amber was staying at to pretend she was still alive.\n\nAnother man has been found guilty of interfering with Amber's body.\n\nStephen Corrigan - who was unknown to both Amber and Connor Gibson - found her body, but rather than alert police, he inappropriately touched her and then concealed her remains.\n\nAmber's body was discovered in Cadzow Glen on Sunday 28 November, hidden in bushes and branches. Her body was covered in mud, and her clothes were found nearby.\n\nGibson was arrested three days later on 1 December. The day before his arrest, he posted a tribute on Facebook to the sister he murdered.\n\nConnor Gibson will be sentenced in September\n\nDuring the trial at the High Court in Glasgow, the jury heard that Gibson had removed Amber's clothes and assaulted her, repeatedly inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and body as well as compressing her neck with his hands.\n\nIn his closing statement, prosecutor Richard Goddard KC told the jury Amber Gibson was \"appallingly\" murdered by the brother she must have trusted. He named 21 different circumstances which linked Gibson to the murder and sexual assault.\n\nConnor Gibson had denied all the charges against him.\n\nThe 13-day trial heard that the siblings were fostered from the age of three and five by Craig Niven and his wife Carol. The couple were granted permanent care of the siblings a few years later.\n\nAmber left their care in 2019. Her brother left after he turned 18 in 2020.\n\nAmber and Connor Gibson were caught on CCTV just before 22:00 on Friday 26 November in Hamilton town centre\n\nMr Niven had told the court the siblings could not be left in each others' company as they were \"not a good mix\".\n\nHe said that he spoke to Connor Gibson on the phone in the days after Amber's body was found.\n\nAccording to Mr Niven, Gibson said he argued with his sister before seeing her later that Friday night.\n\nAt the time of Amber's murder, she was living at the town's Hillhouse children's home.\n\nConnor Gibson was caught again on CCTV on the Friday night at 23:44, this time alone\n\nGibson was living at the Blue Triangle homeless hostel in Hamilton. A police officer told the court that items of stained clothing had been found in a bin there.\n\nJurors also heard other forensic evidence that \"widespread blood staining\" on Gibson's jacket was compatible with Amber and his DNA was also found on her shorts, worn as underwear, which had been \"forcibly\" torn off.\n\nIt emerged during Amber's murder trial that she had suffered another assault earlier in 2021.\n\nIn an entirely separate case it was revealed that in the June before her murder, Amber was raped by a man called Jamie Starrs.\n\nHe was found guilty earlier this month at the High Court in Lanark.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCourt documents also show that Amber and Connor Gibson's biological father, Peter Gibson, sexually assaulted two young boys and assaulted and raped a woman.\n\nThese crimes were committed between 2001 and 2008. He was sentenced in April this year.\n\nPolice Scotland called the inquiry \"traumatic and harrowing\" for the officers involved, as well as for Amber's friends and family.\n\nDet Ch Supt Paul Livingstone said: \"It is hard to imagine how difficult this has been for Amber's family and friends and our thoughts very much remain with them.\n\n\"I hope this conviction brings them some degree of comfort. The actions of both Gibson and Corrigan leaves them beneath contempt.\"\n\nAmber's body was found in Cadzow Glen, days after she was last seen\n\nHe said the investigation was \"complex and challenging\" and had relied heavily on the expertise of forensic officers.\n\nThe siblings' foster parents issued a statement following the verdict.\n\nIt said: \"When they arrived at our home, Amber was three and Connor aged five. Connor stated: 'We are safe' - they were until he took the safety away.\"\n\nThey described Amber as the \"most giving, caring, loving, supportive and admirable person\" who had a love of art and singing and an \"amazing outlook on life\" despite the suffering she had experienced.\n\nThe couple commented on \"how much Amber and Connor have been let down throughout their lives by the system\".\n\n\"We now have one daughter buried in Larkhall Cemetery and another child in prison,\" they said. \"Life will never be the same.\"\n\nFloral tributes were left for Amber after her body was discovered in Cadzow Glen\n\nJudge Lord Mulholland sent jurors out to consider their verdicts on Tuesday morning. They returned just before 15:00.\n\nHe said that the last thing Amber would have seen was her brother strangling her, and told him: \"You will pay a heavy price for that.\"\n\nHe told Stephen Corrigan: \"You came across a young girl who had been strangled to death and was naked.\n\n\"Instead of altering the authorities, you handled her body and your DNA told the story.\n\n\"Be under no illusion what is also coming your way.\"\n\nNeither showed any emotion as they were taken handcuffed to the cells.\n\nThe two men will be sentenced on 4 September at the High Court in Livingston.", "This will have a devastating impact on the island - Rhodes resident\n\nOn the Greek island of Rhodes, residents have been stepping up to help those affected by the wildfires. Antonis is a student living in Archaggelos, a village in the east of the island. Since the fires began, he's been bringing in supplies to help neighbours, firefighters and holidaymakers. But he says volunteers like him have received no help from the local government. \"There aren't any authorities to organise anyone... It's mainly schoolteachers and people from the village using their own money to buy food, medical equipment, masks and gloves,\" he says. Most of the tourists, Antonis adds, have been able to go back to their hotels - except for those staying in \"five or six\" hotels that have burnt down. Some locals have given up their own homes to provide beds for those tourists, as well as residents whose homes were damaged by the fires. \"The volunteers are alone. Our voices are not being heard by the Greek government and the local media,\" he says. \"This is going to have a devastating impact on the island, the economy and the climate,\" Antonis adds.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Nigel Farage says he 'wants answers' after bank apology\n\nBanking boss Dame Alison Rose has apologised to Nigel Farage for \"deeply inappropriate\" comments made about him in a document on his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nThe boss of NatWest Group said in a letter to Mr Farage that the comments did not reflect the bank's view.\n\nUKIP's ex-leader has said his Coutts account was closed because the bank did not agree with his political views.\n\nMr Farage said Dame Alison should now be questioned by MPs about the issue.\n\nDame Alison's apology came after the government announced new plans to force banks to explain account closures.\n\nShe said that as well as apologising to Mr Farage, she was \"commissioning a full review of the Coutts' processes\" on bank account closures. Coutts, a private bank, is owned by the NatWest Group.\n\nIn the letter to Mr Farage she said she believed \"very strongly that freedom of expression and access to banking are fundamental to our society and it is absolutely not our policy to exit a customer on the basis of legally held political and personal views\".\n\nMr Farage had put in a request to the bank to see documents relating to the decision to close his Coutts account.\n\nThe BBC had previously reported that it had been told that Mr Farage had fallen below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, citing a source familiar with the move.\n\nThe 40-page document given to Mr Farage, published by the Daily Mail, included minutes from a meeting in November last year reviewing his suitability as a client.\n\nIt stated continuing to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts's \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nIt mentioned Mr Farage's retweet of a Ricky Gervais joke about trans women and his friendship with tennis player Novak Djokovic, who is opposed to Covid vaccinations.\n\nIt gave several examples, including his comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to the Taliban, and his characterisation of the RNLI as a \"taxi-service\" for illegal immigrants, to flag concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\".\n\nOn Thursday Dame Alison also reiterated her offer to Mr Farage of alternative banking arrangements with NatWest and said she wanted to ensure they provide \"a better, more transparent experience for all our customers in the future.\"\n\nFollowing her apology, Mr Farage was asked if he thought that she should now resign.\n\n\"I think what needs to happen is the Treasury select committee needs to reconvene, come out of recess, and let's give her the opportunity to tell us the truth,\" he told reporters.\n\nMr Farage also said the Telegraph had reported how the BBC's business editor Simon Jack had sat next to Dame Alison at a dinner on 3 July and the next day he had then been called by Mr Jack and told \"the reason my bank account had been closed was that I had insufficient funds in the account.\"\n\nHe said: \"I want to know, did Alison Rose breach my client confidentiality? Did she break GDPR rules?\"\n\nParliament is now in recess until September.\n\nAsked whether it would reconvene in the meantime to discuss the issue, a spokesman for the Treasury Select Committee said it will be calling on \"relevant people as witnesses and keep our programme under constant review at our regular meetings\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe apology to Mr Farage came after the Treasury announced plans to subject UK banks to stricter rules over closing customer accounts.\n\nBanks will have to explain why they are closing accounts and they will have to give a notice period of 90 days before closing an account, to allow people more time to appeal against the decision.\n\nThe new rules are likely to be brought in after the summer, the BBC understands.\n\nThe changes will not take away a bank's right to close accounts of people deemed to be a reputational or political risk.\n\nInstead, it will boost transparency for customers, the Treasury said.\n\nTreasury minister Andrew Griffith said: \"Banks occupy a privileged place in society and it is right that we fairly balance the rights of banks to act in their commercial interest with the right for everyone to express themselves freely.\"\n\nDame Alison said she welcomed the plans and would implement the recommendations.\n\nThe Treasury began looking at the issue in January after PayPal temporarily suspended several accounts last year.\n\nOn Wednesday Rishi Sunak warned it \"wouldn't be right if financial services were being denied to anyone exercising their right to lawful free speech\".", "The number of modern slavery cases reported within the UK care industry has more than doubled in the past year.\n\nThere were 109 potential victims, exploited for personal or financial gain, between January and March - twice as many as the same period in 2022.\n\nBBC File on 4 obtained the figures from the government-approved anti-slavery helpline, run by charity Unseen.\n\nInvestigators trying to protect workers from being exploited say the care industry is now a \"top priority\".\n\nThe Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) - whose role is to protect workers from labour exploitation across the UK - told us there were 17 ongoing care sector investigations and that it was looking at more than 300 pieces of intelligence.\n\nUnseen says the rise in calls about the care sector in the past 12 months is because the government has made it easier for overseas social care staff to work in the UK post-Brexit - and fill thousands of job vacancies.\n\nAs the supply chain gets bigger, there's more chance for exploitation - says the charity.\n\nIn the year to March, the government had issued 102,000 skilled worker, health and care visas to foreign workers - that's up 171% on the previous year. In a statement, it told File on 4 that more than £17.8m had been spent policing modern slavery since 2016.\n\nIt's very rare to hear from a victim of modern slavery in person, but one woman who came to the UK on a work visa - and was forced to work gruelling hours as a carer - has told us her story.\n\nTerri was recruited as a home carer after replying to an advert in her own country\n\nStill frightened of her former employers, we're calling her Terri to protect her identity.\n\nRecruited by an agency in her home country in Africa, Terri was offered work in the UK as a domiciliary carer. The agency told her it would arrange her work visa and transport.\n\nShe was interviewed in person, took an English test, and had to provide proof of her work experience. She was promised a job as a care assistant in the UK through a care company. She was told she would earn up to £29,000.\n\nFor Terri, who was in an abusive marriage, the job was the perfect opportunity to escape with her three children.\n\n\"Butterflies were going through me, it was one of the best days of my life,\" she says.\n\nTerri brought her mother with her to the UK, so she could look after Terri's children. Although Terri would be provided with somewhere to stay through the care company, depending on where she was asked to work, the children and their grandmother went into private rented accommodation.\n\nTerri told us she found her work hours gruelling - up to 20 hours a day - and that she often worked seven days a week. The car she had been promised to travel between clients did not materialise, so she had to walk to appointments.\n\nWhen Terri eventually received her wages from the company two months later, it worked out at less than £2 an hour, which is illegal. Care workers (aged 23 or over) must be paid at least the National Living Wage of £10.42 - for their time at appointments, plus travel time to and from the office.\n\nTerri complained to the care company but it threatened to stop her work and cancel her visa.\n\nShe says other carers she got to know also warned her that the firm's owner had political links in her home country.\n\n\"That makes him very dangerous where we come from - you don't want to go against someone like that,\" she told us.\n\nHer low pay meant she was unable to continue paying rent for her mum and children - and they were forced to leave their accommodation.\n\nTerri was on a night shift while her mother and children spent the night on the streets. They were spotted by a member of the public and Terri was reported to social services.\n\nWhen they asked to see her rota they were shocked. \"This is too much, this is insane,\" she says they told her.\n\nSocial services helped Terri get placed in the National Referral Mechanism, the government system set up to identify and support victims of modern slavery.\n\nShe and her family are now in accommodation provided by social services and are being helped by the charity, Causeway. Terri is now seeking asylum in the UK - and until a decision is made she isn't allowed to work.\n\nThe Home Office has told her she has \"reasonable grounds\" to prove she was a victim of modern slavery.\n\nTerri's mother and children had to sleep rough while she worked a night shift\n\nThe care company Terri worked for is currently being investigated by another government department over the UK's skilled worker visa scheme, says Ian Waterfield, Head of Enforcement at the government-sponsored GLAA. He says the care industry has gone from \"not being on their radar\" to becoming a \"top priority\" in the past 18 months.\n\nModern slavery has infiltrated several employment sectors - including construction and car washes.\n\nThe total number of potential victims referred to the Home Office through the National Referral Mechanism in 2022 was almost 17,000 - the highest number ever recorded.\n\nThe National Police Chief's Council told us it had a dedicated team leading work to \"understand and tackle\" the problem - and that currently there were more than 3,500 active investigations across England and Wales.\n\nHowever, prosecuting cases is difficult. Last year, England and Wales police forces logged nearly 10,000 cases. But half of these were closed because offenders couldn't be tracked down and less than 2% resulted in charges.\n\n\"Victims of modern slavery are extremely vulnerable,\" says Sara Thornton, the former Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner.\n\n\"They will be in terror of the people who've trafficked or enslaved them, who will tell them there's no point going to the police or the local authority or a charity because they won't support you.\"\n\nMs Thornton says the Illegal Migration Bill - which passed into law last week - will make it even harder to support vulnerable victims. The new law allows the government to legally detain and remove all people who unlawfully enter the UK.\n\nShe believes traffickers will use this to persuade their victims not to go to the police, adding that she thinks it is \"a grave, grave concern\" that there is currently no anti-slavery commissioner in place.\n\nTerri is still haunted by her experience. \"There are times when I still have nightmares about what went down at that job,\" she says.\n\nShe now wants to qualify as a nurse.\n\nCorrection: Based on GLAA figures, an earlier version of this article stated there were 300 ongoing care sector investigations. The GLAA has since corrected that figure to us, to 17 investigations and more than 300 pieces of intelligence. The article has been updated accordingly.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsraeli police clashed with crowds of protesters at night after parliament adopted a highly controversial law to limit the Supreme Court's powers.\n\nThe measure - part of a big reform package - will prevent the court from overruling government actions it considers unreasonable.\n\nPolice in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv used water cannon to disperse protesters blocking highways.\n\nAfter months of mass street protests over the judicial reform Monday's Knesset (parliament) vote was an important victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\n\nBut the battle is not over. It may go on for months.\n\nA political watchdog group and centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid plan to petition the Supreme Court to annul the new law.\n\nMoreover, Israel's Histadrut trade union confederation has threatened a general strike and thousands of military reservists, including air force pilots, have vowed to not report for duty if the law is allowed to stand.\n\nFor a country that prides itself on its ability to respond fast to any kind of threat, the fact that Israel's very security might be compromised is causing real anxiety.\n\nMr Netanyahu has insisted the law is necessary for the government to \"carry out policy in line with the decision of the majority of the citizens of the country\".\n\nBut he said he was willing to resume talks with the opposition, even until November, to find an all-inclusive agreement.\n\nThe planned reforms have triggered some of the biggest protests in Israel's history. On Monday at least 22 people were arrested, police said.\n\nOpponents fear the changes could undermine the country's democratic system, tipping it into authoritarian territory.\n\nThey worry that nationalist and ultra-Orthodox religious parties allied to Mr Netanyahu will be able to shape policy with unchecked power.\n\nBut the government argues that the reforms are necessary to correct an imbalance in power which has seen the courts increasingly intervene in political decisions.\n\nThe so-called \"reasonableness\" bill was approved by 64 votes to 0, after the opposition boycotted the final vote.\n\nMounted police tried to move protesters off Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv\n\nThe White House - a key ally of Israel - called it \"unfortunate\" that the law had been passed.\n\nThe vote brings to a head months of turmoil, with Israel's president warning political leaders on Monday that the country was \"in a state of national emergency\".\n\nThe street protests outside the Knesset lasted all of Monday, amid a cacophony of noise from drums, whistles and air horns.\n\nA demonstrator lying in the street told the BBC he was defying \"dictatorship\", adding that his grandfather had been a wartime codebreaker against the Nazis at the UK's famous Bletchley Park.\n\nAsked how long he would stay put he said: \"We will never surrender\".\n\nAnother, Reut Yifat Uziel, the daughter of a paratrooper pictured in an iconic Israeli photograph of the capture of the Western Wall in the 1967 Middle East war, said she feared for her children's future.\n\n\"Netanyahu kidnapped the country and I am worried it will become a theocracy,\" she said.\n\nReut Yifat Uziel said she feared for her children's future\n\nThe protesters - tens of thousands of whom marched some 45 miles (70km) from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem at the end of last week - set up camp in a park between the Knesset and the Supreme Court, which are located almost next to each other.\n\nMr Netanyahu was in parliament for the vote hours after being discharged from hospital following unscheduled surgery for a pacemaker on Saturday.\n\nThe controversial reforms have polarised Israel, triggering one of the most serious domestic crises in the country's history.\n\nHundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets weekly since the start of the year in protest at what they say is an attack on democracy.\n\nFormer heads of Israel's security services, chief justices, and prominent legal and business figures have also been vocal against the government's reforms.\n\nThe measures have also been criticised by the US President Joe Biden, who in his most explicit comments yet called for the \"divisive\" reforms to be postponed.", "A cryptocurrency project described as being \"dystopian\" has been launched by AI entrepreneur Sam Altman.\n\nWorldcoin gives people digital coins in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs.\n\nIn sites around the world thousands of people queued to gaze into silver orbs on day one of the project's full launch.\n\nThe BBC visited a scanning site in London where people received free crypto tokens after going through the process.\n\nMr Altman, the chief executive of Open AI which built chat bot ChatGPT says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot.\n\n\"Worldcoin could drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy,\" Mr Altman claimed in a launch letter on the company website.\n\nWorldcoin also claims that its system could pave the way for an \"AI-funded\" universal basic income. But it's not clear how.\n\nThe concept of a universal basic income sees all citizens paid a set salary regardless of their means.\n\nThe first step in this crypto utopia as laid out by Worldcoin though relies on getting millions, maybe even billions, of people to scan their irises to prove they are a human.\n\nSince testing of the scanners began two years ago, Worldcoin says more than two million people have been added to the crypto database in 33 different countries.\n\nAccording to the company most sign ups have happened in Europe, India and southern Africa.\n\nDespite the company's American foundation, the crypto coins are not being offered to US citizens due to regulatory concerns.\n\nNow that the project has fully launched and the crypto tokens are available to claim and to trade, it's expected to grow even more popular.\n\nWorldcoin posted a picture online of people queuing at a site in Japan and said it plans to roll out 1,500 Orbs in locations across the globe.\n\nThe BBC went to try it out at a pop-up site in east London and found a steady stream of people turning up.\n\nThe process starts with scanning your face and iris to prove you are a person. It takes about 10 seconds to stare into the Orb's camera lens and wait for a beep to confirm it has worked. Interestingly the Orb operator says the silver ball used to talk to users - but customer feedback described it as \"creepy\" so they removed the voice.\n\nThe next step is that your iris scan is given a unique number which is checked against the giant database to make sure it's the first time you've done it. If so, the ball beeps again and you are now on the database along with 2.06 million other humans at the time of writing.\n\n25 free Worldcoin tokens are awarded on completion which are currently valued at roughly $2 (£1.56) each. The BBC will sell the coins once they are received and donate any money to Children in Need.\n\nBy the time the BBC left the pop up site, 13 people had been scanned. All were men in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"I came after seeing Sam Altman tweeting about the launch,\" said 37-year-old Moses Serumaga.\n\n'It's good to be early to these things,' said Moses Serumaga after getting his iris scanned in exchange for crypto tokens.\n\n\"I saw that you could get some dollars for it so I thought why not? It could die like other crypto projects or it could be a big thing and go up in value. I didn't want to miss out,\" he said.\n\n23-year-old Tom also scanned his eyeball but said he didn't do it for the money as he doesn't think the value of the tokens will rise.\n\n\"I don't think that amount of money is enough of an incentive unless you live in less developed nations and I don't think there's much possibility of it going up further really,\" he said.\n\nThe scanning process has proven controversial with reports criticising some of the tactics used by orb operators who are paid in commission, with particular concern over those getting sign ups in poorer nations.\n\nPrivacy experts also worry that sensitive data gathered from scanning a person's iris might get in to the wrong hands, even though Worldcoin insists that no data is stored.\n\nEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote a lengthy blog about his concerns and optimism about Worldcoin\n\nVitalik Buterin, the co founder of cryptocurrency network Ethereum, responded to the Worldcoin launch expressing excitement about the project but also issuing a warning about its potential pitfalls.\n\n\"On the whole, despite the \"dystopian vibez\" of staring into an Orb and letting it scan deeply into your eyeballs, it does seem like specialized hardware systems can do quite a decent job of protecting privacy,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he also says that relying on the specialised orbs to carry out the scans could give Worldcoin too much power and make it hard to get the world on-board.\n\nTwitter founder and crypto enthusiast Jack Dorsey tweeted an apparent criticism of the project, describing its mission as \"cute\", and adding the dystopian warning: \"Visit the Orb or the Orb will visit you...\".\n\nMr Altman welcomed criticism, saying online that \"haters\" give his team energy. But he admitted the project was ambitious.\n\n\"Maybe it works out and maybe it doesn't, but trying stuff like this is how progress happens,\" he tweeted.", "British Transport Police said the alleged assault happened on a train from Aberdare to Cardiff Central\n\nA man was sexually assaulted on a train after lewd comments were made towards him, police say.\n\nThe incident happened at about 12:50 BST on 1 July, on a train from Aberdare to Cardiff Central.\n\nThe victim walked past a group of people before a man allegedly \"made lewd comments towards him\".\n\nPolice said the man then sexually assaulted the victim before \"making light of the incident\".\n\nA 40-year-old man was later arrested in connection with the assault before being released on bail.", "Spotify is raising the price of its single-account premium plan for the first time since 2011 and hiking other services as well.\n\nIn the UK, subscriptions will rise by £1 a month to £10.99 for an individual plan, £14.99 for a premium duo plan and £17.99 for a family plan.\n\nThe price of a student plan remains unchanged at £5.99.\n\nIt follows other streaming services which have also increased subscription costs.\n\nSimilar price hikes also apply to the US, Canada and 49 other territories.\n\nIn the US, the cost will go up from $9.99 to $10.99 (£8.57) for those with an individual plan.\n\nThe premium duo service will increase from $12.99 to $14.99, the family plan from $15.99 to $16.99, and the student plan from $4.99 to $5.99.\n\nIn its latest financial results, Spotify said that it beat forecasts by adding 36 million monthly active users between April and June, taking the total to 551 million. Of those, 220 million pay for subscriptions.\n\nHowever, the company's pre-tax losses swelled to €241m (£207.3m) over the three months compared to a €90m loss in the same period last year. Sales rose to €3.1bn but missed analysts' expectations of €3.2bn.\n\nSpotify's chief executive Daniel Ek said the company had a \"very strong quarter\", although its share price dropped by more than 11% after it revealed its results.\n\nMr Ek spoke about the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) might play in the future, such as summarising lengthy podcasts or helping to lower the cost and difficultly of producing audio advertisements.\n\nIn February, Spotify unveiled its \"AI DJ\", which it billed as a personalised \"DJ in your pocket\" that would deliver \"a curated line-up of music alongside commentary\".\n\nOn Monday, Spotify said it was raising prices \"to help us continue to deliver value to fans and artists on our platform\".\n\nSpotify said users \"will be given a one-month grace period before the new price becomes effective, unless they cancel before the grace period ends\".\n\nThe music giant cut 6% of staff in January, citing a need to improve efficiency.\n\nSpotify has been reducing its reliance on the big celebrity signings and expensive original content that have weighed on its bottom line, with the Duchess of Sussex's podcast among high-profile casualties.\n\nIn 2020, Meghan and Prince Harry signed an exclusive deal reportedly worth about $20m.\n\nThat ended last month after the duke and duchess's Archewell Audio parted ways with Spotify in what was said to be a mutual decision.\n\nA deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company also ended last year.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex's podcast Archetypes, which ran for 12 episodes from August 2022, was not renewed for a second series\n\nIn an April earnings call, Mr Ek said the company would \"like to raise prices in 2023\".\n\n\"When the timing is right, we will raise it and that price increase will go down well because we're delivering a lot of value for our customers,\" Mr Ek said.\n\nThe company had already raised prices of US family plans and UK student, duo, and family plans in 2021. Individual subscriptions were previously unaffected.\n\nApple Music, Peacock, Netflix, Max, and Paramount+ have also recently raised subscription prices.\n\nThe new Spotify Premium cost matches the monthly plans of competitors Apple Music and Amazon Music.\n\nThe company will continue to offer a free plan that includes advertising.", "When Dame Alison Rose landed the top job at NatWest she became the most powerful woman in UK banking.\n\nIn the notoriously male-dominated sector, women at her level are still incredibly rare.\n\nDame Alison oversaw a bank with about 19 million customers in the UK and 60,000 employees globally.\n\nDame Alison spent some decades climbing the ranks, starting out over 30 years ago as a trainee at the bank after graduating from Durham University.\n\nWhen she secured the top job in 2019, she carefully cultivated her image and was frequently heard on the airwaves and appeared in print.\n\nIn interviews she was typically careful, reciting lines which had clearly been prepared and at times she could sound wooden.\n\nIt was part of a media-savvy strategy to be visible and open, but also very careful - she never put a step wrong and never said anything she wasn't supposed to say.\n\nThat's why the latest development is so surprising - Dame Alison made what she admits was a \"serious error\" in speaking about Nigel Farage's relationship with Coutts, the private bank owned by NatWest.\n\nIt is out of character and a shock misstep in a career which, until now, has been remarkably flawless.\n\nDanni Hewson, head of financial analysis at stockbroker AJ Bell, said Dame Alison was \"massively respected\" and her actions had \"caught a lot of people by surprise\".\n\n\"She held her employees to a high standard. She was pushing NatWest to achieve higher standards, to be more inclusive, to deliver more for the customer. And, you know, with one comment, she has undermined years of hard work.\n\n\"She has been hugely instrumental in changing the culture of banking and propelling forward the reputation of NatWest from a time when the banking sector was really persona non grata. So, I think it is incredibly surprising that she has been so careless.\"\n\nWhen NatWest, then called Royal Bank of Scotland, almost collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis and had to be rescued by a £20bn taxpayer bailout, Dame Alison was integral in rebuilding the bank and its reputation.\n\nIn contrast, the then-chief executive Fred Goodwin was blamed for expanding the bank too rapidly and was subsequently stripped of his knighthood.\n\nDame Alison is one of the few senior bosses to have survived at the bank after the public fallout.\n\nShe has also been lauded for her work to boost the number of female entrepreneurs and leaders.\n\nIt was this work which helped her be named as a Dame Commander of the British Empire by King Charles III at the start of this year.\n\nAs boss at NatWest, she has drawn headlines for changes, such as granting up to a year of leave to new fathers and ending new loans to oil and gas companies.\n\nAnd she was a relatable role model. The 53-year-old mum-of-two told the Daily Telegraph in 2021 that running NatWest during the pandemic, despite its challenges, \"was much easier than managing home schooling\" during lockdown.\n\nShe called the financial crisis in 2008 a \"pretty traumatic period\" for the industry.\n\n\"There was the experience of watching everything we had been working on change, and the terrible situation that RBS found itself in,\" she told the Evening Standard in 2016. \"That was a pretty emotional and difficult experience.\"\n\nIt's likely that this latest episode will prove more traumatic.", "This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer", "Devastating wildfires have forced Greek islands to issue evacuation orders, with fires on Rhodes forcing 19,000 people to leave their homes and hotels.\n\nA drone has captured the scale of the destruction on the seaside town of Kiotari in Rhodes.\n\nRead more about the wildfires here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwitter's rebranding of its San Francisco headquarters has been left hanging after police were called.\n\nThe Elon Musk-owned platform is changing its name to X, and attempted to remove the outgoing company name from the offices on Monday.\n\nFive letters had been taken down from the office's large vertical sign before work was interrupted.\n\nIt now simply reads \"er\", mirroring the reaction of some commentators to the firm's abrupt corporate makeover.\n\nJustin Sullivan, who took photos of the sign removal for Getty Images, said San Francisco police put a stop to the sign removal \"shortly after it began\".\n\nTwitter has been headquartered in the Californian city since 2012, where its sign has become part of the landscape.\n\nTwitter's new logo - an X on a black background - has replaced the famous blue bird on the social network, and was projected onto the side of the headquarters on Sunday.\n\nMr Musk says \"tweets\" will be replaced too, with posts to be called \"x's\" instead.\n\nOn Sunday, the billionaire said he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting: \"And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.\"\n\nLocal media previously reported that police were called because Mr Musk did not get a permit for the work. However, police later said this was a misunderstanding.\n\nSan Francisco police told media it responded to \"a possible unpermitted street closure\", but it determined no crime had been committed and it therefore was not a matter for the police.\n\nNonetheless, work did not continue on taking down the sign despite police leaving, and it is unclear when it will recommence.\n\nMr Musk's decision to change Twitter's well-known name and bird logo has been met with some criticism.\n\nMarketing professor Jean-Pierre Dube told the BBC he thought it was a joke, asking why anyone would \"throw away\" such a recognised brand as Twitter's.\n\nIt has been announced during a period of turmoil at the microblogging site. Mr Musk said advertising revenue has dropped by half and it has faced lawsuits over a failure to make promised severance payments and unpaid bills.\n\nMr Musk bought Twitter last year for $44bn and, shortly after the takeover, axed thousands of jobs.", "The BBC has apologised to Nigel Farage over its inaccurate report about why his account at Coutts bank was closed.\n\nOn 4 July, the BBC reported Mr Farage no longer met the financial requirements for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nThe former UKIP leader later obtained a Coutts report which indicated his political views were also considered.\n\nMr Farage said he accepted the apologies \"with good grace\", but said questions for Coutts remained.\n\nHe thanked BBC News CEO Deborah Turness - who has written to him - and business editor Simon Jack - who has tweeted - for their apologies.\n\n\"It's not often that the BBC apologise. But for the BBC to apologise, I'm very, very pleased,\" Mr Farage said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Mr Farage said he had had to publish a lot of material in order to clear up misinformation in the wake of the 4 July story.\n\n\"I had to go to very great lengths and great personal damage to undo the story,\" Mr Farage said.\n\n\"There is no fault or no blame on the BBC. This now goes right back to the Natwest Banking Group [owners of Coutts].\n\n\"Someone in that group decided it was appropriate, legal and ethical to leak details of my personal financial situation.\n\n\"That, I think, is wrong on every level - and that is where the spotlight should be and it will.\"\n\nMr Jack, who tweeted his apology, said his story had been \"from a trusted and senior source\".\n\n\"However, the information turned out to be incomplete and inaccurate. Therefore, I would like to apologise to Mr Farage,\" Mr Jack continued.\n\nMr Farage later said: \"Jack says, in the tweet, that his information came from a trusted and senior source. I would suggest that it may well have been a very senior source.\"\n\nOn 21 July, the BBC updated its original article to say it had \"not been accurate\". Mr Farage then asked for a formal apology from the BBC.\n\nOn Monday, the BBC said on its Corrections and Clarifications website: \"We acknowledge that the information we reported - that Coutts' decision on Mr Farage's account did not involve considerations about his political views - turned out not to be accurate and have apologised to Mr Farage.\"\n\nWhen Coutts decided to close Mr Farage's account, he said it did not give him a reason.\n\nMr Farage subsequently obtained a document looking at his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nThe 40-page document provided to Mr Farage included minutes from a meeting in November last year reviewing his account.\n\nThe document flagged concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and also raised concerns about the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a client.\n\nIt said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts' \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nMr Farage said the BBC had fallen for \"spin\" and he had been \"cancelled\" for his political views.\n\nThe boss of NatWest Group, Dame Alison Rose, apologised on Thursday to Mr Farage for what she called the \"deeply inappropriate\" comments made in the document.\n\nShe also said that she was commissioning a full review of Coutts' processes on bank account closures.\n\nMr Farage has called for Dame Alison to be questioned by MPs.\n\nSpeaking on GB News on Monday evening, Mr Farage said he had now submitted a subject access request (a request for a copy of information held about you) to NatWest and had raised his case with the Information Commissioner's Office.\n\nHe also disclosed the contents of the letter sent to him on Monday by the BBC's Deborah Turness, in which she apologised, saying: \"I can understand why you feel this story has contributed to you being put through a considerable and humiliating amount of publicity.\"\n\nThe Treasury has called a meeting with bank bosses over account closures, following the row between Mr Farage and NatWest.\n\nThe BBC will hope its apology will draw a line under the story.\n\nThe fallout is an insight into a key tenet of journalism - sourcing stories. Reporters have to be able to trust their sources and it's standard journalistic practice not to reveal who they are.\n\nIn this case, that trust broke down.", "Pollution levels in the Seine have fallen sharply over the last 20 years\n\nWith a year to go to the Olympics, Paris is in the final phase of a historic clean-up which will soon see swimmers and divers back in the River Seine.\n\nBanned for a century because of the filthy water, city swimming is set to be one of the major legacies of the Games thanks to a €1.4bn (£1.2bn; $1.6bn) regeneration project universally hailed as a success.\n\nNot only are three Olympic and Paralympic events - triathlon, marathon swimming and Para-triathlon - scheduled to take place in the Seine in central Paris, but by 2025 three open-air swimming areas will be accessible from the quayside.\n\n\"When people see athletes swimming in the Seine with no health problems, they'll be confident themselves to start going back in the Seine,\" predicts Pierre Rabadan, deputy Paris mayor in charge of the Olympics. \"It's our contribution for the future.\"\n\nLike many Western cities, Paris saw its river quality decline drastically thanks to upstream industrial sewage and the sanitation demands of a burgeoning population.\n\nWhen people see athletes swimming in the Seine with no health problems, they'll be confident themselves to start going back in\n\nAquatic life suffered to the point where in the 1960s only three species of fish were recorded in the city. In 1923 the authorities banned swimming, though an annual Christmas cross-river competition survived until World War Two.\n\nOne of the main problems has been the 19th-Century \"single system\" drainage infrastructure, which unites household waste water from kitchens and toilets with run-off from rain on the street.\n\nIn normal times this flows through a complex of under-street tunnels to treatment centres in the outskirts. However when there is heavy rain, the system is saturated and the excess has to be drained into the Seine.\n\nImprovements over the last 20 years have already led to a sharp reduction in faecal bacteria entering the river.\n\n\"But the difficulty has been in eradicating those last few percentage points to ensure it can be officially classified as clean,\" says Samuel Colin-Canivez, chief engineer for sanitation at Paris city hall.\n\nThe solution has been to build a vast underground reservoir which will serve to store run-off in times of heavy rain. The building site can be seen by Austerlitz station - and in front of the Pitié-Salpetrière hospital where Princess Diana died after her car crash in 1997.\n\nFrom the surface it looks like regular building work. But below, there is a huge cylindrical space 34m (112ft) in depth and 50m wide - enough to hold water from 20 Olympic swimming pools.\n\nAn underground reservoir in central Paris will store wastewater overflow\n\nMachines dig and scrape in the depths, and an excavator with a long telescopic arm reaches down from the surface to remove the earth.\n\n\"Up to now the Seine has been the safety valve for the sewage system. If we didn't occasionally allow wastewater into the river, it would have backed up into people's homes,\" says Mr Colin-Canivez.\n\n\"Now a tunnel will bring the overflow to the reservoir, where it can be stored for a day or two - the time for the system to settle down again. Then it will be drained as normal to the treatment centres.\"\n\nSamuel Colin-Canivez does not rule out very exceptional moments when even with the reservoir some wastewater ends up in the river. But these will be rare, and the city will declare the Seine temporarily \"unbatheable\".\n\nAustralian Frederick Lane won two gold medals in the Seine at the 1900 Olympics\n\nThe mega basin will be operational by next year's Games, which start in late July and will showcase the revitalised river not just as a sporting venue but also as the forum for the opening ceremony, with a flotilla of 160 boats carrying 10,000 athletes down a 6km (3.7 mile) stretch to the Eiffel Tower.\n\nOne event that will not be taking place in the river - in fact not at all - is angling. And yet in the first Paris Olympic Games in 1900, there was indeed a fishing competition (as well as a host of other other weird sports such as cannon-firing and hot-air ballooning).\n\n\"Back in 1900 they measured the fish they caught in the competition, and none was bigger than the size of your hand,\" says Bill François of the Paris fishing federation.\n\n\"Today we have between 30 and 35 species of fish in the city centre, and we get catfish measuring 2m long. It has been a transformation.\"\n\nAccording to Mr François, it is not only fish that have come back to the Seine, some reintroduced by angling associations. It is also molluscs, aquatic insects, sponges and crayfish.\n\n\"The bottom of the river is developing a coat of the right kind of weed. The clearer the water, the more the weed grows, and then the weed filters the water to make it even clearer - it's a virtuous circle,\" he says.\n\nBetween 30 and 35 fish species inhabit the Seine in Paris\n\nBill François enters the Seine regularly and is confident that it is already clean enough to swim in. But he does sound one note of warning: rats.\n\n\"We anglers know the dangers of leptospirosis (a disease carried in rat urine). Some of us get annual inoculations. And there is no shortage of rats in Paris, including along the quays.\"\n\nIt is true that rats are a perennial problem in the French capital, and the sight of a rat is unlikely to encourage bathers to enter the Seine.\n\nHowever Paul Kennouche, head of water quality at Paris city hall, says studies show the amount of leptospirosis bacteria is not abnormally high.\n\n\"We have not had a single case of leptospirosis in the canal at La Villette (where swimming is already allowed), and that is the same urban environment.\n\n\"We do not have any huge concern but we will certainly be monitoring, and taking action to remove rats.\"\n\nFor 20 summers now, Parisians have enjoyed the amenity known as Paris-plages (Paris beaches), in which sections of the river-quays are transformed with sand, parasols and beach games. Only in the north of the city on the Canal de l'Ourcq was swimming permitted in 2017.\n\nNow mayor Anne Hidalgo has unveiled the three spots on the Seine which will also be open for public bathing from summer 2025. They are in central Paris near the Île Saint-Louis, and at the eastern and western ends of the city.\n\nIt's not just fish, but humans too who are coming back to the river.", "Labour has ruled out introducing a self-ID system to allow people to change their legal sex without a medical diagnosis.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer has previously said his party would introduce such a system if it wins power.\n\nBut shadow women and equalities secretary Anneliese Dodds has now said medical diagnosis upholds \"confidence in the system\".\n\nShe added that the requirement also helps people access NHS support.\n\nIn a article for the Guardian, she wrote that Labour would streamline the current medical diagnosis rules, calling them \"demeaning\".\n\nThe new Labour position appears to be a compromise that has emerged from a party event in Nottingham over the weekend to discuss policy.\n\nIt opens up a split with Scottish Labour, which has previously voted to remove the medical diagnosis requirement and has since confirmed it \"continues to support the de-medicalisation of the process in Scotland\".\n\nUnder current rules, people who want to change legal sex need to provide a medical report showing a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nThis is defined by the NHS as a \"sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity\".\n\nApplicants also have to provide evidence of living full time in their acquired gender for at least two years.\n\nSome campaigners say the the requirement is excessively bureaucratic and invasive, and have long argued for a non-medical process - known as self-identification - instead.\n\nThe government ruled out adopting this approach in 2020 after a consultation, but has reduced the fees and moved the process online.\n\nLabour pledged to introduce a self-identification system under previous leader Jeremy Corbyn and the policy was in the party's 2019 general election manifesto.\n\nSir Keir reaffirmed the 2019 manifesto commitment to \"introduce self-declaration\" in a June 2021 video for LGBT website Pink News.\n\nHowever, Ms Dodds has now confirmed that the party would keep the need for a gender dysphoria diagnosis, calling it an \"important part\" of the process for obtaining a gender recognition certificate.\n\n\"Requiring a diagnosis upholds legitimacy of applications and confidence in the system,\" she wrote.\n\nShe said that it also helped refer trans people into the NHS for support services, citing low levels of awareness about how to access them.\n\nShe added that Labour wanted to avoid the \"mistakes\" made by the Scottish government, whose new law to ditch medical reports is subject to an ongoing legal wrangle with the UK government.\n\nScottish ministers' legislation - endorsed by Scottish Labour in the Scottish Parliament - showed a \"cavalier approach\", she added.\n\nHowever, she added the current requirement to apply to an \"anonymous\" panel to obtain a certificate should be replaced, calling it \"demeaning for trans people and meaningless in practice\".\n\nInstead, she said it \"should be enough\" for registrars to sign off the application, based on diagnosis from one doctor.\n\nThe LGBT+ Labour group said the party's new position would be a \"huge step forward\" for trans people over the current government stance.\n\nBut it added the party was \"signalling a retreat on their policy of de-medicalised self-ID for the trans community at the next general election\".\n\nLabour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, a patron of the group, told the BBC it would push for further changes, including giving non-medical professionals such as social workers the power to \"externally verify\" someone's acquired gender.\n\nRosie Duffield, who had threatened to quit as a Labour MP over the party's previous stance, said she welcomed the retention of medical reports, calling it the \"core thing\" demanded by women's groups.\n\nMs Duffield, the MP for Canterbury, has opposed self-ID as a way for trans people to gain access to single sex spaces such as domestic violence refuges and prisons.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she called for more clarity on the party's position ahead of the general election, expected next year, adding it still included a \"bit of confusion and a bit of fence-sitting\".\n\nWomen and Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch said Labour's new position is a \"copy and paste\" of the government's position.\n\nAdding that some Labour MPs had previously attacked the Conservative position as prejudiced, she accused the party of \"bare-faced hypocrisy\".", "The first bombs went off at Brussels airport an hour before the attack on the city's metro\n\nA court in Brussels has found six men guilty of terrorist murder, more than seven years after suicide bomb attacks killed 32 people at the city's airport and a metro station in March 2016.\n\nAfter a long trial and 19 days of jury deliberations, the court in Brussels returned their verdicts.\n\nSeveral of those on trial had already been convicted of taking part in the Paris terror attacks months earlier.\n\nSalah Abdeslam, 33, was arrested days before the Brussels bombings.\n\nHe was found guilty in France last year of the November 2015 Paris bomb and gun attacks in which 130 died.\n\nAbdeslam had fled Paris for Belgium after the 2015 attacks and denied involvement in the bombings four months later. But the court in Brussels has now convicted him of murder and attempted murder in Brussels too.\n\nAnother of those now found guilty of both bombings, Mohamed Abrini, was identified on CCTV fleeing Zaventem airport when his explosives did not go off.\n\nHe became known as the \"man in the hat\" and was among a number of suspects arrested in Brussels a few weeks later. Unlike Abdeslam, Abrini had admitted his role in the attacks, confessing to preparing the explosives for the bombings.\n\nCCTV footage captured Mohamed Abrini (R) and the two airport bombers who blew themselves up\n\nFour other men were found guilty of terrorist murder: Oussama Atar, Osama Krayem, Ali El Haddad Asufi and Bilal El Makhoukhi.\n\nKrayem had been seen with the Metro bomber who blew himself up at Maelbeek. He too had a backpack full of explosives but did not detonate them.\n\nBut Oussama Atar, a Belgian-Moroccan jihadist thought to have planned the Paris attacks from Syria, was tried in absentia and is believed to have died in Syria.\n\nTwo men, a Tunisian and a Rwandan, were cleared of murder but were convicted of taking part in terrorist activities, along with the other six. The final pair, brothers Smail and Ibrahim Farisi, were cleared of all charges.\n\nThe attacks in Brussels took place within an hour of each other on 22 March 2016.\n\nTwo bombs went off shortly before 08:00 at opposite ends of the departures hall at Zaventem airport, leaving 16 people dead.\n\nThen, little more than an hour later, a further blast happened on a train at Maelbeek metro station in Brussels' European quarter, close to EU institutions. Another 16 people died in that bombing. Hundreds more were wounded.\n\nMathilde Reumaux and her husband survived the metro bombing uninjured. She told BBC Newshour it was like \"a war scene\", adding: \"We had to climb out of the windows of the metro, there were many bodies around us, people dead or injured.\"\n\nThey tried to help some of the injured, she said. \"We did what we could, with the little knowledge we had of first aid.\"\n\nShe welcomed Tuesday's verdict and said \"the jury was really focused during the past seven months, they listened to everyone, hundreds of persons who testified\".\n\nThe court ruled that another three people who died in the years following the bombings should also be considered victims of the attacks, bringing the death toll to 35.\n\nThey included Shanti De Corte, 23, who suffered years of unbearable psychological illness before she died by euthanasia last year.\n\nXavier Legrand died of cancer in 2017 after being forced to halt treatment because of the wounds caused by the metro bombing.\n\nMathieu Fischer took his life in 2021 after suffering years of post-traumatic stress.\n\nThe judge told the court that had it not been for the bombings the three \"would not have died, or at least not in the same circumstances\".\n• None 'They destroyed us, but we came together stronger'\n• None Brussels explosions: What we know", "George Alagiah, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.\n\nAlagiah won awards for reports on the famine and war in Somalia in the early 1990s, and was nominated for a Bafta in 1994 for covering Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq.\n\nHe was also named Amnesty International's journalist of the year in 1994, for reporting on the civil war in Burundi, and was the first BBC journalist to report on the genocide in Rwanda.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The bus fare arrest is a big community concern and our communication could have been better, the Met's Ch Supt Andy Brittain tells BBC London\n\nThe Met Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over the treatment of a woman arrested in front of her son in Croydon, south London, after wrongly being accused of bus fare evasion.\n\nFootage of the mother shouting as two officers handcuffed and held her provoked criticism on social media.\n\nThe Met said she was later released when it was confirmed she had paid for her ticket.\n\nThe force added the video was a \"snapshot of a wider incident\".\n\nIt also told BBC London it was trying to \"find the lady involved, and to get her side of the story\" and that \"our comms perhaps could have been slightly better\".\n\n\"Trust has taken a hit,\" Met Ch Supt Andy Brittain, who covers Croydon, said.\n\nThe police officers were working together with Transport for London (TfL) inspectors on Whitehorse Road, Croydon, when the incident happened on Friday morning.\n\nThe police watchdog says it received a \"complaint referral\" from the Met on Monday afternoon, with the complaint alleging the woman was \"racially profiled and verbally abused by an officer\".\n\nThe Met said the woman left the bus after not complying with a revenue inspector's request to check that she had paid her fare.\n\nAccording to the Met, when asked to stop by police she attempted to walk off and became \"abusive\".\n\nAs a result, the force said she was arrested on suspicion of fare evasion and detained.\n\nIn the video, she repeatedly asks one of the officers to let go and says \"I haven't done anything wrong\", while a member of the public films what is happening and asks why she is being arrested.\n\nThe woman was arrested on Whitehorse Road, Croydon\n\nOfficers did eventually check her ticket, which was valid. She was then unhandcuffed and released.\n\nVauxhall Labour MP Florence Eshalomi urged people to be \"careful\" sharing the video as the woman's son was \"very traumatised by the situation\", adding she and other colleagues had raised it with the mayor of London.\n\nThe Met initially said it realised it was a \"distressing video to watch, even more so as a child is seen to be visibly upset by the way in which his mother has been apprehended\".\n\n\"We regret the upset that has been caused to the child.\"\n\nIt also said the incident raised \"questions about the extent to which officers are having to intervene in this way when supporting TfL in their operations\".\n\nMet Ch Supt Andy Brittain, of the South Basic Command Unit, which covers Croydon, later told BBC London: \"I think the social media footage got out, which kind of only showed a small picture of what took place.\n\n\"Then our comms perhaps could have been slightly better and and then it's kind of cascaded into quite a big community concern.\n\n\"For me today, it's about listening to the community, understanding their perspective, what it looked like to them.\n\n\"And I think the big thing as well is to try and find the lady involved and to get her side of the story.\n\n\"Trust has taken a hit as a result of the video, so it's really important we understand what took place.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm a parent like everyone else and to see a child in that much distress is really upsetting.\n\n\"We've paused any operations of that nature to give us time to work out what happened.\"\n\nThe force has said officers' body worn video, which was active for a longer period than the social media clip, had been reviewed.\n\nDespite not initially identifying any \"conduct matters\" the Met said it had voluntarily referred itself to the IOPC due to grave public concern.\n\nThe Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) has said it will \"decide if any further action is required\".\n\nTfL's head of policing and community safety Mandy McGregor said: \"We are aware of this very distressing incident and the impact it has had on the community.\n\n\"We are speaking to the police to understand the wider circumstances and will support them with their investigation to get to the bottom of what happened.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chief executive of NatWest, Dame Alison Rose, is facing pressure from the government to resign.\n\nDowning Street and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have \"significant concerns\" over her conduct, BBC News has been told.\n\nShe has apologised for discussing the closure of Nigel Farage's account at NatWest's private banking arm Coutts with a BBC journalist, saying it was a \"serious error of judgement\".\n\nNatWest earlier said it still had full confidence in Dame Alison at the helm.\n\nDame Alison's apology on Tuesday afternoon comes after the BBC apologised for its inaccurate report earlier this month which said Mr Farage's account was being closed because he no longer met the wealth threshold for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nMr Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and Brexiteer, first reported in early July that his account had been closed.\n\nIn her first admission that she had been involved, Dame Alison said in conversations with BBC business editor Simon Jack \"she had confirmed that Mr Farage was a Coutts customer and he had been offered a NatWest bank account\".\n\nShe said she had believed this was public knowledge.\n\nThe NatWest boss said she had not revealed any personal financial information about Mr Farage.\n\n\"In response to a general question about eligibility criteria required to bank with Coutts and NatWest I said that guidance on both was publicly available on their websites.\n\n\"In doing so, I recognise that I left Mr Jack with the impression that the decision to close Mr Farage's accounts was solely a commercial one,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"I was wrong to respond to any question raised by the BBC about this case. I want to extend my sincere apologies to Mr Farage for the personal hurt this has caused him and I have written to him today.\"\n\nDame Alison has also faced calls to resign from Mr Farage and several Tory MPs including former cabinet minister David Davis.\n\nSimon Clarke, Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, tweeted that the chancellor would be right to have concerns.\n\n\"The whole issue has been a disgrace from start to finish,\" he wrote.\n\nMP Saqib Bhatti, the Conservative Party's vice-chairman for business, earlier said: \"While it's not for politicians to determine what the company should do, her position would appear to now be untenable.\"\n\nMr Farage has said that Coutts did not give him a reason when it decided to close his account.\n\nBut Mr Farage had obtained a document outlining his suitability as a Coutts client.\n\nThe document had concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and assessed the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a customer.\n\nDame Alison said that Coutts had told her the account closure had been for commercial reasons.\n\nShe said when she spoke to the BBC's Simon Jack she had not seen the dossier obtained by Mr Farage.\n\nSpeaking before the report of concerns being expressed by Downing Street and Jeremy Hunt, the chairman of NatWest Group, Sir Howard Davies, said that \"after careful reflection\" the board members had decided the chief executive retained their \"full confidence\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said: \"We have been clear that people should be able to exercise lawful freedom of expression without the fear of having their bank accounts closed.\n\n\"The Economic Secretary to the Treasury has written to some of the UK's biggest banks to reinforce that this is a fundamental right, and we will take the action necessary to protect it.\"\n\nThe Economic Secretary, Andrew Griffith, is meeting bank leaders on Wednesday to discuss the issue of account closures.", "Sands appeared in films such as Leaving Las Vegas, Benediction and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo\n\nBritish actor Julian Sands' final cause of death has been deemed undetermined.\n\nThe Room With a View star's body was recovered in June, months after he had gone missing while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains of California.\n\nThe cause of death was undetermined due to the condition of Sands' body, and no other factors were discovered during the coroner's investigation.\n\nPolice in San Bernardino County said the determination was \"common when dealing with cases of this type\".\n\nLast month, human remains found in the Mount Baldy area were confirmed to be those of the actor, who went missing on a hike in January aged 65.\n\nHis brother Nick Sands, who lives in Gargrave, North Yorkshire, said the tributes paid to him have been \"overwhelming\", adding that he would \"grieve and celebrate\" his brother's loss and life in \"equal measure\".\n\nSands was best known for his roles in the Oscar-winning film A Room With A View and TV dramas 24 and Smallville.\n\nHis other credits included 2011's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in which he appeared opposite Daniel Craig.\n\nHe disappeared on 13 January during bad weather. Air and ground searches were hampered as California was battered by deadly storms, as well as icy conditions and a threat of avalanches.", "Bader lost part of his right leg after being hit by a shell on his way home from school\n\nIf suffering had an address, it might be al-Rasheed Street, in Taiz, a Yemeni city ringed by mountains and rebel Houthi fighters. On this narrow street of rough-hewn homes, the young can't escape a grinding conflict the world tends to forget.\n\nA slight boy with a mop of dark hair leads us down the street, nimbly side-stepping potholes - with his crutches. Bader al-Harbi is seven years old, just a little younger than Yemen's war. His right leg has been amputated above the knee. The slogan on his T-shirt reads \"Sport\".\n\nIn the back yard of his family home, Bader sits on some breeze blocks, his stump exposed. His remaining foot has no shoe. His big brother Hashim is by his side, sharing his trauma and his silence.\n\nHashim's right foot has been mangled and he is missing a thumb. He fidgets endlessly with his hands as if trying to rub out the scars.\n\nThe boys were hit by Houthi shelling on an October morning last year as they came home from school on a break, according to their father, al-Harbi Nasser al-Majnahi. They have not been back to their classes since.\n\n\"Everything changed completely,\" he says, sitting cross-legged on a mattress. \"They no longer play outside with other kids. They are disabled. They are scared and have psychological problems.\"\n\nIn a small voice, sounding younger than his nine years, Hashim says he would like to go back to school.\n\n\"I want to study and learn,\" he tells me. I asked Bader if he wants to go too. \"Yes,\" he replies. \"But my leg has been cut off, so how can I go?\"\n\nTheir father says they have not been enrolled for the upcoming school year because he has no money for transport. And he has no way to get his family out of harm's way.\n\n\"Even though we are scared, we can't afford to live anywhere else,\" he tells me, \"because the rent would be higher. So, we are forced to stay here, whether we live or die.\"\n\nWhat began as a civil war has been fuelled by regional rivals backing opposing sides. Sunni Saudi Arabia supports Yemen's internationally-recognised government, weak as it is. Shia Iran backs the Houthi movement, formally known as Ansar Allah (or Supporters of God).\n\nNine years after the conflict began, Taiz bears the scars\n\nIn September 2014, the Houthis seized Yemen's capital, Sanaa, driving out the government. The following spring a Saudi-led coalition intervened, backed by the UK and the US.\n\nThe Saudis promised a quick operation to restore the government to power. Not quite.\n\nEight years, and thousands of coalition air strikes later, the Houthis still hold the capital. The Saudis now want a quick exit - militarily at least.\n\nAnd on the front lines in Taiz, Bader and Hashim still sleep and wake to the sound of warfare.\n\n\"I hear explosions,\" says Bader, \"and there are snipers. They shoot everything in the neighbourhood. I feel like there could be an explosion near me, or the house could be blown up.\"\n\nWe walk a few steps to the house next door - where another childhood has been ripped asunder.\n\nAmir appears on the doorstep - a three-year old in a yellow T-shirt, silent and sombre. In place of his right leg there is a metal prosthetic. His father, Sharif al-Amri, helps him to stand, bending often to kiss his forehead.\n\nAmir \"remembers every moment\" after the shelling that took his leg, his father says\n\nAmir was maimed on the same day as Bader and Hashim - just a few hours later.\n\nHe was in a relative's house across the road when it was shelled, killing both his uncle and his six-year-old cousin. Amir survived but has penetrating wounds of memory.\n\nAs Sharif puts his son's pain into words, Amir nods off in the stifling heat, cradled in his arms.\n\n\"He remembers every moment after the shelling happened until he arrived at hospital. He says, 'This happened to my uncle, and this happened to my cousin.' He talks about the smoke and the blood that he saw. When he sees children playing, he gets very upset and says, 'I don't have a leg.'\"\n\nEvery house on this street has its measure of fear. Munir's has more than most. The father of four leads me down an alleyway to his family home, which is right in the line of fire. Houthi gunmen are as near as his neighbours - he says about 20-30m away.\n\n\"There's a sniper is front of us,\" says Munir, crouching down by his living room window. \"I can see him now if I open the window. If you go outside to the garden, he will shoot.\n\n\"We live in fear here in Taiz. People don't know when they will be hit by a missile or a sniper. God willing there will be peace and Yemen will go back to being great.\"\n\nIn the hallway we meet his eldest son Mohammed, an animated 14-year-old who relies on a wheelchair. When his school was shelled the other pupils ran away, leaving him behind. Now he worries that, if his house is hit, his family could be hurt trying to rescue him.\n\nFor more than 3,000 days Taiz has been virtually besieged, a battleground between government and Houthi forces. And the young have not been spared.\n\nA local doctor told us that since 2015, he has treated about 100 child amputees - maimed by Houthi shelling, mines and unexploded ordnance.\n\nMost of children maimed and killed in Taiz over the years have been victims of the Houthis. Others died in airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition - in the early war years - and some were killed by government forces. All sides have blood on their hands.\n\nYemen's conflict is now on a lower flame - since a UN-brokered truce last year that held for six months. It's no longer all-out war, but it's not peace either.\n\nSaudi Arabia and Iran have shaken hands and made up. So far, so good. There have been talks between the Saudis and the Houthis, but sources tell us they have stalled. And there are no talks involving Yemen's own warring factions.\n\nThe country is increasingly fragmented, like a broken jigsaw that can't be reassembled. A separatist movement - backed by the United Arab Emirates - wants the south to be independent, as it was from 1967 until 1990. That is one more fissure in a fraying state.\n\nI've been coming to Yemen since the war escalated in March 2015. This is my seventh visit. While the international community talks of peace moves, on the ground there is weariness and despair.\n\nDuring three weeks on the ground in the south, many conversations felt like a farewell, a requiem to the nation.\n\nMany doubt that Yemen will survive in its current form. Many more doubt that the Houthis will make peace.\n\n\"They claim they have a divine right to rule,\" said a twenty-something professional in Taiz, who preferred not to be named. \"They claim the Prophet is their grandfather. I can't see them giving up their guns and going back to democracy and elections.\"\n\nOr put another way by Gamal Mahmoud Al Masrahi, who is in charge of camps for the displaced in south-west Yemen, \"the international community is living an illusion\" when it thinks the Houthis will make peace.\n\nWe wanted to take the temperature in the Houthi-controlled north, home to most of Yemen's population of 32 million. But after we arrived in the country, the Houthis revoked our permission. Human rights campaigners in Sanaa say the de facto rulers are increasingly repressive.\n\nAs we leave al-Rasheed Street, Bader has come outside, but he's sitting alone by the side of road. Amir is being wheeled along on the crossbar of a bicycle by his father. \"Don't be scared, my love,\" Sharif says, \"I am beside you.\"\n\nHe asks his son what he wants in the future.\n\n\"Buy me a gun,\" Amir replies haltingly, his words jarring with his babyish voice.\n\n\"I will load a bullet in my gun and fire at those who took my leg.\"\n\nIt was a three-hour journey on the back of a motorbike, across rough terrain - part road, part stones - in relentless heat. But this was the only way for Rajah Mohammed to get his desperately ill son, Awam, to a specialist children's hospital in Taiz.\n\nFirst, he had to spend 10 days earning the money to pay for the trip from their home in the Red Sea port of Mocha. The journey cost 20,000 Yemeni rials, the equivalent of $14 (£10.73).\n\nWhen Awam arrived at the Yemeni Swedish hospital - still so-called, though its Swedish benefactors are long gone - staff rushed to weigh and measure him. But the charts and scales were not needed to confirm he was severely malnourished. His wizened arms and painfully distended stomach told the story.\n\nRajah - who has four more children - has been battling to save his son for a year.\n\nRajah Mohammed travelled three hours by motorbike to take his son to hospital\n\n\"He always has a fever,\" he tells me, standing at Awam's bedside, fanning him with a piece of cardboard.\n\n\"We have been to all the hospitals in Mocha. We were told to bring him here. I can barely afford to feed my children. Sometimes all we have is bread and tea. It can be like that for a month or more.\"\n\nHunger is part of the bedrock of Yemen, but it has been compounded by the conflict which has destroyed livelihoods, driven up prices, displaced more than four million people and closed half the health facilities in the country.\n\nRajah is one of those made homeless by the war. \"We have been displaced six or seven times,\" he says. \"Every time we must move to a new place because we are scared of landmines.\"\n\nHunger has been stalking his child - and many others here - from birth. Nearly 500,000 Yemeni children under the age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition and are struggling to survive, according to the United Nations (UN).\n\nFor Awam, there is one more threat. Tests show he may have leukaemia and could require lengthy treatment.\n\nFor Rajah, keeping one son in hospital means risking his other children going hungry at home. He takes Awam back to Mocha the following day. He tells doctors he will try to earn more money to bring him back.\n\nDoctors say they are receiving many patients from the city - once famed for its coffee trade, now flooded with displaced families.\n\nWe travel there along the same bumpy road that Rajah took with his son, but in the comfort of a four-wheel-drive car.\n\nWe arrive at a rural health clinic, teeming with mothers clad head-to-toe in black abayas and face veils, holding up sick children. The air is heavy with the mothers' pleas and the babies' cries.\n\nThe three-room clinic is mostly closed these days but local officials decide to open it because we were in the area. The mothers surge forward, thinking we are foreign doctors, begging us to help their children.\n\nA local doctor appears but he tells us staff at the clinic are on strike and will not be treating any cases. \"We cannot do anything for them,\" says Dr Ali bin ali Doberah.\n\n\"We have not been paid for four months. Some of us are going to look for jobs that pay because we cannot feed our children.\"\n\nThe clinic is no longer getting support from foreign aid agencies who used to pay some of the salaries. Nine health centres have closed in Mocha and other areas of Yemen's west coast, because of lack of funding.\n\nAcross the country, aid agencies are scaling back. The UN World Food Programme has already made deep cuts, north and south. It says it will have to stop food supplies for between three and five million people by mid-September unless more money comes in.\n\nIn the middle of the throng there is an 11-month-old called Safaa - whose arms and legs are just skin and bone and whose face is contorted in pain. This fisherman's daughter is wasting away. She also suffers from a liver complaint.\n\n\"Sometimes she does not have food while her dad is at sea. We must wait for him to come back so we can buy her food,\" says her mother, Umm Ahmed.\n\n\"I am worried about her. I want to get help for her, but our circumstances are difficult.\"\n\nUmm Ahmed's head is bent low, her shoulder slumped. Her family history is like a summary of Yemen's war years, written in blood and suffering.\n\nShe tells us she has been displaced for seven years, her brother-in-law was killed in an air strike, and her niece was blown up by a landmine. She has buried four of her nine children, because of malnutrition and liver problems. Now hunger is menacing her baby girl.\n\nUmm Ahmed leads us the short distance to her home, which - like her country - has seen better days. The bright blue paint is fading from the walls. There is an ornate wooden door but little furniture and no toys. She puts Safaa in a hammock made from a shawl, swinging her back and forth to keep her cool.\n\nHer husband, Anwar Taleb, looks worried and weary. He's a third-generation fisherman with a bushy beard, who can barely feed his family.\n\nSafaa's parents cannot afford the five-hour journey to the hospital offering specialist treatment\n\n\"I go to sea for 15-20 days at a time and get what I can get,\" he says, \"but for the past three months I have not found any work. Sometimes the money we make only covers the cost of the trip.\"\n\nHe tells us he has married off his two daughters - aged 14 and 15 - because he can't afford to feed them. We ask to meet them, but he says that even if he agrees, their husbands will not. Two more childhoods cut short. Two more hidden victims of war.\n\nNow Safaa may be running out of time.\n\nWe give her parents a lift to a better-equipped local clinic - this one is functioning. She is admitted immediately, but doctors say she will need specialist treatment in the southern port city of Aden - a journey of about five hours that her parents cannot afford.\n\nAfter a few days we learn that she too has been taken back home, where there may be little to feed her.\n\nWar, hunger, and poverty are intertwined here. Yemen's children may escape one and fall victim to the others.\n\nAnd they are at risk of international neglect. The horrors of Ukraine are closer to home for many Western nations than distant suffering in the Arabian Peninsula.\n\nNow more than ever Yemenis fear they are easy to overlook.\n\nWho will help the wounded boys of Taiz - Bader, Hashim and Amir - and the starving infants of Mocha - Awam and Safaa?\n\nIf you'd like more information on the background to this story, the BBC World Service programme The Explanation has been speaking to Nawal Al-Maghafi - a BBC correspondent who has been reporting on the Middle East since 2012.\n\nShe explained how the complex war began between government-backed forces and Houthi rebels, and how it led to Yemen's current humanitarian crisis.\n\nListen here: How Yemen has been engulfed by civil war", "The Windsor Framework improves the original Northern Ireland Protocol but does not resolve all its problems, a House of Lords inquiry has concluded.\n\nThe framework, which was agreed in February, is intended to ease post-Brexit trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nIt modifies the NI Protocol, the 2019 agreement which kept NI inside the EU's single market for goods.\n\nSome of its major operational aspects are due to be implemented from October.\n\nThey include the expansion of a trusted trader scheme and a system of green lanes and red lanes for managing the flow of goods at Northern Ireland ports.\n\nThe green lane/red lane system is supposed to reduce bureaucracy for GB goods which have Northern Ireland as their final destination.\n\nIt will operate alongside new labelling requirements for some food products entering Northern Ireland from GB.\n\nThe Lords NI Protocol subcommittee, which held the inquiry, has warned that some businesses, particularly non-retailers, will find the framework processes \"more burdensome\" compared to the protocol grace periods.\n\nThe grace periods refer to temporary arrangements where the protocol was not being fully implemented in some respects.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris says the framework offers a \"huge advance\" on the grace periods.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said the framework was a \"huge advance\" on the grace periods.\n\nHe added: \"The grace periods were not open to all traders, they solely applied EU standards and were no help at all if the product you wanted to trade was banned.\"\n\nLord Jay of Ewelme, the committee chairman, said: \"The Windsor Framework is a distinct improvement on the original protocol. But it does not solve all the problems which the protocol raises.\n\n\"The benefits to business include easier movement of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland through the green lane.\n\n\"For some businesses, however, processes will be more burdensome under the Windsor Framework than under the protocol as it operates now.\n\n\"And where there is uncertainty, the red lane, with its more complex procedures, may have to be used.\"\n\nThe report says the framework brings significant improvements in areas such as medicines, pet travel and retail goods.\n\nBut one of the major issues raised by the inquiry is the treatment of \"groupage\" freight and mixed loads.\n\nGroupage is when goods dispatched by several different companies are grouped together into the same lorry load.\n\nThe concern is that if just one pallet contains goods which are going on to the Republic of Ireland then the entire load will need to be processed through the red lane which will entail bureaucracy and cost.\n\nSarah Hards, sales director at AM Logistics, told the inquiry that groupage was forgotten about in the original NI Protocol \"and really has not been remembered for this one\".\n\nThe committee has asked the government to clarify how the framework's provisions will impact upon groupage and the movement of mixed loads, and what steps are being taken to address the concerns of affected businesses.\n\nThe Windsor Framework was announced by Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen\n\nThe inquiry also heard that regulatory divergence between GB and the EU, and therefore between GB and Northern Ireland, remains \"number one concern\" for businesses.\n\nRegulatory divergence refers to the process by which new laws in either the EU or GB will, over time, lead to growing differences in the rules businesses face in each of those jurisdictions.\n\nThe committee said there was \"an underlying fear\" that Northern Ireland would find itself in a \"no-man's land\" between Great Britain and the EU, placing the competitiveness of Northern Ireland firms and their complex supply chains in jeopardy.\n\nIt welcomed the establishment of bodies to monitor such divergence but says it remains to be seen how effective these will be in practice.\n\nThe committee also reiterated a call for the UK government to create and maintain an up-to-date record of regulatory divergence and its impact on Northern Ireland.\n\nIn response to the report, a government spokesperson said the Windsor Framework \"is the best deal for Northern Ireland\", restoring the smooth flow of goods with Britain and protecting NI's place in the union.\n\n\"It cuts paperwork and checks compared to the old protocol, lifts the bans on products like seed potatoes and provides a durable, sustainable basis for the future,\" the spokesperson added.\n\n\"The committee's report underlines the importance of restoring the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly - it sets out at length how restored institutions would give Northern Ireland a greater say over the new arrangements.\"\n\nCivil servants have been running Northern Ireland departments since the Stormont executive collapsed 16 months ago, when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) withdrew as part of its boycott of the post-Brexit trading arrangements.\n\nIn June, the DUP submitted a paper to the UK government with proposals on how to address key issues with the Windsor Framework.\n\nThe DUP's Lord Dodds, who sits on the committee, told BBC News NI the report \"vindicates\" his party's stance.\n\n\"The seven tests that we have set are iterations of what previous prime ministers have set out as the bare minimum which is acceptable, so we are repeating their words,\" he said.\n\nLord Dodds added the report \"says the Windsor Framework is more burdensome and onerous than the current position that we operate with the easements and grace periods\".\n\nGlyn Roberts, of business representative organisation Retail NI, said the report \"sets out a fair estimation of the challenges which will be faced by the local business community with the implementation of the Windsor Accord\".\n\nHe said the report \"rightly highlights issues around labelling requirements that impacts on our members\".\n\n\"Retail NI is disappointed at the lack of effective engagement on the labelling issue with only a few months to go before the new system is introduced,\" Mr Roberts said.\n\nThe delivery of the framework and the resetting of EU/ UK relations has been perhaps the most tangible outcome of Rishi Sunak's premiership.\n\nSo it was no surprise that he came to Northern Ireland to give it the hard sell, saying it would make Northern Ireland \"the world's most exciting economic zone\".\n\nThe Lords' report is a somewhat more sober analysis, pointing out that issues remain.\n\nBut while UK policy continues to be a hard Brexit and a completely soft Irish border then some trade frictions on GB-NI trade will be inevitable.", "A heartbroken mum whose son drowned at sea has said she \"struggles to comprehend\" what happened more than a year on.\n\nA wave swept Zac Thompson off rocks at West Angle Bay, Pembrokeshire, on 1 July last year.\n\nCarli Newell, 36, said the Pembroke Dock Community School pupil's death was still felt in the community.\n\nShe has now urged other families to be more aware of the danger the ocean poses.\n\nAn inquest heard the 11-year-old died after getting caught in a whirlpool.\n\nHe was with his brother and cousin, but the other two managed to get themselves back onto the rocks.\n\n\"They were playing football and they wanted to go watch the sunset,\" mother-of-two Ms Newell said.\n\n\"They had no intention of going into the water.\"\n\nZac was staying with his dad at the time.\n\nAs Ms Newell sat at home with her partner the phone rang.\n\n\"Everybody loved him,\" says Zac's mum\n\nShe said: \"It's about a 15-minute drive away, where the boys were staying.\n\n\"I got a call from my oldest son and we made our way to the beach.\n\n\"By the time we got there all the emergency services were already there.\"\n\nZac died in hospital the next day.\n\nThe impact of his death was \"still palpable within our community\", Ms Newell said.\n\n\"He was a character, everybody loved him,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"He was funny, he was cheeky, he was a really good friend, good sportsman.\n\n\"He just had a larger than life personality, you could never meet Zac and never remember him.\"\n\nFurther tragedies could be avoided, said Ms Newell.\n\n\"The boys knew all of the usual stuff we teach our children,\" she said.\n\nZac's mum said she \"struggles to comprehend\" his death\n\nShe added it was important to highlight the high proportion of people who drown who have no intention of entering the water.\n\n\"When you don't ever intend to enter the water you're not prepared, so you have more layers of clothing. You then have injuries to contend with... you can have cold water shock,\" Ms Newell said.\n\n\"It does catch you off guard.\"\n\nA new report by Water Safety Wales, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accident (ROSPA) and Public Health Wales, has found drowning deaths were disproportionately high among younger people.\n\nDrowning is the second most common cause of accidental deaths in children in Wales, according to the document.\n\nMs Newell said: \"In Wales we are blessed with fantastic beaches, bays, harbours, lagoons and inland waters. The significance of water safety and education regarding appropriate actions during emergencies cannot be overstated.\n\nThe report highlights that almost half of deaths happen in June, July and August.\n\nMs Newell urged everyone to consider what more they could do to help children and young people enjoy the water safely.\n\n\"Take an extra five minutes before you go to the beach or before you go to the river just so you exactly what to do,\" said Ms Newell.\n\n\"It's knowing who to call depending on where you are and what to look for.\"\n\nThe RNLI reported a 46% increase in incidents across the 39 beaches watched over by lifeguards in Wales.\n\nLifeguards in Wales helped 2,315 people in 2022, an increase of nearly 40%.\n\nSwansea lifeguard supervisor, Thomas John, said the huge tidal range in the Bristol Channel was an issue.\n\nZac died in hospital a day after being rescued\n\n\"There's loads of safety information online, getting the weather is very accessible on a mobile phone, getting tide times is very accessible but I think people... need to know those things before visiting the coast,\" he said.\n\nHe also urged people to float on their backs if they got into trouble.\n\nWater Safety Wales chairman, Chris Cousens, said it was important to educate families to prevent child deaths.\n\nHe said: \"It is sobering to reveal that almost half of the children and young people were taking part in activities where they had not intended entering the water, just like Zac when the fatal incident occurred.\"", "\"Danish Patriots\" in Copenhagen: Their Quran-burning followed similar anti-Islam acts in Stockholm\n\nIraq and some other Muslim-majority countries have strongly condemned the burning of a Quran on Monday by a group called \"Danish Patriots\" outside the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen.\n\nThe far-right group livestreamed a similar act on Facebook on Friday.\n\nNearly 1,000 demonstrators in Baghdad tried to reach the Danish embassy after that incident.\n\nLast week, crowds set fire to Sweden's embassy in Baghdad after the planned burning of a Quran in Stockholm.\n\nIn Monday's incident in Denmark, two anti-Islam protesters stamped on the holy book and set it alight in a tin foil tray next to an Iraqi flag on the ground.\n\nIraq's foreign ministry said such acts allowed \"the virus of extremism and hate\" to pose \"a real threat to the peaceful coexistence of societies\".\n\nMuslims consider the Quran to be the word of God and view any intentional damage or show of disrespect towards it as deeply offensive.\n\nThe latest desecration of the book in the Danish capital also triggered a rally by thousands of protesters in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, who voiced anger at both Denmark and Sweden for allowing such acts.\n\nTurkey called the incident a \"despicable attack\" on the Quran, while the Algerian foreign ministry summoned the Danish ambassador and Swedish charge d'affaires to condemn the acts.\n\nIran also protested on Saturday over the earlier desecrations. Local media in Qatar reported that Souq Al Baladi, the country's biggest market, had removed Swedish products in protest.\n\nIn a tweet, Denmark's foreign ministry said: \"Denmark condemns today's burning of the Quran carried out by very few individuals.\n\n\"These provocative and shameful acts do not represent the views of the Danish government. Appeal to all to deescalate - violence must never be the response.\"\n\nIn Baghdad on Saturday, security forces used tear gas to prevent large crowds from reaching the Danish embassy. Bridges leading to the city's fortified Green Zone, home to many foreign embassies, were closed.\n\nLast Friday, Sweden evacuated its embassy staff from Baghdad after the building was stormed by protesters - mainly followers of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Iraq also expelled the Swedish ambassador.\n\nThis came after an Iraqi Christian refugee had been given permission by Swedish police to burn a Quran in Stockholm for the second time. He stamped on the book but did not set fire to it.\n\nThe Stockholm protests were allowed to go ahead after courts overturned a police ban, citing the legal right to freedom of assembly.\n\nSwedish authorities have condemned the burning of the holy book as Islamophobic.\n\nThousands of Yemenis voiced anger at Sweden and Denmark over desecration of the Quran", "David Goodwillie has said he would be willing to face a criminal trial\n\nProsecutors have been asked to consider re-opening criminal proceedings against David Goodwillie.\n\nThe Crown Office dropped rape charges against the former Scotland international in 2011 after it said there was \"insufficient evidence\".\n\nGoodwillie was ruled to be a rapist in a civil case but said recently he would be willing to face a criminal trial.\n\nA lawyer representing victim Denise Clair told BBC Scotland they have asked prosecutors to re-examine the case.\n\nThomas Ross KC, who has written to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), said he would also explore options for a private prosecution.\n\nGoodwillie would be able to object to a future criminal case because he was given an assurance he would not be prosecuted again after the case was dropped in 2011, according to Mr Ross.\n\nBut speaking out earlier this month for the first time since the 2017 civil case, the footballer told the Anything Goes podcast he would be willing to go to a criminal court to clear his name.\n\nMr Ross told BBC Scotland that the case was one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the last 12 or 13 years.\n\n\"A woman feels she was really badly let down by the Crown Office in 2011.\n\n\"We also on the other hand have a young man who says his career has been blighted because of that decision and all I'm saying to the Crown Office is well let's have a look at it.\n\n\"If she wants to go to the criminal court and he wants to go to the criminal court, why don't we go?\"\n\nA COPFS spokesperson said: \"We understand that the decision not to prosecute continues to cause great upset to Ms Clair.\n\n\"The solicitor general, on behalf of the law officers, will consider the points raised by Ms Clair's legal representatives.\"\n\nGoodwillie's podcast appearance was released days after he turned out for ninth-tier side Glasgow United FC in a friendly match.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland said the club had sent a \"clear message of disregard\" to survivors of rape and sexual violence, while Glasgow City Council has threatened to bar the club from its training facility if it signs the former Dundee United, Aberdeen and Blackburn player.\n\nGlasgow United FC has not confirmed if Goodwillie has been signed.\n\nThe club told BBC Scotland they would not walk away from the player and said there had been a \"witch hunt\" against him.\n\nGlasgow United FC have been warned by the council over access to their training facility\n\nIn 2017, Goodwillie and former Dundee United teammate David Robertson were ordered to pay £100,000 in damages after a judge ruled they raped Ms Clair at a flat in Armadale, West Lothian, in 2011.\n\nNeither faced a criminal trial over the rape accusation after prosecutors said there was not enough evidence.\n\nRobertson retired from football aged 30 in the days after the ruling, while Goodwillie left English side Plymouth Argyle by \"mutual agreement\".\n\nHowever, the forward soon signed with Scottish League One side Clyde, who he played for more than 100 times and captained before leaving in 2022.\n\nRaith Rovers sparked outrage by signing Goodwillie in January 2022 and a loan move back to Clyde also collapsed.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland described the Raith Rovers move as another \"clear message of disregard\" to survivors of rape and sexual violence.\n\nThe forward was released without playing a game in September 2022, with Raith Rovers admitting it \"got it wrong\" by signing him.\n\nIn February this year, Northern Premier League side Radcliffe FC, based in Bury, Greater Manchester, released the striker after one game following a public outcry.\n\nFour months later, Goodwillie's contract with Australian semi-professional club Sorrento FC was rescinded. The club apologised to anyone \"that may have been caused offence by his signing\".", "Workers taking down the Twitter sign at its San Francisco headquarters paused their work after police arrived at the scene.\n\nThe sign change came after Twitter owner Elon Musk rebranded the social media company to X.\n\nPolice in San Francisco told the news site Insider that officers at the HQ were responding to \"a possible unpermitted street closure.\"\n\nThe owners of the building were allegedly not told about the sign removal, local media also reported.\n\nWorkers managed to take down most of the lettering before their efforts were paused, leaving the letters e and r in place.\n\nRead more about Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand here.", "The NHS turns 75 on Wednesday, but the landmark anniversary has been greeted with dire warnings it is unlikely to survive until its 100th birthday without drastic change. So what is the solution? From sin taxes to cutting back on medical treatment for the dying, experts have their say.\n\nWhen the NHS was created the main focus was on short bouts of treatment for injury and infection, but now the challenge is completely different.\n\nThe ageing population means huge numbers of people are living with chronic health problems, such as heart disease, dementia and diabetes that require long-term care and for which there is no cure.\n\nIt is already estimated about £7 out of every £10 spent in the NHS goes on people with these conditions. On average, those over 65 have at least two.\n\nAnd the situation is only going to worsen. \"The numbers are going to grow,\" Health Foundation director of research and economics Anita Charlesworth says. \"The baby boomer generation is reaching old age.\n\n\"Their health is going to be shaped by the lives they have lived - and they are a generation that have lived through the rapid increase in obesity. Their ill health is baked in. The next two decades are going to be very challenging.\"\n\nIncreases in the NHS budget will be needed but this must be accompanied by a shift in how resources are distributed, she says, so more is spent \"upstream\" in the community, including on social care, which sits outside the NHS, and prevention, to help people better manage their conditions without hospital care.\n\nBut given the amount of public money spent on the NHS has been rising ever since the health service was created - it now accounts for more than 40p out of every £1 spent on day-to-day public services, once things such as welfare are excluded - many are asking whether such spending is sustainable.\n\nFormer Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who has floated the idea of charging to see a GP, arguing the NHS should be willing to learn from the approaches adopted by other countries, has called the current direction of travel \"unsustainable\".\n\nBut Ms Charlesworth, who used to be director of public spending at the Treasury, says extra money can be found, pointing out countries around the world are having to do the same.\n\n\"This is not unique to the the UK and our system,\" she says. \"It is a global phenomenon. But increasing investment in the NHS is going to require economic growth - without that, you have to cut other services or increase taxation.\"\n\nHealthcare spending should be seen as an investment in the country, rather than a cost, Ms Charlesworth says, pointing to data showing 2.5 million people are out of work because of poor health - equating to one person off long-term sick for every 13 in work.\n\n\"Economic growth depends on good health,\" she says, \"but at the moment, we have got too many people on waiting lists - and there is a particular problem with mental health too.\"\n\nKing's Fund chief policy analyst Siva Anandaciva, who recently produced a report for the think tank looking at how the NHS compared with other rich nations, says as much as 5-6% extra a year may be needed in the short-term to tackle the immediate problems with the backlog and ageing infrastructure - the boost to the workforce announced by the government last week will take years to have an impact.\n\nHis report showed how the NHS had fewer staff and less equipment such as scanners than many other comparable countries - and to those who suggest a different model of funding may be needed, made it clear the findings were not an argument for moving to another system, adding there was little evidence any one particular approach was inherently better than another.\n\n\"History tells us that we do need to spend more on the NHS,\" Mr Anandaciva says. \"Anything less than 2% is managed decline - and what we are spending now 3-4% is just standing still.\"\n\nHe says that will likely mean investing a greater proportion of public spending on the NHS, but says digital technology can make savings in other spending areas whereas the NHS is heavily reliant on labour. \"At some point you will need a nurse to provide care,\" he adds.\n\nLife expectancy gains since the NHS' creation have not been matched by increases in healthy life expectancy - on average, people are now expected to spend more than 20 years living in ill-health, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\n\"We had hoped that medical advances would lead to people both living longer and living longer in good health - but that has not happened,\" Mr Anandaciva says. \"It will require us to become much more active and healthier.\"\n\nMany of the factors that influence the way people live are outside the NHS' control, he says. These so-called social determinants include education, work, housing and neighbourhoods.\n\nMr Anandaciva would like to see employers in particular more involved in the health of their workforce and backs the use of \"sin taxes\" such as minimum pricing for alcohol and levies on sugar and salt to influence behaviour.\n\nBut he says there will also need to be an honest debate on where to prioritise that spending. \"At the end of life, our use of healthcare gets more intense and costs more,\" Mr Anandaciva says. \"Would money be better used elsewhere?\"\n\nIt is a point also made by Prof Sir David Haslam, who used to chair the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, which decides what treatments should be made available on the NHS.\n\nSir David, who has written a book, Side Effects, about the challenges facing the NHS, says there needs to be more focus on getting \"most bang for our buck\".\n\nThere is too much focus on drugs and treatment that simply extend life rather than services that support people to live in good health, he says.\n\n\"For example, research has shown seeing the same GP for years reduces hospital admissions significantly,\" Sir David says. \"If that was a drug, we would hail it as a wonder treatment - but instead, we've watched the number of GPs fall.\"\n\nHe says the medical profession overall is too \"super-specialised\" and calls for more generalists in the community and hospital to treat \"the individual rather than their organs\".\n\n\"It's so wasteful - patients with six or seven conditions can spend all their time going to different hospital departments, seeing different people, often with poor co-ordination between them,\" Sir David says.\n\nAnd he also questions the amount of medical intervention at the end of life.\n\n\"Too many frail elderly patients are dying in hospital when that may be a completely inappropriate place,\" Sir David says.\n\n\"We have over-medicalised the end of life. When I die, I want to be in the place that is my home, with good care being provided. This is not about rationing care, it is about providing rational care.\"", "The number of people living in temporary accommodation in England has hit a 25-year high, according to the latest official figures.\n\nAlmost 105,000 households were in temporary accommodation, including more than 131,000 children, on 31 March this year.\n\nThis figure is 10% up on the same day last year, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities data shows.\n\nIn Plymouth, one mum told BBC News of cramped conditions living in a hotel.\n\nThis latest figure for temporary accommodation surpasses a previous high of 101,300 reached in 2004, and is the highest since records began in 1998.\n\nThe figures also show almost 14,000 households were in hotels or bed and breakfasts in the three months to March.\n\nSitting outside a hotel in Plymouth earlier this month, we found several homeless families keeping each other company.\n\nThe busiest was Chantelle Walton, tending to her two children.\n\nJack is just five weeks old and has only ever known the one hotel room that he shares with his parents and 17-month-old sister, Lily.\n\nChantelle and her family were made homeless four months ago in a no-fault eviction\n\nChantelle says the family were made homeless four months ago after being served with a Section 21 notice, or no-fault eviction.\n\n\"Its very difficult,\" says the 21-year-old. \"He wakes up crying for a bottle and wakes her up, and she thinks it's morning and gets up.\"\n\nTheir room has a small fridge and a microwave, \"so we can sterilise his bottles\". The lack of any decent cooking facilities means - like the dozens of other families in the hotel - they often have to eat out.\n\nEven though her partner works full-time as an engineer, their age, says Chantelle, is working against them: \"Because we're so young, no-one will take you on without a guarantor, and we don't have a guarantor.\"\n\nThere are currently more than 200 families living in hotels and bed and breakfasts in Plymouth, and the local council estimates it will spend £6.8m supporting them this year, about 10 times more than five years ago.\n\n\"The whole system's broken,\" says Chris Penberthy, the lead member for housing.\n\n\"We don't have enough affordable housing for people who need it. So our waiting list has gone from 8,000 to 12,500 in the last three years.\n\n\"That means that when people are in temporary accommodation, there's nowhere for them to move to, which means that there's nowhere for people in bed and breakfast to move to.\"\n\nThe figures also show a sharp rise in homelessness in older people, in the year to 31 March, with a 33.3% increase in the number of homeless households with a priority need due to old age.\n\nAt the root of the problem, say campaigners, is a lack of housing, exacerbated by a decision by ministers to freeze local housing allowance rates for the past three years.\n\nAmid soaring rents, that choice has left much of the country unaffordable for any household needing housing benefit to help pay their rent, while in many areas, landlords are leaving the sector.\n\nDorothy Dawson has been renting out her home in Devon for 16 years but recently agreed to sell the property, blaming government plans to ban no-fault evictions in England and rising costs.\n\n\"My buy-to-let mortgage is going to triple. The council tax between tenants has gone up, the standing charges on the utilities have gone up. It's not worth it,\" she says.\n\nShelter says the instability of private renting is a major contributor to rising homelessness.\n\nThe charity is urging ministers to press ahead with the Renters (Reform) Bill, to ban no-fault evictions.\n\n\"It must be made law at the earliest opportunity,\" chief executive Polly Neate said.\n\nCrisis chief executive Matt Downie said: \"Once again, we see the crippling cost that years of no investment in housing benefit and a shameful lack of social house building is having by trapping families in temporary accommodation.\"\n\nA government official said it had \"given £2bn over three years to help local authorities tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, targeted to areas where it is needed most\".\n\n\"The government is also improving availability of social housing,\" the official said.\n\n\"We are committed to delivering 300,000 new homes per year and investing £11.5bn to build the affordable quality homes this country needs.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Thousands of people have been evacuated from wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes.\n\nTourists have fled from their hotels to emergency shelters, while some holidaymakers returning to the UK described people being covered in ash and still smelling of smoke from the fires.", "In April, most frontline officers and staff were told they would need to be clean shaven\n\nPolice Scotland has postponed a new clean-shaven policy after taking health and safety advice and listening to officers, the force has said.\n\nThe policy, already delayed from May, would need many frontline officers and staff to remove beards and moustaches.\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation (SPF), the LGBTI Police Association and others criticised the plans and four officers took legal action.\n\nPolice Scotland said the policy would be reviewed again in 12 months.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Speirs said: \"I am very grateful to all divisions, staff associations and unions who provided valuable feedback during the consultation phase.\n\n\"Postponing implementation allows further examination of the evidence base for a policy which is proportionate and justifies change, particularly where that changes has a significant impact on officers and staff.\n\n\"This work will be reviewed in 12 months to ensure we reach an agreed position on a policy which has the health and safety of our people at its core.\"\n\nThe clean-shaven policy was designed to allow officers to wear protective masks\n\nIn April, ACC Speirs had written a message on the force's internal website saying, with some exceptions, frontline officers and staff would need to be clean shaven so they could wear protective FFP3 masks.\n\nHe said the implementation of the policy had been approved by the chief constable and it was due to be introduced on 29 May.\n\nBut the force had not carried out a consultation at this point and the SPF, which represents rank-and-file police officers, said it had been inundated with complaints.\n\nPolice Scotland told the BBC it took the decision to postpone after seeking further health and safety advice and listening to the \"lived experience of its people\".\n\nThe federation's general secretary, David Kennedy, said: \"It was highly criticised from all areas of the service and whether to delay indefinitely, or until proper understanding as to why such a policy would ever be required, can only be described as the correct decision. \"\n\nPolice Scotland did not confirm whether any agreement had been reached with the four male officers who took legal action in relation to facial hair.", "Dewi George admitted perverting the course of justice\n\nA man has been jailed for accepting speeding points on behalf of his 17-year-old son, just months before the teen was involved in a fatal crash.\n\nDewi George, 44, pretended to have been driving the car at the time of the speeding offence - despite actually being at his place of work.\n\nThree months later, his son was involved in a fatal crash in which two people died.\n\nGeorge pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard a police speed camera caught an image of an Alfa Romeo speeding on Cockett Road, Swansea, on 28 February 2022.\n\nProsecution barrister Sian Cutter said because the \"image was blurred\", the male behind the wheel could not be clearly identified.\n\nGeorge, of Birchgrove in Swansea, admitted to the offence in response to a Notice of Intended Prosecution and accepted a speed awareness course as punishment.\n\nBut the court heard that this version of events was \"not possible\" after automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) records, and George's boss, confirmed that he was in fact at work in Cardiff at the time.\n\nFurther police investigations revealed that George's son was \"in the vicinity of the speed camera at 12:05 on that day\".\n\nThe court heard George told officers \"his son had only just passed his test\" and he was therefore \"worried his son would be banned from driving\".\n\nJudge Thomas KC said this meant George's son \"was not in any way sanctioned\" and got away \"scot-free\".\n\nThe judge noted that a few months later on 31 May 2022, George's son \"had three passengers in his car\" when the vehicle crashed at a petrol station in Bishopston, Swansea.\n\n\"Tragically two young people died and a third was seriously injured,\" the judge continued.\n\n\"Although I am not making any assumptions about that incident, the anger of the families of those children must be immense and if they draw a correlation between the two events, who can possibly blame them.\"\n\nThe judge continued: \"He learnt no lesson other than his father would lie to get him off the hook and within three months he was behind the wheel of that Alfa Romeo when two young people lost their lives.\n\n\"Had it not been for that, your deception would have gone unnoticed.\"\n\nMembers of the victims' families wept in the public gallery as the judge continued to address George in the dock.\n\n\"Even after you knew two young people had died, you continued to pretend you were the driver,\" the judge said.\n\n\"You even went on a speed awareness course two weeks after.\"\n\nDefence counsel Kate Williams said George had taken his son's speeding points out of \"misplaced loyalty\".\n\nGeorge pleaded guilty to one count of perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to four months in prison.\n\nJudge Thomas said he was convinced George's remorse was \"sincere\" and acknowledged the impact the sentence would have on his family who, by George's own admission, he had \"let down\".", "Laura Whitmore: \"I've learned you need to question things you're not okay with and don't understand\"\n\nBroadcaster Laura Whitmore is arguably most famous for appearing on shows with a \"fluffy façade\", such as Love Island and Celebrity Juice, but her upcoming TV series could not be more different.\n\nIt started as a documentary idea about incels - young men describing themselves as \"involuntarily celibate\", who hold misogynistic beliefs, with some launching violent attacks.\n\nBut this soon morphed into two more episodes on rough sex and cyber stalking.\n\n\"Although I've worked on things that might have a fluffy façade, I've always dealt with dark situations - we all do in life,\" she tells the BBC.\n\nHer goal was for the series to explore topics that are \"really important, and that I feel are worth it\".\n\nThe result was ITV's Laura Whitmore Investigates. We see her flex her editorial muscles, having done a journalism degree at the start of her career.\n\nITV's controller of factual programmes, Jo Clinton Davis, has said the issues in the series \"feel like peculiarly 21st Century threats emerging from, or aggravated by, our online world\".\n\nWhitmore is hoping to offer a fresh perspective, saying: \"I think it hasn't really been looked at this way, from a female who is known probably from a more entertainment, glitzy side.\"\n\nIt is quite a juxtaposition with her recent work on ITV, as former host of reality dating show Love Island, and team captain on comedy panel series Celebrity Juice.\n\nWhitmore, with dance partner Giovanni Pernice, took part in Strictly in 2016\n\nShe has tackled serious issues before, however, joining campaigners in 2018 calling for the criminalisation of upskirting, the taking of an image or video under somebody's clothing.\n\nWhitmore was not afraid to tackle the complex, often troubling documentary subject matter, even if it meant putting herself into uncomfortable situations.\n\n\"I came into this to try, as much as I could, to be without prejudice - a blank canvas - because they're not necessarily my stories,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm a female in her 30s who has definitely dealt with misogyny - but not to the extremes that a lot of women and men who I talk to.\n\n\"One thing I've learned over my career is that you need to question things you're not okay with and don't understand. And you can completely change your mind.\"\n\nIn the cyber stalking episode, Whitmore reveals that she herself has been stalked.\n\nShe tells the BBC: \"I had an incident, and at the time, I was told, 'It's just part of the world you live in; that's the job you do,' and it was common to have to deal with it.\"\n\nWhitmore gained a lot more understanding of cyber stalking after making the documentary\n\nWhitmore meets cyber-stalking victims and spends time with the UK's first special stalking police unit, learning what can be done to properly tackle the problem.\n\nShe also speaks to a tech company helping victims by \"stalking the stalkers\" to reveal their identity.\n\n\"We are a lot more vulnerable than we know,\" she says.\n\n\"People have access to us in a way I couldn't possibly understand beforehand.\n\n\"It's not just stalking someone hiding in the bushes outside your house, this is ex-partners still having control over the Alexa in the house and the heating, and ordering pizza in the middle of the night.\n\n\"If you add all these together, it is harassment. And I can see what it's done to victims. A lot of them don't want to leave their house now.\"\n\nWhitmore does not shy away from exposing her own vulnerabilities in the series, something which was also very apparent the day after her friend Caroline Flack took her own life in 2020.\n\nFighting back tears on her Radio 5 Live show, she paid tribute to the \"vivacious\" and \"loving\" ex-Love Island host and appealed to listeners to \"be kind\" to others.\n\n\"I think I did it because I needed to do if I'm honest with you, at that time. I said what I needed to say. But I still don't think I've fully dealt with that if I'm honest.\"\n\nWhitmore also reveals she had an unexpected response after interviewing an incel in the US with a big social media following, for the documentary series.\n\nShe admits she had been \"nervous\", given he was so openly hostile to women.\n\n\"I'm leaving myself vulnerable. So I'm not gonna lie. I was a little bit hesitant,\" she says. \"But you don't get anywhere in life burying your head in the sand.\n\nThe interviewee did not show his face to her.\n\n\"I was really surprised... he was wearing a mask - that could be quite a intimidating situation.\n\n\"And then l left feeling sorry for the man I've interviewed. That wasn't expected.\n\n\"This was a man who from a young age needed help and never got it.\"\n\nShe stresses that while she does not in any way condone his views and videos, she did gain much more understanding, having heard him talk about his early life.\n\n\"And I think when we understand the why, we're like, 'Well, how do we stop that? Is there a way we can reach out and help them?'\"\n\nWhitmore feels that we \"we don't deal with or talk about\" difficult issues enough\", which is why she's keen to raise difficult issues in her series.\n\n\"I know I've been in situations before where it's easier to say nothing than be uncomfortable. But I think it's important to be uncomfortable,\" she adds.\n\nThe rough sex episode is a case in point.\n\nWhitmore is exploring its \"dark side\", and asks whether \"increasingly liberal attitudes to sex promote sexual violence\".\n\nWe see her attend a BDSM workshop and a pornographic film shoot.\n\n\"I grew up in Catholic Ireland and went to a convent school, and you didn't really talk about sex, and were kind of a bit embarrassed,\" she says.\n\n\"There's so much more conversation around the importance of consent than I thought, when it comes to talking about what we are okay with - and not okay with.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christa Gheista, a sex worker activist and former dominatrix, explains the rules of consent to the BBC\n\nIn the same episode, we see her meet the families and victims of rough sex.\n\nWhitmore asks if BDSM culture has \"given men the excuse they need to get away with murder\", highlighting the women killed by men who have gone on to claim in court it was a \"sex game gone wrong\".\n\nThis episode had the biggest impact on her personally.\n\n\"I think that's because I spoke to so many victims' families,\" she says.\n\n\"I started my career in a newsroom, and always thought I wasn't built for it because I was probably too emotional as a person. I found it really hard to step away. And I still do now.\"\n\nWe see her crying on camera when she speaks to the relatives.\n\n\"I think with documentary making, it's okay to have a bit of emotion in there,\" she explains. \"But I found that really hard.\"\n\nAs associate producer, she was also able to tell the families and women she spoke to about the documentary as a whole.\n\n\"I said to them,'Look, I'm going to BDSM workshops at the start but that's nothing to do with this part of it.' So I felt at least I have a chance to look at the edit and go, 'Can we move this around?'\n\n\"I feel really protective over how we display those interviews, and how they're done.\"\n\nWhitmore, who also enjoys working on entertainment shows, appeared on BBC Radio 1 to discuss her time on Strictly\n\nWhitmore, whose career also includes hosting podcasts and starring in West End supernatural thriller 2:22, says making the documentaries was also about \"claiming my power... and personal autonomy\".\n\n\"I'm in my 30s now, so it's very different from when I started out on MTV in my early 20s.\"\n\nBut she doesn't think she could do documentaries full-time.\n\n\"I still love entertainment. I think I need both,\" she says.\n\nLaura Whitmore Investigates is available to stream on ITVX from 27 July", "Radiographers, who perform vital scans on patients, begin a 48-hour strike at 08:00 on Tuesday in parts of England.\n\nStaff at 37 NHS trusts are staging walkouts over pay.\n\nThe government says its offer of a 5% pay rise combined with one-off payments totalling at least £1,655 is \"reasonable\" and \"final\".\n\nPatients can expect disruption to services - but staffing levels akin to those during bank holidays will provide \"life and limb\" emergency cover.\n\nThe Society of Radiographers said nine out of every 10 NHS patients were supported by radiographers, who perform X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerised-tomography (CT) scans, ultrasounds and breast screening, as well as radiotherapy for cancer patients.\n\nA million patients are awaiting scans, it says, contributing to the backlog of more than 7 million people who are waiting for planned NHS treatment.\n\nAnyone needing urgent medical care should come forward as normal, especially in emergency and life-threatening situations if seriously ill or injured.\n\nNHS medical director for secondary care Dr Vin Diwakar said: \"People should continue to use the NHS as they usually would and attend their appointments as normal, unless they have been informed it has been rearranged.\"\n\nJohn Kelly told BBC News he was striking over morale and job pressures, as well as pay.\n\n\"We see the care we are wanting to give to patients decreasing in quality, because we haven't got the time or the availability,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a huge amount of pressure. Obviously nine out of 10 patients that come through the NHS through our doors are going to be seeing a radiographer at some point during their journey.\n\n\"With seven million people on the waiting list, it's absolutely massive that we need to get these people treated, diagnosed. We need to work as fast as possible.\"\n\nNHS radiographer John Kelly told BBC News he was striking over morale and job pressures, as well as pay\n\nIt takes years to become a radiographer. People need a degree or postgraduate qualification and can then expect to earn between around £28,500 and £42,600 a year, depending on experience and how long they have been in the role.\n\nMore than 20,000 Society of Radiographers members were balloted.\n\nDean Rogers, from the Society of Radiographers, said: \"Voting for strike action was a difficult decision for our members, who care above all about the safety and wellbeing of their patients.\n\n\"We need to draw attention to the fact that many radiography professionals are feeling burnt out by low pay and increased hours. They're leaving the NHS, and they are not being replaced in adequate numbers.\n\n\"If the government wants to reduce NHS waiting lists and ensure that patients receive the treatment they need, when they need it, then it must urgently prioritise the recruitment and retention of radiography professionals - and that means talking to us about pay and conditions.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"I want to see an end to disruptive strikes so the NHS can focus relentlessly on cutting waiting lists and delivering for patients.\n\n\"The majority of unions on the NHS Staff Council voted to accept the government's fair and reasonable offer of a 5% pay rise for 2023-24, alongside two significant one-off payments totalling at least £1,655, putting more money in their pockets now.\n\n\"Over a million NHS staff, including radiographers, are already benefiting from that pay rise. The NHS also recently published the first ever NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, to recruit and retain hundreds of thousands more staff.\"\n\nAre you a radiographer with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Authorities on the islands of Rhodes and Corfu say fires are continuing to spread due to strong winds\n\nBritish tourists continue to cut short their holidays as fires burn on the Greek island of Rhodes.\n\nMore flights left Greece on Tuesday to bring holidaymakers back to the UK.\n\nThe Foreign Office updated its guidance, telling people travelling to areas that might be affected to make sure they had \"appropriate insurance\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have urged ministers to advise against going to Rhodes unless essential, to help with travel insurance claims.\n\nJet2 had nine flights scheduled to depart Rhodes on Tuesday, some of which had spare seats to accommodate extra passengers trying to leave the island.\n\nEasyJet said extra seats were available on Wednesday's flights.\n\nEarlier, one of the airline's pilots flying British tourists to Rhodes urged passengers at Gatwick to get off the plane before take-off.\n\n\"I don't know in what capacity you are travelling, but if you are travelling for leisure, my sincere recommendation is that it's a bad idea,\" the pilot told passengers on board.\n\nBBC Wales correspondent Gwyn Loader, who was travelling to Rhodes to report on the wildfires, said eight passengers took the pilot up on the offer, including one young boy in tears.\n\nOn Monday morning, Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell said up to 10,000 Brits were on Rhodes in total - this number includes tourists in unaffected parts of the island.\n\nJet2 - which ran repatriation flights to Manchester, Leeds-Bradford, Glasgow and Stansted overnight - said \"approximately 1,000 customers\" had either been flown back to the UK or moved to hotels in unaffected areas.\n\nEasyJet has cancelled outbound package holidays to Rhodes until Saturday, while Tui has cancelled its packages going to the south of the island until 11 August.\n\nAccording to the Tui website, packages to the north of Rhodes will recommence from 29 July.\n\nInstead of formally advising holidaymakers not to travel to the affected Greek islands, the Foreign Office said people should check with their hotel and travel operator before travelling, and explained how to sign up for emergency alerts.\n\nUpdated advice said the fires were taking place \"in populated areas on the mainland and a number of islands\" and were \"highly dangerous and unpredictable\".\n\nThe Foreign Office advised those visiting the affected areas to make sure they had \"appropriate insurance\", and directed travellers towards a number of resources they could use if they were near the wildfires.\n\nEarlier, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said he was still planning on going holiday to Greece next week. He told Sky News he was going to Evia, one of the islands that has issued an evacuation order.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that Greece was \"safe\" and a \"wonderful place for those fortunate enough to go abroad to spend some time this summer\".\n\nBut the government's advice was criticised in the House of Lords by Labour's Baroness Angela Smith, who urged the government to \"rethink\" its guidance.\n\nLiberal Democrats foreign affairs spokeswoman Layla Moran called for a change in travel advice to \"enable the thousands of British tourists due to fly to Rhodes to safely cancel their holidays without being left out of pocket\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel magazine, said many travellers would not be able to claim a refund using travel insurance without a formal government travel warning.\n\n\"There will be some cover, but it won't be great,\" Mr Boland warned. \"Insurance won't, as a rule, make allowances for 'disinclination to travel'.\"\n\nTrain operator London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is offering free travel to holidaymakers returning from Rhodes and Corfu.\n\nThe company said standard travel along its east coast route would come at no cost for anyone who landed at a different airport from their home location or had to travel on a different day.\n\nCustomers should present their stamped passport and airline boarding card confirming travel from the islands within the previous 24 hours to use the service between 25 July and 7 August.\n\nCoach company National Express is offering free travel too for those who arrive at a different UK airport than they flew out from.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Our houses might not be there tomorrow\" - resident evacuated from Rhodes fire\n\nIn an update, fire brigade deputy chief Ioannis Artophios said the most serious fires were developing in Rhodes and in Corfu. Crete - the largest of the Greek Islands - has been put on high alert because of an extreme risk of fire.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, two Greek air force pilots died after a water-bombing plane crashed on the island of Evia while fighting wildfires.\n\nThey were named as 34-year-old Cdr Christos Moulas and his co-pilot, 27-year-old Pericles Stefanidis.\n\nRescuers at the site of the plane crash after a water drop in Karystos on the island of Evia, Greece\n\nIn the last week, more than 35,000 hectares (86,500 acres) of forest and other land has been scorched by fire in Greece, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature said.\n\nGreek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told his cabinet the next three days \"will be difficult\" but he hoped conditions will ease from Friday.\n\n\"Let me state the obvious,\" he said. \"That in the face of what the entire planet is facing, especially the Mediterranean, which is a hotspot for climate change, there is no magic defence.\n\n\"If there was, obviously we would have implemented it.\"\n\nCould powerful heatwaves and summer wildfires, which have devastated communities and displaced tourists in Greece, become the new normal in Europe?\n\nAre you affected by the wildfires? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A pair of rare Apple trainers are being sold by auction house Sotheby's for $50,000 (£38,969).\n\nThe shoes were custom-made for employees only in the 1990s and were a one-time giveaway at a conference.\n\nA pair have never been sold to the public before.\n\nFeaturing a predominately white leather upper, \"a standout detail\" is the old rainbow Apple logo on both the tongue and next to the laces and will be \"highly coveted\", said Sotheby's.\n\nThe retailer described them as \"one of the most obscure in existence\", highlighting the rarity of the sneakers and their value on the resale market.\n\nWhile the Omega x Apple sneakers are \"new in the box\", the description says they do have some imperfections, including a yellowing around the midsoles.\n\nThe pair feature an air cushioning window in the heel and are a US size 10.5, European size 41 or UK 8.5. In the box there is also an alternative pair of red laces.\n\nOver time, Apple memorabilia has been rocketing in value and many of its retro gadgets are now collectors items selling for high prices - although not all of its items have been hits.\n\nThere was a traditional video game console called Pippin which was hugely overpriced, the ill-fated social network called Ping, and the Newton MessagePad which was described as a flop.\n\nOne of its more successful recent auctions include a first edition, unopened 4GB iPhone, which sold for over $190,000 (£145,000) at auction in the US.\n\nAlthough Apple is famed for its gadgets and innovations, on occasion tech fans have been able to purchase clothing and accessories from the brand.\n\nThere was an Apple collection clothing line which incorporated the rainbow logo and Macintosh computer imagery - it included T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts and hats.\n\nIt was intended to promote the Apple brand and create a sense of community - however, at the time it was not a major success and was discontinued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jon Erlichman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2015, Apple partnered with the luxury fashion brand Hermès to create a collection of watch straps. In 2020 it released a strap in celebration of black history month.\n\nFor employees there have been Apple Park jackets, designed for those working at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California.", "The boss of NatWest has admitted a \"serious error\" in talking about Nigel Farage's relationship with its private banking arm Coutts.\n\nDame Alison Rose said she was wrong to respond to questions from the BBC about Mr Farage's account being closed.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt has \"significant concerns\" about the conduct of Dame Alison, BBC News has been told.\n\nShe has faced calls to resign from Mr Farage and several Tory MPs including former cabinet minister David Davis.\n\nThe ex-UKIP leader had demanded NatWest explain how his financial information was made public as the row over his bank account closure escalated.\n\nNatWest said it still had full confidence in Dame Alison at the helm.\n\nDame Alison's apology comes after the BBC apologised on Monday for its inaccurate report earlier this month which said Mr Farage's account was closed because he no longer met the wealth threshold for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nMr Farage later secured a Coutts report which indicated his political views were also considered.\n\nThe banking group has been under mounting pressure to explain how information about Mr Farage's account closure had been disclosed.\n\nIn her first admission that she had been involved, Dame Alison said in conversations with BBC business editor Simon Jack \"she had confirmed that Mr Farage was a Coutts customer and he had been offered a NatWest bank account\".\n\nShe said she had believed this was public knowledge.\n\nThe NatWest boss said she did not reveal any personal financial information about Mr Farage.\n\n\"In response to a general question about eligibility criteria required to bank with Coutts and NatWest I said that guidance on both was publicly available on their websites.\n\n\"In doing so, I recognise that I left Mr Jack with the impression that the decision to close Mr Farage's accounts was solely a commercial one,\" she added.\n\nWhen Coutts decided to close Mr Farage's account, he said it did not give him a reason.\n\nMr Farage subsequently obtained a document looking at his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nThe 40-page document flagged concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and also questioned the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a client.\n\nIt said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts' \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nDame Alison said she had not been involved in the decision to close Mr Farage's account, but Coutts had told her it was for commercial reasons.\n\nShe said when she spoke to Mr Jack she had not seen the dossier obtained by Mr Farage.\n\n\"I was wrong to respond to any question raised by the BBC about this case. I want to extend my sincere apologies to Mr Farage for the personal hurt this has caused him and I have written to him today,\" she added.\n\nNatWest chairman Howard Davies said Dame Alison \"should not have spoken in the way she did\" and said it was a \"regrettable error of judgement on her part\".\n\nHe said the events would be considered when it made \"decisions on remuneration at the appropriate time\" but said she was an \"outstanding leader\" and it was in the \"interest of all the bank's shareholders and customers that she continues in post\".\n\nMr Davies said the bank would now conduct an independent review into \"the account closure arrangement at Coutts, and the lessons to be learnt from this\".\n\nThe financial regulator said it was \"vital\" those conducting the review had \"access to all the necessary information and people in order to investigate what happened swiftly and fully\".\n\nResponding on his show on GB News, Mr Farage, highlighted what he said was a discrepancy between the BBC's apology on Monday, which said the BBC had gone back to the source to check the information, and NatWest's statement on Tuesday.\"There is no way, if the BBC went back for a second time to confirm the story that they would not have checked that it was the balance of my account that led to that commercial decision.\"\"This is a complete failure in this regard of the Financial Conduct Authority,\" he said.\n\nOn Twitter, Mr Farage accused Dame Alison of breaking client confidentiality rules and said she was \"unfit to be CEO of NatWest Group\".", "Policing 515 protests has cost the equivalent of 23,500 officer shifts, the Met said\n\nA 13-week long campaign by Just Stop Oil (JSO) has cost the Met Police more than £7.7m, the force has revealed.\n\nThe Met said the cost of policing 515 protests carried out by JSO since April has amounted to the equivalent of 23,500 officer shifts.\n\nOver that time more than 270 people were arrested over the demonstrations, which included slow marches and the disruption of high-profile events.\n\nThe force called the action \"crime\", but JSO said it would continue.\n\nDuring the three months of JSO protests, the Met issued 420 section 12 orders to clear the city's roads.\n\nMet Assistant Commissioner Twist said: \"This isn't protest, this is crime, and there is a difference.\n\n\"The right to protest is strongly protected, but when you get into deliberately causing serious disruption, that tips over into crime,\" he told LBC.\n\nJust Stop Oil activists have been slow marching on London roads since April\n\nAs well as marching in main roads, activists have disrupted events including The Open, Wimbledon, the Ashes, the London Pride March and the Chelsea Flower Show.\n\nThe cost to the Met is on top of the £7.5m spent by the force policing JSO protest action between October and December last year.\n\nA spokesperson for Just Stop Oil said: \"Matt Twist has laid out the consequences of the Policing Act for all to see: legitimate protest is now classed as crime.\n\n\"This oil funded regime has us locked on for annihilation and will lock up anyone who dissents. But we will not die quietly. We will continue to resist until the government agrees to end new oil and gas.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look back at George Alagiah's extraordinary career at the BBC\n\nGeorge Alagiah, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.\n\nA statement from his agent said he \"died peacefully today, surrounded by his family and loved ones\".\n\nA fixture on British TV news for more than three decades, he presented the BBC News at Six for the past 20 years.\n\nBefore that, he was an award-winning foreign correspondent, reporting from countries ranging from Rwanda to Iraq.\n\nHe was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2014 and revealed in October 2022 that it had spread further.\n\nPaying tribute, his agent, Mary Greenham, said: \"George was deeply loved by everybody who knew him, whether it was a friend, a colleague or a member of the public.\n\n\"He simply was a wonderful human being. My thoughts are with Fran, the boys and his wider family,\" she said.\n\nAlagiah died earlier on Monday, but \"fought until the bitter end\", his agent added.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"Across the BBC, we are all incredibly sad to hear the news about George. We are thinking of his family at this time.\n\n\"He was more than just an outstanding journalist, audiences could sense his kindness, empathy and wonderful humanity. He was loved by all and we will miss him enormously.\"\n\nBBC World Affairs editor John Simpson tweeted: \"A gentler, kinder, more insightful and braver friend and colleague it would be hard to find.\"\n\nClive Myrie, presenting the BBC News at One, said: \"On a personal note, George touched all of us here in the newsroom, with his kindness and generosity, his warmth and good humour. We loved him here at BBC News, and I loved him as a mentor, colleague and friend.\"\n\nGeorge Alagiah was a fixture on British TV news for more than three decades\n\nFellow journalists including LBC's Sangita Myska, the Guardian's Pippa Crerar and Mark Austin of Sky News were among those to also pay tribute.\n\nAustin tweeted: \"This breaks my heart. A good man, a rival on the foreign correspondent beat but above all a friend. If good journalism is about empathy, and it often is, George Alagiah had it in spades.\"\n\n\"Growing up, when the BBC's George Alagiah was on TV my dad would shout \"George is on!\". We'd run to watch the man who inspired a generation of British Asian journalists. That scene was replicated across the UK. We thank you, George. RIP xx\"\n\nFormer BBC North American editor Jon Sopel wrote: \"Tributes will rightly be paid to a fantastic journalist and brilliant broadcaster - but George was the most decent, principled, kindest, most honourable man I have ever worked with. What a loss.\"\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner recalled Alagiah visiting him in hospital after he was shot and critically injured in an al-Qaeda attack in Saudia Arabia in 2004.\n\n\"He brought me his book A Passage to Africa, and we talked for hours about the continent he loved and spent so much of his career covering. A true journalist and a great author.\"\n\nAlagiah won awards for reports on the famine and war in Somalia in the early 1990s, and was nominated for a Bafta in 1994 for covering Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq.\n\nHe was also named Amnesty International's journalist of the year in 1994, for reporting on the civil war in Burundi, and was the first BBC journalist to report on the genocide in Rwanda.\n\nHe is pictured here working as a foreign correspondent in Baghdad\n\nGeorge Maxwell Alagiah was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, before moving to Ghana and then England in childhood.\n\nHis main childhood memory of Sri Lanka was leaving it. His parents were Christian Tamils; the country, then called Ceylon, mired in ethnic violence.\n\nHis father, Donald, was an engineer specialising in water distribution and irrigation. Feeling unwelcome and unsafe in his own land, he took his young family to Africa in search of a new and better life.\n\nThe family initially prospered in Ghana but Alagiah's parents decided to educate their children in England. At the age of 11, his father dropped him off at boarding school in Portsmouth; they both had to hold back the tears.\n\nReporting from outside the Houses of Parliament the day after the 2010 general election\n\nHis childhood of change and assimilation helped shape his personality and informed his professional judgement.\n\nThere was some racism. He was almost the only boy of colour; there were \"Bongo Bongo land\" taunts in the showers. He gave up asking people to say his name correctly (his family pronounced it, \"Uller-hiya\").\n\n\"In those days,\" he reflected \"you were almost apologetic if you had a 'funny name'.\" The alternative was to stick out like an \"exotic cactus in a bed of spring meadow plants\".\n\nBut, in some ways, his school in England - St John's College - was a closed and unreal society, which sealed him off from the huge social changes going on outside its walls. The anti-immigrant sentiment in many parts of the country was something that largely passed him by.\n\nAs he grew up, he became, he believed, the \"right sort\" of foreigner in a land where \"class trumps race every time\".\n\nLater, he attended Durham University, where he met, and later married, Frances Robathan.\n\nAfter graduating, he spent seven years at South Magazine, proud of its editorial line which painted an unequal world as an unstable one.\n\nHe joined the BBC as a foreign affairs correspondent in 1989 and then became Africa correspondent, the continent of his childhood.\n\nGeorge Alagiah, pictured in July of last year\n\nIt was often a depressing experience. He interviewed child soldiers in Liberia, victims of mass rape in Uganda and witnessed hunger and disease almost everywhere.\n\n\"There is a new generation in Africa\", he wrote, \"my generation, freedom's children, born and educated in those years of euphoria after independence, we have had a chance. We didn't do much with it.\"\n\nOne of his proudest professional moments came when he broadcast some of the first pictures of the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in 1999, he said.\n\nOther stories he covered in news reports and documentaries included the trade in human organs in India, street children in Brazil, civil war in Afghanistan and human rights violations in Ethiopia.\n\nHe interviewed figures including South African President Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.\n\nMoving to news presenting, he fronted the BBC One O'Clock News, Nine O'Clock News and BBC Four News, before being made one of the main presenters of the Six O'Clock News in 2003.\n\nHe anchored news programmes from Sri Lanka following the December 2004 tsunami, as well as reporting from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and from Pakistan following the South Asian earthquake in 2005.\n\nHe was appointed an OBE for services to journalism in 2008.\n\nAfter Alagiah's initial cancer diagnosis in 2014, the disease spread to his liver and lymph nodes, which needed chemotherapy and several operations, including one to remove most of his liver.\n\nHe said he was a \"richer person\" for the experience upon returning to presenting in 2015, and said working in the newsroom was \"such an important part of keeping energised and motivated\".\n\nHe had to take several further breaks from work to have treatment, and in January 2022 said he thought the cancer would \"probably get me in the end\", but that he still felt \"very lucky\".\n\nSpeaking on the Desperately Seeking Wisdom podcast in 2022, he said that when his cancer was first discovered, it took a while for him to understand what he \"needed to do\".\n\n\"I had to stop and say, 'Hang on a minute. If the full stop came now, would my life have been a failure?'\n\n\"And actually, when I look back and I looked at my journey... the family I had, the opportunities my family had, the great good fortune to bump into [Frances Robathan], who's now been my wife and lover for all these years, the kids that we brought up... it didn't feel like a failure.\"\n\nAlagiah had two children with Frances.\n\nMost people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer, but the NHS advice is to see your GP if you have one or more of the symptoms and they have persisted for more than four weeks.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.", "Palermo’s international airport was shut down overnight as fires burned around its perimeter. The wildfire is one of several on the island of Sicily and has spread due to windy conditions.\n\nSouthern Italy has been sweltering through weeks of extreme heat. On Monday, temperatures in Palermo reached a record 47C (116F).", "A US man who was jailed by Russia for nearly three years before being released in a 2022 prisoner swap has been injured while fighting in Ukraine.\n\nEx-US Marine Trevor Reed was hurt while fighting against Russia's invasion, the US State Department said on Tuesday.\n\nOfficials add that he \"was not engaged in any activities on behalf of the US government\" and reiterated that Americans should not travel to Ukraine.\n\nMr Reed has been transported to Germany by a non-governmental organisation.\n\nState Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said at a briefing that US officials \"are aware\" of Mr Reed's injuries and the fact that he has been taken to Germany for treatment.\n\n\"We have been incredibly clear that traveling to Ukraine, choosing to participate in the fighting there, has a very real risk of capture, of death, of bodily harm, and that continues to be our assessment,\" Mr Patel said.\n\nThe circumstances of Mr Reed's injuries - and how or when he came to fight for Ukraine - are not clear. Officials tell US media he was injured in eastern Ukraine before being taken to hospital in Kyiv and then sent on to Germany.\n\nThe Messenger, which first reported Mr Reed's injuries, says he suffered shrapnel wounds from stepping on a land mine two weeks ago.\n\nAccording to CBS News, the BBC's US partner, sources say he is being treated at a military faculty in the German town of Landstuhl for a laceration to an extremity.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Reed was convicted in Russia of fighting with police officers while on a drunken night out.\n\nThe US had deemed him to be wrongfully detained in Russia, calling his trial \"theatre of the absurd\".\n\nHe was released in 2022 in exchange for a Russian pilot who had been convicted in the US of cocaine smuggling charges.\n\nThe US is currently working to free two Americans also considered to be wrongfully detained in Russia - businessman Paul Whelan and journalist Evan Gershkovich.\n\nRussia and Ukraine have not yet commented on Mr Reed's injuries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Trevor Reed's parents get choked up reacting to their sons release from Russian jail\n\nDavid Whelan, a brother of Paul Whelan, said in a statement: \"I'm sorry to hear that he's been injured. But a hostage's release isn't an end point.\n\n\"They have to live with the aftermath after the hostage takers and others move on. I can't imagine the anger, vengeance, and grief they must feel.\n\n\"I hope he finds some peace now.\"\n• None Parents' joy at Russia's release of US Marine son", "Gretchen Harrington exuded kindness to all, said her family\n\nA retired US church pastor who presided nearly half a century ago at the funeral of a kidnapped eight-year-old girl has been charged with her murder.\n\nGretchen Harrington went missing in the Philadelphia suburb of Marple Township on the morning of 15 August 1975 while attending summer Bible camp.\n\nEarlier this year, an anonymous woman told investigators she believed her best friend's father was the culprit.\n\nDavid Zandstra, 83, is now charged with murder and kidnapping of a minor.\n\n\"He is every parent's worst nightmare,\" Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer told reporters on Monday.\n\n\"He killed this poor eight-year-old girl he knew and who trusted him. And then, he acted as if he was a family friend, not only during her burial and the period after that, but for years.\"\n\nInterest in the case was revived in part by a book published last year, called Marple's Gretchen Harrington Tragedy: Kidnapping, Murder and Innocence Lost in Suburban Philadelphia.\n\nIn 1975, Mr Zandstra was pastor at the Trinity Christian Reformed Church. Bible camps were held on its premises each morning and he would then transport the children to a second church.\n\nBut Gretchen never showed up at the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and it was Mr Zandstra himself who reported her disappearance to police that morning.\n\nHer remains would be found in a nearby wooded area nearly two months later.\n\nThe suspect was a family friend of the Harringtons, helped search for her and even presided over the child's funeral, sources told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nInvestigators say Mr Zandstra had invited Gretchen into his car once she was out of view of her late father, who had watched her walk up the road from the family home.\n\nThe best friend of David Zandstra's daughter suspected he was the killer\n\nA witness interviewed soon afterwards reported seeing the girl speak to the driver of a vehicle similar to Mr Zandstra's green Rambler station wagon.\n\nBut when interviewed by police at the time, the pastor denied having seen Gretchen that day.\n\nIn January this year, investigators spoke with the best friend of Mr Zandstra's daughter.\n\nShe told them she often slept over at their house and, at age 10, once woke to find the pastor groping her.\n\nThe woman also showed police a 1975 diary entry in which she wrote: \"I think he might be the one who kidnapped Gretchen. I think it was Mr Z.\"\n\nMr Zandstra moved several times, living in California and Texas before his arrest last week in Georgia by Pennsylvania State Police, at which point police say he confessed to the crime.\n\nThe suspect is being held in a local jail and is due to be extradited to Pennsylvania.\n\nJoanna Falcone Sullivan, who wrote Marple's Gretchen Harrington Tragedy, told the BBC she believes her book with co-author Mike Mathis helped surface new leads.\n\nThe writer said they interviewed Mr Zandstra for the book and he \"sounded like he didn't remember everything that transpired that morning. His wife remembered a lot better\".\n\n\"We kind of chalked it up to age,\" Mrs Sullivan said.\n\nShe added: \"The story has affected the community so much.\n\n\"This crime still comes up in the Facebook neighbourhood groups.\"\n\nThe state trooper to whom police say Mr Zandstra confessed his crime said on Monday the suspect seemed relieved.\n\n\"I don't know if he's sorry for what he did, but this is a weight off his shoulders for sure,\" Eugene Tray said.\n\nIn a statement, the Harrington family said the arrest felt like \"one step closer to justice\".\n\n\"If you met Gretchen, you were instantly her friend. She exuded kindness to all and was sweet and gentle,\" they wrote.\n\n\"Even now, when people share their memories of her, the first thing they talk about is how amazing she was and still is… at just eight years old, she had a lifelong impact on those around her.\"", "Women who lose babies during pregnancy have been promised improved care, including better ways for remains to be collected and stored with dignity.\n\nThe government will also introduce a voluntary certificate for parents who lose their baby before 24 weeks.\n\nThe commitments come in response to an independent review of care in England.\n\nIn the past, women have been told to retrieve baby-loss remains from toilets and store them in home fridges.\n\nAs part of new measures focusing on women's health, the NHS website will also be updated to include more content on hormone replacement therapy and to allow people to search for the local availability of in vitro fertilisation treatment (IVF).\n\nOfficials acknowledged the work of BBC presenter Naga Munchetty and patient groups to raise awareness of the painful womb condition adenomyosis and said they would provide more information online.\n\nMyleene Klass, musician and TV presenter, who lost four babies during pregnancies and campaigned for the reforms said: \"I wanted to use my voice for something really powerful, but it turns out we've just gone on to move a mountain.\"\n\nDescribing the changes as one of her proudest achievements, she said women would no longer have to endure the \"hell\" she suffered.\n\nThe separate independent Pregnancy Loss Review made 73 recommendations for improving care for people who experience baby loss before 24 weeks.\n\nThere are around 500 miscarriages a day in the UK - defined as a loss of a pregnancy before 24 weeks. For many women this happens at home, with little support or pain relief.\n\nJessica Wharton, 28, an English tutor from Wythenshawe, had two early pregnancy losses last year.\n\nShe says the lack of acknowledgement of her losses left her feeling heartbroken.\n\nShe said: \"Apart from us as a couple and our friends and family, no-one really acknowledged our loss.\n\n\"When I asked the hospital for something to acknowledge them they said they couldn't do that.\n\n\"We felt the baby was part of us and we had tried for a long time. This was still our child.\"\n\nShe said her experiences would have been improved by staff being more empathetic, more available to listen to her and to tell her what to expect.\n\n\"A year later it is still very raw. We are trying to take each day as it comes and hold them in our hearts.\"\n\nWhile babies born after 24 weeks gestation are official recorded as stillbirths, there is currently no formal way to mark losses before this time.\n\nThe government says a voluntary certificate would be made available from October, and while not a legal document, would help \"provide comfort and help parents validate their loss\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe independent review said early loss was commonly viewed as a \"clinical episode\" with some healthcare professionals not taking individuals' emotional and physical care seriously.\n\nThe co-lead of the review, Zoe Clark-Coates, who is also a baby loss charity founder, said that after losing five babies herself she saw that proper support did not exist.\n\n\"I want to see people stopping having to hit Google to find out 'what care should I be receiving, where should I be going for support' - this support should be easily available to every single person,\" she said.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that changing the language around baby loss was essential. \"I absolutely will always call miscarriages baby losses… it's really important to acknowledge that,\" she said.\n\nShe added that baby loss affected whole families and was not just a women's issue. \"Nobody is left untouched by the tragedy,\" she said.\n\nOther recommendations in the review include:\n\nMs Caulfield, minister for women's health, said: \"We will keep working and investing so girls and women across the country can benefit from the world-class healthcare they deserve.\"\n\nShe told Sky News that the government wanted to end the \"three miscarriage rule\", under which women are referred for help and advice only after they have lost three babies during pregnancy.\n\nA pilot project in Birmingham will give women testing and advice following the loss of a first, second, or third baby during pregnancy - and the government will evaluate the outcomes of the pilot at the end of the year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hun Sen has ensured that his party faces no strong challenge in the polls\n\nVoting is under way in Cambodia, where the country's long-term leader is virtually certain to extend his party's rule in an election where there are no serious challengers.\n\nPeople turning up to the polls in Phnom Penh told the BBC they expected the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) to sweep all 125 seats in parliament again.\n\nHun Sen, who has been in power for 38 years, faces no real challenge after the only credible opposition party was disqualified in May.\n\n\"It's a rigged election because there are no real strong opposition parties,\" one voter, an aid worker in Phnom Penh, told the BBC earlier this week.\n\nWestern nations, including the US, have also expressed concerns about the integrity of the vote. To ensure the highest possible turnout when people are being offered no real choice, the government has criminalised any attempt to boycott the election or spoil the ballot papers.\n\nOpposition lawmakers this year have reported violent attacks, with Human Rights Watch reporting the government stepped up intimidation and arbitrary arrests of political opposition in the run-up to the poll.\n\nIn May, the government barred the country's main opposition party, the Candlelight Party, on a technicality. The National Election Commission said the party was missing paperwork, which it had not needed for the local elections last year.\n\nCandlelight had won 22% of the vote in local elections last year - and analysts say Hun Sen saw them as a potential threat to his rule.\n\nBut the poll comes as Hun Sen, who cast his vote in the capital early on Sunday morning, shows the clearest signals yet that he's planning to hand power to his eldest son, Hun Manet - possibly within weeks. The military chief has led the CPP's campaign alongside his father.\n\nHun Sen has become increasingly authoritarian in his rule, political analysts say.\n\nIt is the second election in a row where Hun Sen has targeted democratic institutions and crippled the opposition before voting day, analysts say.\n\nIn 2018, his Cambodian People's Party won every single seat in the 125-seat National Assembly after the main opposition alliance was dissolved by the politically controlled courts.\n\nSeventeen other parties are participating in this year's election, but almost all are too small, new or are aligned with the ruling party to be considered credible challengers.\n\nThe vote comes at an uncertain time for Cambodia's economy - with locals reporting struggles with rising fuel prices, stagnant wages and growing debts.\n\nHun Manet is expected to take over from his father\n\nWhile Hun Sen is campaigning for re-election, he has flagged that this may be his last term. In 2021, he said would hand over control to his eldest son who currently commands the Royal Cambodian Army.\n\nHan Manet is a first-time candidate for a parliament seat this election and led the final day of party rallies in Phnom Penh on Friday.\n\nNo timeframe had been given for the transition of power until Thursday, when Hun Sen signalled his son \"could be\" prime minister in three or four weeks.\n\nHun Sen's party has won all six of the national elections held every five years since the 1990s, when the UN helped the Southeast Asian nation of 16 million people become a functioning democracy post decades of civil war and the murderous Khmer Rouge regime.\n\nOver four decades, he has consolidated power through control of the military, police and moneyed interests. Observers say he has dispatched opponents through co-opting, jailing or exiling them.", "Many of the fatal accidents involve farm machinery\n\nAn average of more than five people every year died on Northern Ireland's farms in the past decade.\n\nNew figures from the Health and Safety Executive NI (HSENI) show 53 people were killed between January 2013 and December 2022.\n\nIt comes as the Farm Safety Foundation says the pace of change is \"far too slow\".\n\nThis week marks the 11th year of Farm Safety Week, which is organised by the foundation.\n\nStephanie Berkeley, manager of the Farm Safety Foundation, said the key message of Farm Safety Week 2023 was that farmers needed to value themselves.\n\n\"Everything is replaceable, you are not,\" she said.\n\nMs Berkeley added that the organisation was still having to roll out the campaign because farming continues to have the poorest safety record of any occupation in the UK and Ireland.\n\nShe said things were improving and that farmers knew they needed to take their safety seriously.\n\nThe HSENI said there had been two fatalities on farms in 2023.\n\nBoth victims were men over 60 and both incidents involved machinery.\n\nIn 2022, there were three deaths - a fall from six in 2021.\n\nMs Berkeley said those who died were mostly older people.\n\n\"The next generation of farmers have better attitudes and behaviours in relation to safety - but the pace of change is far too slow,\" she said.\n\nWilliam Irvine, deputy president of the Ulster Farmers Union, said it was important to keep safety awareness high.\n\nHe said the work was pressurised and that most accidents on farms tended to be related to falls, animals, machinery and slurry.\n\n\"Agriculture tends to involve a lot of lone workers who work with machinery and animals,\" he said.\n\n\"These things can be unpredictable and campaigns like this are important to keep awareness high.\n\n\"The message is getting through, but there is still a way to go and there is more to achieve when it comes to farm safety.\"", "E-gates speed up passport control by allowing some passengers to scan their own passports\n\nChildren aged 10 and 11 will be able to use passport e-gates at the UK border from Monday, after the government announced a change to the rules.\n\nCurrently, only eligible children aged 12 and above can use the e-gates, which are at 15 air and rail ports.\n\nThe change comes after successful trials at Gatwick, Stansted and Heathrow, the government said.\n\nIt comes as families embarking on summer holiday getaways were hit by traffic jams and delays on Friday.\n\nPassenger volumes are expected to return to 2019 levels this summer - with some ports exceeding those volumes, the government said. Border Force expects to see over 34 million air arrivals coming through UK passport control over the coming months, it added.\n\nMore than 400,000 children aged 10 and 11 are expected to use e-gates this year.\n\nThe gates are installed at 13 airports in the UK - Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, London City, Luton, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle. They are also in use at UK border controls at the Eurostar terminals in Brussels and Paris.\n\nImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick said the rollout \"will make travelling easier for passengers and strengthens the security of the UK border.\"\n\n\"The UK processes more passengers through e-gates than any other country - and today's announcement ensures we remain at the forefront of technology,\" he added.\n\nBut the e-gate service has run into difficulties in the past, with airports across England and Scotland caught in lengthy queues when the gates stopped working at the end of May.\n\nThe disruption, which lasted for over a day, was caused by an IT issue, the Home Office told the BBC. It saw travellers waiting in long queues for hours.\n\nPeople described \"chaos\" at Heathrow passport control in May when the e-gates stopped working\n\nOn Friday, the Port of Dover said it had been a \"popular day\" with travellers heading to France. Earlier it had warned holidaymakers to expect delays to pass border controls, with processing times given of up to 90 minutes.\n\nFamilies were also hit by traffic jams and delays at the Dartford Crossing.\n\nNational Highways closed part of the River Thames crossing because of a crash on Friday, causing long tailbacks.\n\nThe smash forced the closure of one of the crossing's two tunnels, which are used for northbound traffic, shortly before 07:00 BST.\n\nThe tunnel was later reopened but National Highways said the incident caused five miles of congestion.\n\nAn estimated 12.6 million car journeys will be made for a day trip or holiday between Friday and Monday as the majority of schools in England and Wales finish for the summer, the RAC said.\n\nEarlier this week, the first passports were issued in King Charles's name.\n\nPassports will now use the wording \"His Majesty\", with the era finally ending for passports using \"Her Majesty\", for the late Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe updated passports are the latest stage in the gradual transition in reigns, with stamps and some coins now carrying the King's head. Banknotes will begin to change next year.", "Coal extraction at Merthyr Tydfil's Ffos-y-Fran mine began in 2007 on a 15-year licence\n\nThe operator of the UK's last opencast coal mine has been accused of breaching its licence after inspectors found it was mining outside its permitted area.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil's Ffos-y-Fran mine produces two-thirds of the UK's coal and was supposed to close in September as its planning permission had expired.\n\nSince then more than 200,000 tonnes of coal has been extracted.\n\nOperator Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd said it would not be appropriate to comment \"while the appeal process is ongoing\".\n\nThe owner was issued with a local authority enforcement order to stop digging earlier this year, meaning production must cease by the end of July, but the company appealed against this decision.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which issues licences in the UK, has now sent the company a final enforcement notice, saying it is satisfied the operator is continuing to mine in contravention of the 1994 Coal Industry Act.\n\nIt stated: \"You are required to cease all extraction of coal outside of the licence area with immediate effect and inform the authority that this has taken place.\"\n\nMerthyr (South Wales) Ltd wanted to extend the licence until 2024, arguing coal from the mine was needed by the steel industry.\n\nBut council planning officials refused the application in April, saying the proposed extension did not fit with Welsh government policies on tackling climate change.\n\nIt means production is set to end at Ffos-y-Fran after 16 years of excavation.\n\nIt originally won planning permission in 2005 and work began two years later to excavate 11 million tonnes of coal across a site the size of 400 football pitches.\n\nPeople living close to Ffos-y-Fran have objected to the scheme since its inception\n\nThe other aim was to restore the land - riddled with the remains of old industries - back to green hillside for the community's benefit as work progressed.\n\nBut there was stiff opposition due to the mine's proximity to homes and businesses.\n\nThe closest houses were initially less than 40m (132ft) away, and residents led a long campaign, saying their lives were being blighted by coal dust and noise.\n\nMerthyr (South Wales) Ltd said: \"Having previously advised it would not be appropriate to comment whilst the appeal process is ongoing, we will not be responding to any further requests from the BBC.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said making any comment during the appeal process could \"jeopardise any future decision Welsh ministers may have to make on the matter\".\n\nMerthyr Tydfil council said its planning division \"continue to review the appropriate enforcement options in light of the continued operations taking place, which includes the use of a stop notice\".\n\nIt added: \"We are aware of the steps being taken by the Coal Authority and we will continue to monitor the situation.\"", "He was photographed in Windsor wearing a checked shirt and teal trousers\n\nA new photograph of a smiling Prince George has been released in celebration of his 10th birthday on Saturday.\n\nThe picture shows George - who is second in line to the throne - sitting on a set of steps at Windsor.\n\nIn a change of tradition it was taken by Millie Pilkington, rather than George's mother, the Princess of Wales, who has often photographed her children for past birthdays.\n\nMs Pilkington had photographed Prince Louis for his fifth birthday in April.\n\nPrince George has just finished his first year at his new school, Lambrook School in Berkshire. He started there with his siblings Charlotte and Louis last September following the family's move to Windsor.\n\nHis first few weeks of the summer holidays have been eventful, with a visit to the royal box at Wimbledon last Sunday to watch Carlos Alcaraz win the title against Novak Djokovic, where he was pictured alongside his parents and sister Charlotte, eight.\n\nA few days earlier, George and his younger siblings privately visited an airshow at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.\n\nAnd at the start of the month he was pictured with his father at the Ashes cricket at Lord's.\n\nGeorge was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London, weighing 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).", "Three months of rain fell in just 24 hours in some areas\n\nFour people in Canada, including two children, have been reported missing in flooding caused by torrential rains in Nova Scotia, police have said.\n\nOfficials say the heaviest rains to hit the Atlantic region in 50 years have triggered floods that have left thousands of homes without electricity.\n\nThree months of rain fell in just 24 hours in some areas.\n\nResidents have been urged not to join in searches for the missing due to the dangerous conditions.\n\nThe two missing children were in a car that was submerged by flood waters, police reported. The three other people in the car managed to escape.\n\nA man and a young person are also missing after the vehicle they were in was also submerged. Two people were rescued from the vehicle.\n\nRoads have been washed away and bridges have been weakened in Nova Scotia, where a state of emergency has been announced in some areas.\n\n\"We have a scary, significant situation,\" said Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, adding that at least seven bridges would have to be replaced or rebuilt.\n\n\"The property damage to homes ... is pretty unimaginable,\" he told a news conference.\n\nHe estimated that is could take several days for the waters to recede.\n\nMore than 80,000 people were left without power at one point.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was very concerned about the floods and promised that the government \"will be there\" for the province.\n\nEnvironment Canada says torrential rain in the eastern area of the province could continue into Sunday.\n\n\"People should not assume that everything is over. This is a very dynamic situation,\" Halifax Mayor Mike Savage told a press conference.\n\nHe added that the city had been hit by \"biblical proportions of rain\".\n\nThe flooding is the latest extreme weather event to hit northeast Canada - recent wildfires have burnt a record area, sending clouds of smoke south into the US.\n\nThere has also been extreme flooding in the US this month. The body of a two-year-old girl found along a river in Pennsylvania is believed to be one of two missing children swept away by flash floods last weekend. Her nine-month-old brother is still missing.\n\nScientists cannot say for certain that such extreme rainfall is caused by climate change, but the floods are consistent with the changes they expect in a warming world.\n\nThis is because the warmer the earth becomes the more moisture the atmosphere can hold. This results in more droplets and heavier rainfall, sometimes in a shorter space of time and over a smaller area.", "A festival in Malaysia has been cancelled after British singer Matty Healy attacked the country's anti-LGBT laws.\n\nDuring the performance by his band The 1975 at the Good Vibes Festival, Healy addressed the audience in a profanity-laden speech before kissing bass player Ross MacDonald.\n\nThe band then ended their set, claiming officials ordered them off stage.\n\nHomosexuality is illegal in Malaysia and punishable by 20 years in prison.\n\nThe band were headlining the Good Vibes Festival in the capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday the festival's organisers said the remaining schedule for the festival had been cancelled following the controversy.\n\nA statement said the decision came after an \"immediate cancellation directive\" from Malaysia's Ministry of Communications and Digital, as part of its \"unwavering stance against any parties that challenge, ridicule or contravene Malaysian laws.\"\n\nIn footage shared online, Healy could be seen telling the crowd that the band's decision to appear in Malaysia had been a \"mistake\".\n\n\"When we were booking shows, I wasn't looking into it,\" Healy said. \"I don't see the [expletive] point, right, I do not see the point of inviting the 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with.\n\n\"Unfortunately you don't get a set of loads of uplifting songs because I'm [expletive] furious,\" the frontman continued. \"And that's not fair on you, because you're not representative of your government. Because you're young people, and I'm sure a lot of you are gay and progressive and cool.\"\n\nHealy and MacDonald then kissed as the band played the song I Like America & America Likes Me.\n\nSoon after - just 30 minutes into the set - Healy and the band walked off stage, with the singer telling the audience: \"Alright, we just got banned from Kuala Lumpur, see you later.\"\n\nA source close to the 1975 confirmed the incident to the BBC.\n\n\"Matty has a long-time record of advocating for the LGBTQ+ community and the band wanted to stand up for their LGBTQ+ fans and community,\" the source said on Friday night.\n\nIn an initial statement to local media on Friday, festival organisers said the band's set was stopped due to \"non-compliance with local performance guidelines\". But at that stage they said the festival would continue as scheduled for the rest of the weekend.\n\nWan Alman, entertainment director at Future Sound Asia which organises the Good Vibes Festival, told BBC News the band's kiss came as \"a complete surprise\".\n\nHe said: \"Prior to their performance, we were reassured by management that they would adhere to all local performance guidelines as do all international artists that perform in the country, and yeah so we were completely surprised that the performance took such a turn.\"\n\nMr Alman stressed international acts need to understand breaking rules comes at a high cost and not necessarily for the performers.\n\n\"I think it's very easy for him [Healy] to fly in and do whatever he wants to do, and then just fly out without having to face or take accountability for any consequences for his actions, while the ones who suffered implications are his fans here because his set was cut short, the festival organisers and, you know, I think the industry as a whole.\"\n\nMalaysia's Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil hit out at the band's performance on Twitter, calling it a \"very disrespectful act\". He added that he had contacted festival organisers and asked them to provide a full report.\n\nDenise Welch, Healy's mother, actress and panellist on ITV's Loose Women, retweeted a video of the kiss saying \"he's my son\" with a rainbow [colours of the pride flag] emoji.\n\nHealy has previously used appearances on stage to highlight anti-LGBT laws.\n\nIn 2019 he invited a male fan on stage during a gig in Dubai to hug him, before sharing a quick kiss. The incident attracted criticism in the country, where homosexuality is punishable by 10 years imprisonment.\n\nPosting on Twitter after the show, Healy said: \"Thank you Dubai you were so amazing. I don't think we'll be allowed back due to my 'behaviour' but know that I love you and I wouldn't have done anything differently given the chance again.\"\n\nOther performers at the Good Vibes Festival include the Strokes, Dermot Kennedy and Ty Dollar $ign.", "In animation, there's a golden rule that characters should be recognisable by their silhouette alone.\n\nIt's a principle that must have been familiar to whoever designed Pulp's reunion tour - because Jarvis Cocker is constantly thrown into relief on the big screens at Latitude festival.\n\nBritpop's very own angle-poise lamp, his unorthodox dance moves are instantly recognisable, full of side lunges, sharp elbows and fluttering hands.\n\nWhen his outline is beamed high above the crowd at Latitude festival, it's like a giant, wondrous special effect. Who needs fireworks when Jarvis is here? (We get fireworks too, though that comes later).\n\nPulp come to Latitude towards the end of a summer-long reunion tour, 22 years after their last record, and a decade after they last played live.\n\n\"This is what we do for an encore,\" the video screens announce before they take the stage. But if time has moved on, the songs sound remarkably fresh.\n\nDisco 2000 is essentially a British Abba song, all suburban disappointment and thumping disco beats; Babies is a voyeur's manifesto and Mis-shapes is the soundtrack to the revenge of the outcasts.\n\nThose hits prompt mass sing-alongs - not just from the adults who saw them first time around, but from their kids as well.\n\nCocker, meanwhile, is just as dry and mischievous as ever. \"Feeling ok? We'll soon see about that,\" he intones ominously as the show begins.\n\nThe band's reunion tour culminates with two nights in London's Hammersmith Apollo next week\n\nBut really, he's in a party mood. The band have been soaking up the festival all day and before long he's laughing at people who've stapled underwear to their flag poles, and throwing chocolates into the crowd. \"My doctor's here tonight so he wouldn't agree with this,\" he observes.\n\nCocker even tells the story of his girlfriend visiting one of the festival's many stalls and trying on a dragon's tail, \"which I found strangely exciting, actually\".\n\nThere's always been a curious innocence to his vice, which amount to things like glimpsing a bra strap (Underwear) or imagining the shape of someone's breasts (F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.)\n\nEven the provocatively-titled This Is Hardcore is really about the seedy parallels between the porn industry and the music business. Guess which one comes off worse?\n\nRevisiting the songs, the band have never sounded better.\n\nSpread across a grand Hollywood musical staircase, and augmented by the Elysian Collective sting section, they bring a new cinematic grandeur to Misfits, and a swirling, hypnotic energy to Do You Remember The First Time?\n\nA poignant Something Changed is dedicated to bass guitarist Steve Mackey, who died earlier this year at the age of 56; and Sunrise, which Cocker performs in front of a dazzling, white-hot globe of lightbulbs, is a stirring end to the main set.\n\nThat said, some of the more obscure tracks don't go down so well. Like A Friend, a rarity from the soundtrack to 1998's Great Expectations, feels like a particularly odd choice for a festival set, especially when they omit the fan favourite Razzmatazz.\n\nBut the band know everyone's waiting for one song in particular.\n\n\"Have we forgotten something?\" asks Cocker, pretending the set has ended. \"Haven't we played David's Last Summer?\"\n\nThen, with a nod and a wink, they rev up an extended, blood-quickening version of Common People.\n\nIf anything, the song's scathing tale of poverty tourism has gained even more bite as it approaches 30, and the gap between rich and poor widens even further.\n\nCocker snarls his way through it, standing astride two monitors, his fist pumping the air as the crowd sing along, before it ends in a flurry of pyrotechnics and confetti.\n\nAs with Blur's Wembley Stadium shows a fortnight ago, it's a reminder that Britpop wasn't all about beers and blokes. Some of the acts were simply in a Different Class.\n\nPulp's set came at the end of the first day of the Latitude Festival, held in the leafy grounds of Suffolk's Henham Park.\n\nMalian band Tinariwen were first on the bill, easing everyone into the festival vibe with a feast of traditional desert blues on the main stage.\n\nOver in The Sunrise Arena, indie newcomers The Last Dinner Party were one of the day's buzziest bands, drawing a huge audience despite only having two singles to their name.\n\n\"Christ there are a lot of you,\" gasped singer Abigail Morris, before justifying everyone's interest with a barrage of catchy, baroque pop anthems.\n\nThe six-piece switch from delicate beauty to righteous fury at the flip of a switch, and Morris is an eminently watchable front woman, punctuating every beat with a balletic swirl or a hair-flailing headbang.\n\nThe family-friendly festival also has a kids' area, circus performers, yoga classes and record-breaking bubble blowers\n\nAs the afternoon turned to evening, the main stage was handed over to a trio of left-field pop acts, with Georgia's sun-kissed dance beats followed by Confidence Man's high-camp electro pop; and Metronomy's bouncy keyboard riffs.\n\nThe few festivalgoers who decided not to watch Pulp were treated to a raucously rowdy set from Yard Act on the BBC Sounds stage; while folk-pop supergroup Fizz gave fans an early glimpse of their debut album, The Secret To Life, at the Sunrise Arena.\n\nDriven by the combined talents of Orla Gartland, Dodie, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown, their infectiously joyous set left everyone with mile-wide smiles as they went into the night.\n\nThe festival continues on Saturday with Paolo Nutini, James and The Lightning Seeds on the main stage, with Young Fathers headlining the BBC Sounds stage.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain's hard-right Vox, led by Santiago Abascal, could likely form part of the next government\n\nSpain's election on Sunday is provoking political tremors even before polls open.\n\nThe most likely government to emerge - most analysts predict - will be a coalition including a hard-right nationalist party for the first time in Spain since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.\n\nMore left-leaning Spaniards are frantically texting contacts, urging them to make sure to vote - despite the heat and it being holiday time for many - to \"stop the fascists\" in their tracks.\n\nThe political right, meanwhile, has said voters have a choice: Sanchez (the current centre-left prime minister and his coalition including the far-left) or Spain. Implying that under another Sanchez government, the country will crumble.\n\nThe rhetoric this election season has been toxic, with voters becoming increasingly polarised.\n\nIt's a fight over values, traditions and about what being Spanish should mean in 2023.\n\nThis kind of heated identity debate isn't peculiar to Spain. Think of Italy, France, Brazil or the post-Trumpian debate in the US.\n\nBut Spain was already divided. It has been since the civil war in the 1930s and the following four decades of dictatorship under General Franco. To this day, there's never been an open debate here about victims and aggressors. Old wounds still fester.\n\n\"The hard-right, centre-right coalition represents a return to the past, to neo-Francoism,\" Ximo Puig, the former centre-left President of Valencia region told me at an end of campaign rally for Prime Minister Sanchez's centre-left PSOE party on Friday night.\n\n\"Liberal values like gay marriage - Spain was one of the first European countries to legalise it - or the freedom for people to decide their gender - all of that is endangered.\"\n\nMr Puig lost his job this week after a new Valencia government of the centre right PP, and hard-right Vox party were sworn in, following recent regional elections. Many in Spain believe Valencia is a weathervane for the wider country.\n\nXimo Puig, the former centre-left President of Valencia, seen here on the centre-left\n\nThe vice-president of Valencia is now a retired bullfighter from Vox, Vicente Barrera. He's also an apologist for the Franco regime.\n\nTo celebrate summer in Spain's third largest city, there have been bullfights every night in Valencia's packed arena. Women throw flowers and fans in appreciation at the colourfully dressed bullfighters below, as they tease and taunt their horned opponent and a brass band plays to the crowd's cries of \"Ole!\"\n\nVox was busy electioneering just outside the arena, playing a recording on loudspeaker loop of party leader Santiago Abascal promising to \"make Spain great again\".\n\nMost Vox activists refused to speak to us. But pensioner Paco was keen to share his thoughts:\n\n\"Vox defends family values and other traditions, including bullfighting,\" he told me. \"The left call us anti-democratic but they're the ones who don't respect democracy. They want us not to exist.\"\n\n\"I can't even walk into a lefty neighbourhood of Valencia wearing a shirt with a Spanish flag on it,\" 22-year-old Eloy added. \"If I do, people shout 'Facha! Fascist!' at me. It's not nice.\"\n\nDivisions here are so febrile, they're almost tribal.\n\nMany voters identify themselves by the pulsera, the ribbon they wear round their wrist. Yellow and red coloured ones, representing the flag of Spain are a sign of belonging to the right. Rainbow colours stand for LGBTQ+ rights and are also a symbol for the left.\n\nAll part of what many Spanish commentators describe as the current ''footballisation\" of politics here.\n\nBut that risks trivialising how deeply many Spaniards feel about their preferred value set, or how threatened they believe those values are by the other side.\n\nVox are vowing to \"make Spain great again\"\n\nI met Nieves feeling disenfranchised at Valencia's vibrant central market, where she now works. She says Spain may be doing better economically under Pedro Sanchez but the country's poorest weren't benefitting.\n\n\"This isn't now about choosing the extreme right. It's about extreme necessity. Salaries of hard-working people don't allow you to pay your bills. I was paid €4 an hour for years when I worked as a cleaner. I'm saying all this as a worker, a mother and as a housewife. Let's see what happens after Sunday's vote.\"\n\nNieves' sentiments are clear, but the percentage of Spaniards now saying they can live within their means has risen during Pedro Sanchez' time in government.\n\nEmployment figures have gone up. Spain has one of the lower inflation rates in Europe. Mr Sanchez got the EU to allow Spaniards to pay less for gas used to make electricity. He has raised Spain's profile internationally with strong support for Ukraine in its fightback against Russia.\n\nSo how come the anti-Sanchez attacks by the right fall on such fertile ground?\n\nA question I put to his science and innovation minister Diana Morant, formally a local mayor in Valencia region.\n\n\"We see the resurgence of the far-right across Europe,\" she told me. \"The right we have in Spain is not a moderate right. It uses the arguments of hate and tries to dehumanise our leader, the prime minister. While we were busy governing, they were spreading lies. But the people of Spain know what we stand for. Lies cannot win over truth.\"\n\nAt EU HQ in Brussels, there are huge concerns about a resurgence of hard-right nationalist parties across Europe.\n\nEsteban Gonzalez Pons is a key player for the centre-right PP\n\nEsteban Gonzalez Pons is from Valencia. He's a bigwig for the centre-right PP nationwide and in the European Parliament. I asked him if he was concerned it could damage his party's and Spain's reputation to jump into a coalition with Vox.\n\n\"I can tell you, Brussels isn't at all worried if my party ends up in a governing arrangement with Vox. There are all sorts of right-wing governments in the EU now. Look at Italy, Sweden, Finland and Austria.\"\n\n\"Actually,\" he added, \"The UK government is more right wing than Vox. So, thank you BBC for that question but what Brussels really wants is not to have any more communists in the government in Spain.\"\n\nThis election is a story of two Spains.\n\nThe face this country wakes up with after Sunday's election will be radically different depending on who wins. Each side claims the other threatens Spaniards' identity and future.\n\nBut I can't help wondering, considering the record temperatures and drought here - why the parties, and Spanish voters - haven't concentrated more in the leadup to Sunday's election on a very real existential crisis for Spain: climate change.", "Lisa Franchetti is on track to be the first woman to head one of the US military branches\n\nUS President Biden has chosen a female admiral to lead the US Navy - the first time a woman has been nominated to head a Pentagon military service branch.\n\nLisa Franchetti is a former head of the US 6th Fleet and US naval forces in South Korea, and has also served as an aircraft carrier strike commander.\n\nHer nomination by Mr Biden must still be confirmed by the US Senate.\n\nOne lawmaker is currently blocking the Senate from confirming military leaders to protest a military abortion policy.\n\nIf confirmed as Chief of Naval Operations she will be the first woman to become a member of the elite group of senior military officers who make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\n\nA 38-year veteran, she was only the second woman to achieve the rank of four-star admiral.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Biden hailed what he called her \"extensive expertise in both the operational and policy arenas\" and said she \"will again make history\" when she is confirmed for the role.\n\nAccording to reports in US media, Adm Franchetti was not the first choice of the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, who instead recommended TOPGUN graduate Samuel Paparo as the next Navy chief.\n\nMr Biden also promoted Adm Paparo, nominating him to become the commander of the US military forces in the Pacific.\n\nThe US Coast Guard is currently led by a woman - Admiral Linda Fagan - but that military branch falls under the Department of Homeland Security rather than the Department of Defense.\n\nAdm Franchetti is due to take up the position in the fall when the current chief's four-year term expires. But she will begin the job in an acting capacity, as it's unlikely that she will be quickly confirmed by the divided senate.\n\nAlabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville is currently blocking the senate from confirming more than 270 military promotions over a Pentagon policy that pays the travel expenses of service members who have to go out of state to have an abortion.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Biden criticised the senator, saying \"what Senator Tuberville is doing is not only wrong—it is dangerous\".\n\nHe added: \"He is risking our ability to ensure that the United States Armed Forces remain the greatest fighting force in the history of the world. And his Republican colleagues in the Senate know it.\"", "Whitney and Megan Bacon-Evans launched their legal fight in 2021\n\nA lesbian couple who launched a legal fight over \"discriminatory\" fertility treatment rules are claiming a victory.\n\nMegan and Whitney Bacon-Evans, from Windsor, launched a judicial review over different requirements for same-sex couples seeking NHS fertility help.\n\nThey announced they had withdrawn their legal action, saying NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) would be addressing the inequality.\n\nNHS Frimley has been asked for a response.\n\nThe influencers, who appeared on TV show Say Yes To The Dress, previously said they were required to undergo 12 rounds of private fertility treatment, costing tens of thousands of pounds, before being eligible for NHS support.\n\nHeterosexual couples who have been trying to conceive for two years are eligible for treatment.\n\nMegan and Whitney Bacon-Evans say they will continue to campaign for fertility equality\n\nIn an Instagram post on Saturday, they said: \"Two-and-a-half years after launching legal action, we are pleased to announce that our case has come to an end with a victory.\n\n\"We are withdrawing our legal action as Frimley ICB recognise the need to update their policy to remove the inequality between same-sex female couples and cis heterosexual couples.\n\n\"This combined with the government's commitment to removing the barriers to accessing IVF (In-Vitro Fertilisation) for same-sex female couples in 2023 leaves us feeling very hopeful for the future of LGBTQ+ families.\"\n\nIn May, when asked about the government's timescale for change, Maria Caulfield, Parliamentary Secretary for Mental Health and Women's Health Strategy, said: \"We expect the removal of the additional financial burden faced by female same-sex couples when accessing IVF treatment to take effect during 2023.\"\n\nCurrent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines suggest women aged under 40 should be offered three cycles of IVF treatment on the NHS if:\n\nHowever, it is up to individual ICBs to set the policy for their local area.\n\nMegan and Whitney, who run a lifestyle and travel blog, crowdfunded more than £10,000 towards their legal fees.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "London Mayor Sadiq Khan has defended expanding a tax on polluting vehicles, despite his party leader blaming it for a disappointing by-election result.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) had cost Labour victory in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nHe called on Mr Khan to \"reflect\" on his plan to expand it to outer London.\n\nBut the mayor said the measure was \"the right one\", though he added he would listen to Londoners' concerns.\n\nConservative candidate Steve Tuckwell held the outer London constituency for his party by 495 votes, after campaigning against Ulez.\n\nLabour overturned a much bigger Conservative majority than the one the party had in Uxbridge in another by-election held on the same day in North Yorkshire.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said Uxbridge and South Ruislip was always \"going to be tough - we didn't take it in 1997 when we had a landslide victory\".\n\nHe said Ulez was \"the reason we didn't win there yesterday\", saying \"we've all got to reflect on that, including the mayor\".\n\nHe declined to say whether he believed the Ulez expansion should be paused or scrapped, despite being repeatedly pressed by BBC Political Editor Chris Mason to say what he meant by \"reflect\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader is pressed on what he means by the need to \"reflect\" on expanding London's Ulez zone.\n\nSadiq Khan said he was disappointed Labour had not taken a constituency previously held by former prime minister Boris Johnson, but noted it had \"never been Labour in my lifetime\".\n\nHe said clean air was \"a human right, not a privilege\", adding \"Londoners are struggling through this cost-of-living crisis, but Londoners are also suffering the consequences of air pollution\".\n\nHe acknowledged that some people were worried about the costs of Ulez, but took a swipe at the government, saying it was \"a shame\" ministers had not offered \"a penny of support\" towards a scrappage scheme for polluting - generally older - vehicles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Mayor of London defends the Ulez expansion which was a big issue in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election.\n\nMr Khan has argued that making the clean-air zone three times larger from 29 August will improve London's air quality, but it has proved hugely contentious in outer London areas like Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nDuring the campaign, Labour's candidate Danny Beales said he wanted the expansion halted because of the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nIn his victory speech, Mr Tuckwell said Mr Khan's \"damaging and costly Ulez policy\" had lost Labour the seat.\n\n\"This wasn't the campaign Labour expected and Keir Starmer and his mayor Sadiq Khan need to sit up and listen to the Uxbridge and South Ruislip residents,\" he\n\nHe later met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a cafe in Uxbridge, where Mr Sunak said that \"when confronted with the actual reality of the Labour Party, when there's an actual choice on a matter of substance at stake, people vote Conservative\".\n\nEarlier, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the Uxbridge result was related to Ulez and showed that \"when you don't listen to voters, you don't win elections\".\n\n\"There is a concern that we have to make sure that whatever is implemented is not at the cost of working families,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nMs Rayner added that cities needed clean air, but people who had to replace polluting vehicles also needed \"proper compensation and support from the government\".\n\nAsked whether she would be urging Mr Khan to drop the policy, she said the party would be \"getting round the table\" and would continue to work with the London mayor \"to get a decent scrappage scheme\".\n\nAn ultra low emission zone was initially proposed by then-Conservative mayor Boris Johnson in 2013 and introduced in central London in 2019, expanding a previous low-emission zone for larger vehicles like buses, lorries and coaches that was itself introduced in 2008.\n\nUnder Mr Khan, it was extended to cover the area within the North and South Circular roads in 2021.\n\nThe new expansion will see the zone's outer borders reach Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey.\n\nDrivers must pay £12.50 per day if they drive a vehicle which doesn't meet modern emission standards: generally, diesel vehicles that are more than seven years old, or petrol vehicles that are more than 17 years old. If they do not pay, drivers face a maximum £180 fine.\n\nThe by-election took place in Uxbridge and South Ruislip after Boris Johnson decided to step down as an MP last month.\n\nDespite its disappointment in failing to take the outer London constituency, Labour made history by overturning its biggest majority at a by-election since 1945 in Selby and Ainsty.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats won the Somerton and Frome by-election by more than 11,000 votes.", "Welsh legend Sir Tom Jones has questioned the decision to stop choirs from singing his song Delilah before Welsh rugby matches.\n\nIt was said in February the song would no longer be sung by choirs at Cardiff's Principality Stadium.\n\nThe 1968 hit has been controversial because of its references to a woman's murder by her jealous partner.\n\nBefore playing the song, Sir Tom told the crowd at Cardiff Castle on Friday the ban could not stop fans singing it.\n\n\"You can't stop us singing Delilah,\" he was heard to say.\n\n\"Can you imagine… Who was the man who didn't want us to sing Delilah?\n\n\"He stopped the choir from singing but he didn't stop the crowd from singing it.\n\n\"And we will keep singing it too.\"\n\nDelilah was removed from the playlist of rugby choirs in 2015 and was officially banned earlier this year, prompting a debate on depictions of violence against women.\n\nAt the time, the Principality Stadium said: \"Delilah will not feature on the playlist for choirs for rugby internationals at Principality Stadium.\n\n\"Guest choirs have also more recently been requested not to feature the song during their pre-match performances and throughout games.\n\n\"The WRU [Welsh Rugby Union] condemns domestic violence of any kind.\n\n\"We have previously sought advice from subject matter experts on the issue of censoring the song and we are respectfully aware that it is problematic and upsetting to some supporters because of its subject matter.\"", "Day paper travelcards will no longer be issued under plans\n\nDay travelcards will be phased out, the deputy mayor of London has confirmed.\n\nThe daily paper tickets will no longer be sold or accepted on Transport for London (TfL) services including Tube, bus, rail, tram and London Overground.\n\nSeb Dance told the rail minister \"TfL can no longer afford\" to fund the £40m Travelcard Agreement \"which represents a subsidy by Londoners\".\n\nPassengers travelling from outside the capital will be expected to use contactless or Oyster cards on arrival.\n\nLast year, 12m day travelcards were sold, double the number in Covid-hit 2020, but down from 27m in 2018.\n\nWeekly and annual travelcards will still be issued but last year just 20,000 of the latter were sold, down from 185,000 in 2018.\n\nTravelcards offer unlimited travel on services within London, where fares rose an average of 5.9% in March.\n\nIn a letter sent to rail minister Huw Merriman on Friday, Mr Dance said \"the current price paid to TfL for these tickets is well below the price paid for the same tickets sold within London\".\n\nA consultation document sets out the changes, which would see the end of paper travelcards altogether.\n\n\"We anticipate that, if TfL ceases to accept day travelcards, rail operators will also stop selling Zone 1-6 travelcards,\" it states.\n\nChild day travelcards would no longer be available, meaning those outside of London would have to apply for a Zipcard, which provides free and discounted travel for those aged under 18, in advance of coming to the capital.\n\nA spokesperson for the mayor of London said: \"The mayor is only considering the withdrawal of day travelcards in order to meet the requirements of TfL's funding settlement with government - a deal that was required solely because of the impact of the pandemic.\n\n\"He has been clear he does not want to do so but feels that he has been left with no viable alternative.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"We have provided TfL with more than £6bn in funding support to keep public transport moving.\n\n\"Transport in London is devolved, and any decision to withdraw from the travelcard agreement is a matter for the mayor.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None TfL Consultation - Have Your Say The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In Athens, Hellenic Red Cross workers have been distributing water bottles to keep people hydrated\n\nGreece is bracing for more intense heat this weekend, with meteorologists warning that temperatures could climb as high as 45C (113F).\n\nPeople have been advised to stay home, and tourist sites - including Athens' ancient Acropolis - will be shut during the hottest parts of the next two days.\n\nIt could turn into Greece's hottest July weekend in 50 years, one of the country's top meteorologists says.\n\nMeanwhile, firefighters are continuing to battle dozens of wildfires.\n\nEmergencies and civil protection officials are warning of a very high risk of new blazes across the country.\n\nWestern Attica - just west of Athens - is among the worst-hit areas, along with Laconia in the southern Peloponnese and the island of Rhodes.\n\nGreece's EU partners have provided help, including firefighting planes from France and Italy and more than 200 firefighters from Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. Neighbouring Turkey is also sending some aircraft to help.\n\nGreece - like a number of other European countries - saw a prolonged spell of extreme heat earlier this month.\n\nThe latest heatwave comes at one of the busiest times for the country's tourism industry.\n\nIn its latest bulletin, the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) warns that central and eastern regions of Greece are likely to see temperatures reaching 44C on Saturday.\n\nAnd it forecasts an even hotter Sunday, with 45C possible in central Greece.\n\n\"This weekend risks being the hottest registered in July in the past 50 years,\" said Panagiotis Giannopoulos, a meteorologist with state broadcaster ERT, quoted by AFP news agency.\n\n\"Athens is going to have temperatures above 40C for six to seven days, through to the end of July,\" he added.\n\nAfter a slight drop on Monday a new heat surge is expected on Tuesday.\n\nOfficials fear this could be the worst heatwave since the summer of 1987, when hundreds of deaths were linked to the extreme weather.\n\nAcross Greece, a number of people have already lost their homes to wildfires. In one region, several villages have been consumed by the blazes.\n\nOne man told the BBC he did not even have a bed to sleep on anymore, and was now living in a hotel.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to carbon emissions.\n\nSpain and Italy are among the Mediterranean countries which have also experienced intense heat this week, while parts of the US are also seeing records broken.\n\nOn Friday, Greek firefighters were tackling nearly 80 wildfires across the country", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nEngland produced a lacklustre performance against tournament debutants Haiti in their opening match of the Women's World Cup but held on for a narrow victory in Brisbane.\n\nGeorgia Stanway's pinpoint re-taken penalty gave England victory despite an underwhelming performance by the Lionesses.\n\nThe midfielder kept her cool after the Video Assistant Referee adjudged Haiti goalkeeper Kerly Theus had stepped off her line too early as she saved her first attempt.\n\nMuch like their display in the opening match against Austria in Euro 2022, which England went on to win, Sarina Wiegman's side looked short of creativity and sharpness.\n\nHaiti, ranked 53rd in the world, were dangerous in attack - especially hugely impressive teenager Melchie Dumornay, who was the most effective player on the pitch.\n\nThe 19-year-old was involved in Haiti's biggest chances as England were heavily tested in defence, with captain Millie Bright struggling at times on her first appearance since March following knee surgery.\n• None Lionesses rusty and predictable but get job done\n• None How you rated the players\n• None What do you know about the past 24 hours at the World Cup?\n\nStriker Alessia Russo, given the nod ahead of Women's Super League Golden Boot winner Rachel Daly, was also denied by Haiti goalkeeper Theus on numerous occasions in each half.\n\nWhile England had opportunities to extend their lead in the second half, their goalkeeper Mary Earps pulled off a brilliant save to push away Roseline Eloissaint's strike from close range in what was one of the biggest chances of the match.\n\nThe Lionesses, who have lost just once in 33 games under Wiegman, take on Denmark in their second Group D match on Friday.\n\nEngland came to Australia having failed to score against Portugal and Australia in their most recent matches and they did little to create momentum against Haiti.\n\nThe stadium was filled with English support, including plenty of ex-pats living in Brisbane among the 44,000 in attendance, but Haiti fully entertained those cheering on their side.\n\nIt was a stop-start opening half as VAR was called into action a few times - firstly to deny England a penalty after a foul by Russo in the box then later awarding them one for handball by Batcheba Louis.\n\nDayana Pierre-Louis was perhaps fortunate not to receive a red card when her studs dragged down Chloe Kelly's shin in the first half. That challenge resulted in a booking for the Haiti defender but VAR ruled out a penalty because of Russo's foul in the build-up.\n\nStanway gave the European champions the goal they craved from the penalty spot when Louis' inexplicable decision to raise both hands prevented Lucy Bronze getting on the end of a cross.\n\nBut hopes of England finding more of a spark in the second half did not materialise and it was Haiti instead who posed a greater threat even when Wiegman introduced her wildcards Lauren James and Daly.\n\nThere was a subdued response by England's players at full-time, with Wiegman and Barcelona midfielder Keira Walsh deep in conversation as 'Sweet Caroline' was sung by fans in the stands.\n\nWhile England's performance will need to improve if they are to advance deep into the tournament, Haiti's opening effort will fill them with confidence as they look to cause an upset in Group D.\n\nTeenager Dumornay showed why one of Europe's biggest clubs, Lyon, fought off competition for her signature as she dribbled past defenders, tested goalkeeper Earps with a long-range curling strike and played without fear on the game's biggest stage.\n\nShe had five touches in the opposition box - only Kelly and Russo had more - and the crowd in Brisbane rose with excitement whenever she was in possession.\n\nIt gave England plenty of food for thought in defence as Lucy Bronze's attacking urges left gaps in the right-back position, Bright's lack of match sharpness was evident and England's midfielders were often on the back foot.\n\nHowever, just as they did last year at Euro 2022, they did enough to secure three points and a first step to qualifying from their group.\n\nThe squad might well remember how they went on to thrash Norway 8-0 in their second match at last year's major tournament after a similarly lacklustre opening.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt missed. Roseline Éloissaint (Haiti Women) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rachel Daly (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucy Bronze with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ella Toone.\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (England) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Rachel Daly (England) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chloe Kelly with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Seven leading companies in artificial intelligence have committed to managing risks posed by the tech, the White House has said.\n\nThis will include testing the security of AI, and making the results of those tests public.\n\nRepresentatives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI joined US President Joe Biden to make the announcement.\n\nIt follows a number of warnings about the capabilities of the technology.\n\nThe pace at which the companies have been developing their tools have prompted fears over the spread of disinformation, especially in the run up to the 2024 US presidential election.\n\n\"We must be clear-eyed and vigilant about the threats emerging from emerging technologies that can pose - don't have to but can pose - to our democracy and our values,\" President Joe Biden said during remarks on Friday.\n\nOn Wednesday, Meta, Facebook's parent company, announced its own AI tool called Llama 2.\n\nSir Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, told the BBC the \"hype has somewhat run ahead of the technology\".\n\nAs part of the agreement signed on Friday, the companies agreed to:\n\nThe goal is for it to be easy for people to tell when online content is created by AI, the White House added.\n\n\"This is a serious responsibility, we have to get it right,\" Mr Biden said. \"And there's enormous, enormous potential upside as well.\"\n\nWatermarks for AI-generated content were among topics EU commissioner Thierry Breton discussed with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman during a June visit to San Francisco.\n\n\"Looking forward to pursuing our discussions - notably on watermarking,\" Breton wrote in a tweet that included a video snippet of him and Mr Altman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the video clip Mr Altman said he \"would love to show\" what OpenAI was doing with watermarks \"very soon.\"\n\nThe voluntary safeguards signed on Friday are a step towards more robust regulation around AI in the US.\n\nThe administration is also working on an executive order, it said in a statement.\n\nThe White House said it would also work with allies to establish an international framework to govern the development and use of AI.\n\nWarnings abut the technology include that it could be used to generate misinformation and destabilise society, and even that it could pose an existential risk to humanity - although some ground-breaking computer scientists have said apocalyptic warnings are overblown.", "The hearse was left on the pitch following the incident\n\nA football match has been called off in chaos after a funeral hearse and a car were driven onto the pitch.\n\nThe friendly between Dunston and Gateshead was abandoned at half-time amid extraordinary scenes which stunned watching supporters.\n\nFootage posted on social media showed the vehicles being driven in circles in the centre of the pitch.\n\nTwo men - who witnesses said were masked - then climbed out of the hearse and into the car and left the ground.\n\nGateshead FC fan Archie told the BBC the intruders \"apparently barged through the gate from the car park\" then broke through the railings along the edge of the pitch.\n\nHe said posters were thrown out of the car's window in an apparent protest before \"two people in ski masks\" jumped out of the hearse and into the silver car and drove off.\n\nThe posters included a number of personal allegations about two individuals.\n\nMatty Hewitt, a football writer at the Newcastle Chronicle, said Northern Premier League club Dunston's UTS Stadium was evacuated as a police helicopter circled overhead following the incident.\n\n\"Two cars driven onto the pitch with masked men getting out and leaving a hearse on the pitch,\" he tweeted, describing it as a \"terrifying experience with plenty of children about\".\n\nThe match was abandoned by the referee.\n\nDunston UTS FC said it was a \"family-orientated community club\" and apologised for \"any distress\" felt by its supporters and visitors, \"particularly the younger fans\".\n\n\"Thankfully nobody was physically hurt or injured,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We will be working as hard as ever to repair the damage caused to our pitch and perimeter fencing and look forward to the forthcoming season.\"\n\nNorthumbria Police said they had launched an investigation.\n\n\"Disorder will not be tolerated in the community and anyone found to be involved will be dealt with robustly,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"While inquiries are at an early stage, it is believed that those involved are known to each other and there was no wider risk to the public.\n\n\"We are also aware that images and videos of the disturbance are being circulated on social media.\n\n\"Members of the public are urged not to speculate and are encouraged to share any footage with police to assist the investigation.\n\n\"Police remain in the area to carry out inquiries and offer reassurance to the public and those with concerns are encouraged to speak with an officer on duty.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jamie Foxx thanked his family for keeping details about his illness private. \"They protected me,\" he says\n\nActor Jamie Foxx has said he is on his way back and returning to work after being hospitalised earlier this year.\n\nIn April, his daughter Corrine Foxx said he had experienced a \"medical complication\" but the family did not share details about his health issue.\n\nIn an Instagram post on Saturday, Foxx thanked his family for keeping details about his health \"airtight\".\n\nThe silence led to speculations, the comedian said, but he reassured fans that he was not paralysed or blind.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since he was released from hospital, Foxx thanked his social media followers for messages of support. \"I cannot even begin to tell you how far it took me and how it brought me back\", he said.\n\nHe explained that although many people were eager to hear updates, he didn't want fans to see him \"with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through\".\n\n\"I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie [or] television show,\" Foxx added.\n\n\"My sister Deidra Dixon, my daughter Corrine really saved my life,\" the 55-year-old said, adding that he was only able to make the video for his fans due \"to them, to God, to a lot of great medical people\".\n\nFoxx said that privacy during his illness had been vital to him. \"I cannot tell you how great it feels to have your family kick in in such a way, and y'all know they kept it airtight, they didn't let nothing out.\n\n\"They protected me, and that's what I hope that everyone could have in moments like these.\"\n\nIn May, his daughter said Foxx had been discharged from hospital for \"weeks\" and was making a good recovery. The actor was reportedly in a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where he had been filming Netflix's Back In Action alongside Cameron Diaz.\n\nIn his video to fans Foxx said he had been \"to hell and back\" and his \"road to recovery had some potholes as well\".\n\nBut, he added, \"I'm coming back and I'm able to work\".\n\nMessages of support for Foxx have been pouring in. \"Thankful to see you bro, truly\", Idris Elba commented on Foxx's post. \"God is good,\" said Viola Davis, while John Boyega and Tracee Ellis Ross also sent their love to the star.\n\nFoxx, who stars in the recently released They Cloned Tyrone film on Netflix, also expanded his gratitude to \"the people who are letting me work\".\n\nIn 2024, he is due to host a new music-centric game show, called We Are Family, on US network Fox alongside his daughter, a 29-year-old actress, model and activist.\n\nThe pair said they were \"thrilled\" to have worked on the show.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the Greek island of Rhodes after wildfires engulfed large parts of the island.\n\nGreece's fire service told the BBC it apologises for what it called \"a mess\" on the island, warning that the situation could worsen due to weather.\n\nMore than 3,500 people have been evacuated by land and sea to safety.\n\nA further 1,200 will be evacuated from three villages - Pefki, Lindos and Kalathos.\n\nNo injuries have been reported, according to the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection in Greece.\n\nIt said visitors are being evacuated safely from the affected areas of Rhodes - which represent less than 10% of the island's tourist accommodation - and are being redirected to other hotels on the island.\n\nLt Col Yannis Artopoios, spokesperson of the Hellenic Fire Corps, described the fires as the most difficult the service has faced.\n\nThe island has been battling wildfires fanned by strong winds since Tuesday, as Europe deals with a challenging heatwave.\n\nFive helicopters and 173 firefighters were operating in the area, with three hotels in the Kiotari area reported to have been damaged by fire. The areas of Laerma, Lardos and Asklipio were also affected.\n\nPrivate boats joined the Greek coastguard in helping to pick up people from beaches on the east of the island. Greek navy vessels were also reported to be heading to the area, which is popular with tourists.\n\nDeputy fire chief Ioannis Artophios said a ferry is available to accommodate people. Others are being housed at an indoor stadium on the island, according to the island's deputy mayor.\n\nMr Artophios added that firefighters often struggle on Rhodes because of how green it is, which is what makes it an attractive tourist destination.\n\nGreek television showed long queues of tourists with suitcases being taken to safety, with smoke in the background.\n\nAndrea Layfield from Cheshire told the BBC she had been on a boat trip \"but it was getting really scary\".\n\n\"We were asking to go back so they got us and then said they couldn't go any further so we would have to wait on the beach for a while,\" she said.\n\n\"As we waited the fire was coming down the beach but the beach was a dead end,\" she said, adding that hundreds of people were running.\n\nA boat then arrived, taking only women and children, she said. \"I scrambled under somebody's legs and got on.\"\n\n\"We have just literally escaped from a 5 star luxury resort by boat amid severe conditions. We had to follow our instincts rather than directions,\" he told the BBC. \"Poor visibility, smoke inhalation, no real directions.\"\n\nOne moment he said he was on a sun lounger with his family, \"the next ash is falling and smoke rapidly progressing because the winds suddenly got significantly stronger\".\n\nHe is now flying home despite the family's luggage still being in the hotel.\n\nTravel company TUI said a small number of its hotels had been affected and it was relocating customers to alternative accommodation as a precaution.\n\nJet2 also said it was aware of the situation in Rhodes and was asking customers to follow local guidance.\n\nBut Lee Ruane from Northern Ireland, who is in Rhodes on his honeymoon with wife Rosaleen, told BBC News NI they felt stranded by Jet2 and had been given \"no further information\".\n\n\"We were evacuated from the hotel today about two o'clock, and we've had no communication whatsoever from Jet2, from our hotel, nothing,\" he said.\n\nRhodes deputy mayor Konstantinos Taraslias said a change of winds on Saturday morning helped the fire grow bigger and reach tourist areas.\n\nSince breaking out in a mountainous area on Tuesday, the fire has scorched swathes of forest.\n\nFirefighters from Slovakia arrived on Rhodes on Saturday to help local teams battling the fires.\n\n\"The situation in Rhodes is serious and extremely difficult. Due to the strong wind and quickly changing direction of the fire, firefighters had to withdraw and move,\" Slovak Fire and Rescue Services posted on Facebook.\n\nGreece is facing further intense heat this weekend, with meteorologists warning that temperatures could climb to as high as 45C (113F).\n\nIt could turn into Greece's hottest July weekend in 50 years, one of the country's top meteorologists has said.\n\nFirefighters are continuing to battle dozens of wildfires across the country. An area west of Athens is among the worst-hit areas, along with Laconia in the southern Peloponnese and the island of Rhodes.\n\nAnd authorities are warning of a very high risk of new blazes as the heat continues to rise.\n\nPeople have been advised to stay home, and tourist sites - including Athens' ancient Acropolis - will be shut during the hottest parts of the next two days.\n\nGreece - like a number of other European countries - saw a prolonged spell of extreme heat earlier this month.\n\nThe latest heatwave comes at one of the busiest times for the country's tourism industry.\n\nFire trucks line up as firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by the fires in Rhodes? If it is safe to do so, you can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Virginia Woolf's personal copy of her debut novel, The Voyage Out, has been fully digitised for the first time.\n\nThe book was rediscovered in 2021, having mistakenly been housed in the science section of the University of Sydney library for 25 years.\n\nIt is the only publicly available copy of its kind and contains rare inscriptions and edits.\n\nAnother UK first edition used personally by Woolf is owned by a private collector based in London.\n\nScholars say the find is \"remarkable\" and could provide insight into the English author's mental health and writing process.\n\nWoolf is considered to be one of the most important modernist 20th Century authors, publishing more than 45 works including To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.\n\nShe pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device and is a lasting literary influence to this day.\n\nThe University of Sydney hopes by publicly sharing their copy, the multiple notes showing the adopted and abandoned revisions will give a new generation of readers, literary students and scholars some insight into Woolf's thoughts.\n\nVirginia Woolf suffered from anxiety, insomnia and repeated mental breakdowns during the writing of The Voyage Out\n\nWoolf suffered from severe mental health breakdowns during the estimated seven year period it took to complete The Voyage Out.\n\nShe fell back into depression and was put in a nursing home the day before it was published in 1915, staying there for six months. Her husband Leonard Woolf said she was \"writing every day with a kind of tortured intensity\" to finish the novel.\n\nShe was institutionalised and attempted suicide several times throughout her life. She died in March 1941, aged 59, after taking her own life.\n\nThe University of Sydney said it appeared the rediscovered copy of The Voyage Out had been lost \"through the bustle of everyday campus and library life\".\n\nSimon Cooper, Metadata Services Officer from the Fisher Library, found the book incorrectly shelved in 2021.\n\nHe said: \"I knew the book didn't belong there, so I took it out and then saw the author's name handwritten on the first page.\n\n\"So, I looked up her handwriting to compare it, and it matched. It's her copy\".\n\nThe Voyage Out was incorrectly shelved and eventually found in the science section of Rare Books and Special Collections\n\nThe University acquired the book in the late 1970s through Bow Windows Bookshop in Lewes, East Sussex.\n\nWoolf and her husband Leonard Woolf had lived in the area - and members of the public can still visit their 16th-Century country retreat, Monk's House, which is owned by the National Trust.\n\nOriginal copies of her manuscripts, novels, essays and short stories now sell for huge sums.\n\nOne of the world's oldest antiquarian booksellers, Maggs Bros in London, told the BBC the rediscovered Woolf copy could be worth about £250,000 ($321,500) given the other first edition copy sold for just over £91,000 in 2001.\n\n\"Prices have increased for this material since then, in some places quite substantially,\" said Bonny Beaumont, Modern Firsts specialist at Maggs Bros.\n\nSydney University Fisher Library staff member Simon Cooper found the book incorrectly shelved in the science section\n\nIn the rediscovered edition of The Voyage Out, handwritten edits made by Woolf can be seen in blue and brown pencil, with typed excerpts pasted onto the pages.\n\nSome of the changes could have been made by an editor or someone else.\n\nAn example of Virginia Woolf's edits\n\nAcademics say the rare text reflects Woolf's understanding of her own process of writing and how she developed the craft.\n\n\"It carries iconic value,\" said to Mark Byron - a professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sydney, who has studied the book in person.\n\n\"The revisions are fascinating in terms of what Woolf was thinking at the time,\" he added.\n\n\"Its role in Woolf's editorial decisions towards the first American edition of the novel in 1920 is an important element of its textual history.\"\n\n\"The inclusion of Woolf's annotations and corrections in her own hand, in pasted typed sheets, and in marginal editorial instructions, make this a unique object, shining a light on the composition processes of a pivotal novel in Woolf's career, and thus in the history of the novel in the 20th Century.\"\n\nHe added that the difficult composition of the novel led to the first significant adult breakdown for Woolf, suggesting the subject matter and narrative technique deployed in the novel may shed some light on matters of psychology and mental distress and its connection to Woolf's emergent career as a writer.\n\nSome have speculated that Woolf was \"potentially uncomfortable with how closely the reflections mirrored her own mental health when she was writing the book\" which is what led to the changes, Mr Byron said.\n\nThe Voyage Out has been fully digitised and is currently the only one of two copies made publicly available\n\nMost of Woolf's works are housed at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and the Berg collection at the New York Public Library.\n\nMany have long believed that the other first edition of The Voyage Out owned by Woolf was held in an undisclosed private collection in the US. It is known as the \"Adams\" copy as it used to be part of a library belonging to a Mr FB Adams.\n\nHowever, the BBC has learned that the Adams copy is in London and owned by a private British collector. He acquired it through the rare book dealer Peter Harrington at an auction held by Sotheby's in 2001.\n\nPeter Harrington's son, Pom, who now runs the business, said he was excited by the rediscovery and digitalisation of The Voyage Out, and keen to examine the difference between the two copies.", "Two people have been injured and a man arrested after a car crashed through a wall and into a house.\n\nA 67-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after the car ploughed into his living room in Glenrothes, Fife, at about 19:50 on Friday.\n\nA woman aged 18, who was a passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa, was also taken to hospital before being released.\n\nThe 18-year-old driver has been charged with a road traffic offence.\n\nHe will appear in court at a later date.\n\nA woman aged 67, who was inside the house at the time, was not injured.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers remained at the scene on Saturday.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nThe United States launched their bid for an unprecedented third consecutive world crown with a comfortable win against Women's World Cup debutants Vietnam in Auckland.\n\nSophia Smith struck twice before half-time for the four-time world champions in front of thousands of travelling USA fans in a crowd of 41,107.\n\nSmith, one of 14 players in the squad appearing at their first World Cup, fired the number-one ranked team in the world ahead with a low drilled finish from an angle.\n\nHer second was awarded following a lengthy check by the Video Assistant Referee for an offside before captain Lindsey Horan, after an assist by Smith, swept home the third in the 77th minute.\n\nThere was a memorable moment for Vietnam keeper Tran Thi Kim Thanh when she was mobbed by her jubilant team-mates after keeping out Alex Morgan's penalty, which was awarded for a foul on Trinity Rodman.\n\nVietnam rarely managed to get out of their own half but worked hard and produced a gritty defensive performance to keep the scoreline respectable.\n• None Reaction as the United States defeat Vietnam at the Women's World Cup\n• None Are history-seeking USA still the team to beat?\n• None What do you know about the past 24 hours at the World Cup?\n\nWhile this was not the hammering some had predicted in the build-up, the United States did enough to get their campaign off to a winning start.\n\nFour years ago in France they recorded the biggest Women's World Cup win, a 13-0 thrashing of Thailand, in their opening game on the way to winning the tournament.\n\nThey carved out enough chances against Vietnam to record another double-digit win and there was a tinge of disappointment from boss Vlatko Andonovski that his side did not make the most of their 28 attempts.\n\nThe USA arrived in New Zealand as favourites but tougher tests lie ahead and only after Thursday's match against the Netherlands in Wellington - a repeat of the 2019 final - will their fans learn more about whether they can make it three World Cup successes in a row.\n\nThis was so comfortable that Andonovski sent on 18-year-old Alyssa Thompson for her first taste of the World Cup, while fellow substitute and icon Megan Rapinoe also made her 200th appearance for the Stars and Stripes - 17 years to the weekend she made her debut.\n\nRapinoe had a chance to mark the milestone with a goal but failed to take her chance, while Rose Lavelle struck the bar in the closing stages.\n\nEden Park was awash with colour as the defending champions launched their bid for a fifth world title.\n\nThere was red, white and blue all around the ground as fans, who had travelled thousands of miles from the United States to be in Auckland, watched their team get off to a solid start at New Zealand's national stadium.\n\nChants of \"USA, USA, USA,\" broke out around the ground at regular intervals, while some supporters came dressed up as the Statue of Liberty. Others wore shirts with 'Rapinoe' on the back and one couple even brought their baby to the match.\n\nThere was also a good luck message from former US President Barack Obama before the game.\n\n\"You represent the best of the best, and I'll be cheering for you all the way,\" he wrote on social media.\n\nInside the ground there were patches of red as Vietnam's expat community turned up to watch a moment in their country's sporting history, with it being the first time the nation had appeared at either a Fifa men's or women's World Cup.\n\nVietnam were organised, tenacious and disciplined but they did not test American keeper Alyssa Naeher once despite neutrals in the crowd roaring each time their players crossed the halfway line.\n• None Attempt missed. Lindsey Horan (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Offside, USA. Lindsey Horan tries a through ball, but Rose Lavelle is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Vietnam Women. Duong Thi Vân replaces Tran Thi Hai Linh because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Tran Thi Hai Linh (Vietnam Women).\n• None Attempt saved. Rose Lavelle (USA) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sophia Smith.\n• None Offside, USA. Rose Lavelle tries a through ball, but Emily Fox is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Julie Ertz (USA) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Megan Rapinoe with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Megan Rapinoe (USA) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is unprecedented.\n\nDangerous heatwaves in Europe could break further records, the UN says.\n\nIt is hard to immediately link these events to climate change because weather - and oceans - are so complex.\n\nStudies are under way, but scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding.\n\n\"I'm not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory,\" Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics, says.\n\n\"The Earth is in uncharted territory\" now due to global warming from burning fossil fuels, as well as heat from the first El Niño - a warming natural weather system - since 2018, says Imperial College London climate science lecturer Dr Paulo Ceppi.\n\nHere are four climate records broken so far this summer - the hottest day on record, the hottest June on record globally, extreme marine heatwaves, record-low Antarctic sea-ice - and what they tell us.\n\nThe world experienced its hottest day ever recorded in July, breaking the global average temperature record set in 2016.\n\nAverage global temperature topped 17C for the first time, reaching 17.08C on 6 July, according to EU climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nOngoing emissions from burning fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas are behind the planet's warming trend.\n\nThis is exactly what was forecast to happen in a world warmed by more greenhouse gases, says climate scientist Dr Friederike Otto, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"Humans are 100% behind the upward trend,\" she says.\n\n\"If I'm surprised by anything, it's that we're seeing the records broken in June, so earlier in the year. El Niño normally doesn't really have a global impact until five or six months into the phase,\" Dr Smith says.\n\nEl Niño is the world's most powerful naturally occurring climate fluctuation. It brings warmer water to the surface in the tropical Pacific, pushing warmer air into the atmosphere. It normally increases global air temperatures.\n\nThe average global temperature in June this year was 1.47C above the typical June in the pre-industrial period. Humans started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when the Industrial Revolution started around 1800.\n\nAsked if summer 2023 is what he would have forecasted a decade ago, Dr Smith says that climate models are good at predicting long-term trends but less good at forecasting the next 10 years.\n\n\"Models from the 1990s pretty much put us where we are today. But to have an idea about what the next 10 years would look like exactly would be very difficult,\" he says.\n\n\"Things aren't going to cool down,\" he adds.\n\nThe average global ocean temperature has smashed records for May, June and July. It is approaching the highest sea surface temperature ever recorded, which was in 2016.\n\nBut it is extreme heat in the North Atlantic ocean that is particularly alarming scientists.\n\n\"We've never ever had a marine heatwave in this part of Atlantic. I had not expected this,\" says Daniela Schmidt, Prof of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.\n\nPress play to see the map animated.\n\nIn June temperatures off the west coast of Ireland were between 4C and 5C above average, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration classified as a category 5 heatwave, or \"beyond extreme\".\n\nDirectly attributing this heatwave to climate change is complex, but that work is ongoing, Prof Schmidt says.\n\nWhat is clear is that the world has warmed and the oceans have absorbed most of that heat from the atmosphere, she explains.\n\n\"Our models have natural variability in them, and there are still things appearing that we had not envisaged, or at least not yet,\" she adds.\n\nShe emphasises the impact of this heat on marine ecosystems, which produce 50% of the world's oxygen.\n\n\"People tend to think about trees and grasses dying when we talk about heatwaves. The Atlantic is 5C warmer than it should be - that means organisms need 50% more food just to function as normal,\" she says.\n\nThe area covered by sea-ice in the Antarctic is at record lows for July. There is an area around 10 times the size of the UK missing, compared with the 1981-2010 average.\n\nAlarm bells are ringing for scientists as they try to unpick the exact link to climate change.\n\nA warming world could reduce levels of Antarctic sea-ice, but the current dramatic reduction could also be due to local weather conditions or ocean currents, explains Dr Caroline Holmes at the British Antarctic Survey.\n\nShe emphasises it is not just a record being broken - it is being smashed by a long way.\n\n\"This is nothing like anything we've seen before in July. It's 10% lower than the previous low, which is huge.\"\n\nShe calls it \"another sign that we don't really understand the pace of change\".\n\nScientists believed that global warming would affect Antarctic sea-ice at some point, but until 2015 it bucked the global trend for other oceans, Dr Holmes says.\n\n\"You can say that we've fallen off a cliff, but we don't know what's at the bottom of the cliff here,\" she says.\n\n\"I think this has taken us by surprise in terms of the speed of which has happened. It's definitely not the best case scenario that we were looking at - it's closer to the worst case,\" she says.\n\nWe can certainly expect more and more of these records to break as the year goes on and we enter 2024, scientists say.\n\nBut it would be wrong to call what is happening a \"climate collapse\" or \"runaway warming\", cautions Dr Otto.\n\nWe are in a new era, but \"we still have time to secure a liveable future for many\", she explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about COP28?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We've got to double down and stick to our plan - Sunak\n\nThis set of by-elections amounts to a single question: just how badly did the Conservatives do?\n\nBut not as badly as they had feared.\n\nThe prospect of a crushing three-nil defeat - beaten everywhere - was averted.\n\nLabour managed to win - and win really big - in rural North Yorkshire; the kind of spot some distance from usually fertile political territory for them.\n\nAnd yet they lost in north west London, where they had expected to win.\n\nBut, but, but: the Tory obliteration in Somerset will sow panic among many Conservatives in the south west of England.\n\nSo let's unpick where this leaves us, because on the face of it is a rather messy picture.\n\nTo what extent were these contests atypical, by-election quirks rather than true indicators of the national mood?\n\nFirstly, Labour's victory in Selby and Ainsty is off the scale big.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on by-election win: Starmer: \"First time I have been able to say: Well done Keir\"\n\nAnother Keir joins the ranks of Labour MPs, Keir Mather. It's a name rich in Labour history: Keir Hardie was the party's first leader.\n\nIf Labour won on this scale nationally, they would be in government with a colossal majority.\n\nThe party that has campaigned so fruitfully for so long on the perceived failings of Boris Johnson has failed to take Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the very seat he used to represent.\n\nJust days ago, the Conservatives were ready to blame what they described privately as \"Long Boris\" to explain away their losses.\n\nIn other words, don't blame us, blame the prime minister before last.\n\nBut now they have won where he was the MP, and lost in two places where he wasn't.\n\nDowning Street had not anticipated a photo opportunity where smiles would feature today.\n\nBut before some of us had reached for the breakfast cereal Rishi Sunak was beaming in Uxbridge.\n\nAnd his message is one we will keep hearing, I suspect: the general election is not a done deal, and where voters see what he will claim is the \"reality of Labour\" they vote Conservative.\n\nTo hear Conservatives this morning talking about Uxbridge was to hear those swimming through the roughest of rough political seas, and then seeing an unlikely raft upon which to climb, and breathe a brief sigh of relief.\n\nLabour are disappointed to lose in Uxbridge.\n\nPublicly, and more candidly in private, they blame the expansion of London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone (Ulez), a policy idea blamed by many voters on the Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\n\"If you run on a ticket about the cost of living but you are blamed for adding 90 quid a week to the cost of living for some, it's going to be difficult,\" acknowledged one party figure.\n\nThe Ulez daily charge is £12.50 a day. If a driver fails to pay the charge, or broke the penalty charge rules, the bill could be higher.\n\nLabour's failure to take Uxbridge presents three niggles for the party, as they look to the general election:\n\nEqually, if you are one of the innumerable Labour figures desperate to not sound complacent, losing in Uxbridge rather helps.\n\nAnd what about the Liberal Democrats?\n\nTheir win in Somerton and Frome was huge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Lib Dem leader stages a cannon stunt to celebrate his party winning the Somerton and Frome by-election\n\nThey hope it is proof of a revival in the West Country, a former heartland for the party before the near oblivion that followed their years in coalition at Westminster.\n\nAnd there is plenty of evidence of that revival: last year's by-election win in nearby Tiverton and Honiton and their control of Somerset Council for starters.\n\nBut: they are a small party with limited resources.\n\nThey threw everything at Somerton and Frome, managing to knock on 15,000 doors on polling day alone.\n\nThat kind of operation is much harder to do at a general election - when they are likely to be trying to throw everything at around 30 seats, not just one.\n\nPrivately, party figures acknowledge that this by-election campaign was helped hugely by former Conservative cabinet minister Nadine Dorries having not yet resigned her seat in Mid Bedfordshire, another Lib Dem target.\n\nHad that contest happened on Thursday too, it would have split their resources in half. At a general election, the demands on staffing would be even more brutal.\n\nBut the party does now have ample evidence that they have overcome the paralysing hangover of the coalition years, and are competitive again - and dangerous, particularly to the Tories.\n\nOverall, the scope for Conservative comfort anywhere after these results is very slender.\n\nBut not as slender as it might have been.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment a man walks his daughter down the aisle after recovering from a serious brain injury\n\nFarmer Roger Jones was able to walk his daughter down the aisle two years after doctors warned his family he might not survive a brain infection.\n\nSurgeons had to remove part of his skull in 2021, leaving it unlikely the 68-year-old would ever return to the family farm in Castleton, Cardiff.\n\n\"They told us people in Roger's condition end up in long-term care,\" said wife Gill.\n\nBut determination to be there for his daughter helped him walk again.\n\n\"They actually told [my wife] they didn't think I'd live,\" Roger said, remembering how his illness began over Christmas in 2020 when one side of his face started to droop.\n\n\"We thought he'd had a stroke,\" Gill said, but doctors diagnosed a possible bout of shingles.\n\nThen in January 2021 he was diagnosed with a sinus infection that had breached Roger's brain membrane causing an abscess.\n\n\"At that point they weren't sure whether or not he would survive,\" Gill remembered, explaining how because of Covid restrictions she did not see her husband in person for nearly three months after first taking him to hospital.\n\nGill seeing Roger in person for first time in three months in April 2021 and (right) the couple's first night in their own bed, 633 days after he first went into hospital\n\nRoger underwent nine surgeries over a five-month period with surgeons first removing the infected parts of his skull and finally replacing the bone with a titanium plate.\n\n\"It was awful,\" Roger said, admitting he does not remember much from that period, besides worrying about the fate of his farm close to the M4.\n\nBut Gill and his daughter Kate had \"stepped up\" managing the cattle and sheep and preparing to plant crops while Roger sat alone in hospital.\n\nRoger was still unable to walk or stand up nearly five months after coming home from hospital\n\n\"We could not buckle,\" Gill said, \"because if we buckled he wouldn't have anything to come home to\".\n\nRoger began specialist physiotherapy at Cardiff's Llandough Hospital in June and came home in November.\n\nUnable to walk or even lift himself up, he had to depend on a team of in-home carers and a hoist to get around.\n\nRoger Jones had to have part of his skull removed to get rid of an infection\n\n\"When we had the discharge meetings, it was a case of 'this is as good as it gets',\" Gill said.\n\n\"They said, 'you might improve a bit more but... people with Roger's needs go to a care home'.\"\n\n\"I knew I wasn't going to do that, I was gonna fight. I had to fight it,\" Roger remembered thinking.\n\nDesperate to get back on the farm he had worked for more than 40 years daughter Kate Jones (left) strapped her dad to a golf buggy and drove him around\n\n\"We knew that we wanted to get him home,\" Gill said.\n\nRoger said being at home \"made all the difference\".\n\nHe set a goal of driving a tractor again, something he had not done yet, and when his daughter Jessie got engaged, of being able to walk her down the aisle.\n\n\"It's something you do really,\" he said, \"you want to take them down the aisle\".\n\nHe said the first \"game changer\" was getting a mobility scooter to help around the house.\n\nRoger taking his first steps in April 2022 with physiotherapist Jakko Brouwers\n\nBut when it came to walking, Roger was afraid of falling down and not being able to get up.\n\nJakko Brouwers, a physiotherapist from the Morrello clinic in Newport, started to make home visits to Roger in April 2022. Gill remembers him saying \"this man will walk again\".\n\nBut the first step was telling him to get on the floor, she said.\n\n\"Then he said, 'right, now crawl over to the chair pull yourself up' and he said 'now if you fall over you can get up'.\"\n\nBy February this year, after months at home, he was talking his first steps with a walking stick.\n\nRoger and his daughter Jessie Wheatley practising for their walk down the aisle\n\n\"It's his farming gut determination and strength,\" Gill said, \"that has put him where he is here because if he didn't have that he could have just said 'you know what, this is too much'.'\n\nIn June, his daughter Jessie Wheatley, 37, who was living in Queensland, Australia, came home to prepare for her wedding at a chapel near the farm.\n\nWalking every day with her dad was a big part of the preparations.\n\nDuring these walks, Jessie told her father how surprised she was at the progress he had made in a year.\n\nRoger replied: \"You've got to keep fighting haven't you?\"\n\nRoger achieved his goal of walking his daughter Jessie down the aisle\n\nRoger also got to dance with the new bride", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea has led to civilian evacuations and disrupted transport, Russian authorities have said.\n\nSergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed governor of occupied Crimea, said Ukraine was behind the attack, without providing evidence.\n\nMr Aksyonov said local residents living within five kilometres of the blast were being evacuated.\n\nRail services across the Kerch bridge have also reportedly been halted.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Russian authorities stopped traffic on the bridge, but then swiftly reopened it to cars.\n\nA later update from the Moscow-installed government said road traffic was again halted until further notice.\n\nMr Aksyonov said infrastructure facilities in the Krasnogvardeysky district in Crimea were the target.\n\n\"According to preliminary data, there were no damages or casualties,\" Mr Aksyonov wrote on a Telegram post.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify the attack.\n\nThe district where the strike was reported is more than 160km (100 miles) from the Kerch bridge.\n\nThe bridge, often referred to as the Crimea bridge, was opened in 2018 enabling road and rail access between Russia and Crimea - Ukrainian territory annexed by Moscow in 2014.\n\nIt has become a symbol of Russian occupation and is also an important re-supply route for Russian forces in southern Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday, a blast on the bridge killed two people and damaged the road but the railway line, which runs parallel to it, was not damaged.\n\nThe Kremlin blamed Kyiv for Monday's attack and said Ukraine had carried out a \"terrorist\" act. Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to retaliate and accused Ukraine of launching a \"senseless\" and \"cruel\" attack.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the Crimea bridge is a legitimate target.\n\nSpeaking on Friday he spoke of the need to \"neutralise\" the bridge, explaining it was \"the route used to feed the war with ammunition and this is being done on a daily basis\" and that Kyiv sees it as \"an enemy facility\".\n\n\"So, understandably, this is a target for us,\" Mr Zelensky said, in a video address to the Aspen security conference in the US.\n\nMonday's alleged attack was the second major incident on the Kerch bridge in the past year.\n\nIn October 2022, the bridge was partially closed following a huge explosion. It was fully reopened in February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nIt may not have been a thrilling performance, but England did what they needed to do in their opening Women's World Cup game against Haiti - win.\n\nThe European champions were lacklustre and wasteful in their 1-0 victory, struggling to put away the chances they created while looking occasionally sloppy in defence.\n\nMeanwhile Haiti, who are ranked 49 places below the Lionesses, proved why they are in Australia among the 32 best teams in the world with a fearless performance that tested Sarina Wiegman's side.\n\nBut a penalty from Georgia Stanway was enough to give England a crucial three points - and it was just the third time in six World Cup appearances they have won their opening match.\n\n\"It's so important to win your first game in a tournament,\" said Stanway. \"It's been a long build-up to today and we're kind of happy to just get over the line.\n\n\"Haiti caused us problems, were a threat on the counter-attack, were fast, physical, and they challenged us in areas that we probably didn't expect.\"\n\nGoalkeeper Mary Earps was called into action twice, tipping Melchie Dumornay's strike over the bar before pushing away Roseline Eloissaint's goal-bound effort.\n\n\"[The win] puts us in a good place,\" said Earps. \"But for sure there's plenty we need to review and reflect on because we have set ourselves a higher standard than that.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\nA lengthy build-up to the tournament - which kicked off eight weeks after the Women's Super League ended - as well as uncertainty from Wiegman on her best XI and injuries to key players, were all contributing factors in England's underwhelming performance.\n\nAlessia Russo, given the nod ahead of Rachel Daly in attack, worked tirelessly but was often isolated.\n\nCaptain Millie Bright played the full 90 minutes despite not having featured since March after having knee surgery, and looked understandably rusty.\n\nAnd England were sloppy in possession, allowing Haiti to capitalise on the counter-attack with the dangerous pace of Dumornay and Batcheba Louis.\n\n\"I think it takes a little bit to find your feet,\" said Stanway. \"Coming into a major tournament the pressure is high and the build-up is so long. It's been a long process.\"\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It was really poor from England. [They were] sloppy in possession, taking too long to play the pass and then getting caught.\n\n\"I didn't expect it to be that close. I thought it would be competitive but certainly not for that long. I was really impressed with Haiti.\"\n\nWiegman said Haiti's counter-attack made it \"pretty hard for us\" but she saw improvements in the second half.\n\n\"We wanted to be on the ball all the time and we were a lot. We created chances but also lost balls,\" the manager added.\n\nEngland had 11 shots on target against Haiti - their most on record at the World Cup - but have now failed to score in 337 minutes of open play.\n\nEx-England forward Eniola Aluko told ITV there was \"predictability\" to their attacking play, which consisted of \"a lot of crosses\" from wingers Lauren Hemp and Chloe Kelly.\n\n\"In the first half Russo was playing, but if that is the approach and the pattern of play, should it be Rachel Daly up there instead? She is stronger in the air,\" added Aluko.\n\n\"If you want to be less predictable, you need more creativity, especially in the number 10 role. Ella Toone looked a bit disconnected. Lauren James is a bit more creative, offers more movement and interchanging of positions.\"\n\nWiegman introduced James and Daly later in the second half and England could have extended their lead with Kelly, Stanway and Daly all having attempts, but Haiti also grew in confidence and tested Earps.\n\nEngland's back four of Lucy Bronze, Bright, Alex Greenwood and Jess Carter have not played together often and it was clear they need time to become better connected.\n\n'There are positives to take from today'\n\nBut despite clear teething problems and a growing concern for England's lack of ruthlessness in front of goal, they have still lost just once under Wiegman in 33 games.\n\nIt is also worth remembering they underwhelmed in their opening match of Euro 2022 before responding with an 8-0 thrashing of Norway in their second group game and going on to win the tournament.\n\n\"England have got a clean sheet. Mary Earps made some fantastic saves and dealt with the transitions and they managed to come through it,\" former England midfielder Karen Carney told ITV.\n\n\"Tournament football is about building momentum, getting points on the board and moving forward. There are definitely some positives to take from today.\"\n\nWiegman's demeanour remained cool as she acknowledged a dry period in goalscoring but highlighted clearly which areas England need to improve before their second group game against Denmark, who began with a win over China.\n\n\"Ruthlessness... what does that mean?\" said Wiegman. \"Sometimes it means the connections with the cross, the timing of the cross, where the cross ends in the penalty box and little things like that.\n\n\"We were very close to scoring a goal but their defence was tough too. We will keep trying and working on it, starting again tomorrow.\"\n• None The Banksy Story charts the rise of this anonymous household name\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our current fossil fuel usage with hydrogen", "Wagner fighters on the streets of Rostov-on-Don during the mutiny\n\nA mercenary who took part in the attempted mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin says he and his fellow fighters \"didn't have a clue\" what was going on.\n\nIn the space of just 24 hours, the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, staged an insurrection, sending troops into the southern city of Rostov, then further on towards Moscow.\n\nWagner fighters rarely talk to the media, but BBC Russian spoke to a junior commander who found himself in the middle of the action.\n\nGleb - not his real name - had previously been involved in the fighting for the symbolic town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. As the mutiny began, he was resting with his unit in barracks in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region.\n\nEarly in the morning on 23 June they got the call to join a column of Wagner fighters leaving Ukraine. The order came from a Wagner commander who Gleb is reluctant to name for security reasons, but who was acting on orders from Prigozhin and the Wagner Command Council.\n\n\"It's a full deployment,\" he was told. \"We're forming a column, let's move out.\"\n\nGleb says no-one was told where the column was heading, but he was surprised when he realised they were moving away from the frontline.\n\nThe Wagner fighters encountered absolutely no resistance, he says, as they crossed the Russian border into the Rostov region.\n\n\"I didn't see any border guards,\" he recalls. \"But the traffic police saluted us along the way.\"\n\nWagner says this photo shows Russian border guards at a checkpoint laying down their weapons\n\nChannels closely associated with Wagner on the messaging app Telegram later claimed that border guards at the Bugayevka checkpoint had laid down their weapons as the Wagner fighters arrived.\n\nThese channels shared a photo purportedly from the scene showing two dozen unarmed individuals in camouflage.\n\nAs they approached Rostov-on-Don, the fighters were given orders to surround all the law enforcement agency buildings in the city and to occupy the military airport. Gleb's unit was told to take control of the regional offices of the Federal Security Service (FSB).\n\nAs they approached the building it appeared to be completely locked and empty. They flew a drone overhead to check for any signs of life.\n\nEventually, after half an hour, a door opened and two people came out onto the street.\n\n\"They said, 'Guys, let's make a deal',\" Gleb recounts. \"I said, 'What's there to make a deal about? This is our city'.\n\n\"So we just agreed that we would leave each other alone. They came out to smoke from time to time.\"\n\nRostov journalists have reported a similar situation with many government buildings in and around the city. The Wagner fighters would first fly drones over them and then surround them. No-one was allowed to leave, but delivery couriers were allowed in with food.\n\nWhile all this was going on Wagner leader Prigozhin was at the Russian army's Southern Military District headquarters meeting Russia's Deputy Defence Minister, Lt Gen Yunus-bek Yevkurov, and the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Lt Gen Vladimir Alexeyev.\n\nPrigozhin demanded that they hand over the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.\n\nA screengrab from a video which shows Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin making a speech in Rostov-on-Don on 24 June\n\nAt the same time as Prigozhin was in his meeting, there was another column of Wagner fighters on the move.\n\nGleb confirms media reports that this column was led by Wagner founder Dmitry Utkin, a former special forces officer who is rarely seen in public.\n\nThis column was on the main highway towards Voronezh, and apparently bound for Moscow, he says.\n\nSo did Gleb know the plan - what Prigozhin was intending or planning to do?\n\nHe swears as he bluntly says he didn't have a clue. \"We learned what was happening from Telegram, just like you did.\"\n\nAs the day went on, pictures of what was happening in Rostov were beamed around the world. People were surprised to see local residents and even local journalists apparently smiling and chatting to some of the normally tight-lipped Wagner fighters occupying their city.\n\n\"It was the ex-cons,\" says Gleb, referring to the many serving prisoners or convicts conscripted into Wagner last year. \"Nobody told them not to, nobody cares about them.\"\n\nFor established fighters like Gleb, who were hired long before the war in Ukraine, the rules are much more clearly understood.\n\nHe told the BBC that back in the spring, they had been told by the senior command that anyone who spoke to the media would be \"nullified\", ie killed. Several former Wagner fighters have told us the same thing.\n\nOn the evening of 24 June, Gleb was contacted by one of his superiors and told, without any explanation, that he and his unit should now return to base in Luhansk.\n\nAs they made their way back to barracks, they were following the news on Telegram.\n\nThey read that criminal charges had been initiated against Prigozhin, then dropped, and that he was to move to Belarus.\n\nThey then read that Wаgner fighters would not be held accountable for their role in the mutiny because of their \"combat merits\", according to President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.\n\nFor Gleb and his unit, their future is now unclear. They've been told to stay in their barracks in Luhansk and await further orders.\n\nTheir hosts, authorities of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic, pro-Russian separatist militants in eastern Ukraine, are keen to find out more about their future plans and what will happen to their equipment and ammunition, he says.\n\nWhen asked why he doesn't leave Wagner, Gleb has a simple answer: \"My contract hasn't expired yet.\"", "In animation, there's a golden rule that characters should be recognisable by their silhouette alone.\n\nIt's a principle that must have been familiar to whoever designed Pulp's reunion tour - because Jarvis Cocker is constantly thrown into relief on the big screens at Latitude festival.\n\nBritpop's very own angle-poise lamp, his unorthodox dance moves are instantly recognisable, full of side lunges, sharp elbows and fluttering hands.\n\nWhen his outline is beamed high above the crowd at Latitude festival, it's like a giant, wondrous special effect. Who needs fireworks when Jarvis is here? (We get fireworks too, though that comes later).\n\nPulp come to Latitude towards the end of a summer-long reunion tour, 22 years after their last record, and a decade after they last played live.\n\n\"This is what we do for an encore,\" the video screens announce before they take the stage. But if time has moved on, the songs sound remarkably fresh.\n\nDisco 2000 is essentially a British Abba song, all suburban disappointment and thumping disco beats; Babies is a voyeur's manifesto and Mis-shapes is the soundtrack to the revenge of the outcasts.\n\nThose hits prompt mass sing-alongs - not just from the adults who saw them first time around, but from their kids as well.\n\nCocker, meanwhile, is just as dry and mischievous as ever. \"Feeling ok? We'll soon see about that,\" he intones ominously as the show begins.\n\nThe band's reunion tour culminates with two nights in London's Hammersmith Apollo next week\n\nBut really, he's in a party mood. The band have been soaking up the festival all day and before long he's laughing at people who've stapled underwear to their flag poles, and throwing chocolates into the crowd. \"My doctor's here tonight so he wouldn't agree with this,\" he observes.\n\nCocker even tells the story of his girlfriend visiting one of the festival's many stalls and trying on a dragon's tail, \"which I found strangely exciting, actually\".\n\nThere's always been a curious innocence to his vice, which amount to things like glimpsing a bra strap (Underwear) or imagining the shape of someone's breasts (F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.)\n\nEven the provocatively-titled This Is Hardcore is really about the seedy parallels between the porn industry and the music business. Guess which one comes off worse?\n\nRevisiting the songs, the band have never sounded better.\n\nSpread across a grand Hollywood musical staircase, and augmented by the Elysian Collective sting section, they bring a new cinematic grandeur to Misfits, and a swirling, hypnotic energy to Do You Remember The First Time?\n\nA poignant Something Changed is dedicated to bass guitarist Steve Mackey, who died earlier this year at the age of 56; and Sunrise, which Cocker performs in front of a dazzling, white-hot globe of lightbulbs, is a stirring end to the main set.\n\nThat said, some of the more obscure tracks don't go down so well. Like A Friend, a rarity from the soundtrack to 1998's Great Expectations, feels like a particularly odd choice for a festival set, especially when they omit the fan favourite Razzmatazz.\n\nBut the band know everyone's waiting for one song in particular.\n\n\"Have we forgotten something?\" asks Cocker, pretending the set has ended. \"Haven't we played David's Last Summer?\"\n\nThen, with a nod and a wink, they rev up an extended, blood-quickening version of Common People.\n\nIf anything, the song's scathing tale of poverty tourism has gained even more bite as it approaches 30, and the gap between rich and poor widens even further.\n\nCocker snarls his way through it, standing astride two monitors, his fist pumping the air as the crowd sing along, before it ends in a flurry of pyrotechnics and confetti.\n\nAs with Blur's Wembley Stadium shows a fortnight ago, it's a reminder that Britpop wasn't all about beers and blokes. Some of the acts were simply in a Different Class.\n\nPulp's set came at the end of the first day of the Latitude Festival, held in the leafy grounds of Suffolk's Henham Park.\n\nMalian band Tinariwen were first on the bill, easing everyone into the festival vibe with a feast of traditional desert blues on the main stage.\n\nOver in The Sunrise Arena, indie newcomers The Last Dinner Party were one of the day's buzziest bands, drawing a huge audience despite only having two singles to their name.\n\n\"Christ there are a lot of you,\" gasped singer Abigail Morris, before justifying everyone's interest with a barrage of catchy, baroque pop anthems.\n\nThe six-piece switch from delicate beauty to righteous fury at the flip of a switch, and Morris is an eminently watchable front woman, punctuating every beat with a balletic swirl or a hair-flailing headbang.\n\nThe family-friendly festival also has a kids' area, circus performers, yoga classes and record-breaking bubble blowers\n\nAs the afternoon turned to evening, the main stage was handed over to a trio of left-field pop acts, with Georgia's sun-kissed dance beats followed by Confidence Man's high-camp electro pop; and Metronomy's bouncy keyboard riffs.\n\nThe few festivalgoers who decided not to watch Pulp were treated to a raucously rowdy set from Yard Act on the BBC Sounds stage; while folk-pop supergroup Fizz gave fans an early glimpse of their debut album, The Secret To Life, at the Sunrise Arena.\n\nDriven by the combined talents of Orla Gartland, Dodie, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown, their infectiously joyous set left everyone with mile-wide smiles as they went into the night.\n\nThe festival continues on Saturday with Paolo Nutini, James and The Lightning Seeds on the main stage, with Young Fathers headlining the BBC Sounds stage.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A leading British climate scientist has told the BBC he believes the target to limit global warming to 1.5C will be missed.\n\nProfessor Sir Bob Watson, former head of the UN climate body, told the BBC's Today programme he was \"pessimistic\".\n\nHis warning comes amidst a summer of extreme heat for Europe, China and the US.\n\nThe UN says passing the limit will expose millions more people to potentially devastating climate events.\n\nThe world agreed to try to limit the temperature increase due to climate change to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels at a UN conference in Paris in 2015. That target has become the centrepiece of global efforts to tackle climate change.\n\nClimate scientists have been warning governments for years that they are not cutting their countries' emissions quickly enough to keep within this target.\n\nBut it is surprising for someone as senior and well respected as the former head of the UN climate science body the IPCC to be so frank that he believes it will be missed.\n\nProfessor Sir Bob Watson is currently Emeritus Professor of the UK's Tyndall Centre for Climate Research - having previously worked at the UN, Nasa, UK's Department of Environment and the US White House - and is perhaps one of the foremost climate scientists in the world.\n\nIn the interview aired on Thursday he said: \"I think most people fear that if we give up on the 1.5 [Celsius limit] which I do not believe we will achieve, in fact I'm very pessimistic about achieving even 2C, that if we allow the target to become looser and looser, higher and higher, governments will do even less in the future.\"\n\nHis comments although candid were supported by Lord Stern, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, later on Thursday during an interview with BBC's WATO programme.\n\nHe said: \"I think 1.5 is probably out of reach even if we accelerate quickly now, but we could bring it back if we start to bring down the cost of negative emissions and get better at negative emissions. Negative emissions means direct air capture of carbon dioxide.\"\n\nBased on current government commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Climate Action Tracker predicts that global temperatures will rise to 2.7C.\n\nThe figure is not a direct measure of the world's temperature but an indicator of how much or how little the Earth has warmed or cooled compared to the long-term global average - and even slight changes can have significant impacts.\n\nThe UN climate body, the IPCC, has said keeping temperature rises below 1.5C, rather than 2C, would mean:\n\nProf Sir Bob Watson said that the world was struggling to prevent temperature rises as we are not reducing emissions fast enough.\n\n\"The big issue is we need to reduce greenhouse gases now to even be on the pathway to be close to 1.5C or 2C. We need to reduce current emissions by at least 50% by 2030. The trouble is the emissions are still going up, they are not going down,\" he said.\n\nHe told the Today programme that setting targets was not enough and countries needed to back these up with action: \"We need to try and hold governments to start to act sensibly now and reduce emissions, but even governments with a really good target like the United Kingdom don't have the policies in place, don't have the financing in place to reach those goals.\"\n\nIn March the UK's watchdog on climate change, the UKCCC, said the UK had lost its leadership on climate issues. It said the government's backing of new oil and coal projects, airport expansion plans and slow progress on heat pumps showed a lack of urgency.\n\nIn response to comments from Lord Stern and Professor Sir Bob Watson, a government spokesperson said: \"The UK is a world-leader on net zero, cutting emissions faster than any other G7 country and has attracted billions of investment into renewables, which now account for 40% of our electricity.\"\n\nBut Lord Deben, who until last month was chair of the UKCCC, said the government was \"entirely wrong\". Talking to BBC's WATO programme he said that other countries like the US and China were moving much faster, and that the UK was setting \"the worst possible example to the rest of the world\".", "Cell phone footage captured a strong tornado in North Carolina tearing off a roof and tossing up debris in the air. The tornado left sixteen people injured, two of them with life-threatening injuries, according to the National Weather Service.", "Visitors to Dorset's Jurassic Coast have been warned after a large section of cliff collapsed on to a beach.\n\nThe overnight landslip occurred at Seatown Beach, near West Bay, along the same section of coastline as another collapse in 2021.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service urged walkers to \"stay away from cliff edges and don't sit at the base of the cliffs\".\n\nIt added there was a greater risk of cliff falls due to recent dry weather.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDorset Council also issued a warning that said the slips continued to move and were still \"dangerous to walk over\".\n\nIt said the latest landslip seemed to be \"another movement of the older slipped material\".\n\nDorset Council said it would continue to monitor the situation\n\n\"This movement may leave the remaining vertical faces even more vulnerable to further collapse now, especially where any remaining cracks are still present,\" the council added.\n\nThe authority said it would continue to monitor these and other active cliffs along the Jurassic coast.\n\nDorset Council said the coastal path at the top was moved back three years ago from the edge due to the cracking\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour's mixed fortunes in this week's by-elections have brought in to sharper focus underlying differences on policy.\n\nThe Labour leadership see their spectacular win in Selby and Ainsty, a former Tory stronghold, as a sign that trust is being rebuilt and an endorsement of its strategy of not promising more than it can deliver.\n\nBut some critics say the failure to take Uxbridge and South Ruislip suggests Labour's big national opinion poll lead has more to do with disillusionment with the government than enthusiasm for change.\n\nBehind closed doors this weekend, there will be calls for the party to adopt more distinctive policies.\n\nThe Labour leadership has insisted that it won't make uncosted spending commitments ahead of the next general election.\n\nAnd that it won't be afraid to make \"hard choices\".\n\nBut at a meeting of the party's policy-making body this weekend in Nottingham, they will be pushed to make more spending commitments.\n\nThe National Policy Forum consists of ordinary party members, representatives from the trade unions and members of the shadow cabinet.\n\nAnd there are some issues where an alliance of major unions and party members will attempt to force change.\n\nThe provision of free school meals for all primary school children is a policy favoured across the Labour spectrum.\n\nLast week, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said that while she would \"love\" to give all kids free meals, \"there isn't an endless supply of money\".\n\nShe said that school breakfast clubs were the priority.\n\nBut the leadership has been under pressure - with the Labour-supporting Mirror newspaper and the National Education Union which does not have formal links to the party - mounting campaigns for free meals.\n\nSo there is a proposed change to a draft policy document which calls on the national party \"to build on Labour in London and Wales\" by providing free school meals for all primary school children.\n\nThis is an issue backed by the UK's largest union Unison.\n\nThe union, too, is posing a further policy challenge to the leadership - by attempting to insert a lifting of the two child limit in the benefits system.\n\nThe Policy Forum attempts to achieve consensus, with shadow cabinet members talking face-to-face with those who want to see the policy changed.\n\nShould they fail to reach agreement it takes just over a third - 35% - of delegates who want to see a change to move the issue to the annual party conference, potentially highlighting internal divisions.\n\nBut I understand discussions have been held between party officials and Unison representatives to try to defuse any row.\n\nThe difficulty for the leadership is that their critics on these issues are not just the \"usual suspects\" on the party's left, so the pressure for change is greater.\n\nAnd on the benefits system, former shadow cabinet minister Jon Trickett asked the House of Commons library to calculate how much it would cost to lift the current two child limit.\n\nLabour has allocated £2bn of the anticipated £3.2bn it will raise by taxing wealthy \"non-doms\". That potentially leaves almost enough to meet the cost of that change to the benefits system.\n\nSo the argument from some in Labour's ranks is not for uncosted policies - it is that more policies be agreed, and costed.\n\nThe Left-wing group Momentum is running a campaign to lobby delegates to back more radical policies.\n\nThese include rent controls. There may be a compromise which would allow regional mayors to impose them.\n\nThe group is also calling for the nationalisation of energy and water companies. It is a priority for Labour's biggest union funder, Unite, to bring energy into public ownership.\n\nMomentum also wants a commitment to a £15 an hour minimum wage inscribed in Labour's official policy documents. They also want a commitment to reinstate the international development department, which has been folded into the foreign office, and to meet the aid target of 0.7% of GDP.\n\nSome amendments - mostly, though not entirely, from supporters of the leadership - have been agreed even before this weekend's meeting gets under way.\n\nThese include making it clear a Labour government would scrap the Home Office's Rwanda policy, improve early years education and renationalise rail.\n\nHowever, if the leadership is defeated on any issues it will have two get-out clauses.\n\nFirst, the National Policy Forum draws up the Official Policy Programme. But this isn't the same as the manifesto.\n\nThere is a further meeting to agree that and some policies won't make the cut.\n\nSecond, there will be wording in the agreed policy documents which will say: \"Labour's fiscal rules are non-negotiable.\n\n\"They will apply to every decision taken by a Labour government - with no exceptions.\"\n\nSo if shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves believes an agreed policy is unaffordable, it won't happen.\n\nBut the more immediate priority will be to try to show united front, even though the \"hard choices\" on spending are proving uncomfortable for some party members and unions alike.", "Ava-May Littleboy was with family in Gorleston-on-Sea when the tragedy happened\n\nThe owner of a beach inflatable has admitted breaching health and safety regulations following the death of a three-year-old girl in 2018.\n\nAva-May Littleboy was thrown in the air when the inflatable trampoline exploded at Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk.\n\nCurt Johnson and his company Johnsons Funfair Ltd both indicated guilty pleas to two counts of breaching health and safety laws at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court in Essex.\n\n\"The events of 1 July 2018 had, and continue to have, a devastating effect on the parents of Ava-May Littleboy and on the wider close-knit family,\" said a spokesperson for Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC), which prosecuted the case alongside the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\n\"GYBC and HSE again extend their sympathies and condolences to all of the family of Ava-May Littleboy.\"\n\nThe three-year-old was thrown into the air when the inflatable trampoline exploded\n\nAva-May, from Lower Somersham in Suffolk, was with family at the beach when she was taken on the trampoline.\n\nWitnesses described her being thrown \"higher than a house\" when the inflatable burst and that she appeared to be unconscious before she hit the ground.\n\nOne other child, aged nine, was on the inflatable but did not sustain \"significant physical injury\", GYBC said.\n\nAva-May Littleboy's parents previously described her as a \"bright, funny, beautiful girl\"\n\nAn inquest jury in March 2020 concluded no procedure was in place to safely manage its inflation, that it had not been checked by an independent third party and had no instruction manual.\n\nParents Nathan Rowe and Chloe Littleboy described a \"bright, funny, beautiful girl\" and said they hoped \"people see the serious risks these attractions can pose\".\n\nJohnson was operations manager of the company at the time, which traded under the name Bounceabout, and the trampoline was imported from its Chinese manufacturer in 2017.\n\nJohnson and Johnsons Funfair Ltd did not obtain safety instructions for the inflatable, did not prepare a specific risk assessment and the trampoline was not certified by the ADIPS scheme - GYBC said.\n\nThe two defendants pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.\n\nThe pair will be sentenced pending a two-day Newton hearing due to take place at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on 9 November.\n\nAva-May's parents said they hoped \"people see the serious risks these attractions can pose\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We've got to double down and stick to our plan - Sunak\n\nRishi Sunak has insisted the Conservatives can still win the next general election, despite suffering two damaging by-election defeats.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems overturned big Tory majorities in Somerton and Frome, and Selby and Ainsty constituencies.\n\nBut the Tories held the London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, despite predictions they could lose there too.\n\nThe result showed the next election was not a \"done deal\" for Labour, the prime minister said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party's \"incredible\" win in Selby and Ainsty was a \"cry for change\" from voters.\n\nHe added the result, where his party overturned a Tory majority of more than 20,000, was a \"big step forward\" ahead of the next general election, expected to take place next year.\n\nThe Tories' narrow victory in the suburban seat of Uxbridge, which they won by 495 votes, spared Mr Sunak the humiliation of being the first PM for 55 years to lose three by-elections in one night.\n\nThe party managed to capitalise on local anger over the planned expansion of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone (Ulez), a tax on polluting vehicles, to outer London boroughs by the capital's Labour mayor.\n\nVisiting a cafe in the constituency, Mr Sunak said it showed that people would vote Conservative when confronted with the \"reality\" of Labour in power.\n\nBut the other two results suggest the Tories face a difficult path to possible victory at the next election, with the party trailing Labour in the polls nationally by significant margins.\n\nAsked what the defeats meant for his party, Mr Sunak replied: \"The message I take away is that we've got to double down, stick to our plan and deliver for people.\"\n\nHe vowed to renew his focus on his government's five flagship priorities of halving inflation, growing the economy, reducing debt and NHS waiting times, and stopping small boat crossings.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg called on Tory MPs to \"row in behind the prime minister,\" adding that \"divided parties don't win elections\".\n\nHowever, a former cabinet minister on the right of the Conservative Party told the BBC the \"eye-watering swings\" in Selby and Somerton showed the party needs a \"complete change of direction\".\n\n\"Uxbridge provides no get-out-of-jail-free card for Rishi,\" they added.\n\n\"It is becoming increasingly clear that a failure by the party leadership to act now and change course risks electoral Armageddon.\"\n\nProgress towards the prime minister's pledges has so far been slow, with inflation in particular falling more slowly than predicted by many economists at the start of the year.\n\nConservative chairman Greg Hands conceded there was a \"lot of work still to be done\" to meet the promises, adding they \"weren't designed to be an easy thing to meet\".\n\nTory peer Lord Frost, a former minister, said his party needed to give people \"something to vote for,\" arguing the results were mainly down to its voters staying at home.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, he renewed his calls for the party to promise tax cuts, reduce levels of legal immigration, and delay net zero targets, adding it was currently offering voters policies too similar to Labour's.\n\nLabour won with a 23.7% swing in the rural North Yorkshire seat of Selby and Ainsty, breaking the record for the largest Tory majority it had overturned at a by-election since 1945.\n\nAnd a 29% swing to the Liberal Democrats in the Somerset seat of Somerton and Frome showed they could be a stronger challenger to the Tories in the West Country than at the last election in 2019.\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice said the Conservatives' vote share across the three by-elections showed the party was in \"as deep an electoral hole as the opinion polls have been suggesting\".\n\nHe added that its two defeats in Somerset and Yorkshire had both seen tactical voting to eject the Conservatives locally, spelling \"bad news\" for the governing party.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said his party's victory was \"nothing short of spectacular\", and showed his party were \"back in the West Country\".\n\nHe added that there were 15 south-western seats with smaller Tory majorities, making his party \"best placed\" to defeat the Conservatives in the region.", "Chris Heaton-Harris said he doesn't think the UK will need to ask the EU for more time to implement the deal\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has said he believes the implementation of the Windsor Framework remains on track.\n\nThe framework, which is intended to ease post-Brexit trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, was agreed by the EU and UK in February.\n\nSome major parts of the deal are scheduled to take effect in October.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said he does not think the UK will need to ask the European Union for any more time.\n\nThe framework modifies the Northern Ireland Protocol, the 2019 deal which kept NI inside the EU's single market for goods.\n\nThat arrangement keeps the Irish land border open but has meant products arriving into Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK are subject to checks and controls.\n\nThe new deal should reduce the frictions on Great Britain to Northern Ireland trade, primarily by expanding a trusted trader scheme and introducing a system of green lanes and red lanes at Northern Ireland ports.\n\nThe green lane/red lane system is due to start operation at the start of October alongside new labelling requirements for some food products entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nRetailers have said labelling is a key practical issue which they need more clarity on\n\nFurther parts of the deal will then be implemented over the next two years.\n\nIn May, representatives of major retailers said labelling was the key practical issue and they needed more clarity on what will be required before October.\n\nThe government provided more detail last month.\n\nSome parts of the framework have already been implemented, such as a customs tariffs rebate scheme for NI businesses.", "England v Haiti: Melchie Dumornay comes out on top in Fifa Women's World Cup opener Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nMelchie Dumornay, right, was the standout player in England's game against Haiti England may have got the win against Haiti to get their Women's World Cup campaign up and running, but it was a player for the tournament debutants who caught the eye. Melchie Dumornay caused the Lionesses numerous problems with her pace and skill and her stand-out performance has been reflected by her rating by BBC Sport readers. The 19-year-old Lyon midfielder's performance was rated 7.25, with Mary Earps earning the highest score for an England player with 6.49. You can see how all the players rated below.", "Prosecutors say Mr Trump illegally held onto classified files at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida estate\n\nFormer President Donald Trump will go on trial for alleged mishandling of classified documents in spring next year, a court has ruled.\n\nJudge Aileen Cannon set the case for 20 May. Mr Trump had wanted the trial held after the November 2024 election. Prosecutors wanted it this year.\n\nThe high-profile case will begin with the election campaign in full swing.\n\nMr Trump, 77, faces serious charges over the storage of sensitive files at his Florida home.\n\nProsecutors say he illegally kept secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office and obstructed government efforts to retrieve them.\n\nThe former president has maintained his innocence, lambasting the case as an attempt to destroy his election campaign.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Mr Trump said that the trial date is a \"major setback\" to the justice department's \"crusade\" against him.\n\n\"The extensive schedule allows President Trump and his legal team to continue fighting this empty hoax,\" the former president said.\n\nOn Friday, Judge Cannon, a Trump appointee, said the two-week trial would take place in Fort Pierce, Florida.\n\nFor prosecutors to secure a conviction in the Mar-a-Lago case, the jury's decision must be unanimous.\n\nJurors will be selected from around the Fort Pierce division, which includes several counties that Mr Trump won in 2020.\n\nThe former president pleaded not guilty to 37 federal counts during an arraignment in Miami last month.\n\nLawyers for both sides argued in the Fort Pierce court earlier this week over when the case should be held.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How much do you know about classified documents?\n\nProsecutors said the evidence was not complicated and there was no need to delay the trial. They wanted it to begin in December.\n\nBut lawyers for Mr Trump had argued that the \"extraordinary\" nature of the case required more time to prepare.\n\nThey said their client could not get a fair trial before the November 2024 election.\n\nOpinion polls indicate Mr Trump is the runaway front-runner in the race to become the Republican party candidate who will challenge the Democratic nominee, in all likelihood President Joe Biden, next year.\n\nThe Mar-a-Lago case is one of several legal challenges Mr Trump is facing.\n\nIn April, he was charged with falsifying business records in the state of New York.\n\nMr Trump announced this week that he expected to be arrested soon in connection with a federal inquiry into the US Capitol riot two years ago and his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.\n\nState prosecutors in Atlanta, Georgia, are also investigating whether the former president broke the law with his attempts to overturn the poll results in that state three years ago.\n\nDepartment of Justice-appointed special counsel Jack Smith is leading twin investigations into the Capitol riot and the Mar-a-Lago files.\n\nIn an indictment last month, his prosecutors alleged that when Mr Trump left office, he took about 300 classified documents to his oceanfront home in Palm Beach.\n\nThey say he stored the sensitive documents in several spaces, including a ballroom and a bathroom.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Mr Trump also told a personal aide, Walt Nauta, to move boxes containing classified files from a storage room at the resort before federal investigators came to look for them.\n\nMr Nauta is also charged in the case and has pleaded not guilty.\n\nIn New York, Mr Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for the alleged concealment of hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.\n\nThe former president faces a trial in that case on 25 March 2024.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on by-election win: Starmer: \"First time I have been able to say: Well done Keir\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer says Labour can now win anywhere - but Rishi Sunak insists his party is still in the game after three very different by-elections.\n\nLabour secured a massive 23.7% swing from the Tories in Selby, with its 25-year-old candidate Keir Mather winning by 4,000 votes.\n\nThe Lib Dems overturned a big Tory majority to take Somerset and Frome.\n\nBut in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the Tories narrowly held on to Boris Johnson's old seat.\n\nThe Labour leadership blamed their failure to take Uxbridge and South Ruislip by 495 votes on the planned expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez)- a charge for the most polluting vehicles - to outer London.\n\nThe winning Conservative candidate, Steve Tuckwell, said Sadiq Khan's \"damaging and costly Ulez policy\" had lost Labour the seat.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said Labour's Mayor of London needed to \"reflect\" on the policy, but stopped short of saying it should be scrapped.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak also attributed the Conservative win to voter anger over Ulez - and claimed the result showed the next general election was not a \"done deal\".\n\nMr Sunak said: \"When people are confronted with a real choice, a choice on a matter of substance, they vote Conservative.\n\n\"That's what the general election is going to be about.\"\n\nBut overall, the trio of by-election results show what the opinion polls have suggested for months - Mr Sunak faces a deep challenge at that election, which is expected to take place next year.\n\nHaving three by-elections on the same night is unusual, especially for a prime minister less than a year into the job.\n\nThe last time Labour secured a by-election swing as large as it did in Selby and Ainsty was in the 1990s - which ended with the Conservatives suffering a landslide defeat.\n\nKeir Mather, 25, is the first MP to be born after Labour's victory in 1997.\n\nHe will also become the youngest MP in the House of Commons after overturning a 20,000 Conservative majority.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We've got to double down and stick to our plan - Sunak\n\nCelebrating the victory in the rural North Yorkshire constituency on Friday, Sir Keir claimed it represented a \"cry for change\" from voters.\n\nHe said it was a \"vindication\" of the changes he had made to the party since taking over from Jeremy Corbyn as leader, showing Labour \"can win anywhere, including places that were Tory strongholds\".\n\n\"I know people have put their trust in us, and we will deliver on that trust,\" he added.\n\nThe Labour leader has ditched many of the policies promoted by Mr Corbyn, who has been suspended from the parliamentary party while other left-wing figures have been sidelined.\n\nOn Friday, the chair of Uxbridge's Labour party resigned with a parting shot at Sir Keir.\n\nDavid Williams, who said his resignation was \"nothing to do\" with the by-election result, told the BBC he was unhappy with Sir Keir's leadership and the party's \"move to the right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Lib Dem leader stages a cannon stunt to celebrate his party winning the Somerton and Frome by-election\n\nIt was a good night for the Liberal Democrats, who overturned a Tory majority of 19,000 in Somerton and Frome in Somerset.\n\nThe party leader Sir Ed Davey said it showed voters were uniting to defeat the Conservatives.\n\nSarah Dykes, a local business owner and sheep farmer, becomes the tenth female Lib Dem MP - meaning there are now twice as many females as males in the Commons cohort.\n\nSpeaking after her election, she promised to be an \"active, hard-working champion\".", "Fourth LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Emirates Old Trafford (day four of five):\n\nEngland dodged the rain to take the vital wicket of Marnus Labuschagne but their Ashes hopes remain in the balance going into the final day of the fourth Test against Australia.\n\nOn a fourth day that could have been entirely lost to rain, a period of dry weather allowed 30 overs of play from 14:45 BST at Old Trafford.\n\nEngland were frustrated for a long period by Labuschagne, who made only his second overseas Test hundred and shared a stubborn partnership of 103 with Mitchell Marsh.\n\nAs the light faded, England were ordered to bowl spin and Joe Root's off-breaks provided an unlikely source of inspiration.\n\nHe had Labuschagne caught behind by juggling wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow for 111 and almost had Marsh held at short leg.\n\nRain arrived at the scheduled tea break of 17:00, preventing any further action and leaving Australia on 214-5, still 61 short of making England bat again. Marsh has 31 and Cameron Green three.\n\nWith more bad weather forecast for Sunday, England are left hoping for enough time to force the win that would level the series at 2-2 and turn the fifth Test at The Oval into a decider.\n\nThough victory is now almost out of the question for Australia, a draw would be enough for them to retain the urn.\n• None How day four at Old Trafford unfolded\n• None England will win 3-2 if they win fourth Test - Vaughan\n\nThis series has produced three thrilling Tests, with the drama in the fourth now coming through England's battle with the weather. It would be a huge anti-climax if the rain has a decisive say in the destination of the Ashes urn.\n\nEngland were fortunate to get any play on Saturday. Overnight rain persisted into the morning and early afternoon, but the ground was readied at a remarkable speed. The empty stands filled rapidly as news of a start filtered through.\n\nThough the overheads were ideal and the crowd expectant, England were blocked by an unresponsive surface - there was no sign of the uneven bounce from earlier in the match - and the determination of Labuschagne and Marsh.\n\nThe reverse swing of Friday evening also disappeared as the ball became wet. When England persuaded the umpires to change it and looked to bring Mark Wood into the attack, they were told the light was not fit enough for pace. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as Root proved to be the most threatening bowler.\n\nEngland will return on Sunday wishing for the weather to be kind. There is the possibility of 98 overs of play and second new ball available nine overs into the day.\n\nFor Australia, they will not only be looking to repel England, but also build a lead to make the hosts' route to victory longer. Their inclusion of both Marsh and Green in this Test, extending the batting line-up, was done partly with this scenario in mind.\n\nLabuschagne delivers when Australia need it most\n\nThis has been a difficult series for Labuschagne. Beginning ranked as the world's number one Test batter, he had not managed a half-century before this match.\n\nHe hinted at a return to form with 51 in the first innings and then delivered what could yet prove to be an Ashes-saving hundred.\n\nWith Australia 113-4 overnight, Labuschagne began on 44 and Marsh one. Though Labuschagne took a painful blow on the finger from a Wood bouncer, he was largely untroubled by England's short-ball plan.\n\nMarsh, usually so aggressive, was a calm foil. He has struck only four fours in a 107-ball stay and two of those came in successive deliveries from Chris Woakes, who spent time off the field suffering from stiffness.\n\nWhen Root came on, Labuschagne lofted two sixes over long-on, but also flashed an edge off an arm-ball past slip Zak Crawley when he was on 93.\n\nHe went to his 11th Test ton by pinching a single off Moeen Ali before making an error attempting to cut Root and was given out on review.\n\nGiven the stakes and urgency of the situation, this was a curiously flat performance from England's seamers.\n\nThey got little movement from the ball or the pitch and chewed up precious time as they deliberated over field placings and tactics.\n\nA bouncer plan achieved little other than knocking the ball out of shape, after which came the stroke of luck with Wood being denied the chance to bowl, resulting in the call to Moeen and Root.\n\nWhile Moeen mixed some dangerous bounce with regular loose deliveries, Root constantly made things happen.\n\nHe was convinced on-field umpire Nitin Menon had made a mistake for the Labuschagne wicket, celebrating towards the Party Stand even before the review was complete. In the same over, an inside edge off Marsh went in and out of the fingers of bat-pad fielder Harry Brook.\n\nGreen survived a review off Moeen from the final ball before the tea break. England would have been happy to bowl more spin after the interval, only to be denied the opportunity.\n\nAustralia batter Marnus Labuschagne, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It's always very special getting a Test hundred. It doesn't happen too often but I'm disappointed I couldn't get us to tea.\n\n\"We were so close to having a tremendous day there. For us, this is about saving this Test match and retaining the Ashes.\"\n\nEngland batting coach Marcus Trescothick: \"We got more play than we expected. It looked like a complete washout so it's a bonus. We're one wicket closer but it's still frustrating.\n\n\"It really does depend on the weather. We wanted to get two or three wickets today and we'll take any play we can tomorrow.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"England were a bit flat. There wasn't much of their usual chatter and the noise from the players you get when you are going for a win.\"", "Parts of Sicily and Sardinia will be the hottest parts of Europe on Wednesday\n\nRed alerts for extreme heat are in place in most of Italy's main cities as a heatwave intensifies in Europe.\n\nTemperatures are expected to peak on Wednesday, with 23 cities on high alert - from Trieste in the north-east to Messina in the south-west.\n\nThe warnings mean the heat poses a threat to everybody, not just vulnerable groups.\n\nWildfires are also raging across the continent, including in Greece and the Swiss Alps.\n\nMillions of people in the northern hemisphere are being affected by scorching temperatures.\n\nIt is being caused by a high pressure system bringing warmer, tropical air, south of a jet stream currently stuck over central Europe.\n\nAnd the heat is forecast to last through Wednesday across most of southern Europe, following several days of temperatures in excess of 40C (104F).\n\nBBC Weather says parts of the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily will be the hottest again, with highs of around 46C or 47C.\n\nThe heatwave, which has swept across the country, has been described by local media as settimana infernale - or \"week of hell\".\n\nMany buildings on the island of Sicily are not equipped to deal with temperatures this high. Lots of families live on the ground floor, in apartments with very few windows, and it is quite common for large families to live together in small spaces.\n\nTwo people - a man and woman aged 69 - were found dead in their homes in the Sicilian capital Palermo on Tuesday, with several local newspapers attributing their deaths to the heat.\n\nIn the south of Italy, which is poorer than the north, many cannot afford air conditioning, or even fans.\n\nThe heat is particularly tough on homeless people.\n\nSergio Ciresi, a priest running Catholic charity Caritas, which offers a shower service and homeless shelters in Palermo, told the BBC the heat was \"making people more impatient and short-tempered\".\n\n\"In the last few days we noticed people getting angry a lot more easily, and starting fights with each other.\"\n\nThere have also been power cuts on the island as a result of high demand for air conditioning.\n\nThe Italian health ministry has asked emergency rooms across the country to activate so-called \"heat codes\", assigning a separate group of medical staff to treat people who come in with symptoms caused by the heat.\n\nSimilar measures were brought in at the start of 2020, when Italy became the epicentre of the Covid pandemic in Europe.\n\nThere has been a 20% increase in the number of patients being admitted with heat-related symptoms, according to the health ministry.\n\n\"We are seeing an increase in admissions of patients with headache, tachycardia, dehydration and confusion,\" said Dr Tiziana Maniscalchi, director of emergency medicine at a hospital in Palermo.\n\nShe said some of her patients had died, with exposure to extreme heat a contributing factor.\n\n\"For people who already have a fragile health, being exposed to these temperatures can have devastating consequences,\" she said.\n\n\"I am worried, because the people who will pay the price are the most vulnerable and frail.\"\n\nA new record-high temperature of 41.8C was reportedly recorded in the capital Rome on Tuesday.\n\nRed alerts also remain in place across Spain, Greece and parts of the Balkans.\n\nTemperatures are expected to fall on Thursday for many in Europe, including northern Italy - where red alerts will be removed for six cities.\n\nBut BBC Weather's Matt Taylor says that temperatures could be in the mid to high 40s for many in the central and eastern Mediterranean by the weekend and carrying on into next week - which could potentially come close to breaking records.\n\nTunisia in North Africa is also expected to register 50C in some spots, he added.\n\nThe UN weather agency, the World Meteorological Organization, has warned that the heatwave in Europe could continue into August, and that the extreme temperatures sweeping the globe are the new normal in a world warmed by climate change.\n\nIn Greece, staff at the Acropolis in Athens, one of the country's top tourist attractions, will stop working for four hours a day from Thursday in protest at working conditions during the heat, a union representing its workers has said.\n\nMultiple wildfires have also swept across the country since Monday - including one which led to the evacuation of 1,200 children from a summer camp.\n\nThe most severe fire burned in the Dervenochoria region, north of Athens. Others also continue to rage in the towns of Loutraki - near the city of Corinth - and in Kouvaras, south of the capital.\n\nIn Mandra, west of Athens, residents have told the BBC damage from fires could have been avoided if emergency crews had arrived earlier.\n\nThe Greek fire service said it was doing the best it could to fight wildfires in very poor weather conditions, adding the \"main concern is to protect lives, save belongings and the forests\".\n\nSome have levelled criticism at the government, claiming there are not enough firefighters to respond to the number of blazes currently raging in the country.\n\nGreek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who cut his trip to Brussels short this week in wake of the fires, said the climate crisis was the main factor behind the blazes.\n\nMr Mitsotakis has faced these criticisms before, apologising in August 2021 for failures in tackling that summer's wildfires.\n\nScientists have long-warned that climate change will make heatwaves more frequent, more intense and last longer in duration.\n\nExperts say Europe in particular is warming faster than many climate models predicted.\n\nMore than 61,000 people were estimated to have died from the heat in Europe last year, and there are fears this year will be similar.\n\nHas the heatwave affected you or your holiday? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The presenter has told people if they have any bottles affected by the problem they can get a refund\n\nJeremy Clarkson has warned customers who have bought his cider that some bottles could explode.\n\nThe 63-year-old presenter said a mistake meant there was a \"slim chance\" some of the Hawkstone Cider bottles may erupt.\n\nThe cider comes from Hawkstone Brewery in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire.\n\nOn Twitter he said: \"If the cap has the code L3160, open it underwater, pour it away and get in touch for a refund.\"\n\nHe said: \"There's been a massive cock up and as a result, there's a very slim chance some of our Hawkstone CIDER bottles might, there's no easy way of saying this, explode.\n\n\"Really sorry about this but on the upside, the beer is fine and still delicious.\n\n\"As is the cider, in bottles that are unaffected. Which is almost all of them.\"\n\nThe drinks brand was launched in 2021, with its primary ingredients coming from Clarkson's 1,000-acre Diddly Squat farm in Chipping Norton.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by hawkstone This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA post on Instagram from Hawkstone explained that the issue is due to \"a small amount\" of the cider \"over fermenting\".\n\nThe brand also said: \"Take a photo of the caps and we will send you a fresh batch or a refund.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Elton John, Carole King and Hilary Clinton were among those paying tribute to Bennett (pictured in 2017)\n\nTony Bennett was \"singing at his piano\" just days before he died, his representatives have revealed.\n\nThe legendary New York pop and jazz singer died on Friday aged 96.\n\nA statement posted on his Twitter account said: \"Tony left us today but he was still singing the other day at his piano and his last song was Because of You, his first #1 hit.\n\n\"Tony, because of you we have your songs in our heart forever.\"\n\nSir Elton John, Carole King and Hilary Clinton were among those paying tribute to the star on social media.\n\nBennett was known for songs such as The Way You Look Tonight, Body and Soul and (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco.\n\nHe also collaborated with star performers from Lady Gaga to Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra, who called him \"the best singer in the business\".\n\nDuring a career that spanned eight decades, Bennett sold millions of records and won 20 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award.\n\nBennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016\n\nBennett's death was confirmed by his publicist Sylvia Weiner in a statement to the Associated Press.\n\nShe said he died in his hometown of New York. No specific cause of death was announced, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016.\n\nSir Elton John led the tributes on social media, writing in a statement posted on his Instagram that he was \"so sad to hear of Tony's passing\".\n\n\"Without doubt the classiest singer, man, and performer you will ever see,\" Sir Elton said. \"He's irreplaceable. I loved and adored him. Condolences to Susan, Danny and the family.\"\n\nThe White House released a statement saying that \"Tony Bennett didn't just sing the classics - he himself was an American classic\" and praising his enduring contributions to American life.\n\nFormer US first lady Hillary Clinton described Bennett as a \"true talent, a true gentleman, and a true friend\". She tweeted: \"We'll miss you, Tony, and thanks for all the memories.\"\n\nSinger Carole King said: \"RIP Tony Bennett. Such a big loss. Deepest sympathy to his family and the world.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Bennett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement to Rolling Stone, singer Billy Joel said: \"Tony Bennett was the one of the most important interpreters of American popular song during the mid to late 20th Century.\n\n\"He championed songwriters who might otherwise have remained unknown to many millions of music fans. His was a unique voice that made the transition from the era of Jazz into the age of Pop.\n\n\"I will always be grateful for his outstanding contribution to the art of contemporary music. He was a joy to work with. His energy and enthusiasm for the material he was performing was infectious. He was also one of the nicest human beings I've ever known.\"\n\nDirector Martin Scorsese added: \"Tony Bennett was a consummate artist. All you have to do is listen to any one of his hundreds of recordings to recognise that.\n\n\"Very early on, his music quietly wove itself into the fabric of our lives. His voice felt as familiar and as close as the voices of our loved ones. I know that this was true for millions of people around the world.\"\n\nBennett (pictured in 2003) won 19 competitive Grammys as well as an additional lifetime achievement award\n\nBorn Anthony Dominick Benedetto, to a family of Italian immigrants, Bennett was just nine years old when his father died, plunging the family further into poverty.\n\nAs a teenager he became a singing waiter before enrolling to study music and painting at New York's School of Industrial Art.\n\nHe was drafted into the US army in 1944 to fight in France and Germany towards the end of World War Two. \"It's legalised murder,\" he said of the scarring experience in an interview with the Guardian in 2013.\n\nAfter returning home, his singing career continued - first under the name Joe Bari - and his breakthrough came in 1951 the song Because of You, which gave him first number one.\n\nHe changed his name to the Americanised Tony Bennett on the say so of fellow entertainer Bob Hope.\n\nBennett soon became a teenage icon, releasing his first album in 1952. The same year his wedding was besieged by female fans in mourning.\n\nHe went on to chart in the US in every subsequent decade of his life, building a reputation for making timeless swinging jazz-inflected pop hits - like Blue Velvet and Rags to Riches - and, later, show tunes and big band numbers.\n\nBennett pictured performing with singer KD Lang in New York in 2002\n\nHis 1962 version of a song from the previous decade, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, sent his star into an even bigger orbit, winning him two Grammys.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs about his love of the excitement of jazz he said: \"Jazz artists live for the moment.\"\n\nBennett was a supporter of the civil rights movement and took part in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches while also refusing to perform in apartheid-era South Africa.\n\nHowever, with the arrival of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones into the US, as the decade rolled on his relevance faded.\n\nPersonal problems followed, including the end of two marriages and drug addiction.\n\nHe performed through the pain, recording two records with pianist Bill Evans.\n\nAfter hiring his son Danny to become his manager and reuniting with his pianist and musical director Ralph Sharon, his fortunes began to change.\n\nHe enjoyed a revival in the 1980s and 1990s, when Grammy awards flooded in for the star, then in his sixties.\n\nHis 1986 comeback album, The Art of Excellence, got the ball rolling again for the star who had returned to New York from Las Vegas.\n\nBennett, pictured on the BBC Breakfast show in 2010, became the torchbearer for the Great American Songbook, releasing more than 70 albums in total\n\nHe followed it with the chart-topping Perfectly Frank, a tribute to his musical hero Sinatra, before 1994's MTV Unplugged saw Bennett win the Grammy for album of the year.\n\nIn an interview with the Independent in 2008, Bennett said he had not been surprised by his renewed success.\n\n\"Good music is good music,\" he said. \"I'm not concerned with whether someone who listens to me is old or young. In fact, in many ways, I'm not interested in the young at all.\n\n\"I'm interested in age. People learn to live properly when they get of an age, you know? The late Duke Ellington once said to me that he was really offended by the word category.\n\n\"Music has no category; it's either good or it isn't, and I sing good songs, great songs, written by the best songwriters. It's that kind of quality that makes them last. Trust me, people will be singing these songs forever.\"\n\nBennett remained perpetually cool enough to win over new legions of fans.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by tonybennettVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe collaborated with a host of younger artists - who adored him - including Amy Winehouse, Queen Latifah and Carrie Underwood on the follow-up to 2006's Duets: An American Classic, which had earlier seen him sing with Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and George Michael.\n\nin 2014, his joint album with Lady Gaga, Cheek to Cheek, made him the oldest living act to reach the top of the US charts, at 88, breaking his own previous record.\n\nGaga described the results of working with the \"legend\" as \"the most important album of my career.\"\n\nShortly after his 90th birthday he told the New York Times: \"I could have retired 16 years ago, but I just love what I'm doing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gaga inspired Bennett so much that he went backstage to meet her after a concert to line up his next collaboration\n\nIn 2021, five years after his 2016 Alzheimer's diagnosis, Bennett performed his final shows alongside Gaga, with whom, for younger fans, he became closely associated.\n\nHe posted on social media at the time: \"Life is a gift - even with Alzheimer's.\"\n\nAway from music, as a keen painter, Bennett had his work displayed in galleries. He also founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in his hometown Queens.\n\nHe is survived by four children: Danny, Dae, Joanna and Antonia, as well as his wife Susan Crow.\n\nPaying tribute to the singer, musician Nile Rogers said \"My most heartfelt condolences go out to Tony Bennett's family and friends.\"\n\nSinger Ozzy Osbourne said he was \"very sad to hear about Tony Bennett's passing,\" while Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards posted a 2015 photo of himself with the singer and wrote: \"May you Rest in Peace, Tony Bennett.\"\n• None Tony Bennett: 'The best singer in the business'", "Allister Brown has twice before broken the world record for longest drumming marathon by an individual\n\nA Lisburn man has smashed the world record for the length of time spent drumming.\n\nAllister Brown, who is 45, surpassed his previous record of 134 hours and five minutes, by drumming for more than 150 hours.\n\nHe finished his \"drumathon\" on Saturday afternoon, after starting last Sunday.\n\nMr Brown took on the challenge in memory of his late partner Sharon Deegan, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in January 2021, aged 49.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday afternoon, at the Lisburn Music Centre where he secured his third world record, Mr Brown said it had been a \"massive undertaking\".\n\nHe said that the memory of Ms Deegan, as well as the support of his friends, kept him going during the attempt.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone who has supported me,\" he said.\n\n\"I always had it in my mind I wanted to do this in Sharon's memory.\"\n\nMr Brown has twice before broken the world record for longest drumming marathon by an individual, first in 2003 when he drummed for 58 hours, and again in 2008 when he lasted just shy of 103 hours.\n\nHe said that his previous attempts had prepared him well for this latest marathon.\n\n\"The experience has been absolutely phenomenal for me; to have that knowledge of how to prepare, how to deal with certain situations during the marathon,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"This one has ran really well and I'm so thankful to the team that I've had that wanted to help me out.\"\n\nThe Guinness World Records rules state that for every hour of drumming Mr Brown is allowed a five-minute break.\n\nHe was able to save up these breaks, allowing him to take slightly longer periods of respite.\n\nAllister Brown (right), had support including from his friend and event coordinator Duncan Campbell\n\nBut by Friday morning, five days into his record attempt, Mr Brown's friend, and event coordinator, Duncan Campbell, said the drummer had only slept for about two hours during the attempt.\n\n\"Certainly this is a challenge where you are doing an endurance against the mind,\" said Mr Brown.\n\n\"At certain points I'm going to be hallucinating and the team are there to help me out.\n\n\"My body will maybe want to try and make me sleep in the early hours of the morning, so the team again will be trying to keep me awake and make sure that my breaks are allocated correctly and that I'll be able to get the rest when needed.\"\n\nThe attempt was livestreamed and held in aid of charity.\n\n\"With Sharon passing away from pancreatic cancer I'm raising money for [pancreatic cancer charity] NIPANC, and I'm also raising money for Mind, a charity which is for mental health, because I suffered a bit with mental health issues after Sharon's passing so I thought it would be best to coincide the two together in this event,\" he said.\n\nOver the past two decades the world record for longest drumming marathon by an individual has been traded between Mr Brown and a few other drummers around the world.\n\nWhile his latest total is impressive, he does not think it is unbeatable.\n\n\"Nothing is impossible if you have the right mindset and people around you. If anyone wants to try and beat the record, I'm willing to help them,\" he said.\n\nAs for his plans on completing the marathon, he said: \"The first thing I'll be looking to do is find somewhere comfortable to sit down and probably just fall asleep.\"", "Ann Clwyd served as an MEP before she was first elected as an MP in a 1984 by-election\n\nSir Tony Blair and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford have paid tribute to former Labour MP Ann Clwyd, who has died at the age of 86.\n\nShe represented the Cynon Valley constituency for 35 years, and became the oldest woman to sit in the House of Commons before standing down in 2019.\n\nThe former BBC journalist served as an MEP before she was first elected as an MP in a 1984 by-election.\n\nShe held many posts including shadow secretary of state for Wales.\n\nIn 1994, she staged a sit-in at Tower Colliery, near Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, in protest at British Coal's decision to close the pit.\n\nThe miners were given the go-ahead to re-open the colliery the following year, after pooling their redundancy money to take it over. It continued producing coal until 2008.\n\nShe was Sir Tony's special envoy in Iraq and she campaigned on the NHS following the death of her husband Owen Roberts in 2012.\n\nAnn Clwyd (pictured with Tony Blair in 2004) campaigned for the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq\n\nSir Tony called her a \"courageous, fearless, principled political campaigner\" who campaigned for the \"poor and oppressed\" throughout the world.\n\n\"She didn't flinch from speaking her mind, no matter what the personal or political cost,\" he said.\n\n\"She fought the case of those employed in the coal industry, persuading my government to correct the failure to compensate former miners for the ill health they suffered through mining.\n\n\"And having spent a large part of her life standing up against the brutal repression of the Kurdish people in Iraq, she supported the removal of Saddam Hussein, not only when it was relatively easy to do so, but when the going got tough.\"\n\nLabour Party Sir Keir Starmer also paid tribute, saying: \"Ann was a leading figure in the Labour Party, dedicating her life to our movement.\"\n\nFirst Minster Mark Drakeford said: \"She was a fearless campaigner, a defender of human rights and a trailblazer for female politicians, but above all of these - a long-term, dedicated servant of the people of Cynon Valley.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Angela Rayner 🌹 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCardiff Central Labour MP Jo Stevens tweeted that Ms Clwyd \"was a trailblazer for women, not just in Wales but across the UK and abroad\".\n\nShe said Ms Clwyd was \"determined, passionate, fierce and stood her ground\".\n\n\"Ann was also very kind, funny and loyal to her many friends and constituents,\" she added.\n\n\"I'll miss her. She was one of a kind.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies, Welsh Conservative Senedd group leader, said he was \"saddened to hear of the passing of Ann Clwyd\".\n\n\"A formidable figure, she never shied away from fighting for her beliefs, standing on principle no matter who that may have upset,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"She was a passionate servant of the people of the Cynon Valley and will be deeply missed.\"\n\nWelsh Health Minister Eluned Morgan said Ms Clwyd was a \"pioneer and the only political female role model for women in Wales over a long period\".\n\n\"She was a true radical and was inspired by her early years serving as a Euro MP before going on to make a significant impact in Westminster,\" she tweeted.\n\nAnn Clwyd worked as a BBC journalist in the 1960s\n\nBeth Winter, who took over Ms Clwyd as Labour MP for Cynon Valley, said her \"thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time\".\n\n\"Her work over so many years for women's rights, international justice and the miners will be remembered,\" she wrote.\n\nIn a tweet, Carwyn Jones, former first minister and Member of the Senedd said: \"Ann served her constituency faithfully for so many years. My thoughts are very much with her family.\"\n\nAnd Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner tweeted that Ms Clwyd had been a \"determined voice for the people she represented\".\n\n\"She will be much missed. My condolences to her family,\" she added.\n\nMs Clwyd died peacefully at home in Cardiff on Friday evening \"with her family and cats around her\".\n\nThey don't make them like that any more.\n\nA conviction politician who managed to stand up for those close to home and those abroad, to rise to positions of seniority in her party, but not let that get in the way of what she thought was right.\n\nDespite the scrapes and the high-profile interests further afield, to someone with Cynon Valley heritage, home seemed closest to her heart.\n\nAnd on a personal level she was great fun to interview - woe betide you if you weren't completely on your game.", "The attack happened in the town of San Luis Río Colorado on the US border\n\nA man has been arrested in Mexico on suspicion of setting fire to a bar after he was kicked out, killing 11 people, officials say.\n\nThe attack happened on Friday night in San Luis Río Colorado, which borders the United States. The bar sits just one street away from the border.\n\nAuthorities say a drunk young man hurled a Molotov cocktail at the Beer House bar after being thrown out.\n\nHe had reportedly been harassing women before being ejected.\n\nThe mayor of San Luis Río Colorado tweeted on Saturday afternoon that a suspect had been arrested. He has not yet been named.\n\nThe fire killed seven men and four women and left four other people hospitalised, according to a statement from the Sonora state Attorney General's Office. A number of those injured were rushed across the border to hospitals in the United States for treatment.\n\n\"According to versions (from) several witnesses, the person with a young, male appearance was disrespecting women in that bar and was expelled,\" the statement said.\n\nIt described the object thrown as \"a kind of 'Molotov' cocktail\".\n\nInvestigations continue to \"clarify the facts\" and \"bring justice\" it said, adding that \"in Sonora, no one is above the law\".\n\nIt is unclear if the incident is related to organised crime, which has plagued Mexico for years.", "Boris Johnson says WhatsApps before May 2021 that are due to be handed to the Covid inquiry have now been downloaded.\n\nThere has been a delay in getting them to the inquiry, as they were on the former PM's old phone and he could not remember the pass code.\n\nTechnicians feared that getting it wrong could lead to the data being wiped.\n\nBut there was a breakthrough last week, when the government found a record of his Pin code.\n\nA spokesman said technical experts had now \"successfully recovered all relevant messages from the device\".\n\n\"The inquiry process requires that a security check of this material is now made by the Cabinet Office,\" the spokesman added.\n\n\"The timing of any further progress on delivery to the inquiry is therefore under the Cabinet Office's control.\"\n\nThe department said it would carry out the checks as soon as it was given access to the material.\n\nThe inquiry has requested the WhatsApp messages as part of its investigations into UK government decision-making on Covid. Hearings for that part of the inquiry are due to begin in October.\n\nIt has requested messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat that was set up to discuss the response to the pandemic.\n\nIt has also demanded his one-to-one messages exchanged during the pandemic with around 40 politicians, advisers and officials, including then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Simon Case, the UK's top civil servant.\n\nThe government had attempted to block release of the raw messages, arguing that some of them were irrelevant to the inquiry and that it should be able to redact - or blank out - these before handing them over.\n\nBut it was ordered to hand over the messages unredacted earlier this month, after a legal challenge it mounted was struck down in the High Court.\n\nIt has previously said the \"unambiguously irrelevant\" WhatsApps it held included messages about disciplinary matters, family information, and \"comments of a personal nature\" about individuals.\n\nCrossbench peer Baroness Hallett, who chairs the inquiry, has also revealed the government redacted WhatsApps about \"relations between the UK and Scottish governments,\" and how WhatsApp itself should be used to discuss policy.\n\nShe has also disclosed an initial decision was made to blank out messages between Mr Johnson and his advisers about how the Met police enforced Covid laws at a March 2021 vigil following the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nWriting in May, she said the redactions were later removed but \"it was not a promising start\".\n\nMr Johnson was forced to change his mobile phone in 2021 after it emerged his number had been publicly available online for 15 years.\n\nThe former prime minister has insisted throughout that he is happy to share the messages on his old phone when they are accessible.\n\nThe eventual release of the messages to the inquiry does not necessarily mean the public will see them in full.\n\nThe Cabinet Office can apply to the inquiry to make redactions before they are sent to so-called core participants, including other witnesses, government departments and bereaved family groups.\n\nThe inquiry could apply its own redactions. It could also decide not to make the messages public at all.\n• None What is the UK Covid inquiry and how does it work?", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says \"there is still a long way to go\"\n\nLabour must learn the lessons of its by-election defeat in Uxbridge, Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nThe Labour leader had blamed the loss on London Mayor Sadiq Khan's plans to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) - a tax on polluting vehicles.\n\nConservative Steve Tuckwell won the seat after campaigning against the tax.\n\nAddressing Labour's national forum, Sir Keir said there was \"something very wrong\" when a Labour policy was on \"each and every Tory leaflet\".\n\nIn a bruising week for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour and the Lib Dems took two safe Tory seats. Labour's Keir Mather, 25, won in Selby and Ainsty, North Yorkshire, overturning a 20,137 majority to become the youngest sitting MP.\n\nThe Conservatives clung on narrowly in the third by-election, in Uxbridge, Boris Johnson's former seat, despite a big swing to Labour.\n\nSir Keir said that while the by-election win in North Yorkshire should give Labour \"every reason to be confident\", the loss in Uxbridge showed there was \"still a long way to go\".\n\nThe Conservative win in Uxbridge sparked debates about both parties' green policies.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC the Ulez plan had cost Labour victory - but Mr Khan has defended the measure as the \"right one\".\n\nSpeaking during a visit to Shefford in Nadine Dorries' constituency of Mid Bedfordshire, the Labour leader told journalists: \"I don't think there is any doubt that Ulez was the reason that we lost the election in Uxbridge.\"\n\nSir Keir said he had spoken to the London mayor, adding: \"But we're not sitting back, we're not looking over our shoulder. We're pressing forward.\"\n\nSources close to Mr Khan told the BBC he was in \"constructive listening mode\" but added that he had no plans to delay the scheme's expansion at the end of August.\n\nAsked whether Labour needs to rethink its climate polices, Sir Keir said: \"When it comes to green commitments, it's not a question of whether they should be done, of course it needs to be done - it's how they're done.\n\n\"So there's a discussion to be had about that.\"\n\nMr Tuckwell, the winning candidate in Uxbridge, said the \"damaging and costly Ulez policy\" had cost Labour the chance of winning the seat.\n\nThe Ulez is a £12.50 daily charge for driving in London, applicable if the vehicle does not meet certain emission standards. It initially covered the same central area as the congestion charge before widening to the North and South Circular roads in 2021.\n\nA further expansion to cover all London boroughs is due to start on 29 August.\n\nOn Friday, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the Uxbridge result showed that \"when you don't listen to voters, you don't win elections\".\n\nCities need clean air, she said, but she warned that people who needed new vehicles must get \"proper compensation and support\" so that the policy does not come \"at the cost of working families\".\n\nSome on the right of the Conservative party say that pulling back from some green policies would prove popular with voters, at a time when families are feeling cost-of-living pressures.\n\nTory MP Craig Mackinlay, chairman of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, has suggested delaying the ban on new diesel and petrol cars, pushing it back \"at least\" five years to 2035.\n\nDowning Street sources say there are no plans to change climate targets - but that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will try to set his party apart from Labour in the coming months.\n\nAs the major parties digest the by-election results, ex-climate minister Lord Ian Duncan, a Conservative, warned that if Sir Keir and Rishi Sunak do not put politics aside and agree a common approach to climate change, people will face \"serious challenges\".\n\nLord Duncan, who was the parliamentary under secretary for climate change from July 2019 to February 2020, said a \"bipartisan approach\" was needed from both parties to \"get behind\" common climate policies.\n\nThe UK government's net zero tsar, Chris Skidmore, said it would be an \"abdication\" of responsibility if ministers \"play politics\" with environmental policies.\n\nMr Skidmore, the Conservative MP for Kingswood, said: \"The net zero review I chaired demonstrated that net zero isn't just an environmental policy, but a key economic driver of future growth and investment that can transform Britain for the better, but this requires all political parties not to play politics with safeguarding our futures.\"\n\nHe urged politicians to prioritise \"the lives and health of the public and the opportunity for economic growth\" ahead of \"gamesmanship\".\n\n\"It is also really bad politics, given that the environment and taking action on climate change consistently polls third in the issues that voters care about,\" he added.", "Stephanie Duthie and her 18-year-old daughter Bryony (right)\n\nThe family of a teenager put in a coma after developing pneumonia while on holiday in Spain have booked a £33,000 medical flight to bring her home.\n\nBryony Duthie, who suffers from a rare chronic kidney condition, fell ill on 16 July on the Costa Del Sol.\n\nThe 18-year-old stirred from her coma on Friday but slipped back into unconsciousness.\n\nDoctors at Vithas Xanit International Hospital Benalmadena have so far been unable to remove her from life support.\n\nHer family hope she can be flown from Malaga to Dundee on Thursday on an IAS Medical plane.\n\nIt will be equipped like an intensive care unit to keep her alive during the journey.\n\nHer mother, Stephanie Duthie, 37, from Dundee, said: \"I'm just in a million pieces. We just need to get her home.\n\n\"The hospital have told us that they want her to be ventilated when she flies.\n\n\"We found a flight company who are willing to fly her home for £33,000 but it's not until next Thursday.\"\n\nMs Duthie, who recently completed a degree in social work, said the pilot plans to fly to Dundee, their nearest airport, provided there is no rain.\n\nIf not, a longer runway at Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow will be used, although this would complicate the journey.\n\nThe family is also facing a second estimated medical bill of 27,000 euro (£23,400) for another nine days of private healthcare in Spain after already being charged more than £13,000 for her first two nights in hospital and initial treatment. The cost was not covered by their travel insurance policy.\n\nThey have set up a fundraising page which has surpassed £50,000.\n\nThe Duthie family thought Bryony, who lost her father when she was three, had become ill because of her chronic kidney problems.\n\nBut a CT scan later revealed she had pneumonia.\n\nWhile doctors have been trying to cautiously bring her out of the coma, they fear she could suffer another seizure at any time.\n\nMs Duthie added: \"She's starting to wake up but when I say that, I mean she's opening her eyes, she's not compos mentis.\n\n\"She can't follow commands, like squeeze my finger or anything like that.\n\n\"They have now put her back into a coma. It's really horrible to watch.\"\n\nMs Duthie is also concerned that her daughter will have to be moved to a state hospital in Spain if she cannot be flown home because the family cannot afford to keep her in private care.\n\nShe said: \"I'm scared to move her now but it's three grand a day just to be there.\n\n\"Her condition, renal tubular acidosis, is so rare and unique that it's taken them so long to get her stable.\n\n\"We just need to get her home.\"\n\nMs Duthie thanked the public for their generosity and kind wishes.\n\nShe added: \"From the bottom of my heart, I just want to say thank you to everybody who has sent anything, from a penny to £100, to those who have shared, who have retweeted.\n\n\"We are forever indebted to these people who have donated, we could never say thank you enough.\"", "Regulators have asked UK retailers to stop placing orders for a Sicilian mafia-themed Scotch whisky.\n\nThe call by the Portman Group, which regulates the UK's alcohol sector, came after it found that Polish firm Bartex Bartol had breached rules over its \"Cosa Nostra\" product.\n\nIt said the packaging was likely to cause \"serious and widespread offence\".\n\nThe regulator added that its findings were in \"the context of rising gun crime in the UK\".\n\nIt found that the product's bottle, which is shaped like a Thompson submachine gun - commonly known as a Tommy gun - created \"a direct link between the drink and a dangerous weapon\".\n\nIn issuing a retailer alert bulletin, the Portman Group said: \"The panel considered that a Tommy gun was often used in depictions of historical organised crime syndicates, and while a Tommy gun was not a contemporary gun, the average consumer would recognise it as a firearm.\n\n\"Therefore, the panel considered that the shape of the bottle created a clear link between the drink and a dangerous weapon which was wholly inappropriate for an alcoholic drink.\"\n\nText on the packaging states \"post proelia praemia\", which translates as \"after the battle, comes the reward\".\n\nThe Portman Group said the product was found to have \"a direct association with violent, aggressive, dangerous and illegal behaviour, and caused serious and widespread offence\".\n\nNicola Williams, chairwoman of the group's independent complaints panel, said: \"In light of rising gun crime in the UK, it is deeply irresponsible of an alcohol producer to glamorise firearms and market a product in this form.\n\n\"I hope Bartex Bartol takes note that such products are completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThe finding comes after Italy's largest agricultural trade group, Coldiretti, condemned the Cosa Nostra product for associating itself with the Sicilian mafia.\n\nIn 2014, Portman Group issued a retailer alert bulletin against Bartex Bartol for its product Red Army Vodka.\n\nIt concluded then that its packaging was \"unacceptable for an alcoholic drink because they suggested an association with violent and dangerous behaviour\".\n\nBartex Bartol, which did not respond to the complaint, has been approached for comment.", "A local hunter has wrestled and caught the longest Burmese python ever to be documented in Florida. The record was confirmed by a local environmental organisation, which said the animal measured 19ft (5.7m) and weighed 125lb (56 kg).\n\nThe Burmese python is an invasive species in southern Florida, believed to be responsible for the decline of native mammal populations. It is legal for them to be captured and humanely killed when found in the state.", "Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess were pronounced dead in hospital on 31 May\n\nNo criminal offences were committed in relation to the deaths of two people off Bournemouth beach, police said.\n\nSunnah Khan, 12, and Joe Abbess, 17, both drowned when they were suspected to have been caught in a riptide next to the pier at the resort on 31 May.\n\nPolice said they investigated whether a sightseeing boat, the Dorset Belle, had caused dangerous sea conditions but concluded it was not to blame.\n\nA man, initially arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, will face no action.\n\nThe Dorset Belle pleasure boat was inspected by police following the deaths\n\nA preliminary inquest hearing last month was told there was a \"suggestion\" a riptide led to the teenagers' deaths.\n\nRiptides are strong currents running out to sea that can quickly drag people and objects away from the shoreline to deeper water.\n\nDet Ch Supt Neil Corrigan, of Dorset Police, said: \"...information was given to police, which indicated that the movement of a boat - the Dorset Belle - immediately before the incident occurred could have contributed toward creating dangerous sea conditions.\n\n\"Witnesses suggested that there had been similar issues with the vessel having created such problems previously.\"\n\nThe beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident\n\nThe boat was later impounded and examined as part of the investigation. It has since been released.\n\nThe detective added: \"...it was necessary to instruct an expert to review the material gathered by police. It was simply not possible to make a decision in this case without expert advice.\n\n\"The instructed expert needed time to review the evidential material and also to consider the prevailing tide and meteorological conditions at the time alongside the topography of the shoreline at the location.\n\n\"As a result of all of the evidence available, we are now able to confirm that we do not believe that the movement of the Dorset Belle contributed to the incident.\"\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council suspended all boat operations from the pier \"as a precaution\" last month.\n\nStephanie Williams wants to improve safety after the death of her daughter\n\nThe beach had been packed during half-term when a number of people swimming off the eastern side of Bournemouth Pier got into difficulties shortly before 16:00 BST.\n\nThe area was cleared while emergency services dealt with the incident. Dorset Police said 11 people were rescued by RNLI lifeguards.\n\nJoe and Sunnah both suffered critical injuries and died in hospital.\n\nJoe, a trainee chef from Southampton was described as a \"fabulous young man\" by his family.\n\nSunnah's mother Stephanie Williams, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, paid tribute to her \"beautiful daughter\", saying \"no parent should ever have to go through what her dad and I are going through\".\n\nShe had her proposals to improve water safety heard in Parliament earlier this week.\n\nAylesbury MP Rob Butler raised the issue during a debate on water safety and drowning prevention.\n\nDorset Police said it would work with the coroner to provide a report covering the incident and investigation.\n\nA further pre-inquest hearing is due to be held on 18 September.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Many people are setting off their travels during the great summer getaway as schools across England and Wales enjoy their six-week holidays.\n\nBut last year's summer season was marked by widespread travel disruption.\n\nSo whether you're travelling by plane, train, road or ferry, will things be smoother this time round?\n\nThis summer is set to be the busiest time for aviation since before the pandemic.\n\nSome 92,404 flights were scheduled to depart the UK in July, according to aviation data firm Cirium - the most since October 2019.\n\nLast summer, demand for travel roared back after Covid travel restrictions were eased. But many airports and airlines that had made cuts during the pandemic struggled to recruit staff quickly enough.\n\nThey insist they've pulled out all the stops to make their operations more resilient this year.\n\nFor example, EasyJet told the BBC in March it started recruiting far earlier than usual and was already fully staffed for summer.\n\nHowever, there are different headaches this year, which could mean further disruption, although not necessarily on the scale of last year's problems.\n\nStrike action, notably by French air traffic controllers, has been causing cancellations and delays for months.\n\nFlights over France to destinations such as Spain and Portugal have also been affected, which Ryanair's boss has repeatedly complained about.\n\nHowever, some action has been called off. Eight days of strikes planned in July and August by ground handlers at Gatwick Airport will now not go ahead.\n\nMany airports struggled to cope last summer\n\nProposed summer strike action by security workers at Heathrow was called off after the Unite union accepted an improved pay offer.\n\nAnd at Birmingham Airport, a strike expected to involve more than 150 security staff and technicians has been suspended after a fresh pay offer.\n\nThe threat of strikes by European air traffic managers at Eurocontrol remains, but no dates have been set. The union involved told the BBC it hopes to reach an agreement with the employer.\n\nThe air traffic control environment is \"challenging\", according to Willie Walsh, who heads up global airline body Iata.\n\nEasyJet has already axed 1,700 summer flights at Gatwick to reduce the chance of last-minute cancellations, blaming what it called \"unprecedented\" air traffic limitations.\n\nEurope's air space remains constrained and clogged up due to the Ukraine war.\n\n\"In the event of French strikes some flights may be rerouted through other, already congested, air space which itself creates additional pressure,\" says aviation expert John Strickland.\n\n\"Manpower shortages in parts of Europe such as Greece and Denmark [are] causing capacity bottlenecks, which create further delays.\n\n\"Indeed one European airline CEO told me that the whole of European air traffic control except the UK was 'a mess'.\"\n\nMr Strickland thinks events like summer storms could add pressure to an already stretched system, leading to delays and cancellations.\n\nOn the railway, industrial action by unions could affect the plans of thousands of people going on day trips or holidays.\n\nRail workers in the RMT union at 14 train companies with government contracts staged a number of one-day strikes in July, although no more are currently scheduled.\n\nTheir dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions has been going on for more than a year now.\n\nThe RMT strikes took place after the union rejected the latest proposals from the industry, which is backed by the government.\n\nThe train companies are under pressure from the government to cut costs. With the national dispute at a standstill, they have since announced controversial plans to close most station ticket offices in England.\n\nTrain drivers in the Aslef union have also been taking action short of a strike in the form of an overtime ban at 15 train companies. The latest overtime ban ends on Saturday 5 August, after starting on Monday 31 July.\n\nBut the union will be holding another week-long overtime ban from Monday 7 to Saturday 12 August.\n\nIn London, strikes on the Underground have been called off following last-minute talks.\n\nTraffic is expected to increase during the summer holiday season, and roads could be busier than usual as train strikes push people into cars instead.\n\n\"It's likely that people will consider altering their journey plans and they may well travel by car instead so it's important they check their vehicle is roadworthy before setting off,\" says Frank Bird, senior network planner at National Highways.\n\n\"We'd also remind motorists to check the weather forecast... and to take plenty of drinking water with them as well as food that won't be affected by the heat in case of delays.\"\n\nThere were long queues at Dover during the Easter holidays\n\nDover is Europe's busiest ferry port, and summer is its peak time as passengers head across the Channel.\n\nIt will be under the spotlight again after many passengers experienced long queues last July and during this year's Easter holidays.\n\nHolidaymakers are being warned to expect to wait up to two-and-a-half hours to pass additional passport checks introduced after Brexit.\n\nIn late May, port boss Doug Bannister told the BBC everything possible had been done to prevent the same level of delays.\n\nHowever, he said \"it would be foolish\" to guarantee there would never be queues. Mr Bannister added that additional passport checks were a factor.\n\nThe port's location between cliffs and the sea means space is limited.\n\nIt says measures in place ahead of the summer holidays include working with coach and ferry operators to spread out travel at peak times, extra space to process coach passengers, and putting in more border control posts.\n\nLocal authorities and emergency services have traffic management plans for busy times, including queuing up lorries on the M20 motorway.\n\nThis system was reinstated ahead of the busy July and August period.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 7 July and 14 July.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nClearly beautiful: \"With all the recent rain we have been getting, it made this Shasta daisy in my garden in Livingston go translucent,\" says Susan Ferguson. \"Later in the day it went back to its usual white colour as it was a sunny day. Never seen this happen to daisies, only heard about this happening to skeleton flowers. My picture seems to be getting a lot of attention in the gardening groups I am in.\"\n\nGo Forth and conquer: \"The groyne dipping into the Forth looks like some forgotten sea monster,\" says Graham Paton of his sun-up shot.\n\nFollow the leader? \"The beautiful puffins on Isle of May,\" says Sandra Motion.\n\n\"Up with the lark to get this picture of the sun rising over Millport,\" says Iain Campbell.\n\nCub scout: Nick Kemp spotted one of this year's new young fox arrivals in Edinburgh. \"It was at the time picking up bird seed beneath a feeder, and probably saw me hiding to get the picture! Shot with a long focus lens.\"\n\nTwo's a crowd: \"I witnessed this osprey catch some food,\" says Marcus Tyler in Perthshire. \"The majestic shot of the osprey leaving with its meal didn't go quite as I thought it would though.\"\n\nTay of sunshine: \"A spectacular rainbow amidst torrential rain and spots of sun, seen from Dundee overlooking the Tay Road Bridge.\" says William Johnston.\n\nA dolphin's tail: \"The dolphins were fantastic at Chanonry Point, Fortrose,\" says Catriona Dalziel. \"I love this picture catching four different poses in one image.\"\n\n\"His happy place\": This is how Alison Challis describes her son Ruaridh's start to the summer holidays at the Silver Sands of Morar.\n\nThere's a storm brewing: An atmospheric Aberdeen harbour shot from Ruaraidh McMahon. \"I was glad that rain was in the distance.\"\n\nHot wheels: \"Captured this photo at Glamis Castle while the stunt team were ending with a bang,\" says Bob Smart. \"A bang loud enough to make my daughter practically jump out of her skin!\"\n\nMaking a splash: \"It was delightful to see cygnets in Edinburgh,\" says Stephen Pusey. \"I was able to snap these two as they enjoyed splashing around in the afternoon sunshine.\"\n\nBatman and robin: Sometimes the captions just write themselves. \"A bit of humour\" at Townhill Loch in Dunfermline, says Jimmy Mason.\n\nLarge fish supper please: \"We were on a whale cruise from Gairloch and captured this minke whale feeding just off the coast of Stornoway,\" says Martin Pirie.\n\nA Fyne sight: \"A bit of sunshine between the showers,\" says Rhona Larkin of this shot overlooking Loch Fyne.\n\nEyes right: Another puffin seen on a trip to the Isle of May, this time by Stevi Jackson.\n\nQuite a feet: \"Me and my mate Stuart Allen on the bench at Fort William after our 96-mile walk over five days for the charity Young Lives vs Cancer,\" says Stuart Meldrum, who is on the right.\n\n\"Two gannets, taken during a boat trip from North Berwick visiting Bass Rock,\" says Alistair McIntosh from Australia.\n\nBus photo bomb: \"There I was, sitting patiently in a field, waiting for the right moment to take a picture of this hare,\" says Alex Mackintosh. \"All was going well until a bus drove past!\"\n\nWing collar shirt: \"Taking a break,\" says Victor Tregubov of this friendly butterfly at Dawyck Botanic Garden.\n\nRock stars: \"The European Land Art Festival and Stone Stacking Championships were held in Dunbar,\" says Janina Dolny. \"Entrants were asked to create beautiful and unique art pieces such as this artistic arch using only the materials nature has provided.\"\n\nThistle do nicely: \"A goldfinch enjoying thistle seeds near Skinflats in Falkirk,\" says Michael Daw.\n\n\"A cheeky deer in my Banchory garden,\" says Eddie Fowler.\n\nFlower power: Karon Wylie captured this lovely image of a bee at Glen Feochan, Kilmore.\n\nDoing the twist: Highland cattle and calves at a farm near Drongan, Ayrshire, from Mike Ogston.\n\n\"My three-year-old Labrador, Eva, enjoying the fantastic view of Neist Point and the lighthouse in the far west of the Isle of Skye,\" says Jon Perkins from Edinburgh.\n\nWinging it: \"A trip to the Trossachs osprey hide,\" says Michael Yuille. \"No fish for the osprey, sadly.\"\n\nA healthy crop of runners: \"The M3 Monikie Triathlon Festival during one of the long sunny spells before the showers started,\" says Stuart Anderson.\n\n\"I spotted these red deer amongst the thistles at Glenshee,\" says Pam Sharp.\n\nThe fox(glove) and the hound: This bright woodland summer scene was captured by Gillian Thomson at Castle Fraser in Aberdeenshire.\n\nCaught red-handed: \"A squirrel feasting on nuts, taken in the Cairngorms,\" says Thomas Hill.\n\nA bit of a mouthful: \"I'd always promised my daughters to take them to the Isle of May to see the puffins and we eventually got around to it after about 10 years,\" says Brian Battensby. \"These three, with beaks full of sand eels, appeared to be waiting patiently for us tourists to move so they could go home to feed their chicks.\"\n\nBright idea: \"I caught this visitor patrolling the petunias in my window box in Glasgow,\" says Valery Tough.\n\nOn yer bike: \"His feet don’t quite reach the pedals,\" says Walter Hoy of this squirrel. \"Spotted this cheeky wee guy in my garden in Galston, Ayrshire.\"\n\nHi expectations: A seal of approval with what looked like a welcoming wave on the approach to Isle of May for Jacki Gordon.\n\nShip to shoe-re: This image of footwear on a wire was taken by Ian Pirrie at Largs.\n\n\"A photograph taken by my 16-year-old daughter, Hannah, at Sandend beach in Aberdeenshire during a lovely evening walk,\" says Sue Smith.\n\n\"A bold wee soul\": Tom Kelly says he was sitting on the banks of the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, when this fox cub appeared just a few yards in front of him and stared right into his camera.\n\nFun on tap: \"The school holidays have definitely started in our house with water balloons replacing dishes,\" notes Rose Brown.\n\n\"I took this from near the triangulation column on Conachair during a high level walk on Hirta, the main island of the St Kilda archipelago,\" says Graham Bullough. \"It comprises a panoramic view of Village Bay, including the ruins from the last inhabitants plus the MoD base first established in 1957.\"\n\nSign of things to come: \"My partner Ryan Salter proposed to me under the John O'Groats sign,\" says Louise Stephen. \"We had the place to ourselves and I snapped this photograph after. I think the black and white captures the silence we experienced there. Beautiful.\" Our congratulations to you both.\n\n\"Scotland doesn't need a filter\": That is how Marie McKnight described this shot from a campsite beside Loch Eil. \"I glanced over and saw a wonderful glow.\"\n\nTravelling light: \"Came across this fellow during a dog walk,\" says Suzanne Lakie. \"Just loved how the sun lit up his 'house'.\"\n\nThe night Skye: \"Beautiful photo taken by my husband, Alex MacDonald, from our home in Kilvaxter, Isle of Skye,\" says Caroline Forsyth. \"He snapped it on his phone quickly. Gorgeous though.\"\n\nLight and shade: \"That Callanish feeling,\" says John Dyer.\n\nSilhou-pet: \"Sunset at Camusdarach beach with my dog Penny reflected in a tidal pool,\" says Kathleen Murphy.\n\nWell worth flagging up: Saltire \"flying high\" at Lochgilphead, says Bryan Wark of his shot.\n\n\"Loch Broom at sunset with trawler Lord Miles approaching Ullapool,\" says Andy Inglis.\n\nSome down time: \"We rushed out from where we were staying to capture and enjoy a beautiful sunset on our holiday in Girvan,\" says Colin Grady.\n\nThere's something in the Ayr: Andrew Carruthers says this beautiful sunset photo over Arran was taken during an evening stroll along Ayr beach.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Protesters gathered outside Wethersfield ahead of the court hearing and arrival of the first 46 asylum seekers\n\nA legal bid to challenge the Home Office's decision to use former airbases to house asylum seekers has been approved by the High Court.\n\nBraintree District Council had brought a legal action to challenge the use of Wethersfield Airfield in Essex to house up to 1,700 men.\n\nWest Lindsey District Council was challenging similar plans for RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe court has ruled that points made by both councils needed a fresh hearing.\n\nThis week's two-day hearing began on Wednesday as the first 46 migrants began arriving at Wethersfield.\n\nThe councils made the challenge in conjunction with Gabriel Clarke-Holland, who lives about 80ft from one of Wethersfield's gates.\n\nReserving judgement until Friday, Mrs Justice Thornton has ruled that two of 15 points made by the authorities and Mr Clarke-Holland could be considered at a further hearing.\n\n\"The decision to accommodate asylum seekers on the sites may give rise to strong local opinion,\" she said, adding that there might also be wider discussions about the welfare of the migrants.\n\n\"Those are not, however, matters for the court,\" the judge added.\n\nUp to 2,000 asylum seekers could be housed at Scampton in Lincolnshire\n\nThe judge said one of the issues to be considered at a further hearing was the potential use of \"emergency\" planning powers by the Home Office.\n\nThe High Court previously heard from the government that the planning law which would allow the airfields to be used for housing migrants covered the change of use of the bases to prevent or mitigate an emergency which \"threatens serious damage to human welfare\".\n\nThe two councils and Mr Clarke-Holland have challenged the use of these planning powers, while the Home Office argued their use was justified.\n\nIn written submissions made on behalf of the government department, Paul Brown KC said there were \"misapprehensions\" underpinning claims by both councils and Mr Clarke-Holland.\n\nHe said none had raised \"any arguable point\".\n\nThe councils previously lost bids for legal injunctions preventing the government using the bases for migrants.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Home Office said it planned for Wethersfield to be \"fully operational\" by the autumn.\n\nWest Lindsey District Council said it understood the first asylum seekers would arrive at Scampton in mid-August.\n\nChief executive of the refugee charity Care4Calais, Steve Smith, said: \"Refugees should be treated with dignity and housed in communities, not warehoused in disused barracks and barges.\n\n\"Care4Calais witnessed the horrors of poor institutional accommodation at Napier Barracks [in Kent] and we've supported people in their recovery from the aftermath of that scandal.\"\n\nThe government's \"rhetoric and demonisation of refugees\" was at the heart of plans to house asylum seekers at bases and was \"totally unnecessary\", he added.\n\nThe first migrants arrived at Wethersfield, which is about eight miles north of Braintree, on Wednesday afternoon\n\nBraintree District Council's lawyers told the hearing that the Home Office had failed to take into account issues including access to healthcare and waste water provision.\n\nFollowing the ruling, Graham Butland, Conservative leader at Braintree, said: \"We are grateful to have had another opportunity to put our views and the views of our local community across to the High Court at this initial stage, as we still believe Wethersfield Airfield is not a suitable site for these plans.\"\n\nThe council would continue to work with the Home Office and other partners to minimise the impact on residents while supporting asylum seekers coming to the district, he said.\n\nWest Lindsey District Council wants to use Scampton for aviation, heritage, tourism, education and research, with a deal to develop the site through partners Scampton Holdings Limited announced in March.\n\nLawyers for the council told the High Court the project would create thousands of skilled jobs, but there were growing concerns that the investors might scrap plans if the government proposals for the site were implemented.\n\nGoing forward he said the council must \"balance our legal process with our duty of care as a local authority, to hold the Home Office to account on their proposals\".\n\n\"We will continue to raise our concerns with the Home Office so it can put in place mitigating actions. We will also continue to push for open and transparent engagement with our community,\" he said.\n\nConservative MP for Gainsborough, Sir Edward Leigh, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" by the ruling and called the Home Office plans \"perverse\".\n\nPeter Hewitt of Scampton Holdings said the decision was a \"major step forward for common sense\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"As this matter is subject to ongoing litigation it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.\n\n\"We remain committed to deliver accommodation on surplus military sites which are not only more affordable for taxpayers, helping to reduce the use the £6million daily cost of hotels but are also more manageable for local communities.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moment Just Stop Oil interrupt the First Night of the Proms\n\nTwo protesters from environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil have interrupted the First Night of the Proms at London's Royal Albert Hall.\n\nThe duo mounted the stage and briefly unfurled an orange banner on Friday.\n\nThey were met with boos and jeers from some members of the audience at the BBC's classical music festival, before being led away by security staff.\n\nJust Stop Oil has targeted a number of events this year, including the Ashes, Wimbledon and the Chelsea Flower Show.\n\nIn a tweet, Just Stop Oil said two of its supporters ran onto the stage to demand \"the UK government immediately halt all new oil and gas consents and licences\".\n\nIt added \"they attempted to address the audience before being forcibly removed\".\n\nThe group said the action, which happened shortly after the interval, targeted the event because of the BBC's \"underwhelming coverage of the climate emergency\".\n\nThe group claimed the protesters had used confetti cannons and air horns, but eyewitnesses denied this and video footage shows the protest was stopped quickly.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"There was no disruption to the concert or the broadcast during the few seconds the protesters were on stage.\"\n\nThe Proms opening night featured a new translation of Jean Sibelius's Snöfrid, narrated by actress Lesley Manville, and a new work by Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak, called Let The Light In.\n\nIn response to the incident, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer wrote on social media: \"My message is this: Leave people to enjoy the events they love, and stop damaging your own cause.\"\n\nDuring the Proms programme and before the protest, BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Georgia Mann remarked on how close members of the audience were to the performers at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\n\"Somehow it surprises me every summer when we sit here from this vantage point just how close the Prommers are to the artists - I've said before - touching distance,\" she said.\n\nSix thousand people were gathered in the venue for the sell-out event.", "London could see tens of thousands of measles cases due to low levels of vaccination, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned.\n\nMathematical calculations suggest an outbreak could affect between 40,000 and 160,000 people.\n\nHigher levels of immunisation in the rest of the UK means there is a \"low risk\" of a large epidemic elsewhere.\n\nBut the UKHSA said there was an \"urgent\" need to vaccinate children, teenagers and young adults.\n\nLevels of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccinations in the UK are at their lowest level in a decade, with around one in ten children not protected by the time they start primary school.\n\nImmunisations also took a significant dip in the early 2000s after claims of a link between the MMR jab and autism. This has been completely discredited and the doctor who pushed the idea, Andrew Wakefield, was struck off the medical register.\n\nBut measles is one of the most contagious diseases around, and growing numbers of people are without protection. Scientists at the UKHSA and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have run the numbers to reach those predictions of tens of thousands of cases in the capital.\n\nThis is a theoretical risk, rather than saying we are already at the start of a huge measles outbreak. There have been 128 cases so far this year, compared with 54 in the whole of 2022.\n\nBut the latest risk assessment suggests the R number - if you remember from Covid that's the number of people an infected person gives the virus to - has exceeded, or is close to 1.0, which is the point where a virus can take off.\n\nThe assessment also highlights 19 to 25-year-olds - who would have missed out at the peak of the autism scare - as being the most susceptible. There is heightened concern around university students.\n\nThe UKHSA also says a large outbreak could put pressure on the NHS, with between 20% and 40% of infected people needing hospital care.\n\n\"Due to longstanding sub-optimal vaccine uptake there is now a very real risk of seeing big outbreaks in London,\" said Dr Vanessa Saliba, a consultant epidemiologist at the UKHSA.\n\n\"Nobody wants to see their child or loved ones sick with measles, or put others who are more vulnerable, like babies, at risk. I urge those who have missed their MMR vaccines to catch up now.\"\n\nMeasles vaccination rates have taken a knock around the world, as the Covid pandemic has disrupted normal healthcare.\n\nOutbreaks in South Asia and Africa also increase the risk of the virus being brought into the UK, where it can then take off.\n\nThe NHS is launching catch-up programmes, and parents are encouraged to check their children are up-to-date with their vaccines.\n\nMeasles usually starts as a cold and then is followed by a rash - but there can be serious complications for some.\n\n\"For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die from it,\" said Prof Beate Kampmann, professor of paediatric infection and immunity at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\n\"To avoid deaths, serious cases and a community outbreak, 95% of the population needs to have been vaccinated against this infection, but our current coverage is well below this target.\"\n\nChildren in the UK should have a first dose of the MMR vaccine by their first birthday and the second dose by the time they are three-and-a-half years old.\n\nThis protects them for life against measles and prevents spread of the virus to other people.\n\nJane Clegg, Regional Chief Nurse for the NHS in London said: \"If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with your GP practice or local pharmacist for advice. Now's the time to act to protect yourself and your loved ones from measles.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jamie Robertson claims the lift has failed at least 16 times in the past 11 years\n\nA wheelchair user has described being \"trapped in my own home\" for almost a week due to a lift being out of action.\n\nJamie Robertson said he had not been able to leave his second-floor flat in the Hermitage block in central Reading since Saturday.\n\nIt left him unable to go to work and caused him \"emotional distress\".\n\nThe property management company responsible for the flats said the lift was fixed on Friday after a delay due to sourcing a spare part.\n\nMr Robertson told BBC News he was \"incredibly grateful\" for all the support he had received since his plight was publicised.\n\n\"It's the importance of communication and empathy in these situations - we all understand that sometimes things go wrong, but when you are reliant on technology for movement, there is a real need to keep those communication channels open,\" he said.\n\nMr Robertson said it had been out of action since Saturday when another resident was trapped and had to be rescued, which left the doors damaged in the process.\n\nWith no alternative lift and with four flights of stairs, it effectively left the lifelong wheelchair user unable to leave the property.\n\nMr Robertson's property in the 10-story block has only access to one lift\n\nSpeaking to the BBC before the lift was repaired, he said: \"The lift is hugely important - it's my only way of entering and leaving the building.\n\n\"This feels like a re-run of lockdown - I feel powerless. I've been isolated from friends and family. It's just been awful.\"\n\nIn the past 11 years since he bought his flat, the lift has failed on at least 16 occasions, he said.\n\nWhile food had been brought up to his flat, he was unable to leave for his job at the University of Reading Students' Union.\n\n\"I'm trying to raise awareness for people with pushchairs or mobility issues - this isn't acceptable for anyone.\n\n\"When it comes to disabled people, it seems to be lower down on the priority list - or at least, that's how it feels,\" Mr Robertson added.\n\nProperty management company First Port confirmed to the BBC the lift was \"back up and running\" after repairs.\n\n\"Our paramount concern is always the safety and wellbeing of our residents, and we fully recognise the impact a lift breakdown has on wheelchair users in particular,\" the firm said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, lifts do experience problems from time to time, and we are sorry that this meant the lift was out of action for several days.\"\n\nIt said an engineer had been on site shortly after the initial fault but there had been a delay in sourcing a replacement part.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Campaign group Claddag, founded by Georgie Hulme (right) and Sarah Rennie (centre-left), took the government to the High Court\n\nCampaigners have lost their High Court battle with the government over its decision not to implement evacuation plans for disabled high-rise residents.\n\nCampaign group Claddag wanted it to be a legal requirement for escape plans to be in place for those who might not be able to get out safely in an emergency.\n\nBut a Home Office consultation found the Grenfell Tower Inquiry's recommendations would be too costly and impractical to implement.\n\nIt is pursuing an alternative idea.\n\nIn October 2019, the chairman of the Grenfell Inquiry recommended that there should be a legal requirement for owners and managers of high-rise residential buildings to prepare \"Peeps\" (personal emergency evacuation plans) for residents with mobility issues or visual, hearing or cognitive impairments.\n\nIn the Grenfell fire, which killed 72 people in June 2017, 41% of the tower block's disabled residents died.\n\nIn response to the inquiry's recommendations, the Home Office launched a consultation on whether to implement the Peeps proposals.\n\nIn May 2022, the government indicated that it would not be introducing a legal requirement for Peeps amid concerns about practicality and cost.\n\nCladdag, which was founded by two disabled tower-block residents, Sarah Rennie and Georgie Hulme, took that decision to a judicial review at the High Court in December.\n\nDuring the hearing, the Home Office's legal representative argued that the government was actually still consulting on the proposals and a final decision had not yet been made.\n\nAnnouncing her judgment on Friday, Mrs Justice Stacey ruled that the government had in fact decided against implementing the Peeps recommendation, but said it was entitled to do so after weighing up the fire-safety implications against the costs of delivering it.\n\nIn a joint-statement, Claddag's founders said the government had decided to \"prioritise money over disabled people's lives\" and \"leave disabled and older people living in high-rise buildings without means of escape\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"We are pleased with the court's decision as it allows us to get on with delivering proposals that enhance the safety of residents whose ability to self-evacuate in an emergency may be compromised.\n\n\"We are currently analysing responses to our public consultation on Emergency Evacuation Information Sharing Plus, which is an alternative to Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans, to understand how best to achieve this.\"", "Red dresses hung up in honour of missing and killed indigenous women at the Brady landfill\n\nA Canada court has allowed police to remove a blockade of a landfill site by protesters demanding action over the murders of two indigenous women.\n\nDemonstrators began blocking the entrance to the rubbish dump in Winnipeg, Manitoba, about a week ago.\n\nThey are demanding another landfill be searched for two murder victims.\n\nBut Manitoba officials have said picking through the other tip would take years and cost millions, with no guarantee of finding any bodies.\n\nThe demonstrators' blockade has forced the city to shut down its Brady landfill.\n\nProtesters want the Prairie Green landfill, north of Winnipeg, to be searched because police suspect that waste tip contains the remains of Morgan Beatrice Harris, 39, and Marcedes Myran, 26.\n\nBoth women, members of the Long Plain First Nation, are among four indigenous women believed to have been killed by Jeremy Skibicki, who was charged last December with four counts of first-degree murder.\n\nThe city of Winnipeg ordered protesters to dismantle the blockade of the Brady landfill by last Monday.\n\nWhen the demonstrators refused to comply, the city applied for a court injunction, which was granted on Friday.\n\nJustice Sheldon Lanchbery said protesters may remain at the site, but they cannot block the road.\n\nWinnipeg police have been given authority to enforce the temporary injunction.\n\n\"What this boils down to is no-one in this province is allowed to block a highway,\" the judge said on Friday. \"This is a public roadway.\"\n\nBut outside court, the protesters vowed they would not be budged.\n\n\"We want our sisters dug up from out the most inappropriate burial site you can think of,\" said Val Vint, reports CBC News.\n\nManitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said she stands by her decision not to search the Prairie Green landfill, citing the health and safety of workers who would have to sift through the debris.\n\nTo scour the landfill would take three years and cost up to C$184m ($135m; £109m), according to a study paid for by the federal government.\n\nSuch a search would carry \"considerable risks\" because of exposure to toxic chemicals, and there is no guarantee the women would be found, the study concluded.\n\nMr Skibicki is also believed to have killed 24-year-old Rebecca Contois and an unidentified victim who has been given the name Buffalo Woman.\n\nMs Contois's remains were discovered at the Brady landfill in May 2022.\n\nIndigenous women in Canada are 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than other women, according to a 2019 inquiry.", "To boldly go... Where no country has gone before\n\nSo India is on its way to the Moon, something only three other countries have done before. But if they're successful they will be the first country to land near the Moon's south pole, which has not been explored as much as other parts of its surface. The first part has gone well, India's space agency says. But we will now need to wait until at least 23 August to see if India can do something no one else has ever done - and land on the south side of the moon. Thanks for being with us today. Zoya Mateen, Meryl Sebastian, Geeta Pandey and Arunoday Mukharji bought us updates from India and were joined by Anna Boys, Antoinette Radford, Jack Burgess and myself in London.", "Arman Soldin was killed in a rocket attack close to Bakhmut in May\n\nFrance has posthumously awarded its highest honour to an AFP video journalist killed in Ukraine.\n\nArman Soldin, 32, who died in a rocket attack close to Bakhmut in May, was made a knight of the Legion of Honour.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron hailed Soldin's \"bravery\" in a letter sent to the Agence France-Presse news agency.\n\nSoldin is one of at least 17 journalists killed in Ukraine since Russia's invasion, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.\n\nHe was given the honour by a presidential decree on Thursday - one of 358 citizens rewarded from across French society.\n\nHenri d'Anselme, dubbed the \"backpack hero\" for chasing off a knife attacker in a playground in the town of Annecy, was decorated along with two other men who intervened.\n\nIn an earlier letter to Agence France Presse, President Macron praised its video journalist's \"strength of character, his journey and his drive\".\n\n\"Arman Soldin embodied your editorial staff's passion - a passion to convey the truth, tell stories and gather testimonies. It was a passion for a cause: the duty to inform,\" he said.\n\nSoldin was killed after he was hit by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar, just west of Bakhmut, on 9 May, when a team of journalists came under attack while with a group of Ukrainian soldiers. The rest of the AFP team were unharmed.\n\nHe died \"with his camera in his hand\", his colleague Emmanuel Peuchot said.\n\nAt the time, Bakhmut had been the epicentre of fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces for several months.\n\nFrance's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has opened a war crimes investigation into his death.\n\nSoldin, born in Bosnia but a French national, was part of the first AFP team to go to Ukraine following Russia's invasion in February last year and had lived there since September.\n\nAs an infant, he fled fighting in Bosnia with his family, taking a humanitarian flight to France in April 1992, according to AFP.\n\nThe agency's Europe director, Christine Buhagiar, remembered Soldin as \"enthusiastic, energetic and brave\", and said he had been \"totally devoted to his craft\".\n\nThe Legion of Honour is France's top accolade for an elite group of people who distinguish themselves through civilian or military valour.\n\nIt was introduced by Napoleon Bonaparte, then first consul of the French Republic, in 1802.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Heathrow airport security staff have called off strikes after voting to accept a pay offer.\n\nAround 2,000 members of the Unite union were due to strike on 29 days throughout summer.\n\nUnite staff at the airport had already said they would postpone industrial action on 24 and 25 June.\n\nThe union said that workers had voted to accept a pay increase worth between 15.5% and 17.5% depending on their band.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said: \"We are pleased to confirm Unite members have voted to accept a two-year above-inflation pay deal, ending the current dispute and allowing the strikes to be called off.\n\n\"We can now move forward together and focus on delivering an excellent summer for our passengers.\"\n\nStrikes during the summer period when many UK schools are on a break would potentially have been disruptive and led to queues at airport security.\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said it was a \"hard won victory\".\n\nThe offer includes a 10% increase in pay - backdated to January - rising to 11.5% in October, and an increase in line with inflation in 2024, with a minimum uplift of 4%. Unite said that \"spot rates, salary ranges and formal pay progression will increase when the pay increase is implemented\".\n\nUnite added the deal also included improved maternity and paternity benefits.\n\nEarlier in June, Heathrow security officers at Terminals 3 and 5 said they would walk out for 31 days in the summer after turning down a pay offer of 10.1%, which they said was \"below inflation\".\n\nInflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index is now at 8.7%, but another measure - the Retail Prices Index - stood at 11.3% in the year to May.\n\nWorkers in several industries across the UK have been taking industrial action, mainly over demands for pay to stay in line with the soaring cost of living.\n\nExtensive walkouts by rail staff have continued since 2022, and industrial action has also led to walkouts by those including nurses, junior doctors, Border Force staff and civil servants.\n\nUnite regional co-ordinating officer Wayne King said: \"The solidarity and dedication of Unite's reps and members was fundamental in ensuring HAL [Heathrow Airport] returned to the negotiating table with an improved offer\".\n\nHeathrow security staff working at Terminal 5 had walked out for 10 days in April during the Easter holiday period, although the airport said it had suffered \"minimal\" disruption.", "Russia's lower house of parliament has passed a new law banning gender reassignment surgery, in the latest attack on LGBT rights in the country.\n\nThe State Duma approved the bill, which will also ban people changing their genders on state documents, on Friday.\n\nIt now needs approval from the upper house and President Vladimir Putin, moves normally seen as formalities.\n\nSpeaker of the Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, said the bill would \"protect our citizens and our children\".\n\nIn a telegram post on Friday, Mr Volodin also called gender-affirming surgery a \"path to the degeneration of the nation\".\n\n\"We are the only European country that opposes all that is happening in the States, in Europe and does everything to save families and traditional values,\" he said during the debate on Friday. \"And we need to understand that there won't be any future if we don't adopt the law, if we don't ban gender change.\"\n\nFresh amendments added to the bill on Friday during its final reading included banning individuals who have undergone gender changes from adopting children, and annulling marriages where one party had undergone gender reassignment.\n\nLGBT rights groups said the legislation would have a serious impact on the health of people denied access to care.\n\n\"I think this is an absolutely fascist law, which deprives people of medical care and any basic human rights,\" said Yan Dvorkin, head of the Center T organisation which provides support for Russian transgender people.\n\n\"It is very difficult psychologically for people to be worrying that the government might designate you as an enemy of the people and deprive you of rights, deprive you of any assistance, and leaves you in a lawless state.\"\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov sought to dismiss the concerns, telling reports in Moscow that some of the issues raised by activists against the bill were \"perhaps excessive\".\n\nBut Yulia Alyoshina, Russia's only openly trans politician, accused the government of trying to \"repress this small group, which is already discriminated against and stigmatised\".\n\nAccording to the Russian interior ministry, 2,990 people legally changed gender between 2016 and 2022. The country has a population of 146 million.\n\nThe law marks a further rolling back of civil rights in Russia, following the passage of last year's anti-LGBT propaganda laws.\n\nUnder the legislation, any public expression or portrayal of LGBT culture was outlawed in public spaces. Individuals can be fined up to 400,000 roubles (£5,400) and organisations 5m roubles (£68,500) for \"propagandising non-traditional sexual relations\".\n\nIn recent years the Russia has seen the Orthodox Church and the state enter into an increasingly powerful alliance, with the government pushing the church's conservative social outlook.\n\nPresident Putin himself has said LGBT lifestyles run counter to traditional Russian values and he has repeatedly railed against trans rights.\n\nThe latest attack comes just a day after Russia's internal security service, the FSB, announced that it had arrested a transgender rights activist on charges of treason for supporting Ukraine.\n\nIn footage carried by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency, the man was seen being slammed into a wall by armed officers clad in tactical gear, before being driven away in a van.\n\nThe agency alleged he had donated to OVD-info, a human rights monitoring organisation banned in Russian in 2021 under its foreign agents laws.", "Nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK are not accepting new adult patients for treatment under the health service, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nIn a third of the UK's more than 200 council areas, we found no dentists taking on adult NHS patients.\n\nAnd eight in 10 NHS practices are not taking on children.\n\nThe Department of Health said it had made an extra £50m available \"to help bust the Covid backlogs\" and that improving NHS access was a priority.\n\nBBC News contacted nearly 7,000 NHS practices - believed to be almost all those offering general treatment to the public.\n\nThe British Dental Association (BDA) called it \"the most comprehensive and granular assessment of patient access in the history of the service\".\n\nWhile NHS dental treatment is not free for most adults, it is subsidised.\n\nThe BBC heard from people across the UK who could not afford private fees and said the subsidised rates were crucial to getting care.\n\nThe lack of NHS appointments has led people to drive hundreds of miles in search of treatment, pull out their own teeth without anaesthesia, resort to making their own improvised dentures and restrict their long-term diets to little more than soup.\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measure to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nNot only did we find that in many places routine dental care was difficult to access quickly, most practices did not even have waiting lists. For those that did, the majority told us the waiting time was a year or longer, or were unable to say how long people might have to wait.\n\nOne practice in Norfolk told the BBC it had more than 1,700 people on its list, while another, in Cornwall, warned that it would take five years to be taken on as a patient.\n\nThe British Dental Association, which represents high-street NHS dentists in the UK, said NHS dentistry was at a \"tipping point\" after a decade of under-investment.\n\nCaroline Young, from Blackpool, had crowns fitted to her damaged teeth by an NHS dentist, but when her practice stopped treating patients on the health service four years ago, she was unable to find a new one.\n\nAlmost every week she goes through the dentists in the phonebook to ask whether they are taking on new patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I've even called dental practices as far as 20 miles away, in Preston. I've re-called all my local ones many times. I can't even get on a waiting list,\" she said.\n\nMs Young's crowns gradually fell out and she has now resorted to improvised solutions involving a form of plastic, which she found on social media.\n\n\"It was supposed to be temporary, but my temporary became twice a week,\" said Ms Young.\n\nDentists warn that these homemade dentures are not only a dangerous choking hazard, but also food traps that can lead to worse tooth decay and gum damage.\n\n\"There are times when I've tried to fit it, and it's not worked, and I'll sit in floods of tears because I can't go out,\" she says. \"It's demoralising. I shouldn't feel that this holds me back, but it does. If I could afford private dentistry, I'd be there tomorrow.\"\n\nScotland had significantly better access to NHS dentistry for adults than the other UK nations, with 18% of practices taking on new health-service patients.\n\nWales, England and Northern Ireland had broadly similar rates of access, at 7%, 9% and 10% respectively.\n\nAmong the areas where BBC News researchers could not find a single practice accepting new adult patients were Lancashire, Norfolk, Devon and Leeds.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nMost of the UK's NHS dentists are independent businesses and are not employed by the health service directly.\n\nIf they fail to fulfil their NHS contract, the money that they have been paid is taken back.\n\nNHS England said it had recently made changes to the dentistry contract and would \"support practices to improve access, including giving high-performing practices the opportunity to increase their activity and treat more patients\".\n\nIt said discussions on further changes were \"still ongoing\".\n\nThe Welsh government also said it was working on reforming the dental system to improve access and quality of dental care. Wales announced in July that most adults would be offered dental check-ups once a year instead of every six months.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government said more than 95% of the population of Scotland were registered with an NHS dentist and it was \"in a position of relative strength in terms of workforce numbers and capacity\".\n\nAll the devolved governments pointed out that the coronavirus pandemic had affected the availability of NHS dental care. Northern Ireland's Department of Health said it was \"inevitable that access levels are not as favourable today as they were before Covid\".\n\n\"Patients who are currently not registered with a health-service dentist, and wish to become registered may unfortunately have to contact multiple practices and consider travelling further than normal,\" it added.\n\nAccess to NHS dentistry has been a problem ever since the health service was created. Free treatment ended in 1951, just three years after the NHS was formed, because it was deemed unaffordable.\n\nEver since, a subsidised system - where some patients pay towards the cost - has been in place.\n\nAlongside this, a strong private market has developed. An estimated one in seven adults relies on it. It leaves dentists with a real choice about how much NHS work they do.\n\nOver recent years NHS access has been getting harder.\n\nThe current NHS contract in England and Wales, which dates back to 2006, is unpopular with dentists, who feel unrewarded for the work they do.\n\nAusterity also squeezed budgets and then the pandemic hit, creating a backlog of patients with worsening oral health.\n\nThis combination of factors appears to have prompted more dentists to walk away - the numbers doing NHS work dropped by 10% last year.\n\nIt's fair to say the difficulties patients are facing are unprecedented.\n\nThe dentists' union blamed the current NHS contract for the lack of accessible dental care.\n\n\"There doesn't appear to be a commitment, really, from the Treasury to actually invest in [dentistry],\" said BDA chairman Eddie Crouch.\n\n\"Patients are having teeth removed because it's a cheaper option than actually saving the teeth. The whole system is set up for health inequalities, and that significantly needs to change.\n\n\"Many of my colleagues do not see enough emphasis on improving the situation in the short term.\"\n\nPaul Woodhouse, dentist and BDA board member, told BBC Breakfast emergency appointments at his practice were filled within five minutes of being open.\n\nHe said the government was only providing 50% of the funding the UK needed to care for every patient, meaning half of the population were being left without an NHS dentist.\n\n\"If you said that about GPs or cancer screening, there would be riots on the street,\" he said.\n\nNigel Edwards, chief executive of health think-tank the Nuffield Trust, said NHS dentistry was \"on life-support\" in some areas of the country.\n\nBut he added: \"I think it's premature to say we're witnessing the death of it.\n\n\"There doesn't seem to be any real appetite for the sort of big structural and investment decisions that are required to fix NHS dentistry.\"\n\nBBC researchers aimed to contact every dental practice with an NHS contract in the four nations to ask whether they were taking on new patients.\n\nUsing lists from NHS organisations, we identified 8,523 dental practices across the UK that were believed to hold NHS contracts and tried to call them all during May, June and July.\n\nWe then narrowed down this list, excluding practices that\n\nWe were left with a list of 6,880 practices.\n\nFor our analysis, we looked at the distribution of the practices across the UK's 217 upper-tier local authorities.\n\nWe classified a practice as accepting new child NHS patients if they would take on those under the age of 16.\n\nA practice that required a referral to take on a patient was not treated as accepting new NHS patients, since a referral requires an initial appointment with a dentist, which is a barrier to entry.\n\nAdditional reporting by Eve Mattison, Leah Dunderdale-Smith, Ellie Butler, Robert Tait, Lucy Gilder, Alison Benjamin, Becky Dale, Jana Tauschinski, Christine Jeavans and the BBC Data Journalism team", "The BBC is resuming its investigation into Huw Edwards, after police found no evidence of criminal behaviour over claims he paid a young person for explicit images.\n\nHis wife said he was in hospital with \"serious mental health issues\" as she named him as the presenter at the centre of the allegations.\n\nThe corporation said it would be mindful of its duty of care.\n\nSome BBC staff also made claims about inappropriate messages by Edwards.\n\nThe corporation's internal fact-finding investigation was paused at the Metropolitan Police's request while it carried out its own enquiries.\n\nOn the resumption of the internal probe, a spokesperson for the BBC said: \"We will now move forward with that work, ensuring due process and a thorough assessment of the facts.\"\n\nDirector general Tim Davie also said that he had asked for a separate review into whether the BBC's complaints protocols and procedures were appropriate, after it was revealed the corporation contacted the family who made the allegations about Edwards just twice - despite deeming them \"very serious\".\n\nThe initial allegations, first reported by the Sun online on Friday evening, were that the news presenter paid a young person for sexually explicit photos, beginning when they were 17.\n\nIn later versions of the story, the Sun changed the wording of this allegation to \"it is understood contact between the two started when the youngster was 17\".\n\nThe paper had quoted the person's mother as saying her child, now 20, had used the money that had been paid for the photos to fund a crack cocaine habit, and she was worried they could \"wind up dead\".\n\nA lawyer for the young person has since said the accusations were \"rubbish\" but the family are standing by the account.\n\nA statement issued by the Met on Wednesday said police \"determined there is no information to indicate that a criminal offence has been committed\".\n\nMeanwhile the BBC reported on Wednesday that Edwards also faced claims about inappropriate behaviour towards some junior staff members.\n\nTwo current BBC workers and one former member of staff said they had been sent messages that made them feel uncomfortable.\n\nAn employee at the corporation told BBC News they received \"suggestive\" messages from Edwards. BBC News has seen the messages, which refer to the staff member's appearance and were sent this year.\n\nOne said they felt it was an abuse of power by someone very senior in the organisation.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newsnight programme, the workers and former employee spoke of a reluctance among junior staff to complain to managers about the conduct of high-profile colleagues in case it adversely affected their careers.\n\nThe BBC said: \"We always treat the concerns of staff with care, and would urge anyone to speak to us if they have any concerns. We have clear processes for making complaints.\"\n\nIn a separate BBC News investigation published on Tuesday, a young person who did not work at the BBC said they had felt \"threatened\" by messages sent by Huw Edwards.\n\n\"This remains a very complex set of circumstances,\" director general Tim Davie told BBC staff in an internal email sent on Wednesday evening, \"Our aim must be to navigate through this with care and consideration.\"\n\nFormer controller of Radio 4, Mark Damazer highlighted the importance of the BBC exercising a proper duty of care.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, he said \"it is extremely important that Tim [Davie] and the BBC doesn't feel that it has to be rushed by other people's agendas to come to measured, appropriate and evidenced conclusions.\"\n\nEdwards was identified by his wife on Wednesday as the BBC presenter at the centre of allegations, after media outlets - including BBC News - initially took the decision not to name the him due to privacy concerns.\n\nVicky Flind said she was issuing a statement on her husband's behalf after days of speculation, saying he was being treated in hospital for \"serious mental health issues\".\n\n\"I am doing this primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children,\" her statement read.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Devin McMullan lives in Ballycastle and is 22 weeks pregnant with her second child\n\nA pregnant woman has said maternity services moving from Coleraine to Antrim will negatively impact expectant mothers in rural communities.\n\nDevin McMullan, who is 22 weeks pregnant, lives outside Ballycastle, County Antrim.\n\nShe said pregnant women in her local area will now face a drive of more than an hour to get to Antrim Area Hospital.\n\nShe said the move could hurt the mental health of expectant mothers - especially those on lower incomes.\n\nThe changes are due to come into effect from 17 July.\n\nA meeting will take place later on Friday between campaigners and the Northern Trust after the Department of Health confirmed in June that births will no longer take place at Coleraine's Causeway Hospital.\n\nGemma Brolly, chair of the SOS causeway hospital campaign group, said it was an important day for people living in the area.\n\n\"We would be extremely concerned as to the nature of how these decisions have been made,\" she told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"We have had many questions from expectant mothers, young people who hope to have families and elderly people who are being been pitted against pregnant mothers on the north coast, nearly competing for healthcare.\"\n\nA meeting will tak eplace on Friday between Northern Trust officials and the S.O.S. Causeway Hospital Campaign group\n\nThe Northern Health Trust had recommended that all births in the area should permanently move to the Antrim site. The recommendation was made by the trust's board following a 14-week public consultation.\n\nIn a statement, it said the Causeway Hospital is \"a key part\" of their acute hospital network and they remain \"committed to maintaining acute services and an emergency department at the site\".\n\nIt also said it was preparing to provide \"enhanced antenatal care and clinics\" at the hospital.\n\nThe trust had previously said that birth numbers in the Causeway Coast and Glens Council area have declined year-on-year and so maternity services were \"vulnerable and unsustainable\".\n\nAntenatal and postnatal clinics will be retained and enhanced at Causeway Hospital, the Department of Health has previously said.\n\nHowever, Ms McMullan, who is expecting her second child, said: \"What would have been a 22-minute drive for me to get to Causeway [Hospital] is now more than an hour if I needed to get to Antrim Area Hospital.\n\n\"Many people, especially those on low incomes, don't have access to a car or even know someone with a car so would need to rely on public transport - what if it was an emergency? How is that fair?\"\n\nThe Northern Trust said birth numbers in the Causeway Coast and Glens area have declined year-on-year\n\nMs McMullan said she is also concerned about home births not being available for women who would wish to have one.\n\nWhile she is undecided about this at present, she said she feels her options - and the options for many other pregnant women - are being restricted.\n\n\"All of this is adding unnecessary anxiety to expectant mothers, there are many women who are concerned about this,\" she added.\n\n\"This is all seriously impacting on women's mental health and I believe not enough consideration has been given to this and there's certainly not been enough genuine engagement.\"\n\nMs McMullan gave birth to her now three-year-old in Causeway Hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nShe praised the staff on the maternity ward who helped deliver her baby and said they were compassionate and professional in incredibly challenging circumstances.\n\n\"I'm devastated the wonderful service they worked so hard to create for mums is being stripped away,\" she said.\n\nIn its statement, the Northern Trust maintained it was committed to acute services and an emergency department at the Causeway Hospital.\n\nA trust spokesperson said £1m of funding, which is in addition to £2m announced for the hospital's emergency department; ambulatory services and frailty care, will see upgrades to ageing equipment.\n\n\"Preparations are also under way to provide enhanced antenatal care and clinics at Causeway Hospital so that pregnant women will have access to complex antenatal care and clinics,\" they said.\n\n\"We recognise that the hospital and its staff play a vital role in serving the local community, and we look forward to meeting with campaign representatives to further discuss our position with them.\"\n\nBBC Radio Foyle has also approached the Department of Health for comment.", "An architect has been charged over the deaths of three out of up to 11 victims in the Gilgo Beach murders in New York state over a decade ago.\n\nRex Heuermann, 59, is charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. He is suspected in a fourth woman's death.\n\nOn Friday the married Long Island father pleaded not guilty.\n\nDetectives say they matched DNA from pizza that the suspect ate to genetic material found on the women's remains.\n\nSuffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison told a news conference on Friday: \"Rex Heuermann is a demon that walks among us - a predator that ruined families.\"\n\nThe suspect, who was arrested at his home on Thursday night, is facing three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in the three women's deaths. The judge in the case ordered that he remain in custody, citing the \"extreme depravity\" of the crimes.\n\nAfter a plea was entered on his behalf in court, Mr Heuermann reportedly broke down in tears, telling his attorney: \"I didn't do this.\"\n\nThe lawyer, Michael Brown, said his client was \"distraught\" and called the evidence \"extremely circumstantial\".\n\n\"We're looking forward to fighting this case in a court of law, not the court of public opinion,\" Mr Brown said.\n\nRex Heuermann is an architect who has worked in Manhattan since 1987\n\nMs Barthelemy, Ms Waterman and Ms Costello were found dead in 2010 near a fourth victim, Maureen Brainard-Barnes.\n\nThe women have been dubbed the Gilgo Beach Four. All were sex workers, according to prosecutors.\n\nSuffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney told Friday's news conference that \"each of the four victims were found similarly positioned, bound in a similar fashion by either belts or tape, with three of the victims found wrapped in a burlap-type material\".\n\nThe local prosecutor said the case against Mr Heuermann was built on mobile phone records linking him to the victims, as well as to a pick-up truck that was seen near one of the victim's homes. He allegedly communicated with the victims using \"burner\" phones, which he later disposed of.\n\nPhone records also allowed investigators to determine that the deaths had taken place when Mr Heuermann's wife and children were out of town.\n\nHair found on a piece of burlap used to wrap one of the victims was linked to Mr Heuermann via a sample from a pizza box he discarded in a rubbish bin in Manhattan in January 2023, according to authorities.\n\nInvestigators say he was also snared by taunting calls that a person claiming to be the murderer made to one of Ms Barthelemy's family members using her mobile phone.\n\nMs Barthelemy was abducted in 2009. Ms Waterman and Ms Costello both went missing in 2010.\n\nMr Heuermann is also a prime suspect in the death of Ms Brainard-Barnes, who was abducted in 2007, although he has so far not been charged with her death.\n\nIn 2010, police were searching for one missing woman, Shannan Gilbert, when they discovered the remains of four others.\n\nAltogether, 11 sets of human remains were found on the same stretch of Gilgo Beach between 2010-11, linked to nine women, one man and a toddler. The identities of four, including the toddler, her mother and the man, remain unidentified.\n\nEleven sets of human remains were found on Gilgo Beach in 2010 and 2011\n\nMs Gilbert's remains were eventually found, and an official post-mortem examination was inconclusive. Her family believes she may have been murdered - a theory supported by an independent autopsy that they commissioned.\n\nA new task force to investigate the Gilgo Beach murders was formed in February 2022. Mr Heuermann became the focus of the investigation within a month, Mr Tierney said. More than 300 subpoenas and search warrants were issued by investigators on the case.\n\nSince the task force was formed, Mr Heuermann allegedly also used a burner phone to conduct more than 200 searches about topics related to serial killers and the Long Island investigation.\n\nThis included a search for \"why hasn't the Long Island serial killer been caught\" and \"mapping the Long Island murder victims\", court documents show.\n\nMr Tierney added that \"torture porn\" and \"depictions of women being abused and being killed\" were found on Mr Heuermann's computer.\n\nThe investigation into the other victims is ongoing.\n\nMr Heuermann is the owner of RH Consultants and Associates, a Manhattan architecture firm that describes itself as \"New York City's premier architectural firm\".\n\nThe Associated Press has reported that he has a daughter and a stepson. A neighbour described the 6ft 4in suspect going to work every morning, dressed in a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase.\n\nMr Tierney said that Mr Heuermann had licences for 92 guns and a \"very large safe\" in which firearms were kept.\n\nIn a YouTube interview for a real estate-focused channel last year, he said he had been working in the heart of New York City since 1987, describing himself as a \"trouble shooter\". He added that his work helped teach him to \"understand people\".\n\nPeople who lived near his home in Long Island's Massapequa Park expressed surprise at his arrest.\n\n\"The guy's been quiet, never really bothers anybody,\" neighbour Etienne DeVilliers told CBS, the BBC's US partner.\n\n\"We're shocked. Because this is a very, very quiet neighbourhood. Everybody knows each other, all of our neighbours, we're all friendly.\"", "Children are at most risk of exceeding the safe limits on aspartame, found in diet drinks\n\nAdvice on how much aspartame we can eat or drink is unchanged, despite the sweetener being classified as \"possibly\" causing cancer.\n\nTwo groups of experts at the World Health Organization have been reviewing thousands of scientific studies.\n\nThe \"possibly carcinogenic\" label often causes fear and confusion, but just means the evidence is unconvincing.\n\nMost people consume less than the safe upper limits of aspartame, but the WHO recommends heavy consumers cut down.\n\nAspartame is found in diet and sugar-free versions of foods, as the chemical gives a taste 200 times sweeter than sugar for little calories.\n\nFamous brands containing the sweetener include Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Pepsi Max and 7 Up Free, but aspartame is in around 6,000 products ranging from toothpaste and chewing gums to yoghurts and cough sweets.\n\nDespite being so widespread, the chemical's safety has been a source of controversy since it was introduced in the 1980s.\n\nI asked Dr Francesco Branca, the director of the department of nutrition and food safety at the World Health Organisation (WHO), what was the healthier choice: sugar or sweetener?\n\nHe told me: \"Faced with a decision of whether to take cola with sweeteners or one with sugar, I think there should be a third option, which is to drink water instead and to limit the consumption of sweetened products altogether.\"\n\nHe said the reviews had \"raised the flag\" that aspartame may not be great for your health, but said you \"shouldn't have a concern\" about an occasional diet drink or other product containing the sweetener, adding \"the problem is for high consumers\".\n\nThe first body to assess the evidence was the WHO's cancer experts - the International Agency for Research on Cancer.\n\nIARC uses four possible classifications:\n\nIt has moved aspartame into the \"possibly carcinogenic\" category alongside other substances such as aloe vera and lead. This decision largely centres on three studies suggesting a connection to a type of liver cancer.\n\nHowever, the \"possibly\" refers only to the strength of scientific evidence. If the evidence was strong, then aspartame would be in a higher category.\n\nDr Mary Schubauer-Berigan, of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, said the \"evidence was not of sufficiently high quality or convincing enough\" and \"this is really more a call to the research community\" to study the sweetener more.\n\nThe cancer classifications frequently lead to misleading headlines. Alcohol and plutonium are in the same category (both are proven to cause cancer), but one is seriously more dangerous than the other.\n\nSo a separate body - the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives - has the job of working out safe doses.\n\nIt analysed the cancer risk as well as other issues such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes, but found \"no sufficient reason\" to alter the advice it has had since 1981.\n\nSo the safe limits remain at 40 milligrams per kilogram of your body weight, per day.\n\nThese aren't targets, they're the upper safety limits. But as the advice is based on body weight, it is easier for children to get close to the limit.\n\nDr Branca said it was \"not a good practice\" to have a bottle of sweet fizzy drink on the table at family dinner time, as children risked being set up with a sweet tooth for life.\n\nHe also stressed that large reviews of the evidence show sweeteners do not help people lose weight.\n\nSo his advice is for everyone to shift to a less sweet diet - cutting both sugar and sweeteners - and for companies to produce foods that are less sweet, but still tasty.\n\nOne of the big outstanding research questions is how might aspartame result in cancer (if indeed it does). The WHO reports show that aspartame itself is rapidly broken down in the gut into three other substances - phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol.\n\nBut these are also the product of digesting a wide variety of other foods that are not linked with cancer. And the researchers concluded that aspartame is not directly making cancerous mutations in people's DNA. Raising levels of inflammation in the body is one possibility.\n\nFrances Hunt-Wood, secretary general of the International Sweeteners Association, said the work had \"once again reaffirmed aspartame's safety\".\n\nShe added: \"Aspartame, like all low/no calorie sweeteners, when used as part of a balanced diet, provides consumers with choice to reduce sugar intake, a critical public health objective.\"\n\nThere are some people who cannot safely consume aspartame. These are people with an inherited disease called phenylketonuria or PKU, who are born unable to metabolise the phenylalanine that is released as aspartame is broken down.\n• None Aspartame - is it a possible cause of cancer?", "Precious objects like this damaged torc were often buried on their own\n\nA section of a Bronze Age twisted gold torc has been found in a field by a metal detectorist.\n\nThe 3,000-year-old fragment was discovered near Mistley, on the River Stour in Essex, and has been declared treasure by a coroner.\n\nFinds liaison officer Lori Rogerson said despite being made of prehistoric gold \"it could have been made yesterday\", which is \"mind blowing\".\n\nIt was also the \"first ever\" torc \"reported as treasure from Essex\".\n\nMiss Rogerson said: \"Gold metalwork from the Bronze Age is rare from Essex.\n\n\"It's always nice to work with prehistoric gold, but you have to remind yourself it is over 3,000 years old.\"\n\nThe detectorist reported the find to the Portable Antiquities Scheme three years ago.\n\nBritish Museum experts confirmed the jewellery was made from at least 75% gold, about 18% silver and some copper.\n\nThe torc, which is 147mm-long (5.7in) long, was crafted from a rectangular rod with four grooves cut into it.\n\nMiss Rogerson said a \"highly skilled\" goldsmith worked on it and \"would have had to twist it, it's a really soft material so it is at risk of tearing,\"\n\n\"He or she would have known just the right point to stop before it broke, while getting those twists in,\" she added.\n\nThe item comes from the Middle Bronze Age and dates to about 1300BC.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook and Instagram. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830", "The green vase is believed to be from the Ming Dynasty\n\nAn £8.50 vase that \"sat in the corner of a downstairs loo\" has sold for £3,400 after auctioneers linked it to the Chinese Ming Dynasty.\n\nThe vase belonged to Amanda Lawler, whose daughter Mary bought it for her in a charity shop in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex in 2020.\n\nMrs Lawler said she used the ornament as \"an occasional doorstop\" and almost threw it away when she moved house.\n\nThe piece sold at Lockdales Auctioneers near Ipswich on Thursday for £3,400.\n\nMrs Lawler had kept the vase, saying she later saw an \"identical\" one on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, valued up to £10,000.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the auction, Mrs Lawler said she had tasked her daughter with finding an ornament for the WC, and was pleased when she was sent a photo of the vase in a shop with the asking price of £8.50.\n\nHowever, she had suggested her daughter try \"offering a fiver for it... which she would not do as it was a charity shop\".\n\n\"It just sat in the corner of the downstairs loo for quite a while,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\nMary Lawler found the vase for her mum in a charity shop and paid £8.50 for it\n\nOne day she spotted a post on social media about a Ming vase featured on an episode of Antiques Roadshow.\n\nThe programme's specialist Lars Tharp had valued a vase on the show at between £5,000 and £10,000.\n\n\"I looked at the pictures and thought, that looks very much like our vase,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\nShe showed it to auctioneers Lockdales - and their specialist Liza Machan agreed.\n\n\"It was one of those 'I'm just going to sit down for a little bit' moments,\" said Mrs Lawler.\n\nMs Machan said: \"The vase had the provenance of having an identical one on the Antiques Roadshow - and to an extent we were relying on the provenance of the BBC programme.\"\n\nShe said it seemed likely the Essex vase was one of a pair that had been donated to charity but split up, as they were both purchased from shops for a similar price - less than £10 each.\n\n\"There was a lot of interest in it pre-auction,\" Ms Machan said.\n\nIt was put into the auction with a guide price of between £3,000 and £4,000 - going under the hammer for £3,400.\n\nThe vase is understood to have been purchased by a private collector, probably from the UK.\n\nMrs Lawler said as her daughter Mary had found it and paid for it, she was likely to get the \"lion's share\" of the sale price.\n\nHer daughter's old VW Golf car needed some work, and she said the money would be used to do it up.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of Elvis\n\nLisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis, died of a bowel obstruction, the Los Angeles County medical examiner's office has said.\n\nThe obstruction was a result of adhesions caused by weight-loss surgery she underwent several years ago.\n\nPresley, also a singer, died after being rushed to a California hospital on 12 January. She was 54.\n\nHer last public appearance was two days before her death, at the Golden Globes.\n\nAt the time of Presley's death, local officials said first responders had been dispatched to her home in Calabasas, where they found her in cardiac arrest.\n\nElvis and Priscilla Presley with Lisa Marie at just four days old in 1968\n\nOn Thursday, the medical examiner's office ruled that she died of natural causes and said that the cardiac arrest was caused by a \"small bowel obstruction\".\n\nThis occurs when the small intestine is blocked, sometimes as a result of colon cancer, medication or adhesions (scar tissue) that form after surgeries. Some conditions that inflame intestines can also lead to small bowel obstructions.\n\nIn Presley's case, the report found that the adhesions were caused by weight-loss surgery, known as bariatric surgery, that she underwent several years ago.\n\n\"This is a known long-term complication of this type of surgery,\" the medical examiner's report noted.\n\nDr Angelique Campen, an emergency room physician at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, told the BBC's US partner, CBS, that deaths from small bowel obstructions are rare.\n\nIn many cases, patients in such cases experience significant pain and would probably be admitted to hospital.\n\nPresley, a singer and songwriter, was ultimately buried next to her son Benjamin Keough, who killed himself in 2020.\n\nAfter her death, her mother, Priscilla Presley, filed a legal challenge to the will's validity, arguing that she was unaware of a 2016 amendment that had ousted her as a trustee overseeing Lisa Marie's estate.\n\nLisa Marie was married to Michael Jackson in the 1990s\n\nInstead, the amendment named Benjamin Keough and a daughter, Riley, as co-trustees. Both were the children of Lisa Marie's first-husband, Danny Keough.\n\nThe legal dispute was settled in May. The details were never made public.\n\nBorn in 1968, Lisa Marie Presley followed in her father's footsteps as a musician and released three albums over the course of her career.\n\nShe was also well-known for four high-profile marriages, to Keough, pop star Michael Jackson, actor Nicolas Cage and musician Michael Lockwood.", "School-leavers are choosing computing courses in record numbers, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).\n\nThis year's application data showed 18-year-olds were increasingly inspired to study computing \"thanks to the rise of digital and AI\", UCAS chief executive Clare Marchant said.\n\nApplications to study computing were up almost 10% compared to 2022.\n\nHowever, it was only the seventh most popular area of higher education study.\n\nWhile nearly 95,000 students applied for courses in computer and AI related courses, almost twice that number applied to study business and management. More than 125,000 applied for design, creative and performing arts courses.\n\nSubjects allied to medicine, social sciences, biological and sports sciences, and engineering and technology were all more popular than computing.\n\nHowever, the numbers applying for computer-related courses have risen every year since 2019, UCAS said.\n\nThis year software engineering saw the steepest rise in applications, up 16% compared to last year. Computer science attracted 11% more applicants. There was a 2% rise in students applying to study computer games and animation, and 4% in artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nThe increased interest in computing courses may in part be down to a growing public conversation around technology and artificial intelligence, Ms Marchant said.\n\n\"We know that changes in the world around us translate into increased demand for certain courses, as we saw for economics post-2008, and for medicine and nursing during the Covid-19 pandemic,\" she said.\n\nChris Derrick, deputy headteacher at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow said pupils applying for computing courses now were all \"digital natives\" who have \"honed and developed these skills from a young age using powerful tech every day\".\n\n\"Programming knowledge is also so accessible via YouTube and ChatGPT,\" he said.\n\n\"Pupils can explore their passions and learn at pace. If they don't have an answer, Google and YouTube will,\" he said.\n\nWhile much of the public discussion recently has been around which jobs will be replaced by AI, there are also a growing number of employment opportunities related to AI, data science, software design and computing technologies.\n\nThere was also an increase in the number of applications by UK 18-year-olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds, UCAS said.\n\nHowever, computing remains a male-dominated subject, with only 18% of applications for computer-related studies coming from female students, up slightly, from 17% in 2022 and 16% in 2021.\n\nThe total number of UK 18-year-old applicants was over 319,500, the second highest it has been, a slight decrease on last year.\n\nRashik Parmar, chief executive of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT said: \"Teenagers in the UK know that AI will change the world forever; it shouldn't surprise us to see this soaring demand for computing degrees\".\n\nVanessa Wilson from the University Alliance - an association of British universities - agreed that greater public interest in AI in recent months might have contributed to more interest from applicants.\n\n\"The rise in the popularity of computing may well be a response to increasing awareness of the role of technologies such as AI, as well as a strong desire from students to develop what they see as future-proof skills,\" she said.", "Holding your breath is something most of us do to get rid of hiccups, so diving over 100 metres into the ocean's depths, without breathing, could be the stuff of nightmares.\n\nThe Deepest Breath is a documentary which explores this - the sport of freediving.\n\nIt gives the audience a close-up view of the swimmers who compete against each other by diving down into the ocean on just a single gulp of air.\n\n\"It's very simple. The deepest dive wins,\" says the film's trailer. \"You've gotta swim the length of a 70-storey skyscraper.\"\n\nBut it adds ominously: \"Freediving is an extreme sport - and extreme sports have extreme consequences.\"\n\nThe most dangerous part of the dive is when the swimmer returns to the surface, when they can succumb to so-called \"shallow water blackout\" just metres from fresh air.\n\nThe ascent is more dangerous than the descent in freediving\n\nIt's disturbing seeing footage of swimmers blacking out and being pulled out of the water by the safety divers, who sometimes have to revive them with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.\n\nThe safety diver meets the swimmer as they ascend, watching them closely, primed to pull them upwards if they start to lose consciousness.\n\nNo-one is immune from freediving's dangers, and the film has some heart-stopping moments. You get the sense that something terrible could happen at any time.\n\nWe are told about champion freediver Natalia Molchanova, presumed dead after diving in Ibiza in 2015. She sadly didn't resurface after a recreational dive, and it's believed she was caught in underwater currents.\n\nSafety divers are crucial to the survival of freedivers as they come up for air\n\nThe Deepest Breath's director Laura McGann became \"hooked\" on making the film after her interest was sparked by a news story about Irish freediver Stephen Keenan.\n\n\"I didn't know anything about freediving. I love the sea and go swimming all year round,\" McGann says at June's Sheffield Documentary Festival.\n\n\"I started to look online and saw beautiful videos and short films about freedivers, and it made me feel something I had really never felt before.\"\n\nMcGann wanted to explore how the intrepid Keenan fell in love with diving, while he was living in Dahab, Egypt. He became an instructor and safety freediver - one of the experienced divers on hand to help during freediving competitions.\n\nStephen Keenan and Alessia Zecchini: The film shows how their relationship grew through their love of diving\n\nShe was also very interested in how he worked with Italian freediver Alessia Zecchini in her bid to become a world champion, making her childhood dream a reality.\n\nTheir relationship deepens throughout the film, which takes the viewer on an emotional journey.\n\nMcGann also talks about what it feels like to watch freediving footage.\n\nWhile it's undoubtedly beautiful to see someone descend silently into the ocean's depths, watching the film does make you very aware of your own ability to inhale.\n\nMcGann says the same happened to her.\n\n\"I was doing what many of you may have done in the first couple of minutes of this film - I was holding my breath, to try to figure out 'how are they doing this?'\" she adds.\n\n\"I counted how many times I'd have to let go of the breath and breathe in.\"\n\nLaura McGann: Freediving footage \"made me feel something I had really never felt before\"\n\nThe director's research for her film began in lockdown, during the Coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"I started to speak to people, and to learn more about Stephen and Alessia,\" she says, revealing her surprise when she realised she lived close to Stephen's Dad, Peter, in Ireland.\n\nPeter gave her 14 hours of audio interviews with his son, which McGann was able to listen to, and use for the film.\n\n\"I fell in love with Steven and gradually got to know Alessia more, it was just an instant connection that I felt, with the story,\" McGann explains.\n\nAlessia Zecchini and Stephen Keenan are seen celebrating after one of her diving successes\n\nThe film uses actual footage and some reconstruction to tell Zecchini and Keenan's story, as they build up to her attempt to set a new world freediving record.\n\nZecchini has to master her mind as well as her body, learning to meditate and calm her thoughts before she enters the water.\n\nWe also see them at Dahab's notorious Blue Hole in Egypt, which has a terrifying-looking 25m-long tunnel, 55m below the Red Sea. It is nicknamed the \"divers' cemetery\".\n\nStephen Keenan and Alessia Zecchini are seen working on her technique\n\nMcGann wasn't there at the time, but she tells their story chronologically, using footage from the diving community, who documented events on a variety of cameras.\n\nShe explains that in order to film someone freediving, the camera person also needs to be a freediver, to \"come up at their speed\", and capture the whole dive on film.\n\n\"It was important it was real, it was raw, so there were images there shot on a GoPro camera, on 4K… on an iPhone,\" she says.\n\n\"You wouldn't [usually] use that, but it's [recorded] the moment - so you put it in.\"\n\nAlessia Zecchini's love of water is very evident in the film\n\nMcGann tells the BBC it was hard at times to stay detached, given how close she felt to her subjects.\n\n\"You certainly don't stay detached, you fall in love with the story, the people in it,\" she says. \"But it's important to be able to recognise that, and recognise you have a role here - to best tell the story.\"\n\nShe adds that the documentary did not gloss over any negative aspects of its participants' behaviour.\n\n\"Alessia doesn't always behave wonderfully… and it was a little bit awkward, but... she watched it, she accepted it.\"\n\nProducer Sarah Thomson adds: \"It's to Laura's credit that she has such intimate relationships with the people that you see, and was able to get them to sit down for interviews.\"\n\nShe says they have also hosted special screenings with the freediving community to \"give them a chance to see this together\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Freediver Adam Drzazga reveals the training and relaxation exercises required to hold his breath for more than six minutes\n\nThe film has been well received, having been screened at Sundance Film Festival in January.\n\nScreen Daily's Fionnuala Halligan wrote back in March: \"The Deepest Breath is a nerve-shredding experience. McGann's astute assemblage captures the liquid danger of the dark depths.... Awards will surely come calling.\n\n\"Technically, it's just about flawless. Although The Deepest Breath is due for release on Netflix later on this year, it's one of the ultimate big-screen experiences that is worth seeking out should the chance arise.\"\n\nGuy Lodge from Variety added: \"The world can probably be divided into two camps of people: those who will watch The Deepest Breath, a heart-pumping documentary on the extreme sport of freediving, and understand the dangerous pull of the big blue, and those for whom it might be the most nightmarish vicarious trip into the ocean since Jaws.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Netflix This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nDaniel Feinberg in The Hollywood Reporter called the film a \"heart-stopping plunge into a fathomless obsession\", adding: \"In the most literal sense, the film is a breath-taking documentary, one filled with eye-popping visuals, thrilling competitions and a deftly presented love story.\"\n\nMcGann hopes that people seeing it will engage with \"Alessia and Stephen's bravery... and gorgeous curiosity that they maintained into their adult lives, which you don't see very often\".\n\nShe adds: \"They followed their gut, even though it wasn't what was expected of them - you never know where it's gonna bring you.\"\n\nThe Deepest Breath is released for one week at Curzon Camden cinema, London, on 14 July, and is released in 155 countries on Netflix on 19 July.\n• None Freediving: The lure of the deep", "Lesley Manville will narrate a new translation of Snöfrid\n\nAward-winning actress Lesley Manville will help to launch the 2023 Proms season on Friday night, narrating a new translation of Jean Sibelius's Snöfrid.\n\nThe star, who plays Princess Margaret in The Crown, will be making her Proms debut alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra.\n\nThe opening night will also feature a new work by Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak, called Let The Light In.\n\nAnd the BBC Singers will perform, just months after being saved from closure.\n\nTime was called on the UK's only full-time professional chamber earlier this year as a result of BBC budget cuts.\n\nHowever, the 20-member group were given hope in March after \"a number of organisations\" came forward to offer alternative funding.\n\nThey will now appear at five concerts throughout the eight-week Proms season.\n\nConcerts will take place across the UK, from Cornwall to Perth and Derry to Aberystwyth, although the festival's headquarters remain at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\nEager Prommers were already queuing outside the venue at 08:00 BST on Friday morning, hoping to get one of the 1,000 on-the-day tickets that are available for every show, for just £8.\n\n\"The point with the Proms is it is the most accessible of all arts festivals,\" says BBC Radio 3's Petroc Trelawney, who is hosting many of this year's concerts.\n\n\"What senior football match can you go to for eight pounds? What opera? How much do you have to pay to see Beyoncé or Elton John?\n\n\"But here, you can be right at the front, within touching distance of the orchestra, with the music unfolding around you.\"\n\nDalia Stasevska will conduct the First Night of the Proms\n\nHighlights of the 2023 season include Sir Simon Rattle conducting Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri on 22 August, and Mahler's 9th Symphony on 27 August, in what will be his final appearances with the London Symphony Orchestra.\n\nThe Proms will host its first ever complete performance of Berlioz's epic, five-hour opera Les Troyens, and the team behind CBBC show Horrible Histories will present a young person's guide to the opera.\n\nVisiting international orchestras will include the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, who will allow the audience to choose the works they play.\n\nThere will also be a concert devoted to Portuguese Fado music, an unmissable performance of Stevie Wonder's Innervisions album and a \"mindful\" Prom featuring music by Ola Gjeilo, Radiohead and Philip Glass.\n\nSaturday night will celebrate the Northern Soul movement, with the BBC Concert Orchestra playing cult favourites like You're Gonna Make Me Love You, Open the Door to Your Heart and Hold Back the Night.\n\n\"Orchestral versions of pop music have become sort of a boom industry in the last few years,\" says Stuart Maconie, who helped curate the programme. \"And with no disparagement to those, some of them can feel a little bit contrived.\n\n\"Northern Soul, absolutely not, because so many of the original records feature orchestration, so its in the vocabulary of the music already.\"\n\nThe Last Night will return in September after the 2022 edition was cancelled due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nThe opening night will also mark a show of solidarity with the musicians of Ukraine.\n\nAlongside the world premiere of Let The Light In, the concert will open with a performance of Sibelius's Finlandia, written in 1900 as a protest against Russia's encroaching interference in Finland.\n\n\"I don't think classical music can operate in a vacuum,\" says Trelawney. \"Lots of the music that we perform at the Proms was written 100 or 150 years ago, but the point is, it's also the music of now.\n\n\"We can't ignore the fact that there are troubles in the world outside the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC Symphony Orchestra players tonight will be thinking of other cellists and double bassists and violinists who are unable to play in concerts at the moment for political reasons.\n\n\"And I think it's it is vital that the Proms and classical music as a whole stays connected to the reality of the world around us.\"\n\nBBC TV will show 24 concerts from this year's programme, while all 84 concerts will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and available on BBC Sounds for a year.\n• None Self Esteem and Horrible Histories set for Proms", "People in Hong Kong should discourage smoking by staring at anyone who lights up in areas where it is banned, the city's health secretary has suggested.\n\nAnswering questions about how to create a tobacco-free city, Lo Chung-mau also said police could not be expected to catch smokers.\n\nHong Kong is currently debating toughening its anti-tobacco measures.\n\nAfter launching a public consultation to reduce smoking in Hong Kong, Prof Lo told fellow lawmakers at a health meeting that the public had a role to play in reducing smoking and that it would be challenging for police officers to catch smokers in the act in time.\n\nProf Lo, who is also a medical doctor, said smoking was bad for the health of everyone and Hong Kong needed a \"culture in society that people are willing to comply with the law\".\n\nHe added: \"When the members of the public see people smoking in non-smoking areas, even if no law enforcement officers can show up immediately, we can stare at the smokers.\"\n\nProf Lo told the panel that law enforcement would be improved. Breaking current smoking rules is punishable with a fine of up to HK$1,500 ($192, £147).\n\nBut he also said when police \"arrive at the scene, the crime may have already stopped\" and so they are unable to take action, going on to suggest smoking rules should be enforced like etiquette over waiting for a bus.\n\n\"No one will say it requires the law to compel people to queue. Our society is able to create a culture where people will comply with this rule of queuing when waiting for buses. I hope the whole of society can build a non-smoking culture.\"\n\nAmong the new measures being considered by Hong Kong's government are banning people born after a certain year from buying tobacco products and significantly increasing the tax on a packet of cigarettes.", "Stars including Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt have walked the red carpet in London for the eagerly-awaited UK premiere of Oppenheimer.\n\nChristopher Nolan's much-hyped movie tells the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known for developing the atomic bomb.\n\nRami Malek, Florence Pugh and Robert Downey Jr are also among its big names.\n\nBut several stars left the premiere early, because of strike action called on Thursday evening.\n\nDirector Nolan told the audience before the screening of the film that \"unfortunately they've left to write their picket signs\".\n\nHollywood actors began their strike after talks between their union and major studios and streaming giants broke down. Writers in Hollywood are already taking industrial action - and a \"double strike\" such as this has not been seen since the 1960s and could bring the industry to a halt, as well as disrupting Oppenheimer's New York premiere on Monday.\n\nCrowds gathered to watch the movie's makers and stars walk the red carpet, joined by celebrities including actor Jefferson Hall, acting husband-and-wife Josh Hartnett and Tamsin Egerton, and singer Sam Ryder.\n\nMatt Damon, Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh arrive for the premiere in Leicester Square\n\nBritish-American director Christopher Nolan attended the premiere with his wife, Emma Thomas, and four children\n\nSpeaking on the red carpet, Murphy told BBC News there was a \"great atmosphere\" in London, and \"the response to the movie has been extraordinary\".\n\nMany of the stars told the BBC they were drawn to the film because of director Nolan. \"There's a reason we all say that, it's just he's making the best movies right now,\" said Damon. \"It's a thrill to get a call from him.\"\n\nThe premiere at the Odeon in Leicester Square comes ahead of the movie's release in the UK next Friday.\n\nIt comes the day after Wednesday night's premiere of Barbie, which is also out on 21 July. Because of the contrast between the two films and the same release date, many fans are planning to watch both, in what has been dubbed Barbenheimer.\n\nTikTok trainspotter Francis Bourgeois grins for the cameras at the premiere\n\nBrian Cox - an actual scientist - was also spotted on the red carpet", "We're finishing our live coverage of today's strikes, which have brought Hollywood to a grinding halt.\n\nFamous actors have been picketing outside major studios in both Los Angeles and New York City alongside members of the Writers Guild of America.\n\nWe've heard from Screen Actors Guild president Fran Drescher, Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon and several other industry members.\n\nIt's not immediately clear how long these strikes will last, but the unions have made it known they are prepared to picket for as long as it takes to reach an agreement with the major studios.\n\nThis page was edited by Marianna Brady and Brandon Livesay and our writers have been Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Emily Atkinson, Catherine McGowan, Brandon Drenon, Nadine Yousif and Antoinette Radford.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Michele Bullock has been named as the next governor of the RBA\n\nAustralia's central bank says it will be led by a woman for the first time since it was founded in 1960.\n\nMichele Bullock will succeed Philip Lowe, who is coming to the end of a seven-year term as governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).\n\nHer appointment comes as the country has been battling rising prices and the RBA is facing a major shakeup.\n\nIt has raised interest rates to their highest level in over a decade in a bid to tackle inflation.\n\nThe Australian financial services industry is male-dominated and has one of the nation's widest gender pay gaps.\n\nMs Bullock, who is currently the RBA's deputy governor, is due to start her seven-year term as governor on 18 September.\n\n\"It is a challenging time to be coming into this role, but I will be supported by a strong executive team and boards,\" Ms Bullock said in a statement on Friday.\n\n\"I am committed to ensuring that the Reserve Bank delivers on its policy and operational objectives for the benefit of the Australian people,\" she added.\n\nMs Bullock has been described as an RBA insider, having joined the central bank as an analyst nearly four decades ago.\n\nIn that time she has held senior management positions, including assistant governor and head of the payments policy department, before being appointed as the RBA's deputy governor in April 2022.\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a post on Twitter that Ms Bullock was \"an outstanding economist, with a long and distinguished career at the central bank.\"\n\n\"We believe she has the experience, expertise and fresh perspective to lead the RBA as Australia - and the world - face ongoing economic challenges,\" Mr Albanese said in another tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anthony Albanese This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFinance minister Kathy Gallagher said: \"This is a historic moment for Australia with Michele's appointment seeing our RBA led by a woman for the first time.\"\n\nMr Lowe, the RBA's outgoing governor, said the central bank was in good hands as it deals with the rising cost of living.\n\n\"The Treasurer has made a first-rate appointment. I wish Michele all the best,\" he said.\n\nThe RBA is under pressure to tackle inflation, which is stretching household budgets.\n\nThe central bank has raised interest rates 12 times since last May - to mixed reactions from economists. The RBA's main interest rate is currently at an 11-year high of 4.1%.\n\nIn theory, raising interest rates makes it more expensive to borrow money and encourages people to spend less, which can bring down inflation.\n\nMr Lowe faced criticism after suggesting that Australians should work more and spend less to deal with higher borrowing costs.\n\n\"If people can cut back spending, or in some cases find additional hours of work, that would put them back into a positive cash flow position,\" Mr Lowe said at a financial industry conference last month.\n\nHe has also defended the central's bank decision to raise its main interest rate for the twelfth time, saying \"homeowners are doing fine\".\n\nEarlier this year, the Australian government released its first external review of the RBA in 40 years.\n\nThe review made 51 recommendations, including calls for the central bank to have a clearer monetary policy framework and greater accountability.\n\nAustralia's financial services industry continues to have one of the nation's highest gender pay gaps, according to government data.\n\nThe Workplace Gender Equality Agency found a 28.6% difference in remuneration between males and females across the sector last year.\n\nThis was higher than the national gender pay gap of 22.8%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How the Hollywood strike affects you in 75 seconds\n\nJason Sudeikis, Susan Sarandon and thousands of other actors have joined screenwriters for Hollywood's biggest strike in more than six decades.\n\nActors will not appear in films or even promote movies during the stoppage.\n\nMajor films in production, including the Avatar and Gladiator sequels, may be affected by the shutdown.\n\nThe actors are joining writers who walked out in May, concerned about pay, working conditions and the industry's use of artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nBrian Cox, the lead actor on HBO's Succession, told the BBC the strike could last \"until the end of the year\".\n\n\"The whole streaming thing has shifted the paradigm,\" the Scottish star told BBC Newscast.\n\n\"They are trying to freeze us out and beat us into the ground, because there's a lot of money to be made in streaming and the desire is not to share it with the writers or the performers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTalks for a new contract with studios and streaming giants broke down on Thursday, with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) accusing the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) of being \"unwilling to offer a fair deal\".\n\nAbout 160,000 performers stopped work at midnight, joining the 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), who walked out on 2 May.\n\nBy noon on Friday, union members and their supporters had gathered outside the offices of major studios and streaming services in Los Angeles, New York and other cities.\n\nThe demonstrations have received support from some of the biggest celebrities in the movie and television business, including the stars of the upcoming Oppenheimer movie, who walked off the red carpet on Thursday night.\n\nThe two guilds want studios and streaming services to offer better pay, increased royalties, higher contributions to their pension and health plans, and safeguards on the use of AI in the industry.\n\nProductions likely to be affected include sequels to the Avatar, Deadpool and Gladiator franchises, as well as upcoming seasons of shows such as Stranger Things, Family Guy and The Simpsons.\n\nRed-carpet premieres, promotional interviews and events including the Emmys and Comic-Con, have already been halted, rescheduled or scaled back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The famous faces out and about on the picket line supporting the Hollywood strike\n\nThe strike action is driven in part by an uncomfortable transition to the era of digital streaming, as well as by broader technological changes.\n\n\"AI will affect everybody,\" Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon told the BBC from a picket line in New York.\n\n\"There's definitely always been the feeling that if it isn't solved now, how do we ever solve it in the future?\" she said.\n\n\"If you don't have the foresight to put something in place for the future, then you're screwed. It's clear that nothing is going to change from the top down, it's going to be up to us at the bottom.\"\n\nBoth writers and actors have complained that they make far less money than they used to make and that contracts have been undercut by inflation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Susan Sarandon on the dangers of AI in film industry\n\nFor actors, pay for individual roles has declined, forcing them to seek several more roles to make the same amount of money as they did a few years ago.\n\nWriting contracts have become shorter and more perilous, with payment often not included for writers' work on revisions or new material.\n\n\"We are being victimised by a very greedy entity,\" Fran Drescher, the current SAG president, said on Thursday. \"I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us.\"\n\nThe failed negotiations between the unions and the AMPTP marks the first tandem strike in the industry since 1960. The last actors' strike, in 1980, lasted 10 weeks.\n\nA third union, the Directors Guild of America (DGA), is not participating in the strike after successfully negotiating its own contract in June, but the group has said it \"strongly supports\" those who are picketing.\n\nWith the prospect that the strike could roll on for months, cinemas could face problems, and viewers may be left with nothing new to watch bar reality TV and live sport.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the White House said President Joe Biden \"believes all workers - including actors - deserve fair pay and benefits\".\n\n\"The President supports workers' right to strike and hopes the parties can reach a mutually beneficial agreement,\" spokeswoman Robyn Patterson said.\n\nActors represented by SAG's sister union in the UK - Equity - must continue to work as normal, due to UK employment laws. That includes stars of HBO's House of the Dragon.\n\nThe union has however told US companies it will be keeping a \"very close eye\" on any attempts to move US productions to the UK.", "Kevin Spacey has been giving evidence in court on Thursday and Friday\n\nActor Kevin Spacey has denied using his power to get people into bed, and rejected claims he is a sexual bully.\n\nSpeaking from the stand at London's Southwark Crown Court, the Oscar-winning actor was being cross-examined during his trial for sexual assault.\n\nThe 63-year-old also called the case against him \"weak\" - although he acknowledged he had \"definitely\" misread the signs from one complainant.\n\nHe denies all 12 sexual offence charges he faces.\n\nAsked if he considered himself to be a powerful man, Mr Spacey told the jury he \"did not have a power wand that I waved in front of people's faces whenever I wanted someone to go to bed with me\".\n\n\"I have used the position I gratefully found myself in to help others, to create art, to bring the Old Vic [Theatre] back to its magical days,\" he said.\n\nThe prosecution had put to Mr Spacey that he was \"essentially the golden boy of the London theatre scene at the time\" and the people he allegedly assaulted would be \"unlikely to be believed\".\n\nProsecutor Christine Agnew KC also suggested to Mr Spacey that he was a \"big sexual bully\", to which the actor responded \"that's your term\".\n\nAsked whether aggressively grabbing men's crotches was a \"trademark\" move of his, Mr Spacey replied: \"No.\"\n\nEarlier Mr Spacey was questioned about an alleged incident at a West End theatre in the early 2000s.\n\nMr Spacey claimed to have \"no memory of meeting\" the complainant, calling him \"a liar from beginning to end\".\n\nAsked why the man, who has alleged Mr Spacey grabbed him in the crotch \"like a cobra\", would be lying, he replied: \"Money, money and then money. And I also believe he has for whatever reason, anger towards me.\"\n\nMr Spacey also responded to allegations that he drugged an aspiring actor and performed a sex act on him while he was asleep in his flat.\n\n\"I don't know who made the first move, but we were consensually together in a romantic situation,\" he said.\n\n\"He did not fall asleep and I did not perform [a sex act] on him while he was asleep, despite what he has shockingly accused me of.\"\n\nWhen Ms Agnew KC suggested the complainant was asleep, Mr Spacey said: \"That's your theory.\"\n\n\"Well that is the prosecution case,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nMr Spacey replied: \"And it's a weak one.\"\n\nDuring her cross-examination, Ms Agnew KC asked whether he might have \"ignored\" signs from the four complainants.\n\nMr Spacey told her he had \"definitely misread\" the signs from one of the men.\n\n\"And I accept that,\" he added, describing himself as an \"affectionate person\" who had \"consensual interactions\" with two of the other accusers.\n\n\"If they went further than they wanted... they did not let me know that,\" he said.\n\nKevin Spacey was being cross-examined by Christine Agnew KC\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Spacey gave evidence for the first time during the trial, telling a jury touching an accuser was \"in my mind romantic\".\n\nThe actor said he had developed a \"flirtatious\" relationship with the accuser, who he had been \"somewhat intimate with\", but denied assaulting him.\n\nFighting back tears, he said his world had \"exploded\" when allegations first emerged against him in 2017.\n\nThe 63-year-old faces 12 sexual offence charges against four men between 2001 and 2013, all of which he denies.\n\nAll four accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.\n\nThe prosecution finished their evidence against the Hollywood star on Wednesday, after the jury heard accounts from his four alleged victims.\n\nDuring their evidence they variously described him as a \"vile sexual predator\", \"slippery\" and \"atrocious, despicable, disgusting\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has launched its third Moon mission, aiming to be the first to land near its little-explored south pole.\n\nThe Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off at 14:35 on Friday (09:05 GMT) from Sriharikota space centre.\n\nThe lander is due to reach the Moon on 23-24 August.\n\nIf successful, India will be only the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.\n\nThousands of people watched the launch from the viewer's gallery and commentators described the sight of the rocket \"soaring in the sky\" as \"majestic\". The lift off was greeted with cheers and loud applause from the crowds and the scientists.\n\nThe BBC's Arunoday Mukharji, who was at the launch site, said there were roars of \"Bharat Mata ki jai [Victory to mother India]\" from every corner of the hall.\n\n\"Chandrayaan-3 has begun its journey towards the Moon,\" Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief Sreedhara Panicker Somanath said in his first comments following the successful lift off. \"Our launch vehicle has put the Chandrayaan on the precise orbit around the Earth.\" Isro tweeted that \"the health of the spacecraft is normal\".\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi said Chandrayaan-3 had \"scripted a new chapter in India's space odyssey\".\n\n\"It soars high, elevating the dreams and ambitions of every Indian. This momentous achievement is a testament to our scientists' relentless dedication. I salute their spirit and ingenuity!\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe third in India's programme of lunar exploration, Chandrayaan-3 is expected to build on the success of its earlier Moon missions.\n\nIt comes 15 years after the country's first Moon mission in 2008, which carried out \"the first and most detailed search for water on the lunar surface and established the Moon has an atmosphere during daytime\", said Mylswamy Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1.\n\nChandrayaan-2 - which also comprised an orbiter, a lander and a rover - was launched in July 2019 but it was only partially successful. Its orbiter continues to circle and study the Moon even today, but the lander-rover failed to make a soft landing and crashed during touchdown. It was because of \"a last-minute glitch in the braking system\", explained Mr Annadurai.\n\nMr Somanath has said they have carefully studied the data from the last crash and carried out simulation exercises to fix the glitches.\n\nChandrayaan-3, which weighs 3,900kg and cost 6.1bn rupees ($75m; £58m), has the \"same goals\" as its predecessor - to ensure a soft-landing on the Moon's surface, he added.\n\nThe lander (called Vikram, after the founder of Isro) weighs about 1,500kg and carries within its belly the 26kg rover which is named Pragyaan, the Sanskrit word for wisdom.\n\nAfter Friday's lift-off, the craft will take about 15 to 20 days to enter the Moon's orbit. Scientists will then start reducing the rocket's speed over the next few weeks to bring it to a point which will allow a soft landing for Vikram.\n\nIf all goes to plan, the six-wheeled rover will then eject and roam around the rocks and craters on Moon's surface, gathering crucial data and images to be sent back to Earth for analysis.\n\n\"The rover is carrying five instruments which will focus on finding out about the physical characteristics of the surface of the Moon, the atmosphere close to the surface and the tectonic activity to study what goes on below the surface. I'm hoping we'll find something new,\" Mr Somanath told Mirror Now.\n\nThe south pole of the Moon is still largely unexplored - the surface area that remains in shadow there is much larger than that of the Moon's north pole, which means there is a possibility of water in areas that are permanently shadowed. Chandrayaan-1 was the first to discover water on the Moon in 2008, near the south pole.\n\n\"We have more scientific interest in this spot because the equatorial region, which is safe for landing, has already been reached and a lot of data is available for that,\" Mr Somanath said.\n\n\"If we want to make a significant scientific discovery, we have to go to a new area such as the south pole, but it has higher risks of landing.\"\n\nMr Somanath adds data from Chandrayaan-2 crash has been \"collected and analysed\" and it has helped fix all the errors in the latest mission.\n\n\"The orbiter from Chandrayaan-2 has been providing lots of very high-resolution images of the spot where we want to land and that data has been well studied so we know how many boulders and craters are there and we have widened the domain of landing for a better possibility.\"\n\nThe landing, Mr Annadurai said, would have to be \"absolutely precise\" to coincide with the start of a lunar day (a day on the Moon equals 29.53 days on Earth) which will allow about 14 days of sunlight for the batteries of the lander and the rover to charge and function.\n\nThe Moon mission, Mr Annadurai says, was thought up in the early 2000s as an exciting project to attract talent at a time of the IT boom in India, as most technology graduates wanted to join the software industry.\n\n\"The success of Chandrayaan-1 helped on that count. The space programme became a matter of pride for India and it's now considered very prestigious to work for Isro.\"\n\nBut the larger goal of India's space programme, Mr Annadurai says, \"encompasses science and technology and the future of humanity\".\n\nIndia is not the only country with an eye on the Moon - there's a growing global interest in it. And scientists say there is still much to understand about the Moon that's often described as a gateway to deep space.\n\n\"If we want to develop the Moon as an outpost, a gateway to deep space, then we need to carry out many more explorations to see what sort of habitat would we be able to build there with the locally-available material and how will we carry supplies to our people there,\" Mr Annadurai says.\n\n\"So the ultimate goal for India's probes is that one day when the Moon - separated by 360,000km of space - will become an extended continent of Earth, we will not be a passive spectator, but have an active, protected life in that continent and we need to continue to work towards that.\"\n\nAnd a successful Chandrayaan-3 will be a significant step in that direction.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The fire broke out during last summer's heatwave\n\nA London Fire Brigade investigation has concluded the Wennington wildfire was likely to have started in a garden.\n\nA large grass fire in the village in Havering, east London, tore through 17 houses during scorching temperatures in July last year.\n\nWhile investigators were unable to determine the exact cause of the blaze, a large caravan was noted as an early area of where it began.\n\nThe brigade added it had not fully discounted that it was deliberate.\n\nAt about 13:00 BST on 17 July 2022, a neighbour saw white smoke coming from near a large willow tree in the garden, which turned into flames.\n\nIn total the fire spread across 40 hectares, damaging 17 houses, five garages, 12 stables, a car repair workshop and several vehicles, as well as numerous sheds and outbuildings.\n\nThe investigator wrote: \"Having called the brigade, [the neighbour] attempted to stop the fire spreading using a hosepipe, however, this had little effect.\"\n\nThe conditions were \"exceptionally hot and dry\", the investigator added, which meant the flames could easily move along the marshland to the rear of the properties.\n\nThe fire scorched fields as well as destroying homes\n\nAt the time of the blaze, the fire brigade was also fighting numerous other blazes including a 30-pump fire in Upminster.\n\nThe investigator said the brigade, which had a station less than 100m (328ft) from the site where the fire started, would have sent more than 15 pumps were it not for the \"unprecedented conditions\".\n\nHavering Council leader Ray Morgon said: \"Whilst the report does not provide a definite conclusion on the cause of the fire, one thing we can conclude from the findings and guidance is that fire safety is everyone's responsibility.\n\n\"As we enter the summer months and the likelihood of higher temperatures it is up to us all to take measures to prevent this type of horrific incident from happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nParts of the US are expected to see record temperatures on Sunday, with warnings of \"dangerous\" heat levels into next week across the south-west.\n\nNearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories, from Florida to California and up to Washington state.\n\nThe country's National Weather Service (NWS) has urged people not to underestimate the risk to life.\n\nOn Saturday, a sweltering 118F (48C) was recorded in Phoenix, Arizona.\n\nIt means temperatures have hit 110F (43C) for 16 days running, which is almost a record.\n\nMobile clinics there have reported treating homeless people suffering from third-degree burns.\n\nMeanwhile, Death Valley in California - one of the hottest places in the world - is forecast to reach 129F (54C), nearing the hottest temperatures ever reliably recorded on Earth.\n\nThe NWS has said that local records could also be set on Sunday in the San Joaquin Valley, Mojave Desert, and Great Basin regions.\n\nIts Saturday-evening update said the temperatures would \"pose a health risk and are potentially deadly to anyone without effective cooling and/or adequate hydration\".\n\nAbout 700 people are estimated to die each year from heat-related causes in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nEnergy consumption in Texas has surpassed records, as many in the state scramble to stay cool.\n\nIn neighbouring Canada, officials say wildfires stoked by above-average temperatures - which have covered parts of the US in smoke - have now burned nearly 10 million hectares (25 million acres) of land.\n\nThe temperatures in America's south-west are the result of an upper level ridge of high pressure, which typically brings with it warmer temperatures, the NWS said earlier, adding that the heatwave was \"one of the strongest\" systems of its kind to hit the region.\n\nLas Vegas, Nevada, may also match its all-time high of 117F (47C) in the next few days.\n\nWeather officials there warned locals who thought they could handle the temperatures that this was \"not your typical desert heat\".\n\n\"'It's the desert, of course it's hot'- This is a DANGEROUS mind set!\", the NWS in Las Vegas tweeted.\n\n\"This heatwave is NOT typical desert heat due to its long duration, extreme daytime temperatures, & warm nights. Everyone needs to take this heat seriously, including those who live in the desert.\"\n\nA woman suffering from heat exhaustion is taken into a medical centre in Texas\n\nThe NWS also warned that \"strong to severe thunderstorms, heavy rain and flooding will be possible in several locations,\" including America's north-eastern New England region.\n\nParts of the south-western US have already grappled with intensely hot temperatures over the past week. In El Paso, Texas, temperatures have been in the triple-digits Fahrenheit for 27 consecutive days.\n\nAir conditioner use in the state has topped its previous record for power consumption as people try to stay cool, while parks, museums and zoos have either closed or shortened their hours.\n\nHospitals were also seeing heat-related admissions.\n\n\"We're getting a lot of heat-related illness now, a lot of dehydration, heat exhaustion,\" said Dr Ashkan Morim, who works in the emergency room at Dignity Health Siena Hospital, outside of Las Vegas.\n\nOvernight temperatures were expected to remain \"abnormally warm\" in some areas, offering little night-time relief from the heat.\n\nThe US heatwave mirrors similar searing conditions in Europe, which forced Greece to close one of its major tourist attractions, the Acropolis, on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe first week of July saw a global average temperature of 63F (17.23C), according to the UN - the highest ever recorded.\n\nScientists say the temperatures are being driven by climate change and the naturally occurring weather pattern known as El Niño, which happens every three to seven years and causes temperatures to rise.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Paolo Ceppi, a lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, said higher global temperatures were undoubtedly contributing to the increased incidence of extreme weather.\n\n\"Of course it's not unusual to have a heatwave in the summer, per se, but what's becoming really unusual is the collection of heatwaves,\" he said.\n\n\"We have this event in southern Europe, but at the same time, we're having another major heatwave in the southern US. Recently we had heatwaves in south Asia, India, China and so on. And unfortunately, this is not surprising.\n\n\"We have the baseline temperatures shifting upwards, and so you are shifting the odds towards more severe extreme events, and fewer cold extreme events.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the extreme heat? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Heartstopper, a coming-of-age story about a high school romance, was adapted from a graphic novel into a hit Netflix series\n\nHungarian authorities have fined a bookseller for selling a British graphic novel without closed wrapping - saying it breached a controversial law on LGBT literature for under-18s.\n\nThe Lira Kiskereskedelmi Kft retailer was fined 12m forints (£27,400) for selling a Heartstopper book without wrapping it in plastic foil.\n\nOfficials said the book depicted homosexuality and was sold to minors.\n\nThe love story, about two teenage boys, has been made into a Netflix series.\n\nThe fine was issued by the Budapest metropolitan government office, which told the state news agency MTI that it had conducted an investigation into the bookshop for selling the title, and others that portray plotlines involving homosexuality.\n\n\"The probe stated that the books in question depict homosexuality and despite this, they were placed among literature aimed for minors,\" it said.\n\nIn 2021, the government of prime minister Viktor Orban - who says he is defending the country's Christian values - introduced a law banning the \"display and promotion of homosexuality\" among under-18s.\n\nThe laws says that minors cannot be shown pornographic content, or anything that encourages gender change or homosexuality.\n\nThe new legislation faced fierce criticism, including from the European Parliament, which said it breached \"EU values, principles and law\". The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen called the law \"a disgrace\".\n\nHungary's LGBT community also criticised the legislation when it was introduced, saying it would curb free speech and children's rights.\n\nThe government says the law is part of an effort to protect the country's Christian culture.\n\nThe Heartstopper series of books, written and illustrated by the British author Alice Oseman, follow the lives of two British teenagers attending a fictional school who meet and fall in love. It is billed as a book about \"life, love, and everything that happens in between\".\n\nIt has since been acquired and adapted by the streaming service Netflix, which plans to release a second series in August.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Lira Kiskereskedelmi Kft bookstore and Ms Oseman's publisher for comment.", "Christopher Nolan says the strike is about \"jobbing actors, staff writers trying to raise a family, trying to keep food on the table\"\n\nOppenheimer director Christopher Nolan has said he \"absolutely\" will not work on another film until the Hollywood strikes are resolved.\n\nTens of thousands of Hollywood actors have joined writers in taking industrial action, because they want streaming giants to agree to a fairer split of profits and better working conditions.\n\nThe Screen Actors Guild also wants to protect actors from being usurped by digital replicas.\n\nNolan admitted he was \"very fortunate with the timing\", as his film's premieres were held just before the strike began, meaning Oppenheimer would not be affected by industry members stopping work.\n\nChristopher Nolan (third from right) with the stars of Oppenheimer at the film's premiere in London\n\nWhen asked if he would write another film during the strike, he told BBC Culture editor Katie Razzall: \"No, absolutely. It's very important that everybody understands it is a very key moment in the relationship between working people and Hollywood.\n\n\"This is not about me, this is not about the stars of my film,\" the acclaimed director, writer and producer added.\n\n\"This is about jobbing actors, this is about staff writers on television programmes trying to raise a family, trying to keep food on the table.\"\n\nOppenheimer stars Peaky Blinders' Cillian Murphy, who has already appeared in five Christopher Nolan films\n\nAs more production companies use streaming platforms - like Netflix and Amazon Prime - for their shows, it has changed how actors and writers get paid.\n\nPreviously every time an episode was re-run on a TV network, it would tend to involve payment, allowing those who worked on projects to get by in between jobs.\n\nThe director said the companies involved had not yet \"accommodated how they're going to in this new world of streaming, and a world where they're not licensing their products out to other broadcasters - they're keeping them for themselves\".\n\nNolan, who was Oscar-nominated five times for the films Dunkirk, Inception and Memento, added: \"They have not yet offered to pay appropriately to the unions' working members, and it's very important that they do so.\n\n\"I think you'd never want a strike, you never want industrial action.\n\n\"But there are times where it's necessary. This is one of those times.\"\n\nSpeaking ahead of the London premiere, where several of Oppenheimer's stars left the red carpet early to strike, he explained: \"It's very important to bear in mind that there are people who have been out of work for months now, as part of the writers strike, and with the actors potentially joining - a lot of people are going to suffer.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How the Hollywood strike affects you in 75 seconds\n\nDespite the row in California, British-born Nolan has no current plans to work more in the UK, his home country, as he prefers to be \"on the real locations\" where his films are set.\n\n\"The UK has wonderful film studios,\" he explained. \"It's a great place to come to shoot a film if you're going to be on sound stages.\"\n\nOppenheimer tells the story of J Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic Manhattan Project scientist, who had a leading role in developing the atomic bomb that made him a \"destroyer of worlds\".\n\nHe \"gave us the power to destroy ourselves and that had never happened before\", Nolan said.\n\nCommissioned by the US Government during World War II, and believing themselves in a nuclear race with the Nazis over who would create the bomb first, in 1945 scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico detonated a test bomb, codenamed Trinity.\n\nNicknamed 'Jumbo', this huge vessel was designed to act as a failsafe device for the Trinity Test explosion, but wasn't needed\n\nTheir invention was then used, controversially, to end the war, dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to devastating effect.\n\nThe film is an exploration not just of Oppenheimer's story, but of the \"incredible decision\" the scientists took on that first occasion.\n\nTrinity was the codename of the world's first nuclear weapon, which was successfully detonated in the New Mexico desert in 1945, as part of the Manhatten Project\n\n\"There's a possibility that when you push that button, you might destroy the entire world,\" Nolan told the BBC.\n\n\"And yet they went ahead and they pushed it. How could you make that decision? How could you take that on yourself?\"\n\nAnother existential threat to civilization is AI, which is also part of the Hollywood strike and makes the Oppenheimer movie more timely.\n\n\"One of the interesting things about putting this film out is it's coming at a time when there are a lot of new technologies that people start to worry about the unintended consequences,\" he said.\n\n\"When you talk to leaders in the field of AI, as I do from time to time, they see this moment right now as their Oppenheimer moment. They're looking to his story to say, 'what are our responsibilities? How can we deal with the potential unintended consequences?' Sadly, for them, there are no easy answers.\"\n\nNolan is one of a rare number of Hollywood directors. His films - Interstellar, the Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception amongst them - are both blockbusters and arthouse fare; critically acclaimed and, Tenet aside, which was released during the pandemic, box office successes.\n\n\"I make the films that I really want to go to the cinema and sit down with my popcorn and watch\" he says. \"I started making films when I was a kid. I made Super 8 films from when I was seven or eight years old and I've never stopped\".\n\nChristopher Nolan on the set of Oppenheimer, was hailed as 'a genius' by Cillian Murphy\n\nHe's a champion of the big screen who, famously, left Warner Bros for rival Universal to make Oppenheimer.\n\nNolan's known for wanting his films to feel authentic rather than computer-generated.\n\nThere was even a rumour doing the rounds on the internet that he had set off a real atomic bomb in New Mexico for Oppenheimer.\n\n\"We recreated the circumstances of it,\" he said, \"obviously not using an atomic weapon. What we're trying to portray is this moment of absolute beauty and absolute terror.\n\n\"This is the moment that really changed the world.\"\n\nThe full interview with Christopher Nolan can be seen on the BBC iPlayer for the next 11 months.", "Wagner fighters managed to take control over Rostov-on-Don - a Russian city - during their short-lived mutiny\n\nWagner mercenary group head Yevgeniy Prigozhin has rejected an offer to his fighters to serve as a unit in Russia's army, President Vladimir Putin says.\n\nHe told Kommersant newspaper that many group commanders had backed the plan to be led by a senior Wagner figure during recent talks in Moscow.\n\nHe said Prigozhin's reply was \"the guys do not agree with this decision\".\n\nThe talks were held just days after Wagner's aborted mutiny on 23-24 June that challenged Mr Putin's authority.\n\nUnder the deal that ended the short-lived rebellion, the mercenaries were told they could join the regular Russian army or head to Belarus, a close ally of Russia.\n\nWagner has fought some of the bloodiest battles since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nHowever, the US military now assesses that the group is no longer \"participating in any significant capacity in support of combat operations in Ukraine\".\n\nThe comments were made on Thursday by Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder, who also said that \"the majority\" of Wagner fighters were believed to still be in areas of Russian-occupied Ukraine.\n\nIn a separate development, Belarus' defence ministry said on Friday that Wagner fighters were now acting as military instructors for the country's territorial defence forces.\n\nThe ministry said the fighters were training Belarusian forces \"in a number of military disciplines\" near the town of Osipovichy, about 85km (53 miles) south-east of the capital Minsk.\n\nIn Thursday's interview with Kommersant business daily, President Putin said that 35 Wagner commanders, including Prigozhin, had been present at the Kremlin meeting on 29 June.\n\nMr Putin said he had offered them several \"employment options\", including continued service under the command of a senior Wagner commander known by his nom de guerre Sedoi - Grey Hair.\n\n\"Many [Wagner fighters] were nodding when I was saying this,\" Mr Putin said.\n\n\"And Prigozhin, who was sitting in front and didn't see all this, said after listening: 'No, the guys do not agree with this decision,'\" the president added.\n\nHe also said that \"Wagner does not exist\" when asked whether the group would be preserved as a fighting unit. \"There is no law on private military organisations. It just doesn't exist.\"\n\nThis \"difficult issue\" of how to legalise Wagner fighters should be discussed in parliament, Mr Putin suggested.\n\nThe Kremlin appears to want to differentiate between the Wagner chief and regular Wagner fighters, driving a wedge between them, says the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.\n\nHe adds that this would explain the attempts in Russia's state media to discredit Prigozhin.\n\nThe current whereabouts of Prigozhin, a former Putin loyalist, are unknown.\n\nAlso on Thursday, US President Joe Biden said Prigozhin should be careful of poisoning following the mutiny.\n\n\"God only knows what he's likely to do. We're not even sure where he is and what relationship he has [with Mr Putin]. If I were he, I'd be careful what I ate. I'd keep my eye on my menu,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nSpeaking after a summit with Nordic leaders in Helsinki, he also said there was no possibility of Mr Putin winning the war in Ukraine.\n\n\"He's already lost that war,\" the president said.\n\nMr Biden suggested that the Russian president would eventually \"decide it's not in the interest of Russia, economically, politically or otherwise to continue this war. But I can't predict exactly how that happens.\"\n\nHe also expressed the \"hope and expectation\" that Ukraine would make enough progress in its current counter-offensive for there to be a negotiated peace settlement.\n\nBut more than a month into the long-planned Ukrainian counter-offensive, some Ukrainians and their allies are expressing concerns over the slow progress of Kyiv's troops.\n\nOthers believe that Russia's defences will eventually shatter, allowing Ukraine to seize strategically significant territory and to advance towards Crimea, Ukraine's southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The day Wagner chief went rogue... in 96 seconds\n\nUkraine has long asked Western allies to provide more military assistance to help it fight back against the Russian invasion.\n\nAlthough it did not get a solid timeframe for Nato membership at this week's summit in Lithuania, it did receive from G7 members a long-term security framework to help guard against Russian aggression.\n\nOn Thursday, Ukrainian army commander Oleksandr Tarnavskyi told US broadcaster CNN that the military had received the first consignment of cluster munitions promised by the US in a controversial move.\n\nHe stressed that they would make a difference to Ukraine's fortunes on the front line. \"We just got them, we haven't used them yet, but they can radically change [the battlefield],\" Mr Tarnavskyi said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Covid public inquiry could finally gain access to Boris Johnson's WhatsApps from the first year of the pandemic, following a delay.\n\nTechnicians have been reluctant to turn on the old phone storing messages before May 2021, as the former PM was not sure about the passcode.\n\nThere were fears that getting it wrong could lead to the data being wiped.\n\nBut the government has now found a record of his Pin code, paving the way for it to be accessed.\n\nExperts appointed by the government could now try to access the messages within the next 24 hours, BBC Newsnight understands.\n\nThe phone - which he used during the crucial early phases of the Covid pandemic - is currently with his lawyers.\n\nThe inquiry has requested the WhatsApps as evidence as part of its investigations into UK government decision-making on Covid. Hearings for that part of the inquiry are due to begin in October.\n\nIt has requested WhatsApp messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat that was set up to discuss the pandemic response.\n\nIt has also demanded his one-to-one messages exchanged during the pandemic with around 40 politicians, advisers and officials, including then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Simon Case, the UK's top civil servant.\n\nThe government had attempted to block release of the raw messages, arguing that some of them were irrelevant to the inquiry and that it should be able to redact - or block out - these first before handing them over.\n\nBut it was ordered to hand over the messages unredacted earlier this month, after a legal challenge it mounted was struck down in the High Court.\n\nOther messages the High Court ruled should be shared with the inquiry were sent on Monday morning.\n\nMr Johnson was forced to change his mobile phone in 2021 after it emerged his number had been publicly available online for 15 years.\n\nThe former prime minister has insisted throughout that he is happy to share the messages on his old phone when they are accessible.\n\nThe Cabinet Office, the government department responsible for prime ministers, was ordered to hand over the WhatsApps by 16:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe release of the messages to the inquiry does not necessarily mean the public will see them in full.\n\nThe Cabinet Office can apply to the inquiry to make redactions before they are sent to so-called core participants including other witnesses, government departments and bereaved family groups.\n\nThe inquiry could also apply its own redactions. It could also decide not to make them public at all.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None What is the UK Covid inquiry and how does it work?", "Eyewitness says the RSF ordered dozens of bodies to be dumped in a pit\n\nMaalim is traumatised by what he saw in Sudan's western region of Darfur, before he fled across the border to Chad.\n\n\"If the people who I worked with know I have shown you these photos and videos, or even that I filmed them, I am a dead man,\" he tells me as he whips out his phone to show me harrowing pictures of scattered corpses in the city of El Geneina. We have changed his name for his own safety.\n\nBefore leaving the country, he was part of a group of people tasked with removing corpses from the streets and burying them in mass graves.\n\nSudan has been rocked by fierce battles between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the army since April, with some of the worst fighting in Darfur, where the RSF originates.\n\nThe photos showed dozens of dead bodies, some of them covered with blankets and clothing, others swollen and already rotting. Maalim also showed photos of aid agency compounds, which were wrecked and looted.\n\n\"I felt terrible. I felt like they died while in a state of fear and terror. Many of them had been lying dead on the streets for more than a week,\" he tells us, visibly distressed.\n\nPerhaps the most disturbing footage he showed us was a video he took while hiding in a bush. It showed bodies being dumped from a lorry into a mass grave.\n\n\"We went towards the forest graveyard to bury the bodies. But the RSF did not allow us to do so. Under the orders of the RSF, the driver of the truck was ordered to dump the bodies in a pit,\" Maalim says, adding that the RSF ordered them to leave the area afterwards.\n\n\"They should have been buried according to Muslim rituals. We should have held prayers for them. But the RSF insisted that they were discarded like garbage.\"\n\nTens of thousands of people have fled the conflict to neighbouring Chad\n\nNobody knows who the bodies belong to or how they were killed. But many families who have sought refuge in Chad tell us the RSF were specifically targeting young men and boys in West Darfur, forcing them out of their hideouts and killing them.\n\nThe families say members of non-Arab communities were targeted. They describe being stopped at RSF checkpoints and asked about their ethnicity. They told us they were too frightened to say they were Massalit in case they were killed.\n\nThe BBC has asked the RSF to comment on the allegations but it has not responded. But earlier this week it denied allegations it was involved in similar attacks on members of the Massalit community in May.\n\nMaalim's account matches details in a UN report published on 13 July, saying local people were forced to dispose of the bodies of at least 87 ethnic Massalit and others allegedly killed by the RSF in a mass grave in West Darfur.\n\nThe metadata on the photos and videos in Maalim's phone show that they were taken between 20 and 21 June, the same dates mentioned in the UN report.\n\nLike the UN report, Maalim told us the bodies were buried in an open area known as al-Turab al-Ahmar (Red Soil), west of El Geneina and near a police base.\n\nThe UN statement said some of the people had died from untreated injuries. In one of Maalim's videos, a man is found alive among a pile of dead bodies. Flies hover around his dry, cracked lips as he tries to speak. Maalim says the victim had been lying there for eight days, suffering from gunshot wounds. We do not know what has happened to this man.\n\nMaalim tells us he took the videos because he wanted to document what was happening in his hometown. But he soon felt it was no longer safe for him to stay in the city.\n\n\"I was afraid because more than once they were searching for people who had mobile phones on them while doing the clean-up.\"\n\nSome corpses were left to rot on the streets\n\nDarfur's Arab and Black African communities have been at loggerheads for years - with the worst violence erupting two decades ago when non-Arabs took up arms accusing the government of discrimination.\n\nThe RSF was born out of the notorious Janjaweed Arab militia, which brutally suppressed the rebellion, killing hundreds of thousands of people. The group was accused of widespread atrocities and ethnic killings, described as the first genocide of the 21st Century.\n\nFighting between the RSF and the Sudanese army, which erupted in April, seems to have re-ignited this conflict. Last month, the West Darfur governor was killed shortly after he accused the RSF of carrying out a genocide against the Massalit people.\n\nThis round of violence in many parts of Darfur doesn't appear to be random. We have heard allegations that there has been a systemic attempt by the RSF and allied Arab militias to target senior figures in Black African groups like the Massalit, forcing tens of thousands of them to flee into Chad.\n\nThe RSF says it is a revival of the ethnic violence seen in the 2000s and it is not involved.\n\nOn Thursday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) - which has been investigating crimes in Darfur since 2005 - opened a new probe into alleged war crimes in Sudan.\n\nChief prosecutor Karim Khan told the UN Security Council there was a risk of \"allowing history to repeat itself - the same miserable history\".\n\nLike the thousands of Sudanese who have fled Darfur, Maalim does not have much to return to. His home has been burned down and all his family's possessions have been looted. But most painfully, many of his friends and family will not be there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen we picture the fire-and-brimstone types that often lead unions into battle against corporate giants, they rarely have much in the way of Hollywood glamour.\n\nBut the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has always been unique in that respect. The union was once led by former US President Ronald Reagan, then best known as a swashbuckling cowboy from cheesy movies.\n\nAnd less than 24 hours into the guild's campaign against Hollywood's streaming giants, its current leader, Fran Drescher, has caught public attention with a fiery speech from her base in Los Angeles.\n\nBranding corporations including Netflix, Disney and Paramount as \"disgusting\", she accused the streaming powerhouses of \"losing money left and right\", all the while \"giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs\".\n\nThe speech, which quickly went viral, is emblematic of the wider labour fissures playing out across the world. She accused executives of making \"Wall Street and greed their priority\" while ignoring the \"essential contributors that make the machine run\".\n\nWhile the grievances aired by Drescher may be recognisable, the 65-year-old's rise to union leadership is anything but traditional.\n\nShe was born in the Queens borough of New York City to a Jewish family in 1957.\n\nAnd while attending Hillcrest High School in the city, she met Peter Marc Jacobson who she went on to marry in 1977, aged just 21.\n\nIn 2010 she recalled that when the pair married they were \"just kids and didn't know who we truly were. We went through a lot together\". Nonetheless, he would soon become her chief artistic collaborator.\n\nThe couple, pictured here in the 1990s, went on to be a formidable creative duo\n\nHer first break in Hollywood was a minor role in the smash hit Saturday Night Fever, which starred John Travolta.\n\nThe brief cameo role, in which she played a dancer at a club, saw her deliver the line \"So, are you as good in bed as you are on the dance floor?\" to the Hollywood legend.\n\nShe soon found success with a series of roles in films, including the critically acclaimed This is Spinal Tap, where she played publicist Bobbi Flekman, before landing a co-starring role in the short-lived sitcom Princesses.\n\nBut she achieved fame as the creator and star of The Nanny, a US sitcom in which she portrayed Jewish fashionista Fran Fine, who becomes a nanny to a rich British family.\n\nThe show, which she produced and co-wrote with Jacobsen, ran on the CBS network from 1993 to 1999 and earned her two Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.\n\nIn 1999, Drescher and Jacobsen divorced and he subsequently came out as gay.\n\nBut the pair continued their creative relationship, penning the sitcom Happily Divorced, in which she starred as an actress coming to terms with the revelation that her husband is gay.\n\nDrescher, a cancer survivor, wrote a novel, Cancer Schmancer, in which she discussed her experience receiving treatment for the illness and the eight years of misdiagnosis that preceded it. She subsequently founded an organisation of the same name, which lobbies for healthcare reform.\n\nDrescher has been politically active throughout her career. In 2008, she endorsed then Senator Hilary Clinton for president and briefly considered a run to replace Ms Clinton as senator for New York before deciding against it.\n\nAnd she has long expressed opinions to the political left, frequently captioning photos with phrases like \"Capitalism has become another word for Ruling Class Elite!\"\n\nIn a 2017 interview with Vulture, she described herself as an \"anti-capitalist\", noting that she was not \"anti-making-money\", but that it must be \"calibrated within the spectrum of what's a true value\".\n\nHer political activism ultimately saw her launch a campaign to lead the SAG. In 2021 she won a vicious election against actor Matthew Modine to become president of the guild.\n\nThe pair represented different factions of the union and the race became so bitter that Modine accused Drescher of spreading lies about him.\n\nAccording to Deadline Hollywood, Modine said after the election: \"I'm ashamed of Fran Drescher, I'm disappointed. But she'll be judged by the people in the world after she's gone, or by whatever God she worships.\"\n\nDivisions in the union were so widespread that after the Hollywood Writers union voted to strike earlier this year, studio executives reportedly dismissed any possibility that actors would have the resolve to go through with their own strike action.\n\nBut since her election, Drescher has proven to be a steady hand at the head of the union, and has overseen an end to the infighting that previously characterised it. Before taking office, she pledged to end what she called \"dysfunctional division in this union\".\n\nThe call for strike action was ultimately endorsed by 97.9% of voting members, and Membership First - the opposition faction that supported Modine in the 2021 election - recently endorsed her re-election.\n\nAnd as she gears up for what promises to be a tough fight with streaming executives, Drescher has shown a willingness to combine her political role with the dramatic flair that made her name.\n\n\"They [the studios] stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment,\" she told reporters on Thursday as she announced the strike.\n\nAnd jabbing her finger towards the camera, she said: \"We stand in solidarity in unprecedented unity. Our union, our sister unions, and the unions around the world, are standing by us.\"", "A police van was set on fire after a protest turned violent on 10 February\n\nFive people - including a 13-year-old boy - have been charged following disorder at a hotel housing asylum seekers.\n\nA police van was set on fire and officers were pelted with missiles in violent clashes at the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, Merseyside on 10 February.\n\nThree boys aged 13, 16 and 17, and two men, aged 38 and 60, have been charged with violent disorder.\n\nThey have been bailed to appear before magistrates in Liverpool on 27 July.\n\nThe charges followed raids in Kirkby, Merseyside Police said.\n\nIn April, Jared Skeete, 19, from Aigburth was sentenced to three years' detention for throwing lit fireworks at police during the disturbances.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "European flights during the summer holiday period could be affected by strike action by air traffic managers.\n\nEurocontrol, which manages flights over Europe, has said one of its unions could take industrial action, although no dates have been announced yet.\n\nNegotiations are continuing with the union and other unions, Eurocontrol said.\n\nIndustry group Airlines UK urged Eurocontrol \"to reach agreement as soon as possible\".\n\nAnother industry body, Airlines for Europe, said the possible impact of any strike action \"remains to be determined\".\n\nEurocontrol said it was \"making every effort to keep negotiations open and to find a constructive way forward\".\n\nOne of its trade unions, Union Syndicale Bruxelles, has \"announced a period of six months during which industrial action could take place\".\n\nIt said the action could affect its Network Manager Operations Centre, which handles more than 10 million flights a year.\n\nPrior to the pandemic, it had daily peaks managing more than 37,000 flights, and Eurocontrol said the centre played a pivotal role in managing, streamlining and improving air traffic.\n\nEurocontrol stressed that it was in \"ongoing dialogue\" with the union.\n\n\"As no notice of specific industrial action has been received, it is premature to speculate on any potential impact,\" it said.\n\nAirlines for Europe said any strike action would not affect Eurocontrol's air traffic control services and \"therefore its impact on passengers could be limited\".\n\nThe BBC has approached Union Syndicale Bruxelles for comment.\n\nAviation in Europe is facing a particular set of challenges this summer.\n\nDemand for flights is returning to pre-Covid pandemic levels, and European airspace is being constricted by Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nBut there is a shortage of air traffic controllers, and some strikes are already planned - for example, there is an air traffic strike in Italy on Saturday 15 July.\n\nAirlines UK said its members were \"looking forward to a busy summer, meeting growing demand for travel and carrying millions of people on holidays\".\n\nIt said airlines have \"made huge efforts since the pandemic to build resilience into operations\".\n\nAn agreement between Eurocontrol and union members would \"avoid any potential disruption for airlines and their customers\", it said.\n\nIt added that air traffic controllers were already having to work within \"a more constrained European airspace\" due to Russia's Ukraine war.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder said the union involved did not have a reputation for militancy, and that instead this was a \"cry for help\" over staffing levels.\n\nDuring the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020, many older air traffic controllers retired, and have yet to be replaced, he said.\n\nHe said he expected this potential dispute to be resolved before it reached the stage of a strike.\n\nBut a more pressing concern was a lack of air traffic controllers in general, with impacts already being felt through \"a series of cancellations every day in the UK\".\n\nThis comes as demand for air travel rebounds after the pandemic, he added, with Friday being the busiest day for air travel since 2019.\n\nLast summer, holidaymakers were affected by sustained disruption to flights due to staff shortages, and across 2022 as a whole more than a third of UK flights were delayed.\n\nHaving axed thousands of jobs during the worst of the Covid pandemic, many aviation businesses including airports could not get new staff in place quickly enough.\n\nBut at Easter this year, airports and airlines told the BBC they were confident they had enough staff to avoid any travel chaos.\n\nThis summer, having raised staffing levels, disruption instead could come from industrial action.\n\nTravel to France from the UK has already been affected this year by some strikes.", "Many of the buildings at HMP Greenock were constructed more than a century ago\n\nInspectors have called for a 100-year-old Victorian-style prison to be replaced due to concerns about the condition of the facility.\n\nIn a report, HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) called for a new prison estate to replace HMP Greenock, following a visit in March.\n\nThe report praised the staff, but said the building was \"ill-suited\" to the demands of a modern-day prison.\n\nLast year, flooding in HMP Greenock forced the closure of 40 cells.\n\nThe impact of the flooding was still visible in some of the cells, and the health centre, according to the report.\n\nInspectors noted here had been \"significant efforts\" made to address dampness in the cells of the prison as well as the physical deterioration to other parts of infrastructure but questioned the \"long-term durability\" of the repairs.\n\nThe report stated: \"There is still a compelling case for securing a modern replacement prison, preferably in the same locality.\n\n\"That might support a seamless transition of staff, and the excellent prison culture they have developed, into a prison designed for the 21st century and geared up to provide appropriate opportunities more easily for work and rehabilitative activity.\"\n\nA previous inspection of the prison in 2021 also called for a replacement facility to be built.\n\nHMP Greenock is a local community-facing prison, receiving offenders mainly from courts in Greenock, Campbeltown, Oban, Dunoon and surrounding Inverclyde and North Strathclyde areas.\n\nIt houses both male and female inmates.\n\nThe report, produced by HMIPS following a visit to the prison, assessed the prison as satisfactory and generally acceptable across seven areas.\n\nThere was praise for staff who were called \"undoubtedly\" the facilities' \"key assets\". The report noted \"heart-warming\" examples of staff going the extra mile for prisoners in a caring and compassionate manner as well as the excellent relationships formed.\n\n82% of prisoners in HMP Greenock said they were treated with respect by staff all or most of the time, while 79% felt their personal officer was very or quite helpful.\n\nHMIPS said the prison's two Community Integration Units were \"underused\", which the organisation called a \"missed opportunity\" for the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). Arran and Bute halls were opened at the prison in 2014 to help ensure a smoother transition from custody to community for prisoners.\n\nDuring the visit, inspectors came across two examples of clear discrimination at HMP Greenock which were then escalated to the SPS. The report also raised concerns about the lack of interpreters for foreign prisoners.\n\nDespite this, 84% of prisoners said they felt safe all or most of the time within the prison.\n\nHMP Greenock was built between 1907 and 1910, and is made up of five residential areas.\n\nThe SPS owns a replacement site for HMP Greenock but there is no starting date for the project.\n\nA SPS spokesperson said the report \"highlights many areas of good practice\" but they recognised there was more to do in terms of \"progression, infrastructure and work opportunities\".\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"It is pleasing to see recognition for work made to address areas of dampness, and our plans for significant investment in improvements over the next three years.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nNovak Djokovic believes his formidable record at Wimbledon ensures he remains the favourite to win the men's singles title going into Friday's semi-finals.\n\nDjokovic, going for a men's record-equalling eighth triumph, plays Italian eighth seed Jannik Sinner at 13:30 BST.\n\nSpanish top seed Carlos Alcaraz faces Russian third seed Daniil Medvedev in the second semi-final straight after.\n\n\"I don't want to sound arrogant, but of course I would consider myself favourite,\" said second seed Djokovic.\n\nThe Serb is bidding for a fifth successive victory at the All England Club, which would also see him equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 major titles.\n\n\"Judging with the results I had in my career here, previous four occasions of Wimbledon that I won, I do consider myself favourite,\" he added.\n\nThe contrast of experience between Djokovic and Sinner is starkly laid bare by the statistics.\n\nSinner, 21, reached his first Grand Slam semi-final by beating Russian Roman Safiullin, while Djokovic will be contesting a 46th major semi-final - equalling Roger Federer's all-time men's record.\n\nDjokovic is aiming to reach a 35th Grand Slam singles final, which would be an outright record and move him ahead of American Chris Evert.\n\nDjokovic, who turned 36 in May, is bidding to become the third oldest player in the Open era to reach the men's singles final after 39-year-old Ken Rosewall and 37-year-old Federer.\n\nSinner could become the youngest man to reach the Wimbledon final since 2007, although that could later be surpassed by 20-year-old Alcaraz.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to that challenge. I'm sure that he's going to be very, very motivated to win. On the other hand, I am, too.\"\n\nThe match is also a repeat of last year's quarter-final when Sinner came close to beating Djokovic, before the veteran fought back from two sets down to win.\n\n\"It's going to be a completely different match than last year,\" said Sinner, who is only playing in the Wimbledon main draw for the third time.\n\n\"He knows me better, as I know him better. It's going to be also a little bit tactical.\n\n\"In the other way, it is also going to be a little bit mental. It's always tough to play against Novak, especially at Grand Slams.\n\n\"But I'm happy. I will fight for every ball. I will enjoy the moment, but knowing that I can go hard and trying to beat him.\"\n\nEven if Djokovic does beat Sinner, there is still guaranteed to be a first-time Wimbledon finalist in the shape of Alcaraz or Medvedev.\n\nThe pair have both won major titles on the US Open hard courts, but will attempt to reach their first Wimbledon final after a summer of marked improvement at the All England Club.\n\nAlcaraz had only played two senior tournaments on the surface going into this summer, but showed his potential by winning the Queen's title and continued to impress this fortnight.\n\nAfter beating fellow 20-year-old Holger Rune in the quarter-finals, Alcaraz said it was a \"dream\" to reach the last four at Wimbledon.\n\nBut the world number one knows he faces a stern examination against Medvedev, who he described as a \"really complete player\".\n\n\"I think [Andrey] Rublev said a few times, he's an octopus. He catches every ball. It is amazing. He's an amazing athlete,\" said Alcaraz.\n\n\"I think a mix of everything. He does almost everything well.\"\n\nFormer world number one Medvedev also had little pedigree at Wimbledon before this year, having never previously gone beyond the last 16.\n\nMost of the 27-year-old's success has come on hard courts, notably when he won his first major title at the 2021 US Open.\n\nGrass courts have been his least successful surface in recent years, leading to Medvedev saying before the tournament he was hoping to change his fortunes.\n\nThe Russian was not able to play Wimbledon last year after players from his nation were banned because of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"I always said I want to be here, I want to play. Wimbledon is an amazing tournament and I wanted to do well because it was my worst Grand Slam,\" he said.\n\n\"I never managed to get into the flow here. That's why I was really motivated this year.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None What happened to Annie Börjesson on a Scottish beach?\n• None The rollercoaster life and career of Kanye West AKA Ye", "A new tribe, the Metkayina Clan, was introduced in last year's Avatar: The Way of Water\n\nMajor films in production including the Avatar and Gladiator sequels are looking likely to be affected by Hollywood actors taking strike action.\n\nPromotional events such as red-carpet premieres will also be affected, such as Disney film Haunted Mansion, released later this month.\n\nEvents including the Emmys and Comic-Con may be rescheduled or scaled back.\n\nIn the industry's biggest shutdown for over 60 years, some 160,000 performers stopped work at midnight in LA.\n\nPicketing will begin on Friday morning outside the California headquarters of Netflix, before moving on to Paramount, Warner Bros and Disney.\n\nThe announcement of the strike followed similar strike action from the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and brought most US film and TV productions to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Screen Actors Guild (SAG) wants streaming giants to agree to a fairer split of profits and better working conditions.\n\nIt also wants to protect actors from being usurped by digital replicas.\n\nThe union is seeking guarantees that artificial intelligence (AI) and computer-generated faces and voices will not be used to replace actors.\n\nWhile the strike takes place, actors cannot appear in films or even promote movies that they have already made.\n\nOther productions which may be affected include Deadpool 3, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, along with Tim Burton's Beetlejuice sequel and a film adaptation of the musical Wicked.\n\nIt is also possible that HBO's House of the Dragon TV series may be hit by the strike, along with the second series of Netflix's The Sandman and Family Guy and The Simpsons on Fox.\n\nThe Sandman was first shown on Netflix last year\n\nUS networks have responded by expanding the amount of \"unscripted content\", like The Masked Singer, The Amazing Race, Survivor and Kitchen Nightmares, in their autumn schedules.\n\nPhil Clapp, the chief executive of the UK Cinema Association, told BBC News he did not think the strike would cause too much disruption for cinema-goers.\n\n\"Given the challenges UK cinema operators have faced in the last few years, all will be concerned by anything which might potentially threaten the supply of films to the big screen, and so it is very much hoped that there will be a quick resolution to the current dispute,\" he said.\n\n\"That said, there is already a strong slate of films locked in for the weeks and months to come, starting with Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, Barbie and Oppenheimer all in, or coming to cinemas very soon and - with other major titles stretching into 2024 - promising to entertain millions of cinema-goers.\n\n\"Unless the current strike is a protracted one, we are confident that cinemas we will see little if any disruption in the foreseeable future.\"\n\nThe union president Fran Drescher wants streaming giants to agree to a fairer split of profits\n\nActors Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt left the premiere of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer in London on Thursday night as the strike was declared.\n\nThe film's director, Christopher Nolan, told the cinema audience that they were \"off to write their picket signs\", adding that he supported them in their struggle.\n\nFor films in production, the strike means a large portion of work will become impossible. Even in cases in which filming has already been completed, actors will be unavailable for re-shoots and other essential elements of the filmmaking process.\n\nTV shows that are still being filmed will also largely have to stop, although in some cases side deals could be struck between performers and producers to allow work to continue.\n\nSeveral actors took to Instagram to voice their support for the strike, including Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk, Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon and Hollywood veteran Jamie Lee Curtis.\n\nSuccession star Brian Cox told the BBC's Newscast he \"could see [the strike] going on until the end of the year\".\n\nHe added the invention of streaming services \"has really shifted the power dynamic of particularly TV drama\", and said the income streams for actors had changed.\n\n\"In the US, we don't have a national health service, so it means you have to have private health insurance, and of course your residuals, that you depend on to pay for your health, are getting more and more difficult,\" he explained.\n\nResiduals are payments made to actors from repeats of films and programmes they've starred in. Residuals were traditionally paid when repeats of programmes were shown on terrestrial TV channels, but streaming has made this arrangement more complicated.\n\nJamie Lee Curtis shared her support for the strike on Instagram\n\nTo address concerns about the use of AI, the big studios have offered what they call a \"ground-breaking proposal\" that would protect the digital likeness of actors and require their consent when digital replicas are used in performances, or alterations are made.\n\nBut the union rejected the offer, made by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).\n\nThe SAG's national executive director and chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, said it was unacceptable.\n\n\"They propose that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day's pay, and their company should own that scan of their image, their likeness, and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity,\" he said. \"If you think that's a ground-breaking proposal, I suggest you think again.\"\n\nThe AMPTP said the strike was \"certainly not the outcome we hoped for as studios cannot operate without the performers that bring our TV shows and films to life\".\n\n\"The union has regrettably chosen a path that will lead to financial hardship for countless thousands of people who depend on the industry,\" its statement added.\n\nThe union is officially known as the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA.\n\nAs well as greater residuals, one of its demands of the streaming services is that actors should receive greater base pay.\n\nThe strike includes tens of thousands of actors who receive significantly less pay for minor parts than their A-list colleagues.\n\n\"In the old model, they get residuals based on success,\" Kim Masters, the editor-in-chief of the Hollywood Reporter, told the BBC. \"In the new model, they don't get to find out what's going on behind the scenes, because the streamers don't share.\"\n\nFran Drescher, SAG's president, said the strike came at a \"very seminal moment\" for actors in the industry.\n\n\"What's happening to us is happening across all fields of labour,\" she said, \"when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority, and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run.\"\n\nThe actors' strike could move across the Atlantic if US production companies shift filming to the UK because of the industrial action taken by their American counterparts, British union Equity said on Friday.\n\nThe body, which represents more than 47,000 performers in the UK, says the union stands in solidarity with US actors who are striking.\n\nEquity - which is not striking - told US companies it will be keeping a \"very close eye\" on any attempts to move productions to the UK due to the action called on Thursday evening.\n\nThe Writers Guild of America has been on strike since May\n\nA separate strike by the 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America demanding better pay and working conditions has been going since 2 May.\n\nSome writers have turned to projects that are not covered by the contract between the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.\n\nThe \"double strike\" by both unions is the first since 1960, when the SAG was led by actor Ronald Reagan, long before he entered politics and became US president. The last strike by actors took place in 1980.\n\nSpeaking during a gathering of industry leaders at an Idaho resort ahead of the SAG's announcement on Thursday, Disney chief executive Bob Iger said the demands of both actors and writers were impractical and damaging to an industry still recovering from the pandemic.\n\n\"It's very disturbing to me,\" Mr Iger said. \"This is the worst time in the world to add to that disruption.\"\n\nA third union, the Directors Guild of America, successfully negotiated a contract in June and will not participate.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Mary Somerville died in an Edinburgh hospice on 2 July\n\nA woman has died almost two months after she lost her husband following a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a villa in Spain.\n\nMary Somerville, 39, was discovered next to Jaime Carsi, 40, at a holiday home in Majorca on 6 May.\n\nShe was taken to hospital in a serious condition.\n\nBut on Friday it was announced Ms Somerville, from Abriachan in the Highlands, died in an Edinburgh hospice on 2 July.\n\nMajorcan newspaper Ultima Hora previously reported that Ms Somerville and Mr Carsi married two weeks before the incident.\n\nIt said they were due to go on a boat trip and the alarm was raised when they failed to show up.\n\nThe newlyweds, who lived in Edinburgh, were staying at a rural property in Cala Mesquida in the north-east of the island.\n\nFormer Lloyds bank worker Ms Somerville was a yoga teacher and breath work instructor at the non-profit Art of Living Foundation in Edinburgh.\n\nShe was a talented harpist, who often played at events organised by the Edinburgh Interfaith Association.\n\nMr Carsi was an analyst for a Scottish investment management firm.\n\nHe described himself online as being from Madrid but it is believed he moved to the UK as a child and relocated to Edinburgh from London about six years ago\n\nJaime Carsi was found dead in the Majorca villa\n\nIain Stewart, executive director of the Edinburgh Interfaith Association, paid tribute to Ms Somerville in a social media post.\n\nHe said: \"It pains me to share this deeply heart breaking news.\n\n\"My good friend and friend of the Edinburgh Interfaith Association Mary Somerville sadly passed away at the weekend.\n\n\"Many people will know Mary through her role as a teacher in the Art of Living.\n\n\"I will remember Mary for her warm and infectious personality and smile that would light up any room.\"\n\nMr Stewart urged people to send prayers to her family and loved ones.\n\nHe added: \"At this time as people of faith we are comforted by the belief that Mary will once again be united with her beloved Jaime.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"We supported the family of a British woman who was hospitalised in Mallorca.\"\n\nGuardia Civil have been contacted for a comment.", "Samantha Mulcahy (left) and Kimberley Sampson died weeks apart after being operated on by the same surgeon\n\nA coroner has criticised an NHS trust after the deaths of two mothers from herpes and said antiviral drugs should have been given sooner in one case.\n\nKim Sampson, 29, and Samantha Mulcahy, 32, died six weeks apart in 2018 after having Caesarean sections in hospitals run by East Kent Hospitals trust.\n\nA coroner found that a surgeon who had operated on both women was unlikely to have been the source of the infection.\n\nShe said this was in part because the NHS trust had never tested him.\n\nThe same obstetrician carried out their Caesareans seven weeks apart, the inquest has heard.\n\nMid Kent and Medway coroner, Catherine Wood told the inquest in Maidstone: \"There is no evidence at all... that one member of the team infected both mothers.\"\n\nHowever, she noted the doctor and another member of the team who treated both mothers were never tested for the virus.\n\nMs Sampson's baby boy was delivered at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate in May 2018. In July that year, first-time mother Ms Mulcahy died from an infection caused by the same virus at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.\n\nBoth women had their babies delivered at hospitals run by the East Kent NHS trust\n\nMs Woods said that when, Ms Sampson's condition was not responding to antibiotics, the possibility of a viral infection should have been considered earlier.\n\nWhen Ms Mulcahy became ill six weeks later, medical teams were aware of Ms Sampson's death but did not start antiviral treatment at an early stage because the cause of her symptoms were not clear.\n\nThe inquest has heard how Ms Sampson needed a blood transfusion because of injuries sustained during the operation. After two days, she asked to be discharged with her baby and went home with her mother despite being in a lot of pain.\n\nHer condition deteriorated and she was readmitted to the maternity ward a few days later. Doctors thought she was suffering from bacterial sepsis, a potentially very serious condition, and treated her with antibiotics.\n\nShe was transferred to King's College Hospital in south London but her condition did not improve and she died on 22 May.\n\nMs Mulcahy had her baby by Caesarean section on 26 June and developed a fever the following day - she was given antibiotics but did not improve.\n\nDoctors again thought she was suffering from sepsis and on 30 June she was transferred to intensive care, but medical teams were unable to save her and she died on the morning of 4 July.\n\nMs Mulcahy's mother Nicola Foster said members of the trust had behaved as if they were untouchable\n\nThe coroner said deaths from herpes were incredibly rare. The virus, HSV-1 or herpes simplex is a common infection that can cause sores around the mouth or genitals, but if contracted after giving birth, it is \"a potentially fatal disease\" Ms Woods said.\n\nShe said she would be writing to the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to highlight the dangers of the condition in new mothers.\n\nShe subsequently ruled out conclusions of unlawful killing and neglect, which lawyers for the women's families had argued for. The coroner is expected to give narrative conclusions for both Ms Sampson and Ms Mulcahy on 26 July.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, Ms Mulcahy's mother, Nicola Foster, said: \"The trust have been untruthful, dismissive, and members of the trust staff, including surgeons, doctors have behaved arrogantly, defensively, as if they are untouchable.\n\n\"Both families will always believe that the deaths of Kim and Sam were because of something they acquired whilst in hospital and we have no reason to believe otherwise.\"\n\nYvette Sampson said her five-year fight for answers had left her unable to grieve\n\nMs Sampson's mother Yvette said her fight for answers, which has now been going on for five years, has left her unable to grieve properly.\n\nShe said: \"It's consumed my life… It's been emotionally draining. It's changed me as a person. I'm a lot less trusting and still find it hard to comprehend how the hospital trust has acted in the way it has.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for East Kent Hospitals NHS said: \"We would like to express our sincere condolences to the families of Samantha Mulcahy and Kimberley Sampson. We are unable to comment further until the inquest has concluded.\"\n\nIn March, the coroner accepted an application from the NHS trust to give anonymity to the surgeon common to both cases.\n\nThe surgeon who operated on both women, who could not be named for legal reasons, previously told the hearing his hands were fully scrubbed, double gloved and he was wearing a mask during both procedures. He also said he had no lesions and was not infected but had not been tested for the virus.\n\nMs Wood adjourned her decision over the anonymity until the hearing on 26 July.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A red alert warning is in place in 10 Italian cities, including Florence and Rome\n\nA heatwave continues to sweep across parts of Europe, with potential record-breaking temperatures in the next few days.\n\nTemperatures are expected to surpass 40C (104F) in parts of Spain, France, Greece, Croatia and Turkey.\n\nThey could reach 48C in parts of Italy, becoming \"potentially the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe\", says the European Space Agency.\n\nA red alert warning is in place for 10 cities, including Florence and Rome.\n\nLast month was the hottest June on record, according to the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nExtreme weather resulting from warming climate is \"unfortunately becoming the new normal\", the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned.\n\nPeriods of intense heat occur within natural weather patterns, but scientists say that globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global warming.\n\nTourists in Europe have been impacted by the heatwave. In Athens, the Greek Red Cross has deployed teams to the Acropolis to look after visitors - saying many get nauseous and dizzy due to the heat.\n\n\"That is why with the leaflets we try to inform them where in the municipality of Athens there are places with air condition in order to go inside,\" said Marina Stamati, a representative for the organisation.\n\nEarlier this week, a man in his forties died from the heat after collapsing in northern Italy - while several visitors to the country have collapsed from heatstroke, including a British man outside the Colosseum in Rome.\n\nPeople have been advised to drink at least two litres of water a day and to avoid coffee and alcohol, which are dehydrating.\n\nMaria and Gloria, from Melbourne, are visiting Rome\n\nMaria and Gloria, two Australian tourists on the streets of Rome, told the BBC they were \"really surprised\" by the heat and that they were trying not to go out in the middle of the day.\n\nItalian tourists Andrea Romano and Michele La Penna told the BBC their hometown of Potenza, in the Apennine mountains, has \"more humane temperatures\" than Rome.\n\n\"We need to start doing something about climate change. We need to be more responsible. The damage is already done. We need to do something about it. But not only the government… It all starts from people. Each of us needs to do something: use less plastic, don't use the AC, use electric cars,\" said Andrea.\n\nThe Cerberus heatwave - named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that features in Dante's Inferno - is expected to bring more extreme conditions in the next few days.\n\nSpain has been sweltering in temperatures of up to 45C (113F). The Andalusian regional government has started a telephone assistance service for people affected by the heat.\n\nOn Thursday, the European Space Agency said temperatures could reach 48C on the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia: \"potentially the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe\".\n\nThe UK's national weather service, the Met Office, earlier said it expected temperatures to peak on Friday. BBC Weather says large swathes of southern Europe could see temperatures in the low to mid 40s - and possibly higher.\n\nBut as Cerberus dies out, Italian weather forecasters are warning that the next heatwave - dubbed Charon after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology - will push temperatures back up towards 43C (109F) in Rome and a possible 47C (116F) on the island of Sardinia.\n\nIt isn't just Europe that is hot.\n\nThis summer has seen temperature records smashed in parts of Canada and the US as well as across a swathe of Asia including in India and China.\n\nSea temperatures in the Atlantic have hit record highs while Antarctic sea ice is at the lowest extent ever recorded.\n\nAnd it is going to get hotter.\n\nA weather pattern called El Niño is developing in the tropical Pacific. It tends to drive up temperatures by around 0.2C on average.\n\nThat may not sound much but add in the roughly 1.1C that climate change has pushed average temperatures up by worldwide and we are nudging perilously close to the 1.5C threshold the world has agreed to try and keep global temperatures below.\n\nLet's set things in a historic context to give us some perspective.\n\nThe first week of July is reckoned to have been the hottest week since records began.\n\nBut scientists can use the bubbles of air trapped in ancient Antarctic ice to estimate temperatures going back more than a million years.\n\nThat data suggests that that last week was the hottest week for some 125,000 years.\n\nIt was a geological period known as the Eemian when there were hippopotamuses in the Thames and sea levels were reckoned to be some 5m (16.4ft) higher.\n\nA new study says 61,672 people died in Europe as a result of the heat last year. ISGlobal Institute in Barcelona - which researches global health - said Italy had the most deaths that could be attributable to the heat, with 18,010, while Spain had 11,324 and Germany 8,173.\n\nThe fear is that the heat could cause many more deaths this summer.\n\nCities in Spain with the highest risk of deaths caused by the heat are Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca and Bilbao, according to ISGlobal's research.\n\nA heatwave is a period of hot weather where temperatures are higher than is expected for the time of year.\n\nExperts say periods of exceptionally hot weather are becoming more frequent and climate change means it is now normal to experience record-breaking temperatures.\n\nAt present there is no indication the heat in southern Europe will reach the UK any time soon - with the UK remaining in cooler, Atlantic air throughout next week, according to BBC Weather's Darren Bett.\n\nThe UK is experiencing a July that has been slightly wetter than normal, with temperatures that feel rather low. But this is mostly in contrast to the weather in the UK in June, which was the warmest on record by a considerable margin - something which, according to the Met Office, bore the \"fingerprint of climate change\".\n• None The new normal - why this summer has been so very hot", "The Alternative Funding scheme was set up for households such as those in narrow boats or park homes\n\nA scheme designed to help people who missed out on last winter's £400 energy bill subsidy was a \"staggering failure\", a senior MP has said.\n\nThe Energy Bill Support Scheme Alternative Funding was set up for households who do not have an energy supplier, such as those in park homes.\n\nNearly a million households could apply but only a fraction received the money.\n\nMP Angus MacNeil said the government should reopen the scheme, saying it had \"missed the most vulnerable\".\n\nThe government said it had spent more than £50m supporting 130,000 households without a domestic energy supplier.\n\nAll UK households were eligible for the £400 help with fuel bills, after energy prices rose sharply last year. For households who pay their bills by direct debit, the support was given automatically through monthly payments from October to March.\n\nBut people who live off-grid, on narrow boats, travellers, people in park homes and some tenants and people on heat networks, did not automatically receive the support, because they did not have an energy provider.\n\nThe government set up the Alternative Funding scheme for the over 900,000 households in those categories. It also applied to people living in care homes, who are charged for energy costs in their bills.\n\nBut only 141,000 bill-payers managed to apply for and receive the subsidy before the scheme closed on 31 May.\n\nThere remain 750,000 eligible households who have missed out on the £400 support payment.\n\nPHD student Sheree Smith had hoped money from the scheme would help her\n\nPHD student Sheree Smith said she spent more time at university than at her flat so she didn't have to pay higher energy bills.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"I was really hoping that £400 would have helped me to weather the storm so I could stay in my flat, but ultimately it didn't come in time.\n\n\"I ended up having to return to my parents.\"\n\nMr MacNeil, a former SNP member, who now sits as an independent and chairs Parliament's energy security and net zero committee, said the scheme should be improved and extended so that people could claim the subsidy they were entitled to.\n\n\"A lot of these will be vulnerable people who are particularly suffering the bite of the energy price spike and government should be moving heaven and earth almost, to make sure these people are getting the money,\" Mr MacNeil said in an interview with the BBC's Money Box programme.\n\nIn his role as chair of the parliamentary committee, Mr MacNeil is due to question Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps in September. Mr MacNeil said he would ask him to relaunch the scheme and make it easier to use, since \"clearly delivery has failed\".\n\nSome applicants criticised the scheme for being too complex or not recognising their circumstances. Others said their applications were repeatedly rejected, despite being eligible.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We spent billions to protect families when prices rose over winter, covering nearly half a typical household's energy bill.\n\n\"We're now seeing costs fall even further with wholesale energy prices down by over two thirds since their peak.\"\n\nYou can hear more on this story on the Money Box podcast after broadcast.\n• None More than 700,000 miss out on energy bill support", "Angelica already had a hunch where her missing husband, Darwin, was. But official footage, shared by the government and uploaded on to social media, confirmed her suspicions. Painstakingly scrolling through it, frame by frame, she spotted him 25 minutes into the footage, shaking hands with his cellmate. She pressed pause, rewound, and examined the footage again. Though his head was shaved, and he was wearing nothing except regulation white shorts, she had no doubt that this person was Darwin, whom she had not seen since his arrest 11 months previously. This was her first evidence that he had been transferred to El Salvador’s notorious mega-jail, Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), which was opened in January by the country’s president, Nayib Bukele, in Tecoluca, 74km (46 miles) south-east of the capital San Salvador. Cecot has become a symbol of President Bukele’s notorious \"war against gangs\", which the country’s ministry of security says has resulted in the detention of at least 68,000 people since the campaign began in March 2022. There are thousands of Salvadorans who have not heard from their detained relatives for months, and who, like Angelica, look for them in videos, photographs, or - in the case of those whose loved ones are in lower security jails - by peeking through small holes in prison walls. But President Bukele’s state of emergency, in a country which had become one of the most violent in the world, is very popular domestically. In a CID Gallup poll of 1,200 citizens in January, 92% of those polled said they had a \"favourable opinion\" of their leader. His approval is largely fuelled by the drastic drop in recorded murders since his administration took office. Many Salvadorans stress this change, especially in neighbourhoods previously controlled by gangs which sought to intimidate the local population with the motto: \"See, hear, shut up\". Now residents can cross gang borders without harassment or fear of retaliation. El Salvador’s government says Cecot can hold up to 40,000 prisoners who will exclusively be high-ranking members of two rival gangs - Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18 - whose warfare led to decades of terror and bloodshed in El Salvador. The BBC has been repeatedly denied access to Cecot, but has recreated details of the jail using videos and photos shared by the government, and media outlets who were given access to the prison before it opened; interviews with Salvadoran officials; and documents shared with us by an engineer - on condition of anonymity - who was involved in the prison’s construction.\n\nAt its capacity of 40,000 prisoners each cell can house 156 prisoners if no new blocks are built. The bunks are simply a metal plate with no mattress. The ceiling is a diamond shaped mesh - the holes allow guards to keep an eye on the prisoners, and the lattice is made of sharpened metal to prevent prisoners hanging from it. Each cell has two basins for prisoners to wash their clothes and themselves and two toilets which lack any privacy. There are no windows, fans or air conditioners despite warm temperatures and high humidity all year round. The authorities say prisoners will only leave their cells for online hearings or solitary confinement.\n\nThe space that each prisoner will have in their shared cell remains one of the big unknowns. Plans seen by BBC Mundo indicate each cell is 7.4m x 12.3m, or 91.02sq m - at capacity this would give each person 0.58sq m of space. The Red Cross recommends 3.4sq m per prisoner in a shared cell as an international standard. El Salvador’s authorities have stated that they do not expect Cecot’s prisoners to ever be released.\n\nIt is not clear exactly how many prisoners are currently being held in Cecot. The authorities have only publicly announced two transfers so far - each of 2,000 inmates. There is no outside recreational space, and no family visits allowed, the authorities say. This contravenes international guidelines on prisoner rights. The criteria for incarceration in Cecot has not been made public, and it is not clear whether prisoners have been newly detained or transferred from other jails. Little is known about how inmates are fed or looked after. No plans or photos have been shared of kitchen, dining room, shop or infirmary facilities. The authorities say Cecot has state of the art security - entry scanning systems, a vast surveillance network, and a well-equipped weapons room.\n\nThe prison \"is a concrete and steel pit where there is a perverse calculation to dispose of people without formally applying the death penalty\", Miguel Sarre, a former member of the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture, told the BBC. Antonio Durán, a senior judge in the city of Zacatecoluca, and one of the few magistrates openly critical of President Bukele’s emergency regime, agrees. \"In a state operating under the rule of law, the deprivation of liberty is the punishment. The offender is punished by depriving him of his freedom,\" he says. \"But here it is understood that he is deprived of liberty to be punished inside the prison. And that is not only wrong but also criminal. It's torture.\" Cecot is seen by El Salvador’s government as the end of the line for its inmates. \"We have a commitment with the Salvadorans that (Cecot prisoners) will never return to the communities. And we are going to ensure we build the necessary cases (against them) to make sure they never return,\" Minister of Justice and Public Security Gustavo Villatoro told the BBC’s Will Grant in May. \"For us, Cecot represents the biggest monument to justice we have ever built. We don’t have anything to hide,\" he added. A comment from President Bukele in May seemed to double down on this commitment. \"Let all the 'human rights' NGOs know that we are going to wipe out these bloody murderers and their collaborators, we will put them in prison and they will never get out,\" he tweeted. It is not known how many - if any - of Cecot’s inmates have yet been formally convicted of the crimes they are accused of. The BBC asked El Salvador’s government to give details of who is in the jail and on what basis, how it will accommodate 40,0000 people, and why prisoners’ relatives have not been given confirmation of their transfer, but did not receive any response. A few weeks ago, the BBC got as close as it could to the jail. \"Not even El Chapo could escape from there,\" a police officer stationed in the area told us, referring to the notorious jailed Mexican drugs lord, who has previously mounted several improbable prison escapes.\n\nThe prison complex is about 23 hectares (57 acres). It has eight blocks with 32 cells each. The are two sets of mesh perimeter fences which are fully electrified, and two reinforced concrete walls surround the facilities. The perimeter of the outer wall is 2.1km (1.3 miles). And there are 19 watchtowers.\n\nThe policeman admitted that his life had improved considerably in recent months. \"Before, my time was spent extricating gang members from their homes, with all the risk that that suggests. Now I spend the day at checkpoints, and occasionally even have time for a coffee.\" Residents of neighbourhoods previously controlled by the gangs seem particularly supportive of President Bukele’s policy. \"This place was not safe at all until the president did that,\" Dennise, who lives in La Campanera, on the outskirts of San Salvador, told the BBC. \"I think the (emergency) regime was the best decision that could have been made and that this is the best president we have ever had.\" Her mood contrasts with that of Maria, 23, whom we meet not far from Cecot, in her house in El Maniadero. Her mother’s partner worked for six months on the construction of the prison, before being arrested himself for \"unlawful association\". Maria no longer risks going out much, she says. Her friend Jessica - mother to a three-year-old girl - has also been taken away by the police under the emergency regime. \"It seems that being young is now a crime in El Salvador,\" Maria says. \"We will put them in prison and they will never get out\" - President Bukele The BBC spoke to dozens of relatives of prisoners detained under the so-called \"state of exception\" regime, who all gave a similar account. They said their loved ones were taken from their homes - without being shown a search or arrest warrant - to detention centres or jails, and then subjected to group online hearings along with dozens of other detainees. In those hearings the judge would order a pre-trial detention, while the prosecutor's office investigated whether there was evidence for a formal charge - a process that can last for months, even years. A report in May by Cristosal, El Salvador’s primary human rights NGO, concluded that in the first year of these measures, dozens of inmates died from torture, beatings or lack of healthcare in the country’s other prisons. The government has not publicly responded to the report. But the country’s human rights commissioner Andrés Guzmán Caballero, who took office on 24 May, conceded during a media event that month that the report was \"worrying\". \"When the prison population is made up of two or three gangs, or three groups, that have clashed a lot with each other, it can have consequences such as increased deaths - the causes must be reviewed on a case by case basis,\" he said. Cecot, Cristosal says, is a particular worry because it is so difficult to monitor. \"Conditions at Cecot might become inhumane and degrading because no-one has access to that prison,\" says Zaira Navas, El Salvador’s former police inspector general who is now Cristosal’s legal lead. \"No lawyers, no ombudsman, not even the media can enter and verify the conditions inside.\" As for Angelica, who had spotted her husband in the Cecot footage, she told us that she was now planning to get any information she could about his situation. \"There is no other way but to keep ploughing on… my children and husband need me to do that.\"", "Jade Ward, 27, was killed by Russell Marsh in her home in August 2021\n\nThe family of a woman murdered by an ex-partner will continue their bid to curb perpetrators' parental rights after MPs rejected a law change.\n\nJade Ward was stabbed and strangled by Russell Marsh as their four sons slept at their Flintshire home in 2021.\n\nAn amendment to a Bill to suspend the rights of killer parents in jail was turned down by MPs on Tuesday.\n\nThe UK government said it is \"trying to find a quicker way\" to cut off killer parents' rights.\n\nAfter being found guilty of murdering Jade, 27, ex-partner Marsh was ordered to serve at least 25 years in prison.\n\nJade's parents have cared for her children ever since and have campaigned to end Marsh's parental rights.\n\nCurrently, parental responsibility remains in place when one parent kills the other, and the family or guardians of the children must consult that parent on decisions including health, education and travel.\n\nMarsh has continued to contact the family, asking for photographs, school reports and medical details.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Jade's dad, Paul Ward said the current situation was \"absolutely shocking\".\n\nAlyn and Deeside MP Mark Tami (pictured in the centre) has been supporting their campaign\n\n\"We find that the system is wrong and we need a change,\" he said.\n\n\"It's him behind prison cells dragging things up, it's just very hard.\n\n\"The boys don't want contact with him, they don't want contact with him at all.\"\n\nHe added that if he wanted to get passports for his grandsons, it would need to go through the courts.\n\nAt a Public Bills Committee hearing on Tuesday, Labour's Shadow Minister for Prisons and Probation Ellie Reeves moved an amendment that would take away the parental rights of a parent who killed the other, at least for the duration of their time in detention.\n\nSix Labour MPs voted in favour of the change and nine Conservative against it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jade Ward, who was murdered by her estranged husband, was \"beautiful, caring, funny and loving\", her mother says\n\nA friend of the family, Edward Duggan, launched a petition for the law change and secured over 130,000 signatures, triggering a Commons debate in November 2022.\n\nMr Duggan said the UK government was using the same \"excuse\" on Tuesday as they did last time.\n\n\"The actual petition was to reverse the onus from the family having to attend court and having to make the applications, instead of the parent.\n\n\"I worded the petition purposely so it wouldn't conflict with the Human Rights Act and this is the excuse the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) keep coming up with.\n\nRussell Marsh still has legal rights over his children\n\n\"They keep saying there's a conflict of interest. They keep on saying it may be of detriment to the child or the children involved.\n\n\"If the truth be known, the risk was given to the children by the mere fact that the father murdered their mother.\n\n\"In this particular case where there were four children involved, if they hadn't have had the family that they have they could have ended up in the care system, they could have been split up, they could have been all over the country.\"\n\nJade Ward was killed by her estranged husband a week after she ended their relationship\n\nThe family's campaign is being supported by the Labour MP for Alyn and Deeside, Mark Tami.\n\nHe said: \"This latest blow by the Tory government is disappointing but sadly not surprising.\n\n\"The next Labour government will enact Jade's Law.\n\n\"In the meantime, we'll keep fighting, and the Labour shadow justice team is already making plans to raise this once again on the Commons floor after recess.\n\n\"It's the least we can do for Jade's parents Karen and Paul, who continue to raise Jade's sons while her evil killer is allowed to pull their strings from behind bars.\n\n\"It's despicable, and we won't rest until Jade's Law is enacted.\"\n\nThe MoJ said in a statement: \"As the Lord Chancellor confirmed this week, we are looking at how we can find a quicker way to cut off parental rights for these killers.\n\n\"Judges are required to put the welfare of children first and can already effectively remove all rights and powers from a parent who has murdered the other, but we sympathise heavily with the pain suffered by victims and their families and are eager to go further.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Salma Hayek discovers she signed away the rights to her AI likeness in a recent episode of Black Mirror\n\nHollywood actors are striking for the first time in 43 years, bringing the American movie and television business to a halt, partly over fears about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nThe Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) actors' union failed to reach an agreement in the US for better protections against AI for its members - and warned that \"artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to creative professions\" as it prepared to dig in over the issue.\n\nDuncan Crabtree-Ireland, the chief negotiator for the SAG-AFTRA union, criticised producers for their proposals over AI so far.\n\nHe said studios had asked for the ability to scan the faces of background artists for the payment of one day's work, and then be able to own and use their likeness \"for the rest of eternity, in any project they want, with no consent and no compensation\".\n\nIf that sounds like the plot of an episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, that's because it is.\n\nUS media has been quick to point out that the recent series six episode \"Joan Is Awful\" sees Hollywood star Salma Hayek grapple with the discovery that her AI likeness can by used by a production company without her knowledge.\n\nHarrison Ford was de-aged using computer technology, including machine learning, in the most recent Indiana Jones film\n\nAnd it's not just SAG-AFTRA who are concerned about so-called \"performance cloning\".\n\nLiam Budd, of UK acting union Equity, said: \"We're seeing this technology used in a range of things like automated audiobooks, synthesised voiceover work, digital avatars for corporate videos, or also the role of deepfakes that are being used in films.\"\n\nMr Budd said that there was \"fear circulating\" amongst the Equity members and the union was trying to educate them on understanding their rights in this fast-evolving world.\n\nFilm-maker and writer Justine Bateman, speaking to the BBC's Tech Life earlier this year, said that she did not think the entertainment industry needed AI at all.\n\n\"Tech should solve a problem and there's no problem that those using AI solves. We don't have a lack of writers, we don't have a lack of actors, we don't have a lack of film-makers - so we don't need AI,\" she said.\n\n\"The problem it solves is for the corporations that feel they don't have wide enough profit margins - because if you can eliminate the overhead of having to pay everyone you can appease Wall Street and have greater earnings reports.\n\n\"If AI use proliferates, the entertainment industry it will crater the entire structure of this business.\"\n\nPerhaps it is only a question of time before ChatGPT or Bard can conjure up an innovative movie script or turn an idea into a blockbuster screenplay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome say AI will always lack the humanity that makes a film script great, but there are legitimate concerns that it will put writers out of a job.\n\nThe Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) - a trade union representing writers for TV, film, theatre, books and video games in the UK - has several concerns, including:\n\nThe WGGB has made a number or recommendations to help protect writers, including AI developers only using writers' work if they have been given express permission and AI developers being transparent about what data is being used to train their tools.\n\nWGGB deputy general secretary Lesley Gannon said, \"As with any new technology we need to weigh the risks against the benefits and ensure that the speed of development does not outpace or derail the protections that writers and the wider creative workforce rely upon to make a living.\n\n\"Regulation is clearly needed to safeguard workers' rights, and protect audiences from fraud and misinformation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Susan Sarandon on the dangers of AI in film industry\n\nThe rapid development of AI over the past year has led to the concept of ownership becoming convoluted.\n\nWhen someone inputs their likeness into an AI-generated portrait app such as DrawAnyone, DALL-E or even Snapchat - the resultant images are now in the public domain and free to use by anyone.\n\nThe new image is not protected by copyright law.\n\nDr Mathilde Pavis, a lawyer who specialises in digital cloning technologies, told the BBC that UK copyright laws need to change.\n\n\"It's strange to me that your face and your voice is less protected than your car, your laptop, your phone, your house or your books - but that's the state of the law today.\n\n\"And that's because we didn't think that we'd be so vulnerable, as vulnerable as we are in terms of being reused and imitated with AI technologies,\" she said.", "Parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have told the BBC a lack of suitable childcare over school holidays has left them feeling \"rejected\".\n\nFigures shared with the BBC from the charity Coram, show that only one in 20 councils in England say there is enough childcare available for SEND children during the school holidays.\n\nIt also found that in some areas - including London, Yorkshire and the East Midlands - there were no councils with sufficient childcare available.\n\nCouncils say more funding and a larger workforce is needed.\n\nAmy Walker says she is unable to work because of having to look after her five-year-old son Charlie, who is autistic, during school holidays.\n\nSome disabled children need structure and routine to reduce anxiety and challenging behaviour, and Amy is worried about the effect spending the whole summer at home will have on Charlie.\n\n\"I'm absolutely dreading it. Six weeks of not having that routine is not good for any child, but a child with autism… it's going to have an impact on all of us as a family.\"\n\nAmy's older son Cory, 12, has previously attended holiday clubs but she finds it impossible to find affordable care for Charlie. She would like councils to organise clubs for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).\n\n\"You don't want to see one of your children accepted and the other one rejected. I don't think Charlie should be discriminated against just because he has a disability - it's not fair,\" she said.\n\nIn findings shared with the BBC, Coram asked English local authorities whether there was sufficient childcare in all areas. Of the 126 (80%) who responded, only six councils (5%) said yes.\n\nCouncils in 23 areas (18%) said there was not enough childcare available, while 36 (29%) said it was only sufficient in some areas, and 61 (48%) said they were not able to tell whether it was.\n\nThe provision of holiday provision for children with additional needs was similar in Scotland, where no councils reported having enough childcare available in all areas, and in Wales, where only 5% of councils said there was adequate provision. Coram did not collect data for Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a different survey of 1,800 parents of children with SEND by the charity Contact and the Disabled Children's Partnership, nine in 10 said they were not able to find a suitable holiday club or activity.\n\nLocal authorities in England have a legal duty to make sure there is sufficient childcare available for children aged up to 14 whose parents work or want to work. For parents of disabled children, this extends to age 18.\n\nWhile there is a legal duty to provide provision, it does not have to be paid for by the local authority, so it can be unaffordable for many.\n\nUna Summerson, head of campaigns at Contact, said it wasn't uncommon for a family to be quoted more than £150 a day for a holiday club for their disabled child.\n\nThe government's holiday activities and food programme is available for low income families and provides funded childcare as well as a meal. Amy said Cory had previously attended them, but there was nothing on offer through this for Charlie due to his additional needs.\n\nNot only can the costs be prohibitive, Ms Summerson said her charity had \"also heard from families that said when they had been able to find the right childcare it was often oversubscribed, there were huge waiting lists so it's having an absolutely devastating impact on families\".\n\nCoram's research found that in large parts of England - including London, the South West, Yorkshire and the East Midlands - there were no councils with sufficient childcare available for disabled children in all areas. The areas with the best provision were the North West and North East, with 14% and 11% respectively.\n\nLouise Gittins from the Local Government Association said \"councils worked closely with childcare providers to improve access to holiday childcare... but without concerted investment and recruitment of quality staff this will be difficult to deliver.\"\n\nShe added: \"Adequate funding, skilled practitioners and wider system support are essential to the early identification of need and support for children with special educational needs and disabilities, as set out in the government's own SEND and alternative provision improvement plan earlier this year.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Education said the government is \"investing £30m to test new and innovative approaches to short respite breaks for families of children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities\".\n\n\"Our holiday activities and food programme, backed by £200m per year to 2025, provides heathy meals, enriching activities and free childcare places to children from low-income families over the holidays.\"", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nA year ago, Ons Jabeur had a photo of the Wimbledon women's trophy on her phone screen as she chased history.\n\nShe swiftly erased it after missing out on the real thing but on Saturday has another chance when she faces Marketa Vondrousova in the final (14:00 BST).\n\nThe popular Tunisian hopes her third major final proves lucky as she aims to be the first African or Arab woman to win a Grand Slam singles title.\n\n\"Hopefully, I can make history not just for Tunisia but for Africa,\" she said.\n\nLike last year, sixth seed Jabeur heads into the women's final as the favourite. The 28-year-old faces Vondrousova, who is ranked at number 42 and is also aiming for her own slice of history by becoming the first unseeded woman to lift the Venus Rosewater Dish.\n\nVondrousova, 24, was in London as a tourist with her wrist in a plaster cast when Jabeur lost to Elena Rybakina last year, following the surgery that sidelined her for six months.\n\n\"I'm just so grateful to be here. It's crazy that this is happening,\" Vondrousova said.\n\nThe Czech was runner-up in the 2019 French Open as a 19-year-old, so like Jabeur - who lost in the US Open final two months after her Wimbledon disappointment - has previous Grand Slam final experience to draw on.\n\nJabeur going to 'learn' from last year\n\nIn the Open era, only one player representing an African nation has won a Slam singles title - South Africa's Johan Kriek at the 1981 Australian Open. Kriek also won again a year later, although by then he was representing the United States.\n\nAs Jabeur seeks to become the first woman from the continent to triumph, she has been motivated by revenge at the All England Club and used that to despatch Rybakina in the quarter-finals.\n\nThe Kazakh was one of four Grand Slam champions Jabeur has had to beat in a tricky route to the final, having also made it past Australian Open title holder Aryna Sabalenka, two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova and 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu.\n\nShe says when it comes to the final, it makes no difference whether you are facing a major champion or not.\n\n\"I think a final is a final,\" Jabeur said. \"Whoever could handle more the emotions, whoever could be more ready on the court, will definitely win that match.\"\n\nJabeur's run to another major final has come in a stop-start season where she has been hampered by injury and had minor knee surgery.\n\nIn typical fashion for a player known as the 'Minister of Happiness' back home, she sees the positives from those troubles and last year's disappointments.\n\n\"[The injuries] teach me how to be very patient and accept whatever happened to me ... because it was out of my control,\" she said.\n\n\"I mean, if you tell me you [would] get injured and be in the final of Wimbledon, I would take it.\"\n\nJabeur, whose emotional displays have won her many fans, is also hoping it will be third time lucky.\n\n\"I'm going to learn a lot from not only Wimbledon's final but also the US Open final, and give it my best,\" she said. \"Maybe this year was all about trying two times and getting it right the third time.\"\n\nAnd perhaps to avoid jinxing things, she has revealed this year what is on her phone's lock screen to motivate her this time round, telling reporters: \"You're going to know after the final.\"\n\nNo clothing sponsor yet, but cat sitter is sorted for Vondrousova\n\nVondrousova has come through tough tests in the past two rounds, knocking out American fourth seed Jessica Pegula in the quarter-finals before a two-set win over Elina Svitolina. The latter came in front of a partisan Centre Court crowd, who were emotionally invested in Ukrainian Svitolina's run that came nine months after having a baby and against the backdrop of war.\n\nShe is the latest in a long line of Czech female tennis players to reach Grand Slam finals, with nine major women's singles finals in the last 10 years - including Saturday's match - featuring players from the country.\n\nBut grass is not her best surface and certainly not one on which she would have expected to win a major title.\n\n\"When it was clay or hard, maybe I would say, yeah maybe it's possible,\" said Vondrousova, who has been flying so far under the tennis radar recently that she no longer has a clothing sponsor.\n\n\"But grass was impossible for me. It's even crazier that this is happening.\"\n\nSo unexpected was her run that she told her husband to stay at home in Prague to look after their cat, Frankie.\n\nShe has now changed her mind.\n\n\"We texted the cat sitter to come to our home,\" she said. \"He [husband] is coming tomorrow.\"\n\nFormer world number one Tracy Austin on BBC's Today at Wimbledon: \"This is the major she [Jabeur] wants. She's put Wimbledon above everything else on the tour. It's what she's wanted her entire career since she was a little girl.\n\n\"Last year it was either 50-50 or Rybakina with a little bit of an edge. But now she's against Vondrousova - number 42 in the world, unseeded, the first unseeded finalist in 60 years, and she's just been playing with house money.\n\n\"Remember in the quarter-finals, Vondrousova was down 4-1 in the final set [against Pegula] and somehow turned that around. She's loosened up and doesn't seem to be bothered about what stage it is. She's been to one final before, Roland Garros a few years back, it will be very interesting.\"\n\nNine-time Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova on BBC's Today at Wimbledon: \"[Vondrousova] has a nice game for grass. Obviously, the variety works for every surface but especially on grass with the drop shots and the slices.\n\n\"She's only won four matches on grass in her career [before this fortnight] and she's been around for six or seven years. So really it's surprising she hasn't done better, but she's finally putting things together.\n\n\"[Against Svitolina] she was firing on all cylinders and looked a veteran of grass-court play.\n\n\"Clearly, Vondrousova likes the roof closed. It takes the wind out of the equation, and you can just hit your shots knowing the ball will land where it's supposed to. Vondrousova should play the final hoping the roof will be closed.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nDefending champion Novak Djokovic reached a fifth successive Wimbledon men's final where Carlos Alcaraz will try to end the Serb's recent dominance.\n\nSecond seed Djokovic, 36, won 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-4) against Italian eighth seed Jannik Sinner in the semi-finals.\n\nDjokovic is one more win from an eighth Wimbledon men's title and 24th major title - both record-equalling tallies.\n\nSpanish top seed Alcaraz, 20, won 6-3 6-3 6-3 against Russian third seed Daniil Medvedev later on Friday.\n\nAlcaraz outclassed Medvedev in the second semi-final, also played under the Centre Court roof, to reach his first final at the All England Club.\n\nBy contrast, Djokovic has reached his ninth Wimbledon showpiece.\n• None Follow live text, TV and radio of the Wimbledon men's semi-finals\n\nIt will also be a record 35th Grand Slam final appearance after he surpassed the tally he previously shared with American Chris Evert.\n\nDjokovic has not lost a completed match at Wimbledon since 2016 and has not been beaten on Centre Court since 2013.\n\n\"In the semi-finals, it was always going to be a very close and very tense match,\" said Djokovic, who is 14 years and 86 days older than Sinner.\n\n\"That was the case and the scoreline doesn't give the reality of what was happening on the court. It was super close.\n\n\"Jannik has proven why he is one of the leaders of the next generation and one of the best players in the world.\n\n\"I tried not to look at age as a hindrance or a factor of the outcome. I guess 36 is the new 26.\"\n\nThe contrast between Djokovic and Sinner in terms of experience was laid bare by the statistics before the match - and borne out in reality during it.\n\nSinner, 21, was playing his first Grand Slam semi-final, while Djokovic was contesting a 46th major semi-final - equalling Roger Federer's all-time men's record.\n\nDjokovic, who turned 36 in May, was bidding to become the third oldest man in the Open era to reach the final. Sinner was aiming to become the youngest since 2007.\n\nKnowledge of how to succeed on the biggest occasions in the sport, plus the ability to execute when it matters the most, proved to be the key.\n\nSinner was not able to convert any of his six break points in the match, including two in the opening game and another later in the pivotal first set.\n\nDjokovic converted his only opportunity in the first set and demonstrated his ability to clinically close out, hitting three aces and a service winner from 0-15 down at 5-3 in the opener.\n\nWith Sinner having not faced a seed in his run to the last four, Djokovic was a considerable step up in class.\n\nThings looked increasingly ominous for the Italian when he handed over a break for 2-1 in the second set.\n\nA fourth chance to take Djokovic's serve went begging in the fourth game - where the Serb was docked a point for hindrance, judged by British umpire Richard Haigh to have disturbed Sinner with a long grunt, and then warned for taking too long to serve.\n\nAfter his jaw dropped in disbelief and had words with the official, Djokovic quickly regained focus to hold.\n\nThe former world number one went on to serve out the second set without facing a further break point and few would have backed Sinner to turn the match around at that point.\n\nThe Italian refused to wilt like many expected and instead raised his level to push Djokovic in a tight third set.\n\nDjokovic was becoming increasingly tetchy as a result.\n\nHe had an exchange with a fan after saving two set points at 5-4, sarcastically telling them to stop crying, then smiling in the same direction after securing victory in the tie-break.\n\nAlcaraz underlines talent in 'one of best' performances on grass\n\nAlcaraz and Medvedev have both won major titles on the US Open hard courts, but were attempting to reach the SW19 showpiece for the first time after a summer of marked improvement at the All England Club.\n\nAlcaraz is playing in only his fourth professional tournament on grass courts and had won the Queen's title in the run-up.\n\nIt is testament to his outstanding talent he has become the youngest Wimbledon men's finalist since Spanish 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal in 2007.\n\nConfidence in his footwork has continued to build over the British grass-court season, providing the platform for the athletic Spaniard to use his hefty serve, booming groundstrokes and deft drop-shot to devastating effect.\n\nGrowing up in Murcia, clay courts are seen as his most natural surface but hard courts are where he won his first major at Flushing Meadows last year.\n\nNow he has emerged as a force on grass and underlined the fact again with a dominant win over Medvedev.\n\nThere was little between the pair until Alcaraz broke late in the first set. With the momentum, he took serve twice more in the second before eventually wrapping up the third by ending a run of four straight breaks.\n\n\"I played great. I thought a really good level, tennis level and tactical level as well,\" Alcaraz said.\n\n\"It was one of my best matches on grass. I'm really, really happy to get through to the final.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None What happened to Annie Börjesson on a Scottish beach?\n• None The rollercoaster life and career of Kanye West AKA Ye", "Greek authorities closed the Acropolis during the hottest part of the day\n\nMuch of southern Europe is baking in extreme heat, with Greece seeing temperatures of 40C (104F) or more.\n\nThe Acropolis, the country's most popular tourist attraction, was closed during the hottest hours of the day to protect visitors.\n\nPotentially record temperatures are expected next week as another heatwave approaches.\n\nThe European Space Agency (ESA) says Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland may see extreme conditions.\n\nThe ESA monitors land and sea temperatures via its satellites.\n\nThe hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C in Sicily in August 2021.\n\nThere are also fears in Greece of a greater risk of wildfires, especially in areas with high winds. It suffered major wildfires in 2021 in another exceptional heatwave.\n\nIn Croatia, fires broke out on Thursday, burning houses and cars in at least one village, Grebastica, on the Dalmatian coast. Officials told Croatian TV on Friday morning that the fire had been brought under control.\n\nHigh temperatures have also been reaching into central parts of Europe, with Germany and Poland among countries affected.\n\nCzechia's meteorological office issued a warning that temperatures at the weekend could go above 38C, which is exceptionally high for the country.\n\nMeanwhile in the UK, heavy showers and gusty winds are expected in parts of England on Saturday.\n\nMeteorologists quoted by PA suggested this was because the southern shift of the jet stream which was fuelling the hot weather in Europe, was also drawing low-pressure systems into the UK, bringing unsettled and cooler weather.\n\nVolunteers from the Hellenic Red Cross hand out water bottles\n\nEarlier this week, a man in his forties died from the heat after collapsing in northern Italy - while several visitors to the country have collapsed from heatstroke, including a British man outside the Colosseum in Rome.\n\nThe cause is the Cerberus heatwave - named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that features in Dante's Inferno.\n\nItalian weather forecasters are warning that the next heatwave - dubbed Charon after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology - will push temperatures back up above 40C next week.\n\nHeatwaves are also being seen in parts of the US, China, North Africa and Japan.\n\nItaly is one of the countries experiencing soaring temperatures\n\nGreece's Culture Ministry announced the closure of the Acropolis on Friday from 12:00 to 17:00 (9:00-14:00 GMT), saying similar measures were likely to follow on Saturday.\n\nTemperatures were expected to peak at 41C in central Athens on Friday, but the Acropolis sits on a rocky hilltop and is usually hotter.\n\nThere is little shade on the hill for respite.\n\nEarlier on Friday at least one tourist was stretchered out of the site after falling ill due to the heat, local police said.\n\nSeveral other tourist sites around the Sacred Rock where the Acropolis stands remained open throughout the day.\n\nIn recent days the Greek Red Cross has been deployed to provide water bottles and help people feeling nauseous and dizzy in the heat.\n\nPeople have been advised to drink at least two litres of water a day and to avoid coffee and alcohol, which are dehydrating.\n\nLast month was the hottest June on record, according to the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nExtreme weather resulting from warming climate is \"unfortunately becoming the new normal\", the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned.\n\nPeriods of intense heat occur within natural weather patterns, but globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global warming.\n\nHow have you been affected by the extreme heat? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French international was under contract to Manchester City until 1 July\n\nEx-Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been cleared of raping a woman and attempting to rape another.\n\nThe 28-year-old was accused of attacking a 24-year-old woman at his £4m mansion in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire in October 2020.\n\nMr Mendy was also accused of the attempted rape of another woman, aged 29, who said he had also molested her at his home two years before.\n\nIt comes after he was cleared of six rapes at an earlier trial in January.\n\nThe France international broke down in tears as the not guilty verdicts were read out by the jury foreman following a three-week trial at Chester Crown Court.\n\nThe jury of six men and six women deliberated for about three hours and 15 minutes before reaching their conclusion.\n\nJudge Steven Everett said: \"Mr Mendy can be discharged from the dock.\"\n\nThe footballer, whose contract with Manchester City expired this month, was cleared at the earlier trial of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, relating to four young women or teenagers.\n\nBut jurors failed to reach verdicts on two counts of rape and attempted rape, prompting a re-trial.\n\nBenjamin Aina KC, prosecuting, claimed he had enjoyed parties at his home and on two occasions \"took advantage\" of female guests, while his wealth and celebrity status turned him into a man not used to being told \"no\".\n\nThe first complainant, woman A, a 29-year-old student, first met Mr Mendy while in a nightclub in Barcelona in late 2017 and she became intimate with one of his friends, the trial was told.\n\nThey kept in touch and a year later she arranged to visit Mr Mendy's friend at the footballer's house, where they stayed after they all went with other girls for a night out.\n\nThe woman told the jury that the morning after, when she took a shower in the en-suite bathroom, Mr Mendy appeared uninvited, wearing just boxer shorts, and he was visibly \"aroused\".\n\nShe alleged Mr Mendy then grabbed her and tried to rape her on the bed, despite her repeatedly telling him to stop.\n\nMr Mendy told the jury the two were \"flirting\" during the night out and the next morning he went to her room and they began hugging on a bed.\n\nHe said she told him she would not have sex with him because she was with his friend.\n\nMr Mendy said she then got upset when he told her he had already asked his friend who had told him it would be \"OK\".\n\nHe denied trying to rape her.\n\nAnother complainant, woman B, told the trial she was out with friends at a bar in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, near Mr Mendy's home, when they were invited back to the footballer's house in 2019.\n\nThe 24-year-old alleged Mr Mendy took her phone from her, which contained \"intimate\" photos, then led her to his locked bedroom, as she asked for her phone back.\n\nShe told the jury Mr Mendy told her \"I just wanna have a look at you\" and told her to take her clothes off, which she did.\n\nShe said he threw her phone on the bed and when she went to retrieve it he raped her despite her telling him she did not want to have sex.\n\nThe woman told the trial that afterwards Mr Mendy said to her: \"You're too shy. It's fine. I've had sex with 10,000 women.\"\n\nMr Mendy told the jury the woman had agreed to \"play around\" on the bed and denied raping her saying afterwards they swapped details to connect on Snapchat.\n\nMr Aina, prosecuting, claimed Mr Mendy was not used to women saying no to him.\n\nHe said: \"You wanted women who came to your house to party, get drunk and have sex?\"\n\nMr Mendy replied: \"If they want.\n\n\"I will never force to have sex with a woman.\"\n\nAfter the hearing his solicitor, Jenny Wiltshire, said: \"Benjamin Mendy would like to thank the members of the jury for focussing on the evidence in this trial, rather than on the rumour and innuendo that have followed this case from the outset.\n\n\"This is the second time that Mr Mendy has been tried and found not guilty by a jury. He is delighted that both juries reached the correct verdicts.\"\n\nShe said Mr Mendy had \"tried to remain strong\" but the process had \"inevitably had a serious impact on him\".\n\nHe now wanted to ask for his privacy to be respected \"so he can begin rebuilding his life,\" Ms Wiltshire added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pain and distress of not being able to see an NHS dentist are \"totally unacceptable\", an inquiry has told the government.\n\nA review was launched after a BBC investigation found nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK were not accepting new adult patients.\n\nSome people drove hundreds of miles for treatment or even resorted to pulling out their own teeth, the BBC found.\n\nThe government says it invests more than £3bn a year in dentistry.\n\nBut the damning report, by the Commons' Health and Social Care Committee, says more needs to be done, and quickly.\n\nDental reforms - recommended to the government more than 15 years ago - have still not been implemented, it says.\n\nLast year's BBC's investigation found eight in 10 NHS practices were not taking on children.\n\nBetween May and July 2022, BBC News contacted nearly 7,000 NHS practices - believed to be almost all those offering general treatment to the public.\n\nIn a third of the UK's more than 200 council areas, the BBC found no dentists taking on adult NHS patients.\n\nResearchers could also not find a single practice accepting new adult patients in Lancashire, Norfolk, Devon or Leeds.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nCompared with other nations, Scotland was found to have better access to NHS dentistry for adults, with 18% of practices accepting new patients.\n\nHowever Wales, England and Northern Ireland were at 7%, 9% and 10% respectively.\n\nConservative MP Steve Brine said hearing about someone in \"such pain and distress\" that they used pliers to pull out their teeth \"demonstrates the crisis in NHS dental services\".\n\n\"Rarely has an inquiry been more necessary than this one,\" said the chairman of the cross-party committee which wrote the report.\n\nDeclining levels of NHS dentistry should be \"sounding alarm bells\", he said, adding: \"Today we register in the strongest terms possible our concern for the future of NHS dental services and the patients who desperately need access to them.\"\n\nNHS dental treatment is not free for most adults, but it is subsidised - if you can get an appointment.\n\nDanielle Watts, from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, found herself in a \"dental desert\" - an area where no dentists offer NHS care - and could not afford the thousands of pounds of private treatment needed to fix her teeth.\n\nOne by one, over several months, she pulled out 13 of her own teeth.\n\nDanielle Watts has removed 13 of her own teeth\n\nFollowing the BBC's report, a friend persuaded her to set up a crowdfunding page which has since helped raise enough money to enable her to have a set of dentures fitted.\n\nShe says the kindness of strangers has completely transformed her life.\n\nDanielle Watts shows off her new dentures\n\n\"I'm in no pain at all, there is no bleeding, my teeth are all facing the same way,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't have to hide any more. To be able to talk to somebody face-on, to be able to smile at somebody, is something I haven't done for several years.\"\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measure to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nEnsuring that everyone who needs an NHS dentist is able to access one within a reasonable timeframe and a reasonable distance, is one of the key recommendations in the report.\n\n\"We are concerned this will be too little too late for those dentists who have already left the NHS,\" the report says.\n\nIt adds the current dental contract, which pays dentists for batches or courses of treatments delivered rather than for every single item or procedure, such as a check-up or a filling, is not fit for purpose.\n\nThe system of paying NHS \"units of dental activity\" (UDAs) can be a disincentive to dentists seeing new patients, including those who have higher levels of disease and require more time to treat, the report warns.\n\nThe British Dental Association (BDA) told the committee: \"We have a higher award for treating three or more teeth, but many of the new patients presenting to dentists and their teams now have far more disease than that. People have not been able to present [during Covid restrictions]. They are presenting much later; they have far more disease and the disease is often more complex to treat.\"\n\nThe BDA says workload backlogs, made worse by Covid, will take many years to clear.\n\nSome dental practices are struggling to deliver their NHS contractual commitments, often simply as a result of being unable to fill vacancies, the association claims.\n\nThe government says it recently announced a 40% increase in dentistry training places and has made changes \"so dental therapists and hygienists can deliver more treatments\".\n\n\"We invest more than £3bn a year in dentistry and have already increased the funding practices receive for high needs patients to encourage dentists to provide more NHS treatments,\" said a spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nIt says the NHS dental contract has been reformed to encourage more dentists to provide NHS treatments and to allow dental therapists and hygienists to offer extra services.\n\nThe government also said it would set out further measures \"to improve access shortly\".\n\nLouise Ansari from Healthwatch England said: \"Ultimately, only a fundamental and fully resourced dental contract reform can tackle these deep-seated problems, and we call on the government to publish its dental recovery plan urgently.\"\n\nAre you struggling to find an NHS dentist? Are you a dentist with a view on this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in Northern Ireland are being urged to join the Big Butterfly Count to see how the insects are faring.\n\nThe count is regarded as the biggest natural history citizen science project in the world.\n\nParticipants count how many butterflies they see in a fifteen-minute period and upload their results online, especially if they do not see any.\n\nLast year, more than 1,200 counts were recorded in Northern Ireland, with almost 100,000 counts across the UK.\n\nExtreme weather threatens butterflies with extinction or near extiction in the UK\n\nButterflies are seen as an important barometer for climate change as they react to changing weather patterns.\n\nIn last year's count, some species of butterflies had almost halved in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe number of butterflies has declined in the UK by 80% since the 1970s.\n\nHalf of the butterfly species in the UK are threatened or near threatened with extinction due to extreme weather.\n\nThat is because extreme weather affects the food available to the insects before the crucial pupation stage, when they form a chrysalis and transform into butterflies.\n\nThe counts can be carried out in garden, parks or anywhere outdoors\n\nNorthern Ireland has seen extreme weather this year, from heavy rain to bouts of drought.\n\nRosemary Mulholland, the Northern Ireland branch chair of the Butterfly Conservation charity, said the weather has caused plants to wither, which does not help the insect.\n\n\"Butterfly caterpillars will eat plants, so if those plants are withering in the drought, for example, that can really affect the numbers.\n\n\"We really want to know what's going on, this year in particular, following the recent extreme weather events,\" she added.\n\nShe said day-flying moths are also part of the count and people can do as many counts as they want to.\n\nThey can be carried out in gardens, parks or anywhere outdoors and instructions can be found on the website.\n\nResults can be added online or via the Big Butterfly Count app.", "A few months ago the government was suggesting that any public sector pay settlements above 5% would add to inflationary pressures. That was despite the fact that this still equated to a significant real terms pay cut, and public sector settlements do not directly add to pricing pressures.\n\nOn Thursday the government accepted settlements of up to 7% across a range of jobs, as recommended by the Pay Review Bodies.\n\nRichard Hughes, who heads the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), told me that because the pay deals were being funded by savings made elsewhere, rather than through additional spending, they wouldn't be adding to the overall level of spending or the overall level of borrowing.\n\nSo in principle the pay awards would be \"affordable, subject to those savings actually being realised\", he said.\n\nOn whether 5% to 7% pay rises could entrench inflation, as the government had previously claimed, Mr Hughes told me: \"The pressure that it puts on inflation would be offset, were the government to find savings elsewhere in departmental budgets, because that means that departments are spending less on other things, and that's not pushing up demand on goods and services elsewhere\".\n\nOne of the arguments offered up by ministers over the past year has been that high public sector pay settlements could act as a ratchet for private sector wages, and thus contribute to inflationary pressures.\n\nInflation is proving stickier here than elsewhere. It is expected to remain at around 8% when new figures are released on Wednesday. In France it is now below 5%. In the US it has fallen to 3%.\n\nSo the numbers will remain high into next year and in the crucial months for calculating the state pension triple lock, the uprating of tax credits and benefits, and next year's public sector pay round.\n\nHigh inflation will also mean tax receipts are higher, especially as the government has frozen income tax thresholds. But it's having an ugly effect on government borrowing costs.\n\nThis week's tricky pay decisions came in the wake of some awful long term tax and spending projections from the OBR.\n\nThe basic message of the OBR's fiscal risk report was that we are now in a new world of having both a large national debt and high and rising interest rates. In particular the UK's public finances are set to suffer even more than other countries', because a quarter of our debt is linked to inflation - bad news in current circumstances - and because our debt is also very short term.\n\nWhen factoring in plausible future energy shocks, the OBR can see a path to national debt reaching an astonishing 300% or even 400% of national income in 2070. While some might rise an eyebrow about forecasts over this timeframe, the point is that the OBR fears a sluggishly growing UK economy, with a high debt and high interest rates, risks falling into a debt spiral.\n\nIt points to fears that the UK is spending everything on fighting the consequences of inflation rather than investing in the future.\n\nAs the former NHS Pay Review Body chair Jerry Cope told me for my Radio 4 Analysis documentary on strikes this week, a rejection of their recommendations would have prompted \"fury\" and elongated the period of strikes.\n\nThis deal keeps those Pay Review Bodies functioning as a way of defusing these pay tensions. But with inflation remaining high, and workers buoyed by using industrial action to secure higher wages, those tensions are not going to disappear.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Activists stood outside the court in Rome calling for the cull to be halted\n\nA top court in Rome has ruled that a culling order for two bears in northern Italy should be suspended, backing an appeal by animal rights activists.\n\nOne of the bears, a 17-year-old female called JJ4, was captured after it killed jogger Andrea Papi in the Alps.\n\nThe other, known as MJ5, had attacked a hiker in the same area weeks earlier.\n\nItaly's Council of State said the slaughter ruling \"appears disproportionate and inconsistent with supranational and national rules\".\n\nThe case will now be referred back to a local court for a final appeal by the end of the year.\n\nWhen JJ4 was captured in April the governor of Trentino province, Maurizio Fugatti, said \"we would have liked to kill the bear on the spot\".\n\nMr Papi, 26, was the first Italian known to have been killed by a bear for years. He had been jogging on the slopes of Mt Peller above the town of Caldes when he was attacked.\n\nJJ4 was taken to an animal care centre near the city of Trento but to this day MJ5, a male bear who attacked a 39-year-old hiker in March, continues to roam free in the Brenta Dolomites mountain range.\n\nHowever, both bears faced a slaughter order and their case was taken up by animal welfare groups who said the animals were a protected species in Italy.\n\nThe local administrative court put a hold on the order until December, to allow further evidence to be submitted and for animal rights groups to find an alternative to slaughter.\n\nItaly's environment minister said he too was against the cull and last week the government said that authorities in Romania were ready to admit JJ4 to a sanctuary for rescued brown bears, described as the biggest of its kind in the world with a population of more than 100 animals.\n\nAnother alternative proposed by animal rights groups is for a reserve to be set up in the Trentino area.\n\nJJ4 was captured in a bear trap in April\n\nJudges at the Council of State in Rome found on Friday that the slaughter ruling seemed disproportionate. Brown bears were protected by a 1979 Bern Convention on wildlife, they said, and international norms required that \"the measure of culling represents a last resort\".\n\nExceptions to a ban on killing a protected species could only be allowed \"on condition there exists no other valid solution\", they added.\n\nBrown bears were reintroduced to northern Italy in 1999 under a European conservation project called \"Life Ursus\", but their numbers have gradually climbed beyond 100.\n\nThe Trentino governor has said the province now has some 70 \"excess bears\" and has accused activists preoccupied with JJ4's fate of being ideological.\n\nThe recent attacks triggered alarm locally and local mayors threatened to resign if action was not taken to bring the numbers down.\n\nThe animal welfare groups who brought the appeal to Rome said that Friday's ruling \"gives confidence and hope to those fighting for a reprieve for the animals condemned to die by the autonomous province of Trento\".", "Ronan Kanda was mistaken by his murderers for his friend\n\nTwo 17-year-olds have been sentenced for stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in a case of mistaken identity.\n\nRonan Kanda was murdered close to his home in Wolverhampton after he visited a friend's house to buy a PlayStation controller in June 2022.\n\nA trial heard his attackers, one of whom had just collected knives bought online, mistook him for his friend.\n\nPrabjeet Veadhesa will serve a minimum term of 18 years and Sukhman Shergill a minimum of 16, the court heard.\n\nBefore passing sentence at Wolverhampton Crown Court, the judge, Mr Justice Choudhury, lifted reporting restrictions on naming the teenagers.\n\nHe made the decision in part to send out a strong message about the seriousness of knife crime, he said.\n\nRonan's mother, Pooja Kanda, said she had lost a lifetime of dreams and ambitions\n\nThe court was told Veadhesa was owed money by Ronan's friend and intended to confront him on 29 June 2022.\n\nThe judge said it was a \"tragic coincidence\" they saw Ronan leave the house where their intended victim lived and assumed he was the boy they were looking for.\n\nHe was just yards away from his family home, but was attacked from behind as he listened to music on headphones.\n\nEarlier in the day, Veadhesa had collected a ninja sword set and a large machete from a local post office after buying them online using a fake name.\n\nThe court heard Shergill carried the machete but Ronan was stabbed twice with the sword by Veadhesa and died at the scene.\n\nHe suffered a 20cm-deep wound in his back and hip area, and a 17cm-deep wound in his chest.\n\nThe pair fled after they realised they had attacked the wrong person, dumping their weapons and clothes.\n\nRonan's parents and sister as well as other supporters wore \"Justice for Ronan\" T-shirts at Wolverhampton Crown Court\n\nMany of Ronan's family, who were in the courtroom wearing \"Justice for Ronan\" T-shirts, sobbed as tributes were read during the hearing.\n\nRonan's mother, Pooja Kanda, read out a personal statement and said she replayed the last time she saw her son alive in her mind every day.\n\n\"I have lost a lifetime of dreams, hopes and ambitions,\" she said. \"He was the son that every mother needs.\"\n\nAddressing the defendants, who both looked at the floor as she spoke, she told them \"your evil actions have taken my son's life\" which left her with \"nothing but hatred for this world\".\n\nHis father, Chander Kanda, said the death of his son had destroyed his life.\n\nRonan's sister, Nikita Kanda, said she was \"no longer the same person\" and added \"my world has stopped, I feel empty and I'm just surviving\".\n\nAlthough Shergill, from Willenhall, did not inflict any blows, a jury found he acted in the joint enterprise of his murder and convicted both teenagers after a five-week trial.\n\nIn defence of Veadhesa, from Walsall, Adam Morgan said his client was of good character and was \"genuinely remorseful\".\n\nTimothy Hannam KC, defending Shergill, said his client should be treated more leniently as \"Veadhesa was the one who actually killed Ronan\".\n\nWest Midlands Police described it as an \"unbelievably callous and shocking case of mistaken identity\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Care Forum Wales said the number of homes shutting because of costs had created a difficult situation\n\nThere are around 500 fewer places in care homes in Wales than there were in 2015, figures show.\n\nIt comes as the number of people aged over 65 in Wales increased by around 100,000 in the 10 years to 2021.\n\nCare Forum Wales said funding must be urgently overhauled as the number of homes closing due to costs has created a \"really difficult\" situation.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was a council and health board matter but added it was providing £70m this year.\n\nThere are 39 residents at Cartref Bodawen Care Home near Porthmadog, Gwynedd.\n\nBetween this home and another in Criccieth, also in Gwynedd, the company is at 97% capacity on average throughout the year.\n\nManager Ceri Roberts said this was the only way they could stay open.\n\n\"Food has gone up 20%, incontinence products up over 20%, utilities have doubled and insurance too,\" she said.\n\n\"There are no more homes opening here and there's no doubt we're going to see more care homes closing if nothing changes.\"\n\nMs Roberts said at least four other homes had recently closed in north Wales, leading to more than 160 beds going.\n\nCare Inspectorate Wales Figures (CIW) showed there were 87 fewer care homes in March 2023 compared to 2015, as well as 520 fewer care home places in March 2022 compared to 2015.\n\nCIW's annual report said the most common reasons for closure was cost, or operators simply tiring of running a home.\n\nCare Forum Wales' boss Mary Wimbury told Newyddion S4C: \"People are struggling, they've been through a really difficult few years because of the pandemic and now on top of that, high inflation, staff wages increasing, cost of food, heating, insurance.\"\n\nMs Wimbury said she expected the situation to deteriorate further before it improved and claimed local authority funding was not enough to cover basic requirements.\n\nCare Forum Wales' boss, Mary Wimbury, said things would get worse before they got better\n\nOlder people's commissioner for Wales Helena Herklots said she wanted to see parity between social care work and similar NHS jobs.\n\n\"We are hearing about closures of care homes but also concerns about whether the care home their loved ones are in was going to close in the future,\" she said.\n\n\"It's creating uncertainty and anxiety among older people, family and their friends and they're also dealing with the cost of living crisis.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said provision of residential and nursing care beds was a local authority and health board matter.\n\n\"We also provided significant extra funding to support the care home sector through the Covid pandemic,\" it added.\n\n\"To help with current recruitment and retention of staff, we're investing £70m this year to ensure all social care workers continue to get paid at least the real living wage.\"", "The House of Lords voted to overturn several parts of the Illegal Migration Bill\n\nThe government does not expect to make compromises on plans to remove people arriving in the UK illegally, says immigration minister Robert Jenrick.\n\nThe House of Lords has voted to overturn several parts of the Illegal Migration Bill - which ministers hope to pass before the summer recess.\n\nThe bill would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally.\n\nIt is key to Rishi Sunak's attempts to stop small boat crossings.\n\nIn the face of staunch opposition in the Lords, the government agreed to changes to the treatment of children and pregnant women.\n\nBut speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Jenrick said no new compromises would be made.\n\n\"It's not a serious or grown-up way to conduct a debate to say, 'we don't want this, we don't want that', and not to come up with an alternative,\" he said.\n\n\"The UK has the most comprehensive plan to tackle illegal migration of any European country.\"\n\nShadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, also speaking to Today, said the bill was \"a con that will makes things worse\".\n\nThe government has \"lost common sense and lost common decency,\" and are \"undermining the proper approach we should be taking,\" she said.\n\nMPs are expected to reverse changes made to the bill in the Lords but the draft legislation will then return to the upper chamber.\n\nThe standoff continues with time running out for the plans to be approved before Parliament's summer break begins next Thursday.\n\nThe bill, backed by MPs in March, is central to Mr Sunak's high-profile pledge to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nIt would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe government says it is committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, despite the Court of Appeal ruling it was unlawful. On Thursday, it was given the go-ahead to appeal the ruling at the Supreme Court.\n\nThere has been concern about how children will be treated under the new migration bill, as well as accusations that existing UK regulations to prevent modern slavery would be undermined.\n\nAlthough the legal duty to deport migrants would not apply to under-18s the bill would give ministers new powers to deport them in certain circumstances and detain them for extended periods.\n\nIt would also extend the limit on how long children could be detained before applying for bail from three days to eight. A previous version of the bill proposed allowing children to be detained without the ability to apply for bail for up to 28 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick says cartoons in an asylum reception centre were painted over as they were not \"age appropriate\" for teenagers.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "PSNI officers first attended the event in uniform in 2017\n\nPolice officers who wish to attend this year's Pride march in Belfast will not be allowed to do so in uniform.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton said: \"I know this decision will come as a disappointment to some.\"\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers first paraded in uniform at the event in 2017.\n\nBut police have faced criticism as some have seen their attendance as an official endorsement of gay rights campaign issues.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Singleton said: \"As a police service, we have had to carefully consider this request from our LGBT+ Network on its merits, the stated purposes and circumstances surrounding the parade and our statutory obligations to act with fairness, integrity and impartiality, whilst upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all individuals, their traditions and beliefs.\"\n\nHe added that Pride events remained \"an important element of our outreach and engagement\".\n\nBelfast Pride hosts events between 21 and 30 July with a parade in Belfast on Saturday 29 July.\n\nThe PSNI's LGBT+ staff support network said it was \"bitterly disappointed\" by the decision.\n\n\"Participating in Pride has been incredibly empowering for LGBT+ officers and staff,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Being visible as a public service in Pride parades inspired hundreds of LGBT+ people to take up policing as a career, it let our communities know we were part of them and that we stood with them against hate crime and discrimination.\"\n\nThe group claimed the decision by the PSNI prevented members from participating in both Belfast Pride shirts or in uniform.\n\n\"It has not been made clear to us what has changed for this year or why previously agreed forms of Pride participation have now been withdrawn by the senior executive team,\" it said.\n\nThe PSNI has U-turned on a decision it made in 2017.\n\nIt would suggest that part of the reason it revisited the issue was that other staff associations within the force were making similar requests to wear uniforms at external events.\n\nIt is also suggesting to me that the theme of this year's parade - which is titled Stand Up For Your Trans - had nothing to do with the decision.\n\nThe PSNI issued its statement on Friday afternoon and did not make anyone available to answer questions on its decision.\n\nYet this is a highly symbolic move and one which was going to attract media attention, scrutiny and questions.\n\nAlliance Party MLA Nuala McAllister, who is also a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, criticised the move.\n\nIn a tweet, she described it as \"a backward step\".\n\nMs McAllister was Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2017 when the PSNI and Gardaí (Irish police) officers marched in uniform in the parade for the first time.\n\nSDLP councillor Séamus de Faoite said he had written to Chief Constable Simon Byrne, seeking an urgent meeting with him and \"leaders within the LGBT+ community\".\n\n\"There has been significant damage to LGBT+ community confidence in policing caused by their decision to withdraw from Belfast Pride,\" he posted on Twitter.\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) councillor Timothy Gaston welcomed the decision by the PSNI, adding that the force had \"no business\" taking part in the parade.\n\nHe said the PSNI had been right to make the decision in order to recognise their \"fairness, integrity and impartiality obligations\".", "The announcement that actors would go on strike marked the start of the largest shutdown Hollywood has seen for 40 years.", "Katie Macdonald planned to donate money to Colchester Hospital which supported the family\n\nA dad died after saving his young son from drowning in the sea, his grieving partner has revealed.\n\nDavid Cole and his three-year-old boy were caught by a rip tide while at a beach in West Mersea on 11 June.\n\nThe 30-year-old made sure his son was unharmed, keeping his head above water, but Mr Cole never regained consciousness.\n\nHis partner, Katie Macdonald, is raising money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).\n\nShe praised the crew as \"amazing\" for their efforts.\n\nMs Macdonald was on the beach with the couple's other son, aged one, when Mr Cole and their child got into difficulties.\n\nDavid Cole worked \"so hard\" to \"give us everything he possibly could\"\n\n\"Not being able to do anything, feeling helpless, was so hard - it was horrible,\" said Ms Macdonald.\n\n\"The lifeboat crew were just really good at splitting themselves between being with my partner and trying to resuscitate him and then looking after my three-year-old.\n\n\"It could have been my three-year-old son who drowned as well if it weren't for them.\"\n\nA paddleboarder and two lifeguards were first to help Mr Cole and his son before the RNLI crew arrived minutes later.\n\nThe Essex and Hertfordshire Air Ambulance and the East of England Ambulance Service also attended.\n\nTwo lifeguards and a paddleboarder were first to help Mr Cole and his son\n\nLand and air ambulances were called out to Mersea Island to help Mr Cole\n\nMs Macdonald, from Hertford in Hertfordshire, said: \"Dave was amazing. He was the best dad ever.\n\n\"He was like a big kid himself. All he ever wanted to do with the kids was have fun and make everything fun for the kids.\"\n\nShe said he worked \"so hard\" in his job as a roofer to \"give us everything he possibly could\" and added: \"He is just a hero. A hero in the sense he put his son before himself and saved his son's life.\"\n\nMs Macdonald's online fundraising page has received more than £3,500 donations since it was set up six days ago and she hoped to also give money to Colchester Hospital, where the family were treated and supported after the tragedy.\n\nThe local inshore lifeboat was also involved in the rescue\n\nRick Boreham, a volunteer lifeboat operations manager at West Mersea RNLI, said the crew was \"incredibly grateful\".\n\n\"The station's volunteer crew is really touched that she has set up the fundraising page,\" he said.\n\n\"Katie is cordially invited to visit the station anytime and will receive a warm welcome.\"\n\nThe RNLI says rip currents can reach up to 5mph (8kmph) and the charity has a series of tips for people wanting to swim in the sea.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support organisations listed at BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly a thousand workers are set to take eight days of strike action at Gatwick Airport over the summer holidays in a row over pay, the Unite union has said.\n\nThe strike could cause some disruption during what could be the busiest summer period since the pandemic.\n\nThe workers, at four firms, include baggage handlers and ground staff.\n\nThey will strike from Friday 28 July to Tuesday 1 August, and then again from Friday 4 August to Tuesday 8 August.\n\nAirlines that will be affected include British Airways, EasyJet, Ryanair, Tui, Westjet and Wizz, the union said.\n\nThe impact of the action is uncertain, although Unite said disruption, delays and cancellations were \"inevitable\".\n\nA spokesperson for Gatwick said it would \"support the airlines affected... with their contingency plans to ensure that as many flights as possible operate as scheduled\".\n\nThe 950 workers who are set to strike represent more than half of the ground handling staff at Gatwick, a Unite spokesman said.\n\nThe staff are not employed by Gatwick Airport, but work at four firms: ASC, Menzies Aviation, GGS and DHL Services.\n\nThese companies provide services to major airlines, including ground handling, baggage handling, and check-in work.\n\nAn EasyJet spokesperson said the airline was \"extremely disappointed\" by news of the walkout.\n\n\"More talks between our ground handler DHL and Unite are taking place early next week to try and resolve the issue and we urge them to reach an agreement as soon as possible,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nSpokespeople at DHL and GGS said they were continuing to work with Unite to try to reach a solution.\n\nPhil Lloyd from Menzies Aviation said Unite had rejected its offer of an 11% pay increase. \"This pay award relates to our 2023 Pay Review and is in addition to the 10% increase awarded in 2022\".\n\nHe added that Menzies was in \"continued discussions\" with airlines and that it \"remains committed to seeking a resolution\".\n\nMost of the workers earn under £12 per hour, Unite said, \"despite undertaking highly demanding and safety critical roles\".\n\n\"During the pandemic, many companies at Gatwick Airport made large-scale redundancies and cut the pay and conditions of their remaining staff,\" it added.\n\nUnite has been pushing for pay rises for members, and in June it called off strike action by security staff at Britain's busiest airport, Heathrow, after securing a new deal.\n\nThe action at Gatwick, if it goes ahead, will put further pressure on the aviation industry as it deals with restricted airspace over Ukraine due to Russia's war and the possibility of air traffic control strikes.\n\nThere is a shortage of air traffic controllers, and some strikes are already planned - for example, there is an air traffic strike in Italy on Saturday 15 July, which Ryanair has said is expected to cause cancellations and disruption.\n\nEarlier this week, Easyjet cancelled 1,700 flights during July, August and September due to constrained airspace over Europe and continuing air traffic control difficulties.\n\nAbout 100 airport security staff and technicians are set to walk out at Birmingham Airport from 18 July, but the airport has said if a strike does take place, its effect would be limited, with no cancellations.\n\nIn early July, Unite members working in security at Gatwick Airport secured a 16% pay increase.\n\nThe Gatwick staff join several other industries who have been striking periodically since last year, including nursing, the Civil Service, Border Force staff and railways. Workers are mainly demanding pay rises that stay aligned with the rising cost of living.\n\nThe exact timing of each strike will vary depending on the individual company's shift patterns, but all strikes will begin in the early hours of the morning on the 28 July and 4 August, and end in the early hours of the morning on 1 and 8 August.\n\nOn the days of the Gatwick strikes, a total of 4,410 flights - covering more than 880,000 seats - are scheduled to depart the airport, according to Cirium, an aviation analytics firm.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Kevin Spacey spent around three hours in the witness box today, his evidence tested by the prosecutor.\n\nThe actor projected his voice at times when denying the allegations and told the court he “definitely” misread the signs from one of the four male complainants - but had consensual agreements with two others.\n\nSpacey, an Oscar winner, also denied drugging and performing a sex act on one of the complainants while he was asleep. Spacey said one of the allegations, that he grabbed a man’s crotch, was completely untrue.\n\nThe prosecutor suggested he had used his position of power and fame. The actor said he didn’t have a “power wand” that he waved in front of people’s faces whenever he wanted someone to go to bed with him.\n\nHe also admitted feeling “lonely” after becoming famous. Asked if he reached out to people sexually in order to ease the burden, he replied: “Welcome to life. Yes, yes I did”.\n\nSpacey denies the charges and the trial continues.", "Jennie, who was partially raised in New Zealand, started training for Blackpink as a teenager\n\nBlackpink star Jennie Kim has addressed claims that some of her historic performances lacked energy, saying she was often experiencing physical pain.\n\nIn the past, some K-pop fans criticised the star for being \"lazy\" and \"unable to deliver\" her choreography, even when it looked flawless to the uninitiated.\n\nBut the singer told Dua Lipa's At Your Service podcast she had been prone to injury in Blackpink's early days.\n\n\"I did not know how to control my body the way I should,\" she explained.\n\n\"It all started because I would constantly hurt myself during performances and live [shows] compared to the other girls.\n\n\"It was a stressful thing in my life. I'm like, 'There we go, I fell again, I tripped over again.\n\n\"So I feel like I've disappointed my fans at some points of my life, where it seemed like I wasn't giving my best.\"\n\nIt's the first time the singer has acknowledged the criticisms, but she stressed she had been working on her physical health since 2020.\n\n\"I've learned to take care of my body. And I've learned a lot about myself, with my health and how my muscles work, even how bendy I am with my arms,\" she laughed.\n\nJennie also explained how the pressure to dance in high heels had contributed to her discomfort.\n\n\"Some people are amazing in heels,\" she said. \"My feet aren't built for it.\"\n\n\"Sometimes, when I'm feeling perfectly fine, when my body's OK, it's fine. But when I'm travelling and my feet are bloated, if I try to dance in heels, my stamina just goes down.\"\n\nOn Blackpink's current world tour, the singer has generally opted for more comfortable footwear, including boots with ankle supports and with lower, Cuban-style heels, to protect her health.\n\nJennie (second from left) generally avoids wearing high heels on stage on the band's record-breaking tour\n\nHer admission is unusual in the tightly-controlled world of K-pop, where stars are expected to maintain high standards of professionalism at all times.\n\nCriticisms of Jennie's performances have often been couched in those terms, with fans suggesting she's being unprofessional - even when she exceeds the standards of most Western artists.\n\nBut the star said she wanted to be upfront about the challenges she'd faced.\n\n\"I've wanted to come clean... not come clean, but wanted to share with my fans that I'm still at a point where I'm learning about myself,\" she explained.\n\nDua Lipa was able to sympathise, having seen one of her early, awkward dance routines become a meme in 2019.\n\n\"Figuring yourself out while you're also in the public eye can be a little bit scary,\" she told Jennie.\n\n\"Not everybody really knows what happens behind the scenes, so I think it's really nice to be to share those moments.\"\n\nDua Lipa, who collaborated with Blackpink on the 2018 song Kiss and Make Up, is pictured with Jennie (left) and her bandmate Lisa (right)\n\nSpeaking of her own experiences, the Grammy winner said she had \"realised how much I needed to be in rehearsal and keep my body strong with yoga and pilates... so [that] I'm able to perform.\n\n\"But I assure you, you're doing a really good job and you're not letting anybody down whatsoever.\"\n\nIn the half-hour interview, Jennie also spoke about how she \"broke down in tears\" after Blackpink's historic headline set at the Coachella music festival; and how the band had started to assert their own personality on their latest album, Born Pink.", "Sean Anderson fell to his death in 2014\n\nEnergy firm BP has been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws after a worker died when he fell from an offshore platform into the sea.\n\nSean Anderson, 43, fell through an open grating on the Unity installation, about 112 miles (180km) north-east of Aberdeen, on 4 September 2014.\n\nMr Anderson, from the Tyne and Wear area, fell about 72ft (22m) into the water.\n\nThe jury's verdict followed an eight-day trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.\n\nBP said afterwards it was a \"tragic\" case.\n\nFiscal depute Kristina Kelly, prosecuting for the Crown, had said BP operated Unity at the time, and Mr Anderson worked for Cape which was carrying out work on the platform.\n\nIn agreed evidence, Ms Kelly said that at about 04:00 on the day in question the scaffolder, who was not wearing a lifejacket, fell through an open grate into the sea.\n\nThe alarm was raised and a fast-rescue craft found Mr Anderson face down in the water and he was taken aboard.\n\nFirst aid was administered, but he had no pulse and was very cold.\n\nResuscitation efforts continued until paramedic assistance arrived by helicopter, but Mr Anderson was pronounced dead.\n\nThe cause of death was given as head and chest injuries as a result of his fall.\n\nUnity was the platform where the fall happened\n\nSheriff Graham Buchanan told the jury in his closing address on Friday that the defence argued the existence of a hard barrier around the open grating, in the form of scaffolding, ensured there was no risk as far as was reasonably practicable.\n\nHowever Sheriff Buchanan said the Crown position was the open grating did pose a risk, demonstrated by the fact Mr Anderson fell through it to his death, and that other safety measures could have been adopted.\n\nBP Exploration was found guilty, by a majority, of failing to have in place suitable and sufficient control measures in respect of open gratings on the lower deck, contrary to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.\n\nBP said in a statement after the case: \"We acknowledge the outcome of the court proceedings.\n\n\"This was a tragic incident. While we know nothing can be said to change the pain felt by Sean Anderson's family and friends, our deepest condolences remain firmly with them to this day.\"\n\nCape had said at the time: \"Sean was a popular, hard-working and experienced employee. His co-workers are obviously shaken and saddened.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cost of living: Parents unsure how to make ends meet this summer\n\nA woman who has to eat toast for dinner so her children don't go hungry has said she's just one of many parents feeling the pinch ahead of the summer holidays.\n\nLouise Goodman said families would struggle without free school meal vouchers during the school break.\n\nEarlier this week, the Welsh government announced the scheme would not run over the holidays.\n\nIt said other types of support would be available.\n\nMother-of-three Julia Evans, from Merthyr Tydfil, said: \"Feeding my three children is my main priority and my main concern, but losing this funding is going to have a massive effect.\n\n\"We'd normally go for days out during the summer holidays but now that will have to be cut massively. It's a really stressful time.\"\n\nJulia Evans says the summer holidays are a stressful time\n\nHer children attend the Twyn Community Hub youth club in Merthyr Tydfil and Ms Goodman, its project coordinator, said she understood the pressure felt by parents.\n\n\"It's meant to be about having fun but how can it be if you haven't got the money to do that and parents are just stressed,\" she said.\n\n\"Often my husband and I will end up eating just toast for tea. Since the cost-of-living crisis I haven't been able to afford to feed everybody the same.\"\n\nShe said holidays were out of the question and her family would be using free trips from the hub.\n\nJade Palmer says she works full time but is still worried about the holidays\n\nA record number of children aged between five and 15 are eligible for free school meals, according to the latest figures.\n\nThe extension of free school meal vouchers to cover the school holidays was introduced to support vulnerable families during the Covid pandemic, and was praised by footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nBut for the first time since then, the scheme will not run this summer.\n\nMum-of-two, Jade Palmer, said: \"With the cost of living this year, we can't afford a holiday.\n\n\"I've had to top up my electric four times already this week so after I get paid for my job, I'm left with not much money and you've got to do food shopping.\"\n\nMelanie Simmonds of Save the Children Cymru said families were \"already struggling with spiralling costs\".\n\nShe added that some parents were worried they would not be able to send their children outside in good weather because they cannot afford sun cream.\n\nCaerphilly council is the only local authority which is funding its own food voucher scheme this summer.\n\nThe decision will cost the council nearly £1m and it is expected to benefit about 7,500 school children.\n\nCouncil leader Sean Morgan said: \"We have reserves that we can fall back on for a rainy day. This certainly is a rainy day for our residents.\"\n\nLouise Goodman is project coordinator at the Twyn Hub's youth club\n\nClare Rogers, business performance manager for Caerphilly council, said she has seen people \"in floods of tears not being able to cope\" without the government extension.\n\nA small number of other local authorities across Wales said they were considering the possibility of introducing their own voucher scheme.\n\nThe Welsh Local Government Authority's \"food and fun\" programme will be available to children across all of Wales' 22 local authority areas during the summer holidays.\n\nCharities Save the Children and Barnardo's Cymru said parents had told them they were having to make decisions about whether to feed themselves or their children over the holidays.\n\nThe Welsh government said the school meals extension was \"a time-limited crisis intervention in response to the pandemic\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This summer, a wide range of holiday projects will be available across Wales, including the Food and Fun scheme, which we fund and will be available in all 22 local authority areas for the first time.\"", "US regulators are probing artificial intelligence company OpenAI over the risks to consumers from ChatGPT generating false information.\n\nThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to the Microsoft-backed business requesting information on how it addresses risks to people's reputations.\n\nThe inquiry is a sign of the rising regulatory scrutiny of the technology.\n\nOpenAI chief executive Sam Altman says the company will work with the FTC.\n\nChatGPT generates convincing human-like responses to user queries within seconds, instead of the series of links generated by a traditional internet search. It, and similar AI products, are expected to dramatically change the way people get information they are searching for online.\n\nTech rivals are racing to offer their own versions of the technology, even as it generates fierce debate, including over the data it uses, the accuracy of the responses and whether the company violated authors' rights as it was training the technology.\n\nThe FTC's letter asks what steps OpenAI has taken to address its products' potential to \"generate statements about real individuals that are false, misleading, disparaging or harmful\".\n\nThe FTC is also looking at OpenAI's approach to data privacy and how it obtains data to train and inform the AI.\n\nMr Altman said OpenAI had spent years on safety research and months making ChatGPT \"safer and more aligned before releasing it\".\n\n\"We protect user privacy and design our systems to learn about the world, not private individuals,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nIn another tweet he said that it was important to the firm that its \"technology is safe and pro-consumer, and we are confident we follow the law. Of course we will work with the FTC.\"\n\nMr Altman appeared before a hearing at Congress earlier this year, in which he admitted that the technology could be a source of errors.\n\nHe called for regulations to be created for the emerging industry and recommended that a new agency be formed to oversee AI safety. He added that he expected the technology to have a significant impact, including on jobs, as its uses become clear.\n\n\"I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong... we want to be vocal about that,\" Mr Altman said at the time. \"We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.\"\n\nThe investigation by the FTC was first reported by the Washington Post, which published a copy of the letter. OpenAI did not respond to a BBCrequest for comment.\n\nThe FTC also declined to comment. The consumer watchdog has taken a high profile role policing the tech giants under its current chair, Lina Khan.\n\nMs Khan rose to prominence as a Yale law student, when she criticised America's record on anti-monopoly enforcement related to Amazon.\n\nAppointed by President Joe Biden, she is a controversial figure, with critics arguing that she is pushing the FTC beyond the boundaries of its authority.\n\nSome of her most high-profile challenges of tech firms activities - including a push to block the merger of Microsoft with gaming giant Activision Blizzard - have faced setbacks in the courts.\n\nDuring a five-hour hearing in Congress on Thursday, she faced tough criticism from Republicans over her leadership of the agency.\n\nShe did not mention the FTC's investigation into OpenAI, which is at a preliminary stage. But she said she had concerns about the product's output.\n\n\"We've heard about reports where people's sensitive information is showing up in response to an inquiry from somebody else,\" Ms Khan said.\n\n\"We've heard about libel, defamatory statements, flatly untrue things that are emerging. That's the type of fraud and deception that we are concerned about,\" she added.\n\nThe FTC probe is not the company's first challenge over such issues. Italy banned ChatGPT in April, citing privacy concerns. The service was restored after it added a tool to verify users' ages and provided more information about its privacy policy.", "Shekhar Kapur says Hollywood's push to cast actors of colour comes from guilt\n\nDirector Shekhar Kapur has said Hollywood's push for more diverse casts has come from its guilt over \"all the actors who are not getting work\".\n\nKapur said the inclusion of ethnic minority actors in shows such as Netflix's Bridgerton is \"a good thing\" in terms of opportunity.\n\nBut, he said, it hides \"a greater, more fundamental issue\" of which stories are brought to the big screen.\n\nHe added the rise in protests had helped bring the issue to the fore.\n\n\"Hollywood should be telling stories of that culture, of the culture of the brown people, of the African-American people, of the black people, of Asians,\" he told BBC Newsnight's Sima Kotecha.\n\n\"But what's happening is they're still addicted to their, you know, the narrative is still their point of view.\"\n\nKapur is best known for his films Elizabeth and its sequel The Golden Age, both starring Cate Blanchett, and Bollywood films such as Mr India and Bandit Queen.\n\nWhen asked about Hollywood's efforts to increase the diversity of actors in its films, Kapur described it as \"a guilt trip\" and woke.\n\n\"It's Hollywood feeling guilty about all the actors that are not getting work. And because there's a huge rise of protests,\" he said.\n\nThe live-action remake of The Little Mermaid released in cinemas in May starred black actress and singer Halle Bailey as main character Ariel, which caused controversy in some quarters.\n\nHalle Bailey starred in Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid earlier this year\n\nKapur joined the film industry in India as an actor, before going on to become a director.\n\nHis 1998 film Elizabeth, about the early years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, received widespread critical acclaim and several Oscar nominations.\n\nFollowing its release, the director said many of the scripts he received went on to be \"a huge success\", including ones that he turned down.\n\nDiscussing international scripts he would receive, he said: \"It's always an American going in, fixing the world's problem, going to Africa... and I said, 'Don't send me those scripts because it's not true'.\n\nKapur was educated in Delhi before moving to London for a career as a management consultant and chartered accountant\n\n\"For example, if you were going to make Gandhi the answer, the question was: 'Who's the American in it? Who's the American who goes and fixes all the problems? And who's the white man in the film?'\n\n\"And I would refuse to do those films. Absolutely. Because it's not patently not true.\"\n\nKapur was educated in Delhi before moving to London for a career as a management consultant and chartered accountant, but later turned to film directing, releasing his first film Masoom in 1983.\n\nThe 77-year-old, whose most recent film What's Love Got To Do With It? starred Shazad Latif and Lily James, suggested the film industry is contained within far too small a geographical area.\n\n\"I really believe that Hollywood's too concentrated together as like a group,\" he said. \"I think it needs to be taken away and spread out.\n\n\"I would love to see it in Shanghai if you can. I would love to see it in Mumbai or in Tokyo or as it's happening in Seoul.\"", "A 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of killing a well-known drag queen has been released without charge.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it had ended its investigation and was not looking for anyone else in connection with the death of Darren Haydn Meah-Moore, 39.\n\nMr Meah-Moore's body was found in a lane close to Windsor Place and Park Lane in Cardiff on 22 January.\n\nHis family has been updated and the case has been handed to the coroner so an inquest can be held, police added.\n\nMr Meah-Moore, from Newport, performed as CC Quinn and previously as Crystal Coutoure.\n\nThree days after he died a vigil was held in Windsor Place where dozens of people paid tribute.\n\nRichard Smith who attended the event said he had known Mr Meah-Moore for more than 20 years and was \"absolutely gutted, devastated\".\n\n\"It's rocked the community, that's all I can say, no-one's safe anywhere,\" he added.\n\nRob Llewelyn said he had watched Mr Meah-Moore sing in Cardiff over the past 20 years and \"everyone in the gay community knew him, he was just liked by everyone\".\n\nDarren Meah-Moore was found dead near Windsor Place in Cardiff city centre\n\nMr Meah-Moore was jailed in March 1999 after being convicted of four counts of rape of a boy under 16.\n\nIn 2011, he was also sentenced to a three-year community order and given 300 hours of unpaid work for breaching of a sex offender's order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nurses in Northern Ireland may have no alternative but to take further strike action if there has been no pay offer by autumn, the NI director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said.\n\nRita Devlin said nurses had been treated \"like second-class citizens\".\n\nHer comments come after the Department of Health said there was no money for an uplift in a submission to an independent pay review body.\n\nMs Devlin said members were becoming increasingly frustrated over pay.\n\nOn Thursday, more than one million public sector workers in England and Wales, including teachers, police and doctors were told they would be offered pay rises of about 6%..\n\nUnder a deal set out earlier this year, NHS workers will receive a 5% pay rise. Ambulance workers, nurses, physiotherapists and porters will also get a one-off sum of at least £1,655.\n\nStormont's Department of Health said it did not have the funding to cover such a rise in Northern Ireland.\n\nRita Devlin from the RCN said without a pay offer problems with staff retention and recuitment will worsen\n\nMs Devlin told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme that nurses were growing increasingly frustrated over pay.\n\nIf by autumn \"there is no offer on the table, no change in the political situation, if nothing changes, I do not believe we have an alternative (to strike action)\", she continued.\n\nShe added that nurses can make \"a significantly increased amount of money\" by working outside Northern Ireland, in other parts of the UK or the Republic of Ireland.\n\nA spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Office said the UK government \"has no authority to negotiate pay in Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe pay review body said the Department of Health's submission highlighted pay in Northern Ireland may fall behind other parts of the UK.\n\nIt added this risks \"significantly deteriorating the position of the NHS workforce in Northern Ireland compared to the rest of the UK\".\n\n\"The Department of Health told us there is currently no funding for a pay award and they would have to bid for funding from the Department of Finance,\" the body continued.\n\n\"They said they needed any pay award to be fully funded by HM Treasury.\"\n\nThe body added it was concerned with what the department had said about affordability, telling it \"there was no capacity to afford a pay uplift for 2023-24 without implementing corresponding cuts to expenditure on services or additional funding being made available\".\n\nNurses took part in industrial action earlier this year\n\nOn Thursday, a number of trade unions representing other parts of the public sector warned of industrial action in Northern Ireland if there was no progress on pay, with most decisions devolved to Stormont ministers.\n\nThere is currently no functioning executive or assembly at Stormont because of the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) protest against post-Brexit trading rules.\n\nIt has instead been left to the Northern Ireland secretary to set a budget.\n\nHowever, departmental budgets are being squeezed, partially as a result of an overspend last year.\n\nOn Thursday, Liam Kelly from the Police Federation of Northern Ireland said officers wanted clarity on whether a similar pay deal to England and Wales would apply in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"At this stage our officers are entitled to know if they are getting 7% or if, for the first time, there will be a break with pay parity,\" he said.\n\nFunding a 7% pay rise would be a financial headache for the Police Service of Northern Ireland in the current landscape.\n\nIt has earmarked £18m in its budget for a wage increase for about 6,500 officers.\n\nBut that only equates to a 5% uplift, at a time when it is looking into a £40m black hole in its finances.\n\nPreviously, Northern Ireland has followed the rest of the UK in terms of officer pay awards.\n\nThere are now concerns among officers parity could be broken.\n\nPolice officers cannot go on strike, so they do not have the same leverage as other parts of the public sector.\n\nImplementing any parallel 7% rise for prison officers would be equally challenging.\n\nThe head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service has warned that Stormont departments had \"reached the limit\" of what they can do to manage budget pressures this year and another overspend is looming.\n\nJayne Brady warned the government there remains an unfunded pay pressure of £571m, and a further £437m of pressures requiring decisions.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Finance said pay awards \"need to be viewed in the context of the available budget\".\n\n\"Relevant Northern Ireland departments will consider the recommendations made by the pay review bodies and the local implications,\" they added.\n\nA separate pay review body said consultants, dentists and GPs in Northern Ireland should get a 6% pay rise in line with the rest of the UK.\n\nImplementing that in Northern Ireland would cost about £40m and it does not appear there is the money available.\n\nMeanwhile, Justin McCamphill, from the teaching union NASUWT, said teachers \"will vote with their feet\" if their pay falls behind other regions.\n\n\"If we don't invest in our young people, we won't have an economy for the future,\" he said.\n\n\"So the government needs to look at the decisions it's been making.\"\n\nThere has been stalemate over a pay deal for teachers in Northern Ireland for over two years.\n\nThe last pay rise teachers got was for the 2020/21 school year.\n\nThere have been some big hikes in the cost of living since then, which have hot teachers like other workers.\n\nTeachers have had to look on as their counterparts elsewhere in the UK have received rises - though not without strikes and strife in some cases.\n\nThe upshot is a teacher's salary in Northern Ireland is often thousands of pounds behind those in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nFor instance, a new teacher in Northern Ireland gets just over £24,000 a year while in England that is now set to rise to around £30,000.\n\nPay deals are negotiated and agreed locally in Northern Ireland between the unions and management bodies like the Department of Education and Education Authority.\n\nBut with an education budget under severe pressure, and no Stormont, chances of a deal anytime soon are slim.", "It is hot. Very hot. And temperatures show no signs of easing.\n\nNearly a third of Americans - over 113 million people - are under some form of heat advisory, the US National Weather Service said.\n\nAcross the US, temperatures are shattering decades-long record highs. In El Paso, Texas, temperatures have soared to above 37C - triple-digits Fahrenheit - for 27 consecutive days, overtaking a record last set in 1994.\n\nIn the UK, the June heat didn't just break all-time records, it smashed them. It was 0.9C hotter than the previous record, set back in 1940. That is a huge margin.\n\nThere is a similar story of unprecedented hot weather in North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.\n\nNo surprise, then, that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather forecasts said that globally, June was the hottest on record.\n\nAnd the heat has not eased. The three hottest days ever recorded were in the past week, according to the EU climate and weather service, Copernicus.\n\nThe average world temperature hit 16.89C on Monday 3 July and topped 17C for the first time on 4 July, with an average global temperature of 17.04C.\n\nProvisional figures suggest that was exceeded on 5 July when temperatures reached 17.05C.\n\nThese highs are in line with what climate models predicted, says Prof Richard Betts, climate scientist at the Met Office and University of Exeter.\n\n\"We should not be at all surprised with the high global temperatures,\" he says. \"This is all a stark reminder of what we've known for a long time, and we will see ever more extremes until we stop building up more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\"\n\nWhen we think about how hot it is, we tend to think about the air temperature, because that's what we experience in our daily lives.\n\nBut most of the heat stored near the surface of the Earth is not in the atmosphere, but in the oceans. And we've been seeing some record ocean temperatures this spring and summer.\n\nThe North Atlantic, for example, is currently experiencing the highest surface water temperatures ever recorded.\n\nThat marine heatwave has been particularly pronounced around the coasts of the UK, where some areas have experienced temperatures as much as 5C above what you would normally expect for this time of year.\n\nThe US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has labelled it a Category 4 heatwave. The designation is rarely used outside of the tropics and denotes \"extreme\" heat.\n\n\"Such anomalous temperatures in this part of the North Atlantic are unheard of,\" says Daniela Schmidt, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.\n\nAt the same time, an El Niño is developing in the tropical Pacific.\n\nEl Niño is a recurring weather pattern caused when warm waters rise to the surface off the coast of South America and spread across the ocean.\n\nWith both the Atlantic and the Pacific experiencing heatwaves, it is perhaps not surprising that global sea surface temperatures for both April and May were the highest ever recorded in Met Office data that goes all the way back to 1850.\n\nIf the seas are warmer than usual, you can expect higher air temperatures too, says Tim Lenton, professor of climate change at Exeter University.\n\nMost of the extra heat trapped by the build-up of greenhouse gases has gone into warming the surface ocean, he explains. That extra heat tends to get mixed downwards towards the deeper ocean, but movements in oceans currents - like El Niño - can bring it back to the surface.\n\n\"When that happens, a lot of that heat gets released into the atmosphere,\" says Prof Lenton, \"driving up air temperatures.\"\n\nIt's easy to think of this exceptionally hot weather as unusual, but the depressing truth is that climate change means it is now normal to experience record-breaking temperatures.\n\nGreenhouse gas emissions continue to increase year on year. The rate of growth has slowed slightly, but energy-related CO2 emissions were still up almost 1% last year, according to the International Energy Agency, a global energy watchdog.\n\nAnd the higher the global temperature, the higher the risk of heatwaves, says Friederike Otto, a climatologist at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change at Imperial College London.\n\n\"These heatwaves are not only more frequent, but also hotter and longer than they would have been without global warming,\" she says.\n\nExperts are already predicting that the developing El Niño is likely to make 2023 the world's hottest year.\n\nThey fear it is likely to temporarily push the world past a key 1.5C warming milestone.\n\nAnd that is just the start. Unless we make dramatic reductions to greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures will continue to rise.\n\nThe Met Office said this week that record June temperatures this year were made twice as likely because of man-made climate change.\n\nThese rising temperatures are already driving fundamental and almost certainly irreversible changes in ecosystems across the world.\n\nThe record June temperatures in the UK helped cause unprecedented deaths of fish in rivers and canals, for example.\n\nWe cannot know what impact the current marine heatwave will have on the UK, cautions Prof Schmidt of the University of Bristol, because we have never seen one this intense before.\n\n\"In other regions, around Australia, in the Mediterranean, entire ecosystems changed, kelp forests disappeared, and seabirds and whales starved,\" she says.\n\nThe world is effectively in a race.\n\nIt is clear we are speeding towards an ever hotter and more chaotic climate future, but we do have the technologies and tools to cut our emissions.\n\nThe question now is whether we can do so rapidly enough to slow the climate juggernaut and keep the impacts of global warming within manageable boundaries.\n\nWhat do you want to know about these heatwaves? We'll be putting your questions to experts in our coverage this week, so let us know what you're wondering or worrying about. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Somerset-How speaks out about abuse he received, after wife and carer jailed under modern slavery laws\n\nThe wife and carer of a disabled man who they enslaved and left in squalid conditions have been jailed.\n\nSarah Somerset-How and her lover George Webb left Tom Somerset-How bedbound and malnourished in his home in Chichester, West Sussex, for four years.\n\nMr Somerset-How, 40, said he lived \"under duress and threat\" and was forced into \"survival mode\".\n\nAt Portsmouth Crown Court, Ms Somerset-How, 49, and Webb, 40, both of Bognor Regis, were sentenced to 11 years.\n\nIn what is thought to be the first prosecution of its kind, the pair were convicted of wilful neglect and holding a person in slavery or servitude.\n\nIn addition, Webb was also convicted of causing actual bodily harm.\n\nSarah Somerset-How and her lover George Webb left Tom Somerset-How bedbound and malnourished in his home\n\nWhen he was rescued, Mr Somerset-How weighed just 6st 10lbs (43kg).\n\n\"I was literally in bed for 95% of four years. There was one point where I didn't get showered in five weeks,\" he said.\n\n\"The emotional toll's been ridiculous and the psychological toll. It's completely, utterly destroyed me. There's no retribution that will ever equalise what they've done to me.\"\n\nHe added: \"As far as George goes, because he was a carer, he should never, ever have the opportunity to do this to anybody again.\"\n\nThe trial heard that the pair's treatment of Mr Somerset-How, who has cerebral palsy, requires 24-hour care and uses an electric wheelchair, was uncovered by a friend as well as by the victim's sister Kate Somerset-Holmes, an actress who has appeared in Silent Witness and Holby City.\n\nOver four years, Mr Somerset-How was physically and psychologically abused, left without sufficient food and drink and forced to live in squalid conditions after Webb was hired as a live-in carer in 2016, the court heard.\n\nThe lovers took advantage of him for their own financial gains and separated him from his family, who reported the situation to the police in August 2020.\n\nPolice said texts between the defendants' mobile phones showed they had started a sexual relationship together and intentionally neglected Mr Somerset-How to take drugs and plan nights away.\n\nOver four years, Tom Somerset-How was physically and psychologically abused\n\nIn sentencing, Judge William Ashworth said Mr Somerset-How was \"held in slavery, kept in bed, frequently in his own urine and excrement, unwashed, unkempt and absent from contact from other humans\".\n\nHe told the court that Mr Somerset-How had suffered \"serious psychological harm\", was \"humiliated\" and treated as \"a cow to be milked\".\n\nPrior to sentencing, Mr Somerset-How's victim impact statement was read out by the prosecution barrister, Paul Calvin.\n\n\"I go to my room and just scream,\" it said.\n\nThe statement also said that Mr Somerset-How had had suicidal thoughts and been left with significant debt.\n\nDet Con Cheyne Garrett said she was shocked when she realised the scale of the \"depravity\" shown by the couple.\n\n\"He was stuck in that room. His money was spent. It is despicable and it shouldn't have happened,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Georgia Wellings said not being able to access an NHS dentist makes her \"anxious\"\n\nA woman has said she has had to make a 200-mile round trip just to get an NHS dentist appointment.\n\nGeorgia Wellings, 22, has been unable to get an appointment in south Wales for five years.\n\nOther patients say they have been forced to drive more than five hours each way to see a dentist, one even being denied an appointment despite having two broken teeth.\n\nThe Welsh government said it has increased funding for dentistry.\n\nLast year a BBC investigation found that in 11 out of 22 local authorities in Wales, 100% of dentistry practices contacted were unable to accept new patients.\n\nMs Wellings said on moving to Cardiff five years ago she immediately tried to find an NHS dentist \"but nobody was taking anybody on\".\n\n\"Five years later and there's still no NHS dentists available,\" she said.\n\n\"I've tried Barry, Swansea, Penarth and Bristol too - absolutely nothing.\"\n\nBefore she moved to Cardiff for university Ms Wellings was registered with an NHS dentist in Exeter, and being unable to find a new one in Wales meant she kept her name on its list.\n\nShe said she made the 200-mile round trip to Exeter twice since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut since her last appointment in January, she has been told they no longer offer NHS appointments.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nShe said she finds it \"ridiculous\" that she has \"no other option but to go private.\"\n\n\"I'm making a conscious effort to look after my teeth a lot more in the event that I can't afford private dentists fees and emergency dental fees.\n\n\"I'm anxious about my health and about money as everyone is at the moment, so to not have an NHS dentist accessible is quite worrying at times, especially now that my only option is to go private.\"\n\nShe said she will continue to try to get an NHS appointment as the quotes she has been given for private care are \"three times the cost\" and she knows \"for a fact that I'll walk in, they'll count my teeth and I'll be walking out ten minutes later with no issues\".\n\nSarah Dickinson, 56, from Caernarfon, said she also tried and failed to get on an NHS waiting list after she and her husband moved from Halifax, Yorkshire.\n\nShe described her own teeth as \"awful\", with two being broken.\n\nSarah Dickinson says she and her husband cannot afford private dentist care and cannot access NHS services\n\n\"One of them is where the crown's fallen off, and I've actually just got the metal stud where the crown was.\n\n\"But unless your face is actually swollen you can't get an emergency appointment.\"\n\nMrs Dickinson said the metal stud cuts her tongue and catches her cheek.\n\nShe said she also has another tooth with a hole in it, and is \"worried about having smelly breath\".\n\nAnd after her husband drove for an hour to Amlwch to have a tooth \"pulled\", she said he was \"told off for not seeing the dentist more often\".\n\nMrs Dickinson and her husband have to live off about £900 a month after she was forced to retire early because of ill health.\n\nSarah Dickinson says she can't get an NHS appointment despite having two broken teeth\n\nShe said they cannot risk going private because she needs her savings to last 12 years.\n\n\"We are in despair, as our teeth are only going to get worse,\" she added.\n\nHeather Manson, 28, from Cardiff, said she and her boyfriend rang 10 NHS practices with no success.\n\nShe moved to Cardiff in 2019 and ended up travelling back to her home city of Leeds to see an NHS dentist.\n\nMs Manson said: \"A year or so later I again rung about 30 dentists, and none were accepting NHS.\"\n\nIt took four years for Heather Manson to get an NHS appointment in Wales\n\nAfter managing to get herself onto the Cardiff and Vale generic dental waiting list in August 2022 she said she never heard back about an appointment.\n\nBut a month later Ms Manson decided to go private, because \"it had been years\" since she last had her teeth checked and she \"thought it was the only option\".\n\nHowever, she was able to get an NHS appointment before she had to pay for private health care and has had a \"smooth sailing experience\".\n\nMs Manson said she thinks \"oral hygiene is very important and should be a service that everyone is entitled to easily\".\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant dental services director Peter Greensmith said: \"We were very sorry to hear about the difficulties Mrs Dickinson has experienced when attempting to access treatment and would encourage her to contact our patient advice and liaison service directly, so her concerns can be properly investigated.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Nearly 174,000 patients who have historically not been able to get a dental appointment received one last year.\n\n\"Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) have launched a new local recruitment initiative called WERO (Welsh Enhanced Recruitment Offer for Dentistry), which offers an enhanced support package for trainees who complete dental foundation training in specific rural dental practices in west, north and central Wales.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nOns Jabeur produced a superb comeback to beat Aryna Sabalenka and set up a Wimbledon women's singles final against unseeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova.\n\nJabeur's hopes were slipping away at a set and 4-2 behind but she rode a wave of momentum and raucous support to win 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-3 and reach a second successive final at the Championships.\n\nIt means there will be a new Wimbledon and Grand Slam champion on Saturday.\n\nShe is the first unseeded player to reach the Wimbledon women's singles final in the Open era.\n\nTunisia's Jabeur, the sixth seed, was beaten in last year's final by Elena Rybakina and was wildly supported by the Centre Court crowd throughout one of the best matches of the tournament so far.\n\n\"Thank you to the crowd that kept me in the match,\" Jabeur said in her on-court interview.\n\n\"Thank you very much for believing in me.\n\n\"I'm working a lot with my mental coach about this. I might be writing a book about it!\"\n\nThe women's singles final is at 14:00 BST on Saturday.\n• None I'm still the favourite for Wimbledon - Djokovic\n\nThe charismatic Jabeur, bidding to become the first African and Arab woman to be a Slam singles champion, gained a large following at SW19 on her run to last year's final.\n\nThat support was much needed as she fought back from the brink against the world number two.\n\nJabeur, who beat Rybakina in the previous round, had made most of the running in the first set, repeatedly applying pressure in Sabalenka service games - staying silent and composed as her opponent's shrieks echoed around under the roof.\n\nBut from 4-2 in the first-set tie-break a flurry of untimely errors from the Tunisian allowed Australian Open champion Sabalenka to take the opener.\n\nJabeur was visibly deflated at the start of the second and at 2-2, a forehand error and a double fault gifted the Belarusian a break of serve, despite the crowd's best efforts to lift their player.\n\nWith the match slipping away, Jabeur came out on the wrong side of two gruelling points - the second of which left her flat on her back on the grass in disappointment - but she still managed to break back to level.\n\nFrom 4-4 she won the next two games, the set sealed with a stunning backhand return winner after which she cupped her ear to a roaring crowd.\n\nWith the momentum behind her, Jabeur broke for 4-2 in the decider, despite two huge forehands from Sabalenka almost allowing her to wriggle free.\n\nTwo games later, Sabalenka saved match points with big serving but on her own serve, having seen two more chances slip away, Jabeur served an ace of her own to seal the win.\n\n\"It was very difficult with her shots and her serves,\" Jabeur said.\n\n\"I'm very proud of myself because maybe the old me would have lost this match today and I would've been back home already.\n\nRecent history has provided a number of shock Grand Slam finalists in the women's singles, but Vondrousova's progress is probably the biggest Wimbledon surprise since Eugenie Bouchard reached the 2014 final.\n\nVondrousova, ranked 42nd in the world, admitted before the semi-final she \"never thought\" she could do well on grass.\n\nClay courts have long been considered the Czech's best surface and she reached the French Open final as a 19-year-old in 2019, losing on the red dirt to Australia's Ashleigh Barty.\n\nSince that Roland Garros final she has not gone past the last 16 at a Grand Slam and has had two wrist surgeries, the latest of which kept her out until last October.\n\n\"I didn't play for six months last year and you never know if you can be at that level again,\" Vondrousova said.\n\n\"I'm so grateful to be here, be healthy and be playing tennis again.\"\n\nVondrousova has grown in belief during the grass-court major, cleaning out four seeded opponents before facing former world number three Svitolina.\n\nThat confidence was illustrated as she started strongly. Vondrousova targeted Svitolina's backhand and reaped the rewards with two breaks of serve in a run of three games against serve to lead 4-3.\n\nVondrousova's loopier forehand caused problems for Svitolina, who hits a flatter ball, and greater consistency from the baseline enabled her to break again in the ninth game to seal the set.\n\nThe run of Svitolina has been one of the storylines of the fortnight.\n\nNot only is she coming back from giving birth to daughter Skai in October, the Ukrainian is also dealing with the emotional aspect of the war back home, which she says she has used as added motivation to win matches.\n\nAs usual, Svitolina showed her determination and will to win even when she fell 4-0 down in the second set and the match looked to be quickly running away from her.\n\nBut she clawed back one break - and then the other - providing herself with hope of a remarkable comeback.\n\nHowever, Vondrousova managed to recover from her edginess to break again and held her nerve in a tense service game to secure victory.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None What happened to Annie Börjesson on a Scottish beach?\n• None The rollercoaster life and career of Kanye West AKA Ye", "US climate envoy John Kerry said on Thursday that the US would not pay climate reparations \"under any circumstances\"\n\nThe US says it will not \"under any circumstances\" pay reparations to developing countries hit by climate change-fuelled disasters.\n\nClimate envoy John Kerry made the remarks at a Congress hearing before flying to China to discuss the issue.\n\nSome countries want major economies - which produce the most greenhouse gases - to pay for past emissions.\n\nA fund has been established for poorer nations, but it remains unclear how much richer countries will pay.\n\nMr Kerry, a former secretary of state, was asked during a hearing before a House of Representatives foreign affairs committee whether the US would pay countries that have been damaged by floods, storms and other climate-driven disasters.\n\n\"No, under no circumstances,\" he said in response to a question from Brian Mast, the committee chair.\n\nHe was speaking days before he was due to travel to Beijing to meet with officials to discuss issues around climate change, including plans for this year's UN climate conference, COP28, which will take place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, in November.\n\nAt last year's conference - COP27 in Egypt - more than 200 countries agreed to create a loss and damage fund, which will be financed mainly by developed nations before the money is distributed to \"particularly vulnerable\" nations.\n\nAlthough the agreement was billed as one of the major successes of the summit, there are still many details that need to be ironed out, including how much richer nations will pay and how money will be distributed. A series of meetings have been taking place this year aimed at addressing these issues.\n\nDeveloping nations - which are disproportionately impacted by climate-related impacts - have called for guaranteed compensation from developed countries, who they say are historically responsible for climate change through their high emissions of greenhouse gases.\n\nRicher countries recognise the need to contribute greater funds towards the issue, but framing the payments as reparations is controversial, with some claiming it is a divisive term.\n\nDeveloping countries also argue that finance targets to address the issue of climate change are too low.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC has suspended the presenter at the centre of allegations of serious misconduct.\n\nWe understand the corporation has also now contacted the police.\n\nFor an organisation that says it aims for transparency, this statement felt inevitable after a weekend when the corporation was on the front pages of many newspapers.\n\nBut there are still many questions that need to be answered.\n\nWhat exactly did the BBC do on 19 May after the complaint was made? What was the nature of that complaint? Was it clear at that point that potential criminality was involved?\n\nDid they interview the presenter? Did they consider contacting the police at the time? Did they consider suspending the presenter then?\n\nThe BBC has confirmed it has now spoken to the family of the individual involved, but how many attempts were made to contact the family after their original complaint?\n\nDid the BBC consider taking the presenter off air at the time, while they were looking into the allegations?\n\nThe BBC has said its internal processes \"proactively deal with such allegations\" and it is important to state that we don't know the full facts. The presenter may be innocent.\n\nThese are claims made in a newspaper. We don't know if they are true.\n\nThe director general Tim Davie, in an email to BBC staff, addressed the questions around why the presenter has not been named. He also hasn't been named by the Sun newspaper.\n\n\"By law, individuals are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy, which is making this situation more complex,\" Mr Davie writes.\n\nThe BBC has also referred to \"new allegations\" only put to them on Thursday which it says are \"of a different nature\". That was presumably when they were contacted by the Sun newspaper.\n\nThere are questions to answer here too; did the complaint made in May reference possible criminality or did the information about sexually explicit photographs allegedly solicited from a 17-year-old only emerge on Thursday?\n\nThis afternoon's statement announcing the suspension and contact with \"external authorities, in line with our protocols\" comes after Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer held talks with Mr Davie.\n\nFrom Ms Frazer's comments after the conversation, it looks as if she has been reassured about the corporation's investigation process. She said she wants to give the BBC space to conduct its enquiries.\n\nSpace, but presumably not much time. It has already been nearly two months since the original complaint.\n\nThe BBC today referred to the matter as a \"complex and fast moving set of circumstances\". It said it expects to have a further update in the coming days.\n\nThey do need to move fast. Speculation is rife and growing. Other BBC presenters have felt forced to deny their involvement.\n\nIn his email to staff, Mr Davie said \"I am wholly condemning the unsubstantiated rumours being made on the internet about some of our presenting talent\".\n\nReputationally, this has already been damaging for the BBC, which has been accused of looking evasive and being slow to act.\n\nDespite today's statement, the director general is still under pressure as he tries to steer the BBC through this crisis.\n\nOn Tuesday - in a coincidence of timing he could probably do without - Mr Davie will launch the BBC's annual report and face the media. It's likely one story will dominate the coverage.", "Brad Pitt and Damson Idris were filming at Silverstone during the British Grand Prix weekend\n\nHollywood actor Brad Pitt, who has been cast as an F1 driver in a movie, was seen in costume at Silverstone during the British Grand Prix weekend.\n\nThe star, and co-star Damson Idris, were spotted in white and black racing suits on the grid at the Northamptonshire circuit on Sunday.\n\nSeven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton is helping to produce the currently untitled Apple film.\n\nPitt, 59, told Sky Sports he was \"a little giddy right now\".\n\n\"It's great to be here,\" he said.\n\n\"We're just having such a laugh, [the] time of my life.\"\n\nPitt and Idris were spotted in white and black racing suits on the grid at the Northamptonshire circuit\n\nThe Oscar-winner is playing the role of a veteran driver returning to the grid after a 30-year absence.\n\nThe film is being made in collaboration with F1, providing the project with special access to racetracks and drivers.\n\nPitt and Idris in racing suits represented the fictional APXGP team as they mingled among real F1 drivers at Silverstone.\n\nPitt mingled with real F1 drivers on the grid, including Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr\n\nThe APXGP team had its own garage on the pit wall - between Mercedes and Ferrari - and the drivers were in Formula 2 cars, modified by Mercedes.\n\nA Formula 2 car, modified by Mercedes for F1-inspired movie, was filmed on the grid\n\nPitt stop and garage for the movie's racing team\n\nPitt told Sky Sports presenter and former F1 driver Martin Brundle his character had moved to racing in other disciplines after suffering a \"horrible crash\" in F1, and is asked to come back to help his old team who are sitting at the bottom of the leaderboard.\n\nPitt added that the film \"should be as authentic as we can get it\" as they have employed F1 experts who have been \"operating the show like the real thing\".\n\n\"Lewis, who's also our producer, is really intent that we respect the sport, that we really show it for what it is,\" he said.\n\n\"And I've got to tell you, as a civilian, I had no idea what it takes to be a driver and the aggression and the dexterity - they're amazing athletes who I've so much respect for, everyone out there in all classes.\"\n\nFilming is due to continue throughout the F1 season.\n\nPitt also filmed with Javier Bardem and Tobias Menzies\n\nIn the British Grand Prix itself, Max Verstappen raced to a sixth consecutive victory, with Britain's Lando Norris and Hamilton in second and third.\n\nHollywood star Brad Pitt was seen strolling among the crowds on Thursday\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Madonna has said she is \"on the road to recovery\" in her first statement since a bacterial infection left her in a hospital's intensive care unit.\n\nOn social media, the singer said \"my focus now is my health\" and thanked her fans for their \"positive energy\".\n\nThe star, 64, said: \"I assure you, I'll be back with you as soon as I can!\"\n\nThe pop star said her current plan was to reschedule her forthcoming North American concerts and begin her Celebration Tour in the UK in October.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Madonna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the statement, she wrote: \"Thank you for your positive energy, prayers and words of healing and encouragement. I have felt your love.\n\n\"I'm on the road to recovery and incredibly grateful for all the blessings in my life.\n\n\"My first thought when I woke up in the hospital was my children.\n\n\"My second thought was that I did not want to disappoint anyone who bought tickets for my tour. I also didn't want to let down the people who worked tirelessly with me over the last few months to create my show. I hate to disappoint anyone.\n\n\"My focus now is my health and getting stronger and I assure you, I'll be back with you as soon as I can!\n\n\"The current plan is to reschedule the North American leg of the tour and to begin in October in Europe.\"\n\nShe had been due to start the greatest hits tour in Canada on Saturday, 15 July. The European leg is scheduled to begin with four nights at London's O2 Arena from 14 October.\n\nShe finished her statement by saying: \"I couldn't be more grateful for your care and support.\"\n\nIt comes two weeks after her manager Guy Oseary revealed the star had developed a \"serious bacterial infection\" on 24 June, which led to \"a several day stay in the ICU\".\n\nAt the time, he said she would \"need to pause all commitments, which includes the tour\".\n\nMadonna's greatest hits span several decades - including Into The Groove (1985), Like A Prayer (1989), to Vogue (1990) and Hung Up (2005) to name a few.\n\nIn announcing the tour back in January, she told fans: \"I am excited to explore as many songs as possible in hopes to give my fans the show they have been waiting for.\"\n\nIt is likely that she was in the final stages of a rehearsal regime when she became ill.\n\nShe called off a number of shows in her more experimental, theatre-based Madame X tour in 2019 and 2020 because of knee and hip injuries.", "A huge metal construction girder has fallen onto a busy road in Bangkok, killing at least one person and critically injuring several more.\n\nRescue workers rushed to the scene to search for survivors from crushed cars and damaged buildings.\n\nThe girder was part of a project to build elevated highways in the city.\n\nBangkok's Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said the cause of the accident is not yet known.", "Larry Nassar is believed to have been stabbed several times in a prison fight\n\nFormer US national gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar has been stabbed at least 10 times at a Florida prison.\n\nNassar, serving up to 175 years for molesting gymnasts, was attacked by another inmate on Sunday.\n\nHe is reportedly in hospital in a stable condition and is said to have suffered a collapsed lung.\n\nThe 59-year-old was jailed for sexually assaulting athletes, and possession of child pornography. Hundreds of accusers have come forward.\n\nDuring the assault, Nassar was stabbed twice in the neck, twice in the back and six times in the chest, a prison union leader told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed an inmate was assaulted at 14:35 EST (18:35 GMT) on Sunday at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida, where the former doctor is serving time.\n\n\"Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures,\" the agency told BBC News. The inmate was taken to a local hospital \"for further treatment and evaluation\".\n\nAn internal investigation has been launched, and no staff or other inmates were injured in the incident, the statement said.\n\nNassar admitted to sexually assaulting athletes while he worked with the USA Gymnastics programme and Michigan State University, where he ran a clinic.\n\nMore than 330 women and girls at USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University have accused Nassar of sexual abuse.\n\nOlympic gold medallists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney all testified about surviving Nassar's abuse.\n\nSome of the young athletes said they had come forward about the abuse to adults, including coaches and doctors, but were dismissed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olympic athletes say the system failed them\n\nAn investigation into the FBI's handling of the scandal, published in 2021, found the agency made a series of missteps, including delays and cover-ups, which allowed Nassar's abuse to continue for several more months after the case was first opened.\n\nThe agency's own watchdog found the FBI disregarded allegations about Nassar and made early errors in its investigation.\n\nSeveral women who were sexually assaulted by Nassar - including Raisman, Biles and Maroney - have sued the FBI for $1bn (£783m) for mishandling credible complaints of sexual assault.\n\nUSA Gymnastics has agreed to pay $380m to Nassar's victims, while Michigan State reached a $500m settlement with survivors.\n\nIn June 2022, Michigan's Supreme Court rejected his final appeal in which he argued that he deserved a fresh trial due to comments made by the judge overseeing his case.\n\nDuring his sentencing, Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina described Nassar as a \"monster\" and told him: \"I just signed your death warrant.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTreasury minister Victoria Atkins has refused to say if the government will follow its pay review bodies' advice on salary rises for public sector workers.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, she said other ministers were considering the recommendations and would make a decision in \"due course\".\n\nThe pay review bodies provide advice on workers' salaries including doctors, teachers and the police.\n\nThe guidance is not legally binding and ministers can ignore the advice.\n\nBelow-inflation pay rises have led to strikes across the public sector hitting schools and hospitals.\n\nThe BBC understands that at least two pay review bodies are recommending increases below the rate of inflation - but higher than last year's awards.\n\nCurrently inflation - the rate at which prices are rising - stands at 8.7% but food inflation on items such as bread and chocolate stands at 18.3%.\n\nAsked if the government would abide by the advice, Ms Atkins said she hadn't seen the recommendations but ministers would look at them \"very carefully\".\n\nHowever, she warned that the decisions were being made at a time when the UK was facing \"very strong inflationary currents\".\n\nGovernment ministers have repeatedly argued that high pay rises could fuel further inflation and damage the UK economy.\n\nQuestioned on pay rises on Saturday the prime minister said: \"It would be incredibly short-sighted of the government to do something that might sound great today but ultimately just make the inflation problem worse for everybody in the long run.\"\n\nTrade unions have warned that, without action, workers will quit the public sector for better paid roles elsewhere.\n\nDave Penman, head of the FDA trade union which represents senior civil servants said: \"Last year the government hid behind the pay review bodies, now the bodies are recommending higher pay increases they are planning to ignore them. This will only end in further disputes that are entirely avoidable.\"\n\nAsked if the government had any plans to introduce tax cuts, Ms Atkins said: \"We do not have the headroom at the moment to look at tax cuts.\n\n\"But as soon as we can, as soon as we have taken the measures that we are taking to reduce inflation, then we will be able to start having those conversations.\"\n\nAppearing on the same programme, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said Labour would \"not play fast and loose\" with the nation's finances, if it returned to power after the next general election.\n\nShe said she was confident the party could meet its pledge to borrow money to fund green policies - but only if it didn't conflict with her fiscal rules.\n\nIn 2021, Ms Reeves had promised to invest £28bn a year, every year up to 2030, on projects such as offshore wind farms, planting trees and developing batteries.\n\nHowever, earlier this year she watered down the plans, saying instead that a Labour government would ramp up investment over time, aiming to reach £28bn a year after 2027.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves: UK needs to get a grip on its debt\n\nAsked if she would fulfil the pledge, Ms Reeves said she was \"confident\" but added that it was subject to her limits on spending.\n\n\"Debt is now the same size as our whole economy - we've got to get a grip of that,\" she said.\n\nThe shadow chancellor insisted that Labour's spending plans were \"not on the same track\" as the Conservatives, pointing to her policy to scrap the non-dom tax status as an example of how her party differed from the government.\n\nNicola Headlam, a chief economist at Red Flag Alert, a business intelligence company, told BBC Radio Five Live that \"bearing down\" on public sector workers and not meeting the recommendations of the pay review bodies was not the answer because other people in the workforce earn more.\n\n\"If you're a public sector worker, you're paying a mortgage, you've still got to pay the prices you see in the supermarkets.\n\n\"You've got a triple impact on you - thunder, lightning and rain and there are some other people with a larger umbrella who are still stoking inflation.\n\n\"We're starting to run out of good choices and it's because of a lack of growth in the economy, because of this inflation we seem to be unable to get a handle on, because of rising interest rates. It really is very, very difficult.\"", "Huw Edwards has been named as the BBC presenter at the centre of days of allegations and speculation.\n\nThe Sun newspaper first reported that the presenter, who was not named, was alleged to have paid a young person for sexually explicit photos. Other people have since alleged inappropriate contact.\n\nHere is a timeline of events:\n\nThe parents of the young person contacted South Wales Police. The force said the information related to \"the welfare of an adult\", and that \"no criminality was identified\".\n\nA family member went to a BBC building to make a complaint about the behaviour of a BBC presenter, according to the corporation.\n\nThe family member made a 29-minute call to the BBC's audience services team, which then referred it to the BBC's corporate investigations team.\n\nThey decided the complaint didn't include an allegation of criminality, but did merit further investigation. It \"was very serious\", according to director general Tim Davie.\n\nThe investigations unit said they emailed the complainant to ask for more information so they could verify the claims, and carried out checks to verify the identity of the complainant.\n\nThe corporate investigations team had received no reply to the email so tried to call the mobile number provided by the complainant. They said the call didn't connect.\n\nHowever, the Sun later reported that \"the family say no-one from the corporation rang them for a proper interview after the initial complaint\".\n\nThe BBC said no additional attempts to contact the complainant were made after this date, but the case \"remained open\".\n\nThe Sun newspaper told the BBC via the corporate press office about allegations concerning Edwards. According to the BBC, the claims made by the Sun contained new allegations, which were different from those received by the investigations team.\n\nThe BBC said this was the first time Mr Davie or any executive directors were made aware of the case. They set up an incident management group to lead the response.\n\nA senior manager spoke to the presenter about the allegations, and Edwards first learned of the allegations on this day, his wife said. The BBC said it was agreed that he shouldn't appear on air while the allegations were being investigated.\n\nWhen later asked why the presenter was not spoken to sooner, Mr Davie said: \"You don't take that complaint directly to the presenter unless it has been verified.\"\n\nThe Sun's first story was published, about the mother's claims that an unnamed BBC presenter paid their child tens of thousands of pounds for explicit photos over three years, beginning when they were 17. That raised questions about whether the behaviour was illegal.\n\nThe paper quoted the mother as saying the young person used the money to fund a crack cocaine habit, and that she was worried her child could \"wind up dead\".\n\nThe young person sent a WhatsApp message to the paper on this evening denying the claims, saying their mother's statement was \"totally wrong and there was no truth to it\", according to a later letter from their lawyer.\n\nIn its first public statement, the BBC said any information would \"be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes\".\n\nThe BBC also made contact with the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe Sun published further allegations, quoting the mother as saying the presenter was pictured in his underwear \"ready for my child to perform for him\".\n\nThe BBC said it received some materials from the family member regarding the complaint on this and the following day.\n\nMeanwhile, following speculation about the star's identity on social media, BBC presenters including Gary Lineker, Jeremy Vine, Rylan Clark and Nicky Campbell denied involvement to publicly clear their names.\n\nThe BBC said it had suspended a male staff member and was \"working as quickly as possible to establish the facts in order to properly inform appropriate next steps\".\n\nThe Sun reported that the presenter allegedly made two calls to the young person and asked them \"what have you done\", and appealed to them to call their mother to \"stop the investigation\".\n\nRepresentatives from the BBC met detectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command, but there was \"no investigation at this time\".\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, the lawyer representing the young person at the centre of the original allegations disputed their mother's account of events, saying \"the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are rubbish\".\n\nThe letter claimed the young person sent the newspaper a denial on Friday, but that it proceeded to publish \"their inappropriate article\".\n\nIn response, the Sun said it had \"reported a story about two very concerned parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and the welfare of their child\".\n\nTheir complaint \"was not acted upon by the BBC\" and it had \"seen evidence that supports their concerns\", the Sun added. \"It's now for the BBC to properly investigate.\"\n\nThe parents told the Sun they stood by their account. The step-father was quoted as saying the allegations were originally put to the BBC \"for an hour\".\n\nDuring a press conference to launch the BBC's annual report and an interview with Radio 4, Mr Davie gave more details of the corporation's response.\n\nThe director general said he wanted to examine whether the BBC raises \"red flags quick enough\" when such complaints are made.\n\nThe BBC accepted there were \"lessons to be learned following this exercise\", and the organisation's group chief operating officer will assess whether protocols and procedures are appropriate.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, another young person told BBC News they had felt threatened by the presenter.\n\nThe individual in their early 20s said they were contacted on a dating app and pressured to meet up, but never did. When the young person hinted online that they might name the presenter, they were sent abusive messages.\n\nJeremy Vine said the presenter \"should now come forward publicly\" because the new allegations \"will result in yet more vitriol being thrown at perfectly innocent colleagues\" and the BBC \"is on its knees with this\".\n\nThe Sun alleged that the presenter broke Covid lockdown rules to meet a 23-year-old, who he had met on a dating site.\n\nThe paper also published what it said was an Instagram chat between the presenter and a 17-year-old, in which the presenter sent messages including love heart emojis.\n\nDetectives ended their assessment of the details and decided there was no information to indicate that a criminal offence had been committed.\n\nEdwards' wife Vicky Flind named him as the BBC presenter at the centre of the allegations.\n\nShe said she was doing so \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children\".\n\nEdwards was \"suffering from serious mental health issues\", she said. \"As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years. The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published.\n\n\"To be clear, Huw was first told that there were allegations being made against him last Thursday.\"\n\nMr Davie sent an email to staff saying an internal investigation would continue now police were no longer involved.\n\nThe Sun said it had no plans to publish further allegations, and would \"provide the BBC team with a confidential and redacted dossier containing serious and wide-ranging allegations which we have received, including some from BBC personnel\".\n\nThe BBC reported fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Edwards towards junior staff. Two current workers and one former member of staff claimed they were sent messages that made them uncomfortable.", "Charlie Watts played on all the Stones' biggest hits, from Brown Sugar to Start Me Up and more\n\nHe was best known as the drummer for the Rolling Stones, but away from the stage Charlie Watts was an avid collector of modern literature.\n\nHis library contained dozens of rare first editions, including signed first editions of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound Of The Baskervilles.\n\nNow, two years after his death, some of those gems will be put up for auction.\n\nThe drummer's collection of jazz memorabilia is also being sold.\n\nChristie's, which is hosting the auction, will display the highlights in New York, Los Angeles and London ahead of the sale on 28-29 September.\n\nThe signed copy of Gatsby leads the auction, with an estimated price of £200,000-300,000.\n\nFitzgerald dedicated the book to MGM Screenwriter Harold Goldman, with whom he worked on the 1938 Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh comedy A Yank In Oxford.\n\nThe inscription reads: \"For Harold Goldman, the original 'Gatsby' of this story, with thanks for letting me reveal these secrets of his past\".\n\nThe first edition of The Great Gatsby is estimated to sell for £200-300,000\n\nAlso for sale is a proof copy of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, which the author sent to friends for their comments in 1944. Waugh later made several changes to the novel, including rewriting the ending and changing some names.\n\nThe first edition of the Sherlock Holmes' adventure Hound Of The Baskervilles is signed with the comment: \"I perambulated Dartmoor before I wrote this book,\" a reference to the book's setting.\n\nOther highlights include rare and first editions of books by Agatha Christie, PG Wodehouse and James Joyce.\n\nA full-size Victorian replica of the Bayeaux Tapestry could fetch £12,000\n\n\"He took great pleasure in owning these things,\" says Paul Sexton, who wrote Watts' authorised biography, Charlie's Good Tonight.\n\n\"He valued his time at home and he would read on the road, so literature was a very important part of his make-up.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't think he acquired them because he knew they would become valuable, he just took a huge satisfaction in owning these great works and tracking down, with the help of experts, original first editions.\"\n\nBooks weren't the star's only passion. He also collected memorabilia from the American Civil War, antique silverware, vintage cars, drum kits and even a wardrobe of Edward VIII's Savile Row suits.\n\nBut his life's biggest obsession was jazz. Growing up in Wembley, he and his lifelong friend Dave Green saved all their money to buy 78rpm records by Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.\n\nOne of his favourites was Walkin' Shoes by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, featuring the drumming of Chico Hamilton, who Watts tried to emulate by taking the neck off a banjo and playing the body with wire brushes.\n\nHe started collecting jazz recordings and related ephemera in his teens, and that only accelerated once the Rolling Stones started making money.\n\nWatts (centre) with his bandmates on stage in 1989\n\n\"He was hugely influenced not just by the sound of jazz, but the look of jazz, as well,\" says Sexton.\n\n\"If somebody was wearing a particular shirt on one of their classic album covers, then he had to have that shirt. It was completely informed by his almost hero worship of these musicians... because he just didn't think of himself as their equal.\"\n\n\"His love of jazz never left him,\" adds Green, who called Watts' collection \"truly astonishing\".\n\nSome of those items are now being sold by the late musician's estate, with a particular focus on his favourite saxophonist, Charlie Parker.\n\nAmong the lots are Parker's Associated Musicians Membership Card, his contracts for the Alto Break sessions and a pair of Down Beat awards from 1952.\n\nGeorge Gershwin's annotated score for Porgy and Bess will also be showcased, with an estimated price of £10,000-15,000.\n\nFurther Jazz lots include two scores by Irving Berlin - Songs from Top Hat and Songs from Follow the Fleet - inscribed to Ginger Rogers; and two inscribed piano scores by the influential cornetist Leon 'Bix' Beiderbecke.\n\nBut while Watts was an avid collector of music memorabilia, he could never quite wrap his head around the idea of people buying Rolling Stones' artefacts.\n\n\"I think he thought they were a bit mad,\" says Sexton. \"He never bought into the mythology surrounding the Rolling Stones.\n\n\"At the end of the day, really, it was still a job for him - as much as it was one he was very proud of.\"\n\nThe auction will take place in two parts, a live sale at Christie's headquarters in London on 28 September, and an online sale that runs from 15 to 29 September.\n\nHighlights will be put on display in Los Angeles from 25 to 29 July, New York from 5 to 8 September, and London from 20 to 27 September.", "Shareholders in Thames Water have agreed to provide a further £750m in funding as the company attempts to fight the threat of government control.\n\nThames also said it would be looking for an extra £2.5bn between 2025 and 2030.\n\nThe water firm has faced criticism over sewage discharges and leaks and is struggling under a mountain of debt.\n\nThe government has said it is ready to act in a worst case scenario if the company collapses.\n\nThames Water's future came under the spotlight last month when it emerged it was in talks to secure extra funding, and the firm's chief executive Sarah Bentley stepped down after just two years.\n\nThere was speculation that if Thames - which has debts of around £14bn - failed to secure fresh funds it could be temporarily taken over by the government until a new buyer is found, in a special administration regime (SAR).\n\nThis route was most recently taken with energy supplier Bulb after it ran into financial difficulties.\n\nHowever, the new interim joint chief executive of Thames, Cathryn Ross, told the BBC's Today programme the company was \"absolutely not\" close to requiring government intervention.\n\nShe said the company had access to £4.4bn of cash and credit facilities. \"That's absolutely enough to pay everything that we think we need to pay this year, next year and into the future.\"\n\nHowever, the £750m that investors agreed to pump in to Thames between now and 2025 is less than the £1bn the company was seeking. The extra funds are also dependent on Thames improving its business plan to revive the company.\n\nNews of the extra funds came as Thames released its annual results, which showed it incurred an underlying pre-tax loss of £82.6m for the year to 31 March.\n\nThames Water serves a quarter of the UK's population and leaks more water than any other water company in the UK - losing the equivalent of up to 250 Olympic-sized swimming pools every day from its pipes.\n\nLast week, Thames was fined £3.3m for discharging millions of litres of undiluted sewage into two rivers in Sussex and Surrey in 2017, killing more than 1,400 fish.\n\nThe company is owned by a group of investors. The largest is Canadian pension fund OMERS followed by the Universities Superannuation Scheme, the pension fund for UK academics.\n\nThe regulator for the water industry, Ofwat, will be questioned by MPs on Wednesday amid accusations that it has been too lax in its oversight of the sector.\n\nAt the weekend, Sir Robert Goodwill, a Conservative MP who chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, told the BBC the regulator had been \"very complacent\" over Thames Water and had questions to answer over whether it had \"been asleep at the wheel\".\n\nLast week, Ofwat chief executive David Black gave evidence to the Lords' business committee when he said Thames would need \"substantial sums of money\" to stabilise its finances.\n\nHe also admitted the regulator had taken a \"relatively hands-off approach\" to managing water companies since the industry was privatised in the late 1980s.\n\nThames Water's current debt amounts to 77% of the value of the business, Ms Ross told the BBC, which she said was the lowest level of indebtedness in a decade for the company.\n\nHowever, Thames is the most heavily indebted of England and Wales' water companies, and interest payments on more than half of its debt rise in line with inflation, which has remained stubbornly high in recent months.\n\nThames Water has said that it has not paid dividends to external shareholders for the past five years.\n\nBut Sir Robert Goodwill told the BBC he suspected that Thames' holding company was taking money out in the form of debt payments, rather than as dividends.\n\nHowever, Ms Ross said there was only a very small amount of debt that came from Thames' holding company.\n\n\"In the last year, we paid £45m out to service the debt that is essentially provided by our shareholders, through the holding company. Our revenues last year were £2.3bn - so you're talking about less than 2% of our revenues went to service that debt,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"The vast majority of the debt that our regulated business has comes from bondholders in the open market.\"\n\nMs Ross was chief executive of Ofwat between 2013 and 2017.\n\nShe rejected a suggestion that the regulator's oversight of the water industry was affected by the potential for people to move from working at Ofwat to a potentially lucrative role in the private sector.\n\n\"I don't accept that,\" she told the BBC, adding that when she joined Thames Water she had spent three-and-a-half years working at telecoms company BT.\n\nAsked if it had been her ambition to working in the industry after Ofwat, Ms Ross said: \"I can honestly say the thought had never occurred to me at the time that I worked for Ofwat. In fact, I was thinking I would very much stay in the public sector at the time I was there.\"", "Northern Ireland's private sector economy continued to grow in June, an Ulster Bank survey suggests.\n\nHowever, growth was not seen across all sectors. Manufacturing and services expanded while retail and construction saw reduced activity.\n\nUlster Bank economist Richard Ramsey said a \"two speed economy\" was becoming increasingly evident.\n\nConstruction is suffering from reduced public sector spending while retail is being hit by a squeeze on consumers.\n\nMr Ramsey said: \"These sectors have witnessed a notable deterioration in business confidence, with construction firms expecting business activity to be significantly lower in 12 months' time, whereas retail businesses expect sales to be flat.\n\n\"Conversely, manufacturers and service sector firms still anticipate higher levels of activity in the middle of next year.\"\n\nEvery month Ulster Bank asks a representative sample of firms about issues such as new orders, employment and exports.\n\nThe survey suggests that the Northern Ireland private sector has now been growing for five consecutive months.\n\nIt also points to further signs that inflation is easing across supply chains.\n\nOfficial data published last month suggested Northern Ireland's economy may have grown significantly faster than the UK average in the first quarter of the year.\n\nThe NI Composite Economic Index (NICEI) expanded by 1.2% over the quarter and grew by 1.7% on an annual basis.\n\nUK gross domestic product (GDP) grew by just 0.1% over the quarter and by 0.2% over the year.\n\nThe sets of figures are not produced on a fully comparable basis, particularly when assessing public sector output.\n\nOfficial figures for the second quarter of the year will not be published until September.", "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands with Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg looking on\n\nTurkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to support Sweden's bid to join Nato, the military alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg says.\n\nHe said the Turkish leader would forward Sweden's bid to parliament in Ankara and \"ensure ratification\".\n\nMeanwhile, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said: \"I am very happy, it is a good day for Sweden.\"\n\nTurkey had previously spent months blocking Sweden's application, accusing it of hosting Kurdish militants.\n\nAs one of Nato's 31 members, Turkey has a veto over any new country joining the group.\n\nReacting to the news, US President Joe Biden said he welcomed the commitment by President Erdogan to proceed with \"swift ratification\".\n\n\"I stand ready to work with President Erdogan and Turkey on enhancing defence and deterrence in the Euro-Atlantic area. I look forward to welcoming Prime Minister Kristersson and Sweden as our 32nd Nato ally,\" a White House statement said.\n\nGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock tweeted: \"At 32, we're all safer together.\" British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Sweden joining would \"make us all safer\".\n\nMr Stoltenberg announced the agreement late on Monday following talks between the Turkish and Swedish leaders in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.\n\nThe Nato chief described it as a \"historic step\", but stressed that a \"clear date\" could not be given for when Sweden would join the military alliance - as this relied on the Turkish parliament.\n\nSweden and its eastern neighbour Finland, both long considered as militarily neutral, announced their intention to join Nato in May last year, several months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Finland formally joined in April.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said Turkey and Sweden had addressed \"Turkey's legitimate security concerns\" and as a result Sweden had amended its constitution, changed its laws, expanded its counter-terrorism operation against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) and resumed arms exports to Turkey.\n\nTurkey and Hungary are currently the only two Nato members yet to ratify Sweden's membership application.\n\nHungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday that ratification of Sweden's bid is now \"only a technical question\".\n\nOn Monday, President Erdogan had also appeared to link Turkish support for Sweden's Nato bid to the EU re-opening frozen membership talks with Ankara.\n\nEU officials were quick to reject the demand, saying those were two separate issues.\n\nBut in a statement after the deal was announced, Nato said Sweden would actively support efforts to \"reinvigorate Turkey's EU accession process\" and this would include \"modernisation of the EU-Türkiye customs union and visa liberalisation\".\n\nTurkey first applied to join the EU way back in 1987, but its drift towards authoritarianism under President Erdogan brought the accession process to a halt.\n\nHowever since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Mr Erdogan has also played a unique role as a Nato leader with influence in Moscow.\n\nHe helped broker last year's Black Sea Grain Initiative, which enables Ukraine to export agricultural products from its ports.\n\nTurkey has helped keep the deal alive, despite frequent Russian threats to withdraw.\n\nBut Turkey has also angered the Kremlin by supplying armed drones to Ukraine.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants Nato give a \"clear signal\" on Ukraine's membership bid at the Vilnius summit\n\nRussian officials were also furious at the weekend when Turkey, in a surprise move, allowed five former commanders of the Ukrainian garrison at Mariupol to fly back to Kyiv at the end of a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nUnder the terms of a prisoner exchange last year, Russia expected the men to remain in Turkey until the end of the war.\n\nThe two-day Nato summit kicks off in Vilnius on Tuesday and Ukraine's membership bid will be high on the agenda.\n\nAll alliance members agree that Ukraine cannot join the bloc during the war - amid fears this would lead to a direct conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has himself said he does not expect membership until after the war - but he wants the summit to give a \"clear signal\" on Ukraine's bid.\n\nSeveral Nato members in Eastern Europe are pressing for a fast-track membership for their neighbour but others, including the US and Germany, are seen as more hesitant.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday warned that Ukraine's membership of Nato would have \"negative consequences for the entire security architecture, which is half destroyed as it is in Europe\".\n\nUkrainian membership would \"represent an absolute danger, threat to our country, which will require of us a quite firm and clear reaction\", Mr Peskov said.", "The absence of Stormont ministers had a \"significant impact\" on Northern Ireland's preparedness for the Covid-19 pandemic, the chief medical officer has said.\n\nSir Michael McBride was giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 inquiry in London.\n\nFormer first and deputy first ministers, Baroness Foster and Michelle O'Neill, are scheduled to give evidence later this week.\n\nSir Michael told the inquiry there was \"no doubt\" the lack of ministers in the years before the pandemic had \"a significant impact on our ability to initiate new policy\".\n\nThe first phase of the inquiry is examining how prepared the UK was for the pandemic, including within the devolved administrations.\n\nThe chief medical officer told the inquiry that resources were diverted to EU-exit planning - work was picked up again in January 2020 - but he added that \"events overtook us\".\n\nHe added that there was \"absolutely no doubt\" the absence of ministers between 2017 and 2020 affected preparations.\n\nHe also said that the pre-existing position of the department before the pandemic showed there was a \"shortfall in resources and insufficient staff to mount the response that was required\".\n\nSpeaking about why Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland did not have a single epidemiological policy to deal with a pandemic, Sir Michael McBride said they did take a \"single approach to border county areas\".\n\nHe added that this was at operational level, not at a policy level.\n\nThe former permanent secretary at the Department of Health (DoH), Richard Pengelly, is also set to give evidence this week.\n\nThe DoH is responsible for leading and co-ordinating the health response when an emergency has been categorised as serious or catastrophic and requires a cross departmental or cross governmental response.\n\nThe inquiry is likely to explore to what extent this plan was kept under review and also how well it was tested.\n\nLast week, former health minister Robin Swann told the inquiry that a lack of reform and investment in the health service hindered its response to the pandemic.\n\nThe inquiry is into the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic\n\nBrenda Doherty, a leading figure in the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, said it was an important week for Northern Ireland at the inquiry.\n\n\"Amongst the witnesses to be called, the person I most hope will be able to answer questions fully is the chief medical officer,\" she said.\n\n\"During his evidence, the former Health Minister Mr [Robin] Swann on several occasions advised the inquiry legal team to direct some of the questions he was unable to answer to Dr McBride.\"\n\nMs Doherty said it was \"vital that we have total openness and transparency\".", "Aretha Franklin died without a known will in August 2018\n\nWhen Aretha Franklin died from pancreatic cancer in August 2018, it was thought that she had left behind no will for an estate worth millions.\n\nBut months later, handwritten wills were found in a cabinet and under a sofa cushion at her home in suburban Detroit, Michigan.\n\nA jury will now determine which of two documents should be ruled as the Queen of Soul's valid last testament.\n\nThe trial began on Monday and is expected to last less than a week.\n\nA six-person jury at the Oakland County Probate Court will hear from witnesses, including the Franklin children, her niece Sabrina Owens and a handwriting expert.\n\nAn 18-time Grammy Award winner, Franklin recorded dozens of chart-topping songs and was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.\n\nBut the singer known for hits like Think, I Say a Little Prayer and Respect was intensely private about her finances and is said to have resisted preparing a formal will despite years of ill health.\n\nWhen she died at age 76 the absence of a will meant her assets - including homes, cars, furs and jewellery - were to be equally split among her four sons.\n\nBut nine months on from her death, wills were discovered at her home.\n\nOne son is arguing that the papers dated June 2010 and found inside a locked cabinet are the real will.\n\nTwo other sons say a will dated March 2014 and found in a spiral notebook under sofa cushions should take precedence.\n\nOn Monday, Judge Jennifer Callaghan told jurors the only decision they had to make was whether the 2014 document can be accepted as a valid will.\n\nDespite their differences, both documents would see the sons share revenue from Franklin's music and copyrights.\n\nEach version was scribbled by hand and difficult to decipher, with words scratched out and notes in the margins. Such a condition would make them inadmissible in most states, but Michigan law allows for handwritten wills as long as they meet other criteria.\n\nTheodore White II - Franklin's third child, from her brief marriage to her former manager - argues that the notarised 11-page document from 2010 is the valid will.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aretha Franklin: In her own words\n\nThat version lists him as a co-executor or personal representative to the estate, along with Ms Owens, the niece. It also calls for Kecalf and Edward Franklin, the singer's second and fourth sons, to \"take business classes and get a certificate or a degree\" if they wish to benefit from the estate.\n\nMeanwhile, Kecalf and Edward argue that the 2014 version is their mother's primary will.\n\nKecalf replaces his brother as a co-executor in the four-page document. He and his grandchildren would also inherit his mother's $1.2m (£934,000) gated mansion - a home described by Edward's attorney as \"the crown jewel\".\n\nThe newer document also stipulates that Franklin's gowns either be auctioned or handed over to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.\n\nClarence Franklin, the eldest child, is not involved in the dispute. He lives in an assisted living facility in Michigan and is under a legal guardianship.\n\nA lawyer for his guardian told the BBC they will not participate in the trial and \"have reached a settlement that gives Clarence a percentage of the estate without regard to the outcome of the will contest\".\n\nThe family rift had earlier driven Ms Owens to quit as representative of her aunt's estate.\n\n\"Given my aunt's love of family and desire for privacy, this is not what she would have wanted for us, nor is it what I want,\" she wrote in a 2020 court filing.\n\n\"I love my cousins, hold no animosity towards them, and wish them the best.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans pay their respects to Aretha Franklin in Detroit\n\nEarlier this year, the court in Pontiac, Michigan, heard three voicemail messages, recorded in the months before Franklin died, in which she discusses another will she was preparing with an estate lawyer.\n\nIn the messages, Franklin is heard expressing certain \"firm intentions\" from a Detroit hospital bed, but attorney Henry Grix testified he believed she \"hadn't made up her mind\" about her final wishes.\n\nThe judge has excluded that document from consideration in the trial.\n\nThe Franklin fortune was estimated at $80m when the star died in 2018, but more recent valuations and several years of unpaid taxes have vastly reduced that number.\n\nAccording to an inventory filed in court, and seen by the BBC, the late singer's assets are valued at just under $6m.\n\nNicholas Papasifakis, who currently serves as Franklin's personal representative, said he is not participating in the trial and is not taking a side in the dispute.\n\n\"Once there has been a determination by the Court as to the disposition of Ms Franklin's Estate,\" he wrote in an email, \"I will follow that determination in distributing Ms Franklin's assets.\"", "Paddy McCourt, who played for Celtic, Derry City and Northern Ireland, given suspended sentence\n\nFormer Celtic and Northern Ireland player Paddy McCourt has been given a three-month suspended sentence for sexual assault.\n\nMcCourt, of Wheatfield Court in Muff, County Donegal, was convicted for sexually touching a woman in a bar in Londonderry in January 2022.\n\nHe had denied the charge and will appeal the sentence.\n\nThe 39-year-old, who also played for Derry City, was also placed on the sex offenders' register for five years.\n\nHis three-month sentence was suspended for two years.\n\nLondonderry Magistrates' Court was told the victim had been touched on her bottom during an incident the judge said was \"brief but startling for her\".\n\nIn a victim impact statement, district judge Ted Magill added that the woman said one of the worst elements of the case was that some people had called her a liar.\n\nThe judge said: \"She had told the truth and she did suffer an indecent assault.\"\n\nThe incident had been recorded on CCTV and Judge Magill told McCourt \"one thing was clear was your level of intoxication\".\n\nHe said it had been \"an isolated incident\" that had taken place in \"a moment of madness\".\n\nThe judge added that women and girls should not be in fear of \"anyone putting their hand up their clothes\".\n\nThat was \"the serious aspect of the charge\", Judge Magill said, and as such the custody threshold had been passed.\n\nMcCourt, the judge added, had not accepted his guilt, leaving him with few options in relation to sentencing.", "The Ocean Viking received an alert about the boat in distress via a helpline for migrants\n\nMigrants saved in one of the first rescue operations in the Mediterranean since hundreds of people died when a boat sank off the Greek coast, say nothing could deter them from trying to reach Europe. They spoke to the BBC's Alice Cuddy - on board a rescue vessel patrolling the sea for migrant boats in distress.\n\nAs the giant red and white rescue ship sails across an expanse of Mediterranean Sea, the horizon is interrupted by the sight of a dark blue inflatable boat, crammed with bobbing heads.\n\nRescue workers from the charity SOS Mediterranée don helmets and life jackets as they race to the scene in speedboats. They quickly pull the migrants on board the vessels one by one, counting as they go.\n\nThe boys and young men, most from The Gambia, have been at sea for 15 hours and have made it 54 nautical miles from the Libyan town of Castelverde, near Tripoli. They are in a state of distress.\n\nSome later tell me that shortly before rescuers arrived, a fight had almost broken out on board the over-packed boat. Some were determined to keep going, while others were begging to give up and try again later. One dropped his phone in the sea in the melee.\n\nOne wears the familiar pale blue of a Manchester City football shirt, others are holding iPhones. Few have brought any water or food. Many cannot swim, armed only with the inner tubes of tyres to use as flotation devices should they end up in the sea.\n\nSome of the migrants had already attempted to cross many times\n\nThere is panic during the rescue as a Libyan coastguard vessel appears on the horizon. Many of the boys have previously been pulled back to Libya by its coastguard, which the EU has provided with ships, training and funding.\n\nSome of the migrants grin as they sit down in the rescue speedboat - one takes a selfie on his phone. One later tells me that when he grabbed the hand of one of the rescuers, he thought: \"Now I have entered Europe.\"\n\nThe group are rushed back to SOS Mediterranée's ship, the Ocean Viking, where they undergo medical checks and receive new clothes and drawstring bags containing supplies like toothbrushes.\n\nThe charity alerts Italian authorities, who quickly assign the southern city of Bari as the port at which to disembark, telling them to head there \"without delay\".\n\nThis follows a new law which requires such vessels to immediately head to a port rather than continue to patrol for more migrant boats.\n\nBari will take almost three days to reach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo, as we set sail, we speak to some of the migrants in rooms set up as medical facilities and accommodation areas on the deck of the ship. Most speak English - all of their names have been changed.\n\nThe migrants tell us they were not ignorant to the risks they were facing. Many say it was not their first attempt at reaching Europe - some had narrowly avoided death, having been picked up from boats in distress and returned to Libya.\n\n\"Seven times I have been trying,\" one 17-year-old says.\n\nEvery migrant I speak to has friends who have died attempting the same journey. Some have also been following news on social media of the Greek disaster - one of the deadliest migrant sinkings in years, in which up to 750 people are believed to have died - which happened less than two weeks earlier. Those migrants had also set sail from Libya.\n\nOne says it didn't put him off because he believes those migrants would have had the same mindset as him.\n\n\"It's either you reach Europe or you die at sea,\" the teenager tells me. \"There's only two options.\"\n\nSOS Mediterranée had received an alert about the rubber boat from Alarm Phone, an emergency helpline for migrants in trouble at sea, and European border agency Frontex.\n\nMore than 80% of the group are unaccompanied minors, aged under 18. Many of the boys had started their journeys years earlier, when they left home hoping to make money to send back to their families.\n\nMany say they have lost one or both parents and, as the eldest sons in their families, they feel responsible for supporting loved ones.\n\nThey are mostly from The Gambia - more than 2,000 miles south and west of Libya.\n\nThe Gambia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says Gambians have emigrated at a higher rate per capita than any other nation in Africa in recent years.\n\nIt says from 2015 to 2020, more than 32,000 Gambians arrived in Europe through what is known as \"irregular\" migration. It says a similar number arrived between 2020 and 2022.\n\nThe Central Mediterranean is the main migratory route into the European Union. Frontex says that in the first five months of this year, the number of detected crossings more than doubled compared to the same period in 2022 - to 50,318. It is the highest number recorded since 2017.\n\nRelieved to be on the boat and heading to Europe, the boys relax enough to start telling me how they got there.\n\nThey took different routes to get to Libya, using networks of smugglers, to cross multiple countries from Africa's west to north coast.\n\nEighteen-year-old Suma says his journey began when he was put in contact with an \"agent\" in nearby Mali, with whom he planned the start of his journey to Europe, travelling through Algeria to Libya. Along the way, he says he was tied up, beaten and denied food by smugglers.\n\nNo-one he travelled with to Libya was on the boat with him, and the BBC was unable to independently verify his claims - but others have similar stories.\n\nIn the time it takes us to reach land, the migrants settle into life on the ship, playing games of football, cards and the game Connect Four - and dancing to music played on a loudspeaker.\n\nThere is a moment of excitement when they have the clothes they travelled in returned to them. They sift through a large pile to find their own items and take them over to buckets of soapy water to wash them, before hanging them on ropes to dry.\n\nFor many, these clothes are their only personal items - everything else had to be left either back at home or in Libya.\n\nLife on the ship marks a stark change from the way they tell us they had been living before they set sail.\n\nIn Libya, they say they lived in compounds run by smugglers as they tried to get the money together for the Mediterranean crossing. Many say this leg of the journey cost them 3,500 Libyan dinars (£570).\n\nSuma's step-dad sent him some of the cash, and another boy says his family had taken out a loan against their business to help fund the journey.\n\nOthers make vague references to working for the smugglers.\n\n\"This journey, I didn't pay… so I'm very lucky,\" one said. \"I was working with the man. I was helping him arrange things.\"\n\nMany of the teenagers say they also spent months in Libyan detention centres after being picked up by the Libyan coastguard during attempted crossings - where they say they were tortured and given little food. Many of them have scabies.\n\nThe migrants washed and dried the clothes they had been wearing when they were rescued\n\nOnce they had enough money to cross the Mediterranean, the migrants approached agents to make the arrangements.\n\nSuma says he has learned not to trust them, explaining: \"What they will tell you and [what] they will do is a different thing most of the time.\"\n\nHe says he had been previously told he would be transported on a boat with around 55 to 60 people on board, only to find a small rubber raft with 80 to 90 passengers.\n\n\"We [just have to] believe, you know, we leave everything in the hands of God. And everyone has to be on that rubber boat,\" he says.\n\nAdama says he was on a boat holding about 125 occupants that sank - he was one of 94 who survived.\n\n\"I just see my friend dying. I help a lot but I cannot help all of them… I see them, they're going.\"\n\nThere is hope among the migrants on board the Ocean Viking as we near the Italian coast, but also some traces of regret. Suma says he misses home, but that it would bring \"shame\" on him to return after borrowing money from loved ones for the voyage.\n\n\"It's a disgrace, you know.\"\n\nSome knew little about the plan for their dangerous voyage or where it was headed - beyond the promise of Europe - while others had their minds set on landing on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a common arrival point for migrants.\n\nSeveral also tell us that they had hoped all along to be picked up at sea by SOS Mediterranée's Ocean Viking rescue vessel, never thinking they would make it alone all the way to Italy.\n\nOne teenager tells us he was tracking the ship on his phone before setting off.\n\n\"I like social media, even the vessel finders, I have all of them on my phone. I will look at the weather, I will look at the rescue ships,\" he says.\n\nCritics of groups like SOS Mediterranée argue that they act as a pull-factor that encourages migrants to make the dangerous journeys.\n\nHowever, SOS Mediterranée says numbers of migrant crossings are not affected by whether or not they are on patrol.\n\n\"People leave no matter what - ships or no ships,\" says Claire Juchat, operations communications officer.\n\nShe adds that in a 72-hour period following the rescue of the teenagers, when no NGO vessels were on patrol, 5,000 migrants arrived on the island of Lampedusa.\n\nShe also notes most rescues are conducted by authorities.\n\nAccording to figures from the United Nations refugee agency, more than 64,000 people have arrived in Italy after crossing the Central Mediterranean so far this year. More than 1,000 of those have been from The Gambia.\n\nThe migrants are greeted in Bari by health and border officials, as well as Red Cross and UN workers\n\nThe teenagers tell us they view Europe as a place of safety and stability, where they can return to school and get a good job.\n\nOn the ship, the crew give the group a lesson in basic Italian, as they sit on the deck carefully making notes and repeating phrases.\n\nWhile some have friends who have successfully made the crossing before them and have shared details of their new lives, Europe is mostly an abstract idea for the migrants. Much of their knowledge is based on their favourite football teams and players.\n\n\"I want to be a footballer. Like Ronaldo,\" one says. \"Marcus Rashford!\" another exclaims. Lots are excited to be disembarking in Italy - the country of the Serie A league, and its new champions Napoli.\n\nWhen the ship docks at the port of Bari, the teenagers, who had earlier been singing and dancing on the deck, go quiet, clutching grey blankets, and documents to present to authorities. Some shake as they wait to be called.\n\nThey are greeted at the port by health and border officials, as well as Red Cross and United Nations workers. Some are taken away in paediatric ambulances for health treatment. Others are put in coaches and transported to reception facilities, where they will undergo further assessments.\n\nSara Mancinelli, operations manager with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, on board the vessel, told me that their right to stay in Europe will be determined by their individual circumstances.\n\n\"Even if in their country there is no war or persecution, they may have some… reasons why they are recognised for some kind of protection,\" she says.\n\nChiara Cardoletti, the UN refugee agency's representative for Italy, says that partly due to a \"dramatic upsurge in arrivals\" the reception capacity in the country is \"currently insufficient to respond to the needs of unaccompanied migrants and others\".\n\nAs he prepares to take his first step on European soil, Suma turns around and waves goodbye to us.", "Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda (r) hosts Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and the leaders of member countries.\n\nNato leaders are gathering in Lithuania for a crucial summit that could shape the direction of the war in Ukraine and the future of the Western alliance.\n\nThe 31 allies hope to show Russia they have the resolve to support Ukraine militarily for the long term.\n\nThey arrive with a welcome boost after Turkey dropped its objections to Sweden joining the alliance.\n\nBut there remains disagreement over what to say about Ukraine's own ambitions of future membership.\n\nIt is thought some allies will promise Kyiv new security guarantees designed to deter future Russian aggression. They will also discuss providing more weapons and ammunition.\n\nOn the membership issue, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants Nato to say Ukraine could join as soon as possible after the fighting ends - setting out explicitly how and when this could be achieved.\n\nBut some Nato nations are reluctant to go too far, fearing the promise of near-automatic membership could give Russia an incentive both to escalate and drag out the war.\n\nJens Stoltenberg, the Nato secretary general, said no final decision had been made on the language of the final communiqué, but added: \"I am absolutely certain that we will have unity and a strong message on Ukraine.\"\n\nBut after late night talks on Monday, he announced that Turkey had agreed to support Sweden's application to join Nato. The news was welcomed by the US and Germany, as well as Sweden itself.\n\nTurkey had spent months blocking Stockholm's application, accusing it of hosting Kurdish militants. Mr Stoltenberg said the two sides had worked together to address Turkey's \"legitimate security concerns\".\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier suggested he would back Sweden if the EU re-opened frozen membership talks with Ankara - a request that was rejected by EU officials.\n\nOver their two-day meeting, Nato leaders are expected to agree new plans to deter and defend the alliance against future Russian aggression by beefing up their forces in the east.\n\nAnd they are also expected to step up their financial commitment, making the target of spending 2% of national wealth on defence a minimum figure, rather than a general ambition. Rishi Sunak's spokesman said the UK prime minister would call on allies directly to meet this target.\n\nSecurity is tight in Vilnius, with Nato forces - including Patriot air defence missiles - defending a summit taking place only a short distance from Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.\n\nThe overarching aim of the meeting is for Nato to convince President Vladimir Putin of the alliance's long-term military commitment to Ukraine.\n\nOfficials hope this could begin to change the Russian leader's thinking, putting doubt in his mind that he can outwait the West.\n\nAs such, some see this summit as potentially as important as military gains on the battlefield in persuading Mr Putin to change his strategy.\n\nSo some Nato members will promise Ukraine new security guarantees. US President Joe Biden has suggested Ukraine could get the kind of military support his country gives Israel - long-term commitments designed to deter potential aggressors.\n\nThe alliance will also deepen its institutional links with Ukraine. An existing forum - the Ukraine Nato Commission - will be upgraded to a Ukraine Nato Council. This will give Ukraine the ability to summon meetings of the alliance as an equal partner round the table. \"The right to consult is not insignificant,\" said one official.\n\nBut perhaps most importantly, some members are expected to set out more explicitly Ukraine's pathway to joining the alliance.\n\nNato agreed at its 2008 summit in Bucharest that Ukraine \"will\" become a member and supported its application. But the alliance did not say how and when this might happen. Critics say giving Ukraine a destination but no itinerary allowed Mr Putin to risk his invasions in both 2014 and 2022.\n\nMr Biden will meet Mr Zelensky at the summit, a US official told Reuters, although the Ukrainian president is yet to officially confirm his participation at the event.\n\nLeaders are expected to beef up their forces in Eastern Europe\n\nKyiv accepts Nato cannot formally invite Ukraine to join while fighting rages. That would risk plunging the alliance into war with Russia, as Nato would be obliged under Article 5 of its treaty to defend any member that is under attack.\n\nInstead, Kyiv wants a clear promise of post-war membership with a timeline, so it knows victory will bring the security guarantee of Nato's nuclear umbrella.\n\nOne way for Nato to signal its desire to welcome Ukraine into its ranks would be to shorten the so-called membership application plan, known as the MAP. This is the formal process which tests whether a country meets Nato's strict military and governmental standards - and it can take decades.\n\nBut it is what Nato might actually say about Ukraine's potential membership that is dividing the alliance.\n\nThe Baltic states and eastern European nations are pushing for as much clarity as possible. They want the alliance to make clear how much progress Ukraine has made towards membership, especially how much more closely its army can operate with other Nato forces, now that it shares similar weapons and strategies. They also want Nato to make clear what further conditions Ukraine must meet to achieve membership.\n\nGitanas Nauseda, the president of Lithuania, said Nato should avoid Ukraine's membership becoming a horizon: \"The more you walk towards it, the farther it is.\"\n\nBut some allies - including the US and Germany - are cautious about promising Ukraine too much. They want Ukraine to do more to tackle corruption, strengthen its judiciary and ensure civilian control over its military.\n\nSome also worry about Nato getting dragged into open conflict with Russia. They fear promising Ukraine membership after the war would give Putin an incentive both to escalate the conflict and drag it out, maintaining low-intensity fighting to prevent Ukraine ever joining.\n\nOther allies also fear losing room for manoeuvre in any post-war negotiations. They want to use the promise of Nato membership as a carrot for Ukraine and a stick for Russia, but only after the fighting has ended.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Machynlleth's town clock dominates the skyline of the small mid-Wales town\n\nIt's the town where the time is always one minute past nine - well, that's if you rely on its old clock.\n\nAnd because the clock has been broken for three years, the only chime you'll get from Machynlleth in mid Wales is on social media.\n\nMaybe TikTok would have been a more apt platform, but Twitter is where you will hear the hourly bell of Wales' ancient capital.\n\n\"As the clock's stopped, people here don't grow old,\" joked one passer-by.\n\n\"This is where time stands still - we all stay younger.\"\n\nWhile London's Big Ben has had an £80m refurbishment, the 78ft (23.7m) tall Victorian clock in the seat of Wales' first parliament has not chimed since October 2020.\n\nBig Ben is finally ringing again in the UK's capital following a refurbishment\n\nSo one elusive and cheeky resident has created a parody Twitter account for the Machynlleth town clock - which \"bongs\" every hour.\n\n\"The fact that someone has taken the time and effort to create a Twitter account and bong on every hour for such a long time, shows the passion people have for fixing our beloved clock,\" said town mayor Jeremy Paige.\n\n\"No-one seems to know who runs the account but whoever it is, is doing so with a glint in their eye and a burning passion to see the real clock actually chime again. I love it, it's such a charming idea.\"\n\nMr Paige said fixing the clock and actually hearing it again was \"the single biggest issue people talk to me about when I'm walking around town - and it's on a daily basis!\"\n\nResidents in the Powys town want their Grade II listed timepiece to be right more than twice a day, preferably in time for its 150th anniversary celebrations in July 2024.\n\nSo the clock, metaphorically, is ticking.\n\nThe landmark in the middle of the Powys town was paid for by residents in the 19th Century, to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Fifth Marquess of Londonderry's eldest son, who lived nearby.\n\nA plaque on the clock says it was erected in 1873 - but it was actually finished in 1874 because of a family bereavement\n\nBangor architect Henry Kennedy won a competition to design the clock tower and it was constructed by local builder Edward Edwards, mostly using stone from north-west Wales.\n\nIt first broke in 1881 after a storm shattered two of the clock's faces and locals again dipped into their pockets to pay for repairs.\n\nA nine-year fundraiser helped pay £200,000 to fix the clock again in 2012, but now time stands still in Machynlleth once more. The broken timepiece has been the talk of the town for almost three years.\n\nSome locals say they have given up looking at Machynlleth's clock if they want to know the time\n\n\"It's by the bus stop so nobody knows if it's the right time when they look at the timetable because they can't compare it,\" one local told the BBC.\n\n\"So all the buses show up a nine o'clock - so sometimes it's right, which is quite funny!\"\n\nWhile another passer-by pointed out: \"It is a sad thing because it makes the town feel that there's not enough investment in it.\"\n\nMachynlleth's townspeople raised £1,000 to build the clock in the 1870s - but the structure itself cost £800\n\nThe rest of the £200 raised by public subscription for the clock was spent on trees which line the adjoining streets\n\nA £55,000 bill to repair and refurbish the clock has been signed off by the local community council, meaning the eight-week refurbishment can happen over the summer.\n\nThe bill will account for more than 5% of the town council's annual budget, with the other half of the funds coming from Welsh historic buildings body Cadw.\n\n\"It's a bit of a totem of the town because if the clock is not healthy, it asks a question of the town,\" said Mr Paige.\n\nWork has begun to fix the Machynlleth clock so people will be able to hear the chimes in the autumn\n\n\"The clock is held in great affection and is meaningful to the town because it was paid by townsfolk and built by townsfolk.\n\n\"It's iconic to us and as there's only 2,000 people in the town, we're basically a T-junction and the clock is at the cross-section of that - you can't get through town without seeing it.\n\n\"The clock being fixed is important to the health of our town.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThere were 160,000 fans at Silverstone for the race on Sunday Max Verstappen cruised to victory in the British Grand Prix for his sixth win in a row and a record-equalling 11th consecutive triumph for Red Bull. McLaren's Lando Norris fought off an attack from Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes after a late safety car to finish second and give the 160,000 fans a double home podium to cheer. Verstappen's eighth win in 10 races this year brought Red Bull level with the record McLaren established in their historic 1988 season with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. Oscar Piastri made it a great day for McLaren with fourth, ahead of George Russell's Mercedes.\n• None 'Norris shows McLaren progress but work still to do' Verstappen was untouchable out front, once he had overtaken Norris for the lead on lap five after the McLaren jumped ahead when the world champion suffered too much wheelspin at the start. This victory, which puts Verstappen's championship lead over team-mate Sergio Perez at 99 points, extends a run of Red Bull wins that dates back to last season's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. On Verstappen's current apparently unbeatable form, Red Bull will break McLaren's record at the next race in Hungary in two weeks' time and are likely to move far beyond it as the season progresses. Verstappen reduced this grand prix, like so many this year, to a demonstration run once into the lead. But behind him the race, static for a long period, came alive after the safety car, which was called when Kevin Magnussen's Haas caught fire down the Wellington straight. The fans arrived at Silverstone in huge numbers from Friday through to Sunday Divergent tyre choices introduced jeopardy and intrigue for everyone else over the final 14 laps. Norris and Piastri had looked on course for a double podium for McLaren, who introduced a major upgrade for Norris to great effect at the last race in Austria and gave it to Piastri at Silverstone as well. But the safety car changed everything and gave Hamilton a chance not only to jump ahead of Piastri but also to briefly threaten Norris. The seven-time champion, who started seventh, drove steadily in the opening laps, biding his time once he had re-passed Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin, which overtook him on the first lap. Hamilton moved up as the pit stops started to happen ahead of him, with first Charles Leclerc pitting his Ferrari out of fourth place, followed by the second Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, the Mercedes of Russell, and Piastri. It meant Hamilton was on course to finish fifth behind Piastri and Russell, but stopping under the safety car allowed him to jump both and line up behind Norris at the restart. Norris had hinted heavily several times before his stop that he might prefer the soft tyre, without ever explicitly asking for it, and McLaren stuck with their choice for hards as he came in, just as a virtual safety car turned into a full safety car, because changing tack would have caused too many risks and created too big a delay. Norris expressed over the radio his fears that he would struggle to hold Hamilton back, with the Mercedes on soft tyres and the McLaren on hard, but the 23-year-old weathered an early storm after the restart with aplomb and then edged away to consolidate his second place. Piastri, also fitted with hard tyres at his pit stop, was equally impressive in a car not quite up to the same specification as his team-mate, lacking a new front wing. The Australian rookie lost his hopes of a podium with the safety car, which allowed Hamilton to jump him. But in the closing laps, as Hamilton dropped away from Norris, the Mercedes came under pressure from Piastri, who crossed the line less than a second behind. Russell was the only man in the top 10 to choose soft tyres rather than mediums for the start, and he jumped up a place to threaten Leclerc for fourth place. But he lost out by stopping before the safety car and came home fifth as Sergio Perez recovered from yet another poor qualifying session to finish sixth from 15th on the grid. The last driver he passed was Alonso, whose Aston Martin team have in the last few races fallen away from their strong form in the first six races of the season. Ferrari's day crumbled after a promising start. Leclerc had no pace in the first part of the race, spending the first half of the race with Russell right behind him not quite managing to get past. Leclerc made an early stop for hard tyres and then came in again under the safety car for mediums. But he again struggled and lost eighth place to the impressive Williams of Alex Albon, who chose soft tyres at the safety car, in the closing laps. Sainz, who was left on hard tyres when he did not stop under the safety car, lost three places in a few corners as Perez, Leclerc and Albon all passed him after the restart, and trailed in a disappointing 10th.\n• None Watch the hypochondriac detective and his team on BBC iPlayer now\n• None The cosmic culture war between Marvel and DC comics: Uncover the story of one of the greatest rivalries in the history of pop culture", "Lana Del Rey has had six number-one albums in the UK\n\nLana Del Rey has apologised to fans for the abrupt ending to her Glastonbury show last month.\n\nThe US singer-songwriter arrived half an hour late for her set and had the plug pulled when she broke the curfew.\n\nDespite begging Glastonbury bosses to let her play \"one more song\", Del Rey had to leave without finishing.\n\nPlaying London's Hyde Park on Sunday, she introduced the song Diet Mountain Dew by saying: \"This is where I got cut off last time - sorry about that.\"\n\nDel Rey later toyed with breaking Hyde Park's own curfew, by stretching out the final section of Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd?\n\n\"I don't want it to end,\" she told her band, indicating they should keep playing, as the gospel ballad approached its conclusion.\n\nAnd when it finally drew to a close, several minutes later, Del Rey added: \"It's worth it. Even if you get the power cut, it's worth it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lana Del Rey speaks to fans at Glastonbury after her microphone is cut\n\nThankfully, she was still able to finish her show before the strict 22:30 cut-off, leaving fans with a blissful version of Video Games performed on a garlanded swing, suspended from the rafters of the stage.\n\nThe 19-song set was the same show she had intended to stage at Glastonbury - a highly conceptual, ultra-stylised performance, with Del Rey surrounded by a swirl of dancers who shower the stage with glitter and perform improbable feats of gymnastics.\n\nShe emerges to ear-splitting screams, in a floral-print dress and towering heels, smouldering through the achingly cool A&W, before segueing into the ethereal Young and Beautiful.\n\n\"Damn, this is a big crowd!\" Del Rey says, to even more ear-splitting screams, as fans hold up signs - \"Marry me,\" \"Lana Del Slay\" - in the hope of catching her eye.\n\nEven in the era of \"stan culture\", Del Rey inspires an unusual level of devotion. People queued for a whole day to secure a place at the front of the BST Hyde Park show.\n\nHer every move is greeted with feverish awe. Even when she takes a puff on a vape, there is an almighty roar of approval.\n\nIt would seem disproportionate for anyone else but no other modern artist has so successfully created a mythology and a sound of their own.\n\nThe singer rarely performs in the UK and fans queued overnight to make sure they could see her\n\nWhen Del Rey first arrived, with dreamy, hip-hop infused songs such as Born to Die and Video Games, people called her a fake. They said she was a Brooklyn hipster with artificially inflated lips and carped her father was a millionaire who - allegedly - bankrolled her career.\n\nBut those critiques, dripping with misogyny, have not aged well.\n\nDel Rey's atmospheric, orchestral pop has inspired a generation of female singer-songwriters - Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, Halsey. As Billie Eilish says: \"Lana raised us.\"\n\nAnd last year, before inviting Del Rey to duet on her latest album, Taylor Swift said simply: \"She's the best we ever had.\"\n\nOver the years, Del Rey's music has evolved and become more nuanced, while never quite departing from the twin topics that obsess her, toxic relationships and America - and, by proxy, America's toxic relationship with itself.\n\nHer high-water mark, 2019's Norman... Rockwell!, an album painted in the palette of classic Californian rock, produced by frequent Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff, saw her take full control of her narrative. And on the sublime Mariners Apartment Complex, she even addresses the people - critics, boyfriends, record-industry bigwigs - who \"mistook my kindness for weakness\", the not-exactly-hidden subtext being: \"That won't happen again, schmucks.\"\n\nDel Rey has released three albums since then, with this year's Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd? marking a detour into more confessional territory. She frets about having children, the imminence of death and her family's history of cancer, her voice more vulnerable and human than before.\n\nFilled with gospel harmonies and softly building pianos, it challenges Norman... Rockwell! as her best album yet - and the title track was one of the biggest highlights of her Hyde Park set.\n\nDel Rey is an intriguing performer - sometimes fully present, at others seemingly lost in the music. Often, she will mouth words off-microphone, as though singing a private melody to herself.\n\nIt is mesmerising to watch, like peeking through the window into her apartment as she writes. And that sensation is only heightened when she sits at a dresser while a stylist tackles her hair - \"done up real big, beauty-queen style,\" to quote Summertime Sadness - freeing her tresses to tumble over her shoulders.\n\nThis too could be interpreted as a dig at Glastonbury, where Del Rey jokingly blamed her delay on her hairdressers - except, she staged the exact same interlude at Worthy Farm.\n\nBut for all of the shenanigans, the focus remains on the songs - from big hits Born to Die, Ultraviolence and Blue Jeans to beloved album cuts Pretty When You Cry and White Mustang.\n\nThe singer paused to have her hair attended to during an interlude near the start of her set\n\nDel Rey's voice is better than it has ever been. Throughout the show, she plays with her melodies, exploring new harmonies and breathing fresh emotional life into well-worn songs, And although she never touches an instrument, Del Rey is totally in control of the music.\n\nA tiny gesture to her pianist lets him know she wants to vary the tempo of Candy Necklaces - performed while perched on top of a gold-plated grand piano, naturally. On Arcadia, a lovelorn letter to LA, Del Rey trades riffs with her backing singers, again teasing out the song's ending.\n\nFans' ears prick up when she changes the lyrics to 2021's Chemtrails over the Country Club, seemingly taking a venomous swipe at her ex-boyfriend Sean Larkin.\n\n\"He was born in December and he got married while we were still in couple's therapy together,\" Del Rey sings over the outro. \"Sometimes I wonder what his wife would think if she knew.\"\n\nIf her heart is broken, the audience is there for her. One fan has even turned up with a picture of Mr Larkin on his T-shirt, a giant red \"X\" superimposed over the top.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paulina This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe affection is mutual, As Ultraviolence ends, the singer walks to the barriers to meet the faithful, spending several minutes talking, hugging, posing and signing autographs.\n\nAfter the show, Del Rey spent time with fans backstage. And at 01:30, when she finally left the venue, she stopped to greet others who had waited at the exits.\n\n\"You've always got to take your chance to say hello, because you just never know,\" she said from the stage, blowing a kiss.\n\nIt is something fans know only too well - BST and Glastonbury were her only UK dates since a 2019 performance at Latitude Festival and Del Rey has not toured in England for 10 years.\n\nBut based on this magical, luminous performance, she would be welcomed back any time - even by Glastonbury.", "The entertainer died in March at the age of 67\n\nEntertainer Paul O'Grady has been given the posthumous freedom of his home region.\n\nWirral councillors voted unanimously to award the honorary freedom of the borough to the Birkenhead-born TV presenter who died in March aged 67.\n\nO'Grady grew up in Merseyside but later moved to London, where he found fame as his comedic alter-ego Lily Savage.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for a statue of him to be erected in Birkenhead.\n\nCouncillor Andrew Hodson, proposing the motion to give O'Grady the freedom of Wirral at an extraordinary council meeting, said: \"This is a very significant step for the council to take as to date only 12 people have been honoured in this way.\"\n\nMr Hodson, a Conservative who worked with O'Grady for a short time at the DHSS in Birkenhead, added he was being honoured for his \"eminent service to the borough and people of Wirral\".\n\nLabour councillor Stephen Bennett also said the star \"never forgot his roots\", adding: \"He always promoted this area.\"\n\nO'Grady rose to fame in the 1990s with his drag queen persona Lily Savage, going on to present BBC One game show Blankety Blank and other light entertainment programmes.\n\nLater in his career he hosted various chat shows and also brought his love of dogs to the screen.\n\nOther recipients of the Freedom of Wirral have included former Birkenhead MP Lord Field, the victims of the Hillsborough disaster and PC David Phillips, who was killed on duty in 2016 when he was knocked down by a teenager driving a stolen pick-up truck.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China has been rocked by yet another knife attack\n\nSix people including three children have been killed in a kindergarten stabbing in China's south-eastern Guangdong province.\n\nPolice said they have arrested a 25-year-old man with the surname Wu in Lianjiang.\n\nThe other victims are a teacher and two parents, AFP reported, quoting a local official. One person is also injured.\n\nPolice have called this a case of \"intentional assault\" but not elaborated on a possible motive.\n\nThe attack happened on Monday at 07:40 local time (23:40 Sunday GMT), just as parents were dropping their children off for summer classes. The man was arrested at 08:00.\n\nA storeowner who works near the kindergarten told the BBC the surrounding area had been sealed off.\n\nLianjiang has a population of about 1.87 million.\n\nAs videos of the attack spread across Chinese social media, they sparked outrage and shock.\n\nThe stabbings also fit in to a disturbingly familiar pattern. Firearms are banned in China but the country has seen a spate of knife attacks in recent years, although there was also one incident where the attacker used a chemical spray to injure a classroom of 50 children.\n\nThe BBC has counted at least 17 knife attacks in schools, colleges and universities since 2010. Ten of those have happened between 2018 and 2023.\n\nIn August last year, a knife-wielding assailant stormed a kindergarten in south-eastern Jiangxi province, killing three people and wounding six others.\n\nIn April 2021, two children died while 16 others were injured during a mass stabbing in Beiliu City, in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.\n\nIn October 2018, 14 children were injured in a knife attack at a kindergarten in Chongqing, south-west China.\n\nIn most of these cases, the perpetrators are male and have expressed a grudge against society. Similar patterns have been seen in mass killings in other countries, from the US to Japan. But experts say there may be some additional reasons for the apparent increase in mass stabbings in China.\n\nThey believe the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced Chinese cities to endure some of the longest and toughest lockdowns anywhere in the world, could be one reason. The after-effects are not well understood yet, but could include feelings of anger and resentment, and involve a loss of jobs, investments and relationships.\n\nOther possible factors that are cited are the high stress and high expectations put on young men in Chinese society. These are exacerbated by high levels of youth unemployment and a widening rich-poor divide. One expert told the BBC a strong sense of \"social deprivation\" can lead some to use violence to vent their frustration against society.\n\nChinese authorities have been stepping up security around schools since 2010. That year, the Ministry of Public Security had urged local authorities to \"resolutely crack down\" on criminal activities to ensure the safety of teachers and students.\n\nAfter the April 2021 attack, the education ministry also mandated emergency evacuation drills in schools.\n\nFearing copycat attacks, Beijing is also not allowing state media to publish full details of Monday's incident at the kindergarten.", "Pupils were allowed to leave the school after being locked down for the morning\n\nA teenage boy is being questioned on suspicion of the attempted murder of a teacher who was stabbed at a school.\n\nThe male teacher was taken to hospital with a single wound after being attacked at Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire just after 09:00 BST.\n\nFirearms officers arrested the suspect two hours later in Stoke Orchard, about three miles (4.8km) away, and a knife was seized.\n\nThe injured teacher was discharged from hospital on Monday evening.\n\nTewkesbury Academy has said it would reopen on Tuesday.\n\nGloucestershire police received a call from the ambulance service on Monday morning saying a teacher had been injured in a corridor at the school.\n\nOfficers said a \"thorough\" search was conducted after initial reports suggested the boy was still on the school's property.\n\n\"It was initially thought that the suspect had fled the scene and hidden himself within the school grounds,\" said Assistant Chief Constable Richard Ocone, of Gloucestershire Police.\n\n\"This search was both complex and meticulous in nature as we sought to ensure there were no further injured parties as well as seeking the arrest of the suspect,\" he added.\n\nTwo other schools also went into lockdown following the stabbing and further searches were conducted to make sure no-one else was hurt.\n\n\"Specialist resources including the National Police Air Service and plain-clothed officers were deployed to search the wider area,\" said ACC Ocone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police said there will be more officers in the area over the coming days\n\nOne teacher kept his pupils safe by sitting in front of a classroom door and barricaded it, said one parent.\n\nDaniel said his daughter video called him and he could see her teacher \"supporting the whole class\".\n\n\"The teacher sat right by the door. He barricaded the door, put some boxes there and kept everyone cool even though he must have been scared himself,\" he added.\n\nMichelle, whose 13-year-old son Alex is in Year 8, said she was very relieved to be able to collect him from school.\n\n\"You get the message from school to say it has been locked down and it says urgent,\" she said.\n\n\"Then you hear that a teacher has been stabbed and the children are all locked down. The first instinct is to get to the school as quickly as you can, which I didn't do, and I listened to the school and stayed away as long as I possibly could.\"\n\nMichelle said the teacher involved was \"very popular\" with parents and pupils alike.\n\nEmergency services were seen outside Alderman Knight school, which shares the same site\n\nPolice said they were keeping an \"open mind\" about a possible motive and more patrols would be seen in the area.\n\n\"At this time there is no evidence to suggest it is terrorism related. However, we are keeping an open mind while further enquiries are carried out,\" said ACC Ocone.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said she was \"deeply concerned\" by the stabbing.\n\n\"We are closely monitoring the situation and remain hugely grateful to the emergency services who are currently on the scene,\" added Ms Keegan.\n\n\"My department is on hand to support the school as the situation unfolds.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A parent of a pupil praised one teacher who supported his class during the incident\n\nMartyn and Julia, parents of Year 7 student Katie, said the school and police had kept them informed.\n\n\"The school was communicating throughout the morning. The students were allowed to turn their phones on, which we were most grateful for.\"\n\nJulia said: \"Hearing about it this morning felt very strange - it doesn't happen here. I know it sounds a cliche and you see it happening on the news in other places.\"\n\nErica, who has a child at Tewkesbury Academy, said she was happy that the incident was resolved quickly.\n\n\"It is worrying that these things can happen in any school and all the more important that as parents we take responsibility for teaching our children awareness of the destructive nature of this type of incident,\" she said.\n\nParents said the police and school had kept them informed\n\nRichard Stanley, leader of Tewkesbury Borough Council, said it had been a difficult day for the community.\n\n\"Tewkesbury is a very safe place, it's a small community and I don't think there's a particular issue here. It's a national issue in terms of young people carrying knives.\"\n\nLaurence Robertson, Conservative MP for the town, said he planned to meet with the education secretary and the home secretary to discuss knife crime.\n\n\"The government has taken certain steps to bring it [knife crime] back under control, but I would be the first to say that much more needs to be done,\" he told BBC Points West.\n\nFollowing the incident, The National Education Union (NEU) tweeted that its thoughts were with all staff, pupils and parents involved.\n\n\"This is a shocking incident. Violence has no place in our schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nACC Ocone said: \"This was clearly a very distressing incident and our thoughts are with the victim, their family and everyone impacted by what happened.\n\n\"We are working with the school and other agencies to ensure appropriate support is available and local people will see more police in the area over the coming days as the investigation continues.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The police have been at the school since the incident\n\nA teacher is in hospital and a teenage boy in police custody following a suspected stabbing at Tewkesbury Academy.\n\nGloucestershire Police was called to the secondary school at 09:10 BST after reports a teenager had stabbed a male teacher.\n\nThe school was in lockdown, but pupils are now being allowed to leave.\n\nIts headteacher said all pupils were safe and well after the \"serious\" incident.\n\nDaniel, whose daughter attends Tewkesbury Academy, said it was a \"big scary affair\" when he found out something was happening.\n\n\"They [the pupils] were all scared but my daughter has been absolutely fantastic I'm very proud of her,\" he said.\n\nDaniel said his daughter video called him and he could see her teacher \"supporting the whole class\".\n\n\"The teacher sat right by the door. He barricaded the door, put some boxes there and kept everyone cool even though he must have been scared himself,\" he added.\n\nPupils who have their parents' consent to leave the school early were allowed to leave the building from lunchtime, a statement on the school website said.\n\nPupils are now allowed to leave the school after being locked down for the morning\n\nThose who wish to collect their children being are asked to wait at a nearby garden centre where police will co-ordinate them to collect their children according to year group.\n\nThere will also be additional buses to take pupils home earlier, while any child without consent to leave will be kept onsite until 3.25pm.\n\nIn a statement, Tewkesbury Academy's head teacher Kathleen McGillycuddy said the alleged attack had been \"a worrying time for all associated with Tewkesbury Academy\" but assured families \"all pupils remain safe and well\".\n\nShe confirmed the incident had occurred just before 09:00 BST and that the male member of staff needed hospital treatment.\n\nTewkesbury Academy is a co-educational state academy open to pupils aged 11 to 18\n\nA spokesman for Cabot Learning Federation, which runs 20 academies including Tewkesbury Academy, said: \"We are grateful to all our staff, parents and students for their patience and understanding during what has been a difficult morning, while our thoughts are with our injured colleague - we wish him a swift and successful recovery.\"\n\nThe school was previously known as Tewkesbury School but changed its name to Tewkesbury Academy earlier this month.\n\nA spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service said it sent three ambulances and two operations officers after receiving a call at 09:08.\n\nThe victim was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital by ambulance.\n\nNearby Tirlebrook Primary School, on Brensham Road, told parents it had also been advised to go into lockdown.\n\nSpecial needs facility Alderman Knight School, which shares the same site as Tewkesbury School, has not confirmed whether it was also affected.\n\nMP for Tewksbury, Lawrence Robertson, told the BBC: \"It's a very shocking, very sad and worrying incident. My heart goes out to everyone who is involved.\"\n\nHe added: \"Weapons have no place in a school or society.\"\n\nThe lockdown has now been lifted at the Tewkesbury Academy\n\nMr Robertson said the school is \"very well-known\", adding: \"They carry out extraordinary work. This is such a surprise. We're proud of the school and proud of the whole area.\"\n\nThe prime minster expressed his sympathies with \"the individual who has been injured and with the staff and pupils of the school who would obviously be extremely concerned\".\n\nIn a statement, Rishi Sunak also thanked police and emergency services \"for their ongoing response\".\n\nElsewhere, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said she was \"deeply concerned\" by the incident and that her department was monitoring the situation.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC is coming under growing pressure after one of its top presenters was accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17.\n\nThe allegations, first reported by the Sun, are that the unnamed star paid tens of thousands of pounds to the young person over three years.\n\nAs the star faces serious questions about their conduct, so does the organisation itself.\n\nThis is a very clear crisis for the BBC. There are already accusations that since May, when it's claimed the family first complained, it hadn't handled the investigation into the unnamed presenter properly.\n\nWho carried it out? How did they try and contact the family who complained?\n\nWhat steps did they take to question the presenter and to investigate further?\n\nWho in the BBC knew about the accusations?\n\nNow we still don't know whether the presenter has or hasn't been formally suspended. The BBC press office won't tell us. All we know is that he won't be on air in the near future.\n\nIf the BBC don't name him is that fair to the other BBC presenters who have found themselves in the middle of a social media frenzy being wrongly and unfairly accused?\n\nThe BBC put out a statement defending its response to the complaint on Friday evening, but since then there has been nothing new.\n\nBut BBC News programmes and its website, and most Sunday newspapers, are leading on this story. So that doesn't seem like a strategy that can hold.\n\nThe pressure will be on the BBC to show they are taking action.\n\nMPs are now scrutinising and suggesting the response hasn't been handled properly. So the political heat is on and will only increase - the Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has spoken to Director General Tim Davie.\n\nFor him, this represents another high-profile crisis to grapple with this year alone.\n\nIn March, he was embroiled in an impartiality row with Gary Lineker and in April, Richard Sharp resigned as BBC chairman after a report into his appointment found he had \"failed to disclose potential perceived conflicts of interest\", including his involvement in the facilitation of an £800,000 loan for then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nNow in July, Mr Davie has to get a grip on another scandal that has the potential to severely dent the Corporation's reputation.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nTop seed Carlos Alcaraz underlined his status as the man likeliest to stop Novak Djokovic winning another Wimbledon after beating 2021 finalist Matteo Berrettini in the fourth round.\n\nThe 20-year-old Spaniard fought back to win 3-6 6-3 6-3 6-3 and reach the SW19 quarter-finals for the first time.\n\nAlcaraz will next face Denmark's Holger Rune, who won 3-6 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov.\n\nDjokovic, 36, remains the man to beat after his victory over Hubert Hurkacz.\n\nThe Serb second seed, who cannot meet Alcaraz until the final, is aiming for a fifth successive Wimbledon title which would also see him equal Roger Federer's record of eight men's singles victories.\n• None Djokovic wins but made to feel 'miserable' by Hurkacz's serve\n• None Eubanks 'living the dream' as grass becomes 'best friend'\n\nAlcaraz has emerged as the main challenger to Djokovic's recent dominance at the All England Club.\n\nHaving grown up on clay courts in Murcia, grass is the Spaniard's least natural surface and how quickly he has successfully adapted his game is a mark of his considerable talent.\n\nHe warmed up for Wimbledon by winning the title at Queen's in only the third grass-court event of his professional career.\n\nThe success served to increase his expectations of lifting another trophy in London this month - and so will passing his biggest test so far.\n\nBerrettini is still one of the biggest threats on grass, even though he has been hampered by a recurring abdominal injury this year.\n\nThat menace was shown in a first set where he fought off three break points before taking Alcaraz's serve for a 5-3 lead and serving out the opener.\n\n\"I knew it was going to be really tough - Matteo is a great player,\" said Alcaraz.\n\n\"It is not easy to come back after losing the first set, but I knew I would have my chances.\n\n\"I had to stay focused, that's something I am working on, to not lose my mind.\"\n\nAlcaraz's speed and athleticism meant he was able to soak up the Italian's huge serves and groundstrokes, turning defence into attack with his own power from the baseline.\n\nA single break of serve was enough to secure the second set before Alcaraz ramped up the intensity in the third.\n\nThe US Open champion broke to move 3-1 ahead and, as a result, the pressure forced Berrettini into more errors as he looked to blast his way back into the match.\n\nWith his second serve also under scrutiny, Berrettini lost serve again to hand over the set and it led to him pleading with umpire John Blom for the roof to be closed because of fading light.\n\nThe Italian said his game was \"suffering\" with the increasing darkness and there was a short break as the match moved indoors under the lights.\n\nBoth players comfortably held serve in the opening seven games, until Alcaraz pounced to break and serve out the match in the following game.\n\nNow he faces Rune - another 20-year-old who he has known since they played junior tournaments as 12-year-olds - in the first Wimbledon men's quarter-final between two players under the age of 21.\n\nAsked about his reaction to reaching the last eight, Alcaraz said: \"It is something I really wanted.\n\n\"I came in with that goal to get into the quarter-finals. Now I'm looking for more.\n\n\"It is my dream to win this title one day. I hope to reach that dream this year.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The BBC still has many questions to answer after lawyers representing the young person at the centre of the allegations disputed the mother’s account.\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, the lawyer makes claims that throw doubt on the story that has dominated front pages through the weekend, but with the BBC facing the media as it presents its annual report, the corporation's director general can expect the event to be dominated by the crisis.", "Today's evidence from the chief medical officer is part of a week which is looking very closely at what happened in Northern Ireland during the pandemic.\n\nTomorrow we'll be bringing you live coverage as Baroness Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland's former first minister, and the Department of Health's former permanent secretary Richard Pengelly give evidence. On Wednesday, former deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill is due to appear.\n\nYou can catch up on all of the news from today's inquiry here.\n\nToday's coverage has been written and edited by myself and Matt Fox. Until tomorrow, thanks for joining us.", "Spanish maritime rescuers have spent days looking for the small Senegalese boat (file image)\n\nThe Spanish coast guard has rescued 86 people from a migrant boat off the coast of the Canary Islands.\n\nAt first, rescuers thought they had found one of three boats that have been missing since they left Senegal more than two weeks ago.\n\nBut the coast guard now says this boat is a different vessel that they did not know about, according to migrant aid group, Walking Borders.\n\nIt means there are still more than 300 people missing at sea, on three boats.\n\nThe fourth vessel was spotted by a search plane on Monday afternoon, with maritime rescuers initially reporting that they could see 200 people on board.\n\nThe boat was found 70 nautical miles (130km) south-west of the Canary Islands. It was carrying people from sub-Saharan Africa, however where it departed from was unclear, a coast guard spokesperson told Reuters news agency.\n\nThose rescued include 80 men and six women, and with the assistance of a container ship, the boat was taken towards Gran Canaria island.\n\nMeanwhile, the search continues for the three missing vessels - the largest of which had an estimated 200 people on board, including many children.\n\nIt is thought to have left Senegal more than two weeks ago, on 27 June, heading for the Canary Islands, Walking Borders said.\n\nThe boat sailed from Kafountine, a coastal town that is roughly 1,700km (1,056 miles) from Tenerife.\n\nThe other two boats are slightly smaller and left four days earlier. One has about 65 people on board and the other up to 60.\n\nThis comes just weeks after an overcrowded trawler sank off the Greek coast, in one of the worst Mediterranean migrant shipwrecks.\n\nAt least 78 people were confirmed drowned, but the UN reported that up to 500 were still missing.\n\nThe voyage from West Africa to the Canary Islands is among the most dangerous routes for migrants. They usually sail in dugout fishing boats that are easily tossed by powerful Atlantic currents.\n\nLast year at least 559 people died at sea attempting to reach the Spanish islands, the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says. The death toll for 2021 was 1,126.\n\nHowever, the IOM says information about the number of departures from West Africa is scarce and shipwrecks are often not reported.\n\nIt adds that the migrants are often from Morocco, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, or are of other sub-Saharan origins.\n\nAccording to Spain's interior ministry, 15,682 people arrived in the Canary Islands without permission in 2022, a drop of more than 30% compared with 2021.\n\n\"Despite the year-to-year decrease, flows along this dangerous route since 2020 remain high compared to prior years,\" the IOM says.", "I think we've got quite an extraordinary situation here - we've got reputations, careers, and futures at stake.\n\nNone of the principals have spoken out openly about what has happened and if you analyse that from a newsroom point of view, this is a pretty unsatisfactory position to be in because this is a 72-hour news cycle but nobody is really clearer about where the truth lies.\n\nIf you analyse this from a legal perspective, this is really coming down to some very difficult questions about privacy.\n\nThe firm that the young person has instructed to contact the BBC is not a modest, high street firm, they are a multinational practice so they know what they're doing.\n\nThey have repeatedly emphasised that their client alleges this is a breach of their privacy.\n\nThat's quite a strong allegation to make. Yet because the individual hasn't been named it's not necessarily going to end up in the courts.\n\nI think when you look at this - reporting claim and counter-claim - we end up in a situation where the public wants us to tell them what this really amounts to in legal terms - is this going to amount to a court case?\n\nWe don't know, and no-one seems to be sure at the moment.", "BBC News does not know the identity of the young person and has not spoken directly to them\n\nClaims made by the mother at the heart of the BBC presenter scandal are \"rubbish\", a lawyer representing the young person has said.\n\nThe lawyer told the BBC \"nothing inappropriate or unlawful\" took place and the young person sent a denial to The Sun before it published the claims.\n\nThe Sun first reported allegations on Friday that a BBC presenter had paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos.\n\nThe paper says it has seen evidence to back the mother's claims.\n\nIn their letter sent on Monday to the BBC, the lawyer says the young person sent a message on WhatsApp to the paper on Friday evening denying the claims, saying the statement their mother made to the newspaper was \"totally wrong and there was no truth to it\".\n\nNonetheless, the lawyer added, the Sun newspaper proceeded to publish \"their inappropriate article\".\n\n\"For the avoidance of doubt, nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place between our client and the BBC personality and the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are rubbish,\" the lawyer writes.\n\nThe lawyer also said press reporting amounted to an invasion of privacy, and criticised both the Sun and the BBC for not contacting their client.\n\n\"Nobody from the Sun newspaper appears to have made any attempt to contact our client prior to the publication of the allegations on Friday 6 July,\" the lawyer writes.\n\nThe lawyer also claims in the letter that the mother and the young person are estranged.\n\nIn response, the Sun said: \"We have reported a story about two very concerned parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and the welfare of their child.\n\n\"Their complaint was not acted upon by the BBC.\n\n\"We have seen evidence that supports their concerns. It's now for the BBC to properly investigate.\"\n\nThe Sun published a new story on Monday evening after BBC News disclosed excerpts from the young person's legal letter.\n\nIn a new interview, the mother and step-father who have made the claims said they \"stand by\" their allegations.\n\nThe step-father is quoted in the article as saying allegations were put to the BBC \"for an hour\", appearing to contradict a previous statement in Monday's edition which stated: \"The family say no-one from the corporation rang them for a proper interview after the initial complaint.\"\n\nThe article also reports that the step-father went to the police about the matter but was told \"they couldn't do anything as they said it wasn't illegal.\"\n\nBBC News does not know the identity of the young person and has not spoken directly to them.\n\nIt has not seen any of the Sun's body of evidence, or the dossier the Sun reported was handed to the corporation by the family over the weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens next in BBC presenter claims? David Sillito explains in 50 seconds\n\nThe BBC said on Sunday that a staff member had been suspended, but has not identified him.\n\nThe corporation said it was working as fast as possible \"to establish the facts in order to properly inform appropriate next steps\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is \"assessing\" information from the BBC over the allegations made against the presenter but has said there is currently no investigation.\n\nDetectives held a virtual meeting with BBC representatives on Monday, a spokesperson for the force said.\n\nIn its report on Friday, The Sun claimed that a BBC presenter had paid the individual tens of thousands of pounds for the images, starting when the young person was 17.\n\nThe BBC said it first became aware of a complaint in May, and that \"new allegations\" were received on Thursday, the day before the Sun first published its claims.\n\nOn Sunday, the Sun reported that the young person's family was said to be upset by the corporation's latest response, alleging \"no-one from the BBC rang them for a proper interview after the initial complaint\".\n\nThe paper also claimed the BBC presenter made what it called two \"panicked calls\" to the young person - who is now 20 - after the original story came out.", "Year 7 pupil Katie Gardiner was collected from the school gates by her worried parents this afternoon.\n\n\"It was quite scary as we had never had anything like that before. My old primary school also got shut down,\" she tells PA news agency.\n\nShe says the teachers \"did a really good job in keeping us calm and making sure we had fun\".\n\nHer mother says that once the school was locked down, teachers allowed students to switch on their mobile phones and message their families to say they were safe - although school rules normally state that phones are to be switched off.\n\n\"We are really relieved to see her. We know she has been safe for many, many hours but until you actually see them you don't know,\" Katie's mum Julia says.\n\n\"We couldn't ring but we were allowed to text, which was really reassuring.\n\n\"They had quite a lot of fun with sweets and doing a geography quiz and the teachers did a fantastic job keeping everyone calm.\"", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told President Joe Biden the UK and the US were \"two of the firmest allies\" in Nato\n\nUS President Joe Biden has described relations with the UK as \"rock solid\" during talks in London with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nMr Biden said he \"couldn't be meeting a closer friend and a greater ally\". Mr Sunak hailed the UK and the US as \"two of the firmest allies\" in Nato.\n\nThey also discussed a US move to give Ukraine controversial cluster bombs to defend itself from Russia's invasion.\n\nUkraine's membership bid will be high on agenda at Tuesday's Nato summit.\n\nAll 31 Nato members attending the summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, agree that Ukraine cannot join the military alliance during the war - amid fears this would lead to a direct conflict with Russia.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has himself said he does not expect Kyiv to join the bloc until after the war - but he wants the summit to give a \"clear signal\" on Ukraine's bid.\n\nSeveral Nato members in Eastern Europe are pressing for a fast-track membership for their neighbour - but others, including the US, are seen as more hesitant, fearing this could lead to a direct conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.\n\nSpeaking to CNN, President Biden said Ukraine's membership bid was \"premature\".\n\nReferring to the US pledge of cluster bombs for Ukraine - something which caused unease among Nato allies - Mr Sunak's official spokesman said it \"was a difficult choice for the US\".\n\nBut the spokesman added that the decision had been \"forced on them by Russia's war of aggression\".\n\nThe weapons have been banned by more than 100 countries, including the UK, because of the danger they pose to civilians.\n\nThe spokesman said Sunak was upholding the UK's requirements under an international convention banning the weapons.\n\nThe US says it has received Ukraine's reassurance that the munitions will not be used in Russia or in urban areas.\n\nPresident Biden also held separate talks on Monday with King Charles at Windsor Castle - the pair's first meeting since the King was formally crowned in May.\n\nMr Biden received a royal salute and listened to the US national anthem performed by the Welsh Guards before entering the castle for the talks.\n\nKing Charles and US President Joe Biden inspect the Guard of Honour at Windsor Castle", "Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees says a committee run by politicians cannot be a substitute for an independent inquiry\n\nBereaved families say a Senedd committee \"muddies the waters\" amid renewed calls for a Wales-specific Covid inquiry.\n\nAnna-Louise Marsh-Rees, leader of Covid-19 Bereaved Families Cymru, said a committee run by politicians could not be a substitute.\n\n\"It cannot possibly cover the range of issues and get to the level of granularity that we need,\" she said.\n\nThe committee said people would have chances to \"have their say\".\n\nMs Marsh-Rees said the committee, which meets for the first time next week, was \"not the same as a Wales inquiry\".\n\n\"It is 100% not. It's not independent. We want it to be taken out of the political arena,\" she said.\n\nThe Wales Covid-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee was set up as part of a deal between Welsh Labour and the Welsh Conservatives, to identify any gaps in what the UK inquiry said about Wales.\n\nIt follows a long-running row over whether Wales needs its own inquiry into the pandemic, calls for which have been resisted by the Welsh government.\n\nLucy O'Brien, a lawyer with extensive experience in public inquiries and judicial reviews, said she was concerned that the Senedd committee would not have the resources to adequately scrutinise decisions made during the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"With an independent public inquiry, the inquiry would be resourced to approach witnesses and compel evidence and hold public hearings.\n\n\"Say the UK public inquiry found there were issues with care homes in Wales and that was part of Baroness Hallett's recommendations, would the Senedd committee then be contacting care homes in Wales to obtain evidence? I think that's unlikely because I think they're unlikely to be resourced to do so.\"\n\nLawyer Lucy O'Brien says she is concerned the Senedd committee will not have adequate resources\n\nA spokesperson for the Welsh government said they would not be providing running commentary on the evidence the inquiry was taking and would not be speculating on any conclusions the inquiry may come to.\n\nMs O'Brien said she was \"surprised\" the Welsh government voted against holding a Welsh independent public inquiry.\n\n\"We know Wales went in its own very different direction to the UK government during the pandemic and that in many areas the response in Wales was different to the rest of the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It's surprising to us from a legal perspective that the Senedd voted against that.\"\n\nThe committee is being co-chaired by Joyce Watson, Labour Member of the Senedd for Mid and West Wales, and Tom Giffard, Conservative MS for South Wales West.\n\nThe Conservatives are co-chairing the committee with Welsh Labour which has been criticised by Plaid Cymru.\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesperson Mabon ap Gwynfor said both parties wanted to \"quieten the issue\" of a public inquiry and \"push it into the long grass\".\n\n\"It's not just the gaps we need to look at, we need to look at the Covid issue in the round in Wales because health is devolved,\" he said.\n\nLeader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies said the party was committed to \"enabling this committee to work to its fullest ability like any scrutiny committee in the Welsh Parliament.\"\n\nHe added: \"The challenge is obviously to government backbenchers to make sure they step up to the plate and act as backbenchers, not an extension of the Welsh government.\"", "Joe Biden's flying visit to the UK is over and he's now on his way to Lithuania for the Nato summit which begins tomorrow.\n\nHe wasn't here for long, but he packed quite a lot in with trips to Downing Street to meet Rishi Sunak, and to Windsor Castle for climate talks with the King.\n\nAttentions will now turn to the next two days when both Biden and Sunak touchdown in Vilnius for that summit - where no doubt the war in Ukraine will feature heavily.\n\nDon't forget that on Friday the US announced that it would be supplying Kyiv with cluster bombs. The UK has signed up to a treaty banning the making and storage of these munitions.\n\nWe will be bringing you live updates of the Nato leaders summit tomorrow and Wednesday, so please do join us for that if you can.\n\nToday's page was brought to you by Marita Moloney, Andre Rhoden-Paul, Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Ece Goksedef and myself. Thank you for joining us.", "Warning have been put in place at some north coast beaches\n\nPotentially toxic blue-green algae have been spotted at fresh locations along the north coast, Northern Ireland environmental authorities have warned.\n\nThe bacteria were found at Portstewart and Castlerock beaches earlier this week.\n\nRed flag warnings were extended west to the beach at Downhill on Sunday, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) said.\n\nThese have also been extended to Benone beach as a precautionary measure.\n\nRed flag warnings were extended west to the beach at Downhill on Sunday\n\nBlue-green algae is not actually an alga but rather a type of bacteria called cyanobacteria.\n\nIt can cause illness in humans but is particularly dangerous for pets and has been implicated in the deaths of several dogs in other locations where it has been detected.\n\nSwimmers and dog walkers have been advised to adhere to any advice about getting into the water.\n\nScientists from the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute are working with DAERA, assisting with modelling to predict how tidal flows will affect the algal blooms.\n\nDownhill Beach is popular with dog walkers but pet owners have been warned of the possibility of potentially toxic algae\n\nA scientist told BBC News NI last Friday that the organism cannot survive in salt water, but it was still being washed from Lough Neagh down the River Bann to the coast.\n\nThe DAERA officials have encouraged people to get involved in citizen science and help monitor the presence of blue-green algae, via an app or by contacting the department directly.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Where is Yevgeny Prigozhin? And why does it matter?\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin met mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin after the failed Wagner group mutiny last month, the Kremlin says.\n\nPrigozhin, who heads the mercenary group, was among 35 Wagner commanders invited to the meeting in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov added.\n\nHe said that President Putin had given an \"assessment\" of the Ukraine war effort and the mutiny.\n\nThe rebellion, launched on 23 June, lasted only 24 hours.\n\nUnder a deal to end the mutiny, which saw Wagner troops seize a city and march on Moscow, charges against Prigozhin were dropped and he was offered a move to Belarus.\n\nThere had been very public infighting between Wagner and Russia's ministry of defence over the conduct of the war. Prigozhin had repeatedly accused the ministry of failing to supply his group with ammunition.\n\nBut on Monday, Mr Peskov said the Wagner chief was among the commanders who were invited to the Kremlin five days after the mutiny collapsed.\n\n\"The president gave an assessment of the company's actions on the front,\" Mr Peskov is quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.\n\n\"He also gave assessment to the 24 June events. Putin listened to the commanders' explanations and suggested variants of their future employment and their future use in combat.\"\n\nAccording to the spokesman, Prigozhin told Mr Putin that Wagner unconditionally supported him.\n\nLast Thursday Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko - who brokered the deal that ended the mutiny - said Prigozhin was in Russia.\n\nThe BBC tracked Prigozhin's private jet flying to Belarus in late June, and returning to Russia the same evening.\n\nThe Wagner Group is a private army that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine since last year's invasion.\n\nBut following setbacks for Russia on the battlefield, Prigozhin took to social media to lash out at the high command.\n\nHe has been particularly scathing about Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov - the two most senior figures running Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPrigozhin did not directly condemn Mr Putin during the mutiny, but analysts described it as the biggest challenge to the president's authority in more than two decades in power.\n\nMeanwhile Gen Gerasimov has been seen in public for the first time since the mutiny.\n\nThere had been speculation that Wagner's march was cancelled in return for the general's sacking. However, footage aired on Russian TV on Monday shows him issuing orders for Ukrainian missile sites to be attacked.\n\nHe is heard discussing recent events, suggesting that the video was filmed after the mutiny.\n\nThe video suggests that President Vladimir Putin has kept both Mr Shoigu and Gen Gerasimov in their posts.", "Nuria Sajjad was said by family members to have \"embodied joy, kindness and generosity\"\n\nA second girl has died from her injuries after a car crashed into a school in south-west London on Thursday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has named eight-year-old Nuria Sajjad as the second victim.\n\nSelena Lau, eight, also died after the incident in Wimbledon.\n\nIn a statement released by the police on Sunday, Nuria's family described her as the \"light of our lives\".\n\nShe \"embodied joy, kindness and generosity and she was loved by all around her,\" the statement added.\n\nNuria's family said they were announcing the news with \"profound sorrow\", and made a request for privacy.\n\nThey also thanked emergency services and those working at St George's Hospital, as well as the parents of Nuria's classmates and school staff, \"for all they have done to ease Nuria's journey\".\n\nSeveral people were taken to hospital after the crash at The Study Preparatory School, which involved a Land Rover.\n\nTributes were paid to Selena after her death was announced on Thursday.\n\nFamily members described her as an \"intelligent and cheeky girl\" who was \"adored and loved by everyone\".\n\nScores of people have visited the school over the weekend\n\nParents and children have been visiting the school over the weekend to lay flowers and pay their respects.\n\nMerton Council said it was offering counselling to the families affected, as well as pupils and staff at the school.\n\nA woman in her 40s remains in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nThe driver of the vehicle - a 46-year-old woman - has been bailed until late July, having been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nOfficers have asked the public to avoid speculation while an investigation is carried out, but have said they are not treating the crash as terror-related.\n\nThirty-five police vehicles were sent to the scene, and officers teamed up with paramedics to give first aid to a number of people who were injured.\n\nAn end-of-term tea party had been taking place at the school when the vehicle crashed through the fence and into a building.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it sent 15 ambulances to the scene and treated 16 people.\n\nThe private girls' school is just a mile away from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, which has been hosting the world-famous Wimbledon tennis tournament.\n\nThe school is now closed until September.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Threads will add an alternative home feed of posts as part of a series of updates to the new social media app after users complained.\n\nInstagram boss Adam Mosseri said a feed for Threads showing posts in chronological order is currently being worked on.\n\nUsers want to see posts from accounts they follow rather than chosen by Threads' algorithm.\n\nMr Mosseri said the new feed was \"on the list\" of changes to Threads.\n\nMeta, which owns Threads, Instagram and Facebook, launched the social media app last week and more than 100 million users have signed up to use it.\n\nMr Mosseri said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, had given an alternative feed a \"thumbs up\", after a number of users expressed frustration at not being offered a feed of posts from people they followed, in the order in which they were posted.\n\nOther features \"on the list\", according Mr Mosseri, include:\n\nWhile it is possible to view Threads on the web, via Threads.net, there is no desktop interface - posts can be made only via the app - and that too was something the company was \"working on\", according to Mr Mosseri.\n\nThere is also no search function. When it announced the app's launch, the company said it would add a \"more robust search function\" along with improvements to the selection of recommended posts.\n\nMeanwhile the only way currently to fully delete a Threads profile is to delete the associated Instagram account, which many users would be reluctant to - another issue the company is looking to fix.\n\nWhen Threads was launched, Meta announced it planned to allow it to communicate with other social-media platforms, such as Mastodon, using something known as the fediverse.\n\nBut this suggestion while welcomed by some, has met opposition.\n\nThe idea of the fediverse is it is like email. Someone on Gmail can exchange emails with someone using Hotmail, for example, and the fediverse could be described as that idea applied to social media.\n\nAt some point in the future Meta wants users to be able to use their Threads account to interact with other social-media platforms using ActivityPub - a protocol with the necessary programming code - such as Mastodon, WordPress or Reddit-alternative Lemmy.\n\nBut some worry Threads threatens the idea of this system altogether, because of a practice big tech companies have utilised in the past - \"embrace, extend and extinguish\", when a company with a lot of resources extends what is possible from a new technology so drastically it becomes the new standard, leaving people with no choice but to use its platform.\n\nMastodon chief executive Eugen Rochko dismissed these fears, saying Meta joining Threads was \"validation of the movement towards decentralised social media\" and \"a clear victory for our cause\".\n\nBut concern among users has grown with over a hundred Mastodon communities joining what they call the \"fedipact\" - an agreement to block Meta from being able to access their community under any circumstances - so even when Threads does begin to support ActivityPub, users will not be able to access everything on the fediverse.\n\nOne other feature coming to Threads at some point may also receive mixed reviews. There is no advertising on the platform - for now.", "An aspiring actor who sought career advice from Kevin Spacey claims he woke up with the star performing a sex act on him after being invited to his flat.\n\nThe last of four men in the trial who claim they were sexually assaulted by the US actor gave evidence at London's Southwark Crown Court on Monday.\n\nHe said he was afraid to go to the police because he was in a \"David and Goliath\" situation.\n\nThe US actor denies 12 sex offences between 2001 and 2013.\n\nHis trial heard how the complainant was invited to Spacey's flat in the Waterloo area of London - where he was staying during his stint as the director of the Old Vic theatre - after seeking him out for career mentorship.\n\nJurors were played a recording of the complainant's police interview, in which he said he was initially \"really excited\" the Hollywood star was taking an interest in his career.\n\nThe man - who was 23 at the time of the alleged offence - drank beer, smoked cannabis and ate pizza with Mr Spacey.\n\nHe said: \"I thought 'what a good person taking time to help me out'. That quickly went.\n\n\"He was slightly despondent in conversation and didn't really want to talk about acting. Everything was very quick.\n\n\"Nothing was a developing conversation. In hindsight, he just had one thing he wanted to do. He obviously had one thing on this mind.\"\n\nThe court heard the man claim that Spacey gave him a \"low-waisted hug\" and put his head in his crotch while they were sitting on a couch.\n\nHe told police during the recorded interview that he was \"a bit tipsy\", adding: \"It's unusual in my behaviour to just conk out and that's what I did.\"\n\nRecounting the alleged assault, he said his \"very first image\" after waking up was the actor performing a sex act on him.\n\nThe complainant told police: \"I said no, he kind of carried on and I pushed him, and he stopped.\n\n\"He stood up. My belt was still together but my buttons were undone. I was zipping up and massively in shock.\n\n\"He said I think it was best you go. He said I should leave, and I shouldn't tell anyone about this.\n\n\"Because I was in such shock, I don't know what I thought.\"\n\nThe man said he had heard Spacey liked \"young, straight boys\" but \"didn't know at that point he was a predator\".\n\nHe said he cried while waiting for a bus home and had been afraid to go to police over the incident.\n\nAsked why he had not initially reported it, he said: \"It's David and Goliath isn't it, and speaking to police, and being the only one.\n\n\"I did not have the confidence…it was so deeply buried. I didn't even tell friends.\"\n\nDuring in-person cross-examination in court, the complainant said he believed he was drugged by Spacey and described him as a \"vile, sexual predator\" who \"raped\" him.\n\nThe complainant was quizzed by Patrick Gibbs KC on behalf of Spacey, who questioned his motives for coming forward.\n\nMr Gibbs suggested that money worries might have been behind him going to police and approaching media outlets, and asked questions about his spending and gambling habits.\n\nThe defence said the complainant had discussions with lawyers about seeking millions in compensation from Spacey.\n\nMr Gibbs also put questions to the complainant about his sexuality, and suggested that he knew Spacey wanted to \"hook up\" with the complainant when he agreed to go to his flat.\n\nIn January, Mr Spacey pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nAll four accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.", "The recent anonymous complaint to the council says the new door colour is still a shade of pink\n\nAn Edinburgh woman who was ordered to repaint her pink door is facing a new council investigation over its latest colour.\n\nMiranda Dickson, 48, recently painted her door in the New Town \"an off-white\" after a previous green makeover was rejected by planners.\n\nBut Edinburgh Council has now received a fresh complaint that the door is back to pink.\n\nLast year Ms Dickson faced a £20,000 fine if she did not change the colour.\n\nMs Dickson told BBC Scotland she was stunned by the latest development.\n\nShe said: \"I am speechless that someone has complained about this colour as far as I was concerned this chapter in my life was closed.\n\n\"I'm shocked and distraught about it. It is definitely not the same colour as it was originally painted - it's an off-white.\n\n\"I feel bullied and that it has now become personal.\"\n\nMs Dickson first received an enforcement notice last year which said her pink door did not meet the standards of a house in the World Heritage Site.\n\nIt stated she must repaint it to its original colour of white or apply for planning permission.\n\nMiranda Dickson says her door is not \"bright pink\" as the complaint letter stated\n\nAfter an appeal failed she applied for planning permission to paint it green.\n\nIn April, before she received the outcome of her application, she painted the door green because she was near the fine deadline if it remained pink.\n\nLast week planners rejected the green colour so she painted it an \"off-white\" and applied again for retrospective planning permission.\n\nBut in a fresh twist the council said it had received a new complaint that the door was again pink.\n\nMs Dickson has previously said she was confused why she was being issued an enforcement notice when there were many other brightly coloured doors in the area.\n\nBut the council said it could only act where it had received a complaint.\n\nMs Dickson says there are other brightly painted doors in her neighbourhood which is a conservation area - her door (before it was repainted) is bottom left\n\nMs Dickson had spent 18 months renovating her childhood home in Drummond Place after her parents died.\n\nThe mother-of-two, who is a brand director in the drinks industry, moved back to Edinburgh two years ago after working in the US for nine years.\n\nShe had been told that she had until 7 January to change the colour of her front door after a complaint led to a council enforcement notice, which she appealed.\n\nMs Dickson said she had looked up the council's guidelines online before she painted the door.\n\nShe said that when she first received a warning letter from the council last year, she asked which colours would be allowed.\n\nMiranda Dickson next to the door when it was repainted green - which was also rejected by planners\n\nThe chief planning officer wrote back telling her to \"stick to traditional colours\" like dark red, dark grey, sage green, dark blue or black.\n\nBut then she received a council enforcement letter in October telling her to paint her door white.\n\n\"It's not like my door is in a bad condition,\" she said.\n\n\"It costs a lot of money to have the front door painted because they are very large. It's not a quick job.\n\n\"The council needs to act with more clarity over paint colour.\"\n\nA City of Edinburgh Council spokeswoman said: \"We have received a complaint alleging that the door has been repainted pink. We're currently looking into this and so can't say more at this time.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Threads, the social media app aimed at rivalling Twitter, has signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days.\n\nThe platform, launched by Instagram-owner Meta, has beaten a record set by Open AI's ChatGPT app.\n\nThreads went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries, including the UK, last Wednesday.\n\nMeta boss Mark Zuckerberg said he \"couldn't believe\" the milestone had been reached so fast.\n\nIt hasn't all been plain sailing for Threads though - it is not available in mainland Europe yet because of uncertainty over whether it complies with EU data privacy legislation.\n\nIn his first public comments on the situation, the EU's industry commissioner Thierry Breton told French radio station, Franceinfo, that \"taking a little time to do so seems to me to be probably good policy.\"\n\nDespite its problems in the EU Threads has enjoyed rapid growth. Meta, which also owns Facebook, said the app had 10 million users within the first seven hours of launch and more than 30 million by Thursday morning.\n\nAround 24 hours later, that figure had more than doubled.\n\nIt still has some way to go to catch its main rival though. At 100 million, Threads' user base stands at less than a third of the 350 million users that Twitter is believed to have.\n\nSome Twitter users have become disenchanted since billionaire Elon Musk took over. Thousands of jobs have been cut under his ownership and he has announced a number of changes to help generate revenue at Twitter.\n\nOther rivals have emerged like Mastodon and Bluesky but have struggled without an existing user base.\n\nThreads has capitalised on being linked to Instagram which has more than one billion users.\n\nPeople who sign up to Threads will display a link to their profile in the app in their Instagram profile but there is an option to hide this.\n\nIn order to sign up for Threads, users must have an Instagram account.\n\nIt is not possible to delete your Threads profile without deleting the associated Instagram profile.\n\nHowever, deactivating your Threads profile will not deactivate your Instagram account.\n\nDeactivation will mean your Threads profile, your posts and interactions with others' posts won't be visible, Meta says.\n\nSince Threads' launch, Twitter has threatened the rival with legal action.\n\nA lawyer for the company accused Mr Zuckerberg of \"systematic, wilful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property\" to create Threads.\n\nTwitter claimed that Meta had hired former employees who \"had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information\". Meta has denied this.\n\nUsers on Threads can post text of up to 500 characters, more than the 280 characters available on Twitter. Both apps allow people to post links, images and video.\n\nBut the rules governing what content can be posted differ - nudity and not-safe-for-work (NSFW) explicit images are prohibited on Threads.\n\nAlso unlike Twitter, there is no desktop version of Threads as yet.", "The armed gang smashed windows in the house\n\nA man and woman suffered a \"terrifying experience\" when an armed gang smashed windows when attempting to break into their home, the police have said.\n\nThe incident happened shortly before 20:30 BST on Saturday at Swilly Close in Portstewart, County Londonderry.\n\nThe man suffered minor injuries, which required treatment, and the woman was uninjured but shaken.\n\nTwo men and two women were arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.\n\nThe arrests came after police stopped a car on the Portmore Road.\n\nThe attack happened at a house in Swilly Close, Portstewart\n\nThe men, aged 31 and 34, and women, aged 28 and 61, remain in custody.\n\nPSNI Det Sgt Colhoun said: \"This was a terrifying experience for the occupants of the property and our investigation is now under way to establish what happened, who was involved and a motive.\"\n\nPolice are appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time, and saw anything suspicious to get in contact.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nBelarusian Victoria Azarenka says \"it wasn't fair\" she was booed off court by Wimbledon fans after losing a thriller to Ukraine's Elina Svitolina.\n\nSvitolina has not shaken hands with Russians or Belarusians after matches since the war in Ukraine started.\n\nShe has made her position clear many times but, after not meeting Azarenka at the net, it was the Belarusian who was jeered as she left Court One.\n\n\"What should I have done? Stayed and waited?\" Azarenka asked reporters.\n\n\"She doesn't want to shake hands with Russian, Belarusian people. I respected her decision.\"\n\nIn front of a Wimbledon crowd giving her thunderous vocal support, wildcard Svitolina won a superb match 2-6 6-4 7-6 (11-9) to reach the quarter-finals.\n\nAfter Svitolina took her first match point with an ace, Azarenka gave a respectful wave of her hand at the Ukrainian who did not respond.\n\nHearing the jeers as she walked off Court One, 33-year-old Azarenka paused as if to ask why and made a gesture to the spectators before disappearing.\n\nSvitolina, 28, said she \"could not really answer\" if she was surprised at the hostile reaction of the British crowd to Azarenka.\n\nLast month at the French Open, Svitolina was booed when she walked off court after not shaking hands with Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka following a quarter-final defeat.\n\n\"I feel like each player that loses, and there is no handshake, is getting booed,\" said Svitolina, who only returned to playing three months ago after giving birth to daughter Skai in October.\n\n\"I think the tennis organisations have to come out with a statement that there will be no handshake between Russian/Belarusian and Ukrainian players.\n\n\"I don't know if it's maybe unclear for people.\n\n\"I already said multiple times that until Russian troops are out of Ukraine and we take back our territories, I'm not going to shake hands.\n\n\"I have clear statement. I don't know how more clear I can be.\"\n\nThe reaction to Azarenka was a remarkable end to a gripping contest and the former world number one hoped people would instead focus on the quality of the pair's tennis.\n\n\"I thought it was a great match. If people are going to be focusing only on handshakes or crowd, quite drunk crowd, booing in the end, that's a shame,\" she added.\n\n\"It was a tennis match. Nobody's changing lives here. We are playing tennis. We're doing our jobs. That's it.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Ofwat has been accused of being \"complacent\" over the Thames Water affair, which has seen it lose its chief executive and face collapse over its massive debts.\n\nThe company is fighting for survival and has until early next year to stave off temporary nationalisation.\n\nMP Sir Robert Goodwill said the regulator had questions to answer over whether it had \"been asleep at the wheel\" over the case.\n\nSir Robert, a Conservative MP who chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, told the BBC the regulator had been \"very complacent\" over Thames Water.\n\nThe company is facing problems servicing its debts of £14bn, but Ofwat said earlier this week that shareholders were \"reluctant\" to invest and it expected the firm to request an increase in bills at the next price review.\n\nBut Sir Robert said Thames was heavily in debt and about 80% of its finances came from borrowing. \"That means as interest rates have gone up, about half their debt is linked to inflation. They've had massive increases in the cost of that debt,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said the committee, which would also be questioning water companies on Wednesday, wanted to know where the debt came from.\n\nSir Robert believed the firm was taking money out in the form of debt payments, instead of dividends. \"Our suspicion is that a lot of this debt is with these very funds that own the shares,\" he said.\n\nThe committee chairman said the MPs would want to know: \"Have Ofwat been asleep at the wheel or have they just not had the powers to inquire into some of the finance structures?\"\n\nOfwat's appearance on Wednesday will be the second appearance in as many weeks in front of politicians. Last week its chief executive David Black gave evidence to the Lords' business committee when he denied the watchdog had failed to regulate the industry well.\n\nBut he admitted there were \"hard lessons to learn\" and that he had been \"angered\" by excessive chief executive pay in the industry.\n\nThames Water is not the only water company in the spotlight. The management of Southern Water is also up for scrutiny.\n\n\"It does seem rather reckless,\" Sir Robert said. \"Southern Water's credit rating has been downgraded yet again. The owners of these companies are having put to put money in yet again. My worry is the money that we're paying as water users will be going to service that debt, rather than what we want to see, which is paying to clean up our rivers and improve sewage treatment.\"\n\nHowever, the chair of the select committee argued a return to nationalisation was not the answer: \"I can remember when water investment was way back in the queue behind hospitals and education and to be fair, we have seen massive investment in improving our infrastructure.\n\n\"The general problem with pollution is when it rains. Many older houses have the water from their roofs going straight into the sewer, which massively overloads the system, and that's something that can be addressed with storm-water tanks. It can also be addressed by people putting in water bowsers or catching the grey water and using that to flush their toilets.\"\n\nThames Water, which is due to publish its annual results on Monday, said it would be making no comment.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC on Sunday Ofwat said: \"Thames Water need to develop a robust and credible plan to turn around the business and transform its performance for customers and the environment. For a long time, we have been pushing them to improve their financial resilience, including to cut debt. We will continue to safeguard customers' interests as they do that.\"\n\nThe BBC has also approached Southern Water for comment.", "The illegal migration bill is currently passing through Parliament\n\nThe UK government has offered to limit detention periods for children and pregnant women to get its migration bill passed.\n\nMPs will vote later on 20 changes backed by peers in the House of Lords.\n\nWhile Conservative MPs are expected to reject most changes, ministers have made concessions to get the bill through Parliament.\n\nThe bill is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Tuesday ahead of a Nato summit, he said his plan was \"starting to work\" and he \"always said it would take time\".\n\nHe added that he always expected crossings \"would rise in the summer,\" after latest figures showed more than 1,000 migrants made the dangerous journey over two days last week.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill is the government's attempt to deter people from making the crossing by toughening up the rules and conditions around seeking asylum.\n\nThe bill would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove migrants arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe bill originally removed the existing time limits on how long unaccompanied children and pregnant women could be detained, but they were reinstated by peers in the Lords.\n\nNow ministers have proposed an amendment to allow immigration bail to be granted after eight days to unaccompanied children in detention.\n\nThe government has also agreed to keep the current limit on detaining pregnant women at 72 hours.\n\nSome of the government's critics over the child detention issue have said they will accept the eight-day compromise, but intend to push for more concessions on the quality of accommodation provided.\n\nAnother new change means the duty on the home secretary to remove anyone entering the UK without permission will only apply when the legislation becomes law, not retrospectively.\n\nWith Parliament due to break for summer at the end of next week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the amendments would help the \"crucial\" new law pass \"swiftly\".\n\nIt would also \"send a clear message that the exploitation of children and vulnerable people, used by criminals and ferried across the Channel, cannot continue,\" she added.\n\nThe government's efforts to curb the number of small boats crossing the Channel have been hampered in Parliament and the courts.\n\nA plan to house asylum seekers on a barge moored in Dorset has been delayed.\n\nAnd the government's policy of sending migrants to Rwanda is set for a legal battle in the Supreme Court.\n\nOn Monday, a senior Home Office official confirmed the department was paying to keep nearly 5,000 beds empty across the country, in case a sudden influx of migrants caused overcrowding at detention centres.\n\nThe government has stressed it remains committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, and has said it will challenge a Court of Appeal ruling last week that this was unlawful.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Women who have made rape complaints have told BBC News that police and court systems are still \"weighted in favour of the accused\", despite a new programme piloted by 19 police forces.\n\nOperation Soteria is being extended to all 43 police areas in England and Wales from Monday.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman wants police to \"focus on the suspect\", not on undermining the victim.\n\nBut women have told the BBC they find the process tough, even in pilot areas.\n\nThe latest available official figures show between April and December 2022 there were about 50,000 rape offences recorded by police in England and Wales.\n\nOf these, about 900 (less than 2%) had yet resulted in a charge or court summons.\n\nWhen asked about the low figure, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk told BBC Breakfast the statistic does not take into account live investigations where a decision has not yet been made.\n\nHe added there also could be multiple complaints in respect to the same allegation, and that charges are measured in respect of burglary, robbery and a number of other matters.\n\n\"The number of people being prosecuted for this crime is higher than it was in 2010 and I think it is important also that we indicate the resources that are going into this to improve it under this operating model we're doing today,\" Mr Chalk said.\n\nThe government says charge rates were markedly better in five police areas where trials of Operation Soteria first began in 2021 and 2022, more than doubling in all but one by the end of 2022.\n\nThe programme, a partnership of police, prosecutors and academics, aims to transform the response to rape and sexual offences - but even in the first five areas, fewer than one in 12 complaints led to charges.\n\nNotably, Soteria was adopted by the Metropolitan Police in September 2021, but in March this year Baroness Casey's review into the force found evidence of \"a strategic and operational failure to tackle rape and sexual offences within the Met which compounds the harm for victims\".\n\nThese failures included a fridge containing forensic samples being switched off by accident, compromising a rape investigation, her report found.\n\nOne woman, who is using the pseudonym Louise, feels the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) set her up to fail.\n\nHers was one of the few cases to make it to court but her former partner was acquitted when he was tried in London last year.\n\nThe CPS did not arrange a court familiarisation visit until London's Victims' Commissioner Claire Waxman intervened, the prosecutor did not tell her until the last moment that her 999 call would not be played, they forgot about her so she missed lunch just before she gave evidence, and the prosecutor did not tell her about two witnesses appearing for the defendant.\n\nShe said she wanted to walk out of court as she was about to step into the witness box as she felt she had been \"thrown to the lions\".\n\n\"I felt destroyed after the trial and I did have suicidal thoughts,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"In some ways, the trauma of the trial was probably worse than the trauma of what that person did.\"\n\n\"Emma\", not her real name, was one of the majority whose complaint did not result in a charge or summons.\n\nShe was in a relationship with an ex-police officer who she says used coercive control and tried to load her with debt. She says he physically abused and raped her, strangling her until she passed out. She finally called the police last summer when he threatened to kill her.\n\nHe had to leave their shared home but early this year police said they would not bring charges.\n\nThe force in question is using the new Soteria operating model but, although the officers who first attended were sympathetic, she says: \"Ultimately, it's weighted in favour of the person that's been accused.\"\n\n\"It feels very much like it's down to the victim to prove themselves beyond reasonable doubt that this happened before the police will do anything about it.\"\n\nEmma's complaint to police did not result in a charge or summons\n\nProf Betsy Stanko, who has decades of experience researching sexual offending and is a lead academic on Operation Soteria, said: \"We need to get investigators to think differently about how they investigate, how you collect evidence.\n\n\"So you don't just ask a victim how many drinks they had, what you need to say is: 'Who bought you those drinks? How is it that you were then isolated from your friends?'.\"\n\nDirector of Public Prosecutions Max Hill said the CPS's work with police to transform the system \"is bearing fruit\".\n\n\"We know we still have a long way to go to drive lasting change and will continue to listen carefully to partners and victims as we go,\" he said.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council lead for rape and adult sexual offences, Chief Constable Sarah Crew, says the new system is \"a huge step forward\".\n\n\"While we know there is more to do, the national operating model will see all forces adopt new processes, guidance and training to enable more victims to get the justice they so deserve,\" she added.\n\nThe government says rape victims are already better supported across the criminal justice system two years on from its end-to-end rape review, with the number of cases reaching court returning to 2016 levels.\n\nOfficial figures show in the last three months of 2022 there were 472 rape charges, which is above pre-pandemic levels, although still 12% below the Ministry of Justice's aim of 538 charges - but the ministry says it is on track to meet its target by December 2024.\n\nIn the same period, 605 cases reached crown court, above the ambition of 553 and up 162 since 2019.\n\nThe government is also promising 2,000 police officers will be trained as specialist rape investigators by April 2024.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said: \"As a society, too often we have failed the victims of sexual violence.\n\n\"I have been clear that we must transform the way these investigations are handled, to make sure that all victims have the best support possible throughout the entire process.\n\n\"This is a vital step in delivering on that promise.\"\n\nLabour said \"after 13 years\", the Conservatives had \"broken the criminal justice system, leaving survivors traumatised and rapists to go unpunished\".\n\nShadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed said the next Labour government would introduce rape courts and specialist rape investigation units in every police force, to \"speed up justice and punish rapists\".", "Fireworks were a popular weapon during the recent rioting in France\n\nFrance has banned the sale, possession and transport of all fireworks during the upcoming Bastille Day festivities.\n\nThe government issued a decree on Sunday prohibiting \"pyrotechnic articles\" for the 14 July celebrations that mark France's national day.\n\nThe move comes after rioting sparked by last month's police killing of 17-year-old Nahel M by police in Nanterre.\n\nHowever, the ban does not apply to official firework displays organised by local authorities.\n\n\"In order to prevent the risk of serious disturbances to public order during the 14 July festivities, the sale, carrying, transport and use of pyrotechnic articles and fireworks will be prohibited on national territory until 15 July inclusively,\" said the edict, published in the French official gazette.\n\nFireworks were a popular weapon during the week of unrest, which included some of France's worst urban violence for almost 20 years.\n\nAnd even in normal times, events in public squares and streets on the evening of Bastille Day have often been disrupted in previous years by young people throwing firecrackers.\n\nPrime Minister Élisabeth Borne said that in addition to the restrictions on fireworks, a \"massive\" security presence would be deployed in order to keep the peace and \"to protect the French during these two sensitive days\".\n\nShe told Le Parisien newspaper that many people were \"quite worried\" about the possibility of fresh incidents of violence during the national holiday.\n\nMore than 3,700 people were taken into police custody in connection with the recent protests, including at least 1,160 minors, according to official figures.\n\nBastille Day marks the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris more than 200 years ago, a key event in the French Revolution.", "Face masks depicting Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin on sale at a souvenir market in St Petersburg last month\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin met Yevgeny Prigozhin five days after the Wagner mercenary boss led a failed mutiny, the Kremlin has revealed. The BBC's Russia Editor gets to grips with the latest twist in the Wagner saga.\n\nSo, let me get this straight.\n\nOn the morning of 24 June, the day of the mutiny, Vladimir Putin accused the Wagner leadership of \"treachery\" and \"a stab in the back\". Later that day, Russian air force pilots were killed, shot down by Wagner fighters.\n\nThen, with the mercenaries just 200km (120 miles) from the Russian capital, the Kremlin and Wagner did a deal. The mutiny was over. No-one was arrested. No-one has been prosecuted.\n\nNot only was Yevgeny Prigozhin not clapped in irons and hauled off to the police station for his rebellion - it's now emerged that five days later he was in the Kremlin, together with his commanders, sitting round the table and chatting with President Putin.\n\nYet another twist and turn in a story that's already surpassed Dostoyevsky for levels of surprise and mystery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Where is Yevgeny Prigozhin? And why does it matter?\n\nWhat we don't know, though, is what exactly was said at that meeting and how it concluded. Judging by what's happened since, this was no \"kiss and make up\".\n\nIn recent days, the Russian state media has been working overtime to discredit Mr Prigozhin.\n\nPotentially embarrassing photographs allegedly taken during the raid of his St Petersburg mansion were leaked to social media and Russian TV. They showed gold bars, weapons and - bizarrely - a large collection of wigs.\n\nLast night Russia-1's flagship show, News of the Week, continued the character assassination.\n\nA report about Mr Prigozhin claimed: \"He's not the Robin Hood he tried to pass himself off as. He was a businessman with a criminal past. Many of his projects were dodgy and not always within the law.\"\n\nAnd what of that deal between the Kremlin and Wagner to end the mutiny on 24 June? According to the agreement, Mr Prigozhin was supposed to leave Russia for Belarus, along with those Wagner fighters who expressed the desire to join him.\n\nLast week the leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, told us that the Wagner chief and his mercenaries weren't there. To summarise his point: they might end up in Belarus - but they might not.\n\nSo that's all clear then. Not.\n\nWhere are Wagner? Where is Mr Prigozhin? What are their plans? What have they agreed with Mr Putin?\n\nFor now, all I can say is this: stay tuned for the next (inevitably bizarre) episode of Russia: the June Mutiny and the Kremlin.", "The northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has been witnessing heavy rainfall over the last few days causing flooding and landslides in the hilly terrain.\n\nThe gushing water is sweeping away bridges, homes and cars, and is causing widespread devastation in the state.\n\nThe neighbouring Uttarakhand state is in a similar situation and water levels of several rivers in the region have crossed the danger mark.\n\nMore than a dozen people have died in the past three days across north India due to the rains.", "The review is looking into cases at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust, which runs City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre\n\nA review into failings in maternity care in hospitals in Nottingham will be the largest ever carried out in the UK.\n\nDonna Ockenden, chair of the inquiry, told a meeting on Monday that 1,700 families' cases would be examined.\n\nShe was in charge of the probe into services in Shropshire, which found at least 201 babies and mothers might have survived had they received better care.\n\nThe review comes after dozens of baby deaths and injuries at Nottingham University Hospital (NUH) NHS Trust.\n\nIt focuses on the maternity units at the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital, run by the trust.\n\nSo far, 1,266 families have contacted the review team themselves directly and to date, 674 of these have given consent to join it.\n\nBut Ms Ockenden has called for a \"radical review\" to ensure \"women from all communities\" were being contacted by the trust and \"felt confident\" to come forward.\n\nThe families had asked for the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and the trust to agree to change the review from \"opt-in\" to \"opt-out\".\n\nNHS England has now written to affected families, confirming cases will be dealt with on an opt-out basis, with families having to opt out of giving consent.\n\nMaternity services run by NUH were rated inadequate after an inspection in 2020\n\nOn Monday, NUH chairman Nick Carver joined Ms Ockenden and bereaved families at the trust's annual meeting.\n\nHe acknowledged more needed to be done to gain the trust of families and communities and committed \"to working collaboratively to plan for an apology on behalf of the board that the families recognise as meaningful\".\n\nHe previously said the trust would publicly apologise to people who experienced failings in maternity care.\n\nHe told the meeting: \"For too long we have not listened to women and families who have been affected by failings in our maternity services.\n\n\"This brick-wall approach has caused additional pain, and this must change.\"\n\nUpdating the meeting on the extended reach of the review, Ms Ockenden said: \"My promise to you as families today is the same as the promise I made to you in September at the start of this review, that as a review team we will do all we can to ensure this review is one for all Nottinghamshire families.\"\n\nShe added: \"Already I can say that I have seen some positive changes in response to family accounts but the trust has a very long journey ahead.\n\n\"What has happened cannot be fixed overnight.\"\n\nNUH chief executive Anthony May described the meeting as \"a very important milestone\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Nottingham he had been meeting some of the mothers, and described their accounts as \"very harrowing\".\n\n\"When I hear those stories it makes me very sad and very determined to improve things in the hospitals,\" he said.\n\n\"Today what we want to do is signal that we want a new relationship with the families built on trust and transparency, and try to understand how they can help us improve things in the maternity services.\n\n\"I would like to say that I think they're really brave, I think they're very persistent, and the fact that we've got to where we are with the review is largely down to their efforts.\"\n\nDonna Ockenden said there was not \"anywhere near a representative sample\" of families\n\nThough he apologised after taking over the job last year, Mr May said a full apology on behalf of the NUH board would be done \"on the families' terms\".\n\nHe also said staff in the maternity services \"work incredibly hard\", adding: \"It's the trust that's let them down.\"\n\nMr May said the trust had \"made improvements\" regarding equipment and staff training, adding more doctors and midwives are \"in the pipeline\", including some staff from overseas.\n\n\"The signs are there that slowly we are improving, but we have a mountain to climb,\" he said.\n\nResponding to the statements from NUH, Jack and Sarah Hawkins - whose daughter Harriet was stillborn at the trust in 2016 - said the commitment to transparency was \"massive\".\n\n\"It's a bit of a shock to the system to be honest,\" Ms Hawkins said.\n\n\"For seven and a half years we have just been fighting to be heard.\n\n\"So for them to say they are going to take an open and honest approach is incredible really.\n\n\"Whether that happens is yet to be seen but it is certainly a step in the right direction.\"\n\nIn a statement, the group representing parents said: \"We welcome today's pledge from the trust for a 'new honest and transparent relationship' with a sense of relief and optimism.\n\n\"For too long we have been fighting to be not just heard, but for action to be taken, and for there to be accountability.\n\n\"We deserve to learn who knew what and when, why it was allowed to continue; and how the trust avoided scrutiny for so long.\"\n\nSarah and Jack Hawkins said they were impressed by the trust's attitude\n\nMs Ockenden's previous review in Shrewsbury and Telford, which also used the \"opt-out\" approach, included more than 95% of affected families.\n\nThe Nottingham trust wrote to 1,377 families at the end of November and the end of January.\n\nThe letters went to families who had experienced stillbirth, neonatal deaths, brain damage to the baby, harm to mothers or relatives of mothers who died.\n\nBut only 360 families responded to these letters.\n\nIn total, 28% of white women contacted responded, while for black and Asian women, the figures were 10% and 5% respectively.\n\nIn Nottingham, only about 25% of families known to be affected have been included in the review.\n\nMs Ockenden said: \"As it stands, with our 674 families who have joined the review, I can't say as the chair we have anywhere near a representative sample of the rich diversity that we know exists in Nottingham.\n\n\"There is significantly more work to do.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The American president touched down at Stansted Airport near London on Sunday\n\nUS President Joe Biden has landed in the UK ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania later this week - which comes after several allies questioned his call to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.\n\nThe UK and Canada are among those who voiced concern about supplying the bombs, which are widely banned because of the danger they pose to civilians.\n\nThe US says they are needed because Ukraine's weapon stocks are dwindling.\n\nThe two men are expected to discuss various issues, including the war in Ukraine.\n\nMr Sunak has not directly criticised his US counterpart following Friday's cluster bomb announcement - but on Saturday he said that the UK was one of 123 countries signed up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty which bans the production or use of the weapons.\n\nOther US allies have gone further, however. Nato partner nation New Zealand said on Sunday the munitions could cause \"huge damage to innocent people\".\n\nCluster bombs typically release lots of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area. Unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years before they detonate.\n\nThe US says it has received written reassurances from Kyiv that Ukrainian troops will not use the weapons in Russia or in urban areas.\n\nWhile in the UK, Mr Biden will also meet King Charles for the first time since the King was crowned.\n\nMembers of Nato - a military alliance of 31 Western nations - will then meet in Vilnius on Tuesday and Wednesday. Boosting ammunition stockpiles and reviewing defence plans will be on the agenda.\n\nFinland will attend its first summit since joining in April, and plans from Sweden to follow suit have been blocked by Turkey, which accuses it of harbouring terrorists. Mr Biden is expected to seek support from Mr Sunak to help broker a deal with Turkey.\n\nUkraine harbours its own ambitions of joining Nato. But speaking to CNN before his trip, Mr Biden said this could not happen until the war was over - in line with the alliance's long-standing policy.\n\nCiting Nato's mutual defence pact, Mr Biden pointed out that members undertake to protect \"every inch\" of each other's territory - meaning that \"if the war is going on, then we're all in war\".\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously accepted this position, while requesting a \"signal\" that his country will be able to join the alliance when the war is over. He is expected to attend this week's summit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US decision to fulfil a Ukrainian request for cluster bombs came on Friday. Officials said this was part of a military aid package worth $800m (£626m).\n\nMr Biden told CNN it had been a \"very difficult decision\" but that he had eventually acted because \"the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".\n\nBut a number of Nato allies quickly distanced themselves from the decision.\n\nCanada and Spain - both member states - added their own opposition to that of New Zealand.\n\n\"No to cluster bombs and yes to the legitimate defence of Ukraine, which we understand should not be carried out with cluster bombs,\" Spain's Defence Minister Margarita Robles said.\n\nBut Germany, another signatory of the treaty and Nato member, said that while it would not provide such weapons to Ukraine, it understood the American position.\n\nOne of the concerns surrounding their supply is their failure - or dud - rate. Unexploded bomblets can indiscriminately detonate.\n\nBut the US has said its cluster bombs fail less frequently than those Russia is already using in the Ukraine war.\n\nUkraine has promised the weapons will not be used in civilian areas and will monitor and report on their use, but Russia dismissed these assurances as \"not worth anything\".\n\nThis is, potentially, an awkward visit coming at a critical time for the US-led Nato alliance.\n\nPresident Biden may not have intended to cause offence by skipping King Charles' coronation in May, but his absence was noted.\n\nThen there is the business over who should be the next secretary general of Nato. The UK and the Baltic states favoured the British Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, who has been instrumental in galvanising Western support for Ukraine.\n\nBut without US backing, that's a non-starter - and Mr Biden instead appears to favour the former German defence minister and European Commission head, Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nAnd there is also the row over cluster bombs. The UK is among 123 nations to ban these weapons which can cause indiscriminate harm to civilians.\n\nBut the US is going ahead, in the heat of international criticism, in supplying them to Ukraine as its forces struggle to break through Russia's defences in the south of Ukraine.\n\nBut Mr Biden's stopover in Britain is so brief that any cracks in the transatlantic alliance are likely to be smoothed over by warm handshakes and ample protocol.", "Everything inside the mouse – its nerves, tissues and organs – are made invisible by a chemical process\n\nA new scanning method involving a see-through mouse could improve how cancer drugs are tested, by picking up tumours previously too small to detect.\n\nProf Ali Ertürk of the Helmholtz Munich research centre worked out how to make a dead mouse transparent in 2018.\n\nHis team have now used chemicals to highlight specific tissues so that they can be scanned in unprecedented detail.\n\nDrugs are often tested first on mice. Scientists say the new scanning method could revolutionise medical research.\n\nCancer Research UK said the new scanning technique had \"a wealth of potential\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Scanning a transparent mouse to reveal the body in unprecedented detail\n\nThe researchers say the method reveals far greater detail than existing scanning techniques. In one of the first applications the team has detected cancerous tumours in the first stages of formation.\n\nProf Ertürk says this is important because cancer drugs have to be shown to eliminate tumours in mice before being tested on humans.\n\n\"MRI and PET scans would show you only big tumours. Ours show tumours at the single cell, which they absolutely can't\".\n\n\"Current drugs extend life by a few years and then the cancer comes back. This is because the development process never included eliminating those tiny tumours, which were never visible.\"\n\nNormally lab mice are given cancer and scanned with conventional scans to see how the tumour has progressed. They are then treated with the cancer drug being tested and then scanned again to see what if any difference the treatment has had.\n\nProf Ertürk's scanning method can only be used on dead mice, to give a picture of how much cancer has progressed, or potentially, whether a treatment has worked. He made mice transparent after they were given cancer and then scanned them using his new technique. Only a few mice would need to be made transparent to test the effectiveness of the drug.\n\nScanning (below in blue) shows cancer tumours as pink and white dots. A conventional scan (in white) shows only the largest concentrations of tumours.\n\n\"This exciting and unique scanning technique has a wealth of potential for building our knowledge of how our bodies work and what goes wrong in diseases like cancer.\n\n\"While researchers will only be able to use the technique to examine the bodies of deceased mice, it could tell us a lot about how cancer develops at the early stages of the disease. Being able to visualise tumours in the context of the entire body will also give researchers a greater understanding of the impact of different drugs and treatment.\n\n\"Advances in technology like this are essential to driving progress and will hopefully lead to new ways to detect, treat and prevent cancer.\"\n\nThe cancer application, published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, is just one of hundreds if not thousands to which the new scanning technique can be used to improve medical studies. It can enable researchers to see things they have never seen before.\n\nMouse studies are often the starting point for learning about processes in the human body. But the new technique can be used on any animals. It could also be used to make human tissues and organs transparent, though it is unlikely to be used to make an entire human body transparent in the near future because there would be no medical advances that could be made from it at this stage.\n\nCreation of the transparent mouse involves removing all the fats and pigment from its corpse, using a chemical process. It ends up looking like a clear plastic toy, which is ever so slightly bendy. Its organs and nerves are all still inside it - but near invisible.\n\nWhile Prof Ertürk's developed the process to make a mouse transparent five years ago, the scanning technique makes the most of it.\n\nHe has found a way of adding other chemicals known as antibodies to highlight the parts of the mouse he is interested in studying under a microscope. Different antibodies stick to different types of tissue and so highlight whatever the researchers are interested in looking at.\n\nAs well as highlighting cancerous areas, Prof Ertürk's team has produced a suite of videos which enable researchers to fly through the mouse's nervous system, gut or lymph system.\n\nThe scans have several advantages over what is available now.\n\nFirst, the researchers can study diseases in the context of the entire body, which gives them a much greater understanding of the impact of different drugs and treatments.\n\nThe 3D images are also stored online, so researchers studying different parts of the animal or wanting to do the same experiment can draw from a library, rather than having to use another mouse. Prof Ertürk believes that the technique could reduce lab animal use tenfold.\n\nProf Ali Ertürk about to dip a transparent mouse into chemicals that highlight specific tissues\n\nDr Nana-Jane Chipampe, of the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, is excited at the prospect of using the new scanning technique to study how cells develop in the human body. Currently she has to slice up tissues into very thin sections to study them under a microscope. Soon she will be able to see details in 3D.\n\n\"I can't wait to get my hands on it!\" she told me enthusiastically.\n\n\"It has the potential to identify new tissues, cells and diseases which will really help us understand the development of diseases.\"\n\nHer team leader, Prof Muzlifah Haniffa, is producing an online map or atlas of every cell in the human body. She says the new scanning technique will be useful for all kinds of medical research.\n\n\"Without a doubt, it will accelerate the pace of medical research,\" she said. \"Combining these cutting-edge technologies and building the human cell atlas will no doubt completely revolutionise medicine.\"", "Ukraine's counter-offensive began weeks ago but the military is yet to deploy its full force\n\nNato is just hours away from its high-profile annual summit - a stress test for the alliance, with Russian President Vladimir Putin watching intently from the sidelines.\n\nWith Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Rishi Sunak, Olaf Scholz and so many more world leaders attending, ambassadors of the alliance's 31 member states have been huddled together, arguing about what they can, should or will announce publicly on Ukraine.\n\nSo what is all the hoo-ha about?\n\nThis weekend marked 500 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, grabbing land, attacking civilians and abducting children.\n\nTo Vladimir Putin's dismay, Europe and its close ally the US have rushed to Ukraine's aid (some speedier than others - here's looking at you, Berlin), to the tune of $165bn (£129bn) spent in humanitarian, financial and military assistance by May this year, according to the respected Kiel Institute for the Global Economy.\n\nIt's been a delicate, at times uncomfortable, balancing act - for individual European countries, for the European Union, and arguably most of all for the Nato military alliance, which includes Russia's old enemy, the United States.\n\nThe conundrum: How do you send Moscow a clear message that the West won't stand by and allow the Kremlin to grab sovereign territory in Ukraine or anywhere else in Europe, while at the same time avoiding coming into direct conflict with nuclear power Russia and risking all-out war?\n\nAccording to US President Joe Biden: \"I don't think there is unanimity in Nato about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the Nato family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war.\"\n\nHe pointed out that Ukraine joining would mean that \"if the war is going on, then we're all in war. We're at war with Russia, if that were the case.\"\n\nAnd 500 days into Russia's invasion, Nato's balancing act isn't getting any easier.\n\nUkraine is clear. It wants an equal seat at the Nato table - with all the security guarantees that go with that - and it wants it now.\n\nOr, because it recognises Nato can't admit a new member while that state is at war, it wants at least \"a clear signal that Ukraine will be in the alliance... not that the door is open for us, which is not enough, but that Ukraine will be in it\", says its media-savvy President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nAnything short of that and he has threatened to avoid the summit altogether, to the irritation of not a few Nato members, including Germany and the US.\n\nIf Mr Zelensky is a no-show, the optics of Western unity with Ukraine - aimed as a clear message to Moscow at the summit - will be disastrous.\n\nThe main problem is Nato already told Ukraine it belonged in the alliance back in 2008, well before Russia's invasion.\n\nExpectations are high that Nato must now offer Kyiv something else of significance. But what?\n\nHigh-level diplomats from a number of key Nato nations spoke to me for this article on condition of anonymity, so as to be able to voice their observations freely.\n\nGerman troops training in Lithuania: Nato has beefed up its forces in the Baltic states\n\nThey say Nato members are united over Ukraine belonging inside their \"family\". But they remain divided over the details.\n\nThe summit is being held in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It is one of the three tiny Baltic nations in Russia's backyard that were swallowed up and occupied by the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two.\n\nLithuanians, Latvians and Estonians emote with Ukraine's pain. They, along with fellow eastern European nation Poland, which also sees itself as a former victim of Russian aggression, demand Ukraine be given fast-track Nato membership after an eventual ceasefire with Moscow.\n\nBut Nato decisions require unanimous agreement amongst member countries. Germany, the US and the UK are among the more cautious.\n\nFirstly, because of formal conditions the alliance would normally want an accession country to fulfil before becoming a member.\n\n\"Much as Ukraine deserves to be part of Nato, we have the same concerns now as we did back in 2008,\" one influential diplomat told me.\n\n\"We need to see reforms, a fight against corruption and proper control over armed forces,\" he said. But he added that he thought the Ukrainian authorities had learned a clear lesson from the corruption in Russia's military that swallowed up billions and left the Russians weakened and ill-prepared for battle.\n\nSome Nato countries also fret that if there is a cast-iron promise to admit Kyiv as a member immediately after a ceasefire with Russia, that could encourage Moscow to prolong its assault on Ukraine even further.\n\nSo what can Ukraine expect from this summit?\n\nFirst, strategic patience - as Camille Grand, ex-Nato and now defence expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, puts it. A clear pledge from the West that they're in it for the long haul. And that Russia shouldn't believe it can out-wait the West over Ukraine.\n\nI was struck during my conversations with diplomats how relaxed their countries seem about the slower pace of Ukraine's counter-offensive against Russia.\n\nThey seemed of the same school of thought as Britain's Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, who points out that \"this isn't a Hollywood movie\".\n\n\"Moscow had a long, long time to prepare for this invasion,\" one ambassador told me. \"And we now expect Ukraine to have dramatic success in three or four weeks? That's just unrealistic.\"\n\n\"Ukraine is trying to make progress while respecting human life,\" commented another, comparing that to what he called Russia's meat-grinder attitude, pushing its soldiers \"over the top\" to get mown down in droves.\n\n\"Do we have questions in private about how fast Ukraine gets through munitions? Absolutely!\" a more plain-speaking diplomat observed. \"But it's important the Ukrainians don't feel we're breathing down their neck.\n\n\"We're giving them important military support, increasingly more sophisticated and they - and Moscow - need to know it's going to keep on coming.\"\n\nOne of the important conversations at the Vilnius summit will focus on Europe's defence industry: The investment needed to ensure supplies can keep flowing to Ukraine, while still leaving EU and Nato members with enough defence capabilities to look after themselves.\n\nAlso the question of harmonisation possibilities - right now, it's a bit of a mess. Each Nato country sends its own military aid to Ukraine, leaving Kyiv grappling with different models of armoured vehicles, tanks, etc. Not exactly the most efficient way forward.\n\nSecond, in the absence of immediate Nato membership for Ukraine, a group of countries (centred around but not limited to the UK, US, France and Germany) are forming a \"coalition of the willing\" to give Kyiv security guarantees. The more cautious like the US refer to that as \"security assurances\". More details are expected to emerge during the summit.\n\nThird, on Day Two of the summit, Nato will convene a newly formed Nato-Ukraine Council - which would make it especially awkward if President Zelensky decided not to attend! The idea of a council would be to upgrade Kyiv's association with the alliance, providing it with greater access to Nato resources.\n\nFourth, Nato is also likely to discard its normally required Membership Action Plan for Ukraine, sparing Kyiv at least some of the lengthy and phased preparatory process that candidates normally work through to join.\n\nUltimately no-one in Nato is questioning the need to support Ukraine in the short, medium and long term. Right now, it has a blank-ish cheque for its counter-offensive.\n\nSome Nato members - notably Italy - worry though about public opinion remaining in favour of costly support for Ukraine. The alliance also needs to work (hard) on a common position on Russia for when the war ends.\n\nOfficially Nato members say it will be up to Kyiv to decide when conditions for ceasefire talks with Moscow have been met.\n\nBut behind the scenes, diplomats tell me there could come a point when the West might whisper to Kyiv it should take a ceasefire within reach, rather than lose more Ukrainian lives and spend billions more of Western money on a war that can't be won.\n\nThough that conversation, they insist, is definitely not for now.", "One video shows a pick-up truck driving past Abdul Rahman Hardan - who is wearing a dark top and standing in the middle of the road - moments before he is shot dead in Jenin\n\nEyewitnesses and the family of a 16-year-old Palestinian shot dead during Israel's military assault in Jenin have told the BBC he was unarmed and killed \"for no reason\", after videos emerged of the moment of his death.\n\nTwelve Palestinians, including four teenage children, and one Israeli soldier were killed during the two-day incursion in the occupied West Bank last week.\n\nIsrael said all the Palestinians who were killed were combatants.\n\nBut the videos show Abdul Rahman Hassan Ahmad Hardan, 16, was unarmed when he was shot.\n\nThe teenager was shot in the head outside al-Amal hospital on the second day of the military incursion, which Israel said was intended to root out a \"safe haven of terrorism\" in Jenin refugee camp.\n\nIt follows over a year of rising numbers of Palestinian armed attacks targeting Israelis, while Israel has intensified its deadly military raids in the West Bank. At least 160 Palestinians and more than 30 Israelis have been killed since January.\n\nIsrael's government said its military operation last week was to stop the camp being a \"refuge\" for armed groups. It said it seized \"hundreds\" of guns and other weapons, including \"advanced\" improvised explosives.\n\nIt was its biggest assault in the West Bank in two decades, involving drone strikes into a packed urban area and armoured diggers causing massive destruction.\n\nThe United Nations accused Israel of using excessive force, while the Palestinian leadership called it a \"war crime\".\n\nIsrael Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Lt Col Richard Hecht, asked by the BBC last week about the casualties, said: \"There were 12 people killed, every one that was killed was involved directly with terrorism.\"\n\n\"A 17-year-old may be regarded as a minor but he's holding weapons and firing... We can show that evidence. We have pictures of all of them, and intel that they were involved.\"\n\nAfter his death, Abdul Rahman Hardan was claimed as a member by the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. However, his family has distanced itself from the claim, and Israel has yet to show evidence he posed a threat at the time he was fatally shot.\n\nUnder international law, the use of firearms by security forces against civilians is defined as a measure of last resort, and can only take place to stop an \"imminent threat of death or serious injury\".\n\nChildren are also given added protections under international humanitarian law.\n\nSixteen-year-old Abdul Rahman was killed at 13:00 (10:00 GMT) on Tuesday, as confrontations had continued in the city. Some involved gunmen firing towards Israeli forces.\n\nOthers involved Palestinian youths throwing rocks at Israeli jeeps and armoured troop carriers - a frequent occurrence as young men try to repel Israel's military raids into Palestinian cities.\n\nIn one video, first verified by the Times newspaper, the teenager can be seen standing in the street next to al-Amal hospital, close to a group of boys or young men. Rocks or other debris appear on the ground in the vicinity. No weapons are visible and Abdul Rahman appears unarmed.\n\nAround 13 seconds into the footage, which has no sound, he leans forward to look down a street next to the hospital. He is then seen falling to the ground, having been shot in the head.\n\nThe original source of the video is not known to the BBC, but the boy's family and the eyewitnesses verified it as showing Abdul Rahman being shot.\n\nA second video shows paramedics and bystanders rushing to Abdul Rahman Hardan's aid moments after was shot\n\nA second video filmed by a journalist outside the hospital shows the following moments, in which a paramedic rushes to Abdul Rahman and picks him up before carrying him along the street. The boy is suffering a catastrophic bleed from the head as he is carried towards the hospital entrance.\n\nNo weapons are visible in the area where the teenager fell nor elsewhere in the footage.\n\nThe IDF said it was inconclusive as to whether the footage documented the killing of Abdul Rahman by its forces.\n\nIslamic Jihad - listed by Israel and the West as a terrorist organisation - claimed the 16-year-old as a fighter. Social media pictures later emerged in which he had posed with assault rifles at unknown dates. Such pictures are not uncommon among young men and teenagers in Jenin and surrounding villages.\n\nThe refugee camp is a highly militarised environment where the official Palestinian leadership has lost control, and armed groups see themselves as a core of resistance to Israel's military occupation - now into its 57th year. Human rights groups have frequently condemned militant groups putting weapons in the hands of minors.\n\nThe teenager's father, Hassan Ahmad Hardan, told the BBC that his son was on his way to the hospital to donate blood when an Israeli military vehicle entered the street.\n\n\"He was standing in the street to cross it when they shot him in the head from the back,\" said Mr Hardan.\n\n\"He did not carry anything with him - no stone, no weapon, nothing,\" he added.\n\nIn an interview with the Times, his family also said Abdul Rahman was not a militant and did not belong to any armed group.\n\nTwo eyewitnesses also told the BBC the teenager was unarmed.\n\n\"We were standing in one of the streets near the presence of occupation [Israeli] forces. After that, the occupation sniper shot the martyr Abdul Rahman without any reason or justification,\" said one eyewitness, who asked that his name was not published.\n\n\"The martyr was unarmed and did not carry anything,\" he added.\n\nOf the 12 Palestinians killed in Jenin last week, two were aged 16 and two were 17 years old. Ten of the total were claimed as members by militant groups.\n\nThe IDF said it continued to examine the video, asking to receive it in its \"unedited entirety\".\n\nIn a statement, a spokesman said: \"As of this time, it is not possible to say with certainty that the video does indeed document the neutralization of Abdul Rahman Hassan by IDF forces.\"\n\nThe spokesman said it was \"unfortunate\" that earlier reports \"discounted the Islamic Jihad's claim of responsibility for the neutralized terrorist and his association with the terrorist organization\".\n\nHe went on: \"The IDF operated in a densely populated and complex combat zone, where hundreds of armed gunmen fired indiscriminately in the area. The IDF does everything in its power to avoid harming uninvolved individuals and operates precisely against terrorist organisations.\"", "Louise - who the BBC is not identifying - had her data stolen\n\nA woman whose data was stolen has described how criminals threatened to post naked photos of her online.\n\nLouise, from south Wales, was one of the 500-plus current and former staff of cosmetics giant Shiseido whose data was stolen in a breach.\n\nThe fraudsters applied for a loan in Louise's name and then asked her to transfer the cash to them, before making threats when she said no.\n\nShiseido said it did not know how its employees' data was breached.\n\nShiseido reported an incident to the data protection regulator the Information Commissioner's Office in March 2022 and told staff there had been a data breach.\n\nLouise - who we are not identifying - is one of hundreds of people who got letters from Companies House saying firms they had nothing to do with had been registered in their names and at their homes.\n\nHundreds have also had tax rebates applied for in their names and HMRC said it was contacting those affected.\n\nLouise said she first realised something more had happened when she got a call from someone claiming to be from her bank, Natwest.\n\n\"They already knew my full name address and postcode and claimed to be from my bank,\" she told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme.\n\nLouise said the man on the phone sounded very reassuring and told her someone seemed to have taken out a loan in her name and asked if that was right.\n\n\"I said 'no, no' and went into panic mode,\" she said.\n\n\"But I knew something was wrong and that I needed to hang up the call.\"\n\nThe person on the phone continued being reassuring and said they would call back later.\n\nIn the meantime, Louise phoned her real bank to check and sure enough, there was a payment of £3,000 in her account.\n\nShe asked the bank if they had phoned her and they said they had not.\n\nLater that day the same \"lovely, reassuring sounding\" person pretending to be from her bank called Louise back.\n\n\"He said 'all we need you to do is send that money back and here's the account, send us that money'.\"\n\nLouise refused, knowing by now that these were criminals, which is when \"it turned a bit nasty\".\n\n\"He said 'we know where you live... we are coming for you and we are coming to hurt you and your family if you don't give us this £3,000. We will put naked photos of you online'.\"\n\nLouise said the call left her shaking and feeling \"violated\".\n\nAnother victim, Angela - not her real name - from the West Midlands discovered she had been installed as a director for a company she had never heard of that was registered to an address around the corner from her home.\n\nShe went on to the Companies House website and found it straight away.\n\nShe said: \"I panicked, because firstly I hadn't done any such thing... I wasn't aware of any company or the address it was registered to either.\n\n\"When I showed it to my partner he thought I'd been buying off a dodgy website.\"\n\nFraudsters claiming to be a tax rebate company have also applied to HMRC for tax rebates, claiming they are acting for hundreds of Shiseido former and current employees.\n\nThe employees told You and Yours they had received letters from HMRC saying payments have been made - but to the criminals, not them.\n\nIn some cases that rebate was due because the employees were actually owed tax - but in some cases the grounds for the refund were fabricated.\n\nShiseido, which owns cosmetics brands NARS and Issey Miyake said: \"We offered everyone affected free access to credit and identity monitoring service Experian Plus Protection and we have provided regular updates to all affected employees, current and past, with advice and support.\"\n\nShiseido also said it obtained a court order to remove the company details from past and present employees' addresses and was in touch with HMRC over the tax rebate fraud.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A number of wildfires broke out across London last summer, destroying homes in Wennington.\n\nFirefighter shortages meant 39 fire engines were not available to help tackle the wildfires that burnt across London last July, a new report reveals.\n\nThe fires saw 16 homes in Wennington, Havering, destroyed in one of the blazes on 19 July 2022.\n\nA major incident review of the London Fire Brigade's (LFB) response was published on Monday after a Freedom of Information request by the BBC.\n\nA brigade spokesperson said the review would help them be better prepared.\n\nDeputy commissioner Dom Ellis said: \"We know last summer was not a one-off - climate change will continue to give rise to more extreme weather events.\n\n\"That's why we have reviewed what happened last summer to determine how we can improve and be as best-prepared to tackle this ever-growing risk head-on.\"\n\nBut Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), said firefighters were not being given \"adequate resources... to do their jobs\".\n\nFirefighters responded with \"bravery, tenacity and determination\", the review said\n\nThe 19th July was said to be one of the LFB's \"busiest days in the modern firefighting era\" with 2,496 calls received - including 740 relating to wildfires - and 26 fires requiring four or more pumping appliances to attend.\n\nThe major incident review said staff had responded to the \"unprecedented demand with bravery, tenacity and determination\".\n\n\"Without this concerted and coordinated effort there is no doubt the damage to London's communities would have been much worse,\" it added.\n\nBut it found that 39 appliances were \"off the run\" - unavailable - because of insufficient staff numbers.\n\nThe caused \"longer response times, an inability to resource specific incidents at the level requested by incident commanders and an inability to relieve operational colleagues at protracted incidents,\" the review stated.\n\nBut it added that, given the unprecedented demands of the day, even if the brigade had the extra 39 appliances there would still have been difficulty in resourcing the fires and relieving crews.\n\nThe brigade now has a recruitment plan in place and has brought in new equipment for tackling future wildfires.\n\nThat includes a so-called \"holey hose\" - a new type of hose that creates a water curtain of up to two metres high along its length.\n\nLondon's deputy mayor for Fire and Resilience, Baroness Fiona Twycross, said: \"The new specialist 'holey hose' equipment being used by fire crews across the capital is part of the Mayor's ongoing investment, modernisation and transformation of the brigade to build a safer London for everyone.\"\n\nMatt Wrack of the FBU said there was \"a lack of national strategy and planning on issues like wildfires\".\n\n\"Wildfires have been on the government's risk register for a decade, but they have failed to learn the lessons of last year's wildfires. This is negligence driven by cuts and complacency,\" he added.\n\nThe brigade said it was now creating 10 wildfire officers and 30 wildfire tactical advisors, who will be trained in the more rural areas of England where wildfires are more common.\n\nThe brigade has also been learning new skills and tactics from fire and rescue services in Europe.\n\nLFB was just one of 11 fire and rescue services across the UK to declare a major incident on the day.\n\nThe National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) and the UK government are due to draw up new national policy guidelines on wildfires.\n\nMeanwhile, those residents whose homes were destroyed in Wennington last year are still waiting for them to be rebuilt.\n\nHavering Council said it was \"working closely with affected residents to help them get their lives back on track\".\n\nWennington vicar the Reverend Elise Peterson said the rebuilding of homes was \"slow progress\".\n\n\"There are residents that have lost everything and are still in temporary accommodation. It's been really difficult for those people. It's been a challenging year - the village has changed permanently,\" she said.", "Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp visited the birthplace of Dylan Thomas in Uplands, Swansea\n\nHollywood star Johnny Depp said he was \"dumbfounded\" after visiting the birthplace of Dylan Thomas in Swansea.\n\nHe made the visit ahead of a Swansea Arena gig with his band Hollywood Vampires, which also features Alice Cooper, on Friday.\n\n\"During this visit you get to see where all of his thoughts came from, it's a lot to take in,\" he told Nation Cymru.\n\n\"I'm still floating a little, having been in the room where Under Milk Wood began.\"\n\nActor Depp, 60, has been in a string of Hollywood blockbusters, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.\n\nThe house, in Uplands, Swansea, was restored in 2005 to how it would have looked when Dylan Thomas lived there, after previously being used as a student bedsit.\n\nPerhaps Wales' best-known writer, Thomas was born in 1914 in the front room of the house and is known for his poems, short stories and plays, including Under Milk Wood.\n\nDepp was said to have been \"amazed\" at the small size of Dylan Thomas' bedroom, where much of his writing was done\n\nCustodians of Dylan Thomas' birthplace said on Facebook that Depp was \"amazed that so much important Welsh writing\" was done in a bedroom as small as Thomas' was.\n\nHe was given the tour by owner Geoff Haden, who showed Depp a restored window overlooking Swansea Bay that was Thomas' inspiration for the phrase \"ships sailing across rooftops\".\n\nDepp said he has been a fan of Thomas' work since he was a child and his older brother introduced him to Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog, a collection of Thomas' short stories.\n\n\"And then of course all the poetry, all of the stuff that just takes your head apart,\" he added.\n\nBefore leaving, Depp wrote in the visitors' book: \"All respect always, Johnny.\"", "Elton John told his millions of fans on Saturday night that they would remain in his \"head, heart and soul\", concluding his marathon farewell tour in Stockholm with one of his biggest hits - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.\n\nThe 76-year-old singer has won five Grammy awards in a spectacular career spanning 50 years and nearly 4,600 performances worldwide.\n\n\"It's been my lifeblood to play for you guys, and you've been absolutely magnificent,\" he told the audience at Sweden's Tele2 Arena.\n\nElton John paid an emotional tribute to his current band and crew, some of whom have been touring with him for many years.\n\n\"They're really incredible,\" he said, \"and they are the best, I tell you, the best.\"\n\nHe kicked off his show with Bennie and the Jets, and went on to perform many other hits, including Philadelphia Freedom, Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man and Candle in the Wind.\n\nHis Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour began in North America in 2018, and this was his second night performing in Stockholm.\n\nThe tour spanned the globe - he played to more than six million fans, and one of the highlights was his headline slot at the Glastonbury Festival last month.\n\nThat concert drew one of the biggest crowds in the festival's history and a British TV audience of millions.\n\nHis gig in Stockholm included a video message from Coldplay, who were performing in the Swedish city of Gothenburg at the same time.\n\nThe band's Chris Martin told Elton: \"From all the bands and artists you've helped and inspired, we love you so much.\n\n\"We are so grateful for everything you've done for the Aids Foundation, anytime you've been kind to anybody,\" he said.\n\nIt is one of the highest-grossing concert tours ever: Billboard magazine reports that it is the first to reach ticket sales of $900m (£701m).\n\nElton reflected on his life towards the end of this grand finale, telling the audience about his \"52 years of pure joy playing music\".\n\nHe confirmed he would \"never be touring again\", but he may do a \"one-off thing\" in future.\n\n\"I want to appreciate my family, my sons, my husband, everything. I've earned it,\" he said.\n\nHe dedicated his song Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me to his band, crew and family. The concert lasted more than two hours.\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "Europe's drugs regulator has told BBC News it is conducting a review of some weight-loss jabs after being alerted to a possible link to thoughts of suicide and self-harm among users.\n\nMember state Iceland notified the European Medicines Agency after seeing three cases.\n\nThe safety assessment will look at Wegovy, Saxenda and similar drugs, such as Ozempic, that help curb appetite.\n\nProduct leaflets already list suicidal thoughts as a possible side effect.\n\nSuicidal behaviour is not currently listed for these prescription drugs.\n\nThe EMA's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC), which is conducting the review, will consider whether other treatments in same broader category of medicines, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, also need assessing.\n\nBut initially, it will assess only the risks of using weight-loss medication that contains either semaglutide or liraglutide.\n\nAn EMA official said: \"The review is being carried out in the context of a signal procedure raised by the Icelandic Medicines Agency, following three case reports.\n\n\"A signal is information on a new or known adverse event that is potentially caused by a medicine and that warrants further investigation.\n\n\"The case reports included two cases of suicidal thoughts - one following the use of Saxenda and one after Ozempic.\n\n\"One additional case reported thoughts of self-injury with Saxenda.\n\n\"The EMA will communicate further when more information becomes available.\"\n\nSocial media posts about people, often celebrities, shedding large amounts of weight has led to big demand for these types of treatment.\n\nSaxenda and Wegovy are approved and licensed for weight loss. Wegovy is not yet available in the UK - but the prime minister has said GPs in England may soon start offering it to some patients, as well as specialist weight-management clinics.\n\nOzempic is for people with diabetes to help control blood sugar as well as weight but contains a lower dose of the same medicine, semaglutide, as Wegovy. And with some people without diabetes buying the pre-filled pens to lose weight, there have been continuing global shortages.\n\nAll medicines have potential side effects. For weight-loss drugs, which should be used alongside a healthy diet and exercise, more common ones include:\n\nDepression or thoughts of suicide is listed in the product-information leaflet, which advises users: \"You should pay attention to any mental changes, especially sudden changes in your mood, behaviours, thoughts, or feelings. Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any mental changes that are new, worse, or worry you.\"\n\nPrescribers are also advised to monitor for this.\n\nManufacturer Novo Nordisk is working with the EMA and says patient safety is a top priority. A representative said: \"GLP-1 receptor agonists have been used to treat type-2 diabetes for more than 15 years and for treatment of obesity for eight years, including Novo Nordisk products such as semaglutide and liraglutide that have been in the UK market since 2018 and 2009 respectively.\n\n\"The safety data collected from large clinical-trial programmes and post-marketing surveillance have not demonstrated a causal association between semaglutide or liraglutide and suicidal and self-harming thoughts.\n\n\"Novo Nordisk is continuously performing surveillance of the data from ongoing clinical trials and real-world use of its products and collaborates closely with the authorities to ensure patient safety and adequate information to healthcare professionals.\n\n\"EMA continuously monitors for safety signals and so does Novo Nordisk.\n\nThe UK's drug regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said it was monitoring the situation.\n\nDr Alison Cave, MHRA Chief Safety Officer, said: \"As part of our close monitoring, any emerging evidence is routinely considered alongside other sources of information, including suspected adverse drug reactions. We will communicate any new advice to healthcare professionals and patients if appropriate.\n\n\"If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts or thoughts of self-harm, please seek immediate medical assistance.\n\n\"We ask everyone to report any suspected side effects using our Yellow Card scheme website.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues, visit BBC Action Line, where you can find support.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The governor of the Bank of England has said it is \"crucial that we see the job through\" to slow soaring prices in a speech to the world of finance.\n\nAndrew Bailey said reducing inflation to 2% is \"so important\" as people \"should trust that their hard-earned money maintains its value\".\n\nCurrently, inflation, which is the rate prices rise at, is 8.7% - more than four times the Bank's target of 2%.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said government would work to cut inflation.\n\n\"We will do what is necessary for as long as necessary to tackle inflation persistence and bring it back to the 2% target,\" Mr Hunt said at the start of his first Mansion House speech as chancellor.\n\nAbout 400 people from the financial and business industries attended the dinner at the 18th Century building, which is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London.\n\nIt comes at a time when businesses, as well as households, are being hit by higher costs due to inflation remaining stubbornly high in the UK.\n\nMr Hunt suggested companies should show restraint on profit margins, adding \"margin recovery benefits no-one if it feeds inflation\".\n\nThe Bank of England has steadily been increasing interest rates in a bid to combat inflation.\n\nIts base rate - which has a direct effect on borrowing costs for things like mortgages and credit cards, but also influences savings rates - is now 5%, up from close to zero 18 months ago. Some analysts have predicted interest rates will peak at 6.5%, but some have said they may rise to as high as 7%.\n\nThe theory behind raising interest rates is that by making it more expensive for people to borrow money, and more worthwhile for people to save, people will spend less, which will in turn lead to price rises to slow.\n\nMr Bailey said in his speech to executives at the same Mansion House event \"it is crucial that we see the job through, meet our mandate to return inflation to its 2% target, and provide the environment of price stability in which the UK economy can thrive\".\n\nHe added that while the UK economy has failed to grow beyond its pre-pandemic level, there had been \"unexpected resilience\" in the face of external shocks, such as Covid and the war in Ukraine, with low levels of unemployment and avoiding a recession to date.\n\nBut the Bank of England's boss highlighted that \"tightness\" in the labour market, with many businesses struggling to find enough workers, has contributed to price inflation being \"more sticky than previously expected\".\n\n\"Both price and wage increases at current rates are not consistent with the inflation target,\" he added.\n\nThe Bank of England has previously warned big pay rises are contributing to the UK's still-high rates of inflation, but there have also been accusations that some sectors have been profiteering by overcharging customers.\n\nLast week, the Competition and Markets Authority revealed supermarkets had sought to increase profits from selling fuel, increasing their margins by 6p per litre on average between 2019 and 2022.\n\nThe chancellor said \"delivering sound money is our number one focus\", before he delivered his speech focusing on plans for pension fund reforms.\n\nMr Hunt pledged the plans could provide a £1,000-a-year pensions boost to the typical earner who starts saving at 18.\n\nWhile UK pension pots are the largest in Europe, worth £2.5trn, defined contribution schemes currently invest 1% in unlisted equity, limiting returns for savers and funding for businesses, the Treasury has claimed.\n\nThe chancellor revealed an agreement with leading pensions firms to put 5% of their investments into early-stage businesses in the fintech, life sciences, biotech and clean technology sectors by 2030.\n\nThe so-called \"Mansion House Compact\" has been backed by Aviva, Scottish Widows, Legal & General, Aegon, Phoenix, NEST, Mercer, M&G and Smart Pension.\n\nAhead of the event, Mansion House organisers said talks had taken place about security at the venue over concerns of protests. A source told the BBC the event was not disrupted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCrews in Vermont are assessing the damage after a storm dumped up to two months of rain on the state in a matter of days, triggering dangerous flash floods that submerged homes.\n\nThe state's governor said there had been \"historic and catastrophic\" flooding. Some areas saw more than 9in (0.22m) of rain.\n\nIn the capital city, Montpelier, crews are beginning to clear debris and inspect buildings.\n\nMore rain is expected later this week.\n\nPeople in Montpelier as well as nearby Berlin have been told to boil their water, amid concerns that the flooding may have contaminated drinking water.\n\nThe picture is similar elsewhere in the state, such as in the town of Ludlow, where the scale of the damage is only starting to become clear as the floodwater recedes.\n\n\"I talked to people today that said my house is gone,\" said Ludlow Municipal Manager Brendan McNamara. \"[We] sustained catastrophic damage. We just really took the brunt of the storm.\"\n\nA freight track on the Green Mountain Railroad that runs through the town was left dangling in the sky after the floods carved a deep gorge underneath it.\n\nA spokesperson for the Vermont Rail System told the BBC's US partner CBS News that operations had been \"temporarily suspended\" due to \"a washout\".\n\nAndrew Molen, the co-owner of a restaurant in the town, told the outlet that the flooding there was \"devastating\" and his business was in a mess.\n\n\"We lost bridges, we lost roads, cars went down rivers, the power, there was such force it was moving dumpsters that were full,\" he said.\n\nSome Vermont residents returned to their homes on Tuesday to survey the damage caused by the floods\n\nVermont's commissioner of public safety, Jennifer Morrison, told CNN on Wednesday more than 200 people have been rescued and over 100 evacuations had been performed. She called the situation \"an absolute crisis\" that could take years - potentially even a decade - to repair.\n\nThere had been concerns about several dams in the state as they neared capacity, but on Tuesday night Montpelier officials said the Wrightsville Dam was \"beginning to recede\" and both major rivers were \"now below flood stage\".\n\n\"It looks like [the dam] won't breach. That is good. That is one less thing we have to have on our front burner,\" Montpelier Town Manager Bill Fraser said.\n\nAn emergency order was lifted on Tuesday in the city even as some streets remained underwater after the Winooski River burst its banks.\n\nBut Governor Phil Scott urged caution over the coming days.\n\n\"We expect more rain later this week which will have nowhere to go in the over-saturated ground,\" he said. \"We're not out of the woods - this is nowhere near over.\"\n\nHe added that the deluge in some parts of the state had surpassed that seen during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, which killed six people in Vermont.\n\nKelly Tackett, who owns the Minikin children's store in Montpelier, was unable to get through the floodwaters on Tuesday to check on her deluged business.\n\nBut upon seeing pictures of the ruined premises taken by a photojournalist she said she was in tears and feared her business may not recover.\n\n\"This was my lifelong dream shop,\" she told the Burlington Free Press.\n\nThe National Weather Service forecasts more rain for Thursday and Friday in Vermont, but no more torrential downpours.\n\nFlood watches remain in effect for parts of New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut.\n\nIn New York state, which has also seen some of the worst flooding in years, a woman named by authorities as Pamela Nugent, 43, died in Orange County after she was swept away while trying to flee her home with her dog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes, businesses and roads were significantly damaged in the county.\n\nMany factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "Just Stop Oil have said they were not responsible for an incident at ex-chancellor George Osborne's wedding, which saw a protester throw orange confetti over the newly married couple.\n\nThe protest was similar to those carried out by the environmental group.\n\nBut, a spokesperson told the BBC they did not know the protester's identity.\n\nThe group had posted a clip from news agency PA on Twitter with the message: \"You look good in orange George Osborne.\"\n\nIn the video a woman in a smart floral dress approaches George Osborne and Thea Rogers as they leave the church and begins throwing confetti, taken from a union jack paper bag.\n\nIn a statement the group said: \"If it was a form of protest (which is yet to be established) we applaud it and thank the person concerned.\n\n\"It was peaceful and not especially disruptive but got massive media attention for Just Stop Oil's demand.\"\n\nThe group added that the media should focus on more important issues including the government's decision to license over 100 new oil and gas projects and wildfires in Canada.\n\nIt came as an email, widely shared online, made several unsubstantiated claims about Mr Osborne's private life.\n\nReports suggest Mr Osborne has contacted the police about the email.\n\nAround 200 people, including ex-Prime Minister David Cameron and Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove attended the ceremony in the village of Bruton, Somerset.\n\nMr Osborne was previously married to Frances Osborne, but the pair divorced in 2019 after 21 years of marriage.\n\nMs Rogers previously worked as an adviser to Mr Osborne, and in 2016 was awarded an OBE for her work.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland kept their Ashes hopes alive by beating Australia by three wickets in the third Test in another nerve-shredding Headingley finale.\n\nHarry Brook hit a superb 75 but it was left to bowlers Chris Woakes and Mark Wood to drag the hosts over the line in pursuit of 251.\n\nBrook's mature knock took them to within 21 of victory, after talisman Ben Stokes fell for 13 following lunch on day four with 90 still needed.\n\nBrook put on 59 with Woakes before top-edging a cut off Mitchell Starc, who almost won the series for Australia with a vicious 5-78.\n\nThat wicket brought Wood to the crease amid gripping tension and he hit Pat Cummins for six and thrashed Starc for four to spark jubilation in the stands.\n\nWith four needed, Wood was dropped by Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey before Woakes, who finished unbeaten on 32, slashed the winning runs.\n\nEngland's win makes the series 2-1 to Australia with two Tests to play, setting up a grandstand finale that could yet match the iconic contest in 2005.\n\nThere is a nine-day break before the fourth Test at Old Trafford starts on Wednesday, 19 July.\n\nEngland keep the show rumbling on\n\nAfter 1981 and 2019, 2023 can now be added to the list of Headingley Ashes epics.\n\nIt may not have reached the ultimate climax of Stokes and Jack Leach's 10th-wicket partnership four years ago but it was still another day of almost tortuous tension.\n\nEvery run was cheered and wickets were met with silence - apart from in the pockets of Australian green and gold in the stands.\n\nJoe Root's departure shortly before lunch and Stokes' soon afterwards threatened to give Australia the win that would seal their first Ashes series in England for 22 years.\n\nBut Brook, batting on his home ground in his first Ashes series, played the situation perfectly, only to fall with the finish line in sight.\n\nHe found a gritty partner in Woakes, who battled through the short-ball attack and played the anchor to Wood at the end.\n\nThe scenes of celebration were reminiscent of those four years ago - England getting their first win on the board after two tight Tests that could have gone either way.\n\nThey have to do what they have never done before - come from 2-0 down to win the Ashes - but, after three gripping Test matches, they have ensured the show rumbles on with the series getting the ending it deserves.\n\nBrook's knock came after he was dropped back down to number five in the order, having taken the injured Ollie Pope's position at number three in the first innings.\n\nHe came in at 93-3 and started shakily in a stand of 38 with Root before driving Scott Boland twice through the covers to get him on his way.\n\nBrook held his nerve after the losses of Root, Stokes and Jonny Bairstow - the latter playing on from a wild drive with the target 80 runs away, at which stage Australia were favourites.\n\nBrook, 24, has made his name as an attacking batter in his first 10 Tests - here becoming the quickest batter to 1,000 Test runs in terms of balls faced - but restrained himself while putting away the bad balls with the field spread.\n\nAt the other end, Woakes was more aggressive. He managed to slash the ball through the off side, although was fortunate to fend the short ball three times into empty spaces.\n\nWhen Brook top-edged a bouncer, Australia still had a sniff but Wood, who took seven wickets in the match bowling at extreme pace, hooked Cummins over fine leg en route to 16 not out.\n\nIt was fitting, however, that Woakes, who also contributed a crucial six wickets, hit the winning runs after 15 months out of the side.\n\nStarc almost wins it for Australia\n\nAfter starting on 27-0, England had added 15 runs relatively calmly amid the tension, before Ben Duckett was pinned lbw by Starc's left-arm pace for 23.\n\nThe hosts promoted Moeen Ali in Brook's place but he only made five before a Starc inswinger crashed into his leg stump.\n\nZak Crawley batted well for 44 but, in a dismissal that sums up his Test career, edged a big drive to Mitchell Marsh through to the wicketkeeper a ball after hitting the same shot through the covers.\n\nRoot attempted to pull a wayward ball from Cummins and gloved it down the leg side.\n\nStarc, though, was the major threat and was rewarded by having Stokes taken down the leg side before Bairstow's wild swish.\n\nAustralia missed the control of spinner Nathan Lyon, ruled out of the series with a calf injury last week, but have more than a week to regroup before seeking a series-clinching victory again.\n\nEngland batter Harry Brook on Test Match Special: \"I don't think I can quite believe it yet, to do it here in front of my home crowd.\n\n\"It's a phenomenal win and sets up the rest of the series.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Fantastic. Both teams have produced three games of cricket you only dream of commentating on.\"\n\nAustralia captain Pat Cummins: \"Another one right down to the wire and a great Test match. Unfortunately we are not on the right side of this one.\"\n\nFormer England spinner Phil Tufnell: \"Australia are the hunted and this England side like being the hunters.\n\n\"If England go up to Old Trafford and strike that first blow it could unravel for the Australians. It's beautifully teed up.\"\n• None Watch the hypochondriac detective and his team on BBC iPlayer now\n• None The cosmic culture war between Marvel and DC comics: Uncover the story of one of the greatest rivalries in the history of pop culture", "Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a report that an indecent image appeared briefly during a children's screening of the Super Mario Bros Movie.\n\nThe incident happened at Londonderry's Waterside Theatre on Friday.\n\nIt is understood the children, believed to be of primary-school age, were at the event as part of a summer scheme.\n\nIt is believed an image of a partially undressed woman appeared on screen for several seconds before being removed.\n\nThe theatre has described what happened as \"unfortunate but serious\" and apologised.\n\nIn a post on Facebook on Friday night, staff said they would be \"working with the relevant authorities\".\n\nBBC News NI has asked Waterside Theatre and Arts Centre for a statement.\n\nParents of the children who attended the screening were informed of the incident by organisers soon after it occurred, BBC News NI understands.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was later informed.\n\nThe incident happened at the Waterside Theatre and Arts Centre in Derry\n\nA PSNI spokesperson said they had received a report of an indecent image appearing briefly on the screen and had begun an investigation.\n\n\"Enquiries remain ongoing and anyone with information that could help with this investigation is asked to contact police,\" they added.\n\nIn a Facebook post on Friday, the theatre said it was \"aware of an unfortunate but serious incident happening today\".\n\n\"The welfare of our visitors is always our main concern and we will be working with the relevant authorities,\" the statement goes on.\n\n\"We offer or sincere apologies to all those affected.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Gary Middleton called for enquiries to establish what had happened.\n\n\"There needs to be an investigation into how this happened and particularly the equipment used,\" he said.\n\n\"It's important that parents and those involved are kept informed.\"\n\nSean Mooney, an SDLP councillor for Derry and Strabane District Council, said it was \"an unfortunate matter and unfortunate it happened\".\n\n\"It would be concerning for the children seeing something that's inappropriate,\" he said.\n\n\"But this is pending investigation.\"", "Cardiff council says it has insufficient grid capacity at the Lamby Way depot to charge all of its vehicles\n\nA council could be set to spend millions of pounds on a new recycling fleet that runs on diesel.\n\nCardiff council is considering getting 41 vehicles for £9.7m to help it improve recycling in the city.\n\nSome councillors are concerned the move goes against the authority's intention to reduce its carbon emissions.\n\nBut limited grid capacity, the price and availability of electric bin lorries forced the council to look at diesel vehicles, a cabinet member said.\n\nCaro Wild told an environmental scrutiny meeting that the council would have liked to have made the vehicles electric, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nHowever, he added, there were a number of issues preventing that.\n\n\"We have got the biggest electric RCV (refuse collection vehicle) fleet in Wales but… because of the grid capacity at Lamby Way, the availability of the vehicles, the price of them, it is just not possible to do that number at this stage,\" he said.\n\nOne member of the committee, Bethan Proctor, said she understood the reasoning behind this, but was concerned.\n\n\"It did just feel a little bit disappointing that we are purchasing diesel vehicles two years after declaring a climate emergency,\" she said.\n\nSome of the new vehicles will be purchased and some will be leased to allow the council to move away from diesel engines when conditions allow.\n\nThe council said it was looking at a solution to Lamby Way's grid capacity, including a solar and wind project.\n\nThe council will also look to procure an extra 20 electric flatbed transit vehicles for cleansing operations next year.\n\nThe council's recycling trial, which has involved 10,000 households separating their recycling for collection at the kerbside, could be rolled out to another 40,000 homes from November.\n\nCabinet members will meet on 13 July to make a decision on whether or not to approve the proposed procurement.", "Border guard patrols are being stepped up on Poland's eastern edge\n\nThe prospect of mercenaries from the Russian Wagner group moving to Belarus as part of the deal struck to end their mutiny has made Poland extra wary of its neighbour.\n\nA border once marked by a few pillars and wooden look-out posts has already been transformed by miles of tall metal fencing, thermal cameras and spotlights.\n\nThey were installed after Belarus began encouraging thousands of migrants to cross into Poland two years ago in what Warsaw calls an act of hybrid warfare; Minsk and Moscow are close allies.\n\nAhead of this week's Nato summit in Lithuania, the Polish government has been warning that Wagner forces could be used to spark more trouble, so it's deploying hundreds of extra officers at its eastern border as reinforcements.\n\n\"The biggest threat is that our neighbour, Belarus, is completely unpredictable,\" Michal Bura of the local border guard explains, although all is calm as we talk - apart from swarms of vicious summer bugs in the wheat fields.\n\n\"We have to be ready for any developments. Maybe Wagner will be a problem, but no one really knows why they're going there or what they're preparing for.\"\n\nPolish officers at the border use vehicles with large mounted cameras\n\nIt's more than two weeks since Yevgeny Prigozhin and his band of mercenaries swept into the southern Russian city of Rostov unhindered, sending a second armed group marching towards Moscow, but the mutineers' fate is still murky.\n\nThe hasty deal that stopped their advance was meant to see Wagner disbanded and its fighters exiled to Belarus with their leader. But a large tent camp outside Minsk, likely prepared for them, stands empty and no Wagnerites have yet been spotted.\n\nInstead, we've found signs that the group are still operating at home, despite going so rogue that President Vladimir Putin accused them of stabbing Russia in the back - and he loathes betrayal.\n\n\"Yes, we're still recruiting, everything's as normal,\" I was told in a voice message this weekend, after contacting Wagner using a male name.\n\nI was then sent detailed written instructions on how to find the mercenaries at their training camp near Krasnodar in southern Russia, where it's always been.\n\n\"At the checkpoint… ask the soldiers how to find Wagner PMC,\" the message read. \"At the second checkpoint, say Anatoly sent you, and you're there about signing up.\"\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of the mutiny in June, we had been surprised to see Wagner's contacts across Russia still listed openly online. Everyone we reached then told us they were still operating.\n\nThose lists have now disappeared and when I called the numbers we had saved, the lines were disconnected or went straight to voicemail.\n\nAs a potential new Wagnerite, I was told to bring flip-flops for the shower and my own underwear, a clean bill of health and no drug habit. In return, I'd be put through my paces for an instructor to decide where best to deploy me.\n\nWhen I asked whether I would be sent to Ukraine, though, \"Anatoly\" stopped replying.\n\nMichal Bura of the local border guard says their concern is that Belarus is \"completely unpredictable\"\n\nMost Belarusians won't be sorry if Wagner never shows up there.\n\nOnline chatter shows a lot of concern about being sent an \"army of criminals\", a reference to Wagner's recruitment from Russian prisons.\n\n\"How can they herald anything good?\" Valery Sakhashchyk agrees, a former paratrooper commander now responsible for defence in a Belarusian opposition cabinet-in-exile.\n\nBut his eyes light-up when he talks of the mercenaries' march on Moscow last month.\n\n\"Not long ago, the whole world thought of Russia as a giant, strong bear. Now we see that's all empty,\" Valery says, explaining that the Kremlin's weak response to the mutiny had fed his own hope for change. \"The whole system is rotten... and I think it's even worse in Belarus.\"\n\nValery doubts that Wagner will ever relocate to his country in big numbers or that Prigozhin himself will settle so close to Russia and its FSB security service, after his betrayal.\n\nThe whole world thought of Russia as a giant, strong bear. Now we see that's all empty\n\n\"I think he'll end up somewhere where it's harder for the FSB to find him. In Belarus, the FSB don't even wipe their feet at the door. They just march in and do what they want.\"\n\nEven if Wagner do eventually arrive in Belarus, Poland's worries and warnings may be motivated as much by domestic politics as security fears.\n\n\"They are nothing the border guard can't deal with, no match for what we have,\" argues Piotr Lukasiewicz, of the Polish political analysis group Polityka Insight.\n\n\"But as a political tool it can be quite useful to sell [Wagner] as a great danger,\" he adds. \"We'll see how it develops,\" he says, but he thinks the government is \"crying wolf\" to boost its own security credentials ahead of elections this autumn.\n\nAnd yet, very little in the mystery of the Wagner mutineers is clear, even now.\n\nSo Poland's border patrols remain on high alert, drones and cameras trained beyond the wheat husks and the beehives to the solid grey fence topped with barbed wire that now marks the dividing line with Belarus.\n\nOn Poland's eastern edge, the border guard are stepping up their patrols.", "Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering seven babies\n\nJurors in the trial of nurse Lucy Letby have retired to consider their verdicts.\n\nMs Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nThe 33-year-old, originally from Hereford, has denied all charges.\n\nJudge Mr Justice James Goss has told the jury to approach their deliberations in a \"fair, calm, objective and analytical way\".\n\nThe jury has heard nine months of evidence, including claims Ms Letby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned some with insulin.\n\nMs Letby has insisted she did not harm any of the babies and has pointed to issues of poor hygiene and staffing levels in the hospital.\n\nShe has also accused senior doctors of mounting a conspiracy against her to mask failings in care.\n\nMr Justice Goss told the jury of eight women and four men at Manchester Crown Court that they must \"be sure of the defendant's guilt or not\" in all the allegations.\n\nMs Letby gave evidence in her defence during the trial\n\nThe judge said many of the children had suffered \"unexpected life-threatening collapses\" and reminded the jury that the prosecution had argued there were many \"common factors\".\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC said Ms Letby had been on shift at the time when each baby collapsed.\n\nMr Johnson also included 11 other common themes, from unusual skin discolouration to the babies collapsing just after having been visited by parents.\n\nMr Justice Goss said the prosecution had argued \"this is not a series of unconnected events\".\n\nHe said they claim that when put in context with expert evidence, post-mortem examination findings and the discovery of notes and nursing handover sheets at Ms Letby's home, the jury \"can be sure the defendant committed all the offences\".\n\nHe reminded the jury that Ms Letby had denied harming any of the children and her case was that she was a hardworking and dedicated nurse.\n\nMs Letby is accused of carrying out the attacks at Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nDuring the trial Ms Letby said the handover sheets recovered from her home were taken from the hospital in error.\n\nThe judge also referred to notes found at Ms Letby's home in which she wrote, among other things, \"I am evil, I did this\".\n\nThe defence's case, he said, was that these were a \"product of despair\" written after she was removed from frontline nursing duties and placed in a clerical role.\n\nHe also said the defence rejected the prosecution's list of \"common factors\" in the cases, saying they did not establish a pattern.\n\nThe defence have said the jury cannot be sure in any event of Ms Letby's guilt.\n\nMr Justice Goss ended by reminding the jury to keep their deliberations confidential and instructed the panel to \"respect each other's opinions\".\n\nHe said \"no one should be, or feel, pressured\" during their discussions.\n\nThe judge ended by instructing the jury to reach \"unanimous verdicts on each count on the indictment\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth\n\nThe Lord Chancellor has asked the Parole Board to reconsider its decision to allow child killer Colin Pitchfork to be released from prison.\n\nPitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two teenage girls in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.\n\nLord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said it was \"absolutely vital\" dangerous offenders were kept behind bars.\n\nHe said there was an arguable case the board's decision was irrational.\n\nPitchfork became the first murderer to be convicted using DNA evidence.\n\nHe was jailed for a minimum of 30 years in 1988 for the murder of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.\n\nThis was later reduced to 28 years for good behaviour.\n\nDawn Ashworth and Lynda Mann were raped and murdered by Pitchfork\n\nThe 63-year-old was released from prison in 2021 but was arrested and sent back to prison two months later.\n\nHe was granted parole in June following a hearing held in private in April.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Mr Chalk said: \"My thoughts remain with the families of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, whose lives were changed forever by the heinous crimes of Colin Pitchfork.\n\n\"My number one priority is public protection and after careful assessment I have asked the Parole Board to reconsider their decision to release him.\n\n\"It is absolutely vital that every lawful step is taken to keep dangerous offenders behind bars.\"\n\nThe Lord Chancellor is a senior member of the cabinet and heads the Ministry of Justice.\n\nHis intervention comes after the Conservative MP for South Leicestershire Alberto Costa called for the parole decision to be challenged.\n\nMr Costa said: \"I am very grateful to the justice secretary for listening to me and my constituents by challenging the Parole Board's deeply disappointing decision.\n\n\"Like many, I was aghast at the recent decision.\n\n\"The Parole Board now has a further opportunity to get this decision right and to ensure that Colin Pitchfork stays in prison where he belongs\".\n\nAfter the decision was made public last month, a Parole Board spokesperson said: \"Parole reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care. Protecting the public is our number one priority, however our sole focus in law is risk, not punishment, and must be based on evidence.\n\n\"This case is eligible for reconsideration if any party thinks the decision is irrational or unfair.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "A man from Brighton has been charged with 11 terrorism-related offences.\n\nMason Reynolds, 18, of Moulsecoomb Way, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, and will next appear at the Old Bailey on 21 July.\n\nThe charges against him are linked to an \"extreme right-wing ideology\", counter-terrorism police say.\n\nAmong the charges are five counts of collecting information which could be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.\n\nHe is also charged with five counts of dissemination of terrorist publications, and a further count of possessing an article for the purpose of terrorism.\n\nThe investigation which led to his arrest was carried out by the Counter Terrorism Policing South East unit.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Critics warned the Hong Kong security law would shut down dissent - now activists overseas are in fear\n\nChina says the UK is sheltering fugitives after Hong Kong put bounties on the heads of eight pro-democracy activists who fled the territory.\n\nThe statement from its London embassy came after the UK said it would not tolerate attempts by China to silence individuals in the UK or overseas.\n\nThe eight left the former British territory after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in 2020.\n\nHong Kong's Chief Executive John Lee said they would be \"pursued for life\".\n\nHe urged them to give themselves up, adding that otherwise they would spend their days in fear.\n\n\"British politicians have openly offered protection for fugitives,\" a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in London said late on Monday, condemning what it alleged was \"crude interference in Hong Kong's rule of law and China's internal affairs\".\n\nOn Monday a bounty of HK$1m (£100,581; $127,637) was offered for the activists' arrest.\n\nThe eight named in the announcement are all based in the UK, the US and Australia - countries which do not have extradition treaties with China.\n\nOne pro-democracy campaigner who fled Hong Kong told the BBC his life has become more dangerous because of the bounty offered for his arrest.\n\nNathan Law, who lives in the UK, said he needed to be \"more careful\" about divulging his whereabouts as a result of the bounty.\n\nThe eight activists targeted are accused of colluding with foreign forces - a crime that can carry a sentence of life in prison. The offence comes under Hong Kong's draconian security law, which was imposed three years ago after widespread pro-democracy protests took place in 2019.\n\nBeijing has said the security law is needed to bring stability to the city, but critics say it is designed to squash dissent.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said: \"We call on Beijing to remove the national security law and for the Hong Kong authorities to end their targeting of those who stand up for freedom and democracy.\"\n\nUnder the law, hundreds of pro-democracy campaigners have been arrested and convicted in Hong Kong.\n\nMr Law, one of the most prominent figures in the pro-democracy movement, said that while he felt his situation was \"relatively safe\" in the UK, he would have to be more vigilant, including when transiting through certain countries.\n\n\"All these things may put my life in to dangerous situations if I'm not careful enough of who I meet or where I go. It makes me have to live in a more careful life.\"\n\nOne of the other exiled activists - Anna Kwok, executive director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council - said the bounty was aimed at intimidating her and her fellow activists.\n\nShe said in a statement they were all \"united in our fight for freedom and democracy in our home, Hong Kong\".\n\nShe told the BBC's Newshour programme she had felt initial shock on hearing of the bounties but wanted to speak out.\n\n\"That's exactly the kind of thing the Hong Kong government and the Chinese Communist party would do - which is to intimidate people into not doing anything, silencing them.\n\n\"And that's why immediately I thought OK, I should make this a big thing and I should definitely talk about the transnational repression that's going on here and also the scare tactics - as well as how the Hong Kong government is just trying to see by which point would the international community smack their hands and tell them to back off.\"\n\nAustralia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong said her government was \"deeply disappointed\" by the announcement and said Australia \"remains deeply concerned by the continuing erosion of Hong Kong's rights, freedoms and autonomy\".\n\nThe US state department said the move sets \"a dangerous precedent that threatens the human rights and fundamental freedoms of people all over the world\".\n\nThe other six activists named in the announcement are Ted Hui, Dennis Kwok, Mung Siu-tat, Elmer Yuen, Finn Law and Kevin Yam.\n\nDozens of Hong Kong civil society groups around the world have called on Western governments to introduce measures to protect the freedoms of Hong Kong activists in exile - and to make clear the security law does not apply in their jurisdictions.\n\nThe bounties were \"further evidence that this draconian law is being used extraterritorially and retrospectively to silence pro-democracy voices and intimidate the Hong Kong community overseas,\" the groups said in a statement.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sometimes a gathering of the Liaison Committee can provide parliamentary fireworks - but today's session was relatively sedate.\n\nFor most of the 90 minutes, the prime minister faced gently probing questions and gave detailed if largely unsurprising answers.\n\nRishi Sunak denied his policy to tackle small boat crossings had stalled, insisted the government was committed to building enough houses and defended his approach to reducing inflation. The PM managed to gloss over the controversial topic of Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.\n\nAn exchange with Labour's Sir Chris Bryant provided one of the more dramatic moments.\n\nSunak was riled by the MP's questions about his attitude to Parliament. The PM couldn't answer when any of his predecessors had missed two PMQs sessions in a row, as he is expected to this month, but asked if the MP would prefer him not to attend a Nato summit for example.\n\nAs ever with these sessions where several subjects are covered in a limited time, often just as things were getting interesting the chair said it was time for the next topic.", "For the first time on the NHS in England, premature babies can now routinely be given a drug treatment to prevent blindness, advice says.\n\nInjections of ranibizumab can stop scarring caused by unusual blood-vessel growth in the back of the eye.\n\nIt is an alternative to laser therapy, which is not always suitable for tiny babies at risk of this sight problem affecting the retina of the eye.\n\nRetinopathy of prematurity (ROP) can be avoidable with the right treatment.\n\nAll premature and low-birth-weight babies are screened for it, with eye tests. Up to one in 20 may require treatment to avoid damage that can lead to sight loss.\n\nRanibizumab injections into the eye can block the action of vascular endothelial growth factor, which promotes growth of new blood vessels.\n\nVery high levels can grow abnormal vessels that turn into scar tissue in the retina - the part of the eye that detects light and sends messages to the brain to enable sight.\n\nMillie Swan, from Surrey, was born prematurely at 23 weeks and developed ROP.\n\nWhen she was three months old, the condition became so severe in her left eye she needed urgent treatment to save her sight.\n\nBut when doctors gave her the sedative to prepare her for laser treatment, she did not tolerate it at all, so they could not start the procedure.\n\n\"At this point, we thought she would end up blind in her left eye,\" Millie's mother, Natalie, said, \"but we were lucky enough to get offered this new treatment, which was an injection into the eye.\n\n\"I stayed with her for the procedure. Millie needed to have her eye clamped open but I was used to seeing that happen for her assessments. And the treatment was finished in a couple of minutes. That was much quicker than the laser surgery would have been. After the procedure, Millie spent a couple of days recovering.\n\n\"Millie will be three years old in July and her eyesight is now normal and she enjoys looking at the pictures in her books and aeroplanes in the sky.\n\n\"We feel so lucky that she got to have this procedure and avoided almost certain blindness in that eye - and now other families will be able to benefit from it too.\"\n\nAround 20 babies a year in England might need the drug treatment rather than laser therapy, experts believe.\n\nNHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said: \"The impacts of vision loss can be absolutely devastating, particularly for children and young people, so it's fantastic that this treatment will now give families across the country another life-changing option to help save their child's precious sight.\n\n\"The national rollout of this lifeline treatment for babies who are too poorly to undergo laser therapy is a vital step forward in preventing avoidable vision loss.\"\n\nPeter Bradley, from the premature baby charity Bliss, said: \"It is absolutely brilliant to see this sight-saving treatment being rolled out nationally. Retinopathy of Prematurity affects many babies born premature, and can become very serious.\"", "There have been calls for Orkney to become part of Norway\n\nOrkney councillors have voted to investigate alternative methods of governance amid deep frustrations over funding and opportunities.\n\nCouncil leader James Stockan said the islands had been \"held down\" and accused the Scottish and UK governments of discrimination.\n\nHis motion led to media speculation that Orkney could leave the UK or become a self-governing territory of Norway.\n\nIt was supported by 15 votes to six.\n\nIt means council officers have been asked to publish a report to Orkney's chief executive on options of governance.\n\nThis includes looking at the \"Nordic connections\" of the archipelago and crown dependencies such as Jersey and Guernsey.\n\nA further change which would see the revival of a consultative group on constitutional reform for the islands was accepted without the need for a vote.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister's spokesperson rejected the suggestion the islands could loosen its ties with the union.\n\nMr Stockan urged councillors to back his idea to find new ways to get greater financial security and economic opportunities for Orcadians.\n\nSpeaking to councillors on Tuesday, he said the motion was \"not about us joining Norway\".\n\nHe added: \"I say it's time for government to take us seriously and I say it's time for us to look at all the options we've got.\n\n\"There is a far bigger suite of options here - this could even be that we could get our money direct from the Treasury in London and look after our own future.\n\n\"We have been held down and we all know most of what I could say today in terms of discrimination against this community from governments. We all know how much less we get compared to other island groups.\"\n\nCouncil leader James Stockan says Orkney does not get fair funding within the UK\n\nOrkney Islands Council previously voted in 2017 to look at whether the islands could have greater autonomy.\n\nWhile councillors wanted to have a \"stronger voice\", they did not back full independence for Orkney.\n\nCurrently, most of the island's 21 councillors sit as independents - two are Greens.\n\nMr Stockan has said an ageing ferry fleet is among the issues being faced by islanders.\n\nHe previously told the BBC the situation was \"critical\" because the ferries, which are older than the Western Isles fleet, were beginning to fail.\n\nHis concerns were widely shared by other councillors, however some raised issues with self-governance, such as the cost of carrying out such investigations.\n\nCllr Steven Heddle also mentioned disadvantages including having to buy back the sea bed, and tuition fees for students wishing to study in Scotland.\n\nHe called Mr Stockan's efforts \"politics of grievance\" and said that every council felt hard done by, citing roads in Edinburgh that were \"worse\" than Orkney's despite the council having far more funding.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's official spokesperson said: \"First and foremost there is no mechanism for the conferral of Crown Dependency or Overseas Territory status on any part of the UK.\n\n\"We have no plans to change the devolution settlement we are supporting Orkney with £50m to grow the economic prosperity of the Scottish islands, through the islands deal.\n\n\"But the government's position is that the UK is stronger united.\"\n\nOrkney was previously held under Norwegian and Danish control until it became part of Scotland in 1472.\n\nThe islands were used as security for the wedding dowry of Margaret of Denmark, the future wife of King James III of Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish government said in 2023-24 Orkney Islands Council would receive £89.7m to fund services, with an extra £4.6m from an increase in council tax by 10%.\n\nA spokesperson added it was \"committed to supporting island communities\".\n\nThe Norwegian government declined to comment on the proposals.\n\nToday's vote was never about Orkney becoming part of Norway, or any of the other headlines we've seen over recent days.\n\nRather it was a chance for councillors to express their extreme frustration with what they see as the unfair deal they get from the Scottish and UK governments, with council leader James Stockan saying the islands had been failed by both of them.\n\nThe successful passing of the motion is the first of many hurdles in Orkney gaining a degree of greater autonomy.\n\nCouncil officials will now be tasked with investigating options. Mr Stockan said that \"nothing was off the table\" - including of course the much-publicised return to Norway or Denmark.\n\nReaction to the vote on the streets of Kirkwall has been fairly mixed.\n\nSome don't want to see any tax-payer money devoted to what one councillor described as \"frankly bizarre fantasies\".\n\nOthers feel that the council does get a raw deal from both Holyrood and Westminster, and that anything that gets the two governments to sit up and pay attention is worth looking at.\n\nThe eyes of the global media have been on Orkney for the past few days.\n\nIt's now up to the islands council to capitalise on that attention.", "A US policeman who saved a driver from a fiery crash has been hailed a hero. Sergeant Ashley Taylor was called to Highway 46 in southern Georgia after reports a car had veered off the road. Bodycam footage shows him running to the scene of the crash, smashing the car windows and pulling a woman to safety despite the growing flames. Local media reported the driver was having a medical emergency and is expected to make a full recovery.", "Supporters of Sir Keir Starmer are \"drunk with power\" and conducting a purge of the Labour left, former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said.\n\nIn a BBC Newsnight interview, the veteran left-winger warned that a \"right-wing faction\" was weakening the party.\n\nHe was speaking after figures on the left complained that they are being blocked from positions in the party.\n\nHe has raised his concerns with the Labour leader in writing, warning: \"If you stumble, these are the people that will come for you.\"\n\nThe former shadow chancellor said: \"What [Keir Starmer's] allowed to happen is a right-wing faction [has] become drunk with power and use devices within the party almost on a search and destroy of the left.\n\n\"They seem to be more interested in destroying the presence of the left in the party than getting a Labour government.\"\n\nHis intervention comes after aspiring MPs said they are being excluded from an approved list of parliamentary candidates drawn up by the party's National Executive Committee, Labour's governing body.\n\nSitting MPs facing selection battles in new seats created by the Boundary Review also say they are losing out to Starmer loyalists. Others on the left have been successful.\n\nAnd Neal Lawson, director of campaign group Compass and a stalwart of the soft left, recently said he is facing an official investigation over some old tweets calling for cross-party co-operation.\n\nThe party says it is looking into his support for other political parties, which is a breach of Labour rules.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson told the BBC said it had \"high standards\" for prospective election candidates, and this was \"absolutely right\".\n\n\"This is a changed Labour Party back in the service of working people so we can build a better Britain,\" they added.\n\nIn his Newsnight interview, Mr McDonnell said: \"I've written to Keir a few times saying: Look, this factionalism is causing us real problems for the future…There is a sort of a right-wing faction that have got into fairly senior positions and they seem be waging some form of purge against the left.\n\n\"And what I said to Keir, is we've always been a broad church. This doesn't help the party, and we're always successful when we're a broad church.\n\n\"Previous leaders and prime ministers of the Labour Party have always had in their cabinet a broad church approach - left, right and centre. They've tolerated different views within the party.\n\n\"In fact, many of them have welcomed it because you get better discussion, better debates and you get a better decision policy making as well.\n\n\"And I said: there's a faction here that actually are so intolerant of dissent that they're removing people, it will weaken our party. And I also said to him, if you stumble, these are the people that will come for you.\"\n\nMr McDonnell, a close ally of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has also raised concerns with Sir Keir over former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott's suspension as a Labour MP.\n\nThe Labour whip was withdrawn from the veteran left-winger in April, pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism to the Observer.\n\nIn the letter, she said \"many types of white people with points of difference\" can experience prejudice, but they were not subject to racism \"all their lives\". She later withdrew her remarks and apologised \"for any anguish caused\".\n\nMr McDonnell said her comments had been \"wrong\", but added that he had given Sir Keir \"several examples of MPs where they've made similar mistakes, some of them worse,\" and had the party whip restored.\n\n\"Why are we discriminating against the first black woman in Parliament? Is it because she is on the left? And there's too many examples like that have taken place,\" he added.\n\nJohn McDonnell is a close political ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nThe former shadow chancellor said he had advised the Labour leader to ask barrister Martin Forde KC, who was commissioned by Sir Keir in 2020 to examine allegations of bullying, racism and sexism, to re-examine \"factionalism\" within the party.\n\nHe added that he should also be consulted on \"some of these issues about the individual cases and complaints that have been made\".\n\n\"In that way, we might be able to restore confidence in the whole process within the party [around] selections and disciplinary process.\"\n\nThe former shadow chancellor also said that former PM Tony Blair, who is reviled by many on the left, had tolerated different views when he was prime minister.\n\nMr McDonnell said: \"If you look at [it] under Tony Blair, we didn't have mass expulsions like this or anything like that. We didn't have the withdrawal of the whip unless it was something very extreme. There was an atmosphere of tolerance, but actually respect as well.\"\n\nJosh Simons, director of the Labour Together think tank that is supportive of Sir Keir's leadership, denied there was a purge of the Labour left.\n\nHe told Newsnight that Sir Keir was building a party \"capable and equipped to govern this country and transform it,\" including getting people \"with talent, with energy, with vigour and commitment into Parliament to do that\".\n\nHe also added that the Labour leader was implementing recommendations from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, which published a review in 2020 into how the party handled complaints of antisemitism within the party.\n\n\"And if there are people who have tweeted things, shared things on Facebook, engaged with posts that fall foul of those EHRC recommendations, then those people are and should be blocked from being part of the Labour party's leadership in the future,\" he added.\n\nYou can watch BBC Newsnight's interview in full on Tuesday 4 July from 22.30 BST on BBC Two.", "Mhairi Black is one of six SNP MPs to announce they will quit at the next election\n\nSNP MP Mhairi Black is stepping down at the next general election.\n\nMs Black, the party's deputy leader at Westminster, became the parliament's youngest MP since 1832 when she was elected aged 20 in 2015.\n\nShe is the sixth SNP MP to announce they will not contest the next election, which is expected to be held in 2024.\n\nIn a statement Ms Black, 28, described Westminster as an \"outdated, sexist and toxic\" working environment.\n\nThe Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP cited safety concerns, social media abuse and unsociable hours as she explained her decision.\n\n\"I have also made clear that I have no desire to have a long career in elected politics, and as we approach the next general election, I will have been elected for almost a decade,\" Ms Black said.\n\n\"I have dedicated a third of my life so far to Westminster - a truly unhealthy working environment.\"\n\nShe said it was \"beyond demoralising\" to see constituents \"harmed by a UK government they never voted for\".\n\nThe MP added: \"Since 2015, the lives of my loved ones have been turned upside down and inside out.\n\n\"Between media attention, social media abuse, threats, constant travel, and the murders of two MPs, my loved ones have been in a constant state of anxiety for my health and safety.\"\n\nMhairi Black became the youngest MP in 300 years when she was elected in 2015\n\nMs Black, who married her partner Katie in June 2022, also said she wanted to spend more time with loved ones.\n\nShe said: \"I will of course continue to represent my constituency to the best of my abilities, and I look forward to continuing to campaign for an independent Scotland and for the SNP at the general election, but I will do so as a campaigner rather than a candidate.\"\n\nHumza Yousaf, the SNP leader and Scotland's first minister, described Ms Black as a \"trailblazer\" who was a \"passionate supporter of independence, equality, social justice, and simply of trying to make life better for her constituents and the wider Scottish public\".\n\nHe added: \"She has also served as a role model for young people, especially women, with an interest or a desire to get involved in politics.\"\n\nMr Yousaf's predecessor, Nicola Sturgeon, said the announcement by the Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP was the \"loss of a unique talent\".\n\nShe added on Twitter: \"I only hope it's temporary. The world needs more Mhairi Blacks in politics, not fewer.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Mhairi Black's constituency share their reaction to news that she will step down as an MP\n\nSNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn tweeted that Ms Black is \"in a class of her own\".\n\nFormer SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has already announced he will be standing down at the next election.\n\nParty colleagues Peter Grant, Angela Crawley, Douglas Chapman and Stewart Hosie are also set to quit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mhairi Black MP🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Black defeated former Labour government minister Douglas Alexander as the SNP won a landslide north of the border in the 2015 election.\n\nShe successfully defended her seat in the 2017 and 2019 general elections.\n\nThe SNP MP's maiden speech – in which she paid tribute to her constituents and attacked benefit sanctions – was viewed online more than 10 million times within a week.\n\nAnd early in her parliamentary career, she hit out at Westminster's \"silly traditions\", describing it as outdated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn 2018, she made headlines after detailing some of the abuse she received during a parliamentary debate on misogyny to mark International Women's Day.\n\nShe listed graphic misogynistic insults she had been sent during her time as an MP.\n\nThe next general election is due to be held by January 2025, with the autumn of next year seen as the most likely date.\n\nMhairi Black was a symbol of the SNP's landslide in 2015, the 20-year-old who conjured up a massive swing to unseat a Labour heavyweight in Douglas Alexander.\n\nIt wasn't just her youth. Her straight-talking style encompassed a lot of what the SNP wanted to be at Westminster - a renegade element in the Commons shaking things up and agitating for radical change.\n\nBut now, she is the latest in what is becoming a string of SNP members to announce they will not stand in the next election.\n\nIs that too a symbol of something?\n\nLabour are gearing up for a big push to try to retake ground from the SNP - Mr Alexander is targeting a comeback of his own, albeit in a different seat.\n\nBut Paisley and Renfrewshire South is fairly steady SNP territory these days, with Ms Black commanding a majority in excess of 10,000 votes in 2019 - or almost 25%.\n\nThe salient point may be that no SNP MP really wants to be at Westminster, and the question of independence has for years now been caught in a log-jam.\n\nPerhaps what Ms Black fears isn't so much losing her seat - but the prospect of keeping it for the long term.\n\nScottish Conservative Chairman Craig Hoy MSP described Ms Black's announcement as \"yet another damning verdict from a senior SNP MP on the failing leadership of both Humza Yousaf and Stephen Flynn\".\n\nHe added: \"It speaks volumes about how bitter those feuds have become that Mhairi Black has thrown in the towel, just a few months after agreeing to become deputy leader, and decided not to fight another election despite not yet turning 30.\"\n• None Stewart Hosie to stand down at next election", "The Daily Mirror previously obtained and published still images from the same party\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is reopening an investigation into breaches of Covid regulations at a Christmas gathering at Conservative Party HQ.\n\nA video of the event, where aides were invited to \"jingle and mingle\", was published by the Sunday Mirror.\n\nPolice say they will not investigate alleged gatherings at the prime minister's country home, Chequers, when Boris Johnson was PM.\n\nBut they are also now investigating an event in Parliament on 8 December 2020.\n\nAccording to the Guido Fawkes website, this event involved Conservative backbencher Sir Bernard Jenkin.\n\nSir Bernard sits on the Commons Privileges Committee, which last month published a highly critical report about Mr Johnson.\n\nHe told the BBC it was not appropriate to comment on an ongoing investigation.\n\nMr Johnson - who stood down as an MP with a stinging attack on the committee - had accused Sir Bernard of \"monstrous hypocrisy\" if the allegations on the Guido Fawkes site were true.\n\nConservative MP Virginia Crosbie issued an apology for attending the event while Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nThe Ynys Mon MP confirmed the event took place but said she had not sent out any invitations.\n\nThe Met police investigated the December 2020 party at Tory HQ last year, after a picture emerged showing former London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and Tory aides raising glasses besides buffet food, when indoor socialising was banned in the area.\n\nIn November, the Met said they were taking no further action against Mr Bailey or the others pictured.\n\nThey have now said they are reopening their inquiry, as the video published by the Mirror was not previously provided to officers.\n\nAn invitation to the gathering, seen by the BBC, invited people to a \"jingle and mingle\" party.\n\nMr Bailey - who was given a seat in the House of Lords in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list - previously said he apologised \"unreservedly\" for the event, which he said had \"turned into something\" after he left.\n\nHe claimed he was \"very upset about the video\" as he had \"never seen it before\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should stop Mr Bailey \"from taking his seat as a peer while this investigation takes place\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Met Police and Thames Valley Police said they would not launch an investigation into potential rule-breaking between June 2020 and May 2021 at Downing Street and Chequers.\n\nIn May, the forces said they were assessing information handed to them by Cabinet Office officials after a review of Mr Johnson's official diary as part of preparations for the Covid inquiry.\n\nThames Valley police were looking into visits by Mr Johnson's family and friends to Chequers - the prime minister's country house in Buckinghamshire - during the pandemic.\n\nThe Met were looking at possible further rule-breaches in Downing Street.\n\nIn a jointly-issued statement on Tuesday, the forces said that after \"further clarification\" on the diary entries, they had decided the events did \"not meet the retrospective criteria for opening an investigation\".\n\nWhen news of his referral broke, Mr Johnson denied there had been any Covid breaches at the events, saying the actions of the Cabinet Office bore \"all the hallmarks\" of a \"politically motivated stitch-up\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office said at the time that the material it had passed to police came from the \"normal\" process of reviewing documents.\n\nFormer prime minister Mr Johnson stood down as an MP last month after a Commons committee accused him of misleading Parliament over separate events in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nThe BBC has approached him for a fresh comment.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "It’s worth remembering that the complainants in this case have a legal right to lifelong anonymity.\n\nThat's because they are alleged victims of a sexual offence, which means by law their names cannot be published.\n\nWe also need to ensure that the information we tell you does not lead to jigsaw identification.\n\nThat's when bits of information when pieced together can lead to someone being identified.\n\nIt means there may be some details we need to leave out from our reporting because of this.", "Pictures shared on Telegram show the damage caused by the missile strike\n\nAt least 43 people, including 12 children, have been injured after a missile struck the carpark of a residential building in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, local officials say.\n\nWhat is believed to be a Russian Iskander missile landed in the town of Pervomaisky at about 13:30 local time.\n\nUkrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said there were only residential buildings in the area.\n\nA one-year-old and a 10-month-old were reportedly among the injured.\n\nMr Kostin said targeting the residential buildings amounted to another war crime from Russia.\n\nOleg Sinegubov, the Kharkiv regional governor posted several pictures of the damaged building to Telegram. They showed smashed windows, dark smoke clouds and an overturned car.\n\n\"At least half of the neighbourhood is in an uninhabitable state,\" Anton Orekhov, the chairman of Pervomaiskyi was quoted as saying by local media.\n\nRussia has not immediately commented on the incident, but has previously denied targeting civilians.\n\nPervomaisky is about 90km (50 miles) south of the major city of Kharkiv and relatively far from the current fighting hotspots, which are predominantly in the Donbas region.\n\nBut the north-eastern Kharkiv region was the focus of heavy fighting in the early days of Moscow's full-scale invasion last year, with Ukrainian forces fighting back Russian attempts to advance further into the country.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Russia said it had brought down five Ukrainian drones aimed at Moscow and its surrounding region, but reported no casualties or damage.", "Declan Donnelly and Ant McPartlin - disconcertingly the wrong way round - found fame as PJ and Duncan on Byker Grove\n\nTV series Byker Grove is to make a comeback - produced by former stars Ant and Dec.\n\nThe children's series - set in Newcastle - aired on the BBC from 1989 to 2006 and focused on the lives of youngsters who attended the youth club of the same name.\n\nIt saw Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly find fame as PJ and Duncan.\n\nThe pair, who will be executive producers on the reboot, said they were \"beyond excited\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe programme - to be simply called Byker - will be aimed \"at a primetime audience\" and \"engage with a new generation of teenagers navigating the different challenges faced by young adults today\", production company Fulwell 73 said.\n\nIt has not been announced if the show - which also launched the careers of Donna Air, Jill Halfpenny, Andrew Hayden-Smith and Charlie Hunnam - will be broadcast on the BBC or when filming will begin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonnelly said it would \"help shine a spotlight on the North East and the talent the region has to offer both in front of the camera and behind it\".\n\n\"Byker Grove will always be very special to us as the show which gave us our break, so we are beyond excited,\" he added.\n\n\"We are looking forward to bringing this fresh incarnation to a whole new generation as well as those who remember it as fondly as we do.\"\n\nThe original filming location of the youth club was Grade II-listed Benwell Towers in Newcastle, which is now home to Islamic school Bahr Academy.\n\nMcPartlin - whose character PJ famously was accidentally blinded during a paintball fight in one episode - added the pair \"owe such a lot to Byker Grove and the North East so we can't wait to start working to bring this iconic series back to life\".\n\n\"Already talking characters and storylines has us all buzzing at the possibilities ahead,\" he added.\n\nThe series will be made by North East-based Fulwell 73 - which was behind Friends: The Reunion, The Kardashians and Gavin and Stacey: Christmas Special - along with Ant and Dec's Mitre Studios, which produced Saturday Night Takeaway.\n\nAnt and Dec will act as executive producers on the rebooted series\n\nIt will be filmed across Newcastle and Sunderland as part of both companies' commitment to their home region and local production offices.\n\nLeo Pearlman, from Fulwell 73, told BBC Radio 5 Live the intention was to recruit \"as much as possible\" from the North East for roles on and off-screen.\n\n\"The whole creative industry is so much stronger when it is geographically diverse, culturally, socially diverse and I think the North East has been left behind in that regard for a number of years,\" he said.\n\n\"Alongside our plans we are building this enormous studio - Crown Works studios - and this is a big part of that overall plan, to create content that is developed, that is written, that is starring talent and voices from the region and give a voice back to a region that I think has been lost.\"\n\nHe also hinted its familiar theme tune - written by North East group The Kane Gang - \"could do with a little update\".\n\nMcPartlin and Donnelly will also integrate their Prince's Trust Making It In Media course into the production to help give experience to local young people.\n\nSaturday Night Takeaway was just one of a number of shows fronted by the pair, including Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and Britain's Got Talent.\n\nThe original filming location of \"The Grove\" was Benwell Towers in Newcastle\n\nThe pair - who have won the National Television Awards best TV presenter category every year since 2001 - moved into primetime after working on children's TV shows such as the Ant and Dec Show and SM:TV Live, prompted by their appearances on Byker Grove.\n\nAs part of one storyline on the drama their alter egos PJ and Duncan performed a song, which led them in real life into the world of music.\n\nThey recorded two albums in their characters' names and over four years had 14 Top 20 hits, with the most famous - Let's Get Ready to Rhumble - nominated for a Brit Award.\n\nThe final episode of Byker Grove in 2006 saw the characters realising they were actors in a TV show, before a T-Rex showed up, ate some mummies and was then shot by a spaceship.\n\nIt concluded with all the characters - and the Byker Grove building - seemingly being blown up by explosives.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beauty salons in Afghanistan have one month to shut shop\n\nThe Taliban have ordered hair and beauty salons in Afghanistan to shut in the latest restriction faced by women.\n\nA Vice and Virtue Ministry spokesman told the BBC businesses had one month to comply, starting from 2 July when they were first informed of the move.\n\nWomen's freedoms have steadily shrunk since the Taliban seized power in 2021.\n\nThey have barred teenage girls and women from classrooms, gyms and parks, and most recently even banned them from working for the United Nations.\n\nThe Taliban have also decreed that women should be dressed in a way that only reveals their eyes, and must be accompanied by a male relative if they are travelling more than 72km (48 miles).\n\nThe restrictions have continued despite international condemnation and protests by women as well as activists speaking up on their behalf.\n\nShutting beauty salons was part of a wide range of measure imposed by the Taliban when they were last in power between 1996 and 2001. But they reopened in the years after the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.\n\nReacting to the new closure, an Afghan woman speaking anonymously told the BBC: \"The Taliban are taking away the most basic human rights from Afghan women.\n\n\"They are violating women's rights. By this decision, they are now depriving women from serving another women. When I heard the news, I was completely shocked.\n\n\"It seems the Taliban do not have any political plan other than focusing on women's bodies. They are trying to eliminate women at every level of public life.\"\n\nBeauty salons remained open even after the Taliban retook power two years ago following the withdrawal of US forces. But shop windows were often covered up and images of women outside salons were spray painted to hide their faces.\n\nThe Taliban government has not explained what prompted the ban, or what alternatives, if any, would be available to women once the salons shut.\n\nAnother Afghan woman who asked not to be named said her friends had confirmed the closure of hair salons in Kabul and elsewhere. \"It's more shocking news for Afghan women,\" she told the BBC. \"I went out and saw all the salons in my locality were closed.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The owner and former chairman of Fleetwood Town FC has been jailed for a multi-million pound fraud which \"duped\" firms into expensive energy contracts.\n\nA trading standards investigation found Andy Pilley mis-sold gas and electricity contracts and posted fake customer comments on websites.\n\nPilley, 53, of Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, resigned as chairman and club director of the League One side following his conviction last month.\n\nHe was jailed for 13 years.\n\nPilley was found guilty at Preston Crown Court of two counts of running a business with the intention of defrauding creditors, one count of false representation, and one count of being concerned with the retention of criminal property.\n\nThree other people were also jailed for their role in the scam.\n\nOn sentencing, Judge Knowles KC, said a \"salesforce of cold-calling liars and manipulators duped very large numbers of honest and decent proprietors\" into \"long and expensive contracts\" for their gas and electricity amounting to tens of millions of pounds.\n\nThe judge said Pilley \"devised and enforced an elaborate pretence that the sales team were independent of the supply companies\".\n\n\"The truth was that he owned them and called the shots,\" he added.\n\nThe judge told the court that while the supply companies were regulated by Ofgem, the sales companies were unregulated.\n\nHe told Pilley, who went to prison for four months in 1998 for conspiracy to steal from the Post Office when he was a counter clerk, \"yours could have been the remarkable story of redemption\".\n\n\"Instead it is a sordid tale of squalid lies, greed and fraud,\" he said.\n\nThe defendant was listed as a director of Fleetwood-based energy firm BES Utilities, an independent commercial utility supplier which provides services to businesses.\n\nThe firm has been contacted by the BBC for comment, but previously said it was \"important to stress that the convictions in this case relate solely to individuals and not to any company\".\n\nThey added he was no longer employed by any of the companies, and they \"will continue to trade as normal\".\n\nPilley was made chairman of Fleetwood Town in 2004.\n\nChief executive Steve Curwood replaced Pilley as chairman after he stepped down.\n\nFollowing sentencing, Fleetwood Town said: \"The club would like to reiterate convictions are against individuals and not Fleetwood Town FC, or any of the businesses associated with them, and will continue to operate as normal.\"\n\nIt added the club \"remains in communication with the EFL in relation to the implications of the convictions and will now be making an application to the League in relation to a change of control\".\n\nTrading Standards launched the investigation into the fraud in 2014.\n\nKate Jones, of the North West Regional Trading Standards, told BBC Radio Lancashire she was \"relieved and absolutely delighted\" on behalf of all the small business owners who were victims of the fraud.\n\n\"I'm glad that we have been able to help them get justice,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been a slog to get here, but it's been worth absolutely every day for the verdicts,\" she added.\n\nLord Michael Bichard, chair of National Trading Standards (NTS), said: \"Small business owners were deliberately deceived and locked in to long-term and expensive energy contracts, leaving them struggling to pay the bills and causing many businesses to go under.\"\n\nA mention hearing about compensation and confiscation orders is expected to be held in due course, the NTS added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice forces are failing vulnerable women who say they have been sexually exploited by officers, the BBC has learned.\n\nOne woman says a detective pursued a sexual relationship in texts and repeatedly visited her home.\n\nEvidence has been deleted in \"botched\" inquiries and out of 500 allegations of officers abusing their position, just 24 were charged, according to BBC data.\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking action to root out predatory officers.\n\nPolice sexual misconduct is under the spotlight like never before following the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by serving officer Wayne Couzens, and the uncovering of serial rapist David Carrick.\n\nNow the BBC has learned that individual forces are failing vulnerable women in \"botched\" or delayed investigations which are taking years to complete and rarely leading to misconduct sanctions or criminal charges.\n\nWomen are being let down by forces whose officers have \"preyed upon\" them, says Dame Vera Baird, the former victims' commissioner.\n\n\"There couldn't be a bigger breach of confidence and faith.\"\n\nInterviews with multiple former police officers and women, leaked documents and freedom of information request responses reveal:\n\nCharlotte Smith, 28, says she has been stalked and harassed by a Warwickshire police officer over a two-and-a-half-year period.\n\nShe first met Det Sgt Paul Whitehurst when she was a young adult, known to the police as a potential victim of grooming.\n\nYears later, she bumped into Whitehurst in a bar, at a time when she was facing an ongoing legal dispute with her ex-partner. She says he then persistently pursued a sexual relationship with her in WhatsApp messages seen by the BBC.\n\n\"I'd love to spend a night with you, in a real bedroom, hotel, whatever,\" read one message from the officer.\n\nOne of the messages sent to Charlotte by Whitehurst\n\nAfter a relationship which lasted a number of months, Charlotte complained to the force in September 2020 about his conduct.\n\nThe officer then began visiting her home without invitation, despite Charlotte making further complaints to the force and sending him messages asking to be left alone.\n\nOne visit was recorded on a doorbell camera. Det Sgt Whitehurst is seen standing outside Charlotte's home at 22:45 in the evening, repeatedly pressing her doorbell.\n\nCharlotte says she rang Warwickshire Police while hiding under the duvet of her bed but officers took 45 minutes to arrive at her home, and they didn't take a statement.\n\n\"There was no urgency,\" she says, despite having been told there were \"red flags\" placed on her address after previous visits.\n\nDoorbell camera footage of Det Sgt Whitehurst outside Charlotte Smith's house (lines in foreground are a spider's web)\n\nWhitehurst - who is 20 years older than Charlotte - was suspended last year. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) recommended 18 months ago that he face a gross misconduct hearing, but this is yet to happen.\n\nCharlotte says persistent harassment over two and a half years - despite her numerous complaints - has left her feeling powerless.\n\n\"He works in the anti-corruption and professional standards department [PSD], that's the place you complain to - so what hope have you got?\" she says.\n\nIn a phone call with the BBC, Whitehurst denied abusing his position for a sexual purpose and said he did not regard Charlotte as vulnerable when he met her again.\n\nHe said the WhatsApp messages seen by the BBC were not \"familiar\" to him and the visit to Charlotte's home was made out of concern for her.\n\nWarwickshire Police says the allegations are \"extremely serious\" but it cannot state what steps it has taken to protect Charlotte, because of ongoing investigations. These, it says, have to be completed before a gross misconduct hearing.\n\nAll forces have their own internal professional standards teams which carry out investigations into officer misconduct - although cases can sometimes be conducted by the IOPC.\n\nBut BBC News has learned of crucial evidence being deleted relating to officers under investigation by their PSD.\n\nOne woman - a victim of child sexual abuse with complex mental health problems - told Bedfordshire Police officers that she had been raped by an inspector.\n\nHer claims were recorded on police body-worn video during two separate visits to her home.\n\nThe BBC has learned that footage of both visits was later deleted. On one of these occasions, the inspector accused by the woman was in charge of the control room which handles callouts.\n\nDame Vera Baird: \"There couldn't be a bigger breach of confidence and faith\"\n\nThe officer has always denied the rape allegation. He initially said his relationship with the woman was platonic before later admitting they had sex. Investigators found that his police radio GPS linked him to her home. An allegation that the inspector had previously sent racist messages was also uncovered as part of the investigation.\n\nBedfordshire Police says the deletion of the footage was an \"administrative error\" and that interviews with the woman took place in response - however, one expert says that these would have different value as evidence.\n\nThe force has paid a substantial settlement to the woman without making any admissions or apologising to her. The inspector was investigated for misconduct but faced no sanction and continues to work for the force.\n\nThe BBC has also been told that the Metropolitan Police \"botched\" an investigation into a detective inspector accused of having sex with multiple victims of rape.\n\nFour women reported that the lead officer in a rape investigation team had had sex with them. All had previously reported being victims of rape or sexual assault.\n\nTwo former members of the Met's professional standards team say that forensic best practice was not followed, and the officer's phone was wiped by someone remotely after his arrest.\n\nSince then, the detective inspector has been dismissed from the force on other charges.\n\nNew Scotland Yard in central London - the Metropolitan Police's HQ\n\nThe Metropolitan Police declined to respond to the claims but said it had \"matters to finalise\" in relation to the officer - a number of years after first suspending him. It also declined to say whether it had re-investigated all rape cases he had dealt with. The Crown Prosecution Service concluded there was not enough evidence to charge him.\n\nThe BBC has received responses to information requests from 32 police forces in England, Wales and Scotland about allegations of \"abuse of position for a sexual purpose\".\n\nThe claims cover the past five years, although some forces were only able to provide figures from 2020 - when the complaint category was simplified.\n\nWe found out that 536 allegations have been made - but just 24 officers have been handed a criminal charge.\n\nThe figures also show that individual officers have faced as many as 20 allegations - while one who faced nine was only given a final written warning. Forces were also far less likely to uphold complaints than the IOPC.\n\nWomen are being \"preyed upon by officers [who] they've called on to help them at a time of distress\", according to Dame Vera Baird, the former victims' commissioner and former solicitor general.\n\nShe says change has to be immediate - and neighbourhood forces should be asked to investigate all complaints of officer sexual misconduct.\n\n\"Complaints should be going out to another force and not being done internally,\" she says. \"Who is policing the police professional standard departments?\"\n\nBaroness Casey led a review into the Met which found it to be institutionally misogynist\n\nThe IOPC says it has oversight of the police complaints system but that the responsibility lies with forces themselves to root out any abuse of position it describes as \"serious corruption\".\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council says the BBC's findings reinforce the work it is doing \"to lift the stones and root out wrongdoers\". Forces are intent on delivering \"long term improvements to standards and culture\", according to Chief Constable Craig Guildford.\n\nBaroness Casey led a review into the Met which found it to be institutionally misogynist. She does not accept that enough is being done.\n\n\"It's jaw-droppingly appalling that you have cases of really serious sexual allegations made against police officers that simply go on for years,\" she says.\n\n\"[Officers] think they're untouchable and frankly, they are. That's what's so terrifying.\"\n\nIn a statement, the crime and policing minister, Chris Philp MP, said a \"zero tolerance approach\" to officer abuse was needed.\n\nHe said the Home Office was acting to ensure \"predatory individuals\" were prevented from joining in the first place and reviewing the current police dismissals process.\n\nMr Philp added that a recent review into police vetting by a watchdog had recognised progress was being made and forces are pro-actively checking serving officers.\n\nIn November 2022, a previous report by the same body - His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services - also found that \"in too many places, a culture of misogyny, sexism and predatory behaviour towards members of the public and female police officers and staff still exists.\"\n\nHave you had an experience of police misconduct? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Update 21st July 2023: We acknowledge that the information we reported - that Coutts' decision on Nigel Farage's account did not involve considerations about his political views - turned out not to be accurate. Since this article was originally published on the 4th July, Mr Farage submitted a subject access request to Coutts bank and obtained a report from the bank's reputational risk committee. While it mentioned commercial considerations, the document also said the committee did not think continuing to have Mr Farage as a client was \"compatible with Coutts given his publicly-stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation\". We have amended this article's headline and copy to make clear that the details about the closure of Nigel Farage's bank account came from a source.\n\nNigel Farage fell below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, the prestigious private bank for the wealthy, the BBC has been told.\n\nIt is understood he was subsequently offered a standard account at NatWest which owns Coutts.\n\nMr Farage has said he believes his account is being shut for political reasons and he has since been turned down by nine other lenders.\n\nBut a source familiar with Coutts' move said it was a \"commercial\" decision.\n\n\"The criteria for holding a Coutts account are clear from the bank's website,\" they told the BBC.\n\nCoutts requires its customers to borrow or invest at least £1m with the bank or hold £3m in savings.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from France, Mr Farage did not dispute the fact that he did not meet Coutts' threshold, but added: \"They didn't have a problem with it for the last 10 years.\"\n\nThe former leader of the UK Independence Party and Brexiteer later tweeted that at \"no point\"\" had Coutts given him a minimum threshold.\n\nHe added that his business account was being closed despite the fact that last year he had \"large significant positive cash balances\" going through it.\n\nCoutts said it did not comment on individuals' accounts.\n\nMr Farage recently posted a six-minute video on Twitter blaming \"serious political persecution\" from an anti-Brexit banking industry.\n\nHe said that losing his bank account was the equivalent of being a \"non-person\" and that the decision may \"fundamentally affect my future career and whether I can even go on staying living here in this country\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's the World at One on Tuesday, Mr Farage said that Coutts had given him \"no reason whatsoever\" when they wrote to say that his accounts would be closed, and he was given two months to find a new bank.\n\nMr Farage also disputed the fact that he was offered a NatWest account at the time his Coutts accounts were withdrawn. He says the offer of a NatWest account came late last week.\n\nThe former politician said the bank only did this when he \"went public\" with his story, and that it only offered him a personal account, not a business account.\n\n\"Well what use to me is that?\" he told the BBC. \"I operate through a business, that's how I live. Any income that comes to me personally comes through my business.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that the offer of a NatWest account still stands.\n\nMr Farage claims other banks have refused to take him on as a customer on the grounds that he is a \"politically exposed person\" (PEP).\n\nA PEP generally presents a higher risk for financial institutions as regulators consider such people to be more exposed to the risk of potential involvement in bribery and corruption by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold.\n\nMr Farage told the BBC: \"Are you telling me that all the other banks say it was a PEP thing and Coutts wasn't? Draw your own conclusions.\"\n\nSpeaking on GB News later on Tuesday, he questioned why Coutts's had been \"discussing my financial situation publicly,\" adding it was not \"ethical\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said it would be a \"serious concern\" if financial services were being denied to those exercising their right to lawful free speech.\n\n\"We are already looking into this issue and have passed a law that requires the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to review how banks treat politically exposed persons - so we can strike the right balance between the customer's right to free speech and the bank's right to manage commercial risk.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Sands appeared in films including A Room With A View, Warlock, Arachnophobia and Naked Lunch\n\nActor Julian Sands, who died in a California mountain range, said in his last UK interview that many friends had stopped going mountaineering partly because it had become too dangerous.\n\nThe British star's body was found last week, six months after he went missing.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Times late last year, he said: \"Pals I used to climb with have stopped going to the mountains\".\n\nHe said that was \"partly because they find, with climate change, the rock faces have become much more unstable\".\n\nAlso, \"partly, it's age\", he told the magazine.\n\nSands, who was 64 at the time, said those friends no longer wanted to dedicate themselves to a climb.\n\n\"If you don't really have the desire, the focus for climbing a route, if you're not absolutely committed, it becomes much more dangerous and it's a much more deflating experience,\" he said.\n\n\"Finding folk whose company I enjoy in such stressful and intimate conditions is not easy.\"\n\nSands, best known for the 1985 film A Room With A View, went missing on a solo trip to Mount Baldy in the San Gabriel Mountains, near Los Angeles, on 13 January.\n\nWintry conditions hampered the search efforts, and hikers found human remains on 24 June. They were later identified to belong to Sands.\n\nHe spoke to Radio Times to promote The Willows, a BBC radio drama that was broadcast over Christmas.\n\nHe said he knew the risks of being on mountains, and was often aware of being present in places where people had lost their lives in the past.\n\nHe said: \"If you can deal with dangerous mountains, you can certainly deal with life as an actor - the two are quite complementary.\"", "The Culture Secretary has said she is concerned banks may be closing customer accounts for political reasons following claims from Brexiteer Nigel Farage.\n\nLucy Frazer said it is something banks \"should be thinking about carefully\".\n\nLast week, Mr Farage said his bank was closing his accounts, claiming it was \"serious political persecution\" from an anti-Brexit banking industry.\n\nThe government is investigating payment providers over account closures.\n\nLast year, Paypal closed accounts run by Toby Young, who is general secretary of the Free Speech Union. They were later reinstated by the US payments company.\n\nThe government subsequently announced a review into payment services regulations, including the practice of firms apparently closing down the accounts of people or businesses that hold views the lender does not agree with.\n\nMs Frazer told LBC, the radio station: \"I'm concerned people's accounts might be closed for the wrong reasons and it's something they [the banks] should be thinking about carefully.\n\n\"Banks are regulated, and those are the sort of things regulators should consider.\"\n\nMr Farage said that he was told two months ago that his bank, who he did not name but is understood to be Coutts, was closing down his personal and business accounts.\n\nThe BBC has approached Coutts' parent company NatWest for comment.\n\nMr Farage, who is the former leader of UKIP and a former member of the European Parliament, suggested that the reason for the decision could be related to laws that banks follow on \"politically exposed person\" or PEPs.\n\nThese are people who hold a prominent position or influence who may be more susceptible to being involved in bribery or corruption.\n\nBanks are required to do extra due diligence on PEPs.\n\nMr Farage said he was told by his bank that closing his accounts was a \"commercial decision\".\n\nUK Finance, which represents the banking industry, said lenders should discuss the closure of an account with a customer \"so far as is feasible and permissible\".\n\nIt said though there will \"be situations where it may not be appropriate or permissible for a bank to engage in a dialogue to explain their reasoning\".\n\nThis would include a breach of terms and conditions, \"abusive or threatening behaviour to colleagues\" or if banks have been directed not to by \"regulators, HM Government, police and other authorities\".\n\nMr Farage said he approached seven other banks to open personal and business accounts and was turned down by all of them.\n\nHowever, he claimed there were other reasons why his existing bank acted.\n\n\"Either for reasons of being active in politics, or having opinions that modern day corporate banks don't agree with, far too many accounts have been closed in recent years,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I hope that my case blows the lid off the whole thing and that we can get changes to legislation. Everyone in the UK should be entitled to a bank account.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Monday, security minister Tom Tugendhat, said \"This sort of closure, on political grounds - if that is indeed what has happened and after all we only have the allegation of it at this point - should be completely unacceptable.\n\n\"PEPs is there to prevent the corrupt use of banking facilities by politicians in corrupt regimes. It is not here to silence individuals who may hold views with which we may or may not agree.\"\n\nThe result of the government consultation on payment services regulations is expecting in the next few weeks.", "The pair had met at a car park in Wrexham\n\nA nurse has been sacked after a patient she had a secret relationship with died following a late night meeting in Wrexham.\n\nPenelope Williams didn't call an ambulance after the man, known as Patient A, collapsed in January 2022.\n\nHe was found unresponsive with his trousers down and died of heart failure and chronic kidney disease.\n\nMrs Williams has now been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for bringing the profession into disrepute.\n\nThe hearing was told the patient was found in the back of his own car after the pair had met in a car park.\n\nThe panel heard Mrs Williams, who worked as a general nurse on a renal unit, had met Patient A about a year before.\n\nHe had multiple health conditions, the hearing was told, and received treatment in the unit where Mrs Williams worked.\n\nOn the night, Mrs Williams had gone to the home of a colleague, before meeting with Patient A.\n\nJust before midnight, her co-worker took a call from her.\n\nShe was \"crying and distressed and asking for help\", the panel heard.\n\nAfter telling them someone had died, Mrs Williams was advised to call an ambulance, but did not.\n\nWhen the colleague arrived at the car park, they called 999 on finding Patient A partially clothed and unresponsive.\n\nHe was pronounced dead shortly after.\n\nMrs Williams initially told police and a paramedic she had gone to the car park after Patient A messaged her saying he was unwell.\n\nThe next day, she admitted to police they had been in a sexual relationship.\n\nBut in February, she denied this to health board officials.\n\nShe said they had sat in the back of his car for 30-45 minutes \"just talking\" before Patient A \"started groaning and suddenly died\".\n\nAt a May disciplinary hearing, Mrs Williams admitted both the relationship and not calling an ambulance and was sacked.\n\nThe Nursing and Midwifery Council panel found failing to mention the relationship \"put her own interests ahead of the wellbeing of Patient A\".\n\nIt said while Mrs Williams was remorseful, she had limited insight about the damage her relationship could cause to nursing's reputation or its effect on public safety.\n\nThey found this amounted to serious misconduct and her fitness to practise was impaired.\n\nStriking her from the nursing register, the panel concluded there were no mitigating features.\n\n\"Mrs Williams' actions were significant departures from the standards expected of a registered nurse, and are fundamentally incompatible with her remaining on the register,\" it said.\n\n\"The panel was of the view that the findings in this particular case demonstrate that Mrs Williams' actions were so serious that to allow her to continue practising would undermine public confidence in the profession and in the NMC as a regulatory body.\"\n\nAn earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the incident happened in the car park at Spire Wrexham. This was based on information incorrectly provided to the Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise hearing. The article has been updated to reflect that the incident did not happen in the Spire Wrexham car park.", "A picture shows the Jewish settlement of Kedar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in June 2023\n\nThe government has been urged to rethink its plans to fine public bodies which initiate boycotts against Israel.\n\nThe proposals received initial backing but have been met with criticism from both Conservative and Labour MPs.\n\nCommunities Secretary Michael Gove said the bill would guarantee foreign policy remained a UK government matter.\n\nBut Labour says the bill undermines the UK's longstanding foreign policy towards the Occupied Palestinian Territories.\n\nThe party warned the bill also risked undermining support for people around the world facing persecution, as well as placing \"unprecedented restrictions\" on elected councils, undermining freedom of speech and having potential \"widespread and negative impacts\" on local authority pension funds.\n\nThe Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill seeks to prevent public bodies, including councils, from campaigning against, boycotting or sanctioning a particular international territory - unless that is endorsed by the UK government's own foreign policy.\n\nFirst published last month, it received initial backing by 268 to 70 votes after several hours of debate in the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nMuch of the debate on the issue has focused on boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.\n\nThe Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement calls for broad-based economic and cultural boycotts of Israel and Israel settlements - similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.\n\nSuch boycotts are backed by Palestinians who see them as applying pressure on Israel to end its military occupation.\n\nThe Israeli government, on the other hand, sees the entire BDS movement as unjustly singling out Israel and describes it as antisemitic.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Gove said there had been an \"increase in antisemitic events following on from the activities of the BDS movement\".\n\nHe added that although there were \"legitimate reasons to criticise the Israeli government\", the BDS movement was asking councils to \"treat Israel differently from any other nation on the globe\".\n\n\"Nothing in this bill prevents or impedes the loudest of criticisms of Israel's government and leaders,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour - and a number of Conservative MPs - raised concerns about the bill's potential impact on UK foreign policy.\n\nDame Margaret Hodge, who served in Labour governments under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said the proposed legislation was \"flawed, poorly drafted and will have damaging consequences both here and abroad\".\n\n\"The bill is not a considered attempt to bring about peace, provide better security for Israel or respond to the threats posed by BDS,\" she said.\n\n\"It's about using Jews as a pawn in the government's political game.\"\n\nConservative MP Alicia Kearns, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, said the government must remove references to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories from the bill.\n\nShe said the bill \"essentially gives exceptional impunity to Israel\", adding: \"This is something we should not give to any country and I would be standing here making the same request if any country was named.\"\n\nLongstanding UK government policy calls for an end to Israel's military occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories as part of a negotiated \"two-state solution\".\n\nThe UK has for decades endorsed the position of international law, under which Israeli settlements are seen as illegal - although Israel disputes this - and sees their expansion as an \"obstacle to peace\".\n\nThe bill does not stop public bodies from complying with UK-wide sanctions, and it gives the government the power to make certain countries exempt from the restrictions.\n\nFor example, the government intends Russia and Belarus to be exempted.\n\nBut the bill does not allow the rules to exempt Israel, the Occupied Territories or the Occupied Golan Heights.\n\nIn doing so, it groups the three territories together, which critics including Labour argue undermines the UK's foreign policy position by suggesting boycotting Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Golan Heights would be the same as boycotting Israel - despite the illegality of the former two under international law.\n\nCritics have also raised concerns that the bill would limit campaigns against human rights abuses in other parts of the world - such as against the Uyghur in Xinjiang, China.\n\nAhead of the vote on Monday, the government spokesperson said: \"Public bodies should not be pursuing their own foreign policy agenda.\n\n\"The bill will not hinder the robust action we are taking against Uyghur forced labour in supply chains as it contains exceptions to the ban for labour related misconduct, including modern slavery.\n\n\"The ban on boycotts does not apply to individuals, including publicly elected officials, when carrying out private acts that are protected by the Human Rights Act.\"\n\nA Labour amendment to the bill was defeated in the Commons by 272 votes to 212 - a margin of 60.\n\nThe amendment had sought to decline the bill a second reading over concerns it \"risks significantly undermining support\" for groups around the world facing persecution, for example the Uyghur, who are \"currently victims of grave and systemic human rights abuses\".\n\nIt said it opposed any \"discrimination\" by public bodies in how they spend their money and says all public bodies must act \"without bias\" when making decisions on procurement and investment.", "A pro-democracy campaigner who fled Hong Kong has told the BBC his life has become more dangerous because of a bounty offered for his arrest.\n\nNathan Law, who lives in the UK, is among eight exiled activists wanted by the territory's police.\n\nAuthorities are offering rewards of HK$1 million (£100,581; $127,637) for information leading to their capture.\n\nMr Law said he needed to be \"more careful\" about divulging his whereabouts as a result of the bounty.\n\nThe eight activists targeted are accused of colluding with foreign forces - a crime that can carry a sentence of life in prison. The offence comes under Hong Kong's draconian security law, which was imposed three years ago after widespread pro-democracy protests took place in 2019.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the UK would \"not tolerate any attempts by China to intimidate and silence individuals in the UK and overseas.\"\n\n\"We call on Beijing to remove the National Security Law and for the Hong Kong authorities to end their targeting of those who stand up for freedom and democracy,\" he said in a statement.\n\nUnder the national security law, hundreds of pro-democracy campaigners have been arrested and convicted in Hong Kong.\n\nBeijing has said the law is needed to bring stability to the city, but critics say it is designed to squash dissent.\n\nThe eight named in this announcement are all based in the UK, the US and Australia - countries which do not have extradition treaties with China.\n\n\"They have committed very serious offences that endanger national security,\" Steven Li, chief superintendent of the national security department, said.\n\nHe added that while Hong Kong police could not arrest them while they remained abroad, they would not stop chasing them.\n\nMr Law, one of the most prominent figures in the pro-democracy movement, said that while he felt his situation was \"relatively safe\" in the UK, he would have to be more vigilant as a result of the bounty's announcement.\n\n\"There could possibly be someone in the UK - or anywhere else - to provide informations of me to (the Hong Kong authorities). For example, my whereabouts, where they could possibly extradite me when I'm transiting in certain countries,\" Mr Law said.\n\n\"All these things may put my life in to dangerous situations if I'm not careful enough of who I meet or where I go. It makes me have to live in a more careful life.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Law urged others not to cooperate with the authorities on the matter and said: \"We should not limit ourselves, self-censor, be intimidated, or live in fear.\"\n\nThis sentiment was echoed by one of the other exiled activists - Anna Kwok, executive director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council - who said the bounty was aimed at intimidating her and her fellow activists.\n\n\"We are united in our fight for freedom and democracy in our home, Hong Kong,\" she said in a statement.\n\nAustralia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong said her government was \"deeply disappointed\" by the announcement and said Australia \"remains deeply concerned by the continuing erosion of Hong Kong's rights, freedoms and autonomy.\"\n\nThe other six activists named in the announcement are Ted Hui, Dennis Kwok, Mung Siu-tat, Elmer Yuen, Finn Law and Kevin Yam.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese outside Downing Street in March\n\nAustralia PM Anthony Albanese has backed his country's cricket team amid the Jonny Bairstow Ashes controversy.\n\nAustralia won the match after the English batsman left his position in the second test, apparently thinking the over had ended.\n\nBritish PM Rishi Sunak agreed with the England captain's claim that Australia \"broke the spirit of cricket\" in taking the contentious wicket.\n\nBut Mr Albanese said the country stands \"right behind\" its team.\n\n\"Same old Aussies - always winning!\" the prime minister tweeted, referring to the Australian side's two consecutive Test wins so far. His phrase also appeared to be a jibe at English fans who chanted \"same old Aussies always cheating\" after Bairstow was dismissed.\n\nSome of Australia's best-known politicians were also at Lord's Cricket Ground in London that match, including the nation's second longest-serving Prime Minister John Howard.\n\nAustralian team captain Pat Cummins has maintained the Bairstow wicket was fair and within the rules.\n\nBut while his England counterpart Ben Stokes agreed Bairstow was out, Stokes said he would not have wanted to win a match \"in that manner\".\n\nThe debate over the Bairstow wicket has ramped up the consistently fierce rivalry between Australia and England during an Ashes Test series.\n\nEngland fans were criticised for their behaviour at the member's club at Lord's on Saturday when a crowd heckled and yelled abuse at the Australian team players as they filed past after the match.\n\nFollowing complaints from the Australian side, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) - which owns Lord's - issued an apology and said it had suspended three members over the incident.\n\nOn Tuesday, further footage emerged of Australian batsman Usman Khawaja, a Muslim player of Pakistani heritage, being taunted and jeered at by English members in the crowd.\n\nThe Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported Khawaja had been \"repeatedly singled out for abuse\" in the room, and published a video showing Khawaja reacting to the crowd and pointing out hecklers to a security guard.\n\nHe described the comments as \"disrespectful\" and \"really disappointing\".\n\nAustralian captain Cummins also said members were \"quite aggressive and abusive towards some of our players\".\n\nThe Sydney paper reported that sources close to the England Cricket Board have denied any of the MCC investigations into the confrontation relate to racial abuse.\n\nThe incident comes less than a week after a landmark report into British cricket found racism, sexism, classism and elitism \"widespread\" in all levels of the English and Welsh cricket game.\n\nSpeaking after the second test, Australian captain Cummins also accused the English team of hypocrisy in game tactics - as match footage showed Bairstow trying to stump Australian batters in the same manner two days prior to the final day incident.\n\nAustralia has taken a two-nil lead in the Ashes against England, after winning the second test by 43 runs. There are three more tests to go.", "Zartoshte Bakhtiari, the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Marne, says the rioters in France \"don't fear justice\"\n\nZartoshte Bakhtiari says he hasn't slept more than three hours a night since the riots in France began a week ago.\n\nBy day, he's the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Marne, in one of France's poorest areas, east of Paris.\n\nBy night, he patrols the streets with a dozen staff and city councillors until 04:00 or 05:00, acting as an early warning system for police taking on the rioters there.\n\n\"Within days, we [were] in hell,\" he tells me.\n\nOn Tuesday, he'll head to the Élysée Palace with more than 200 other mayors to discuss the crisis with French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nHis request is for \"more toughness\" from the state, and permission for the local city police to use drones to monitor activity in the town.\n\n\"What's happening now is the result of years of weakness from politicians, and decisions that have not been taken,\" he says.\n\n\"It's a problem of authority because these [rioters] don't fear justice. [They] may go to court, but they come back home a few hours after trial simply because we don't have enough places in jail in this district of Paris. We cannot support this kind of weakness from the state.\"\n\nJust outside his office in the town hall is the charred wall of the local city police station.\n\n\"They jumped over this wall at 1am with a jerrycan of petrol,\" Mayor Bakhtiari explains, gesturing to the fleet of seven charred squad cars, their ashen skeletons lined up beneath the blackened façade.\n\nBut the building was shared with the public housing department, tasked with finding homes for 2,300 local people.\n\nInside, the office is a carbonised shell of melted plastic and ash. Not all the paper files were digitised. The details of many of those most desperate for housing here have been wiped from the records by the fire.\n\nLaurence Tendron Brunet says the records of many local people in desperate need for housing have been destroyed by fire\n\nThe head of the housing department, Laurence Tendron Brunet, stands among the burnt ruins in tears.\n\n\"I'm so sad,\" she says. \"We're going to rebuild, we're going to start again. But right now there are people who are so desperate for housing. I know about half of them - when they call, I recognise their voices. They're not files, they're human beings.\"\n\nMayor Bakhtiari says the arsonists were caught on a video surveillance camera, and from the footage they appear to be teenagers, perhaps 14-16 years old.\n\n\"I find it hard to understand that it's children who are destroying things,\" Laurence says, \"because at that age, your parents should be responsible for you.\"\n\nRound the back of the building, overlooking the car park with its fleet of charred police vehicles, we find a neighbour who filmed the fire on his mobile phone, and agreed to speak to us anonymously.\n\n\"Typical,\" he says, when he hears about the suspected age of the arsonists. \"Organised thugs launch kids of 11 or 13 into the event, telling them: 'you'll never go to prison, so go ahead.' That's the norm here; they send the young kids [to] the front line. It's a gang tactic.\"\n\nThe riots across France were sparked by the fatal shooting by a police officer of 17-year-old Nahel M on 27 June\n\nThe worst-hit part of Neuilly-sur-Marne is an area called Les Fauvettes. The public library, shops and a supermarket have all been torched here. Les Fauvettes is also home to many of the rioters themselves.\n\nAicha, a 23-year-old teaching assistant, lives there too. She says she understands the initial anger that sparked the violence - even if she thinks it has since turned into looting and destruction.\n\n\"They're fed up,\" she says. \"It always falls on the same people. If you're black or Arab, a gun is pulled and shots fired without thinking. When it's a white person, they think twice before shooting or even giving a fine.\"\n\nBut back in his office at the town hall, Mayor Bakhtiari rejects accusations that there's a problem with the French police.\n\n\"Absolutely not, I cannot hear that kind of argument,\" he insists. \"Maybe we have people in the police who are racist, but we cannot say the police [itself] is racist. The police behave very well here in France.\"\n\nBut the actions of individual officers, like the one now facing a charge of voluntary homicide for shooting 17-year-old Nahel M. last week, are only half the story.\n\nThe other half is about the divisions these events expose within France.\n\nA public collection for the family of that officer topped a million euros on Monday - dwarfing the amount collected for the family of Nahel.", "Managing partner Nick Scott said the record results had been achieved against a \"constantly changing backdrop\" of events\n\nBrodies has become the first Scottish law firm to achieve annual revenues of more than £100m.\n\nThe Edinburgh-headquartered company reported that income climbed by 8% to £106m in the year to 30 April.\n\nAll of its main areas of practice reported record revenues, including corporate and commercial, banking and finance and litigation.\n\nThis year it also opened its first Middle East office in Abu Dhabi, which will focus on supporting existing and new clients in the energy sector.\n\nBrodies now has more than 100 partners and nearly 800 staff.\n\nThe law firm said all eligible staff members received a bonus of 6% in June, adding to bonuses paid in January, June and November 2022.\n\nDuring the last financial year, Brodies acted for Parks of Hamilton and Rangers Football Club in their ongoing dispute with the Scottish Professional Football League.\n\nOther high-profile work included representing Quantum Energy Partners in their £300m investment to accelerate the redevelopment of Ardersier Port.\n\nBrodies managing partner Nick Scott said its record results had been achieved against a \"constantly changing backdrop\" of events, including the war in Ukraine, historically high inflation and uncertain financial markets.\n\n\"So to record our 13th straight year of growth, and to become the first Scottish headquartered law firm to report income over £100m, underpins our continuous focus on our firm's strategic plans,\" he added.\n\nLater this year Brodies will set out its strategic plans for 2024 to 2027.", "A decision to quash a Department of Health policy on paying for care costs in nursing homes has been welcomed by the NI commissioner for older people.\n\nThe commissioner, Eddie Lynch, was reacting to a decision by High Court judge Mr Justice Scoffield.\n\nThe judge ruled the department failed to properly consider the impact on elderly people who could potentially lose life savings to meet health costs.\n\nHe said it had been responsible for a \"plain dereliction in its duty\".\n\nThe commissioner, Mr Lynch, took a judicial review on behalf of Robin McMinnis.\n\nThe 75-year-old, who is quadriplegic and has complex medical needs, has been paying for his care while living in a Belfast nursing home.\n\nThe Continuing Healthcare Policy relates to the assessment of whether a person's needs can be met in a hospital which will not cost anything or is social-care related which could incur costs.\n\nThe judicial review highlighted that the criteria and threshold for when a person should pay for their care is unclear and operates differently between each health trust.\n\nEddie Lynch said the High Court ruling was a win for older people\n\nAll older people with assets worth more than £23,250 have to pay for their social care.\n\nA change to the policy, introduced in February 2021, uses a single criteria question where people are asked: \"Can your care needs be met properly in any other setting other than a hospital?\"\n\nThose people who are placed in a nursing home have to pay, while others who say they cannot go to a nursing home instead have their care paid for while in hospital.\n\nThe judge ruled that Mr McMinnis was unfairly refused the funding and ordered the Belfast Trust to reconsider his application.\n\nHe said he also proposed \"to quash the decision of the department to adopt the 2021 policy\".\n\nMr McMinnis said it had been \"a long journey for me personally over the past six years with many setbacks\".\n\n\"It has been a matter of principle for me, knowing that many others have been disqualified or were unaware of the Continuing Healthcare Policy,\" he continued.\n\nReacting to the judgement, Mr Lynch said he was delighted for Mr McMinnis.\n\n\"This is also a win for the many older people who have contacted my office over the past number of years in relation to issues with continuing healthcare assessments, all of whom will now be entitled to receive the fair assessment they deserve,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday he told BBC's Good Morning Ulster the ruling shows the system \"was not fit for purpose\".\n\n\"The bottom line here was older people were being failed by the system,\" the commissioner said.\n\n\"Older people whose costs should have been picked up by the NHS were paying for their care.\n\n\"People were left high and dry, people who were entitled to this [financial] support because the system was not set up properly to give them a fair assessment.\"\n\nHe said this ruling \"overturns and quashes a policy that was ageist\".\n\nMr Lynch said now that the policy has been quashed, the onus is on the Department of Health to \"come up with a policy that treats people fairly\".\n\nThe department said it \"will be considering the judgement, before deciding on next steps\".", "The UK's largest water company Thames Water will need \"substantial sums of money\" to stabilise its finances, the water regulator has said.\n\nOfwat boss David Black said talks between the firm and investors to raise the extra funding were continuing.\n\nThe company is billions in debt and under pressure to fix its finances over fears it could collapse.\n\nThere have been calls to nationalise the firm after its boss quit last week.\n\n\"We need to see their revised business plan but we think it's substantial sums of money [that are needed],\" Ofwat boss David Black said\n\nHe told a Lord's business committee that the issues at Thames Water, which supplies a quarter of the population, were not as acute as at other UK water companies.\n\nHowever, Mr Black admitted the regulator had taken a \"relatively hands-off approach\" to managing water companies since privatisation in the late 1980s.\n\nThe hearing came hours after it was announced that Thames Water had been handed a £3.3m fine for discharging millions of litres of undiluted sewage into two rivers in Sussex and Surrey, killing more than 1,400 fish in 2017.\n\nThames Water has faced heavy criticism over sewage discharges and leaks. The company leaks more water than any other water company in the UK, losing the equivalent of up to 250 Olympic-sized swimming pools every day from its pipes.\n\nThe company is also struggling with debts of nearly £14bn.\n\nAmid fears that the water firm would collapse, the government said last week \"a lot of work is going on behind the scenes\" and that a process was in place \"if necessary\".\n\nA few days later, one of the UK's largest private pension funds, Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), became the first major investor to publicly back the firm to turn around its finances and performance.\n\nBut Mr Black said there may not be an appetite from current investors to put further money into water companies.\n\nHe said that the industry had built up too much debt from around 2006 and faced \"deep seated challenges\".\n\n\"I think we should have stepped in at that point to stop companies gearing up,\" he said, implying that water firms were taking on too much debt relative to equity, or available funds.\n\n\"We've changed companies' licences, we have got the powers to stop that happening now.\n\n\"At the time, we really didn't have the power to stop that happening,\" Mr Black said, adding that now Ofwat was \"very much of the view\" that companies need to reduce their debt to reasonable levels.\n\nIf the firm cannot secure investment, it could be placed under government administration until a new buyer is found.\n\nBaroness McGregor-Smith asked Mr Black how much customers' water bills were likely to rise, given the £10bn investment water companies say they need to tackle sewage spills.\n\nMr Black said that he understood all water companies were \"looking at requesting a bill increase\" when they submitted their business plans to Ofwat later in the year, and that most of them were looking at \"quite significant bill increases,\" but that the regulator was \"yet to see the maths worked out.\"\n\nWhen asked how much of the £10bn would be funded by increased customer bills, Mr Black said that was something that would be \"examined as part of the price review\".\n\nHowever, he said that investment that involved companies \"catching up on their current obligations,\" he thought was \"an issue for them and their shareholders to fund\".\n\nBut he added: \"Where they're going above and beyond existing standards...that will be an issue for customers to fund ultimately. So investors would pay upfront and it's recovered from customers over time.\"\n\nProfessor David Hall, who has investigated the finances of England's nine water and wastewater companies since privatisation, said delivering the investment needed to clean up rivers, improve services and plug leaks was key to the future of Thames Water.\n\nHe said Thames had suggested getting customers to cover the cost through bill increases of up to 25%. But Ofwat said that was \"not acceptable\".\n\nHe added that the regulator had the \"very serious option\" of temporarily nationalising Thames if it could not find the £2bn of funds needed to turn things around.\n\nHe said the government's special administration regime would be used \"to protect the service, not to protect the company\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From a young age, Darcey knew her mum had a \"sore heart\" and she could call for help on Alexa.\n\nA Scottish mum who received a heart transplant has told how her six-year-old daughter saved her life twice using a smart speaker.\n\nEmma Anderson, from Robroyston in Glasgow, was 15 when she was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.\n\nFrom a young age, her daughter Darcey knew her mum had a \"sore heart\" and she could call for help on Alexa.\n\nNow Darcey has used Alexa twice to raise the alarm when her 27-year-old mum has been unwell.\n\n\"I set up the Alexa so that if I passed out or was feeling unwell all she had to do was say, 'Alexa, call help', and that would call my mum who lives around the corner,\" Ms Anderson said.\n\n\"And she's had to call on Alexa a couple of times, she even called an ambulance on her own and that time I was in a really bad way.\n\n\"I'm so proud of her, she is a wee superstar.\"\n\nEmma said her heart was so damaged that she was hospitalised whilst waiting for a transplant\n\n\"Basically it means that the muscle surrounding the heart starts to grow too thick,\" she said.\n\n\"The way I was kind of described it was instead of beating against a cushion, it's like every beat the heart is beating against a brick wall so it's getting more and more damaged each time.\"\n\nMostly managed by medication through her life, she was told at a routine check-up that she needed a life-saving heart transplant urgently.\n\n\"Alexa, call help!\" allowed Darcey to alert nearby family members to help Emma.\n\n\"I went in for my routine check up and was told that it had gotten really bad and I couldn't wait on the routine list at home anymore, I had to come in and be put on an urgent list because basically if I left the hospital I didn't have much time left,\" she said.\n\n\"I went into hospital and a few months in my heart completely failed.\n\n\"I ended up on an aortic balloon pump which kept my heart beating for me until we could hopefully get a transplant.\n\n\"And then it was about 10 days after going on that, we got a call saying a donor heart was available.\"\n\nEmma received the transplant in April, 2022 at the NHS Golden Jubilee hospital in Clydebank.\n\nSince her transplant, Emma has been able to do things she had never done before like take her daughter to swimming and to the park\n\nWhen first diagnosed, she had an internal defibrillator implanted inside her chest, which \"fired\" three times last year.\n\nShe said the heart transplant had been transformative and she was able to marry her partner Conner last July.\n\nMs Anderson said: \"Since my transplant I have a totally new life now.\n\n\"I can actually walk to school and pick Darcey up and walk back again, something I could never do before.\n\n\"Over Easter, I managed to take Darcey swimming and to the play park, the farm park, simple things I wasn't able to do before, I can do now. I'm able to be a mummy now.\"\n\nAfter her transplant, Emma learned to walk again, being discharged around a week before her wedding\n\nAbout 28,000 Scots have an inherited heart condition, the most common being hypertrophic cardiomyopathy according to the British Journal of Cardiology.\n\nMs Anderson said she was eternally grateful to her donor and their family for what they have done for her.\n\n\"Getting a transplant is a very hard road, it's not easy,\" she said.\n\n\"I was on life support and all sorts of other treatments after my operation for a long while, and my muscles deteriorated so much I couldn't walk any more.\n\n\"The only thing I seemed to care about once I was better was learning to walk again so I could walk down that aisle and get married.\n\n\"I was literally discharged just over a week before the wedding, I still had stitches in walking down the aisle.\"\n\nEmma now stars in Tom Walker's the Best is Yet to Come music video\n\nWhile recovering in hospital, Ms Anderson created a TikTok video with images of different stages of her heart journey using Scots singing star Tom Walker's song, The Best Is Yet To Come.\n\nThe singer was so touched by the video he invited her to London to appear in a video featuring people who had inspired him.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by TomWalkerVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nShe said: \"Tom contacted me and asked me to go down to London and be part of his music video to raise awareness.\n\n\"So I went down and did that with other people who were absolutely incredible, who had been through a lot in life too, and it was so nice of Tom to recognise that through his inspiring music.\n\n\"Like the lyrics say, I definitely think the best is yet to come for me thanks to my organ donor.\n\n\"It's a horrible situation to be in but…I'm eternally grateful. There are no words I could put into…what that donor family has done for me and my family and my child.\"\n\nChief executive of NHS Golden Jubilee, Gordon James, said: \"As we celebrate 75 years of the NHS, Emma's inspiring story shows us how valuable and crucial the life-saving care the NHS provides is to our patients.\"", "Protesters against the scheme's expansion staged a protest outside the High Court\n\nLondon's mayor \"lacks the legal powers\" to extend the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), five Conservative-led councils have argued at the High Court.\n\nCraig Howell Williams KC, for the councils, also said Sadiq Khan's plan to extend the zone was to create a \"master charging scheme\" for London.\n\nThe Labour mayor's legal team said the scheme was \"entirely lawful\" and that it would improve London's air quality.\n\nCurrently ULEZ covers the area between the North and South Circular roads.\n\nIf the expansion goes ahead as planned on 29 August, the zone would be three times its current size with new borders reaching Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey.\n\nThe ULEZ scheme currently requires people who drive in non-compliant or more polluting vehicles to pay a daily charge of £12.50 on days these are driven within inner London. Motorists face a maximum £160 fine if they do not pay.\n\nLorries, buses, coaches and heavy vans which are non-compliant are charged £100 under a separate low emission zone scheme, which already covers most of London.\n\nClaims that nine out of 10 cars already complied with ULEZ standards in outer London were based on data from just 106 cameras, the High Court heard.\n\nThe barrister for the councils said people should have been told this during the consultation last year. \"This is key information which was not available\", said Mr Howell Williams.\n\nHe added that consultees might have concluded that forecast compliance rates from such a small number of cameras were \"unlikely to be reliable given the size of the area being covered\".\n\nTransport for London (TfL) submitted information about its ANPR camera network ahead of the judicial review proceedings. It shows that while there are 1,156 cameras gathering data in the inner London \"middle ring\" of ULEZ, there were just 106 cameras covering the whole of outer London on which it based its claims about compliance.\n\nIn the lead-up to the judicial review, the BBC repeatedly requested data from the Mayor of London and TfL on how the 91% compliance rate was calculated.\n\nBoth bodies refused to make this information public.\n\nBen Jaffey KC, representing the mayor and TfL, said the use of ANPR camera data was \"one of several different inputs into a complex model of compliance rates, traffic, emissions and air quality\".\n\nThe barrister said TfL had been \"clear\" that camera coverage was \"not comprehensive\" and that for \"full enforcement\" it would install 2,750 more cameras.\n\nThe mayor plans to extend the scheme from 29 August\n\nMr Howell Williams, acting on behalf of Bexley, Bromley, Harrow, Hillingdon and Surrey councils, told the judicial review that Mr Khan did not have the legal right to vary existing regulations in this way.\n\nIn written arguments, he added that the mayor and TfL's approach would \"bypass legal safeguards\", which were \"designed to ensure that any new charging scheme was properly considered before coming into effect\".\n\nThe councils' barrister said material provided when gathering views on the plans was \"unintelligible\" and gave a \"confused picture\".\n\nAs a result, \"intelligent responses were prevented\", Mr Howell Williams said.\n\nThe barrister also said the mayor's plans for a £110m scrappage scheme, to provide grants to people to support them getting rid of non-compliant vehicles, were also unlawful because a \"buffer zone\" for \"non-Londoners\" affected by the extended charging zone was not considered.\n\nMr Jaffey said in his written arguments that the \"primary objective\" was \"to improve London's air quality, in particular reducing nitrogen oxides and particulates\".\n\nThe barrister said Mr Khan's decisions would help to get London's air quality closer to legal limits, in the areas where it is exceeded, and for World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines to be reached everywhere.\n\nA majority of cars driven in London are ULEZ-compliant\n\nHe added that over the past 16 years, London's mayors had used powers to order changes to emissions zones rules in the capital on many occasions.\n\n\"It would be bizarre if orders could not be amended to improve emissions standards as required,\" the barrister said, adding that \"one might expect it to have come up before now\".\n\nMr Jaffey went on: \"The consultation materials were clear, detailed and provided more than ample information to enable an intelligent response and satisfy the requirements of fairness for consultations.\"\n\nHe said Mr Khan had \"personally considered\" the level of funding available for the scrappage scheme and had \"rationally\" concluded it would mitigate some of the impact of the ULEZ expansion.\n\nMr Jaffey added: \"Where there are finite public funds, if there are good reasons for giving preference to Londoners, that inevitably means not giving others the same benefit. These are discretionary public spending decisions.\"\n\nThe hearing, before Mr Justice Swift, is due to conclude on Wednesday and the judge is expected to give his ruling at a later date.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US Secret Service is investigating how cocaine was found at the White House on Sunday night, with visitor logs and footage combed for clues.\n\nThe discovery in the West Wing, which contains the Oval Office and other working areas for presidential aides and staff, led to a brief evacuation.\n\nSecret Service agents found the powder during a routine inspection in an area that is accessible to tour groups.\n\nPresident Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland at the time.\n\nA senior law enforcement official told the BBC's US partner CBS News the substance was found in a storage facility routinely used by White House staff and guests to store mobile phones.\n\nThe White House complex was closed as a precaution at around 20:45 local time (00:45 GMT) on Sunday after it was discovered.\n\nA preliminary test later confirmed the substance was cocaine.\n\nThe Secret Service will lead a full review of how it got into the White House, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday.\n\nWhite House staff are permitted to give tours of some parts of the West Wing to friends and family. Visitors who are not accredited staff must store mobile phones and other personal belongings in cubicles.\n\n\"It was in one of the cubbies,\" a source familiar with the investigation told Reuters.\n\nThe drug was found in the heart of one of the world's most carefully guarded buildings\n\nSpeaking at a daily press briefing on Wednesday, Ms Jean-Pierre said that the area where the cocaine was discovered is a \"heavily travelled\" part of the White House.\n\n\"We have confidence that the Secret Service are going to get to the bottom of this,\" she said.\n\nPresident Biden was briefed on the matter, Ms Jean-Pierre added. Mr Biden did not answer reporters' questions about the incident on Wednesday.\n\nArkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote to the Secret Service's director with a list of questions about how such a drug could end up in one of the world's most carefully guarded buildings.\n\nHe asked about the White House's security and visitor screening process, and how many times drugs have previously been discovered at the presidential mansion.\n\nCocaine is a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning it has a high potential for abuse, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.\n\nThe West Wing is a large, multi-level part of the White House that contains the offices of the president of the United States, including the Oval Office and the Situation Room.\n\nIt also houses the offices of the vice-president, the White House chief of staff, the press secretary, and hundreds of other staff who have access.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nAmerican veteran Venus Williams says a dramatic fall that ruined her hopes of a notable Wimbledon win was \"painful\" and has left her \"in shock\".\n\nWilliams, 43, slipped early in the first-round match against Ukraine's Elina Svitolina, leading to fears she might have to retire injured.\n\nThe five-time champion did continue and pushed Svitolina before losing 6-4 6-3.\n\n\"It was bad luck for me,\" Williams said. \"I can't believe it happened. I'm still trying to process it.\"\n\nWilliams, who started the match with heavy strapping on her right knee, showed undiminishing determination and courage to fight through her fitness problems before succumbing to 2019 semi-finalist Svitolina.\n\nAfter a record 24th Open era appearance in the Wimbledon singles ended, Williams received a standing ovation by a crowd unsure how long she has left at the top level.\n\nThe fact she was able to finish the match, despite limping heavily around the court, felt remarkable.\n\nWilliams' defiance not to quit was warmly appreciated by the Wimbledon crowd, who willed her on throughout an entertaining contest.\n\nThe former world number one first played at the All England Club in 1997 and, as she remains coy about her retirement plans, it remains to be seen how many more times she will return to the scene of some of her greatest triumphs.\n\n\"What makes this one hard to process is I've had so many injuries. I've been missing from tour for quite a while. This is not what I want for myself,\" said Williams, who was playing in only her sixth match this year after being given a wildcard.\n\n\"This kind of fall, I didn't do anything wrong. I just went for the ball. There's nothing I can really do about it. Those kinds of things are hard to process emotionally, mentally and physically on the court.\"\n• None Live TV, radio and text coverage of day one at Wimbledon\n\nDown but not out - Williams shows her mettle\n\nWilliams walked gingerly when she came out on to court, having struggled with the knee injury earlier in the British grass-court season at Birmingham.\n\nThe veteran showed she had lost none of her shot-making ability, using her colossal serve and forehand to good effect as she broke for a 2-0 lead.\n\n\"I was literally killing it, then I got killed by the grass. I felt like I was in great form and in great form in the match,\" Williams said.\n\nThe complexion of the match altered in a moment, leaving those watching on Centre Court fearing the worst.\n\nIn the third game, Williams slipped on the grass as she approached the net, letting out a sharp scream which silenced the stadium.\n\nUmpire Marija Cicak raced down to the court to check on her condition, with a concerned Svitolina coming around the net.\n\nThere was an anxious atmosphere as fans feared the worst, many who will have remembered her younger sister Serena slipping on the lush Centre Court grass in 2021 and having to retire injured.\n\n\"I'm not sure what I've done. I'll have to investigate it. It was quite painful,\" Williams said.\n\n\"Afterwards it was very hard to focus on what I was doing.\"\n\nIn what seemed remarkable given the gravity of her reaction, and the increasingly-restricted movement, Williams not only carried on but continued to keep in touch with 28-year-old Svitolina.\n\nHeavy shots reminiscent of her peak flashed past the Ukrainian, who had to fend off two break-back points before sealing the first set at the second opportunity.\n\nEven when Svitolina, who is still continuing her comeback after giving birth last October, threatened to run away with the second set, Williams would not roll over.\n\nTrailing 5-1 and with the crowd willing her on, she dug in again to hold serve and then broke for 5-3.\n\nBut Svitolina, who did well to maintain her focus in the difficult circumstances, took her opponent's serve again for the match after winning a line-call challenge that left Williams smiling ruefully.\n\n\"It is always very tough to play against Venus, it was a really special moment to play here today on a special court and a big legend,\" said Svitolina, who is ranked 76th in the world.\n\n\"It was an unbelievable feeling.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None In an emotional interview he opens up about what motivated him despite his very humble origins\n• None Sue Barker travels the globe to find out", "The Threads app looks similar to Twitter\n\nFacebook owner Meta is launching its new app to rival Twitter and says it will go live on Thursday.\n\nThe app, which is called Threads and is available for pre-order on the Apple App Store, will be linked to Instagram.\n\nScreengrabs show a dashboard that looks similar to Twitter. Meta describes Threads as a \"text based conversation app\".\n\nThe move is the latest in a rivalry between Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk.\n\nLast month, the pair agreed to a physical fight, though it is unclear how serious the two men were about actually holding a bout.\n\n\"Thank goodness they're so sanely run\", Mr Musk responded to a tweet about Threads, in an apparent fresh swipe at Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nMeanwhile, Twitter has said that the popular user dashboard, TweetDeck will go behind a paywall in 30 days time.\n\nThe move is the latest push by Mr Musk as he tries to get users to sign up to Twitter's subscription service, Twitter Blue.\n\nOn Saturday, the multi-billionaire restricted the number of tweets users could see, citing extreme \"data scraping\".\n\nIt appears from Meta's Threads app that it will be a free service - and there will be no restrictions on how many posts a user can see.\n\n\"Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what'll be trending tomorrow\" the description on the App Store says.\n\nPictures show screengrabs from the app, that look almost identical to Twitter.\n\nThreads will also hoover up data on your phone, including location data, purchases and browsing history.\n\nSeveral apps that bear a striking resemblance to Twitter have sprung up in recent years - such as Donald Trump's Truth Social and Mastodon.\n\nAnother similar app, Bluesky claimed to have seen \"record\" traffic after Mr Musk's move to restrict usage at the weekend.\n\nHowever, Threads could be the biggest threat faced by Twitter to date.\n\nMark Zuckerberg has a history of borrowing other company's ideas - and making them work.\n\nMeta's Reels is widely seen as a TikTok copy, while Stories looks similar to Snapchat.\n\nMeta has the resources to compete with Twitter. Threads will be part of the Instagram platform, so it will also be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts. It's not starting from zero, as other would-be rivals have had to do.\n\nAlthough Mr Musk has been praised in some quarters for his commitment to free speech, he has also alienated some users.\n\nMr Zuckerberg will hope he can pull enough disenchanted users away from Twitter to create a genuine alternative.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A spokesperson for Israel's police says a civilian 'neutralised the terrorist'\n\nA Palestinian man has injured at least seven people in a car-ramming and stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, Israeli police say.\n\nA police spokesperson said the \"terrorist\" rammed into pedestrians and then tried to stab them with a sharp object. He was shot dead by a civilian.\n\nThree of the injured were in a serious condition, the spokesperson added.\n\nThe attacker has been identified as a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank who was a known Hamas activist.\n\nThe Palestinian militant group praised the attack, saying it was a \"natural response\" to the ongoing major Israeli military operation in Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank.\n\nAt least 10 Palestinians are said to have been killed since hundreds of Israeli troops, backed by drone strikes, entered the camp on Monday morning, triggering intense gun battles with militants inside.\n\nThe Israeli military said that while it was \"operating to maintain stability in the Jenin camp by targeting the terrorist infrastructure, our civilians are consequently being targeted by terrorism\".\n\nCCTV footage from the scene of the attack in Tel Aviv shows pedestrians and customers of a cafe running for cover as a pick-up truck hits a bus stop on Pinchas Rosen Street.\n\nThe driver is seen climbing out of the vehicle's window and running runs towards a man standing near the cafe, who he appears to stab several times. He then chases after other people on the pavement.\n\nA second video appears to shows another man wearing a motorcycle helmet shooting the attacker several times with a pistol as he lies on the ground.\n\nThe Israeli police spokesperson said three of the victims were in a serious condition, two were in a moderate condition and two were in a mild condition.\n\nThe Magen David Adom ambulance service said it had treated a 47-year-old woman who was in a serious condition, with multiple systemic injuries.\n\n\"I would like to praise the activity of the citizen with a lot of courage, that he was able to thwart the attack and prevent the continuation of that terrorist's killing spree,\" Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai told reporters at the scene, according to the Jerusalem Post newspaper.\n\nHe also said investigations were still being carried out into the attacker.\n\nThe Shin Bet security service said he was a Palestinian from the southern West Bank village of Samu who did not have \"a previous security background\" and who did not have a permit to enter Israel.\n\nSince the start of the year, more than 140 Palestinians - both militants and civilians - have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, while another 36 have been killed in the Gaza Strip.\n\nTwenty-four Israelis, two foreigners and a Palestinian worker have been killed in attacks or apparent attacks by Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank over the same period. All were civilians except one off-duty serving soldier and a member of the Israeli security forces.", "That's it for today, and for evidence from Welsh officials for the time being.\n\nWe're now ending our coverage of the UK's Covid inquiry for today. Thanks for joining us.\n\nToday's live page was written by David Deans with analysis from Hywel Griffith. The page was edited by John Arkless and Emily McGarvey.\n\nYou can read more about the Covid inquiry here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak was challenged over his attendance record at PMQs\n\nRishi Sunak has refused to say whether Tory MPs accused of undermining the Commons Partygate inquiry into Boris Johnson should apologise.\n\nThe Privileges Committee said last week that the MPs, including Nadine Dorries and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, had tried to \"interfere\" with the probe.\n\nAsked whether they should say sorry, the prime minister didn't say, adding he hadn't read the committee's report.\n\nMPs will decide whether to approve the findings at a debate next Monday.\n\nLast month, the Commons backed the committee's finding, in a separate report, that Mr Johnson misled Parliament over Covid rule-breaking in No 10.\n\nMr Sunak has never said whether he agrees with the findings of that report - and missed last month's vote to approve it, blaming a diary clash.\n\nThe follow-up report by the Privileges Committee, published last week, said several allies of Mr Johnson had sought to \"influence the outcome\" of its original probe into the former prime minister.\n\nIt accused the seven MPs and three peers, all Conservatives, of mounting attacks on the committee designed to \"discredit\" its findings.\n\nThe report has led to a free speech row, with several of those named, including Ms Dorries and Sir Jacob, saying there is no reason they should not be able to criticise its conclusions.\n\nAt a scheduled appearance at the Commons Liaison Committee, Mr Sunak did not respond to a question from Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant about whether the MPs named should apologise.\n\nInstead, he said he had not read the report - which runs to a handful of pages - from \"cover to cover,\" although he was aware of its findings.\n\nHe confirmed he had asked Lord Zac Goldsmith, one of the Tory peers named in the report, to apologise - but said this was because of his then role as an environment minister.\n\nLord Goldsmith quit his government post last week, citing unhappiness with green policies. He has denied a claim from Mr Sunak that he had refused to apologise over being named in the report.\n\nSir Chris, who chairs the Privileges Committee but did not take part in its probe into Mr Johnson because he had criticised him before it began, also criticised Mr Sunak for missing the Commons vote on its findings.\n\nThe prime minister replied he couldn't attend because he was scheduled to speak at a charity event, but the Labour MP accused him of choosing \"not be in Parliament\".\n\n\"But yesterday, you opined on the rule of cricket. Take us through that,\" he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Sunak's criticism of the Australia team on Monday.\n\nIn a series of testy exchanges, he also took a swipe at Mr Sunak's attendance record in Parliament, noting that he is scheduled to miss the next two sessions of Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMr Sunak replied he will miss this week's session because he is attending an event marking the 75th anniversary of the NHS, whilst next week he is at a summit of Nato leaders in Lithuania.\n\nHe denied that he had any control over the timing of the NHS event, telling Sir Chris \"I did not decide when that was.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Millwall\n\nMillwall's owner and chairman John Berylson has died at the age of 70 following a \"tragic accident\" on Tuesday, the club have said.\n\nThe American businessman first became involved with the Championship club in 2006.\n\n\"He was a truly great man, incredibly devoted to his family,\" Millwall said in a statement.\n\nBerylson is survived by wife Amy and his three children Jennifer, James, and Elizabeth.\n\nThe club added: \"He was a person of such remarkable generosity, warmth, and kindness.\n\n\"He lived a storied life, one full of colour and joy, and was infinitely thoughtful of others with an endless desire to share his immense knowledge and experiences to help people.\"\n\nMillwall have not released any further details around Berylson's death.\n\nThe club have said fans can pay their respects in a book of condolence which will be shared with his family.\n\nSupporters can write in the book at the club's The Den stadium on Wednesday from 11:00 BST, or online.\n\n\"He has presided over some of the greatest moments in Millwall's history, and his influence in providing the platform for those was immeasurable,\" the club said.\n\n\"John continued to speak eagerly about the new season and his vision for the future, and any success moving forward will be in his memory and honour. It will be his legacy.\"\n\nMillwall finished eighth in the Championship last season, just missing out on a play-off place on the final day.\n\nBerylson became a significant shareholder of the club in 2007 after he led a consortium who invested in the then League One side.\n\nHe replaced Stewart Till as chairman in the same year and went on to oversee two promotions into the Championship.\n\nThe last promotion came in 2017 and the club have maintained their position in the second tier ever since.\n\nTributes have poured in for the owner with former Millwall right-back Alan Dunne saying: \"My deepest condolences to not only my chairman for many years but also friend.\n\n\"John was a gentleman who put Millwall back on the map. What he has done for the club will always be remembered and can only thank him for everything he done for me and MILLWALL.\"\n\nAberdeen's chief executive Alan Burrows said: \"Such awful, awful news. The thoughts of everyone at Aberdeen FC are with John's family, friends and everyone at Millwall FC. RIP.\"\n\nThe English Football League wrote: \"The EFL is shocked and saddened by the news and sends its deepest condolences to John's family and everyone connected with Millwall.\"\n\nMultiple clubs have sent their condolences, including rivals West Ham, who wrote: \"Everyone at West Ham United sends their deepest condolences to John's family, friends and all at Millwall FC during this tragic time.\"", "The maker of Dove soap and Cornetto ice cream has defended its decision to keep operating in Russia more than a year after the country invaded Ukraine.\n\nUnilever said that exiting was \"not straightforward\" as its operations would be taken over by the Russian state if it abandoned them.\n\nIt comes after a campaign group estimated the firm is contributing £579m to the Russian economy annually.\n\nThe Moral Rating Agency accused the firm of facilitating Russia's invasion.\n\n\"Unilever must stop hiding behind its balance sheet and excuses to face the reality that selling an ice cream can allow Putin to pay for a bullet,\" said founder Mark Dixon.\n\nA host of Western companies from Apple to Levi's quit Russia in the wake of its illegal invasion of Ukraine last year, both for ethical reasons and because sanctions have made it difficult to operate in the country.\n\nHowever, some firms are still doing business there such as US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble, which has said it has limited its activities in the country.\n\nUnilever, which sells products in the UK such as Marmite and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, said it had stopped exports and imports to and from Russia and ceased advertising there.\n\nIt also claims to be selling only \"essential\" products in the country, including everyday food and hygiene products.\n\nBut the Moral Rating Agency (MRA) said that Unilever's production facilities in Russia continued to manufacture and sell most of its original goods in the country.\n\nIt said its calculations accounted for the total amount Unilever paid into the Russian treasury annually, along with money spent on local suppliers, employees and for other costs such as rent and technology.\n\n\"The MRA calculation starts with Unilever's admission in its 2022 Annual Report that its Russian business represents 1.4% of turnover,\" the group added.\n\nReferring the BBC to its most recent statement in February, Unilever said: \"We understand why there are calls for Unilever to leave Russia.\n\n\"We also want to be clear that we are not trying to protect or manage our business in Russia. However, for companies like Unilever, which have a significant physical presence in the country, exiting is not straightforward.\"\n\nThe company, which employs around 3,000 people in Russia, said that if it were to abandon its brands in Russia, \"they would be appropriated - and then operated - by the Russian state\".\n\nThe consumer goods giant said it had been unable to find a way to sell the business that \"avoids the Russian state potentially gaining further benefit, and which safeguards our people\".\n\nIt said there were no \"desirable\" options, but that continuing to run the business with \"strict constraints\" was the best way forward in the circumstances.\n\nThis week, Shell was criticised for continuing to trade in Russian gas more than a year after pledging to withdraw from the Russian energy market.\n\nThe oil giant said the trades were the result of \"long-term contractual commitments\" and do not violate laws or sanctions.", "Mortgage interest rates have risen sharply over the past six months after years of historic lows.\n\nAs higher interest rates will mean higher mortgage payments, experts say more people are at risk of falling into debt or losing their homes.\n\nTry our calculator below to see how your fixed rate mortgage might be affected as borrowing becomes more expensive.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. 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At this rate, your payments could change by… The information you provided on your monthly payments would not be sufficient to pay off your mortgage within the number of years given.\n\nThis mortgage calculator uses a standard mortgage repayment formula to estimate the monthly payments or interest rate based on the amount borrowed and the length of a mortgage.\n\nThe calculator assumes a single, fixed, interest rate which stays the same over the term of the mortgage and interest is charged monthly.\n\nWhy is my monthly payment estimate different to what I actually pay?\n\nIf there is a difference you can enter your current monthly payment instead of the interest rate.\n\nWhat if I have a variable rate mortgage?\n\nThis calculator assumes that the interest rate stays the same over the term of the mortgage so is not suitable for variable rate mortgages.\n\nWhat if I have an interest only mortgage?\n\nThis calculator only works for repayment mortgages.\n\nWhat if I have more than one mortgage?\n\nThis calculator only works for a single mortgage at a time.\n\nWhat if I don't know what my interest rate or monthly payments are or would be?\n\nYou can use mortgage comparison tools on official mortgage lender's websites to see what a likely interest rate or monthly payment would be for the amount you were looking to borrow.\n\nWhat are the values already in the calculator based on?\n\nThe value of £160,000 is based on the average outstanding balance for a fixed rate mortgage as of June 2022, according to UK Finance.\n\nThe value of 20 years is based on the average outstanding term for a fixed rate mortgage as of June 2022, according to UK Finance.\n\nThe value of 2% is based on the average interest rate for outstanding fixed rate mortgages as of June 2022, according to UK Finance.\n\nThe value of £809 is based on the estimated payments made at 2% based on a mortgage of £160,000 over 20 years.\n\nThe value of 5.59% is based on research from moneyfactscompare.co.uk from December 2023, who reported this figure as the average rate for a new two-year fixed rate loan.", "Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater pictured at the Scottish Greens' spring party conference earlier this year\n\nThe co-leaders of the Scottish Greens have confirmed they will not attend a service of thanksgiving for King Charles III in Edinburgh this week.\n\nPatrick Harvie and Lorna Slater are both outspoken republican MSPs as well as government ministers.\n\nMr Harvie will instead speak at a rally outside Holyrood organised by the anti-monarchy group Our Republic.\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Donald Cameron said the decision was \"akin to student politics\".\n\nAlex Salmond, the former first minister and SNP leader, also said he had \"politely declined\" an invitation to attend the ceremony.\n\nThe national service of thanksgiving on Wednesday will see the King being presented with the Scottish crown jewels in a ceremony to mark his Coronation.\n\nLast year, members of the Scottish Greens boycotted a debate at Holyrood at which MSPs congratulated the late Queen on her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nAt the time, the party - which is part of a Scottish government power-sharing deal - said a head of state should be chosen by, and be accountable to, voters.\n\nConfirming her intention not to attend Wednesday's ceremony, Ms Slater said: \"In 21st Century Scotland, the monarchy is nothing to celebrate.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is an out-of-date and undemocratic institution.\n\n\"How can we justify a system that allows one family to enjoy so much unearned wealth and privilege at a time when millions of people have so little?\"\n\nScottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater met the Queen at the opening of the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament in October 2021\n\nMr Harvie added that the monarchy was one of the reasonshe supported Scottish independence.\n\nHe said: \"There are many people in Scotland who regard the monarchy as a tiresome spectacle and a symbol of values we don't hold.\"\n\n\"I will be proud to speak at the Our Republic rally, and to stand with others who want to build a more democratic society, where power and wealth belongs to the people rather than being passed down as an inheritance.\"\n\nDonald Cameron said Mr Harvie's choice to speak at the rally instead was \"predictably infantile\".\n\nHe added: \"If he wants to ask big questions, he should start with how he conducts himself as a government minister.\n\n\"The Greens may have failed to deliver a deposit-return scheme, but they can definitely recycle tedious anti-monarchy rants.\n\n\"As on so many issues, the extremist Greens are out of touch with the majority of Scots, who see the Coronation and the King's commitment to Scotland as something to celebrate.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Salmond - who publicly backed keeping the monarchy in an independent Scotland while he was first minister - predicted that King Charles would be the \"last king of Scots\".\n\nHe added: \"This really is not the time to be wasting money on public displays of fealty to a King. It is the time for a renewed debate on why Scotland needs to take its own future into its own hands.\n\n\"I believe Scotland will become an independent country, and when we do, I suspect the majority of people will want a fresh start on the basis of an elected head of state.\"\n\nThe King won't exactly be shocked to hear that Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater will not be attending the service.\n\nHe will know they are not there. It's not something that will slip under the radar - he is kept up-to-date with all affairs of state.\n\nFor the Greens, as avowed republicans, if they did go to St Giles's, they would feel they were betraying their own principles.\n\nMr Harvie will address the Our Republic demonstration instead.\n\nPatrick Harvie and Lorna Slater are ministers of the Crown - some maybe question if there's a \"disloyalty\" here?\n\nHowever, it's not the Middle Ages and heads will not roll.\n\nThey were, after all, democratically elected by people who clearly share their views.\n\nWidening this out though, the first minister will attend - although he's a republican too.\n\nIt's easy for him to make an argument about why he has to be present at the service.\n\nMr Yousaf previously made clear he went to the Coronation as he represents all the people of Scotland.\n\nPerhaps there's a certain irony though about the nature of the Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication.\n\nThe King was crowned as King of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey - and this is most certainly not a \"Scottish Coronation\".\n\nBut all the rich panoply of what would seem to be Scottish \"statehood\" will be on show at St Giles.\n\nIt highlights Scotland's history as an independent nation and the service now emphasises that ancient past in the United Kingdom.\n\nSo despite the opposition from some quarters, others who share pro-independence views will take a different view about the event.\n\nSome Scottish nationalists who hail from the more traditional and monarchist wing of the movement will watch tomorrow with a real sense of \"what could be\" - as they see that sense of Scottish \"statehood\" played out in front of His Majesty.", "Fatoumatta Hydara died two days after her daughters Naeemah Drammeh and Fatimah Drammeh\n\nA man who killed his neighbour and her two daughters by setting their flat on fire has been found guilty of murder.\n\nFatoumatta Hydara, 28, died along with Fatimah and Naeemah Drammeh, aged three and one, after their home in Clifton, Nottingham, was set alight in November.\n\nJamie Barrow, 31, had admitted their manslaughter at Nottingham Crown Court but denied three counts of murder.\n\nOn Tuesday a jury found him guilty of the more serious charges.\n\nThe trial heard Barrow had poured petrol through the letterbox of the family's Fairisle Close flat in the early hours of 20 November and set it alight.\n\nJurors were told he had a grievance about bags of rubbish being left in an alleyway behind where he and the victims lived but the prosecution did not accept Mrs Hydara was the person responsible and police said no clear motive had been established.\n\nProsecutors said Barrow knew the flat's front door was the only way in and out when he set the fire.\n\nHe had claimed he thought the property was empty but the court was told he did nothing when he heard screams.\n\nMrs Hydara and her daughters died from smoke inhalation.\n\nProsecutors said Barrow had lit the fire using tissue paper and petrol from his motorbike.\n\nThey said it would have been clear the family were inside because a pram was left outside the door and there was light coming from the hallway.\n\nAfter setting the fire Barrow was seen on CCTV walking away from the burning flat with his dog while smoking a cigarette, police said.\n\nEmergency services attended the scene and police said Barrow later returned and asked officers \"how bad\" the fire was.\n\nBarrow, who admitted drinking \"seven or eight\" pints of lager before starting the fire, had given evidence to the police afterwards when detectives were treating the incident as a hate crime.\n\nHe later admitted his involvement to them.\n\nIn court he claimed he had been suffering from a \"very, very low mood\" and was \"wallowing in self-pity\" before starting the fire, caused partially by his emotionally unstable personality disorder.\n\nHe said he did not expect the blaze to take hold as rapidly as it did and was driven to admit what he had done to officers due to \"an immense amount of guilt\".\n\nIn addition to murder, Barrow was also convicted of one count of arson being reckless as to whether life was in danger and is due to be sentenced at the same court on Friday.\n\nSome members of the victims' family, to whom he apologised while giving evidence, wept after the verdicts were delivered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter Barrow's conviction, relatives of Mrs Hydara and her children released a statement describing their pain and grief.\n\nThey said: \"Words cannot quantify how much our family have suffered because of the horrific actions of one man.\n\n\"Neither can we quantify the emotional, psychological, physiological and financial impact of the crime Jamie Barrow committed against Fatoumatta, Fatimah and Naeemah.\n\n\"His actions were utterly heartless and cruel - and have caused a multigenerational trauma that we will never understand.\n\n\"Fatoumatta was a caring daughter, wife, sister, mother and friend. If love and compassion could make a person immortal, she would have lived forever.\n\n\"She had a pure heart and was greatly loved for her personality and qualities.\n\n\"She was the most incredible mother to Fatimah and Naeemah, two angels who deserved a beautiful childhood and a full life.\n\n\"Nottingham and the rest of the world have been denied potential future teachers, civil servants, doctors - who knows what they could have been?\n\n\"They lived a short but meaningful life, such was the joy and happiness they brought to us all.\"\n\nBarrow had claimed he did not realise anyone was inside the flat\n\nMrs Hydara's family thanked the Gambian community in the UK and internationally for the support it had offered them since the fatal fire.\n\nThey also thanked Nottinghamshire Police, the Crown Prosecution Service, and the jurors.\n\nBefore they died Mrs Hydara and her children had been planning to move to the US to be with her husband Aboubacarr Drammeh.\n\nDet Insp Kaz Smithson, who led the investigation, said: \"Jamie Barrow committed the most despicable crime anyone could ever commit.\n\n\"He destroyed a whole family and took away their dreams of a happy life together in America.\n\n\"Today, justice has been served for Fatoumatta, Fatimah and Naeemah and their family, all of whom have carried themselves with incredible dignity since the night of this truly awful crime.\n\n\"Barrow denied the killings were deliberate but, thankfully, my investigative team was able to provide overwhelming evidence that this tragic event was indeed murder.\n\n\"We saw through his lies and, thankfully, so did the jury.\"\n\nThe family had been planning a new life overseas\n\nAfter the hearing Nottinghamshire Police said Barrow's motive for starting the fire might never be known but jurors heard one theory was that he wanted to rehoused by local authorities.\n\nCh Insp Karl Thomas said: \"I acknowledge there are many members of the community who believe these murders were a hate crime.\n\n\"It's important to say that, following a very detailed and thorough investigation by a large team of detectives, the investigation team left no stone unturned to investigate the circumstances and presented the evidence to the jury to reach these verdicts.\"\n\nMrs Hydara's husband Aboubacarr Drammeh read a family statement outside court following the verdicts\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Train companies are pressing ahead with plans to close hundreds of station ticket offices across England over the next three years.\n\nUnder the proposals, some ticket kiosks would remain in large stations, but elsewhere staff will be on concourses to sell tickets, offer travel advice and help people with accessibility.\n\nThe plan has been met with concern from unions and disability groups.\n\nA 21-day public consultation has been launched to collect passengers' views.\n\nPosters have gone up in stations, inviting the public to take part, after which the government will make the final decision on which offices will close.\n\nCurrently around three out of every five stations has a ticket office, although some are only staffed part time.\n\nThe issue is the latest flashpoint between train companies and unions, who have been in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions, which has resulted in a series of strikes since last summer.\n\nThe rail industry is under pressure from the government to cut costs after being supported heavily during the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"The ways our customers buy tickets has changed and it's time for the railway to change with them,\" said Jacqueline Starr chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train companies. She said the changes would be phased in gradually.\n\nOnly 12% of tickets were sold at ticket offices last year, she said, with the rest bought online or from vending machines.\n\nUnder the plans, if a passenger was unable to purchase a ticket, they would be able to buy one during the journey, at a ticket office en-route or at their destination, the RDG said.\n\nBut many rail users, who rely on help at ticket offices, fear the changes will make it harder for them to travel.\n\nRobert Calvert, 75, from Tamworth says his dyslexia and colour blindness make it hard to negotiate self-service machines.\n\n\"Remember not everyone has a smartphone these days,\" he says. \"Everything is so automated, I feel slightly left behind.\"\n\nAnn Jolly, 78, from Emsworth in Hampshire, often uses the train to travel to her native Scotland, but says she already finds the complication of how to buy train tickets \"off-putting\".\n\n\"I do use the self-service machine if I have to. Usually I manage, but I struggle with trying to find the different routes and knowing what I have to pay for. A lot of my friends feel the same.\n\n\"The train tickets are just incomprehensible online, especially when it says the tickets come from different companies, so I need a number of different ones for one trip.\"\n\nThe RDG says that staff will be just as readily available as they are now, but on the concourse or platform, where they can advise passengers on journey planning and sell tickets.\n\nHowever, the UK's largest rail union the RMT and the TSSA union both warned the plans could ultimately lead to job cuts.\n\nSome disability campaigners have also long opposed the idea.\n\nVivienne Francis from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), said it would be \"detrimental\" for blind and partially-sighted people with only 3% of such people able to use a machine.\n\nStewart Palmer is director of Railfuture, which represents passengers and campaigns for better rail services, and is a former managing director South West Trains. He said the consultation was \"putting the cart before the horse\".\n\n\"One of the root causes of this issue is that the present ticketing system on the rail network in Britain is mind-bogglingly complicated,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"People want versatile, knowledgeable staff, not necessarily behind a glass screen, but they also want to be knowing they're buying the right product at the right price.\"\n\nThe RDG said the proposals to close ticket offices followed industrial action by unions over other changes designed to make the railway \"sustainable in the long term\". The RDG said rail revenues were still 30% below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the proposals were not about cutting jobs, but about modernising the railway to make sure the sector survived.", "A man will spend at least nine years in prison for the killing of Northern Ireland tattoo artist Aidan Mann.\n\nThe 28-year-old, known as artist Zen Black, was stabbed 14 times at Church Street in Downpatrick, in January 2022.\n\nThe court said Aidan was an entirely innocent victim who did nothing to provoke the fatal attack.\n\nBarry Donnelly, 38, whose address was given as Church Street in Downpatrick, admitted manslaughter pleading diminished responsibility.\n\nHe was given an indeterminate custodial sentence at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe judge said Donnelly must serve at least nine years in prison before he is eligible to be considered for release.\n\nA spokesman for the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland said it was investigating a complaint of alleged police failings prior to the killing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I just think life has so much to offer\" - Aidan Mann archive recording\n\nAfter the sentencing hearing Aidan's mother spoke of the devastating impact the killing has had on Aidan's loved ones.\n\nSonya Mann said Donnelly \"stole my life when he killed my son\".\n\n\"He chased my son down the street like an animal,\" she said.\n\n\"The fear my son must have felt and the suffering - that will never, ever leave me.\"\n\nA previous hearing was told that Donnelly had been \"actively psychotic\" at the time of the attack.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty to the offences of possession of offensive weapons and assault occasioning actual bodily harm relating to a previous attack on a mother and son in June 2021.\n\nCCTV footage shown in court traced Donnelly's movements on that day of Aidan's death.\n\nThe two were neighbours - although they barely knew each other.\n\nThe deceased left his flat at about 11:00 GMT. After being approached by Donnelly, Aidan crossed the road and started running along Church Street, still wearing a motorcycle helmet and being chased by him.\n\nThe fatal stabbing happened on Church Street in Downpatrick\n\nThe chase continued and, at one point, Aidan turned round, looked back at Donnelly and appeared to gesture at him before he crossed the road into oncoming traffic.\n\nThe CCTV footage then showed Donnelly catching up with Aidan on the pavement outside a car dealership.\n\nAfter Aidan fell to the ground, Donnelly straddled his victim, who he stabbed repeatedly in the chest, leg and torso.\n\nMembers of the public intervened, pulled Donnelly off Aidan and called 999. He was arrested while still being restrained by the public.\n\nTwo large kitchen knives used by Donnelly were seized from the scene.\n\nA prosecutor at an earlier hearing said that at the scene Donnelly shouted it was a revenge attack for his brother who had been murdered the previous evening, which the lawyer said \"transpired to be completely wrong\".\n\nDonnelly was admitted to a psychiatric unit - the Shannon clinic - in the month after the killing where he remains.\n\nTwo consultant psychiatrists agreed that the defendant was suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning arising from schizophrenia at the time of the attack.\n\nA psychiatrist indicated that he would probably not need to remain for treatment much longer and envisaged him moving to prison.\n\nDonnelly's defence barrister told the court that his client had not been aware that he was suffering from acute mental illness until after the \"terrible act\" in which Aidan died.\n\nHe said his client has expressed \"regret, remorse and heartbreak\".\n\nDet Insp Foreman said said the \"senseless\" attack had happened in the late morning, \"when members of the public were going about their business\".\n\nThe detective thanked those who ran to Aidan's assistance and who phoned emergency services.\n\n\"There are no words that can undo the tragic events of that morning,\" Det Insp Foreman added.\n\n\"There's nothing that can ease the pain and sadness of those who knew and loved Aidan, and my thoughts are very much with them today.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The House of Lords has voted against government plans to weaken detention limits for children and pregnant women in its migration bill.\n\nThe legislation would scrap existing legal caps on how long they can be held ahead of being removed from the UK for arriving illegally.\n\nBut peers voted to preserve the current protections in a series of amendments.\n\nThey also voted to ban the deportation of LGBT migrants to nations including Rwanda.\n\nThe proposed changes are among 11 defeats suffered by ministers on the Illegal Migration Bill in votes on Monday evening.\n\nThey can be overturned when the bill goes back to the House of Commons, where - unlike in the Lords - the government has a majority.\n\nBut it raises the prospect of another clash between ministers and Tory backbenchers over contested aspects of the legislation.\n\nThe bill, backed by MPs in March, is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's high-profile pledge to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nIt would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe government says it is committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, despite the Court of Appeal ruling last week it was unlawful. It has already said it will appeal the decision at the Supreme Court.\n\nThere has been concern about how children will be treated under the new migration bill, as well as accusations that existing UK regulations to prevent modern slavery would be undermined.\n\nAlthough the legal duty to deport migrants would not apply to under-18s the bill would give ministers new powers to deport them in certain circumstances.\n\nIt would also get rid of the current three day-limit on how long children and pregnant women can be detained, as well as the 24-hour maximum for children unaccompanied by an adult.\n\nThe government argues detention powers are necessary to ensure migrants destined for removal do not \"disappear into the community\" - and says no one would be held longer than is \"absolutely necessary\" to ensure they are deported.\n\nIt adds that there is also an over-arching legal duty to ensure the length of detention is \"reasonable\", adding that leaving the UK voluntarily will \"always be an option for all\".\n\nHowever in series of votes on Wednesday, a handful of Conservatives teamed up with opposition peers to preserve the detention limits.\n\nTory peer Baroness Mobarik, who proposed the amendments, said \"verbal assurances\" from ministers were not enough and \"necessary safeguards\" had to be added to the bill itself.\n\n\"The psychological harms of detention on young children is significant and likely to impact them for the rest of their lives,\" she added.\n\nImmigration Minister Lord Murray of Blidworth said safeguards were already in place for the detention of pregnant women, whilst those in the later stages of pregnancy would be released on immigration bail.\n\nChild detention was also a contentious issue when the bill was debated in the Commons, with the government avoiding a showdown with Tory rebels by promising to listen to concerns.\n\nTim Loughton, who spearheaded the rebellion, said at the time he wanted a maximum limit to remain.\n\nIn other votes on Monday, the Lords voted to ban deportations of LGBT migrants to 10 mainly African countries, including Rwanda, Nigeria and Kenya - with a specific ban on trans men and women being deported to Brazil.\n\nWhen the proposed bans were initially debated last week, Crossbench peer Lord Etherton, who suggested them, said the countries were \"hostile and unsafe\" for LGBT people.\n\nPeers also approved an amendment to retain the role of the courts in deciding what a \"reasonable\" length of detention is - striking down new powers in the bill that would allow ministers to decide.", "A thick crust of black ash has settled on the pavements and roads in the centre of Jenin.\n\nIt comes from barricades of burning tyres set up by young Palestinian men, who prowl streets where they might see an Israeli jeep. Some of them carry rocks or small home-made bombs to hurl at passing Israeli vehicles. In sporadic bursts, gunfire and explosions echo in the refugee camp, which is on high ground above the town centre. Israeli drones buzz constantly overhead.\n\nAt times, armed Palestinians emerge from the tyre smoke to fire at the Israelis.\n\nViolence between Palestinians and Israelis has become almost a daily event this year. When blood is spilt there is often a dynamic of retaliation, that includes Palestinian armed groups, Jews who live in settlements in the occupied West Bank that are illegal under international law, and the Israeli army. The Israelis said they moved in on the Jenin camp because more than 50 relatively recent attacks were launched from there.\n\nBut the roots of violence, despair and hatred go much deeper than the latest violent confrontations. They thrive in the poison generated by a conflict over possession of the land that started more than a century ago. For a while, back in the 1990s, there were hopes that peace might come if an independent Palestinian state could be established alongside Israel, the so-called two-state solution. The attempt failed.\n\nPowerful Western countries, including the US, European Union members and the UK still insist that two states are the only possible solution. Their words are empty slogans. The last American attempt to try to make the idea work collapsed in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Israeli operation here in Jenin was in the air for months. Despite regular smaller Israeli raids, Palestinian armed groups had become strong enough and united enough to control the Jenin refugee camp. They seemed to be getting stronger.\n\nA fortnight ago they blew up an Israeli jeep and fought hard to repel an Israeli raid, in which the Palestinian dead included a 15-year-old girl. The next day four Israelis were killed by two Palestinians who burst into a restaurant not far from Jenin, where they were eating. The Israeli army protected Jewish settlers who rampaged through Palestinian villages burning cars and houses, in a series of reprisals.\n\nIt was a matter of time before the Israeli army moved against the Palestinians who controlled Jenin refugee camp. It says it is carrying out a systematic operation to track down and destroy weapons and explosives.\n\nFury and frustration rage through young Palestinian men who have gathered in angry knots at road junctions in the town and outside a hospital on the edge of the Jenin refugee camp. Their barricades of burning tyres leave behind black circles and piles of burnt rubber and twisted wire.\n\nThe Israeli army is releasing updates on explosives discovered and neutralised in the two days it has been in the camp, along with what it calls terrorist command centres. The business-like tone of the military communiques contrasts with the statements made by members of the Israeli cabinet who oppose any kind of Palestinian self-determination.\n\nAfter a Palestinian was shot dead in Tel Aviv by a passer-by, after he had rammed his car into a crowd of Israelis, public security minister Itamar Ben Gvir issued a statement saying Israel's war in Jenin was also their war in Tel Aviv. Every Jew, he said, was a target for murderers.\n\nMr Ben Gvir and his political allies have been pressing for a punitive sweep through the West Bank to deal with their enemies. The Israeli army is more cautious, as it is more worried about the risks and consequences of escalation. All the indications are the Israeli army would like to restrict its operation to the Jenin refugee camp, declare victory soon and order its soldiers back to their bases.\n\nIsraeli victories after an operation like this never last long. Palestinian armed groups restock their armouries and the cycle begins again. Plans to expand settlements for Jews on occupied land that Palestinians want for a state, sometimes called a Zionist response by Israeli politicians, also raise the temperature.\n\nMany Palestinians are disenchanted with their own ageing and ineffective leaders in the Palestinian Authority, a legacy of the 1990s peace process that was supposed back then to build the institutions necessary to create their own state.\n\nWhen this operation ends, on past form both sides will claim victory. Then the current realities of this long conflict will reassert themselves. Anger, despair and poverty will reinforce the culture of resistance that has embedded itself in Palestinian society, especially here in Jenin and in Nablus. And Israel's right-wing, hyper-nationalist government, as long as it lasts, will try to match its rhetoric with action.\n\nThe real danger is that Israelis and Palestinians are sliding into an even more violent phase of their long conflict.", "A number of recent reports have been critical of aspects of approach to relationships and sex education in Northern Ireland\n\nChildren should be taught about \"healthy, respectful relationships\" from a young age.\n\nThat is one of the key actions in a new Stormont framework on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG).\n\nIt also said young people should be involved in developing new relationships and sex education (RSE) for schools.\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a specific EVAWG strategy at present.\n\nThe Stormont Executive first recommended a strategy should be developed to protect women and girls in Northern Ireland from violence in 2021.\n\nThe Executive Office has now published a \"strategic framework\" and initial action plan for consultation.\n\nThe aim of the framework is \"a changed society where women and girls are free from all forms of gender-based violence, abuse and harm\".\n\nIn her foreword to it, the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Jayne Brady, said ending violence against women and girls was \"one of the most difficult challenges facing our society today\".\n\n\"It is also one of the most important,\" she added.\n\nThe action plan defines violence against women and girls as ranging from \"everyday misogynistic attitudes and damaging social norms to harmful unwanted behaviours and serious criminal offences\".\n\nIt said such acts were \"overwhelmingly but not exclusively carried out by men\".\n\nThe action plan also stated that a lot of abuse and harm went unreported, so what is reported is \"only the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nThere are 22 recommended actions in year one of the plan.\n\nThose include a forum to decide how best young people can be taught about healthy, respectful relationships in school - including in Relationships and Sex Education (RSE).\n\nA number of recent reports have been critical of aspects of approach to RSE in Northern Ireland.\n\nA previous consultation on the EVAWG strategy also said that changes to RSE should be part of it.\n\nThe action plan includes initial work on measures to combat violence against women and girls in higher and further education, workplaces and the hospitality sector.\n\nIt found that an analysis of frontline provision should be carried out to improve services for victims.\n\nThat includes increasing the confidence of victims in the justice system.\n\nThe former High Court judge Sir John Gillen had previously recommended extensive changes to how sexual offences were dealt with in Northern Ireland.\n\nSir John said the justice system had \"much to change\".\n\nResearch suggests that four in five women first experienced men's violence before the age of 20\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland recently published its first ever action plan aimed at reducing violence against women and girls.\n\nThe overall aim of the strategic framework, meanwhile, is on prevention, \"tackling the root causes and stopping the violence before it starts\".\n\nRecent research quoted in the framework suggests that 75% of girls aged 16 have \"experienced street harassment at least once in their lifetime\".\n\nSeparate research suggests that four in five women \"first experienced men's violence before the age of 20\".\n\nThe framework also said that 42 women had been murdered in Northern Ireland from January 2013 to June 2023 - one every three months.\n\nAmong the measures put forward in the strategic framework are for children to be taught about healthy relationships from \"early years\" and for \"accessible\" RSE to be developed in collaboration with young people.\n\n\"Our young people are exposed to messages online which undervalue, demean and humiliate women and girls, as well as increased access to pornography from a young age,\" the framework document said.\n\n\"In addition, there has been a recent rise of online influencers who have a toxic influence on men and boys in our society, and negatively impact their views on women and girls.\"\n\nYouth, faith and sport organisations should also engage men in tackling violence against women, the document said.\n\nA number of other prevention strategies are suggested, including identifying \"champions\" and influencers to drive a change in attitudes across society.\n\nThe framework and action plan have been developed with a range of organisations in Northern Ireland, including Women's Aid, the Women's Resource and Development Agency, Nexus NI and Relate NI.\n\nSarah Mason from Women's Aid Federation NI said the current level of education around healthy relationships was not sufficient.\n\n\"We are leaving our young people to try and figure out relationships and intimate relationships in the palm of their hand in phones.\n\n\"And I mean, that's not where it should be. They should be in safe places understanding about respect,\" she said on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"We cannot keep losing women and girls to violence in this country. So the sooner that we get on this road and we start making the changes, the better.\n\n\"And money needs to be behind it.\"\n• None Upskirting now a crime after campaign", "Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nomov were taken to hospital for treatment for their injuries\n\nProminent investigative journalist Yelena Milashina has been badly beaten by masked men moments after flying in to the Russian republic of Chechnya.\n\nShe described being forced out of a car, hit with plastic pipes and having her head shaved and doused in green dye not far from the airport.\n\nMs Milashina has received death threats in the past from Chechnya's notorious leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.\n\nShe was travelling with lawyer Alexander Nemov, who was also wounded.\n\nThey had just arrived at Grozny airport to attend a court verdict for a mother of three exiled Kadyrov critics. But they were unable to make the hearing, where Zarema Musayeva was given a five-and-a-half-year jail term on charges condemned as politically motivated.\n\nChechnya has been run by Ramzan Kadyrov since 2007. A staunch ally of Vladimir Putin and a cheerleader for the war in Ukraine, he has been widely accused of ordering extrajudicial killings, abductions and torture at home.\n\nThe journalist and lawyer described how their car had been ambushed by a group of at least 10 masked men in three cars a short distance from the airport. She said later they believed the men had been waiting for them inside the airport.\n\n\"It was a classic kidnapping,\" Yelena Milashina told a Chechen human rights official in hospital in Grozny. \"They pinned down then threw our driver out of his car, climbed in, bent our heads down, tied my hands, forced me to my knees and put a gun to my head.\"\n\n\"They threw us on the side of the road and started kicking us in the face, all over the body... they stabbed me in the leg,\" Mr Nemov was quoted as telling the Russian bar association.\n\nThey were then dragged into a ravine, Ms Milashina explained later, and the men started beating them with plastic polypropylene pipes, demanding that they unlock their mobile phones. She explained her password was too complicated to tap in while being beaten.\n\n\"They didn't understand, and by the time they did they had already shaved me and poured green dye on me and I didn't see a thing,\" she told Sergei Babinets of rights group Crew against Torture.\n\nAlthough the dye is used as an antiseptic, it has also been used in earlier attacks on dissidents in Russia, including Alexei Navalny.\n\nAlexander Nemov and Yelena Milashina were initially treated in hospital in Grozny before being moved out of Chechnya\n\nShe suffered a brain injury from the beating and was initially diagnosed with three broken fingers, although doctors said later they were still intact.\n\nAlexander Nemov was also badly injured and Crew against Torture posted an image showing the stab wound to his leg. Ms Milashina said the polypropylene pipes they were beaten with were \"very painful\" and usually used on detainees.\n\nThe Kremlin said it was a very serious attack that had to be investigated. But Memorial, a human rights group banned by Russia, said there was no doubt that the Moscow and Grozny authorities were \"united in their actions\".\n\nMs Milashina fled Russia for some time in February 2022 after Kadyrov had called her a terrorist, saying \"we have always eliminated terrorists and their accomplices\". She was attacked in 2020 alongside another lawyer, Marina Dubrovina.\n\nHer investigative reporting detailing human rights abuses in Chechnya followed in the footsteps of two women who were murdered for similar work there. In 2006 Novaya Gazeta colleague Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, while her friend and campaigner Natalia Estemirova was abducted and shot in Grozny.\n\nMs Milashina told the BBC's Ukrainecast only last week that she was fully aware that Kadyrov and his entourage could \"easily fulfil\" the death threats he had issued.\n\n\"I'm kind of getting used to it because, several times almost every year, Kadyrov is passing threats to my address or the address of journalists of Novaya Gazeta... He behaves like [he's] the owner of the Chechnya region.\"\n\nZarema Musayeva was found guilty of fraud and assaulting a police officer - charges rejected by rights groups as trumped up\n\nAmnesty International condemned what it called \"this cowardly assault\" and urged the Russian authorities to \"swiftly bring the perpetrators to justice and ensure the safety of those who seek truth and justice\".\n\nA senior official at the Council of Europe, a major human rights watchdog, said it was \"deeply worrying that this incident is part of a disturbing pattern of attacks on journalists and collaborators of Novaya Gazeta\". The official, Dunja Mijatovic, urged the council's member states to \"demand accountability and stand by journalists in the Russian Federation\".\n\nLast year the pro-Kremlin Chechen leader sent troops, known as \"Kadyrovtsy\", into Ukraine, where they have built a reputation for brutality. He has also been linked to the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.\n\nHe was handed the presidency of the southern Russian republic by Mr Putin three years after his father was assassinated as president in 2004.\n\nWhen Zarema Musayeva, 53, was detained by Chechen security officers last year, 1,800km (1,120 miles) north of Grozny, Kadyrov said the entire family should either be \"in prison or underground\".\n\nMusayeva's three sons all fled Chechnya after they spoke out online about the Chechen leader's human rights abuses. Her husband, a former judge, was at one point detained, but also fled.", "Last updated on .From the section Forest Green\n\nForest Green Rovers have named Hannah Dingley as their new caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men's team in English football.\n\nThe League Two side sacked Duncan Ferguson on Tuesday after just six months in charge.\n\nForest Green announced Dingley, the club's academy head, would be put in caretaker charge of the first team.\n\nHer first match in charge will be a friendly at Melksham Town on Wednesday.\n\nThe 39-year-old said: \"I'm really excited for this next step of my career. Pre-season has just begun, and the full season kicks off very soon.\n\n\"It's an exciting time in football. I am grateful for the opportunity to step up and lead such a progressive and forward-thinking club.\"\n\nShe first joined the club in 2019 to take charge of the academy and remains the only woman to manage a men's English Football League academy.\n\nDingley, who was born and raised in Carmarthenshire, also initiated the club's girls academy which launched in 2021.\n\nShe has a Uefa Pro Licence and previously worked at Burton Albion.\n\n\"Hannah was the natural choice for us to be first team interim head coach - she's done a fantastic job leading our academy and is well aligned with the values of the club,\" club chairman Dale Vince said\n\n\"It's perhaps telling for the men's game that in making this appointment on merit, we'll break new ground - and Hannah will be the first female head coach in English [men's] football.\"\n\nThe EFL's head of equality, diversity and inclusion, Dave McArdle, praised the appointment: \"This is a welcome moment for English football and with many highly skilled and experienced coaches across the game it was only a matter of time before the ongoing positive development of female coaches led to an opportunity in the first-team at an EFL club.\n\n\"It has always been a key priority for the EFL to create an environment in which clubs consider qualified candidates from an ever-widening pool of coaching talent and select the best possible person for a role.\n\n\"This represents another step forward as we strive to make our game representative of the communities we serve.\"\n\nWomen in Football's chair Ebru Koksal also tweeted that Dingley had broken \"norms and barriers\".\n\n'More than capable of coaching at a men's level'\n\nDingley spoke to BBC Points West in March about breaking down barriers in the sport.\n\n\"You've got a responsibility as the first to open the doors for others and to encourage others,\" she said.\n\n\"You always say if you don't see it, you're probably not going to be it. The fact that I do this I hope it encourages more females to come into coaching, into football, into different roles. I feel a great responsibility to talk about that.\"\n\nShe said at the time that she did not think it would be long until a woman took charge of a men's professional team.\n\n\"It will come in sooner than you think,\" Dingley said. \"The success that the Lionesses are having, that Emma Hayes is having at Chelsea.\n\n\"There are others, really good female coaches out there who I have more than faith in would be more than capable of coaching at a men's level.\"\n• None In an emotional interview he opens up about what motivated him despite his very humble origins\n• None Sue Barker travels the globe to find out", "Aneira Thomas told Prince William she had been born on the same day as the NHS\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales have met the first person born under the National Health Service, at a tea party celebrating the NHS's 75th anniversary.\n\nAneira Thomas told them she had been born in Carmarthenshire at 00:01 on 5 July 1948, the same day as the NHS.\n\nShe was named after the NHS founder and then Health Minister Aneurin Bevan.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales, told current and ex-NHS staff at the party, at St Thomas' Hospital, in London, \"I wanted to come here and say thank you.\"\n\nMrs Thomas told the royal couple: \"Every maternity ward in the country was waiting for the first baby.\n\n\"The doctors delivering me kept looking at the clock, looking back at Mum.\n\n\"She was waiting to hear the word 'push' - but all she heard was, 'Hold on, Edna.'\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales were putting the icing on cakes for the NHS birthday celebrations\n\nMrs Thomas went on to work in the NHS, as a mental-health nurse. Her four sisters also became nurses.\n\nThe NHS had also \"saved both of my children\", she said, when her son and daughter had suffered \"life-changing brain haemorrhages\".\n\nMrs Thomas has previously told a family story from before the founding of the NHS, recalling that when her grandfather broke his leg they had to sell their piano to pay the doctor's bill.\n\nPrince William and Catherine also spoke to Blanche Hines, a nurse for almost 50 years and part of the Windrush generation, whose daughter and grandson also work in health services.\n\n\"Wishing everyone a very happy 75th birthday at the NHS,\" Prince William told guests at the event, organised by NHS Charities Together.\n\nThe anniversary comes in a year when NHS staff have been taking industrial action in disputes over pay.\n\nThe NHS charities focus on the wellbeing of the workforce, including offering psychological support and counselling.\n\nConsultant clinical psychologist Dr Neil Rees said Prince William had \"really understood the issues and complexities - particularly with the current challenges we're facing\".\n\nThe royal visitors, filmed preparing cakes for the party, also addressed another question. Which goes on top on a scone - the jam or the cream?\n\n\"I always do jam and then cream,\" Catherine said.\n\nBut Prince William, remaining politically neutral, replied: \"I go for whichever is closest to me.\"\n\nRead the latest royal news and insights in a free, weekly newsletter - sign up here.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nNovak Djokovic dried the court with his towel and urged the crowd to \"blow\" in a farcical rain delay as his Wimbledon title defence began with a win.\n\nBut after the first set there was no play for 80 minutes, despite the closed roof, with Djokovic dabbing the grass before ground staff used leaf blowers.\n\n\"Every time I come out I normally have racquets, not towels - it was fun to do something different,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"It was a little bit [of] a strange feeling but hopefully you guys liked it.\n\n\"It was definitely frustrating for all the crowd waiting for us to come out on court. We both wanted to play but the conditions were not great and still slippery.\n\n\"Once the roof was open it was a different story and after five or 10 minutes we were able to play.\"\n\nDjokovic, aiming to secure his eighth Wimbledon title and match Roger Federer's record for a male player, will now play Australia's Jordan Thompson, ranked 70th in the world, following his five-set win over American Brandon Nakashima, 55th in the world.\n\nAmusing scenes as Djokovic tries to dry the court\n\nDjokovic, who has not lost on Centre Court since being beaten by Andy Murray in the 2013 final, was a break up in the first set, but complained the surface was getting slippery with drops of rain falling.\n\nHe wrapped up the set just before a shower at 14:20 BST, with the roof then fully closed 15 minutes later.\n\nBut in that time enough water had got on to the court before the covers came on to cause a lengthy delay.\n\nWith the covers off and the roof still closed, the players inspected the surface at 14:55, but were not happy with it and the crowd were told by the umpire that \"the court is taking longer than expected to dry\".\n\nThere followed some amusing scenes when Djokovic appeared with a towel, urged the 15,000-strong crowd to \"blow\" at the same time to dry the court, with him then wiping the grass himself.\n\nAfter that, three members of ground staff, each armed with a leaf blower, also tried to dry the surface, while the fans began to get restless with a half-hearted slow hand clap and then a Mexican wave.\n\nWith the leaf blowers and the towel not doing enough, the roof was reopened at 15:40 in an attempt to dry the grass naturally with the rain having stopped.\n\nIt did the job and play resumed just before 15:50 with Djokovic able to take control with two breaks in the second set against his opponent, who battled hard but was outclassed.\n\nIf he keeps winning, Djokovic will not have to play a top-30 ranked opponent until the fourth round at the earliest.\n\nRussia's seventh seed Andrey Rublev is a potential opponent for Djokovic in the quarter-finals and he began his campaign with a 6-3 7-5 6-4 success over Australia's Max Purcell.\n\nRublev, unable to play at Wimbledon in 2022 because of the ban handed out to Russian and Belarusian players after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was only in trouble in the second set at 5-2 down before he won five games in a row in a 6-3 7-5 6-4 victory.\n\n\"I feel really happy to be back, because I haven't played much Wimbledon - I was injured or it was the pandemic or then they ban us,\" said Rublev.\n\n\"It feels really special to play at one of the best tournaments and to get a win was a nice moment.\"\n\nAsked if he felt Wimbledon made a mistake by forcing the ban on Russian players last year, Rublev, who wrote 'No War Please' on a camera lens after advancing to the final at the Dubai Championships in February 2022, replied: \"We were talking and I think we could find the solution.\n\n\"If we really want to help or do what is better for tennis and for the people, obviously there were better options. Not just to ban, because in the end, [there] was no difference.\n\n\"But it is what it is. Now we are here, and I'm really happy to be back and to compete.\"\n\nNorwegian fourth seed Casper Ruud, who lost to Djokovic in last month's French Open final, was tested by Laurent Lokoli of France before eventually going through in four sets on Court One.\n\nRuud will play Great Britain's Liam Broady in the second round.\n\nElsewhere, there were successes for 14th seed Lorenzo Musetti and 17th seed Hubert Hurkacz against Juan Pablo Varillas of Peru and Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain respectively.\n\nBut there was a first-round exit for Canadian 11th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime, who lost in four sets to American Michael Mmoh.\n\nThe first three sets all went to tie-breaks before Mmoh, ranked 119th in the world and whose only previous singles appearance at Wimbledon was a first-round loss in 2018, closed out a 7-6 6-7 7-6 6-4 victory.\n\nNumber eight seed Jannik Sinner from Italy completed his victory over Juan Manuel Cerundolo on Centre Court at 21:20 BST, but ninth seed Taylor Fritz was one of the players forced off by bad light - the American is 3-2 up on serve in the final set against Germany's Yannick Hanfmann.\n• None Follow live coverage of the first day of Wimbledon\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None In an emotional interview he opens up about what motivated him despite his very humble origins\n• None Sue Barker travels the globe to find out", "Captain Sir Tom Moore became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown\n\nThe daughter of Capt Sir Tom Moore has been told to knock down an unauthorised building used as a spa after a planning application was rejected.\n\nHannah Ingram-Moore and her husband used the Captain Tom Foundation name on the first plans for the building, with later revised plans turned down.\n\nThe charity is also no longer taking donations or making payments due to an ongoing inquiry into its finances.\n\nMs Ingram-Moore and the foundation have been contacted for comment.\n\nCentral Bedfordshire Council said the demolition order was subject to an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.\n\nThe Army veteran walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden at the start of the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020, raising £33m for NHS Charities Together.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, died in 2021 aged 100.\n\nCapt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk, which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nAfter he became an international figure, his family set up a separate charity in his name.\n\nIn a statement on the Captain Tom Foundation website, the charity said its \"sole focus...is to ensure that it cooperates fully with the on-going statutory inquiry by the Charity Commission\".\n\n\"As a result, The Captain Tom Foundation is not presently actively seeking any funding from donors. Accordingly, we have also taken the decision to close all payment channels whilst the statutory inquiry remains open,\" it said.\n\nThe statement added that when the inquiry concluded it would \"be in a better position to make a decision in relation to its future\".\n\nWhen the inquiry was started a year ago, the Charity Commission said \"concerns have mounted\" over the charity and independence from a business run by Capt Sir Tom's family.\n\nCapt Sir Tom's daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, set up a charity following the veteran's death\n\nHannah Ingram-Moore is the younger of Capt Sir Tom's two daughters and lived with the Army veteran at the family home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.\n\nIt has emerged the Ingram-Moores requested planning permission for a \"Captain Tom Foundation Building\", which was \"for use by occupiers... and Captain Tom Foundation\", according to documents submitted to Central Bedfordshire Council in August 2021.\n\nThe local authority granted permission for the single-storey structure to be built on the tennis courts at the Grade II-listed home, as first reported in The Sun.\n\nThen, in February 2022, the family submitted revised plans for the already partly constructed building, which called it the \"Captain Tom Building\".\n\nThe plans included a spa pool, toilets and a kitchen, which the Design & Access and Heritage Statement said was \"for private use\".\n\nIn November 2022, Central Bedfordshire Council refused the retrospective planning permission for the revised plans.\n\nA council spokesperson said: \"An enforcement notice requiring the demolition of the now-unauthorised building was issued and this is now subject to an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.\"\n\nThe Captain Tom Moore Foundation did not respond to the BBC's request for comment on the planning application, but told The Sun the trustees were unaware and \"would not have authorised\" the plans had they known.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bank bosses have been summoned by the UK's financial watchdog over concerns interest rates on savings are too low.\n\nHigher interest rates have led banks to put up mortgage costs sharply, but savings rates are not rising as fast.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt says it is an \"issue which needs solving\", at a time when many households are struggling with the soaring cost of living.\n\nThe heads of Lloyds, HSBC, NatWest and Barclays banks will meet the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Thursday.\n\nThe City watchdog will press the banks on their savings rates and on how they communicate with customers, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the meeting.\n\nHSBC said it had increased its savings rates \"more than a dozen times since the beginning of last year, with every savings product seeing rates increased on multiple occasions during that time\".\n\nBarclays declined to comment on the meeting, but said it \"regularly\" reviewed its savings rates.\n\nLloyds and NatWest have also been contacted by the BBC for comment.\n\nIn a tweet, the chancellor said: \"@TheFCA has my full backing to ensure banks are passing on better rates as they should be.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has been steadily increasing UK interest rates since December 2021 as it tries to bring down soaring price rises.\n\nIts base rate - which has a direct effect on mortgage and savings rates - is now 5%, up from close to zero 18 months ago.\n\nThe Bank is trying to make it more expensive for people to borrow money, and more worthwhile for them to save - the idea being that they will spend less and price increases will cool.\n\nBut while average mortgage rates have soared above 6% in recent weeks, returns on savings and current accounts have risen by a much smaller amount.\n\nOn Tuesday, the average rate for a two-year mortgage deal hit 6.47%, while the average easy access savings rate was 2.45%, a gap of 4.02 percentage points.\n\nIona Bain, a financial writer and broadcaster, told the BBC that if savings rates did not keep pace with inflation, then people's savings were effectively \"being destroyed\".\n\nShe added that banks had been offering poor savings rates since at least 2008, in the aftermath of the financial crisis.\n\nPart of the problem was that the biggest High Street lenders effectively had a \"monopoly\", she said, even though challenger banks were slowly encouraging people to shop around.\n\n\"Current account switching has gone up but it is still very low,\" Ms Bain said. \"But until the public vote with their feet nothing is going to change.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Harriett Baldwin, chair of the Treasury Select Committee, said the committee had been putting pressure on the banks all year over the issue.\n\n\"We're quite sure these rates are measly and that the banks are not treating our constituents fairly,\" she said.\n\n\"We're particularly concerned about some of our older constituents who have savings, who are unable to use internet banking and find it difficult to switch,\" she added.\n\nBanks' profits generally rise in line with interest rates, but lenders argue that savers have access to a host of competitive deals.\n\nUK Finance, the trade body for the banking sector, has previously said saving and mortgage rates \"aren't directly linked and therefore move at different times and by different amounts\".\n\nHowever, the chancellor has said banks are \"taking too long\" to pass on increases in interest rates to savers and has raised it with chief executives, who faced questions from MPs in February.\n\nThe FCA has said it will produce a report by the end of the month on how well the cash savings market is supporting savers.\n\nAre you a bank saver? How do the rates of interest affect you? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The incident killed more than 1,400 fish, the court heard\n\nThames Water has been fined £3.3m after it discharged millions of litres of undiluted sewage into two rivers, killing more than 1,400 fish.\n\nThere was a \"significant and lengthy\" release of sewage from treatment works near Gatwick Airport in October 2017 into the Gatwick Stream in Sussex and River Mole in Surrey, a court heard.\n\nThames Water admitted four charges in an Environment Agency prosecution.\n\nIt was handed the fine during sentencing at Lewes Crown Court.\n\nThe company, which serves 15 million households, faces concerns over its future amid mounting debt.\n\nJudge Christine Laing KC said she believed Thames Water had shown a \"deliberate attempt\" to mislead the Environment Agency, by omitting water readings and submitting a report to the regulator denying responsibility.\n\nThe court heard how a storm pump unexpectedly activated and was filling up the storm tank, despite no substantial rainfall, for 21 hours, which went unnoticed.\n\nThe pump then spilled sewage into the river for an estimated six hours but no alarm was in place to alert staff to the overspill, the court was told.\n\nWhen an alarm was heard, the lead technician was uncontactable because they were awaiting a new mobile phone, the court was told.\n\nThames Water pleaded guilty to four charges relating to polluting the rivers\n\nThe judge said she found it \"utterly extraordinary\" that environmental disasters could occur because of issues such as this.\n\nShe said the company \"should have put in every effort into tidying up the problem areas\".\n\nThames Water has had 20 previous fines for pollution spillage.\n\nLast week, the company's chief executive, Sarah Bentley, stepped down after two years in the role, weeks after giving up her bonus over sewage spills.\n\nOutside court, Jamie Lloyd, Environment Agency senior officer, told the BBC: \"Firstly, when the alarm at the sewage works went off, they didn't inform the Environment Agency. They told us actually several times that nothing had happened at the sewage works.\n\n\"When they did accept responsibility, they then submitted a formal challenge asking us to remove the incident from our records, so, yes, they seemed to try and mislead the investigations that we were undertaking.\"\n\nThe Environment Agency said the firm allowed untreated sewage to pour into rivers outside storm conditions, which was illegal.\n\nIt said a stretch of river measuring nearly 5km, containing protected species such as European eel and brown trout, was in grave danger.\n\nThe agency said the storm lagoon was three-quarters of its legally-required size, meaning it filled with sewage earlier, discharged into rivers sooner, and gave less protection to fish.\n\nMitigation measures were available but missed and logbooks showed staff rated equipment as \"unsatisfactory\", before and after the incident, the agency said.\n\nAfter sentencing, Richard Ayland, sustainability director for Thames Water, said: \"This incident happened six years ago. That was then, this is now.\n\n\"We've had a new chief executive who came in and has spent three years devising a turnaround plan which is setting us on the road to a much more secure future for the company and the environment.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Environment said the fine would be paid into a treasury fund, but in the future water company environmental fines and penalties would be reinvested into the government's water restoration fund.\n\nThe record fine against a water company for illegal discharge of sewage is held by Southern Water at £90m.\n\nThat fine followed nearly 7,000 incidents across Hampshire, Kent and Sussex in a case brought by the Environment Agency in 2021.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Are you in a parallel universe on economy and NHS? - PM asked\n\nThe UK Prime Minister has urged homeowners and borrowers to \"hold their nerve\" over rising interest rates aimed at bringing down stubborn inflation.\n\nRishi Sunak told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: \"I want people to be reassured that we've got to hold our nerve, stick to the plan and we will get through this.\"\n\nThis week the Bank of England raised interest rates to a 15-year high of 5%.\n\nMillions of people are facing higher mortgage repayments following the rise.\n\nMeanwhile, those who rent could face higher payments or the prospect of squeezed landlords selling their property, according to the National Residential Landlords Association.\n\nMr Sunak continued to back the Bank of England despite some Conservatives saying it has not done enough to bring inflation back to its 2% target.\n\nInflation - which measures the rate at which prices are rising - remained at 8.7% in May despite the Bank raising interest rates 13 times since December 2021.\n\n\"I can tell you as prime minister, the Bank of England is doing the right thing,\" Mr Sunak told the BBC. \"The Bank of England has my total support. Inflation is the enemy.\"\n\nHe said: \"People need help, not a prime minister instructing them to hold their nerve.\n\n\"Struggling homeowners will be rightly furious after watching an out of touch prime minister who has no idea of the pain caused by rising mortgage rates.\"\n\nMr Sunak has pledged to halve inflation by the end of the year.\n\nBut former Treasury Minister Andrea Leadsom accused the Bank of doing \"too little, too late\".\n\nWhile Karen Ward, a member of chancellor Jeremy Hunt's economic advisory council, said the Bank had \"been too hesitant\" in its interest rate rises so far and called on it to \"create a recession\" to bring inflation under control.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We've got to hold our nerve and stick to plan on finances, says Sunak\n\nMr Sunak said: \"I've never said that it's not challenging. I've never said that this isn't going to be a difficult time to get through. But what I want to give people the reassurance and confidence is, that we've got a plan, the plan will work and we will get through this.\"\n\nIn recent weeks, banks and building societies have been withdrawing mortgage deals in anticipation of higher interest rates.\n\nThe average two-year fixed residential mortgage is now 6.19% while the five-year rate is 5.82%. In June last year, those rates were closer to 3%.\n\nLast week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt met with UK banks who have agreed that borrowers will be able to make a temporary change to their mortgage terms.\n\nThe voluntary changes allow homeowners to just pay the interest on their mortgages and Mr Hunt said this would not affect borrowers' credit scores.\n\nLabour has called for the agreements to be mandatory and rolled out across the banking sector. Otherwise, according to Labour's housing secretary Lisa Nandy, an estimated two million people \"will not experience the benefits\".\n\nThe government must \"not just talk a good game,\" Ms Nandy told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg,\"but make sure that it happens\".\n\nElsewhere Labour has called on banks to pass on interest rate rises to savers in order to reduce inflation.\n\nThe Lib Dems have called for a targeted Mortgage Protection Fund, paying grants of up to £300 a month to homeowners on the lowest incomes and those suffering from the sharpest rises in rates.", "Police cars were parked outside the temporary housing unit in Sidegate Lane on Friday\n\nA man and woman have been charged with murder following the death of a two-year-old girl.\n\nThe body was found by police at a temporary housing unit in Sidegate Lane, Ipswich, at about 11:45 BST on Friday.\n\nSuffolk Constabulary said officers arrested two people in Bury St Edmunds in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nScott Jeff and Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell are now due to appear at Ipswich Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nThe force said that the pair - both aged 22 and of no fixed address but previously from Bedfordshire - were known to the victim.\n\nFloral tributes were left at the housing unit after the toddler was found dead on Friday\n\nFurther tests were required as part of the post-mortem examination, officers said.\n\nSuffolk Constabulary also said a mandatory referral had been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct because of previous police contact with the deceased \"elsewhere\".\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Court in London for the third day of his trial\n\nActor Kevin Spacey kissed a man twice and grabbed his crotch while telling his alleged victim to \"be cool\", a court in London has heard.\n\nThe man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, alleges he was approached by the actor after he accidentally let his dog out.\n\nHis police interview was played to jurors at Southwark Crown Court during the third day of Mr Spacey's trial.\n\nThe American actor is facing 12 charges, all of which he denies.\n\nThe accuser told police in the recording that he was working in a pub at the time when the actor came in with a small dog.\n\nHe said Mr Spacey sat by the sofa area and introduced himself.\n\nThe man later told the actor that there were \"very limited\" things to do in the area where they were and that he was meeting some friends at another pub after he finished work.\n\nThe man told the detective that Mr Spacey replied: \"Cool, I might see you down there\".\n\nWhen the man got to the other pub, he said he heard an American accent calling his name and looked up to see Mr Spacey.\n\nThe complainant then told the detective that he and others then went back to where Mr Spacey was staying for some drinks.\n\nIt was during the drinks that the complainant said he was looking for a coat in one of the cupboards, and remembered a \"little dog\" shooting out between his legs.\n\nThe man said he turned around, picked up the dog and put the animal back in the room.\n\nIt was then he alleged that the actor came towards him in a \"huggy motion\".\n\n\"We did an awkward man-hug... he hugged me, I did a sort of pat on the back type of thing.\n\n\"At that point he kissed my neck twice and grabbed my crotch. He said the words 'be cool, be cool' twice.\n\n\"I put my arm between us and pushed him against a wall. I said 'I am sorry, I don't bat for that team'.\"\n\nHe said Mr Spacey had a \"panicked\" look on his face and left the room.\n\nThe complainant said he then stood \"momentarily for a couple of seconds almost in disbelief that that happened\".\n\nHe left the property, and rang his father in a \"bit of a panicky state\".\n\nIn the police interview he told the detective he remembers thinking his father wouldn't believe him because it was April Fool's Day.\n\nWhen asked by the detective how the alleged incident made him feel, the man replied: \"It was unwanted. It shook me up.\"\n\nRecalling when Mr Spacey had met him and his friends at the pub, he told police the star joined his group and began drinking double Jack Daniels and colas while he had pints of Guinness.\n\nThe man said the actor became \"quite open\" with them, but began touching the legs of members of the group.\n\nHe said: \"There were a few moments where he had put his hand on your back, (or) pat you on the back, or put his hand on your knee or something.\n\n\"It was not anything that we thought too much about, just sort of moved to the side or moved his hands away.\"\n\nMr Spacey then allegedly told the group and others: \"If you want to carry on the party I have got drink, wine and beer back at the house and a few spliffs.\"\n\nMr Spacey is accused of one charge of sexual assault in relation to this complainant, which the actor denies.\n\nIn January, Mr Spacey - who is referred to in court proceedings by his full name, Kevin Spacey Fowler - pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nIt is these 12 charges which Mr Spacey is currently on trial for, brought by four men stretching from 2001 to 2013.\n\nAll four accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.", "Three men arrested earlier in connection with the attempted murder of Det Ch Insp John Caldwell have been charged with terrorism offences.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was shot after coaching a youth football team in Omagh, County Tyrone, on 22 February.\n\nThe men, aged 45, 47 and 58, have all been charged with preparatory acts of terrorism.\n\nThe 45-year-old and the 58-year-old have also been charged with possessing articles for use in terrorism.\n\nThey have both been further charged with providing property for the purposes of terrorism.\n\nAll three men are expected to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nThe men were arrested under the Terrorism Act in Newtownabbey, Coalisland and Belfast on Tuesday.\n\nThere have been 31 arrests to date over the attack on Det Ch Insp Caldwell - a figure that includes individuals who have been arrested more than once.\n\nThe shooting happened at a sports complex in Omagh\n\nThe dissident republican group the New IRA said it carried out the shooting, at a sports complex car park.\n\nSeven men have appeared in court charged in relation to the attack.\n\nThe shooting, which happened in front of school children, was widely condemned by political figures across Northern Ireland and beyond.", "Israeli security and emergency personnel inspect the car used in the attack in Tel Aviv Image caption: Israeli security and emergency personnel inspect the car used in the attack in Tel Aviv\n\nA person who was at the scene of the car ramming attack in Tel Aviv today has been speaking about what they saw.\n\n\"I saw the grey pick-up pull up at peak speed and ram the bus stop, powerfully,\" Liron Bahash, a sports teacher who was on a lunch break, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"In the first seconds you think it could have been a mistake by the driver.\n\n\"He exited through the window, not the door, like in a movie, with a knife in hand and started chasing civilians. Now you understand it's an attack. We ran for our lives.\"", "The moon illuminated the sky as it rose over the Russian Foreign Ministry building in Moscow, Russia\n\nThe Moon has left people gazing up at the sky after appearing brighter and larger than usual on Monday evening.\n\nJuly's supermoon is appearing full for up to three days, according to Nasa.\n\nKnown as a Buck Moon, it is closer than normal in its orbit around the Earth.\n\nThis is because the Moon's orbit is not a perfect circle due to the Earth's gravitational pull; instead it is elliptical, like an elongated circle or oval.\n\nBecause of this, there are times in the Moon's 27.32-day orbit when it is closer to the Earth and other times when it is further away.\n\nA supermoon happens when the Moon is at the closest point to Earth in its orbit and also in its full Moon phase.\n\nThe full Moon in July was given the Native American name of Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer are in full growth mode in July, according to the Royal Observatory. Bucks shed and regrow their antlers.\n\nThe Moon reached peak illumination at 12:39 BST (07:39 Eastern Time) on Monday, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.\n\nThe Almanac, which has published astronomical data for centuries, said the Buck Moon would orbit closer to the Earth than full Moons we have already had this year.\n\nAugust's full Moon will be the only supermoon closer to the Earth this year, the publication said.\n\nHere are some pictures of the Buck Moon from around the world on Sunday and Monday:\n\nThe moon was seen clearly in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday\n\nThe supermoon provided a captivating backdrop while a tractor ploughed a field near the city of Ashkelon, in southern Israel, on Monday\n\nThe Buck Moon lit up the blue sky as it rose over St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear on Sunday\n\nThe full moon rose above the Ancient Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, in Sounion, Greece on Sunday\n\nThe moon rose behind the Canton Tower in Guangzhou, China on Monday\n\nThe dark sky in Stockingford, Warwickshire, was illuminated by the orange tones of the Buck Moon on Sunday\n\nA full moon sets behind the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, in Istanbul, Turkey on Monday\n\nNew York City's iconic Statue of Liberty shared the skyline with the Buck Moon on Sunday\n\nSpectators watching a sports game do not appear to notice the full moon behind them in Kutaisi, Georgia on Sunday\n\nThe supermoon was spotted next to a street lamp light in L'Aquila, Italy on Sunday\n\nA bird flies past the Buck Moon as it rises in the sky over a lighthouse at the port of Malaga, Spain\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Government borrowing costs - which directly impact mortgage rates - have risen to their highest rate since last September when the Liz Truss mini-budget sparked days of turmoil on the financial markets.\n\nThe market interest rate for the UK government to borrow money over two years is now effectively higher than it reached in the aftermath of that mini-budget. It is also the highest level for a decade and a half and now clearly higher than seen for the US government.\n\nThe fact that this is not the same market panic as last autumn will come as little respite to many people renewing their mortgages.\n\nAll this reflects market expectations that the UK has a specific problem with stubborn and sticky inflation that will require higher interest rates for longer. Some market bets now see a half percentage point rate rise next week, and rates settling closer to 6% than 5% at the end of the year.\n\nThere is an important difference to the mini-budget aftermath. The moves are being seen mainly in short-term rates. The real problem last autumn was for longer term 10- and 30-year borrowing, which saw significant moves in yields, the result of a loss of market confidence in the then government's tax and spend plans. Current rates for such long-term borrowing are still well below that market panic.\n\nToday's move is more like a steady squeeze as the markets come to terms with the idea of the Bank of England keeping rates higher for longer had been expected, and above rates seen in similar economies.\n\nIt will be no less problematic for some homeowners. The two-year rate forms the floor for two-year fixed-rate mortgage borrowing. There has been a deluge of mortgage repricing, with particular pressure on landlords. This comes as a hump of two-year mortgage deals from 2021 - at the time of the expiry of the pandemic stamp duty holiday - come up for renewal at much higher rates.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Drone appears to be shot down in Moscow region\n\nUkraine has launched a drone attack on Moscow, the Russian defence ministry says, forcing flights to be diverted from Vnukovo International Airport.\n\nFive drones were reportedly used in Tuesday's attack, which also targeted locations in the wider region around the capital.\n\nThe defence ministry said all the drones were shot down and there were no casualties or damage.\n\nUkraine has not claimed responsibility for the alleged attack.\n\nRestrictions at Vnukovo airport, one of Moscow's three international airports, have now been lifted. Flights from Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt were among those affected.\n\nAccording to the defence ministry, four of the drones flying in the Moscow region were shot down by air defence systems. A fifth was intercepted electronically before crashing.\n\n\"An attempt by the Kyiv regime to attack a zone where civil infrastructure is located, including an airport that receives international flights, is a new terrorist act,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Telegram.\n\nRussian state media said one of the drones crashed in the town of Kubinka, which is roughly 36km (22 miles) from Vnukovo airport in the south-west of the city.\n\nAnother was reportedly shot down near the village of Valuevo, also near the airport.\n\nThe BBC is trying to verify this information independently.\n\nThis is not the first drone attack to target Moscow. In May, Russia's defence ministry said at least eight drones caused minor damage.\n\nIt was the first time the city had been targeted by multiple drones since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and came after Moscow blamed Kyiv for a drone attack on the Kremlin.\n\nTuesday's drone attack comes after Ukraine launched its counter-offensive against Russia.\n\nThis has not yet achieved the sort of speed and momentum some had hoped for, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who previously acknowledged progress was slow.\n\nMeanwhile, the death toll from a Russian drone attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Monday has risen to three, according to the local mayor. Several other people were injured.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "US rapper and actress Cardi B wore a feathered ensemble for Monday's Schiaparelli show\n\nCelebrities and designers have kicked off Paris's couture fashion week, which is taking place against a backdrop of five days of violence in the city.\n\nUS rap star Cardi B, singer Camila Cabello and actress Maisie Williams are among those in the French capital.\n\nCamila Cabello (left) and Maisie Williams attended the Iris Van Herpen show on Monday\n\nBut there is some unease about the displays of materialism for the ultra-wealthy following serious civil unrest.\n\nSome said catwalk shows and cocktail parties should be cancelled, and others said the fashionistas were \"tone deaf\".\n\nThe Telegraph's head of fashion, Lisa Armstrong, wrote: \"These heavily scented, diamond-encrusted, removed-from-every-reality clients can seem weird even in normal times, but this week, they seem almost surreally tone deaf.\"\n\nShe added that one attendee noted how it was \"quite odd to see how the big French brands haven't acknowledged what's going at all in their own country\".\n\nThe violence in Paris and other French cities was sparked by the fatal shooting of teenager Nahel M during a police traffic stop, but the trouble appeared to have subsided by Monday.\n\nAlso on Monday, the first haute couture collections - the most elite branch of the fashion industry, where dresses are custom-made to fit clients for eye-watering sums - were unveiled.\n\nBlack Panther star Lupita Nyong'o was at the Chanel show on Tuesday\n\nSome brands, like Chloe, did cancel parties at the weekend but only one major label, Celine, pulled a show entirely because of the riots.\n\nIts menswear show on Sunday, which was believed to have been planned to include live music performances in an expression of French youth culture, was not part of the official fashion week calendar.\n\nThe Chanel catwalk was on the banks of the River Seine\n\nDesigner Hedi Slimane wrote on Instagram that \"a fashion show in Paris, while France and its capital are bereaved and bruised, seems… inconsiderate and totally misplaced\".\n\nOthers brushed aside concerns, getting on with shows on Monday inspired by Greek goddesses at Christian Dior, fine art at Schiaparelli and mermaids at Iris Van Herpen.\n\nModels present creations by designer Maria Grazia Chiuri as part of her haute couture show for Dior on Monday\n\nThe Guardian's Jess Cartner-Morley wrote: \"That they are proceeding untroubled by turbulence in less affluent areas of the city is perhaps a reflection of the polarisation that underpins the situation in France.\"\n\nEJ Dickson of Rolling Stone magazine added that some influencers were acting as though they had been \"mildly inconvenienced\" by the protests.\n\nCardi B travelled to the French capital and attended Schiaparelli's display of its haute couture fall/winter 2023-2024 fashion collection.\n\nPosting a picture of her outfit on Instagram, the star hailed the show as \"beautiful\". \"They always have an amazing show so what's new?\" she later told Vogue. \"It never fails to surprise me.\"\n\nCardi B labelled the clothes on display at one show as \"beautiful\"\n\nDior, meanwhile displayed its latest classical era-inspired collection in the garden of the Musée Rodin, focusing on beige, gold and cream colours and fabrics, and simple \"ancient garments\" such as tunics and capes.\n\nThe brand's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri said such items were \"not only for the red carpet\" but were in fact intended for people to \"build a wardrobe\".\n\nDutch designer Van Herpen - whose designs are a fixture of red carpets and feature in Beyonce's Renaissance tour - presented an aquatic and futuristic collection to a crowd including Cabello and Williams.\n\nActresses Margaret Qualley, Lupita Nyong'o and Jenna Coleman were among the stars at the Chanel show on the banks of the Seine on Tuesday, along with rapper Kendrick Lamar and directors George Lucas and Baz Luhrmann.\n\nA model walks the grassy runway during the Iris Van Herpen's show\n\nMonday saw the couture debuts of US designer Thom Browne and 26-year-old Charles de Vilmorin, who presented his own brand after having briefly served as artistic director of Rochas.\n\nThe Frenchman told AFP news agency: \"I'm super happy to have lived through all this and to do my first show.\"", "People feel the stress in China amid an ongoing heatwave\n\nThe world's average temperature reached a new high on Monday 3 July, topping 17 degrees Celsius for the first time.\n\nScientists say the unofficial reading was higher than anything found in the instrumental record dating back to the end of the 19th century.\n\nThe high heat is due to a combination of the El Niño weather event and ongoing emissions of carbon dioxide.\n\nResearchers believe there will be more records in the coming months as El Niño strengthens.\n\nSince the start of this year, researchers have been growing increasingly concerned about rapidly rising temperatures on land and at sea.\n\nRecord spring heat in Spain and in many countries in Asia was followed by marine heatwaves in places that don't normally see them, such as in the North Sea.\n\nThis week China continued to experience an enduring heatwave with temperatures in some places above 35C, while the southern US has also been subject to stifling conditions.\n\nAgainst this background, the global average temperature reached 17.01C on 3 July, according to the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).\n\nThe estimated NCEP readings are not an official government record, but are considered an indicator of how temperatures are fluctuating.\n\nMonday's temperature broke the previous record of 16.92C that had stood since August 2016.\n\nIt was also the warmest since satellite monitoring began in 1979.\n\nIndia has also felt the impacts of heat and drought\n\nThe El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, as it is properly called, has three different phases: Hot, cold or neutral. It is the most powerful fluctuation in the climate system anywhere on Earth.\n\nIn June, scientists declared that El Niño conditions were present. This means that additional heat is now welling up to the surface of the Pacific ocean, pushing up the global temperature.\n\n\"The average global surface air temperature reaching 17C for the first time since we have reliable records available is a significant symbolic milestone in our warming world,\" said climate researcher Leon Simons.\n\n\"Now that the warmer phase of El Niño is starting we can expect a lot more daily, monthly and annual records breaking in the next 1.5 years.\"\n\nMonday's record temperature comes as the month of June was also confirmed as the hottest June in the global record.\n\nAverage temperatures across the planet were 1.46C above the average in the period between 1850 and 1900.\n\nThe impact of high temperatures is also being felt at the world's extremes. In Antarctica, the July temperature record was recently broken with a reading of 8.7C taken at Ukraine's Vernadsky Research base.\n\nWith El Niño likely to strengthen over the coming months, it's likely that more records will be shattered as the northern hemisphere summer goes on.\n\n\"Chances are that July will be the warmest ever, and with it the hottest month ever: 'ever' meaning since the Eemian which is some 120,000 years ago,\" said Karsten Haustein, from the University of Leipzig.\n\n\"While southern hemisphere temperatures will drop a bit in the next few days, chances are that July and August will see even warmer days yet given that El Niño is now pretty much in full swing\".\n\nCorrection 30 October 2023: This article has been updated to say the 3 July temperature was not an official instrumental reading.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nEight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer may have only been a Centre Court guest but his huge aura was still felt by those competing on Tuesday.\n\nDefending women's champion Elena Rybakina said Federer's presence - for a ceremony to mark his achievements - had made her \"nervous\".\n\nMen's top seed Carlos Alcaraz was \"a little bit jealous\" after missing out on being watched by the retired Swiss.\n\nAndy Murray, meanwhile, got a nod of approval from one of his great rivals.\n\n\"It was amazing to have some royalty here and some tennis royalty as well,\" Murray said of Federer, who was sitting next to the Princess of Wales. \"It's amazing to have Roger here supporting the event.\n\n\"The last time I was on this court and he was watching it, it was the [2012] Olympics and he was sat in Stan Wawrinka's box supporting against me. [Roger,] I hope you are doing well.\"\n\nFederer took the acclaim of an adoring Centre Court crowd in the special ceremony on day two of the grass-court major to mark his success at the tournament.\n\nThe 20-time Grand Slam champion, returning after retiring last year, received a long ovation as he descended the steps of the Royal Box, where he had been invited as a special guest to watch the action.\n\nThe Swiss, 41, won five successive Wimbledon titles between 2003 and 2007, adding further victories in 2009, 2012 and 2017.\n\nHis win six years ago saw him pass Pete Sampras' men's record of seven titles.\n\nThose with a ticket for Centre Court were treated to a video montage on the big screen which showed Federer through the years - from his first Wimbledon title win through to his last.\n\nFederer then received a guard of honour in the Royal Box, smiling and waving to the crowd as they applauded and cheered one of the greatest players of all time.\n\nWith 103 ATP titles to his name and having spent 310 weeks as world number one, Federer is much loved by the British crowds and the standing ovation lasted several minutes.\n\nThe 15,000 or so expectant fans may have been disappointed Federer did not speak, with play getting under way immediately after the announcer thanked Federer for the memories he has provided Wimbledon fans over the years.\n\nBut he did not have to speak to have an impact.\n\nIt was not that Rybakina did not want him there to see her open her title defence against American Shelby Rogers, it was just that she was rattled by his presence as she even double-faulted on the first point.\n\n\"Maybe that's why I was nervous because actually I really like Roger,\" the Kazakh said after fighting back from a set down to win. \"When I was younger, I was always watching him play.\"\n\nBut one man who wished Federer had been on his court was Alcaraz, who was in electrifying form on Court One in his victory over Jeremy Chardy.\n\n\"I saw that Roger Federer was here. I was a little bit jealous,\" Alcaraz said with a smile. \"Honestly, I want Roger Federer to watch one of my matches obviously.\n\n\"I wish to talk a little bit with him. For me [it would] would be amazing. I hope to see him around more than once.\"\n\nMurray, meanwhile, has played Federer many times over the years including a loss to the Swiss in the 2012 Wimbledon final which preceded Murray's victory over him a few weeks later in the Olympic final at the same venue.\n\nAt the end of Murray's first-round victory over fellow Briton Ryan Peniston, Federer was asked whether he approved of the performance, to which he nodded, prompting laughter from the crowd.\n\nSeven-time women's singles champion Serena Williams, who retired last year too, had also been invited by the club, but the pregnant 41-year-old was unable to travel.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None In an emotional interview he opens up about what motivated him despite his very humble origins\n• None Sue Barker travels the globe to find out", "A man and a two-year-old child are in hospital after being hit by a train in Glasgow.\n\nBritish Transport Police said they were alerted to the casualties on the tracks at Garrowhill Station shortly before 19:30 on Sunday.\n\nOfficers said the man was in a serious condition, and the child's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nDetectives believe there were a number of people on the platform who may have witnessed what happened.\n\nThey said any witnesses who had not yet spoken to the police should get in touch with British Transport Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Chinese government is tightening controls over exports of two key materials used to make computer chips.\n\nFrom next month, special licenses will be needed to export gallium and germanium from China, which is the world's biggest producer of the metals.\n\nIt comes after Washington's efforts to curb Chinese access to some advanced microprocessors.\n\nThe announcement comes just days before a high-stakes trip to Beijing by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.\n\nOn Monday, China's Ministry of Commerce said the restrictions were needed to \"safeguard national security and interests\".\n\nThe silvery metals are used in semiconductor, communications and military equipment. They are also key materials in products like solar panels.\n\nSemiconductors, which power everything from mobile phones to military hardware, are at the centre of a bitter dispute between the world's two largest economies.\n\nThe US has taken steps to restrict China's access to technology it fears could be put to military use, such as chips used for supercomputing and artificial intelligence.\n\nIn October, Washington announced that it would require licences for companies exporting chips to China using US tools or software, no matter where they are made in the world.\n\nThe efforts have been joined by countries including the Netherlands and Japan.\n\nLast week, the Netherlands announced that it would restrict exports of certain semiconductor manufacturing equipment.\n\nThis followed plans to restrict its \"most advanced\" microchip technology exports, which the Netherlands announced earlier this year.\n\nThe controls are expected to affect Dutch chip equipment maker ASML, a key player in the global microchip supply chain.\n\nMeanwhile, Japan plans to restrict some of its computer-chip making exports.\n\nThe measures, which were announced in March, will affect 23 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.\n\nChina has frequently called the US a \"tech hegemony\" in response to export controls imposed by Washington.\n\nIn recent months, Beijing has imposed restrictions on US firms linked to the American military, such as aerospace company Lockheed Martin.\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who is due to make a four-day visit to China from Thursday, has warned against breaking economic ties between Washington and Beijing.\n\n\"I think we gain and China gains from trade and investment that is as open as possible, and it would be disastrous for us to attempt to decouple from China,\" she said, during an appearance before Congress last month.\n\nMs Yellen will be the second senior US official to visit the country this year.\n\nIn June, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held talks with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing, restarting high-level communications between the rival superpowers.", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nWimbledon supporters have criticised the organisation of the queue after increased security checks slowed entry, causing frustrated fans to leave.\n\nMore than 12,000 people were queuing in Wimbledon Park, next to the grounds, with some having camped overnight.\n\nWimbledon said it had boosted security after the protests from the Just Stop Oil group at recent sporting events.\n\n\"We have missed a whole day's play, I would never ever do it again,\" Chrys Meade told the BBC.\n\n\"We were told it was unexpected numbers, but why are you letting people in [to queue]? Then they are telling us security was not enough to cope with the numbers.\n\n\"We're just obviously disappointed. It's four o'clock and we are nowhere near there [the front] yet.\"\n\nPlay began at 11:00 BST, but just before midday organisers advised people not to travel to join the queue.\n\nThe queue has become a Wimbledon tradition, with 500 tickets available for each of the main three courts - Centre Court, Court One and Court Two - with the remaining fans able to buy ground passes to watch the outside courts.\n\nLast year the queue returned to Wimbledon having not been used in 2021 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, which also caused the 2020 tournament to be cancelled.\n\nJust Stop Oil activists interrupted the first day of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia at Lord's.\n\nThat followed similar protests by the same group at the rugby union Premiership final and the World Snooker Championship, while animal rights activists delayed the start of the Grand National race this year.\n\nAn All England Club spokesperson said the increased security operation was slowing down the entry process, adding: \"There has been high demand from members of the public to join the queue on day one at Wimbledon.\n\n\"Understandably, our security team on the gates are conducting an enhanced bag check operation.\n\n\"While there has been a steady stream of guests entering the grounds since gates opened at 10am, entry via the queue has been at a slower rate than in previous years as a result of these checks.\n\n\"We sincerely thank guests in the queue for their patience and understanding.\"\n\nBut some fans criticised the lack of communication and the facilities on offer.\n\nBecky Deeming arrived to queue at 3.45am on Monday and got into the grounds at 1.15pm. She told the PA news agency: \"There was no water, nowhere to sit, it was the longest queue.\n\n\"Everyone around us had done it multiple times and they said: 'We have never seen it like this.' People were getting up and leaving.\"\n\nOperations director at Wimbledon, Michelle Dite, told the BBC delays in the queue were due to extra bag checks being carried out by security.\n\n\"We had one of the highest attendances at Wimbledon since 2015,\" said Dite.\n\n\"We have a lot of security and we want to make sure everyone is safe and secure, so it did cause some delays yesterday. We did extra bag searches, but we've reviewed how everything operates and sped up our ticket sales. Every single part of the chain we went into detail last night and we're set to go.\n\n\"One of the joys of Wimbledon is everyone can come on the day and get in. This doesn't happen for many other events. The resilience for the queue was world class.\n\n\"We believe people are going to queue - that's why it's called the queue, we believe people know what they're getting in to. But [on Tuesday] it's going to be be slick, quick.\"\n\nGeorgia Jeffrey, trying to attend Wimbledon for the first time, said the whole experience was \"hugely disappointing\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"Six or seven hours of people standing in the same field, it has got a bit hectic, the toilets especially, they are not flushing any more so it has been a bit grim.\n\n\"This is my first Wimbledon and I've lived locally for a few years so this is my first go. It's just disappointing, especially for the people that have come so far.\"\n\nSally Bolton, chief executive of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, told journalists there is \"100% bag search\" and \"selective body search\" at all gates.\n\n\"We've taken account of what we've seen elsewhere, so security has been uplifted in various places around the grounds,\" she added.\n\n\"We're extremely confident the measures we've got in place are the right measures and we're ready to deal with something if it happens.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, the Wimbledon Twitter account said: \"Our grounds are set to be at capacity today, which means those already in the queue will be waiting several hours for admission. We advise people intending to queue today not to travel to Wimbledon.\"\n\nA Metropolitan Police statement said: \"A policing operation is in place for The Championships, including both generalist and specialist officers, to prevent crime and disorder and to be able to provide an effective, timely response to any emerging incidents at the location and right across London.\"\n\nWarnings had also been issued around potential disruption to train travel after train drivers' union Aslef said its members would withdraw non-contractual overtime with 16 of the country's 35 rail operators for six days from Monday.\n\nSeven-time Wimbledon men's champion Novak Djokovic and five-time women's champion Venus Williams were among those in action on Monday, while a rain delay led to no play on Centre Court or the outside courts for more than an hour.\n\nWimbledon will run until 16 July, with two-time champion Andy Murray and reigning women's champion Elena Rybakina among those in action on Tuesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael has carried out air strikes on Gaza in response to rocket fire from Palestinian militants, as Israeli forces completed their withdrawal from Jenin in the occupied West Bank.\n\nIt follows a major two-day operation inside the city's refugee camp which killed 12 Palestinians.\n\nAn Israeli soldier was also killed on Tuesday night during the withdrawal, which triggered more gun battles.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, the military said it intercepted five rockets from Gaza.\n\nShrapnel from one of the interceptor missiles damaged a house in the southern Israeli town of Sderot.\n\nNo militant group immediately claimed that it was behind the launches, but the Israeli military said fighter jets struck an underground weapons manufacturing facility used by Hamas, which governs Gaza, as well as a raw materials manufacturing facility for rockets.\n\nThe military said it held \"the Hamas terrorist organisation responsible for all terror activities emanating from the Gaza Strip and will face the consequences of security violations against Israel\".\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, Hamas described a car-ramming and stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv as a \"natural response\" to the Jenin operation.\n\nIsraeli authorities said seven people were injured on a busy shopping street and that the attacker was a Palestinian man from the West Bank. He was shot dead by a civilian.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said: \"Whoever thinks that such an attack will deter us from continuing our fight against terrorism is mistaken.\"\n\nHe also warned that the Jenin operation would not be a \"one-time action\".\n\n\"We will continue as long as necessary to uproot terrorism. We will not allow Jenin to go back to being a city of refuge for terrorism,\" he added.\n\nPalestinian leaders accused Israel of mounting an \"invasion\" in Jenin.\n\nAn Israeli military spokesman told the BBC on Wednesday morning that \"the operation is officially over, and the soldiers have left the Jenin area\".\n\nThe military launched its operation in Jenin refugee camp early on Monday with a drone strike that it said targeted a joint command centre of the Jenin Brigades - a unit made up of different militant groups, including Hamas.\n\nDrones carried out further air strikes as hundreds of troops entered the camp and engaged in intense gun battles with armed Palestinians inside the camp.\n\nThe military said the \"counter-terrorism operation\" was focused on seizing weapons and \"breaking the safe haven mindset of the camp\".\n\nSeveral thousand Palestinian families fled Jenin refugee camp during the operation\n\nAt a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the UN's humanitarian office said it was \"alarmed at the scale of air and ground operations that are taking place in Jenin and continuing today in the West Bank, and especially [the] air strikes hitting a densely populated refugee camp\".\n\nShe said the Palestinian health ministry had confirmed that three children - two 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old boy - were among those killed, and warned that damage to infrastructure meant most of the camp now had no drinking water or electricity.\n\nThe World Health Organization said Palestinian ambulance crews had been prevented from entering parts of the camp, including to reach people who were critically injured. The health ministry has said more than 140 Palestinians have been injured, 30 of them critically.\n\nA Palestinian Red Crescent official said about 3,000 Palestinians, including many sick and elderly, were allowed overnight to flee the drone strikes and gun battles between Israeli troops and armed Palestinians.\n\nA man in a wheelchair who was escorted out of the camp with his family in the morning told the BBC that they had been held in a room by Israeli troops.\n\n\"We were encircled by a military barricade. Israeli soldiers came. Now we just went out. There were no people left in the camp. We were the only ones.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's been a very difficult situation. The drone was shooting at us. Now we've just left. And we're all tired. We've had no food... No drink.\"\n\nOutside a hospital in the nearby city centre, Palestinians protesters threw stones at an Israeli military vehicle, prompting it to fire tear gas in response.\n\nMedical charity Médecins Sans Frontières complained that paramedics had been forced to proceed on foot because Israeli military bulldozers had destroyed many roads, stripping them of tarmac.\n\nIn an interview with CNN on Tuesday night, chief military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that no non-combatants had been killed during the operation.\n\nHe also said he had seen ambulances driving freely inside the camp during the day, adding: \"We are assisting those ambulances to evacuate the wounded.\"\n\nThe admiral said bulldozers had dug up about 2km (1.2 miles) of roads inside the camp along which militants had concealed explosive devices, putting civilians and troops at risk.\n\nThe Israeli military says its bulldozers dug up streets to remove explosive devices planted by militants\n\nJenin has become a stronghold of a new generation of Palestinian militants who have become deeply frustrated by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority's aging leadership and the restrictions of the Israeli occupation.\n\nThe city has seen repeated Israeli military raids in the past year as local Palestinians have carried out deadly attacks on Israelis. Other Palestinian attackers have hidden there.\n\nPalestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh rejected statements from foreign governments saying that Israel had the right to defend itself.\n\n\"Israel is internationally recognised as the occupying power over our land and people,\" he tweeted. \"[It] should be condemned for its use of force to destroy the camp's infrastructure, facilities, and homes, and to kill, arrest, and displace innocent people.\"\n\n\"It is the Palestinian people that have the right to self-defence. There is no such right for an occupying power,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Explosions and gunfire as BBC reports from Jenin\n\nThere have been intense exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and armed Palestinian militants in Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe Israeli military began what appears to be one of its most extensive operations in the territory in years with drone strikes early on Monday.\n\nNine Palestinians have been killed and 100 injured, health officials say.\n\nIsrael said it was putting a stop to Jenin being \"a refuge for terrorism\". Palestinians accused it of a war crime.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent says its crews have evacuated 3,000 people - including patients and the elderly - from the camp to hospitals.\n\nIt says dozens of people had been detained by Israeli forces in their homes since early Monday, without being provided or allowed any food or drink.\n\nThe Israeli military said there was no specific timeline for ending the operation, but that it could be \"a matter of hours or a few days\".\n\nJenin has become a stronghold of a new generation of Palestinian militants who have become deeply frustrated by the Palestinian Authority's aging leadership and the restrictions of the Israeli occupation.\n\nThe city has seen repeated Israeli military raids in the past year as local Palestinians have carried out deadly attacks on Israelis. Other Palestinian attackers have hidden there.\n\nIn 2002, during the second Palestinian intifada, Israeli forces launched a full-scale incursion in Jenin. At least 52 Palestinian militants and civilians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed during 10 days of intense fighting.\n\nHundreds of Israeli soldiers were still operating inside Jenin on Monday night, more than 20 hours after the operation began.\n\nAs well as the hum of drones overhead, regular bursts of gunfire and the loud thuds of explosions came throughout the day from the densely populated refugee camp, which is home to some 18,000 people and is now declared a closed Israeli military zone.\n\nAcrid smoke from burning tyres lit during protests also hung in the air above the city centre. A few young Palestinians were out on the streets, standing close to shuttered shops and staring nervously in the direction of the camp.\n\nThe Israeli military has cut off telephone communications and the electricity supply to the camp, making it difficult to get an accurate picture of what is happening. Palestinian medics have also been struggling to reach the dozens of injured there.\n\nAt the Palestinian hospital by the main entrance to the camp the mood was grim.\n\nOne man told the BBC: \"I met my brother's friend. I went up to him and had barely said a few words when he dropped on the ground. I went to run away, then I got hit by two bullets.\"\n\nAnother man said there was a \"massacre\" in the camp.\n\n\"There are children and civilians and they're not letting them out,\" he added. \"Our electricity is cut, they have dug up all our roads. The camp will be destroyed.\"\n\nJovana Arsenijevic of the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières told the BBC she was at a hospital that had seen more than 90 patients wounded by gunfire or shrapnel from explosive devices.\n\nThe Israeli military said it was acting on precise intelligence and did not to seek to harm civilians, but many have been caught in the crossfire.\n\nThe military allowed about 500 Palestinian families to leave the camp on Monday night. Some raised their hands or waved makeshift white flags in a gesture of surrender.\n\nPeople told the BBC that some men and teenaged boys had been stopped by soldiers, and kept behind.\n\nHundreds of Israeli forces are on the ground in Jenin, said to be seizing weapons and explosives\n\nThe first drone strike overnight targeted an apartment that the military said was being used as a hideout for Palestinians who had attacked Israelis and as a \"joint operational command centre\" for the Jenin Brigades - a unit made up of different Palestinian militant groups including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.\n\nDrones were used for further air strikes and a brigade-size force of troops was deployed in what a military spokesman described as a \"counter-terrorism operation\" focused on seizing weapons and breaking \"the safe haven mindset of the camp, which has become a hornet's nest\".\n\nIn the past year and a half, Palestinians behind some 50 attacks targeting Israelis have come from Jenin, according to the military.\n\nAs armed Palestinians began fighting back from inside the camp, the Jenin Brigades said: \"We will fight the occupation [Israeli] forces until the last breath and bullet, and we work together and unified from all factions and military formations.\"\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry said nine Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces, including three in the overnight drone strike. They all appeared to be young men or in their late teens - some confirmed as belonging to armed groups.\n\nThe ministry warned that the death toll might rise because 20 of the injured were in a critical condition.\n\nAnother Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during a related protest near the West Bank city of Ramallah, it added.\n\nThe Israeli military said the Palestinians killed in Jenin were affiliated to militant groups.\n\nTroops had also apprehended some 50 militants during the operation, and seized weapons and ammunition, it added.\n\nOn Monday evening, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised its forces for entering what he called the \"nest of terrorists\" and asserted that they were doing so \"with minimal injury to civilians\".\n\n\"We will continue this action as long as necessary in order to restore quiet and security,\" he added.\n\nThere was a furious response to the operation from the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh.\n\n\"What's going on is an attempt to erase the refugee camp completely and displace the residents,\" he said.\n\nNeighbouring Jordan said the operation was \"a clear violation of international humanitarian law\", but the US expressed its support for what it called \"Israel's security and right to defend its people against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups\".\n\nIsraeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said the plan was not to expand the military operation outside Jenin, but already Palestinian protests have reached the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip. And the longer this action goes on in Jenin, the greater the risk of another dangerous, wider escalation.\n\nThe Jenin Brigade group has said its militants will fight back with their \"last breath and bullet\"\n\nThere has been a surge of violence in the West Bank in recent months.\n\nOn 20 June, seven Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin which saw the military's first use of an attack helicopter in the West Bank in years.\n\nThe next day, two Hamas gunmen shot dead four Israelis near the settlement of Eli, 40km (25 miles) to the south.\n\nA Palestinian man was later shot dead during a rampage by hundreds of settlers in the nearby town of Turmusaya.\n\nThat week also saw three Palestinian militants from Jenin killed in a rare Israeli drone strike.\n\nSince the start of the year, more than 140 Palestinians - both militants and civilians - have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, while another 36 have been killed in the Gaza Strip.\n\nTwenty-four Israelis, two foreigners and a Palestinian worker have been killed in attacks or apparent attacks by Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. All were civilians except one off-duty serving soldier and a member of the Israeli security forces.\n\nAdditional reporting by Rushdi Abu Alouf in Gaza City and Robert Greenall in London", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: An army spokesperson says security forces are \"putting an end to the regime you know\"\n\nSoldiers in the West African country of Niger have announced a coup on national TV.\n\nThey said they had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions and closed the nation's borders.\n\nNiger President Mohamed Bazoum has been held by troops from the presidential guard since early on Wednesday.\n\nHe was promised Washington's \"unwavering support\" in a call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.\n\nUN Secretary General António Guterres also said he had spoken to the president and offered the UN's full support to the uranium-rich country.\n\nMr Bazoum is a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militancy in West Africa.\n\nTwo neighbouring countries, Mali and Burkina Faso, have experienced coups triggered by jihadist uprisings in recent years.\n\nIn both countries the new military leaders have fallen out with France, the former colonial power, which also formerly ruled Niger - a vast, arid country on the edge of the Sahara desert and one of the poorest nations in the world.\n\nMr Bazoum's whereabouts are unclear but in a statement on Twitter on Thursday morning he said the \"hard-won gains will be safeguarded\" and that Nigeriens who love democracy will see to it.\n\nForeign Minister Hassoumi Massoudou has declared himself the head of state and called on all democrats to \"make this adventure fail\".\n\nIn the TV announcement on Wednesday, Col Maj Amadou Abdramane, alongside nine other uniformed soldiers behind him, said: \"We, the defence and security forces... have decided to put an end to the regime you know.\n\n\"This follows the continuing deterioration of the security situation, and poor economic and social governance.\"\n\nHe also said that all of the country's institutions had been suspended and that the heads of the ministries would take care of day-to-day business.\n\n\"All external partners are asked not to interfere,\" he went on. \"Land and air borders are closed until the situation has stabilised.\"\n\nHe added a night curfew would take effect from 22:00 until 05:00 local time until further notice.\n\nCol Maj Abdramane said the soldiers were acting for the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP).\n\nThis coup is yet further bad news for French and Western efforts to restore stability to the part of West Africa known as the Sahel. When neighbouring Mali chose to partner up with Russia's Wagner Group in place of the French, Paris moved its centre of operations in the region to Niger.\n\nThis coup, even if it turns out to be short-lived, has shown that even Niger cannot necessarily be relied on to be a permanent safe base. Western influence in the region is shrinking like a water pool in the dry season.\n\nThe governments in Burkina Faso, Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali have all decided they would rather work with Russia's brutal Wagner mercenaries than any Western force. Wagner's primary interests in Africa have appeared to be more about enriching themselves and extending the Kremlin's influence than following the Western goals of trying to nurture better governance.\n\nFor the two major insurgent groups in the region, those linked to so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda, this is good news. They thrive on instability, poor governance and local resentment of the government. So a coup in Niger is likely to further hamper efforts to contain them.\n\nAfter the soldiers' TV announcement Mr Blinken called for the release of President Bazoum.\n\nHe told a news conference in New Zealand that \"what it clearly constitutes is an effort to seize power by force and to disrupt the constitution\".\n\nIn neighbouring Mali, heavily armed Russian Wagner mercenaries are helping the military regime to fight jihadist insurgents. Niger's unrest comes on top of existing Western anxiety about Wagner operations and the Sahel region's instability.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin, keen to expand Russian influence in Africa, is hosting African leaders in St Petersburg on Thursday.\n\nThe West African economic bloc Ecowas has said it \"condemns in the strongest terms the attempt to seize power by force\" in Niger.\n\nOn behalf of Ecowas, Benin's President Patrice Talon has arrived in the capital Niamey on a mediation mission.\n\nMr Talon said \"all means\" would be used, if necessary to restore constitutional order in Niger, \"but the ideal would be for everything to be done in peace and harmony\".\n\nSupporters of President Bazoum rallied in Niamey earlier on Wednesday\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, crowds in Niamey took to the streets in support of Mr Bazoum. A BBC reporter also saw heavily armed forces loyal to the president stationed around the national broadcaster.\n\nThe city was mostly peaceful, although soldiers behind the coup fired shots to break up the protests.\n\nNiger is grappling with two Islamist insurgencies - one in the south-west, which swept in from Mali in 2015, and the other in the south-east, involving jihadists based in north-eastern Nigeria.\n\nPresident Bazoum, who was democratically elected in 2021, is a close ally of France, and other Western nations.\n\nNiger has experienced four coups since independence from France in 1960, as well as numerous attempted coups.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man whose rape conviction has been overturned after a 20-year fight has said the past two decades felt like he had been \"kidnapped by the state\".\n\nAndrew Malkinson was jailed in 2004 for the attack on a woman in Salford, serving 17 years in prison for a crime he always said he did not commit.\n\nHis case was referred to the Court of Appeal in January after new evidence pointed to another potential suspect.\n\nMr Malkinson, 57, said: \"I was innocent and finally they listened.\"\n\n\"But I have been innocent all along, for each of those 20 years that came before today,\" he said.\n\n\"It has taken nearly 20 years to persuade my kidnappers to let me go.\"\n\nOverturning his conviction, Lord Justice Holroyd said Mr Malkinson could \"leave the court free and no longer be subject to the conditions of licence\".\n\nPolice also apologised for what they described as a \"grave miscarriage of justice\".\n\nThe first Mr Malkinson knew of the crime was when he was arrested in his hometown of Grimsby, two weeks after the assault and attempted murder in Salford.\n\nHe had been in the area at the time, working temporarily as a security guard.\n\nMr Malkinson was found guilty following a trial in 2003 and sentenced to life with a minimum term of seven years.\n\nHowever, he served a further 10 years in jail after his tariff expired.\n\nAndrew Malkinson was cleared by senior judges at the Court of Appeal\n\nHis barrister Edward Henry KC told the court this was because Mr Malkinson would never \"falsely confess to abhorrent crimes which he did not commit\".\n\nMr Malkinson previously applied twice for his case to be reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) but he was turned down, eventually being released from prison in December 2020.\n\nAt the time of his trial, there was no DNA evidence linking him to the crime and the prosecution's case against him was based solely on identification evidence.\n\nAfter his release, advancements in scientific techniques allowed his legal team, supported by legal charity Appeal, to provide new analysis that cast doubt on his conviction to the CCRC.\n\nThe body then commissioned its own testing which found that DNA from the victim's clothing matched another man on the national police database.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) later conceded Mr Malkinson's conviction was unsafe because new evidence pointed to another man, who the court ordered can only be identified as Mr B.\n\nAndy Malkinson's custody picture two weeks after the rape - and the e-fit of the suspect\n\nBoth the CPS and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirmed in May they would not contest a fresh appeal.\n\nPolice said in January that a man had been arrested and released under investigation in light of the new information, but no decision had been made on whether he will be charged.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Mr Malkinson said: \"When a jury finds you guilty when you are innocent, reality does not change.\n\n\"You know you did not commit the crime, but all the people around you start living in a false fantasy universe and treat you as if you are guilty.\n\n\"Now I have finally been exonerated, I am left outside this court without an apology, without an explanation, jobless, homeless, expected to simply slip back into the world with no acknowledgement of the gaping black hole they opened up in my life\n\n\"A black hole that looms so large behind me that I fear it will swallow me up.\"\n\nHe continued: \"People convicted of rape are the lowest of the low. I did not commit the crime, but I was treated as if I did. I spent 17 years on my guard against every threat.\n\n\"Seventeen years counting down the minutes to lock up, so I could be behind my door and safe from other prisoners, but not safe from my own mind, imagining I would die there, perhaps murdered.\n\nHis mother Trisha Hose said: \"For nearly 20 years people have assumed that I was just a loyal but deluded mother in denial about what my son was capable of doing.\n\n\"I knew the system had got it wrong, but it seemed like there was nothing I could do about it.\"\n\nNow he had been cleared, Ms Hose said she was \"no longer a deluded mother\" and her son was \"no longer a monster\".\n\n\"But what has been done to him cannot be undone,\" she said.\n\n\"The damage will be with him for the rest of his life, and the woman who got attacked has been denied justice, just as my son was.\"\n\nMr Malkinson was convicted of carrying out the rape in Salford in 2003\n\nOpening the appeal earlier, Mr Henry said: \"This is the most troubling case which may have wide implications for the administration of criminal justice.\n\n\"This is a historic case - and a historic injustice.\n\n\"Grave failures that must lie at the door of GMP that wholly undermined a fair trial.\"\n\n\"No-one else should have to go through what Mr Malkinson has endured.\"\n\nLord Justice Holroyde said other points argued by Mr Malkinson's legal team, about \"crucial\" material that was not disclosed at the time of his trial, \"raised a number of substantial and important points\".\n\nHe said the court would take time to consider them and give a decision on them later in writing.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has apologised for a \"grave miscarriage of justice\"\n\nGMP's Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson said the force was \"truly sorry\" to Mr Malkinson over the \"grave miscarriage of justice\".\n\nShe said the force was \"also profoundly sorry to the victim of this crime, who not only suffered an horrific trauma 20 years ago, but also relived the experience during a criminal trial, and now may endure additional harm caused by learning that the true offender has not yet been brought to justice\".\n\nCases like Mr Malkinson's were \"thankfully very rare\", she said, but added that the force had and would continue to \"fully co-operate with any further reviews and action will be taken if it is found that anything could have been done differently\".\n\nShe said she had offered to meet Mr Malkinson \"to personally deliver this apology\".\n\n\"We are determined to work with our colleagues in the CPS to ensure all new evidence is fully examined and that the person truly responsible is convicted,\" she said.\n\nCCRC chairman Helen Pitcher said she welcomed the decision to overturn Mr Malkinson's conviction.\n\n\"In the ever-changing world of forensic science, new evidence can come to light years after a conviction,\" she said.\n\n\"We used our special powers to take advantage of DNA breakthroughs to find evidence that we considered could overturn this conviction.\n\n\"We recognise that Andrew has had a very long journey to clear his name, but sadly the evidence that led to the court overturning his conviction only became available years after his conviction.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo Greek air force pilots have died after a plane crashed while fighting wildfires on the Greek island of Evia, officials say.\n\nThe water-bombing plane crashed while battling a forest fire near Platanistos, the defence ministry said.\n\nThe pilots were named as 34-year-old Cdr Christos Moulas and his co-pilot, 27-year-old Pericles Stefanidis.\n\nAn intense European heatwave has also sparked wildfires across Sicily, Algeria and Tunisia.\n\nGreek TV showed the Canadair aircraft flying low to drop water on a fire before turning sharply into a hillside and bursting into flames.\n\nState broadcaster ERT said the plane crashed over the town of Karystos on the island, where a fire was burning.\n\nThe plane was among at least three other aircraft and about 100 firefighters tackling fires on Evia.\n\nDefence Minister Nikos Dendias said the pilots lost their lives \"in the line of duty... while attempting to protect the lives and property of citizens, as well as the environment of our country\".\n\nA three-day mourning period has been declared in the Greek armed forces, the defence ministry said.\n\nRescuers at the site of the plane crash after a water drop in Platanistos on the island of Evia, Greece\n\nEmergency teams were fighting flames non-stop on dozens of fronts on Tuesday, Greek government minister Vassilis Kikilias said.\n\nCrete, the largest Greek island, has been put on high alert, with residents warned there is an \"extreme risk\" of fire.\n\nMore evacuation flights are taking place from Rhodes, while more than 20,000 people have been evacuated from homes and resorts in recent days.\n\nAn international panel of scientists has said the current conditions could not possibly have happened without human-caused climate change.\n\nElsewhere in the Mediterranean, the Italian island of Sicily has been battling fires overnight after weeks of record-breaking temperatures.\n\nLocal media warned that the city of Palermo was \"encircled\" by fires, including a blaze that forced the temporary closure of Palermo airport on Tuesday.\n\nNorthern Italy has been reeling from violent storms and high winds that have uprooted trees and lifted roofs off buildings.\n\nIn some places, tennis ball-sized hailstones injured people, damaged cars and destroyed crops.\n\nFirefighters are battling flames near the village of Vati on the island of Rhodes in Greece\n\nAlgeria has also been battling to control wildfires along its Mediterranean coast that have killed at least 34 people.\n\nA number of people suffered burn injuries and smoke inhalation, while more than 1,500 were evacuated from fires in 16 provinces.\n\nAn outbreak of 97 fires had mostly been brought under control, but 13 were still raging on Tuesday afternoon, the interior ministry said.\n\nIn neighbouring Tunisia, where temperatures up to 49C (120F) were recorded, officials said authorities were investigating the causes of forest fires that had broken out across the country in recent days.\n\nOne of the most severe fires in Maloula, near the Algerian border, has been brought under control after thousands were evacuated.\n\nA forestry official has called for anyone found to have started the fires deliberately to be prosecuted \"with an iron fist\".\n\nCould powerful heatwaves and summer wildfires, which have devastated communities and displaced tourists in Greece, become the new normal in Europe?", "Will Kerr joined the force in 2022\n\nThe chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police has been suspended following allegations of misconduct.\n\nWill Kerr, who joined the force in 2022, was suspended by Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez.\n\nThe matter has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) which confirmed it was investigating.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said it had \"decided to investigate allegations of misconduct\" against him.\n\nA statement issued by Ms Hernandez's office said: \"Pursuant to section 38(2) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, Alison Hernandez, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, has suspended the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, Will Kerr OBE KPM, following allegations of misconduct.\n\n\"The commissioner has referred the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which has confirmed it will commence an investigation.\"\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said Deputy Chief Constable Jim Colwell would become acting chief constable following the suspension.\n\nMr Colwell said he understood \"our communities will be concerned\" at news of the suspension.\n\nHe said: \"I am keen to reassure the public that we will maintain our focus on delivering the best possible service to our communities.\n\n\"We have thousands of dedicated and professional officers, staff and volunteers within our force and strong leadership throughout which, when pulled together, mean we can continue to make improvements at pace to provide our communities with the highest levels of service they deserve.\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez selected Mr Kerr as her preferred candidate for chief constable last year\n\n\"Public trust and confidence are at the very heart of our ability to police effectively and we are incredibly proud that in Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly we have the support of our communities.\"\n\nHe added it was now \"a matter for the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner and the IOPC to investigate\".\n\nMr Kerr has spent more than 30 years in policing and was deputy chief constable at Police Scotland before joining Devon and Cornwall.\n\nHe served with the Police Service of Northern Ireland for more than 27 years and reached the rank of assistant chief constable there, leading on both serious crime and counter terrorism.\n\nIn 2015 he was made an OBE, and he received the King's Police Medal in the New Year Honours earlier this year.\n\nIan Drysdale, vice chairman of the Chief Police Officers Staff Association (CPOSA), said: \"The chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police was today suspended in respect of an ongoing inquiry into legacy misconduct matters for which he is yet to be interviewed.\n\n\"Chief Constable Will Kerr recognises and respects the fact that accountability and due process are vital to any investigation, regardless of rank or position.\n\n\"He will continue to co-operate with any investigation and hopes that all matters are expedited so that they can be concluded without further delay.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey was \"tried by social media\" after he was accused of sexual assaults, a court has heard.\n\nHe is charged with nine sexual offences relating to four men allegedly committed between 2001 and 2013.\n\nThe 63-year-old American sat in the dock on Thursday at Southwark Crown Court in London as defence barrister Patrick Gibbs KC gave a closing speech.\n\nMr Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner, denies all of the charges against him.\n\n\"What the defence suggests is that three people have lied and they have lied in ways and for reasons which, ultimately, will only ever be known to themselves,\" said Mr Gibbs, who suggested the fourth complainant was intoxicated.\n\nHe told jurors: \"It's not a crime to like sex, even if you're famous and it's not a crime to have sex, even if you're famous, and it's not a crime to have casual sex.\n\n\"And it's not a crime to have sex with someone of the same sex because it's 2023 not 1823.\"\n\nHe challenged the Crown's claim that there was a \"pattern of similarity\" between the accusers because three claim Mr Spacey \"grabbed\" them by the crotch, a term Mr Spacey previously told the court he \"objected\" to.\n\nHe told the jury it was \"easy\" to lie convincingly, especially when it is about someone such as Kevin Spacey who he described as a man \"who is promiscuous, not publicly out, although everyone in the businesses knows he's gay who wants to be just a normal guy to drink beer and laugh and smoke weed and sit in the front and spend time with younger people who he's attracted to\".\n\nHe said perhaps Mr Spacey had led \"a bit of an odd life\", but that it was \"a life that makes you an easy target when the internet turns against you and you're tried by social media\".\n\n\"That's when these claims were taken to the police, when it was, I suggest, only too easy to do and the prospects of a pay-off from the bandwagon were at their most irresistible.\"\n\nMr Gibbs praised Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish for risking the \"wrath of the internet\" to be called as defence witnesses after they gave evidence via video link from Monaco on Monday.\n\nMr Spacey pleaded not guilty in January to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nA further charge of indecent assault, an alternative count, was added mid-trial - taking the total number of alleged offences listed on the indictment to 13.\n\nOn Wednesday, the four indecent assault charges, which were all alternative counts, were struck off by the judge, due to a \"legal technicality\" and not as a result of the prosecution abandoning any allegation.", "Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (centre) welcomed at an airport in Pyongyang on 25 July\n\nA Russian delegation led by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has arrived in North Korea, to be joined by a Chinese delegation later on Wednesday.\n\nThey will attend Pyongyang's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, marked typically by massive military parades.\n\nThe visits are the first of their kind to the North since it shut its borders to try to keep out the pandemic.\n\nIt is unclear if this signals a change in Pyongyang's border policies.\n\nReclusive North Korea had sealed itself off from all trade and diplomatic ties in early 2020, even with Russia and China, its main economic and political partners.\n\nThey even cut off imports of essential goods like food and medicine.\n\nNorth Korea has been facing food shortages, which have been made worse by its border closure and strict international sanctions that have been imposed because of its nuclear programme.\n\nSome analysts say the inclusion of Chinese and Russian envoys in this year's \"Victory Day\" parade - as the 1953 Korean armistice is called in the North - hints at a possible loosening of Covid restrictions.\n\nIt comes weeks after images of North Koreans walking around without masks were shown on state media.\n\nThe Russian delegation arrived in North Korea late on Tuesday, and received a warm welcome on the tarmac at an airport in Pyongyang.\n\nMr Shoigu walked past a line of saluting soldiers and a red banner emblazoned with the words, \"Welcome, Comrade Defence Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu!\" in both Korean and Russian.\n\nThe Chinese delegation will be led by Li Hongzhong, who is part of the Chinese Communist Party's central policymaking committee, and will arrive some time on Wednesday, according to a party spokesperson.\n\nChina and Russia are both long time allies of North Korea.\n\nBeijing had sent troops in the autumn of 1950 to support North Korea in the war against South Korea. The then Soviet Union also supported North Korea in the war.\n\nSince the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Russia has remained a natural ally for North Korea because of their mutual dislike for the US. Washington has, in fact, accused North Korea of providing military aid to Russia in its war in Ukraine, a claim that both Pyongyang and Moscow deny.\n\nMr Shoigu's visit also comes against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions between the US and Russia over the Ukraine war. Ties between Beijing and Washington are also frayed because of Taiwan.\n\nThe US has been trying to talk to Pyongyang after US soldier Travis King fled to North Korea last week.\n\nPrivate King, who was meant to go back to the US to face disciplinary action, ran into North Korea while on a tour at the Joint Security Area (JSA), an area in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that divides North and South Korea.\n\nThe United Nations Command, which the United States is part of, said on Monday that dialogue had taken place with North Korea over Pvt King, but did not provide any details.", "\"It's so disrespectful and actual cruelty as well,\" says Charlotte Llywelyn\n\nPeople who walk dogs without a lead across farmland risk causing animal cruelty, says a farmer whose sheep face \"constant\" attack.\n\nMore powers for police and tougher penalties are needed, said Charlotte Llywelyn, whose farm near Cardiff is criss-crossed by public paths.\n\nShe described a pregnant ewe being severely injured and bite marks on sheep jaws as a \"nightmare\".\n\nThe UK government said it would be setting out \"next steps in due course\".\n\nSome readers may find details and pictures in this story distressing.\n\nMs Llywelyn's family have reared sheep and cattle for five generations on a farm that is is now ringed by housing developments.\n\nIt has made the area's public footpaths increasingly popular, and the problem of dogs running loose and attacking her livestock more likely.\n\nShe described images from the aftermaths of the attacks as shocking, upsetting and grim.\n\nThey show a pregnant ewe with its throat ripped open, a lamb with no skin left on its face and a sheep with bite marks around its jaw.\n\nDogs are attacking the necks of the sheep\n\n\"It's just a nightmare,\" she said. \"It's so disrespectful and actual cruelty as well.\n\n\"I think these people would class themselves as animal lovers - they have dogs that they're taking for a walk but they don't realise the stress they're causing the livestock.\"\n\nShe said one time a dog got into a field and was circling a ring of 15 cows huddled together to protect their calves.\n\nThis sheep from a farm near Cardiff has bite marks on its jaw\n\n\"If you've seen footage of wolves trying to attack bison - it was exactly like that,\" she said.\n\nDespite losing a lot of ground she had to install \"a permanent fence which is segregating those members of the public who do not respect what we do on the farm\".\n\nBrothers Ben and Ethan Williams run a farm nearby and have also lost animals to dog attacks.\n\n\"We've had two dog attacks this year, one ewe survived but the other died,\" Ethan explained.\n\nIn both instances the dogs and their owners had disappeared by the time the injured animals were discovered.\n\n\"I think policing powers need to be increased,\" Ben said. \"That would be a deterrent at least for the people who understand the rules but still flout them.\"\n\nFarmers Ben and Ethan Williams says police need more powers to prevent dog attacks on livestock\n\nTougher action to prevent livestock worrying had been included in the UK government's flagship animal welfare bill which was unexpectedly dropped in May, after being in development for several years.\n\nThe Kept Animals Bill had also included plans to ban people from keeping primates as pets, stop the export of live animals for slaughter, tackle dog thefts and puppy smuggling.\n\nIt was scrapped amid accusations from ministers of \"political games\", with suggestions the government's opponents could have used the legislation to force debates on issues like hunting.\n\nFarmers are frustrated about what they see as a lack of action on the prevention of dog attacks\n\nHazel Wright, deputy head of policy at the Farmers' Union of Wales said the u-turn had caused \"real frustration\".\n\n\"We'd worked on the bill for such a long time in conjunction with the police,\" she said.\n\n\"It included things like better investigative powers - so DNA sampling to identify a problem dog when there are no witnesses as well as powers for police to enter premises and seize suspect dogs. And of course tougher penalties for repeat offenders.\n\n\"For us now it's vital that we see those individual elements in the bill that relate to dog attacks taken forward during this parliamentary term.\"\n\nThe FUW is hosting an event at the Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd, Powys, on Wednesday about the impact of dog attacks and what more can be done to prevent them.\n\nRob Taylor, the wildlife and rural crime coordinator for Wales, said as a police officer he had attended many attacks that were \"absolutely devastating\".\n\n\"The sheep are brutalised, the farmer's upset, the police have to go and deal with it and of course at the end of the day the dogs are either shot or euthanised.\"\n\nHe said he felt \"gutted\" when the Kept Animals Bill was dropped.\n\nUK Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Thérèse Coffey said the bill had \"grown significantly as it was passing through parliament\".\n\n\"So what we're doing is bringing back our manifesto commitments through single issue bills that will make sure they get through parliament actually more smoothly.\"\n\nShe said she was \"confident that we will see those before the next election in legislation\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A drink-driver has admitted killing charity cyclist Tony Parsons and burying his body to cover up the crime.\n\nAlexander McKellar, 31, was speeding and had been drinking when he caused Mr Parsons' death.\n\nHe and twin brother Robert McKellar admitted trying to defeat the ends of justice by hiding the body in a grave in the Auch Estate near Bridge of Orchy in September 2017.\n\nMr Parsons' remains were not found until January 2021.\n\nHis family said it had been \"heartbreaking\" to live with so many unanswered questions over the six years since he went missing.\n\nAlexander McKellar (L) and twin brother Robert appeared at the High Court in Glasgow\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard how Alexander McKellar collided with Mr Parsons on the A82 between Bridge of Orchy and Tyndrum on 29 September 2017.\n\nMcKellar did not seek medical assistance for the 63-year-old at the roadside.\n\nThe damaged car involved in the killing was dumped at the nearby Auch Estate along with the brothers' phones.\n\nThey then returned in a truck to where Mr Parsons was still lying.\n\nHe was placed into the vehicle along with his bike and other personal belongings.\n\nThe brothers went back to the Auch Estate and initially hid Mr Parsons' body in a part of the woods.\n\nHe was later taken to another location used for \"the purposes of disposing dead animals\".\n\nThe brothers then dug a grave and buried Mr Parsons along with his personal possessions.\n\nProsecutors said the brothers got help trying to repair the car used in the killing, claiming it had been damaged when it hit a deer.\n\nTony Parsons was last seen outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel in September 2017\n\nThe two men had been due to stand trial accused of Mr Parsons' murder.\n\nBut Alexander McKellar pled guilty to the reduced charge of culpable homicide.\n\nHis brother had his not guilty plea to murder accepted.\n\nThe pair both admitted attempting to defeat the ends of justice.\n\nMr Parsons was last seen in September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nHe then continued cycling south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum, but there were no further sightings.\n\nMr Parsons' family were in court to hear the guilty plea\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nHis remains were eventually found in a remote area in January 2021.\n\nMr Parsons' family were at the High Court in Glasgow to hear the guilty plea.\n\nIn a statement, they described him as \"a much-loved husband, dad and grandad\".\n\nThey said: \"When he said goodbye and set off on his charity cycle from Fort William that Friday, none of us expected it to be the last time we would be able to see or speak to him.\n\n\"Throughout the six years since he went missing and then the subsequent criminal investigation, we had been left with many unanswered questions and it has been heartbreaking for each and every member of the family being unable to get these answers.\n\n\"As you can imagine, not knowing what has happened to someone and then the devastating news that we were provided has taken its toll on all of us as a family.\"\n\nThe case will continue on Friday.", "Jurors were read transcripts from police interviews with Kevin Spacey during the prosecution's final day of evidence in his sex assault trial.\n\nThe actor was questioned five times by Met Police officers in New York and London in 2019. He was not under arrest during the interviews.\n\nSpacey, 63 said he was \"baffled\" by one allegation and didn't recognise two of his accusers, the court heard.\n\nThe Hollywood star denies 12 alleged sex offences between 2001 and 2013.\n\nJurors at Southwark Crown Court have heard evidence from four men who claim the actor attacked them, as well as witnesses supporting their accusations.\n\nBarrister Shauna Ritchie ended the prosecution's case by telling the court how Spacey told police he didn't recognise a man who claims to have been assaulted in the actor's flat.\n\nThe man alleges he went to the actor's flat seeking career advice, and woke up with Spacey performing a sex act on him.\n\nHe told police he would \"never\" have performed a sex act on anyone without their consent, adding: \"I have had a number of consensual one-night stands with many members of the theatre world in my property.\"\n\nSpacey also said he did not recognise another complainant, who alleges Spacey grabbed him \"like a cobra\" after they met at a West End theatre.\n\nHe told police he was \"deeply hurt\" and \"baffled\" by accusations from another accuser, who says he was made to swerve his car off the road when Spacey grabbed him while he was driving.\n\nThe actor said he may have made a \"clumsy pass\" at his final alleged victim but denied deliberately attacking him.\n\nThe interviews were conducted voluntarily with the actor and his attorneys.\n\nSpacey has been described as a \"predator\" and a \"sexual bully\" during previous hearings over incidents which allegedly took place in the UK.\n\nThe American spent time living in London during his stint as the director of the Old Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015.\n\nDuring cross-examination of witnesses, Spacey's defence team questioned the motivations and integrity of his accusers, including that they are seeking financial gain.\n\nSpacey pleaded not guilty in January to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nAll four accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.", "The fallout over Nigel Farage’s bank account being closed is an insight into a key tenet of journalism - sourcing stories. Reporters have to be able to trust their sources and it's standard journalistic practice not to reveal who they are.\n\nDame Alison was said to have had dinner with the BBC’s business editor Simon Jack the night before he reported the reason for Farage’s account being closed was because he had fallen below the wealth threshold, citing a source familiar with the matter..\n\nShe did not confirm that the conversation had taken place at the dinner, but said on Monday she had made “a serious error” in discussing Farage’s relationship with the bank with Jack.\n\nThis was Dame Alison’s first admission that she had been involved in the story.\n\nShe said in conversations with Jack \"she had confirmed that Farage was a Coutts customer and he had been offered a NatWest bank account\". She said she had believed this was public knowledge.\n\nThe BBC is not commenting on the latest development in the story or who Jack’s source was.\n\nHowever, in a letter from BBC News CEO Deborah Turness apologising to Farage for its inaccurate report, Turness said Jack had gone back to the source to check they were happy for the BBC to publish the information. They said they were.\n\nFarage highlighted this as a discrepancy between the BBC's and Dame Alison’s account of what had happened.", "Like many performers, comedian Robin Grainger hoped that the Edinburgh Fringe might be a springboard to stardom.\n\nThat may have looked unlikely when he only sold a single ticket for his show last year - but his decision to go ahead with the gig changed the course of his career.\n\nRobin knew the show must go on, so he went out on stage and brought a whole new meaning to the term one-man show.\n\nWhat happened next was the stuff of Fringe folklore.\n\nRobin, from Portsoy in Aberdeenshire, gave it his all - and by chance comedy reviewer Kate Copstick was waiting outside to watch the next performer.\n\nCommenting to a staff member that the gig sounded like it was going well, she was told there was one person in the audience. She was so impressed that Robin had gone ahead with the show that she tweeted about it.\n\nWhen BBC Scotland News picked up on the story, the tale went viral and before he knew it, Robin was a festival legend.\n\n\"It went mad,\" Robin said. \"The story went all over the world. I did 60 to 70 media interviews - 50 of them in the first week.\n\n\"And I sold out my Fringe shows.\n\n\"Off the back of that I went on a mini tour of the UK last year.\"\n\nRobin ended up doing a mini tour on the back of his Fringe success last year\n\nAnd - he said - \"weird stuff\" started to happen.\n\n\"Companies sent me clothes for free. And people sent me pictures of newspaper articles about me in Germany.\n\n\"Someone - a nurse - drew a portrait of me. And people would ask me for selfies.\n\n\"When I was doing a show in Newcastle a man was almost hit by a car running across the road to get a selfie - it's still baffling to me.\n\n\"Even now, every couple of days someone will still message me saying they heard of what happened. From places like Australia and Portugal.\"\n\nHe was even the subject of BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme's Thought For The Day slot.\n\nRobin is back at this year's Fringe. He is higher up the bill and has already sold 100 times the number of tickets he shifted for that first gig of his run last year.\n\nHis fan base is building - and includes the solitary man who came to see that show in 2022.\n\nRobin now counts radio executive Mike Cass as a friend, and he even features on the flyer of his 2023 show.\n\nMike travelled to Edinburgh to star in the flyer image for Robin's new show\n\n\"An audient with Robin Grainger\" throws back to Kate Copstick's review, where she called Mike the \"audient\" - which means hearer, the singular term for an audience.\n\nRobin said: \"I had the idea to get the biggest venue I could and have one person sat in the audience for the photo.\n\n\"The Playhouse let us use it and Mike agreed to travel up from Leicester just to have the photo taken in an empty Playhouse.\n\n\"He also surprised me on the last day of the tour, sneaking in to the back of the room.\n\n\"I asked him why he didn't heckle me and his comeback was: 'I wanted to see what the show was like with an audience'.\"\n\nThe events of last August have inspired more than the new show's title.\n\nRobin talks about what transpired at The Stand 2 in Edinburgh but the main theme of the show is overcoming fear.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"Last year I conquered the biggest fear as a comedian - not having an audience.\n\n\"I think I am a lot less scared of things now that I am not scared of a single-person gig any more.\n\n\"Now the routine is about conquering other fears. If you can get over that you can get over bigger things.\n\n\"I look at body image, feeling awkward, school days, mortality and grief.\n\n\"So far it has really connected with people - even the darker bits. I was worried about speaking about things like that but it has been well received because I think there is more relief when you can have a chuckle.\"\n\nRobin Grainger and his \"audient\" Mike Cass bonded after the show\n\nRobin's new fans include comedians Chris Ramsay, and Kevin Bridges and Iain Stirling both recommended the show on social media.\n\nHe can't believe he has sold tickets before the Fringe has even started.\n\nAnd while he may not be expecting to perform for one person, he still hopes he will get a boost from the run.\n\n\"I'm proud of this show. I'd love to do a wee tour after it. I'll just continue to try to build my audience and perform to as many people as possible.\"\n\nKate Copstick told BBC Scotland she was glad Robin used the platform he was given.\n\n\"I genuinely love it when I can help the unknown people, the weirdos, the risky guys,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to keep comedy crazy and wonderful and personal. Find another name for the corporate, industrialised, stuff.\n\n\"If Robin ever goes there, I will hunt him down and hurt him. And there is the title for that show, should he ever appear in the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.\"", "A newly-wed couple have celebrated their marriage by climbing Skye's second-highest summit in their wedding outfits.\n\nVictoria Forbes and Mark Lyons carried the wedding dress, suit and climbing gear up Sgùrr Dearg.\n\nThe keen climbers from the Scottish Borders then donned their wedding outfits to scale the top section, called the Inaccessible Pinnacle.\n\nTheir wedding photographer captured the moment before they abseiled back down.\n\nThe 3,234ft-high (986m) mountain in the Cuillins is topped by an imposing rocky formation, nicknamed the 'In Pinn'.\n\nMark stressed they would not have attempted the roped climb and abseil descent - and the long walk there and back - if they had not had the skills and appropriate equipment to do so safely.\n\nPortree-based Becy Stabler, of Belle Art Photography, captured the climb for the newly-weds' wedding album.\n\nVictoria and Mark, who became engaged during a trip to north-west Africa's Atlas Mountains, had previously climbed Sgùrr Dearg.\n\nThey were wed in a ceremony on 17 July close to the mountain and saw an opportunity to rekindle the memory.\n\nMark, who has been climbing since the 1990s, said: \"We were married in Glen Brittle just below the Cuillin mountains and due to our special memories of the original climb we decided to revisit it in our wedding attire the following day.\n\n\"Our amazing wedding photographer Becy Stabler accompanied us so we could have photos alongside our wedding photos.\"\n\nReaching the In Pinn, which involves rock climbing for the ascent and an abseil back down, meant walking and scrambling over rocky terrain for more than two hours.\n\nMark said: \"On the Inaccessible Pinnacle there was a handful of fellow climbers. The love and all the congratulations that came with this is beautiful and we thank everyone for their best wishes.\n\n\"The wedding dress and suit held up well until we had an impromptu swim in the loch sat in Coire Lagan on the walk out.\"\n\nHe added: \"The climb would never have happened if we weren't perfectly happy we could do it safely in the conditions that were given and our use of the necessary safety equipment carried.\n\n\"We would climb the In Pinn again - but will never repeat it dressed up.\"", "The UK government has been sharply criticised by the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) for under-estimating the dangerous growth of Russia's Wagner mercenary group.\n\nIn a scathing report, the cross-party committee of MPs accused the government of what it called \"a dismal lack of understanding\" of Wagner's activities in Africa.\n\n\"We are deeply concerned by the government's dismal lack of understanding of Wagner's hold beyond Europe, in particular their grip on African states,\" says the Committee's chair, Alicia Kearns MP.\n\nThe report itemises seven states where Wagner's military activity has been detected: Ukraine, Syria, the Central African Republic (CAR), Sudan, Libya, Mozambique and Mali.\n\nWagner has developed a highly successful and profitable business model in these countries, enriching itself and its client rulers, mostly at the expense of the local population.\n\nThe committee, which for the first time has commissioned open-source investigative research for its 82-page report, asserts that for 10 years the British government has \"under-played and under-estimated the Wagner Network's activities, as well as the security implications for Europe\".\n\nThis topic has become all the more relevant this week as somewhere between 3000-10,000 Wagner mercenary fighters have set up base in Belarus while rhetorically announcing their desire to make a cross-border raid into Poland, a Nato state.\n\nThe FAC report has used evidence provided by a well-placed and senior Wagner source, a \"defector\", who revealed that his organisation had boasted of teaching local police authorities in the CAR how to torture civilian captives.\n\nThe Wagner Group is accused of murdering hundreds of civilians in that country while helping to prop up the regime that pays their salaries.\n\nMali is a prime example of a country where the Wagner Group has successfully supplanted Western, French-led forces, while ingratiating itself with an autocratic government that recently seized power.\n\n\"Where the West moves out, Wagner moves in, seeing opportunity in suffering and profit in chaos,\" says the report.\n\n\"The UK must provide an alternative for countries that are struggling', it adds. \"It is a foreign policy goal of the Kremlin to force failing states to rely on the Wagner network.\"\n\nBeyond Africa, the Wagner group was instrumental in enabling Russia's illegal occupation and annexation of Crimea in 2014.\n\nThey have since been one of Russia's most effective fighting forces in Ukraine and have recently set up base in Belarus. Today's report calls the government's approach to Wagner \"remarkably complacent\".\n\nMs Kearns told the BBC that the Wagner group was symptomatic of the wider need to regulate Private Military Companies (PMCs).\n\nWhile she maintained that the atrocities allegedly committed by the Wagner Group, notably in the CAR, were in a class of their own, she acknowledged that criticism could also be levelled at Western-backed PMC's such as the US security company Blackwater that was accused of killing civilians during its time as a contractor in Iraq.\n\nThere is also a post-colonial history of western mercenary soldiers operating in Africa in the past with scant regard for human rights, notably in the Congo.\n\nBut just how much could the UK do or have done, given that the Wagner group is effectively an arm of the Russian government?\n\n\"Sanctions are not enough,\" says Ms Kearns. \"The UK needs to proscribe the Wagner group for what it is: a terrorist organisation.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson told the BBC the UK had \"heavily sanctioned the Wagner Group, including its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and several key commanders, limiting their travel and freezing their assets\".\n\nDescribing the UK as \"one of the leading suppliers\" of military aid to Ukraine, the spokesperson added that the UK would continue working with allies to counter Wagner's \"destabilising activities around the world\".", "By September 2025, working parents of children from the age of nine months will be eligible for 30 hours of government-funded childcare during term time\n\nThe government's plan to expand funded childcare for working parents \"will not work\" unless the amount paid to providers is right, MPs have warned.\n\nUnderfunding had left the sector \"straining to provide\" enough places for children, the Education Committee report found.\n\nEarly-years charities have welcomed the inquiry's focus on the challenges facing the sector.\n\nThe government says it is increasing the amount it pays childcare providers.\n\nWorking parents of three- and four-year-olds are eligible for 30 hours of government-funded childcare during term time - but by September 2025, this will be extended to cover children aged nine months and above.\n\nRobin Walker, who chairs the committee, said the childcare market faced significant challenges in \"affordability and availability\" and \"simply extending the number of hours that the government calls 'free' will not work unless the funding rates accurately reflect the costs of providing high-quality early education and childcare\".\n\nThe report warns it is vital the government \"gets this right, or the already struggling childcare market will see even more closures\" and the sector needs \"radically more financial and regulatory reform\".\n\nThe MPs also want better evidence of the effects of formal childcare on under-twos and say there should be more support for parents who choose to stay at home to look after their children.\n\nNursery owner Nicola Fluery says parents are booking nursery places \"well in advance\"\n\nMany settings currently charged children not on funded hours more, to compensate for the hours government paid for, the inquiry heard.\n\nNicola Fluery, who owns the Kidzrus Nursery Group, in Salford, Greater Manchester, said funding had been an issue \"for many years\" and she had had to supplement the amount the government paid for those children eligible for funded hours, in other ways, \"for example, bank loans\".\n\nIn April, the government's planned rollout of the extension of funded childcare for working parents will begin, starting with 15 hours for two-year-olds. And Kidzrus nurseries are already receiving calls from parents keen not to miss out.\n\nDemand \"will far outweigh the number of places available\", Ms Fleury fears.\n\nNational Day Nurseries Association chief executive Purnima Tanuku agrees \"the policy could fail\" if it fails to tackle underfunding.\n\nFrom September, the average hourly rate the government will pay will rise from:\n\nIt is also consulting on proposals to increase the rates for next year.\n\nBut also from September, the number of two-year-olds a staff member is expected to look after will rise, which the report said was deeply concerning and should be closely monitored and \"reversed if quality and education outcomes suffer\".\n\nThe wide-ranging report had a number of recommendations, with the committee calling for:\n\nParents in training or education should also be able to access government-funded hours, the report recommends.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was rolling out \"the single biggest investment in childcare in England ever, set to save a working parent using 30 hours of childcare up to an average of £6,500 per year and give children the best quality early-years education\".\n\n\"To make sure that we are supporting our fantastic early-years workforce, we will be investing hundreds of millions of pounds each year to increase the amounts we pay childcare providers,\" an official said.\n\n\"We also are consulting on how we distribute funding to make sure it is fair.\"\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Dewi George admitted perverting the course of justice\n\nA man has been jailed for accepting speeding points on behalf of his 17-year-old son, just months before the teen was involved in a fatal crash.\n\nDewi George, 44, pretended to have been driving the car at the time of the speeding offence - despite actually being at his place of work.\n\nThree months later, his son was involved in a fatal crash in which two people died.\n\nGeorge pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard a police speed camera caught an image of an Alfa Romeo speeding on Cockett Road, Swansea, on 28 February 2022.\n\nProsecution barrister Sian Cutter said because the \"image was blurred\", the male behind the wheel could not be clearly identified.\n\nGeorge, of Birchgrove in Swansea, admitted to the offence in response to a Notice of Intended Prosecution and accepted a speed awareness course as punishment.\n\nBut the court heard that this version of events was \"not possible\" after automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) records, and George's boss, confirmed that he was in fact at work in Cardiff at the time.\n\nFurther police investigations revealed that George's son was \"in the vicinity of the speed camera at 12:05 on that day\".\n\nThe court heard George told officers \"his son had only just passed his test\" and he was therefore \"worried his son would be banned from driving\".\n\nJudge Thomas KC said this meant George's son \"was not in any way sanctioned\" and got away \"scot-free\".\n\nThe judge noted that a few months later on 31 May 2022, George's son \"had three passengers in his car\" when the vehicle crashed at a petrol station in Bishopston, Swansea.\n\n\"Tragically two young people died and a third was seriously injured,\" the judge continued.\n\n\"Although I am not making any assumptions about that incident, the anger of the families of those children must be immense and if they draw a correlation between the two events, who can possibly blame them.\"\n\nThe judge continued: \"He learnt no lesson other than his father would lie to get him off the hook and within three months he was behind the wheel of that Alfa Romeo when two young people lost their lives.\n\n\"Had it not been for that, your deception would have gone unnoticed.\"\n\nMembers of the victims' families wept in the public gallery as the judge continued to address George in the dock.\n\n\"Even after you knew two young people had died, you continued to pretend you were the driver,\" the judge said.\n\n\"You even went on a speed awareness course two weeks after.\"\n\nDefence counsel Kate Williams said George had taken his son's speeding points out of \"misplaced loyalty\".\n\nGeorge pleaded guilty to one count of perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to four months in prison.\n\nJudge Thomas said he was convinced George's remorse was \"sincere\" and acknowledged the impact the sentence would have on his family who, by George's own admission, he had \"let down\".", "In the UK, it is up to individual head teachers to decide if smartphones can be used in schools\n\nThe United Nations has warned of the risks of smartphones in schools, stating \"only technology that supports learning\" is merited in schools.\n\nMobile devices can cause distraction, risk pupil privacy and lead to cyber-bullying says Unesco, the UN's education, science and culture agency.\n\nBut less than one-in-four countries have laws or policies banning phones in schools, the report found.\n\nIn the UK, head teachers set the rules but restrictions apply in most schools.\n\nManos Antoninis, the author of the 2023 Global Education Monitor report, told the BBC their study found \"examples of smartphone use in school that is distracting students from learning and increasing risks to their privacy at the same time\".\n\n\"Only technology that supports learning has a place in school,\" he said.\n\nStudents should not be shielded from technology entirely, Mr Antoninis said, but countries needed to give better guidance on what type of technology should be allowed in school.\n\nSeveral studies have shown that banning mobile phones from schools improves academic performance, the report notes.\n\nLexi, 16, said her previous head teacher allowed the educational use of phones in school, but said students would often use them for social media instead, or as well.\n\nShe argued that while smartphones could be used for bullying, they could also help create a sense of connection.\n\n\"I can see how phones can have a damaging effect on the person being bullied and their mental health. But, speaking of mental health, phones can provide a good social connection.\n\n\"If you're having a rough time with anything, then you should have the right to talk to someone,\" she told the BBC.\n\nIn 2021, the then-education secretary, Gavin Williamson, called for a ban on mobile phones in schools in England, but current Department for Education (DfE) guidance says it is up to head teachers to decide if mobile phones can be used during the school day.\n\nHowever, it warns allowing access to mobiles in school introduces risks, including distraction, disruption, bullying and abuse, and can be detrimental to learning.\n\n\"Head teachers should consider restricting or prohibiting mobile phones to reduce these risks,\" DfE guidance states.\n\nIn June, a parents association for eight primary schools in Ireland introduced a voluntary ban on smartphones for children in the home or at school, the BBC's Newsround reported.\n\nSpeaking to Newsround, one 14-year old - who had only recently been given their first phone - said giving phones to children as young as eight was \"ridiculous\".\n\n\"Some parents put restrictions on phones, but some don't - and then they can be seeing really inappropriate things.\"\n\nBut others countered that mobile phones were useful for contacting parents, saying banning home use was excessive.\n\nIn 2017, Bangladesh banned both students and teachers in schools and colleges from bringing mobile phones into classrooms.\n\nFrance also has a ban but makes exceptions for certain groups of students, for example those with disabilities, or when smartphones are used for teaching.\n\nAnd next year the Netherlands will mostly ban mobile phones, tablets and smartwatches from secondary school classrooms.\n\nHowever, Sarah Hannafin, head of policy at school leaders' union NAHT said a ban on mobiles might work for some schools but in others could cause more problems than it solved, \"leading to pupils becoming more secretive about their phone use meaning problems are hidden from staff and therefore more difficult to spot and address\".\n\n\"There are also practical reasons why pupils may need a mobile phone such as while travelling to and from school\".\n\nSchools helped to prepare young people for the outside world, including managing screen time, she said.\n\n\"Individual schools know their pupils and communities so are best placed to develop their own policies when it comes to mobile phones.\"", "Video caption: Spacey 'humbled' by outcome after being cleared of charges Spacey 'humbled' by outcome after being cleared of charges\n\nA London trial that filled front pages for a month has finally reached its climax with today's news: Hollywood star Kevin Spacey has been cleared of all the sexual offences with which he'd been charged.\n\nThe House of Cards star was in tears as the verdicts were read out, going on to say he was \"humbled\" by the outcome of proceedings. As our correspondent Lucy Manning wrote on this page, Spacey will now be hoping to resume a career that's brought him so many accolades.\n\nWhat to read next? Head here for our full report of today's events - and then make sure to brief yourself on Spacey's life and career more fully here.\n\nThe team working on this live page was Malu Cursino, Adam Durbin, Jasmine Andersson, James Harness, Emma Owen, Heather Sharp, Jasmine Taylor-Coleman and me. Charley Adams and Lucy Manning were at Southwark Crown Court for us.", "The Culture Secretary has said she is concerned banks may be closing customer accounts for political reasons following claims from Brexiteer Nigel Farage.\n\nLucy Frazer said it is something banks \"should be thinking about carefully\".\n\nLast week, Mr Farage said his bank was closing his accounts, claiming it was \"serious political persecution\" from an anti-Brexit banking industry.\n\nThe government is investigating payment providers over account closures.\n\nLast year, Paypal closed accounts run by Toby Young, who is general secretary of the Free Speech Union. They were later reinstated by the US payments company.\n\nThe government subsequently announced a review into payment services regulations, including the practice of firms apparently closing down the accounts of people or businesses that hold views the lender does not agree with.\n\nMs Frazer told LBC, the radio station: \"I'm concerned people's accounts might be closed for the wrong reasons and it's something they [the banks] should be thinking about carefully.\n\n\"Banks are regulated, and those are the sort of things regulators should consider.\"\n\nMr Farage said that he was told two months ago that his bank, who he did not name but is understood to be Coutts, was closing down his personal and business accounts.\n\nThe BBC has approached Coutts' parent company NatWest for comment.\n\nMr Farage, who is the former leader of UKIP and a former member of the European Parliament, suggested that the reason for the decision could be related to laws that banks follow on \"politically exposed person\" or PEPs.\n\nThese are people who hold a prominent position or influence who may be more susceptible to being involved in bribery or corruption.\n\nBanks are required to do extra due diligence on PEPs.\n\nMr Farage said he was told by his bank that closing his accounts was a \"commercial decision\".\n\nUK Finance, which represents the banking industry, said lenders should discuss the closure of an account with a customer \"so far as is feasible and permissible\".\n\nIt said though there will \"be situations where it may not be appropriate or permissible for a bank to engage in a dialogue to explain their reasoning\".\n\nThis would include a breach of terms and conditions, \"abusive or threatening behaviour to colleagues\" or if banks have been directed not to by \"regulators, HM Government, police and other authorities\".\n\nMr Farage said he approached seven other banks to open personal and business accounts and was turned down by all of them.\n\nHowever, he claimed there were other reasons why his existing bank acted.\n\n\"Either for reasons of being active in politics, or having opinions that modern day corporate banks don't agree with, far too many accounts have been closed in recent years,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I hope that my case blows the lid off the whole thing and that we can get changes to legislation. Everyone in the UK should be entitled to a bank account.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Monday, security minister Tom Tugendhat, said \"This sort of closure, on political grounds - if that is indeed what has happened and after all we only have the allegation of it at this point - should be completely unacceptable.\n\n\"PEPs is there to prevent the corrupt use of banking facilities by politicians in corrupt regimes. It is not here to silence individuals who may hold views with which we may or may not agree.\"\n\nThe result of the government consultation on payment services regulations is expecting in the next few weeks.", "Sir Elton John has given evidence as a defence witness at actor Kevin Spacey's sexual assault trial.\n\nThe musician was asked about Mr Spacey's attendance at a party hosted by the singer at his home in Windsor.\n\nMr Spacey is alleged to have sexually assaulted a man who was driving him to the event. He denies going to the party in the year the prosecution claim.\n\nThe 63-year-old has pleaded not guilty to 12 sexual offence charges against four men between 2001 and 2013.\n\nSir Elton appeared by video link from Monaco. He answered questions around whether Mr Spacey had ever attended the White Tie and Tiara Ball that the musician held every year at his home.\n\nThe singer said Mr Spacey attended in 2001. One of the actor's accusers had given evidence to say a sexual assault happened on route to the ball in 2002, which Spacey denies attending.\n\nSpeaking about the ball in 2001, Sir Elton said: \"Yes, he came in white tie, and he came straight from a private jet. Yes, I don't think he'd wear white tie otherwise.\"\n\nSir Elton said Mr Spacey stayed overnight at his home in Windsor after the event, but could not remember him visiting the property after that.\n\nSir Elton's husband, David Furnish, also gave evidence and said he remembered Mr Spacey attending the event in question, adding \"as an Oscar-winning actor, there was a lot of excitement he was at the ball\".\n\nMr Spacey denies three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also denies four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nThe Hollywood star won an Oscar for Best Actor in 2000 for American Beauty as well as Emmy nominations for his role in House of Cards.", "O'Connor was best known for her single Nothing Compares 2 U, written by Prince\n\nIrish singer and activist Sinéad O'Connor has died at the age of 56.\n\nHer family announced the news \"with great sadness\", saying \"her family and friends are devastated\". The cause of death has not been made public.\n\nShe was best known for her single Nothing Compares 2 U, released in 1990, which reached number one and brought her worldwide fame.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar said her music \"was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched\".\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins praised O'Connor's \"authenticity\" as well as her \"beautiful, unique voice\".\n\n\"What Ireland has lost at such a relatively young age is one of our greatest and most gifted composers, songwriters and performers of recent decades, one who had a unique talent and extraordinary connection with her audience, all of whom held such love and warmth for her,\" he said.\n\nBorn Sinead Marie Bernadette O'Connor in Glenageary, County Dublin, in December 1966, the singer had a difficult childhood.\n\nAs a teenager, she was placed in Dublin's An Grianan Training Centre, once one of the notorious Magdalene laundries, originally set up to incarcerate young girls deemed to be promiscuous.\n\nOne nun bought her a guitar and set her up with a music teacher - which led to the launch of O'Connor's musical career.\n\nShe released her first critically acclaimed album The Lion And The Cobra in 1987, which entered the top 40 in the UK and US.\n\nHer follow-up was I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, which included Nothing Compares 2 U.\n\nWritten by Prince, the song reached number one around the world, including in the US and the UK.\n\nIrish singer Sinéad O'Connor has died at the age of 56\n\nO'Connor, who was outspoken in her social and political views, released 10 studio albums between 1987 and 2014.\n\nIn 1991, she was was named artist of the year by Rolling Stone magazine and took home the Brit Award for international female solo artist.\n\nThe following year, one of the most notable events of her career took place when she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on US TV show Saturday Night Live, where she was the invited performer.\n\nFollowing an a cappella performance of Bob Marley's War, she looked at the camera and said \"fight the real enemy\", a protest against child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.\n\nHer actions resulted in her being banned for life by broadcaster NBC and protests against her in the US, which saw copies of her records destroyed in New York's Times Square.\n\n\"I'm not sorry I did it. It was brilliant,\" she said in an interview with the New York Times in 2021.\n\nO'Connor's last studio album, I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss, was released in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinéad O'Connor: In her own words\n\nConverting to Islam in 2018, the Dublin singer changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat, but continued to perform under her birth name. She released a memoir, Rememberings, in 2021.\n\nIn January 2022, her 17-year-old son Shane was found dead after being reported missing two days previously.\n\nWriting on social media following his death, she said he had \"decided to end his earthly struggle\" and requested \"no-one follows his example\".\n\nThe singer later cancelled all live performances for the rest of 2022 due to her \"continuing grief\" following the death of her son.\n\nO'Connor paid tribute to Shane in one of her final tweets, calling him \"the love of my life, the lamp of my soul, we were one soul in two halves\".\n\nConverting to Islam in 2018, the Dublin singer changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat\n\nBelfast filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson, one of the last few people to speak to O'Connor before her death, said she was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nFerguson had been working on a documentary film about O'Connor, titled Nothing Compares, which is set to be released this Saturday.\n\n\"Our film really, for me, it was a love letter to Sinéad. It was made over many, many years,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Front Row. \"And made because of the impact she'd had on me as a young girl growing up in Ireland.\n\n\"She is one of the most radical, incredible musicians that we've had. And we were very, very lucky to have had her.\"\n\nSocial media was also flooded with tributes to the singer after her death was announced on Wednesday evening.\n\nSinger Alison Moyet said O'Connor had an \"astounding presence\" and a voice that \"cracked stone with force by increment\".\n\n\"As beautiful as any girl around & never traded on that card. I loved that about her. Iconoclast.\"\n\nIrish comedian Dara O'Briain said of her death: \"That's just very sad news. Poor thing. I hope she realised how much love there was for her.\"\n\nMusician Tim Burgess of the Charlatans said: \"Sinead was the true embodiment of a punk spirit. She did not compromise and that made her life more of a struggle. Hoping that she has found peace.\"\n\n\"How she suffered. Poor, poor Sinéad. Rest in peace, you amazing, brave, beautiful, unique wonder.\"\n\nJournalist Caitlin Moran posted: \"She was decades before her time, and fearless. Rest in power, queen.\"\n\nIrish film director Mark Cousins added: \"Sinéad O'Connor was our Irish wild side. Such a big part of our imagined lives.\"\n\nSinger Bryan Adams, who had collaborated with O'Connor, wrote: \"RIP Sinéad O'Connor, I loved working with you making photos, doing gigs in Ireland together and chats, all my love to your family.\"\n\nIn a Twitter post, Irish mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor, who O'Connor once sang into the ring for a UFC fight in Las Vegas, wrote: \"Ireland has lost an iconic voice and one of our absolute finest, by a long shot. And I have lost a friend.\"\n\nNo-one sang like Sinéad O'Connor. No-one.\n\nHer every note screamed with naked passion. She turned Prince's saccharine Nothing Compares 2 U into an almighty howl of pain and loss.\n\nThose emotions were her bedfellows. She had a traumatic childhood. Her parents divorced when she was eight, and her mother - who she later claimed had abused her - died in a car accident in 1985.\n\nAs a teenager she was arrested for shoplifting and sent to a Magdalene Asylum, which she described as a \"prison\" where the \"girls cried every day\".\n\nAll those harrowing experiences, and ones yet to come, poured into her music. I Am Stretched On Your Grave is a hauntingly beautiful song about love and loss while Three Babies, from her second album, laid bare her sorrow after she had suffered several miscarriages.\n\nShe also took on other people's pain. Her breakthrough single, Mandinka, contained oblique references to female genital mutilation. 1990's Black Boys On Mopeds addressed police brutality against black men, two years before the LA riots thrust the issue into the spotlight.\n\nAlthough she was a controversial figure, there was always a tenderness to her protests. When she ripped up a picture of the Pope on US television, she was thinking about victims of abuse, not about her image.\n\nHer later albums featured guest spots by her own children, and hymns to peace and community. Earlier this year, she won a classic album award in Ireland, and dedicated it to the country's refugee community.\n\nNothing Compares 2 U was the outlier: a song that made her famous against her wishes. At heart, she was a protest singer with a voice that demanded to be heard. That is how we should remember her.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans\n\nAn agreement expected to see US President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, plead guilty to tax charges and admit a gun offence has dramatically fallen apart in court.\n\nThe plea deal, negotiated over several weeks, was likely to spare the younger Mr Biden prison time.\n\nBut a judge on Wednesday said she could not \"rubber stamp the agreement\".\n\nThe case marks the first time the justice department has charged the child of a sitting president.\n\nHunter Biden's lawyers have been given 14 days to hash out a new deal with the prosecution.\n\nIt follows a five-year investigation into the finances of the US first son, who arrived on Wednesday morning at the court in Wilmington, Delaware.\n\nIn a plea agreement announced last month, he was to be charged with two misdemeanour counts for failing to pay his taxes on time in 2017 and 2018.\n\nHe was also to admit that he had illegally possessed a gun while being a drug user, and agree to drug treatment and monitoring in lieu of a more serious felony charge and possible jail time.\n\nBut during the three-hour hearing, US District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika questioned whether the deal would also provide Hunter Biden with immunity from crimes he could be found liable for in the future.\n\nShe said the agreement contained \"non-standard terms\" and its proposed resolution for the gun possession offence was \"unusual\".\n\nOfficials with the justice department are still investigating whether Hunter Biden violated federal laws that required him to register as a foreign agent while working in China and Ukraine during his father's vice-presidency, CNN reported.\n\nLegal teams for both sides were seen negotiating in full view of reporters inside the court in an effort to salvage the plea deal or carve out a narrower agreement.\n\nBut the hearing ended with Judge Noreika, a Trump appointee, declining to sign the deal. She gave the two parties a fortnight to reach a new agreement and brief her.\n\nHunter Biden, who initially offered to enter a guilty plea, ended by pleading not guilty for the timebeing.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the White House said the president and first lady \"love their son and they support him as he continues to rebuild his life\".\n\n\"Hunter Biden is a private citizen and this was a personal matter for him,\" said press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.\n\nThe misdemeanour tax counts are minor charges compared to the more serious allegations against Hunter that congressional Republicans have introduced in committee hearings.\n\nRepublicans allege that he was offered an unusually lenient plea deal because he is the president's son.\n\nThe House of Representatives Oversight Committee has already heard testimony from a whistleblower who claimed the justice department had deliberately stalled the tax investigation.\n\nThat is denied by the US Attorney for Delaware, David Weiss, who led the investigation.\n\nMr Weiss was appointed by former President Donald Trump and left in place by the Biden administration to finish the investigation into Hunter.\n\nHe has offered to testify in front of Congress to address criticism of the inquiry.\n\nRepublicans, who are examining various allegations against Hunter Biden, have focused on a notorious laptop that he apparently abandoned in a computer repair shop in Delaware.\n\nThe contents have been used to try to prove bribery and corruption against the president's son, and to attempt to connect his father to illegal business dealings.\n\nBut Democrats say it is no coincidence that Republicans are attacking the justice system while Mr Trump faces two criminal indictments and may soon learn of charges against him in two more cases.", "Those infected as a result of contaminated blood, and some bereaved partners, are already entitled to annual support payments to cover living expenses.\n\nBut until last year, no form of actual compensation had ever been paid in the UK.\n\nThat changed last summer when the Inquiry’s chair Sir Brian Langstaff recommended £100,000 should be paid to around 4,000 victims and widows as part of a first interim settlement.\n\nThe government agreed and the payments were made in October.\n\nIn April this year Langstaff then went much further. He recommended those interim payments should be extended to the children and parents of those who had lost their lives - but only if the £100,000 hadn’t already been paid out in some other way.\n\nThis would mean orphans who had lost both parents to HIV/Aids, for example, would now be eligible.\n\nBut crucially he also recommended that full compensation should be paid to all those individuals infected or affected by the scandal.\n\nCampaigners, including many who have been personally infected or affected by the infected blood scandal, protested in Westminster earlier today Image caption: Campaigners, including many who have been personally infected or affected by the infected blood scandal, protested in Westminster earlier today\n\nThat would mean many survivors would be able to claim more than the initial £100,000 they have already received, while others - including partner, parents, children and siblings - could also claim a separate lump sum.\n\nThe amount would be different for each individual and depend not just on their health but other factors including emotional distress, stigma, loss of education and earnings, care costs and the effect on relationships and family life.\n\nLangstaff called for a framework to be set up by the end of this year to allow this to happen.\n\nThe government though has not formally replied to this second recommendation - saying work is ongoing and it will respond in full after the Inquiry’s final report is published in the autumn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Nigel Farage says he 'wants answers' after bank apology\n\nBanking boss Dame Alison Rose has apologised to Nigel Farage for \"deeply inappropriate\" comments made about him in a document on his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nThe boss of NatWest Group said in a letter to Mr Farage that the comments did not reflect the bank's view.\n\nUKIP's ex-leader has said his Coutts account was closed because the bank did not agree with his political views.\n\nMr Farage said Dame Alison should now be questioned by MPs about the issue.\n\nDame Alison's apology came after the government announced new plans to force banks to explain account closures.\n\nShe said that as well as apologising to Mr Farage, she was \"commissioning a full review of the Coutts' processes\" on bank account closures. Coutts, a private bank, is owned by the NatWest Group.\n\nIn the letter to Mr Farage she said she believed \"very strongly that freedom of expression and access to banking are fundamental to our society and it is absolutely not our policy to exit a customer on the basis of legally held political and personal views\".\n\nMr Farage had put in a request to the bank to see documents relating to the decision to close his Coutts account.\n\nThe BBC had previously reported that it had been told that Mr Farage had fallen below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, citing a source familiar with the move.\n\nThe 40-page document given to Mr Farage, published by the Daily Mail, included minutes from a meeting in November last year reviewing his suitability as a client.\n\nIt stated continuing to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts's \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nIt mentioned Mr Farage's retweet of a Ricky Gervais joke about trans women and his friendship with tennis player Novak Djokovic, who is opposed to Covid vaccinations.\n\nIt gave several examples, including his comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to the Taliban, and his characterisation of the RNLI as a \"taxi-service\" for illegal immigrants, to flag concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\".\n\nOn Thursday Dame Alison also reiterated her offer to Mr Farage of alternative banking arrangements with NatWest and said she wanted to ensure they provide \"a better, more transparent experience for all our customers in the future.\"\n\nFollowing her apology, Mr Farage was asked if he thought that she should now resign.\n\n\"I think what needs to happen is the Treasury select committee needs to reconvene, come out of recess, and let's give her the opportunity to tell us the truth,\" he told reporters.\n\nMr Farage also said the Telegraph had reported how the BBC's business editor Simon Jack had sat next to Dame Alison at a dinner on 3 July and the next day he had then been called by Mr Jack and told \"the reason my bank account had been closed was that I had insufficient funds in the account.\"\n\nHe said: \"I want to know, did Alison Rose breach my client confidentiality? Did she break GDPR rules?\"\n\nParliament is now in recess until September.\n\nAsked whether it would reconvene in the meantime to discuss the issue, a spokesman for the Treasury Select Committee said it will be calling on \"relevant people as witnesses and keep our programme under constant review at our regular meetings\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe apology to Mr Farage came after the Treasury announced plans to subject UK banks to stricter rules over closing customer accounts.\n\nBanks will have to explain why they are closing accounts and they will have to give a notice period of 90 days before closing an account, to allow people more time to appeal against the decision.\n\nThe new rules are likely to be brought in after the summer, the BBC understands.\n\nThe changes will not take away a bank's right to close accounts of people deemed to be a reputational or political risk.\n\nInstead, it will boost transparency for customers, the Treasury said.\n\nTreasury minister Andrew Griffith said: \"Banks occupy a privileged place in society and it is right that we fairly balance the rights of banks to act in their commercial interest with the right for everyone to express themselves freely.\"\n\nDame Alison said she welcomed the plans and would implement the recommendations.\n\nThe Treasury began looking at the issue in January after PayPal temporarily suspended several accounts last year.\n\nOn Wednesday Rishi Sunak warned it \"wouldn't be right if financial services were being denied to anyone exercising their right to lawful free speech\".", "Joe Lewis' superyacht - the Aviva - helped the billionaire secure his bail bond on Wednesday\n\nA New York City court has imposed sweeping restrictions on British billionaire Joe Lewis as he awaits trial on insider trading charges.\n\nMr Lewis, 86, pleaded not guilty and was granted $300m (£230m) bail.\n\nBut the Manhattan judge required him to surrender his passport and banned him from using his superyacht.\n\nMr Lewis is not allowed to travel abroad, including to the Bahamas oceanside resort he reportedly co-owns with Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake.\n\nThe tycoon, whose family trust owns Tottenham Hotspur football club, can still use his private plane - for business - within the boundaries of restricted domestic travel.\n\nDuring Wednesday's hearing before Judge Valerie Figueredo, the bail bond was secured by Mr Lewis' 223ft (68 metre) yacht, the Aviva, and private aircraft.\n\nMr Lewis was charged with 16 counts of security fraud, and three counts of conspiracy for crimes alleged to have taken place between 2013-21, according to the 29-page indictment.\n\nLawyers for Mr Lewis, whose net worth is estimated more than $6.4bn, called the charges an \"egregious error\".\n\nThe allegations are \"ill conceived\" and will be \"vigorously defended in court,\" Mr Lewis' lawyers said.\n\nNew York prosecutors allege he hatched a \"brazen\" scheme that enriched his friends, which include two of Mr Lewis' pilots, who are facing charges, too.\n\nJoe Lewis has an estimated net worth of more than $6.4bn and says the charges are an error\n\nThe pilots, Patrick O'Connor and Bryan Waugh, also pleaded not guilty to insider trading charges.\n\nMr O'Connor and Mr Waugh, of New York and Virginia respectively, are accused of illegally making millions of dollars from Mr Lewis' tips.\n\nTheir bail was set at $250,000 each.", "The record-breaking UK heat experienced in 2022 will be regarded as a cool year by the end of this century, the Met Office says.\n\nIts report shows that last year was \"extraordinary\", with a heatwave pushing the UK record over 40C for the first time.\n\nHot years like 2022 will be the average by 2060, if carbon emissions are as expected, the authors say.\n\nBy 2100, it would be a cooler-than-average year across the UK.\n\nClimate change is having an increasing impact on all parts of the UK, playing a key role in pushing last year's temperatures to record highs.\n\nWhile rain might be the dominant factor in the current UK climate, just a year ago the UK was suffering from a powerful heatwave that helped make 2022 the warmest year in records dating back to 1884, and also broke the central England temperature series that goes back to 1659.\n\nThe UK's highest daily temperature last year was 40.3C, recorded at Coningsby in Lincolnshire, which beat the previous high mark by a significant margin.\n\nThis was not an isolated incident, according to the Met Office, with persistent warmth prevalent across the year.\n\nThe Met Office's State of the UK Climate report for 2022 shows that apart from December, every month last year was warmer than the 1991-2020 average.\n\nAs well as persistent warmth, one key aspect of the study shows that extreme temperatures in the UK are changing much faster than the average.\n\n\"The actual extremes that we're seeing, the highest, the hottest days, those are really increasing markedly too,\" said lead author Mike Kendon.\n\n\"We're going to see very, very many more days, exceeding 30, 32 or 35C. So warmer summers will become very much more frequent, and hot days will become very much more frequent.\"\n\nDrought was declared in several regions of the UK as a result of the heatwave\n\nOne of the elements that might have led to a very hot year in 2022 and may help explain the current wetter summer are changes in the jet stream, the fast-moving winds that carry weather systems across the Atlantic to the UK.\n\nIn recent years the jet stream has shown a tendency to get stuck, meaning that weather patterns can persist or become \"blocked\" in place for weeks. There is a school of thought that a warming climate is causing this change.\n\n\"I think the jury is out, but there is definitely some science showing that we are getting these much more persistent, static kind of weather patterns, similar to what we've got at the moment with the heatwaves,\" said Prof Liz Bentley, from the Royal Meteorological Society.\n\n\"It will be interesting to see if there's conclusive evidence that climate change has led to that. And that's going to be a pattern that we see going forward in future.\"\n\nThe authors of the Met Office study say that 2022's record year for the UK was made much more likely by climate change.\n\n\"The heatwave that is happening now across southern Europe, the heatwave that we saw last year, all of these things are fitting into a pattern,\" said Mr Kendon.\n\n\"These things emphasise that our climate is changing. And it's changing now, and it's changing fast.\"\n\nLooking forward, under a medium emissions scenario, there's a 1-in-15 chance that the UK would hit 40C in any one year by the end of the century.\n\n\"That trend for [extreme temperatures] is going to increase as we go through this century,\" said Prof Liz Bentley.\n\n\"If you look at future climate projections, we are on a path for hotter, drier summers. So 2022, for me was very much a sign of things to come in future years with our changing climate.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the government's independent climate advisers warned the UK still needed to make climate change preparations a more important priority.\n\nThe extreme 40C heat in July last year caused extensive disruption across the country, including for transport, power supply and healthcare.\n\nBut even though these temperatures will become increasingly likely with climate change, the UK still has much further to go to properly prepare for intense heat and other extreme events, such as flooding, according to its advisers.\n\nThe report also underlines some other key impacts of climate across the UK last year.\n\nThe ten-year period from 2013 to 2022 is the warmest ten-year period on record.\n\nNear coasts, surface temperatures were the highest for the UK in a series dating back to 1870.\n\nLast year was also one of least snowy years on record, compared to the last six decades.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Kevin Spacey was in court in London to hear the verdict on Wednesday\n\nHollywood actor Kevin Spacey wept in court as he was cleared of all charges in his sexual assault trial in London.\n\nJurors at Southwark Crown Court returned not guilty verdicts for nine sexual offence charges relating to four men between 2001 and 2013.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Spacey said he was \"grateful\" to the jury as he thanked them for their deliberations - which took more than 12 hours.\n\nOutside the court the Oscar winner added he was \"humbled\".\n\nThe US actor was acquitted of seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nAfter the verdict was read, he put his hand on his chest, looked at the jurors and mouthed \"thank you\" twice before they left the room.\n\nAddressing journalists on the court's steps Mr Spacey said there was \"a lot for me to process\".\n\n\"I would like to say that I am enormously grateful to the jury for having taken the time to examine all of the evidence and all of the facts carefully before they reached their decision,\" he said.\n\n\"I am humbled by the outcome today. I also want to thank the staff inside this courthouse, the security, and all of those who took care of us every single day.\"\n\nJurors rejected the prosecution's claims Mr Spacey had \"aggressively\" grabbed three men by the crotch and had performed a sex act on another man while he was asleep in his flat.\n\nProsecutors told the jury the star had left the four complainants feeling \"small, diminished and worthless\".\n\nMr Spacey, who turned 64 on Wednesday, denied all charges - saying the allegations against him were \"weak\", \"madness\" and a \"stab in the back\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Spacey 'humbled' by outcome after being cleared of charges\n\nUnder questioning from Mr Spacey's lawyer, Patrick Gibbs KC, the complainants had all denied either seeking financial gain, attempting to further their career or giving false accounts to the jury.\n\nBy law all complainants are entitled to life-long anonymity.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said prosecutors respected the jury's decision.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesman said: \"The function of the CPS is not to decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence, but to make fair, independent and objective assessments about whether it is appropriate to present charges.\"\n\nThe trial lasted nearly four weeks and jurors heard from multiple witnesses - including Mr Spacey himself.\n\nDefence witnesses included Sir Elton John, who appeared by video link from Monaco, as well as Sir Elton's husband, David Furnish.\n\nThe Hollywood star won best actor Oscar in 2000 for American Beauty, and best supporting actor in 1995 for The Usual Suspects.\n\nHe was also the artistic director at the Old Vic Theatre in London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nMr Spacey's career came to a halt in 2017 after a number of accusations of inappropriate behaviour were made against him.\n\nAt the time, he had the starring role of Frank Underwood in Netflix political drama House of Cards, which he lost.\n\nHe was charged with the offences against three men by the CPS in May 2022, with additional charges from a fourth complainant added in November 2022.", "Police officers in England will no longer respond to concerns about mental health if there is no risk to life or crime being committed, under new plans.\n\nThe government says the policy could save a million hours of police time every year.\n\nSenior officers say forces have \"lost their way\" by dealing with less serious mental health problems.\n\nBut mental health charities say they are \"deeply worried\" at what could be a \"dangerous\" change.\n\nAt the moment, some police forces in England and Wales attend 80% of so-called health and social care incidents.\n\nIt is expected this will be reduced to between 20 and 30% within the next two years, under the plans.\n\nThe government says it is providing an extra £1bn a year, including £150m for facilities to replace police officers, including:\n\nAnd 999-call handlers are being trained to assess a request for officers to attend and decide whether:\n\nBut Mind chief executive Dr Sarah Hughes said mental health services were \"not resourced to step up overnight\".\n\nDr Hughes told BBC Breakfast that the system wasn't \"ready\" and that mental health services were \"not fully equipped\" to help the number of people in need.\n\n\"We're nowhere near a situation where services are in a strong enough place to pick up the slack,\" she added.\n\nThe additional funding had been announced in 2021, the charity said, so there was no new money to pay for additional referrals from the police, at a time of growing demand for mental health services.\n\nHowever, the government's policing minister Chris Philp told the BBC's Today programme he was \"confident it will be safe\".\n\n\"We do need additional mental health capacity,\" he acknowledged, adding that the government was investing more in mental health provisions.\n\nMr Philp said the plans won't be rolled out with a \"big bang\" on day one, but instead will be decided in \"discussion with police and the local health partners\".\n\nHaving tested the policy during the past three years, Humberside Police said it had saved an average of 1,441 hours of police time a month.\n\nThree other forces, Hampshire, Lancashire and South Yorkshire, are also starting to introduce the policy, to be implemented across England within three years.\n\nIn Sheffield, 999-response officer PC April Clark was recently called to a man trying to throw himself from a first-floor window.\n\n\"It is quite literally in my hands,\" she said.\n\n\"You can't let them go. You can't let anything happen to them. You've got to do what you can for them and their family until the right help comes along.\"\n\nShe has also dealt with a young mother's suicide.\n\nThese are both cases in which officers would still attend.\n\nBut PC Clark said she also regularly handled calls from NHS staff and members of the public \"going home for the weekend in their nine-to-five jobs\", asking the police for a ''welfare check\" on someone with mental health issues.\n\nOfficers can end up sitting with patients for 12 hours and more in hospitals, because no-one else is available and NHS staff are concerned about the risk to the patient, staff or public.\n\nAn early assessment of the impact of the changes in Humberside Police concluded that police turned down requests to carry out welfare checks, or look for patients who had gone \"AWOL\". They also handed over the care of patients more quickly to the health service.\n\nThis meant more patients were seen by health service staff with appropriate training rather than police officers.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon, from the National Police Chiefs' Council said the new approach would be better for people in mental health crises who tended to \"feel criminalised\" when officers turned up to help them. Some mistakenly believed they were under arrest.\n\nCurrently, officers are sometimes required by law when someone is detained under the Mental Health Act, allowing them to be taken to a place of safety, possibly against their will.\n\nBut the National Police Chiefs' Council plans to ask the government to change this.\n\nHow do you think urgent mental health issues should be dealt with? Do you have any experience of helping someone suffering a mental health crisis?\n\nYou can get in touch by emailing us haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "David Goodwillie has said he would be willing to face a criminal trial\n\nProsecutors have been asked to consider re-opening criminal proceedings against David Goodwillie.\n\nThe Crown Office dropped rape charges against the former Scotland international in 2011 after it said there was \"insufficient evidence\".\n\nGoodwillie was ruled to be a rapist in a civil case but said recently he would be willing to face a criminal trial.\n\nA lawyer representing victim Denise Clair told BBC Scotland they have asked prosecutors to re-examine the case.\n\nThomas Ross KC, who has written to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), said he would also explore options for a private prosecution.\n\nGoodwillie would be able to object to a future criminal case because he was given an assurance he would not be prosecuted again after the case was dropped in 2011, according to Mr Ross.\n\nBut speaking out earlier this month for the first time since the 2017 civil case, the footballer told the Anything Goes podcast he would be willing to go to a criminal court to clear his name.\n\nMr Ross told BBC Scotland that the case was one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the last 12 or 13 years.\n\n\"A woman feels she was really badly let down by the Crown Office in 2011.\n\n\"We also on the other hand have a young man who says his career has been blighted because of that decision and all I'm saying to the Crown Office is well let's have a look at it.\n\n\"If she wants to go to the criminal court and he wants to go to the criminal court, why don't we go?\"\n\nA COPFS spokesperson said: \"We understand that the decision not to prosecute continues to cause great upset to Ms Clair.\n\n\"The solicitor general, on behalf of the law officers, will consider the points raised by Ms Clair's legal representatives.\"\n\nGoodwillie's podcast appearance was released days after he turned out for ninth-tier side Glasgow United FC in a friendly match.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland said the club had sent a \"clear message of disregard\" to survivors of rape and sexual violence, while Glasgow City Council has threatened to bar the club from its training facility if it signs the former Dundee United, Aberdeen and Blackburn player.\n\nGlasgow United FC has not confirmed if Goodwillie has been signed.\n\nThe club told BBC Scotland they would not walk away from the player and said there had been a \"witch hunt\" against him.\n\nGlasgow United FC have been warned by the council over access to their training facility\n\nIn 2017, Goodwillie and former Dundee United teammate David Robertson were ordered to pay £100,000 in damages after a judge ruled they raped Ms Clair at a flat in Armadale, West Lothian, in 2011.\n\nNeither faced a criminal trial over the rape accusation after prosecutors said there was not enough evidence.\n\nRobertson retired from football aged 30 in the days after the ruling, while Goodwillie left English side Plymouth Argyle by \"mutual agreement\".\n\nHowever, the forward soon signed with Scottish League One side Clyde, who he played for more than 100 times and captained before leaving in 2022.\n\nRaith Rovers sparked outrage by signing Goodwillie in January 2022 and a loan move back to Clyde also collapsed.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland described the Raith Rovers move as another \"clear message of disregard\" to survivors of rape and sexual violence.\n\nThe forward was released without playing a game in September 2022, with Raith Rovers admitting it \"got it wrong\" by signing him.\n\nIn February this year, Northern Premier League side Radcliffe FC, based in Bury, Greater Manchester, released the striker after one game following a public outcry.\n\nFour months later, Goodwillie's contract with Australian semi-professional club Sorrento FC was rescinded. The club apologised to anyone \"that may have been caused offence by his signing\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glystra beach is in one of the areas worst affected by the fires. Azadeh Moshiri reports on the aftermath there.\n\nEvacuation orders have been issued for areas close to two central Greek cities threatened by new outbreaks of wildfires.\n\nCitizens in areas around Volos and Lamia have been told to move to safety as the country remains in the grip of a severe heatwave.\n\nMeanwhile, fires continue to rage on the islands of Rhodes, Corfu and Evia.\n\nGreece is one of a number of countries currently grappling with wildfires, in which more than 40 people have died.\n\nTwo people have died in the fires near Volos, the fire service has confirmed - a farmer who died after he went to release his sheep to protect them, and a woman who was in a mobile home in Chorostasi.\n\nKostas Agorastos, mayor of Greece's Thessaly region, which includes Volos, has accused \"brainless workers\" of starting the fire, according to the Ellada 24 news channel.\n\nHe added that it had broken out on four simultaneous fronts.\n\nIn Rhodes, where a state of emergency is in place and from where thousands of tourists have been forced to flee, high winds have continued to fan the flames and villages remain at risk.\n\nSome firefighters, who have been battling the blazes for days, have begun to lose hope.\n\n\"Every day, every night, we are here and we achieve nothing,\" Savas Filaderis, who is from Rhodes, told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"We can't stop it,\" he said.\n\n\"Everybody, all the people, they fight. The civil people, the government, they are but... for nothing. I believe we fight for nothing.\"\n\nIn southern Italy, fires in Sicily and Puglia have also been fuelled by high winds and tinder-dry vegetation, meaning firefighters have been struggling in many areas to douse the flames and create firebreaks.\n\nThe church of St Benedict the Moor in the Sicilian city of Palermo was among the buildings that have been destroyed in the fires.\n\n\"The damage is enormous,\" said Vincenzo Bruccoleri, superior friar of the convent.\n\nEnrico Trantino, the mayor of Catania, another city on the island, told the BBC the high temperatures had melted underground electrical cables, which had left parts of the city without power and water.\n\nHowever, Italy is expected to become much cooler in the coming days, according to BBC Weather.\n\nThe heaviest death toll so far is in Algeria, with more than 30 victims, including 10 soldiers surrounded by flames during an evacuation in the coastal province of Bejaia, east of Algiers.\n\nMost of the fires have now been contained.\n\nIn neighbouring Tunisia, the country's Interior Minister, Kamel Feki, said on Wednesday that all of the wildfires were under control and there had been no loss of life.\n\nThe European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, said support was being sent to affected countries, including Tunisia and Greece.\n\nBut Yamina Saheb, lead author on the United Nations' climate change panel, known as the IPCC, told the BBC that people in the African region felt they were being left to fend for themselves without international help.\n\n\"People are scared and they don't really understand why there is no international help,\" she said.\n\nMs Saheb said she had spoken to friends and colleagues in the affected areas, who were finding it hard to understand why there was no European aid when they were so close to the continent.\n\n\"They say, if the situation gets worse, what are we going to do? Are we going to die, all of us? Is Africa going to die because of climate change, and Europe will be watching that, just watching and not doing anything?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents in Algeria return to areas blackened by wildfires\n\nThe EU has also said it wants to sign contracts for up to 12 firefighting planes in order to improve its ability to fight blazes fuelled by climate change. These would be the first it would fully own.\n\nA team of climate scientists - the World Weather Attribution group - said this month's intense heatwave in Southern Europe, North America and China would have been virtually impossible without human-induced climate change.\n\nThe fires have dealt a blow to the summer tourism industry, especially in Greece, where the industry accounts for one in five jobs and is vital for Rhodes and many other islands.\n\nHoliday firms Jet2 and Tui have cancelled departures to the island for the coming days.\n\nTui said that it had already brought hundreds of people home, while hundreds more were expected to make it back to the UK on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has not advised against travel to the affected parts of Greece, but has urged tourists to check with tour operators for updates.\n\nThousands of people have also been evacuated on Evia and Corfu, while Crete - another major holiday destination - is on high alert.\n\nOther European countries have not escaped the heatwave unscathed. Portugal, Croatia and the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica are among other places that have experienced wildfires in recent days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so, you can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "James Martin makes cookery programmes for ITV, and fronted similar shows for the BBC until 2015\n\nTV chef James Martin has been asked to change his behaviour at work after ITV received complaints about his treatment of production staff.\n\nConcerns were raised during the recent filming of James Martin's Spanish Adventure, his latest travel cooking show.\n\nIn a joint statement, Martin and production company Blue Marlin said they \"agree lessons have been learned\".\n\nAn ITV spokesman said \"people and their welfare\" was their \"highest priority\".\n\nBlue Marlin Television, which has made several programmes with Martin, also took responsibility for damaging his house and garden during a separate incident in 2018.\n\nThe damage led to the presenter becoming angry, something which he and the company said he \"wholly regrets\".\n\nMartin is a co-founder of the production company with Fiona Lindsay, and the pair are currently its joint managing directors.\n\nAccording to US publication Deadline, Martin was \"accused of berating people\" and \"reducing them to tears in front of other colleagues\" while filming the Spanish Adventure programme in May.\n\nThe news outlet also alleged Martin was \"changing schedules at the last minute, giving his team just a few hours of sleep before the following morning's shoot\", which he reportedly arrived an hour late for himself.\n\nAn ITV spokesman said: \"Following a complaint we received in May from members of the Blue Marlin production team about the filming of James Martin's Spanish Adventure, we contacted Blue Marlin to discuss these concerns and to understand how the issues raised were being addressed and what actions were being taken.\n\nIn a joint statement, James Martin (pictured in 2021) and Blue Marlin said \"lessons have been learned\"\n\n\"As a result, we made a number of recommendations for Blue Marlin to implement as soon as possible, sharing best practice of some of our own relevant procedures around staff welfare and reiterating our Supplier Code of Conduct.\"\n\nIn their joint statement, Martin and Lindsay said they \"have taken on board ITV's recommendations and their sharing of best practice, and are in the process of fully implementing\".\n\nMartin is well known for presenting several cookery programmes for ITV, and previously fronted similar shows for the BBC from 2005 until 2015.\n\nThis is the second time ITV has been made aware, formally or informally, of complaints about Martin, after a separate incident in 2018.\n\nDuring the production of James Martin's Saturday Morning, Martin became angry after a drain was blocked at his home, where the programme was being filmed.\n\nBlue Marlin said it \"accepted responsibility\" for \"an unfortunate incident\" which \"occurred after filming\", adding that Martin's home had been \"badly damaged\".\n\n\"James was shocked by what had happened and on reflection acknowledges he responded emotionally, which he wholly regrets,\" the company added in their statement. \"James apologises for any offence or upset caused, as he did at the time to the crew involved.\"\n\n\"Following this and some issues filming James Martin's Spanish Adventures, James and Blue Marlin Television agree that lessons have been learned which have been discussed with members of the team and with ITV.\"\n\nMartin and Lindsay's statement added: \"Since the 2018 incident, Blue Marlin Television has continued to film over 500 shows at James' home.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, an ITV spokesman said: \"At ITV people and their welfare are our highest priority. The production companies who make shows for us have primary responsibility for the duty of care of everyone they work with, both on and off screen.\n\n\"We make clear our expectations in this regard as part of our pre-greenlight [pre-commissioning] duty of care processes.\n\n\"This includes having appropriate independent controls in place to enable everyone who works on their shows to confidently and confidentially raise concerns.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCanada fought back from a goal down to beat the Republic of Ireland 2-1 and knock the debutantes out of the Women's World Cup.\n\nIrish captain Katie McCabe scored the Republic's first World Cup goal when her superb corner flew into the net after just four minutes.\n\nThe Irish had chances to add a second against the Olympic champions, but they were undone in first-half injury time as Julia Grosso's cross took a touch off defender Megan Connolly and nestled in the bottom corner in torrential conditions.\n\nAdriana Leon poked Canada into the lead eight minutes into the second half and, although they pressed forward, the Republic could not find the goal they needed to keep their hopes of progressing alive.\n\nThe Republic will be playing for pride against Nigeria, who face co-hosts Australia on Thursday, in their final match in Group B.\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n• None Reaction as Canada fight back to beat Republic of Ireland\n\nAfter days of sunshine, Perth was hit by torrential rain in the lead up to the match and, knowing they needed to avoid defeat to remain in contention at their first World Cup, it was the Republic who made a stunning start.\n\nKyra Carusa, who was causing havoc against the Canadian defenders, forced a double save by Kailen Sheridan after being played in by midfielder Quinn.\n\nHowever, there was lift off in Perth from the resulting corner when captain McCabe, who came close to scoring direct from a corner in their opener with Australia, sent a delightful, curling ball over the head of Sheridan and into the net.\n\nIt sparked wild celebrations among the Irish support, who dominated the Rectangular Stadium, which was a sea of colour and noise.\n\nSheridan was forced into action again as she shovelled Sinead Farrelly's effort wide, but Canada should have been level, only for stretching defender Vanessa Gilles to somehow poke. over from five yards from a corner.\n\nNew Chelsea recruit Ashley Lawrence lobbed over as the rain returned, but Carusa was causing all sorts of problems at the other end and she battled her way into the area and forced a solid save from Sheridan from a tight angle.\n\nFarrelly saw a shot blocked from another McCabe corner, but there was a sucker punch right at the end of the half when Connolly got the slightest of touches on Grosso's low delivery and Courtney Brosnan was left helpless as the ball found the bottom corner.\n\nDespite their first-half domination, the Republic were lucky to go in level at the break as Gilles headed narrowly wide form another corner.\n\nCanada introduced captain and record goalscorer Christine Sinclair at the break, and Brosnan was forced into action early in the second half when she sprung to her left to push away Jordyn Huitema's powerful attempt.\n\nLeon's well-taken effort lifted the pressure off the Canadians, holding off McCabe to poke the ball home, and the Manchester United winger saw another attempt drop wide moments later.\n\nSinclair, looking to become the first player to score at six World Cups, should have achieved the feat when she shot at Brosnan from close range.\n\nBut Ireland still looked dangerous and, with the crowd roaring them on, Carusa headed over after superb play by McCabe down the left.\n\nSinclair and Huitema both flicked straight at Brosnan as Canada looked to kill the game off, and substitute Cloe Lacasse headed narrowly wide as the stadium held its breath.\n\nMcCabe almost produced the moment of magic that the Republic required as she skipped inside a number of Canadian tackles, but her low effort was deflected wide by Lawrence, and when another mazy run followed her attempt was high and wide.\n\nHuitema had two chances to make sure of the win, with her effort deflected wide before a header was easily plucked out of the air by Brosnan.\n\nSubstitute Lily Agg fired straight at Sheridan as the Irish gave one final push, but it wasn't to be and the debutants will head home following the end of the group stage.\n• None Katie McCabe (Republic of Ireland) is shown the yellow card.\n• None Substitution, Canada. Allysha Chapman replaces Jayde Riviere because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Jayde Riviere (Canada).\n• None Attempt saved. Lily Agg (Republic of Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Jordyn Huitema (Canada) header from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Vanessa Gilles.\n• None Attempt missed. Vanessa Gilles (Canada) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jessie Fleming with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordyn Huitema (Canada) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Christine Sinclair.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cloé Lacasse (Canada) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sophie Schmidt with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Katie McCabe (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Although Sinéad O'Connor was herself an acclaimed and distinctive songwriter, there is no doubt the musical highpoint of her career came with her cover version of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U, which reached number one in both the UK and US in 1990.\n\nThe American actually recorded the song in 1984 but did not release it at the time. Instead he gifted it to funk band The Family for their one and only album. The song was then largely forgotten and Prince himself did not perform it live in the 1980s..\n\nSo when O'Connor turned it into a massive international hit - earning Prince a handy top-up in songwriting royalties - there was enduring interest in whether he actually liked her performance. It was hard to be sure as the enigmatic star rarely gave interviews on any subject - but he did start adding the song into his live set.\n\nIn 2021, in her own memoir, called Rememberings, O'Connor revealed that not only had she not met Prince before recording the song, but their first encounter only came years later.\n\nIn the book she recalled that he invited her to his house \"to hang out\" - but after she arrived, he tersely told her to fetch her own drink.\n\nShe wrote: \"He commences stalking up and down, one hand rubbing his chin, looking me up and down. He shouts at me 'I don't like the language you're using in your print interviews. I don't like you swearing'.\"\n\nO'Connor pointed out that she didn't actually work for him and, just for good measure, swore at him.\n\nObviously Prince, who died in 2016, was no longer around to offer his side of that night's events but in 2022 his family blocked the use of Nothing Compares 2 U in a high-profile new documentary about O'Connor's life.", "Video captured the moment a child was rescued after being accidentally locked inside a hot car during a heatwave in Harlingen, southern Texas.\n\nLocal media reported that the parents had left their keys inside and had to smash their way into the car with the help of bystanders. The incident took place on 19 July, when temperatures in Harlingen reached a maximum of 100F (37.7C).\n\nBabies and children can overheat very quickly in parked cars. According to the United States Department of Transportation, the inside temperature of a car can rise almost 20F (11C) within the first 10 minutes.", "A pair of rare Apple trainers are being sold by auction house Sotheby's for $50,000 (£38,969).\n\nThe shoes were custom-made for employees only in the 1990s and were a one-time giveaway at a conference.\n\nA pair have never been sold to the public before.\n\nFeaturing a predominately white leather upper, \"a standout detail\" is the old rainbow Apple logo on both the tongue and next to the laces and will be \"highly coveted\", said Sotheby's.\n\nThe retailer described them as \"one of the most obscure in existence\", highlighting the rarity of the sneakers and their value on the resale market.\n\nWhile the Omega x Apple sneakers are \"new in the box\", the description says they do have some imperfections, including a yellowing around the midsoles.\n\nThe pair feature an air cushioning window in the heel and are a US size 10.5, European size 41 or UK 8.5. In the box there is also an alternative pair of red laces.\n\nOver time, Apple memorabilia has been rocketing in value and many of its retro gadgets are now collectors items selling for high prices - although not all of its items have been hits.\n\nThere was a traditional video game console called Pippin which was hugely overpriced, the ill-fated social network called Ping, and the Newton MessagePad which was described as a flop.\n\nOne of its more successful recent auctions include a first edition, unopened 4GB iPhone, which sold for over $190,000 (£145,000) at auction in the US.\n\nAlthough Apple is famed for its gadgets and innovations, on occasion tech fans have been able to purchase clothing and accessories from the brand.\n\nThere was an Apple collection clothing line which incorporated the rainbow logo and Macintosh computer imagery - it included T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts and hats.\n\nIt was intended to promote the Apple brand and create a sense of community - however, at the time it was not a major success and was discontinued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jon Erlichman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2015, Apple partnered with the luxury fashion brand Hermès to create a collection of watch straps. In 2020 it released a strap in celebration of black history month.\n\nFor employees there have been Apple Park jackets, designed for those working at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California.", "A US man who was jailed by Russia for nearly three years before being released in a 2022 prisoner swap has been injured while fighting in Ukraine.\n\nEx-US Marine Trevor Reed was hurt while fighting against Russia's invasion, the US State Department said on Tuesday.\n\nOfficials add that he \"was not engaged in any activities on behalf of the US government\" and reiterated that Americans should not travel to Ukraine.\n\nMr Reed has been transported to Germany by a non-governmental organisation.\n\nState Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said at a briefing that US officials \"are aware\" of Mr Reed's injuries and the fact that he has been taken to Germany for treatment.\n\n\"We have been incredibly clear that traveling to Ukraine, choosing to participate in the fighting there, has a very real risk of capture, of death, of bodily harm, and that continues to be our assessment,\" Mr Patel said.\n\nThe circumstances of Mr Reed's injuries - and how or when he came to fight for Ukraine - are not clear. Officials tell US media he was injured in eastern Ukraine before being taken to hospital in Kyiv and then sent on to Germany.\n\nThe Messenger, which first reported Mr Reed's injuries, says he suffered shrapnel wounds from stepping on a land mine two weeks ago.\n\nAccording to CBS News, the BBC's US partner, sources say he is being treated at a military faculty in the German town of Landstuhl for a laceration to an extremity.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Reed was convicted in Russia of fighting with police officers while on a drunken night out.\n\nThe US had deemed him to be wrongfully detained in Russia, calling his trial \"theatre of the absurd\".\n\nHe was released in 2022 in exchange for a Russian pilot who had been convicted in the US of cocaine smuggling charges.\n\nThe US is currently working to free two Americans also considered to be wrongfully detained in Russia - businessman Paul Whelan and journalist Evan Gershkovich.\n\nRussia and Ukraine have not yet commented on Mr Reed's injuries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Trevor Reed's parents get choked up reacting to their sons release from Russian jail\n\nDavid Whelan, a brother of Paul Whelan, said in a statement: \"I'm sorry to hear that he's been injured. But a hostage's release isn't an end point.\n\n\"They have to live with the aftermath after the hostage takers and others move on. I can't imagine the anger, vengeance, and grief they must feel.\n\n\"I hope he finds some peace now.\"\n• None Parents' joy at Russia's release of US Marine son", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents in Algeria return to areas blackened by wildfires\n\nMore than 40 people have died in Algeria, Italy and Greece and thousands have been evacuated as Mediterranean wildfires threaten villages and holiday resorts.\n\nThe entire island of Rhodes has been put into a state of emergency, as fires also rage on Corfu and Evia.\n\nThe current long heatwave shows no let-up - temperatures are expected to rise above 44C (111F) in parts of Greece.\n\nFires in Sicily and Puglia have forced thousands of people to flee.\n\nHigh winds and tinder-dry vegetation mean firefighters are struggling in many areas to douse the flames and create firebreaks.\n\nThe heaviest death toll so far is in Algeria, where the 34 victims included 10 soldiers surrounded by flames during an evacuation in the coastal province of Bejaia, east of Algiers. Bejaia is the worst-hit area, accounting for 23 of the deaths, local media report.\n\nAlgerian authorities said 80% of the blazes had been put out since Sunday, but a massive firefighting effort continues, involving about 8,000 personnel, hundreds of fire engines and some aircraft.\n\nFires have also raged in neighbouring Tunisia, where 300 people had to be evacuated from the coastal village of Melloula.\n\nBBC News spoke to one man whose restaurant was razed by the fires. Adil El Selmy's eco-friendly restaurant had stood halfway between the town of Tabarka and Melloula. \"We left the restaurant as the flames approached,\" Selmy said.\n\nWater disturbances experienced in Tabarka last week during an unprecedented heatwave made things even harder. \"We couldn't douse flames hours after the wooden building was devastated,\" Mr Selmi said.\n\n\"I was employing 22 people,\" he adds. \"I don't know how to get off this hook.\"\n\nThe ravaged restaurant overlooks the sea. But the Mediterranean is barely seen, as the haze is still blanketing the area.\n\nIn Greece, the Civil Protection Ministry warned of an \"extreme danger\" of fire in six of the country's 13 regions on Wednesday.\n\nA team of climate scientists - the World Weather Attribution group - said this month's intense heatwave in Southern Europe, North America and China would have been virtually impossible without human-induced climate change.\n\nTwo pilots died on the island of Evia, just north of Athens, when their Canadair firefighting plane crashed into a ravine. Elsewhere on the island a man's charred body was found in a remote rural shack.\n\nOn the island of Rhodes more than 20,000 people have been evacuated from homes and resorts in the south in recent days. An airport official told AFP news agency that more than 5,000 had flown home on more than 40 emergency flights between Sunday and Tuesday.\n\nHoliday firms Jet2 and Tui have cancelled departures for Rhodes for the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Jenny Hill at scene of Rhodes wildfire\n\nTourism accounts for one in five jobs in Greece, and the industry is vital for Rhodes and many other islands. The UK Foreign Office has not advised against travel to the affected parts of Greece, but has urged tourists to check with tour operators for updates.\n\nThousands of people have also been evacuated on Evia and Corfu, while Crete - another major holiday destination - is on high alert.\n\nItaly has been hit by contrasting extreme weather events - with deadly storms in the north and wildfires in Sicily as well as several more southern regions.\n\nA couple in their 70s were found dead in a fire-gutted holiday home near Palermo, after fire came close to the boundary of the city's airport. An 88-year-old woman also died near the city.\n\nParts of the city of Catania went without water and power after cables burned in temperatures that climbed to 47.6C on Monday.\n\nOn the mainland, in Calabria, just east of Sicily, a man aged 98 was trapped by flames in his home and his daughter and son-in-law suffered burns while trying to save him.\n\nA wildfire in the Foggia region, on Italy's Adriatic coast, forced the evacuation of 2,000 people from hotels and campsites. The blaze approached Vieste from a nearby national park.\n\nThe storms in the north, meanwhile, claimed two lives on Tuesday - victims of falling trees.\n\nTornadoes, hailstorms and gale-force winds of up to 110km/h (70mph) struck Lombardy and other northern regions. Chiara Rossetti, 16, was on a scouts' summer camp trip when her tent was hit by a tree in the province of Brescia.\n\n\"We are experiencing in Italy one of the most complicated days in recent decades - rainstorms, tornadoes and giant hail in the north, and scorching heat and devastating fires in the centre and south,\" said Civil Protection minister Nello Musumeci.\n\nHe said he intended to appeal to the EU to boost its fleet of Canadair firefighting planes.\n\nPortugal did not escape the heatwave unscathed, with more than 600 firefighters deployed to try to put out a fire in a national park in Cascais on Tuesday, near the capital Lisbon. Local residents were evacuated - some by wheelchairs - but no injuries were reported.\n\nAt least 130 firefighters worked to contain a fire near Croatia's southern city of Dubrovnik, with water-bombing planes used to stop a wildfire that burnt across the region on Monday. Local media reported that undetonated landmines exploded as a result of the fire.\n\nFires also broke out on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica in the early hours of Wednesday. Gales of up to 130km/h (80mph) whipped up the flames and for several hours three villages came under threat.\n\nCould powerful heatwaves and summer wildfires, which have devastated communities and displaced tourists in Greece, become the new normal in Europe?\n\nHow have you been affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so, you can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The commemorative Beano issue features Harry Styles (left) and Adele (top right)\n\nThe Beano, the world's longest-running comic, has marked its 85th anniversary with guest appearances from Adele, Stormzy and Harry Styles.\n\nThe commemorative issue, out on Wednesday, also includes depictions of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.\n\nThe guests were drawn after 3,000 children - aged seven to 14 - were asked in a poll which celebrities they would like to see in cartoon form.\n\nSir David Attenborough, Lewis Hamilton and Jill Scott all appear too.\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford is in there as well after being voted as the most inspirational celebrity, while TV presenting duo Ant and Dec topped the list of famous people that youngsters would invite to their birthday party.\n\nSpider-Man actor Tom Holland and Manchester City player Phil Foden also figured highly on the list of celebrities that they would like to be best friends with.\n\nAdele is shown holding a Grammy award while wearing a \"Beano's better than Vegas\" T-shirt - a reference to her residency of concerts\n\nSince the Beano launched in Dundee in 1938, more than 4,000 issues have been printed featuring around 700 characters, such as Dennis [the Menace] and Gnasher, the Bash Street Kids and Billy Whizz.\n\n\"As Beano proudly celebrates its 85th anniversary, it continues to champion the power and joy of childhood by doing what it's always done, showing kids being kids,\" said Mike Stirling, head of \"mischief\" at the publication.\n\n\"Here's to the next 85 years, and we dedicate this birthday issue to every child out there, because being a kid never gets old.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Scotland, Stirling cheekily suggested that Sir Mick Jagger, who like the Beano also celebrates a big birthday this week - 80 - must be a reader of the publication as his band the Rolling Stones are still young at heart.\n\n\"I get to speak to a wider group of kids every week when we're working on the Beano and that makes you feel young and it keeps you young,\" he added.\n\nStormzy has been given the Beanotown treatment too\n\nFor its star-studded birthday edition, Beano artist Nigel Parkinson has depicted celebrities assisting the Beanotown kids in stopping Mayor Brown from carving his own face into Mount Beano.\n\nQueen Camilla is seen informing the King that it is in fact the children, not him, that rule in the fictional town.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales also appear in the new comic strip, alongside other music stars such as Dua Lipa, Lewis Capaldi and Kate Bush - who enjoyed a chart resurgence due to one of her tracks being used in a key episode of Stranger Things - as well as social media influencer KSI.\n\n\"Dennis is still the same 10-year-old kid that he was in the 1950s but he's got different references,\" noted Stirling.\n\nAn eight-page pull-out, entitled Beanow, has also been created inside consisting of children's comments and pictures that best sum up the best things about being a child today - like dancing, rapping and catapults.\n\nTo mark the anniversary, 2,023 issues of the special edition Beano - which first went out to subscribers at the weekend - will be given out to classrooms across the country through the Beano for Schools programme this week, while prizes can also be won on its website.\n\nThe special Beano issue depicts the King and Queen\n\nIt contains a host of famous faces in cartoon form", "“We are not bringing little green men or flying saucers into the hearing. Sorry to disappoint y’all,” opened Republican Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee at the start of this hearing in his distinctive southern drawl.\n\nAnd that’s how it turned out. The committee heard about numerous sightings of UAPs or UFOs - which the three witnesses described as very much “routine”.\n\nBut David Grusch ducked some of the potentially juiciest elements of the hearing, saying they couldn’t be discussed in a public setting. The former intelligence officer was asked if the US government has had communication with “extra-terrestrials”.\n\nHe said he couldn’t talk about that.\n\nHe was asked if anyone had been murdered in an effort by the government to cover up information about UAPS and UFOs.\n\nAgain, he said he couldn’t comment.\n\nHe said he hadn’t seen any of the alien craft he believes the US government has in storage with his own eyes, but said 40 witnesses he had spoken to had assured him them they do exist.\n\nIn a throwback to former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, there was plenty of talk in this hearing of “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns”.\n\nBut after more than two and half hours of testimony, it’s probably fair to say exactly what is now known that was previously unknown, is not known.", "Emma Teasdale, of Litter Free Dorset, said she would rather see cigarettes safely disposed of in the bin than left on the beach\n\nAshtrays made of seaweed paper are being handed to beachgoers in an effort to reduce seaside littering.\n\nIt comes after 48,000 cigarette butts were found in just one month on beaches in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council area.\n\nThe project is being run by campaigners Litter Free Dorset, which is hosting pop-up events.\n\nLitter Free Dorset said greater knowledge was still needed about the damaging impact of dropping cigarettes.\n\nThe beach butt holders can be folded up and disposed of safely in the bin after being folded over\n\nEmma Teasdale, a coordinator for the group, said: \"Cigarette butts contain micro plastics and leach toxins such as formaldehyde, nicotine, arsenic, lead, mercury, and chromium into the ground and our waterways.\"\n\nThe butt holders are portable ashtrays printed on paper designed to help reduce the number of cigarettes stubbed straight into the sand.\n\nThey are created from seaweed and plants that disappear naturally to reduce plastic waste.\n\nMs Teasdale explained that smokers just need to put a small amount of sand in the bottom of the holder and stub out the cigarette butt before standing the holder up in the sand until they are ready to leave.\n\nThe paper can then be folded over and put in the bin.\n\nThe group has been holding pop-up events at beaches in the BCP Council area\n\nThe free ashtrays will also be distributed this summer by RNLI lifeguards on the beach and at BCP Council beachfront catering outlets.\n\nAndrew Brown, BCP council seafront operations manager, said: \"Our hardworking seafront team goes out in the early hours of every morning to ensure our beaches are safe and clean, often collecting many tonnes of waste from the beach.\"\n\nLitter Free Dorset was set to host pop-up beach events at 19:00 BST at Branksome Chine Beach and Whitley Lake.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family trust owns Tottenham Hotspur football club, has pleaded not guilty to insider trading charges in a Manhattan court.\n\nHe was granted $300m (£230m) bail. New York prosecutors allege he hatched a \"brazen\" scheme that enriched his friends.\n\nHe allegedly supplied confidential information that allowed them to profit from buying or selling related stocks.\n\nThe court granted two co-accused, Mr Lewis' pilots, bail of $250,000.\n\nHis lawyer David Zornow earlier said charging the tycoon was an \"egregious error\".\n\nHe added that the charges would be \"defended vigorously in court\", and that the 86-year-old had come to the US voluntarily to defend himself against the \"ill-conceived charges\".\n\nHe usually resides in the Bahamas, but surrendered on Wednesday to federal authorities in the US.\n\nIn a statement, a Tottenham Hotspur spokesperson said the charges facing Mr Lewis had no bearing on the club: \"This is a legal matter unconnected with the club and as such we have no comment.\"\n\nIt's been noted that last October the club made a filing to Companies House confirming that Lewis was - the club said - \"no longer a person with significant control at the club\".\n\nMr Lewis was charged with 16 counts of security fraud, and three counts of conspiracy for crimes alleged to have taken place between 2013 to 2021, according to the 29-page indictment.\n\nAllegations against Mr Lewis were laid out in a video statement posted to the US State Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.\n\n\"We allege that, for years, Joe Lewis abused his access to corporate board rooms and repeatedly provided inside information to his romantic partners, his personal assistants, his private pilots, and his friends,\" US attorney Damian Williams said in the video.\n\nMr Williams, the chief federal law enforcement officer for the SDNY, alleged that Mr Lewis's acquaintances used that information to make millions of dollars in the stock market.\n\n\"Thanks to [Mr] Lewis, those bets were a sure thing,\" he claimed. \"None of this was necessary. Joe Lewis is a wealthy man\", he added.\n\nThe indictment quoted one pilot texting a friend that \"Boss lent Marty and I $500,000 each for this,\" and that he thought \"the Boss has inside info\" because \"otherwise why would he make us invest\".\n\nIt listed several occasions on which Mr Lewis allegedly told his pilots to sell or invest in shares on the stock exchange, after he received confidential information.\n\nThe indictment also alleges that Mr Lewis told a girlfriend to invest in a biotech company in July 2019, before the results of its clinical trial were made public.\n\nAfter speaking to his girlfriend, he allegedly logged into her bank account himself and used almost all of her available funds to invest into the company - amounting to $700,000. She then sold the shares for a profit of $849,000, say prosecutors.\n\nThe indictment listed many other alleged incidents of Mr Lewis telling friends, girlfriends and employees to invest in stocks based on insider information.\n\nInsider trading is the illegal practice of using confidential information to trade on the stock exchange to one's advantage.\n\nMr Lewis is reported to be one of Britain's richest men. According to the indictment he has a 98-metre superyacht that at times is his primary residence.\n\nHe also owns a stake in UK pub chain Mitchells & Butlers. He was ranked 39th in the 2023 Sunday Times Rich List, with an estimated worth of more than £5bn.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fire breaks out on cargo ship carrying 3,000 cars off Dutch coast\n\nA fire on a cargo ship carrying almost 3,000 cars off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland has left one sailor dead and 22 other crew members hurt.\n\nSome of the crew leapt 30m (100ft) into the sea to escape the blaze.\n\nA major salvage operation is in full swing in the North Sea and rescue teams fear the fire could burn for days.\n\nMembers of the crew initially tried to douse the flames themselves, but were overwhelmed and were eventually forced to flee.\n\nSeven of them jumped into the water, said the captain of the Ameland lifeboat, Willard Molenaar.\n\n\"One by one, they jumped and we had to fish them out of the water,\" he told public broadcaster NOS. \"They were really desperate so they had to jump - you don't just do that for the sake of it.\"\n\nPhotos shared by the coastguard showed the Panamanian-flagged Fremantle Highway engulfed in smoke, with flames licking the deck in an area of the North Sea.\n\nThe coastguard told Dutch news agency ANP the fire could continue for days. The sides of the ship were being doused with water to cool it down, but rescue boats avoided pouring too much water on board because of the risk of sinking.\n\nThe cargo ship left the port of Bremerhaven in northern Germany at about 15:00 local time on Tuesday on course for Port Said in Egypt.\n\nIt ran into trouble overnight, about 27km (17 miles) north of the Ameland in the Wadden Sea, on the edge of the North Sea designated a World Heritage site.\n\nThe coastguard said the cause of the fire was unknown, but an emergency call between rescue services later emerged suggesting it had \"started in the battery of an electric car\".\n\nAbout 25 of the vehicles on the ship were electric.\n\nThe cause of the fire has not yet been established\n\nA tugboat was used to pull the cargo ship out of major shipping routes to and from Germany.\n\nThe freighter, which is operated by K-Line but owned by a subsidiary of the Japanese shipbuilding firm Imabari Shipbuilding, is currently stationary, but the Dutch coastguard said it might be listing.\n\nThe immediate challenge for emergency crews at the scene is to extinguish the fire and keep the cargo ship afloat.\n\nSalvage boats have been circling the ship in preparation for all possible scenarios and an oil-recovery vessel has been sent to the scene in case of a leak. Air traffic officials have barred planes from flying near the ship.\n\nThe North Sea foundation environmental group said the Wadden Sea had become increasingly vulnerable because of bigger ships using an extremely busy shipping route.\n\nFour years ago, 270 shipping containers, some containing chemicals, fell off another Panamanian-registered cargo ship in a storm and some of the containers washed up on Dutch beaches.\n\nLast year, a cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury cars caught fire and sank off the Azores. Lithium-ion batteries in the cars caught fire on board the Felicity Ace.\n\nAlthough water was ineffective in putting out the fire, firefighters eventually brought it under control before the ship went down while being towed.\n\nThe ship was being doused on both sides to cool it down", "Sinéad O'Connor saw music as the therapy to escape a turbulent childhood.\n\nHer rebellious nature was mainly driven by resentment at the abuse she suffered as a child and her experience in a Dublin reformatory.\n\nIt was music that rescued her, unleashing a creative talent that made her a worldwide music star - but also a rebel prepared to be controversial and never play the game of being an image-led pop star.\n\nWith her elfin features and skinhead look she was one of pop music's most recognisable figures.\n\nSinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor was born on 8 December 1966 in the affluent Glenageary suburb of Dublin.\n\nShe was the third of five children of Sean O'Connor and his wife Marie. The couple had married young and their relationship, often stormy, ended when O'Connor was eight.\n\nHer brother, Joseph, once described their mother as deeply unhappy and disturbed and prone to physical and emotional abuse of her children.\n\nO'Connor eventually moved out to go and live with her father but she often played truant to go shoplifting.\n\nEventually she was placed in Dublin's An Grianan Training Centre, once one of the notorious Magdalene laundries, originally set up to incarcerate young girls deemed to be promiscuous.\n\nOne nun discovered that the only way to keep this rebellious teenager in check was by buying her a guitar and setting her up with a music teacher. It was to be the saving of her.\n\nThe success of her first album made her a huge concert draw\n\nA volunteer at the institution had a brother who played in the Irish band In Tua Nua. She did record a song with them but they felt she was too young to become a full-time member.\n\nAt 16 her father moved her to a boarding school in Waterford where a teacher recognised her talent and helped her produce a demo tape featuring two of her own compositions.\n\nA meeting with the producer and composer Colm Farrelly saw them come together with other musicians to form the band Ton Ton Macoute.\n\nThey made an immediate impact and, when they relocated to Dublin, O'Connor dropped out of school to go with them.\n\nHer second album won her a Grammy\n\nEventually she moved to London and found herself an experienced manager in Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh, who had previously worked for U2.\n\nAs well as guiding her musically, Ó Ceallaigh imbued her with his own brand of republican politics. She caused a stir when she praised the Provisional IRA, although she later apologised.\n\nEver the rebel, she firmly rejected attempts by her record company to change her punk look and become more girly.\n\n\"What they were describing,\" O'Connor later told the Daily Telegraph, \"was actually their mistresses. I pointed that out to them which they didn't take terribly well.\"\n\nShe also fell out with the producer who had been brought in to mastermind her first album. After much persuasion, the record company allowed her to produce it herself. By this time she was seven months pregnant by her session drummer, John Reynolds, whom she went on to marry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinéad O'Connor: In her own words\n\nThe Lion and the Cobra, released in 1987, was a storming success. It featured what would become the typical O'Connor sound, overdubbed harmonies and atmospheric backgrounds held together by her distinctive voice. It earned a Grammy nomination for best female rock vocal performance.\n\nOne single, Mandinka, did well in the US and was the song she chose to sing on Late Night with David Letterman, her first American primetime TV appearance.\n\nShe topped this with her follow-up album, the Grammy-winning I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, which featured her most successful single, a cover of the Prince song Nothing Compares 2 U.\n\nIt was helped to the top of the charts in the UK, Ireland and the US by a striking video that largely featured a close-up of her face as she sang.\n\nShe cried during the making of the video and later said she found it difficult to sing the song because it reminded her of the loss of her mother, who had died in a car accident in 1985.\n\nBut controversy was never far away. She refused to perform at a concert venue in New Jersey unless it dropped its normal practice of playing the US national anthem before she went on.\n\nThe venue reluctantly agreed but it led to a boycott of her songs by a number of US radio stations.\n\nA month after the release of I'm Not Your Girl, a collection of jazz standards, O'Connor performed a version of Bob Marley's War on NBC's Saturday Night Live, substituting some of the words so it became a protest against child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.\n\nTo the horror of the producers she held up a photo of Pope John Paul II to the camera and tore it in half. NBC received more than 4,000 complaints from viewers and many destroyed copies of her records.\n\nAt a subsequent live appearance she was booed so much she couldn't perform. At the end of 1992 she returned to live in Dublin.\n\nHer fourth album, Universal Mother, featuring writing contributions from Germaine Greer and Kurt Cobain, failed to emulate the success of her earlier work. It was to be her last studio album for six years.\n\nHaving split from her husband, she found herself locked in a long custody battle with the journalist John Waters, who had fathered her second child, a daughter named Roisin. The stress caused her to attempt suicide in 1999.\n\nIn one of the stranger turns of her life she was ordained a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, an independent Catholic church, not in communion with Rome. Despite her disdain for the Church hierarchy, O'Connor always maintained she was a practising Christian and a devout Catholic.\n\nShe went back into the studio in 2000 to record the album Faith and Courage. Largely self-penned, it failed to break into the Top 20 in all but the Australian album charts.\n\nThere was a brief second marriage with the journalist Nick Sommerlad before she had a third child, Shane, with the musician Donal Lunny.\n\nShe surprised many by being ordained as a priest\n\nThe 2002 album Sean-Nos Nua featured a reworking of traditional Irish folk songs. A year later she released a compilation of previously unheard tracks and demos before announcing she was retiring from music.\n\nBoth her mental and physical health were suffering, Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she was also battling the painful condition of fibromyalgia.\n\nA spell in Jamaica resulted in her seventh studio album, Throw Down Your Arms, a collection of reggae-flavoured covers that met with positive reviews.\n\nShe gave birth to her fourth child, Yeshua Francis Bonadio in 2006, fathered by her then partner Frank Bonadio. The following year she released yet another album, Theology. It failed to ignite the charts.\n\nA third marriage in 2010 to long-time friend Steve Cooney lasted less than a year.\n\nShe came back to musical form with How About I Be Me (and You Be You) released in 2012, which reached number five in Ireland and 33 in the UK charts.\n\nThere was a very public spat with the singer Miley Cyrus in 2013 after O'Connor published a letter on her website, criticising Cyrus for her overtly sexual videos. Cyrus responded by describing O'Connor as \"crazy\".\n\nAt her best she was an artist of real talent\n\nO'Connor proved she could still deliver the goods with the release of her 2014 album I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss. She appeared on the cover wearing a wig and figure-hugging black dress while caressing a guitar.\n\nBut her mental health was still precarious. In November 2015, after recovering from a hysterectomy, she posted a message on Facebook announcing she was staying at a hotel and contemplating suicide. She was found safe and well and received medical treatment.\n\nConverting to Islam in 2018, she changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat, but continued to perform under her birth name.\n\nShe released a memoir, Rememberings, in June 2021 and took part in media interviews to promote it, some of them fraught. The singer said she felt \"badly triggered\" by an interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her mental health struggles and the media's coverage of it.\n\nMore trauma came in January 2022, when her 17-year-old son Shane took his own life. The musician posted a series of concerning tweets in the wake of his death, indicating she was considering suicide and telling followers she had been admitted to hospital.\n\nSinéad O'Connor was a precocious talent who used music as a means of dealing with the demons inside her. A contradictory figure in many ways, she always refused to toe the establishment line, something that saw her achieve less success than she deserved.\n\nThe singer though was unapologetic and unrepentant for those life choices. \"I always say, if you live with the devil, you find out there's a god.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can visit the BBC Action Line for help.", "Ramandeep Kaur has saved more than £7,000 for her son Harry but fears bureaucracy will keep him locked out of his account\n\nNearly a million young people have yet to claim their Child Trust Funds, MPs have warned.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee estimates that more than £1.7bn is sitting in accounts waiting to be accessed.\n\nIt says \"failure in long-term planning\" by HMRC means 42% of eligible 18-20 year olds have not drawn on their savings.\n\nAn HMRC spokesperson said they had notified young people before their account matured.\n\nThe chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Dame Meg Hillier, said that while these accounts were a vital \"financial jump start\" to adulthood, the scheme so far had not achieved that ambition.\n\nUnder the Labour government policy, any child born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011 was eligible to receive at least £250 in a savings pot, which they could access as soon as they turned 18.\n\nHowever, according to MPs, poor planning by HMRC, a lack of engagement with account holders and barriers accessing savings meant that many from low-income backgrounds were missing out.\n\nChildren who lack capacity were particularly affected, with an estimated 80,000 having to rely on their families to go through a lengthy, often costly court process to access their savings.\n\nHarry is one of those 80,000. His mum, Ramandeep Kaur, has saved more than £7,000 in his savings account - assuming he would be able to access it like his older brother.\n\nBut, she has been told the only way 16-year-old Harry, who has Down Syndrome and a love of Bollywood dancing, can access his money is if she goes through the Court of Protection.\n\n\"I don't know what to do to be honest, the money will mean so much to Harry - but at the same time the bureaucracy, cost, and overall impact of the legal implications is huge.\n\n\"I saved for my son, like I did for his brother - the whole system is wrong if it deprives Harry of what is rightfully his.\"\n\nThe committee also found that trust fund providers were not only failing to keep customers informed, they were also charging fees - up to £100m a year - just to passively manage the accounts.\n\nMore than 800,000 accounts belong to people from low-income backgrounds - prompting concern that those who need the money the most were not able to access it.\n\nThe committee said that HMRC and trust fund providers - such as building societies and banks - must do more to ensure that young people are aware of their savings and provide support to help them access their money.\n\nA spokesperson for HMRC said that every 16-year-old was sent information about finding their Child Trust Fund with their National Insurance letter, and that they regularly kept account holders up to date -but anyone \"unsure\" about their situation should also contact their bank or building society.\n\nUpdate 24 August 2023: This article was amended to give the exact start and end dates of Child Trust Fund eligibility.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Nigel Farage has called for the whole NatWest board to follow boss Dame Alison Rose in quitting as the row over his bank account closure escalated.\n\nThe ex-UKIP leader told BBC Breakfast it was \"right\" that Dame Alison quit but said the board \"should all go\".\n\nDame Alison quit abruptly early on Wednesday after admitting she had made a mistake in speaking to the BBC about Mr Farage's relationship with the bank.\n\nIt came after the chancellor expressed significant concerns over her conduct.\n\nNatwest chair Sir Howard Davies said just hours before Dame Alison resigned that it was in the interest of shareholders and customers that she stayed on as chief executive despite admitting she had made a \"serious error of judgement\".\n\nThe BBC has been told Sir Howard intends to remain on until the middle of next year when he is expected to retire.\n\nMr Farage said: \"She's gone and it is right that she has gone. However, I think this brings into question the whole of the board. Frankly, because of how they have behaved, I think they should all go.\"\n\nCity minister Andrew Griffith said that since Sir Howard was already on his way out, there was no need for him to resign.\n\n\"There's already a search under way... for his replacement,\" said Mr Griffith. \"We should let that continue and then in due course, obviously, the bank will need to appoint a new chief executive.\"\n\nMr Griffith said it was important that lessons are learned from what has happened at NatWest, which is 39% owned by the taxpayer.\n\n\"It's not the job of the bank to tell us what to think or what political party we should support.\"\n\nMr Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and a Brexiteer, said in early July that his account at private bank Coutts - which is owned by NatWest - had been closed and that he had not been given a reason.\n\nMr Farage had highlighted to the BBC what he said was a discrepancy between the BBC's apology on Monday from its chief executive Deborah Turness, which said the BBC had gone back to the source to check the information, and NatWest's statement on Tuesday.\n\n\"There is no way, if the BBC went back for a second time to confirm the story, that they [the BBC] would not have checked that it was the balance of my account that led to that commercial decision,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday, economic secretary Andrew Griffith had a meeting with some of the largest banks and building societies \"to discuss the importance of protecting lawful freedom of expression for customers\".\n\nThe Treasury said bank bosses had acknowledged that \"recent events\" had hit \"public trust for the whole sector\".\n\nThe bosses agreed to bring bank policies in line with planned rules to make it easier for customers to find out why their bank accounts had been closed and challenge the decisions.\n\nThe data protection regulator also joined the debate, pointing out that people trusted banks with their money and personal information.\n\nInformation Commissioner John Edwards said any suggestion this trust had been betrayed would be \"concerning for a bank's customers, and for regulators like myself\".\n\nHe said he had written to banks to \"remind them of their responsibilities to the public\". These included not holding \"inaccurate information\" and not using information in a way that was \"unduly unexpected.\" Mr Edwards added banks should also not be holding \"any more information than is necessary\".\n\n\"Even the information banks gather around politically exposed persons must follow the law,\" he said.", "When Dame Alison Rose landed the top job at NatWest she became the most powerful woman in UK banking.\n\nIn the notoriously male-dominated sector, women at her level are still incredibly rare.\n\nDame Alison oversaw a bank with about 19 million customers in the UK and 60,000 employees globally.\n\nDame Alison spent some decades climbing the ranks, starting out over 30 years ago as a trainee at the bank after graduating from Durham University.\n\nWhen she secured the top job in 2019, she carefully cultivated her image and was frequently heard on the airwaves and appeared in print.\n\nIn interviews she was typically careful, reciting lines which had clearly been prepared and at times she could sound wooden.\n\nIt was part of a media-savvy strategy to be visible and open, but also very careful - she never put a step wrong and never said anything she wasn't supposed to say.\n\nThat's why the latest development is so surprising - Dame Alison made what she admits was a \"serious error\" in speaking about Nigel Farage's relationship with Coutts, the private bank owned by NatWest.\n\nIt is out of character and a shock misstep in a career which, until now, has been remarkably flawless.\n\nDanni Hewson, head of financial analysis at stockbroker AJ Bell, said Dame Alison was \"massively respected\" and her actions had \"caught a lot of people by surprise\".\n\n\"She held her employees to a high standard. She was pushing NatWest to achieve higher standards, to be more inclusive, to deliver more for the customer. And, you know, with one comment, she has undermined years of hard work.\n\n\"She has been hugely instrumental in changing the culture of banking and propelling forward the reputation of NatWest from a time when the banking sector was really persona non grata. So, I think it is incredibly surprising that she has been so careless.\"\n\nWhen NatWest, then called Royal Bank of Scotland, almost collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis and had to be rescued by a £20bn taxpayer bailout, Dame Alison was integral in rebuilding the bank and its reputation.\n\nIn contrast, the then-chief executive Fred Goodwin was blamed for expanding the bank too rapidly and was subsequently stripped of his knighthood.\n\nDame Alison is one of the few senior bosses to have survived at the bank after the public fallout.\n\nShe has also been lauded for her work to boost the number of female entrepreneurs and leaders.\n\nIt was this work which helped her be named as a Dame Commander of the British Empire by King Charles III at the start of this year.\n\nAs boss at NatWest, she has drawn headlines for changes, such as granting up to a year of leave to new fathers and ending new loans to oil and gas companies.\n\nAnd she was a relatable role model. The 53-year-old mum-of-two told the Daily Telegraph in 2021 that running NatWest during the pandemic, despite its challenges, \"was much easier than managing home schooling\" during lockdown.\n\nShe called the financial crisis in 2008 a \"pretty traumatic period\" for the industry.\n\n\"There was the experience of watching everything we had been working on change, and the terrible situation that RBS found itself in,\" she told the Evening Standard in 2016. \"That was a pretty emotional and difficult experience.\"\n\nIt's likely that this latest episode will prove more traumatic.", "The BBC has apologised to Nigel Farage over its inaccurate report about why his account at Coutts bank was closed.\n\nOn 4 July, the BBC reported Mr Farage no longer met the financial requirements for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nThe former UKIP leader later obtained a Coutts report which indicated his political views were also considered.\n\nMr Farage said he accepted the apologies \"with good grace\", but said questions for Coutts remained.\n\nHe thanked BBC News CEO Deborah Turness - who has written to him - and business editor Simon Jack - who has tweeted - for their apologies.\n\n\"It's not often that the BBC apologise. But for the BBC to apologise, I'm very, very pleased,\" Mr Farage said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Mr Farage said he had had to publish a lot of material in order to clear up misinformation in the wake of the 4 July story.\n\n\"I had to go to very great lengths and great personal damage to undo the story,\" Mr Farage said.\n\n\"There is no fault or no blame on the BBC. This now goes right back to the Natwest Banking Group [owners of Coutts].\n\n\"Someone in that group decided it was appropriate, legal and ethical to leak details of my personal financial situation.\n\n\"That, I think, is wrong on every level - and that is where the spotlight should be and it will.\"\n\nMr Jack, who tweeted his apology, said his story had been \"from a trusted and senior source\".\n\n\"However, the information turned out to be incomplete and inaccurate. Therefore, I would like to apologise to Mr Farage,\" Mr Jack continued.\n\nMr Farage later said: \"Jack says, in the tweet, that his information came from a trusted and senior source. I would suggest that it may well have been a very senior source.\"\n\nOn 21 July, the BBC updated its original article to say it had \"not been accurate\". Mr Farage then asked for a formal apology from the BBC.\n\nOn Monday, the BBC said on its Corrections and Clarifications website: \"We acknowledge that the information we reported - that Coutts' decision on Mr Farage's account did not involve considerations about his political views - turned out not to be accurate and have apologised to Mr Farage.\"\n\nWhen Coutts decided to close Mr Farage's account, he said it did not give him a reason.\n\nMr Farage subsequently obtained a document looking at his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nThe 40-page document provided to Mr Farage included minutes from a meeting in November last year reviewing his account.\n\nThe document flagged concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and also raised concerns about the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a client.\n\nIt said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts' \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nMr Farage said the BBC had fallen for \"spin\" and he had been \"cancelled\" for his political views.\n\nThe boss of NatWest Group, Dame Alison Rose, apologised on Thursday to Mr Farage for what she called the \"deeply inappropriate\" comments made in the document.\n\nShe also said that she was commissioning a full review of Coutts' processes on bank account closures.\n\nMr Farage has called for Dame Alison to be questioned by MPs.\n\nSpeaking on GB News on Monday evening, Mr Farage said he had now submitted a subject access request (a request for a copy of information held about you) to NatWest and had raised his case with the Information Commissioner's Office.\n\nHe also disclosed the contents of the letter sent to him on Monday by the BBC's Deborah Turness, in which she apologised, saying: \"I can understand why you feel this story has contributed to you being put through a considerable and humiliating amount of publicity.\"\n\nThe Treasury has called a meeting with bank bosses over account closures, following the row between Mr Farage and NatWest.\n\nThe BBC will hope its apology will draw a line under the story.\n\nThe fallout is an insight into a key tenet of journalism - sourcing stories. Reporters have to be able to trust their sources and it's standard journalistic practice not to reveal who they are.\n\nIn this case, that trust broke down.", "The first bombs went off at Brussels airport an hour before the attack on the city's metro\n\nA court in Brussels has found six men guilty of terrorist murder, more than seven years after suicide bomb attacks killed 32 people at the city's airport and a metro station in March 2016.\n\nAfter a long trial and 19 days of jury deliberations, the court in Brussels returned their verdicts.\n\nSeveral of those on trial had already been convicted of taking part in the Paris terror attacks months earlier.\n\nSalah Abdeslam, 33, was arrested days before the Brussels bombings.\n\nHe was found guilty in France last year of the November 2015 Paris bomb and gun attacks in which 130 died.\n\nAbdeslam had fled Paris for Belgium after the 2015 attacks and denied involvement in the bombings four months later. But the court in Brussels has now convicted him of murder and attempted murder in Brussels too.\n\nAnother of those now found guilty of both bombings, Mohamed Abrini, was identified on CCTV fleeing Zaventem airport when his explosives did not go off.\n\nHe became known as the \"man in the hat\" and was among a number of suspects arrested in Brussels a few weeks later. Unlike Abdeslam, Abrini had admitted his role in the attacks, confessing to preparing the explosives for the bombings.\n\nCCTV footage captured Mohamed Abrini (R) and the two airport bombers who blew themselves up\n\nFour other men were found guilty of terrorist murder: Oussama Atar, Osama Krayem, Ali El Haddad Asufi and Bilal El Makhoukhi.\n\nKrayem had been seen with the Metro bomber who blew himself up at Maelbeek. He too had a backpack full of explosives but did not detonate them.\n\nBut Oussama Atar, a Belgian-Moroccan jihadist thought to have planned the Paris attacks from Syria, was tried in absentia and is believed to have died in Syria.\n\nTwo men, a Tunisian and a Rwandan, were cleared of murder but were convicted of taking part in terrorist activities, along with the other six. The final pair, brothers Smail and Ibrahim Farisi, were cleared of all charges.\n\nThe attacks in Brussels took place within an hour of each other on 22 March 2016.\n\nTwo bombs went off shortly before 08:00 at opposite ends of the departures hall at Zaventem airport, leaving 16 people dead.\n\nThen, little more than an hour later, a further blast happened on a train at Maelbeek metro station in Brussels' European quarter, close to EU institutions. Another 16 people died in that bombing. Hundreds more were wounded.\n\nMathilde Reumaux and her husband survived the metro bombing uninjured. She told BBC Newshour it was like \"a war scene\", adding: \"We had to climb out of the windows of the metro, there were many bodies around us, people dead or injured.\"\n\nThey tried to help some of the injured, she said. \"We did what we could, with the little knowledge we had of first aid.\"\n\nShe welcomed Tuesday's verdict and said \"the jury was really focused during the past seven months, they listened to everyone, hundreds of persons who testified\".\n\nThe court ruled that another three people who died in the years following the bombings should also be considered victims of the attacks, bringing the death toll to 35.\n\nThey included Shanti De Corte, 23, who suffered years of unbearable psychological illness before she died by euthanasia last year.\n\nXavier Legrand died of cancer in 2017 after being forced to halt treatment because of the wounds caused by the metro bombing.\n\nMathieu Fischer took his life in 2021 after suffering years of post-traumatic stress.\n\nThe judge told the court that had it not been for the bombings the three \"would not have died, or at least not in the same circumstances\".\n• None 'They destroyed us, but we came together stronger'\n• None Brussels explosions: What we know", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWrexham beat 10-man Manchester United 3-1 but the newly promoted League Two club's victory was overshadowed by an injury to talisman Paul Mullin.\n\nMullin, 28, suffered a punctured lung in a collision with goalkeeper Nathan Bishop, part of a United side mostly comprised of Under-21 players.\n\nBoss Phil Parkinson subsequently warned Bishop to \"steer clear\" of Wrexham following the \"reckless\" challenge.\n\nSpanish 19-year-old Marc Jurado scored in first-half injury time for United, who had Dan Gore, 18, sent-off shortly after the restart.\n\nRyan Reynolds was unable to attend but Wrexham co-owner Rob McElhenney was present to see his side earned a memorable win in front of a sold-out 34,248 crowd at Snapdragon Stadium in California.\n\nUnited boss Erik ten Hag, whose senior players have travelled on to Texas before tomorrow's match against Real Madrid, watched his youthful side's performance from the bench.\n\nThe Premier League club's starting line-up also featured the experienced Jonny Evans, who has returned on a short-term deal after leaving Leicester City at the end of last season.\n\nBishop apologises but is warned to 'steer clear' of Wrexham\n\nMullin scored 46 goals in all competitions as Wrexham ended a 15-year absence from the football league last season.\n\nBut the striker will now miss the start of the campaign following his collision with 23-year-old Bishop, who received a yellow card for the foul.\n\nMullin required lengthy treatment before walking off the field with an oxygen mask around his neck early in the first half.\n\nManager Parkinson expressed his anger after the match: \"It is a real blow for us, you can't hide away from that. I thought it was a clumsy challenge from the goalkeeper and it should have been a straight red.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was a dangerous challenge and Mulls is our talisman. I'm fuming with it, I have to be honest about that. It was a clumsy, reckless challenge in a pre-season game.\n\n\"I haven't seen the goalie and he's probably best steering clear of us for the time being because we're not very happy.\"\n\nBishop sent an apology to Mullin on Twitter: \"Just wanted to share my sincerest apologies to Paul Mullin. A complete misjudgement and a genuine accident with no malicious intent at all!\n\n\"Wishing you the speediest recovery and hope to see you back scoring goals as soon as possible!\"\n\nLee opened the scoring after 29 minutes and Hayden headed in a second seven minutes later - but Jurado's side-footed finish halved the deficit.\n\nUnited's Gore was dismissed after receiving a straight red for a tackle on Andy Cannon early in the second half, before Dalby headed in Wrexham's third from close range.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The chief executive of NatWest, Dame Alison Rose, is facing pressure from the government to resign.\n\nDowning Street and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have \"significant concerns\" over her conduct, BBC News has been told.\n\nShe has apologised for discussing the closure of Nigel Farage's account at NatWest's private banking arm Coutts with a BBC journalist, saying it was a \"serious error of judgement\".\n\nNatWest earlier said it still had full confidence in Dame Alison at the helm.\n\nDame Alison's apology on Tuesday afternoon comes after the BBC apologised for its inaccurate report earlier this month which said Mr Farage's account was being closed because he no longer met the wealth threshold for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nMr Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and Brexiteer, first reported in early July that his account had been closed.\n\nIn her first admission that she had been involved, Dame Alison said in conversations with BBC business editor Simon Jack \"she had confirmed that Mr Farage was a Coutts customer and he had been offered a NatWest bank account\".\n\nShe said she had believed this was public knowledge.\n\nThe NatWest boss said she had not revealed any personal financial information about Mr Farage.\n\n\"In response to a general question about eligibility criteria required to bank with Coutts and NatWest I said that guidance on both was publicly available on their websites.\n\n\"In doing so, I recognise that I left Mr Jack with the impression that the decision to close Mr Farage's accounts was solely a commercial one,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"I was wrong to respond to any question raised by the BBC about this case. I want to extend my sincere apologies to Mr Farage for the personal hurt this has caused him and I have written to him today.\"\n\nDame Alison has also faced calls to resign from Mr Farage and several Tory MPs including former cabinet minister David Davis.\n\nSimon Clarke, Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, tweeted that the chancellor would be right to have concerns.\n\n\"The whole issue has been a disgrace from start to finish,\" he wrote.\n\nMP Saqib Bhatti, the Conservative Party's vice-chairman for business, earlier said: \"While it's not for politicians to determine what the company should do, her position would appear to now be untenable.\"\n\nMr Farage has said that Coutts did not give him a reason when it decided to close his account.\n\nBut Mr Farage had obtained a document outlining his suitability as a Coutts client.\n\nThe document had concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and assessed the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a customer.\n\nDame Alison said that Coutts had told her the account closure had been for commercial reasons.\n\nShe said when she spoke to the BBC's Simon Jack she had not seen the dossier obtained by Mr Farage.\n\nSpeaking before the report of concerns being expressed by Downing Street and Jeremy Hunt, the chairman of NatWest Group, Sir Howard Davies, said that \"after careful reflection\" the board members had decided the chief executive retained their \"full confidence\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said: \"We have been clear that people should be able to exercise lawful freedom of expression without the fear of having their bank accounts closed.\n\n\"The Economic Secretary to the Treasury has written to some of the UK's biggest banks to reinforce that this is a fundamental right, and we will take the action necessary to protect it.\"\n\nThe Economic Secretary, Andrew Griffith, is meeting bank leaders on Wednesday to discuss the issue of account closures.", "The number of people living in temporary accommodation in England has hit a 25-year high, according to the latest official figures.\n\nAlmost 105,000 households were in temporary accommodation, including more than 131,000 children, on 31 March this year.\n\nThis figure is 10% up on the same day last year, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities data shows.\n\nIn Plymouth, one mum told BBC News of cramped conditions living in a hotel.\n\nThis latest figure for temporary accommodation surpasses a previous high of 101,300 reached in 2004, and is the highest since records began in 1998.\n\nThe figures also show almost 14,000 households were in hotels or bed and breakfasts in the three months to March.\n\nSitting outside a hotel in Plymouth earlier this month, we found several homeless families keeping each other company.\n\nThe busiest was Chantelle Walton, tending to her two children.\n\nJack is just five weeks old and has only ever known the one hotel room that he shares with his parents and 17-month-old sister, Lily.\n\nChantelle and her family were made homeless four months ago in a no-fault eviction\n\nChantelle says the family were made homeless four months ago after being served with a Section 21 notice, or no-fault eviction.\n\n\"Its very difficult,\" says the 21-year-old. \"He wakes up crying for a bottle and wakes her up, and she thinks it's morning and gets up.\"\n\nTheir room has a small fridge and a microwave, \"so we can sterilise his bottles\". The lack of any decent cooking facilities means - like the dozens of other families in the hotel - they often have to eat out.\n\nEven though her partner works full-time as an engineer, their age, says Chantelle, is working against them: \"Because we're so young, no-one will take you on without a guarantor, and we don't have a guarantor.\"\n\nThere are currently more than 200 families living in hotels and bed and breakfasts in Plymouth, and the local council estimates it will spend £6.8m supporting them this year, about 10 times more than five years ago.\n\n\"The whole system's broken,\" says Chris Penberthy, the lead member for housing.\n\n\"We don't have enough affordable housing for people who need it. So our waiting list has gone from 8,000 to 12,500 in the last three years.\n\n\"That means that when people are in temporary accommodation, there's nowhere for them to move to, which means that there's nowhere for people in bed and breakfast to move to.\"\n\nThe figures also show a sharp rise in homelessness in older people, in the year to 31 March, with a 33.3% increase in the number of homeless households with a priority need due to old age.\n\nAt the root of the problem, say campaigners, is a lack of housing, exacerbated by a decision by ministers to freeze local housing allowance rates for the past three years.\n\nAmid soaring rents, that choice has left much of the country unaffordable for any household needing housing benefit to help pay their rent, while in many areas, landlords are leaving the sector.\n\nDorothy Dawson has been renting out her home in Devon for 16 years but recently agreed to sell the property, blaming government plans to ban no-fault evictions in England and rising costs.\n\n\"My buy-to-let mortgage is going to triple. The council tax between tenants has gone up, the standing charges on the utilities have gone up. It's not worth it,\" she says.\n\nShelter says the instability of private renting is a major contributor to rising homelessness.\n\nThe charity is urging ministers to press ahead with the Renters (Reform) Bill, to ban no-fault evictions.\n\n\"It must be made law at the earliest opportunity,\" chief executive Polly Neate said.\n\nCrisis chief executive Matt Downie said: \"Once again, we see the crippling cost that years of no investment in housing benefit and a shameful lack of social house building is having by trapping families in temporary accommodation.\"\n\nA government official said it had \"given £2bn over three years to help local authorities tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, targeted to areas where it is needed most\".\n\n\"The government is also improving availability of social housing,\" the official said.\n\n\"We are committed to delivering 300,000 new homes per year and investing £11.5bn to build the affordable quality homes this country needs.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deborah Meaden: 'I woke up, climate change is happening in the here and now'\n\nThe wildfires in the southern Mediterranean have brought climate change to the top of the news agenda and have also whipped up a storm on social media.\n\nPeople calling for climate action, like Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden, have been branded as alarmists. Meaden has publicly faced down critics on online platforms like X (formerly called Twitter) when accused of exaggerating climate change. Despite the hostility her public stance generates, it is an issue she is passionate about.\n\n\"The climate change problem is here and now,\" Meaden told the BBC at a recent event. People are increasingly waking up to the idea and this has big implications for businesses, she says.\n\n\"People are joining the dots,\" says Meaden.\"We can't assume we've got time to sort the planet any more. It was probably about six or seven years ago when I really woke up to the fact.\"\n\nHowever, she is of course well known not as a scientist or social activist, but as a famous face of business. Much of the damage to the planet driving climate change is caused by big businesses, as they supply us with the necessities - and luxuries - of modern life.\n\nThey are increasingly being forced to rethink their policies, thanks to consumer pressure, says Meaden.\n\n\"Consumers have woken up to the power they have in their pockets in the past five or six years,\" she says.\n\n\"They are telling businesses, you need to change the way you do things. They want to make sure businesses are reducing their planetary impact.\n\n\"And businesses will - and do - listen to the consumer.\"\n\nSome large companies have been caught out greenwashing - paying lip service to sustainability, but not putting it into practice - but many do genuinely want to commit to change, Meaden told Bupa's eco-Disruptive event in London, which earlier this month ran a competition for start-ups in the sustainability sector.\n\nWhile consumers can influence big businesses to become more responsible through their spending power, Meaden reckons, it is actually new breeds of small, start-up companies that will bring those businesses the radical ideas they need to change their ways.\n\nWhile large companies have resources and deep pockets, they don't always have the ability to focus on the kinds of new ideas that have to be experimented with, to become more sustainable, she argues.\n\nLarge, public companies can also face inertia on climate change because they are subject to the demands of their shareholders, who are focused on short-term profits.\n\nThis is where start-ups come in. They are more agile and their small teams can laser-focus on new ideas, says Meaden.\n\nMany start-up founders with bold ideas aren't in fact trying to be the next all-conquering Facebook. From the outset, they are looking to be acquired by a larger company after they've proved their potential - making life-changing amounts of money for the founding members when they sell.\n\nSince large companies are on the lookout for green solutions right now, they are interested to acquire start-ups that can solve their sustainability issues for them, in areas like supply chains, waste or energy consumption.\n\nSo there is a good market now for start-ups to be in this space and drive the sustainability agenda at scale, says Meaden.\n\nMany of these kinds of start-ups were represented at the eco-Disruptive Live event.\n\nAustralian start-up Cassava Bags won the overall competition, taking prize money of £200,000.\n\nIt had developed a disposable, carrier bag that looks like it is made of plastic, but in fact dissolves in water.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: This disposable carrier bag can dissolve in water in one minute\n\nThe bags are made from starches processed from the root of the Cassava plant, which is grown in countries across south Asia, including Thailand. The bags dissolve in boiling water in around one minute, or over several days if left in the ocean, say the founders, though they can also withstand rain.\n\nThe start-up hopes that supermarkets will adopt their bags, though subsidies will be required to help them compete with established plastic rivals whose products are significantly cheaper.\n\nAnother firm at the event, Energym, makes exercise bikes which generate electricity that can be stored in a battery, allowing gyms to use their own electricity rather than buy it from the grid.\n\n\"I have been concerned about sustainability and climate change for a very, very long time,\" says Meaden, \"but it was always something that was going to happen way into the future.\n\n\"But of course it isn't, it's happening now.\"", "Parachute Regiment flags were sold at a stall on the route of the Apprentice Boys parade last year\n\nThe sale of Parachute Regiment flags at next month's Apprentice Boys' parade in Londonderry has been banned.\n\nIt comes after a row erupted at the same event last year, when it emerged that the flags were being sold at a stall on the route of the parade.\n\nA report before Derry and Strabane District Council on Wednesday noted \"sensitivities\" surrounding the flags.\n\nSoldiers from the regiment shot dead 13 people in Derry on Bloody Sunday on 30 January 1972.\n\nThe motion before a council committee last week discussed new criteria for granting temporary licences for the Relief of Londonderry event.\n\nIt stated stallholders would not be granted a licence unless they agreed not to sell flags or emblems of the regiment.\n\nIt also said council officers would not grant a licence to anyone who intends to sell or display flags in support of paramilitary organisations.\n\nIt is illegal to sell flags in support of paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland.\n\nLast year, at least one stallholder sold flags in support of the Ulster Volunteer Force.\n\nA number of flags were also seized by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in the Waterside area of the city.\n\nThe annual Apprentice Boys' parade is due to take place on 12 August.", "Spacey appeared before a judge and jury at his London trial earlier this month\n\nBefore allegations of sexual harassment were first publicly made against him in 2017, Kevin Spacey was one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood.\n\nThe 64-year-old struck the delicate balance of being both acclaimed and popular - his name regularly drew crowds to the box office, while his performances were praised by critics.\n\nSpacey was well known for roles in Seven, American Beauty, LA Confidential, 21, Horrible Bosses, Baby Driver and the TV series House of Cards, one of Netflix's biggest and earliest hits.\n\nThe actor was regularly rewarded for his work - winning two Oscars during his career - one for lead actor (for 1999's American Beauty) and one for supporting actor (for 1995's The Usual Suspects).\n\nIn Sam Mendes' directorial debut, American Beauty, Spacey starred as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a mid-life crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend.\n\nIn The Usual Suspects, a mystery about five criminals who plan a dangerous heist, he portrayed petty con artist Roger 'Verbal' Kint, a role that had been written for him.\n\nActor Kevin Spacey holding his Oscar trophy for best supporting actor for his role in The Usual Suspects in 1996\n\nHis performances on stage and screen also won him a Tony, an Olivier, a Golden Globe, a Bafta, a Critics Choice and several Screen Actors' Guild Awards. He was given his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999.\n\nIn addition to his performance work, Spacey was the artistic director at the Old Vic theatre in London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nThe US star was recognised for his work by being made an honorary Commander and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2010 and 2015, respectively.\n\nBut a string of allegations of sexual misconduct made against him - part of a Hollywood reckoning which began with a Harvey Weinstein exposé in October 2017 - brought his career to a halt.\n\nSpacey, who always denied the claims, then came out as a gay man - a move he was criticised for by some figures in the gay community, who suggested he was attempting to shift the focus away from the allegations. The actor later expressed his regret for this, saying that was never his intention.\n\nOne of the allegations was made by actor Anthony Rapp, who said he was 14 when Spacey invited him to a party and made a sexual advance towards him. His claims reached court in New York last year, but after a three-week civil trial, the lawsuit was dismissed.\n\nSpacey's tenure at the Old Vic was also scrutinised, after 20 male staff members at the theatre alleged he had behaved inappropriately towards them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs a result of the sexual misconduct claims against Spacey - some of which formed part of his recent trial in London - the projects he was appearing in at the time they were made were thrown into doubt.\n\nScenes from a film which was already in the can, All The Money in the World, were re-shot with a new actor, Christopher Plummer, replacing Spacey.\n\nThe actor was also fired from his role as Frank Underwood in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards, and production on the show's sixth season was suspended for several months.\n\nWhen it finally resumed, the number of episodes had been cut from 13 to six, with Spacey's co-star Robin Wright taking over the lead role.\n\nSpacey had been effectively ostracised from Hollywood, and worked only rarely in the years following the accusations.\n\nHowever, the actor found some solace in Italy, where he still enjoyed a pocket of support.\n\nHe gave his first public performance for almost two years, in 2019, reading a poem about at museum in Rome\n\nHis first high-profile appearance in the country came in 2019 when he recited Gabriele Tinti's poem The Boxer for members of the public at a museum in Rome. The poem is about a boxer lamenting the loss of his once-glorious career.\n\nSpacey's performance came less than three weeks after prosecutors in New York dropped a criminal case relating to charges of indecent assault and battery.\n\nHe went on to work with Italian director Franco Nero on 2022's L'uomo Che Disegnò Dio (The Man Who Drew God), marking his return to acting with a role as a police detective.\n\nIn January 2023, he was given a lifetime achievement award by Italy's National Museum of Cinema.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe museum, in Turin, said it gave the prize in recognition of Spacey's \"personal aesthetic and authorial contribution to the development of the art of drama\".\n\nIn his acceptance speech, the actor thanked the museum for having the \"balls\" to present him with the award.\n\nBut by the summer, he was appearing in Southwark Crown Court in London, denying nine sexual offences between 2001 and 2013.\n\nThe trial lasted nearly four weeks and heard from multiple witnesses, including Spacey himself.\n\nOn Wednesday, Spacey was found not guilty on all counts.\n\nSo what could be next for Kevin Spacey? Hollywood is no stranger to comeback stories, so it is certainly possible we could see him on screen again before long.\n\nBut Spacey's future will ultimately come down to whether or not the public will still have the appetite to see his films - and whether or not he still wants to make them.", "During summer months, tourists flock to a small protected beach in San Diego in order to take pictures of the animals, which are an endangered species.", "Magnum and Marmite-maker Unilever has reported profits soared over the first six months of this year, based almost entirely on raising its prices.\n\nThe consumer goods giant said that across the business, pre-tax profit rose 21% to €3.9bn (£3.34bn) but the number of goods that it sold fell.\n\nSupermarkets, such as Tesco, have been critical of suppliers lifting their prices amid high inflation.\n\nUnilever's boss said it had not passed on higher costs to its customers.\n\nChief executive Hein Schumacher added that he believes that inflation - the rate at which prices rise - had peaked.\n\n\"We do see inflation moderating by the end of the year and that will lead to more moderated pricing our end.\n\n\"We've seen high volatility because of drought in Europe and rice shortages in India, as well as geopolitical issues so we've had a lot to contend with,\" he said, referring to the costs the company has to pay for raw materials.\n\nSupermarkets, who themselves have been accused of so-called \"greedflation\" - exploiting high inflation to increase their profits - have accused suppliers of hiking prices. So too have some trade unions.\n\n\"Unilever's profits are greedflation in action,\" said Sharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite union. \"This isn't about the company shifting more stock - sales volumes have fallen.\"\n\nBut Mr Schumacher said: \"We have not passed inflation on to customers and as you can see we have felt higher costs through lower margins as a group.\"\n\nA profit margin is calculated by taking away all the costs of doing business, such as wages and energy bills, from the total sales a company generates.\n\nUnilever's profit margin edged higher to 17.1% in the six months to June compared with a year ago, but is lower than margins seen pre-pandemic. In 2019 the figure hovered around 19% for the company.\n\nAccording to analyst Emma-Lou Montgomery, associate director at the stockbrokers Fidelity Investment, it is clear that higher prices are boosting Unilever's profits, particularly with sales volumes largely flat.\n\n\"All in all, the cost of living is proving profitable for this global giant, with full-year underlying sales growth expected to beat forecasts,\" she added.\n\nA recent investigation into grocers' pricing by the regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, said it had found no evidence of profiteering by supermarkets but said it was important to keep the market \"under review\" and would now look into the wider supply chain.\n\nOverall, Unilever's total turnover rose by 2.7% to €30.4bn.\n\nThe number of goods - or volume - that Unilever sold fell by 2.5% in the six months to the end of June but its prices rose by 11.2%.\n\nOnly its personal care, and beauty and wellbeing divisions - which includes luxury make-up brands such as Hourglass - saw volumes rise over the six months.\n\nFood costs have been one of the biggest drivers behind high UK inflation, which measures the pace at which prices are rising.\n\nIn the year to June, food and soft drink price inflation slowed to 17.4% but remains close to historically high levels. Overall UK inflation eased to 7.9% in June, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nLast week, Premier Foods, the maker of Mr Kipling cakes and Oxo stock cubes, said it believed recent input cost inflation was \"past its peak\". It added that it would not raise prices for the rest of the year.", "Dame Alison Rose's resignation was announced in the early hours\n\nIt seems clear that government pressure helped oust NatWest's chief executive.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, Dame Alison Rose was trying to stay in her job.\n\nAt 1742, the bank published a statement saying it had \"full confidence\" in Dame Alison, despite her \"significant error of judgement\" in discussing Nigel Farage's relationship with Coutts (which is part of the NatWest group).\n\nBut over the course of the evening, the government made it clear it was not happy.\n\nDowning Street said Rishi Sunak was concerned about the unfolding situation. We were also told chancellor Jeremy Hunt had \"serious reservations\".\n\nRemember, the NatWest Group is still 39% owned by the Treasury - that sort of pressure from the government would be hard to ignore.\n\nSo, as the clock approached midnight, the bank held an emergency board meeting.\n\nAt 0145, the bank's chairman Sir Howard Davies announced that Dame Alison had agreed to step down \"by mutual consent\".\n\nBut why did the government get involved?\n\nNo 10 has made it clear that the prime minister believed business leaders need to act \"responsibly\". The inference is that by discussing Nigel Farage's relationship with her bank, Dame Alison had fallen short.\n\nBut ministers have been looking at \"de-banking\" for months.\n\nThere have been concerns people were losing their accounts without valid reasons or a right to appeal.\n\nThe Treasury has been worried since the beginning of the year, when the issue was raised by free speech campaigners. It launched a consultation on firming up protections.\n\nThe concerns exploded into public view after Nigel Farage's accusations against Coutts.\n\nThey were amplified when he published a dossier, which showed his political views were discussed when Coutts decided to close his account.\n\nThere is genuine anger in Westminster that political views can play a role in banking decisions.\n\nSeveral Conservative MPs have voiced their concerns in Parliament.\n\nSome have argued Mr Farage was discriminated against because of his pro-Brexit views.\n\nGovernment minister Chris Philp told the Today programme: \"It's a question of free speech and political freedom.\"\n\nBusiness secretary Kemi Badenoch also expressed concerns this morning, tweeting: \"There are many less high profile individuals whose accounts appear to been closed for this reason. I hope banks will look again.\"\n\nLabour's leader Sir Keir Starmer agreed that Dame Alison was right to resign and that people shouldn't lose their bank accounts because of their politics.\n\nBut Labour MP Darren Jones, who chairs the business select committee, questioned why ministers had got involved in this case, when they had stayed out of other cases where bad business practice was alleged.\n\nHe tweeted: \"It's about power. The power Farage seems to have over the Tories.\"\n\nMinisters want to ensure legally expressed views cannot be a reason for someone to lose their access to banking facilities.\n\nThe government is now planning to strengthen protection for customers.\n\nBanks will have to give three months' notice - and a proper explanation for why their account is being closed.\n\nOfficials have been asked to look at whether new conditions should be added to banking licences.\n\nBank bosses are meeting City minister Andrew Griffith on Wednesday to discuss the new measures.", "Leicestershire Police officers were called to Hopyard Close on Monday night\n\nA man and five-year-old boy have been found dead in a house in Leicester.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Hopyard Close at 21:00 BST on Monday after the man, 41, and boy were found unconscious.\n\nEast Midlands Ambulance Service and an air ambulance also attended but the pair were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nLeicestershire Police is carrying out an investigation into the deaths, but officers are not looking for anyone else at this stage.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Sinski, from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit major crime team, said: \"Detectives are working to understand what happened inside the address last night.\n\n\"I can reassure people that there is no risk to the public.\"\n\nHe added the families of the man and boy were being supported by officers.\n\nAlan Potter said many residents in the area were in tears\n\nAlan Potter, 75, who lives next door, told the BBC he heard the boy \"running about\" - as he normally would before bed - at about 18:00 or 19:00.\n\nHe said emergency services arrived from about 20:30, \"dashing in and out of the house\".\n\nMr Potter added the man's cousin also lived at the address.\n\n\"It's awful - I wish it hadn't [happened], but can't turn the clock back,\" he said.\n\nHe paid tribute to the five-year-old's \"beautiful\" personality, adding that he used to buy him presents at Easter and Christmas.\n\nCarole Potter said the news was \"tragic\"\n\nMr Potter's wife Carole, 70, said they were \"great friends\" with the boy's mother, adding that they treated him \"like he was my grandson\".\n\n\"I didn't know anything until his mum came knocking on the door really loud,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm just so upset about it. It's tragic. I just can't believe that's happened on our doorstep.\"\n\nWayne Hurst said the deaths left him \"shocked\"\n\nNeighbour Wayne Hurst, 51, described seeing a \"load of ambulances\" and police cars on Monday night.\n\n\"I'm a bit shocked and scared, I can't say no more, really. I'm just shocked,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amber Gibson was 16 when her body was found at Cadzow Glen in Hamilton\n\nA man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering his 16-year-old sister in a park in Hamilton.\n\nAmber Gibson's body was found in Cadzow Glen on 28 November 2021, two days after she was last seen.\n\nConnor Gibson, 20, strangled Amber then got rid of clothes he had been wearing and called the children's home Amber was staying at to pretend she was still alive.\n\nAnother man has been found guilty of interfering with Amber's body.\n\nStephen Corrigan - who was unknown to both Amber and Connor Gibson - found her body, but rather than alert police, he inappropriately touched her and then concealed her remains.\n\nAmber's body was discovered in Cadzow Glen on Sunday 28 November, hidden in bushes and branches. Her body was covered in mud, and her clothes were found nearby.\n\nGibson was arrested three days later on 1 December. The day before his arrest, he posted a tribute on Facebook to the sister he murdered.\n\nConnor Gibson will be sentenced in September\n\nDuring the trial at the High Court in Glasgow, the jury heard that Gibson had removed Amber's clothes and assaulted her, repeatedly inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and body as well as compressing her neck with his hands.\n\nIn his closing statement, prosecutor Richard Goddard KC told the jury Amber Gibson was \"appallingly\" murdered by the brother she must have trusted. He named 21 different circumstances which linked Gibson to the murder and sexual assault.\n\nConnor Gibson had denied all the charges against him.\n\nThe 13-day trial heard that the siblings were fostered from the age of three and five by Craig Niven and his wife Carol. The couple were granted permanent care of the siblings a few years later.\n\nAmber left their care in 2019. Her brother left after he turned 18 in 2020.\n\nAmber and Connor Gibson were caught on CCTV just before 22:00 on Friday 26 November in Hamilton town centre\n\nMr Niven had told the court the siblings could not be left in each others' company as they were \"not a good mix\".\n\nHe said that he spoke to Connor Gibson on the phone in the days after Amber's body was found.\n\nAccording to Mr Niven, Gibson said he argued with his sister before seeing her later that Friday night.\n\nAt the time of Amber's murder, she was living at the town's Hillhouse children's home.\n\nConnor Gibson was caught again on CCTV on the Friday night at 23:44, this time alone\n\nGibson was living at the Blue Triangle homeless hostel in Hamilton. A police officer told the court that items of stained clothing had been found in a bin there.\n\nJurors also heard other forensic evidence that \"widespread blood staining\" on Gibson's jacket was compatible with Amber and his DNA was also found on her shorts, worn as underwear, which had been \"forcibly\" torn off.\n\nIt emerged during Amber's murder trial that she had suffered another assault earlier in 2021.\n\nIn an entirely separate case it was revealed that in the June before her murder, Amber was raped by a man called Jamie Starrs.\n\nHe was found guilty earlier this month at the High Court in Lanark.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCourt documents also show that Amber and Connor Gibson's biological father, Peter Gibson, sexually assaulted two young boys and assaulted and raped a woman.\n\nThese crimes were committed between 2001 and 2008. He was sentenced in April this year.\n\nPolice Scotland called the inquiry \"traumatic and harrowing\" for the officers involved, as well as for Amber's friends and family.\n\nDet Ch Supt Paul Livingstone said: \"It is hard to imagine how difficult this has been for Amber's family and friends and our thoughts very much remain with them.\n\n\"I hope this conviction brings them some degree of comfort. The actions of both Gibson and Corrigan leaves them beneath contempt.\"\n\nAmber's body was found in Cadzow Glen, days after she was last seen\n\nHe said the investigation was \"complex and challenging\" and had relied heavily on the expertise of forensic officers.\n\nThe siblings' foster parents issued a statement following the verdict.\n\nIt said: \"When they arrived at our home, Amber was three and Connor aged five. Connor stated: 'We are safe' - they were until he took the safety away.\"\n\nThey described Amber as the \"most giving, caring, loving, supportive and admirable person\" who had a love of art and singing and an \"amazing outlook on life\" despite the suffering she had experienced.\n\nThe couple commented on \"how much Amber and Connor have been let down throughout their lives by the system\".\n\n\"We now have one daughter buried in Larkhall Cemetery and another child in prison,\" they said. \"Life will never be the same.\"\n\nFloral tributes were left for Amber after her body was discovered in Cadzow Glen\n\nJudge Lord Mulholland sent jurors out to consider their verdicts on Tuesday morning. They returned just before 15:00.\n\nHe said that the last thing Amber would have seen was her brother strangling her, and told him: \"You will pay a heavy price for that.\"\n\nHe told Stephen Corrigan: \"You came across a young girl who had been strangled to death and was naked.\n\n\"Instead of altering the authorities, you handled her body and your DNA told the story.\n\n\"Be under no illusion what is also coming your way.\"\n\nNeither showed any emotion as they were taken handcuffed to the cells.\n\nThe two men will be sentenced on 4 September at the High Court in Livingston.", "The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates to a 22-year high, which will increase costs for borrowers\n\nThe US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years as it fights to stabilise prices in the world's largest economy.\n\nThe decision lifted the Federal Reserve's influential benchmark rate to a range of 5.25% to 5.5%.\n\nIt marked the eleventh increase since early 2022, when the Fed started raising borrowing costs to try to cool the economy and ease price inflation.\n\nThe Fed offered few firm clues as to what it might do next.\n\n\"We're going to be going meeting by meeting,\" bank chairman Jerome Powell said at a press conference following the announcement.\n\n\"It is certainly possible that we would raise the funds rate again at the September meeting if the data warranted,\" he said. \"And I would also say it's possible that we would choose to hold steady.\"\n\nWednesday's decision came ahead of central bank meetings in Europe and Japan.\n\nIn the UK, where inflation was 7.9%, the Bank of England is widely expected to raise its key rate at its next meeting on 3 August from the current 5%.\n\nIn the US, some analysts said the Fed had done enough.\n\nInflation in the US was 3% in June. That was down from a peak of more than 9% last year, when prices were rising at the fastest pace in four decades.\n\n\"We think they're at a point where the Fed funds rate is restrictive enough to slow the economy, slow activity and allow inflation to trend lower,\" said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at insurance firm, Nationwide Mutual, adding that she did not expect to see further hikes this year.\n\nThe Fed has already brought interest rates up from near zero less than 18 months ago, putting to an end an era of low-cost borrowing that started during the financial crisis.\n\nThe moves have hit the public in the form of more expensive loans for homes, business expansions and other activity.\n\nIn theory, that should reduce borrowing demand and encourage saving, eventually cooling the economy and making it harder for firms to raise prices.\n\nBut the economy in the US has held up better than many expected so far - especially in the labour market, where jobs continue to be added at a robust pace and wages are rising.\n\nMr Powell said he expected the job market would have to weaken further and growth slow more before the Fed could be confident its job was done.\n\n\"It's not that we're aiming to raise unemployment but we have to be honest about the historical record,\" he said.\n\nWhile acknowledging progress, he also noted that so-called core inflation - which does not include food and energy prices - remained more than double the Fed's 2% inflation target.\n\nAndrew Patterson, senior economist at Vanguard, said the Fed was worried about declaring victory prematurely, mindful of mistakes made in the 1960s and 1970s, when bank leaders embraced signs that inflation was easing only to see the problem flare up again.\n\n\"They had a positive inflation report this past month but ... they're going to want to see more of that going forward before they're comfortable,\" he said. \"They're not going to take anything off the table or pin themselves into a corner.\"\n\nDavid Henry, investment manager at Quilter Cheviot, said the Bank of England and European Central Bank were \"much further behind\" than the US on controlling inflation, which could lead to a \"bifurcation\" or division in policy among developed economies.\n\n\"They would love to have luxury that the Fed has in declaring the job nearly done, but instead talk is of rates of 6%, if not more,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"There is a chance the US begins talking about rate cuts before the BoE has had a chance to pause and assess the impact of its actions, and this would have a significant impact on stock and bond prices on both sides of the Atlantic.\"", "Will Kerr was an assistant chief constable with the Police Service of Northern Ireland before leaving the force in 2018\n\nThe suspended chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police is being investigated over serious allegations of sexual offences in Northern Ireland.\n\nWill Kerr was a police officer in Northern Ireland for 27 years before leaving in 2018.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, he said he denied any allegations of criminality.\n\nMr Kerr joined Devon and Cornwall Police in December where he is subject to a separate investigation.\n\nThis is being led by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over misconduct allegations.\n\nHe was suspended from his role in Devon and Cornwall by the police and crime commissioner on Wednesday.\n\nThe Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland said it had launched a criminal investigation on 16 June into \"serious allegations of sexual offences\".\n\nIn response, Mr Kerr said: \"In relation to the statement from the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland in which she named me as being the subject of a criminal investigation into serious allegations of sexual offences, I strenuously deny any allegations of criminality.\n\n\"I recognise and respect the fact that accountability and due process are vital to any investigation, regardless of rank or position,\" he continued, in a statement reported by PA.\n\n\"I will continue to co-operate with any investigation. I hope that all matters will be expedited so that they will be concluded without delay.\"\n\nBBC News NI understands Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne made the Northern Ireland Policing Board aware of developments last week.\n\nMr Kerr served with the PSNI and its predecessor the Royal Ulster Constabulary and rose to the rank of assistant chief constable before leaving to join Police Scotland, where he became deputy chief constable.\n\nOn Wednesday, the PSNI said it was aware of a Police Ombudsman criminal investigation and would support the ombudsman as required.\n\nIt said details about the exact nature of the allegations against Mr Kerr and any early investigative actions remained confidential.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said as the allegations did not relate to his time at that force, it would be inappropriate for them to comment.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said it had \"decided to investigate allegations of misconduct\" against Mr Kerr.\n\nThis followed a referral from the Devon and Cornwall police and crime commissioner.\n\nThe IOPC later issued another statement, saying its investigation would consider whether Mr Kerr \"may have breached police professional standards relating to serious criminal allegations currently under investigation by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"We are also investigating whether inaccurate information may have been provided as part of a previous vetting process,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nIan Drysdale, vice chairman of the Chief Police Officers Staff Association (CPOSA), said Mr Kerr was suspended as part of \"an ongoing inquiry into legacy misconduct matters for which he is yet to be interviewed\".\n\n\"Chief Constable Kerr recognises and respects the fact that accountability and due process are vital to any investigation, regardless of rank or position,\" he added.\n\n\"He will continue to cooperate with any investigation and hopes that all matters are expedited so that they can be concluded without further delay.\"\n\nDuring Mr Kerr's time with the PSNI he led on both serious crime and counter terrorism.\n\nHe was appointed an OBE in 2015 and was awarded the King's Police Medal in the 2023 New Year Honours.", "Stock footage, similar to the image above, showed the Malvern Hills rather than scenery of the Yorkshire Dales\n\nA promotional video for Yorkshire Water has been criticised for using stock footage of the rolling hills of Herefordshire and images taken in a Russian bar.\n\nThe advert was meant to promote the Bradford-based company's campaign urging customers to save water.\n\nBut viewers took to social media to point out the errors, with one branding the ad \"more Malvern than Malton\".\n\nYorkshire Water said the advert had since been removed from its channels.\n\nAlongside stock footage of the Malvern Hills and a bar more than 2,700-miles away in Sochi, research by BBC Breakfast also found footage of a man driving a left-hand drive car, which was shot in Ukraine, featured in the advert.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEnvironmental campaigner Feargal Sharkey told BBC Breakfast: \"It underlines the most serious point, once we get past the mild amusement of it all, and that is this laissez-faire, almost casual indifference that water companies, like Yorkshire Water, show towards their customers.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Yorkshire Water said: \"We're aware that stock footage was used in our 'word of mouth' social media campaign teaser video, and have since removed this from our channels.\n\n\"However, we're excited to share the first video in our series will be out soon, featuring Harrogate residents and a small Harrogate business.\"\n\nThe world famous Yorkshire Dales did not feature in the Bradford-based company's advert\n\nYorkshire Water has been criticised recently for the amount of sewage discharged into rivers and along coastlines.\n\nIn May the company's boss apologised to customers for sewage being discharged into the region's rivers.\n\nIn a letter to every household, chief executive Nicola Shaw said the company would invest £180m in reducing sewage leaks from storm overflows.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool", "Harry and Megan Tooze were killed at their farmhouse home in Llanharry on 26 July 1993\n\nPolice hope advances in forensic science will finally lead them to the killer who brutally murdered a married couple at their farmhouse 30 years ago.\n\nHarry and Megan Tooze were shot dead at their home in Llanharry, Rhondda Cynon Taf, on 26 July 1993.\n\nTheir daughter's boyfriend Jonathan Jones was found guilty of their murders and sentenced to life in prison in 1995, but was later freed on appeal.\n\nSouth Wales Police has launched a forensic review into the cold case.\n\nThe announcement comes on the 30-year anniversary of the double murder that shocked a close-knit rural village and intrigued the nation.\n\nThe force will be working alongside forensic scientist Angela Gallop, whose work has helped solve notorious cases such as the killings of Lynette White and Damilola Taylor and the Pembrokeshire murders.\n\nSupt Mark Lewis, who is leading the review, said they would be looking at exhibits retained from the original case using the latest forensic techniques.\n\nThe case remains one of Wales' most notorious unsolved murders\n\n\"As years have gone on, forensic science has moved on, there are new sensitivities in relation to DNA, in relation to the way we look at other evidence, whether that's fibres, whether that's blood,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked how likely it was that they would ever solve the murders, he said: \"The honest answer is I don't know if we will find the killer from this forensic review - we know forensic science has moved on, there might be other opportunities now. I am cautiously optimistic but I can't say if we will or not.\"\n\nSupt Lewis appealed for anyone with information to come forward.\n\n\"To kill two people in their own home with a shotgun in broad daylight - I think that would be a difficult secret to keep, so I wouldn't be surprised if somebody knows who the killer is and where information might be to lead us to that killer,\" he said.\n\nAnyone with information has been asked to submitted it to the investigation using an online public portal.\n\nThe bodies of the couple, who were in their 60s, were found in the cowshed at their farm the day after they were reported missing.\n\nThey had both been shot in the head with a shotgun and covered in carpet.\n\nThe couple were shot dead at their home in Llanharry\n\nA neighbour later told police they had heard two gunshots at about 13:30 on the day they were reported missing but had assumed Harry was out shooting rabbits.\n\nAt the time, their daughter Cheryl's boyfriend Jonathan Jones, then 35, was a self-employed recruitment consultant.\n\nHe told police on the day the Toozes were killed he took the day off work and went into Orpington to look for office space to rent, but police could not find anybody who had seen him that day.\n\nThe Toozes' daughter Cheryl and Jonathan Jones at their funeral\n\nHis partial thumbprint was also on a cup and saucer that had been found in the couple's living room.\n\nHe was arrested in December, five months after the murders.\n\nCheryl stood by him, moving in with his family in Caerphilly after his arrest.\n\nA year after his conviction Jonathan Jones was released on appeal. Three appeal court judges took five minutes to reach their decision.\n\nThe original trial judge was criticised and it emerged police had failed to seal the crime scene properly.\n\nCheryl Tooze and Jonathan Jones kissing outside court after his conviction was quashed\n\nFormer BBC Wales journalist Penny Roberts was the first reporter on the scene in 1993 and reported on the case throughout her career.\n\nShe recalled arriving to a \"terrible scene\" shortly after the bodies were discovered.\n\n\"There was blood in the cowshed, it was a very sobering scene,\" she said.\n\nShe hopes the forensic review will finally lead police to the killer.\n\n\"The community of Llanharry and Harry and Megan's own family really want justice now,\" she said.\n\n\"At first we all thought it was a random killer, then it was almost like an execution.\n\n\"Either way, everybody was very, very frightened and even now, 30 years on, there's rumour and gossip around these murders and I think for them, for the community, they need answers.\"", "Colonisation was \"the luckiest thing that happened\" to Australia, the nation's second-longest serving Prime Minister John Howard has said.\n\nHis remarks were made in relation to a historic referendum due to take place this year on Indigenous recognition.\n\nIf successful, the vote will change Australia's constitution to give First Nations peoples a greater say over the laws and policies that affect them.\n\nBut the debate has seen a surge of divisive commentary.\n\nSpeaking to the Australian Newspaper about the upcoming vote, Mr Howard described colonisation as \"inevitable\".\n\n\"I do hold the view that the luckiest thing that happened to this country was being colonised by the British,\" he said. \"Not that they were perfect by any means, but they were infinitely more successful and beneficent colonisers than other European countries.\"\n\nHe also predicted that the Voice to Parliament initiative would fail to pass, leaving a \"new cockpit of conflict\" over \"how to help Indigenous people\" in its wake, while accusing its proponents of failing to sell it to the Australian public.\n\nThe Voice vote, Australia's first referendum since 1999, was announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the start of 2023.\n\nIf passed, its supporters say it will lead to better outcomes for Australia's First Nations people, who face lower life expectancy, and disproportionately poorer health and education outcomes than other Australians.\n\nBut those against it argue - among other things - that the Voice is a largely symbolic gesture which will fail to enact reform, while also undermining Australia's existing government structures.\n\nRecent polling has also shown a steady - yet dramatic - decline in public support for the Voice, as the debate grows more protracted.\n\nMr Howard is one of the most influential conservative figures to throw his weight behind the No campaign, but his own legacy on Indigenous affairs remains controversial.\n\nHis government weakened First Nations land rights, suspended Australia's racial discrimination act, and refused to apologise to the Stolen Generations - tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were taken from their families by the government until the mid-1960s.\n\nAnd in 2007 he was the architect of \"the Intervention\", a set of policies which saw Australia's military deployed to seize control of daily life in 73 remote Indigenous communities across the Northern Territory.\n\nThe now disbanded scheme - which was enacted following a government report on the sexual abuse of children in Aboriginal communities - has been criticised as \"coercive\" and culturally insensitive.\n\nMr Howard defended the policy in his interview on Wednesday as \"a good old-fashioned dose of proper governance\".\n\nHe also claimed that if the Voice succeeds, it could prevent the government from intervening in Indigenous communities when it is deemed necessary.\n\nMr Howard's remarks come amid a wave of controversy that has gripped the referendum's official No campaign.\n\nThis week, one of its leaders faced calls to resign after doubling down on comments that Indigenous Australians should undergo blood tests to prove their lineage, to receive welfare payments.\n\nAnd earlier this month, the campaign was accused of using a \"racist trope\" in a newspaper ad, after it paid for a full-page cartoon depicting a prominent Indigenous Voice campaigner dancing for money.\n\nSenior figures within the No camp's ranks have also been accused of intentionally spreading falsehoods about the vote.\n\nAmong them is federal opposition leader Peter Dutton, who warned that the vote would have an \"Orwellian effect\" on Australian society, by giving First Nations people greater rights and privileges.\n\nIt is a claim that has been further distorted online - and debunked - with social media users suggesting the vote would divide Australians into \"settlers\" and \"original custodians\" resulting in a \"two-tier government\".\n\nIf the Voice referendum passes, it will change the nation's constitution for the first time in over 46 years.\n• None What is Australia's Voice to Parliament referendum?", "Williams talked openly about his struggles with addiction\n\nA man charged in the drug-related death of Wire actor Michael K Williams has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.\n\nProsecutors sought a four-year term for Carlos Macci but the actor's nephew and show's co-creator asked for leniency.\n\nMacci, 72, one of four men charged with selling Williams heroin laced with fentanyl, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute narcotics in April.\n\nWilliams, who starred as robber Omar Little in the HBO crime drama, died of an overdose aged 54 in 2021.\n\nThe three other men have been charged with directly causing Williams' death and face harsher sentences.\n\nOne of them, Irvin Cartagena, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and will be sentenced in August. Two others have pleaded not guilty.\n\nProsecutors wrote in court papers that \"for decades the defendant has been selling deadly narcotics: heroin and now heroin laced with fentanyl\".\n\nSentencing judge Ronnie Abrams told Macci that selling the drugs \"not only cost Mr Williams his life, but it's costing your freedom\", the Associated Press news agency reported.\n\nBut it is thought that Macci may have avoided a tougher sentence in part because of a three-page letter filed earlier this month.\n\nIn it Wire co-creator David Simon asked for mercy for the defendant because Williams \"believed in redemption\".\n\n\"No possible good can come from incarcerating a... soul, largely illiterate, who has himself struggled with a lifetime of addiction,\" the letter said.\n\nMr Simon added that Williams himself \"would have fought\" for Macci.\n\nWilliams' nephew Dominic Dupont also told the judge he thought Macci could turn his life around, adding that it \"weighs heavy on me\" to see someone in that situation.\n\nAs overdose deaths in the US continue to rise, some prosecutors have charged victims' friends who helped obtain such drugs, as well as the dealers. Several states have passed laws in recent years allowing prosecutors to charge overdoses as homicides in an effort to discourage people from selling or sharing fentanyl.\n\nWilliams, who talked openly about his struggles with addiction, won critical acclaim for his role in The Wire, a series that ran from 2002-08 and explored the narcotics scene in Baltimore from the perspective of law enforcement as well as drug dealers and users.\n\nProsecutors say that on 5 September 2021, Macci and other members of a drug-trafficking organisation sold Williams heroin laced with fentanyl and continued to sell the substance even after they knew the actor had suffered a fatal overdose.", "Wall squats are particularly good at lowering high resting blood pressure, a study of previous trials suggests\n\nStrength-training exercises such as wall squats or holding the plank position are among the best ways to lower blood pressure, a study suggests.\n\nCurrent guidance focusing mainly on walking, running and cycling should be updated, the UK researchers say.\n\nAnalysis, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, of trials involving 16,000 people found all exercise lowered high blood pressure.\n\nBut wall squats and planking led to larger falls than aerobic exercise.\n\nThese isometric exercises are designed to build strength without moving muscles or joints.\n\nThe plank position, which resembles a press-up, with elbows directly beneath shoulders, legs stretched out behind, strengthens the abdomen.\n\nWall squats involve positioning the feet 2ft (60cm) from a wall and sliding the back down it until the thighs are parallel to the ground.\n\nIsometric exercises place a very different stress on the body to aerobic exercise, says study author Dr Jamie O'Driscoll, from Canterbury Christ Church University.\n\n\"They increase the tension in the muscles when held for two minutes, then cause a sudden rush of blood when you relax,\" he says.\n\n\"This increases the blood flow, but you must remember to breathe.\"\n\nHigh blood pressure puts strain on the blood vessels, heart and other organs, increasing the risk of conditions such as heart attacks and strokes.\n\nTreatment often involves medication but patients are also advised to eat healthily, reduce alcohol intake, stop smoking and exercise regularly.\n\nOver-40s are advised to have their blood pressure checked every five years.\n\nThe pressure of blood in the arteries is measured in millimetres of mercury (mmHg). Below 130/85mmHg is healthy while more than 140/90 mmHg is high, according to the study.\n\nThe higher number equates to pressure of blood in the arteries when the heart beats, known as systolic blood pressure.\n\nThe lower number is pressure between beats and known as diastolic blood pressure.\n\nFor their analysis, researchers from Canterbury Christ Church University and Leicester University looked at data from 15,827 people exercising for two weeks or more in 270 clinical trials published between 1990 and 2023.\n\nThey found resting blood pressure was reduced by:\n\nThese are relatively small drops, Dr O'Driscoll says, but could lower someone's risk of stroke.\n\nCurrent UK guidelines say adults should do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise a week, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity, plus muscle-strengthening exercise twice a week.\n\nIn addition, Dr O'Driscoll says they should consider two minutes of wall squats, or holding the plank position four times with two minutes' rest in between, three times a week.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation charity said exercise was good for heart health and could reduce the risk of heart and circulatory diseases by up to 35%.\n\n\"We know that those who take on exercise they enjoy, tend to carry on for longer which is key in maintaining lower blood pressure,\" says Joanne Whitmore, senior cardiac nurse at the BHF.\n\nShe also pointed to other lifestyle changes that could help, such as cutting down on salt, keeping to a healthy weight and continuing to take any prescribed medication.\n\nAnyone concerned about their blood pressure is advised to ask their GP to check it and ask about the type of exercise best suited to your condition.", "Junior doctors in England are to stage a four-day strike in August - their fifth strike in this pay dispute.\n\nThe walkout will start at 07:00 BST on Friday 11 August and end on 07:00 on Tuesday 15 August.\n\nThe British Medical Association has asked for a 35% pay rise to restore pay to 2008 levels after a series of below-inflation pay rises.\n\nThe government is giving them 6% this year plus £1,250, bringing the increase to nearly 9% on average.\n\nMinisters have said that is the final settlement and there will be no more talks.\n\nIn a statement, BMA junior doctor committee co-chairs Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi said: \"Our message today remains the same - act like a responsible government, come to the table to negotiate with us in good faith, and with a credible offer these strikes need not go ahead at all.\"\n\n\"It is not for Rishi Sunak to decide that negotiations are over before he has even stepped in the room,\" they added.\n\n\"This dispute will end only at the negotiating table. If the PM was hoping to demoralise and divide our profession with his actions, he will be disappointed.\"\n\nHow will you be affected by the junior doctors strikes in August? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Why are doctors demanding the biggest pay rise?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: US senator freezes in front of reporters\n\nMitch McConnell has had at least three falls this year, US media report, as speculation grows over the health of the US Senate's most senior Republican.\n\nMr McConnell, 81, abruptly stopped speaking mid-sentence during a news conference on Wednesday before concerned colleagues led him away.\n\nThe Senate Minority Leader later returned to the media session and told reporters he was fine.\n\nIn March, he suffered a concussion after falling at a Washington DC hotel.\n\nMr McConnell had just begun greeting the press at the weekly Republican leadership news conference before suddenly freezing and falling silent, staring straight ahead for about 20 seconds.\n\nHis Republican colleagues were heard asking him if he was OK.\n\n\"You OK, Mitch?\" asked Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, an ex-orthopaedic surgeon. \"Anything else you want to say or should I escort you back to your office?\" he added.\n\nMitch McConnell froze at the news conference but later returned to answer questions\n\nMr Barrasso then helped Mr McConnell step away from the conference.\n\nMr McConnell returned a short while later and answered \"yeah\" when asked if he was fully able to do his job.\n\nWhen Mr McConnell said he was \"fine\", an aide of his added that the senator had \"felt lightheaded and stepped away for a moment\".\n\n\"He came back to handle Q&A, which as everyone observed was sharp,\" the aide said.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr McConnell told reporters that President Joe Biden had called to check on him.\n\nThe senator said that he had joked \"I got sandbagged\", in reference to Mr Biden's tumble over a sandbag at an event in Colorado last month.\n\nMr McConnell contracted polio at the age of two, which led to partial paralysis in his left leg.\n\nA rigorous physical therapy regime ensured he was able to walk without needing a brace, but he has long struggled to navigate stairs and other obstacles.\n\nThe Kentucky lawmaker, who has served in the Senate since 1985, has reportedly endured at least three falls this year.\n\nIn February, he tripped and fell on a snowy day in Helsinki, Finland while on his way to a meeting with the Finnish president, CNN reports.\n\nDays later, in early March, he fell and hit his head while at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington, suffering a concussion and minor rib fracture.\n\nHe was discharged from hospital later that month and did rehab, not returning to Congress for nearly six weeks.\n\nEarlier this month, the Republican fell while getting off a plane at Washington's Reagan National Airport, according to NBC News.\n\nA source told NBC that Mr McConnell has recently been using a wheelchair to navigate through crowded airports.\n\nMr McConnell's office has declined to comment on the incidents.\n\nIn 2021, Kentucky's Republican-controlled legislature passed a law - with his support - that requires the state's Democratic governor to pick a successor of the same party if Mr McConnell is incapacitated and must leave office before his current term ends.\n\nNevertheless, Mr McConnell has refused to entertain questions about his future, telling CNN last October that he is \"certainly going to complete the term I was elected to by the people of Kentucky\".", "Authorities on the islands of Rhodes and Corfu say fires are continuing to spread due to strong winds\n\nBritish tourists continue to cut short their holidays as fires burn on the Greek island of Rhodes.\n\nMore flights left Greece on Tuesday to bring holidaymakers back to the UK.\n\nThe Foreign Office updated its guidance, telling people travelling to areas that might be affected to make sure they had \"appropriate insurance\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have urged ministers to advise against going to Rhodes unless essential, to help with travel insurance claims.\n\nJet2 had nine flights scheduled to depart Rhodes on Tuesday, some of which had spare seats to accommodate extra passengers trying to leave the island.\n\nEasyJet said extra seats were available on Wednesday's flights.\n\nEarlier, one of the airline's pilots flying British tourists to Rhodes urged passengers at Gatwick to get off the plane before take-off.\n\n\"I don't know in what capacity you are travelling, but if you are travelling for leisure, my sincere recommendation is that it's a bad idea,\" the pilot told passengers on board.\n\nBBC Wales correspondent Gwyn Loader, who was travelling to Rhodes to report on the wildfires, said eight passengers took the pilot up on the offer, including one young boy in tears.\n\nOn Monday morning, Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell said up to 10,000 Brits were on Rhodes in total - this number includes tourists in unaffected parts of the island.\n\nJet2 - which ran repatriation flights to Manchester, Leeds-Bradford, Glasgow and Stansted overnight - said \"approximately 1,000 customers\" had either been flown back to the UK or moved to hotels in unaffected areas.\n\nEasyJet has cancelled outbound package holidays to Rhodes until Saturday, while Tui has cancelled its packages going to the south of the island until 11 August.\n\nAccording to the Tui website, packages to the north of Rhodes will recommence from 29 July.\n\nInstead of formally advising holidaymakers not to travel to the affected Greek islands, the Foreign Office said people should check with their hotel and travel operator before travelling, and explained how to sign up for emergency alerts.\n\nUpdated advice said the fires were taking place \"in populated areas on the mainland and a number of islands\" and were \"highly dangerous and unpredictable\".\n\nThe Foreign Office advised those visiting the affected areas to make sure they had \"appropriate insurance\", and directed travellers towards a number of resources they could use if they were near the wildfires.\n\nEarlier, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said he was still planning on going holiday to Greece next week. He told Sky News he was going to Evia, one of the islands that has issued an evacuation order.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that Greece was \"safe\" and a \"wonderful place for those fortunate enough to go abroad to spend some time this summer\".\n\nBut the government's advice was criticised in the House of Lords by Labour's Baroness Angela Smith, who urged the government to \"rethink\" its guidance.\n\nLiberal Democrats foreign affairs spokeswoman Layla Moran called for a change in travel advice to \"enable the thousands of British tourists due to fly to Rhodes to safely cancel their holidays without being left out of pocket\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel magazine, said many travellers would not be able to claim a refund using travel insurance without a formal government travel warning.\n\n\"There will be some cover, but it won't be great,\" Mr Boland warned. \"Insurance won't, as a rule, make allowances for 'disinclination to travel'.\"\n\nTrain operator London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is offering free travel to holidaymakers returning from Rhodes and Corfu.\n\nThe company said standard travel along its east coast route would come at no cost for anyone who landed at a different airport from their home location or had to travel on a different day.\n\nCustomers should present their stamped passport and airline boarding card confirming travel from the islands within the previous 24 hours to use the service between 25 July and 7 August.\n\nCoach company National Express is offering free travel too for those who arrive at a different UK airport than they flew out from.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Our houses might not be there tomorrow\" - resident evacuated from Rhodes fire\n\nIn an update, fire brigade deputy chief Ioannis Artophios said the most serious fires were developing in Rhodes and in Corfu. Crete - the largest of the Greek Islands - has been put on high alert because of an extreme risk of fire.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, two Greek air force pilots died after a water-bombing plane crashed on the island of Evia while fighting wildfires.\n\nThey were named as 34-year-old Cdr Christos Moulas and his co-pilot, 27-year-old Pericles Stefanidis.\n\nRescuers at the site of the plane crash after a water drop in Karystos on the island of Evia, Greece\n\nIn the last week, more than 35,000 hectares (86,500 acres) of forest and other land has been scorched by fire in Greece, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature said.\n\nGreek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told his cabinet the next three days \"will be difficult\" but he hoped conditions will ease from Friday.\n\n\"Let me state the obvious,\" he said. \"That in the face of what the entire planet is facing, especially the Mediterranean, which is a hotspot for climate change, there is no magic defence.\n\n\"If there was, obviously we would have implemented it.\"\n\nCould powerful heatwaves and summer wildfires, which have devastated communities and displaced tourists in Greece, become the new normal in Europe?\n\nAre you affected by the wildfires? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose has resigned hours after admitting she had made a mistake in speaking about Nigel Farage's relationship with the bank.\n\nShe had been heavily criticised for being the source of an inaccurate BBC report about Mr Farage's account at Coutts, which is part of NatWest Group.\n\nThe announcement came just hours after NatWest said it had full confidence in her in continuing to lead the bank.\n\nDame Alison had admitted a \"serious error of judgment\".\n\nIn a statement released early on Wednesday morning, NatWest Group chairman Sir Howard Davies said: \"The board and Alison Rose have agreed, by mutual consent, that she will step down as chief executive of the NatWest Group.\n\nIn a separate statement, Dame Alison thanked her colleagues \"for all that they [had] done\", saying: \"I remain immensely proud of the progress the bank has made in supporting people, families and business across the UK, and building the foundations for sustainable growth.\"\n\nNatWest shares fell more then 2.5% after the announcement. Dame Alison was paid £5.25m last year. Whether Dame Alison will get a severance payment will emerge in the banking group's next report on pay.\n\nChair Sir Howard said hours before Dame Alison resigned that it was in the interest of shareholders and customers that she stayed on as chief executive. It is understood he intends to remain as chair.\n\nFollowing her resignation, ex UKIP leader Mr Farage told the BBC it had taken a long time for Dame Alison to resign.\n\n\"The first rule of banking is client confidentiality. She [Dame Alison] clearly broke that.\"\n\nHe said that anybody in a more junior position at the bank would have been \"out of the door\".\n\nDame Alison had come under mounting pressure from Downing Street, the chancellor and other senior cabinet ministers to resign, with the BBC told there were \"significant concerns\" over her conduct.\n\nMr Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and a Brexiteer, first reported in early July that his account had been closed and said he had not been given a reason.\n\nThe BBC reported that it was closed because he no longer met the wealth threshold for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter. It has since apologised for its inaccurate report.\n\nMr Farage subsequently obtained a document looking at his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nThe 40-page document flagged concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and also questioned the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a client. It said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts' \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nMr Farage had highlighted what he said was a discrepancy between the BBC's apology on Monday from its chief executive Deborah Turness, which said the BBC had gone back to the source to check the information, and NatWest's statement on Tuesday. \"There is no way, if the BBC went back for a second time to confirm the story, that they would not have checked that it was the balance of my account that led to that commercial decision,\" he said.\n\nCity minister Andrew Griffith said it was \"right\" that Dame Alison had resigned from NatWest, which is 39% owned by the taxpayer.\n\n\"This would never have happened if NatWest had not taken it upon itself to withdraw a bank account due to someone's lawful political views. That was and is always unacceptable,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC that \"NatWest got this one wrong, and that's why Alison Rose had to resign\".\n\nFreddy Colquhoun, investment director at the wealth management company JM Finn, told 5 Live's Wake up to Money the resignation was inevitable: \"I think as soon as you lose the confidence of Downing Street, who is also a major shareholder, then something needs to change quite quickly.\n\n\"Confidentiality, it is one of the major pillars of trust between the clients and the bank.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC that \"NatWest got this one wrong, and that's why Alison Rose had to resign.\"\n\nDame Alison said she had not revealed any personal financial information about Mr Farage, but admitted she had left the BBC's business editor Simon Jack \"with the impression that the decision to close Mr Farage's accounts was solely a commercial one.\"\n\nShe said she was wrong to respond to any question raised by the BBC about the case.\n\nFollowing her resignation the government said she was also \"no longer a member of the Prime Minister's business council\".\n\nShe was also asked to step down from the government's energy efficiency taskforce and the net zero council.\n\nWhile at NatWest, one of changes she made was to end new loans to oil and gas companies.\n\nPaul Thwaite, NatWest's current chief executive of its commercial and institutional business, will take over Dame Alison's responsibilities for an initial period of 12 months, pending regulatory approval.\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Griffith had a meeting with some of the largest banks and building societies \"to discuss the importance of protecting lawful freedom of expression for customers\".\n\nThe Treasury said bank bosses had acknowledged that \"recent events\" had hit \"public trust for the whole sector\".\n\nThe bosses agreed to bring bank policies in line with planned rules to make it easier for customers to find out why their bank accounts had been closed and challenge the decisions.\n\nCharlie Nunn, the boss of Lloyds Banking Group, said he had not been able to attend the meeting, but had \"no concerns\" about pressure over de-banking policies.\n\n\"Our policy is really clear. We don't include looking at political beliefs, or personal beliefs, as part of that policy,\" he said.", "Only 12% of tickets were sold at ticket offices last year, according to the Rail Delivery Group\n\nThe consultation into the plan to close hundreds of ticket offices in England has been extended until 1 September.\n\nOrganisers of the consultation said some train companies did not provide accessible formats, preventing people from being able to respond to plans.\n\nMore than 170,000 responses have been received, according to watchdogs Transport Focus and London TravelWatch.\n\nThe plan sparked concern from rail unions over job cuts and disability groups over accessibility issues.\n\nThe 21-day period for passengers to share their views was due to end on Wednesday, but the Rail Delivery Group say it has listened to feedback and has extended the consultation period by almost six weeks \"to give as many people as possible a chance to take part\".\n\nChairman of Network Rail, Lord Peter Hendy, told BBC Breakfast an extension is \"a really good thing for our customers, because the railway ought to listen to its passengers\".\n\nPosters went up in stations earlier this month, inviting the public to send in their responses.\n\nCurrently around three out of every five stations has a ticket office, although some are only staffed part-time.\n\nThe ticket office closure proposals have been put forward by train operating companies. They are under pressure from the government to cut costs after being supported heavily during the Covid pandemic, and argue only 12% of tickets are now bought at station kiosks.\n\nCurrently 299 stations in England run by train companies with Department for Transport (DfT) contracts have a full-time staffed ticket office - 708 are staffed part-time. Under the proposals, most would close.\n\nThe industry argues staff would instead be present on platforms and concourses to sell tickets, offer travel advice and help people with accessibility.\n\nHowever, the UK's largest rail union the RMT, as well as the TSSA union both warned the plans could ultimately lead to job cuts.\n\nSome rail experts have also said the complicated ticketing system should be reformed before ticket office changes are introduced.\n\nPenny Melville-Brown, a blind Royal Navy veteran who regularly uses the railway said the proposals discriminated against people living with sight loss.\n\nShe told the BBC that she relied heavily on ticket office staff at a train station as she has \"no idea where to go, as I don't see anything\".\n\nShe added: \"I don't have huge problems with making things modern and work better for everyone, but when you design new systems, you need to start designing with the people who are going to have most problems, the most vulnerable.\"\n\nThe disability rights campaigner has written an open letter explaining how difficult commuting would be, and criticising the consultation process.\n\nTom Marsland, policy manager at disability equality charity Scope, said: \"These botched plans will make rail travel impossible, or much harder, for many disabled people.\n\n\"Extending the consultation doesn't solve that. The government and rail industry need to go back to the drawing board.\"\n\nThere have been threats of legal challenges from some disability campaigners, and from five Labour metro mayors.\n\nBut the train operating companies' body, the Rail Delivery Group, has consistently defended the proposals and the consultation.\n\nLast week its chief executive Jacqueline Starr told the BBC the industry was listening to accessibility groups' concerns and had taken part in a 'round table' with the rail minister.\n\nAsked if she could promise that every ticket would still be available from machines or online, including the cheapest, Ms Starr responded: \"I'm not going to make promises that I can't keep\".\n\nShe added that the industry would work hard to make sure vending machines did offer every ticket where possible.", "Shazia Saddiq and Sue Palmer said the scandal had had a \"devastating\" impact on their lives\n\n\"I lost absolutely everything. It has been absolutely horrendous.\"\n\nShazia Saddiq is one of many former Post Office branch managers wrongly accused of crimes due to accounting errors caused by a faulty IT system.\n\nAlong with Sue Palmer, who told the BBC the allegations \"ruined my life\", the pair are still waiting for full compensation several years on.\n\nA report on Monday called for action and law changes to stop issues \"blocking full and fair compensation\".\n\nThe head of an inquiry into the Post Office scandal, Sir Wyn Williams, said schemes set up to compensate sub-postmasters and sub-postmistress wrongly accused of crimes were a \"patchwork quilt with some holes in it\".\n\nBetween 2000 and 2014, more than 700 Post Office branch managers were given criminal convictions when faulty accounting software, called Horizon, made it look as though money was missing from their sites.\n\nThe cases constitute Britain's most widespread miscarriage of justice. Some people went to prison following convictions for false accounting and theft, and many were financially ruined. Some victims have since died.\n\nThere has been a public inquiry, led by Sir Wyn, which has been examining the treatment of thousands of sub-postmasters, and to establish who was to blame for the wrongful prosecutions and why nothing was done to prevent them.\n\nSir Wyn said on Monday that his criticisms over delays in compensation \"remain justified\".\n\nMs Saddiq, 39, along with fellow former sub-postmistress Mrs Palmer told the BBC the scandal had had a \"devastating\" impact on their lives.\n\nMs Saddiq, who used to run three Post Offices in Newcastle upon Tyne, said she had \"lost everything\" as a result of being accused of crimes a decade ago, including her home above one branch.\n\nShe did not end up facing criminal prosecution, but she had to leave the area with her two young children after being assaulted with flour in the street.\n\n\"I had to flee, me and my children overnight. They left their friends behind, they had to change schools,\" she said.\n\nMrs Palmer, who was found not guilty after a trial, said the allegations had \"ruined my life\".\n\n\"I was made homeless, I now live in a one-bedroom studio flat (because of the financial impact),\" she said.\n\nMrs Palmer, from Essex, had previously told the BBC she received a compensation payment in December, but soon realised it was not what it seemed, with a significant chunk of the money going straight to pay her creditors. She is now seeking proper compensation for the scandal.\n\nThe former postmistresses welcomed the latest report by Sir Wyn, but both called for the compensation process to be sped up.\n\n\"To keep a human being in this fight mode for such a long time, it's torturous. I want to be free from this now,\" Ms Saddiq said.\n\nMrs Palmer added: \"Words are no good now, we need actions. We need the Post Office to have accountability and the government.\"\n\nSub-postmasters and mistresses celebrated the quashing of their convictions\n\nIn the report laid before Parliament, Sir Wyn said there was no \"valid legal reason\" why the government and Post Office \"cannot give effect to the commitments they which they have made\" in providing \"full and fair\" compensation.\n\nThe retired judge said it was his job to make sure ministers and Post Office executives \"made good on those promises\" made to provide compensation to legitimate claimants \"promptly\" and to make sure the amounts paid out was \"recognised to be full and fair\".\n\nSir Wyn has long held concerns about the slow progress of compensation for Post Office staff.\n\nBut the Post Office chief executive, Nick Read, told the BBC's World At One programme that the \"sheer scale\" of the miscarriage of justice had \"gone above and beyond anything that anybody could realistically expect\".\n\n\"It really is a huge apology from the Post Office. We are all in this together and we are all on the same side,\" he said, but he rejected claims the Post Office was deliberately delaying proceedings.\n\nSir Wyn said it had been 16 months since he first started to hear the experiences of sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses, which he said \"consisted of graphic descriptions of hardship and suffering\".\n\nThe former High Court judge there were 438 applications for compensation still to be resolved as of 27 April, which he said the Post Office had accepted were \"difficult to resolve\".\n\n\"I am left with the distinct impression that the most complex cases have not been addressed as speedily as might have been the case,\" he said.\n\nAs the Post Office scandal has developed, three different compensation schemes have been set up.\n\nBut Sir Wyn said he was \"sure\" that if the government and Post Office were devising a scheme to deliver compensation to all involved now, there would not be three of them.\n\nHe also warned there was a \"clear and real risk\" that final compensation payments under one scheme - the Group Litigation Order set up by the government last year - \"will not be delivered to each applicant\" by the 7 August 2024 deadline.\n\nHe set out a series of recommendations, one of which was for payments to be made after the deadline, which he described as an \"entirely artificial cut-off point\".\n\nKevin Hollinrake, the Post Office Minister appointed last autumn, said the government would review the report and respond in due course.\n\n\"It is vital that we establish the facts behind this scandal and learn the lessons so that something like this can never happen again,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe bridge linking Russia to Crimea has partially reopened a day after it was attacked, the Russian government says.\n\nVehicles were using a single lane of the bridge across the Kerch Strait, an official said, posting clips.\n\nA holidaymaking couple were killed and their daughter injured in the attack on the bridge which Russia blamed on seaborne drones launched by Ukraine.\n\nRussia refused to extend a deal to export grain from Ukrainian ports but denied this was retaliation.\n\nCondemning the attack on the bridge as an act of terrorism against a critically important transport link, Russian President Vladimir Putin did however vow that the Russian military would respond.\n\nFollowing that condemnation, Ukraine was attacked by a wave of Russian missiles overnight - including at the port of Odesa, with missile debris causing damage to the port and private homes, according to the state administration.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said it was a \"revenge strike\" and claimed the missiles hit where Ukrainians had allegedly planned the Kerch Bridge attack, according to Russian news agency Interfax. That claim has not been verified.\n\nRussia's Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin earlier posted video on the Crimea Bridge which appeared to show cars crossing it at night. He said he hoped two-way traffic could be restored by mid-September.\n\nRussia's transport ministry says the bridge's supports were not damaged in the attack, which ruptured the span.\n\nThe Kerch Bridge was opened in 2018 and enables road and rail travel between Russia and Crimea - Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia in 2014 after an internationally unrecognised referendum.\n\nThe bridge's parallel railway line seems not to have been damaged.\n\nUkraine has not officially said it carried out the attack but a source in its security service told BBC Russian it was behind it and that water-based drones had been used.\n\nAs yet, the BBC not seen any visual evidence to confirm the reports.\n\nThe bridge is an important resupply route for Russian forces occupying parts of southern Ukraine since they invaded on 24 February of last year.\n\nA video on Deputy PM's Marat Khusnullin's telegram appears to show cars crossing the Kerch bridge\n\nRussian holidaymakers leaving a train which crossed the Kerch Bridge on Monday\n\nThe new attack is the second major incident on the Kerch Bridge in the past year.\n\nIn October the bridge was partially closed following an attack. It was fully reopened in February.\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of attacking the Kerch bridge with the \"direct participation\" of the UK and the US, but provided no evidence to back up the assertions.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there was no connection between the incident and Russia's decision to suspend its participation in a deal allowing Ukraine to ship out grain through the Black Sea.\n\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said hundreds of millions of people facing hunger around the world would \"pay the price\" for Russia's withdrawal from the deal.\n\nHe promised the UN would continue efforts to \"facilitate the unimpeded access\" to global markets of food and fertilisers from Ukraine and Russia.\n\nThe US National Security Council Co-ordinator, John Kirby, accused of Russia of resuming an \"effective blockade of Ukrainian ports\".\n\n\"Russia will be fully and solely responsible for the consequences of this military act of aggression,\" he said on Monday. \"Indeed, we are already seeing a spike in global wheat, corn and soybean prices just today as a result of Russia's suspension.\"\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said Russia's decision was deplorable. \"I call on all UN member states to firmly demand that Russia resume its participation in the deal in good faith and stop its 'hunger games',\" he said. \"Russia must keep politics out of global food security.\"", "Police in Nevada have confirmed they served a search warrant this week in connection with the unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.\n\nDetectives carried out the search at a home in Henderson, a suburb of Las Vegas where Shakur was gunned down in September 1996.\n\nLas Vegas Metropolitan police did not provide further details of the search, citing the ongoing investigation into his murder.\n\nShakur was 25 when he was killed.\n\nNo arrests have been made and no suspects are currently in custody.\n\nThe home that was searched is less than 20 miles (32km) from the Las Vegas strip where Shakur was shot in a drive-by shooting.\n\n\"LVMPD can confirm a search warrant was served in Henderson, Nevada on July 17, 2023, as part of the ongoing Tupac Shakur homicide investigation,\" a Las Vegas police statement said.\n\n\"We will have no further comment at this time.\"\n\nLas Vegas Police Lt Jason Johansson told the Las Vegas Review Journal that detectives were working on the cold case once more.\n\n\"It's a case that's gone unsolved and hopefully one day we can change that,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nShakur, whose stage name was stylised as 2Pac, released his debut album in 1991 and went on to enjoy chart success with hits including California Love, All Eyez on Me, Changes and I Ain't Mad at Cha.\n\nHe died on 13 September 1996, a week after he was shot four times in his car while waiting at a red light.\n\nShakur, who sold more than 75 million records worldwide, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA barge that will house asylum seekers under government plans to cut the cost of housing has docked in a Dorset port.\n\nBibby Stockholm berthed in Portland Port on Tuesday and will stay at the site for 18 months, becoming home to 500 single men claiming asylum.\n\nIt was met with protests from local residents and human rights groups.\n\nThe vessel's arrival came hours after the government's Illegal Migration Bill cleared key hurdles in the House of Lords and is set to become law.\n\nThe bill would outlaw asylum claims by all arrivals via the Channel and other \"illegal\" routes, and transfer them to third countries like Rwanda.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made cracking down on illegal migration a priority ahead of next year's general election.\n\nIt comes as the government said there were currently about 51,000 \"destitute migrants\" in hotels across the UK, costing the taxpayer in excess of £6m a day.\n\nMany local residents on Portland feared an influx of hundreds of people into the island community would put pressure on local services, such as schools and the NHS. But the government said it was providing \"substantial funding to local services including the police and NHS\" to support the asylum seekers and \"minimise the impact on the community\".\n\nHuman rights groups branded the barge \"inhumane\", criticising the conditions in which the migrants will live.\n\nBut the government said using vessels as alternative accommodation for asylum seekers would be cheaper than hotels and better value for British taxpayers.\n\nIt also stressed the barge would be basic but functional, meeting all the relevant safety standards.\n\nThe 222-room, three-storey barge will house adult males, aged from 18 to 65, who are in the latter stages of their asylum applications.\n\nHuman rights groups say the barge is not suitable for 500 people\n\nDozens of protestors gathered outside Portland Port from dawn on Tuesday, waiting for the Bibby Stockholm to make its final manoeuvre into the port.\n\nOne of them told the BBC the deal between Portland Port and the Home Office to dock the barge in the Dorset port was \"nothing to do about anything other than money\".\n\n\"They are audaciously negligent,\" the protestor said, adding: \"Audacious - because they have done this deal without any consultation or any thought of any potential fallout.\"\n\nOther organisations, such as Stand Up to Racism, also joined Tuesday's protests, while many local residents voiced their anger over how the decision was taken.\n\nThe first 50 asylum seekers are expected to go aboard in the next few days, while the barge is set to reach its full capacity in the coming weeks.\n\nDorset Council previously said Portland Port was not the right location for the barge\n\nThe asylum seekers are expected to live on the vessel for about three to six months while their claims are dealt with. They will not be officially detained and there will be no curfew but security staff will be at the site.\n\nThe government said all the barge residents had undergone \"robust security checks\", including checks against domestic and international databases. They have also had their fingerprints and identities recorded.\n\nWhile the government said it needed to reduce the cost of housing asylum seekers, shadow home secretary Labour Yvette Cooper described the use of barges as \"a sign of the Conservatives' total failure to clear the asylum backlog\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for Dorset South, Richard Drax, said he had \"a lot of sympathy with the government\" as migrants continue to cross the English Channel.\n\n\"But putting them on a barge is not the answer,\" he added.\n\nThe asylum seekers are expected to live on the vessel for about three to six months\n\nBibby Stockholm was previously used to house homeless people and asylum seekers in Germany and the Netherlands. It has been refurbished since it was criticised as an \"oppressive environment\" when the Dutch government used it.\n\nThe vessel now has en-suite rooms, a TV and games room and a gym, according to a fact sheet from its owner, Bibby Maritime.\n\nPortland Port previously said providing berthing space for the barge was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nIt added the plan would allow Dorset to \"play its part in the national effort to house some of the thousands of asylum seekers needing accommodation\".\n\nIt stressed it had provided a range of information for local people, councils and groups, but said it had been unable to disclose information earlier due to the confidential nature of negotiations with the government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Home Office said its plans for \"alternative accommodation\" - which also include former military bases - was clearly cheaper than the cost of hotels.\n\nHowever, the full costs of the barge have not been disclosed, with refugee campaign group Reclaim The Sea claiming the Bibby Stockholm would cost more than hotels.\n\nThe Home Office said it would \"continue to work extremely closely with local councils and key partners to prepare for arrival of asylum seekers later this month and minimise disruption for local residents including through substantial financial support\".\n\nDorset Council will receive £1.7m over the duration of the vessel's stay in the port. The council has also received a one-off grant of almost £380,000.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "The former prime minister, Theresa May, argued the bill would \"consign more people to slavery\"\n\nSome senior Tory MPs have criticised the government's asylum reforms as MPs overturned changes made by the House of Lords to the Illegal Migration Bill.\n\nFormer PM Theresa May was among more than a dozen Tories arguing for a different approach from ministers.\n\nBut their calls did not stop MPs voting to reject revisions peers had made to the bill in the Lords.\n\nThe bill is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill seeks to deter people from making the crossing by toughening up the rules and conditions around seeking asylum.\n\nAs it was debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr Sunak said he was \"throwing absolutely everything\" at tackling Channel crossings.\n\nBut the passage of the bill has not been easy, with peers voting for 20 changes and campaigners calling on MPs to reject the government's proposals.\n\nThe amendments voted for by the Lords have been overturned by MPs in a series of 18 votes, although ahead of the debate, the Home Office offered several concessions, including on time limits for the detention of children and pregnant women.\n\nThe bill now heads to the Lords again, for peers to consider the changes made by MPs.\n\nIn a Commons debate, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick accused peers of \"wrecking\" the government's asylum reforms by trying to make amendments.\n\nMr Jenrick said it was \"vital\" that the bill was passed quickly and described amendments made by the Lords as being \"riddled with exceptions and get-out clauses\".\n\nThe government's concessions were not enough to win the backing of some Tory MPs, who raised concerns over how the bill treats unaccompanied children and the victims of modern slavery.\n\nMrs May said the bill \"will consign more people to slavery\", adding she would have to \"persist in disagreeing with the government\" on this issue.\n\nThe former prime minister told MPs: \"I know that ministers have said this bill will enable more perpetrators to be stopped, but on modern slavery I genuinely believe it will do the opposite.\n\n\"It will enable more slave-drivers to operate and make money out of human misery.\"\n\nShe was among 16 Conservatives who voted against the government's rejection of protections for people claiming to be victims of modern slavery.\n\nThere were also rebellions from Conservative MPs connected to the limits and conditions of detaining unaccompanied children.\n\nOne of the rebels, former Conservative minister Tim Loughton, said the \"assurances that we were promised have not materialised or, if they have, I am afraid nobody understands them\".\n\nHe complained about the timing of the concessions and said \"more work needs to be done\" on scrutinising the bill before it becomes law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick says cartoons in an asylum reception centre were painted over as they were not \"age appropriate\" for teenagers.\n\nOne of the most controversial aspects of the bill would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove migrants arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nStephen Kinnock, Labour's shadow immigration minister, said the government's Rwanda plan was \"fundamentally flawed\", and he accused Mr Jenrick of \"pettiness\" for painting over Mickey Mouse cartoons in an immigration centre.\n\nMr Kinnock said the bill would \"only make a terrible situation worse\" by increasing the asylum backlog, and \"ensure people smugglers are laughing all the way to the bank\".\n\nWith Parliament due to break for summer at the end of next week, the bill faces a prolonged stand-off between peers and the government during so-called parliamentary ping-pong, when legislation is batted between the Lords and Commons until agreement on the wording can be reached.\n\nThe latest figures show more than 13,000 migrants have made the crossing so far this year, including more than 1,600 in the last four days.\n\nThe government's efforts to curb the number of small boats crossing the Channel have been hampered in Parliament and the courts.\n\nA plan to house asylum seekers on a barge moored in Dorset has been delayed.\n\nAnd the government's policy of sending migrants to Rwanda is set for a legal battle in the Supreme Court.\n\nOn Monday, a senior Home Office official confirmed the department was paying to keep nearly 5,000 beds empty across the country, in case a sudden influx of migrants caused overcrowding at detention centres.\n\nThe government has stressed it remains committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, and has said it will challenge a Court of Appeal ruling last week that this was unlawful.", "The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil was reporting live from Melbourne for BBC Breakfast when a technical fault occurred, leaving her sounding somewhat like the cartoon character Minnie Mouse.\n\nViewers took to social media to comment on the mistake, with one Twitter user saying \"#bbcbreakfast loving that a sound error turned the reporter's voice into Minnie Mouse during a live report\".", "Mustafa Suleyman co-founder of DeepMind and founder of Inflection AI\n\nThe co-founder of leading AI firm DeepMind, which started as a UK company and was sold to Google, says the UK should encourage more risk taking if it wants to become an AI superpower.\n\nMustafa Suleyman added that he does not regret selling DeepMind to the US giant in 2014.\n\n\"The US market is not only huge, but also more predisposed to taking big shots,\" he told the BBC.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak wants the UK to be a global hub for AI.\n\nHe has pledged £1bn in funding over the next 10 years, and founded a UK taskforce with a remit of maximising the benefits of the tech while keeping it safe.\n\nThis week BBC News is focusing on AI, how the technology affects our lives and what impacts it may have in the near future.\n\nMr Suleyman said the UK had \"every chance\" of becoming an AI superpower and praised its research facilities, but added there were not the same opportunities for businesses to grow as there are in the US.\n\n\"I think the culture shift that it needs to make is to be more encouraging of large scale investments, more encouraging of risk taking, and more tolerant and more celebratory of failures,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is, the US market is not only huge, but also more predisposed to big risk taking, taking big shots and having big funding rounds.\"\n\nMr Suleyman has chosen to base his new company, Inflection AI, in Palo Alto, California, which is also home to the headquarters of Google, Facebook and Tesla.\n\nPalo Alto in Silicon Valley, California where Mr Suleyman has chosen to base his new company, Inflection AI\n\nDeepMind is often held up as one of the most successful AI companies to be grown in the UK.\n\nIt was sold to Google in 2014, for a reported $400m. The price paid was not made public.\n\nDeepMind is developing a program called AlphaFold, which has the potential to advance the discovery of new medicines by predicting the structure of almost every protein in the human body.\n\nAn earlier DeepMind product called AlphaGo beat the top human player of the Chinese strategy game Go, Lee Se-dol, 4-1 in a tournament held in 2016.\n\nHe later retired from the game, saying \"there is an entity that cannot be defeated\".\n\nIt was considered at the time to be a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence.\n\nMustafa Suleyman's views represent one of the challenges facing Ian Hogarth, a British entrepreneur and investor who has been appointed to lead the UK's AI taskforce.\n\nHe took up the position five weeks ago.\n\nIn his first interview since getting the job, Mr Hogarth told the BBC that while the UK was a good place for start-ups, it should also be easier for them to grow.\n\n\"We've had some great [tech] companies and some of them got bought early, you know - Skype got bought by eBay, DeepMind got bought by Google.\n\n\"I think really our ecosystem needs to rise to the next level of the challenge.\"\n\nThis week BBC News is focussing on AI, how the technology affects our lives and what impacts it may have in the near future.\n\nIt's a view I hear often from small tech firms - they aim to be bought up by a US tech giant, rather than become a giant themselves.\n\nEmma McClenaghan and her partner Matt run an award-winning AI start-up in Northern Ireland but they struggle to access the infrastructure they need to advance their product.\n\nThe week Emma contacted me, she said Twitter owner Elon Musk had purchased 10,000 specialised chips called GPUs, needed to build and train AI tools - and she had been waiting five months for a grant to buy one.\n\n\"That's the difference between us and them because it's going to take us, you know, four to seven days to train a model and if he's [able to] do it in minutes, then you know, we're never going to catch up,\" she said.\n\nIan Hogarth thinks perhaps a future solution is for countries, rather than companies, to own this infrastructure.\n\n\"It is going to be a fundamental building block for the next generation of innovation,\" he said.", "A firefighter operates during a wildfire at Aghios Charalambos area in Loutraki\n\nLarge swathes of southern Europe continue to swelter in record heat as wildfires rage across the continent.\n\nTemperatures hit a high of 46.3C in Sicily on Tuesday, and crews battled fires in Greece and the Swiss Alps.\n\nMost of Italy's major cities are on red alert, meaning the extreme heat carries a health risk to everybody not just vulnerable groups.\n\nScientists say climate change is making heatwaves longer, more intense and more frequent.\n\nAcross the world, millions of people are being impacted by extreme weather; from soaring temperatures in the US and China, to heavy rainfall in East Asia.\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says heatwaves will become more severe in the years ahead, and that extreme weather patterns highlight the need for more climate action.\n\n\"These events will continue to grow in intensity and the world needs to prepare for more intense heatwaves,\" said John Nairn, senior extreme heat advisor at the UN agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Chris Fawkes tells us how high temperatures in the northern hemisphere are\n\nSince Monday, Greece has seen multiple wildfires break out across the country - including one which led to the evacuation of 1,200 children from a summer camp.\n\nThe most severe fire in Greece currently is in the Dervenochoria region north of Athens, where billowing smoke can be seen on satellite images.\n\nOther fires continue to rage in towns of Loutraki - a coastal town near the city of Corinth - and in Kouvaras, south of the capital.\n\nThe EU announced it will send amphibious aircraft to Greece which are designed for aerial firefighting\n\n\"Our main concern is protecting human life,\" fire service spokesman Yannis Artopios said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, crews in Switzerland are battling a wildfire close to the village of Bitsch in canton Valais which authorities said started on Monday afternoon and spread \"explosively\" overnight.\n\nAnother wildfire on the Spanish island of La Palma, which started on Saturday, has destroyed 20 homes.\n\nBut, cooler overnight temperatures and higher air humidity levels helped firefighters gain the upper hand in their battle against the blaze and bring it under control.\n\nConstancio Ballesteros, 51, visits his Castro y Magan winery devastated by the forest fire in La Palma\n\nRed alerts, warning people of a very high health risk due to the intense heat, remain in place for most of Italy, Spain, Greece and parts of the Balkans.\n\nOfficial maximum temperatures for Tuesday have not yet been confirmed, but provision results showed a high of 45.3C in Figueres in north-west Spain, 44.5C in Bauladu on the island of Sardinia, and 46.3C in Licata on Sicily.\n\nThe highest temperature ever recorded in Europe was set in August 2021 when the mercury hit 48.8C (119.8F) in the Palermo region of Sicily.\n\nTwenty Italian cities have been issued with severe weather warnings as large parts of the country continues to swelter\n\nExtreme temperatures have also gripped other parts of the globe including the US and China.\n\nMore than 80 million people in western and southern US states are under advisories for a \"widespread and oppressive\" heatwave.\n\nTemperatures at California's Death Valley hit a near-record 52C (125.6F) Sunday, while on Monday Arizona's state capital Phoenix tied its record of 18 consecutive days above 43C (109.4F).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina provisionally broke its record for all-time highest temperature on Sunday when it recorded 52.2C (126F) in its western Xinjiang region, according to the UK Met Office.\n\nAlso in Asia, on China's eastern coast torrential rain brought on by Typhoon Talim has displaced thousands.\n\nTalim is heading for Vietnam where 30,000 people in the storm's path have moved to safer ground.\n\nIt comes as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to \"completely overhaul\" the country's approach to extreme weather after dozens were killed in widespread flooding and landslides at the weekend.\n\nResidents in Fuzhou, Fujian province in China, had to be evacuated following heavy rainfall brought on by Typhoon Talim\n\nLeading UK scientist Dr Frederieke Otto, from Imperial College London, told the BBC that \"what we are seeing at the moment is exactly what we expect in a world where we are still burning fossil fuels\".\n\nHumans are \"100% behind\" the upward trend in global temperatures, she explains.\n\nThe International Energy Agency has said there can be no new oil, gas or coal projects if governments are serious about tackling climate change.\n\nScientists say Europe in particular is warming faster than many climate models predicted.\n\n\"There is a feeling that it's going out of control,\" University of Reading Prof Hannah Cloke explains.\n\n\"We have a lot of work to do to pin down exactly what's happening. These heatwaves are frightening...We know this will be really deadly.\"\n\nShe said more than 61,000 people were estimated to have died from heat in Europe last year, and this year would be similar.\n\nHow have you been affected by the extreme heat? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The government's emergency alert should be tested every two years, a senior official has suggested.\n\nA test alert was sent to every mobile phone in the UK, an estimated 60 million devices, on 23 April.\n\nBut MPs heard how five million users on the Three network did not receive the test alert.\n\nRoger Hargreaves, director of Cobra, the government's emergencies committee, said technical issues had been fixed so the system was ready for use.\n\nCobra, which is made up of a mixture of officials and ministers from relevant departments and agencies, deals with national emergencies including natural disasters and terrorist attacks.\n\nApril's alert, which included a short message accompanied by a loud 10-second noise and vibration, marked the first UK-wide test of a new system to warn people about such incidents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch UK alert go off (again, or if you missed it)\n\nMr Hargreaves, who works in the Cabinet Office, explained how the UK had been lagging behind most other countries who already used similar emergency alert systems \"because no-one was willing to pay for it\".\n\nNow the system has been built and tested, he told MPs on the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee he believed it should be tested every couple of years to keep the technology operating smoothly.\n\n\"It's international standard practice to do regular test messages,\" he said. \"I think there's a case for doing it every two years but we haven't got a ministerial decision on that.\"\n\nHe added: \"Other countries test not just their emergency alert but often also their sirens and broadcast systems... Some countries do it monthly.\"\n\nMany countries around the world use emergency-alert systems, including the United States, the Netherlands and Japan.\n\nFollowing the test, Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden said it was a \"one-off\" and he did not see the need for any further test \"for the foreseeable future\".\n\nHowever, he said it was likely there would be further public tests in the coming years.\n\nMr Hargreaves said the UK's first test had been \"massively successful\" and was \"far and away\" the biggest public message ever sent out.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the alert reached an estimated 93% of compatible devices in the UK.\n\nHowever, MPs heard this fell slightly below target due to issues with one of the four major network providers in the UK.\n\nThe test message failed to get through to about five million mobiles on the Three network, which was significantly higher than those who had deliberately turned off functionality.\n\nMr Hargreaves said: \"The big drop-off in available phones was because on one of the networks, Three, the message didn't get through to all users.\n\n\"It went to about 10% of their users in England rather than all of them so that was the main driving factor in the numbers falling below the 95% plus that we had hoped for.\"\n\nUsers could also opt out of the alert, while those whose phones were switched off or on aeroplane mode did not receive it.\n\nThe test alert reached around 93% of compatible devices in the UK\n\nThree \"understood immediately that it had not worked and were hugely cooperative with us\", he said, adding that he believed the issues had now been resolved.\n\n\"We need to carry out some more tests but [Three] have done the work they needed to,\" he said.\n\nMr Hargreaves also gave further detail about an error on the Welsh language test message, where the word for \"safe\" was autocorrected to the name of a Slovenian ski resort.\n\n\"When you put everything in to the system, if you don't put a space after the last full stop and you press return, it autocorrects the last word,\" he said.\n\n\"The key learning from that is to put a space after the full stop.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Home Secretary Suella Braverman during her speech in Westminster, London, for the launch of counter-terrorism strategy Contest 2023\n\nThe Home Secretary has warned the risk from terrorism in the UK \"continues to evolve and is increasing\", as she unveiled her plans to prevent attacks.\n\nSuella Braverman's counter-terrorism strategy identifies Islamic terrorism as the primary UK domestic threat, which accounted for two thirds of attacks in 2018.\n\nTechnology has also been identified as one of the biggest threats.\n\nThis includes the internet, which it deemed a global security threat.\n\nThe strategy, named CONTEST 2023, also states that convicted criminals in prison \"may continue to pose a threat\".\n\nThe government has updated the plan, which outlines how the government reacts to terrorist threats or emergencies, for the first time in five years.\n\nMs Braverman was speaking in front of a packed room in Westminster Hall, where some of the guests were survivors of UK terror attacks.\n\nShe warned that Russia, Iran, and China pose significant risks to UK security, referring to Russia as \"the most pressing national security concern\".\n\n\"Russia, Iran, and China have all shown themselves to be far too willing to exploit and destabilise our country,\" Ms Braverman told the audience.\n\nShe also confirmed that overall, terrorism from Islamic groups is the most prolific form of terrorism in the UK.\n\nShe added: \"Northern Ireland related terrorism remains a significant threat. Despite the significant progress in the last 20 years, some dissident groups continue to carry out attacks.\"\n\nTo conclude, she said: \"The threat continues to evolve and is increasing, meaning we must also evolve to keep the British people safe. We will work with the public and our international allies.\"\n\nIn the strategy, the Home Office states: \"In the UK, the primary domestic threat comes from Islamic terrorism, which accounts for approximately 67% of attacks in 2018, about three quarters of MI5 caseload and 64% of those in custody for terrorism-connected offences.\"\n\nThe report goes on to say that the \"domestic terror threat… is less predictable, harder to detect and investigate.\"\n\nIt points out there is \"a persistent and evolving threat from Islamist terrorist groups overseas\".\n\nAnd it says there is \"an operating environment where accelerating advances in technology provide both opportunity and risk to our counter-terrorism efforts.\"\n\nIt concludes: \"It is within this context that we judge that the risk from terrorism is once again rising.\"\n\nThe government said it was also monitoring the risk posed by the so-called incel movement.\n\nThe incel movement is an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have been attributed.\n\nIncel is short for \"involuntary celibate\". People who define themselves as incel say they can't get a sex life despite the fact that they want to be in a relationship.\n\nThe strategy says: \"It is possible that violent adherents to movements and subcultures, such as Involuntary Celibacy (Incels), could meet the threshold of terrorist intent or action.\"\n\nOn prisoners, the strategy says: \"Those convicted of terrorism, or a related offence, may continue to pose a threat; four of the nine declared terrorist attacks in the UK since 2018 were perpetrated by serving or recently released prisoners.\n\n\"Individuals convicted of non-terrorism offences may also hold a terrorist mindset or develop one during their time in prison.\n\n\"The attacks by prisoners inside HMP Whitemoor, the 2019 Fishmongers' Hall and 2020 Streatham and Reading attacks by those on probation, demonstrate the significant threat that offenders may continue to pose both in custody and on release.\"\n\nThe last time this strategy was published was in 2018, after a significant year of terror attacks in the UK in 2017 including the Manchester Arena bombing and London Bridge stabbing attacks. It was originally published in 2003.", "Devin McMullan lives in Ballycastle and is 22 weeks pregnant with her second child\n\nA pregnant woman has said maternity services moving from Coleraine to Antrim will negatively impact expectant mothers in rural communities.\n\nDevin McMullan, who is 22 weeks pregnant, lives outside Ballycastle, County Antrim.\n\nShe said pregnant women in her local area will now face a drive of more than an hour to get to Antrim Area Hospital.\n\nShe said the move could hurt the mental health of expectant mothers - especially those on lower incomes.\n\nThe changes are due to come into effect from 17 July.\n\nA meeting will take place later on Friday between campaigners and the Northern Trust after the Department of Health confirmed in June that births will no longer take place at Coleraine's Causeway Hospital.\n\nGemma Brolly, chair of the SOS causeway hospital campaign group, said it was an important day for people living in the area.\n\n\"We would be extremely concerned as to the nature of how these decisions have been made,\" she told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"We have had many questions from expectant mothers, young people who hope to have families and elderly people who are being been pitted against pregnant mothers on the north coast, nearly competing for healthcare.\"\n\nA meeting will tak eplace on Friday between Northern Trust officials and the S.O.S. Causeway Hospital Campaign group\n\nThe Northern Health Trust had recommended that all births in the area should permanently move to the Antrim site. The recommendation was made by the trust's board following a 14-week public consultation.\n\nIn a statement, it said the Causeway Hospital is \"a key part\" of their acute hospital network and they remain \"committed to maintaining acute services and an emergency department at the site\".\n\nIt also said it was preparing to provide \"enhanced antenatal care and clinics\" at the hospital.\n\nThe trust had previously said that birth numbers in the Causeway Coast and Glens Council area have declined year-on-year and so maternity services were \"vulnerable and unsustainable\".\n\nAntenatal and postnatal clinics will be retained and enhanced at Causeway Hospital, the Department of Health has previously said.\n\nHowever, Ms McMullan, who is expecting her second child, said: \"What would have been a 22-minute drive for me to get to Causeway [Hospital] is now more than an hour if I needed to get to Antrim Area Hospital.\n\n\"Many people, especially those on low incomes, don't have access to a car or even know someone with a car so would need to rely on public transport - what if it was an emergency? How is that fair?\"\n\nThe Northern Trust said birth numbers in the Causeway Coast and Glens area have declined year-on-year\n\nMs McMullan said she is also concerned about home births not being available for women who would wish to have one.\n\nWhile she is undecided about this at present, she said she feels her options - and the options for many other pregnant women - are being restricted.\n\n\"All of this is adding unnecessary anxiety to expectant mothers, there are many women who are concerned about this,\" she added.\n\n\"This is all seriously impacting on women's mental health and I believe not enough consideration has been given to this and there's certainly not been enough genuine engagement.\"\n\nMs McMullan gave birth to her now three-year-old in Causeway Hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nShe praised the staff on the maternity ward who helped deliver her baby and said they were compassionate and professional in incredibly challenging circumstances.\n\n\"I'm devastated the wonderful service they worked so hard to create for mums is being stripped away,\" she said.\n\nIn its statement, the Northern Trust maintained it was committed to acute services and an emergency department at the Causeway Hospital.\n\nA trust spokesperson said £1m of funding, which is in addition to £2m announced for the hospital's emergency department; ambulatory services and frailty care, will see upgrades to ageing equipment.\n\n\"Preparations are also under way to provide enhanced antenatal care and clinics at Causeway Hospital so that pregnant women will have access to complex antenatal care and clinics,\" they said.\n\n\"We recognise that the hospital and its staff play a vital role in serving the local community, and we look forward to meeting with campaign representatives to further discuss our position with them.\"\n\nBBC Radio Foyle has also approached the Department of Health for comment.", "Rishi Sunak has made tackling small boats in the Channel one of his five priorities\n\nIt was gone midnight when the moment came.\n\nAfter so much wrangling and argument, the government's plans for dealing with people crossing the Channel in small boats was signed off by Parliament.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill will become law.\n\nBut hang on: and it is a big but.\n\nThe centrepiece of the plan - sending migrants to Rwanda - can't happen at least yet, as it has been challenged in the courts.\n\nThe Supreme Court will take a decision in the autumn.\n\nSo what happened last night?\n\nThe government won a final series of votes in the House of Lords, removing the last obstacle to the plans becoming law.\n\nOpposition in the Lords, for so long so vociferous, dissolved away sufficiently for the government to get its way.\n\nSome peers concluded they had made their point as far as their opposition was concerned, and as unelected parliamentarians, they wouldn't push their point further.\n\nAnd, for a chamber not known for its abundance of youth, half midnight is mighty late.\n\nPlus, I'm told, some Conservative peers not seen around the place very often, did turn up to back the government.\n\nThis morning, through bleary eyes, there is some surprise.\n\nIt had been expected the bill would pass this week, but perhaps not as soon as last night.\n\n\"Ping has been ponged\" said one long standing Lords watcher - a reference to what is known as 'ping pong' when a bill is repeatedly sent from the Commons to the Lords and back again.\n\nBut back again, no more - it has passed.\n\nIn the short term, the Illegal Migration Act (as it soon will be) will mean, among other things, the mobile phones of those crossing in small boats can be seized and the case a migrant might make upon arrival would be weakened if they have thrown any documents they had into the sea.\n\nBut it is acknowledged these are \"ancillary\" measures while the decision of the Supreme Court is awaited.\n\nA senior government source texted me in the small hours to herald what they saw as a \"big win\" that had been \"unexpectedly smooth\".\n\nThey added: \"I don't think anyone imagined we could pilot through the most significant immigration bill for a generation without any material concessions and without any pressure on the government's majority.\"\n\nThat is a reference to the minimal amount of opposition among Tory MPs.\n\nOpposition that did include, we should remember, the former Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nMrs May is hugely proud of her work to tackle modern slavery and has long argued the plan undermines that work.\n\nGovernment figures acknowledge her criticism is heartfelt and principled, but point out few Conservative colleagues shared her concerns.\n\nIn short, they think her objections would hugely undermine their plans but they acknowledge why she's so personally attached to the measures she put into law.\n\nFinding workable solutions to international migratory flows will be one of the biggest challenges relatively rich countries face for decades to come.\n\nThis is the government's attempt at something of a solution. Its successors will face similar challenges.\n\n\"They'll have to own it now. Will it be fit for purpose? Will it do what it says on the tin? Or will it come back to bite them?\" a senior Labour figure asks.", "Cyber security must urgently be built into artificial intelligence systems, a top security official has told the BBC.\n\nLindy Cameron from the National Cyber Security Centre said it was key to have robust systems in place in the early stages of AI development.\n\nAs companies rush to develop new AI products, there are fears that security it is being overlooked.\n\nAs a result, malicious attacks could have a \"devastating\" effect, a former intelligence chief added.\n\nIn the future, AI will play a part in many aspects of daily life in our homes and cities through to high-end national security and even fighting wars.\n\nBut for all the benefits, there are also risks.\n\n\"As we become dependent on AI for really good things like delivery of food, autonomous vehicles, utilities or all sorts of things that AI will help to control in the future, attacks on those systems could be devastating,\" says Robert Hannigan, who used to run the UK's communication intelligence agency GCHQ.\n\nThe concern is that companies - competing to secure their position in a growing market - will focus on getting their systems out for sale as fast as possible without thinking about the risks of misuse.\n\n\"The scale and complexity of these models is such that if we don't apply the right basic principles as they are being developed in the early stages it will be much more difficult to retrofit security,\" says Lindy Cameron, CEO of the NCSC, which supports UK organisations with cyber security and responds to incidents.\n\nAI systems can be used as tools by those seeking to do harm.\n\nFor instance, coming up with malicious code to hack into devices, or writing fake messages to be spread on social media.\n\nWhat is particularly dangerous is the systems themselves can also be subverted by those seeking to do harm.\n\nFor many years, a small group of experts has specialised in a field called 'adversarial machine learning', which looks at how AI and machine learning systems can be tricked into giving bad results.\n\n\"The systems are very brittle unfortunately\", explains Lorenzo Cavallaro, a professor of computer science at University College London, \"it is always a cat and mouse game\".\n\nCould how self-driving cars see signs be changed by AI?\n\nTake for example AI trained to recognise images. Researchers ran a test by placing stickers on a 'stop' road sign, which made the AI think it was a speed limit sign - something with potentially serious consequences for self-driving cars.\n\nAnother field involves 'poisoning' the data which the AI is learning from.\n\nResults generated by AI can be biased because of data sets that are not representative of the real world. But poisoning means deliberately creating bias by injecting bad data into the learning process.\n\n\"It is hard to spot,\" says Professor Cavallaro. \"You can only identify it in retrospect with forensic analysis.\"\n\nA major problem for AI systems is they can be hard to understand. The risk is that even if someone simply fears their model might have been poisoned by bad data, then it becomes harder to trust it.\n\n\"It is a fundamental challenge for AI right across the board as to how far we can trust it,\" says former GCHQ head Robert Hannigan.\n\nAs systems increasingly use AI, attacks could be devastating, says Robert Hannigan\n\nThe dangers are not just of hackers seeking to cause disruption, but to wider national security.\n\nIf AI was used to analyse satellite imagery looking for a military build-up, then a malicious attacker could work out how to either miss the real tanks or see an array of fake tanks.\n\nThese concerns were previously theoretical, but signs are now emerging of real-world attacks on systems, according to Andrew Lohn, a senior fellow at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology.\n\n\"For a while all the academics like me were asking the people in industry: 'is this a real thing?' and they would just give us winks and nods. But there's just now starting to be an acknowledgment that this is a real thing happening in industry.\"\n\nIt seems to be happening first where AI is used to improve cyber security by detecting attacks. Here adversaries are seeking ways to subvert those systems so their malicious software can move undetected.\n\nThis week BBC News is focussing on AI, how the technology affects our lives and what impacts it may have in the near future.\n\nA new article co-authored by GCHQ's chief data scientist looks at how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT could also give rise to new and unanticipated security risks.\n\nIt says there are 'serious concerns' around individuals providing sensitive information when they input questions into models, as well as over 'prompt hacking' in which models are tricked into providing bad results.\n\nOfficials believe it's vital to learn lessons from the early days of internet security. For example, by making sure those writing the software and building products take responsibility for security.\n\n\"I don't want consumers to have to worry,\" says Lindy Cameron of the NCSC. \"But I do want the producers of these systems to be thinking about it.\"", "The image of seven-year-old Louie Johnston walking behind his father's coffin was one of the most striking of the Troubles\n\nThe son of a police officer who was murdered in Northern Ireland has urged MPs to scrap government plans for an amnesty over Troubles-era killings.\n\nA key vote is taking place in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon as the UK government's controversial legacy bill reaches its third and final stage.\n\nThe proposed legislation would put an end to Troubles-era court cases and inquests.\n\nIt would also offer a conditional amnesty to those accused of killings.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said he was aware of the challenging nature of the amnesty but described it as a \"crucial aspect\" of the information recovery process.\n\n\"This government believes it's the best mechanism by which we can generate the greatest volume of information in the quickest possible time to pass onto families and victims,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Louie Johnston, whose police officer father was murdered, has asked MPs to put themselves in the shoes of people like him.\n\nHis opposition to the bill was echoed by the brother of schoolboy Stephen McConomy who was killed by a British soldier in Londonderry in 1982.\n\nEmmett McConomy said the government's plan was aimed at \"protecting the perpetrators of violence\".\n\n\"They are the only real winners,\" he said.\n\nBoth men spoke to BBC News NI ahead of the Commons vote in which Conservative MPs are expected to overturn an attempt by the Lords to remove a key part of the bill.\n\nEmmett McConomy says only the perpetrators of violence benefit from the bill\n\nPeers had backed an amendment preventing a person from requesting immunity from prosecution as part of any future investigation.\n\nBut given the government's majority in the Commons it is expected that the immunity provision will be put back in.\n\nHowever, it is now likely the government will fail in its bid to get the bill through Parliament before MPs begin their summer break on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said immunity \"would be key in helping to generate the greatest volume of information, in the quickest possible time, to pass on to families and victims\".\n\n\"I know that this approach is challenging for many but we must address the legacy of the past in a different way if we are to achieve better outcomes for many who have waited for decades,\" he wrote in the Belfast Telegraph on Tuesday.\n\nReserve Constable David Johnston and Constable John Graham with their children\n\nLouie Johnston was just seven years old when his father David Johnston and his Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) colleague John Graham were shot dead by the IRA in 1997 while on foot patrol in Lurgan, County Armagh.\n\nLouie Johnson said that when he was told that his father had been killed he thought: \"Why would anybody want to kill my daddy?\"\n\nHe added: \"He was my hero - this was the man that read me stories at night-time; that took me to the park; that was just fun to be around.\"\n\nLouie Johnston is asking Tory MPs to \"show some empathy\" by blocking the bill\n\nHe shed tears as he walked behind his father's coffin on the day of the funeral, with the striking picture becoming one of the most poignant images of the Troubles.\n\n\"I can remember that day in great detail, right from arriving at the church for the service to seeing the heartache on my mum's face as we walked behind the coffin,\" he recalls.\n\n\"It's a very vivid memory that I have and I don't think it'll ever leave me.\"\n\nAhead of Tuesday's vote Louie Johnston tried to make contact with some Tory MPs but did not get a response.\n\nHe told BBC News NI: \"Can they put themselves in a situation where at seven years of age they were taken out of school and brought home and told their father had been killed?\n\nLouie Johnston, pictured in a blue shirt and waistcoat, says the memory of his father's funeral in 1997 is \"very vivid\"\n\n\"I would ask them to show some empathy.\n\n\"Do they believe it is morally right to take away our avenue to justice?\"\n\nHe also said that his family would not cooperate with the new body being set up under the government's plan.\n\nThe Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) will take over hundreds of unresolved Troubles cases.\n\nIt will be led by the former Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan.\n\nThe family of Stephen McConomy, the 11-year-old who died after being shot in the head by a plastic bullet fired by a soldier in the Bogside in Derry, has also ruled out any engagement with the new body.\n\nThey have also called on Sir Declan to \"step aside and resign\".\n\nStephen McConomy was killed by a British soldier in 1982\n\nAfter a recent meeting with Sir Declan, Emmett McConomy said the Troubles bill was \"cruel and unfair\".\n\n\"It is serving no purpose other than that of the Conservatives and the Ministry of Defence and victims are lost within this process,\" he said.\n\n\"The real winners are the perpetrators of violence.\"\n\nMr McConomy also claimed Sir Declan had said he would resign from the ICRIR if there was any government interference in the commission's work.\n\nIn response, a spokesperson for Sir Declan said: \"ICRIR has been deliberately set up as an independent body to ensure that it can do its vital work transparently and fairly.\n\nSir Declan Morgan was appointed to lead the government's proposed Troubles legacy body\n\n\"We don't expect and would not accommodate any interference from government or from any other organisation or individual.\"\n\nSir Declan has previously dismissed any suggestion that he may resign.\n\nHe said: \"I have only just taken up this role and am certainly not envisaging stepping down.\n\n\"This is a significant opportunity - perhaps the last - to help Northern Irish society come to terms with the past, and we need to focus on achieving as much as we can.\n\n\"We know that the challenge is complex but to not confront it would be a mistake.\"\n\nThe timeline may have slipped but there is no sense the government is preparing to backtrack on its Troubles bill.\n\nThat will be made clear later when Tory MPs turn up in numbers to reinstall the most controversial element of the legislation.\n\nOffering immunity from prosecution is a key plank of the information recovery process but many suspect it won't be enough to tempt offenders out of the shadows.\n\nThis vote on Tuesday will simply knock it back to the Lords, and with no room in the peers' timetable it will be September before it is back on the agenda.\n\nThat still should leave the government enough time to hit its deadline of next May when the new information recovery body is due to be up and running.", "Sir Elton John has given evidence as a defence witness at actor Kevin Spacey's sexual assault trial.\n\nThe musician was asked about Mr Spacey's attendance at a party hosted by the singer at his home in Windsor.\n\nMr Spacey is alleged to have sexually assaulted a man who was driving him to the event. He denies going to the party in the year the prosecution claim.\n\nThe 63-year-old has pleaded not guilty to 12 sexual offence charges against four men between 2001 and 2013.\n\nSir Elton appeared by video link from Monaco. He answered questions around whether Mr Spacey had ever attended the White Tie and Tiara Ball that the musician held every year at his home.\n\nThe singer said Mr Spacey attended in 2001. One of the actor's accusers had given evidence to say a sexual assault happened on route to the ball in 2002, which Spacey denies attending.\n\nSpeaking about the ball in 2001, Sir Elton said: \"Yes, he came in white tie, and he came straight from a private jet. Yes, I don't think he'd wear white tie otherwise.\"\n\nSir Elton said Mr Spacey stayed overnight at his home in Windsor after the event, but could not remember him visiting the property after that.\n\nSir Elton's husband, David Furnish, also gave evidence and said he remembered Mr Spacey attending the event in question, adding \"as an Oscar-winning actor, there was a lot of excitement he was at the ball\".\n\nMr Spacey denies three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also denies four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nThe Hollywood star won an Oscar for Best Actor in 2000 for American Beauty as well as Emmy nominations for his role in House of Cards.", "Rajan's manner was described as \"cheerful and relaxed\" by the Telegraph\n\nCritics have welcomed Amol Rajan as he presented his first episode of BBC Two quiz show University Challenge.\n\nRajan is only the third host in the quiz show's history, following Bamber Gascoigne and Jeremy Paxman.\n\nAs he introduced the new series, Rajan told viewers: \"A few things have changed since the last series, but all the important things remain the same.\"\n\nThe Telegraph said Rajan's manner was \"cheerful and relaxed\" while iNews said his arrival felt \"seamless\".\n\nRajan's first episode was watched by 1.9 million viewers - outperforming Extraordinary Portraits on BBC One in the same timeslot, which achieved 1.22m.\n\n\"He has the two essential qualities required for success as the chair of University Challenge,\" said the Independent's Sean O'Grady in a five-star review.\n\n\"First, he looks like he's genuinely enjoying himself just as much as the contestants, and indeed the show's dedicated followers. Second, he has the demeanour of someone clever and knowledgeable (which he is), but doesn't come across as a know-it-all (which he isn't).\"\n\nHe added: \"Quietly spoken and respectful to his youthful charges, [Rajan] is almost paternal in tone... But I'm sure the questions are tougher and more complex than in the Paxman era.\"\n\nRajan previously hosted The Media Show on BBC Radio 4 and now presents the network's flagship Today programme\n\nAwarding the episode four stars, the Telegraph's Anita Singh said: \"Rajan is a brasher presence than Jeremy Paxman - the bright tie and pocket square, the shiny gold watch and jewellery - and, unsurprisingly, didn't look remotely over-awed by the job. But he didn't over-egg it either.\n\n\"Besides, the format doesn't allow any presenter to impose themselves too greatly, because they can't do very much other than ask questions.\"\n\nHowever, Singh was one of several critics who mentioned that Rajan looked small in stature compared with Paxman. \"The opening episode began with the presenter behind his desk looking strangely tiny, as if we were watching Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,\" Singh said.\n\nThe Guardian's Mark Lawson agreed, writing: \"Paxo's chair seems to have been kept which, given Rajan's shorter stature, leaves a lot of leather headrest visible. A less steep seat might make him look more comfortable at the desk.\"\n\nLawson praised Rajan's delivery. \"The presenter was well down on the speed-gun from his morning radio broadcasting, and up in precision... He has shown how seriously he takes the role by significantly adapting his presenting style to this new challenge.\"\n\nBut he still only awarded the episode three stars overall. \"He was close to a fourth - but this is a gig measured by endurance not debuts,\" Lawson explained. \"Gascoigne did 25 years, Paxman 29.\"\n\nThe Daily Mail's Christopher Stevens did award a fourth star, describing Rajan as \"cheerful, and patient, and full of praise\".\n\n\"When the players, from Manchester and Trinity Cambridge, fluffed a question, he didn't scold,\" Stevens noted. \"And when he had to dock one team five points, he sounded genuinely regretful.\n\nJeremy Paxman exited University Challenge earlier this year after nearly three decades of presenting\n\n\"Once or twice, when the students were floundering for answers, he did snap, 'Come on!' but his heart wasn't in it. He sounded much more sincere when heaping approval on both sides.\n\n\"He has to set his own style, of course. There'd be no point in performing a Paxo tribute act, dripping with irony and snide asides.\"\n\nPaxman signed off from his final edition of the programme in May, saying he was \"looking forward to watching\" future series along with viewers at home.\n\nHis departure came two years after the 73-year-old revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.\n\nThe mood of Rajan's first programme overall was \"less daunting\" than previous series, suggested Carol Midgeley of the Times in another four-star review\n\n\"Rajan certainly seemed to be fostering a more pally vibe, although many of the questions (to me at least) remained ferociously difficult.\n\n\"True, he looked smaller in the big black chair than Paxman did, and he didn't command the same vaguely terrifying demeanour. But in a smart suit, orange tie and matching silk pocket square Rajan set his own tone, which was somewhere between 'firm but fair supervisor' and 'study buddy'.\n\nRajan is well-known for presenting BBC Radio 4's Today programme and his own series of interview programmes on BBC Two.\n\nThe Spectator's Melanie McDonagh wrote: \"The whole thing was just fine. Amol was cheerful rather than intimidating. He lacks Jeremy Paxman's cherishable incredulity and he doesn't have a long nose to look down at people with, which is nobody's fault.\"\n\nLike some viewers on Twitter, including former contestant Bobby Seagull, McDonagh noted the switch from question cards to a small screen on the presenter's desk.\n\n\"Nobody liked the slate-effect screen,\" she said. \"What you want for a quizmaster are actual cards, which you can deploy to good effect when exasperated. You can't slap down a screen. It also means there's less eye contact with the teams.\"\n\nNick Duerden of iNews concluded: \"It's traditional to feel a little fear when change befalls a safe and comfortable programme. But Rajan's arrival felt seamless, and so, really, nothing has changed.\n\n\"His University Challenge remains a show that's near-impossible to take part in, but feels curiously nourishing just to sit back and watch, often in incomprehension, mostly in awe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVladimir Putin has vowed to retaliate following a \"terrorist\" attack on the bridge linking Crimea to Russia.\n\nMoscow has blamed Ukraine for the incident - which left two people dead - but Kyiv has not officially said it was responsible.\n\nThe Kerch bridge was opened in 2018 and enables road and rail travel between Russia and Crimea - Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nRussia's transport ministry said the bridge's supports were not damaged.\n\nThe ministry said investigations were continuing, but unconfirmed reports said explosions were heard early on Monday.\n\nRussian authorities have accused Ukraine of attacking the Kerch bridge with two \"unmanned surface vessels\" (USVs) - drones that travel over water rather than through the air.\n\nAs yet, the BBC not seen any visual evidence to confirm this.\n\nBut a source in Ukraine's security service told BBC Russian it was behind the attack and that water-based drones were used.\n\nIn televised comments on Monday evening, the Russian president accused Ukraine of launching the \"senseless\" and \"cruel\" attack.\n\nThe attack on the bridge has damaged the road it carries but the railway line running parallel to it has not been damaged.\n\nThe bridge is an important resupply route for Russian forces occupying parts of southern Ukraine.\n\nAppearing on television with Mr Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said the bridge would be completely repaired by 1 November, while road traffic would resume in one direction from 15 September.\n\nMonday's incident created long traffic jams on the remaining road route out of Crimea and severe train delays on the railway were reported. The ferry crossing that runs parallel to the bridge was also affected.\n\nRussian officials urged holidaymakers stranded in Crimea to drive home through areas of southern Ukraine occupied by Russia since its army invaded last year. The officials said they would reduce curfew hours to let tourists through and that the army would keep the route \"safe\".\n\nCommercial flights between Russia and Crimea - a popular holiday destination for Russians since 2014 - have been suspended since Moscow's invasion.\n\nVyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the western Russian region of Belgorod which is close to Russia's border with Ukraine, said in a Telegram statement that a Russian couple had died in Monday's incident. He added that their 14-year-old daughter had been injured.\n\nUnverified photos posted by the spokesperson for Ukraine's military administration in the Odesa region showed debris on the road across the bridge, as well as damaged railings.\n\nDefence analyst Stuart Crawford told the BBC he believed that drones had been used to attack the bridge.\n\nHe also said details around what happened would likely remain unclear as neither side would want to release much information.\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of attacking the Kerch bridge with the \"direct participation\" of the UK and the US, but provided no evidence to back up the assertions.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there was no connection between the incident and Russia's decision to suspend its participation in a deal allowing Ukraine to ship out grain through the Black Sea.\n\nThe alleged attack is the second major incident on the Kerch bridge in the past year.\n\nIn October 2022, the bridge was partially closed following a huge explosion. It was fully reopened in February.\n\nEven now, the exact cause of the explosion last October remains unclear. Footage from the time showed a huge fireball erupting as a number of cars and lorries made their way across the bridge.\n\nThe latest incident comes amid a much-anticipated counter-offensive by Ukrainian forces which aims to retake territory in southern and eastern Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's forces have retaken 18 sq km (7 sq miles) over the past week in their fightback, Ukraine's deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said on messaging app Telegram.\n\nThe recent gains take the total area of reclaimed land to 210 sq km (81 sq miles) since the counter-offensive began.", "The Illegal Migration Bill is set to become law after the government won a final series of votes in the Lords.\n\nThe legislation is central to the prime minister's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nUnder the bill, the home secretary has a legal duty to detain and remove anyone entering the UK illegally.\n\nIn a late-night debate in the House of Lords, peers rejected attempts to reinsert time limits on child detention and modern slavery protections.\n\nThe bill will now go for royal assent and become law.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UN released an unusually critical statement, claiming the bill breaks the UK's obligations under international law.\n\nIn a joint statement the UN human rights chief Volker Turk and the UN refugees head Filippo Grandi said the bill \"will have profound consequences for people in need of international protection\".\n\n\"This new legislation significantly erodes the legal framework that has protected so many, exposing refugees to grave risks in breach of international law,\" Mr Grandi said.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the government took its international obligations seriously, and that nothing in the bill required the government to act incompatibly with international law.\n\nThey added: \"Our Illegal Migration Bill is a key part of our work to deter and prevent people from making small boat crossings, as it will see people who make these dangerous, illegal and unnecessary journeys detained and swiftly removed.\"\n\nAs it stands it is unclear what will happen to people coming to the UK on small boats in the coming months, according to BBC home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nThe bill places a legal duty on the government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country. But there are no similar return deals with any other countries, our correspondent said.\n\nAnd the Rwanda plan was ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal last month, although ministers are challenging the judgement.\n\nOn Tuesday, an accommodation barge arrived in Portland Port, Dorset, where it is due to eventually house 500 asylum seekers.\n\nThe first asylum seekers are expected to board the Bibby Stockholm later this month, despite protests from locals.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said that the government wants to \"open more\" accommodation facilities for asylum seekers.\n\nFor weeks, the government was locked in a battle over the final shape of the bill with the Lords, where a cross-party group of peers made repeated amendments.\n\nIn the last few days, the bill passed between the House of Commons and House of Lords three times, in a process known as parliamentary ping-pong.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May led a series of backbench rebellions in the Commons over plans to restrict access to the UK asylum system for victims of modern slavery.\n\nUnder the bill the duty to remove anyone who comes to the UK illegally applies to victims of trafficking and slavery, accompanied children and unaccompanied children as soon as they turn 18.\n\nMs May, who as home secretary introduced the Modern Slavery Act, said the bill \"will enable more slave drivers to operate and make money out of human misery\".\n\nThe government argued that anyone identified as a potential victim of modern slavery would be returned home or to another \"safe country away from those who have trafficked them\".\n\nHowever, on Monday Mrs May did not vote for an exemption from the bill for suspected victims of slavery to allow them to access support and co-operate with criminal proceedings against traffickers.\n\nThe legislation would also scrap existing legal caps on how long those entering the UK illegally can be held ahead of being deported.\n\nMPs and peers had attempted to reinsert the three day-limit on how long children can be detained, as well as the 24-hour maximum for children unaccompanied by an adult. But the plans were dropped after they were again rejected in the House of Commons.\n\nThe government had already made concessions on the detention of unaccompanied children, who will be granted immigration bail after eight days, and on pregnant women, for whom the current limit of 72 hours detention will be retained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe end of the stand-off between peers and MPs paves the way for the bill to receive royal assent - when the King formally agrees to make the bill into an Act of Parliament, or law.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, Home Office minister Lord Murray of Blidworth said the number of small boat arrivals had \"overwhelmed\" the UK's asylum system and that accommodation was costing taxpayers £6m per day.\n\n\"With over 45,000 people making dangerous Channel crossings last year this is simply no longer sustainable,\" he told peers, adding it was \"only right\" that the \"business model\" of human traffickers be broken.\n\nHe urged the Lords to \"respect the will of the elected House and the British people by passing this bill\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper called he new law \"a con which will only make the Tories asylum chaos worse\".\n\n\"The asylum backlog is a record high, the number of people in hotels is still increasing, the Rwanda plan is unravelling and June boat crossings were higher than last year,\" she said.", "It's been a day of powerful first-hand evidence on the impact of the Covid pandemic from across the UK.\n\nMatt Fowler, co-founder of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Campaign, told the inquiry how after his father Ian died, about 300 people lined the street, but it was \"painful\" that no more than 10 people were allowed to go to the funeral.\n\nHe also detailed abuse he and his fellow campaigners had received on social media, due to Covid attitudes. However he said he had no regrets and stressed lessons needed to be learned.\n\nThe next witness to give evidence was Jane Morrison, whose wife Jacky died from Covid. She thanked all the key workers who provided a 'moment of kindness in a dark world'.\n\nMorrison from Scottish Covid Bereaved, highlighted concerns about infection control in hospitals and called on the inquires in the UK and Scotland to move swiftly.\n\nAnna-Louise Marsh-Rees, a campaigner from Wales, explained it was \"awful\" to watch her father \"die gasping for breath\" and said covid victims' bodies were treated like \"toxic waste\".\n\nThe last witness was Brenda Doherty from Northern Ireland who told the inquiry her about the death of her mother, Ruth.\n\nShe too has faced abuse on social media and said \"my mummy was not cannon fodder... it's very important we remember the human cost\".", "VanMoof, the Dutch high-end electric bike-maker, has gone bust after the brothers who founded it were unable to save the firm.\n\nVanMoof, which claims to have 190,000 customers worldwide, was declared bankrupt by the Amsterdam District Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe firm saw demand for its bikes grow during the pandemic and raised millions of dollars to fund expansion.\n\nBut its stores have now been closed and online orders have stopped.\n\nAdministrators are looking at whether VanMoof can be saved by selling its assets or restructuring its debts.\n\nVanMoof was founded in 2009 by Dutch brothers Taco and Ties Carlier who wanted to make \"the perfect city bike\".\n\nThe bikes, which start at around £2,000, are known for their modern, sleek design with a battery built into the frame.\n\nDuring the pandemic, bike sales in general soared and VanMoof as a brand took off.\n\nThe firm raised $128m (£98m) from investors to expand, at the time describing itself \"most funded e-bike company in the world\".\n\nHowever, according to reports there were problems with the firm's newer models and it was struggling to shoulder the costs of repairs.\n\nThere were also reports of long delivery times for bikes and a shortage of parts.\n\nIn an email to staff, published by The Verge, Taco and Ties Carlier said: \"Over the last weeks Ties and I have tried to find a future for VanMoof.\n\n\"We're extremely sorry to have to report that despite our best efforts we did not succeed and we have had to file for bankruptcy.\"\n\nVanMoof, which has around 700 employees, mainly sells its bikes online but also has shops in 20 cities worldwide, and service hubs in 50 cities.\n\nA spokesperson for VanMoof told the BBC: \"The trustees are continuing to assess the situation at VanMoof and are investigating the possibilities of a re-start out of bankruptcy by means of an asset sale to a third party, so that the activities of VanMoof can be continued.\"\n\nThe bankruptcy currently only affects the firm's Dutch business, not its international subsidiaries. VanMoof said it was unsure what would happen to stores outside of the Netherlands but that its \"intention is to keep these entities running as usual\".\n\nIts London and Paris shops are shut, according to its website. It also said:\n\nIt told customers that their e-bikes will not stop working, adding that the firm aimed to keep its app and servers online and secure \"ongoing services for the future\".\n\nIt advised owners to download their e-bike's unique digital key, in case online servers go down.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said it would be \"foolish\" to ignore the war strategies being played out in Ukraine\n\nUkraine has \"tragically become a battle lab\", but lessons learned will inform the future of Britain's armed forces, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.\n\nHe was speaking ahead of the release of a revised Defence Command Paper, first published before the war began.\n\nMr Wallace said that the effectiveness of weapons given to Kyiv by its allies had heavily influenced the revisions.\n\n\"We would be very foolish to ignore these lessons and not import them into our own armed forces,\" he said.\n\nThe updated paper - originally published in 2021 - sets out how the UK will invest an additional £2.5bn of defence spending. Mr Wallace said the government did not plan on issuing a new version so soon, but the world has shifted and become more volatile.\n\nMr Wallace, who plans to step down as defence secretary at the next cabinet reshuffle after four years in the job, said: \"The war in Ukraine has focused minds because there is a very real adversary being very aggressive, breaking all the rules of war on the continent of Europe, fighting a war designed to destroy a country.\n\n\"That makes us realise we had better change the risk appetite we had when we did this paper originally.\n\n\"Originally we were taking things out of service, having a bit of a gap in the middle of the decade, and then we'd have the new equipment. That's something I don't want to risk any more.\"\n\nThe experience of Ukraine's armed forces, and the way in which allies have been able to assist - including quick adaptations of existing equipment to suit Kyiv's needs - is a thread running through much of Tuesday's paper.\n\nIt says one of the lessons learnt from the war is that the pace of innovation is getting faster - and cannot be met by the traditional, often decades-long programmes to get equipment. Instead, equipment should be designed with the possibility of making quick upgrades, the paper says.\n\nIt also highlights the need to harness the latest technology - including AI and quantum computing - to make Britain's armed forces more agile and adaptive.\n\n\"New technologies are not gimmicks, they're fundamentally key to how we fight a modern war,\" Mr Wallace said.\n\nHe added that analysing the strategies playing out in Ukraine would help \"make sure that we can be match fit for any future conflict\".\n\nThe document also sets out plans for more personnel to have a \"zigzag\" career path - which could include leaving the military to gain experience elsewhere and then re-joining.\n\nYoung people \"envisage careers that are flexible and see themselves working in a number of different professions, rather than progressing within a single organisation\", the document says - and so the government will embrace \"greater opportunity for career mobility between jobs in defence and whatever other employment they'd like to pursue elsewhere\".\n\nAnd it says £400m will be spent on modernising accommodation for service families. This money was already in the defence budget but has been reallocated.\n\nThe refresh is not about cuts to the size of the army - this was already announced in a review in 2021, with a plan to cut the Army to 72,500 soldiers by 2025.\n\nAnother such lesson from the war in Ukraine is the \"power of electronic warfare\", Mr Wallace said, explaining: \"The use of [electronic] warfare either to act as a decoy or to act as a defence is becoming really important, so it goes up the priority list.\"\n\nHe said that the war in Ukraine had also concentrated minds on the use of \"deep fire\" artillery, and had informed the decision to retire old 155mm guns and bring in new replacements.\n\n\"We have seen a generational shift in ranges of 'deep fire' artillery,\" he said. \"The 155mm gun roughly had a 22-25km range for about 50 years.\n\n\"The new generation ... you're getting ranges of 60km in future. So I have taken a decision to phase out the old 155mm [for] the Swedish Archer 1.\"\n\nArtillery has played a significant role for both sides in Ukraine. Britain's armed forces, however, have scaled down their artillery forces since the end of the Cold War.\n\nMr Wallace said: \"At the end of the Second World War, 35% of the army was artillery. Now, it's roughly 8%. Deep fire is something we need to rebalance. These are the lessons.\"\n\nLabour said the plan was \"driven by costs, not by threats\", and also questioned whether it would stand the test of time, with Mr Wallace due to step down.\n\n\"As his own future is now short, how long is the shelf life of his plan?\" asked shadow defence secretary John Healey.\n\n\"Industry and military leaders cannot be sure his successor will agree with his decisions, will accept his cuts, will act on his approach.\"\n\nSpeaking in the Commons after Mr Wallace set out his plan, Mr Healey also criticised the time it has taken to update the paper, saying: \"Why has this plan been so delayed? It's 510 days since Putin shattered European security.\"\n\nFormer soldier Mr Wallace played a key role in the UK's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHis Wyre and Preston North constituency in Lancashire will disappear at the next general election because of boundary changes and he has said he will not seek a new seat.\n\nSpeaking about the mark he hoped to leave on the MoD, Mr Wallace told the BBC that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had given his department a \"massive £24bn legacy\".\n\n\"I've come in, and we've had a real term rise in our defence spending,\" he said.\n\nHe also warned that the conflict in Ukraine served as a reminder that \"there are bad people out there wanting to do bad things to Britain and her allies\".", "Nooriyah has been DJing and producing for eight years\n\nYou're in a club, the music's pounding and the lights are flashing.\n\nYou look up to the DJ booth but there's no-one there, because it's an AI-generated mix.\n\nWith mixing software getting more sophisticated and venues cutting back on budgets, that's the worry of some people in the dance music industry.\n\nBut can a computer programme ever replace the real-life connection between a DJ and a crowd?\n\nIn a word, no. At least not in Nooriyah's opinion.\n\nShe's a 28-year-old DJ who lives in London. She plays venues around the world, sometimes to crowds of more than 40,000 people.\n\nAI programmes have been available in her industry for years, recommending songs to mix based on their tempos.\n\nBut they haven't taken Nooriyah's job yet, and she thinks she knows why.\n\n\"Because the way that I connect with my audiences is very difficult to replicate,\" she says.\n\n\"Imagine a raver looking over at me when I'm DJing, seeing me sweat and dance just like them.\n\n\"In that moment they feel that intimate connection that AI couldn't.\"\n\nHannah mainly plays garage and bassline in her DJ sets\n\nHannah Rose learnt to DJ during lockdown and is working towards making it her main source of income.\n\nShe's getting lots of work but has noticed venues cutting back budgets as the cost-of-living crisis bites.\n\n\"Since Covid there's been a massive shift towards people asking to stream sets,\" she says.\n\n\"Especially when it's somewhere overseas, if they don't have the money to get you to play in a different country, it's an easy and accessible way to get the artists on their line-ups without actually having to physically have them in the room.\"\n\nHannah's noticed a lot of nightclubs already have a camera set up for streaming behind the decks.\n\nShe's now worried that will extend to virtual sets.\n\n\"They've got a long way to go to match the emotional intelligence of a human being, but with AI generating original compositions, it could be quite a dark future for DJs,\" she says.\n\nIn March this year, an East London venue hosted an AI rave to mixed reviews, with some saying the music felt \"dry and empty\".\n\nDance music is one of the UK's favourite genres - but DJs say the support it gets doesn't reflect that\n\nIt may be that humans make the best DJs but it's not such a straightforward story for producers.\n\nAs well as being a DJ, Nooriyah makes her own music.\n\nHer creative process currently involves experimenting with different sounds on software, before mastering tracks. It's this final stage where AI is coming in.\n\n\"To me, the conversation about AI in producing is very overdue,\" she says.\n\n\"There are already at least 10 different software programmes that mix music and could put producers out of jobs\".\n\nShe wants to see a better dialogue between those in the music industry and AI developers.\n\n\"I think the danger here is there's work being done without a discussion about what it would mean for the music industry.\"\n\nOne solution, she says, is to tax the AI companies.\n\n\"Firstly, let's slow down the release of these AI programmes, and tax the developers, investing that money in putting on training for people who lose their jobs to AI.\"\n\nPhil Kear agrees. He works with the Music Union and is worried AI will put limits put on the amount people are willing to pay for recordings made by human creators.\n\n\"AI music will be cheaper,\" he says. \"And I think that people will be tempted to use it, maybe bars.\"\n\nAlthough he says, its full influence will only go as far as humans will let it.\n\n\"A lot will be determined by the general public's willingness to accept AI or the quality of the music it can produce.\"\n\nHe doesn't think the majority of commercial music will be impacted, but highlights \"background\" music as an area at risk.\n\n\"With music on TV and films, I think the public will be much more willing to accept AI-generated music because there's no personality associated with it,\" he says.\n\n\"Whereas I think in bars and clubs, there's a certain amount of investment.\"\n\nLike many industries, the world of music has already been influenced by advances in technology.\n\nFor Nooriyah, this development is the same.\n\n\"Music has evolved rapidly over time. We went from tapes to CDs, to radio to streaming services, and at every level, there was a disruption. This is no different.\"\n\n\"We need to just recalibrate, find our footing and regulate things so it's an exciting collaborator rather than an enemy.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Nigel Farage says he has evidence that Coutts bank decided to close his account because his views \"do not align\" with their values.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, he said he had gained access to a report by the bank's wealth reputational risk committee via a subject access request.\n\nThe BBC previously reported that his account was being closed because he fell below the financial threshold.\n\nIn the Telegraph article, former UKIP leader Mr Farage says that the \"36-page\" document shows that he was targeted \"on personal and political grounds\".\n\nAccording to what the Telegraph says are minutes of a meeting of Coutts' wealth reputational risk committee held on November 17 2022, they read: \"The committee did not think continuing to bank NF [Nigel Farage] was compatible with Coutts given his publicly-stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation.\n\n\"This was not a political decision but one centred around inclusivity and purpose.\"\n\nHe also said there was a perception that he was regarded as \"racist and xenophobic\", which he called an \"appalling slur\".\n\nThe BBC has not seen the document.\n\nIn a video posted to his Twitter account, Mr Farage said he put in a subject access request because he wanted to establish the reason \"behind them closing the account\".\n\nHe said it read like \"a brief that you could give to a barrister ahead of a serious criminal trial\", and made several references to Brexit and Russia.\n\nHe added that the document said that closing his accounts for financial reasons was not justified because his \"economic contribution is now sufficient to retain on a commercial basis\".\n\nCoutts said: \"Our ability to respond is restricted by our obligations of client confidentiality.\n\n\"Decisions to close accounts are not taken lightly and take into account a number of factors including commercial viability, reputational considerations, and legal and regulatory requirements.\"\n\nLast month, Mr Farage went public with the fact that his account was being shut, and said he believed it was for political reasons. He later said he had been turned down by nine other lenders.\n\nBut people familiar with Coutts' move subsequently told the BBC it was a \"commercial decision\", and that the criteria for holding an account with the bank \"are clear from the bank's website\".\n\nCoutts requires its customers to borrow or invest at least £1m with the bank or hold £3m in savings.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that Mr Farage had reduced his business with the bank below its financial eligibility criteria.\n\nIn response, Mr Farage did not dispute the fact he did not meet Coutts' threshold, but added that the bank had not had a problem with it for the last 10 years.\n\nHe later tweeted that at \"no point\" had Coutts given him a minimum threshold.\n\nAmid the row, Andrew Griffith, economic secretary to the Treasury, wrote a letter to the Financial Conduct Authority calling for a review in to whether banks are closing accounts of those who are \"politically exposed\".\n\nSomeone classed as a politically exposed person, or PEP, generally presents a higher risk for financial institutions as their position makes them potentially vulnerable to bribery or corruption.\n\nMr Griffith said that while he recognised the importance of measures taken to prevent money laundering, \"it is crucial that an appropriate balance is struck\" so that elected officials and their families can access banking services.", "We are pausing our live coverage of Travis King, the US soldier who crossed the border from South Korea to the North without authorisation.\n\nIt's still unclear why he fled to North Korea. Pentagon officials are investigating the incident, and have said his safety is Washington's top concern.\n\nThere has been radio silence from Pyongyang and behind the scenes, officials are desperately trying to open communication lines.\n\nWe've learned from local media in the last few hours that King served two months in a South Korean jail on assault charges and was released on 10 July.\n\nHis mum has also told US television that she couldn't believe what her son what had done, and wished he was home in the US safe.\n\nOur writers on this page were Kelly Ng in Singapore and Ali Abbas Ahmadi in London, with editing by Ayeshea Perera and Joel Guinto.", "Attilio Scalisi: \"We are not prepared for this\" Image caption: Attilio Scalisi: \"We are not prepared for this\"\n\nThe streets of Palermo in Sicily are brimming with vitality, as tourists and locals bustle around the market and vendors sell arancini - deep-fried stuffed rice balls, a local speciality - and yell at each other from their stalls despite the extreme heat.\n\n\"We are at the front-line of a climate crisis,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nThe southernmost Italian region of Sicily is one of the hottest in Europe. This week it is grappling with a severe heatwave which has left its residents once again bewildered by the unpredictability of the weather.\n\n\"Summers have always been warm, but this heat is abnormal. Temperatures used to rise gradually, then reach their peak in the middle of August - but now it's all completely unpredictable,\" says Attilio.\n\n\"We have these sudden explosions of heat that last three or four days, or a week, with extreme temperatures rising, then dropping, then rising again.\n\n\"We are not prepared for this.\"\n\nChiara Mimì says people are to blame for climate change Image caption: Chiara Mimì says people are to blame for climate change\n\nWith temperatures expected to soar to record highs this week, locals find themselves confronting the harsh reality of climate change and its impact on their lives and the environment.\n\n\"Even flowers don't know when to bloom anymore,\" says Chiara Mimì, a tour guide who organises bike trips across the island.\n\n\"Climate change is also our fault. On the one hand we need to correct our habits and try to save our planet, on the other hand we need to adapt to this new normal, urgently.\"", "The former boss of McDonald's has been fined by the US financial watchdog for misleading investors about his firing in 2019.\n\nSteve Easterbrook has agreed to pay a $400,000 penalty, without admitting or denying the claims.\n\nThe fast food chain fired him after finding he had had a consensual relationship with an employee.\n\nAt the time, the Chicago-based firm said that he had \"violated company policy\".\n\nFurther investigation uncovered hidden relationships with other staff members.\n\nThe food giant prohibits \"any kind of intimate relationship between employees in a direct or indirect reporting relationship\".\n\nThe British businessman initially received more than $105m (£86m) as part of a severance package.\n\nBut following an investigation, the other relationships came to light.\n\nMcDonald's said had it been aware of this, it would not have approved the multimillion-dollar deal.\n\nIt launched legal action against Mr Easterbrook, accusing him of lying about sexual relationships with staff.\n\nIn December 2021, Mr Easterbrook returned the money and apologised for failing to uphold the firm's values.\n\nOn Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States said that he had made \"false and misleading statements to investors\".\n\nIt added: \"Easterbrook knew or was reckless in not knowing that his failure to disclose these additional violations of company policy prior to his termination would influence McDonald's disclosures to investors related to his departure and compensation.\"\n\nMcDonald's was also charged by the SEC with \"shortcomings\" in its public disclosures related to Easterbrook's firing.\n\nHowever, the agency said the firm had \"substantially co-operated\" with the investigation and would not be hit with any fines as a result.\n\nMcDonald's said the SEC order reinforced the fact it held Mr Easterbrook \"accountable for his misconduct\".\n\n\"We fired him, and then sued him upon learning that he lied about his behaviour,\" it said.\n\n\"The company continues to ensure our values are part of everything we do, and we are proud of our strong 'speak up' culture that encourages employees to report conduct by any employee, including the CEO, that falls short of our expectations.\"\n\nMr Easterbrook, a UK citizen who grew up in Watford, Hertfordshire, led McDonald's from March 2015 to November 2019, after previously leading its UK operations.\n\nHe was widely credited with revitalising the firm's menus, remodelling stores and using better ingredients. The value of its shares more than doubled during his tenure in the US.", "Three judges at the Court of Appeal reduced Foster's prison sentence on Tuesday\n\nA mother who was jailed for illegally taking abortion tablets to end her pregnancy during lockdown will be released from prison after the Court of Appeal reduced her sentence.\n\nCarla Foster, 45, admitted illegally procuring her own abortion when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant.\n\nA judge told her last month she would serve half her 28-month term in custody and the remainder on licence.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal reduced the term to 14 months suspended.\n\nDame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert at the London court on Tuesday, called it \"a very sad case\".\n\n\"It is a case that calls for compassion, not punishment,\" Dame Victoria said.\n\nFoster appeared at the hearing via a video link from Foston Hall prison, Derbyshire.\n\nThe mother-of-three from Staffordshire was jailed at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on 12 June.\n\nThe court heard she had moved back in with her ex-partner at the start of lockdown, while pregnant by another man.\n\nThe government has approved the use of pills by post for abortion treatment\n\nShe procured pills by post from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) after providing information that led staff to believe she was seven weeks pregnant.\n\nAlthough abortion is legal up to 24 weeks, after 10 weeks the procedure is carried out in a clinic.\n\nOn 11 May 2020, after she took the abortion pills, emergency services received a call to say she had gone into labour.\n\nThe baby was born not breathing during the call and pronounced dead about 45 minutes later.\n\nFoster was initially charged with child destruction, which she denied.\n\nShe later pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion, which was accepted by the prosecution.\n\nDame Victoria told the court there was \"no useful purpose\" served by detaining Foster in custody, and added her case had \"exceptionally strong mitigation\".\n\nFoster's barrister Barry White said there had been a lack of \"vital reports\" into his client's mental health and the pandemic had added to her existing anxiety.\n\nThe Court of Appeal also heard the prison had not allowed Foster any communication with her children during her 35-day incarceration, one of whom is autistic.\n\nMr White highlighted Foster had voluntarily revealed her actions to police, adding: \"Had she not done that, it is highly unlikely that she would have ever been prosecuted.\"\n\nRobert Price, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said the original sentence was not \"manifestly excessive\" and the judge had \"correctly made allowances for mitigating factors in this unusually sensitive case\".\n\nAs well as the 14-month suspended prison sentence, Foster will also have to complete up to 50 days of activity.\n\nIn response to the verdict, chief executive of the BPAS Clare Murphy said she was \"delighted\" the mother would be released from prison and called for a change to the law.\n\n\"The court of appeal has today recognised that this cruel, antiquated law does not reflect the values of society today,\" she said.\n\n\"Now is the time to reform abortion law so that no more women are unjustly criminalised for taking desperate actions at a desperate time in their lives.\"\n\nRight to Life UK, however, urged the government to reject legislation changes and called for a \"full inquiry\" into how BPAS had come to dispatch Foster's abortion pills.\n\n\"Campaigners, led by BPAS... are using this tragic case to call for the removal of more abortion safeguards and the introduction of abortion up to birth across the United Kingdom,\" said spokesperson Catherine Robinson.\n\n\"At at least 32 weeks or around eight months' gestation, [the baby] was a fully formed human child. If her mother had been given an in-person appointment by BPAS, she would still be alive,\" she added.\n\nAbortion is legal up to 24 weeks but, after 10 weeks, the procedure is carried out in a clinic\n\nStella Creasy MP tweeted decriminalisation was needed in abortion cases and called existing legislation \"archaic\".\n\n\"The relief that this woman can go home to be with her children is tempered by the knowledge there are more cases to come where women in England [are] being prosecuted and investigated,\" the Labour MP said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Death Valley, California, hit a US record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.6C) in 1913. One hundred years later tourists are tracking to the desert to be there when a new record breaks. But not everyone is in a mood to celebrate.", "Corrie Mckeague was based at RAF Honington in Suffolk\n\nThe mother of an airman who died after climbing into a commercial bin has spoken of her anger that more was not being done to stop similar tragedies.\n\nCorrie Mckeague was 23 when he disappeared in September 2016 after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.\n\nAn inquest last year concluded the RAF gunner died after getting into a bin which was tipped into a waste lorry.\n\nNicola Urquhart said she felt \"physically sick\" that locks had not been added to bins in the area.\n\nDespite extensive searches, including at a landfill site in Milton, near Cambridge, his body was never found.\n\nThe inquest jury concluded he died as a result of \"compression asphyxia in association with multiple injuries\".\n\nBiffa bins in the area Mr Mckeague is thought to have climbed into a bin now have \"danger of death\" and \"crush zone\" warning signs\n\nThe inquest jury also found Mr Mckeague's \"death was contributed to by impaired judgment due to alcohol consumption\".\n\nMrs Urquhart criticised Biffa Waste Services Ltd, which operate bins in that area, for not adding locks to the bins.\n\nShe said: \"It's infuriating. It does upset me because they've clearly learnt nothing.\"\n\nCorrie Mckeague went missing from Bury St Edmunds on 24 September 2016\n\nThe airman, from Dunfermline, Fife, was last seen on CCTV heading towards a bin loading area in Brentgovel Street. It is thought he climbed into one of Biffa's bins from behind a row of shops.\n\n\"What upset me so much this time is that Biffa have put stickers on some bins, not all of them, saying 'danger of death' and 'don't climb in bin'.\n\n\"To me it's just a public show and a waste of money.\"\n\nCCTV cameras showed Mr Mckeague going into the bin loading area and he was never seen coming out again\n\nInstead, she called on the company to refuse to pick up any bins that were unlocked, to force their customers to ensure bins were always locked.\n\nShe believed that would deter people from climbing into them in the first place.\n\nCorrie Mckeague went to this area where the bins were stored after a night out\n\n\"I know something needs to be done,\" she said.\n\n\"Clearly, this could happen again - they've learnt nothing.\"\n\nCorrie Mckeague, from Dunfermline, Fife, was based at RAF Honington which is about 10 miles (16km) north of Bury St Edmunds\n\nLast year a coroner raised concerns about bin safety, particularly around bin locks, in a prevention of future death report that followed the death of Mr Mckeague, who was based at RAF Honington in Suffolk.\n\nCoroner Nigel Parsley said if stronger locks were fitted, the number of reported incidents of people in bins was likely to be reduced.\n\nNicola Urquhart said she was angry and felt sick after she saw photos of unlocked bins in the area her son went missing\n\nA Biffa spokesman said the \"healthy, safety and wellbeing\" of staff, customers and members of the public was of \"critical importance\" and drivers undergo regular training about the risks of people in and around bins\".\n\n\"People seeking shelter in bins presents a challenge to the whole waste industry and we continue to work with our partners, colleagues and customers to address this issue,\" the spokesman said.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "Gen Syrskyi (L), seen here with President Volodymyr Zelensky, is leading Ukraine's renewed offensive in the east\n\n\"We'd like to get very fast results, but in reality it's practically impossible,\" says the man overseeing Ukraine's renewed offensive in the east.\n\nWe meet Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi at a secret location beside the command vehicle he uses to visit his troops and keep an eye on the battle. On top is a powerful machine gun. Inside, a large screen displays multiple live video feeds of the battlefield from hundreds of drones.\n\nLook up Gen Syrskyi online and you will see him described as \"the most successful general of the 21st Century so far\".\n\nIt's a lot to live up to.\n\nHe led the defence of Kyiv at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. He was the mastermind behind Ukraine's surprise and successful counter-attack in Kharkiv last summer. Now, he's head of military operations in eastern Ukraine - one of the two main axes in Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\nWe watch a feed of the heavily shell-scarred fields around Bakhmut, where some of his troops are trying to take back ground. I ask him if it's his goal to recapture the city? He smiles and says: \"Yes, of course. I try to do it.\"\n\nBut even he admits that, more than a month since it started, Ukraine's long-awaited offensive on multiple fronts is going slower than many had hoped.\n\nHe says in the east, just like the south, the area is saturated with mines and defensive barriers. The Russians, he says, have many strongholds: \"Therefore, our advances are really not going as fast as we would like.\"\n\nWe'd like to get very fast results. But in reality it's practically impossible\n\nBut Gen Syrskyi believes Ukraine still has one distinct advantage.\n\n\"I believe the unity of our military leadership and our soldiers' trust in each other is a strong point of our army.\"\n\nThat's in stark contrast to Russia's military hierarchy, which appears to be suffering from infighting, with senior officers being removed from command.\n\nGen Syrskyi is lionised by those around him, who admire his commitment, determination and cunning. Relaxation is a daily session in the gym. He sleeps for just four-and-a-half hours a night.\n\nTo the south and north of Bakhmut, Ukraine says it has retaken nearly 30 sq km (about 12 sq miles) of territory from the Russians.\n\nFor him recapturing Bakhmut is also \"a matter of honour\": \"We lost many of our brothers, our servicemen, when we were defending Bakhmut… therefore we simply have to return it.\"\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, told us that Russian forces in the city would soon be trapped. But artillery shells were still raining down on one Ukrainian position we visited just 3km from the city.\n\nAlex, one of the soldiers from Ukraine's 57th Brigade, describes the situation as \"tense\".\n\nHe points to a large crater created by a Russian artillery shell from earlier that morning. It landed just a few metres from his trench.\n\nShortly after, we too had to run for cover.\n\nFar away from the shelling, commanders in a deep bunker are co-ordinating the efforts to recapture Bakhmut.\n\nTwo months ago, when I was last here, Ukraine was losing ground and in danger of being encircled. Now, the tables have turned.\n\nCol Oleksandr Bakulin, commander of the 57th Brigade, tells me it's now the Russians who are in trouble.\n\nHe says he doesn't underestimate his enemy, but that the regular Russian troops he now faces are not like Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenaries who eventually captured the city earlier this year.\n\nWagner, he says, \"were uncomfortable enemies… they were killing for the sake of killing\".\n\n\"If we put in a bit of effort, Bakhmut could be encircled,\" Col Bakulin says. Contrary to conventional military wisdom, he also says his casualties in the offensive are fewer than when his unit was static, defending the city.\n\nMoving forward, albeit slowly, he says has also boosted morale so \"the losses are easier to bear\".\n\nFor the first time on the eastern front, the numbers of Ukrainian forces now match those of Russian troops - about 160,000. However, Ukraine is still outgunned by Russian artillery.\n\nM777 howitzers, supplied by the US, are already in position around Bakhmut\n\nCould the dynamics change with the arrival of US-supplied cluster munitions, which contain dozens of small bombs that can be sprayed out over a wider area? More than a hundred countries have banned them.\n\nCol Bakulin says they're needed to \"inflict maximum damage on enemy infantry\". \"The more infantry who die here, the more their relatives back in Russia will ask their government 'why?'\"\n\nBut, he adds: \"I can't say that cluster bombs will solve all our problems on the battlefield.\"\n\nHe also acknowledges they're a controversial weapon: \"If the Russians didn't use them, perhaps conscience would not allow us to do it too.\"\n\nGen Syrskyi confirmed that US cluster munitions had now arrived in Ukraine and would be ready to use within days. We saw the US-supplied M777 howitzers, which will fire the shells, already in position around Bakhmut.\n\nThe general says the city's recapture would have more than just symbolic value. He argues Bakhmut is also of strategic importance - as the gateway to other key cities in the region.\n\nBut, he says: \"Our people wait for victories. They need small victories.\"", "A senior Conservative MP has been criticised for saying Afghanistan has been \"transformed\" under the Taliban.\n\nIn a video posted from the country on Monday, former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said corruption was falling and security had \"vastly improved\".\n\nFellow Tory Mark Francois called the video \"bizarre\", whilst former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said it was not \"welcome\".\n\nDowning Street said it disagreed with Mr Ellwood's assessment.\n\nBut Mr Ellwood defended his comments, saying stability in the country was on a \"different level\" than during times of conflict.\n\nIn a BBC News interview, he added that it was time for the UK to establish diplomatic ties with the Taliban rather than \"shouting from afar\".\n\nBritish diplomatic and embassy staff were withdrawn after the Taliban's August 2021 takeover of the country after Western troops pulled out.\n\nMr Ellwood, who chairs the Commons defence select committee, tweeted his video during a trip to Helmand province with a landmine clearance charity.\n\nThe Bournemouth East MP said Afghanistan was \"a country transformed,\" with solar panels starting to appear \"everywhere\" whilst the country's opium trade \"all but disappeared\".\n\n\"This war-wary nation is for the moment accepting a more authoritarian leadership in exchange for stability,\" he added, whilst calling for the West to \"re-engage\" diplomatically.\n\nReopening the British embassy, he added, would be a way to \"incrementally\" encourage \"progressive changes\" in areas like girls' education and rights for female workers.\n\nHowever, in the Commons on Tuesday, Sir Iain said the video was \"not a very welcome statement to have made\" given the \"persecutions that have taken place in Afghanistan\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iain Duncan Smith and Johnny Mercer on Tobias Ellwood’s comments about Afghanistan being \"peaceful and stable\".\n\nMr Francois, who also sits on the defence committee, said the video \"made no mention of the fact that the Taliban is still attempting to identify and kill Afghan citizens who helped our armed forces, or of the fact that young girls in Afghanistan do not even have the right to go to school\".\n\nMr Ellwood, whose brother was killed by Islamists in the 2002 Bali bombings, said he wanted to ensure terrorism does not \"flourish\" in Afghanistan.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, he said he understood his comments would \"cause waves\", but he was pleased he had \"shone a light on a country that we ran away from\".\n\n\"The current strategy of us shouting from afar to try and effect the agenda in Afghanistan is not working,\" he said, adding that he was speaking an \"an individual MP\".\n\n\"We need to engage more directly, more robustly, and that can be done if we open up the [British] embassy\".", "Donald Trump has said he expects to be arrested by a federal inquiry into the US Capitol riot and efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.\n\nThe ex-president said in a social media post he had been informed by special counsel Jack Smith on Sunday night that he was a target of their investigation.\n\nMr Trump posted he had been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment\".\n\nThe special counsel has not commented on Mr Trump's statements.\n\nSuch an indictment would be Mr Trump's third for alleged criminal offences, including 37 counts brought by Mr Smith's team in June accusing the president of mishandling classified documents.\n\nMr Trump has also been charged in New York City with falsifying business records in 2016 hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.\n\nHe is due to stand trial in that case next March, while a date for the classified documents case is still being contested by the president's lawyers.\n\nSpeaking in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday night, the former president expressed his frustration at the latest development.\n\n\"I didn't know practically what a subpoena was and grand juries and all of this. Now I'm becoming an expert, I have no choice because we have to,\" he said at the campaign event. \"It's a disgrace.\"\n\nEarlier in a post on his Truth Social platform, Mr Trump claimed that he had been sent a letter \"stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment\".\n\nMr Smith was appointed special counsel by US Attorney General Merrick Garland shortly after Mr Trump announced his presidential campaign last autumn.\n\nHis team was tasked with investigating Mr Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving the White House and with managing a sprawling federal investigation into the riot at the US Capitol and attempts by Mr Trump and his advisers to \"interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election\".\n\nThe special counsel's office has not discussed what specific criminal violations they are considering. It is not known if others have been told they are a target.\n\nLast December, a House committee investigating the events of January 6 recommended four separate criminal charges be brought against the former president and his associates:\n\nThe Democratic-led committee - which included two Republicans - described the criminal referrals as a \"roadmap to justice\", but prosecutors do not have to follow a congressional committee's recommendations.\n\nMr Smith's own investigation has involved interviews with dozens of top Trump administration officials and advisers, including former Vice-President Mike Pence and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.\n\nAccording to public comments by some who have testified before the grand jury, questions have focused on efforts by Mr Trump's team to organise slates of \"fake electors\" who would claim that the former president had defeated Democrat Joe Biden in seven key battleground states.\n\nState prosecutors in Atlanta, Georgia, are also investigating the former president on similar grounds, focusing on whether he illegally pressured state officials there to discard Mr Biden's victory. In a December 2020 phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Mr Trump asked that Georgia officials \"find 11,780 votes\" that would flip the state to Mr Trump.\n\nA decision by Georgia prosecutors on whether to indict Mr Trump is expected next month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nMr Trump is currently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, with double-digit polling leads over his nearest rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.\n\nSpeaking to CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday, Gov DeSantis suggested Mr Trump \"could've come out more forcefully\" to stop the Capitol riots but said he hopes the former president \"doesn't get charged\".\n\n\"I don't think it'll be good for the country. But at the same time I've got to focus on looking forward, and that's what we're gonna do,\" said Gov DeSantis.\n\nMr Trump's lead over his Florida rival has grown over the course of the past four months, even as his first two indictments were announced.\n\nHe has frequently painted the investigations - and indictments - as an attempt by his political opponents to prevent him from returning to the White House.\n\nThe former president's team has said that both indictments led to a surge in fundraising for his campaign. In recently released figures, Mr Trump raised more than $17m (£13m) for his campaign from April to June, with millions more directed to an account that could be used to help finance his legal defence.", "Cyclists compete at the 2022 Commonwealth games in the UK\n\nThe 2026 Commonwealth Games are in doubt after the Australian state of Victoria cancelled its plans to host due to budget blowouts.\n\nThe Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) struggled to find a host before Victoria volunteered in April 2022.\n\nBut the premier said the projected cost had now tripled and become \"well and truly too much\" for the state to bear.\n\nThe CGF called the decision \"hugely disappointing\" and said it is \"committed to finding a solution\".\n\nThe Commonwealth Games are a multi-sport tournament that take place every four years. They have only ever been cancelled during World War Two.\n\nTo be eligible to participate in the games, competitors must be from one of over 70 nations or territories - many of which were once part of the British Empire.\n\nVictorian Premier Daniel Andrews said on Tuesday that his state had been \"happy to help out\" when approached to host last year, but \"not at any price\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson says it is 'important we do not lose' the Commonwealth Games after the 2026 host pulled out.\n\nDowning Street said the cancellation was \"disappointing\" for fans and athletes.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesman said the UK government hoped \"a viable solution\" could be found by the Australian authorities and the CGF.\n\nHe rejected a claim the move was a sign of the decline of the Commonwealth as a whole, suggesting the King's coronation showed \"the strength of the Commonwealth and commitment of countries to it\".\n\nOrganisers had originally estimated the event - hosted across cities including Geelong, Bendigo and Ballarat - would cost A$2.6bn (£1.4bn; $1.8bn) and the state government had billed it as a boost for the regions.\n\nBut now the 12-day tournament was expected to cost more than A$6 billion (£3.13bn; $4.09bn), Mr Andrews said, adding that the new figure was \"more than twice the estimated economic benefit\" it would bring to Victoria.\n\n\"I've made a lot of difficult calls, a lot of very difficult decisions in this job. This is not one of them,\" he told a press conference.\n\n\"That is all cost and no benefit.\"\n\nThe government will still complete the stadium upgrades it had promised ahead of the games, while using the money it is now saving on housing and tourism initiatives.\n\nMr Andrew said the government had considered \"every option\" including moving the games to Melbourne, before informing CGF of their decision.\n\n\"Amicable and productive\" meetings had occurred in London overnight, he added.\n\nBut in a statement on Tuesday, the governing body said they were blindsided by the decision.\n\n\"We are disappointed that we were only given eight hours' notice and that no consideration was given to discussing the situation to jointly find solutions,\" it said in a statement.\n\nCGF said the estimate of A$6bn is double the figure they were advised of at a board meeting last month, and that the increase in costs were due to the \"unique regional delivery model\" that Victoria chose for the games.\n\nThe government had made decisions to include more sports and changed plans for venues, often against the advice of the CGF and its Australian arm, all of which added \"considerable expense\", it said.\n\nVictorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto said the decision is a \"massive humiliation\" for the state, and \"hugely damaging\" for its reputation as a global events leader.\n\nThe chief executive of Commonwealth Games Australia agreed, saying the cited cost blowout was a \"gross exaggeration\" and that it would try to find another Australian host for the 2026 games.\n\nMeanwhile, athletes have expressed frustration at the cancellation of the games, which many view as a valuable training ground ahead of the Olympics.\n\nDelicious Orie, a super-heavyweight boxer who won gold for England at the 2022 games, told the BBC he was \"devastated\" by the news, adding that the event had put him on the \"right trajectory\" to further success.\n\n\"It was my first multi-sport event and it replicated the Olympics and the Olympic Games in how it operates,\" he recalled.\n\n\"The media coverage and everything was just perfect for me and it set me up nicely for what I've got coming up next year and so on; its just put me in a very good position.\"\n\nThe games also host several non-Olympic sports, such as netball. Ex-England captain Ama Agbeze predicted that the cancellation could have a serious impact on sports like hers.\n\n\"I think probably the sport will lose lots of people who potentially would go on to play at the top level, but also who would start playing at grassroots level,\" she said.\n\n\"Obviously if there is an impact at grassroots level that impacts the top level anyway, so all around it's detrimental for the game.\"\n\nAled Sion Davies, who won Commonwealth gold for Wales in the discus at Birmingham last year, said the news is \"heartbreaking\".\n\nBaroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, whose glittering career saw her win 11 Paralympic gold medals, said the Commonwealth Games are something special to be part of, adding it is \"important we do not lose\" them.\n\nPeople from the Victorian capital, Melbourne, have had a mixed reaction to the decision.\n\nOne woman, Lauren Rogers, said she was disappointed with the decision as she thought the games would bring more money into the state, and another, Kayley Martinez said she thought \"Victoria would be such a great host of the games\".\n\nBut another man, David, said he was \"relieved\" by the decision to not host them in Victoria.\n\n\"They build a lot of infrastructure that then doesn't get used later... I'm happy for the government to be able to change its mind sometimes if something's blown out its budget,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAustralia has held the Commonwealth Games five times - including on the Gold Coast in 2018 and in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in 2006 - but all of the country's states on Tuesday ruled out picking up the event.\n\nNew Zealand authorities also say they will not take on the games.\n\nOrganisers have had great difficulty finding viable tournament hosts in recent years.\n\nThe South African city of Durban was originally set to stage the 2022 games, but were stripped of hosting rights in 2017 after running into money troubles and missing key deadlines. Birmingham agreed to host nine months later.\n\nCGF had originally hoped to name a host for the 2026 games in 2019, but several hopeful bidders withdrew from the process due to cost concerns, leaving it unable to lock in Victoria as the hosts until 2022.\n\nCorrection 21 August 2023: This article was amended after we wrongly suggested that only competitors from one of 56 Commonwealth members could enter. Competitors from territories are also eligible, making 72 nations and territories in all.", "Daniel Morgan was found with an axe in his head outside the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south-east London\n\nThe Met Police is in talks regarding a payout to the family of murdered private detective Daniel Morgan.\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he could not confirm a figure as he was \"legally bound\" for the next few days.\n\nHe also spoke of efforts to transform the Met's culture, which he said included the removal of more officers.\n\nMr Morgan, 37, was found with an axe in his head in the car park of a pub in Sydenham, south-east London, in 1987.\n\nNo-one has been convicted over the father-of-two's killing, since which there have been five inquiries and an inquest, at an estimated cost of more than £40m.\n\nThe Met has previously admitted corruption hampered the original murder investigation and apologised to Mr Morgan's family. A panel found in 2021 that the Met repeatedly covered up its failings.\n\nThe force's first objective in the case had been to protect itself, said Baroness O'Loan, the head of the independent panel.\n\nSir Mark also told Today that the force was undergoing the \"biggest doubling down on standards\" in 50 years.\n\n\"I've been really clear about bearing down on standards. The majority of my officers want that, they're reporting more cases, and we're having a big effect,\" Sir Mark said of the force's internal culture, which has come in for widespread criticism in the wake of various scandals.\n\nHe added: \"We've got more officers reporting allegations over the last six months than ever before.\n\n\"We've got more investigations. We're removing more officers from the organisation.\n\n\"So that's the doubling-down effect that we're seeing. It's going to take some time and I spoke publicly about this. You're going to see a couple of cases a week appearing in court.\"\n\nHe added that, historically, the Met Police had removed about 50 officers a year but said it was now projected to be \"a lot more than that\".\n\n\"There are hundreds who need removing. And we're working our way through those hundreds.\"\n\nSir Mark also spoke about the force's use of the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to assess the 35,000 offenders reported each year for crimes against females.\n\nThe index is described as the first system to measure the seriousness of a crime's harm to victims, rather than just catalogue the number of recorded offences. Previously, it has only been used in the spheres of terrorism and organised crime.\n\nThe system gathers data on tens of thousands of men recently convicted of domestic assault, rape, sex offences, stalking and harassment to identify the 100 who pose the highest risk to the public.\n\nSir Mark said: \"We are going to be much more proactive going after repeat offenders.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "It will be \"His Majesty\" whose name appears on UK passports from this week\n\nThe first British passports issued in King Charles's name are being released this week, the Home Office has said.\n\nPassports will now use the wording \"His Majesty\", with the era finally ending for passports using \"Her Majesty\", for the late Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe last time \"His Majesty\" appeared on a passport was in the reign of King George VI, which ended in 1952.\n\nFive million passports have been issued already this year under the name of the late Queen.\n\nThe one person who will not need a passport is the King himself. By convention the monarch does not have to carry a passport to travel, because it is a document issued in his own name.\n\nThe updated passports are the latest stage in the gradual transition in reigns, with stamps and some coins now carrying the King's head. Banknotes will begin to change next year.\n\nSince the late Queen's death last September there has been a steady process of switching to images and insignia of the new King, with an emphasis on using up existing stocks rather than having an abrupt change.\n\nIt will be the same for passports, with any existing supplies with \"Her Majesty\" being used until they run out, alongside the arrival of the new version.\n\nThe new passports will now carry the words: \"His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of His Majesty...\"\n\nBut the previous \"Her Majesty\" passports will also continue to be valid until their expiry date.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said: \"For 70 years, Her Majesty has appeared on British passports and many of us will not remember a time when she did not feature. Today marks a significant moment in UK history.\"\n\nAfter problems with delays to issuing passports last year and industrial action this year, the Home Office says 99% of passports are being issued within 10 weeks of application.\n\nUK passports in their modern form, with photo and signature, have been issued since 1915, with the first security watermark being added in 1972 and machine-readable passports introduced in 1988.\n\nIn 2020, after leaving the European Union, UK passports changed from a burgundy colour, used since 1988, to dark blue.\n\nThis was described as returning to an \"iconic blue\", which prompted arguments on social media over the colour of new and old passports, with debates over whether the pre-EU and post-EU versions were really blue or black.\n\nGet the latest royal news from our weekly free newsletter - sign up here.", "Former longtime BBC Radio 2 presenter Ken Bruce now appears on Greatest Hits Radio\n\nKen Bruce's Greatest Hits Radio show is being investigated by Ofcom over the station's campaign calling for offenders to be prevented from refusing to attend sentencing hearings.\n\nThe broadcasting watchdog said on Monday it would look at whether the station had complied with rules around impartiality and accuracy.\n\nThis year's Face the Family petition has been made directly to Parliament.\n\nIt was mentioned by a newsreader on Bruce's show on 13 April.\n\nThe broadcast also included clips in support of the campaign which directed listeners to a website.\n\nThe petition, signed by more than 13,000 people, was broadcast more than 30 times on the station, calling for new laws to \"require offenders to be in court for sentencing, to give victims and their families every chance to witness justice be delivered\".\n\nIt was explained that this could involve court and prison staff being \"given powers to use reasonable force to get offenders into the dock - as they do to transfer them from a court to prison.\"\n\nOfcom's spokesperson said the watchdog \"does not seek to question the merits\" of the campaign, which was broadcast more than 30 times on the radio station.\n\nBut they also noted how broadcasters are excluded from expressing views on \"political and industrial controversy or current public policy\".\n\nA Bauer spokesperson said: \"We are working with Ofcom to better understand the investigation into the Face the Family campaign, which ran in news bulletins in two local areas of the UK.\n\n\"The series is the latest in our tradition of local campaign journalism, which helps people who feel unheard have a voice. We are confident in our journalism and are committed to helping Ofcom with its investigation.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk this month said he was committed to proposals to introduce legislation so that convicted criminals would have to appear in court for their sentencing.\n\nSpeaking to ITV News, he said he was \"looking at what levers are open to us - whether you're talking about physically forcing people to court, or giving people an additional sentence as a result. We are looking very hard at this.\"\n\nIt comes after the killer of Zara Aleena in east London, Jordan McSweeney, refused to attend his sentencing, something her family described as \"a slap in the face\".\n\nThomas Cashman would not face the family of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel either, as he was jailed for life for her murder in Liverpool.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA period of intense heat is continuing to sweep southern Europe and extreme conditions are expected to intensify further in the days ahead.\n\nItaly, Spain, Turkey and Greece - hugely popular with holidaymakers and expats from Northern Ireland - are among the countries worst affected.\n\nThe heatwave is expected to continue into next week.\n\nBBC News NI has been hearing how some people from Northern Ireland who are in Europe are dealing with the heat.\n\nMark Regan and family are holidaying in Italy, one of the worst affected countries\n\nMark Regan from Templepatrick in County Antrim is on holiday with his family in Italy where the government has issued red alerts for 16 cities.\n\nMark described being \"absolutely baked\" while visiting Pompeii.\n\n\"The worst bit is trying to do tourist attractions - go get the tickets, lots of walking etc. The sweat is literally dripping off you,\" Mark told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We were expecting it to be warmer [than usual] but this is something different. We're force feeding ourselves water to keep hydrated - you really have to remember to keep drinking.\"\n\nAn in-shop air conditioner provides a means of escape from the heat for Mark Regan\n\nMark said he felt the holiday heat was \"just on the borderline of safe\" and that he would be happy to return to Italy next year.\n\n\"I think we can still enjoy it,\" he said. \"But, of course, enjoy it safely.\"\n\nFormer Irish league footballer Brian Russell is on holiday in the Costa Del Sol, where he said he is \"absolutely roasting\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brian Russell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Fifty per cent of people under parasols, the other 50% in the swimming pool, my flip flops just melted,\" the former Crusaders and Glentoran striker tweeted on Monday.\n\nStacy Fitzpatrick from Londonderry is also in Spain. She lives in the capital of Madrid where she owns a bar.\n\nOn Monday temperatures there peaked at 43C, she said.\n\n\"The biggest problem is sleeping. It is so difficult to sleep because the temperature isn't at its lowest until 7am - then it's in the mid to high 20s, and it starts to gradually increase again,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle's The North West Today programme.\n\n\"So you are sleeping in plus-30C. It is very difficult, sweating constantly. It leaves you very tired.\"\n\nStacy Fitzpatrick says sleeping is difficult as the temperature does not dip to its lowest until morning\n\nAfter a similar weather pattern in the summer of 2022, Stacy said perhaps the extreme heat should now be viewed as \"the standard climate for Spain in the summer\".\n\nIt is changing how people behave too, she said.\n\nCustomers are now only coming out much later in the evening - post-9pm is now the norm.\n\nAny earlier in the day \"it is too uncomfortable - you are seeing many businesses and bars empty\".\n\nDavid Graham says temperatures in Turkey - where he runs an animal sanctuary - have been \"brutal\"\n\nDavid Graham, originally from Coleraine in County Londonderry, has been living in Turkey for two years.\n\nHe runs an animal sanctuary in Dalyan on the country's south-west coast.\n\nOn Monday evening at 18:30 local time the temperature was 38C.\n\n\"The temperatures were brutal on Friday and Saturday and it is to be hotter again in the week ahead,\" he said.\n\nThat means more runs across town to the 30 feeding stations the sanctuary provides for cats and dogs.\n\n\"We have a lot of sick, dehydrated animals due to the heat. It is really tough in this heat,\" said David.\n\nJustine Acar says it is too hot to get in the pool in Turkey\n\nJustine Acar is originally from Belfast but has also lived in Turkey for a number of years.\n\n\"The news keeps mentioning Europe but Turkey is possibly even worse. Our car registered 46C on Saturday. It's too hot to swim,\" she said.\n\nGavin McLaughlin, from Limavady in County Londonderry, has been teaching in the Italian city of Milan for two years.\n\nIt lies further north than the worst-affected areas of southern Italy.\n\n\"Milan isn't on the red list at the moment,\" Gavin told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Last week, though, I was in Sorrento for a holiday - it was 37C.\n\n\"If you are by the pool or beach it's OK but aside from that people are just running to find shade and avoid the sun as much as possible.\"\n\nGavin McLaughlin says Milan has escaped the extreme heat being experienced in southern Italy\n\nHe said the Italians were much more acclimatised to the heat. In Milan, the city becomes \"like a ghost town\" during the months of August and July when locals head to the coast or to lakes.\n\nIn issuing the red alerts the authorities are probably \"more concerned with the tourists coming over at this time\", said Gavin.\n\nPeriods of intense heat occur within natural weather patterns but globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global warming.\n\nLast month was the hottest June on record, according to the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nThe heatwave affecting the Mediterranean could continue into August, according to the UN agency the World Meteorological Organization.\n\nThe UN weather agency has said extreme weather is \"increasingly frequent in our warming climate\" and underlines the need to cut emissions.", "A multi-million dollar settlement has been reached in a fatal boat crash involving the family of disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh.\n\nRelatives of Mallory Beach, 19, who died when the vessel hit a bridge support, will receive $15m (£11.4m) under the agreement.\n\nThe boat belonged to convicted murderer and ex-attorney Murdaugh.\n\nOfficials believe it was being driven by his drunk son, Paul, at the time of the February 2019 crash.\n\nThe convenience store that sold Paul the alcohol and Alex Murdaugh were defendants in the wrongful death lawsuit.\n\nAll legal action connected to the crash was settled on Sunday, lawyers said.\n\nA further $3m will be split between four other teenage passengers who were on the boat - Anthony Cook, Morgan Doughty, Miley Altman and Connor Cook - reports CBS 17.\n\nEarlier this year, a jury convicted Alex Murdaugh of murdering his wife, Margaret, and 22-year-old Paul in June 2021. The trial involving the well-known legal dynasty in South Carolina gripped the US.\n\nAlex Murdaugh (right) murdered his wife, Maggie, and his youngest son Paul in June 2021\n\nProsecutors argued that Murdaugh killed them to divert attention from his financial crimes and gain sympathy. He was sentenced to life in prison.\n\nAt the time of his death, Paul Murdaugh was facing three criminal charges over the boat crash, including boating under the influence resulting in death. He pleaded not guilty, but his father killed him before he could face trial.\n\nAll of the survivors except Paul testified that it had been him behind the wheel at the time of impact. A blood test later found his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit.\n\nA police report said the passengers were \"grossly intoxicated\" and alcohol was found on the boat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison\n\nPaul allegedly used his older brother's ID to buy alcohol from a shop owned by Parker's Corporation earlier that day.\n\n\"The Beach family believes this settlement will serve as a warning to all the Parker's of the world, who might make an illegal sale of alcohol to a minor,\" a family lawyer said.\n\nParker's said in a statement: \"This marks the conclusion of all the boat crash cases. We sincerely hope that all involved parties will find some measure of closure.\"\n\nThe victims of the crash will also receive a share of the court-controlled assets of Alex Murdaugh, though that sum has not yet been determined, said the Beach family attorney.", "Steven Wilkinson (pictured) was a former friend of Jamie Mitchell\n\n\"He'd never even had a girlfriend, so he'd never experienced love. His life was just beginning.\"\n\nSteven Wilkinson was 23 when he was chased through the streets of Buckley, Flintshire, and stabbed by a man who used to be his friend.\n\nAs his mother Lisa reflected on how he went out to watch football and never came home, she called for changes to how knife crime is tackled.\n\nJamie Mitchell, 25, is serving life for his murder following a trial in April.\n\nDescribing how her son's life was \"stolen\" away, Lisa said: \"He was amazing. He was unique. You would never meet another boy like him.\"\n\nShe moved to Buckley from Liverpool with her family 10 years ago, believing it would give her children somewhere safe to grow up.\n\nNow, she walks the streets of Flintshire with family and friends, urging people to sign a petition calling for a discussion on knife crime in parliament.\n\nShe is hoping to gain 10,000 signatures - enough to trigger a debate between MPs.\n\nMore than 1,500 crimes involving knives or sharp instruments were recorded by police forces in Wales last year, up 3% on 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nJessica and Lisa Wilkinson are campaigning for changes\n\nDuring the trial, jury members heard that Mitchell began carrying a knife after his house was attacked.\n\nThey also heard how his friendship with his victim ended when he began dating Steven's sister, Jessica.\n\nSteven was \"pursued, cornered and intentionally stabbed\" by Mitchell, with Judge Rhys Rowlands saying the crime was another example of what happens when \"inadequate young men such as yourself take knives onto the streets\".\n\n\"For your son to go out to watch the football, and not come home... you don't think it's going to happen to you,\" Lisa said.\n\n\"Until this I didn't realise how bad it is, knife crime. There's innocent lads, girls, kids being murdered every day. It's not fair.\"\n\nA shrine for Steven has been created at the family home\n\nThe group calling for change took their campaign to Nottingham after three people were stabbed to death in the city centre in one incident last month.\n\nSteven's younger sister Jessica said the impact of her brother's death had been devastating.\n\n\"I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It's only ever been me, my mum and my nan and my brother. If I ever have babies, they'll never have an uncle,\" she said.\n\n\"I'll never have the support of my brother.\"\n\nJamie Mitchell was sentenced to 22 years in prison for murdering Steven Wilkinson\n\nShe believes the only way the problem will be solved is through awareness and education.\n\nJessica added: \"People who take knives out - they don't realise the consequences. He [Mitchell] has ruined everything. He's ruined my whole family, and more.\"\n\nThe Wilkinson family is being supported by their friend, Edwin Duggan, who is also working on another campaign, known as Jade's Law, which would remove parental rights from convicted murderers.\n\nHe said he felt moved to help because not enough was being done to prevent knife crime.\n\n\"Lots of local police forces are doing their own initiatives, but what there isn't, is a coordinated national effort, in order to educate children, in order to educate the police forces in how they deal with fighting knife crime,\" Mr Duggan said.\n\n\"The only solution, I think, is to create a dedicated minister to actually tackle this issue alone.\"\n\nFor Lisa, Steven's death has left her not wanting to get out of bed some days, but she said the campaign gives her focus.\n\n\"We need to get awareness out there... getting it in to little kids (that) it's wrong. If we can save lives, we need to do it,\" she added.\n\n\"Steven didn't deserve what happened to him. His life was just beginning... and it's been stolen.\n\n\"I look at my son's picture... if I can do it in his name, that's what I need to do.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"We continue to do everything in our power to tackle knife crime.\n\n\"Since 2019, we have removed over 100,000 knives and offensive weapons from our streets through stop and search, surrender initiatives and other targeted police action.\n\n\"We are also providing police forces with additional resources to tackle crime and, since 2019, have invested £170m into the development of violence reduction units in the 20 areas worst affected by serious violence.\n\n\"This is alongside a further £170m to fund additional, targeted police patrols in the streets and neighbourhoods most affected.\"", "McDonald's workers are so young that most of them were at school when the MeToo movement burst into life.\n\nIt was 2017 when the New York Times published its first story about the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. The scandal and his eventual imprisonment for rape and sexual assault led to people around the world opening up about their own experiences of sexual harassment.\n\nSince then, the stories have tended to follow the same trajectory: a powerful man in a powerful place is brought low because of his behaviour towards female and sometimes male colleagues.\n\nThe scalp-collecting receives so much media attention you could be forgiven for thinking that the MeToo reckoning is reaching every corner of our society. After all, CEOs have workplace culture on their radars like never before.\n\nYet, here we are, six years on, and teenage McDonald's workers are telling us that behind the counter they're facing a hostile environment.\n\nMcDonald's doesn't run its restaurants - the overwhelming majority are franchises - but there's a limit to the room for manoeuvre given to these businesses. The Corporation requires them to ensure \"uniformity and commitment\" to the McDonald's brand. In other words, a customer can expect the same experience, the same quality of service, in every McDonald's restaurant in the country.\n\nTo achieve this uniformity, corporate HQ imposes strict rules on how these companies operate. There are inspections to make sure that each store is complying.\n\nThe question then is this: if they can ensure that a burger tastes the same whether you're in Carlisle or Canterbury why can't McDonald's ensure that every restaurant is imposing a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment?\n\nCorporate HQ says it takes sexual harassment seriously, and there are lots of policies in place. For example: there's the training that's been rolling out for all the employees since the beginning of the year. There's a confidential staff survey and a helpline that people can call.\n\nBut our investigation raises questions over whether McDonald's is in danger of relying too much on young crew members to speak up.\n\nWhen we first contacted McDonald's employees, they were incredibly nervous about talking to us. It wasn't just that they were worried about losing their jobs - they were also scared of being found out to be a snitch. Over four months we travelled the country to meet them and build trust. We promised anonymity if they would talk. Over four months we spoke to more than 100 employees who wanted to tell their stories. But in the end, we could only convince a handful to go on the record.\n\nIt's hardly surprising they're scared. Many join McDonald's at 16. It's their first ever job. They're supposed to respect authority. Yet too often, we're told, the people in charge are not behaving like the grown-ups in the room.\n\nAnd the rooms are small. That's the other striking thing about this story. We're not talking about department stores here - we were told repeatedly about how cramped the kitchens can be. In such tight spaces, it's hard to believe that a store manager can't get a pretty good idea, pretty quickly, of how staff are treating each other. In a statement McDonald's told the BBC there was \"simply no place for harassment, abuse, or discrimination\" at the company.\n\nOur interviewee, 18-year-old Shelby from Berkshire, gave her verdict: If McDonald's was really serious about sexual harassment, they'd do something about it.\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tim Davie explains why he believes that internal BBC complaints are handled properly\n\nThe BBC was under \"huge pressure\" to reveal that Huw Edwards was the presenter facing media allegations last week, its acting chairwoman has said.\n\nA Sun story about an unnamed presenter who had allegedly paid a teenager for explicit photos sparked a media storm.\n\nThe BBC board held two emergency meetings in the next two days, acting chair Dame Elan Closs Stephens said.\n\n\"We had a duty to act with some calm and rationality in the face of lack of rationality and lack of calm.\"\n\nThe claims began when the Sun newspaper reported that a mother had accused the News at Ten presenter of paying their teenage child tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos, which they said the young person spent on drugs.\n\n\"There were an awful lot of questions that could not be answered,\" Dame Elan told a House of Lords committee on Tuesday.\n\n\"There was a huge pressure to disclose the name of somebody to whom we had a duty of care and a duty of privacy, in addition to the family and young [person] that were concerned in this maelstrom.\n\n\"So I was, on the one hand, seeking to establish the right of the board to oversee what was happening. But at the same time, I was trying my best to make for a calm and rational discussion of the issue before we all got carried away in what could have been very wrong directions.\"\n\nDirector general Tim Davie said the the BBC was carrying out a \"fact-finding investigation\"\n\nAfter five days, Edwards' wife Vicky Flind disclosed on Wednesday that he was the presenter at the centre of the allegations.\n\nShe also revealed he was in hospital after the situation had brought on a \"serious\" mental health episode, and said he would address the allegations when he is well enough to do so.\n\nFollowing the Sun's original reports, the young person later denied the claims through their lawyer, and police said they found no evidence of criminal activity.\n\nMeanwhile, other people came forward with claims of inappropriate behaviour.\n\nThe BBC has now resumed its own internal investigation.\n\nDirector general Tim Davie told the House of Lords communications and digital committee: \"We're in the process of looking at those facts, and we're keen to receive any information, because we just want to understand anything that's out there.\"\n\nThe BBC had tried to balance \"difficult concerns around the allegations themselves, duty of care, privacy, and legitimate public interest\", he said, adding that it has been \"a difficult affair.\"\n\nMr Davie also said BBC executives had been in touch with the complainant since the allegations were first reported.\n\n\"Obviously we want to be engaged, and appropriately listening, and understanding [their] concerns,\" he said.\n\nThe family originally contacted the organisation in May, and the BBC has been criticised for the speed of its response to their complaint.\n\nBoth Mr Davie and Dame Elan became aware of the allegations seven weeks later, the day before the Sun published its first story.\n\nThe director general said the BBC's \"protocols and procedures\" were now being reviewed, and that he had \"immediately\" asked for a \"quick look\" at how \"red flags\" are raised when allegations are made.\n\nBeyond the Edwards situation, the director general was asked whether all high-profile and highly-paid presenters had a responsibility to uphold the BBC's reputation.\n\n\"Of course,\" he replied. \"The history of this industry is such that we should all be concerned and appropriately diligent around the abusive people in powerful positions.\n\n\"Certainly you have a dynamic when you've got presenters or people in power... you need to ensure that you're very, very clear about what your expectations are culturally as well as the policy.\"\n\nThe BBC had done \"really good work\" in having a \"really clear code of conduct\" and reminding staff of the organisation's values, he added.", "Temperatures in southern Europe are expected to peak on Tuesday, as a days-long heatwave continues.\n\nFirefighters have been battling wildfires in countries across the region, including in Spain, Greece, and Switzerland.", "Crisis-hit Chinese property giant Evergrande has revealed that in 2021 and 2022 it lost a combined 581.9bn yuan ($81.1bn; £62bn).\n\nThe firm, which defaulted on its debts in late-2021, reported its long overdue earnings to investors in Hong Kong.\n\nEvergrande has been struggling with an estimated $300bn (£229bn) of debts.\n\nThe huge losses highlight how much the developer was rocked in recent years by the property market crisis in the world's second largest economy.\n\nIn filings to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late on Monday, the company said it lost 476bn yuan in 2021 and 105.9bn yuan last year.\n\nThat came as revenue more than halved over the two-year period.\n\nEvergrande said the losses were due to a number of reasons, including the falling value of properties and other assets as well as higher borrowing costs.\n\nShares in the firm, which was once China's top-selling property developer, have been suspended from trading since March last year.\n\nChina's real estate industry was rocked when new rules to control the amount big real estate firms could borrow were introduced in 2020.\n\nThe following year, Evergrande missed a crucial deadline and failed to repay interest on around $1.2bn of international loans.\n\nIts financial problems have rippled through the country's property industry, with a series of other developers defaulting on their debts and leaving unfinished building projects across the country.\n\nEarlier this year, Evergrande laid out plans to restructure around $20bn in overseas debt.\n\nThe company racked up debts of more than $300bn as it expanded aggressively to become one of China's biggest companies.\n\nOver the last decade and a half the company's expansion encompassed a wide range of industries including sports, entertainment and electric car making.\n\nIn 2010, Evergrande took control of Guangzhou FC and changed its name to Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao FC.\n\nWith an infusion of new money, the squad was strengthened and it immediately won promotion to the top tier of Chinese football. From 2011 it won the Chinese Super League title eight times, including seven seasons in a row.\n\nLast year, the club was relegated from the Super League, while Evergrande's plans for a $1.8bn stadium were shelved. The club has also reverted to its previous name - Guangzhou FC.", "Ukraine's then-president described Tony Blair as a \"sincere friend\" of his country in the archived documents\n\nTony Blair was urged to back Ukraine's dream to join the EU to form a barrier against Russian threats, newly released records from his time as PM show.\n\nHis special Europe adviser told him Kyiv wanted a \"special relationship... if only we would show more interest,\" the National Archives reveal.\n\nUkraine's then-president, Leonid Kuchma, also wrote to Mr Blair appealing for his support.\n\nBut Nato has refused to give Kyiv a timeline for membership.\n\nAccording to the documents dating back more than 20 years, Mr Kuchma appealed directly to then-prime minister Mr Blair to back Ukraine's long-term goal of \"full-scale European and Euro-Atlantic integration, including the full-fledged EU membership\".\n\nIt had been barely a decade since Ukraine gained independence in 1991 and President Kuchma, in power since 1994, added in a handwritten note that he pinned great hopes on Mr Blair, as a \"sincere friend\" of Ukraine... on your personal support in this exceptionally important issue\".\n\nMr Kuchma had first declared Ukraine's intention to join the EU in 1998, but there was little enthusiasm for it in Germany or France. One of the biggest stumbling blocks was that Ukraine was beset with corruption and its businesses run by powerful oligarchs.\n\nFor all his Western leanings, Mr Kuchma's own government was tainted by the gruesome 2000 murder of a journalist, Georgiy Gongadze, who was one of the Ukrainian leader's biggest public critics. Mr Kuchma has always denied complicity in his death.\n\nAccording to the newly released documents, Roger Liddle, who served as an adviser to Mr Blair on European affairs, said immediate EU or Nato membership was unlikely but he urged the prime minister to become more engaged.\n\nAfter July 2001 talks in Crimea, 13 years before it was seized by Russia, he wrote to the prime minister: \"Strengthening Ukraine's shaky democracy and economy increases stability on the EU's future eastern borders and acts as a formidable barrier to any resurgence of Russian imperialism to the West.\"\n\nBy December 2001, after a Ukrainian delegation had taken part in talks in the UK, Mr Liddle said the Ukrainians were \"depressed... that most of Europe and the new US administration is running them down\".\n\nGeorge W Bush had become US president that year, and had decided that Russia's Vladimir Putin was a \"very straightforward and trustworthy\" leader. The 9/11 attacks were very recent and the US needed Russian support to enable the military campaign to go ahead in Afghanistan.\n\nOther stories from the National Archives:\n\nUkraine's Leonid Kuchma repeatedly pressed the EU for membership, here with EU Commissioner Chris Patten\n\nKataryna Wolczuk, professor of East European politics at the University of Birmingham, believes that by 2001 UK leaders had little concern about Russia's future plans for Ukraine, as President Putin was \"still in his Euro-Atlantic ally mood\".\n\nAfter the talks at Chevening with the Ukrainians, Roger Liddle's conclusion was: \"We have too rosy a view of Putin (who according to them is a clever, presentable power politician, but no democratic hero). And we rubbish Ukraine.\"\n\nProf Wolczuk argues that President Kuchma and his entourage were instinctively pro-European: \"They knew they couldn't trust Putin and Russia, and yet the system Kuchma presided over was a hostage of that system.\"\n\nThe archive documents also show support for Ukraine's position from the UK's ambassador to Kyiv, Roland Smith, who cautioned against a proposal by then-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw for the EU to give Ukraine \"special neighbour status\" along with Belarus and Moldova.\n\nThe ambassador wondered why the plan appeared formulated to deny Ukraine the chance of full EU membership: \"Because Ukraine is simply too big? Because really we think that Ukraine ought to go back to Russia where she belongs?\"\n\nHe asked why it differed from the plan for countries such as Bulgaria and Romania, which eventually joined the EU in 2007.\n\nIn 2004 Ukrainians took to the streets protesting against electoral fraud, in an Orange Revolution that saw supporters back a pro-European president over a candidate backed by the Kremlin.\n\nIn the event the EU did choose a watered-down relationship for Ukraine and its neighbours, and the UK played a big role in supporting it.\n\nBut Mr Blair's European adviser said in his archived note at the end of 2001 that the main Ukrainian pitch had been for \"associate membership\" of the EU - far stronger than what was then being offered.\n\nThat agreement was eventually signed in 2014, months after Ukraine's pro-Russian president had refused to go through with it, triggering a revolution that ultimately brought him down.", "The filming of the major Hollywood film How to Train Your Dragon in Northern Ireland is being delayed due to the Hollywood actors' strike.\n\nBBC News NI understands that crew on the film were told of the delay on Tuesday.\n\nIt is a move that will have a \"seismic\" short-term impact on Northern Ireland's film industry, a union representative has said.\n\nAngela Moffatt, from Bectu, said hundreds of workers could be affected.\n\n\"There are a good proportion of our members who are employed on or who were due to be employed on this production\", she said.\n\n\"There is more widely businesses that provide support to productions as they come over here are going to be impacted too.\"\n\nThe strike is affecting multiple films and TV series.\n\nIt is not clear for how long filming will be postponed but it is likely to depend on a resolution to the industrial action.\n\nThe Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union speaks for more than 160,000 members, including actors, stunt coordinators, voiceover artists and background actors.\n\nThey are striking over concerns about income from streaming platforms, and artificial intelligence.\n\nStrike action by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has already led to filming in Northern Ireland of the major TV series Blade Runner 2099 to be delayed until 2024.\n\nNow the actors' strike means How to Train Your Dragon, which was due to start filming in Belfast's Titanic Studios shortly, will also be delayed.\n\nThe film is a live-action version of a series of animated movies that have previously been hits.\n\nIt is being directed by Dean DeBlois, who was involved in the animated films, and will star Mason Thames, best known for his role in The Black Phone, as well as Nico Parker, who previously appeared in the TV series The Last of Us.\n\nCast and crew for How To Train Your Dragon were due to start filming in Titanic Studios in Belfast soon\n\nBased on the original books by the British author Cressida Cowell, the films tell the story of a young Viking called Hiccup and his dragon Toothless.\n\nMade by Dreamworks and Universal Pictures, How to Train Your Dragon was originally expected to be on screens in March 2025.\n\nIt is not yet clear if the delay to production means that date will be pushed back.\n\nAngela Moffatt, from the Bectu trade union which represents many in the Northern Ireland film industry, said hundreds of workers could be affected by the shutdown of filming.\n\nMs Moffatt said she hopes the strike action can be resolved soon and that other productions not involved in the dispute may still go ahead locally.\n\nFor the workers impacted, Ms Moffatt said some could be left in an \"incredibly bad\" situation with no notice being paid as they may not technically be terminated from the production.\n\nShe added that people are leaving the industry due to the overall industry uncertainty.\n\n\"It's incredibly sad because we lose talent,\" she said.\n\nNorthern Ireland Screen has provided just over £2m in production funding towards How to Train Your Dragon, according to its published Screen Fund Awards for 2022-23.\n\nIn a statement, Northern Ireland Screen chief executive Richard Williams said it was \"saddened by the delay in the production of How to Train Your Dragon which, like production all over the world, cannot proceed until the SAG strike is resolved\".\n\n\"We hope for a swift and equitable resolution to the dispute for all parties, allowing USA-originated projects to get back into production here,\" he added.", "Thank-you for joining our coverage of the arrival of the Bibby Stockholm barge to Portland. Live updates are coming to an end but you can continue to follow the story on the BBC News website.\n\nThe accommodation barge was moved into Portland Port in Dorset after being towed along the south coast of England from Falmouth in Cornwall. Protests greeted it as it entered harbour.\n\nThe government says the barge will help reduce the cost of housing asylum seekers, currently standing at about £6m a day. News of the barge's arrival came just hours after the government's Illegal Migration Bill cleared key hurdles in the House of Lords and is set to become law.\n\nThe first asylum seekers are due to arrive on the Bibby Stockholm within a fortnight.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Scotland Yard has faced questions over its plans to reform\n\nPolice tactics used against terrorists are being used to catch the 100 worst predators targeting women in London.\n\nThe Met said a system assessing 35,000 offenders reported each year for crimes against females was being used.\n\nThe Cambridge Crime Harm Index is the first system to measure the seriousness of crime harm to victims, rather than just the number of recorded crimes.\n\nPreviously used for only terrorism and organised crime, it is the first time it has been used for attacks on women.\n\nThe system gathers data on tens of thousands of men recently convicted of domestic assault, rape, sex offences, stalking, and harassment to rank the 100 who pose the highest risk to the public.\n\nIt follows a series of scandals and a review that found the force was racist, misogynist and homophobic.\n\nPlans to overhaul the force, a £366m two-year scheme dubbed A New Met for London, are being launched with visits to every borough in the capital.\n\nBosses say there will be an increased emphasis on neighbourhood policing in a bid to rebuild public trust.\n\nSome 240 officers out of the Met's total workforce of around 34,000 will be moved from central to local teams.\n\nSir Mark Rowley says he is committed to rooting out rogue officers\n\nThere are also plans to recruit 500 more community support officers (PCSOs) and an extra 565 people to work with teams investigating domestic abuse, sexual offences and child sexual abuse and exploitation.\n\nEach borough will have at least one front counter open 24 hours a day under the proposals.\n\nDuring austerity from 2010 onwards, local borough teams were cut so that between two and four boroughs were covered by one basic command unit.\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday: \"We're being much more proactive going after the repeat offenders.\n\n\"We've been doing this for a year or two with stalking and harassment, which is important because it's often a precursor to serious violence or even domestic murder.\n\n\"We've increased the prosecution rate on those offences. We're getting more preventative orders against offenders.\n\n\"We're seeing early signs of the domestic violence murder rate going down in London.\"\n\nHe added that the force was seeing more come forward to report crimes against women.\n\nZoe Billingham, who served as HM Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) for 12 years, told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour: \"I am so pleased to hear that the Met Police are undertaking this innovative reform.\n\n\"What it means is that they will target predators, those men that prey on women and girls. It's known from research that a predator won't target one single woman, it's multiple women who are his victims.\n\n\"If the Met Police knows where its most prolific offenders are and is going to use really overt tactics, the same they use to fight terrorism, this is great news.\"\n\nWhy hasn't this been done before? This approach - using data to try to target the most dangerous suspects more precisely - is already used to tackle terrorism and serious organised crime.\n\nBut there've been two significant changes.\n\nThe first is the increase in reports of rape and domestic abuse: police say the numbers are too big to manually identify which cases to prioritise and they need to find new crime-fighting methods.\n\nThe second is about the pressure on the Met to take violence against women and girls more seriously. Campaigners have warned many victims have lost confidence in the force.\n\nThe Met hopes to restore that trust, but that will mean not only bringing more offenders to justice, but also demonstrating a change in its own culture as a force criticised as \"institutionally misogynist\" by Baroness Casey.\n\nBaroness Casey was appointed to review the force's culture and standards after the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by serving police officer Wayne Couzens, in 2021.\n\nDuring the course of her review, another Met officer, David Carrick, was convicted of a series of rapes, sexual offences and torture of women.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"Londoners will rightly judge this plan on actions not words, and I will be unflinching in holding the Met and the commissioner to account and supporting him to deliver.\"\n\nLondon's victims' commissioner Claire Waxman said: \"A New Met for London clearly sets out how the Met plans to turn around the force and deliver for Londoners, but there is no time to lose, as they need to quickly and effectively improve their support to the thousands of victims they interact with on a daily basis.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PSNI officers first attended the event in uniform in 2017\n\nPolice officers who wish to attend this year's Pride march in Belfast will not be allowed to do so in uniform.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton said: \"I know this decision will come as a disappointment to some.\"\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers first paraded in uniform at the event in 2017.\n\nBut police have faced criticism as some have seen their attendance as an official endorsement of gay rights campaign issues.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Singleton said: \"As a police service, we have had to carefully consider this request from our LGBT+ Network on its merits, the stated purposes and circumstances surrounding the parade and our statutory obligations to act with fairness, integrity and impartiality, whilst upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all individuals, their traditions and beliefs.\"\n\nHe added that Pride events remained \"an important element of our outreach and engagement\".\n\nBelfast Pride hosts events between 21 and 30 July with a parade in Belfast on Saturday 29 July.\n\nThe PSNI's LGBT+ staff support network said it was \"bitterly disappointed\" by the decision.\n\n\"Participating in Pride has been incredibly empowering for LGBT+ officers and staff,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Being visible as a public service in Pride parades inspired hundreds of LGBT+ people to take up policing as a career, it let our communities know we were part of them and that we stood with them against hate crime and discrimination.\"\n\nThe group claimed the decision by the PSNI prevented members from participating in both Belfast Pride shirts or in uniform.\n\n\"It has not been made clear to us what has changed for this year or why previously agreed forms of Pride participation have now been withdrawn by the senior executive team,\" it said.\n\nThe PSNI has U-turned on a decision it made in 2017.\n\nIt would suggest that part of the reason it revisited the issue was that other staff associations within the force were making similar requests to wear uniforms at external events.\n\nIt is also suggesting to me that the theme of this year's parade - which is titled Stand Up For Your Trans - had nothing to do with the decision.\n\nThe PSNI issued its statement on Friday afternoon and did not make anyone available to answer questions on its decision.\n\nYet this is a highly symbolic move and one which was going to attract media attention, scrutiny and questions.\n\nAlliance Party MLA Nuala McAllister, who is also a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, criticised the move.\n\nIn a tweet, she described it as \"a backward step\".\n\nMs McAllister was Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2017 when the PSNI and Gardaí (Irish police) officers marched in uniform in the parade for the first time.\n\nSDLP councillor Séamus de Faoite said he had written to Chief Constable Simon Byrne, seeking an urgent meeting with him and \"leaders within the LGBT+ community\".\n\n\"There has been significant damage to LGBT+ community confidence in policing caused by their decision to withdraw from Belfast Pride,\" he posted on Twitter.\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) councillor Timothy Gaston welcomed the decision by the PSNI, adding that the force had \"no business\" taking part in the parade.\n\nHe said the PSNI had been right to make the decision in order to recognise their \"fairness, integrity and impartiality obligations\".", "The UK is set to win a battle with Spain to host a multi-billion-pound electric car battery plant in Somerset, the BBC understands.\n\nThe boss of Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata is expected to fly to London next week to finalise the deal.\n\nSome in the car industry have described the plant as the most significant investment in UK automotive since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s.\n\nTata's chairman is scheduled to meet the prime minister mid-next week.\n\nSources familiar with the matter say that although the deal has yet to be signed, engagement has moved from negotiations to drafting and choreography of how the landmark agreement will be presented.\n\nUp to 9,000 jobs would be created at the Bridgwater site, close to the M5.\n\nThe UK government has acknowledged the urgent need for electric vehicle battery manufacturing in the UK to secure the future of the car industry.\n\nThe country's automotive sector employs up to 800,000 people directly and in the supply chain.\n\nWhen pressed on the subject last week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told the BBC to \"watch this space\".\n\nTata was considering another site in Spain and the expected decision to choose Somerset will be presented as a major achievement for the UK government.\n\nThe government has been criticised for lacking a clear industrial strategy and falling behind the US and EU in attracting investment.\n\nLast week, one of the world's biggest carmakers, Stellantis, warned it may have to close UK factories if the government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal. The firm, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric cars in the UK but told the BBC this was under threat.\n\nIn the case of Tata's new plant, the UK's expected success has not been easily or cheaply won.\n\nThe government has said that while it does not recognise a figure of £500m in reported subsidies, they concede that it is in the hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nThe gigafactory would be built at the Gravity business park near Bridgwater\n\nThis would take the form of cash grants, energy subsidies and other training and research funding.\n\nIndia's Tata has extensive steel interests in the UK including the Port Talbot plant in South Wales and the government will also offer around £300m to subsidise, upgrade, and decarbonise those operations.\n\nAlong with additional energy discounts, it will bring the total incentive package to Tata close to £800m.\n\nGovernment sources conceded that while the two investments will not be announced at the same time, the two projects are linked.\n\nThe Somerset site's access to power, a skilled UK automotive workforce and the British heritage of Jaguar Land Rover's brands are also cited as helping the UK bid.\n\nAlthough the price tag will be seen as high, the UK is reluctantly involved in an international subsidy war which has been dramatically escalated by the US Inflation Reduction Act - a piece of legislation offering $370bn (£299bn) in sweeteners to companies prepared to locate production and supply chains in the US.\n\nThe EU is preparing its own package in response.\n\nSome industry insiders hope that the Tata battery investment will open the door to further battery investments in the UK, which currently only has one plant in operation next to Nissan's Sunderland factory, and one barely on the drawing board in Northumberland.\n\nBy contrast the EU has 35 plants open, under construction or planned.\n\nNumber 10 said it did not comment on commercially sensitive matters.", "Businesses are being urged to limit the amount of alcohol served at work social events in order to prevent people from acting inappropriately towards others.\n\nThe warning from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) comes as it releases a new poll, suggesting a third of managers have seen harassment or inappropriate behaviour at parties.\n\nWomen were more likely than men to say they had witnessed this behaviour.\n\nThe CMI's boss said alcohol \"doesn't need to be the main event\" at parties.\n\nThat's something that Sarah, who's 27 and works in finance, agrees with.\n\n\"There are still wild parties in my industry, but I think this needs to change,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm very conscious not to drink too much at work parties. If people want to go off and buy lots of drinks after the event, that's up to them, but I think drinking at company socials can lead to inappropriate or regrettable behaviour.\"\n\nSarah says it's important that colleagues are able to socialise with each other, but that alcohol shouldn't always be at the forefront of that.\n\n\"A lot of my friends don't drink, or they might be on medication which prevents them drinking. It's awkward for them if they're at a work party, and they have to ask three times just to get a soft drink, and they could also feel peer pressured to drink.\"\n\nThe CMI, which is a professional body focusing on management and leadership, surveyed more than 1,000 managers at the end of April.\n\nThe poll, seen exclusively by the BBC, found that almost one in three managers (29%) report that they have witnessed inappropriate behaviour or harassment at work parties.\n\nThirty-three percent of women surveyed said they had seen this behaviour, compared with 26% of men.\n\nOverall, two in five (42%) said work parties should be organised around activities that don't involve alcohol. Younger people, aged between 16 and 34, were most likely to say this.\n\nManagers must ensure there are safeguards in place at work events, says the CMI's Ann Francke\n\nThe chief executive of the CMI, Ann Francke, told the BBC that socialising with colleagues is \"a great team building opportunity\" that many people enjoy.\n\nBut she added that managers have a responsibility to keep inappropriate behaviour in check, and to ensure there are safeguards in place.\n\n\"That might mean adding additional activities alongside alcohol, limiting the amount of drinks available per person or ensuring that people who are drinking too much are prevented from acting inappropriately towards others.\"\n\nIt comes after the CBI business lobby group was plunged into crisis following allegations of a rape at a summer work party in 2019 and other sexual misconduct at the organisation, which emerged last month. A second allegation of rape subsequently emerged, as reported by the Guardian.\n\nBoth rape allegations are being investigated by the police.\n\nAlison Loveday, an employment lawyer and business consultant, said many companies now see alcohol-fuelled work parties as \"too much of a risk\".\n\n\"Boozy work parties are the exception rather than the rule today. They have become much reduced because there is a realisation that alcohol and lots of people doesn't necessarily go well together,\" she said.\n\nThere are many alternative activities that firms could use for work events that don't involve alcohol, says John, like paintballing\n\nJohn, who's 66 and has worked in a range of jobs over the years, says he's seen many people embarrass themselves and act badly at work parties.\n\n\"Alcohol definitely changes behaviour, so it's a risk to be drinking on the company watch,\" he says.\n\nHe thinks work social events should be linked to an activity with little or no alcohol.\n\n\"There are loads of alternatives, such as paintballing, escape rooms, or laser quest,\" he said. \"Usually if you ask the group, they'll be up for trying something different, rather than the same old booze-ups.\"\n\nHowever, pub landlord Leigh Watts, who runs the Greyhound Inn in Coventry, says alcohol can still play a part in work parties.\n\nLeigh Watts treated his staff to an open bar at their work party last month\n\n\"People do need to let their hair down and have a laugh, particularly after Covid, and having a few drinks with colleagues is a part of that,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Watts held a staff party of his own last month, in which workers, who ranged in age from 16 to 70, were treated to an open bar.\n\n\"It's about being sensible and knowing the boundaries. But you can still enjoy yourself,\" he said.\n\nDavid D'Souza, from the human resources body the CIPD, said that work social events may become even more important, with the rise of hybrid working.\n\n\"While they can, and should, be fun, organisations and leaders must not neglect their legal and ethical responsibilities to keep employees safe - obligations they have every single day in the workplace.\"\n\nA total of 1,009 managers took part in the CMI's poll, which was conducted between 20 and 26 April 2023. The questions on work parties were asked as part of a survey regularly sent out to the CMI's membership.\n\nHow have your work parties changed? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "By creating dams and holding water, the beavers are encouraging previously unseen species into the area\n\nA pair of beavers that were released into the wild have bred for the second time, the Cheshire Wildlife Trust said.\n\nThe Eurasian beavers were released at Hatchmere, near Delamere Forest, by the trust three years ago.\n\nTheir first two kits - young beavers - were born last summer, the first to be born in the area in 400 years.\n\nNow three more kits have made their appearance, as the animals help stimulate the reserve's ecosystem.\n\nBy creating dams and holding water, the beavers are encouraging previously unseen species into the area such as kingfisher, stoats and waterfowl.\n\nYoung beavers spend their first few months hidden in a lodge, when they eventually venture out into the world they set to work felling trees and building dams much like mini versions of their parents.\n\nThe latest additions to the family mean there are now seven beavers living together at the release site, the trust said.\n\nThe new kits were spotted on wildlife cameras last week\n\nThey are expected to stay near the family lodge for several years before dispersing to set up their own territory.\n\nKevin Feeney, reserves manager for Hatchmere, said it was \"fantastic\" to see the family growing.\n\n\"In under three years, we now have a nice little family living together creating a new diverse wetland landscape that didn't exist previously,\" he said.\n\nEurasian beavers were hunted to extinction across the UK in the 16th Century, being killed for meat, fur and a waterproofing oil they secrete.\n\nSince the early 2000s, beavers have been reintroduced across the UK in various projects including one on the River Otter in Devon.\n\nFifteen families of beavers were given a permanent \"right to remain\" on the River Otter by the government in 2020.\n\nThe River Otter trial demonstrated how the animals' skill replenished and enhanced the ecology of the river and their dams worked as natural flood defences, helping protect homes further downstream.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata has confirmed plans to build its flagship electric car battery factory in the UK.\n\nThe new plant in Somerset is expected to create 4,000 UK jobs and thousands more in the wider supply chain.\n\nTata said it would invest £4bn in the site, but it is understood that the government is also providing subsidies worth hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nThe plant is described as the most important investment in UK automotive since Nissan arrived in the 1980s.\n\nThe new gigafactory near Bridgwater will be one of the largest in Europe and will initially make batteries for Jaguar Land Rover vehicles like Range Rover, the Defender and the Jaguar brands.\n\nBut the plan is to also supply other car manufacturers as well, with production at the new factory due to start in 2026.\n\nTata has been in negotiations for months to secure state aid for the project and the government confirmed on Wednesday that Tata had been offered a \"large\" incentive to site the plant in the UK. The subsidies are likely to be in the form of cash grants, discounts on the cost of energy, and training and research funding.\n\nBut Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the BBC that Tata's decision was based on a wider range of factors.\n\n\"Tata is an international business and will consider a number of factors when deciding where to invest. Last autumn the chancellor cut taxes specifically so that we could encourage investments like this,\" he said.\n\n\"We're making lots of changes and it's this whole package that's attractive, like investment in skills and apprenticeships, infrastructure in road, rail and broadband.\n\n\"It's also the approach we're taking to regulation after leaving the EU,\" he added.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney MP welcomed the decision, saying it came \"after years of the south west being neglected by government investment\".\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said that the investment had come at a critical time for the UK.\n\n\"With the global industry transitioning at pace to electrification, producing batteries in the UK is essential if we are to anchor wider vehicle production here for the long term,\" said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes.\n\nBatteries typically account for a large proportion of the value of an electric vehicle, so a reliable supply is expected to be vital for the future of the UK car industry.\n\nBut the government has been criticised for lacking a clear industrial strategy and falling behind the US and EU in attracting investment in low-carbon technologies such as battery manufacturing.\n\nSharon Graham, general secretary at the Unite union, said: \"The US and Europe have clear, proactive plans for jobs and investment. We cannot continually lag behind.\"\n\nShe said the government should use the opportunity to set out a \"strategic long-term industrial plan\", and require that the new factory be constructed with UK-made steel.\n\nSome industry insiders hope that the Tata battery investment will open the door to further battery investments in the UK.\n\nThe UK currently only has one plant in operation next to Nissan's Sunderland factory, and one barely on the drawing board in Northumberland.\n\nAnother proposed battery manufacturer, in the north east of England, Britishvolt, went into administration earlier this year.\n\nBy contrast the EU has 35 plants open, under construction or planned.\n\nShadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds welcomed Tata's new plant, adding that Labour would ensure \"announcements like this aren't a one-off, but the basis for a growing economy, with good jobs in our industrial heartlands\".\n\nAs well as owning Jaguar Land Rover, Tata has extensive steel interests in the UK including the Port Talbot plant in South Wales and the government is also expected to offer around £300m to subsidise, upgrade, and decarbonise those operations.\n\nParliament's cross-party Business and Trade Committee is holding an inquiry into the UK's electric vehicle battery manufacturing sector.\n\nIts chairman Darren Jones, said Tata's decision to site the new plant in the UK was \"very welcome\" but he raised questions over the scale of the subsidies provided.\n\n\"We will want to reflect... on the subsidy package that was required to secure this decision and if this approach is scalable to meet the need for further battery manufacturing sites for other car companies across the UK.\"\n\nThose concerns were echoed by the FairCharge group, which represents other companies in the electric vehicle sector.\n\nFairCharge's founder, Quentin Willson, said there was a fear in the industry that Tata's investment could \"sweep up\" all available government support.\n\n\"I truly hope that other companies in the battery, critical minerals, charging and EV supply chains won't be neglected,\" he said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former executive at Nissan and Aston Martin - who is now at EV charging firm Pod Point - said the UK needed a strategic industrial strategy to \"lift all boats\".\n\n\"Support must come in all shapes and sizes for businesses of all shapes and sizes,\" he said. \"One gigafactory doesn't equal success, it equals part of the puzzle.\"", "An open letter signed by more than 1,300 experts says AI is a \"force for good, not a threat to humanity\".\n\nIt was organised by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, to counter \"AI doom\".\n\nRashik Parmar, BCS chief executive, said it showed the UK tech community didn't believe the \"nightmare scenario of evil robot overlords\".\n\nIn March, tech leaders including Elon Musk, who recently launched an AI business, signed a letter calling for a pause in developing powerful systems.\n\nThat letter suggested super-intelligent AI posed an \"existential risk\" to humanity. This was a view echoed by film director Christopher Nolan, who told the BBC that AI leaders he spoke to saw the present time \"as their Oppenheimer moment\". J.Robert Oppenheimer played a key role in the development of the first atomic bomb, and is the subject of Mr Nolan's latest film.\n\nBut the BCS sees the situation in a more positive light, while still supporting the need for rules around AI.\n\nRichard Carter is a signatory to the BCS letter. Mr Carter, who founded an AI-powered startup cybersecurity business, feels the dire warnings are unrealistic: \"Frankly, this notion that AI is an existential threat to humanity is too far-fetched. We're just not in any kind of a position where that's even feasible\".\n\nSignatories to the BCS letter come from a range of backgrounds - business, academia, public bodies and think tanks, though none are as well known as Elon Musk, or run major AI companies like OpenAI.\n\nThose the BBC has spoken to stress the positive uses of AI. Hema Purohit, who leads on digital health and social care for the BCS, said the technology was enabling new ways to spot serious illness, for example medical systems that detect signs of issues such as cardiac disease or diabetes when a patient goes for an eye test.\n\nShe said AI could also help accelerate the testing of new drugs.\n\nSignatory Sarah Burnett, author of a book on AI and business, pointed to agricultural uses of the tech, from robots that use artificial intelligence to pollinate plants to those that \"identify weeds and spray or zap them with lasers, rather than having whole crops sprayed with weed killer\".\n\nThe letter argues: \"The UK can help lead the way in setting professional and technical standards in AI roles, supported by a robust code of conduct, international collaboration and fully resourced regulation\".\n\nBy doing so, it says Britain \"can become a global byword for high-quality, ethical, inclusive AI\".\n\nIn the autumn UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will host a global summit on AI regulation.\n\nWhile the BCS may argue existential threats are sci-fi, some issues are just over the horizon or are already presenting problems.\n\nIt has been predicted that the equivalent of up to 300 million jobs could be automated, and some companies have already said they will pause hiring in some roles as a result of AI.\n\nBut Mr Carter thinks AI - rather than replacing humans - will boost their productivity. In his own work he says ChatGPT is useful, but he says he is wary of putting too much trust in it, comparing it to a \"very knowledgeable and a very excitable, 12-year-old\".\n\nHe argues companies will always need to have humans involved in the workplace, to take responsibility if things go wrong: \"If you take the human completely out of the loop, how do you manage accountability for some sort of catastrophic event happening?\"\n\nHe, like other signatories, believes regulation will be needed to avoid the misuse of AI.\n\nMs Purohit says a motive for signing was the need for rules to \"make sure that we don't just run off and create lots and lots of things without paying attention to the testing and the governance, and the assurance that sits behind it\".", "A spokesperson said the defence department was aware of the issue and it was being taken seriously\n\nMillions of US military emails have been mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, because of a minor typing error.\n\nEmails intended for the US military's \".mil\" domain have, for years, been sent to the west African country which ends with the \".ml\" suffix.\n\nSome of the emails reportedly contained sensitive information such as passwords, medical records and the itineraries of top officers.\n\nThe Pentagon said it had taken steps to address the issue.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, which first reported the story, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier identified the problem more than 10 years ago.\n\nSince 2013, he has had a contract to manage Mali's country domain and, in recent months, has reportedly collected tens of thousands of misdirected emails.\n\nNone were marked as classified, but, according to the newspaper, they included medical data, maps of US military facilities, financial records and the planning documents for official trips as well as some diplomatic messages.\n\nMr Zuurbier wrote a letter to US officials this month to raise the alarm. He said that his contract with the Mali government was due to finish soon, meaning \"the risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the US\".\n\nMali's military government was due to take control of the domain on Monday.\n\nMr Zuurbier has been approached for comment.\n\nUS military communications that are marked \"classified\" and \"top secret\" are transmitted through separate IT systems that make it unlikely they will be accidently compromised, according to current and former US officials.\n\nBut Steven Stransky, a lawyer who previously served as senior counsel to the Department of Homeland Security's Intelligence Law Division, said that even seemingly harmless information could prove useful to US adversaries, particularly if it included details of individual personnel.\n\n\"Those sorts of communications would mean that a foreign actor can start building dossiers on our own military personnel, for espionage purposes, or could try to get them to disclose information in exchange for financial benefit,\" Mr Stransky said. \"It's certainly information that a foreign government can use.\"\n\nMali has become increasingly close with Russia since a 2020 coup unseated its former government\n\nLee McKnight, a professor of information studies at Syracuse University, said he believed the US military was fortunate that the issue was brought to its attention and the emails were going to a domain used by Mali's government, rather than to cyber criminals.\n\nHe added that \"typo-squatting\" - a type of cyber-crime that targets users who incorrectly misspell an internet domain - is common. \"They're hoping that a person will make a mistake, and that they can lure you in and do stupid things,\" he said.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, a spokesperson said the defence department was aware of the issue and it was being taken seriously.\n\nThey said the department had taken steps to ensure that \".mil\" emails are not sent to incorrect domains, including blocking them before they leave and notifying senders that they must validate intended recipients.\n\nBoth Mr McKnight and Mr Stransky said human errors were prime concerns for IT specialists working in government and the private sector alike.\n\n\"Human error is by far the most significant security concern on a day-to-day basis,\" Mr Stransky said. \"We just can't control every single human, every single time\".", "There is \"no reason\" that Afghans refugees should become homeless when they leave temporary hotels this summer, a minister has said.\n\nJohnny Mercer confirmed that people still living in taxpayer-funded hotels and apartments will have to leave from as soon as the end of July.\n\nThousands are still living in temporary accommodation after coming to the UK after the Taliban's takeover in 2021.\n\nLabour accused ministers of \"kicking them out onto the street\".\n\nShadow armed forces minister Luke Pollard likened Mr Mercer, the veterans minister, to a \"bailiff serving the eviction notices\".\n\nBut Mr Mercer said the government had been \"extremely generous,\" and extra funding would be given to councils to help people resettle.\n\nThousands of people fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took back control of the country in August 2021 after Western forces pulled out.\n\nAround 21,100 Afghans have come to the UK under two separate schemes: one for vulnerable people and religious minorities, another for those who worked for the British military and UK government.\n\nThose resettled through the two schemes have been given indefinite leave, as well as the right to work and claim benefits.\n\nThe government says around 8,000 people were still in temporary accommodation in March, of which around half had been there for over a year.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Mercer said \"many hundreds\" had moved out since then, but did not give a precise figure.\n\nAlthough there had been progress in helping people move out of \"costly\" hotels, he added, there was more to do to help Afghans move out and achieve the \"opportunity to live self-sufficiently\".\n\nThe government says notices to quit have been issued since April, and those being told to leave have received at least three months' notice.\n\nIt says that there will be flexibility for those with medical needs and those waiting a short period before moving into confirmed accommodation.\n\nIt adds councils will be given an extra £7,100 per person to support those moving out with paying for deposits, furniture, and rent advances.\n\nMr Mercer told MPs there was \"no tangible reason why any Afghan family should present as homeless\" given the government support on offer.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England and Wales, said it supported the idea of getting resettled Afghans into permanent homes.\n\nBut it warned that finding the required amount of affordable accommodation would be \"extremely challenging\" given pressures on the asylum system and an \"acute shortage\" of housing.\n\n\"Councils remain hugely concerned that large numbers of families - some of whom are particularly vulnerable - may have to end up presenting as homeless,\" added LGA chair Shaun Davies.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Netherlands goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has been moved out of intensive care following a bleed on the brain.\n\nThe ex-Manchester United and Ajax player, 52, was taken to hospital while on holiday in Croatia before being transferred to a Dutch hospital.\n\n\"I'm happy to share that I'm no longer in the intensive care unit,\" Van der Sar said in a statement on his Twitter.\n\n\"However, I'm still in hospital. I hope to go home next week and take the next step in my recovery.\"\n\nThere was an outpouring of goodwill messages to Van der Sar after news of his condition broke on 7 July and he expressed his gratitude in the latest update.\n\n\"We want to thank everyone for all the great and supportive messages,\" he added.\n\nVan der Sar, who won 130 caps for his country, resigned from his role as Ajax chief executive in May after the side finished third in the Dutch league and failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since 2009.\n\nHe retired from playing after leaving United in 2011 before joining the Ajax board in 2012, and becoming the club's chief executive in 2016.\n\nVan der Sar made 266 appearances for the Red Devils and helped them to win four Premier League titles and the 2008 Champions League. He also played for Fulham and Juventus.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic has been fined £6,117 for smashing his racquet against the net post during the Wimbledon men's singles final.\n\nThe incident occurred in the fifth set of his loss to Spain's Carlos Alcaraz when the 36-year-old Serb's serve was broken in the third game.\n\nUmpire Fergus Murphy immediately issued Djokovic a warning for a code violation for the transgression.\n\nThe money will be deducted from his runner-up cheque of £1.175m.\n\nDjokovic's frustration had built up in the decisive set of an enthralling contest on Sunday, having missed a simple chance at the net for a break to go 2-0 up.\n\nIn the very next game Alcaraz backed up the hold by breaking the serve of the seven-time Wimbledon champion, which prompted the emotional outburst from Djokovic and brought boos from a section of the Centre Court crowd.\n\nWorld number one Alcaraz took full advantage of the break to seal a 1-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 3-6 6-4 victory after four hours and 42 minutes.\n\nThe 20-year-old's victory at the All England Club denied Djokovic a 24th grand slam title.", "South Korean soldiers stand guard in the village of Panmunjom in the Joint Security Area\n\nNorth Korea is believed to have detained a serving US army soldier who crossed the heavily fortified border from South Korea without permission.\n\nThe man, identified by the Pentagon as Private 2nd Class (PV2) Travis King, 23, was on an organised tour of the UN-run zone dividing the two countries.\n\nThe crisis comes during a particularly tense time with the North, one of the world's most isolated states.\n\nA senior US commander said there had been no contact with the soldier.\n\nAdmiral John Aquilino Commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command said he was \"not tracking\" contact with North Korea.\n\nHe said PV2 King had acted willingly by \"making a run\" across the border without authorisation, and the incident was being investigated by US Forces Korea.\n\nOn its travel advisory, the US tells its citizens not to travel to North Korea due to \"the continuing serious risk of arrest\" and the \"critical threat of wrongful detention\".\n\nHours after his detention, North Korea launched two suspected ballistic missiles into the nearby sea, however there has been no suggestion that it is tied to the soldier's detention.\n\nSouth Korea's military confirmed the missile launch, which comes as tensions run high on the Korean peninsula.\n\nIt is unclear if the soldier has defected to North Korea or hopes to return, and there has been no word yet from the North.\n\nIn a statement, a Pentagon spokesperson said that PV2 King had been in the army since January 2021.\n\nHe is a cavalry scout - a reconnaissance specialist - originally assigned to an element of the army's 1st Armoured Division on a rotation with the US military in South Korea.\n\nBut he got into trouble there - officials in Seoul have confirmed that he spent two months in prison for assault charges.\n\nThe Yonhap news agency quoted \"legal sources\" as saying that he was fined for \"repeatedly kicking\" the back door of a police patrol vehicle in the capital's Mapo district, and shouted \"foul language\" at the police who apprehended him.\n\nHe was also suspected of punching a Korean national at a nightclub in September, the report said.\n\nIt is unclear if these were the reasons for his imprisonment.\n\nPV2 King was released from prison on 10 July and was escorted to the airport for a US-bound flight.\n\nSeoul officials said he passed through airport security but then somehow managed to leave the terminal and get on a tour of the border, from where he crossed over into North Korea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn eyewitness on the same tour told the BBC's US partner CBS News that they had visited a building at the border site - reported by local media to be the truce village of Panmunjom - when \"this man gives out a loud 'ha ha ha' and just runs in between some buildings\".\n\n\"I thought it was a bad joke at first but, when he didn't come back, I realised it wasn't a joke and then everybody reacted and things got crazy,\" they said.\n\nThe United Nations Command, which operates the Demilitarised Zone and joint security area (JSA), said earlier its team had made contact with the North Korean military to try to negotiate his release.\n\n\"We believe he is currently in DPRK [North Korean] custody and are working with our KPA [Korean People's Army - North Korea's military] counterparts to resolve this incident,\" it said.\n\nIt is unclear where or in what conditions PV2 King is being held.\n\nGreg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Washington DC-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, told the BBC that authorities in the North were likely to \"try pump information out of him\" about his military service and \"try to coerce him into becoming a propaganda tool\".\n\nThe Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separates the two Koreas and is one of the most heavily fortified areas in the world.\n\nIt is filled with landmines, surrounded by electric and barbed wire fencing and surveillance cameras. Armed guards are supposed to be on alert 24 hours a day.\n\nThe DMZ has separated the two countries since the Korean War in the 1950s, in which the US backed the South. The war ended with an armistice, meaning that the two sides are still technically at war.\n\nDozens of people try to escape North Korea every year, fleeing poverty and famine, but defections across the DMZ are extremely dangerous and rare. The country sealed its borders in 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and has yet to reopen them.\n\nThe last time a soldier defected at the JSA was in 2017, when a North Korean soldier drove a vehicle, then ran by foot across the military demarcation line, South Korea said at the time.\n\nThe soldier was shot at 40 times, but survived.\n\nBefore the pandemic more than 1,000 people fled from North Korea to China every year, according to numbers released by the South Korean government.\n\nThe detention of the soldier presents a major foreign policy headache for US President Joe Biden. PV2 King is believed to be the only American citizen currently in North Korean custody. Six South Koreans remain in detention there.\n\nRelations between the US and the North plummeted in 2017 after US student Otto Warmbier, who had been arrested a year earlier for stealing a propaganda sign, was returned to the US in a comatose state and later died.\n\nHis family blames the North Korean authorities for his death.\n\nThree US citizens were later freed during Donald Trump's presidency in 2018. But ultimately, a series of talks held between Kim Jong Un and the former US president did little to improve the relationship.\n\nNorth Korea has since tested dozens of increasingly powerful missiles that could carry nuclear warheads, which have been met by a slew of sanctions by the US and its allies.\n\nThe detention of the US national comes on the same day as a US nuclear-capable submarine docked in South Korea for the first time since 1981.\n\nThe submarine was specifically supplied to help the country deal with the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.\n\nAhead of its deployment there were threats of retaliation from the authorities in Pyongyang, which warned the US that sending nuclear weapons to the peninsula could spark a nuclear crisis.", "The government has again overturned changes to its Illegal Migration Bill made by the House of Lords, despite some Tory MPs rebelling.\n\nThe Commons voted to reverse detention limits for children suggested by peers, as well as protections for potential modern slavery victims.\n\nThirteen Conservatives opposed the decision on modern slavery, fewer than had been predicted.\n\nThe bill now returns to the Lords, who could continue to demand changes.\n\nIn votes scheduled for late on Monday evening, they will be able to approve the amendments again, or suggest similar alternatives. Debate began around 22.15 BST, and votes could continue into the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nBut if they back down, it will pave the way for the legislation to become law before MPs begin their summer recess later this week.\n\nThe bill, backed by MPs in March, is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's high-profile pledge to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nIt would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe Rwanda plan was ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal last month, but ministers are challenging the judgement.\n\nMPs have been locked in a battle over the final shape of the bill with the House of Lords, where it has been repeatedly amended by opposition peers.\n\nThey voted down nine amendments made by the Lords last week, including one which would have placed a three-day limit on the time unaccompanied child migrants can be detained before they are deported.\n\nThey also overturned a suggested four-day detention limit suggested for accompanied children, and a ban on LGBT migrants from being deported to Rwanda and nine other, mainly African countries.\n\nMPs also voted down an amendment that would have forced the government to create new safe and legal asylum routes within nine months of the bill passing. Ministers have promised to do this by the end of 2024.\n\nSpeaking before the votes, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said the Lords amendments would have created \"exemptions, qualifications and loopholes\" that would make the legislation harder to implement.\n\nHe said the power to detain people who are due to be deported was necessary to stop people absconding, and exempting families with children would leave a \"gaping hole\" in the system.\n\nTim Loughton, one of 11 Tory MPs to rebel over child detention limits, said government promises that detention would be for the shortest period possible should be written into the legislation.\n\nShadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said the bill was \"unworkable\" and an exercise in \"performative cruelty\".\n\nHe added that Rwanda would only be able to take a tiny fraction of the migrants arriving in small boats, meaning the threat of being deported there would not deter people from making the journey.", "Nurses in Northern Ireland may have no alternative but to take further strike action if there has been no pay offer by autumn, the NI director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said.\n\nRita Devlin said nurses had been treated \"like second-class citizens\".\n\nHer comments come after the Department of Health said there was no money for an uplift in a submission to an independent pay review body.\n\nMs Devlin said members were becoming increasingly frustrated over pay.\n\nOn Thursday, more than one million public sector workers in England and Wales, including teachers, police and doctors were told they would be offered pay rises of about 6%..\n\nUnder a deal set out earlier this year, NHS workers will receive a 5% pay rise. Ambulance workers, nurses, physiotherapists and porters will also get a one-off sum of at least £1,655.\n\nStormont's Department of Health said it did not have the funding to cover such a rise in Northern Ireland.\n\nRita Devlin from the RCN said without a pay offer problems with staff retention and recuitment will worsen\n\nMs Devlin told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme that nurses were growing increasingly frustrated over pay.\n\nIf by autumn \"there is no offer on the table, no change in the political situation, if nothing changes, I do not believe we have an alternative (to strike action)\", she continued.\n\nShe added that nurses can make \"a significantly increased amount of money\" by working outside Northern Ireland, in other parts of the UK or the Republic of Ireland.\n\nA spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Office said the UK government \"has no authority to negotiate pay in Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe pay review body said the Department of Health's submission highlighted pay in Northern Ireland may fall behind other parts of the UK.\n\nIt added this risks \"significantly deteriorating the position of the NHS workforce in Northern Ireland compared to the rest of the UK\".\n\n\"The Department of Health told us there is currently no funding for a pay award and they would have to bid for funding from the Department of Finance,\" the body continued.\n\n\"They said they needed any pay award to be fully funded by HM Treasury.\"\n\nThe body added it was concerned with what the department had said about affordability, telling it \"there was no capacity to afford a pay uplift for 2023-24 without implementing corresponding cuts to expenditure on services or additional funding being made available\".\n\nNurses took part in industrial action earlier this year\n\nOn Thursday, a number of trade unions representing other parts of the public sector warned of industrial action in Northern Ireland if there was no progress on pay, with most decisions devolved to Stormont ministers.\n\nThere is currently no functioning executive or assembly at Stormont because of the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) protest against post-Brexit trading rules.\n\nIt has instead been left to the Northern Ireland secretary to set a budget.\n\nHowever, departmental budgets are being squeezed, partially as a result of an overspend last year.\n\nOn Thursday, Liam Kelly from the Police Federation of Northern Ireland said officers wanted clarity on whether a similar pay deal to England and Wales would apply in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"At this stage our officers are entitled to know if they are getting 7% or if, for the first time, there will be a break with pay parity,\" he said.\n\nFunding a 7% pay rise would be a financial headache for the Police Service of Northern Ireland in the current landscape.\n\nIt has earmarked £18m in its budget for a wage increase for about 6,500 officers.\n\nBut that only equates to a 5% uplift, at a time when it is looking into a £40m black hole in its finances.\n\nPreviously, Northern Ireland has followed the rest of the UK in terms of officer pay awards.\n\nThere are now concerns among officers parity could be broken.\n\nPolice officers cannot go on strike, so they do not have the same leverage as other parts of the public sector.\n\nImplementing any parallel 7% rise for prison officers would be equally challenging.\n\nThe head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service has warned that Stormont departments had \"reached the limit\" of what they can do to manage budget pressures this year and another overspend is looming.\n\nJayne Brady warned the government there remains an unfunded pay pressure of £571m, and a further £437m of pressures requiring decisions.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Finance said pay awards \"need to be viewed in the context of the available budget\".\n\n\"Relevant Northern Ireland departments will consider the recommendations made by the pay review bodies and the local implications,\" they added.\n\nA separate pay review body said consultants, dentists and GPs in Northern Ireland should get a 6% pay rise in line with the rest of the UK.\n\nImplementing that in Northern Ireland would cost about £40m and it does not appear there is the money available.\n\nMeanwhile, Justin McCamphill, from the teaching union NASUWT, said teachers \"will vote with their feet\" if their pay falls behind other regions.\n\n\"If we don't invest in our young people, we won't have an economy for the future,\" he said.\n\n\"So the government needs to look at the decisions it's been making.\"\n\nThere has been stalemate over a pay deal for teachers in Northern Ireland for over two years.\n\nThe last pay rise teachers got was for the 2020/21 school year.\n\nThere have been some big hikes in the cost of living since then, which have hot teachers like other workers.\n\nTeachers have had to look on as their counterparts elsewhere in the UK have received rises - though not without strikes and strife in some cases.\n\nThe upshot is a teacher's salary in Northern Ireland is often thousands of pounds behind those in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nFor instance, a new teacher in Northern Ireland gets just over £24,000 a year while in England that is now set to rise to around £30,000.\n\nPay deals are negotiated and agreed locally in Northern Ireland between the unions and management bodies like the Department of Education and Education Authority.\n\nBut with an education budget under severe pressure, and no Stormont, chances of a deal anytime soon are slim.", "A new record has been made by a group of skydivers in Nottinghamshire.\n\nThe team of 41 jumpers combined above Skydive Langar to create the largest ever sequential formation dive to take place in the UK.\n\nFormation skydiving involves participants taking hold of one another to create shapes while falling at speeds of about 120mph (193km/h) for up to one minute, Skydive Langar said.\n\nThey set the record by making two consecutive shapes in the sky involving all 41 people - the largest number of British jumpers ever to complete a sequential formation dive.\n\nShortly afterwards, they broke their own record by forming three consecutive formations.\n\nEvent organiser Will Cooke said: \"It’s amazing to have achieved this new record and to hopefully inspire other skydivers to follow our lead and keep pushing the sport forward.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols said she was given a list of 30 MPs to watch out for\n\nA Labour MP has come forward to say she was one of the women to make a sexual harassment complaint against a colleague.\n\nCharlotte Nichols told BBC Panorama that Geraint Davies put his hand on her waist while she was working late.\n\nMr Davies was suspended by Labour in June. Ms Nichols is the first complainant to identify herself.\n\nLawyers for the Swansea West MP said he \"totally denies the allegations of sexual harassment\".\n\nAt least four other women have also made allegations about Mr Davies, spanning years.\n\nMs Nicholls, who has represented Warrington North since 2019, said Mr Davies approached her while she was at a cashpoint in a part of Westminster that has no CCTV.\n\nIn June, the Labour Party said he had been suspended following \"incredibly serious\" allegations of \"completely unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nMs Nichols said, before she was elected, she was warned by other colleagues about people to avoid in Westminster because of concerns about sexual harassment. She said she had a list of about 30 people.\n\n\"One of the first MPs she had been warned about when entering Westminster was Mr Davies,\" she told Panorama.\n\n\"I had fairly studiously avoided him for most of my first year or so in Parliament.\"\n\nShe recounted one incident when she encountered him while working late.\n\nGeraint Davies is an MP Charlotte Nichols claims she was warned about\n\n\"There was one evening after a very late vote that we had where I came down to the cash machine to draw some cash out to get a taxi home at the end of the night, and on that corridor there's no CCTV, it's not really that widely used at that time of the evening.\n\n\"So, it was quiet and he came up behind me when I was at the cash machine, put his hand on sort of the back part of my waist and said 'I'm glad we get to go home now'.\"\n\nShe said the culture in Westminster could feel toxic.\n\n\"If people are getting away with some of the lower-level behaviour, that person starts to feel like they are untouchable,\" she said.\n\nLabour Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield said she was told about Mr Davies's \"reputation\" the week she first got to Parliament.\n\n\"I was warned about him and it was done in an almost jokey way 'oh, that's just him, but just avoid him if you can',\" she said.\n\n\"Everyone in the Labour Party knew about this man.\"\n\nLawyers for Mr Davies told Panorama that he \"totally denies all sexual harassment allegations\" and he was prevented by Labour Party rules from commenting to avoid prejudicing ongoing investigations and any future hearing.\n\nHowever, Conservative MP for Romsey and Southampton North, Caroline Nokes, believes such behaviour is fairly widespread across Parliament.\n\n\"I think it's common in all parties. Sexual harassment is very rarely about sex, it's almost always about power,\" she said.", "It is hot. Very hot. And temperatures show no signs of easing.\n\nNearly a third of Americans - over 113 million people - are under some form of heat advisory, the US National Weather Service said.\n\nAcross the US, temperatures are shattering decades-long record highs. In El Paso, Texas, temperatures have soared to above 37C - triple-digits Fahrenheit - for 27 consecutive days, overtaking a record last set in 1994.\n\nIn the UK, the June heat didn't just break all-time records, it smashed them. It was 0.9C hotter than the previous record, set back in 1940. That is a huge margin.\n\nThere is a similar story of unprecedented hot weather in North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.\n\nNo surprise, then, that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather forecasts said that globally, June was the hottest on record.\n\nAnd the heat has not eased. The three hottest days ever recorded were in the past week, according to the EU climate and weather service, Copernicus.\n\nThe average world temperature hit 16.89C on Monday 3 July and topped 17C for the first time on 4 July, with an average global temperature of 17.04C.\n\nProvisional figures suggest that was exceeded on 5 July when temperatures reached 17.05C.\n\nThese highs are in line with what climate models predicted, says Prof Richard Betts, climate scientist at the Met Office and University of Exeter.\n\n\"We should not be at all surprised with the high global temperatures,\" he says. \"This is all a stark reminder of what we've known for a long time, and we will see ever more extremes until we stop building up more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\"\n\nWhen we think about how hot it is, we tend to think about the air temperature, because that's what we experience in our daily lives.\n\nBut most of the heat stored near the surface of the Earth is not in the atmosphere, but in the oceans. And we've been seeing some record ocean temperatures this spring and summer.\n\nThe North Atlantic, for example, is currently experiencing the highest surface water temperatures ever recorded.\n\nThat marine heatwave has been particularly pronounced around the coasts of the UK, where some areas have experienced temperatures as much as 5C above what you would normally expect for this time of year.\n\nThe US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has labelled it a Category 4 heatwave. The designation is rarely used outside of the tropics and denotes \"extreme\" heat.\n\n\"Such anomalous temperatures in this part of the North Atlantic are unheard of,\" says Daniela Schmidt, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.\n\nAt the same time, an El Niño is developing in the tropical Pacific.\n\nEl Niño is a recurring weather pattern caused when warm waters rise to the surface off the coast of South America and spread across the ocean.\n\nWith both the Atlantic and the Pacific experiencing heatwaves, it is perhaps not surprising that global sea surface temperatures for both April and May were the highest ever recorded in Met Office data that goes all the way back to 1850.\n\nIf the seas are warmer than usual, you can expect higher air temperatures too, says Tim Lenton, professor of climate change at Exeter University.\n\nMost of the extra heat trapped by the build-up of greenhouse gases has gone into warming the surface ocean, he explains. That extra heat tends to get mixed downwards towards the deeper ocean, but movements in oceans currents - like El Niño - can bring it back to the surface.\n\n\"When that happens, a lot of that heat gets released into the atmosphere,\" says Prof Lenton, \"driving up air temperatures.\"\n\nIt's easy to think of this exceptionally hot weather as unusual, but the depressing truth is that climate change means it is now normal to experience record-breaking temperatures.\n\nGreenhouse gas emissions continue to increase year on year. The rate of growth has slowed slightly, but energy-related CO2 emissions were still up almost 1% last year, according to the International Energy Agency, a global energy watchdog.\n\nAnd the higher the global temperature, the higher the risk of heatwaves, says Friederike Otto, a climatologist at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change at Imperial College London.\n\n\"These heatwaves are not only more frequent, but also hotter and longer than they would have been without global warming,\" she says.\n\nExperts are already predicting that the developing El Niño is likely to make 2023 the world's hottest year.\n\nThey fear it is likely to temporarily push the world past a key 1.5C warming milestone.\n\nAnd that is just the start. Unless we make dramatic reductions to greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures will continue to rise.\n\nThe Met Office said this week that record June temperatures this year were made twice as likely because of man-made climate change.\n\nThese rising temperatures are already driving fundamental and almost certainly irreversible changes in ecosystems across the world.\n\nThe record June temperatures in the UK helped cause unprecedented deaths of fish in rivers and canals, for example.\n\nWe cannot know what impact the current marine heatwave will have on the UK, cautions Prof Schmidt of the University of Bristol, because we have never seen one this intense before.\n\n\"In other regions, around Australia, in the Mediterranean, entire ecosystems changed, kelp forests disappeared, and seabirds and whales starved,\" she says.\n\nThe world is effectively in a race.\n\nIt is clear we are speeding towards an ever hotter and more chaotic climate future, but we do have the technologies and tools to cut our emissions.\n\nThe question now is whether we can do so rapidly enough to slow the climate juggernaut and keep the impacts of global warming within manageable boundaries.\n\nWhat do you want to know about these heatwaves? We'll be putting your questions to experts in our coverage this week, so let us know what you're wondering or worrying about. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's refusal to abolish the two-child limit on claiming some benefits will be challenged at a meeting of the party's policy body this weekend.\n\nSir Keir has faced a backlash from across his party over the issue.\n\nThe meeting, held behind closed doors in Nottingham, is an important staging post in drawing up the next manifesto.\n\nHowever, policies agreed there will not automatically be included.\n\nThe content of six policy documents will be finalised and sent to the party's annual conference in October.\n\nThe party leadership has already accepted some amendments to the draft documents - including restating the commitment to rail nationalisation and improving the provision of early years education - though without a spending commitment attached.\n\nBut a range of other proposed changes have not been agreed, and will be up for debate - including on welfare.\n\nBoth the county's largest union, Unison and the shop workers' union Usdaw are backing an amendment to \"end the punitive features\" of the benefit system, including specifically the benefits cap and the two-child limit.\n\nThe cap, which came into force in 2017, restricts child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in a family, with only a few exceptions.\n\nThe Child Poverty Action Group estimates removing the limit would cost £1.3bn a year but would lift 250,000 children out of poverty overnight.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the policy would not change under a Labour government.\n\nAlthough he did not give a reason during the interview, members of his shadow cabinet said it was because this would constitute an unfunded spending commitment.\n\nSir Keir referenced the backlash to his interview during an event with former Labour leader Sir Tony Blair on Tuesday, saying there was a row ongoing within the party about \"tough choices\".\n\n\"We have to take the tough decisions,\" he said, adding that the experience of former PM Liz Truss's premiership showed \"if you make unfunded commitments then the economy is damaged and working people pay the price\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: Labour will not make \"unfunded commitments\" like Liz Truss\n\nThe leadership wants to establish economic credibility above all, and avoid giving the Conservatives the ammunition to run a \"Labour's tax bombshell\" campaign, which proved so successful in 1992 - also after 13 years of Tory government.\n\nSir Keir's critics fall in to two camps - both of which go beyond his usual detractors.\n\nThe first involve those who want to see the policy changed - from Unison, which nominated Sir Keir for the leadership, to some former shadow ministers, to Labour's moderate leader in Scotland, Anas Sarwar.\n\nThe second group - who are muttering privately rather than publicly - are with the programme when it comes to refraining from uncosted commitments.\n\nTheir view is roughly this:\n\nThat Sir Keir committed to not changing a Conservative policy in his interview with the BBC on Sunday.\n\nThey feel instead - like deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth - he could have denounced the policy, but simply explained the money was not there to change it yet, as the Conservatives have crashed the economy.\n\nThey feel that approach would have left the door open to addressing the issue when or if the economy improves, and therefore have avoided the current row.\n\nSir Keir confirmed his position on the two-child benefit cap in a BBC interview on Sunday\n\nSir Keir, though, will be aware that the two-child limit is far less unpopular with potential voters than it is with party members.\n\nBut a shadow cabinet ally of Sir Keir's denied that he had attempted to throw potential voters in former Labour strongholds in the Midlands and northern England - known as the \"red wall\" - some red meat.\n\nThe ally insisted Sir Keir was absolutely committed to tackling child poverty and that his robust response on the issue was simply to quash any speculation that an unfunded commitment could be wrung out of him.\n\nBut there is a wider frustration that while Labour is attacking the government's record - for example, on child poverty - shadow ministers are constrained in proposing solutions.\n\nAt the policy forum this weekend, there will also be a push by some unions and left-wing delegates in particular for the party to commit to free school meals for all primary school children in England.\n\nThe left-wing group Momentum will be pushing for a more radical agenda across the board this weekend - from public ownership to rent controls and increasing international aid.\n\nThey are unlikely to win many victories but in alliance with the unions their hope is that on benefits and school meals, the leadership will be given a clear message.\n\nThere are many in the party that would not sign up to some of Momentum's preferred policies.\n\nBut there is a wider concern in Labour's ranks about whether the party's programme can inspire, and not just reassure, potential voters.", "Broadcaster Dan Wootton has admitted making \"errors of judgement in the past\" but denied any criminality as he responded to claims made against him.\n\nReports have included claims he offered media colleagues thousands of pounds for explicit material of themselves.\n\nWootton said on his GB News show he was the victim of a \"witch hunt\" by \"nefarious players\".\n\nThe publishers of the Sun and MailOnline say they are looking into allegations against him.\n\nVarious claims made on social media and in publications including the Byline Times, which first reported the story, and the Guardian, formed part of a campaign to get Wootton \"cancelled\", he told viewers of GB News' Dan Wootton Tonight.\n\nWootton was previously executive editor at the Sun, whose publisher News UK told the BBC: \"We are looking into the allegations made in recent days. We are not able to make any further comment at this stage.\"\n\nHe later became a columnist for MailOnline, owned by DMG Media, a spokesperson for which said: \"We are aware of the allegations and are looking into them.\"\n\nThe claims include that he used fake online identities and offered money to individuals in return for filming themselves carrying out sex acts.\n\nByline Times said it had given a dossier of evidence to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nA spokesman for the force said it had been contacted in June \"with regards to allegations\" of offences committed by a man.\n\n\"Officers are assessing information to establish whether any criminal offence has taken place,\" they said. \"There is no police investigation at this time.\"\n\nWootton said the allegations had been spread by a \"race to the bottom\" on social media, and claimed that \"dark forces\" were trying to bring down GB News.\n\nHe said: \"These past few days I have been the target of a smear campaign by nefarious players with an axe to grind.\n\n\"I, like all fallible human beings, have made errors of judgement in the past. But the criminal allegations being made against me are simply untrue.\n\n\"I would like nothing more than to address those spurious claims. I could actually spend the next two hours doing so, but on the advice of my lawyers I cannot comment further.\"\n\nGB News said it had no comment at this time.\n\nWootton declined to comment further when contacted by BBC News.\n\nDuring his time at the Sun, Wootton was known for breaking stories such as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepping down from royal duties.\n\nHe previously edited the newspaper's showbiz column Bizarre. He left his role as executive editor of the Sun in early 2021, and joined the MailOnline.\n\nHe was also previously showbiz editor at the News of the World and appeared on ITV's Lorraine as the programme's showbiz correspondent. He was named showbiz reporter of the year at the British Press Awards three times.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Dylan Lamb was 19 and in his first year of university when he found out he had leukaemia\n\nManchester City and England footballer Jack Grealish has donated £5,000 to help pay for a man's leukaemia treatment in America.\n\nDylan Lamb, 20, from Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, was recently told his cancer had returned and he has perhaps months to live.\n\nFriends and family are aiming to raise £1m to get him to the United States for possible treatment.\n\nMr Lamb's mother said Grealish's support had been tremendous for him.\n\nKim Veitch said: \"When you're told by your consultant that you've got weeks maybe months to live it takes a lot to keep him upbeat and this is just tremendous to him.\"\n\nShe said he was \"blown away\" by all the support he had been given.\n\nMr Lamb was 19 and in his first year of university when he found out he had leukaemia.\n\nWhen he was given the news the cancer had returned, he was told he needed a further stem cell transplant.\n\nBut his family said he must first get into remission and for that he needs CAR-T treatment which is not currently available for his age group in the UK, but which can be paid for as a clinical trial in the United States.\n\nThe NHS said CAR-T treatment involves altering immune cells in a laboratory to attach to and kill cancer cells.\n\nAs well as online appeals for donations, friend Fred Trevelyan and others will attempt the Three Peaks Challenge to raise funds.\n\nHe's a key member of our group all of us lads we're like a family and none of us could do life without him,\" Mr Trevelyan said.\n\nThe donation from Jack Grealish meant a lot, he said, because most of their group were football fans and they were \"all overcome by emotion\" to see someone \"who is so busy has taken time out of their day to help\".\n\nSo far, the appeal has raised close to £150,000.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This afternoon's session was quite dry in places, but we did get to hear from Tim Davie about a few key issues.\n\nHe defended the star salaries paid to some of the BBC's top talent, commenting that big names bring audiences to the BBC and make their job look easier than it is.\n\nDavie also acknowledged how difficult social media policy is for the corporation, following a row over a the impartiality of a Gary Lineker tweet earlier this year, and said the BBC is continuing to monitor and update its guidelines in this area.\n\nOn the issue of cuts to local radio, one of the areas Davie has been most criticised, he acknowledged that audiences have an intimate relationship with their local presenters.\n\nBut in a world of rapidly changing consumption habits, he said, it would not be right for his tenure as director general to end without having made further progress in the move towards online.\n\nMany people will have been watching today to see what he said about Huw Edwards. Davie said the BBC was looking at what lessons needed to be learned, adding that the corporation had been in contact with the original complainant.\n\nDavie and Dame Elan Closs Stephens gave an assured performance, both were clearly well briefed, and there was even an acknowledgement from the committee that they both must still be reeling from all the issues that have been thrown at the BBC recently.\n\nOne thing is certain - Davie and Dame Elan will continue to face intense scrutiny in the weeks and months to come, particularly as the government starts to look more closely at the issue of how the BBC is funded.", "Frome is the largest town in the rural constituency of Somerton and Frome\n\nOn Thursday Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a triple by-election test, after three of his own MPs stood down. BBC political editor Chris Mason has visited each area to find out what activists and voters think of the parties' chances.\n\n\"We are going to lose them all horribly.\"\n\nPolitical parties like to manage expectations before elections. In other words, talk down their chances. But there is no mistaking the gloom in senior Conservative circles about the three contests to become an MP in different corners of England.\n\nEach race is fascinating because each offers an insight into the different varieties of race that will help shape the outcome of the next general election, expected next year.\n\nI have been to North Yorkshire, to Somerset and to west London to talk to voters. And I have talked to senior campaigners from the main parties too.\n\nAnd yes, there aren't many optimistic Tories.\n\n\"Why would you go out and vote for us, right now? What is the incentive? The incentive is to give us a kicking, because these contests aren't about picking a government,\" one minister tells me.\n\nAnother Tory figure is even more blunt.\n\n\"Of course we are going to lose. In one it is about lies. The other about drugs. And the third about not getting a peerage. How do you defend any of that?\"\n\nThey are referring to the former MPs Boris Johnson, David Warburton and Nigel Adams respectively.\n\nThe Conservative pessimism is matched by a broadly chipper mood among Labour activists in both Uxbridge and South Ruislip and Selby and Ainsty, and Liberal Democrats in Somerton and Frome.\n\nIn all three spots, there is a recurring theme to the issues that matter.\n\nFirstly, the cost of living. One mum pushing a buggy through the streets of Frome told me she thinks twice before putting the kettle on, knowing the spiralling cost of her bills.\n\nIt was no different in Selby or in Uxbridge.\n\nSpiralling prices and what several people described as an economic \"crisis\" - for their budgets, and the wider country.\n\nThe NHS too is a uniting topic from rural Somerset and North Yorkshire to the north-west London suburbs. Interminable waits at A&E. The difficulty getting an appointment with the doctor. The difficulty even getting registered with an NHS dentist.\n\nBut let's examine each contest individually - as they each offer an insight into a crucial tussle come the general election expected next year.\n\nIt is the latest case study in the re-emergence of a political rivalry that had gone rather quiet. And the south west of England is where it is perhaps at its keenest.\n\nFor years, Cornwall, Devon and Somerset were something of a heartland for the Lib Dems. But their stint in coalition government with the Tories nearly wiped them out. It is only now that they are showing signs of recovery.\n\nThe Lib Dems now run Somerset Council. They won a by election in Tiverton and Honiton, in Devon, just over a year ago.\n\nThe party held Somerton and Frome until their near-death experience, in 2015. And they are confident they are going to win it back.\n\nThey reckon they are being well received in the villages that traditionally lean Conservative. And they are hopeful the Guardian's endorsement will help tempt Labour and Green voters to vote for them instead.\n\nSir Ed Davey, the party's leader, has visited the area six times.\n\n\"We are going to get absolutely smashed in Somerset,\" says one Tory activist, in contrast, who has campaigned there.\n\nSelby and Ainsty has been Conservative since constituency boundaries changed in 2010\n\nSome 240 miles from the Somerset countryside, a slice of North Yorkshire countryside. Selby and Ainsty.\n\nThis seat, on its current boundaries, is, or was, a rock solid Conservative constituency.\n\nBeyond Selby and Tadcaster, it is a rural patch. Labour could win a general election outright and comfortably without taking a seat like this.\n\nAnd yet still the Conservatives are worried it could be a goner for them.\n\nLabour are emphasising that a win for them would amount to \"the biggest majority we've overturned since the end of the Second World War\" - a line which speaks to both their confidence and a splash of expectation management, in case they don't manage it.\n\nYes, Selby had a Labour MP as recently as when the party was last in government in 2010. But the constituency boundaries have changed since then.\n\nA victory for Sir Keir Starmer's party here would be an astonishing achievement, but appears doable.\n\nAnd so finally to west London, to Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nThis is a contest that has the central figure of the politics of the last few years at its heart: one Boris Johnson. The ex-prime minister is the former MP here. His resignation triggered this by-election.\n\nI encountered no shortage of views about Mr Johnson - from the unrepeatable to the warm, and sometimes a bit of both from one and the same person.\n\nUxbridge and South Ruislip has long been a Conservative seat. But Labour has been eyeing the prospect of winning here for a bit.\n\nIt is the kind of seat where the party would face awkward questions if it didn't manage to win; if it failed to turn stonking national opinion poll leads into actual votes and an actual election win.\n\nAnd, crucially, taking a seat directly from the Conservatives.\n\nBut there is a twist here.\n\nThe extension of what is known as London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone, which charges the owners of the most polluting transport to drive around. Ulez, as it is known for short, provokes real anger from many here.\n\nAnd its critics blame the Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\n\"If we lose it'll be down to Ulez,\" one senior Labour source told me, adding \"the Tories have done a good job of trying to make it a single issue contest, and for some it's very motivational\" - in other words it'll determine how some people vote.\n\n\"It's a tough seat,\" says another London Labour source, while claiming the importance of Ulez can be overstated compared to issues such as the cost of living.\n\nNot one, but a trio of contests in three different corners of England, with the capacity to make the political weather - and shape the mood of the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, as a general election edges ever closer.\n\nYou can see the full list of candidates for each constituency here:\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The murals adorned the walls of the Kent Intake Unit\n\nMurals of Mickey Mouse and other cartoon characters designed to welcome child asylum seekers to a reception centre in Dover have been painted over, by order of the immigration minister.\n\nRobert Jenrick instructed that they be removed, reportedly because he believed they sent too welcoming a message.\n\nThe Home Office said the Kent Intake Unit (KIU) opened last November to look after unaccompanied child migrants.\n\nFacilities included softer interview rooms and an outside space, it added.\n\nThere were also prayer rooms, a larger reception area and improved security measures to ensure children's safety, the Home Office said.\n\nA spokesperson confirmed the murals were removed on Tuesday, adding: \"We do all we can to ensure children are safe, secure and supported as we urgently seek placements with a local authority.\n\n\"All children receive a welfare interview on their arrival at accommodation, which includes questions designed to identify potential indicators of trafficking or safeguarding issues.\n\n\"Our priority is to stop the boats and disrupt the people smugglers.\"\n\nLabour's shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock condemned Mr Jenrick's order, saying the idea that removing the murals would \"somehow stop the boats is utterly absurd\".\n\nHe said it was a sign of a \"chaotic government in crisis, whose failing approach means all they have left is tough talk and cruel and callous policies\".\n\nLabour had a plan to \"end the dangerous crossings, defeat the criminal smuggler gangs, and end hotel use by clearing the asylum backlog,\" he added.\n\nThe i newspaper, which was first to report the story, quoted sources as saying staff at the centre were \"horrified\" by Mr Jenrick's order and resisted carrying out the work.\n\nA report published last month by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons after visits to KIU, and the nearby processing centres at Manston and Western Jet Foil, found there had been improvements in facilities since previous inspections.\n\nBut continuing problems, including medical isolation practices at KIU. The report concluded: \"Inspectors found no examples of notable positive practice during this inspection\" at KIU.\n\nThe Home Office said it had taken action to address some of the recommendations.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMW crashed into two lampposts and a wall.\n\nA driver crashed into two lamp-posts and a wall before fleeing the scene in Dundee, prompting a police probe.\n\nPolice Scotland said the collision happened at about 17:35 on Friday on the A923 Lochee Road near the junction with Lower Pleasance.\n\nTwo occupants abandoned the blue BMW 335d and left the scene - police are trying to trace them.\n\nAnyone with information or dashcam footage of the crash has been urged to contact the police non-emergency line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nBritain's Katie Boulter will face the biggest challenge of her Wimbledon so far when she plays defending champion Elena Rybakina on Saturday.\n\nBoulter faces the Kazakh third seed on Centre Court - the same stage where she stunned 2021 finalist Karolina Pliskova last year - for a place in the last 16.\n\n\"I think this is a good time for Katie to play against her,\" she said.\n\n\"Rybakina hasn't really come into this year's Championships playing lots of tennis.\n\n\"She has looked vulnerable at times and, if you were in Rybakina's shoes, you're up against a British number one who is popular and will have the majority of that crowd supporting her.\n\n\"It is a situation I don't think Rybakina has found herself in too often.\"\n\nMen's top seed Carlos Alcaraz opens the sixth day's play on Centre Court against Chile's Nicolas Jarry at 13:30 BST.\n\nWomen's second seed Aryna Sabalenka and last year's finalist Ons Jabeur are also in action.\n• None Couple Boulter and De Minaur through in mixed doubles\n\nBoulter has enjoyed a fine grass-court season, winning her maiden WTA Tour title at Nottingham in the build-up to Wimbledon and showing superb focus to reach the third round here.\n\nA big hitter, with an aggressive game built around her forehand, Boulter is a popular player with the home fans and is the only Briton left in either singles draw following the exits of Andy Murray, Cameron Norrie and Liam Broady on Friday.\n\nBoulter claimed an emotional victory over former world number one Pliskova on Centre Court last year and is aiming to channel those memories against Rybakina.\n\n\"I think I've got the whole thing in my memory, to be honest with you,\" Boulter said.\n\n\"I still think about the time that I served it out. That's something that I draw on.\n\n\"I'm already excited to play against a top player and have a go. I think they're the moments I get excited for.\"\n\nRybakina has had a shaky start to her title defence, having to fight back from a set down in her opener and looking unsure at times in her second-round win over Alize Cornet.\n\nA more subdued figure on court than Boulter, the Australian Open runner-up is not worried about the home-crowd support her opponent will receive.\n\n\"The crowd won't be supporting me that much. I'm sure it's going to be good,\" she added.\n\n\"She's a tough player and her game is aggressive. It's going to be tough one.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our fossil-fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australia bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak on US providing cluster bombs to Ukraine\n\nRishi Sunak has reiterated that the UK \"discourages\" the use of cluster bombs after the US agreed to supply them to Ukraine.\n\nThe UK is one the countries to have banned the weapons, which have a record of killing civilians, under an existing convention.\n\nThe PM emphasised the government's continued support for Ukraine.\n\nOn Friday, US President Joe Biden said he had made a \"very difficult decision\" to supply them to Kyiv.\n\nSpain and Canada, two of 123 nations to ban cluster bombs, have criticised the decision to send them, which has also been condemned by human rights groups.\n\nCluster munitions are a method of dispersing large numbers of tiny bomblets from a rocket, missile or artillery shell that scatters them in mid-flight over a wide area.\n\nThey are meant to detonate on impact, but a significant proportion of them fail to explode initially - often when they land on wet or soft ground. This means they can explode at a later date, killing or injuring people.\n\nNeither the US, Ukraine or Russia are signatories of the international treaty - the Convention on Cluster Munitions - banning the use or stockpiling of them over the indiscriminate damage they can inflict on civilian populations.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Selby, Yorkshire, on Saturday, Mr Sunak said the UK is \"signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use\".\n\n\"We will continue to do our part to support Ukraine against Russia's illegal and unprovoked invasion, but we've done that by providing heavy battle tanks and most recently long-range weapons, and hopefully all countries can continue to support Ukraine,\" he added.\n\n\"Russia's act of barbarism is causing untold suffering to millions of people.\"\n\nMr Sunak is due to meet with Mr Biden in London on Monday, ahead of a Nato summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Tuesday.\n\nRishi Sunak spoke carefully when asked for his response to the US now giving cluster munition to Ukraine.\n\nHe didn't criticise the US's decision but did point out that the Convention discourages use of the bombs.\n\nThe UK is the second largest provider of military assistance to Ukraine - only behind the US.\n\nAs the conflict in Ukraine evolves, so too are the responses of Kyiv's allies - on this issue the US and UK have gone in different directions.\n\nMr Biden justified supplying the weapons by saying the \"Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".\n\nSpeaking to CNN in an interview due to air on Sunday, he said it had taken \"a while to be convinced\" to make the \"very difficult decision\" to send them.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has hailed the \"timely\" move to deliver the bombs.\n\nUkraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said his troops would not use them in urban areas to avoid risking civilian lives, adding \"these are our people, they are Ukrainians we have a duty to protect\".\n\nBut Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles has said her government's position is that cluster bombs should not be used for the \"legitimate defence of Ukraine\".\n\nGermany, which has also signed the convention, said it would not provide them to Ukraine but that it understands the American position.\n\nIn a statement, the Canadian government said it does not support the use of the weapons and emphasised its commitment to \"putting an end to the effects cluster munitions have on civilians - particularly children\".\n\nHuman Rights Watch said both sides had used the weapons in the war, causing \"numerous deaths and serious injuries to civilians\".\n\nThese comments were echoed by Amnesty International, who said cluster munitions pose \"a grave threat to civilian lives, even long after the conflict has ended\".\n\nThe UN human rights office has also been critical, calling for their use to \"stop immediately\".\n\nNato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said the military alliance takes no position on cluster munitions.\n\nTobias Ellwood, the chairman of the UK's defence select committee, urged the US to \"reconsider\" its decision - which he said was the \"wrong call and will alienate international goodwill\".\n\n\"Their use leaves deadly unexploded ordnance over the battlefield, killing and injuring civilians long after the war is over,\" the Conservative MP added.\n\nRussia described the US decision as an \"act of desperation\" in the face of the \"failure of the much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I didn't see what happened' says Victor Wembanyama\n\nBritney Spears accidentally hit herself in the face as she was blocked by security while approaching a basketball star, Las Vegas police say.\n\nVictor Wembanyama's guard, who the pop star alleged struck her during Wednesday's encounter, will not face charges, police said in a statement.\n\nSpears said she was \"backhanded in the face\" by the man, calling the incident a \"traumatic experience\".\n\nA copy of the police report summarising their investigation, obtained by the BBC, says: \"Detectives and I were able to review surveillance footage of the event which showed Britney going to tap the Spurs player on the shoulder.\n\n\"When she touched the player [the security guard] pushes her hand off the player without looking which causes Britney's hand to hit herself in the face.\"\n\nLas Vegas police also confirmed they had concluded their investigation into the alleged battery at the Aria hotel.\n\nVideo shared by TMZ shows a man block Spears as she reaches out to tap Wembanyama on the shoulder as he walks through a casino complex. Spears recoils, as she appears to hit herself.\n\nWembanyama has said he \"didn't see what happened\", but that someone was pushed.\n\nThe 19-year-old NBA top draft pick was in Las Vegas ahead of his first Summer League game when he visited a restaurant at the Aria, on South Las Vegas Boulevard, where Spears said she spotted him.\n\n\"I decided to approach him and congratulate him on his success. It was really loud, so I tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention,\" she said.\n\nSpears alleged that a security guard protecting Wembanyama struck her in the face with the back of his hand, causing her glasses to fall off as she nearly fell to the ground.\n\nThe singer said she had seen Wembanyama's account of the incident, which prompted her to share her own.\n\nThe French sports star told a local news reporter: \"I couldn't stop. That person was calling me, 'Sir, sir,' and that person grabbed me from behind.\n\n\"I didn't see what happened because I was walking straight and didn't stop. That person grabbed me from behind - not on my shoulder, she grabbed me from behind.\n\n\"I just know the security pushed her away. I don't know with how much force but security pushed her away. I didn't stop to look so I could walk in and enjoy a nice dinner.\"\n\nSpears said she wanted \"to urge people in the public eye to set an example\" and thanked the Las Vegas Police Department for its support.\n\nSam Asghari, husband to Spears, said he hopes the security guard \"changes his disregard for women\"\n\nMr Asghari, 29, came to her defence on social media, writing: \"I hope the man in question learns a lesson and changes his disregard for women.\"\n\nIn 2021, Spears was released from a controversial 13-year conservatorship which gave her father, Jamie Spears, sweeping control over her life.\n\nThe form of legal guardianship held power over her finances and career decisions plus major personal matters, such as her visits to her teenage sons and whether she could get remarried.", "Selena Lau, eight, was \"intelligent, cheeky and loved\"\n\nA former pupil and residents near a school where an eight-year-old girl died when a Land Rover crashed through a wall have been paying tribute.\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left at the Wimbledon school after police removed the cordon.\n\nSeveral people including a baby girl were taken to hospital after the incident at The Study Preparatory School on Thursday.\n\nAn eight-year-old girl and a woman in her 40s remain in a critical condition.\n\nPeople came to pay their respects on Saturday at Wilberforce House\n\nA 46-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been released on bail.\n\nAmelia, 19, attended The Study Preparatory School in 2015. She and her brother laid flowers down on Saturday afternoon to pay their respects.\n\n\"I think the Study is a tightly knit community, it's quite a small school so even after people left, we are all together,\" she said.\n\n\"We came to pay our respects because it's not just a school, it's a community as well.\"\n\nMax Austin, a councillor for Wimbledon, said his sister also used to attend.\n\n\"This is normally a very happy time here, everything is decorated for the tennis, the kids will get involved with it and the schools. There's a sort of crude juxtaposition between the festive atmosphere here in Wimbledon and now this,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement released earlier Selena was described by her family as an intelligent and cheeky girl. An end-of-term tea party had been taking place at the south-west London school when the Land Rover crashed through the fence and into a building.\n\nParents with a young child paid their respects at the scene of the crash and said everyone had been affected by it.\n\n\"Everyone is questioning how it could've happened,\" they said.\n\nPeople came to leave flowers by The Study Preparatory School\n\nThomas Barlow, a councillor for Wimbledon Village, said everyone was shocked and it was horrendous it could happen on the last day of term.\n\n\"The whole village is in shock, a lot of the people had connections to this school,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A BBC presenter has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17, according to The Sun.\n\nThe newspaper reported that the unnamed male presenter had paid the alleged victim tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nIt is understood that the BBC is looking into the allegations, and that the star is currently not scheduled to be on air in the coming days.\n\nThe Sun said the young person's family complained to the BBC on 19 May.\n\nThe family is reported to have become frustrated that the star remained on air and approached the newspaper, but said they wanted no payment for the story.\n\nThe mother told the paper that the anonymous individual, now aged 20, had used the money from the presenter to fund a crack cocaine habit.\n\nShe described to the paper how her child had gone from a \"happy-go-lucky youngster to a ghost-like crack addict\" in three years.\n\nFollowing the reports, several high-profile BBC presenters have taken to social media to deny they are the presenter in question.\n\nBroadcaster Rylan Clark tweeted on Saturday that he was not the presenter, saying \"that ain't me babe\" and adding that he is filming in Italy for a BBC programme.\n\nSeparately BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine has also distanced himself from the Sun story, saying the allegations are not about him.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Just to say I'm very much looking forward to hosting my radio show on Monday — whoever the 'BBC Presenter' in the news is, I have the same message for you as Rylan did earlier: it certainly ain't me.\"\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker did not mention the allegations specifically, but writing on Twitter later on Saturday evening he said: \"Hate to disappoint the haters but it's not me.\"\n\nNicky Campbell tweeted that he has reported an anonymous Twitter account to the police over a post claiming he was the presenter.\n\n\"I think it's important to take a stand. There's just too many of these people on social media. Thanks for your support friends,\" he said.\n\nThe corporation said the information would be \"acted upon appropriately\".\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We treat any allegations very seriously and we have processes in place to proactively deal with them.\n\n\"As part of that, if we receive information that requires further investigation or examination we will take steps to do this. That includes actively attempting to speak to those who have contacted us in order to seek further detail and understanding of the situation.\n\n\"If we get no reply to our attempts or receive no further contact that can limit our ability to progress things but it does not mean our enquiries stop.\n\n\"If, at any point, new information comes to light or is provided - including via newspapers - this will be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes.\"\n\nBBC's culture editor Katie Razzall said many questions remain unanswered, including how the corporation has investigated the family's complaint and if it was appropriate for the presenter, who has not been named, to stay on air after a serious allegation was made.\n\nThe BBC's statement appears to suggest its initial investigation may have been hampered by a lack of response from the family, she said.\n\nThis allegation, if proven, would mean the career of a high-profile BBC presenter is likely to be over.", "The remnants of a cluster bomb found in a field in Ukraine in April 2023\n\nSeveral allies of the US have expressed unease at Washington's decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs.\n\nOn Friday, the US confirmed it was sending the controversial weapons to Ukraine, with President Joe Biden calling it a \"very difficult decision\".\n\nIn response, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Spain all said they were opposed to the use of the weapons.\n\nCluster bombs have been banned by more than 100 countries because of the danger they pose to civilians.\n\nThey typically release lots of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area.\n\nThe munitions have also caused controversy over their failure - or dud - rate. Unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years and then indiscriminately detonate.\n\nMr Biden told CNN in an interview on Friday that he had spoken to allies about the decision, which was part of a military aid package worth $800m (£626m).\n\nThe president said it had taken him \"a while to be convinced to do it\", but he had acted because \"the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".\n\nThe decision was quickly criticised by human rights groups, with Amnesty International saying cluster munitions pose \"a grave threat to civilian lives, even long after the conflict has ended\".\n\nUS National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters the American cluster bombs being sent to Ukraine failed far less frequently than ones already being used by Russia in the conflict.\n\nBut on Saturday, some Western allies of the US refused to endorse its decision.\n\nWhen asked about his position on the US decision, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighted that the UK was one of 123 countries that had signed up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the production or use of the weapons and discourages their use.\n\nHis comments came ahead of a meeting with President Biden, who is due to arrive in the UK on Sunday before a Nato summit in Lithuania.\n\nThe prime minister of New Zealand - one of the countries that pushed for the convention's creation - went further than Mr Sunak, according to comments published by local media.\n\nChris Hipkins said the weapons were \"indiscriminate, they cause huge damage to innocent people, potentially, and they can have a long-lasting effect as well\". The White House had been made aware of New Zealand's opposition to the use of cluster bombs in Ukraine, he said.\n\nSpain's Defence Minister Margarita Robles told reporters her country had a \"firm commitment\" that certain weapons and bombs could not be sent to Ukraine.\n\n\"No to cluster bombs and yes to the legitimate defence of Ukraine, which we understand should not be carried out with cluster bombs,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Canadian government said it was particularly concerned about the potential impact of the bombs - which sometimes lie undetonated for many years - on children.\n\nCanada also said it was against the use of the cluster bombs and remained fully compliant with the Convention on Cluster Munitions. \"We take seriously our obligation under the convention to encourage its universal adoption,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThe US, Ukraine and Russia have not signed up to the convention, while both Moscow and Kyiv have used cluster bombs during the war.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany, a signatory of the treaty, said that while it would not provide such weapons to Ukraine, it understood the American position.\n\n\"We're certain that our US friends didn't take the decision about supplying such ammunition lightly,\" German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told reporters in Berlin.\n\nUkraine's defence minister has given assurances the cluster bombs would only be used to break through enemy defence lines, and not in urban areas.\n\nMr Biden's move will bypass US law prohibiting the production, use or transfer of cluster munitions with a failure rate of more than 1%.\n\nMr Sullivan, the US national security advisers, told reporters the US cluster bombs have a dud rate of less than 2.5%, while Russia's have a dud rate of between 30-40%, he said.\n\nThe US Cluster Munition Coalition, which is part of an international civil society campaign working to eradicate the weapons, said they would cause \"greater suffering, today and for decades to come\".\n\nThe UN human rights office has also been critical, with a representative saying \"the use of such munitions should stop immediately and not be used in any place\".\n\nA spokesperson for Russia's defence ministry described the move as an \"act of desperation\" and \"evidence of impotence in the face of the failure of the much-publicised Ukrainian 'counter-offensive'\".\n\nRussia's foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova also said Ukraine's assurances it would use the cluster munitions responsibly were \"not worth anything\".\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has previously accused the US and its allies of fighting an expanding proxy war in Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive, which began last month, is grinding on in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.\n\nLast week, Ukraine's military commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny said the campaign had been hampered by a lack of adequate firepower. He expressed frustration with the slow deliveries of weapons promised by the West.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the US president for \"a timely, broad and much-needed\" military aid package.\n\nOne by one, America's Nato allies have been lining up to distance themselves from its decision to supply Ukraine with controversial cluster bombs.\n\nBritain, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made clear, is a signatory to the 2008 convention that prohibits their production and use - and discourages their use by others.\n\nCanada went further, with a government statement saying it was committed to putting an end to the effects of cluster munitions have on civilians, particularly children.\n\nSpain said these weapons should not be sent to Ukraine, while Germany said it was also against the decision, although it understood the reasoning behind it.\n\nEven Russia condemned it, despite having made extensive use of cluster munitions itself against Ukraine, saying it would litter the land for generations.\n\nBut Gen Sir Richard Shirreff, a former deputy commander of Nato in Europe, defended the decision, saying their deployment should make it easier for Ukraine to break through Russian lines.\n\nIf the West had provided more arms sooner, he said, then there would not have been a need to provide this weapon now.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: After Saturday's storms, what can we expect for the next few days?\n\nThunderstorms have hit parts of the UK as a hot weather warning remains in place for regions across England.\n\nHeavy showers followed a humid start for many areas on Saturday, with afternoon temperatures approaching 30C in parts of the south-east.\n\nA Met Office yellow thunderstorm alert, which covers most of England and Scotland, has been in place since 09:00 BST and warns of potential flooding.\n\nRain also disrupted play at both Wimbledon and the men's Ashes.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK government's Health Security Agency and the Met Office issued a yellow heat-health alert for six regions in England: London, the South East, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, and Yorkshire and the Humber.\n\nThe alert, which is due to last until 09:00 on Sunday, was soon followed up by warnings of heavy showers, thunderstorms and potential flash flooding.\n\nThe Met Office's yellow thunderstorm warning took effect in parts of England, Scotland and Wales at 09:00 on Saturday and lasts until 23:59. A separate warning has been issued for the whole of Northern Ireland for Sunday, from 10:00 until 21:00.\n\nGenerally a Met Office yellow warning for thunderstorms means there is a small chance homes and businesses could be flooded quickly and communities cut off by floodwater, while public transport risks being cancelled in affected areas.\n\nAt-risk areas will most likely be across east Wales, England and into south-east Scotland, according to BBC Weather's Simon King.\n\nThe storms will be quite localised but \"could be nasty\" if you get caught up in one, the forecaster said, with torrential rain, lightning, hail, gusty winds and the risk of some localised flooding all possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLincoln, in the East Midlands, York in the north-east of England and Carlisle, which sits on the border with Scotland, had all experienced thunder and rain by midday on Saturday, according to the Met Office.\n\nIn Scotland, those attending the second day of TRNSMT music festival in Glasgow were warned to expect warm spells of 24C alongside high winds and thundery downpours.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced the Tiree Music Festival, usually held off the west coast of the country, could not go ahead due to gale force winds.\n\nFurther public events have been impacted by the weather in England - two major sporting events in particular.\n\nShowers disrupted play at Wimbledon, south-west London, but they should ease later this afternoon with increasing sunshine expected into this evening, BBC Weather's Simon King said.\n\nAs the sixth day of the tennis tournament got under way, some of the early matches - which began at 11:00 - were suspended after heavy rain began to fall on the outside courts.\n\nAt the men's Ashes, in Headingley, Leeds, play could only begin at 16:45 after persistent rain hampered proceedings on the third day of the cricket series.\n\nSunday will be a drier day for most of the UK, however there will still be some showers around with sunny spells in between, BBC Weather's Stav Danaos said.\n\nThere is a chance of rain across south-east England and East Anglia in the morning and some of this could be thundery as it pushes north-eastwards, he said.\n\nThe forecaster added that the main focus of the heavy showers and thunderstorms on Sunday will be across Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is expected to feel cooler and fresher with less humidity across the UK compared to Saturday.\n• None How do the new heat-health alerts work?", "The car crashed into the school at about 10:00 BST on Thursday\n\nPolice are continuing to question a woman over a car crash at a school which killed an eight-year-old girl, as floral tributes are laid at the scene.\n\nTwelve people were taken to hospital after a Land Rover crashed into The Study Preparatory School in Wimbledon.\n\nNone of the children injured on Thursday are in a critical condition, the chair of governors told the BBC.\n\nThe woman in her 40s remains in custody having been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nOne line of inquiry is that the driver had a medical incident, the BBC understands.\n\nThe Met Police has removed the car from the site, in south-west London, as part of its investigation and the cordon has been lifted. The force has said it is not treating the crash as terror-related.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Mark Lobel is at the scene the day after the fatal crash\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it sent 15 ambulances to the scene and treated 16 people.\n\nSt George's Hospital in Tooting said it had received \"a number of patients who are being cared for by our specialist clinical teams\".\n\nDet Ch Sup Clair Kelland, local police commander for south-west London, said: \"We would ask people not to speculate while we work to understand the full circumstances of what has happened during this tragic incident.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid outside the school for girls aged four to 11, which is based on Camp Road near Wimbledon Common.\n\nOne local teacher, who asked not to be named, told the BBC she knows some of the families affected by the crash and said they were \"distressed\".\n\nFloral tributes have been placed outside the school gates\n\nShe said: \"I wanted to pay tribute to this girl, her family and the school, and I'm really sorry.\n\n\"I wanted to pay my respects and for [my son] to see that's an important thing to do.\"\n\nMP for Wimbledon Stephen Hammond said the pupils had been gathered for an end-of-year celebration party in the garden. He described the crash as \"extremely distressing and extremely concerning\".\n\nJohn Tucker, chair of the board of governors, said \"the school community is profoundly affected by this tragedy\".\n\nHe added that activities planned at the school on Friday had been cancelled.\n\nThe school's website was replaced by a holding page with a statement reading: \"We are profoundly shocked by the tragic accident this morning at Wilberforce House and devastated that it has claimed the life of one of our young pupils as well as injuring several others.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the bereaved family and with the families of those injured at this terrible time.\"\n\nThe private girls' school is just a mile away from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club as it hosts the world-famous tennis tournament.\n\nIan Hewitt, chair of the All England Club, visited the school to \"offer our heartfelt sympathies to all affected by this tragic, tragic incident\".\n\nIan Hewitt visited the school to pay his respects on Friday\n\nHe added: \"I just want to offer condolences on behalf of the All England Club and everyone involved in Wimbledon Tennis.\n\n\"We feel closely associated with the community and we recognise what a tragic incident [it is].\"\n\nOn Thursday, a spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his \"deepest condolences\" were with the family of the girl who had died, and his thoughts were with all of those involved and injured.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nRace director Christian Prudhomme said \"the Tour de France is sad\" after Mark Cavendish crashed out of what is set to be his final appearance in the event.\n\nManxman Cavendish, 38, broke a collarbone in an innocuous-looking crash about 60km from the finish of stage eight from Libourne to Limoges.\n\nThat means he is set to retire on a record-equalling 34 stage victories - the same as Belgian legend Eddy Merckx.\n\n\"It is an emotional day, he was so sad just after the fall,\" said Prudhomme.\n\nCavendish announced in May he would retire at the end of the season.\n\n\"He is the best sprinter in the history of the Tour de France and he wanted to try to win the 35th stage,\" added Prudhomme.\n\n\"He is sad, we are sad, the Tour de France is sad.\"\n\nAfter missing last year's Tour, Cavendish entered this year's race looking to take sole ownership of the record for stage victories.\n\nThe Astana Qazaqstan rider was agonisingly close to doing just that on Friday, but an issue with his gears allowed Jasper Philipsen to pip him.\n\nCavendish was \"bitterly disappointed\" by that - and within 24 hours his race was over.\n\nHe hit the deck after touching wheels with Pello Bilbao and was helped into the back of an ambulance and taken to hospital in Perigueux.\n\n\"Everyone in the team is hurting,\" said Mark Renshaw, who was Cavendish's lead-out man from 2009-2011 and in 2016, and joined Astana as a sprint adviser prior to the Tour.\n\nCavendish made his Tour debut in 2007 and has failed to finish seven of his 14 appearances.\n\nMads Pedersen, who won Saturday's stage, said it had been a \"pleasure\" to ride against him.\n\n\"I always had a good relationship with him in the peloton,\" said the Dane. \"It's so sad for a legend to finish the Tour like this.\"\n\nTwo-time winner Tadej Pogacar said: \"I think everybody here wanted him to win one stage, and yesterday he was super close. It's a bad moment.\n\n\"He was one of my favourites when we were kids. Him sprinting on the Champs-Elysees.... we just wanted to have his style and his legs.\"\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our fossil-fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australia bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have been taking part in strikes over pay\n\nRishi Sunak has said any pay offer to public sector workers had to be \"fair, affordable and responsible\" in order to control rising prices.\n\nThe PM said it would be \"short-sighted\" to do something now that made inflation worse in the longer term.\n\nTackling inflation meant taking \"difficult decisions\" that would benefit the country, he added.\n\nIt comes as he reportedly faces pressure from ministers to accept the recommendations of pay review bodies.\n\nThe Times reported that five Cabinet ministers were lobbying the prime minister to accept pay recommendations believed to centre on around 6%.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Selby, Yorkshire, on Saturday, Mr Sunak said \"no decisions have been made\" on whether to abide by the proposals.\n\n\"It would be incredibly short-sighted of the government to do something that might sound great today but ultimately just made the inflation problem worse for everybody in the long run,\" he said.\n\n\"So that's what we'll be guided by. We want to be fair, we want things that are affordable and responsible.\"\n\nHe said the government was \"working incredibly hard, night and day, to bring inflation down\", but warned it required \"difficult decisions\".\n\n\"Ultimately if we don't do that it will just make the situation worse and it will last for longer, that's not going to do anyone any good,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"I wouldn't be the right kind of prime minister if I took the easy course. I'm going to do the right long-term thing for the country and that means bringing inflation down.\"\n\nHundreds of thousands of workers have been taking part in strikes over pay, including teachers, junior doctors, nurses, civil servants and rail workers.\n\nSome agreements have been reached, including a pay settlement for more than a million NHS staff in England.\n\nAlmost half of public sector workers are covered by pay review bodies, including police and prison officers, the armed forces, doctors, dentists and teachers.\n\nThe pay review bodies are made up of economists and experts on human resources, with experience in both the public and private sector and are appointed by the relevant government department.\n\nTheir recommendations are not legally binding, meaning the government can choose to reject or partially ignore the advice, but it is usually accepted.\n\nMr Sunak has pledged to halve inflation this year to about 5%, as part of his top five priorities since becoming prime minister.\n\nThe rate at which prices are rising remained unchanged at 8.7% in May, despite predictions it would fall.", "It's a well-worn trope that the politicians who look after our wallets are the ones who tend to win.\n\nWith interest rates still climbing, inflation still gobbling up spending power and taxes at historically high levels, times are hard for millions.\n\nA winning political party certainly needs smart answers. Labour has been miles ahead in the polls for many months, but can the party, and its shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves - who is on our show this Sunday - persuade you their answers add up?\n\nLabour are not short of slogans about the state of the economy. You only need to glance at their MPs' social media, or dip into the House of Commons for a few minutes, to hear one of the economic charges they are levelling against the Conservatives.\n\nBut when you look closely at the party's actual plans, it is not so easy to spot the difference.\n\nTaxes are already very high and Labour has no desire to raise them beyond a couple of specific, and relatively minor changes, like charging VAT on private school fees and altering non-dom status (where a UK resident whose permanent home is outside the country pays British taxes on money earned here but not on income from overseas).\n\nWhat about spending on public services? With the election probably still more than a year away Labour doesn't want to be drawn - although you'll hear some shadow ministers make warm noises about spending \"more\".\n\nAnd there's not an obvious difference when it comes to spending on benefits either. Both main parties want to keep the very expensive protection for pensioners - the so-called \"triple lock\".\n\nTo the irritation of many Labour left-wingers they have not committed to getting rid of the two-child limit, where parents who have a third or subsequent child do not qualify for additional financial support. So on the traditional areas of tax, spending and benefits, playing spot the difference between the government and the wannabe government doesn't get you that far.\n\nThere are important distinctions we'll come to in a second, but it is worth pondering the mixture of politics and policies that seems to make the gap quite narrow.\n\nFirst, Labour know the Conservatives will grab any shred of evidence to suggest their opponents will splash the cash irresponsibly.\n\nMs Reeves has long been trying to counter that with the strict message that all spending has to be paid for. Her so-called \"fiscal rules\" mean a hypothetical Labour government would only borrow to invest.\n\nThat is frustrating to some in Labour, with one MP on the party's left telling me: \"I know the front bench is concerned about appearing credible, and the conclusion is to spend less money, but because things are so bad we have to be much bolder.\"\n\nAnother MP said the \"self-imposed strait-jacket is going to be more and more of a problem\".\n\nThere is zero chance that Ms Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer are going to budge on this.\n\nThat's not just because they don't want to give the Tories an inch, but because they have what a source described as a genuinely \"hard-headed\" even \"zealot-like\" approach to controlling spending. This is not just a political decision, it's based on principles too.\n\nWith the economy in a bad way, a safety-first attitude prevails - especially after the pandemonium of the Truss government last autumn.\n\nAs one Labour-backing City insider says: \"The whole approach right now is to ensure investors are confident in the UK.\"\n\nAnother source suggested \"people in the City are quite worried that this government and the regulators have already moved a long way to the interventionist side of things - Rachel will have heard that in spades\".\n\nLabour also knows not to reveal its hand this far from an election. That's partly because the financial pressures people face will change by the time the UK goes to the polls. And there is always a risk of your rivals nabbing your plans.\n\nThere are differences though - most notably Labour's promise to spend up to £28bn a year on shifting to a greener economy. The party would create a National Wealth Fund to invest in big projects and create a state-owned green power firm called GB Energy.\n\nWhile Ms Reeves may not have an intensely detailed programme, she does have a new brand: \"Securonomics\".\n\n\"Securonomics\" is meant to be a whole new way of doing business. Making and selling more in the UK, creating more lasting jobs, and working more closely with industry to make sure the country is competing with its rivals.\n\nIt is meant to sound radical, but what it means in practice is unclear. As one source put it: \"Securonomics is extremely clever because it feels like there is a lot in there but it is not very obvious what is.\"\n\nThere is an opportunity for Labour here. Even without the finer details, there is clear difference over how much the main parties would be prepared to intervene in the economy.\n\nLabour has watered down its pledge to invest in more green energy\n\nLabour is also likely to make a big thing in the run up to the next election of expanding workers' rights. While what will actually end up in the manifesto is yet to be finalised, one shadow minister says you can expect it to be a \"big part of the offer\" across the UK.\n\nSo while Labour's Treasury team shares some of the Conservatives' view that now is not the time to go wild with public spending or borrowing, there are important distinctions.\n\nBut that shared instinct to be careful with the cash is getting stronger because of what is happening to interest rates.\n\nOne economist notes that if short and medium-term interest rates are one percentage point higher than expected it raises borrowing by £20bn in the medium term.\n\nSo it is getting more expensive for the government to borrow - as is the cost of repaying the debts the country already has.\n\nOf course there are always economic choices about taking an alternative approach. But the desire to keep debt down is something Labour's leadership and the Conservatives share.\n\nMs Reeves has scaled back her green ambitions just as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has talked down the prospect of tax cuts.\n\nVoters on the left may be frustrated that Labour is promising less than in recent years, but it is harder to make big promises when there is less to go around - so we shouldn't expect a cheque book election.", "A girl has died after a Land Rover crashed into a primary school in Wimbledon, south-west London, on Thursday morning.\n\nThe driver, a woman in her 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nPolice say they are not treating the crash as terror-related.", "Decades after deferring a place at art school, Steps' Ian 'H' Watkins has rediscovered his love of painting\n\nAlmost 30 years ago Ian Watkins, better known to many as H from Steps, was all set to become a painter.\n\nAt the age of 18 he was accepted at Cardiff School of Art and Design but decided to defer his place to \"dip his toe\" into the world of performance. As they say, the rest is history.\n\nSteps' debut single, 5,6,7,8, was released in 1997, kicking off more than 25 years of hits including Tragedy, One for Sorrow and Last Thing On My Mind.\n\n\"I packed up my artistic dreams in a box and put it on the top shelf,\" said Ian.\n\n\"I always knew I would open it up one day. And now's that time.\"\n\nIan says he is endlessly inspired by the Welsh landscape\n\nThis weekend his summer exhibition of landscape oil paintings opens at Cardiff's Adamo Gallery.\n\nIan traces his love of art back to his childhood in south Wales' Rhondda Valley.\n\n\"My gran got me a watercolour set, I must have been about five or six, and I would copy beautiful Turner paintings of sunsets reflecting on water,\" he said.\n\n\"I adored my gran. She was just the best hugger and oh my god she would support me in every way. She was just gorgeous.\"\n\nHis grandmother lived to see the early years of his rise to fame.\n\nIan's art is currently being shown at Cardiff's Adamo Gallery\n\n\"She was super proud of 5, 6, 7, 8 and then she passed just shortly after that, but she got to see,\" he said.\n\nIn later years a painting he had made as a child at his grandmother's dinner table was found, framed and now proudly hangs on his mother's wall.\n\nSteps back in 1998 (from left to right: Lee Latchford-Evans, Lisa Scott-Lee, Ian 'H' Watkins, Faye Tozer and Claire Richards)\n\nLife in Steps was a whirlwind with seven studio albums, seven compilation albums, thirty singles and five arena tours.\n\nIan first picked up a paintbrush again about 10 years ago, but in 2016 became a father to twin boys Macsen and Cybi and his painting took a back seat.\n\n\"[I was] juggling lots of balls, spinning plates, it was tough and creatively I was drained,\" said Ian, 47.\n\n\"I was having to think about PE kits and swimming lessons and who's fallen today with a bump on their head, who's bitten who, I went through that phase - but now my kids are seven, they can clear up their own breakfast tray, they can dress themselves so I was in the right zone to make decisions that I wanted to kind of be creative again.\"\n\nIan is dad to twin boys Macsen and Cybi\n\nThe family live near Cowbridge in Vale of Glamorgan, and Ian recently organised the town's first Pride.\n\n\"I decided to be the change that I wanted to see. I want my children to grow up in a more diverse place,\" he said.\n\nIan is also busy with Steps. Last year saw a string of summer shows to celebrate their 25th anniversary, the release of single Hard 2 Forget and their third greatest hits album Platinum Collection. Next month they headline at Brighton Pride.\n\nIan says painting allows him the flexibility to spend quality time with his children\n\nLife remains busy, but these days Ian's priority is his children and he has been able to settle into a routine of painting when the boys are at school.\n\n\"I'm at a place in my life now where I can juggle balls and manage them whereas before I lived and breathed Steps - now Steps isn't my life, it's my job now, my children are my full-time job and I get to paint around them,\" he said.\n\nHe puts his easel and sketchbook into the back of his car, drop the boys at school and sees where the day takes him.\n\n\"I never have anything planned - I could go to Southerndown or Brecon or any beautiful location and I will be inspired,\" he said.\n\nIan creates vibrant landscape oil paintings of some of Wales' best-loves beauty spots\n\nHe said he was endlessly inspired by the Welsh landscape.\n\n\"I'm spoilt for choice,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just so diverse, it's so beautiful, it's incredible. You've got mountains and lakes and hillsides and waterfalls, everything is right on our doorstep.\n\n\"I paint from real life, but I also love the spiritual elements to my paintings as well. There's a lot of me in my work.\"\n\nThe world of fine art has at times been accused of being elitist. With his pop fame, has he experienced any snobbery?\n\nGallery owners Sophie Usher and Richard Blunt had been \"very clever\" in the way they had put together the exhibition, he said.\n\n\"They haven't kind of played on the Steps card so people appreciate and like my work for my work,\" he said.\n\nSophie said such was the appetite for Ian's paintings, some had sold even before the official opening.\n\n\"People are really captivated by how authentic the landscapes are,\" she said.\n\nIan is thrilled with the reception to his work.\n\n\"I'm finally where I wanted to be,\" he said.\n\n\"All of the jigsaw pieces have slotted in at exactly the right time. It's beautiful.\"", "Over 20 people died from the mass shooting, and 22 more were injured\n\nThe Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 has been sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in federal prison.\n\nThe 24-year-old had pleaded guilty after federal prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.\n\nThe sentencing follows two days of emotional testimony from witnesses, as the murderer sat face-to-face with survivors and relatives.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history.\n\nAs police escorted Patrick Crusius out of the courtroom, Dean Reckard, whose mother, Margie Reckard, was killed in the shooting, shouted: \"We will be seeing you again, you coward.\"\n\nThe killer could still face the death penalty on capital murder charges in state court.\n\nOver 50 people sat in the crowded court in El Paso on Friday morning, while more gathered in an overflow area outside to watch the sentencing.\n\nCarrying an assault-style rifle, the attacker targeted mostly Hispanic shoppers when he killed 23 and injured 22 more in the US-Mexico border town of El Paso.\n\nThe gunman, who is white, had posted a hate-filled, anti-immigrant screed online minutes before he sprayed shoppers with bullets.\n\nIn February, he pleaded guilty to 90 charges, including 23 counts for hate crime acts that resulted in death, 22 hate crime acts that caused bodily injury, 23 counts of using a firearm in a federal crime of violence resulting in death and 22 counts of using a firearm in a federal crime of violence.\n\nSurvivors and family of those killed in the mass shooting spoke directly to the gunman for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThe attacker showed little emotion throughout the sentencing, where the loved ones of his victims delivered emotional statements, calling him a \"monster\", \"killer\", and a \"parasite\".\n\nSome family members rebuked the gunman for his reactions during their statements.\n\n\"You can roll your eyes, you can smile, you can smirk,\" said the granddaughter of David Johnson, who was killed.\n\nOne tearful girl said: \"I used to be a happy, normal teenager, until a coward chose to use violence against the innocent. I'm no longer as happy as I used to be.\"\n\nKathleen Johnson told the gunman she now has night terrors and post-traumatic stress disorder after losing her husband in the attack.\n\nHands and feet shackled, the gunman nodded \"yes\" on Thursday when asked by the son of another victim if he was sorry for his actions.\n\nThe judge requested he receive mental health treatment at ADX Florence, a maximum facility prison in Colorado.\n\nOn 3 August 2019, the gunman entered the Walmart parking lot dressed in protective ear muffs and safety glasses, wielding a high-powered assault-style rifle and opened fire.\n\nHe continued to shoot inside the store, injuring and killing victims in the checkout area, between shopping aisles and at a bank near the entrance.\n\nHe was arrested the same day.\n\nHe admitted to leaving his home near Dallas - roughly 650 miles away - to go to the border town, which is 80% Hispanic, to target Latinos.\n\nThose who were killed ranged in age from a three-year-old child, whose parents were also killed, to elderly grandparents. Eight of the victims held Mexican citizenship.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nMark Cavendish broke a collarbone as he crashed out of what is set to be his final Tour de France before retirement.\n\nThe Manxman, 38, was involved in an innocuous-looking crash about 60km from the finish of stage eight - a 200.7km run from Libourne to Limoges.\n\nCavendish had started this year's Tour on 34 stage victories - sharing the record with Belgian legend Eddy Merckx.\n\nJasper Philipsen denied him a 35th win during Friday's stage, then came second behind Mads Pedersen on Saturday.\n\nCavendish's race came to a premature end when he hit the deck after touching wheels with Pello Bilbao. With pain etched on his face, he was helped into the back of an ambulance and taken to hospital in Perigueux.\n\nHis Astana Qazaqstan team confirmed initial suspicions he had broken a collarbone, and said the break had also impacted on a previous shoulder injury.\n\n\"Everyone in the team is hurting,\" said Mark Renshaw, who was Cavendish's lead-out man from 2009-2011 and in 2016 and joined Astana as a sprint adviser prior to the Tour.\n\n\"It's hard because we know his shape's here, we know he has the legs. I won't lie, I cried.\"\n\nCavendish was the fifth rider to abandon this year's Tour, after Enric Mas, Richard Carapaz, Jacopo Guarnieri and Luis Leon Sanchez.\n\nSteff Cras later became the sixth after a late pile-up involving Simon Yates and Mikel Landa. Belgium's Cras - a general classification contender - blamed a spectator for causing the crash.\n\nCavendish made his Tour debut in 2007 and has failed to finish seven of his 14 appearances.\n\nHe did not compete in last year's race, having won four stages in 2021 to move level with five-time Tour winner Merckx.\n\n'Everybody here wanted him to win one stage' - reaction from the peloton\n\nTwo-time champion Tadej Pogacar: \"When I heard he had crashed, it was a sad moment because he was in good shape. I think everybody here wanted him to win one stage and yesterday he was super close. It's a bad moment.\n\n\"He was one of my favourites when we were kids. Him sprinting on the Champs-Elysees.... we just wanted to have his style and his legs. They were good moments.\"\n\nRace leader Jonas Vingegaard: \"I spoke with him a few times in my first Tour de France and again this year.\n\n\"He is a super nice guy and I would have loved to have seen him take the 35th stage win. I still remember when I was a kid and I was watching him and all his celebrations. He was my big idol.\n\n\"It is really a shame for him and I hope he is OK.\"\n\nStage winner Mads Pedersen: \"It was a pleasure to be able to ride with Mark Cavendish. I always had a good relationship with him in the peloton. It's so sad for a legend to finish the Tour like this.\n\n\"He still owes me a jersey, for a jersey swap. Hopefully I can do some of the last races he does.\"\n\nThere have been a few fairytale moments in the career of Mark Cavendish, and taking sole ownership of the Tour stage win record he shares with Belgian legend Eddy Merckx was looking more and more likely to be another.\n\nHe was pipped on the line the previous stage - his explosive, low-set style becoming more effective as the race went on.\n\nBut a low-profile shunt in the middle of the peloton at relatively low speed appears to have ended one of the most high-profile and glittering relationships ever with this famous three-week race.\n\nThe 38-year-old has terrified rivals in France since 2008 with a spirited, no-nonsense approach to the sport that complemented his 'Manx Missile' nickname.\n\nCavendish has said the record itself was of little importance to him - more so his ability to fight, and win, in the moment.\n\nAnd you can't put a number on that.\n\nWhat else happened on stage eight?\n\nPedersen, who won in Saint-Etienne last year, claimed his second stage win at a Tour after benefiting from the superb work of his Lidl-Trek team in the closing kilometres.\n\nWhile Vingegaard retained the yellow jersey, the late crash meant Briton Yates lost 47 seconds and dropped from fourth to sixth in the general classification.\n\nHe slipped 21 seconds behind his twin brother Adam, who is fifth overall and now the highest-placed British rider.\n\nOn Sunday, the race will travel 182.4km from Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat to the the dormant volcano of Puy de Dome, where the steep final climb is expected to ignite another GC battle.\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our fossil-fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australia bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "Police have found £60,000 worth of suspected cannabis after responding to a report of a woman being threatened in a flat in Belfast.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested over multiple offences including drug possession and making threats to kill.\n\nPolice received reports of disorderly behaviour in King Street at about 04:30 BST on Friday.\n\nTwo men were attempting to gain entry to flats by banging on the door and making threats to a woman inside.\n\nPolice said one of the men was arrested before a search of his flat led to the discovery of large quantities of suspected herbal cannabis.\n\nDet Sgt McVeagh said: \"The estimated value of the drugs is around £60,000. A large sum of money was also recovered.\"\n\nThe man was arrested on suspicion of several offences including possession of a Class A controlled drug; possession of a Class B drug; possession of a Class B controlled drug with intent to supply; possession of criminal property; attempted burglary; and making threats to kill.\n\nHe remains in custody assisting with enquiries.", "Heavy rain and thunderstorms are due to hit most of the country on Saturday as thousands of music fans head to Scotland's biggest festival.\n\nTRNSMT music festival began at Glasgow Green on Friday, with 50,000 fans expected to attend each day.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather alert across the UK and warned of increased health risks.\n\nGlasgow is expecting warm spells alongside high winds and thundery downpours throughout the day.\n\nThe warning comes after Tiree Music Festival was cancelled on Thursday, just a day before it was due to begin, because of gale force winds.\n\nIslanders rallied to accommodate festival-goers on the Hebridean island and about 100 passengers had to spend a night in Oban ferry terminal.\n\nGlasgow is covered by the yellow weather warning between 09:00 and 23:59 on Saturday.\n\nThe Met Office has warned of potential flooding and the risk of power cuts and damage to buildings.\n\nPublic transport may also be delayed or cancelled.\n\nThe weather is due to become calmer on the final day of the festival on Sunday.\n\nTRNSMT began on Friday with Pulp, Sam Fender and The 1975 headlining over the weekend.\n\nThe Britpop band topped the bill on the opening night, following acts including George Ezra, Niall Horan, Paul Heaton and The View.\n\nPulp, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, were the headline act on Friday\n\nThe View's frontman Kyle Falconer helped kick off the TRNSMT party on Friday\n\nHoran told crowds during his set he felt like he was at a \"homecoming gig\" and that he had never seen a home nation \"more up for it\".\n\n\"This is something pretty special,\" he said. \"One of the best gigs you could ever do is in this city.\"\n\nHe also gave a shout out to close friend Lewis Capaldi, who recently announced he was taking a step back from touring after struggling to finish his Glastonbury set.\n\nGeorge Ezra was back at TRNSMT for the 2023 festival\n\nFans enjoyed dry weather on Friday, but were warned to prepare for a rainy weekend.\n\nFriday also marked Pulp's first show in Scotland since they played the main stage at T in the Park in 2011.\n\nSam Fender returns to TRNSMT for his fourth consecutive year with the headline slot on Saturday after Kasabian, Aitch, and Mimi Webb.\n\nHeadliners The 1975 will bring the festival to a close on Sunday night.\n\nScotRail has put on extra train services to cope with demand, including more late-night trains running to Inverclyde, Ayr, Edinburgh, and East Kilbride.", "Janet Yellen is the second senior Washington official to visit Beijing in as many months\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called on China to work with Washington to fight the \"existential threat\" of climate change.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, she said the two countries - the largest greenhouse gas emitters - had a joint responsibility to lead the way on climate action.\n\nShe called on China to support the US-led Green Climate Fund.\n\nMs Yellen is on a four-day trip to Beijing in an attempt to boost relations between the two countries.\n\nChinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, who was among those to meet with Ms Yellen, said he regretted \"unexpected incidents\", such as the row over a spy balloon, had hurt ties with the United States.\n\nThere has been no formal co-operation between China and the US on climate change since the administration of former President Donald Trump.\n\nAnd China briefly suspended climate talks entirely with the US last year after senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, which is self-ruled but Beijing sees as a breakaway province it will eventually unite with.\n\nBut in a sign that co-operation could soon resume, Ms Yellen called on China to work together with the US to fight climate change and mitigate the effects on poorer countries.\n\nDuring the roundtable meeting in Beijing with finance experts, she called on China to support US-led institutions like the Green Climate Fund, which was set up to help developing nations adapt to climate change and lessen its effects.\n\n\"As the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases and the largest investors in renewable energy, we have both a joint responsibility - and ability - to lead the way,\" she said.\n\nChina is now the world's biggest investor in solar energy, and biggest producer of solar panels and wind turbines but saw its carbon dioxide emissions rise 4% in the first quarter of this year compared to 2022.\n\nThe US, meanwhile, has invested billions of dollars in recent years into initiatives aimed at tackling climate change but also saw its emissions rise slightly last year, according to the International Energy Agency.\n\nWhile Ms Yellen wants China to join the US in funding the worldwide transition to renewables, the sticking point is China's insistence that it is still a developing country.\n\nBeijing says it is up to the US and Europe to pay for the energy transition, because they have historically created most of the emissions.\n\nMs Yellen is the second senior Washington official to visit Beijing in the last two months. Her presence there is aimed at easing tensions and restoring ties between the world's two superpowers.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing last month, making him the highest-ranking Washington official to visit the Chinese capital in almost half a decade. He met President Xi Jinping and foreign minister Qin Gang.\n\nAt the end of his trip, Mr Blinken said that while there were still major issues between the two countries, he hoped they would have \"better communications, better engagement going forward.\"\n\nHowever, the next day President Joe Biden referred to Mr Xi as a \"dictator\" - triggering outrage from Beijing.\n\nIn another sign the trade dispute between the two countries is far from being resolved, China this week announced it was tightening controls over exports of two materials crucial to producing computer chips.\n\nFrom next month, special licences will be needed to export gallium and germanium from China, which is the world's biggest producer of the metals.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland won the European Under-21 Championship for the first time in nearly 40 years after a dramatic last-minute penalty save by James Trafford ensured the Young Lions held on to beat Spain.\n\nTrafford, who is set to join Burnley from Manchester City in a deal that could be worth up to £19m, kept out Abel Ruiz's low spot-kick in the 99th minute after a lengthy VAR check.\n\nThe 20-year-old then produced another brilliant stop on the follow-up before being mobbed by his team-mates.\n\nThe winning goal came with virtually the last kick of the first half when a Cole Palmer free-kick deflected off team-mate Curtis Jones and wrong-footed goalkeeper Arnau Tenas to find the bottom corner.\n\nSpain, who had scored 13 goals in the tournament, had a Ruiz goal ruled out for offside after half-time, before Trafford's late heroics sealed England's victory.\n\nThe win meant Lee Carsley's talented side are the third England team to win the competition after previously picking up the trophy in 1982 and 1984.\n\nThey are also the first team to record six successive clean sheets in the tournament's history.\n• None Which of England's Euro U21 winners could step up?\n• None Best action and reaction from England's triumph\n• None How did England's 1984 winners do afterwards?\n\nThe Young Lions have played an exciting brand of football in Georgia, with a side packed with attacking talent.\n\nEngland started the final positively, with Newcastle's Anthony Gordon having the first meaningful chance when his shot was pushed wide by Spain keeper Tenas.\n\nGordon was then involved again as he looked to tee up Morgan Gibbs-White before an interception from Jon Pacheco prevented the Nottingham Forest player from having a tap in.\n\nSpain soon came into the match, with Alex Baena curling an effort past Trafford's post before scuffing another effort wide after he had picked up a loose pass by Gibbs-White.\n\nChelsea defender Levi Colwill headed against the crossbar from an excellent delivery from Palmer, before the Manchester City man gave England the lead when his free-kick was deflected in by Liverpool's Jones.\n\nThe half ended with bad blood as Palmer's celebration led to a melee between both benches, which resulted in England coach Ashley Cole and Spanish fitness coach Carlos Rivera being sent to the stands.\n\nEngland were under immense pressure during the second period, and it looked to have paid off for Spain when Ruiz headed in from a Baena cross, only for the offside flag to go up. Ruiz had another chance to equalise, but headed wide from inside the six-yard box.\n\nThe match ended in dramatic style when Colwill - so highly rated by England's staff following his week training with the senior team - was judged to have fouled Ruiz in the box.\n\nTrafford got down well to save the resulting penalty and an immediate follow-up to give England victory and spark scenes of jubilation.\n\nThe bad blood continued, however, with nine yellow and four red cards handed out by the final whistle, as Gibbs-White and Antonio Blanco were both sent off in the final throes.\n\nNow that England have won the trophy, the discussions will start about which of these young stars will be knocking on the door of the senior squad and be in with a chance of playing in the senior European Championships next summer.\n\nTrafford, who is on the brink of becoming the third-most expensive English goalkeeper ever, will rightly take the headlines for his heroic double save in the last minute of added time of the final.\n\nHowever, that moment just capped off what had already been a superb tournament, having been a standout player in this team from the very first game.\n\nTrafford has shown he is the very definition of a modern-day goalkeeper - comfortable with the ball at his feet, dominant when coming for crosses and making eye-catching saves when called upon.\n\nHe also has immense self belief, telling people that he would one day play for England while he was on loan at Accrington Stanley.\n\nDuring this competition he has spoken about his desire to play at the highest level and he will now get the chance next season when he becomes a Premier League number one at Turf Moor.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Camello (Spain U21) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt saved. Aimar Oroz (Spain U21) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty saved! Abel Ruiz (Spain U21) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Levi Colwill (England U21) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Abel Ruiz (Spain U21) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Aimar Oroz with a cross.\n• None Offside, England U21. James Garner tries a through ball, but Cameron Archer is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Noni Madueke (England U21) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Harvey Elliott (England U21) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cameron Archer.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Gómez (Spain U21) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ander Barrenetxea. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our fossil-fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australia bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "President Zelensky called Snake Island a \"place of victory\" that would never be reconquered\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky has marked the 500th day of the Ukraine war by posting a video from an island that became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance.\n\nAt the start of the war, Ukrainian soldiers defending Snake Island famously defied an order from a Russian warship to surrender.\n\nThe Black Sea island was seized by Russia, but later reclaimed by Ukraine.\n\nIn a video, the Ukrainian president called it a \"place of victory\" that would never be reconquered.\n\nIn the undated clip, posted on Telegram, Mr Zelensky described it as proof that Ukraine would return every inch of its territory taken by Russia since the full-scale invasion began on 24 February 2022.\n\n\"I want to thank from here, from this place of victory, each of our soldiers for these 500 days,\" Mr Zelensky said in the video, in which he was shown arriving on the island by boat and leaving flowers at a memorial.\n\nThe Ukrainian president later announced he had returned from a visit to Turkey with five commanders captured by the Russians during last year's siege of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.\n\nThey had been in Turkey since September 2022 after being freed from Russian captivity as part of a wider prisoner exchange.\n\nThe circumstances of their homecoming are unclear, as the original deal obliged them to remain in Turkey.\n\nThe president's press service released pictures of him greeting the commanders in Istanbul\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agency RIA that Moscow had not been notified of the prisoner release, Reuters news agency reported.\n\n\"No one informed us about this,\" he was quoted as saying. \"According to the agreements, these ringleaders were to remain on the territory of Turkey until the end of the conflict.\"\n\nMr Peskov said the prisoner release came about because of pressure on Turkey from Nato ahead of a meeting next week.\n\nRussia's Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva sailed to Snake Island within hours of the start of the war and ordered Ukrainian soldiers on the island to give themselves up.\n\n\"I suggest you lay down your weapons and surrender to avoid bloodshed and needless casualties. Otherwise, you will be bombed,\" said a Russian officer.\n\nThe Ukrainian response and verbal exchange went viral as a soldier replied telling the Russian warship to \"go to hell\" - although in far cruder language.\n\nSnake Island was seized and the Ukrainian soldiers were taken prisoner - but later exchanged for Russian captives.\n\nUkrainian forces recaptured the island in June last year.\n\nThe deputy head of the UN's human rights monitoring team in Ukraine, Noel Calhoun, said the 500th day was \"another grim milestone in the war that continues to exact a horrific toll on Ukraine's civilians\".\n\nThe UN estimates more than 9,000 civilians, including some 500 children, have been killed since the war began, although it said the real number could be much higher.\n\nMr Zelensky made his video address after spending time visiting European leaders ahead of Nato's summit in Vilnius next week where the Ukraine war is expect to be high on the agenda.\n\nHe also welcomed the news that the US would be supplying Ukraine with cluster bombs - a weapon that has been banned in more than 120 countries because they have a record of killing civilians.\n\nBoth Ukraine and Russia have been using cluster munitions throughout the war, but the US's decision has proved controversial.\n\nMr Zelensky called the latest US arms package \"timely, broad and much-needed\", tweeting that it \"will provide new tools for the de-occupation of our land\".\n\nUkraine's long-awaited counter-offensive to retake territory from Russia's occupying forces began last month - although Mr Zelensky has admitted progress has been slow.\n\nThe effort has been focused in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions of the country, while there have also been slow advances in the city of Bakhmut.\n\nRussia, meanwhile, has carried on its campaign of missile and drone attacks in Ukraine, with at least eight people killed in the eastern Donetsk city of Lyman on Saturday.\n\nLyman is a key railway hub and initially fell to Russia after the invasion, but was retaken by Ukraine's army in October.", "Ex-BBC chairman Richard Sharp says the licence fee is \"regressive\"\n\nWealthier households might have to pay more for the BBC, former chairman Richard Sharp has suggested.\n\nThe licence fee system is \"regressive\", he said, and could instead be replaced by a tax on broadband bills or a household levy based on property value.\n\nThe BBC said the fee was the \"agreed method of funding until at least 2027\" and helped it remain independent.\n\nMr Sharp resigned as chairman of the BBC in April.\n\nSpeaking to the Daily Telegraph, he also warned that whoever took on the job would have a \"target\" on their back.\n\nMr Sharp stepped down after a report into his appointment found he had \"failed to disclose potential perceived conflicts of interest\", including his involvement in the facilitation of an £800,000 loan for then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nDame Elan Closs Stephens has since been appointed as acting chairwoman of the BBC.\n\nThe government froze the BBC licence fee at £159 for two years in January 2022.\n\nSpeaking to the Chopper's Politics podcast, Mr Sharp said he would be in favour of a \"form of mandatory payment\" like the licence fee, but highlighted some issues he had with it.\n\n\"One is that it's regressive,\" he said, meaning households on lower incomes \"pay the same price\" as wealthier households. This \"may need to be addressed,\" he added.\n\nAsked if that meant there could be different scales of the fee, linked to income, Mr Sharp pointed to different models from around the world. \"There's a broadband tax, there's a household tax and there's the licence fee,\" he said.\n\nDescribing the licence fee as \"imperfect\", he said the focus should be on whether there is a \"better system\" and what disruption would be caused by changing the current one. \"This is a debate for Parliament,\" he told the Telegraph.\n\nThe ex-investment banker also expressed concern that the enforcement of the licence fee meant women were disproportionately likely to be prosecuted for non-payment.\n\nIn response to Mr Sharp's claims, a BBC spokesperson said: \"The licence fee is our agreed method of funding until at least 2027 and ensures the BBC is an independent, universal broadcaster, which invests in UK creativity and talent.\n\n\"Beyond that, it is right there is a debate on whether, and if, the licence fee needs to evolve. We will continue to work hard to serve all audiences.\"\n\nDiscussing his successor, Mr Sharp said they could be a Conservative party donor, adding: \"I don't think the fact that I had donated to the party, and I think the last party donation was in 2010, should have disqualified me.\"\n\nDuring recruitment the BBC needs to \"assure themselves that the chairperson will take as a primary objective the strength of the BBC as an independent organisation and should behave in an impartial manner\", he said.\n\nHowever, he told the Telegraph the position is a \"target\" and whoever holds it is \"vulnerable\".\n\n\"When there was a Labour-supporting chair, there's a target. It's a sufficiently important institution that whoever is the chair is vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nMr Sharp advised anyone trying to become his successor \"to make sure you and your family know what you're getting into\".\n\nThis is because there has been an increase in what he calls \"anger-tainment\" news coverage which has led to \"ad hominem attacks - fair and unfair\" to drive traffic to news websites.\n\nMr Sharp resigned from the BBC on 28 April after a report found he had failed to disclose two \"potential perceived\" conflicts of interest ahead of his appointment.\n\nThe first was telling Mr Johnson - who was then prime minister - that he wished to apply for the role before submitting his application.\n\nThe second related to his involvement in the facilitation of a loan guarantee for Mr Johnson.\n\nThe report noted that Mr Sharp does not accept the first conclusion, but he has apologised for the second, although he described it as \"entirely inadvertent\".", "Head teacher Ruth Perry took her own life in January\n\nThe school run by a head teacher who took her own life after a critical Ofsted report has been rated as good after a new inspection.\n\nRuth Perry died in January after being told Caversham Primary School in Berkshire was being downgraded from outstanding to inadequate.\n\nThe school was re-inspected after Ms Perry's death, which prompted an outpouring of anger about the system.\n\nOfsted has defended its one-word grades, which are not being scrapped.\n\nThe head teacher's sister Prof Julia Waters said it was a \"very bittersweet moment\", but confirmed \"what anyone who knew Ruth and the school knew all along\".\n\nShe said one-word grades do not give an accurate reflection of the strengths and weaknesses \"of a complex organisation like a school\".\n\nHer sister's case showed how it is \"terribly, potentially fatally dangerous to try to sum up everything in one word\", she told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight programme.\n\nHer loss has been \"absolutely devastating to so many people\" she said, adding: \"The ripple effect of her death is immeasurable. The harm done by that one word is absolutely immeasurable\".\n\nOfsted inspected the school again in June in line with government guidelines to monitor schools that need to improve - and not as a result of Ms Perry's death.\n\nIn their latest report, seen by the BBC, the watchdog said: \"The school's work to address previous weaknesses has been swift, thorough and effective.\"\n\nThe primary school was initially inspected in November 2022 and subsequently rated inadequate after concerns were raised over leadership and management.\n\nMs Perry's family said the inspection process caused her significant distress.\n\nFor Caversham Primary school this is a bittersweet moment for staff and parents.\n\nIt's just six months since Ruth Perry's suicide left a gaping hole in the school community.\n\nFor her colleagues this is recognition of everything they have done.\n\nFor her family it raises again the question of whether the stakes of Ofsted inspection have been far too high for headteachers.\n\nMPs are to hold an inquiry in the autumn looking at how the inspection system is working. It won't consider the circumstances around Ruth Perry's death, which will be examined by a coroner.\n\nThe new report said useful advice was sought from beyond the school straight after the last inspection.\n\n\"In particular, this helped leaders to understand fully the extent of the weaknesses in safeguarding arrangements and prioritise what needed to be done,\" the report said.\n\nIn a statement, the head teacher's sister Ms Waters said staff at the school who had worked with or been trained by Ms Perry had never been anything other than \"excellent, caring and professional\".\n\nShe added: \"The reversal of the previous judgement in a matter of a few months illustrates why schools should be given the opportunity to correct any technical weaknesses before the final report is published.\n\n\"An inspection should be about helping schools with independent scrutiny, not catching them out and publicly shaming them.\"\n\n\"That Ruth was left feeling suicidal as a result of Ofsted's previous judgement demonstrates, in the most tragic way possible, the intolerably high stakes created by the current inspection system,\" she added.\n\nAn inquest later this year will fully investigate Ms Perry's death, which also prompted a wider debate about whether one-word grades for schools make sense.\n\nIn their latest report Ofsted said the arrangements for safeguarding at Caversham Primary School were effective.\n\n\"A positive culture of safeguarding now pervades the school,\" it added.\n\nLast month, Ofsted announced changes to its inspection system.\n\nThese included allowing schools that were given an inadequate rating over safeguarding to be re-inspected within three months, giving them a chance to be re-graded if they have addressed concerns.\n\nOfsted previously said it always strived to make inspections \"as positive an experience for school staff as they can be\".\n\nMPs have now launched an inquiry into Ofsted's school inspections, looking at how useful they are to parents, governors and schools in England.\n\nAmanda Spielman, the watchdog's chief inspector, previously told the BBC the \"whole school accountability system\" was built around the one-word judgements.\n\nShe acknowledged there were issues around accountability at schools but said scrapping one-word judgements \"wouldn't really solve the underlying discomfort\".\n\nThe Department for Education has also defended one-word inspections.\n\nIt said they \"succinctly summarise independent evaluations on the quality of education, safeguarding, and leadership which parents greatly rely on to give them confidence in choosing the right school for their child\".\n\nIt said the government used them to \"highlight success, identify schools that need support and to trigger intervention where necessary.\"\n\nWatch the story of head teacher, Ruth Perry, who took her life after her school's rating was downgraded by Ofsted.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Distinctive marks from a cluster munition in the roof of a car next to a playground in Kharkiv (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nRussia has killed hundreds of civilians in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv using indiscriminate shelling and widely-banned cluster munitions, according to new research by Amnesty International.\n\nAmnesty said it had found evidence of Russian forces repeatedly using 9N210/9N235 cluster bombs, as well as \"scatterable\" munitions - rockets that eject smaller mines that explode later at timed intervals.\n\nThe BBC visited five separate impact sites in residential neighbourhoods in Kharkiv and saw evidence of a distinctive, symmetrical spalling effect associated with cluster munitions. We showed images from the sites to three weapons experts, who all said the impacts were consistent with the controversial weapons.\n\n\"Those impacts are from cluster munitions, it's a classic signature,\" said Mark Hizney, a senior researcher in the arms division of Human Rights Watch, a campaign group. \"And in one image you can see a remnant of a stabiliser fin from one of the submunitions,\" he said.\n\nCCTV footage passed to the BBC by a resident at one of the sites showed successive clustered detonations - \"a very strong indicator of submunitions from a cluster weapon,\" said Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a former British Army colonel and Cambridge University weapons expert.\n\nThe spalling pattern created by cluster bomb impacts, seen in a Kharkiv residential neighbourhood (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nCluster munitions are controversial because they detonate in the air and release a cluster of smaller bombs which fall indiscriminately over a wide area, potentially putting civilians at risk.\n\nThe smaller bombs also often fail to detonate on impact, posing a threat for years to come. More than 120 countries have signed a treaty prohibiting the use of the weapons - though neither Russia or Ukraine are signatories.\n\nAt the site of one apparent cluster munition strike in Kharkiv, around a housing estate and playground in the Industrialnyi neighbourhood, the spalling effect was visible around three separate impacts on three sides of a playground.\n\nIvan Litvynyenko's wife Oksana was badly wounded in the strike and later died.\n\nLitvynyenko, 40, told the BBC the couple was walking through the playground with their five-year-old daughter when the munitions hit. Their 14-year-old son was inside their apartment.\n\n\"Suddenly I saw a flash and I heard the first explosion,\" Litvynyenko said. \"I grabbed my daughter and pressed her to a tree. My wife was about five metres away and she just dropped.\"\n\nAn impact site next to a playground where Ivan Litvynyenko's wife was hit by shrapnel. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nOksana, 41, was hit by shrapnel that penetrated her back, chest and abdomen, puncturing her lungs and damaging her spine.\n\nShe was in intensive care for two months, until Sunday, when she died from complications from her injuries and diabetes, Litvynyenko said. \"Doctors operated on her several times but her body could not survive it,\" he said, speaking just hours after her death.\n\nDescribing the strike, Litvynyenko said he saw a \"series of explosions, lots of bombs one after another\". Two other residents who were inside their apartments at the time of the strike told the BBC they heard successive detonations when the attack happened. \"You could hear explosions over several minutes,\" said Danya Volynets, 26. \"When we came outside I could see the burning cars. It looked like everything was on fire.\"\n\nTetiana Ahayeva, a 53-year-old nurse, was standing in front of her building when the munitions hit. \"There was a sudden sound of firecrackers everywhere, lots of them, all over,\" she told Amnesty. \"We dropped to the ground and tried to find cover. Our neighbour's son, a 16-year-old boy called Artem Shevchenko, was killed on the spot. He had a hole 1cm wide in his chest. His father had a shattered hip and a shrapnel wound in his leg.\"\n\nOksana Litvynyenko with her daughter. Oksana was badly wounded in April and died on Sunday. (Family handout)\n\nDoctors at a central Kharkiv hospital said that among the victims brought in after the playground strike they saw penetrating wounds to the abdomen, chest and back, and they collected metal fragments which matched the types of pellets found in 9N210/9N235 cluster munitions. According to Amnesty, the strike on the Industrialnyi neighbourhood killed at least nine civilians and wounded 35, detonating over an area of 700 square metres.\n\nAt another residential building, in Kharkiv's Haribaldi Street area, a munition landed in the entranceway to the building, killing two elderly women and gravely wounding another. The tell-tale spalling effect could be seen around the doorway and on the path nearby.\n\nTetiana Bielova and Olena Sorokina had been sitting on a bench outside when a munition detonated nearby. They got up to enter the building but a second munition landed right in the entranceway, killing Bielova and another woman called Tetiana who was with them. Sorokina lost both her legs in the blast.\n\n\"There was a series of explosions one after another,\" said resident Nadia Kravchuk, 61, who was in the building at the time. \"I came out and saw a woman lying here face down and another other woman lying here, and next to them was Lena, who lost both her legs. She was crying out, 'I have lost my leg.'\"\n\nNadia Kravchuk looks down at damage from a munition that killed two of her neighbours (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nIn total, over two weeks' field research, Amnesty investigated 41 strikes in Kharkiv in which at least 62 civilians were killed and 196 wounded, the charity said. They found evidence of cluster munitions and unguided rockets killing people who were shopping, queuing for food aid, or simply walking down the street.\n\n\"These weapons should never be used,\" Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's senior crisis response adviser, told the BBC. \"They cannot be pinpointed. They are area weapons. And they have a devastating effect and cause a lot of civilian death and injury.\"\n\nUse of the weapons was \"tantamount to deliberately targeting civilians,\" Rovera said. \"Russia cannot claim it does not know the effect of these types of weapons,\" she said. \"And the decision to use them shows absolute disregard for civilian life.\"\n\nRussia has previously denied using cluster munitions in Ukraine and insisted that Russian forces have only struck military targets.", "Elle Edwards had been enjoying a festive drink when she was shot dead\n\nThe gunman who shot dead Elle Edwards outside a pub on Christmas Eve has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 48 years.\n\nMs Edwards was an innocent bystander when Connor Chapman opened fire with a sub-machine gun as he targeted two men in the culmination of a gang feud.\n\nThe beautician, 26, was enjoying a night out with friends when she was shot outside the Lighthouse in Wirral.\n\nChapman, 23, was found guilty of her murder at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nMembers of her family shouted \"goodbye lad\", \"scumbag\" and \"rat\" as he was taken down to the cells.\n\nPassing sentence, Mr Justice Goose told him: \"What you did, Connor Chapman, was as wicked as it was shocking.\n\n\"You murdered Elle Edwards, bringing an end to her young life.\"\n\nHe described Chapman as a \"highly dangerous man\" who carefully pre-meditated and planned the \"revenge attack\".\n\n\"You spent the days afterwards removing or destroying evidence that would identify you as the gunman.\"\n\nCo-defendant Thomas Waring, 20, was jailed for nine years for helping Chapman burn out a stolen Mercedes used in the shooting.\n\nConnor Chapman and Thomas Waring were convicted following a three-and-a-half week trial\n\nIn a statement read to the court, Ms Edwards' mother Gaynor - who did not attend the hearing - said she \"cannot accept\" her daughter had gone.\n\n\"I still think she'll come home,\" she said.\n\n\"I cannot put into words how much I miss and love her.\"\n\nMs Edwards' older brother Connor said he had last spoken to his sister on the night she died.\n\n\"I was curious to know what the plans were going to be for Christmas day as Elle was going to be cooking Christmas dinner with mum for the first time, usually dad cooks,\" he said.\n\n\"I told Elle to have a good night, we said we loved each other.\n\n\"This was the last time we spoke.\"\n\nHe said he now went to bed each night \"with a constant hit of grief\".\n\n\"The days that followed were just horrific. Visiting my sister lying in the mortuary looking as beautiful as ever with a small patch above her right eye.\n\n\"That moment will never ever leave me, I shouldn't have been there and she didn't deserve this.\"\n\nHer grandmother described her as \"beyond caring, beyond kind, beyond generous and loving\", adding she was \"very special to me and my best friend\".\n\n\"If I were to die tomorrow, the coroner would write on my death certificate 'cause of death: she died of a broken heart'.\n\n\"I miss my angel princess so much it hurts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elle Edwards' father said he hopes her killer will never see Christmas again\n\nSpeaking outside court, Elle's father Tim said he hoped his daughter's killer would never see Christmas again.\n\n\"If I'm lucky enough to be around for a long time yet, I'll do my best to make sure he never comes out of jail,\" he said.\n\n\"Things need to change, and we've made a start with that. If you think about picking up a gun now you should think twice about it.\"\n\nMs Edwards was fatally shot outside the Lighthouse pub\n\nThe trial heard the shooting was the culmination of a feud between gangs on the Woodchurch estate, where Chapman lived, and the Beechwood, or Ford, estate on the opposite side of the M53.\n\nChapman lay in wait outside the pub in Wallasey Village for almost three hours before firing the weapon, which is used by some militaries and is capable of firing 15 rounds a second.\n\nThe prosecution said Chapman was attempting to kill Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, both of whom were seriously injured in the shooting.\n\nThe pair, from the Beechwood estate, had attacked another man, Sam Searson, in the street the day before, the court heard.\n\nThree other men who were unconnected to the feud, Harry Loughran, Liam Carr and Nicholas Speed, were also hurt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Justice Goose said what Chapman did was \"as wicked as it was shocking\"\n\nNigel Power KC, prosecuting, revealed Chapman had recorded a rap video while in custody last year after an aggravated burglary at his mother's home.\n\nIn the video, he made comments including: \"If I make it out of here I'm due to become famous because if you touch one of mine, I'll leave your soul on the pavement.\"\n\nHe also said: \"I know I've been a scumbag but I'm proud of that. \"\n\nChapman used a Skorpion sub-machine gun similar to one shown to the jury\n\nChapman's defence barrister Mark Rhind KC said there was \"very little\" mitigation.\n\n\"I cannot suggest there is remorse,\" he said.\n\nHe said Chapman had two children, one whom he had never met, and they would be middle-aged by the time he was released.\n\nArguing against a whole-life term, he said Chapman was only 23.\n\n\"People do not fully develop until the age of 25. Until then they may not see the full consequence of their actions,\" he said.\n\n\"Full-life terms are usually given to people much older.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChapman was also convicted of two counts of attempted murder, two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, as well as possession of a gun.\n\nHe pleaded guilty before the trial to a charge of handling stolen goods.\n\nWaring was convicted of possession of a prohibited firearm and assisting an offender and pleaded guilty before the trial to failing to comply with a disclosure notice.\n\nDet Supt Paul Grounds, from Merseyside Police, said: \"The cowardly actions of Chapman on that night, firing at his intended targets while they were stood outside in a crowd, shows the arrogance and contempt he had for everyone.\n\n\"Today Chapman is behind bars where he rightly belongs.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg was granted access to a camp in Belarus that has been offered to Russian Wagner mercenaries - but so far only Belarusian troops appear to be there.\n\nThe camp's true purpose is not yet known, but it has enough tents to host 5,000 people.\n\nHe walks us through the camp, asking where Wagner is now, and talks through the possibility of the mercenary group moving in there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dozens of protesters gathered outside Stradey Park Hotel on Saturday\n\nThe UK government has \"lost control\" of the asylum system, a councillor has claimed.\n\nOn Friday, Carmarthenshire council failed in a High Court bid to stop Stradey Park Hotel, in Llanelli, being used to house up to 241 asylum seekers.\n\nThe Home Office said the plans were necessary and that the asylum system was under \"incredible\" strain.\n\nIt comes as dozens of protesters, for and against the plans, gathered outside the hotel on Saturday.\n\nLocal councillor Martyn Palfreman called on the UK government to \"get a grip\" of the asylum system - saying it had lost it.\n\nFormer racial equality commissioner Aled Edwards also said more work needed to be done in the community to to allay \"irrational fears\" and \"address legitimate ones\".\n\nMaxson Kpakio, 45, is originally from Liberia but has lived in Swansea for 20 years, and came to Wales as an asylum seeker.\n\n\"I am an activist who advocates for social justice and peace. Where I see a group talking about peace and love, I am part of them,\" he said.\n\nMaxson Kpakio said \"asylum seeking is a right for everybody\"\n\nHe was confronted at one point by protesters who oppose the asylum plan.\n\n\"I don't think it was necessary for any confrontation. It was the group from the other side who came to me, and asked me why I'm here, and I told them,\" he said.\n\n\"We had a frank conversation where I tried to educate them as well. Asylum seeking is a right for everybody.\"\n\nResident Helen Thomas, who is against the plans, said a lot of people in the community are scared, partly by how the issue has divided locals.\n\nMs Thomas said some people against the plan have been labelled racist, but said she has friends from many different backgrounds, adding: \"I am not racist, I never have been.\"\n\nDozens of protesters gathered outside Stradey Park Hotel on Saturday\n\n\"My plea would be with the UK government to get a grip on an asylum system, which they have clearly lost the grip of,\" councillor Martyn Palfreman told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"In terms of what happens next and the asylum seekers arrival in Llanelli, the honest answer is I don't know.\"\n\nPolice were called to the hotel on Friday after protesters blocked vehicles entering the site\n\n\"We've been told previously they will be arriving next week, we don't know any more details in terms of the composition of the group that will be arriving or exactly when they will be arriving,\" added Mr Palfreman.\n\nThe Labour councillor for the Hengoed ward of Llanelli added that his \"real concern\" is that the asylum seekers themselves will have anger directed towards them, which he hopes \"doesn't happen\".\n\nLlanelli MP Dame Nia Griffith said she was very disappointed with the outcome of Friday's hearing.\n\n\"I think it's particularly upsetting for the residents who live closely to the hotel and whilst people have a right to their opinion I would actually beg them to be very considerate,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to work together with other countries to find solutions that will last... there has to be a really concerted effort to work internationally with partners so there are proper agreements.\"\n\nFollowing Friday's hearing, council leader Darren Price said he was disappointed and that the authority would consider the judge's reasons on Monday.\n\nThe hotel has faced local opposition since it first announced the plans\n\nAled Edwards, the former commissioner for racial equality in Wales, said a conversation was needed with people in the community to allay \"irrational fears\" and \"address legitimate ones\".\n\n\"If we spend the time explaining to people what people's backgrounds are, what they can offer us, what they can bring us... I think it could become much better,\" he said.\n\n\"But there is a toxicity to the debate around the globe that is not good.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the number of people arriving in the UK in need of accommodation had reached record levels.\n\n\"The Home Office is committed to making every effort to reduce hotel use and limit the burden on the taxpayer,\" a spokesman said.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nWhenever Andy Murray waves goodbye to Centre Court these days, nobody can confidently predict if it will be the last time or not.\n\nIn the hours after another disheartening defeat in the second round at Wimbledon, even the 36-year-old was unsure.\n\nAt the start of the 10th anniversary of Murray's iconic first title at the All England Club, when he ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's singles champion, there was hope.\n\nThe hope was that he could complete a memorable win over Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas and earn his most notable victory at a Grand Slam since having career-saving hip surgery in 2019.\n\nBy the end of the day, the former world number one questioned whether all the effort, pain and sacrifice of trying to go deep at Wimbledon was worth repeating.\n\nAsked if he was confident of returning next year, Murray said: \"I don't know. Motivation is obviously a big thing.\n\n\"Continuing having early losses in tournaments like this doesn't necessarily help with that.\"\n\nMurray cut a forlorn figure as he spoke to journalists, looking incredibly downbeat as he dissected his five-set defeat by 24-year-old Tsitsipas.\n\nThe scene was nothing new. Revealing raw emotion after difficult defeats at the place where he puts the greatest emphasis on winning has been common in the past few years.\n\nIn 2021, Murray said he needed to weigh up \"if all the hard work is worth it\" after an encouraging run was ended by Canada's Denis Shapovalov in the third round.\n\nIn 2022, an equally-despondent Murray also questioned his future after suffering his earliest exit at Wimbledon at the hands of American John Isner in the second round.\n\nThis year, for all the bullish talk in the build-up, the tournament ended with the same result.\n\n\"Losing in the second round, I don't find that motivating. It's not why I put all of the work in,\" said Murray, who has not reached the fourth round of a major since Wimbledon in 2017.\n\n\"It's similar to last year, I guess. I had a long think about things, spoke to my family, and decided to keep on going.\n\n\"I'm unbelievably disappointed and upset now. Maybe I will feel different in a few days but right now it doesn't feel good.\"\n\nThis summer, Murray has channelled all his efforts into a deep run at the place where he has won two of his three major titles.\n\nThat is what makes the disappointment even harder to take.\n\nMurray decided to skip the clay-court French Open, preferring instead to start his preparations on the British grass on which he thrives.\n\nDropping down to the ATP Challenger Tour - the level below the main tour - led to title wins in Surbiton and Nottingham.\n\nMurray suffered a chastening defeat against Alex de Minaur when he made the step up in class at Queen's. Nothing to panic about, he insisted.\n\nBut, crucially, it meant he missed out on a seeding and left him open to the prospect of facing one of the highest-ranked players in the first two rounds.\n\nThe draw threw up a potential second-round match against Tsitsipas - a two-time major finalist tipped to win one of the sport's biggest prizes sooner rather than later.\n\nWhen that highly anticipated meeting panned out, Murray stepped up to the occasion - as he regularly does on the big stage - and showed glimpses of his best.\n\nIt was testament to his performance that Tsitsipas had to produce his best display on grass in a long time to pull through.\n\nNot even that could soften the blow for Murray, who knows he can still mix it with the world's best.\n\n\"I certainly can. It's clear based on how the match went. There was only a few points in it,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just about winning the odd match against them really. To have a run at these tournaments, you need multiple, multiple wins in a row. I've not done that.\"\n\nMurray is not the type of player to rush into any major decisions and his love for the game is evident by the depths from which he has recovered to continue playing.\n\nLast weekend, Murray said he had an \"idea in my head\" about when he wanted to retire. That decision does not look imminent but the scars of this latest Wimbledon loss may lead to reassessment.\n\nTim Henman, Murray's former Davis Cup team-mate and long-time friend, believes the Scot will reflect more positively when \"the dust is settled\".\n\n\"Andy has got a wise head on slightly older shoulders now and he is absolutely right not to commit to anything,\" he said.\n\n\"He will reflect on how much effort he has put in this year. He dropped down levels to play in Challenger events and to win two on grass. That emphasises the hunger and desire.\n\n\"That desire still burns bright and I really hope there is more to come for Andy.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our fossil-fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australia bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "Crowds belted out tracks as Sam Fender headlined the main stage on Saturday\n\nThe second night of Scotland's biggest festival closed on a high despite heavy rain and the threat of thunderstorms.\n\nActs including Brooke Combe and Maisie Peters kicked off Saturday's line-up before Kasabian and Sam Fender took to the main stage.\n\nUp to 50,000 people are expected at Glasgow Green for each day of TRNSMT.\n\nPulp closed the show on Friday - their first performance in Scotland for over 10 years.\n\nRoyal Blood and Becky Hill will headline on Sunday, with The 1975 scheduled to close the festival.\n\nScotRail has put on extra train services to cope with demand, including more late-night trains running to Inverclyde, Ayr, Edinburgh, and East Kilbride.\n\nThousands headed to the main stage on Saturday for Mimi Webb\n\nNewcastle rocker Sam Fender closed the festival's second night with pyrotechnics, fireworks and confetti as he remarked on the journey he had taken from the festival's beginning.\n\nHe said: \"We've played every stage in this festival, from a little stage over there to the main stage.\n\n\"It's just really surreal.\"\n\nSam Fender closed the second night of the festival\n\nFestival organisers had urged fans to \"prepare for all weather\" on Saturday with the majority of Scotland covered by a yellow Met Office alert for thunderstorms.\n\nGlasgow Green turned to mud following heavy showers, though it did little to dampen spirits.\n\nConditions are expected to improve on Sunday but more rain has been forecast.\n\nIt came after Tiree Music Festival was cancelled on Thursday, just a day before it was due to begin, because of gale force winds.\n\nFans arrived at Glasgow Green in high spirits on Saturday\n\nBrooke Combe from Midlothian gave it her all as the first act on the main stage\n\nMaisie Peters also performed on the main stage a few weeks after the release of her new album The Good Witch\n\nElijah Hewson from Irish rockers Inhaler had crowds singing along\n\nKasabian frontman took to the stage on Saturday\n\nBritpop legends Pulp brought the first night of the festival to a colourful close on Friday, following acts including George Ezra, Niall Horan, the Beautiful South's Paul Heaton and The View.\n\nThe band, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, surprised fans at the end of 2022 by announcing a run of shows this summer at festivals and outdoor gigs across the UK.\n\nCocker told crowds: \"We are Pulp, you are Glasgow. We are going to spend some time together this evening.\n\n\"This is the furthest north we've ever been.\"\n\nPulp, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, were the headline act on Friday\n\nFormer One Direction singer Niall Horan entertained the crowd on Friday\n\nFestival-goers enjoyed The View perform on the main stage\n\nYou can watch coverage of TRNSMT festival on BBC iplayer.", "A member of the archaeology team examines skeletal remains discovered during preparatory works for a new hotel in central Dublin\n\nAbout 100 skeletal remains from the Middle Ages have been unearthed during excavations for a Northern Ireland firm's new hotel in Dublin.\n\nBurial sites dating back more than 1,000 years were found at Capel Street where an abbey, St Mary's, once stood.\n\nAt least two of the remains are believed to date back to the early 11th Century.\n\nThe excavations have been commissioned by Beannchor, which is building its new Bullitt Dublin hotel on the site.\n\nThe abbey used by the Savigniac and Cistercian orders opened in the 12th Century.\n\nCarbon dating of one of the discovered graves predates that by 100 years, indicating the presence of a Christian settlement on the site prior to St Mary's being built.\n\nThe archaeological investigations at the site, which formerly housed Boland's Bakery, also unearthed the foundations of buildings dating back to the 1600s.\n\nEdmond O'Donovan, director of excavations for Courtney Deery Heritage Consultancy (CDHC), at the Capel Street site\n\nThe finds were discovered close to a former Presbyterian meeting house dating from 1667.\n\nParts of a domestic house known as the 'Dutch Billies' have also been found.\n\nIt was constructed in about 1700 by settlers who came to Dublin after William of Orange ascended to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1689.\n\nWhile the skeletal remains will be painstakingly excavated, cleaned and sent for further analysis, before ultimately being given to the National Monuments Services, the other structures found during the examination of the site are set to be incorporated into the design of the new hotel complex.\n\nBeannchor Group, which runs high-profile hotels and bars in Northern Ireland, has undertaken similar restoration of historic buildings in the past, including Belfast's Merchant Hotel, which was a former bank.\n\nIt said the Dublin project is by far its biggest and most complex project to date.\n\nThe 17th Century Presbyterian meeting house will be central to the development of a new bar and restaurant concept.\n\nThe 'Dutch Billies' house will also be preserved while a building with surviving ovens from the Boland's Bakery dating from 1890 will be renovated and repurposed.\n\nEdmond O'Donovan, director of excavations for Courtney Deery Heritage Consultancy (CDHC, said St Mary's Abbey was Ireland's largest and most wealthy medieval abbey in its day.\n\nArchaeologists examine remains at the site of the medieval St Mary's Abbey\n\n\"It was demolished after 1540 when the monastery was disbanded by Henry VIII and was later the site of a 17th Century Presbyterian meeting house.\n\n\"One of the things that was intriguing and exciting about the excavation is that we found an early burial or at least a number of burials that we suspect to be quite early.\n\n\"We have one that's carbon dated to the 11th Century and we have a second burial that was found with a diagnostic stick pin from the 11th Century.\n\n\"And that suggests that there was an earlier Christian and potentially monastic foundation here which predates the Savigniac and Cistercian Abbey.\"\n\nBill Wolsey, managing director of Beannchor, said it was impossible to have foreseen what the project would entail at its outset in 2017.\n\n\"As time went on, we began to understand just how complex this project may be,\" he said.\n\nSkeletal remains unearthed at the site of a new hotel being developed by Belfast-based Beannchor Group in Dublin\n\n\"Great care has been taken to preserve and incorporate elements of these early surviving buildings into the new development, on what we now know is one of the most significant heritage sites in the city.\"\n\nThe new Bullitt Dublin hotel is expected to open in 2025.", "Mr Rutte has been holding three days of talks to try to save his coalition\n\nThe Dutch government has collapsed because of a disagreement between coalition parties over asylum policies, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said.\n\nThe four parties were split in crisis talks chaired by Mr Rutte on Friday.\n\nMr Rutte then met King Willem-Alexander in The Hague on Saturday and agreed to lead a caretaker government until fresh elections, expected in mid-November.\n\nCoalition partners had objected to his proposal to restrict the scope for immigrant families to reunite.\n\nThe government was set up a year and a half ago but the parties have been opposed on migration for some time.\n\nMr Rutte gave no details of his talks with the king, which lasted about an hour and a half. \"It was a good discussion, but I'm not saying anything else because these discussions are confidential,\" he told reporters.\n\nHis conservative VVD party had been trying to limit the flow of asylum seekers, following a row last year about overcrowded migration centres. His plans were opposed by his junior coalition partners.\n\nMark Rutte said he would hand his resignation to King Willem-Alexander on Saturday\n\nAsylum applications in the Netherlands jumped by over a third last year to more than 47,000 and government figures said earlier this year that they expected roughly 70,000 applications in 2023.\n\nThis week, Mr Rutte tried to force through a plan which included a cap on the number of relatives of war refugees allowed into the Netherlands at just 200 people per month.\n\nBut junior coalition partners the Christian Union, a pro-family party, and the socially-liberal D66 were strongly opposed.\n\n\"The decision was very difficult for us,\" Mr Rutte told journalists as he announced his cabinet's resignation. The differences in views between the coalition partners were \"irreconcilable\", he added.\n\n\"All parties went to great lengths to find a solution, but the differences on migration are unfortunately impossible to bridge.\"\n\nA media scrum welcomed Mark Rutte as he arrived at the Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague to meet Dutch King Willem-Alexander\n\nA compromise proposal, known as the \"emergency brake\", which would only trigger the restrictions in the event of an excessively high influx of migrants, was not enough to save the government.\n\n\"The four parties decided that they cannot reach an agreement on migration,\" the Christian Union's spokesman Tim Kuijsten said. \"Therefore they decided to end this government.\"\n\nMr Rutte, 56, is the country's longest serving prime minister and has been in office since 2010. The current government - which took office in January 2022 - is his fourth coalition.\n\nHe said he still had the energy for a fifth term, but a final decision would have to await consultations with his party.\n\nHe has been under pressure on migration because of the rise of far-right parties such as Geert Wilders' PVV.\n\nThe Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), which became the biggest party in the upper house of parliament after a shock election win in March, said they will not serve in any future government led by Mr Rutte.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Ajax goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is being treated in intensive care after suffering a bleed on his brain.\n\nThe 52-year-old is reportedly being treated in a hospital in Croatia, where he has been on holiday.\n\nAjax said the former Netherlands international, who won 130 caps for his country, is in a \"stable condition\".\n\n\"Everyone at Ajax wishes Edwin a speedy recovery,\" the Eredivisie club added. \"We're thinking of you.\"\n\nVan der Sar resigned from his role as Ajax chief executive in May after the side finished third in the Dutch league and failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since 2009.\n\nHe retired from playing after leaving United in 2011 before joining the Ajax board in 2012, and later becoming the club's chief executive in 2016.\n\nVan der Sar made 266 appearances for the Red Devils and helped them to win four Premier League titles and the 2008 Champions League.\n\nIn a statement, Manchester United said: \"Sending all our love and strength to you, Edwin.\"\n\nHe also played in the Premier League for Fulham and in Serie A for Juventus.\n\nFormer United defender Rio Ferdinand sent his support to his old team-mate, tweeting: \"Ed is a fighter. Our thoughts are with the Van Der Sar family!\"\n\nFulham also sent a message of support, tweeting: \"Everyone at Fulham Football Club wishes Edwin a speedy recovery. We're thinking of you.\"\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association tweeted: \"The thoughts of everyone at the PFA are with Edwin and his family.\"\n\nFirst as a superb goalkeeper, with Ajax, Juventus, Fulham and Manchester United, plus the Dutch national team, then as an administrator, at Ajax and with the influential European Clubs' Association, he has developed a first-rate reputation.\n\nI spoke to him in Istanbul, on the day of last month's Champions League final, when he talked about Andre Onana's likely influence on the game, Erik ten Hag's time at Manchester United and also his future plans.\n\nVan der Sar endured a difficult final season with Ajax but, despite leaving the club, gave the impression of someone not intent on staying out of the game long.\n\nThrough the recovery of his wife Annemarie, who suffered a brain haemorrhage when he was a player at United in 2009 and Sir Alex Ferguson, who collapsed in 2018, there are positive examples to reflect on in this uncertain time.\n\nFootball is worried on Van der Sar's behalf. There are many good wishes being extended in public and private as it absorbs this news.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nAndy Murray's hopes of a fine Wimbledon victory on the 10th anniversary of his 2013 title win were ended by fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in round two.\n\nStalled by Wimbledon's 11pm curfew on Thursday, the Briton lost 7-6 (7-3) 6-7 (2-7) 4-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 on Friday.\n\nShortly before Murray's loss, British number one Cameron Norrie fell 3-6 6-3 2-6 6-7 (3-7) to Christopher Eubanks.\n\nBritish number five Liam Broady lost 4-6 6-2 7-5 7-5 to Canadian 26th seed Denis Shapovalov in the third round.\n\nDefeats for the trio ended British interest in the men's draw and dampened the spirits of the home fans at the All England Club.\n\nTheir exits leave British women's number one Katie Boulter as the only remaining home player in the singles.\n\nOn Saturday, Boulter has the chance to reach the fourth round for the first time when she plays defending champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.\n• None Murray unsure he has motivation for Wimbledon\n\nMurray pushes one of the best but falls agonisingly short\n\nMurray is a two-time champion at Wimbledon, having also won in 2016, and had talked positively about his chances of going deep in the draw.\n\nA poor performance at Queen's in the build-up to the tournament saw him miss out on a seeding, leaving him vulnerable to a tough test early on.\n\nEven after the draw threw up the possibility of facing 24-year-old Tsitsipas, Murray insisted he had the ability and nous to cause anybody problems on the SW19 grass.\n\nAgainst one of the top players in the men's game, he was proven correct.\n\nOn Thursday, Murray grew into a contest played indoors under the floodlights and moved ahead just before the match was halted at 22:39 BST.\n\nUnlike the other Grand Slams, Wimbledon has a 23:00 curfew which has been imposed by the local council.\n\nThe end of the set felt like the natural moment to pause, coming at a time which seemed to suit both players.\n\nWhen they returned, now playing outdoors on a hot summer afternoon, the pair continued to dominate on serve.\n\nHowever, at 4-4 15-30, Murray missed a chance to challenge a line call which would have been successfully overturned and could have altered the trajectory of the match.\n\nThere was a sense of inevitability that the set would go to the tie-break and, when it did, Tsitsipas kept his composure to clinically level.\n\nUnderneath bright skies, the mood further darkened among the home fans at the start of the decider.\n\nMurray's serve came under severe pressure in the third game. A slice into the net by the Scot was followed by a beautifully-judged lob from Tsitsipas, before a double fault created three break opportunities.\n\nMurray was able to save two of them, but a forehand into the net handed over an advantage from which he could not recover.\n\nThe level of performance Tsitsipas was forced to find in order to advance - and register by far his best win of the grass-court season on a tricky surface - was testament to Murray's challenge.\n\nMurray waved goodbye as he received a standing ovation from Centre Court and, though he knows there will not be many opportunities to play there again in the future, he showed he is far from done.\n\nWhich player would benefit from the overnight break - Murray after a painful looking fall, or Tsitsipas after momentum swung away from him - was debatable.\n\nThe delay did provide the opportunity for the romantics to dream.\n\nMurray returned on Friday aiming to earn his biggest win by ranking since the 2013 final, 10 years to the day and at the scene of the defining moment of his career.\n\nThe realists felt the pause might suit Tsitsipas better - and were vindicated.\n\nThe 2021 French Open finalist and 2023 Australian Open runner-up produced another serving masterclass, like he did in the first two sets on Thursday, and did not face a break point as he turned around the deficit.\n\nAsked if the 18-hour gap benefitted him, Tsitsipas said: \"It did not help me that much. You are dealing with a lot of things.\n\n\"You are dealing with Andy Murray at the other side of the net. He can make it a marathon and I had to work extra hard.\n\n\"My legs are sore - he made me run left and right, up and down for how many hours.\"\n\nNorrie and Broady out as British men's hopes end\n\nNorrie, 27, reached the Wimbledon semi-finals last year but his bid to replicate that run came unstuck against an inspired Eubanks.\n\nOn Court One, 12th seed Norrie struggled to make a dent on the American's serve and lost four of the 13 break points he faced.\n\nEubanks described grass as the \"stupidest surface\" in a text exchange with former women's world number one Kim Clijsters earlier this summer, but won an ATP title in Mallorca last week after receiving advice from the Belgian.\n\nThe world number 43 looked confident from the start against Norrie, who said he could not cope with his opponent hitting \"absolute rockets\".\n\n\"I got outplayed. I couldn't really get into the match how I wanted. He came out and was hitting the ball huge, he didn't miss at all,\" Norrie added.\n\nWildcard Broady, 29, was unable to follow up the biggest win of his career as he lost to 2021 semi-finalist Shapovalov.\n\nThe world number 142 stunned Norwegian fourth seed Casper Ruud in the second round, but could not produce another memorable result as his impressive run - which generated a useful payday of £131,000 - ended.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Sgt Kim is carrying out a one-man protest outside embassies in Seoul\n\nSgt Kim Jae-kyung stands, unflinching, outside the Colombian embassy in Seoul, dressed in full military gear. The day before, he was in front of the Dutch embassy. The day before that, it was the Greek.\n\nThis one-man demonstration by the former special forces soldier is his way of showing gratitude to all 22 countries who sent troops or medics to support South Korea after it was invaded by its neighbour North Korea in 1950. Now he wants his country to help Ukraine, following its invasion by Russia in February 2022.\n\n\"We are lucky enough to now be the 10th most prosperous country in the world, because of the foreign soldiers who shed their blood and sweat for our country,\" the 33-year-old says.\n\nIt is this rationale which led him to the battlefield in Ukraine, where he served on the front line for four months alongside the Ukrainian army, as an anti-drone gunner and combat medic for the 3rd Battalion of the International Legion.\n\nKim is one of just a handful of Koreans known to have defied his government's orders, by heading to Ukraine to fight. As he entered the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, shortly after the region was reclaimed from the Russians, he witnessed first-hand what he describes as \"horrendous, evil, war crimes\".\n\nThis is why - in his mind - South Korea must now do more to help the Ukrainian war effort.\n\nSgt Kim travelled to Ukraine to fight, against the wishes of the South Korean government\n\nWeeks into its counter-offensive, Ukraine is burning through ammunition faster than its allies can produce it.\n\nMeanwhile South Korea is cautiously sitting on one of the biggest stockpiles in the world. With its own conflict with the North still unresolved, it doesn't know when it might need the bullets.\n\nNot only this, but with its flourishing defence industry, it is turning out tanks and other weapons at a speed that countries in Europe can only dream of.\n\nEver since the start of the Ukraine war, pressure has been building on Seoul to send its arms to Kyiv, from the US, UK and EU member states. They have invited the South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to next week's Nato summit in Vilnius.\n\nUkraine's Ambassador to South Korea, Dmytro Ponomarenko, told me ahead of the summit that he believed South Korea's weapons could \"change the course of the war\".\n\n\"Please remember that 70 years ago, Korea was in desperate need of help. The whole world reached out to Korea in defence of justice and freedom. Ukraine today is like Korea 70 years ago,\" the leader said.\n\nBut, despite signing up to all international sanctions on Russia, and providing Ukraine with more than $200m of humanitarian aid, the government has drawn the line at sending lethal weapons.\n\nPublicly politicians have been able to hide behind a long-standing policy of not arming countries in conflict, but privately many worry about antagonising Russia. Before the war, in 2021, the two countries conducted $27bn worth of annual trade. Seoul also hopes, somewhat wishfully, that Russia might be able to keep North Korea in check.\n\n\"The Russians have made it very clear to us that weapons are their red line, and that if we cross it, they will retaliate,\" a South Korean diplomat told me recently.\n\nSouth Korea has sold arms including tanks such as this to Poland\n\nThis retaliation may come in the form of economic sanctions, or, more concerningly for Seoul, support for North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un. The Russian politician and former president Dmitry Medvedev hinted in April that Moscow could supply Pyongyang with the latest technology for its nuclear weapons if Seoul were to support Ukraine militarily.\n\nInstead, South Korea has taken the more comfortable approach of selling weapons to those who are already arming Ukraine, to help replenish their depleted stocks. Last year it sold $13.7bn worth of tanks, jets and other arms to Poland, followed this year by a huge haul of ammunition - more than 4 million rounds.\n\nAnd after agonising over whether to provide the US with hundreds of thousands of Nato-standard 155mm shells, a private sale of the artillery has now been agreed. There is little to stop Poland and the US sending these weapons on to Ukraine. Indeed, there are reports (in Korean) that some of the ammunition is in the process of being transferred.\n\nRamon Pacheco Pardo, the Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance, believes Seoul is aware its shells are being redirected.\n\n\"It is difficult for the South Korean government to argue that the country's lethal weapons are being used in Ukraine without its knowledge,\" he said. Though the South Korean government is refusing to be drawn on the deals, citing \"national security concerns\", and says its policy on weapons supply has not changed.\n\nOlena Zelenska travelled to Seoul to meet President Yoon in May\n\nBut when Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska visited Seoul in May, followed by EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, lethal weapons were mysteriously absent from their list of requests. The feeling among Western diplomats in Seoul is this indirect supply is working well enough, for now.\n\nBut Ambassador Ponomarenko is urging the government to do more by sending weapons to Ukraine directly. \"We understand this is not easy, so as a first step we are asking South Korea to supply us with defensive rather than offensive weapons, like anti-missile and anti-drone systems,\" he said.\n\nSome question the difference South Korean weapons would make to the war.\n\n\"South Korea's strength is in the post-war recovery phase rather than military support,\" said Prof Kim Youngjun from Korea National Defence University, who advises the government. \"Korea's experience and expertise in building roads, hospitals, schools, telecommunications, will be more useful,\" he said.\n\nAmbassador Ponomarenko disagrees. \"We know that South Korea would like to participate in the reconstruction of Ukraine, but to start the renovation, we must end the war. And to end the war, we need its lethal weapons,\" he said.\n\nKwon Ki-chang, who served as South Korea's ambassador in Ukraine until 2021, thinks his country should agree to Kyiv's request.\n\nHe believes South Korea is facing a critical choice, about what it wants to stand for - whether it continues to define its national interest based on economic interests, or whether it wants to champion democracy and freedom.\n\n\"We must escape our small country mentality and not be afraid to stand up to Russia, to defend democracy and freedom. We may suffer some short-term economic losses, but we can overcome them. This is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThese K9 howitzers were also delivered to the Polish army from South Korea recently\n\nWith Moscow surely aware of Seoul's strategy of indirect supply, one South Korean official suggested it to me, it was not the Russians the government is worried about any more.\n\nA recent poll suggested that 56% of South Koreans oppose such assistance, with 42% in support. With elections next year, the government does not want to give the opposition any metaphorical ammunition.\n\nThough events in Ukraine may force its hand.\n\nSoftening his stance, the South Korean president suggested in April that if Ukraine were to come under a large-scale civilian attack, he would consider sending arms. It is said he also sees similarities between the Korean and Ukraine wars.\n\nWhen the war in Ukraine broke out, some South Korean politicians viewed it as a faraway war. Now they argue it has come too close to home. Few doubt that what happens in Ukraine will change the world, with the impact felt here.\n\nWhat the South Korean president must decide, as he heads to the Nato summit, is does he want to try to influence the outcome or merely deal with the consequences.\n\nThe atrocities witnessed by former soldier Kim Jae-kyung have left him struggling with PTSD, he says, and prone to bursts of anger. He is waiting to find out whether he will be fined for breaking the law, to take part in the war, while his passport has been frozen.\n\n\"We must do what we can to end this as soon as possible, and prevent further war crimes,\" he says.", "The attack caused fires in several cars, authorities say\n\nAt least eight people have been killed in an attack on a residential area in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, the country's authorities have said.\n\nUkraine's interior ministry said another 13 people were wounded in the Russian shelling of the town of Lyman.\n\nThe strike caused fires in a house, a printing shop and three cars which have now been put out by rescuers, the ministry said.\n\nIt comes as the country marks the 500th day of the invasion.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive, which began last month, continues to grind on in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.\n\nIts advances have been slow, as Russia continues its missile and drone attacks.\n\nThe small city of Lyman is a key railway hub in the Donetsk, and was initially captured by Russia but then retaken by Ukraine's army in October.\n\nRussia had been \"concentrating quite powerful forces\" there, the spokesman of Ukraine's eastern group of forces, Serhiy Cherevatyy, told Ukrainian television on Friday.\n\n\"At around 10:00, the Russians struck the town with multiple rocket launchers,\" the regional governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on social media on Saturday. He said a house and a shop were damaged.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the claims.\n\nAuthorities shared photos of the aftermath of the attack on social media\n\nOn Thursday, 10 people, including a woman aged 95, were killed after a Russian rocket hit an apartment building in Lviv, western Ukraine.\n\nAnother 40 people were injured in what the mayor of Lviv described as \"one of the biggest attacks\" on the city's civilian infrastructure.\n\nAnd the previous week 13 people were killed - including children - when a restaurant and shopping centre were struck in Kramatorsk, an eastern city close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.\n\nFor months, Russia has been carrying out deadly missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, often hitting civilian targets and causing widespread blackouts.\n\nOn Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Snake Island - a place that has became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance after being retaken by Ukrainian forces - to mark the 500th day of the invasion.\n\n\"I want to thank from here, from this place of victory, each of our soldiers for these 500 days,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nOne month into its long-awaited counter-offensive, Ukraine says its forces are making gains - although Mr Zelensky previously admitted progress was slow.\n\nAnd earlier this week, the US's highest-ranking military officer, Gen Mark Milley, said although Ukraine was advancing steadily, its counter-offensive against Russia would be difficult and \"very bloody\".\n\nThe Ukrainian General Staff has reported that Ukrainian forces have conducted offensive operations south and north of what is left of the eastern city of Bakhmut - most of which has been under Russian control.\n\nLast week, Ukraine's military commander-in-chief said its campaign had been hampered by a lack of adequate firepower and expressed frustration with the slow deliveries of weapons promised by the West.\n\nBut on Friday, the US announced it would be giving Ukraine cluster bombs - a controversial type of weapon that is banned in more than 120 countries, including the UK, because they have a record of killing civilians.\n\nThe US has faced criticism for its decision, but Mr Zelensky thanked the US for the \"timely, broad and much-needed\" aid.", "An unnamed BBC presenter is facing fresh allegations by the Sun newspaper after it claimed he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos.\n\nThe star was pictured in his underwear \"ready for my child to perform for him\", their mother told the paper.\n\nIt is unclear how old the young person was at the time, but the paper has claimed they were 17 when payments from the presenter started.\n\nThe BBC has said it takes any allegations very seriously.\n\nThe allegations, first reported by the Sun on Friday, are that the BBC presenter paid £35,000 for explicit photos over a three-year period.\n\nThe young person's mother told the paper her child, now aged 20, had used the money from the presenter to fund a crack cocaine habit.\n\nShe said if the alleged payments continued her child would \"wind up dead\", the paper reported on Saturday.\n\nThe Sun said the young person's family complained to the BBC on 19 May.\n\nThe family is reported to have become frustrated that the star remained on air and approached the newspaper, but said they wanted no payment for the story.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said on Friday: \"We treat any allegations very seriously and we have processes in place to proactively deal with them.\n\n\"As part of that, if we receive information that requires further investigation or examination we will take steps to do this. That includes actively attempting to speak to those who have contacted us in order to seek further detail and understanding of the situation.\n\n\"If we get no reply to our attempts or receive no further contact that can limit our ability to progress things but it does not mean our enquiries stop.\n\n\"If, at any point, new information comes to light or is provided - including via newspapers - this will be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes.\"\n\nThe BBC has not said anything further about the allegations since its statement on Friday.\n\nBut serious questions remain for the BBC about what investigations went on since the family says it alerted the corporation.\n\nCaroline Dinenage, senior Conservative MP and chair of the Culture, Media and Sport committee, said: \"It's vital that TV companies have in place the right systems and processes to ensure their stars, who have disproportionate power and influence over the lives and careers of others, don't abuse it.\"\n\nThere is pressure on the corporation's HR department to \"investigate these latest claims quickly and explain what has happened since this story first came to light back in May\", she added.\n\nEarlier, former home secretary Priti Patel said the BBC's response had been \"derisory\" and called for a \"full and transparent investigation\", accusing the corporation of becoming a \"faceless and unaccountable organisation\".\n\nThe presenter is not due to be on air in the near future, but BBC News has not been told whether or not there has been a formal suspension.\n\nBut the BBC will need to answer if this should have happened sooner, if the investigation should have been more thorough, and if it is fair to its other presenters unconnected to this who are finding themselves facing false rumours.\n\nThe Sun says there will be a probe by the head of corporate investigations team who has spoken to the family, but the BBC has not confirmed this.\n\nFollowing the first Sun report, BBC presenters took to social media to deny they were the star in question, including Rylan Clark, Jeremy Vine, Nicky Campbell and Gary Lineker.\n\nThis is a disconcerting time for them when they have no involvement in the allegations.", "Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a report that an indecent image appeared briefly during a children's screening of the Super Mario Bros Movie.\n\nThe incident happened at Londonderry's Waterside Theatre on Friday.\n\nIt is understood the children, believed to be of primary-school age, were at the event as part of a summer scheme.\n\nIt is believed an image of a partially undressed woman appeared on screen for several seconds before being removed.\n\nThe theatre has described what happened as \"unfortunate but serious\" and apologised.\n\nIn a post on Facebook on Friday night, staff said they would be \"working with the relevant authorities\".\n\nBBC News NI has asked Waterside Theatre and Arts Centre for a statement.\n\nParents of the children who attended the screening were informed of the incident by organisers soon after it occurred, BBC News NI understands.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was later informed.\n\nThe incident happened at the Waterside Theatre and Arts Centre in Derry\n\nA PSNI spokesperson said they had received a report of an indecent image appearing briefly on the screen and had begun an investigation.\n\n\"Enquiries remain ongoing and anyone with information that could help with this investigation is asked to contact police,\" they added.\n\nIn a Facebook post on Friday, the theatre said it was \"aware of an unfortunate but serious incident happening today\".\n\n\"The welfare of our visitors is always our main concern and we will be working with the relevant authorities,\" the statement goes on.\n\n\"We offer or sincere apologies to all those affected.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Gary Middleton called for enquiries to establish what had happened.\n\n\"There needs to be an investigation into how this happened and particularly the equipment used,\" he said.\n\n\"It's important that parents and those involved are kept informed.\"\n\nSean Mooney, an SDLP councillor for Derry and Strabane District Council, said it was \"an unfortunate matter and unfortunate it happened\".\n\n\"It would be concerning for the children seeing something that's inappropriate,\" he said.\n\n\"But this is pending investigation.\"", "The US says it has held discussions with Russia aimed at bringing jailed American journalist Evan Gershkovich home - but that there is no \"clear pathway\" to his release.\n\nAsked about a prisoner swap, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the US was \"prepared to do hard things\" to get Mr Gershkovich back.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reporter, accused of espionage, was arrested on 29 March.\n\nThe US says the case is baseless.\n\nIt accuses Russia of holding Mr Gershkovich for \"leverage\".\n\nMr Sullivan's comments on Friday confirmed an earlier Kremlin statement about \"contacts\" over the case.\n\nHe said that \"there have been discussions, but those discussions have not produced a clear pathway to a resolution\".\n\n\"We are prepared to do hard things in order to get our citizens home, including getting Evan home. I do not want to give false hope,\" he said. \"We have a clear commitment and conviction that we will do everything possible to bring him home.\"\n\nOn 22 June a Moscow court rejected an appeal to free Mr Gershkovich, 31, who is being held at Lefortovo, where the Soviet KGB formerly held dissidents.\n\nOn Tuesday the Kremlin said there had been \"certain contacts\" with the US over Mr Gershkovich's case, suggesting the possibility of a prisoner exchange.\n\nThe previous day US ambassador Lynne Tracy was allowed to visit Mr Gershkovich in a Moscow prison for only the second time. He is the first Western journalist to be jailed in Russia since the Soviet era.\n\nRussian embassy staff also recently visited Vladimir Dunaev, a Russian national detained in the US on cybercrime charges. He was extradited to the US from South Korea in 2021.\n\nThere is speculation that a new prisoner swap may be arranged.\n\nThe US has also been pressing for the release of Paul Whelan, a former US Marine who has been in jail for more than four years.\n\nMr Whelan is in Mordovia, an area far south east of Moscow known for harsh conditions in its prison camps.\n\nAnd after being jailed for 10 months, basketball star Brittney Griner was released in December after the US brokered a prison swap and released Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was imprisoned in the US over weapons smuggling.", "Outside of the course there are peer support groups, exercise classes and dinners\n\nMotherhood is often thought to be one of life's best experiences, but many mums find it lonely.\n\nWhen Bethanie Casey had her babies she couldn't understand why she was feeling so low.\n\nLiving in Norton, Powys, Ms Casey experienced residual postnatal depression after both pregnancies.\n\nShe is one of a number of women who benefitted from an intervention service, delivered by the charity Mind, for mums with mental health challenges.\n\nMs Casey, 28, said she \"had this realisation one day: Why did I feel so down? Why was I so tired? Why did I feel so alone?\"\n\nShe had \"no family or friends around\" and her partner was working 65-hour weeks.\n\nA health visitor suggested she enrol in a course called Mums Matter.\n\nIt was founded by Tracy Lewis, who works for Mind, after she spotted a major need to help mothers with isolation and loneliness in rural Wales.\n\nBethanie says \"no-one judged\" her for saying what she felt at the group\n\nThe course lasts for eight weeks and each week focuses on a different subject.\n\nMs Lewis said: \"I think the really hard-hitting [week] is usually three, which is the unhelpful thinking patterns and when we look at strategies to why they have got unhelpful thinking, how we can break the unhelpful thinking.\"\n\nThe charity said the project has helped more than 400 mums, who can either be self-referred or referred by a healthcare professional, if they are over 18.\n\nAlongside the course, several of the mums have volunteered to create a peer support group.\n\n\"I just felt so safe and embraced there, and it was a place to honestly express how I was feeling - the loneliness, the guilt, the intrusive thoughts - and no one judged me,\" Ms Casey said.\n\nShe said her \"life has changed\" because she realised she was not alone.\n\n\"Before, I was stuck in those negative patterns and cycles, and I couldn't get out of the hole. Now I've got somebody giving me a ladder, getting me right out.\"\n\nMum-of-three Becca Hughes, 29, from Builth Wells, has also taken part in the course.\n\nMs Hughes had a baby with a new partner who then died unexpectedly.\n\nShe said raising her children alone while grieving \"put a huge strain on my mental state\".\n\n\"Life got so difficult in the following years that I attempted to take my own life,\" she said.\n\nBecca has become a volunteer to help other mums like her\n\nMs Hughes, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, said she found \"some social situations quite difficult\" but felt like she \"fitted in\" with the group in ways she did not with other mother and baby groups.\n\n\"I used to think I was mad for thinking this thing, and then I'd go there and someone would say it and I was like 'oh my God I'm not mad',\" she said.\n\n\"It's changed my life,\" she added, particularly the week where she learnt to \"deal with negative thoughts and handling pressures\".\n\nWilna says she is able to understand her feelings better after doing the Mums Matter course\n\nWilna Evans, 31, moved to Wales from South Africa with her family as a child.\n\nShe later met and married her husband, Geraint, and stayed behind with him when the rest of her family returned to South Africa in 2015.\n\n\"Being a farmer's wife can be lonely at the best of times, let alone when your entire family gets on a plane back to South Africa. I felt as though I had no-one,\" Mrs Evans said.\n\n\"My husband single-handedly looks after 2,000 sheep and 100 cattle. It's a seven-day-a-week job, so when I had my first daughter in 2019, I had absolutely no help.\n\n\"I had a lot of anger and frustration built up, I didn't know why I was getting really angry at everything.\"\n\nWilna Evans says the family dynamic works well now she understands how to \"set boundaries\" and give herself time away from the children\n\nMrs Evans said she was \"surviving not thriving\" and felt \"incredibly lonely\".\n\nShe enrolled on the course, which she said helped her to figure out how to manage motherhood and maintain her own identity.\n\nNow the children stay with their dad on the farm twice a week, while she takes time to herself and works in the community farm shop.\n\n\"I feel part of a community now, like-minded women, we can all ring each other whenever we want,\" she said.\n\nNamrata Bhardwa says the group is a space to talk about the \"cultural issues\" she experienced\n\nNamrata Bhardwa, 29, also found living in rural Wales difficult with a new baby.\n\nShe grew up in Coventry, which had \"really strong Asian communities and influence\", before moving to to Rhayader, Powys, where \"the nearest temple is two hours away\".\n\nShe took part in the project and found it helped her to \"explore all kinds of often-taboo issues relating to motherhood, from mental health to postnatal sex, in a completely non-judgmental and often light-hearted way\".\n\nSimon Jones from Mind Cymru said as many as one in four mums experience mental health challenges during pregnancy.\n\nHe said a recent report from the Maternal Mental Health Alliance showed all seven Welsh health boards had increased their budgets for perinatal mental health services.\n\n\"Clearly good work is underway, but there are still issues around budget underspend and standards not being met, and more work for health boards to do to make sure that every woman in Wales has the same level of access to high quality, accessible care,\" he said.\n\nDeputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing Lynne Neagle said having a baby \"can be a challenging time mentally and physically\" but said the project was \"a fantastic example\" of early intervention.\n\nFor details of organisations which offer advice and support, go to BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A poster for a West End play featuring a wedding cake was banned by Transport for London (TfL) because it was seen to promote \"foods high in fat, salt and sugar\".\n\nThe ad for Tony n' Tina's Wedding, a dinner show at Wonderville, Haymarket, featured a three-tier sponge cake.\n\nThe team spent £20,000 on the posters to go on London's transport network.\n\nA TfL spokesperson said: \"We are always happy to work with brands to help them follow our advertising policy.\"\n\nThe interactive show is set at an Italian-American wedding, with a three-course meal, live music and dancing.\n\nProducer Paul Gregg told BBC London they could not run the posters after they delivered them to TfL.\n\nThe revised poster, right, depicted wedding guests instead\n\n\"They said 'you can't put these up, they've got cake on',\" he said. \"It was a bit of a surprise... the poster was designed at great expense to begin with.\"\n\nHis team spent a week creating the new design, costing an additional £5,000.\n\nTfL said it refused to run 20 adverts displaying foods and non alcoholic drinks that were high in fat, sugar or salt, in the year 2021/22.\n\nA TfL spokesperson added: \"We welcome all advertising on our network that complies with our published guidance.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Pablo Picasso housing estate in Nanterre, west of Paris, where 17-year-old Nahel lived with his mother\n\nCalm has returned to La Grande Borne. Local mafia again exercise lazy control from the doorways of this vast housing estate south of Paris; their guns on show, their faces hidden.\n\nAfter days of riots, there is no sign of the police.\n\n\"In some banlieues (suburban estates), they are better equipped than us; they have better weapons,\" one police officer told us, on condition we keep his identity hidden.\n\nThe officer we spoke to spent last week facing rioters in several estates around Paris, as towns and cities across France erupted in rage at the killing of Nahel M, who was 17.\n\nHe was shot dead at a police traffic stop in Nanterre, west of Paris, and the policeman who fired through the car window is in detention accused of \"voluntary homicide\".\n\nThe riots were \"super-violent\", the officer said. But the problem between French suburbs and French police goes much deeper than occasional eruptions of fireworks and Molotov cocktails.\n\nDistrust and resentment smoulder beneath the surface in places like La Grande Borne, less visible than the weapons carried by gangs here, but just as likely to explode.\n\n\"When we intervene in an estate, there is fear on both sides,\" the officer said. \"But the police should not be afraid. Fear doesn't help in making the right choices.\"\n\nThe question now being asked, from the estates to the Élysée Palace, is how to prevent these tensions igniting again.\n\nDjigui Diarra is a film-maker who grew up in La Grande Borne, which is one of the poorest housing estates in France.\n\nDjigui Diarra has explored racial divisions between the community and police in his work\n\n\"My first encounter with police was when I was 10 years old,\" he explained, as we sat in the simple concrete playground he used to visit as a child, surrounded by low-rise apartment blocks.\n\nIt was a police identification check on an older member of his group, someone he saw as a \"big brother\".\n\n\"They were really rude, so my big brother responded and they put him down [on the ground],\" the 27-year-old said. \"This was my first encounter with police and as a kid I said to myself, 'this will be my natural enemy'\".\n\nThat was around the time that France scrapped community policing, known in the country as the \"police of proximity\" - something Djigui believes was a big mistake.\n\n\"With the police of proximity, there was a lack of violence, a lack of criminality,\" he said. \"The language [was] great; they respected people. You have to put people together to feel each other.\"\n\nNow they only come when there's trouble, he added.\n\nDjigui - whose name means \"hope\" in Mali's Bambara language - said he had been called \"gorilla\" and \"monkey\" by police officers during ID checks.\n\nFour years ago, he made a film called Malgré Eux (In Spite of Them) which explored the racial divisions between residents and police in his community.\n\nIt's something other community leaders, in other banlieues, bring up too.\n\nHassan Ben M'Barak says local police forces need to be more ethnically diverse\n\nIn Gennevilliers, on the other side of Paris, Hassan Ben M'Barak leads a network of local associations that was created during weeks of rioting back in 2005.\n\n\"We need at least 20% or 25% of the police who patrol the neighbourhood to come from minority ethnic backgrounds [or] to come from the neighbourhood,\" he said. \"That's a really important aspect.\"\n\nSince 2005, he explained, the situation has got harder to control - not only because of changes in policing, but changes in funding policy too, with money directed towards urban regeneration and away from local associations on the ground.\n\nWhat's striking this time, he said, was that \"no one - no association - has called for calm\" because they no longer have the authority to influence the situation.\n\nThis week, French media reported that the police officer charged with Nahel's homicide told investigators that he pulled the trigger because he was afraid the 17-year-old would drive off and \"drag\" his police colleague with him.\n\nThe traffic policeman, named as Florian M, also denied threatening to shoot the teenager in the head.\n\nThe shooting, and the riots that followed, dominated French media for days. But many believe media coverage here is just as important as policing and policy in fuelling divisions between the banlieues and the rest of France.\n\nThe riots started in the Pablo Picasso housing estate, not far from where Nahel M was fatally shot by a police officer\n\n\"They have to talk about great histories [stories] in the suburbs, not only when there are riots,\" Djigui said. \"That will reduce the racism and fear in others.\n\n\"And we in the suburbs have to consider every little brother, every little sister, as ours. We have to consider every member of this [estate] as our family.\"\n\nDjigui is now working on a new series about policing in France's suburbs, and said he believes that those beyond the banlieues are starting to wake up to his message.\n\n\"When the yellow vest strikes happened, they understood why we in the suburbs were, like, police brutality is abominable. I said to them, 'better late [than never]'.\"\n\nThe yellow vest protests, which broke out across France in 2017, sparked a national debate about police brutality after a number of protesters were seriously injured by police.\n\nFor now, though, the fires have subsided in the banlieues and so has the attention they brought. And the towering apartment blocks that ring France's prosperous cities are sinking out of sight again.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US will send Ukraine a cluster munitions package to help in its counteroffensive against Russia.\n\nThe White House said it had postponed the decision for as long as it could because of the risk of civilian harm from such unexploded ordnance.\n\nUkraine has been asking for the weapons for months amid an ammunition shortage.\n\nCluster munitions - which are banned by more than 100 countries - are a class of weapon that contain multiple explosive bomblets called submunitions.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said in a cable TV interview that it was \"a very difficult decision on my part\" to send the bombs.\n\n\"I discussed this with our allies,\" he told CNN, \"I discussed this with our friends up on the [Capitol] Hill.\"\n\nHe said he had decided to send the munitions because \"the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".\n\nMr Biden could face questions from allies about the matter at a Nato summit in Lithuania next week.\n\nNational Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told Friday's daily White House briefing: \"We recognise the cluster munitions create a risk of civilian harm from unexploded ordnance.\n\n\"This is why we've deferred the decision for as long as we could.\"\n\nHe added: \"Ukraine would not be using these munitions in some foreign land. This is their country they're defending.\"\n\nMr Sullivan said Ukraine was running out of artillery and needed \"a bridge of supplies\" while the US ramps up domestic production.\n\n\"We will not leave Ukraine defenceless at any point in this conflict period,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe munitions are controversial because of their failure, or dud, rate, meaning unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years and detonate later on.\n\nMr Sullivan told reporters that the cluster munitions America will send to Ukraine have a dud rate of less than 2.5%, describing that as far below Russia's cluster munition dud rate, which US officials say is between 30-40%.\n\nIn a separate news briefing, the Pentagon did not specify how many cluster munitions the US will send to Ukraine, but spokesman Colin Kahl said they had \"hundreds of thousands available\".\n\nUS law prohibits the transfer of cluster munitions with bomblet failure rates higher than 1% - meaning more than 1% of the bomblets in the weapon do not explode - but President Biden is able to bypass this rule.\n\nA United Nations investigation found Ukraine has probably already used cluster bombs, though the country has denied doing so.\n\nEarly on in the war, the White House was asked about allegations that Russia was using cluster bombs, and then-press secretary Jen Psaki said it would be a \"war crime\" if true.\n\nOfficials are planning to send artillery shells to Ukraine, with each containing 88 separate bomblets, according to US media reports. They would be fired from Howitzer artillery weapons already deployed by the Ukrainian army.\n\nThe Biden administration's latest weapons package for Ukraine is worth $800m (£626m). It includes Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles, air defence missiles and anti-mine equipment.\n\nHuman rights groups have urged Russia and Ukraine not to use cluster munitions and have asked the US not to supply them.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights once again called on the countries not to use cluster bombs, arguing they were dangerous.\n\n\"Cluster munitions scatter small bomblets over a wide area, many of which fail to explode immediately,\" said office spokesperson Marta Hurtado. \"They can kill and maim years later. That's why use should stop immediately.\"\n\nSome US lawmakers have also asked the Biden administration not to send the weapons, arguing their humanitarian costs outweigh their benefits in the battlefield.\n\nDefence Department official Laura Cooper told Congress last month that military analysts had found that cluster bombs would be \"useful, especially against dug-in Russian positions\".\n\nMore than 120 countries have committed to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, agreeing not to use, produce, transfer or store such devices.\n\nThe US, Ukraine and Russia are not party to the agreement.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details Katie Boulter's bid to reach the Wimbledon last 16 for the first time ended quickly as she was outclassed by defending champion Elena Rybakina. The British number one was the final home player left in the singles draws, but lost 6-1 6-1 in just 57 minutes. Kazakhstan's Rybakina, seeded third, showed why she is heavily tipped to retain her title in a powerful display. The 24-year-old dominated with her first serve and broke Boulter five times to move into the fourth round. Rybakina, who had faced question marks about her level after recently being debilitated by a virus, will face Brazilian 13th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia for a place in the quarter-finals. It was a difficult defeat for 26-year-old Boulter to digest and she looked dejected as she gave a muted thanks to the Centre Court crowd for their support when she departed. When the dust settles, she will reflect on an encouraging British grass-court season which she hopes will be the springboard to greater consistency across the tour. \"I have to pick myself up and look at the positives,\" said Boulter, who was aiming to reach the last 16 of a major for the first time. \"I'm sure it's going to be a tough night but I'm going to sit here tomorrow morning and tell you that I'm at a career-high ranking, I've had some seriously positive weeks. \"I've come off the back of five long weeks with no injuries, no issues. \"They're the things I'm going to be focusing on and really pushing forward on the rest of the year.\" With her aggressive and flat groundstrokes suiting the grass courts, Boulter has thrived on the surface this year with a first WTA title at the Nottingham Open last month that lifted her to a career-high ranking of 77th in the world. The Briton was able to replicate that level in her first two matches at the All England Club, hitting winners and serving strongly to beat Australia's Daria Saville and Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova. Stepping up in class against an opponent of Rybakina's calibre was always likely to be difficult. Rybakina quickly found her rhythm and that spelt trouble for Boulter, who was unable to make a dent on her opponent's serve before being broken herself in the fourth game. Boulter's style suits playing on the slicker grass courts. But Rybakina was able to soak up the pressure and quickly impose herself. That sapped Boulter's confidence and quietened the home crowd, who were primed to create a boisterous atmosphere under the Centre Court lights. The players only walked on to court at 20:48 BST after slow progress on Saturday, leading to thoughts they might not beat the 23:00 curfew set to stop the day's play at the All England Club. When Rybakina sealed the opening set after 26 minutes with a second-serve ace, there seemed little threat of that being an issue. The British fans tried their best to raise Boulter's spirits at the start of the second set, but it quickly followed the same pattern as the first. Rybakina's pace of ball continued to take time away from the world number 89, who was unable to stem the flow of errors as she valiantly tried to stop the rot. There was no mercy from Rybakina. She won the final four games to earn a 13th successive win at Wimbledon and underline why she is one of the women to beat. \"She's clearly the defending champion for a reason,\" Boulter added. \"Her ball is a lot quicker and the majority of girls don't hit the ball like that, it's quite flat. You don't really see where she's going. She disguises it very well. \"I struggled with it a lot. She was relentless, at the end of the day. She was the much better player.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our fossil-fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australia bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "Selena Lau, eight, was \"intelligent, cheeky and loved\"\n\nAn eight-year-old girl who was killed when a Land Rover crashed through a school fence was \"adored and loved by everyone\", her family have said.\n\nIn tribute, they said Selena Lau, who died in Wimbledon on Thursday, was \"an intelligent and cheeky girl\".\n\nSeveral people including a seven-month-old girl were taken to hospital after a car crashed into the grounds of The Study Preparatory School.\n\nAn eight-year-old girl and a woman in her 40s remain in a critical condition.\n\nEarlier, the driver of the car, a 46-year-old woman who had been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, was bailed until late July.\n\nIn a statement released through the Met Police, the family released a picture of Selena beaming in her school uniform and paid tribute to the schoolgirl.\n\nThey said: \"Selena was an intelligent and cheeky girl adored and loved by everyone. The family wishes their privacy to be respected at this sad time\".\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left at the school, in south-west London, where the police cordon was removed on Friday.\n\nOne note left with flowers by a woman wearing a sling around her arm read: \"Dear Selena, you will always be our shining star. We will miss you so much.\"\n\nThe note included a picture of a star and had kisses on it.\n\nAn end-of-term tea party had been taking place at the school when the Land Rover crashed through the fence and into a building.\n\nA tribute left at the school said Selena would always be a \"shining star\"\n\nBoth the family of the eight-year-old girl who died and the family of the eight-year-old girl in a life-threatening condition are being supported by family liaison officers.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service sent 15 ambulances to the scene and treated 16 people after the incident. Twelve were taken to hospital.\n\nA local teacher, who asked not to be named, said her friend had children who went to the school and they had suffered injuries including fractures and a broken pelvis.\n\nThe driver of the car suffered injuries that were described as not life-threatening.\n\nOne line of inquiry is that she had suffered a medical incident, the BBC understands.\n\nA gold-coloured Land Rover could be seen on school grounds surrounded by emergency responders on Thursday\n\nMembers of the Wimbledon Common Golf Glub, which is opposite the school, held a minute's silence outside the school gates on Friday.\n\nClub chairman Peter Thompson said: \"It's just so sad to lose someone so young.\"\n\nThe school said in a statement it was \"profoundly shocked\", adding: \"Our thoughts are with the bereaved family and with the families of those injured at this terrible time.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Clair Kelland, local policing commander for south-west London, said: \"It is difficult to imagine the pain and upset the families of those involved are going through and we will do all we can to support them as our investigation continues.\n\n\"I understand many people will want answers about how this happened and there is a team of detectives working to establish the circumstances.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hail storms, heavy rain and flash flooding have battered towns across Spain, days after a heatwave.\n\nVideo recorded in the north of Spain shows icy water running through the streets, past chairs outside a cafe. The south east also saw heavy rain and strong winds.", "Crowds belted out tracks as Sam Fender headlined the main stage on Saturday\n\nThe second night of Scotland's biggest festival closed on a high despite heavy rain and the threat of thunderstorms.\n\nActs including Brooke Combe and Maisie Peters kicked off Saturday's line-up before Kasabian and Sam Fender took to the main stage.\n\nUp to 50,000 people are expected at Glasgow Green for each day of TRNSMT.\n\nPulp closed the show on Friday - their first performance in Scotland for over 10 years.\n\nRoyal Blood and Becky Hill will headline on Sunday, with The 1975 scheduled to close the festival.\n\nScotRail has put on extra train services to cope with demand, including more late-night trains running to Inverclyde, Ayr, Edinburgh, and East Kilbride.\n\nThousands headed to the main stage on Saturday for Mimi Webb\n\nNewcastle rocker Sam Fender closed the festival's second night with pyrotechnics, fireworks and confetti as he remarked on the journey he had taken from the festival's beginning.\n\nHe said: \"We've played every stage in this festival, from a little stage over there to the main stage.\n\n\"It's just really surreal.\"\n\nSam Fender closed the second night of the festival\n\nFestival organisers had urged fans to \"prepare for all weather\" on Saturday with the majority of Scotland covered by a yellow Met Office alert for thunderstorms.\n\nGlasgow Green turned to mud following heavy showers, though it did little to dampen spirits.\n\nConditions are expected to improve on Sunday but more rain has been forecast.\n\nIt came after Tiree Music Festival was cancelled on Thursday, just a day before it was due to begin, because of gale force winds.\n\nFans arrived at Glasgow Green in high spirits on Saturday\n\nBrooke Combe from Midlothian gave it her all as the first act on the main stage\n\nMaisie Peters also performed on the main stage a few weeks after the release of her new album The Good Witch\n\nElijah Hewson from Irish rockers Inhaler had crowds singing along\n\nKasabian frontman took to the stage on Saturday\n\nBritpop legends Pulp brought the first night of the festival to a colourful close on Friday, following acts including George Ezra, Niall Horan, the Beautiful South's Paul Heaton and The View.\n\nThe band, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, surprised fans at the end of 2022 by announcing a run of shows this summer at festivals and outdoor gigs across the UK.\n\nCocker told crowds: \"We are Pulp, you are Glasgow. We are going to spend some time together this evening.\n\n\"This is the furthest north we've ever been.\"\n\nPulp, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, were the headline act on Friday\n\nFormer One Direction singer Niall Horan entertained the crowd on Friday\n\nFestival-goers enjoyed The View perform on the main stage\n\nYou can watch coverage of TRNSMT festival on BBC iplayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has defended his \"very difficult decision\" to give Ukraine cluster bombs, which have a record of killing civilians.\n\nThe president said it had taken him \"a while to be convinced to do it\", but he had acted because \"the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".\n\nBut the UK's PM suggested the country \"discourages\" the use of cluster bombs, while Spain criticised the decision.\n\nWhen asked about his position on the US decision, Rishi Sunak highlighted the UK was one of 123 countries that had signed up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use.\n\nSpain's Defence Minister Margarita Robles told reporters her country had a \"firm commitment\" that certain weapons and bombs could not be sent to Ukraine.\n\n\"No to cluster bombs and yes to the legitimate defence of Ukraine, which we understand should not be carried out with cluster bombs,\" she said.\n\nBut Germany, which is a signatory of the treaty, said that while it would not provide such weapons to Ukraine it understood the American position.\n\n\"We're certain that our US friends didn't take the decision about supplying such ammunition lightly,\" German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told reporters in Berlin.\n\nMr Biden told CNN in an interview on Friday that he had spoken to allies about the decision, which was announced ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania next week.\n\nThe US, Ukraine and Russia have not signed up to the convention, and both Moscow and Kyiv have used cluster bombs during the war.\n\nNational Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told Friday's daily White House briefing that officials \"recognise the cluster munitions create a risk of civilian harm\" from unexploded bombs.\n\nBut he said Ukraine was running out of artillery and needed \"a bridge of supplies\" while the US ramps up domestic production.\n\n\"We will not leave Ukraine defenceless at any point in this conflict period,\" he said.\n\nUkraine's defence minister has given assurances the cluster bombs would not be used in urban areas and only to break through enemy defence lines.\n\nThe munitions have caused controversy over their failure - or dud - rate, meaning unexploded small bombs can linger on the ground for years and indiscriminately detonate later on.\n\nMr Sullivan told reporters the American cluster bombs being sent to Ukraine were far safer than those he said were already being used by Russia in the conflict.\n\nHe told reporters the US ones have a dud rate of less than 2.5%, while Russia's have a dud rate of between 30-40%, he said.\n\nMr Biden's move will bypass US law prohibiting the production, use or transfer of cluster munitions with a failure rate of more than 1%.\n\nEarly on in the war, when the White House was asked about allegations that Russia was using cluster and vacuum bombs, the then-press secretary said it would be a potential \"war crime\" if true.\n\nThere has been a mixed reaction among the US president's Democratic Party, more than a dozen of whom have spoken out against the plan.\n\nHuman rights groups also criticised the decision, with Amnesty International saying cluster munitions pose \"a grave threat to civilian lives, even long after the conflict has ended\".\n\nThe US Cluster Munition Coalition, which is part of an international civil society campaign working to eradicate the weapons, said they would cause \"greater suffering, today and for decades to come\".\n\nThe UN human rights office has also been critical, with a representative saying \"the use of such munitions should stop immediately and not be used in any place\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA spokesperson for Russia's defence ministry described the move as an \"act of desperation\" and \"evidence of impotence in the face of the failure of the much publicised Ukrainian 'counteroffensive'.\"\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has previously accused the US and its allies of fighting an expanding proxy war in Ukraine.\n\nBut Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the US president for \"a timely, broad and much-needed\" military aid package worth $800m (£626m).\n\nHe tweeted that it would \"bring Ukraine closer to victory over the enemy, and democracy to victory over dictatorship\".\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive, which began last month, is grinding on in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.\n\nLast week, Ukraine's military commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny said the campaign had been hampered by a lack of adequate firepower, and expressed frustration with the slow deliveries of weapons promised by the West.", "Stephen and Carol Baxter's local yacht club said the couple would be \"much missed\"\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a married couple found dead at their seaside home, Essex Police said.\n\nThe bodies of Stephen Baxter, 61, and Carol Baxter, 64, were discovered at the property on Victory Road, West Mersea, near Colchester, on 9 April.\n\nLuke D'Wit, 33, of Churchfields, West Mersea, has been charged with murder, possession of a Class A drug, and theft.\n\nHe is due to appear before Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nPolice said two other people arrested in connection with the incident, a man and a woman, have been released on bail.\n\nDet Insp Lydia George, said: \"This is a significant development in our investigation as we piece together the circumstances around the deaths of Carol and Stephen.\"\n\nA family member found the pair deceased at their home in West Mersea\n\nThe couple's deaths were initially treated as \"unexpected and not suspicious\" but the force said it had changed direction after an \"extensive investigation and toxicology analysis\" conducted as part of during a post-mortem examination.\n\nTests showed the couple had ingested the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl.\n\nA brief inquest hearing at the coroner's court in Chelmsford on Thursday heard Ms Baxter died from \"combined fentanyl and promethazine toxicity with terminal bronchopneumonia\".\n\nA cause of death of \"cardiomegaly and alcoholic liver disease with fentanyl intoxication\" was recorded for Mr Baxter.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned pending the ongoing police investigation.\n\nThe couple were directors of Cazsplash, a firm which produces shower mats and bathroom accessories.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bilal and Imran Uzbakzai, by their mother's grave. They cannot remember her now. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nWhen British special forces raided a family home in Afghanistan in 2012, they killed two young parents and gravely wounded their infant sons. A BBC investigation has revealed that special forces command didn't refer the incident to military police and it was never investigated, until now. In Afghanistan, a family is still trying to heal.\n\nLate on the evening of 6 August 2012, in the courtyard of a family home in Afghanistan, Abdul Aziz Uzbakzai sat down for the last dinner he would ever have with his son. At the table were Abdul Aziz and his wife, four of their five children, and two of their young grandchildren. It was the 18th night of Ramadan, the holy month when Muslims fast. The family lived together in a modest home in a village called Shesh Aba in Nimruz province.\n\nThat day had begun like any other - a shared pre-dawn breakfast, before sunrise brought the fasting hours and family members went to work. Abdul Aziz's eldest son, Hussain, opened the small grocery shop he ran. Hussain's wife Ruqqia cared for their two young boys and began her work in the home. A goat was slaughtered by a neighbour in anticipation of evening meals that would break the day's fast.\n\nThe only thing out of the ordinary, according to the family's account, was the arrival of two unknown male visitors. In rural Afghanistan, it is not uncommon to receive unexpected guests, and tradition dictates that they are shown hospitality. But Abdul Aziz felt himself becoming wary of the two men, he said, and he called Hussain to close the shop early and come home.\n\nAfter sunset, the two guests were given food and ate separately and they left without incident at 10pm, Abdul Aziz said. It was a hot summer night in Shesh Aba, so the family ate outside. At the end of the meal, Abdul Aziz stood up and said he was tired and would go to bed. He said \"Goodnight Hussain Jan\" - a term of loving affection - to his son, \"Goodnight daughter\" to Ruqqia, and \"Goodnight boys\" to the boys.\n\nAbdul Aziz at the family home in Shesh Aba. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nThe boys were young then - Imran three and his brother Bilal just one and a half. They do not remember anything now about what would unfold later that night, and the family has tried to shield them in the decade since from the worst of the horror. They know that before bedtime, their father had pulled their mattresses out into the courtyard, because the heat had made their shared room stifling, and that they had fallen asleep with their parents, for the last time, under the stars.\n\nBy that point, in 2012, coalition forces had been waging war in Afghanistan for a little over a decade. Elite special forces units from leading coalition countries were regularly carrying out so-called \"Deliberate Detention Operations\", also known as \"Kill/Capture missions\". Troops typically flew in by helicopter after dark and launched fast-moving assaults against suspected Taliban targets. For the UK, these night-time raids were usually executed by the SAS or SBS, the highly-respected special forces units of the British Army and Royal Navy.\n\nBut unknown to the British public at that time, SAS operatives were already suspected at the highest levels of UK Special Forces of illegally killing Afghan men who had surrendered and been detained, and later covering up the killings with fabricated reports. A BBC Panorama investigation published earlier this year revealed that one SAS squadron killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances in one six-month tour. The pattern led one of the highest-ranking special forces officers in the UK to warn in a secret memo to the head of special forces that there could be a \"deliberate policy\" in effect to kill detainees, \"even when they did not pose a threat\".\n\nOne of these \"Kill/Capture\" raids was about to be executed on Abdul Aziz's family home. At about 3am, British military helicopters descended through the dark sky over Nimruz and landed outside the village. Special forces operatives dropped to the ground and moved towards where the family were sleeping. Abdul Aziz was woken by the first gunshots, and within minutes foreign soldiers were in his room, he said, pushing him on the ground, handcuffing and blindfolding him.\n\n\"I pleaded with them to let me go to where my son and daughter-in-law and their children were sleeping,\" Abdul Aziz said. \"I could hear my two daughters screaming and pleading for help. No one was helping them. I could not do anything for my children.\"\n\nThe family lives in a small village made up of traditional mud homes, in Nimruz province. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nChaos had descended on the rural family home. According to his account, Abdul Aziz was blindfolded, beaten and interrogated. The foreign soldiers asked him about the visitors who came to the house earlier that day, he said. He would be kept inside, blindfolded, for the duration of the raid.\n\nThe special forces operatives had also gone to the house next door, where a widower called Lal Mohammad lived with his six sons and three daughters. One of his sons, Mohammad Mohammad, who was 12 at the time, told the BBC that he and his brothers were brought outside and detained by the assault team. He was blindfolded and - possibly because of his young age - taken separately to Hussain's home and held there for the rest of the raid.\n\nIt was only after the troops left the village, hours later, that Abdul Aziz was able to take off his blindfold and go out into the morning light to the place where Hussain and Ruqqia and the boys had been sleeping. \"There was blood everywhere\", he said, \"blood soaked into the sheets and the mattresses.\" According to members of both families who saw Hussain and Ruqqia's bodies, both had been shot in the head. Imran and Bilal's bloody bedclothes lay there, but the boys were gone.\n\nMohammad Mohammad ran back next door to his family home, where he had last seen his older brothers detained by the soldiers. He found Mohammad Wali, who was 26, and Mohammad Juma, who was 28, inside the home, dead with gunshot wounds to the head, he said. Other family members said that the two were shot at close range in the head, and an image of Mohammad Wali's body seen by the BBC appears to show a head wound.\n\nMohammad Mohammad's account appears to mirror the pattern of killings that had already raised suspicions among senior special forces officers.\n\n\"I swear to God, my brothers were farmers,\" he said. \"They worked from dawn until night. They were neither with the Taliban nor with the government. They were killed for no reason.\"\n\nAccording to the accounts of Abdul Aziz and other family members who saw Hussain and Ruqqia's bodies, their eyes were closed and their jaws had been bound shut with cloth tied under the jaw and around the head, maybe to allow the assault team to accurately photograph their faces - a standard procedure after a fatal shooting.\n\nThe young parents appeared to have been killed in their bed, the family said. It was not clear if they had woken up before they died. At first, the family assumed Imran and Bilal were dead too. But the boys had been airlifted out with the special forces, one-year-old Bilal with bullet wounds to his face and shoulder, three-year-old Imran with a gunshot wound in his abdomen, fighting for his young life.\n\nIn the aftermath of the raid, a British military commander had a decision to make. Under UK law, commanders are obliged to inform military police if there is any possibility that a Schedule 2 offence has been committed by a person under their command. Schedule 2 offences are serious offences like unlawful killing and grievous bodily harm. The guidance for commanding officers says that the circumstances must only \"indicate to a reasonable person that a Schedule 2 offence may have been committed\" in order to legally oblige them to refer the incident to the military police. It is considered a low bar.\n\nIn Shesh Aba, a woman was among the dead and two infant boys had been shot. An Afghan newswire report published the day of the raid quoted the local governor as saying that the foreign forces had \"killed and wounded six civilians\", including \"two children\". A former investigator from the Royal Military Police told the BBC that, based on the available information, there was \"no question in my mind that this incident should have been referred to military police\".\n\nBut the BBC has discovered that the raid was never referred to military police and never investigated by anyone outside of UK Special Forces. The Royal Military Police (RMP) told us that they did not appear to have been informed of the Shesh Aba raid at the time, and are now reviewing the incident \"as a direct result\" of our inquiries.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC, the Ministry of Defence confirmed that British forces were involved in the raid and that a Serious Incident Review, or SIR (an internal review undertaken automatically after an operation goes wrong in a serious way) had been carried out, but that the commanding officer had decided against referring the incident to military police.\n\nThe MoD said: \"There is a comprehensive MOD policy in place for actions to be taken in the event of possible civilian casualties.\n\n\"Following a review by senior Army lawyers, it was decided by the Commanding Officer, in accordance with the Armed Forces Act 2006 and MoD policy, that the circumstances did not require a referral to the Service Police.\"\n\nGeneral Sir Mark Carleton-Smith was head of UK Special Forces at the time of the Shesh Aba raid in 2012.\n\nThe BBC asked both the MoD and RMP to reveal the rank of the commanding officer who made the decision, but both declined to say. The BBC has obtained a secret internal special forces document laying out the protocol for deciding on referrals to the military police. It appears to show that once an SIR has been completed, it has to go to the Director Special Forces - the highest-ranking special forces officer in the UK - for a decision on whether to refer the incident.\n\nDirector Special Forces at the time of the Shesh Aba raid was General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, who went on to become the head of the British Army, before stepping down earlier this year. Asked by the BBC about the Shesha Aba raid, General Carleton-Smith said he could not recall whether he was briefed on the \"specific tactical detail of the operation\", but that he was in no doubt he would have been \"guided by the advice of the in-theatre commanders\", as well as the legal judgement of a senior Army lawyer that no referral to military police was necessary.\n\nHe said the recommendation to him at the time from the commanding officer in Afghanistan was that there was no evidence of a criminal offence, that the Rules of Engagement hadn't been broken, and that \"the circumstances of the operation justified the lethal use of force\". He added: \"And I certainly never saw or read any evidence or advice that suggested unlawful behaviour\".\n\nGeneral Carleton-Smith told the BBC it remains his view that \"the Rules of Engagement were correctly observed despite the occasionally tragic outcomes that are sadly inevitable during war\".\n\nThe Rules of Engagement that applied to this raid dictated that lethal force could only have been used against someone who posed an imminent threat to life. There has been no suggestion from the Ministry of Defence that any weapons were found at Hussain and Ruqqia's home or that they were armed when they were shot.\n\nImran and Bilal play marbles in the courtyard, a few feet from a mulberry tree planted in the spot where their parents were killed. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nSIR reports were intended in part to help commanding officers make a decision about whether a referral to military police was necessary. But a former senior RMP officer who served at the time of the raid in Shesh Aba, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, said there were \"serious problems\" across the Armed Forces with the use of the reports.\n\n\"Instead of getting to the bottom of what happened and correcting any criminal behaviour, SIRs became a way of cleansing an incident of any wrongdoing,\" he said. \"Some senior officers were using SIRs as a tool to prevent scrutiny. It seemed they were deciding on non-referral and then writing the SIR to justify the decision.\"\n\nThe problem was \"widespread\", the senior officer said, but UK Special Forces was \"notable in its lack of referrals\". The BBC has identified at least three other occasions when an SIR was completed by UK Special Forces but not referred to the RMP. \"In Special Forces, it's easier to keep it 'in house',\" the former senior officer said. \"There's a lot less oversight.\"\n\nA former RMP investigator who spoke to the BBC said he was \"not surprised\" that the Shesha Aba raid was not referred. \"I'm afraid, given my experience of these kinds of cases, I'm not surprised that the commanding officer decided not to inform the police,\" he said. \"But it's clear it should have been looked into.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the RMP said that its current review, prompted by the BBC's inquiries, \"should in no way be taken as implying that the incident was unlawful or that the British Armed Forces had improperly failed to make the Service Police aware, although these are factors that will be considered by our review team as a matter of course\".\n\nThe MoD said that it was \"the long-standing policy of successive governments not to comment on matters relating to Special Forces\" and that all British military operations were \"conducted in accordance with UK and international law, including the Law of Armed Conflict\".\n\nThe BBC asked the MoD if anyone had ever been officially disciplined over the Shesh Aba raid, but they declined to respond.\n\nAs dawn broke over Nimruz that day, the helicopters that had brought the troops flew back to base bearing the wounded Imran and Bilal. The special forces had also taken Hussain's youngest brother, Rahmat Ullah, who was 12.\n\nRahmat had been detained during the raid and he had no idea what had happened. When his blindfold was finally removed, aboard the helicopter, he saw his young nephews. Imran was conscious, crying. \"He looked like he was in severe pain,\" Rahmat recalled. \"He asked me for water, but I didn't have any.\"\n\nThe boys were sent to separate military bases. The family was not allowed to go to where Imran was so, aged just three, he spent the first part of his recovery alone. Eventually he was transferred, and it fell to Abdul Aziz and their grandmother Mah Bibi to comfort the boys and try to explain that their parents were gone.\n\n\"They were just too small to understand,\" Abdul Aziz said. \"Imran would cry more, maybe because of the pain, but maybe because he could sense that his mother was no longer alive.\"\n\nImran stands by his parents' graves. \"I wish our mother and father were with us today,\" he said. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nAbdul Aziz was offered some compensation at the military hospital for the boys' injuries but he refused the money, he said. \"I refused to benefit from the murderers at that time, they had destroyed our world,\" he said.\n\nWhen the boys were discharged, their grandparents took them home to the village. They have lived there since, with their older sister Hajira, in the home where they were shot. They don't remember anything about that night, or the weeks that followed, but after they came home Imran began to scream in his sleep and sleepwalk outside during the night. \"I don't know why I do it,\" he said. \"I am asleep when it happens, and my grandfather or grandmother brings me home.\"\n\nImran and Bilal doing their homework together. The boys look out for one another, Abdul Aziz said. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nImran is 13 now. He has a long surgical scar down the front of his torso and a scar on the left of his belly, and more scar tissue across his lower back. He has bullet fragments inside his torso - including a large fragment embedded in his spine. \"Running causes me pain, and I feel pain in my stomach,\" he said, pointing gently to the scars on his belly and back. \"I also feel more pain in the winter and when the summer comes I'm relieved.\"\n\nBilal is 11. He has a scar on his face from a bullet that hit him millimetres from his left eye and a scar on his shoulder where another round hit him and left a bullet fragment inside his bone. He gets pain in his arm when he uses it a lot, he said, and the position of the scar on his face is a permanent reminder of how close he came to death.\n\nScars on Imran's abdomen show the damage from the bullet wound as well as his surgical incision. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nBoth boys have bullet fragments inside them. Imran has a large fragment lodged in his spine. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nThe boys go for a few hours in the mornings to a religious school, but there is no proper school nearby that they can attend for full time education. Imran enjoys the lessons, particularly reading. Bilal is less keen. \"I don't like school,\" he said, with a smile. He likes playing with his older brother. On a cool afternoon in October, the two of them played marbles in the courtyard of their home, and they looked as though they were in their own little world. A few feet away, there was a Mulberry tree in the place where their parents were killed. Either side of the Mulberry tree were two thin Jujube trees, planted by Imran and Bilal, for Mohammad Wali and Mohammad Juma, their neighbours who were killed.\n\nImran and Bilal do not talk much about their parents. They have no memory of Hussain and Ruqqia, so their loss is defined by a general sense of absence. \"I wish our mother and father were with us today,\" Imran said, \"so we could go to the city to walk around and enjoy ourselves, as other children can.\"\n\nThe family is poor, and the boys have had limited access to medical care since they were discharged a decade ago. Recently, they travelled to the trauma hospital in the city of Lashkar Gah, about six hours' drive from the village, for a medical examination arranged by the BBC. X-rays showed the bullet fragments still lodged in their bodies. It was the first time the boys had ever seen them. The doctors said that nothing could be done to safely remove the fragments from Imran's torso, so he will have to live with them. \"He is lucky to be alive,\" the surgeon said.\n\nAs the boys were examined, Abdul Aziz sat quietly alongside them and held their hands, just as he had sat with them 10 years ago, in another hospital, when they were much smaller, knowing that they were his responsibility now.\n\nImran sits in a hospital in Lashkar Gah, where the boys were examined in October. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nAbdul Aziz has raised the boys since the night of the raid. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nHussain and Ruqqia were married on a hot summer's day in 2006, in Zahedan, Iran, where Ruqqia's family lived. Excitement had been building in the village in Afghanistan, and when the appointed day came Abdul Aziz and about 100 members of the wider family set out across the border for the ceremony.\n\nWhen they returned a few days later with the new bride and groom, there were celebrations to rival the festival of Eid. Livestock was slaughtered to make rich meals for the family and their neighbours. Those who had new clothes wore them. Those who didn't have new clothes wore the best clothes they had. \"It was a joyous moment for everyone,\" Abdul Aziz recalled. \"From then on, I called Ruqqia my daughter.\"\n\nHussain opened a small grocery shop in the village. Ruqqia was a 'Hafiz Quran', a memoriser of the Muslim holy book, and she taught local children. Shortly after the wedding, their daughter Hajira was born, and then Imran, and a year and a half later Bilal. Hussain took on a new role as the head of the family and the financial provider. He doled out pocket money to his siblings, paid for their schooling and later their weddings. \"He was our strength and power,\" said his younger brother, Mansour. \"We didn't worry about a thing when he was alive.\"\n\nThe boys help with work in the fields. \"I am getting older, it is harder to work,\" Abdul Aziz said. Image: Julian Busch/BBC\n\nWhen Hussain was killed, it forced Abdul Aziz back to work. Now, at 55, he spends his days digging irrigation canals for 200 Afghani - less than £2 - per day. He regrets turning down the offer of compensation for the boy's injuries. If it came again today he would accept. \"I am getting older, and it is harder to work and harder to feed the children,\" he said.\n\nAt one time, Abdul Aziz would set off every day after work, under the burning sun or through bracing cold, to the cemetery where his son and daughter-in-law are buried. Hussain's mother, Mah Bibi, often walked with him. Eventually, her sadness overtook her and became a depression that she has not recovered from, and now she cannot go as often. Abdul Aziz suffers too. He is physically tired. But every Friday he walks a kilometre along the dusty track that leads from the village to the graves. They lie in a small, walled off area of the cemetery reserved for those killed by the foreign soldiers. There are eight graves there in total. Two belong to Hussain and Ruqqia. Two to Mohammad Wali and Mohammed Juma.\n\nLast Friday, Abdul Aziz set out for his weekly visit. For half an hour, as the sun set, he sat still by the graves and said prayers for Hussain and for Ruqqia. He spoke to his son. \"I told him that I missed him, and that I could still remember him when he was just a little boy,\" Abdul Aziz said afterwards. He had not uttered a word by the grave. \"I do not speak to him aloud,\" he said. \"I speak to him in my heart.\"\n\nKiyya Baloch and Ahmad Naveed Nazari contributed to this report\n\nDo you have information about this story that you want to share?\n\nGet in touch using SecureDrop, a highly anonymous and secure way of whistleblowing to the BBC which uses the TOR network.\n\nOr by using the Signal messaging app, an end-to-end encrypted message service designed to protect your data.\n\nPlease note that the SecureDrop link will only work in a Tor browser. For information on keeping secure and anonymous, here's some advice on how to use SecureDrop.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addressing delegates at last year's COP27 in Egypt after initially saying he would not attend the event\n\nThe government looks set to break its flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge for developing countries, an internal government document seen by the BBC says.\n\nThe document details how the government has consistently underspent and would now struggle to meet its 2026 target.\n\nSome 83% of the total overseas aid budget would need to be reallocated to climate to catch up, it adds.\n\nThe government says it will honour promises made on climate finance.\n\n\"The government remains committed to spending £11.6bn on international climate finance and we are delivering on that pledge,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged in 2019 to double the amount spent on the UK's international climate finance (ICF) - aid for vulnerable nations to deal with the causes of climate change - to at least £11.6bn between 2021/22 and 2025/26.\n\nBut the document says \"subsequent turbulence\" - referring to economic shocks such as the Covid pandemic - \"has turned a stretching target into a huge challenge\".\n\nOverall international aid spending has also since been cut to 0.5% of GDP, down from 0.7%.\n\nCivil servants have calculated the government is now so behind on its spending promises it would have to spend 83% of the total foreign aid budget on climate to meet the ICF target by 2026.\n\nThat would require a \"reorientation\" of the budget on a scale which has \"not previously been achieved\", they say.\n\nDoing so would also mean that there would be no cash left for other priorities such as projects \"specifically targeted at helping women and girls\", civil servants write.\n\nThe revelations follows Tory peer Lord Zac Goldsmith's resignation from Rishi Sunak's government last week over what he described as the prime minister's \"apathy\" towards climate change.\n\nLord Goldsmith has told the BBC that in his view, the low levels of expenditure so far combined with the decision to define our spending on Afghan and Ukrainian refugees here in the UK - something he says other countries have not done - means \"it is going to be virtually impossible to honour the promise.\"\n\n\"Whoever is in government after the next election\", he said, \"would have to savagely slash humanitarian, education, health and other funding in order to hit the £11.6bn target.\"\n\nLord Goldsmith said he was worried that small island states in particular \"will be left feeling utterly betrayed\" and said the UK's reputation as a \"reliable partner\" will \"simply be shredded\".\n\nThat is a view that is echoed by many in the overseas aid community.\n\n\"Frankly it is embarrassing\", a director of one UK aid agency told the BBC. \"The cuts make it supremely difficult to credibly state the UK remains a climate change thought leader.\"\n\n\"There used to a be a huge amount of goodwill across Africa for the UK\", he continued. \"We were seen as the best in the sector, engaged and effective. This is no longer the case. The UK is now seen as an unreliable partner.\"\n\nMr Sunak insisted Lord Goldsmith had quit after being asked to apologise for comments he made about the Privileges Committee inquiry over the conduct of Boris Johnson and whether he had intentionally misled the House of Commons as PM.\n\nBut Lord Goldsmith denied this, instead saying his decision to step down had been a \"long time coming\".\n\nThe ICF refers to UK aid given to support vulnerable countries to deal with the causes of climate change, including preventing deforestation and reducing carbon emissions, as well as preparing for its effects.\n\nIt forms a part of the global commitment to spend $100bn a year on climate finance for developing countries.\n• None PM wrong to say I refused to apologise - Goldsmith", "One of the adverts in Harrow has been spray-painted over\n\nBillboards advertising a woman's explicit OnlyFans account have sparked complaints to the advertising watchdog.\n\nThe adverts, showing model Eliza Rose Watson in underwear, have appeared in Harrow and Edgware in north-west London and Lambeth in south-west London.\n\nOne of the adverts in Harrow has been spray-painted over, with the words \"keep porn off our streets\".\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) says it is reviewing complaints about the advert.\n\nIn a statement, the ASA said it had received five complaints about the advert.\n\n\"Complainants believe the ad is inappropriate, in particular in untargeted media where children are able to view it,\" it said.\n\n\"We're reviewing these complaints to determine whether there are grounds for an investigation.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Watson told the BBC the visual content of the adverts had been \"very well thought out\".\n\nShe explained: \"The image in the art is simply a torso shot of a 34-year-old woman.\n\n\"I would say it's no more adult than an ad for alcohol and, actually, less racy even than ads you see for lingerie within big shopping centres.\n\n\"It's kind of an adult thing to do, to join the dots between the logo and the image.\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) says it is reviewing complaints\n\nMs Watson, who said she paid for four adverts in London and two in New York, added that if a child or young adult recognised the OnlyFans logo then it was a \"wider issue\" because such content is widespread online.\n\nShe went on to suggest restricting where such adverts could be placed would only \"demonise\" them, asking: \"Is applying shame and stigma to something the best way to be dealing with something that is everywhere?\"\n\nMembers of the public in Harrow had mixed feelings about the adverts when asked about them by the BBC.\n\nAlex Mitchell says it is wrong the advert is placed near schools\n\nAlex Mitchell said: \"I've got no issues with people following a career, if it's legal.\n\n\"But I think advertising issues like what's on the poster behind me when you're close to local schools - you've got a primary school up the end of this road, you've got a secondary school there - young people are impressionable, and it's completely out of order.\"\n\nPushpa says she does not like the advert because it is \"suggestive\"\n\nPushpa, who did not want to give her last name, said: \"It's very suggestive and it's very distracting, I would say, for other drivers going around and pedestrians.\n\n\"I wouldn't want it here because it's not relevant to this kind of area, to any area.\"\n\nAnother woman, who did not want to be identified, said: \"It doesn't really bother me.\n\n\"To be honest, I would walk past it and not even notice it, and also I've seen women in bikinis and stuff before so I wouldn't really take much notice.\"\n\nShe added those complaining were \"slightly overreacting\".\n\nAnother woman said: \"If I walked past it I wouldn't glance twice at it, that's not something I would look at.\n\nHowever, she continued by saying that since pupils were able to walk past the adverts, \"they might see that and wonder why it's there, so I don't think it's a very good idea to keep it on the side of a building, especially on a crowded street\".\n\nA spokesperson for billboard company Amplify, which is hosting the adverts in London, told the BBC it follows \"strict ASA rules\" and the company had \"stuck to the advertising guidelines\".\n\n\"The contents of the campaign are those of the advertiser, not of Amplify,\" they said.\n\n\"We believe the adverts being displayed are well within the ASA rules.\"\n\nOnlyFans says that as a \"policy\" it did not comment on \"individual creator accounts\" but was \"not involved in the placement of this advertisement\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The club said no current directors or senior managers were involved in price fixing\n\nLeicester City faces a fine of up to £880,000 for colluding to fix the price of replica football kits, the UK's competition regulator has said.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the club and retailer JD Sports had admitted to anti-competitive behaviour, including \"price fixing conduct\".\n\nIt said both broke competition law between 2018 and 2021 with an illegal deal on clothing sales.\n\nThe club has accepted the CMA findings.\n\nThe 2015-16 Premier League champions, and their parent companies, have subsequently agreed to pay a fine up to the maximum penalty of £880,000, the CMA said.\n\nJD Sports will avoid a fine after reporting the illegal activity.\n\nJD Sports said it signed a leniency agreement with the CMA last month\n\nThe provisional findings of a CMA investigation revealed that, in August 2018, JD Sports said it would stop selling Leicester City-branded clothing online for the 2018-19 season, and in January 2019, JD Sports agreed it would \"not undercut\" the club in terms of online sales for the following season by making Leicester City items exempt from free delivery.\n\nIt said JD Sports continued the agreement to sell all Leicester City clothing with the delivery charge until at least January 2021.\n\nMichael Grenfell, the CMA's executive director of enforcement, said: \"Strong and unimpeded competition between retailers is essential to consumers' ability to shop around for the best deals.\n\n\"Football fans are well-known for their loyalty towards their teams.\n\n\"In this case we have provisionally found that Leicester City FC and JD Sports colluded to share out markets and fix prices with the result that fans may have ended up paying more than they would otherwise have done.\n\n\"Both parties have now admitted their involvement, allowing us to bring the investigation to a swift conclusion.\n\n\"The fine that Leicester City FC and its parent companies have agreed to pay sends a clear message to them and other businesses that anti-competitive collusion will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe club, which was relegated to the Championship last season, stressed none of its current directors or senior management were involved in the arrangements.\n\n\"These arrangements related to a limited number of bulk orders by JD Sports, which were accepted by the club's retail sales team over the relevant period,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"There was no intention on the part of the club to unlawfully restrict the resale of the goods supplied and no material financial advantage to be gained from doing so, given the limited amount of kit supplied to JD Sports.\n\n\"However, the club accepts the CMA's findings and has taken steps to strengthen its training and compliance measures to ensure the club's retail operations fully comply with competition law.\"\n\nJD Sports also said no current or former directors or senior management of JD were involved in the offending conduct and that it signed a leniency agreement with the CMA last month.\n\nThe company added: \"JD has taken a number of steps to strengthen its competition compliance programme and the board reaffirms its commitment to making the necessary resource available, internal and external, to ensure that this is embedded into its daily operations.\"\n\nThe announcement come almost a year after JD Sports, its rival Elite Sports and Rangers Football Club were handed fines over price fixing on replica kits.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "King Charles III has been presented with Scotland's crown jewels in Edinburgh in a ceremony to mark his Coronation.\n\nHe received the crown and sceptre which form part of the Honours of Scotland.\n\nThe national thanksgiving service at St Giles' Cathedral also featured a new sword named after the late Queen Elizabeth.\n\nBefore the service, the crown jewels were brought from Edinburgh Castle to St Giles' in a procession down the Royal Mile involving about 100 people from various aspects of Scottish life.\n\nMore than 700 members of the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force were part of the procession.\n\nThe event was rounded off by a 21-gun salute at Edinburgh Castle and a Red Arrows flypast.\n\nProtesters chanted \"not my king\" gathered on Edinburgh's Royal Mile ahead of the thanksgiving service.\n\nAnother anti-monarchy group hosted a rally outside Holyrood, which was attended by Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater.\n\nThat concludes our coverage of the thanksgiving and dedication. The editors were Paul McLaren and Heather Sharp, and the writers were Bryn Palmer, Craig Hutchison and Antoinette Radford. Thank you for joining us.", "Thirty million users have signed up for Meta's newly launched Threads app on its first day, the company's chief Mark Zuckerberg says.\n\nHe pitched the app as a \"friendly\" rival to Twitter, which was bought by Elon Musk in October.\n\nExperts say Threads could attract Twitter users unhappy with recent changes to the platform.\n\nBut Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino said though Twitter is \"often imitated\", its community can \"never be duplicated\".\n\nThreads allows users to post up to 500 characters, and has many features similar to Twitter.\n\nEarlier, Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform \"friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success\".\n\nBut Mr Musk responded: \"It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.\"\n\nWhen asked on Threads whether the app will be \"bigger than Twitter\", Mr Zuckerberg said: \"It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it.\n\n\"Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will.\"\n\nThe launch has had a warm response online, with one person telling the BBC they saw Threads as a \"much-needed competitor\" to Twitter.\n\nCompetitors have criticised the amount of data the app might use. This may include health, financial, and browsing data linked to users' identities, according to the Apple App Store.\n\nSome users have also expressed concern that it is not possible to delete your Threads profile without deleting the associated Instagram profile. Meta told the BBC: \"At this time, you can't delete your Threads profile without deleting your Instagram account. This is something we're working on. In the meantime, you can deactivate your Threads profile at any time.\n\n\"Deactivating your Threads profile will not deactivate your Instagram account\".\n\nDeactivation will mean your Threads profile, your posts and interactions with others' posts won't be visible, the firm added.\n\nUsers can download and delete Threads data by visiting their Instagram settings, Meta says.\n\nThreads is now available to download in over 100 countries including the UK, but not yet in the EU because of regulatory concerns.\n\nHave you signed up for Threads and what do you think of the app? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nMeta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, called the new app an \"initial version\", with extra features planned including the ability to interact with people on other social media apps like Mastodon.\n\n\"Our vision with Threads is to take what Instagram does best and expand that to text,\" the firm said prior to its launch.\n\nDespite Threads being a standalone app, users log in using an Instagram account. Their Instagram username carries over, but there is an option to customize their profile specifically for Threads.\n\nUsers will also be able to choose to follow the same accounts they do on Instagram, Meta says. The app allows users to be private on Instagram, but public on Threads.\n\nThe new app's release comes after criticism of Meta's business practices.\n\nLast year, Meta whistleblower Frances Haugen said the company had put \"profits over safety\" and criticised how the platform was moderated.\n\nThe company was also rocked by a scandal in which it allowed third parties, including British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, to access Facebook users' personal data.\n\nIn an apparent reference to this controversial past, Mr Musk joked on Monday \"thank goodness they're so sanely run\".\n\nThere are several alternatives to Twitter available, such as Bluesky and Mastodon, but these have struggled to gain traction.\n\nThreads has a significant advantage because it is connected to Instagram, and the hundreds of millions of users already on that platform.\n\nOn Threads, posts can be shared to Instagram and vice versa and can include links, photos, and videos of up to five minutes in length.\n\nHowever, some early users on Wednesday reported problems when uploading images, hinting at teething problems.\n\nUsers see a feed of posts, which Meta calls \"threads\", from people they follow as well as recommended content.\n\nThey are able to control who can \"mention\" them and filter out replies to posts that contain specific words.\n\nUnfollowing, blocking, restricting or reporting other profiles is also possible, and any accounts users block on Instagram are automatically blocked on Threads.\n\nWhile Meta stresses ties to Instagram, media coverage has focused on its similarity to Twitter, with some investors describing the app as a \"Twitter killer\".\n\nPosts can be shared between Threads and Instagram and can include links, photos, and videos\n\nOn Saturday, Twitter boss Elon Musk restricted the number of tweets users could see on his platform per day, citing extreme \"data scraping\".\n\nIt was Mr Musk's latest push to get users to sign up to Twitter Blue, the platform's subscription service.\n\nTwitter has also announced that its popular user dashboard TweetDeck will go behind a paywall in 30 days' time.\n\nSince Mr Musk took over, many users of Twitter have publicly expressed their dissatisfaction with the platform and his stewardship - citing erratic behaviour and political views.\n\nLast month, Mr Musk and Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg agreed - possibly in jest - to a cage fight, and Mr Zuckerberg's early posts on Threads mentioned his interest in mixed martial arts.\n\nWhile Threads will be available in the UK, it is not yet available in the EU because of regulatory uncertainty, particularly around the EU's Digital Markets Act.\n\nBut the company says it is looking into launching in the EU.\n\nThat act lays down rules on how large companies such as Meta can share data between platforms that they own. The sharing of data between Threads and Instagram is part of the issue.\n\nMeta maintains protecting privacy is fundamental to its business.", "Parliament's standards watchdog is to publish the findings of an inquiry into groping allegations against former government whip Chris Pincher on Thursday, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe report could lead to a by-election in his constituency, if a suspension of more than 10 days is agreed.\n\nSources familiar with the process said they expected the punishment to meet the threshold for a recall petition.\n\nMr Pincher quit as deputy chief whip after groping allegations last year.\n\nBoris Johnson's handling of the allegations led to the downfall of his government after a wave of ministers resigned.\n\nThe Standards Committee's report on the investigation is expected to be published at 09:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe sanction recommended by the committee will have to be agreed by MPs.\n\nMr Pincher does have the right to appeal to an independent expert panel, if he can provide new evidence or point to a procedural inaccuracy.\n\nThe report follows an investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner over allegations of \"actions causing significant damage to the reputation of the House\".\n\nMr Pincher quit his government role in June last year, after allegedly assaulting fellow guests at the Carlton Club in London.\n\nHe apologised for \"drinking far too much\" and embarrassing \"himself and other people\".\n\nIn the days that followed, Mr Johnson faced questions about what he knew about earlier accusations of sexual misconduct against Mr Pincher before appointing him deputy chief whip.\n\nThe BBC reported that Mr Johnson was made aware of a formal complaint about Mr Pincher's \"inappropriate behaviour\" while he was a Foreign Office minister from 2019-20.\n\nAt the time, Mr Johnson was already under immense pressure over revelations about lockdown parties in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nIn the wake of the controversy, dozens of ministers submitted their resignations, with Mr Johnson ultimately deciding to stand down as prime minister.\n\nMr Pincher currently sits as an independent member in the House of Commons.\n\nThat is because he had the Conservative whip removed when a formal complaint about him was made to the standards commissioner, which examines reports of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct.\n\nMr Pincher has told the Conservative Party he will step down as an MP at the next general election, due in 2024.\n\nHe was elected to the Tamworth seat with a majority of more than 19,000 in 2019.", "Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Court in London for the fourth day of his trial\n\nActor Kevin Spacey grabbed a man \"like a cobra\" in a West End theatre and made a \"barrage of vile comments\" which were of a sexual nature, a court has heard.\n\nThe man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the Hollywood star \"smelled of booze\" and grabbed him with \"such force it was really painful\".\n\nIn a police interview, played at Southwark Crown Court, the man said he froze and pushed Mr Spacey's arm away.\n\nThe American actor is facing 12 charges, all of which he denies.\n\nOn the fourth day of Mr Spacey's trial, jurors watched the taped police interview of one of the complainants, a man who alleges he was sexually assaulted by Mr Spacey while at a theatre event in 2005.\n\nThe man said that when they were alone, Mr Spacey grabbed his penis \"like a cobra coming out and getting hold\".\n\n\"It was aggressive,\" he said. \"It wasn't trying to be a seduction. It was angry.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Spacey's response, he said \"he sort of laughed\".\n\nOn his first impressions of Mr Spacey, the man said: \"My opinion when he arrived was he smelled of booze. He looked dishevelled. He did not look like he had been to sleep.\"\n\nThe man told the police officer he was \"taken aback\" by the alleged crude comments made by the star, saying: \"It was very aggressive. I have never had anyone talk to me in that way.\"\n\nHe said he was \"feeling very shocked\" and was \"feeling very uncomfortable\".\n\n\"It was an abuse of power,\" the man said.\n\nAsked why he had come forward to police, he said it was as if he had \"allowed somebody, in a way, to denigrate me\".\n\n\"I hope he does the right thing - if he apologises then maybe I won't want him to go to court,\" he told police.\n\n\"I hope unburdening for me will bring some closure and justice. Because it was an injustice.\"\n\nMr Spacey, 63, is accused of sex offences against four men between 2001 and 2013.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty in January to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nAll four accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.", "There have been calls for Orkney to become part of Norway\n\nOrkney councillors have voted to investigate alternative methods of governance amid deep frustrations over funding and opportunities.\n\nCouncil leader James Stockan said the islands had been \"held down\" and accused the Scottish and UK governments of discrimination.\n\nHis motion led to media speculation that Orkney could leave the UK or become a self-governing territory of Norway.\n\nIt was supported by 15 votes to six.\n\nIt means council officers have been asked to publish a report to Orkney's chief executive on options of governance.\n\nThis includes looking at the \"Nordic connections\" of the archipelago and crown dependencies such as Jersey and Guernsey.\n\nA further change which would see the revival of a consultative group on constitutional reform for the islands was accepted without the need for a vote.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister's spokesperson rejected the suggestion the islands could loosen its ties with the union.\n\nMr Stockan urged councillors to back his idea to find new ways to get greater financial security and economic opportunities for Orcadians.\n\nSpeaking to councillors on Tuesday, he said the motion was \"not about us joining Norway\".\n\nHe added: \"I say it's time for government to take us seriously and I say it's time for us to look at all the options we've got.\n\n\"There is a far bigger suite of options here - this could even be that we could get our money direct from the Treasury in London and look after our own future.\n\n\"We have been held down and we all know most of what I could say today in terms of discrimination against this community from governments. We all know how much less we get compared to other island groups.\"\n\nCouncil leader James Stockan says Orkney does not get fair funding within the UK\n\nOrkney Islands Council previously voted in 2017 to look at whether the islands could have greater autonomy.\n\nWhile councillors wanted to have a \"stronger voice\", they did not back full independence for Orkney.\n\nCurrently, most of the island's 21 councillors sit as independents - two are Greens.\n\nMr Stockan has said an ageing ferry fleet is among the issues being faced by islanders.\n\nHe previously told the BBC the situation was \"critical\" because the ferries, which are older than the Western Isles fleet, were beginning to fail.\n\nHis concerns were widely shared by other councillors, however some raised issues with self-governance, such as the cost of carrying out such investigations.\n\nCllr Steven Heddle also mentioned disadvantages including having to buy back the sea bed, and tuition fees for students wishing to study in Scotland.\n\nHe called Mr Stockan's efforts \"politics of grievance\" and said that every council felt hard done by, citing roads in Edinburgh that were \"worse\" than Orkney's despite the council having far more funding.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's official spokesperson said: \"First and foremost there is no mechanism for the conferral of Crown Dependency or Overseas Territory status on any part of the UK.\n\n\"We have no plans to change the devolution settlement we are supporting Orkney with £50m to grow the economic prosperity of the Scottish islands, through the islands deal.\n\n\"But the government's position is that the UK is stronger united.\"\n\nOrkney was previously held under Norwegian and Danish control until it became part of Scotland in 1472.\n\nThe islands were used as security for the wedding dowry of Margaret of Denmark, the future wife of King James III of Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish government said in 2023-24 Orkney Islands Council would receive £89.7m to fund services, with an extra £4.6m from an increase in council tax by 10%.\n\nA spokesperson added it was \"committed to supporting island communities\".\n\nThe Norwegian government declined to comment on the proposals.\n\nToday's vote was never about Orkney becoming part of Norway, or any of the other headlines we've seen over recent days.\n\nRather it was a chance for councillors to express their extreme frustration with what they see as the unfair deal they get from the Scottish and UK governments, with council leader James Stockan saying the islands had been failed by both of them.\n\nThe successful passing of the motion is the first of many hurdles in Orkney gaining a degree of greater autonomy.\n\nCouncil officials will now be tasked with investigating options. Mr Stockan said that \"nothing was off the table\" - including of course the much-publicised return to Norway or Denmark.\n\nReaction to the vote on the streets of Kirkwall has been fairly mixed.\n\nSome don't want to see any tax-payer money devoted to what one councillor described as \"frankly bizarre fantasies\".\n\nOthers feel that the council does get a raw deal from both Holyrood and Westminster, and that anything that gets the two governments to sit up and pay attention is worth looking at.\n\nThe eyes of the global media have been on Orkney for the past few days.\n\nIt's now up to the islands council to capitalise on that attention.", "Prince Harry's claim that executives struck a royal deal to stop phone hacking claims is \"Alice in Wonderland stuff\", the newspaper's lawyers have said.\n\nNews Group Newspapers wants to stop his claim, saying he ran out of time to sue for alleged privacy breaches.\n\nThe royal says he delayed suing because royal aides struck a deal with the tabloid's owners to receive an apology.\n\nHis case against the Sun is one of three damages claims he is pursuing.\n\nIn April, lawyers for News Group Newspapers (NGN), the owners of the Sun and the News of the World, which was closed down over hacking, asked the High Court to stop the Duke of Sussex's damages claim.\n\nThey argued he had waited longer than a legal deadline of six years to begin his action.\n\nThe duke's lawyers say that in 2012, NGN had promised to royal aides that he and Prince William would ultimately receive an apology for alleged breaches of their privacy - and they agreed that would come after the media empire had resolved other claims against its newspapers.\n\nBut the court heard that during 2017 and 2018, there had been a series of e-mails between Buckingham Palace and NGN executives over how and when to resolve the \"unfinished business\" - the suggestion being that the Royal Family was running out of patience.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers say a lack of progress on an apology and compensation prompted him to launch his own damages claim in 2019.\n\nBut fighting back at the High Court on Wednesday, Anthony Hudson KC, for NGN, said it was \"Alice in Wonderland stuff\" to suggest that these emails amounted to evidence of an agreement.\n\n\"He is seeking to rely on an agreement that increasingly seems to be such a secret agreement that nobody other than the claimant knows anything about it,\" he said.\n\n\"The logic is that the [purported secret] agreement meant that NGN would settle or admit the case. [Prince Harry] doesn't say who... was involved in making this very significant agreement. No evidence about that at all.\n\n\"He does not say who at NGN... entered into this very substantial agreement other than the all-encompassing and vague phrase 'senior executives'.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers have asked the court to consider why there has been no evidence disputing his account of a NGN-Palace agreement from two key executives - Rebekah Brooks and Robert Thompson.\n\nBut Mr Hudson said this claim was \"Alice In Wonderland stuff\" because neither had been in place at the time it was said to have been struck.\n\nMr Justice Fancourt is expected to rule on the future of Prince Harry's claim in the coming months.\n\nThe duke is also waiting for judgement in his separate claim against the Mirror Group, which led to his unprecedented testimony in court in June.\n\nThe duke is also attempting to sue the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday over breaches of privacy.", "SAS troops conducted night raids in Afghanistan, aiming to kill or capture Taliban targets\n\nSAS operatives in Afghanistan repeatedly killed detainees and unarmed men in suspicious circumstances, according to a BBC investigation.\n\nNewly obtained military reports suggest that one unit may have unlawfully killed 54 people in one six-month tour.\n\nThe BBC found evidence suggesting the former head of special forces failed to pass on evidence to a murder inquiry.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said British troops \"served with courage and professionalism in Afghanistan\".\n\nThe BBC understands that General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the former head of UK Special Forces, was briefed about the alleged unlawful killings but did not pass on the evidence to the Royal Military Police, even after the RMP began a murder investigation into the SAS squadron.\n\nGeneral Carleton-Smith, who went on to become head of the Army before stepping down last month, declined to comment for this story.\n\nBBC Panorama analysed hundreds of pages of SAS operational accounts, including reports covering more than a dozen \"kill or capture\" raids carried out by one SAS squadron in Helmand in 2010/11.\n\nIndividuals who served with the SAS squadron on that deployment told the BBC they witnessed the SAS operatives kill unarmed people during night raids.\n\nThey also said they saw the operatives using so-called \"drop weapons\" - AK-47s planted at a scene to justify the killing of an unarmed person.\n\nBritish special forces killed hundreds of people on night raids in Afghanistan, but were some of the shootings executions? BBC Panorama's Richard Bilton uncovers new evidence and tracks down eyewitnesses.\n\nSeveral people who served with special forces said that SAS squadrons were competing with each other to get the most kills, and that the squadron scrutinised by the BBC was trying to achieve a higher body count than the one it had replaced.\n\nInternal emails show that officers at the highest levels of special forces were aware there was concern over possible unlawful killings, but failed to report the suspicions to military police despite a legal obligation to do so.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it could not comment on specific allegations, but that declining to comment should not be taken as acceptance of the allegations' factual accuracy.\n\nAn MOD spokesperson said that British forces \"served with courage and professionalism\" in Afghanistan and were held to the \"highest standards\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SAS killings in Afghanistan: The story of one suspicious death\n\nIn 2019, the BBC and the Sunday Times investigated one SAS raid which led to a UK court case and an order to the UK defence minister to disclose documents outlining the government's handling of the case.\n\nFor this latest investigation, the BBC analysed newly obtained operational reports detailing the SAS's accounts of night raids. We found a pattern of strikingly similar reports of Afghan men being shot dead because they pulled AK-47 rifles or hand grenades from behind curtains or other furniture after having been detained.\n\nThe total death toll during the squadron's six-month tour was in the triple figures. No injuries to SAS operatives were reported across all the raids scrutinised by the BBC.\n\nA senior officer who worked at UK Special Forces headquarters told the BBC there was \"real concern\" over the squadron's reports.\n\n\"Too many people were being killed on night raids and the explanations didn't make sense,\" he said. \"Once somebody is detained, they shouldn't end up dead. For it to happen over and over again was causing alarm at HQ. It was clear at the time that something was wrong.\"\n\nInternal emails from the time show that officers reacted with disbelief to the reports, describing them as \"quite incredible\" and referring to the squadron's \"latest massacre\". An operations officer emailed a colleague to say that \"for what must be the 10th time in the last two weeks\" the squadron had sent a detainee back into a building \"and he reappeared with an AK\".\n\n\"Then when they walked back in to a different A [building] with another B [fighting-age male] to open the curtains he grabbed a grenade from behind a curtain and threw it at the c/s [SAS assault team]. Fortunately, it didn't go off…. this is the 8th time this has happened... You couldn't MAKE IT UP!\"\n\nAs the concerns grew, one of the highest-ranking special forces officers in the country warned in a secret memo that there could be a \"deliberate policy\" of unlawful killing in operation. Senior leadership became so concerned that a rare formal review was commissioned of the squadron's tactics. But when a special forces officer was deployed to Afghanistan to interview personnel from the squadron, he appeared to take the SAS version of events at face value.\n\nThe BBC understands that the officer did not visit any of the scenes of the raids or interview any witnesses outside the military. Court documents show that the final report was signed off by the commanding officer of the SAS unit responsible for the suspicious killings.\n\nNone of the evidence was passed on to military police. The BBC discovered that statements containing the concerns were instead put into a restricted-access classified file for \"Anecdotal information about extrajudicial killings\", accessible only to a handful of senior special forces officers.\n\nIn 2012, General Carleton-Smith was appointed head of UK special forces. The BBC understands that he was briefed about the suspicious killings, but he allowed the squadron to return to Afghanistan for another six-month tour.\n\nWhen the Royal Military Police launched a murder investigation in 2013 into one of the raids conducted on that tour, General Carleton-Smith did not disclose to the RMP any of the earlier concerns over unlawful killings, or the existence of the tactical review.\n\nColonel Oliver Lee, who was commander of the Royal Marines in Afghanistan in 2011, told the BBC that the allegations of misconduct raised by our investigation were \"incredibly shocking\" and merited a public inquiry. The apparent failure by special forces leadership to disclose evidence was \"completely unacceptable\", he said.\n\nGeneral Sir Mark Carleton-Smith was head of UK Special Forces when military police investigated the SAS in 2013\n\nThe BBC's investigation focused primarily on one six-month deployment by one SAS squadron that arrived in Afghanistan in November 2010.\n\nThe squadron was operating largely in Helmand province, one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan, where Taliban ambushes and roadside bombs were common and Army losses were high.\n\nThe squadron's primary role was carrying out deliberate detention operations (DDOs) - also known as \"kill or capture\" raids - designed to detain Taliban commanders and disrupt bomb-making networks.\n\nSeveral sources who were involved in selecting targets for special forces operations told the BBC that there were grave problems with the intelligence behind the selection process, meaning civilians could easily end up on a target list.\n\nAccording to a British representative who was present during target selection in Helmand in 2011, \"Intelligence guys were coming up with lists of people that they figured were Taliban. It would be put through a short process of discussion. That was then passed onto special forces who would be given a kill or capture order.\"\n\nAccording to the source, the targeting was pressured and rushed. \"It didn't necessarily translate into let's kill them all, but certainly there was a pressure to up the game, which basically meant passing out judgements on these people quickly,\" he said.\n\nSources told the BBC that the targeting process for night raids was often rushed and could mislabel innocent civilians\n\nDuring the raids, the SAS squadron used a recognised tactic in which they called everyone from inside a building out, searched and restrained them with cable-tie handcuffs, then took one male back inside to assist special forces operatives with a search.\n\nBut senior officers became concerned by the frequency with which the squadron's own accounts described detainees being taken back inside buildings and then grabbing for hidden weapons - an enemy tactic not reported by other British military forces operating in Afghanistan.\n\nThere were also concerns among officers that on a significant number of raids, there were more people killed than weapons reportedly recovered from the scene - suggesting the SAS was shooting unarmed people - and that SAS operatives might be falsifying evidence by dropping weapons at scenes after killing people.\n\nAfter similar concerns were raised in Australia, a judge-led inquiry was commissioned and found \"credible evidence\" members of Australian Special Forces were responsible for the unlawful killing 39 people, and used 'drop weapons' in an attempt to justify shootings.\n\nBy April 2011, the concerns were so great in the UK that a senior special forces officer wrote to the director of special forces warning that there was evidence of \"deliberate killing of individuals after they have been restrained\" and \"fabrication of evidence to suggest a lawful killing in self-defence\".\n\nTwo days later, the UK Special Forces assistant chief of staff warned the director that the SAS could be operating a policy to \"kill fighting-aged males on target even when they did not pose a threat.\"\n\nIf the suspicions were true, he wrote, the SAS squadron had \"strayed into indefensible ethical and legal behaviour\".\n\nThe SAS squadron operated in some of the most dangerous areas in southern Afghanistan, often raiding residential compounds in villages\n\nThe BBC visited several of the homes raided by the SAS squadron in 2010/11. At one, in a small village in Nad Ali in Helmand, there was a bricked up guesthouse where nine Afghan men including a teenager were killed in the early hours of 7 February 2011.\n\nThe SAS operatives arrived in helicopters under the cover of darkness and approached the house from a nearby field. According to their account, insurgents opened fire at them, prompting them to shoot back and kill everyone in the guesthouse.\n\nOnly three AK-47s were recovered, according to the SAS account - one of at least six raids by the squadron on which the reported number of enemy weapons was fewer than the number of people killed.\n\nInside the guesthouse, what appeared to be bullet holes from the raid were clustered together on the walls low to the ground. The BBC showed photographs from the scene to ballistics experts, who said that the clusters suggested multiple rounds had been fired downward from above, and did not appear indicative of a firefight.\n\nLeigh Neville, an expert on weapons used by UK Special Forces, said the bullet patterns suggested that \"targets were low to the ground, either prone or in a sitting or crouching position close to the wall - an unusual position if they were actively involved in a firefight\".\n\nThe same pattern was visible at two other locations examined by the BBC. Ballistics experts who reviewed images said the bullet holes were suggestive of execution-style killings rather than firefights.\n\nSpeaking on condition of anonymity, an RMP investigator confirmed to the BBC that they had seen photographs from the scenes and that the bullet mark patterns had raised alarm.\n\n\"You can see why we were concerned,\" the investigator said. \"Bullet marks on the walls so low to the ground appeared to undermine the special forces' version of events.\"\n\nIn 2014, the RMP launched Operation Northmoor, a wide-ranging investigation into more than 600 alleged offences by British forces in Afghanistan, including a number of killings by the SAS squadron. But RMP investigators told the BBC that they were obstructed by British military in their efforts to gather evidence.\n\nOperation Northmoor was wound down in 2017 and eventually closed in 2019. The Ministry of Defence has said that no evidence of criminality was found. Members of the investigations team told the BBC they dispute that conclusion.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said British troops were held to the highest standards. \"No new evidence has been presented, but the Service Police will consider any allegations should new evidence come to light,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIn a further statement, the MoD said it believed Panorama had jumped to \"unjustified conclusions from allegations that have already been fully investigated\".\n\nIt said: \"We have provided a detailed and comprehensive statement to Panorama, highlighting unequivocally how two Service Police operations carried out extensive and independent investigation into allegations about the conduct of UK forces in Afghanistan.\n\n\"Neither investigation found sufficient evidence to prosecute. Insinuating otherwise is irresponsible, incorrect and puts our brave Armed Forces personnel at risk both in the field and reputationally.\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence of course stands open to considering any new evidence, there would be no obstruction. But in the absence of this, we strongly object to this subjective reporting.\"", "Amine Kessaci was 17 when his brother was killed in one of Marseille's most notorious neighbourhoods\n\nAmine was 17 when his brother's badly burned body was recovered from the boot of a torched car.\n\n\"My brother unfortunately fell into drugs early,\" he says, his face impassive as he glances up at the scruffy high-rise flats that surround us.\n\nWe sit, talking about his brother, who had trafficked drugs before his murder, in one of Marseille's most notorious neighbourhoods.\n\nAmine, now 19, grew up here on the Frais-Vallon estate, a vast and deprived social housing project in the north of the city, which is blighted by gang and drug-related violence.\n\nNot far away, a couple of young men lounge on a wall. Drug dealers work openly here in the harsh afternoon sunlight.\n\nTrafficking is, Amine says, a seductive choice for the children who grow up here and have little money - and even fewer prospects.\n\n\"There are no other options. There are no companies coming here and saying we'll pay you more than minimum wage… here people are supermarket cashiers or cleaners or security guards. We can't be judges, lawyers or accountants.\"\n\nA residential block on the Frais-Vallon estate in Marseille\n\nHe wasn't surprised by the recent riots, which were particularly bad in Marseille. Businesses here including a gun shop were vandalised and looted and a man aged 27 was killed.\n\nProsecutors say the man who died was hit in the chest by a type of police rubber bullet called a \"flashball\". He is thought to have suffered a heart attack but the circumstances are unclear.\n\nThe riots followed protests over the fatal shooting by police of 17-year-old Nahel M in Paris.\n\n\"We are always in the same mess, the same misery and nothing will change,\" says Amine, \"so I understand the anger of the young people. I don't justify the violence, but I understand it.\"\n\nThe riots and their aftermath have revealed the depth of anger, frustration and abandonment felt by so many French citizens.\n\nWe met Mado, a middle-aged woman who lives on the estate, near what used to be a community police station here.\n\nThis was, for many, a physical link between them and the French state; its demise grimly symbolic of an increasing disconnection.\n\n\"It's like living in a bin here,\" says Mado. \"It's not safe. People defecate in the lifts and stairwells. For the politicians we are nothing. We are really nothing.\"\n\nIt's like living in a bin here. It's not safe\n\nA man, Mourad, speaks angrily as he tells us that there are rats everywhere here.\n\n\"We don't all have the same rights. Politicians go on the media and say there are no second-class citizens, but it's not true in reality.\"\n\nBut few, perhaps, comprehend more clearly the profound divisions in French society - or their consequences - than Amine.\n\nHe now works to steer youngsters on the estate away from crime, but also supports the families of those who have paid with their lives.\n\nLast year there were 31 drug trafficking-related murders in Marseille. This year there have been 23. Two-thirds of the victims were under the age of 30.\n\nThe French authorities have acknowledged both the tragedy and the problem.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron visited Marseille just prior to the riots\n\nTwo years ago, President Emmanuel Macron promised to fix Marseille. He announced a €5bn (£4.3bn; $5.4bn) plan to tackle crime and deprivation in the city.\n\nHe came back to the southern port city just before the riots to reinforce his commitment.\n\n\"Everything has to move faster,\" President Macron said at the beginning of a three-day trip, in which he visited the sites of regeneration projects including a police station, a school, a prison and a hospital.\n\nBut Amine, who has met him twice, has lost faith.\n\n\"When Macron comes, he comes to make announcements, not to listen to us.\"\n\nEven the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, acknowledges that he needs to bring his city together.\n\n\"For too long my town has been divided between people who are poor and people who are not. Between those who are considered by the public authorities and those who are not.\"\n\nIt is supposed to be a fundamental French value. But here, égalité (equality) is now an ambition.", "Supporters of Sir Keir Starmer are \"drunk with power\" and conducting a purge of the Labour left, former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said.\n\nIn a BBC Newsnight interview, the veteran left-winger warned that a \"right-wing faction\" was weakening the party.\n\nHe was speaking after figures on the left complained that they are being blocked from positions in the party.\n\nHe has raised his concerns with the Labour leader in writing, warning: \"If you stumble, these are the people that will come for you.\"\n\nThe former shadow chancellor said: \"What [Keir Starmer's] allowed to happen is a right-wing faction [has] become drunk with power and use devices within the party almost on a search and destroy of the left.\n\n\"They seem to be more interested in destroying the presence of the left in the party than getting a Labour government.\"\n\nHis intervention comes after aspiring MPs said they are being excluded from an approved list of parliamentary candidates drawn up by the party's National Executive Committee, Labour's governing body.\n\nSitting MPs facing selection battles in new seats created by the Boundary Review also say they are losing out to Starmer loyalists. Others on the left have been successful.\n\nAnd Neal Lawson, director of campaign group Compass and a stalwart of the soft left, recently said he is facing an official investigation over some old tweets calling for cross-party co-operation.\n\nThe party says it is looking into his support for other political parties, which is a breach of Labour rules.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson told the BBC said it had \"high standards\" for prospective election candidates, and this was \"absolutely right\".\n\n\"This is a changed Labour Party back in the service of working people so we can build a better Britain,\" they added.\n\nIn his Newsnight interview, Mr McDonnell said: \"I've written to Keir a few times saying: Look, this factionalism is causing us real problems for the future…There is a sort of a right-wing faction that have got into fairly senior positions and they seem be waging some form of purge against the left.\n\n\"And what I said to Keir, is we've always been a broad church. This doesn't help the party, and we're always successful when we're a broad church.\n\n\"Previous leaders and prime ministers of the Labour Party have always had in their cabinet a broad church approach - left, right and centre. They've tolerated different views within the party.\n\n\"In fact, many of them have welcomed it because you get better discussion, better debates and you get a better decision policy making as well.\n\n\"And I said: there's a faction here that actually are so intolerant of dissent that they're removing people, it will weaken our party. And I also said to him, if you stumble, these are the people that will come for you.\"\n\nMr McDonnell, a close ally of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has also raised concerns with Sir Keir over former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott's suspension as a Labour MP.\n\nThe Labour whip was withdrawn from the veteran left-winger in April, pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism to the Observer.\n\nIn the letter, she said \"many types of white people with points of difference\" can experience prejudice, but they were not subject to racism \"all their lives\". She later withdrew her remarks and apologised \"for any anguish caused\".\n\nMr McDonnell said her comments had been \"wrong\", but added that he had given Sir Keir \"several examples of MPs where they've made similar mistakes, some of them worse,\" and had the party whip restored.\n\n\"Why are we discriminating against the first black woman in Parliament? Is it because she is on the left? And there's too many examples like that have taken place,\" he added.\n\nJohn McDonnell is a close political ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nThe former shadow chancellor said he had advised the Labour leader to ask barrister Martin Forde KC, who was commissioned by Sir Keir in 2020 to examine allegations of bullying, racism and sexism, to re-examine \"factionalism\" within the party.\n\nHe added that he should also be consulted on \"some of these issues about the individual cases and complaints that have been made\".\n\n\"In that way, we might be able to restore confidence in the whole process within the party [around] selections and disciplinary process.\"\n\nThe former shadow chancellor also said that former PM Tony Blair, who is reviled by many on the left, had tolerated different views when he was prime minister.\n\nMr McDonnell said: \"If you look at [it] under Tony Blair, we didn't have mass expulsions like this or anything like that. We didn't have the withdrawal of the whip unless it was something very extreme. There was an atmosphere of tolerance, but actually respect as well.\"\n\nJosh Simons, director of the Labour Together think tank that is supportive of Sir Keir's leadership, denied there was a purge of the Labour left.\n\nHe told Newsnight that Sir Keir was building a party \"capable and equipped to govern this country and transform it,\" including getting people \"with talent, with energy, with vigour and commitment into Parliament to do that\".\n\nHe also added that the Labour leader was implementing recommendations from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, which published a review in 2020 into how the party handled complaints of antisemitism within the party.\n\n\"And if there are people who have tweeted things, shared things on Facebook, engaged with posts that fall foul of those EHRC recommendations, then those people are and should be blocked from being part of the Labour party's leadership in the future,\" he added.\n\nYou can watch BBC Newsnight's interview in full on Tuesday 4 July from 22.30 BST on BBC Two.", "Israeli forces member on an armored bulldozer near the Jalamah checkpoint on 4 July Image caption: Israeli forces member on an armored bulldozer near the Jalamah checkpoint on 4 July\n\nThere were drone strikes, armoured bulldozers and hundreds of soldiers involved in Israel’s major two-day military operation in Jenin’s decades-old refugee camp.\n\nThe army says it uncovered weapons labs and stores and has today been showing journalists the large quantities of guns, bullets, explosive devices and protective vests which it says it seized in the camp.\n\nIt says some were found in hideouts, a mosque, pits and in vehicles.\n\nThe Israeli military claims that all 12 Palestinian men and teenage boys who were killed in its raid were militants and that it was successful in avoiding casualties of unarmed civilians.\n\nSo far, it has been confirmed to the BBC that eight of the dead were members of the military wings of the main Palestinian factions.\n\nA Palestinian doctor told me that civilians were among some 120 people injured.\n\nLonger-term, Israeli military analysts suggest the impact of this operation is likely to be limited.\n\n“At best it’s a paracetamol for a terminal illness,” said Avi Issacharoff, a journalist known as one of the creators of the TV series, Fauda, in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.\n\nHe predicted that the Jenin refugee camp might now be “a bit less dangerous in terms of the weaponry it holds” but that no reduction in the overall number of Palestinian attacks on Israelis should be expected.", "Mhairi Black is one of six SNP MPs to announce they will quit at the next election\n\nSNP MP Mhairi Black is stepping down at the next general election.\n\nMs Black, the party's deputy leader at Westminster, became the parliament's youngest MP since 1832 when she was elected aged 20 in 2015.\n\nShe is the sixth SNP MP to announce they will not contest the next election, which is expected to be held in 2024.\n\nIn a statement Ms Black, 28, described Westminster as an \"outdated, sexist and toxic\" working environment.\n\nThe Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP cited safety concerns, social media abuse and unsociable hours as she explained her decision.\n\n\"I have also made clear that I have no desire to have a long career in elected politics, and as we approach the next general election, I will have been elected for almost a decade,\" Ms Black said.\n\n\"I have dedicated a third of my life so far to Westminster - a truly unhealthy working environment.\"\n\nShe said it was \"beyond demoralising\" to see constituents \"harmed by a UK government they never voted for\".\n\nThe MP added: \"Since 2015, the lives of my loved ones have been turned upside down and inside out.\n\n\"Between media attention, social media abuse, threats, constant travel, and the murders of two MPs, my loved ones have been in a constant state of anxiety for my health and safety.\"\n\nMhairi Black became the youngest MP in 300 years when she was elected in 2015\n\nMs Black, who married her partner Katie in June 2022, also said she wanted to spend more time with loved ones.\n\nShe said: \"I will of course continue to represent my constituency to the best of my abilities, and I look forward to continuing to campaign for an independent Scotland and for the SNP at the general election, but I will do so as a campaigner rather than a candidate.\"\n\nHumza Yousaf, the SNP leader and Scotland's first minister, described Ms Black as a \"trailblazer\" who was a \"passionate supporter of independence, equality, social justice, and simply of trying to make life better for her constituents and the wider Scottish public\".\n\nHe added: \"She has also served as a role model for young people, especially women, with an interest or a desire to get involved in politics.\"\n\nMr Yousaf's predecessor, Nicola Sturgeon, said the announcement by the Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP was the \"loss of a unique talent\".\n\nShe added on Twitter: \"I only hope it's temporary. The world needs more Mhairi Blacks in politics, not fewer.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Mhairi Black's constituency share their reaction to news that she will step down as an MP\n\nSNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn tweeted that Ms Black is \"in a class of her own\".\n\nFormer SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has already announced he will be standing down at the next election.\n\nParty colleagues Peter Grant, Angela Crawley, Douglas Chapman and Stewart Hosie are also set to quit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mhairi Black MP🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Black defeated former Labour government minister Douglas Alexander as the SNP won a landslide north of the border in the 2015 election.\n\nShe successfully defended her seat in the 2017 and 2019 general elections.\n\nThe SNP MP's maiden speech – in which she paid tribute to her constituents and attacked benefit sanctions – was viewed online more than 10 million times within a week.\n\nAnd early in her parliamentary career, she hit out at Westminster's \"silly traditions\", describing it as outdated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn 2018, she made headlines after detailing some of the abuse she received during a parliamentary debate on misogyny to mark International Women's Day.\n\nShe listed graphic misogynistic insults she had been sent during her time as an MP.\n\nThe next general election is due to be held by January 2025, with the autumn of next year seen as the most likely date.\n\nMhairi Black was a symbol of the SNP's landslide in 2015, the 20-year-old who conjured up a massive swing to unseat a Labour heavyweight in Douglas Alexander.\n\nIt wasn't just her youth. Her straight-talking style encompassed a lot of what the SNP wanted to be at Westminster - a renegade element in the Commons shaking things up and agitating for radical change.\n\nBut now, she is the latest in what is becoming a string of SNP members to announce they will not stand in the next election.\n\nIs that too a symbol of something?\n\nLabour are gearing up for a big push to try to retake ground from the SNP - Mr Alexander is targeting a comeback of his own, albeit in a different seat.\n\nBut Paisley and Renfrewshire South is fairly steady SNP territory these days, with Ms Black commanding a majority in excess of 10,000 votes in 2019 - or almost 25%.\n\nThe salient point may be that no SNP MP really wants to be at Westminster, and the question of independence has for years now been caught in a log-jam.\n\nPerhaps what Ms Black fears isn't so much losing her seat - but the prospect of keeping it for the long term.\n\nScottish Conservative Chairman Craig Hoy MSP described Ms Black's announcement as \"yet another damning verdict from a senior SNP MP on the failing leadership of both Humza Yousaf and Stephen Flynn\".\n\nHe added: \"It speaks volumes about how bitter those feuds have become that Mhairi Black has thrown in the towel, just a few months after agreeing to become deputy leader, and decided not to fight another election despite not yet turning 30.\"\n• None Stewart Hosie to stand down at next election", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir says people's circumstances should not hold them back and \"you don't have to change who you are, just to get on\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to improve children's speaking skills, as part of a drive to break down class barriers to opportunity.\n\nHe also promised to give vocational and academic learning equal status, in a speech on education policy.\n\nTouching on his own background, he said people from working class backgrounds were now less able to advance in life.\n\nBut his speech was interrupted by protesters, unveiling a banner saying: \"No more u-turns, Green new deal.\"\n\nThe two young people who were protesting were standing right behind Sir Keir on the podium. Later, climate group Green New Deal Rising claimed responsibility for the disruption.\n\nThe Labour leader's speech unveiled details of the fifth and final \"mission\" the party is focused on ahead of the general election, expected next year.\n\nThe missions are expected to form the backbone of the party's election offer to voters, and shape its priorities in government if it wins power.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir promised a goal of half a million more children reaching early learning targets by 2030, as well as a review of the curriculum from the beginning of primary school through to the end of compulsory education.\n\nHe said a Labour government would \"tear down\" obstacles to opportunity, which he dubbed the \"class ceiling\".\n\n\"There's something more pernicious here, a pervasive idea, a barrier in our collective mind that narrows our ambitions for working class children and says - sometimes with subtlety, sometimes to your face - this isn't for you,\" he said.\n\nHe said the previous Labour government didn't \"eradicate the snobbery that looks down on vocational education, didn't drain the well of disrespect that this creates, and that cost us.\"\n\nHe said more children should study sport or a creative arts subject until they are 16, as well as a focus on digital skills.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change protesters interrupt Sir Keir Starmer speech calling for a \"green new deal right now\".\n\n\"For our children to succeed, they need a grounding in both, need skills and knowledge, practical problem-solving and academic rigour,\" he said.\n\n\"But now - as the future rushes towards us, we also need a greater emphasis on creativity, on resilience, on emotional intelligence and the ability to adapt.\"\n\nLabour has already committed to recruiting 6,500 extra teachers in shortage subjects such as maths, paid for by removing tax breaks for private schools, which the party calculates will raise over £1bn a year.\n\nIt also wants to use that additional funding to pay teachers a £2,400 retention bonus after they have completed their first two years of training.\n\nBut the Labour leader declined to commit to giving teachers in England a 6.5% pay rise this year - the figure reportedly set to be recommended by the pay review body for the profession, amid the economic backdrop.\n\nHe told the BBC's political editor Chris Mason he would be negotiating \"every day of the week\" to resolve the strike.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme he also did not committed to delivering universal free school meals in primary schools, something the Labour-run Welsh government has committed to delivering by next year.\n\nIn his interview, he admitted financial constraints would be a \"big factor\" for him to consider, amid a \"broken\" economy.\n\nSir Keir's speech unveils the detail on Labour's education pledge, marking the last of his \"missions\" as the party eyes the next general election. The Labour leader has said his missions would form \"the backbone of the Labour manifesto and the pillars of the next Labour government\".\n\nThe other commitments include securing the \"highest sustained growth\" in the G7 group of nations, by the end of Labour's first term, removing fossil fuels from all of Britain's electricity generation by 2030, improving the NHS and reforming the justice system.\n\nThe National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) union welcomed Labour's proposals but warned they must be matched by \"significant additional investment\", not only in education but in community support and social care.\n\n\"There is no doubt that schools can play a vital role in helping children to thrive no matter what their background, but they need the appropriate resources to do so,\" Paul Whiteman, NAHT general secretary, said.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan dismissed Sir Keir's speech as \"a load of old nonsense\".\n\nShe accused Labour of offering \"gimmicks that don't help children or working class children\", saying the government was focused on high quality education and apprenticeships to help social mobility.\n\nShe dismissed Sir Keir's plans on improving speaking skills, insisting that this already happened throughout the curriculum, adding: \"We have revolutionised our education system and skills system.\"\n\nAsked about the Green New Deal Rising protest during the speech, Sir Keir denied backtracking on Labour's £28bn green prosperity plan, saying \"We haven't backed down, we've doubled down.\"\n\nAnd he condemned Just Stop Oil's protests as \"hugely arrogant\", saying: \"When I put what they're doing against what we set out in our mission about clean energy, about net zero, you can see the difference between protest and power.\n\n\"Glueing yourself, interrupting, interfering with other people's lives in this arrogant way, compared with the actual change we can bring about, which is with a Labour government absolutely committed to clean power by 2030.\"", "The Daily Mirror previously obtained and published still images from the same party\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is reopening an investigation into breaches of Covid regulations at a Christmas gathering at Conservative Party HQ.\n\nA video of the event, where aides were invited to \"jingle and mingle\", was published by the Sunday Mirror.\n\nPolice say they will not investigate alleged gatherings at the prime minister's country home, Chequers, when Boris Johnson was PM.\n\nBut they are also now investigating an event in Parliament on 8 December 2020.\n\nAccording to the Guido Fawkes website, this event involved Conservative backbencher Sir Bernard Jenkin.\n\nSir Bernard sits on the Commons Privileges Committee, which last month published a highly critical report about Mr Johnson.\n\nHe told the BBC it was not appropriate to comment on an ongoing investigation.\n\nMr Johnson - who stood down as an MP with a stinging attack on the committee - had accused Sir Bernard of \"monstrous hypocrisy\" if the allegations on the Guido Fawkes site were true.\n\nConservative MP Virginia Crosbie issued an apology for attending the event while Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nThe Ynys Mon MP confirmed the event took place but said she had not sent out any invitations.\n\nThe Met police investigated the December 2020 party at Tory HQ last year, after a picture emerged showing former London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and Tory aides raising glasses besides buffet food, when indoor socialising was banned in the area.\n\nIn November, the Met said they were taking no further action against Mr Bailey or the others pictured.\n\nThey have now said they are reopening their inquiry, as the video published by the Mirror was not previously provided to officers.\n\nAn invitation to the gathering, seen by the BBC, invited people to a \"jingle and mingle\" party.\n\nMr Bailey - who was given a seat in the House of Lords in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list - previously said he apologised \"unreservedly\" for the event, which he said had \"turned into something\" after he left.\n\nHe claimed he was \"very upset about the video\" as he had \"never seen it before\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should stop Mr Bailey \"from taking his seat as a peer while this investigation takes place\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Met Police and Thames Valley Police said they would not launch an investigation into potential rule-breaking between June 2020 and May 2021 at Downing Street and Chequers.\n\nIn May, the forces said they were assessing information handed to them by Cabinet Office officials after a review of Mr Johnson's official diary as part of preparations for the Covid inquiry.\n\nThames Valley police were looking into visits by Mr Johnson's family and friends to Chequers - the prime minister's country house in Buckinghamshire - during the pandemic.\n\nThe Met were looking at possible further rule-breaches in Downing Street.\n\nIn a jointly-issued statement on Tuesday, the forces said that after \"further clarification\" on the diary entries, they had decided the events did \"not meet the retrospective criteria for opening an investigation\".\n\nWhen news of his referral broke, Mr Johnson denied there had been any Covid breaches at the events, saying the actions of the Cabinet Office bore \"all the hallmarks\" of a \"politically motivated stitch-up\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office said at the time that the material it had passed to police came from the \"normal\" process of reviewing documents.\n\nFormer prime minister Mr Johnson stood down as an MP last month after a Commons committee accused him of misleading Parliament over separate events in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nThe BBC has approached him for a fresh comment.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Right, we'll be back here at 10:45 BST for day four at Wimbledon.\n\nIt's going to be a classic with Briton Liam Broady, playing Casper Ruud, first up on Centre Court.\n\nAnd then, tomorrow evening, two-time winner Andy Murray takes on fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the second round.\n\nWe'll see you then, take care!", "The MoD abandoned an effort to enforce restrictions on mentioning the SAS in an inquiry into the operations\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has confirmed for the first time that UK Special Forces are at the centre of a war crimes inquiry.\n\nThe MoD on Wednesday abandoned an effort to restrict any mention of Special Forces' involvement in alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.\n\nThe MoD's stance had been challenged by bereaved family members and by several media outlets, including the BBC.\n\nThe inquiry follows years of reporting into alleged SAS unlawful killings.\n\nIn a statement ahead of a hearing of the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"The inquiry is now reaching the stage of substantive hearings, and I can confirm that the allegations relate to the conduct of UK Special Forces.\"\n\nThe decision to confirm the involvement of Special Forces units in operations under scrutiny from the inquiry reverses the position previously held by the MoD.\n\nMr Wallace said the confirmation of Special Forces involvement was made only \"in the exceptional circumstances of this inquiry\".\n\n\"Outside of this very specific context, such confirmation should not be seen to alter the longstanding position of this government, and previous governments, to not comment on the deployment or activities of the UK Special Forces,\" he said.\n\nThe MoD had previously argued that the inquiry should restrict from the public \"any evidence or documents or words or passages of documents, that tend to confirm or deny the alleged involvement of United Kingdom Special Forces in the operations that are to be investigated\".\n\nBut on Monday, less than 48 hours before they were due to argue their case in front of the chair of the inquiry, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, MoD lawyers wrote to the inquiry saying the ministry \"proposed to abandon that part of their application\".\n\nThe reversal, confirmed at the hearing on Wednesday, means that evidence of involvement of UK Special Forces in the alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan can be discussed openly in the inquiry hearings and reported publicly.\n\nA long-running investigation by the BBC uncovered evidence clearly indicating that one SAS unit operating in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011 killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances in one six-month tour.\n\nFurther reporting by the BBC uncovered specific cases that caused concern at the highest level of UK Special Forces, including a 2012 raid in which a different unit killed two parents and gravely wounded their two infant boys.\n\nThe MoD is still pursuing a request for all Special Forces personnel involved in the operations in Afghanistan to automatically be granted anonymity, and for all witness evidence about the operations themselves to be held in closed hearings, away from both the bereaved families and the public.\n\nThe MoD's lawyer, Brian Altman KC, also said that the ministry intended to keep in place its \"neither confirm nor deny\" policy in relation to naming specific UK Special Forces units or sub-units, arguing that the identification of \"particular force elements\" would pose a risk to future capabilities and operations.\n\nLawyers for the families of Afghans killed in seven separate Special Forces operations argue that the overall restrictions being sought by the MoD are \"unjustifiable and seriously damaging to the credibility of the inquiry\".\n\nTessa Gregory, a partner at Leigh Day, the law firm representing the families, said that the relatives had suffered \"years of cover up and obfuscation\" and remained concerned even as the inquiry began that the MoD was \"seeking to shut the door on them and prevent evidence being heard in public\".\n\n\"The bereaved families now put their trust in the inquiry to uncover the truth,\" Ms Gregory said.\n\nSpeaking at the opening of the hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Lord Justice Haddon Cave said that, in line with the 2005 Inquiries Act, \"as much as possible should be heard in public to allay public concerns about the subject matter of the inquiry\".\n\nBut the chair acknowledged that some evidence would need to be heard in closed hearings, because of national security concerns. \"The essential task is to balance the competing considerations in the public interest,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the MoD said: \"It is not appropriate for the MoD to comment on cases which are within the scope of the Statutory Inquiry and it is up to the Statutory Inquiry Team, led by Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, to determine which allegations are investigated.\"\n\nA lawyer for the Royal Military Police, Paul Greaney KC, told the inquiry on Wednesday that it was currently investigating allegations of unlawful killings in Afghanistan and had received evidence from informants on a confidential basis.\n\nStressing the importance of continuing its investigations without prejudicing potential prosecutions, and avoiding discouraging new informants coming forward, the RMP said it was seeking its own restrictions around three key areas: matters relating to its ongoing investigations; the identities of confidential informants; and the covert techniques and methods employed by the RMP so far in its investigations.\n\nDo you have information about this story that you want to share?\n\nGet in touch using SecureDrop, a highly anonymous and secure way of whistleblowing to the BBC which uses the TOR network.\n\nOr by using the Signal messaging app, an end-to-end encrypted message service designed to protect your data.\n\nPlease note that the SecureDrop link will only work in a Tor browser. For information on keeping secure and anonymous, here's some advice on how to use SecureDrop.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner has used her stand-in appearance at Prime Minister's Questions to attack the government's record on housing.\n\nShe said homeowners were \"sick with worry\" over mortgages, while renters' security had been \"ripped away\".\n\nMs Rayner also pressed Deputy PM Oliver Dowden on when the government would ban no-fault evictions.\n\nMr Dowden told MPs the government was standing behind both renters and mortgage holders.\n\nHe added that legislation to give renters greater security had been introduced by the government.\n\nThe Renters (Reform) Bill was tabled in Parliament in May but has yet to be debated by MPs.\n\nUnder the legislation, landlords would be banned from evicting tenants with no justification as part of a long-promised overhaul of the private rental sector in England.\n\nMs Rayner and Mr Dowden were standing in for their respective party leaders - Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak - who were both attending a celebration of the NHS at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe pair will meet again next week as the prime minister will be attending a Nato Summit in Lithuania.\n\nMs Rayner began her questions by asking if the Conservatives could still claim to be the \"party of homeownership\" given families were \"sick with worry about the cost of the Tory mortgage bombshell\".\n\nA typical five-year fixed mortgage deal currently has an interest rate of more than 6% - a sharp rise compared to this time last year - leaving homeowners who need to remortgage facing increases in their monthly payments.\n\nThe Bank of England has been raising interest rates in a bid to lower inflation.\n\nMr Dowden said he supported the bank's efforts and pointed to an assessment by the International Monetary Fund, which said the UK was taking \"decisive and responsible action\" to bring down inflation.\n\nIn contrast, he said a Labour government would pursue \"endless borrowing\" driving up prices.\n\nMs Rayner said renters would also suffer as landlords pass on the cost of higher mortgages to their tenants.\n\nShe noted there had been a 116% increase in no-fault evictions in 2023 and asked when the government would \"finally deliver\" on its 2019 manifesto promise to ban them.\n\n\"The chancellor will take all necessary measures to stand behind both mortgage holders and of course take necessary measures for renters,\" Mr Dowden replied.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oliver Dowden: This government is delivering \"record levels of housing\".\n\nLater in the question session, Labour MP Helen Hayes raised a housing case of one of her constituents, a first year university student, who took his own life in May.\n\nHe had signed a private sector tenancy agreement with his parents as guarantors, but the tenancy included a clause that said the responsibilities of the guarantor are unaffected by the death of a tenant.\n\nMs Hayes asked Mr Dowden to use the Renters Reform Bill to outlaw this practice and protect bereaved families.\n\nThe deputy prime minister said the case sounded \"totally abhorrent\" and would discuss measures to address the issue.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "King Charles III meets members of the public during his visit to Kinneil House, marking the first Holyrood Week since his coronation\n\nKing Charles III was greeted by crowds as he arrived in Scotland for a special week of events.\n\nHe met two Fair Queens in Bo'ness, Falkirk, before travelling to Edinburgh where he was presented with the keys to the city.\n\nEarlier a practice procession was held in the capital's Old Town ahead of a special ceremony of thanksgiving.\n\nKing Charles will be presented with the Scottish crown jewels during the event at St Giles' Cathedral on Wednesday.\n\nThe celebrations mark the first Holyrood Week since his coronation in May.\n\nAn early morning practice procession has been held in Edinburgh's Old Town\n\nAmong those who met the King on Monday was Bo'ness Fair Queen, Lexi Scotland, who was wearing her ceremonial robes and a crown.\n\nShe was joined by May Garrow, 99, who won the title in 1936.\n\nAfterwards Ms Garrow said: \"I've never actually shook hands with him before. I'll not wash that hand anymore.\"\n\nThe King then met with Sustainable Thinking Scotland, which operates from Kinneil House on the outskirts of the town.\n\nThe organisation grows sustainable food which in turn is given for food parcels.\n\nKing Charles III attended a tour of the Royal Yacht Britannia, to mark 25 years since her arrival in Edinburgh\n\nLater the King took part in the Ceremony of the Keys on the Palace of Holyroodhouse forecourt before he joined former Royal Yacht Britannia sailors in reviving an old navy tradition.\n\nThe King drank a tot of rum as he returned to the vessel the Royal Family called home at its dock in Leith.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla are also expected to visit the Great Tapestry of Scotland, seeing a newly stitched panel dedicated to the couple.\n\nBefore the service at St Giles' on Wednesday, there will be both a royal procession and a people's procession along the Royal Mile.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe people's procession will consist of about 100 people representing different aspects of Scottish life.\n\nThe Stone of Destiny will be present at the ceremony in St Giles' Cathedral, where the King will be presented with the Honours of Scotland.\n\nAfterwards there will be a gun salute at Edinburgh Castle and a flypast by the Red Arrows.\n\nEach year the monarch traditionally spends a week based at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, known as Holyrood Week or Royal Week in Scotland.\n\nKing Charles III received the Keys to the City of Edinburgh from Lord Provost Councillor Robert Aldridge during the Ceremony of the Keys on the forecourt of the Palace of Holyroodhouse\n\nEdinburgh City Council has said those wishing to view the processions should plan ahead.\n\nLord lieutenant Robert Aldridge said: \"The eyes of the world will be upon us once again as we mark the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty Queen Camilla.\"\n\nHe warned residents to expect disruption across the city, particularly in the Old Town.\n\n\"We're working with our partners to manage this as best we can and to keep residents, businesses and visitors updated on the events,\" he added.\n\n\"For those who wish to enjoy the royal and people's processions, I urge you to please plan ahead and keep an eye on our website and social media channels for the latest advice and guidance.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Water companies are likely to seek higher bills from 2025 to cover the cost of improving services, the boss of regulator Ofwat has said.\n\nIt comes after the biggest suppliers have been severely criticised for their records on sewage spills and plugging leaks.\n\nMany are also heavily in debt, with Thames Water currently at risk of being taken over by the government.\n\nOfwat boss David Black denied it had failed to regulate the industry well.\n\nBut he admitted there were \"hard lessons to learn\" and that he had been \"angered\" by excessive chief executive pay in the industry.\n\nDespite the criticism, Mr Black told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that customer bills were likely to rise as companies tried to improve.\n\n\"We expect companies will request increases in bills at the next price review to fund large investment programmes, and those programmes will deliver improvements to the environment.\"\n\nFormer environment secretary George Eustice said last Wednesday bills were set to rise again in 2025 by about £42 per household on average over a \"long time frame\".\n\nIt followed a report in the Times newspaper that increases could be as much as 40%, a figure Mr Eustice dismissed, saying it would be \"far lower\".\n\nWater UK, which represents suppliers, told the BBC that any rises would be a matter for the regulator.\n\nCampaign group Surfers Against Sewage said it would be a disgrace if water firms raised bills.\n\nIt said consumers should not \"bear the burden of water company mismanagement\".\n\n\"We've been paying water companies for decades to deliver on environmental services, yet they have continued to siphon these funds into shareholder's pockets.\"\n\nLast week it emerged that Thames Water was struggling to raise the money it needs to service its huge £14bn debt pile.\n\nThe firm, which supplies a quarter of the UK population, has faced heavy criticism over sewage discharges and leaks and is under pressure to improve services.\n\nIf Thames cannot raise the money it could be put into a \"special administration regime\" - where it would be temporarily re-nationalised - although Mr Black said this remained a \"backstop option\" and \"we're still a long way from that\".\n\nHe said Thames had until the \"early part of next year\" to find the money and currently had £4.2bn cash reserves.\n\nAsked if customers would have to pick up the tab if the company went bust, he responded: \"No.\"\n\nAn Ofwat spokesperson later told the BBC that there are no similarities with the collapse of Bulb - the energy company which went under last year costing the taxpayer millions.\n\n\"This is not a Bulb moment, there is no switch on, switch off here,\" they said.\n\nLast week Health Minister Neil O'Brien also sought to assuage concerns about the potential impact on customers, but the influential business select committee warned taxpayers could still be hit.\n\nLabour MP Darren Jones told the BBC that if the government was forced to take over the running of Thames Water, \"taxpayers will be exposed to the debt and running costs of a very large company\".\n\nOfwat says it is still waiting to see how Thames Water plans to fix its finances and that the company needs to raise \"substantial\" sums. Talks are ongoing to try to secure the extra funding.\n\nCommenting on claims the regulator had failed to stop big water firms getting into debt, Mr Black said that suppliers were responsible for their financial structures, not Ofwat, which was tasked with protecting customers.\n\nWater companies across England and Wales need to submit their business plans for 2025-2030 to Ofwat by 2 October. These include their planned improvement works for the period.\n\nThe regulator will then issue guidance on how they should set bills early next year.\n\nIndustry body Water UK announces the planned price increases annually, usually in February, Ofwat said.", "As part of a special show to celebrate the Fourth of July, the world's largest LED was completely illuminated in Las Vegas, creating a new landmark on the Las Vegas skyline.\n\nThe sphere is made up of approximately 1.2 million LED pucks. Each puck contains 48 individual LED diodes, with each diode capable of displaying 256 million different colours.", "A vigil held last month included the release of blue balloons, a request by the boys' families\n\nThe two teenagers who died in an e-bike crash which sparked a riot in Cardiff will be buried in the same plot as they were best friends, their families said.\n\nThe joint funeral for Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, will be held in Ely, the Diocese of Llandaff added.\n\nTheir deaths, which happened after they were followed by a police van, sparked unrest in the suburb of Ely on 22 May.\n\nAbout 200 motorbikes, two limousines, four hearses and eight Rolls-Royce cars will form the procession on Thursday.\n\nThis element of the funeral has been arranged by their friends, the diocese said.\n\nFollowing their deaths, a riot broke out in Ely leading to 27 arrests and 15 officers being injured on Monday 22 May.\n\nA riot broke out in the Cardiff suburb shortly after the boys died in a collision\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has launched an investigation into their deaths and South Wales Police's actions.\n\nA few days after the boys died, a vigil attended by about 800 people included the release of hundreds of blue balloons, at the request of the bereaved families.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, and will be buried in the same plot, their families said\n\nSpeaking ahead of the funeral, the Reverend Canon Jan Gould said: \"It's important for the family especially, but actually for the whole community have some closure now and to begin to move on.\n\n\"My hope is that moving on from this now, the community can begin to rebuild. And hopefully the families will find some peace from the service.\"\n\nDuring the service, a moment of silence will be held and Ms Gould will be preaching about the Gospel passage of Jesus stilling in the storm.\n\nShe added: \"I'm going to be talking about how grief can sometimes feel like a storm that's overwhelming and we don't know how to feel.\n\nHarvey (L) and Kyrees were friends since nursery\n\n\"We can have all kinds of feelings that we can't manage and I'm going to be encouraging them to reach out for that peace that Jesus brought when he stilled the storm and that he longs to still the storms of our lives.\"\n\nRoad closures are being managed by Cardiff council and schools in the area will also close due to the number of mourners expected.\n\nTy Coch Road, from the roundabout with Archer Road, and Grand Avenue, from its junction with Howell Road, will both be closed from midday to 14:00 BST.\n\nThe service will begin at 13:00 at Church of the Resurrection in Ely.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protesters gathered outside the home of 67-year-old Grace Donaldson\n\nHousing associations in the Borders have been accused of \"ripping the heart\" out of a rural village.\n\nEviction notices have been served on Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) tenants in Westruther to allow for their homes to be pulled down.\n\nAn unfinished neighbouring development by Eildon Housing Association (EHA) also looks set for demolition.\n\nTenant Grace Donaldson said: \"If I'm evicted I will lose my job. I will lose everything.\"\n\nWestruther, with a population of about 600, sits on the lower slopes of the Lammermuir Hills between the towns of Lauder and Gordon.\n\nPrior to the Covid pandemic, tenants on Edgar Road were looking forward to a planned programme of upgrades to their properties.\n\nPlanning permission had also just been granted to EHA for 10 family homes to be built on land across the road.\n\nBut during the summer of 2021, BHA's tenants were told they were being evicted - and work on the new Eildon development had stalled.\n\nThe new Eildon development at Edgar Road was abandoned by builders two years ago\n\nOne family, with three children, has now left Edgar Road to take an alternative home 11 miles away in Duns.\n\nIf eviction notices, which have been lodged at Jedburgh Sheriff Court, against their neighbours are successful the remaining tenants will also be forced to leave the village.\n\nBHA said that it had been working with structural engineers since 2018 to establish options for the Edgar Road properties.\n\nIn May 2021 board members were told that it would cost £128,000 per property to bring them up to the required standards, leading to a decision that the outlay was not justifiable.\n\nAn offer to move across the road to Eildon's properties was made to all tenants when the planned demolition was announced.\n\nA BHA spokesperson said: \"All remaining Edgar Road customers have secured a priority move to the newly constructed Eildon homes, when they are completed.\n\n\"It is unfortunate that there is a time lag between customers being required to vacate their existing homes due to safety concerns and the new build homes being completed. \"\n\nThe association said they had all been offered alternative accommodation but some customers had chosen not to take it leaving it with \"no choice\" but to start legal proceedings.\n\nGrace Donaldson has lived in her Edgar Road home for 25 years\n\nGrace Donaldson is the caretaker, cook and cleaner at the local primary school.\n\nThe 67-year-old also runs the local foodbank, heads up the village's floral gateway committee, chairs the village hall committee and is secretary of the area's community council.\n\nMs Donaldson said: \"I stand to lose everything as neither me or my husband drive.\n\n\"This has been our home for 25 years and I didn't want to move, but they were so determined to get us out that I agreed that we'd move across the road to the Eildon development.\n\n\"That's not happening now and they want to move us to the other side of Coldstream - 20 miles away.\"\n\nJohn Purves said the heart of the village was being ripped out\n\nJohn Purves bought his home on Edgar Road about 15 years ago.\n\nDespite what he describes as pressure from BHA, he is refusing to sell his semi-detached property.\n\nMr Purves said: \"The development across the road is falling apart and there is a growing threat to the houses that are already here.\n\n\"The heart of this village is being ripped out by these housing associations.\"\n\nEHA confirmed that attempts earlier this year to restart its development - following the collapse of previous contractors - had failed due to the condition of the on-site timber frames.\n\nIt also said demolition was the likely way forward.\n\nA spokesperson explained: \"A report will be presented to our board in August setting out the estimated costs and risks associated with the options.\n\n\"One of these options will be removing all current structural elements above ground-level and retendering the works to complete the build from the slab up.\n\n\"At this stage we are unable to advise on further arrangements until our board meet in August.\"\n\nRetired engineer Bruce Brown is secretary of the Gordon and Westruther Community Council\n\nMore than 50 villagers last week attended a public meeting to agree plans for fighting the eviction notices.\n\nRetired engineer Bruce Brown, who is secretary of Gordon and Westruther community council, said: \"I feel there is a great injustice happening here.\n\n\"Just look at Grace (Donaldson) - she's the glue that holds this village together, and she could be forced to move away.\n\n\"And from everything we have seen, there are no issues with her house.\"\n\nAlly Boyle is chair of the primary school's parent council\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, Westruther's church and pub have both closed.\n\nAlly Boyle, who is chair of the local primary's parent council, believes the school could be next.\n\nShe said: \"The school is already in decline due to families moving because of the situation on Edgar Road, and neither Berwickshire or Eildon are offering homes for families to move into.\n\n\"It's heart-breaking to watch our neighbours being put through this.\n\n\"The stress they are going through is unbearable.\"\n\nBerwickshire Housing Association's properties on Edgar Road are earmarked for demolition\n\nThe Scottish government has confirmed that BHA has followed guidance provided by the Scottish Housing Regulator regarding high repair costs.\n\nBut Housing Minister Paul McLennan urged tenants and housing officials to continue talking.\n\nHe said: \"I would encourage both BHA and its residents to continue in dialogue to come to a solution that is acceptable for all.\"", "A surgeon who had to amputate a man's arm after a dog attack in Banbridge has said the victim's injuries were almost fatal.\n\nAlastair Brown, a plastic surgeon based at Belfast's Ulster Hospital, said the patient's wounds were among the worst he had seen.\n\nHe was in hospital for two months after the attack in October last year.\n\nMr Brown, who amputated the victim's left arm, said his injuries were so severe it was a case of \"life or limb\".\n\nHe added: \"Both his arms, both his legs were severely mangled by the dog and we had to make a decision very early on to save his life.\n\n\"We were able to salvage both of his legs and one of his arms.\n\n\"Unfortunately the other one was just too badly damaged.\n\n\"This was extreme. This was as severe as it gets.\"\n\nMr Cull's recollection was that the dog was a \"XXL bully mixed with a mastiff\"\n\nMr Cull said he loves dogs, but he described the one that attacked him, which was not his own, as a monster.\n\nAlthough he passed out after being bitten so many times, he said his recollection was that the dog was a \"XXL bully mixed with a mastiff\".\n\nAfter it pounced on him, he said he tried in vain to fend it off with his hands and feared he was going to be killed after being dragged to the ground.\n\nMr Cull said: \"The dog was circling me and even trying to stretch its mouth over my head at one stage.\"\n\nHe said there were \"chunks\" taken out of his legs.\n\nAfter the attack, he was taken to Craigavon Hospital and then the Ulster Hospital for surgery.\n\n\"If it had been a baby or a skinnier person, they'd have been done for,\" he said.\n\n\"The poison of the dog saliva was running through my veins… my organs started to shut down … I don't know how they brought me back after that.\"\n\nThe dog had also bitten \"chunks\" out of Mr Cull's legs in the attack\n\nMr Cull still walks dogs in spite of the attack.\n\nHe thanked medical staff for saving his life.\n\nThe surgeon, Mr Brown, paid tribute to how Mr Cull has coped since the attack.\n\n\"His attitude is an example to us all.\n\n\"He has been able to get through this to some degree but no matter what, the arm is lost,\" he said.\n\nThe dog involved in the attack has since been put down.\n\nSurgeon Alastair Brown said Mr Cull's injuries were so severe it was a case of \"life or limb\"\n\nAsked about the incident, a PSNI spokesperson said: \"Police attended and took actions to ensure the safety of others in the vicinity until the dog was under control.\n\n\"The matter has been passed to the local dog warden.\n\n\"The police service continues to liaise with the local council in relation to this matter and enquiries remain ongoing.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council said: \"The dog involved in the attack was voluntarily surrendered to the council and was subsequently humanely euthanised by a veterinary surgeon.\n\n\"The incident has been investigated and a legal file is currently with the council solicitor.\"", "Update 21st July 2023: We acknowledge that the information we reported - that Coutts' decision on Nigel Farage's account did not involve considerations about his political views - turned out not to be accurate. Since this article was originally published on the 4th July, Mr Farage submitted a subject access request to Coutts bank and obtained a report from the bank's reputational risk committee. While it mentioned commercial considerations, the document also said the committee did not think continuing to have Mr Farage as a client was \"compatible with Coutts given his publicly-stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation\". We have amended this article's headline and copy to make clear that the details about the closure of Nigel Farage's bank account came from a source.\n\nNigel Farage fell below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, the prestigious private bank for the wealthy, the BBC has been told.\n\nIt is understood he was subsequently offered a standard account at NatWest which owns Coutts.\n\nMr Farage has said he believes his account is being shut for political reasons and he has since been turned down by nine other lenders.\n\nBut a source familiar with Coutts' move said it was a \"commercial\" decision.\n\n\"The criteria for holding a Coutts account are clear from the bank's website,\" they told the BBC.\n\nCoutts requires its customers to borrow or invest at least £1m with the bank or hold £3m in savings.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from France, Mr Farage did not dispute the fact that he did not meet Coutts' threshold, but added: \"They didn't have a problem with it for the last 10 years.\"\n\nThe former leader of the UK Independence Party and Brexiteer later tweeted that at \"no point\"\" had Coutts given him a minimum threshold.\n\nHe added that his business account was being closed despite the fact that last year he had \"large significant positive cash balances\" going through it.\n\nCoutts said it did not comment on individuals' accounts.\n\nMr Farage recently posted a six-minute video on Twitter blaming \"serious political persecution\" from an anti-Brexit banking industry.\n\nHe said that losing his bank account was the equivalent of being a \"non-person\" and that the decision may \"fundamentally affect my future career and whether I can even go on staying living here in this country\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's the World at One on Tuesday, Mr Farage said that Coutts had given him \"no reason whatsoever\" when they wrote to say that his accounts would be closed, and he was given two months to find a new bank.\n\nMr Farage also disputed the fact that he was offered a NatWest account at the time his Coutts accounts were withdrawn. He says the offer of a NatWest account came late last week.\n\nThe former politician said the bank only did this when he \"went public\" with his story, and that it only offered him a personal account, not a business account.\n\n\"Well what use to me is that?\" he told the BBC. \"I operate through a business, that's how I live. Any income that comes to me personally comes through my business.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that the offer of a NatWest account still stands.\n\nMr Farage claims other banks have refused to take him on as a customer on the grounds that he is a \"politically exposed person\" (PEP).\n\nA PEP generally presents a higher risk for financial institutions as regulators consider such people to be more exposed to the risk of potential involvement in bribery and corruption by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold.\n\nMr Farage told the BBC: \"Are you telling me that all the other banks say it was a PEP thing and Coutts wasn't? Draw your own conclusions.\"\n\nSpeaking on GB News later on Tuesday, he questioned why Coutts's had been \"discussing my financial situation publicly,\" adding it was not \"ethical\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said it would be a \"serious concern\" if financial services were being denied to those exercising their right to lawful free speech.\n\n\"We are already looking into this issue and have passed a law that requires the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to review how banks treat politically exposed persons - so we can strike the right balance between the customer's right to free speech and the bank's right to manage commercial risk.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The NHS is under increasing pressure as it marks 75 years since it was founded\n\nThe head of the NHS in Wales, Judith Paget, has acknowledged the need for \"a rapid increase in the number of staff\", as well as fast-paced change.\n\nShe also would not rule out withdrawing care until patients made lifestyle changes to improve their health.\n\nThe chief executive said there was a plan to build up numbers \"over time\" and recent strike action highlighted the need to look after existing staff.\n\nMs Paget spoke as the service marks its 75th anniversary.\n\nOn the issue of withdrawing care due to lifestyles, she said: \"If there is good evidence to think about what that looks like I think that is a possibility.\n\n\"We know that if people are obese, their ability to respond well to surgical procedures and recover well is compromised. What we want to do is to support people to lose weight before they have their surgical procedure.\"\n\nBut she was clear that she \"would struggle with the concept of refusing people treatment on the basis of some of their lifestyle choices\".\n\nJudith Paget says the NHS has evolved, but further changes are needed\n\nMs Paget acknowledged the need for the service to change as it faced a growth in demand for services, with referrals alone having gone up 13% in the past year.\n\nThat is set against a backdrop of about 5,000 vacancies, according to Stats Wales, which also admitted these may be an under-estimate.\n\nShe said progress to clear the pandemic's backlog had been slower than she would like, but insisted \"we are getting there\".\n\nThe waiting list for treatment in Wales currently stands at just over 743,300 - some 582,000 individual patients - with the Welsh government's goals to reduce the waits still not met.\n\n\"I think we need to change what we do,\" she said. \"One of the things that we really need to focus on is how we focus on keeping people well: preventing ill health; supporting our patients to make good choices around what they do.\"\n\nShe pointed to \"the huge challenges ahead of us\" posed by obesity and diabetes and the need for people to keep themselves well.\n\nThe way services are delivered has been changing though, she said.\n\nSpeaking at the Bevan Commission Conference in Newport on Wednesday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said people needed to take better care of themselves and the health service should not waste its \"precious\" resources.\n\nHe also defended the NHS against those who \"plan\" and \"plot\" against it and focus on its failures instead of its successes.\n\n\"Too many people have come to take it for granted,\" said Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"We've forgotten the need to fight for the NHS. You know what Aneurin Bevan said, of course, 'the NHS will survive for as long as people are prepared to fight for its future'.\"\n\nThe service is undergoing low staff morale and patient frustration over access to care\n\nTen years ago controversial plans to centralise some specialist services in south Wales were scrapped.\n\nA different model is evolving, but with the development of a regional diagnostic hub and centres specialising in orthopaedics and eye surgery all serving patients from several health boards, waiting times have reframed the discussion.\n\nMs Paget said: \"I think it's really important to have those conversations with the communities that might be affected by any change, but certainly what we need to do is focus our resources on delivering the best health outcomes for patients.\n\n\"What we see at the moment is technology and research pulling us in two directions.\n\n\"There is much more that we can do outside hospital in people's homes; in local community settings; in local doctors' surgeries, GP surgeries; in other primary care establishments.\n\n\"So we've got something that's pulling us this way - to decentralise. And then obviously we have got another pull, which is about the need to centralise our very specialist services more.\n\nNHS architect Aneurin Bevan meets teenager Sylvia Beckingham, who was the first NHS patient being treated at a hospital in Manchester in 1948\n\n\"We need to provide opportunities for people to access diagnostics really quickly and the most efficient and effective way of doing that is in larger centres where we centralise things together.\"\n\nGiven the low staff morale and patient frustration over access to care, is the 75th anniversary of the NHS a moment to celebrate, or take stock?\n\n\"I think we should be celebrating the staff of the NHS,\" she said.\n\n\"They've gone through a huge amount over the last few years. They are continuing to be very challenged.\n\n\"I think the constant criticism that they feel actually affects their morale as well.\n\n\"So I think it's a time to yes, take stock and reflect. But, actually, I think there is a stronger need to celebrate what the staff are doing in the NHS every day to support us.\"", "The Great Orme goats were pictured with good traffic etiquette using a zebra crossing in Llandudno, Conwy on Wednesday morning\n\nGoats have been spotted roaming a town centre after the local council announced plans to remove them.\n\nThe Great Orme goats have been a regular sight in Llandudno, Conwy, since they began venturing into the town during Covid.\n\nIn April, the council discussed how to control the goats, after they caused widespread damage to people's property.\n\nAt the time it said it was \"looking at relocating strategies\" on the grounds of conservation.\n\nHowever, one shop owner welcomed the latest sighting, labelling the goats as \"part of the character of Llandudno\".\n\n\"I'm pro-goat, but I do sympathise when they munch the plants in your garden,\" said Mark Richards, 50, who runs furniture shop Statement in the town.\n\nHe said the goats were around \"all the time\" after lockdown, but that they have been \"hardly seen\" recently.\n\nThe Great Orme goats took an interest in furniture shop Statement on Wednesday morning, which Mark runs with his wife Amanda\n\n\"Obviously they're a bit of a nuisance munching people's hedges and plants so you can understand people objecting to them,\" added Mr Richards.\n\n\"But they are part of the town and I think there's a lot more love for them than not. I certainly wouldn't want them to see them relocated.\"\n\nDylan Taylor, 23, who runs nearby craft store The Wool Shop, said his customers love to see the goats roaming about the town.\n\n\"It's quite comical for them to see goats roaming around - because its really not something you see in the rest of the country,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The goats first took over Llandudno after the streets became deserted during the Covid lockdowns\n\n\"They seem to like it, they get photos with them and stuff like that... it's just part of the town's culture,\" he added.\n\nMr Taylor said he'd \"never really had an issue\" with the goats himself, and said he doesn't \"see a solution\" to the damage previously caused by them.\n\n\"It's not really something that you can fix you know, it's like people complaining that there's bees and wasps roaming around, you can't get rid of them or the world over,\" he added.\n\nDylan Taylor said the goats are \"good for publicity\"\n\nPaul Luckock, an independent councillor at Conwy council, said it was up to property owners to protect their homes from any damage, but raised concerns about vulnerable resident unable to do so.\n\n\"People will build the fences or gates to keep the goats out, but for some - usually because of their age, health condition, sometimes disabilities - they really can't do that,\" he said.\n\n\"The council is trying to manage the situation as best they can, but some of these issues are a little out of their hands.\"\n\nConwy council said its feral goat management plan aims to \"secure the future survival of the herd, and allow for co-existence of the herd alongside the local community and its needs\".", "A drill rapper known as Rack5 has been jailed for seven years and nine months for firearm offences, after a dramatic chase through the streets of London.\n\nBodycam footage and CCTV shows the moment Ellis Heather, 23, ran away from the police in Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, and attempted to hide in the front garden of a residential address.\n\nAfter detaining the suspect and searching the area, officers discovered a firearm nearby.", "Ellie Varley, 25, said she believes everyone who works in Parliament has a story of sexual misconduct\n\nA \"predatory culture\" still exists around the House of Commons, with inappropriate flirting and sexual misconduct still prevalent, staff say.\n\nSix members of staff told BBC Newsnight that abuses of power by male MPs and senior staffers remained common, and a new complaints process was too slow.\n\nOne woman said she was asked to sit on a male MP's knee and she was bombarded with text messages by another person.\n\nA House of Commons spokesman said it took complaints \"extremely seriously\".\n\nThe spokesman said bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct had no place in Parliament, adding: \"We remain committed to ensuring that lasting cultural change can be achieved here.\"\n\nIt comes after damning allegations have been made about the behaviour of MPs in recent months, with several MPs suspended.\n\nThe parliamentary staff we spoke to said, despite a new complaints scheme, little has changed. All the allegations they made relate to the last two years.\n\nEllie Varley, 25, said everyone who works in Parliament either has their own story of sexual misconduct, or knows someone with one. She said the problem \"transcends party politics\".\n\nShe says she was asked to sit on a male MP's lap, in an incident that took place on the Parliamentary estate. \"He just kept saying just come sit on my lap. And I was like: 'I'm fine, thank you. I don't want to sit on your lap'.\"\n\nShe said the MP was so persistent she felt she had no choice, and reluctantly agreed to \"get him off my case\". The MP is one of a number to be suspended over separate allegations.\n\nShe said there was still a feeling among some MPs and senior staffers that they can do what they want without repercussions. \"There are big names in Westminster, and you kind of feel intimidated by them,\" she added.\n\nMs Varley, who works as a parliamentary aide to Tory MP, Dehenna Davison, said incidents can include a \"hand on the hip in a social setting\".\n\n\"I [often think] am I reading too much into this? Are you just being friendly or are you touching me because you think you can?\" she added.\n\n\"I've had it when people have texted me incessantly being like: 'Are you out tonight?' 'What are you doing?' And not getting the hint if I don't reply after you've messaged six times.\"\n\nShe said she was \"frankly just angry\" and claimed people in the palace do not feel safe to report issues: \"They don't have the trust in the system. I'm just fed up.\"\n\nThe six parliamentary staff said inappropriate touching and flirting was still a problem - with younger staff sometimes preyed upon by older MPs and staffers.\n\nEllie Varley: \"Every staffer will know someone who has experienced this\"\n\nFive of the people we spoke to currently work in the Commons, while one of them has recently left their role on the estate. The ex-staff member said she saw the same behaviour take place repeatedly.\n\n\"In the bars you'd still see male MPs all over staffers; in their physical space, buying them drinks and actually behaving in a pretty disgusting state - touching bums and putting their hands all over their lower backs. It's lecherous.\"\n\nShe added: \"You'd see male MPs openly ogle female staffers and comment to them about how they looked in an overly flirty sense or they'd talk among each other about who was fit or not.\" Some male MPs talked about female MPs in the same way, she added.\n\nIn 2018, Parliament set up the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS), to investigate complaints about inappropriate behaviour, such as bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct, and to provide advice to complainants.\n\nSince then, complaints are investigated by independent investigators, commissioned by the ICGS team on a case-by-case basis. However, one senior official, who has worked in the Commons for several years, said the scheme had made no difference to what he described as a \"predatory culture\".\n\n\"I wouldn't recommend it [HoC] as a safe place for any young men or women. If a young person I knew really really wanted to work in the House of Commons, it would come with a whole list of warnings about how to stay safe, who not to hang out with, where not to go\", he said.\n\n\"The same things still go on as before #metoo,\" he said, referencing the global social media movement that saw people share stories of sexual abuse, harassment and rape.\n\nHe described the new complaints processes as \"useless\". \"Just ask anyone who has tried to use them\", he added.\n\nComplaints in Parliament are investigated by independent investigators\n\nOne of the criticisms of the ICGS is that investigations take too long.\n\nAccording to its last annual report, of the 21 completed investigations it carried out in 2021-2022, 12 were cases where an MP was a respondent. These cases took an average time of 262 days. By comparison, cases involving parliamentary staff took an average of 186 days, and MPs' staff cases, took an average of 133 days.\n\nA Commons spokesman said the complaints scheme was the first of its kind in any Parliament in the world. \"It has enabled, and will continue to enable, Parliament to identify and deal effectively with unacceptable behaviour,\" they added.\n\n\"However, though much has been achieved in the last five years, we know there is more work to be done.\"\n\nYet Ms Varley said she was \"disappointed\" so little has changed. She said \"too many people\" think reporting incidents is \"just not worth it\". \"It takes a long time and it can wear you down,\" she added.\n\n\"This is something that everyone will have a story of. Every staffer will know someone who has experienced this [sexual misconduct] and that's thousands of people who are employed here.\"\n\n\"I think it comes down to culture and you can't fix the culture overnight,\" she added. \"Until these people have repercussions for their actions, and until the victims have faith in the reporting process, I don't think anything's going to change.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the ICGS said it \"is there to ensure that all complaints are dealt with in a manner that is fair, thorough, independent and efficient, offering support to all parties involved. The target to reduce the length of investigations must always be balanced against the paramount requirement to ensure that investigations are rigorous and robust.\n\n\"The ICGS always seeks to learn from every case, striving to deliver a compassionate and effective service that everyone in Parliament can be proud of, contributing to building a workplace where everyone feels safe and valued.\n\n\"The ICGS is here for every member of the parliamentary community - we urge anyone who needs it, to use it.\"", "Puffin numbers on Rathlin have gone down in recent years\n\nThink of Rathlin Island and you most likely think of puffins.\n\nBut with numbers declining by 40% since 1999, the race is on to protect the colourful ground-nester from predators before the balance tips.\n\nNow, in a world first, a new project will see ferrets and rats trapped to eradicate non-natives from the island.\n\nAfter a year of preparation, 450 traps with wireless monitoring and 6,000 bait stations are being laid all over the island from this winter.\n\nFerrets are believed to have been introduced to Rathlin Island in the 1980s\n\nThe aim is to have all ferrets and rats removed by 2026, restoring the island to a safe haven for internationally significant breeding seabirds.\n\nAs well as puffins, there are razorbills, kittiwakes, Manx shearwaters, guillemots and fulmars.\n\nMonitoring will continue beyond the five-year £4.5m the LIFE Raft project to maintain biosecurity.\n\nRats most likely arrived on boats more than a century ago.\n\nBut ferrets, voracious and efficient hunters, were released deliberately to control the rabbit population.\n\nBoth species quickly turned their attentions to the seabirds and their young.\n\nThey are now all over the island and RSPB warden Liam McFaul is worried that matters are at a tipping point.\n\nHe said without some control mechanism to control the predators, there could be a day when hardly any puffins will be left on Rathlin.\n\nHe has lived his whole life on the island and has monitored seabirds here for more than 30 years with the RSPB.\n\n\"I can't imagine the day that there wouldn't be any of these seabirds or a real big shift in numbers of the population.\n\n\"Rathlin's such a strategic and important nesting site for the seabirds because it's an off-shore island and in that case should be safe,\" he said.\n\nA team of people, like conservation scientist James Crymble, has spent the year surveying the island and training in preparation for what is a mammoth undertaking.\n\n\"Rathlin is actually quite a big island and it's quite a diverse island as well, there's lots and lots of different habitats, different terrain. The weather's pretty mean and it's going be a huge job,\" he said.\n\n\"The best way to do it is to lay out a grid across the whole island.\"\n\nThat entails laying a trap every 250m, the range an individual ferret will cover.\n\nEverywhere will need to be targeted, said James, including grassy ledges scattered down the cliffs - an undertaking that requires some extreme training.\n\n\"There'll be a huge amount, obviously abseiling, rope access skills, off-roading skills, all terrain vehicles, obviously first aid, things like that.\n\n\"By the end of it we'll be an elite force.\"\n\nHe added: \"And all of that will take place during winter. So absolutely the worst time of year, really, for us walking around.\"\n\nBut winter is the best time to target predators, who will be getting hungry as their prey migrates from the island.\n\nProtecting the seabird population is also about protecting people.\n\nThe economy on the island relies on thousands of visitors who come here every year for the wildlife.\n\nThe cliffs on Rathlin Island are thronged with sea birds\n\nSo while conservation like this - destroying one species to protect another - can be controversial, people on Rathlin are wholeheartedly behind the project.\n\n\"The island resident population have started to catch on to this,\" said Michael Cecil, chair of the Rathlin Development and Community Association.\n\n\"There's more and more interest from around the world, from scientific communities and other islands that are interested in similar things. So yeah, we're starting to pick up a bit of notice, more and more so and islanders are starting to talk about this project.\"\n\nSimilar projects have been undertaken on the Isles of Scilly, in the Shiants off Scotland and, most recently, on Gough Island in the south Atlantic\n\nBut this is the first time that ferrets will be targeted as part of a conservation effort like this.\n\n\"It's not cheap to get rid of these animals, but it's hugely beneficial for the wildlife here,\" said James.\n\n\"Nature is in crisis. We're looking at climate change. We're looking at overfishing at sea and this is the best way to really protect the island for future generations and just give them a bit of a buffer zone to face these overarching global problems.\"\n\nIt will take time for the populations to recover, but at the upside-down lighthouse that is home to Rathlin's Seabird Centre, Liam McFaul is hopeful.\n\n\"Seabirds are a very long-lived species and you're taking out the predators. You're not going to just immediately see next year lots and lots more birds, it'll take a number of years for them to build up.\n\n\"Rathlin is an internationally important mixed seabird colony. There's 150,000 guillemots and 22,000 razorbills, that's just literally breeding birds sitting on the cliffs.\n\n\"When you look on the sea, that's just peppered with birds and you look in the air, they're flying all over the place.\n\n\"So a census of these birds only takes consideration of what's sitting on eggs and on the cliffs. There's thousands and thousands more that's not counted.\n\n\"So lots and lots of monitoring will be done over the next few years, to see the changes from the predators being taken out.\"", "A review into whether banks are closing accounts of people who are \"politically exposed\" should be prioritised, a Treasury minister has said.\n\nIn a letter to the Financial Conduct Authority, Andrew Griffith said it was vital elected officials could access banking services.\n\nIt comes after Nigel Farage said his accounts were being shut for political reasons - something people familiar with the decision dispute.\n\nThe FCA has been contacted for comment.\n\nMr Farage tweeted he was \"delighted\" the government was putting pressure on the watchdog to act.\n\nSomeone classed as a politically exposed person, or PEP, generally presents a higher risk for financial institutions as they are deemed to be more exposed to potential involvement in bribery and corruption by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold.\n\nAs a result, banks are required to do extra due diligence on them.\n\nMr Griffith, who is Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said in his letter to the financial watchdog that while he recognised the importance of measures to prevent money laundering, \"it is crucial that an appropriate balance is struck\" so that elected officials and their families can access banking services.\n\nHe added that it had been \"made clear\" that \"some financial institutions may be failing to strike the right balance of taking a proportionate approach based on a careful evaluation of the actual risk\".\n\n\"The government is clear that domestic PEPs should be treated in a manner which is in line with their risk, and that banks should not be closing individuals' accounts solely due to their status as a PEP,\" Mr Griffith said.\n\nThis week, Mr Farage, who is the former leader of UKIP, the Brexit Party, and a former member of the European Parliament, said his bank was closing his accounts without justification.\n\nHe said he believed his account was being shut because of his status as a PEP and that he had since been turned down by nine other lenders.\n\nBut the BBC has been told Mr Farage fell below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, the prestigious private bank for the wealthy.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Farage did not dispute the fact that he did not meet Coutts' threshold, but added: \"They didn't have a problem with it for the last 10 years.\"\n\nHe added: \"Are you telling me that all the other banks say it was a PEP thing and Coutts wasn't? Draw your own conclusions.\"\n\nIn response to the letter to the FCA, Mr Farage tweeted he was \"delighted that the Chancellor and City Minister are putting pressure on the FCA to review why banks are giving UK PEPs such a hard time\".\n\n\"Even better would be to change the law. It is an EU directive and a Brexit government ought to deal with it,\" he added.\n\nThe Treasury has previously said it would be a \"serious concern\" if financial services were being denied to those exercising their right to lawful free speech.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are already looking into this issue and have passed a law that requires the Financial Conduct Authority to review how banks treat politically exposed persons - so we can strike the right balance between the customer's right to free speech and the bank's right to manage commercial risk.\"", "A decision to quash a Department of Health policy on paying for care costs in nursing homes has been welcomed by the NI commissioner for older people.\n\nThe commissioner, Eddie Lynch, was reacting to a decision by High Court judge Mr Justice Scoffield.\n\nThe judge ruled the department failed to properly consider the impact on elderly people who could potentially lose life savings to meet health costs.\n\nHe said it had been responsible for a \"plain dereliction in its duty\".\n\nThe commissioner, Mr Lynch, took a judicial review on behalf of Robin McMinnis.\n\nThe 75-year-old, who is quadriplegic and has complex medical needs, has been paying for his care while living in a Belfast nursing home.\n\nThe Continuing Healthcare Policy relates to the assessment of whether a person's needs can be met in a hospital which will not cost anything or is social-care related which could incur costs.\n\nThe judicial review highlighted that the criteria and threshold for when a person should pay for their care is unclear and operates differently between each health trust.\n\nEddie Lynch said the High Court ruling was a win for older people\n\nAll older people with assets worth more than £23,250 have to pay for their social care.\n\nA change to the policy, introduced in February 2021, uses a single criteria question where people are asked: \"Can your care needs be met properly in any other setting other than a hospital?\"\n\nThose people who are placed in a nursing home have to pay, while others who say they cannot go to a nursing home instead have their care paid for while in hospital.\n\nThe judge ruled that Mr McMinnis was unfairly refused the funding and ordered the Belfast Trust to reconsider his application.\n\nHe said he also proposed \"to quash the decision of the department to adopt the 2021 policy\".\n\nMr McMinnis said it had been \"a long journey for me personally over the past six years with many setbacks\".\n\n\"It has been a matter of principle for me, knowing that many others have been disqualified or were unaware of the Continuing Healthcare Policy,\" he continued.\n\nReacting to the judgement, Mr Lynch said he was delighted for Mr McMinnis.\n\n\"This is also a win for the many older people who have contacted my office over the past number of years in relation to issues with continuing healthcare assessments, all of whom will now be entitled to receive the fair assessment they deserve,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday he told BBC's Good Morning Ulster the ruling shows the system \"was not fit for purpose\".\n\n\"The bottom line here was older people were being failed by the system,\" the commissioner said.\n\n\"Older people whose costs should have been picked up by the NHS were paying for their care.\n\n\"People were left high and dry, people who were entitled to this [financial] support because the system was not set up properly to give them a fair assessment.\"\n\nHe said this ruling \"overturns and quashes a policy that was ageist\".\n\nMr Lynch said now that the policy has been quashed, the onus is on the Department of Health to \"come up with a policy that treats people fairly\".\n\nThe department said it \"will be considering the judgement, before deciding on next steps\".", "The UK's largest water company Thames Water will need \"substantial sums of money\" to stabilise its finances, the water regulator has said.\n\nOfwat boss David Black said talks between the firm and investors to raise the extra funding were continuing.\n\nThe company is billions in debt and under pressure to fix its finances over fears it could collapse.\n\nThere have been calls to nationalise the firm after its boss quit last week.\n\n\"We need to see their revised business plan but we think it's substantial sums of money [that are needed],\" Ofwat boss David Black said\n\nHe told a Lord's business committee that the issues at Thames Water, which supplies a quarter of the population, were not as acute as at other UK water companies.\n\nHowever, Mr Black admitted the regulator had taken a \"relatively hands-off approach\" to managing water companies since privatisation in the late 1980s.\n\nThe hearing came hours after it was announced that Thames Water had been handed a £3.3m fine for discharging millions of litres of undiluted sewage into two rivers in Sussex and Surrey, killing more than 1,400 fish in 2017.\n\nThames Water has faced heavy criticism over sewage discharges and leaks. The company leaks more water than any other water company in the UK, losing the equivalent of up to 250 Olympic-sized swimming pools every day from its pipes.\n\nThe company is also struggling with debts of nearly £14bn.\n\nAmid fears that the water firm would collapse, the government said last week \"a lot of work is going on behind the scenes\" and that a process was in place \"if necessary\".\n\nA few days later, one of the UK's largest private pension funds, Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), became the first major investor to publicly back the firm to turn around its finances and performance.\n\nBut Mr Black said there may not be an appetite from current investors to put further money into water companies.\n\nHe said that the industry had built up too much debt from around 2006 and faced \"deep seated challenges\".\n\n\"I think we should have stepped in at that point to stop companies gearing up,\" he said, implying that water firms were taking on too much debt relative to equity, or available funds.\n\n\"We've changed companies' licences, we have got the powers to stop that happening now.\n\n\"At the time, we really didn't have the power to stop that happening,\" Mr Black said, adding that now Ofwat was \"very much of the view\" that companies need to reduce their debt to reasonable levels.\n\nIf the firm cannot secure investment, it could be placed under government administration until a new buyer is found.\n\nBaroness McGregor-Smith asked Mr Black how much customers' water bills were likely to rise, given the £10bn investment water companies say they need to tackle sewage spills.\n\nMr Black said that he understood all water companies were \"looking at requesting a bill increase\" when they submitted their business plans to Ofwat later in the year, and that most of them were looking at \"quite significant bill increases,\" but that the regulator was \"yet to see the maths worked out.\"\n\nWhen asked how much of the £10bn would be funded by increased customer bills, Mr Black said that was something that would be \"examined as part of the price review\".\n\nHowever, he said that investment that involved companies \"catching up on their current obligations,\" he thought was \"an issue for them and their shareholders to fund\".\n\nBut he added: \"Where they're going above and beyond existing standards...that will be an issue for customers to fund ultimately. So investors would pay upfront and it's recovered from customers over time.\"\n\nProfessor David Hall, who has investigated the finances of England's nine water and wastewater companies since privatisation, said delivering the investment needed to clean up rivers, improve services and plug leaks was key to the future of Thames Water.\n\nHe said Thames had suggested getting customers to cover the cost through bill increases of up to 25%. But Ofwat said that was \"not acceptable\".\n\nHe added that the regulator had the \"very serious option\" of temporarily nationalising Thames if it could not find the £2bn of funds needed to turn things around.\n\nHe said the government's special administration regime would be used \"to protect the service, not to protect the company\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US Secret Service is investigating how cocaine was found at the White House on Sunday night, with visitor logs and footage combed for clues.\n\nThe discovery in the West Wing, which contains the Oval Office and other working areas for presidential aides and staff, led to a brief evacuation.\n\nSecret Service agents found the powder during a routine inspection in an area that is accessible to tour groups.\n\nPresident Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland at the time.\n\nA senior law enforcement official told the BBC's US partner CBS News the substance was found in a storage facility routinely used by White House staff and guests to store mobile phones.\n\nThe White House complex was closed as a precaution at around 20:45 local time (00:45 GMT) on Sunday after it was discovered.\n\nA preliminary test later confirmed the substance was cocaine.\n\nThe Secret Service will lead a full review of how it got into the White House, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday.\n\nWhite House staff are permitted to give tours of some parts of the West Wing to friends and family. Visitors who are not accredited staff must store mobile phones and other personal belongings in cubicles.\n\n\"It was in one of the cubbies,\" a source familiar with the investigation told Reuters.\n\nThe drug was found in the heart of one of the world's most carefully guarded buildings\n\nSpeaking at a daily press briefing on Wednesday, Ms Jean-Pierre said that the area where the cocaine was discovered is a \"heavily travelled\" part of the White House.\n\n\"We have confidence that the Secret Service are going to get to the bottom of this,\" she said.\n\nPresident Biden was briefed on the matter, Ms Jean-Pierre added. Mr Biden did not answer reporters' questions about the incident on Wednesday.\n\nArkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote to the Secret Service's director with a list of questions about how such a drug could end up in one of the world's most carefully guarded buildings.\n\nHe asked about the White House's security and visitor screening process, and how many times drugs have previously been discovered at the presidential mansion.\n\nCocaine is a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning it has a high potential for abuse, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.\n\nThe West Wing is a large, multi-level part of the White House that contains the offices of the president of the United States, including the Oval Office and the Situation Room.\n\nIt also houses the offices of the vice-president, the White House chief of staff, the press secretary, and hundreds of other staff who have access.", "Ukraine says Russia has planted ‘objects resembling explosive devices’ on the roofs of two reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.\n\nRussia has made counter-claims that Ukraine is planning to attack the plant.\n\nThe BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at what we know about the allegations, and what they tell us about the risk of an incident at Europe’s largest nuclear power station.", "Steven Marsland, pictured with his family, said he felt anxious about potentially losing the drug keeping him alive\n\nCancer patients said they felt relieved they could continue taking life-saving drugs after a policy change.\n\nDoctors were not allowed to automatically prescribe two bowel cancer drugs on the NHS in England if patients had taken a break from them.\n\nSteven Marsland, 38, from Brantham, Suffolk, said the decision meant he now had \"one less thing to worry about\".\n\nThe policy affected the drugs cetuximab and panitumumab.\n\nMr Marsland has been through 93 rounds of chemotherapy and 28 lots of radiotherapy since he was diagnosed in 2018\n\nBefore the rule change, if a patient took a treatment break for longer than six weeks they would have to reapply for NHS funding, with no guarantee it would be approved.\n\nMr Marsland, who has incurable cancer, needed to pause his treatment for a hernia operation last year. He had to take a shorter break due to the policy and was left worrying he might have to fund cetuximab himself in the future.\n\nThe father-of-two, who works as a principal technologist for BT, has been through 93 rounds of chemotherapy and 28 lots of radiotherapy since he was diagnosed in 2018.\n\nMr Marsland, pictured with his wife Emma, campaigned to change the policy alongside the charity Bowel Cancer UK\n\n\"This decision means I no longer need to live with the anxiety of losing a line of treatment,\" he said.\n\n\"It will open up many options for people to have skin recovery breaks, holidays and minor surgeries. I won't have to cover up illnesses in the fear of having the rug pulled out.\"\n\nJane Ashford said she lived in constant fear of her drug being taken away\n\nJane Ashford, from Bristol, described the development as \"amazing\", saying she had lived in \"constant fear\" of her treatment being taken away.\n\nThe 50-year-old, who is now in remission from bowel cancer, said her oncologist was keen for her to have a break \"as the toxicity of the drugs was leading to serious health issues\" but she had \"no choice but to continue with no breaks under the arbitrary rule\".\n\n\"I had to leave my job as an NHS lead nurse specialist because of the physical, emotional and psychological side effects,\" she said.\n\nThe rule change has come too late for some patients. Roy Davison, a father-of-three from Preston, was told he could not go back on panitumumab on the NHS after taking a break for liver surgery.\n\nRoy Davison, pictured with two of his daughters, would have done anything for anyone and had a huge heart, his family said\n\nThe engineer, diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014, was making good progress and the drug had shrunk his tumours enough to make them operable, his wife Carolyn said.\n\n\"Then the doctors told us the rules had changed and suddenly the drug was snatched away. It seemed so wrong and so cruel.\n\n\"It was like a prescription was written but he was only allowed to have half of it. We sought second opinions from oncologists who all said they would like to put him back on panitumumab if they could,\" she said.\n\nThey wrote to their MP and the drug company explaining his situation, but Mr Davison was forced on to other drugs and his cancer spread. He died aged 59 in 2017.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, which has spent five years campaigning on the issue, said: \"Patients with advanced bowel cancer have very few treatment options and these drugs are often their only lifeline.\n\n\"This decision by NHS England will bring new hope for advanced bowel cancer patients to have a better quality of life, spend more time with loved ones and, for some, even the chance of full remission.\"\n\nA spokesperson for NHS England said: \"The publication of this new policy provides additional flexibility for patients with colorectal cancer treated with cetuximab and panitumumab, enabling them to restart treatment even if their cancer has progressed whilst they were on a treatment break, provided their doctor believes they are likely to benefit from these drugs.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Singer Coco Lee, who enjoyed pop stardom in Asia in the 1990s and 2000s, has died at the age of 48.\n\nBorn in Hong Kong, Lee moved to the US as a child and released albums in Mandarin and English.\n\nShe also voiced the lead character in the Mandarin version of Disney's hit film Mulan, and performed a song from the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the 2001 Oscars.\n\nHer sisters said she had been in a coma since a suicide attempt at the weekend.\n\nLee had been suffering from depression for a few years, older sisters Carol and Nancy wrote in a Facebook post.\n\nShe tried to take her own life at home on Sunday and was taken to hospital, where she died on Wednesday, they wrote.\n\nShe performed at the 2001 Oscars in Hollywood\n\nLee broke into the Mandopop scene in 1994 with two Mandarin albums. Within the next year, she released an English-language album as well as a third Mandarin album.\n\n\"Not only did she bring us joy with her songs and dances in the past 29 years, she also worked hard to break new ground for Chinese singers in the international music scene and has been doing her utmost to shine for the Chinese,\" Lee's sisters wrote.\n\nShe also sang the Mandarin version of the Mulan theme song, Reflection; while her song Before I Fall in Love is on the soundtrack to the 1999 Hollywood film Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.\n\nHer performances included a Michael Jackson & Friends benefit concert in South Korea in 1999, and she was a judge on TV talent shows including Chinese Idol.\n\nThis past New Year's Eve, Lee said in an Instagram post that she had \"faced major life changing hurdles\", and described 2022 as an \"incredibly difficult year\".\n\nHer latest single Tragic was released on 14 February this year.\n\nIn March, she said on Facebook that she had undergone pelvic and thigh surgery after triggering an old leg injury during dance practice late last year.\n\nIn 2011, Lee married Bruce Rockowitz, former chief executive officer of Hong Kong-based supply chain giant Li & Fung. They have two daughters from his previous marriage.\n\nRumours that they had split started to surface about three years ago, but Lee never addressed them.\n\nOn Wednesday, Lee's sisters wrote: \"In addition to remembering Coco, I hope that you will share her trademark bright smile, honesty and kindness with everyone around you, and continue Coco's wish that all those around her will feel her love and joy.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issues, the following resources may be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Designer Mark Dennis on the meanings behind the new Elizabeth Sword\n\nA new sword will be presented to King Charles when he receives Scotland's crown jewels at a ceremony in Edinburgh.\n\nThe King will be presented with the Honours of Scotland at a service in St Giles' Cathedral on 5 July.\n\nNamed after his late mother, the Elizabeth sword was commissioned because the existing 16th Century sword is too fragile to handle.\n\nThe Honours of Scotland are the oldest crown jewels in the UK.\n\nThey consist of the crown, sceptre and sword of state.\n\nTraditionally, new British monarchs are presented with them after their coronation and this will take place at the Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication to be held at St Giles next week.\n\nThe Stone of Destiny will also be in St Giles' Cathedral for the service after playing a significant part in the Coronation at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe King will be presented with the Honours of Scotland, the oldest crown jewels in Britain\n\nA people's procession of about 100 community groups will collect The Honours from Edinburgh Castle and take them to the nearby cathedral.\n\nThen during the service, Dame Katherine Grainger DBE will bear the Elizabeth Sword, with the sceptre carried by Lady Dorrian, The Lord Justice Clerk, and the crown will be carried by The Duke of Hamilton.\n\nDame Katherine said: \"It will be an incredible honour to carry the Elizabeth Sword on such a historic day for Scotland.\n\n\"I hope I can do the sword, and the occasion, justice. It promises to be a day of enormous celebration for the King and for the country and I feel immensely lucky to be able to play a part.\"\n\nKathy Richmond, head of collections, at Historic Environment Scotland (HES), which runs Edinburgh Castle where The Honours are kept, said: \"Our team of specialists will support the Elizabeth Sword's ceremonial use and will be aiming to make it available for display shortly after the event.\n\n\"The Honours of Scotland are cared for by HES who are undertaking a project to conserve them over the next few months.\n\n\"We hope to use this opportunity to offer a period of display for the Elizabeth Sword so it can be seen together with the historic regalia of the crown and sceptre.\"\n\nThe Elizabeth Sword cost £22,000 to make and was designed by Mark Dennis and worked on by a number of expert Scottish craftspeople.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"The Honours of Scotland have immense historical significance, having been present at many major ceremonial events over the past 500 years.\n\n\"Designed and crafted with care by some of Scotland's finest artisans, the Elizabeth Sword is a fitting tribute to the late Queen as Scotland prepares to welcome the new King and Queen next week.\"\n\nYou can watch coverage of the event live on BBC One at 13:30 on Wednesday 5 July.\n\nMark Dennis – Designer, Alan Beattie Herriot sculptor (he made the hilt), Pete Waugh – videographer who has documented the whole project, Paul Macdonald – sword maker. The team behind the sword.", "Dr Nerys Conway says patients are becoming much more complex\n\nOf the 70,000 people turning up to A&E each month in Wales, fewer than a quarter will be admitted.\n\nBut with so few beds available, the push is to reduce that further.\n\nAt the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf - as with others across Wales - it means a focus on same-day care and redirecting patients out of A&E.\n\nPhysiotherapists are on hand for trips, falls or musculoskeletal injuries often linked to sport or nights out.\n\nFor those with medical problems - hearts, lungs, or the nervous system - a referral is made to the same-day emergency care unit.\n\n\"Acute medicine is a fairly new specialty,\" said unit head Dr Nerys Conway.\n\n\"Where we're different to the emergency department is we don't see trauma, surgery or minor injuries.\n\n\"We are seeing patients coming through the door - they are frailer, older, they've got more complex medical issues like diabetes and heart disease, particularly in this area.\n\nThe Royal Glamorgan Hospital serves a large area of the south Wales valleys\n\n\"Patients are becoming much more complex, so acute medicine just allows us to deal with all of these issues.\"\n\nBut instead of admitting them, patients can have the relevant tests or scans done that day, before being sent home.\n\n\"I could bring them back the next day or the following week or even a couple of weeks later and just review them again. But I manage to do that by avoiding admission while still seeing them safely.\"\n\nThe most recent figures showed emergency departments in Wales experienced the busiest month for two years with 70,310 patients.\n\nThe Royal Glamorgan department was no different, with more than 5,200 patients coming through the front doors in May.\n\nDonna Seldon says the Royal Glamorgan saw 200 patients in its A&E in a day\n\nContrast that with a weekly snapshot for the end of June showing the number of acute beds available at the hospital was one of the lowest on record, as 97.7% were occupied.\n\nThe acute unit on average might see 20 to 30 patients a day, busiest during afternoons and evenings, and while it is relieving some of the pressures on A&E, it is not a magic bullet.\n\n\"Yesterday was an extremely busy day,\" said Donna Seldon, senior nurse in the Royal Glamorgan's emergency department.\n\n\"Overall we saw around 200 patients in a 24-hour period - at one point there were 72 patients in the department.\n\n\"Each one of the 16 majors trolleys was full, and the crowding was very heavy in the waiting room.\"\n\nAnd that's with a full complement of staff, she said.\n\n\"Every year we're seeing increasing numbers of attendances in the emergency department - what we're not seeing is an increase in the workforce.\"\n\nDr Farrow says finding trollies to manage patients is a daily challenge\n\n\"For us in the emergency department, winter pressure is a daily pressure,\" said Amanda Farrow, clinical lead for the department.\n\nShe said the growth of same-day care had meant improved flow through the department, with fewer patients waiting for beds, meaning ambulances have not been left waiting as long outside.\n\nMay's official figures for the \"hours lost\" by paramedics waiting to hand patients over to hospital staff back that up, falling from 2,867 hours to 964.\n\nHowever, said Dr Farrow: \"It's still a daily challenge of finding an available trolley to manage patients. And the waiting rooms can get incredibly full\".\n\nPatient Martin Walton says he prefers the same-day approach\n\nThe medical day unit also plays a big part in preventing admission of the very sickest patients, by helping them manage their symptoms and home.\n\nMartin Walters, 70, from Ynyshir in Rhondda Cynon Taf, said: \"They know I'm anaemic and am losing blood, so they're testing me to see if I need a blood transfusion.\n\n\"When I come here it's just a day turnaround - you come in and then you go home and I prefer that.\n\n\"If there's no problem, why take a bed? Leave it for somebody that's worse off than me.\"\n\nHepatologist Dr Dai Samuel sees a large number of his patients on the unit too, typically those in liver failure.\n\nDr Dai Samuel says it's difficult to get out of hospital once you are admitted\n\n\"We can keep some out of hospital. Once you're in hospital, it's actually very difficult to get out,\" he said.\n\nAs clinical director of pathology, he said the shortages in that specialty across the country also affected how quickly tests could be analysed.\n\n\"When you come in for a biopsy, you need the pathologists to report it. You then need to work out what's going on. You might need the haematologist or the radiologist to report those scans.\n\n\"Without those, the front door literally breaks down overnight and that's the difficulty here - the whole system's under pressure.\"\n\nMany of the clinical leaders spoke of using staff differently - moving away from the traditional nurse and doctor model, to include more physiotherapists, advanced nurse practitioners and physicians associates.\n\nThat in turn \"blurs some of the professional boundaries\" by giving staff more responsibility, freeing colleagues.\n\n\"It's a very difficult time for the NHS and morale is low, but I came back to the Glam because I loved the morale here and the team effort and certainly I'm very lucky to work within a team that is beaten up,\" said Dr Samuel.\n\n\"But they're still one. And I think a lot of hospitals don't have that. And that's what I fear.\"", "The Covid inquiry continues today with appearances from experts in public health.\n\nThis morning the former chief medical officer for Scotland, Dr Catharine Calderwood, faces questions from the inquiry.\n\nShe resigned during the pandemic after she was found to have breached lockdown travel restrictions by visiting a second home.\n\nWe’ll also hear from experts in public health and infectious disease epidemiology.\n\nOur coverage today won’t feature any text updates, but you can watch a stream of proceedings at the inquiry by clicking play above.", "Katrina Rainey, a mother-of-six, died after being trapped inside a car that was engulfed in flames outside her home\n\nA woman who was murdered by her husband after being set on fire said she was \"so sorry\" some of her children saw the attack, a court heard.\n\nMother-of-six Katrina Rainey was preparing to go to work when Thomas Rainey opened her car door, threw petrol over her and set her alight.\n\nHe will spend at least 18 years of his life sentence in prison.\n\nMr Justice O'Hara said Mrs Rainey's children saw \"something they would never forget - their mother in flames\".\n\nRainey, of Quarry Road in Knockloughrim, County Londonderry, had previously pleaded guilty to his wife's murder.\n\nThe 61-year-old was handed the minimum tariff at Belfast Crown Court, where he sat with his head bowed.\n\nThe judge said he recognised a minimum of 18 years was a significant sentence for a man of Rainey's age.\n\nHe added: \"Given the horror of what he did to his wife, it's the least he deserves.\"\n\nMrs Rainey had got into her car and turned on the ignition when her husband opened the passenger door, threw the petrol over her and set her on fire in October 2021.\n\nHer children were woken from their sleep by their mother's screams.\n\nWhen the emergency services arrived at the scene, Mrs Rainey was being tended to by her children\n\nWhen fire crews arrived at the scene, they witnessed Mrs Rainey's children placing wet towels on her as she lay on the ground.\n\nShe was spoken to by emergency services before being sedated and taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast where she later died.\n\nMrs Rainey said: \"I never thought he would do this. My mother said, 'be careful'.\n\n\"I'm just so sorry my children have seen this. I love them so much.\"\n\nShe also thanked the emergency personnel helping her.\n\nThe police had asked Mrs Rainey if she knew why her husband had done what he did.\n\nThe court heard Mrs Rainey had wanted to leave her husband. She had been to see a solicitor, who had written to Rainey twice.\n\nMr Justice O'Hara said: \"At the time of the murder, [Rainey] was facing divorce, which may have led to the sale of the family farm to which he was especially attached.\"\n\n\"She told police she wanted him out of the house and had been to a solicitor,\" the prosecution said.\n\nThe judge noted that while Rainey had a history of mental health issues, including depression, it was not so severe as to have impaired his conduct.\n\nHe said: \"The defendant planned this murder to the extent that he put petrol in the bucket, he had the bucket to hand as his wife went to drive off to work and he threw the petrol over her.\n\n\"He also had a lighter to hand which he used to start the fire in the confined space of the car which she was strapped into.\"\n\nThe judge noted that Rainey had initially denied setting fire to his wife and was heard at the scene telling her: \"I wouldn't do that, I love you.\"\n\nHe later admitted murdering her.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Det Insp Hazel Miller described Mrs Rainey, 53, as \"a loving and very, very caring mother\".\n\nShe said her children and family circle had experienced \"unimaginable grief and anguish\", and were still trying to come to terms with losing a loved one in such devastating circumstances.\n\nShe described Rainey's actions as \"deliberate and shocking\", which had left a family \"absolutely shattered\".\n\n\"While today's sentencing signifies the end of the judicial process, I know that Katrina's family will be walking away with the heaviest of hearts,\" she added.\n\nMrs Rainey's mother Sandra Heasley spoke of how her life has changed since October 2021. She described her daughter as a \"gentle, sincere, beautiful girl that made time for everyone\".\n\nShe also expressed concern that her grandchildren witnessed their mother's harrowing death.\n\nMrs Rainey's son Alan spoke of the loss his mother's death has had on the family.\n\nAt the tariff hearing last week, the defence said there were a number of mitigating factors in the case, including the fact Rainey had a \"long history of mental health problems\".\n\nThe defence also pointed out the accused and his wife had experienced the death of one of their children in a \"tragic accident\" in 2002.\n\nThe defence accepted Mrs Rainey's murder had been premeditated, but it was \"not significant premeditation\" as it was \"minutes rather than hours or days\".\n\nHe described the murder as \"the ultimate act of domestic violence\".\n\nHe added: \"It was witnessed by the children who heard the screams and ran out to see something they will never be able to forget - their mother in flames.\"\n• None Murderer doused wife in petrol and set her on fire", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wael Sawan says the world \"continues to desperately need oil and gas\"\n\nCutting oil and gas production would be \"dangerous and irresponsible\", the boss of energy giant Shell has told the BBC.\n\nWael Sawan insisted that the world still \"desperately needs oil and gas\" as moves to renewable energy were not happening fast enough to replace it.\n\nHe warned increased demand from China and a cold winter in Europe could push energy prices and bills higher again.\n\nMr Sawan angered climate scientists who said Shell's plan to continue current oil production until 2030 was wrong.\n\nProfessor Emily Shuckburgh, a climate scientist at the University of Cambridge, said firms such as Shell should focus on accelerating the green transition \"rather than trying to suggest the most vulnerable in society are in any way best served by prolonging our use of oil and gas\".\n\nHead of the UN António Guterres recently said investment in new oil and gas production was \"economic and moral madness\".\n\nMr Sawan told the BBC: \"I respectfully disagree.\" He added: \"What would be dangerous and irresponsible is cutting oil and gas production so that the cost of living, as we saw last year, starts to shoot up again.\"\n\nThe world is in a race to ditch fossil fuels in favour of greener alternatives as globally leaders have pledged to keep the world from warming by more than 1.5C this century.\n\nLast year the European Commission outlined how the EU would speed up its shift to green energy to end its dependency on Russian oil and gas.\n\nMany countries do not have the infrastructure to move to more sustainable forms of energy.\n\nMr Sawan said an international bidding war for gas last year saw poorer countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh unable to afford liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments that were instead diverted to Northern Europe.\n\n\"They took away LNG from those countries and children had to work and study by candlelight,\" he said. \"If we're going to have a transition it needs to be a just transition that doesn't just work for one part of the world.\"\n\nClaire Fyson, co-head of climate policy at Climate Analytics, a global science and policy institute, told the BBC: \"The idea that it's a choice between our addiction to fossil fuels or working by candlelight is a gross misrepresentation of reality, when we know renewables are cleaner, cheaper and better for public health.\"\n\nThe UK has pledged to spend £11.6bn on international climate finance but a memo seen by the BBC said economic shocks like the Covid pandemic had \"turned a stretching target into a huge challenge\".\n\nThe head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, has said that \"if governments are serious about the climate crisis, there can be no new investments in oil, gas and coal from now\".\n\nHere are some energy saving ideas from environmental scientist Angela Terry, who set up One Home, a social enterprise that shares green, money-saving tips:\n\nShell has a long history and a headquarters in the UK. But Mr Sawan said a lack of clarity and stability on energy policy and taxation risked making the UK a less attractive place to invest compared with more welcoming countries. The UK has increased tax on UK-derived profits from 40% to 75% until 2028 unless oil and gas prices fall below thresholds for a sustained period - which most energy experts doubt will happen.\n\nThe UK currently imports more than half of its oil and gas - and that proportion is expected to rise without renewed investment in the North Sea. Shell recently decided to sell its stake in a major new undeveloped oil field at Cambo.\n\n\"Ultimately the government needs to make a call as to their views on imported versus domestic production,\" said Mr Sawan.\n\n\"When you do not have the stability you require in these long-term investments, that raises questions when we compare that to other countries where there is very clear support for those investments.\"\n\nMr Sawan was also keen to stress the warm welcome extended to the company by the New York Stock Exchange at a recent investors' meeting where they laid out their plans to cut costs and maximise profits.\n\n\"The welcome we had there was exemplary. The Shell flag was waving next to the New York Stock Exchange flag,\" he said.\n\nHe said that the officials there had underlined his feeling that the US was more supportive of oil and gas companies.\n\n\"They said we continue to value a company that provides us the energy we desperately need. That resonated with me as a person who comes from Lebanon where we are starved of energy.\"\n\nMr Sawan did not rule out moving Shell's headquarters and stock market listing to the US. American oil companies command higher prices for their shares - Exxon Mobil for example is worth 40% more than Shell per dollar of profit.\n\n\"There are many who question whether that valuation gap can only be bridged if we move to the US. A move of headquarters is not a priority for the next three years.\"\n\nBut after that? \"I would never rule out anything that could potentially create the right circumstances for the company and its shareholders. Ultimately, I am in the service of shareholder value,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Shell says it has no plans to move in the short term, Mr Sawan's comments will add to fears that London's stock market is losing its lustre as a venue for multinational companies to raise money after technology darling Arm Holdings recently announced plans to move its primary listing to the US.\n\nA move by the UK's most valuable company to the US would seriously dent Britain's financial prestige and cost jobs in the financial services sector.", "The prime minister’s official spokesman has denied that the government is set to miss its pledge on climate finance.\n\nHe said the government remained “committed to the £11.6bn of climate finance over the original timeframe of 21/22 to 25/26”.\n\nHe said the figures which he had seen quoted on the aid budget were “inaccurate” and fundamentally misrepresented the UK’s international aid spending.\n\nHe also said it was “inaccurate to claim that we are not committed to this target nor that we do not intend to meet it. The budget for the ICF extends just beyond the Foreign Office\".\n\n\"Indeed it covers multiple government departments and it’s deliberately phased over a number of years to enable it to flex given we know that there will be different circumstances each year.”", "Last updated on .From the section Millwall\n\nMillwall's owner and chairman John Berylson has died at the age of 70 following a \"tragic accident\" on Tuesday, the club have said.\n\nThe American businessman first became involved with the Championship club in 2006.\n\n\"He was a truly great man, incredibly devoted to his family,\" Millwall said in a statement.\n\nBerylson is survived by wife Amy and his three children Jennifer, James, and Elizabeth.\n\nThe club added: \"He was a person of such remarkable generosity, warmth, and kindness.\n\n\"He lived a storied life, one full of colour and joy, and was infinitely thoughtful of others with an endless desire to share his immense knowledge and experiences to help people.\"\n\nMillwall have not released any further details around Berylson's death.\n\nThe club have said fans can pay their respects in a book of condolence which will be shared with his family.\n\nSupporters can write in the book at the club's The Den stadium on Wednesday from 11:00 BST, or online.\n\n\"He has presided over some of the greatest moments in Millwall's history, and his influence in providing the platform for those was immeasurable,\" the club said.\n\n\"John continued to speak eagerly about the new season and his vision for the future, and any success moving forward will be in his memory and honour. It will be his legacy.\"\n\nMillwall finished eighth in the Championship last season, just missing out on a play-off place on the final day.\n\nBerylson became a significant shareholder of the club in 2007 after he led a consortium who invested in the then League One side.\n\nHe replaced Stewart Till as chairman in the same year and went on to oversee two promotions into the Championship.\n\nThe last promotion came in 2017 and the club have maintained their position in the second tier ever since.\n\nTributes have poured in for the owner with former Millwall right-back Alan Dunne saying: \"My deepest condolences to not only my chairman for many years but also friend.\n\n\"John was a gentleman who put Millwall back on the map. What he has done for the club will always be remembered and can only thank him for everything he done for me and MILLWALL.\"\n\nAberdeen's chief executive Alan Burrows said: \"Such awful, awful news. The thoughts of everyone at Aberdeen FC are with John's family, friends and everyone at Millwall FC. RIP.\"\n\nThe English Football League wrote: \"The EFL is shocked and saddened by the news and sends its deepest condolences to John's family and everyone connected with Millwall.\"\n\nMultiple clubs have sent their condolences, including rivals West Ham, who wrote: \"Everyone at West Ham United sends their deepest condolences to John's family, friends and all at Millwall FC during this tragic time.\"", "The autumn sunlight streamed in through the east window of St Giles' and lit up a scene for the ages.\n\nIn a coffin of oak, beneath the red and yellow royal standard of Scotland, lay Queen Elizabeth.\n\nAround her stood clerics in scarlet, archers in green, and police officers wearing pristine white gloves.\n\nAll of the imagery was vivid but, as I recorded in my notebook moments after leaving the cathedral, one detail was especially striking.\n\nIt was the sight of the fragile golden crown of Scotland atop the coffin.\n\nHere, adorned with gems, precious stones and freshwater pearls, was a palpable reminder of both the individual who had died and the ancient institution she had led - a crown first worn by James V at the coronation of his queen, Mary of Guise, in 1540.\n\nThree years later it was used again, together with the sword and sceptre which make up Scotland's Crown Jewels, to crown the infant Mary Queen of Scots.\n\nNow King Charles III returns to Edinburgh's High Kirk, where he stood guard over his mother's coffin after her death at Balmoral Castle in September, to be presented with the crown, the sceptre, and a new sword named after the late Queen, in the presence of the Stone of Destiny.\n\nIn doing so he follows in Elizabeth's footsteps. On 24 June 1953 tens of thousands of people packed the streets of Edinburgh for a glimpse of the young Queen as she toured the capital en route to St Giles' for a similar ceremony.\n\n\"Scotland,\" noted Sir Thomas Innes of Learney at the time, \"yields to none in the warmth of its loyalty for the new-crowned Queen.\"\n\nThe Scottish crown was placed on the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh\n\nSir Thomas, the Lord Lyon King of Arms, described how the Crown Jewels, also known as the Honours of Scotland, had been borne from Edinburgh Castle to the cathedral in \"a procession of glittering splendour\".\n\nThe Queen herself arrived in an open landau carriage drawn by four Windsor greys and flanked by the sovereign's bodyguards from the Royal Company of Archers.\n\nOnly her attire - a dress rather than ceremonial robes - went down badly, seen by some as insufficiently respectful.\n\nInside St Giles', a 1,700-strong congregation gave voice to psalms which had been sung at the coronations of Charles I at Holyrood in 1633 and of Charles II at Scone in 1651.\n\nThe Honours of Scotland are usually on display at Edinburgh Castle\n\nThere was a heart-stopping wobble as the crown, resting on a cushion, was presented to the monarch who held it for a brief moment before handing it back.\n\nThe event was not a coronation but it carried many of the trappings of one.\n\n\"Fifty-three is remarkable just from the public interest,\" says Dr George Gross, a visiting research fellow at King's College, London who specialises in royalty and coronation history. \"The crowds are vast,\" he adds.\n\nKing Charles received First Minister Humza Yousaf at the Palace of Holyroodhouse on Tuesday\n\nSeventy years on, the event is not on the same scale. The monarch will travel directly from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' rather than process down Princes Street.\n\nA plan for the King to use the landau has been abandoned in favour of an enclosed limousine.\n\nCommentators have mused about Buckingham Palace's supposed sensitivity to cost of living pressures although it must he said that travel by State Bentley hardly screams austerity.\n\nProf Anna Whitelock, director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy, describes the occasion as a \"reduced, imitation coronation\".\n\nIt is, she contends, \"a poor man's re-enactment, where no-one actually gets to wear the crown. You're kind of shadowboxing with the past.\"\n\nThere may also be some shadowboxing with the present. Times have changed since the 1950s. The United Kingdom is wealthier than it was in the lean years after World War Two. It is also more ethnically diverse, less deferential and less Christian.\n\nThe royal couple kicked off the annual Holyrood Week on Monday\n\nIt is more atomised too. The ties which bind the union of Scotland and England have frayed as memories of the unifying experience of the war have faded and the shared enterprise of the British Empire, which brought such riches to Scotland, has been reappraised.\n\nPolitics has changed too. The last time a majority of voters in Scotland opted for a Conservative government, the late Queen was still in her twenties.\n\nNow the nation's devolved parliament, which Elizabeth herself cautioned against in 1977 before embracing in 1999, is firmly established in Scottish life - \"a new voice in the land,\" in the words of its draughtsman, Donald Dewar.\n\nThe 21st century has seen the Scottish Labour Party of Dewar swept aside, with the Scottish National Party now running the devolved government, handling affairs such as health, education and justice.\n\nIt will be a first minister who is both a republican and a nationalist, Humza Yousaf, who attends the thanksgiving service in his official capacity as Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish Green Party, Mr Yousaf's partners in government who also favour an elected head of state, will not be there - instead joining a rally organised by the campaign group Our Republic outside Holyrood.\n\nQueen Elizabeth was presented with the Crown of Scotland inside St Giles' in 1953\n\n\"How can we justify a system that allows one family to enjoy so much unearned wealth and privilege at a time when millions of people have so little?\" asks the Greens' co-leader Lorna Slater, rhetorically.\n\nThere appears to be more support for this position in Scotland than there is elsewhere in the UK.\n\nRecent polling suggests that the monarchy is backed by less than half of the electorate in Scotland although it remains a more popular constitutional option than a republic.\n\nThere is a strong correlation between support for Scottish independence and support for a republic, with the youngest voters most likely to favour both propositions.\n\nAccording to YouGov, only 31% of those who voted to leave the UK in 2014 support the monarchy, while 57% would prefer an elected head of state.\n\nThe polling firm's data also suggest majority support for a republic among voters aged 16-24, with only a fifth of that age group in favour of the monarchy.\n\nSir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, says there are also signs of a dip in support for the royals since the Queen's death.\n\nStill, throughout the centuries, the institution of monarchy has weathered immense political, religious and social upheaval.\n\nThe king will be presented with a new sword named in honour of his mother as part of the ceremony\n\nIn 1567 the Honours of Scotland were used at Stirling to crown James VI, and, following his consolidation of the Scottish and English monarchies in the 1603 Union of the Crowns, at the coronation of his son, the ill-fated Charles I at Edinburgh's Palace of Holyroodhouse in 1633.\n\nThe Crown Jewels - now the oldest regalia in the British Isles - proved resilient.\n\nAfter Charles' execution in 1649, England's Crown Jewels were melted down or sold on the orders of the republican revolutionary Oliver Cromwell as representative of the \"detestable rule of kings\".\n\nWhen Charles' son was crowned as Charles II with the support of the Presbyterian Covenanters at Scone in 1651, Cromwell invaded Scotland, determined to regain control and to destroy the Scottish Honours in the process.\n\nCromwell prevailed, forcing Charles to flee for the continent, but the Honours, hidden at Kinneff Kirk in Aberdeenshire, escaped his grasp.\n\nThey were never again part of a coronation ceremony.\n\nAfter the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660, following Cromwell's death, the Honours were used ceremonially in the Scottish Parliament until the parliamentary union of Scotland and England in 1707, when they were locked away in an oak chest at Edinburgh Castle.\n\nSir Walter Scott is often considered the founding father of historical fiction\n\nTheir rediscovery and rehabilitation by Sir Walter Scott in 1818 was part of the author and historian's successful effort to create a new image of Scotland, romanticising the Gaelic way of life even as starving Highlanders were being driven from their homes in the Clearances.\n\nAt the heart of Scott's project was his popularisation of the kilt as a \"national\" rather than a \"Highland\" form of dress, stripping it of the Catholic associations of the House of Stuart which was deposed in 1688 and the Jacobites who fought to restore that line.\n\nThe period still resonates today not least because the kilt remains the favoured attire while north of the border of Charles III, defender of the Protestant faith in England and member of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.\n\nIn his seminal work The Scottish Nation, Sir Tom Devine contends that \"Highlandism answered the emotional need for the maintenance of a distinctive Scottish identity without in any way compromising the union.\"\n\nWith this week's service of thanksgiving, the modern-day British state is again treading a fine line, attempting to showcase and honour Scotland without encouraging Scottish nationalism or alienating sects or religions other than Protestantism.\n\n\"The politics of the SNP and all of the problems that have emerged in the last few months perhaps makes the ceremony a lot easier than it was before,\" argues Dr Gross, adding, \"it doesn't look like we're imminently going to be having another referendum.\"\n\nThat may be so but with support for independence continuing to hover just below 50% in most polls, Charles III may yet face a challenge if he wants his Kingdom to remain united.", "Cuba's acute fuel shortages come on top of years of food insecurity, inflation and electricity blackouts\n\nCuban taxi driver Jorge Lloro is reminded of his nation's historic ties to Russia every time he gets behind the wheel of his navy blue, Soviet-era Lada.\n\nHis boxy Russian-made car is one of an estimated 100,000 that were imported to the Caribbean island during the Cold War.\n\nOver the years, the fleet of Ladas arrived in Cuba as a means around the decades-long US economic embargo on the island.\n\nNow, amid a crippling fuel crisis and a dire economic outlook, the island's leadership has again turned to its old ally, Russia, for help.\n\nFor Jorge, it's been a constant struggle to keep his car on the road - spare parts are scarce and expensive. Now, even filling the tank with petrol has become a days-long ordeal.\n\nAt the height of the crisis, the queues of cars at the petrol pumps stretched for several city blocks.\n\nEventually, the state had to organise the hordes of waiting drivers into WhatsApp groups. A state employee would take down your contact details and issue a number. When it was eventually your turn to fill up, you'd be contacted to come to the garage.\n\n\"I'm number 426,\" explained Jorge as he drove us to a petrol station in Havana, having received an alert.\n\nTaxi drivers like Jorge Lloro are struggling to make a living without easy access to fuel\n\nAt the garage forecourt, though, no petrol was flowing after the tanker failed to arrive. \"I don't know why they even told us to come,\" complained Jorge.\n\n\"This system is inefficient and ineffective,\" echoed another driver, Joel Hernandez, who was expressing the exasperation of everyone in the queue.\n\n\"We're not allowed to fill an entire tank, people often miss their number or aren't informed when it's their turn. It lacks proper organisation and infrastructure.\"\n\nFor weeks, the fuel crisis has pushed the beleaguered Cuban people to the brink of desperation.\n\nIt's the latest in a series of major challenges they have faced recently: food insecurity, inflation and electricity blackouts.\n\nCuba's long-standing woes stem from government mismanagement and the US economic embargo, but were worsened by the collapse of the tourism industry during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFor some Russian companies, though, that has presented a unique opportunity.\n\nAt a recent trade forum in Havana, Cuba signed a series of agreements with Russian businesses covering everything from tourism and agriculture to energy.\n\nMany drivers have to wait days to enter petrol stations and face limits on how much fuel they can buy\n\nAmong the deals reached were concessions to Russian firms to revitalise parts of the island's decrepit tourism infrastructure, including the decaying beach resort of Tarara.\n\nThere will also be a joint project to overhaul an obsolete sugar mill in Sancti Spiritus province, as well as investment in rum and steel production.\n\nHowever, of most interest to Jorge and the other waiting drivers is an agreement for Russia to provide around 30,000 barrels of crude oil a day.\n\nThat would help make up a shortfall in the island's domestic consumption after oil-rich socialist ally, Venezuela, dropped its crude oil exports to Cuba from 80,000 barrels a day in 2020 to around 55,000.\n\nIt's being heralded in the Cuban state media as evidence of the two nation's lasting ties. But the island's leading independent economist, Omar Everleny, fears the decision to forge closer relations with Moscow is only a short-term fix for Cuba.\n\n\"When you're putting out fires on several fronts, it's attractive that Russia comes in to shore up that unstable situation. But the problem lies in the medium term,\" he says.\n\nThe Russian firms will expect to be paid on time and in full for putting up the funds which Cuba so desperately needs, adds Mr Everleny.\n\n\"These aren't Soviet companies giving out government credits. They're private Russian firms who will demand a proper return on their investment.\"\n\nNew deals with Russia hope to bring Cuba's tourism sector back to life after it was badly hit by the pandemic\n\n\"Will that involve further sacrifices for Cuban families because we'll have to pay back those credits or will there one day be another Putin figure who'll forgive the debt?\", he says, referring to a decision in 2014 by Russian President Vladimir Putin to forgive some $32bn (£25bn) of Cuba's debt.\n\nCertainly, the new economic ties come at a particularly complex moment.\n\nAfter Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Cuba has been one of Moscow's few vocal supporters in Latin America, something clearly appreciated by the Kremlin.\n\nDuring a recent visit by a high-level Cuban delegation to Moscow, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted in state media as saying: \"Without a doubt, Cuba has been and continues to be Russia's most important ally in the region.\"\n\nMaybe so, but economist Omar Everleny says Cuba cannot repeat the mistake of having a single benefactor to pull the island from its economic mire.\n\n\"It happened first with Spain, then the US, then the Soviet Union, then Venezuela. You can't depend on a single market,\" he says.\n\n\"I think Cuba needs to make its own production strategy - one in which the small and medium-sized private businesses - Cuban businesses - should play a key role.\"\n\nAt the end of a sweltering day outside the petrol station, Jorge Lloro was eventually able to fill up his Lada.\n\nBut like the Cuban Revolution itself, it's essentially running on fumes, only able to maintain momentum with Russia's help and in need of a major overhaul in the years ahead.", "Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater pictured at the Scottish Greens' spring party conference earlier this year\n\nThe co-leaders of the Scottish Greens have confirmed they will not attend a service of thanksgiving for King Charles III in Edinburgh this week.\n\nPatrick Harvie and Lorna Slater are both outspoken republican MSPs as well as government ministers.\n\nMr Harvie will instead speak at a rally outside Holyrood organised by the anti-monarchy group Our Republic.\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Donald Cameron said the decision was \"akin to student politics\".\n\nAlex Salmond, the former first minister and SNP leader, also said he had \"politely declined\" an invitation to attend the ceremony.\n\nThe national service of thanksgiving on Wednesday will see the King being presented with the Scottish crown jewels in a ceremony to mark his Coronation.\n\nLast year, members of the Scottish Greens boycotted a debate at Holyrood at which MSPs congratulated the late Queen on her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nAt the time, the party - which is part of a Scottish government power-sharing deal - said a head of state should be chosen by, and be accountable to, voters.\n\nConfirming her intention not to attend Wednesday's ceremony, Ms Slater said: \"In 21st Century Scotland, the monarchy is nothing to celebrate.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is an out-of-date and undemocratic institution.\n\n\"How can we justify a system that allows one family to enjoy so much unearned wealth and privilege at a time when millions of people have so little?\"\n\nScottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater met the Queen at the opening of the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament in October 2021\n\nMr Harvie added that the monarchy was one of the reasonshe supported Scottish independence.\n\nHe said: \"There are many people in Scotland who regard the monarchy as a tiresome spectacle and a symbol of values we don't hold.\"\n\n\"I will be proud to speak at the Our Republic rally, and to stand with others who want to build a more democratic society, where power and wealth belongs to the people rather than being passed down as an inheritance.\"\n\nDonald Cameron said Mr Harvie's choice to speak at the rally instead was \"predictably infantile\".\n\nHe added: \"If he wants to ask big questions, he should start with how he conducts himself as a government minister.\n\n\"The Greens may have failed to deliver a deposit-return scheme, but they can definitely recycle tedious anti-monarchy rants.\n\n\"As on so many issues, the extremist Greens are out of touch with the majority of Scots, who see the Coronation and the King's commitment to Scotland as something to celebrate.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Salmond - who publicly backed keeping the monarchy in an independent Scotland while he was first minister - predicted that King Charles would be the \"last king of Scots\".\n\nHe added: \"This really is not the time to be wasting money on public displays of fealty to a King. It is the time for a renewed debate on why Scotland needs to take its own future into its own hands.\n\n\"I believe Scotland will become an independent country, and when we do, I suspect the majority of people will want a fresh start on the basis of an elected head of state.\"\n\nThe King won't exactly be shocked to hear that Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater will not be attending the service.\n\nHe will know they are not there. It's not something that will slip under the radar - he is kept up-to-date with all affairs of state.\n\nFor the Greens, as avowed republicans, if they did go to St Giles's, they would feel they were betraying their own principles.\n\nMr Harvie will address the Our Republic demonstration instead.\n\nPatrick Harvie and Lorna Slater are ministers of the Crown - some maybe question if there's a \"disloyalty\" here?\n\nHowever, it's not the Middle Ages and heads will not roll.\n\nThey were, after all, democratically elected by people who clearly share their views.\n\nWidening this out though, the first minister will attend - although he's a republican too.\n\nIt's easy for him to make an argument about why he has to be present at the service.\n\nMr Yousaf previously made clear he went to the Coronation as he represents all the people of Scotland.\n\nPerhaps there's a certain irony though about the nature of the Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication.\n\nThe King was crowned as King of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey - and this is most certainly not a \"Scottish Coronation\".\n\nBut all the rich panoply of what would seem to be Scottish \"statehood\" will be on show at St Giles.\n\nIt highlights Scotland's history as an independent nation and the service now emphasises that ancient past in the United Kingdom.\n\nSo despite the opposition from some quarters, others who share pro-independence views will take a different view about the event.\n\nSome Scottish nationalists who hail from the more traditional and monarchist wing of the movement will watch tomorrow with a real sense of \"what could be\" - as they see that sense of Scottish \"statehood\" played out in front of His Majesty.", "Train companies are pressing ahead with plans to close hundreds of station ticket offices across England over the next three years.\n\nUnder the proposals, some ticket kiosks would remain in large stations, but elsewhere staff will be on concourses to sell tickets, offer travel advice and help people with accessibility.\n\nThe plan has been met with concern from unions and disability groups.\n\nA 21-day public consultation has been launched to collect passengers' views.\n\nPosters have gone up in stations, inviting the public to take part, after which the government will make the final decision on which offices will close.\n\nCurrently around three out of every five stations has a ticket office, although some are only staffed part time.\n\nThe issue is the latest flashpoint between train companies and unions, who have been in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions, which has resulted in a series of strikes since last summer.\n\nThe rail industry is under pressure from the government to cut costs after being supported heavily during the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"The ways our customers buy tickets has changed and it's time for the railway to change with them,\" said Jacqueline Starr chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train companies. She said the changes would be phased in gradually.\n\nOnly 12% of tickets were sold at ticket offices last year, she said, with the rest bought online or from vending machines.\n\nUnder the plans, if a passenger was unable to purchase a ticket, they would be able to buy one during the journey, at a ticket office en-route or at their destination, the RDG said.\n\nBut many rail users, who rely on help at ticket offices, fear the changes will make it harder for them to travel.\n\nRobert Calvert, 75, from Tamworth says his dyslexia and colour blindness make it hard to negotiate self-service machines.\n\n\"Remember not everyone has a smartphone these days,\" he says. \"Everything is so automated, I feel slightly left behind.\"\n\nAnn Jolly, 78, from Emsworth in Hampshire, often uses the train to travel to her native Scotland, but says she already finds the complication of how to buy train tickets \"off-putting\".\n\n\"I do use the self-service machine if I have to. Usually I manage, but I struggle with trying to find the different routes and knowing what I have to pay for. A lot of my friends feel the same.\n\n\"The train tickets are just incomprehensible online, especially when it says the tickets come from different companies, so I need a number of different ones for one trip.\"\n\nThe RDG says that staff will be just as readily available as they are now, but on the concourse or platform, where they can advise passengers on journey planning and sell tickets.\n\nHowever, the UK's largest rail union the RMT and the TSSA union both warned the plans could ultimately lead to job cuts.\n\nSome disability campaigners have also long opposed the idea.\n\nVivienne Francis from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), said it would be \"detrimental\" for blind and partially-sighted people with only 3% of such people able to use a machine.\n\nStewart Palmer is director of Railfuture, which represents passengers and campaigns for better rail services, and is a former managing director South West Trains. He said the consultation was \"putting the cart before the horse\".\n\n\"One of the root causes of this issue is that the present ticketing system on the rail network in Britain is mind-bogglingly complicated,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"People want versatile, knowledgeable staff, not necessarily behind a glass screen, but they also want to be knowing they're buying the right product at the right price.\"\n\nThe RDG said the proposals to close ticket offices followed industrial action by unions over other changes designed to make the railway \"sustainable in the long term\". The RDG said rail revenues were still 30% below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the proposals were not about cutting jobs, but about modernising the railway to make sure the sector survived.", "A man will spend at least nine years in prison for the killing of Northern Ireland tattoo artist Aidan Mann.\n\nThe 28-year-old, known as artist Zen Black, was stabbed 14 times at Church Street in Downpatrick, in January 2022.\n\nThe court said Aidan was an entirely innocent victim who did nothing to provoke the fatal attack.\n\nBarry Donnelly, 38, whose address was given as Church Street in Downpatrick, admitted manslaughter pleading diminished responsibility.\n\nHe was given an indeterminate custodial sentence at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe judge said Donnelly must serve at least nine years in prison before he is eligible to be considered for release.\n\nA spokesman for the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland said it was investigating a complaint of alleged police failings prior to the killing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I just think life has so much to offer\" - Aidan Mann archive recording\n\nAfter the sentencing hearing Aidan's mother spoke of the devastating impact the killing has had on Aidan's loved ones.\n\nSonya Mann said Donnelly \"stole my life when he killed my son\".\n\n\"He chased my son down the street like an animal,\" she said.\n\n\"The fear my son must have felt and the suffering - that will never, ever leave me.\"\n\nA previous hearing was told that Donnelly had been \"actively psychotic\" at the time of the attack.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty to the offences of possession of offensive weapons and assault occasioning actual bodily harm relating to a previous attack on a mother and son in June 2021.\n\nCCTV footage shown in court traced Donnelly's movements on that day of Aidan's death.\n\nThe two were neighbours - although they barely knew each other.\n\nThe deceased left his flat at about 11:00 GMT. After being approached by Donnelly, Aidan crossed the road and started running along Church Street, still wearing a motorcycle helmet and being chased by him.\n\nThe fatal stabbing happened on Church Street in Downpatrick\n\nThe chase continued and, at one point, Aidan turned round, looked back at Donnelly and appeared to gesture at him before he crossed the road into oncoming traffic.\n\nThe CCTV footage then showed Donnelly catching up with Aidan on the pavement outside a car dealership.\n\nAfter Aidan fell to the ground, Donnelly straddled his victim, who he stabbed repeatedly in the chest, leg and torso.\n\nMembers of the public intervened, pulled Donnelly off Aidan and called 999. He was arrested while still being restrained by the public.\n\nTwo large kitchen knives used by Donnelly were seized from the scene.\n\nA prosecutor at an earlier hearing said that at the scene Donnelly shouted it was a revenge attack for his brother who had been murdered the previous evening, which the lawyer said \"transpired to be completely wrong\".\n\nDonnelly was admitted to a psychiatric unit - the Shannon clinic - in the month after the killing where he remains.\n\nTwo consultant psychiatrists agreed that the defendant was suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning arising from schizophrenia at the time of the attack.\n\nA psychiatrist indicated that he would probably not need to remain for treatment much longer and envisaged him moving to prison.\n\nDonnelly's defence barrister told the court that his client had not been aware that he was suffering from acute mental illness until after the \"terrible act\" in which Aidan died.\n\nHe said his client has expressed \"regret, remorse and heartbreak\".\n\nDet Insp Foreman said said the \"senseless\" attack had happened in the late morning, \"when members of the public were going about their business\".\n\nThe detective thanked those who ran to Aidan's assistance and who phoned emergency services.\n\n\"There are no words that can undo the tragic events of that morning,\" Det Insp Foreman added.\n\n\"There's nothing that can ease the pain and sadness of those who knew and loved Aidan, and my thoughts are very much with them today.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe atmosphere in Jenin refugee camp feels like one I have witnessed elsewhere - in Gaza, after wars with Israel.\n\nBut this is the occupied West Bank; where the dynamics are very different. Now it seems like a fast descent into something far more dangerous is already happening.\n\nThe destruction in the camp following the Israeli army's biggest assault there in 20 years is massive.\n\nAs hundreds of troops entered the camp on Monday morning, the army fired missiles from drones - air strikes have not been used in the West Bank for two decades - and tore up roads to clear them of what it said were militants' roadside bombs.\n\nFierce gun battles broke out between the troops and Palestinian militants and continued until Israeli troops withdrew on Tuesday night.\n\nNow for the first time in safety since Sunday, thousands of residents pour into the streets to see the destruction themselves.\n\nThey clamber over rubble, take photos on their phones of the wreckage and compare experiences, pointing out which homes were raided, whose sons have been detained, and where the dead fell. One man walks up to me saying it reminds him of pictures from Turkey and Syria earlier this year - after the earthquake.\n\nThe UN said there was significant damage to water and power networks inside the camp\n\nCars lie crushed and tossed aside where they were hewn out of the path of Israel's D9 armoured bulldozers. The tarmac is torn up, lying everywhere in huge chunks. We walk along what was underneath the streets: rubble, sand and dust.\n\nMany homes have no water or power. Aid volunteers bring crates of bottled water. They join the recovery workers - some driving the few diggers available. One is removing a downed tree from the top of a residential building. It shears away part of the facade of a shop on the ground floor, falling perilously close to us.\n\nThe Israeli armoured convoys pulled out overnight amid intense gunfights with militants. Despite today's calm, everyone fears more is coming. Israel says it will keep doing these kinds of operations \"as long as necessary to uproot terrorism\" while Palestinian militant groups are claiming \"victory\" and vowing revenge.\n\nWe continue our way through the camp and the funeral processions begin. Thousands of mourners chant as they carry stretchers holding the bodies of some of the 12 Palestinians killed since Monday. Four of them were aged under 18. Israel said it was targeting militants.\n\nThousands attended the funerals of the 12 Palestinians killed during the Israeli operation\n\nColumns of people join. As they march, some men are masked and carrying guns; others wear Islamic Jihad headbands and Hamas flags flutter over a nearby building. Anger grips the crowd as it makes its way towards the homes of the dead, where their mothers and wives await.\n\nBut the displays of firepower - in public at least - feel less intense than previous funerals.\n\nI have been coming to Jenin repeatedly over the last year and a half, as a new generation of armed militants has formed, rejecting the ageing Palestinian leadership and shooting at the Israeli army during its growing raids into the city.\n\nThis is a generation that believes the official Palestinian Authority (PA) sold out on their future and became little more than a security company for Israel's military occupation, which secures the expanding Israeli settlements in the West Bank, built on the land Palestinians want for a future state and illegal under international law.\n\nJenin is a city that had already slipped well out of the control of the Palestinian Authority\n\nLess gunfire today, but the frustration only intensifies. Overnight young Palestinian men also clashed with the formal security forces of the PA. Jenin is a city that had already slipped well out of its limited control.\n\nNow the institutional remnants of a three-decades old peace process in the occupied West Bank are being tested to destruction.\n\nIsrael says it will continue to root out what it calls \"a city of refuge for terrorism\" in Jenin, but the Palestinian militant factions say they will intensify their activities. A car-ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday that wounded seven Israelis was described by Islamic Jihad as the \"first response\" to what was happening in Jenin.\n\nThe growing violence is a further sign of the collapse of any political horizons. Some fear that Palestinian cities in the West Bank will see more intensive military attacks and security crackdowns - more akin to the plight of people in Gaza, which is governed by Hamas and blockaded by Israel.\n\nMore Palestinians reject their own internationally recognised leadership and back armed resistance, while Israel remains in the grip of the most extreme government it has ever known, which has vowed to extend what it calls exclusive Jewish rights to all the land.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A thick crust of black ash has settled on the pavements and roads in the centre of Jenin.\n\nIt comes from barricades of burning tyres set up by young Palestinian men, who prowl streets where they might see an Israeli jeep. Some of them carry rocks or small home-made bombs to hurl at passing Israeli vehicles. In sporadic bursts, gunfire and explosions echo in the refugee camp, which is on high ground above the town centre. Israeli drones buzz constantly overhead.\n\nAt times, armed Palestinians emerge from the tyre smoke to fire at the Israelis.\n\nViolence between Palestinians and Israelis has become almost a daily event this year. When blood is spilt there is often a dynamic of retaliation, that includes Palestinian armed groups, Jews who live in settlements in the occupied West Bank that are illegal under international law, and the Israeli army. The Israelis said they moved in on the Jenin camp because more than 50 relatively recent attacks were launched from there.\n\nBut the roots of violence, despair and hatred go much deeper than the latest violent confrontations. They thrive in the poison generated by a conflict over possession of the land that started more than a century ago. For a while, back in the 1990s, there were hopes that peace might come if an independent Palestinian state could be established alongside Israel, the so-called two-state solution. The attempt failed.\n\nPowerful Western countries, including the US, European Union members and the UK still insist that two states are the only possible solution. Their words are empty slogans. The last American attempt to try to make the idea work collapsed in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Israeli operation here in Jenin was in the air for months. Despite regular smaller Israeli raids, Palestinian armed groups had become strong enough and united enough to control the Jenin refugee camp. They seemed to be getting stronger.\n\nA fortnight ago they blew up an Israeli jeep and fought hard to repel an Israeli raid, in which the Palestinian dead included a 15-year-old girl. The next day four Israelis were killed by two Palestinians who burst into a restaurant not far from Jenin, where they were eating. The Israeli army protected Jewish settlers who rampaged through Palestinian villages burning cars and houses, in a series of reprisals.\n\nIt was a matter of time before the Israeli army moved against the Palestinians who controlled Jenin refugee camp. It says it is carrying out a systematic operation to track down and destroy weapons and explosives.\n\nFury and frustration rage through young Palestinian men who have gathered in angry knots at road junctions in the town and outside a hospital on the edge of the Jenin refugee camp. Their barricades of burning tyres leave behind black circles and piles of burnt rubber and twisted wire.\n\nThe Israeli army is releasing updates on explosives discovered and neutralised in the two days it has been in the camp, along with what it calls terrorist command centres. The business-like tone of the military communiques contrasts with the statements made by members of the Israeli cabinet who oppose any kind of Palestinian self-determination.\n\nAfter a Palestinian was shot dead in Tel Aviv by a passer-by, after he had rammed his car into a crowd of Israelis, public security minister Itamar Ben Gvir issued a statement saying Israel's war in Jenin was also their war in Tel Aviv. Every Jew, he said, was a target for murderers.\n\nMr Ben Gvir and his political allies have been pressing for a punitive sweep through the West Bank to deal with their enemies. The Israeli army is more cautious, as it is more worried about the risks and consequences of escalation. All the indications are the Israeli army would like to restrict its operation to the Jenin refugee camp, declare victory soon and order its soldiers back to their bases.\n\nIsraeli victories after an operation like this never last long. Palestinian armed groups restock their armouries and the cycle begins again. Plans to expand settlements for Jews on occupied land that Palestinians want for a state, sometimes called a Zionist response by Israeli politicians, also raise the temperature.\n\nMany Palestinians are disenchanted with their own ageing and ineffective leaders in the Palestinian Authority, a legacy of the 1990s peace process that was supposed back then to build the institutions necessary to create their own state.\n\nWhen this operation ends, on past form both sides will claim victory. Then the current realities of this long conflict will reassert themselves. Anger, despair and poverty will reinforce the culture of resistance that has embedded itself in Palestinian society, especially here in Jenin and in Nablus. And Israel's right-wing, hyper-nationalist government, as long as it lasts, will try to match its rhetoric with action.\n\nThe real danger is that Israelis and Palestinians are sliding into an even more violent phase of their long conflict.", "A number of recent reports have been critical of aspects of approach to relationships and sex education in Northern Ireland\n\nChildren should be taught about \"healthy, respectful relationships\" from a young age.\n\nThat is one of the key actions in a new Stormont framework on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG).\n\nIt also said young people should be involved in developing new relationships and sex education (RSE) for schools.\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a specific EVAWG strategy at present.\n\nThe Stormont Executive first recommended a strategy should be developed to protect women and girls in Northern Ireland from violence in 2021.\n\nThe Executive Office has now published a \"strategic framework\" and initial action plan for consultation.\n\nThe aim of the framework is \"a changed society where women and girls are free from all forms of gender-based violence, abuse and harm\".\n\nIn her foreword to it, the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Jayne Brady, said ending violence against women and girls was \"one of the most difficult challenges facing our society today\".\n\n\"It is also one of the most important,\" she added.\n\nThe action plan defines violence against women and girls as ranging from \"everyday misogynistic attitudes and damaging social norms to harmful unwanted behaviours and serious criminal offences\".\n\nIt said such acts were \"overwhelmingly but not exclusively carried out by men\".\n\nThe action plan also stated that a lot of abuse and harm went unreported, so what is reported is \"only the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nThere are 22 recommended actions in year one of the plan.\n\nThose include a forum to decide how best young people can be taught about healthy, respectful relationships in school - including in Relationships and Sex Education (RSE).\n\nA number of recent reports have been critical of aspects of approach to RSE in Northern Ireland.\n\nA previous consultation on the EVAWG strategy also said that changes to RSE should be part of it.\n\nThe action plan includes initial work on measures to combat violence against women and girls in higher and further education, workplaces and the hospitality sector.\n\nIt found that an analysis of frontline provision should be carried out to improve services for victims.\n\nThat includes increasing the confidence of victims in the justice system.\n\nThe former High Court judge Sir John Gillen had previously recommended extensive changes to how sexual offences were dealt with in Northern Ireland.\n\nSir John said the justice system had \"much to change\".\n\nResearch suggests that four in five women first experienced men's violence before the age of 20\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland recently published its first ever action plan aimed at reducing violence against women and girls.\n\nThe overall aim of the strategic framework, meanwhile, is on prevention, \"tackling the root causes and stopping the violence before it starts\".\n\nRecent research quoted in the framework suggests that 75% of girls aged 16 have \"experienced street harassment at least once in their lifetime\".\n\nSeparate research suggests that four in five women \"first experienced men's violence before the age of 20\".\n\nThe framework also said that 42 women had been murdered in Northern Ireland from January 2013 to June 2023 - one every three months.\n\nAmong the measures put forward in the strategic framework are for children to be taught about healthy relationships from \"early years\" and for \"accessible\" RSE to be developed in collaboration with young people.\n\n\"Our young people are exposed to messages online which undervalue, demean and humiliate women and girls, as well as increased access to pornography from a young age,\" the framework document said.\n\n\"In addition, there has been a recent rise of online influencers who have a toxic influence on men and boys in our society, and negatively impact their views on women and girls.\"\n\nYouth, faith and sport organisations should also engage men in tackling violence against women, the document said.\n\nA number of other prevention strategies are suggested, including identifying \"champions\" and influencers to drive a change in attitudes across society.\n\nThe framework and action plan have been developed with a range of organisations in Northern Ireland, including Women's Aid, the Women's Resource and Development Agency, Nexus NI and Relate NI.\n\nSarah Mason from Women's Aid Federation NI said the current level of education around healthy relationships was not sufficient.\n\n\"We are leaving our young people to try and figure out relationships and intimate relationships in the palm of their hand in phones.\n\n\"And I mean, that's not where it should be. They should be in safe places understanding about respect,\" she said on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"We cannot keep losing women and girls to violence in this country. So the sooner that we get on this road and we start making the changes, the better.\n\n\"And money needs to be behind it.\"\n• None Upskirting now a crime after campaign", "Last updated on .From the section Forest Green\n\nForest Green Rovers have named Hannah Dingley as their new caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men's team in English football.\n\nThe League Two side sacked Duncan Ferguson on Tuesday after just six months in charge.\n\nForest Green announced Dingley, the club's academy head, would be put in caretaker charge of the first team.\n\nHer first match in charge will be a friendly at Melksham Town on Wednesday.\n\nThe 39-year-old said: \"I'm really excited for this next step of my career. Pre-season has just begun, and the full season kicks off very soon.\n\n\"It's an exciting time in football. I am grateful for the opportunity to step up and lead such a progressive and forward-thinking club.\"\n\nShe first joined the club in 2019 to take charge of the academy and remains the only woman to manage a men's English Football League academy.\n\nDingley, who was born and raised in Carmarthenshire, also initiated the club's girls academy which launched in 2021.\n\nShe has a Uefa Pro Licence and previously worked at Burton Albion.\n\n\"Hannah was the natural choice for us to be first team interim head coach - she's done a fantastic job leading our academy and is well aligned with the values of the club,\" club chairman Dale Vince said\n\n\"It's perhaps telling for the men's game that in making this appointment on merit, we'll break new ground - and Hannah will be the first female head coach in English [men's] football.\"\n\nThe EFL's head of equality, diversity and inclusion, Dave McArdle, praised the appointment: \"This is a welcome moment for English football and with many highly skilled and experienced coaches across the game it was only a matter of time before the ongoing positive development of female coaches led to an opportunity in the first-team at an EFL club.\n\n\"It has always been a key priority for the EFL to create an environment in which clubs consider qualified candidates from an ever-widening pool of coaching talent and select the best possible person for a role.\n\n\"This represents another step forward as we strive to make our game representative of the communities we serve.\"\n\nWomen in Football's chair Ebru Koksal also tweeted that Dingley had broken \"norms and barriers\".\n\n'More than capable of coaching at a men's level'\n\nDingley spoke to BBC Points West in March about breaking down barriers in the sport.\n\n\"You've got a responsibility as the first to open the doors for others and to encourage others,\" she said.\n\n\"You always say if you don't see it, you're probably not going to be it. The fact that I do this I hope it encourages more females to come into coaching, into football, into different roles. I feel a great responsibility to talk about that.\"\n\nShe said at the time that she did not think it would be long until a woman took charge of a men's professional team.\n\n\"It will come in sooner than you think,\" Dingley said. \"The success that the Lionesses are having, that Emma Hayes is having at Chelsea.\n\n\"There are others, really good female coaches out there who I have more than faith in would be more than capable of coaching at a men's level.\"\n• None In an emotional interview he opens up about what motivated him despite his very humble origins\n• None Sue Barker travels the globe to find out", "The Netherlands is the latest country to announce measures to ban devices in classrooms\n\nDevices including mobile phones are set to be banned from classrooms to stop them from disrupting learning, the Dutch government has announced.\n\nThe initiative is being introduced in collaboration with schools and is to take effect at the start of next year.\n\nThere will be some exceptions, including for students with medical needs or a disability, and for classes focused on digital skills.\n\nThe ban is not legally enforceable but may become so in the future.\n\n\"Even though mobile phones are almost intertwined with our lives, they do not belong in the classroom,\" said Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf.\n\n\"Students must be able to concentrate there and be given every opportunity to learn well. We know from scientific research that mobile phones disrupt this.\"\n\nVarious studies have found limiting children's screen time is linked to improved cognition and concentration.\n\nOther tech including tablets and smartwatches are also included in the Dutch ban.\n\nThe government said it would be up to individual schools to agree the exact rules with teachers, parents and pupils - including whether they wanted to completely ban devices from schools.\n\nThe scheme is the result of an agreement between the ministry, schools and related organisations.\n\nIt will be reviewed at the end of the 2024/2025 school year to see how well it had worked and whether a legal ban is needed.\n\nThe announcement follows a similar decision by Finland last week.\n\nIts government announced it would change the law to make it easier to restrict the use of phones in schools.\n\nOther countries, including England and France, have also proposed banning mobile phones to improve learning.", "Lee Waters has said sorry for voting against the government three times\n\nA minister has apologised after voting the wrong way, and against his own government, three times.\n\nDeputy climate change minister Lee Waters admitted the mistakes were \"embarrassing and frustrating\" and he blamed a \"lapse in concentration\".\n\nThe first mistake was during a 16 May vote on the Agricultural Bill.\n\nThe Tories introduced an amendment which Labour voted against, but Mr Waters voted in favour of it, so it passed.\n\nThis meant the law had to return to the Senedd so the government could undo this.\n\nFor that to happen, another vote was needed on 24 May, when Mr Waters was the only Member of the Senedd to vote against.\n\nThen, on 6 June, he voted with the Tories in favour of giving Senedd consent to the UK government on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.\n\nThe Welsh government voted against the consent motion.\n\n\"It is embarrassing and frustrating to have made mistakes when voting, but there's no excuse for the lapses in concentration,\" Mr Waters said.\n\n\"I have apologised to the chief whip.\"", "Aneira Thomas told Prince William she had been born on the same day as the NHS\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales have met the first person born under the National Health Service, at a tea party celebrating the NHS's 75th anniversary.\n\nAneira Thomas told them she had been born in Carmarthenshire at 00:01 on 5 July 1948, the same day as the NHS.\n\nShe was named after the NHS founder and then Health Minister Aneurin Bevan.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales, told current and ex-NHS staff at the party, at St Thomas' Hospital, in London, \"I wanted to come here and say thank you.\"\n\nMrs Thomas told the royal couple: \"Every maternity ward in the country was waiting for the first baby.\n\n\"The doctors delivering me kept looking at the clock, looking back at Mum.\n\n\"She was waiting to hear the word 'push' - but all she heard was, 'Hold on, Edna.'\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales were putting the icing on cakes for the NHS birthday celebrations\n\nMrs Thomas went on to work in the NHS, as a mental-health nurse. Her four sisters also became nurses.\n\nThe NHS had also \"saved both of my children\", she said, when her son and daughter had suffered \"life-changing brain haemorrhages\".\n\nMrs Thomas has previously told a family story from before the founding of the NHS, recalling that when her grandfather broke his leg they had to sell their piano to pay the doctor's bill.\n\nPrince William and Catherine also spoke to Blanche Hines, a nurse for almost 50 years and part of the Windrush generation, whose daughter and grandson also work in health services.\n\n\"Wishing everyone a very happy 75th birthday at the NHS,\" Prince William told guests at the event, organised by NHS Charities Together.\n\nThe anniversary comes in a year when NHS staff have been taking industrial action in disputes over pay.\n\nThe NHS charities focus on the wellbeing of the workforce, including offering psychological support and counselling.\n\nConsultant clinical psychologist Dr Neil Rees said Prince William had \"really understood the issues and complexities - particularly with the current challenges we're facing\".\n\nThe royal visitors, filmed preparing cakes for the party, also addressed another question. Which goes on top on a scone - the jam or the cream?\n\n\"I always do jam and then cream,\" Catherine said.\n\nBut Prince William, remaining politically neutral, replied: \"I go for whichever is closest to me.\"\n\nRead the latest royal news and insights in a free, weekly newsletter - sign up here.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nJust Stop Oil protesters interrupted play twice at Wimbledon by throwing orange-coloured confetti and jigsaw pieces on to court 18.\n\nThe contest between Grigor Dimitrov and Sho Shimabukuro was targeted by two protesters.\n\nA third protester then targeted Katie Boulter's match against Daria Saville. Two men and a woman were arrested.\n\nEnvironmental protest group Just Stop Oil has targeted various sporting events, including an Ashes Test.\n\nFollowers of the group - which calls for the government to halt all new oil, gas and coal projects - also disrupted the rugby union Premiership final and the World Snooker Championship.\n\nIn a statement after the first episode, the All England Club (AELTC) said: \"Following an incident on court 18, two individuals have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass and criminal damage and these individuals have now been removed from the grounds.\"\n\nA man and woman had run on to the court, throwing confetti and jigsaw pieces from a Wimbledon 'Centre Court View' jigsaw puzzle box on to the grass. The man sat down on court 18 before he was removed.\n\nA couple of hours later another man ran on to the same court, where British number one Boulter had just resumed her rain-interrupted first-round match against Australian Saville.\n\nThe crowd booed the protesters with some heard shouting \"get off\".\n\nFollowing the breaks in play, a Wimbledon shop worker told BBC Sport they had stopped selling jigsaws for now.\n\nJust Stop Oil said in a statement its supporters had thrown \"environmentally friendly orange confetti glitter and jigsaw pieces\" and that \"play was briefly delayed whilst marshals picked up the pieces\".\n• None Just Stop Oil: What is it and what does it want?\n\nHome secretary Suella Braverman condemned the actions of the protesters as \"selfish\" and \"unacceptable\", and said she had chaired a meeting at Downing Street with representatives of various sports organisations to try to \"prevent further disruptions\".\n\nCulture Secretary Lucy Frazer added: \"We must protect the right to peaceful protest, but that does not give licence to a vocal minority to spoil events that millions of us enjoy.\"\n\nThe meeting followed a spate of protests at high-profile sporting events, with Just Stop Oil disrupting the second Ashes cricket test at Lord's last week, attempting to spread orange powder on the wicket.\n\nThis year's Grand National was also disrupted after animal rights activists attached themselves to fences, with police making multiple arrests.\n\nWimbledon organisers previously urged spectators to \"be considerate\" when they were asked about the possibility of climate change protests, and they also increased security checks at this year's event.\n\nThe tighter security had led on Monday to delays in getting fans into the grounds.\n\nDespite the measures, Wimbledon became the latest sporting event to find its green surface turned briefly orange.\n\nAELTC chief executive Sally Bolton said earlier this week the club had \"taken account of what we've seen elsewhere so security has been uplifted in various places around the grounds\".\n\nAn environmental activist previously tied themselves to the net post during the French Open semi-final between Casper Ruud and Marin Cilic in 2022.\n\n'It's not pleasant' - Dimitrov on interruption to his match\n\nBulgaria's Dimitrov won his first-round match against Shimabukuro after the brief protest early in the second set. Dimitrov said the disruption had been handled well by staff and the timing of a rain delay that came almost immediately afterwards had also been helpful.\n\n\"Obviously, it's not pleasant,\" he said. \"Sometimes you're just at the wrong place at the wrong time.\n\n\"Everyone in a way did their part as quick as possible.\n\n\"Rain was coming so it was also a little bit fortunate to come off the court and have some time to kind of regroup a little bit and shake it off.\"\n\nBoulter added: \"I think we all sympathise with what they're going through completely. At the same time I don't know if it's the right place or time.\n\n\"When I think back to people who have sat here... 30 hours trying to watch tennis, it's really tough on them.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure there will be a reaction to what's been happening and there will be more security in place or whatever they need to do to ensure that it doesn't happen again.\"\n\nWimbledon have not said if they will be implementing any additional security measures, but are working \"closely\" with police.\n\n\"We are disappointed that three individuals sought to disrupt the enjoyment of others today and we continue to work closely with our partners in the Metropolitan Police as we look into every aspect of today's events,\" a statement read.", "The Nikolay Zubov LNG tanker, docking in the UK in 2021\n\nShell is still trading Russian gas more than a year after pledging to withdraw from the Russian energy market.\n\nThe company was involved in nearly 7% of Russia's shipborne gas exports in 2022, according to analysis from campaign group Global Witness.\n\nOleg Ustenko, an adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, accused Shell of accepting \"blood money\".\n\nShell said the trades were the result of \"long-term contractual commitments\" and do not violate laws or sanctions.\n\nAs recently as 9 May, a vast tanker capable of carrying more than 160,000 cubic metres of gas compressed into liquid form - liquefied natural gas or LNG - pulled out of the port of Sabetta, on the Yamal peninsula in Russia's far north.\n\nThat cargo was purchased by Shell before heading onwards to its ultimate destination, Hong Kong.\n\nIt is one of a number of LNG cargoes that Shell has bought from Yamal this year, according to data from the Kpler database analysed by Global Witness.\n\nLast year Shell accounted for 7% of Russia's seaborne LNG trade, Global Witness calculates, and was among the top eight traders of Russian-originated LNG that year.\n\nIn March 2022, in the weeks following the invasion of Ukraine, Shell apologised for buying a cargo of Russian oil, and said it intended to withdraw from Russian oil and gas.\n\nIt said that it would stop buying Russian oil, sell its service stations and other businesses in Russia,which it has done. It has also ended its joint ventures with the state energy giant Gazprom.\n\nAnd it said it would start a \"phased withdrawal from Russian petroleum products, pipeline gas and LNG\". But it warned that it would be a \"complex challenge\".\n\nShell said last year it would close all its service stations in Russia\n\nAt first, it kept taking cargoes of LNG from two Russian ports, the one at Yamal and one at Sakhalin in the far east.\n\nShell used to be a minority investor in the Sakhalin gas project, but abandoned that claim in September last year after the Russian government transferred its shares to a local business - and since then has taken no gas from Sakhalin.\n\nBut it still honours the contract with the Russian LNG company Novatek, which obliges it to buy 900,000 tonnes a year from Yamal until the 2030s, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nNovatek is Russia's second biggest gas company, and the taxes it pays are a significant contributor to the Russian government's budget.\n\nOleg Ustenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said: \"It is quite simple: by continuing to trade in Russian gas Shell is putting money into Putin's pockets and helping to fund Russia's brutal aggression against the people of Ukraine.\n\n\"The vast sums that Shell and the whole oil industry have made in Russia should be used to help fund the reconstruction of Ukraine, rather than lining the pockets of their shareholders.\"\n\nA spokesman for Shell said: \"Shell has stopped buying Russian LNG on the spot market, but still has some long-term contractual commitments. This is in full compliance with sanctions, applicable laws and regulations of the countries in which we operate.\n\n\"There is a dilemma between putting pressure on the Russian government over its atrocities in Ukraine and ensuring stable, secure energy supplies. It is for governments to decide on the incredibly difficult trade-offs that must be made.\"\n\nShell is the world's largest trader of LNG, which is not subject to European sanctions, making billions of dollars in profits trading oil and gas last year.\n\nRussia massively reduced its deliveries of gas by pipeline last year, but it has increased the amount of gas it supplies by ship, including to Europe.\n\nThe UK has not imported any Russian gas for over a year, while EU politicians are trying to reduce the amount of Russian LNG the bloc imports. In March, the EU's Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson called on countries and firms to stop buying Russian gas, and not to sign new contracts.\n\n\"It's long overdue that the trading of Russian LNG is looked at with the same disgust as Russian oil trading. Targeting Putin's energy income cannot be about symbolic measures but must concretely put a stop to the huge fossil fuel sums that cement his power,\" said Jonathan Noronha-Gant, senior campaigner at Global Witness.\n\nThe France-based energy company TotalEnergies is a minority shareholder in the Yamal project, and was also a major trader in Russian LNG, the Global Witness analysis reported.\n\nThe BBC has approached TotalEnergies for comment.\n\nUpdate 25 September 2023: Since this story was published, Kpler has updated its data and reduced its assessment of the number of cargoes of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) traded by Shell. Some trades were assigned a probability of Shell being involved by artificial intelligence, based on trading patterns prior to the invasion of Ukraine. Human analysts have subsequently determined that Shell was not involved. As a result of these changes, Global Witness revised downwards its assessment of the proportion of Russia's LNG traded by Shell, and its assessment of Shell's rank among companies trading Russian LNG. The text has been edited to reflect these changes.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has been one of the most vocal critics of the Illegal Migration Bill\n\nThe House of Lords has voted to back an attempt to force the government to produce a 10-year strategy on refugees and trafficking, as part of its migration bill.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury led the move to include the strategy in the government's flagship legislation to stop small boat crossings to the UK.\n\nJustin Welby insisted the strategy would improve and not damage the bill.\n\nPeers have voted to approve multiple changes to the bill in the Lords.\n\nBut ministers are expected to ask MPs to overturn the changes when the legislation returns to the House of Commons, where the Conservative government has a majority.\n\nThe bill is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's high-profile pledge to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel - one of his five key pledges.\n\nThe number of migrants crossing from France set a record for June, pushing the total for the year above 11,000.\n\nEarlier, Mr Sunak's spokesman said the government would press ahead with its Illegal Migration Bill, despite the string of defeats it has suffered in the Lords.\n\nMr Welby has been one of the most vocal critics of the bill, previously condemning the legislation as \"morally unacceptable\" and \"politically impractical\".\n\nAs peers debated the bill on Wednesday, Mr Welby tabled two amendments which would require the government to have a 10-year strategy for collaborating internationally to tackle refugee crises and human trafficking.\n\nSpeaking in the Lords, Mr Welby said the amendment was \"intended to be helpful\" and mitigate \"some of the concerns about a lack of a global and long-term perspective on the issues\".\n\n\"I urge the government to develop a strategy that is ambitious, collaborative and worthy of our history and up to the scale of the enormous challenges that we face,\" Mr Welby said.\n\nPeers inflicted further defeats on the government as they debated and voted on detailed changes to the bill. There will be a further day of debate in the Lords before it returns to the Commons.\n\nOne amendment would make it a legal duty for ministers to create safe and legal routes to the UK for refugees by next spring. Two others reinstate and expand a right of appeal against age assessments for migrants claiming to be children.\n\nAhead of Wednesday's debate, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York urged ministers to back changes to the legislation to ensure a \"just\" and \"compassionate\" asylum policy.\n\nIn a letter to The Times signed by eight other faith leaders, the two archbishops warned the legislation \"falls short of our obligation to the most vulnerable\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said he was not going to respond to individual opinions.\n\nBut, he added, Mr Sunak was \"clear that stopping the boats, stopping the cruel cycle of vulnerable people being exploited by criminal gangs, is the fair and compassionate thing to do\".\n\nIf passed, the bill would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove migrants arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe government has stressed it remains committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, and has said it will challenge a Court of Appeal ruling last week that this was unlawful.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Sunak told the Liaison Committee of senior MPs the government's case would be made in the Supreme Court \"confidently and vigorously\".\n\nIn the first six months of 2023, 11,434 people were detected making the journey from France, according to provisional Home Office figures.\n\nThe June total of 3,824 was the highest since records began in 2018. In June last year, 3,140 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel.\n\nDespite the record June number, the total for the first half of the year was 10% lower than for January-June 2022 (12,747).\n\nIn January, Mr Sunak set out five pledges which he said would address \"the people's priorities\", including passing new laws to stop Channel crossings. But he did not put a timescale on achieving the promise.\n\nLast month, he insisted his plan was \"starting to work\".\n\nLabour has accused the prime minister of chasing \"short-term headlines instead of doing the hard work needed to tackle the problem\".\n\nShadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: \"The numbers of dangerous crossings are rising again, hotel costs are spiralling, all while the government's flagship Rwanda policy unravels in front of their eyes.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The BBC's international editor, Jeremy Bowen, is interrupted mid-flow by loud bangs of gunfire as he reports from Jenin refugee camp where Israel has been carrying out raids.\n\nRead more on this story: UN alarm as Israel's Jenin operation continues", "Captain Sir Tom Moore became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown\n\nThe daughter of Capt Sir Tom Moore has been told to knock down an unauthorised building used as a spa after a planning application was rejected.\n\nHannah Ingram-Moore and her husband used the Captain Tom Foundation name on the first plans for the building, with later revised plans turned down.\n\nThe charity is also no longer taking donations or making payments due to an ongoing inquiry into its finances.\n\nMs Ingram-Moore and the foundation have been contacted for comment.\n\nCentral Bedfordshire Council said the demolition order was subject to an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.\n\nThe Army veteran walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden at the start of the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020, raising £33m for NHS Charities Together.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, died in 2021 aged 100.\n\nCapt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk, which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nAfter he became an international figure, his family set up a separate charity in his name.\n\nIn a statement on the Captain Tom Foundation website, the charity said its \"sole focus...is to ensure that it cooperates fully with the on-going statutory inquiry by the Charity Commission\".\n\n\"As a result, The Captain Tom Foundation is not presently actively seeking any funding from donors. Accordingly, we have also taken the decision to close all payment channels whilst the statutory inquiry remains open,\" it said.\n\nThe statement added that when the inquiry concluded it would \"be in a better position to make a decision in relation to its future\".\n\nWhen the inquiry was started a year ago, the Charity Commission said \"concerns have mounted\" over the charity and independence from a business run by Capt Sir Tom's family.\n\nCapt Sir Tom's daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, set up a charity following the veteran's death\n\nHannah Ingram-Moore is the younger of Capt Sir Tom's two daughters and lived with the Army veteran at the family home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.\n\nIt has emerged the Ingram-Moores requested planning permission for a \"Captain Tom Foundation Building\", which was \"for use by occupiers... and Captain Tom Foundation\", according to documents submitted to Central Bedfordshire Council in August 2021.\n\nThe local authority granted permission for the single-storey structure to be built on the tennis courts at the Grade II-listed home, as first reported in The Sun.\n\nThen, in February 2022, the family submitted revised plans for the already partly constructed building, which called it the \"Captain Tom Building\".\n\nThe plans included a spa pool, toilets and a kitchen, which the Design & Access and Heritage Statement said was \"for private use\".\n\nIn November 2022, Central Bedfordshire Council refused the retrospective planning permission for the revised plans.\n\nA council spokesperson said: \"An enforcement notice requiring the demolition of the now-unauthorised building was issued and this is now subject to an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.\"\n\nThe Captain Tom Moore Foundation did not respond to the BBC's request for comment on the planning application, but told The Sun the trustees were unaware and \"would not have authorised\" the plans had they known.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sex education lessons must engage boys and young men in order to tackle \"a scourge\" of sexual harassment and violence in schools, according to a group of MPs.\n\nThe inquiry by the Women and Equalities Committee heard relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) was \"less applicable\" to boys than to girls.\n\nIt is calling for lessons to be made compulsory in sixth forms and colleges.\n\nThe government says it is developing further guidance for schools.\n\nThe inquiry found that some schools were still not acknowledging the problem of violence against women and girls, while many lacked the funding and time to deliver RSHE effectively.\n\nYoung people are making their first steps into the adult world \"under-supported and less equipped\" to navigate potentially \"dangerous situations\", the committee warned.\n\nTheir inquiry heard how easy access to pornography had \"completely changed the culture in the playground\" and it was having a \"very corrosive impact within schools\".\n\nOne session heard tales of boys \"cyberflashing hardcore pornographic images at girls in the corridor, and airdropping nude images to other students in class\".\n\nSeveral witnesses said boys were unlikely to engage with RSHE learning if they were shamed, or put on the spot.\n\nThe committee is calling on the government, as part of its review into sex education, to develop a specific strategy for engaging with boys and young men on the topics of sexual harassment and gender-based violence.\n\nIt recommends that all teachers should be trained on how to engage male pupils in conversations that \"challenge prevailing gender norms\" and ideas of masculinity.\n\nThe report also called for:\n\nThousands of school-aged children posted online testimonies of sexual assault and harassment in schools in 2021 - in what became known as the Everyone's Invited movement.\n\nCaroline Nokes, chair of the committee, said \"whilst there have been some positive steps since the Everyone's Invited movement exposed how widespread the problem is, there is clearly more to do to improve safeguarding and education\".\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the issues outlined by the committee \"reach far beyond the school gates\" and \"the onus cannot just be on schools to solve\".\n\nBut he welcomed the call for better funding and support to \"ensure all school staff are equipped to deal with the challenges they are facing\".\n\nA Department for Education official said it was developing further guidance to help schools \"engage boys and young men about misogyny and sexual violence in education\".\n\n\"Through the Online Safety Bill, technology firms will be required to enforce their age limits and protect children from being exposed to harmful material online,\" the official added.", "A vigil was held in Toronto, Canada, on the third anniversary of the tragedy this January\n\nIran is facing legal action at the International Court of Justice over the shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 in January 2020.\n\nFour nations - Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the UK - are seeking damages for the families of the 176 people on board who were killed.\n\nThe plane was hit by two missiles fired by a Revolutionary Guards air defence unit after it took off from Tehran.\n\nThree days later, Iran admitted mistakenly shooting down the plane.\n\nThe Revolutionary Guards' Aerospace Force said an air defence unit had mistaken the Boeing 737-800 for a US missile.\n\nIn April a court in Iran sentenced 10 armed forces personnel to prison but victims' families rejected the verdicts as \"meaningless and unacceptable\".\n\nThe four nations - whose citizens or residents were killed in the incident - say in the application to the International Court of Justice that Iran \"violated a series of obligations\" under a convention on civil aviation by shooting down the jet.\n\nThey accuse Iran of failing to take all practicable measures to prevent the downing of the plane, which happened during a time of high tension between Iran and the US.\n\nIran then failed to conduct an impartial, transparent and fair criminal investigation and prosecution, the group says.\n\nThe countries want the court to order that Iran publicly acknowledges its \"internationally wrongful acts\", apologise to the families and provide assurances that it will not happen again.\n\nThe application also asks the court to \"order full reparation for all injury caused\", calling on Iran to return the missing belongings of the victims and to provide \"full compensation\" to the families.\n\nLord Ahmad, the UK's Middle East minister, said they were \"committed to pursuing justice for the victims and their families\".\n\nIn December 2022, the group jointly requested that Iran submit to binding arbitration, arguing the missiles that hit the flight were launched \"unlawfully and intentionally\".\n\nAt the time a spokesperson for Canada's foreign affairs ministry told the BBC the Iranian government had six months to respond. This deadline has now passed, prompting the countries to move towards legal action.", "Jaswant Singh Chail is expected to be sentenced on Thursday\n\nA man who arrived at Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow \"to kill\" the late Queen was partly inspired by the Star Wars films, a court heard.\n\nJaswant Singh Chail, from Hampshire, was arrested on Christmas Day 2021 while Queen Elizabeth II was living at Windsor due to the pandemic.\n\nHe admitted a charge under the Treason Act and to making threats to kill and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nChail had previously tried to get close to the royals, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's sentencing hearing was told he applied for jobs within the armed forces that could have led to a \"close proximity\" to the monarch.\n\nThe former supermarket worker demonstrated a wider ideology focused on destroying old empires and creating a new one, including in the fictional context such as Star Wars, the court heard.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died at Balmoral aged 96 in September 2022\n\nChail had described himself as a \"Sith\" and \"Darth Jones\" in a video and confided his murderous plan to an Artificial Intelligence companion.\n\nHe also wrote in a journal that if the Queen was \"unobtainable\" he would \"go for\" the prince as a \"suitable figurehead\", in an apparent reference to King Charles.\n\nAlison Morgan KC, prosecuting, said Chail had applied for positions within the Ministry of Defence Police, British Army, Royal Marines and Royal Navy, but his applications were rejected.\n\nShe said Chail was \"concerned\" with the \"injustice\" of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, which took place when British troops opened fire on thousands of people who had gathered in the city of Amritsar in India.\n\nChail, from North Baddesley, near Southampton, was born in Winchester and his family is of Indian Sikh heritage.\n\nChail's crossbow was found to be comparable to a powerful air rifle with the potential to cause fatal injury\n\nIn a video shown to the court, Chail, who was 19 at the time of the offences, was dressed all in black, wearing a mask and holding a crossbow.\n\nSpeaking into the camera, he said: \"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I've done and what I will do.\n\n\"I'm going to attempt to assassinate Elizabeth Queen of the Royal Family.\n\n\"This is revenge for those who have died in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.\n\n\"It is also revenge for those who have been killed, humiliated, and discriminated on because of their race.\"\n\nQueen Elizabeth II was living at Windsor due to the pandemic\n\nMs Morgan said the \"defendant's key motive was to create a new empire by destroying the remnants of the British Empire in the UK\", and \"the focal point of that became removal of the figurehead of the Royal Family\".\n\nShe said his thinking was informed partly by the fantasy world of Star Wars and \"the role of Sith Lords in shaping the world\".\n\n\"He was attracted to the notoriety that would accrue in the event of the completion of his 'mission',\" she added.\n\nMs Morgan also said that despite Chail's repeated references to sci-fi characters he knew the difference between fiction and reality.\n\nChail was spotted by a royal protection officer in a private section of the castle grounds just after 08:10 GMT on 25 December 2021.\n\nThe court was told Chail was wearing a mask and looked like \"something out of a vigilante movie\".\n\nChail was found by police wearing a hood and a mask\n\nHe told the officer he was there \"to kill the Queen\".\n\nAfter being arrested he was sectioned and agreed he needed help with his mental health.\n\nHe told a nurse who assessed him that he did not consider himself to be suicidal and did not know of any mental health issues within his immediate family.\n\nIn February 2022 he was deemed fit to be interviewed.\n\nThe court was told Chail said he had realised \"he was wrong\" and he was not \"a killer\".\n\nAn initial doctor assessment concluded that the defendant required \"long term management by the forensic psychiatric service\".\n\nHe lied to his family about where he was going in the days before Christmas, with his sister believing he was going into an \"army training\".\n\nThe court was told this suggested \"he had not lost touch with reality\", but he began to be depressed towards the end of 2021.\n\nUnder the 1842 Treason Act it is an offence to assault the monarch or have a firearm, or offensive weapon in their presence with intent to injure or alarm them, or to cause a breach of peace.\n\nIn 1981, Marcus Sarjeant was jailed for five years under the section of the Treason Act after he fired blank shots at the Queen while she was riding down The Mall in London during the Trooping the Colour parade.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg's show on GB News is one programme being investigated by Ofcom\n\nThe media expert who drew up the UK's broadcasting rules has urged the watchdog, Ofcom, to decide whether politicians should be allowed to present TV programmes on news channels.\n\nChris Banatvala said no-one foresaw the rise of politician presenters when the rules were being designed in the 2000s.\n\nHe said Ofcom should take \"a view about whether what is emerging is acceptable in terms of due impartiality\".\n\nThe regulator is reviewing its rules around politicians presenting TV shows.\n\nUnder Ofcom's rules, news must be presented with due impartiality, and politicians are not allowed to be newsreaders, interviewers or reporters \"unless, exceptionally, it is editorially justified\".\n\nOfcom says there are no rules against politicians hosting current affairs programmes, as long as they reflect a range of views.\n\nBut there's been a debate about how these rules apply to the growing number of programmes fronted by politicians on GB News and Talk TV, both relatively new channels.\n\nLast month, Ofcom commissioned research into these programmes after receiving hundreds of complaints about politicians presenting shows.\n\nThen this week, the regulator launched two investigations into potential rule breaches on two programmes, including the GB News show presented by the former cabinet minister, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.\n\nIn the episode in question, Sir Jacob read out a breaking story about the jury verdict in a civil case involving the former US president, Donald Trump.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph this week, Ofcom's chief executive, Melanie Dawes, said the regulator had a \"crucial role in preserving the integrity of broadcast news\" and a duty to \"ensure our rules remain effective\".\n\nMr Banatvala was Ofcom's director of standards when the regulator's rules around politicians presenting programmes were introduced in 2005.\n\nHe told the BBC that in a changing media landscape, we need \"a grown-up debate about whether and how we want to apply due impartiality to news\".\n\n\"It's evident now that news channels are blurring the boundaries between genuine news, current affairs and opinion,\" he said. \"That may be a good reason for Ofcom to look at these rules in the round.\"\n\nHe added: \"We may need to look at whether these rules are fit for purpose, and whether we need to amend or adjust them.\"\n\nHe said the tenor of programme on some channels in the UK \"is something that's come across the pond from America\".\n\nIt's long been common to see politicians hosting programmes that veer between partisan commentary and news coverage on channels such as Fox News in the US.\n\nThe UK's impartiality rules go back decades and were included in Ofcom's broadcasting code following its creation as the communications regulator in 2003.\n\nIf broadcasters are found to have breached the code, Ofcom has powers to impose fines and other sanctions.\n\nWhen the impartiality rules were drafted, Mr Banatvala said, they were felt to be \"ample and adequate to prevent any programme from using the same political party over and over again\".\n\n\"It wasn't ever envisaged that a news channel would use politicians from the same political party to present programmes, day in, day out,\" he said.\n\nGrilling two Ofcom directors at a meeting of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in Parliament on Tuesday, SNP MP John Nicolson asked why the regulator was not taking more action over programmes fronted by sitting politicians.\n\nJohn Nicolson suggested Jacob Rees-Mogg's show had \"the grammar of a news programme\"\n\nSingling out Mr Rees-Mogg's programme on GB News, Mr Nicolson said \"every day, he churns out the same pro-Brexit, right-wing stuff\", arguing \"what he's doing is blurring news presenting and commentary\".\n\nHe asked: \"Why don't you act to stop this?\"\n\nKate Davies, Ofcom's public policy director, said the watchdog looks at current affairs programmes \"differently\" to those focused solely on news.\n\nFollowing further frank exchanges, Mr Nicolson said \"we've lost all sight of objective journalism\" and suggested \"we're going to proceed down a route where we end up with awful, American-style ranting at the camera, we're already seeing it, masquerading as news\".\n\nKate Biggs, Ofcom's content policy director, said the media watchdog takes its responsibility on impartiality and accuracy rules \"very seriously\".\n\nShe said the regulator's investigations into programmes \"do set a precedent for other editors\".\n\nTalkTV said it \"will engage with the Ofcom process and looks forward to defending its output.\"\n\nGB News has also been contacted for comment.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Lord Justice Haddon-Cave has stepped down from his role as a judge to lead the inquiry\n\nThe inquiry into allegations of unlawful killings by UK special forces in Afghanistan is critical to \"restoring the reputation of the military and the country\", its chair has said.\n\nThe inquiry will look into night raids carried out by UK special forces between mid-2010 and mid-2013.\n\nIt will examine both allegations of killings and of subsequent cover-ups.\n\nThe inquiry will look specifically at night raids known as Deliberate Detention Operations (DDOs), which were carried out by special-forces units.\n\nIt comes after what the judge described as \"significant reporting\" by the BBC's Panorama programme last year, which revealed that one British SAS squadron may have unlawfully killed at least 54 Afghans during one six-month tour.\n\nThe inquiry also follows legal challenges brought by two families of people killed by British forces in DDOs.\n\nLaunching the inquiry on Wednesday, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave called for anyone with relevant information to come forward.\n\n\"It is clearly important that anyone who has broken the law is referred to the relevant authorities for investigation, and equally, those who have done nothing wrong should rightly have the cloud of suspicion lifted from them,\" he said.\n\nLord Justice Haddon-Cave said many of the inquiry's hearings would have to be held in private because of the \"highly sensitive\" nature of the testimony.\n\nAbdul Aziz Uzbakzai, an Afghan farmer whose son and daughter-in-law were killed by British special forces during a night raid in 2012 and whose grandsons Imran and Bilal were gravely wounded in the operation, told the BBC the inquiry \"cannot bring back my son and daughter-in-law, nor can it bring Imran and Bilal's parents back to them\".\n\n\"But after 11 long years, I still want the British soldiers and other officials to come forward and reveal the truth,\" Mr Uzbakzai said.\n\n\"We are still unaware of why we were targeted, and we long to know why.\"\n\nDo you have information about this story that you want to share?\n\nGet in touch using SecureDrop, a highly anonymous and secure way of whistleblowing to the BBC which uses the TOR network.\n\nOr by using the Signal messaging app, an end-to-end encrypted message service designed to protect your data.\n\nPlease note that the SecureDrop link will only work in a Tor browser. For information on keeping secure and anonymous, here's some advice on how to use SecureDrop.\n\nTessa Gregory, a partner at law firm Leigh Day, which has represented some of the family members of those killed on DDOs, said the firm's clients welcomed the launch of the inquiry.\n\n\"Throughout years of secrecy and cover-ups our clients have fought tirelessly for justice for their loved ones' deaths and they hope that a bright light will now be shone on the practices and command of UK special forces in Afghanistan,\" Ms Gregory said.\n\nIn 2014, the Royal Military Police launched Operation Northmoor, an investigation into the allegations of unlawful killings, but it was formally closed in 2019 with no charges.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) said at the time that no evidence of criminality had been found, despite Operation Northmoor having more than 600 alleged offences in its scope.\n\nRoyal Military Police investigators told the BBC last year their efforts to gather evidence during Operation Northmoor had been obstructed by the British military, and they disputed the MoD's statement that no evidence of criminality had been found.\n\nAs well as the underlying allegations of unlawful killings, the inquiry will examine whether the actions of the MoD and investigations by the Royal Military Police were adequate.\n\nThe MoD told the BBC on Wednesday it was also encouraging anyone with information to come forward to the inquiry. A spokesperson said it was not appropriate for the MoD to comment further \"on cases which are within the scope of the Statutory Inquiry\", adding that it was \"up to the Statutory Inquiry Team, led by Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, to determine which allegations are investigated\".\n\nLabour's shadow defence secretary, John Healey, said: \"This special inquiry is welcome and must succeed.\"\n\nHe added: \"This cannot be swept under the carpet.\"", "Police cars were parked outside the temporary housing unit in Sidegate Lane on Friday\n\nA man and woman have been charged with murder following the death of a two-year-old girl.\n\nThe body was found by police at a temporary housing unit in Sidegate Lane, Ipswich, at about 11:45 BST on Friday.\n\nSuffolk Constabulary said officers arrested two people in Bury St Edmunds in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nScott Jeff and Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell are now due to appear at Ipswich Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nThe force said that the pair - both aged 22 and of no fixed address but previously from Bedfordshire - were known to the victim.\n\nFloral tributes were left at the housing unit after the toddler was found dead on Friday\n\nFurther tests were required as part of the post-mortem examination, officers said.\n\nSuffolk Constabulary also said a mandatory referral had been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct because of previous police contact with the deceased \"elsewhere\".\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prosecutors say Mack helped recruit and groom women as sexual partners for the leader of the Nxivm group\n\nUS actor Allison Mack has been released from prison early after serving two years for her role in a sex-trafficking case tied to a cult-like group.\n\nThe 40-year-old pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges in April 2019 related to her efforts to recruit women to the Nxivm sex cult.\n\nMack, best known for her role in the television series Smallville, was sentenced to three years in prison.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed she had been released on Monday.\n\nNxivm, pronounced \"nexium\", started in 1998 as a self-help programme. It claims to have worked with more than 16,000 people including the son of a former Mexican president and Hollywood actresses such as Mack.\n\nProsecutors say Mack helped recruit and groom women as sexual partners for the group's leader, Keith Raniere. Though Raniere, 62, was at the top of this structure and the only man, Mack served as one of his top female deputies.\n\nFemale recruits were allegedly branded with his initials and expected to have sex with him in exchange for becoming a part of the group, which was based in Albany, New York.\n\nThe news of Mack's release was initially reported by the New York newspaper Albany Times Union.\n\nMack, who was arrested in 2018, was facing as much as 17 years in prison but saw her sentence reduced after providing evidence to help prosecutors pursue their case against Raniere.\n\nIn 2020, he was sentenced to 120 years in prison for multiple crimes, including forcing women to be his sexual \"slaves\".\n\nBefore her sentencing, Mack apologised to those she said had been harmed by her actions, calling her involvement with the group \"the biggest mistake and regret of my life\".\n\n\"I am sorry to those of you that I brought into Nxivm,\" she said. \"I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Millwall\n\nMillwall's owner and chairman John Berylson died from injuries sustained after his car overturned and hit a tree in the United States.\n\nPolice in Falmouth, Massachusetts, say no other vehicle was involved in the crash on Tuesday.\n\nEmergency services responded shortly before 08:00 local time and found Berylson, the sole occupant, trapped inside the car.\n\nThe 70-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe cause of the crash - described by Millwall as a \"tragic accident\" - remains under investigation.\n\nAmerican businessman Berylson became a significant shareholder of Millwall in 2007 after he led a consortium which invested in the south-east London club, then in League One, and became chairman in October that year.\n\nThe Championship side hailed him as \"a person of such remarkable generosity, warmth, and kindness\", while former players and rival clubs have also paid tribute.\n\nFalmouth Police Department said preliminary investigations into the crash showed that Berylson was driving his Range Rover south on Sippewissett Road in Falmouth, a coastal town on Cape Cod, when it lost control on a curve and left the road.\n\nThe car then rolled over into a ravine and came to rest against a tree.\n\nBerylson was trapped inside the vehicle and was \"extricated by mechanical means\". He subsequently \"succumbed to injuries received in the crash\".\n\nThe crash is being investigated by the Falmouth Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police.\n\nBerylson, who lived in Wellesley Hills in Greater Boston, is survived by wife Amy and children Jennifer, James, and Elizabeth.", "Three men arrested earlier in connection with the attempted murder of Det Ch Insp John Caldwell have been charged with terrorism offences.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was shot after coaching a youth football team in Omagh, County Tyrone, on 22 February.\n\nThe men, aged 45, 47 and 58, have all been charged with preparatory acts of terrorism.\n\nThe 45-year-old and the 58-year-old have also been charged with possessing articles for use in terrorism.\n\nThey have both been further charged with providing property for the purposes of terrorism.\n\nAll three men are expected to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nThe men were arrested under the Terrorism Act in Newtownabbey, Coalisland and Belfast on Tuesday.\n\nThere have been 31 arrests to date over the attack on Det Ch Insp Caldwell - a figure that includes individuals who have been arrested more than once.\n\nThe shooting happened at a sports complex in Omagh\n\nThe dissident republican group the New IRA said it carried out the shooting, at a sports complex car park.\n\nSeven men have appeared in court charged in relation to the attack.\n\nThe shooting, which happened in front of school children, was widely condemned by political figures across Northern Ireland and beyond.", "Many schools in England closed on Wednesday, as teachers walked out again over pay.\n\nIt was the sixth national strike by members of the National Education Union (NEU) in England since February - and another is planned for Friday.\n\nAs well as lessons, end-of-term events such as sports day, concerts and school trips were disrupted.\n\nAnd with more strike ballots taking place, schools are bracing for further disruption in the new school year.\n\nIt has been more than five months since teachers first took to the picket lines in woolly hats, clutching takeaway coffees between gloved hands.\n\nThey received a 5% rise for the year 2022-23.\n\nThis time they are calling for above-inflation increases, plus additional money to ensure any pay rises do not come from schools' existing budgets.\n\nThe weather may have improved since that first strike on 1 February, but relations between the two sides in this dispute remain as frosty as ever.\n\nThere are no talks under way between the unions and the Department for Education (DfE), and there is no obvious resolution in sight.\n\nThere have been crunch points in recent months.\n\nAfter intensive talks in March, the government offered teachers an additional one-off payment of £1,000. It also offered a 4.3% pay rise for most teachers next year - with starting salaries reaching £30,000.\n\nThe NEU, and three other unions involved in the dispute, rejected the offer - which means the one-off payment is now off the table.\n\nAs schools returned for the summer term, all four announced they would join forces to co-ordinate any future strike action.\n\nMore strikes have taken place since then.\n\nThe most recent walkout, on 2 May, affected more schools than previously - with less than half, only 45.3%, able to fully open.\n\nSome teenagers we spoke to at the time were worried revision classes would be affected, as they prepared for exams. The NEU has said it did everything it could to make sure school was as normal as possible for those year groups taking examinations this summer.\n\nTwo things will determine what happens next.\n\nThe first is the announcement of how much teachers will be paid next year. The matter has been considered by the independent pay review body, and its recommendations are currently being appraised by the government.\n\nWe don't know when any announcement will be made on pay. If previous years are anything to go by, we can expect it to come in late July, as children prepare to break up for the summer holidays.\n\nThe other thing to watch will be the results of strike ballots, which are currently under way in all four unions.\n\nIt is the second time that members of the NEU, teachers' union NASUWT and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) have been asked whether they would be prepared to strike over pay. Last time, only the NEU received enough votes for industrial action to go ahead.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) - another head teachers' union - is also balloting members, for the first time in its 150-year history. Head teachers have told the BBC, they are concerned about the effect pay has on recruitment and retention of staff.\n\nWith those ballots set to close in mid-to-late July, we could see a flurry of activity in the coming weeks.\n\nOnline tool Teacher Tapp quizzes thousands of primary and secondary teachers, in both the state and private sector, about their daily experiences in the classroom. One recent survey suggested almost four-in-10 Year 6 students had visits to their new secondary schools booked on strike days this week.\n\nThese could well be disrupted.\n\nAnd if enough union members vote for further strike action, those same pupils could see their new Year 7 teachers walk out in the autumn term too.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the NEU, said Education Secretary Gillian Keegan's \"refusal to re-enter negotiations\" had \"united the teaching profession in its anger towards a government that is failing to recognise the serious challenges that need to be addressed in our education system\".\n\nA DfE official said: \"Schools are receiving significant additional funding as part of the extra £2bn of investment we are providing for both 2023-24 and 2024-25, which will take school funding its highest level in history next year, as measured by the IFS [Institute for Fiscal Studies].\"\n\nThe IFS said, in December, the increased funding would mean school spending per pupil \"will grow in real terms through to 2024 and will return to at least 2010 levels\".\n\nHas your child's school closed? Are you a teacher on strike? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "King Charles has been presented with the Honours of Scotland - the nation’s crown jewels - at a ceremony in Edinburgh to mark his Coronation.\n\nThe day began with a ‘People’s Procession’ which travelled from Edinburgh Castle to St Giles’ Cathedral, where a service of thanksgiving for the King was held.\n\nTake a look at some of the key moments from the day.", "The NHS turns 75 on Wednesday, but the landmark anniversary has been greeted with dire warnings it is unlikely to survive until its 100th birthday without drastic change. So what is the solution? From sin taxes to cutting back on medical treatment for the dying, experts have their say.\n\nWhen the NHS was created the main focus was on short bouts of treatment for injury and infection, but now the challenge is completely different.\n\nThe ageing population means huge numbers of people are living with chronic health problems, such as heart disease, dementia and diabetes that require long-term care and for which there is no cure.\n\nIt is already estimated about £7 out of every £10 spent in the NHS goes on people with these conditions. On average, those over 65 have at least two.\n\nAnd the situation is only going to worsen. \"The numbers are going to grow,\" Health Foundation director of research and economics Anita Charlesworth says. \"The baby boomer generation is reaching old age.\n\n\"Their health is going to be shaped by the lives they have lived - and they are a generation that have lived through the rapid increase in obesity. Their ill health is baked in. The next two decades are going to be very challenging.\"\n\nIncreases in the NHS budget will be needed but this must be accompanied by a shift in how resources are distributed, she says, so more is spent \"upstream\" in the community, including on social care, which sits outside the NHS, and prevention, to help people better manage their conditions without hospital care.\n\nBut given the amount of public money spent on the NHS has been rising ever since the health service was created - it now accounts for more than 40p out of every £1 spent on day-to-day public services, once things such as welfare are excluded - many are asking whether such spending is sustainable.\n\nFormer Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who has floated the idea of charging to see a GP, arguing the NHS should be willing to learn from the approaches adopted by other countries, has called the current direction of travel \"unsustainable\".\n\nBut Ms Charlesworth, who used to be director of public spending at the Treasury, says extra money can be found, pointing out countries around the world are having to do the same.\n\n\"This is not unique to the the UK and our system,\" she says. \"It is a global phenomenon. But increasing investment in the NHS is going to require economic growth - without that, you have to cut other services or increase taxation.\"\n\nHealthcare spending should be seen as an investment in the country, rather than a cost, Ms Charlesworth says, pointing to data showing 2.5 million people are out of work because of poor health - equating to one person off long-term sick for every 13 in work.\n\n\"Economic growth depends on good health,\" she says, \"but at the moment, we have got too many people on waiting lists - and there is a particular problem with mental health too.\"\n\nKing's Fund chief policy analyst Siva Anandaciva, who recently produced a report for the think tank looking at how the NHS compared with other rich nations, says as much as 5-6% extra a year may be needed in the short-term to tackle the immediate problems with the backlog and ageing infrastructure - the boost to the workforce announced by the government last week will take years to have an impact.\n\nHis report showed how the NHS had fewer staff and less equipment such as scanners than many other comparable countries - and to those who suggest a different model of funding may be needed, made it clear the findings were not an argument for moving to another system, adding there was little evidence any one particular approach was inherently better than another.\n\n\"History tells us that we do need to spend more on the NHS,\" Mr Anandaciva says. \"Anything less than 2% is managed decline - and what we are spending now 3-4% is just standing still.\"\n\nHe says that will likely mean investing a greater proportion of public spending on the NHS, but says digital technology can make savings in other spending areas whereas the NHS is heavily reliant on labour. \"At some point you will need a nurse to provide care,\" he adds.\n\nLife expectancy gains since the NHS' creation have not been matched by increases in healthy life expectancy - on average, people are now expected to spend more than 20 years living in ill-health, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\n\"We had hoped that medical advances would lead to people both living longer and living longer in good health - but that has not happened,\" Mr Anandaciva says. \"It will require us to become much more active and healthier.\"\n\nMany of the factors that influence the way people live are outside the NHS' control, he says. These so-called social determinants include education, work, housing and neighbourhoods.\n\nMr Anandaciva would like to see employers in particular more involved in the health of their workforce and backs the use of \"sin taxes\" such as minimum pricing for alcohol and levies on sugar and salt to influence behaviour.\n\nBut he says there will also need to be an honest debate on where to prioritise that spending. \"At the end of life, our use of healthcare gets more intense and costs more,\" Mr Anandaciva says. \"Would money be better used elsewhere?\"\n\nIt is a point also made by Prof Sir David Haslam, who used to chair the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, which decides what treatments should be made available on the NHS.\n\nSir David, who has written a book, Side Effects, about the challenges facing the NHS, says there needs to be more focus on getting \"most bang for our buck\".\n\nThere is too much focus on drugs and treatment that simply extend life rather than services that support people to live in good health, he says.\n\n\"For example, research has shown seeing the same GP for years reduces hospital admissions significantly,\" Sir David says. \"If that was a drug, we would hail it as a wonder treatment - but instead, we've watched the number of GPs fall.\"\n\nHe says the medical profession overall is too \"super-specialised\" and calls for more generalists in the community and hospital to treat \"the individual rather than their organs\".\n\n\"It's so wasteful - patients with six or seven conditions can spend all their time going to different hospital departments, seeing different people, often with poor co-ordination between them,\" Sir David says.\n\nAnd he also questions the amount of medical intervention at the end of life.\n\n\"Too many frail elderly patients are dying in hospital when that may be a completely inappropriate place,\" Sir David says.\n\n\"We have over-medicalised the end of life. When I die, I want to be in the place that is my home, with good care being provided. This is not about rationing care, it is about providing rational care.\"", "Police reportedly attempted to stop the man from escaping the court by firing in the air\n\nA man has died after he set off an explosive device at a courthouse in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has said.\n\nIhor Humeniuk, who was detained in 2015 over an attack near Ukraine's parliament, detonated the device after barricading himself in a toilet.\n\nTwo police officers were injured as they tried to restrain the man, after he tried to escape following a hearing.\n\nIt does not appear that the incident is linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe exact circumstances surrounding the incident at Shevchenkivskyi courthouse are unclear, but a number of explosions were reported, one of which injured the two officers and another which killed Humeniuk himself.\n\nThe policemen were later taken to hospital and are in a stable condition.\n\n\"Their lives were saved by their shields,\" Mr Klymenko said.\n\nHow Humeniuk actually obtained the explosives is unclear, but officials said the incident will now be the subject of a criminal investigation.\n\nHe may have died after inadvertently stepping on the explosives, Mr Klymenko told reporters.\n\nFootage shared by Reuters news agency showed ambulances arriving at the courthouse, with police clearing a path for them.\n\nOther videos circulating on social media showed one person being carried away from the scene on a stretcher.\n\nHumeniuk was attending a hearing related to his involvement in a 2015 attack near the Ukrainian parliament.\n\nHe was blamed for throwing a grenade during a demonstration against plans to give more autonomy to Ukraine's Russian-backed separatist regions.\n\nThe 2015 blast left three members of the national guard dead and more than 140 people injured. Humeniuk denied throwing the grenade at the time.", "The NHS turns 75 on Wednesday, but the landmark anniversary has been greeted with dire warnings it is unlikely to survive until its 100th birthday without drastic change. So what is the solution? From sin taxes to cutting back on medical treatment for the dying, experts have their say.\n\nWhen the NHS was created the main focus was on short bouts of treatment for injury and infection, but now the challenge is completely different.\n\nThe ageing population means huge numbers of people are living with chronic health problems, such as heart disease, dementia and diabetes that require long-term care and for which there is no cure.\n\nIt is already estimated about £7 out of every £10 spent in the NHS goes on people with these conditions. On average, those over 65 have at least two.\n\nAnd the situation is only going to worsen. \"The numbers are going to grow,\" Health Foundation director of research and economics Anita Charlesworth says. \"The baby boomer generation is reaching old age.\n\n\"Their health is going to be shaped by the lives they have lived - and they are a generation that have lived through the rapid increase in obesity. Their ill health is baked in. The next two decades are going to be very challenging.\"\n\nIncreases in the NHS budget will be needed but this must be accompanied by a shift in how resources are distributed, she says, so more is spent \"upstream\" in the community, including on social care, which sits outside the NHS, and prevention, to help people better manage their conditions without hospital care.\n\nBut given the amount of public money spent on the NHS has been rising ever since the health service was created - it now accounts for more than 40p out of every £1 spent on day-to-day public services, once things such as welfare are excluded - many are asking whether such spending is sustainable.\n\nFormer Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who has floated the idea of charging to see a GP, arguing the NHS should be willing to learn from the approaches adopted by other countries, has called the current direction of travel \"unsustainable\".\n\nBut Ms Charlesworth, who used to be director of public spending at the Treasury, says extra money can be found, pointing out countries around the world are having to do the same.\n\n\"This is not unique to the the UK and our system,\" she says. \"It is a global phenomenon. But increasing investment in the NHS is going to require economic growth - without that, you have to cut other services or increase taxation.\"\n\nHealthcare spending should be seen as an investment in the country, rather than a cost, Ms Charlesworth says, pointing to data showing 2.5 million people are out of work because of poor health - equating to one person off long-term sick for every 13 in work.\n\n\"Economic growth depends on good health,\" she says, \"but at the moment, we have got too many people on waiting lists - and there is a particular problem with mental health too.\"\n\nKing's Fund chief policy analyst Siva Anandaciva, who recently produced a report for the think tank looking at how the NHS compared with other rich nations, says as much as 5-6% extra a year may be needed in the short-term to tackle the immediate problems with the backlog and ageing infrastructure - the boost to the workforce announced by the government last week will take years to have an impact.\n\nHis report showed how the NHS had fewer staff and less equipment such as scanners than many other comparable countries - and to those who suggest a different model of funding may be needed, made it clear the findings were not an argument for moving to another system, adding there was little evidence any one particular approach was inherently better than another.\n\n\"History tells us that we do need to spend more on the NHS,\" Mr Anandaciva says. \"Anything less than 2% is managed decline - and what we are spending now 3-4% is just standing still.\"\n\nHe says that will likely mean investing a greater proportion of public spending on the NHS, but says digital technology can make savings in other spending areas whereas the NHS is heavily reliant on labour. \"At some point you will need a nurse to provide care,\" he adds.\n\nLife expectancy gains since the NHS' creation have not been matched by increases in healthy life expectancy - on average, people are now expected to spend more than 20 years living in ill-health, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\n\"We had hoped that medical advances would lead to people both living longer and living longer in good health - but that has not happened,\" Mr Anandaciva says. \"It will require us to become much more active and healthier.\"\n\nMany of the factors that influence the way people live are outside the NHS' control, he says. These so-called social determinants include education, work, housing and neighbourhoods.\n\nMr Anandaciva would like to see employers in particular more involved in the health of their workforce and backs the use of \"sin taxes\" such as minimum pricing for alcohol and levies on sugar and salt to influence behaviour.\n\nBut he says there will also need to be an honest debate on where to prioritise that spending. \"At the end of life, our use of healthcare gets more intense and costs more,\" Mr Anandaciva says. \"Would money be better used elsewhere?\"\n\nIt is a point also made by Prof Sir David Haslam, who used to chair the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, which decides what treatments should be made available on the NHS.\n\nSir David, who has written a book, Side Effects, about the challenges facing the NHS, says there needs to be more focus on getting \"most bang for our buck\".\n\nThere is too much focus on drugs and treatment that simply extend life rather than services that support people to live in good health, he says.\n\n\"For example, research has shown seeing the same GP for years reduces hospital admissions significantly,\" Sir David says. \"If that was a drug, we would hail it as a wonder treatment - but instead, we've watched the number of GPs fall.\"\n\nHe says the medical profession overall is too \"super-specialised\" and calls for more generalists in the community and hospital to treat \"the individual rather than their organs\".\n\n\"It's so wasteful - patients with six or seven conditions can spend all their time going to different hospital departments, seeing different people, often with poor co-ordination between them,\" Sir David says.\n\nAnd he also questions the amount of medical intervention at the end of life.\n\n\"Too many frail elderly patients are dying in hospital when that may be a completely inappropriate place,\" Sir David says.\n\n\"We have over-medicalised the end of life. When I die, I want to be in the place that is my home, with good care being provided. This is not about rationing care, it is about providing rational care.\"", "People feel the stress in China amid an ongoing heatwave\n\nThe world's average temperature reached a new high on Monday 3 July, topping 17 degrees Celsius for the first time.\n\nScientists say the unofficial reading was higher than anything found in the instrumental record dating back to the end of the 19th century.\n\nThe high heat is due to a combination of the El Niño weather event and ongoing emissions of carbon dioxide.\n\nResearchers believe there will be more records in the coming months as El Niño strengthens.\n\nSince the start of this year, researchers have been growing increasingly concerned about rapidly rising temperatures on land and at sea.\n\nRecord spring heat in Spain and in many countries in Asia was followed by marine heatwaves in places that don't normally see them, such as in the North Sea.\n\nThis week China continued to experience an enduring heatwave with temperatures in some places above 35C, while the southern US has also been subject to stifling conditions.\n\nAgainst this background, the global average temperature reached 17.01C on 3 July, according to the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).\n\nThe estimated NCEP readings are not an official government record, but are considered an indicator of how temperatures are fluctuating.\n\nMonday's temperature broke the previous record of 16.92C that had stood since August 2016.\n\nIt was also the warmest since satellite monitoring began in 1979.\n\nIndia has also felt the impacts of heat and drought\n\nThe El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, as it is properly called, has three different phases: Hot, cold or neutral. It is the most powerful fluctuation in the climate system anywhere on Earth.\n\nIn June, scientists declared that El Niño conditions were present. This means that additional heat is now welling up to the surface of the Pacific ocean, pushing up the global temperature.\n\n\"The average global surface air temperature reaching 17C for the first time since we have reliable records available is a significant symbolic milestone in our warming world,\" said climate researcher Leon Simons.\n\n\"Now that the warmer phase of El Niño is starting we can expect a lot more daily, monthly and annual records breaking in the next 1.5 years.\"\n\nMonday's record temperature comes as the month of June was also confirmed as the hottest June in the global record.\n\nAverage temperatures across the planet were 1.46C above the average in the period between 1850 and 1900.\n\nThe impact of high temperatures is also being felt at the world's extremes. In Antarctica, the July temperature record was recently broken with a reading of 8.7C taken at Ukraine's Vernadsky Research base.\n\nWith El Niño likely to strengthen over the coming months, it's likely that more records will be shattered as the northern hemisphere summer goes on.\n\n\"Chances are that July will be the warmest ever, and with it the hottest month ever: 'ever' meaning since the Eemian which is some 120,000 years ago,\" said Karsten Haustein, from the University of Leipzig.\n\n\"While southern hemisphere temperatures will drop a bit in the next few days, chances are that July and August will see even warmer days yet given that El Niño is now pretty much in full swing\".\n\nCorrection 30 October 2023: This article has been updated to say the 3 July temperature was not an official instrumental reading.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Royalist and republican protesters gathered on the Royal Mile\n\nProtesters chanting \"not my king\" gathered in Edinburgh ahead of King Charles' thanksgiving service.\n\nRepublican as well as royalist activists lined the Royal Mile where the King's cavalcade passed on the way to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nAnother anti-monarchy group hosted a rally outside Holyrood, which was attended by Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater.\n\nPolice Scotland later confirmed four people had been arrested.\n\nThey included two women, aged 20 and 21, who were arrested for breach of the peace after allegedly attempting to climb over a crowd safety barrier on the Royal Mile.\n\nThe force said one man was also arrested for theft, while another was arrested in connection with an outstanding warrant.\n\nThree men and one woman were initially arrested for alleged threatening behaviour and failing to desist, but this was later changed to a recorded police warning.\n\nBlacked-out barriers which are about 6ft (72in) in height were erected outside St Giles' where the service took place.\n\nDuring the thanksgiving ceremony the King was presented with the Scottish crown jewels to mark his Coronation.\n\nBlack screens have been installed around St Giles' Cathedral\n\nGrant McKenzie, from the Republic anti-monarchy pressure group, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme his group would be vocal at the event, which he described as \"undemocratic.\"\n\nHe said: \"It's being forced upon us, we've got an unprecedented cost of living crisis.\n\n\"I don't think the public in the UK are particularly interested in their tax payer money being put towards a parade up and down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh - it's tone deaf.\n\n\"Of course people are going to be able to enjoy it if that's what they want to do. Protests by their very nature are disruptive, we will be making ourselves visible and heard.\"\n\nMr Harvie, who is the Scottish government's minister for zero carbon buildings, active travel and tenants' rights, addressed the Our Republic rally outside the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHe told the crowd: \"It's really important for those who want an elected head of state to be heard.\"\n\nThe MSP said it was extraordinary to be \"lavishing taxpayers money on some of the wealthiest people in the world so they can play some kind of Game of Thrones\".\n\nHe added: \"Passing unearned wealth from generation to generation is fundamentally at odds with the democratic society we are trying to build.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs, police lead for the event, said: \"This significant constitutional event took place safely without any disruption to the ceremony or people's procession.\n\n\"Safety was our priority and a number of actions were taken to ensure this, which included an open approach to engaging with potential protest groups.\"\n\nIn the build-up to the event the force said it sought to strike a balance between the right to protest and public safety.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mairs added: \"I would like to thank the overwhelming majority of protestors who engaged with us and also our officers whose professionalism helped ensure the safe delivery of this event for everyone who attended.\"\n\nPatrick Harvie spoke to journalists at the rally outside Holyrood\n\nAs well as those protesting the ceremony, crowds hoping to catch a glimpse of the monarch and people's procession also lined the streets.\n\nOne of those in attendance was royal fan Sheila Clark, from Newton Mearns.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland, she said: \"I'm as close to St Giles' as I possibly could be.\n\n\"It's a very special moment for me personally, I've followed the new King all my life really.\n\n\"I think it's an important part of our heritage throughout Britain and particularly in Scotland, because the King's roots are Scottish. His mother was Scottish, his grandmother was Scottish and I think Scotland is an important part of the United Kingdom.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael has carried out air strikes on Gaza in response to rocket fire from Palestinian militants, as Israeli forces completed their withdrawal from Jenin in the occupied West Bank.\n\nIt follows a major two-day operation inside the city's refugee camp which killed 12 Palestinians.\n\nAn Israeli soldier was also killed on Tuesday night during the withdrawal, which triggered more gun battles.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, the military said it intercepted five rockets from Gaza.\n\nShrapnel from one of the interceptor missiles damaged a house in the southern Israeli town of Sderot.\n\nNo militant group immediately claimed that it was behind the launches, but the Israeli military said fighter jets struck an underground weapons manufacturing facility used by Hamas, which governs Gaza, as well as a raw materials manufacturing facility for rockets.\n\nThe military said it held \"the Hamas terrorist organisation responsible for all terror activities emanating from the Gaza Strip and will face the consequences of security violations against Israel\".\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, Hamas described a car-ramming and stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv as a \"natural response\" to the Jenin operation.\n\nIsraeli authorities said seven people were injured on a busy shopping street and that the attacker was a Palestinian man from the West Bank. He was shot dead by a civilian.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said: \"Whoever thinks that such an attack will deter us from continuing our fight against terrorism is mistaken.\"\n\nHe also warned that the Jenin operation would not be a \"one-time action\".\n\n\"We will continue as long as necessary to uproot terrorism. We will not allow Jenin to go back to being a city of refuge for terrorism,\" he added.\n\nPalestinian leaders accused Israel of mounting an \"invasion\" in Jenin.\n\nAn Israeli military spokesman told the BBC on Wednesday morning that \"the operation is officially over, and the soldiers have left the Jenin area\".\n\nThe military launched its operation in Jenin refugee camp early on Monday with a drone strike that it said targeted a joint command centre of the Jenin Brigades - a unit made up of different militant groups, including Hamas.\n\nDrones carried out further air strikes as hundreds of troops entered the camp and engaged in intense gun battles with armed Palestinians inside the camp.\n\nThe military said the \"counter-terrorism operation\" was focused on seizing weapons and \"breaking the safe haven mindset of the camp\".\n\nSeveral thousand Palestinian families fled Jenin refugee camp during the operation\n\nAt a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the UN's humanitarian office said it was \"alarmed at the scale of air and ground operations that are taking place in Jenin and continuing today in the West Bank, and especially [the] air strikes hitting a densely populated refugee camp\".\n\nShe said the Palestinian health ministry had confirmed that three children - two 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old boy - were among those killed, and warned that damage to infrastructure meant most of the camp now had no drinking water or electricity.\n\nThe World Health Organization said Palestinian ambulance crews had been prevented from entering parts of the camp, including to reach people who were critically injured. The health ministry has said more than 140 Palestinians have been injured, 30 of them critically.\n\nA Palestinian Red Crescent official said about 3,000 Palestinians, including many sick and elderly, were allowed overnight to flee the drone strikes and gun battles between Israeli troops and armed Palestinians.\n\nA man in a wheelchair who was escorted out of the camp with his family in the morning told the BBC that they had been held in a room by Israeli troops.\n\n\"We were encircled by a military barricade. Israeli soldiers came. Now we just went out. There were no people left in the camp. We were the only ones.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's been a very difficult situation. The drone was shooting at us. Now we've just left. And we're all tired. We've had no food... No drink.\"\n\nOutside a hospital in the nearby city centre, Palestinians protesters threw stones at an Israeli military vehicle, prompting it to fire tear gas in response.\n\nMedical charity Médecins Sans Frontières complained that paramedics had been forced to proceed on foot because Israeli military bulldozers had destroyed many roads, stripping them of tarmac.\n\nIn an interview with CNN on Tuesday night, chief military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that no non-combatants had been killed during the operation.\n\nHe also said he had seen ambulances driving freely inside the camp during the day, adding: \"We are assisting those ambulances to evacuate the wounded.\"\n\nThe admiral said bulldozers had dug up about 2km (1.2 miles) of roads inside the camp along which militants had concealed explosive devices, putting civilians and troops at risk.\n\nThe Israeli military says its bulldozers dug up streets to remove explosive devices planted by militants\n\nJenin has become a stronghold of a new generation of Palestinian militants who have become deeply frustrated by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority's aging leadership and the restrictions of the Israeli occupation.\n\nThe city has seen repeated Israeli military raids in the past year as local Palestinians have carried out deadly attacks on Israelis. Other Palestinian attackers have hidden there.\n\nPalestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh rejected statements from foreign governments saying that Israel had the right to defend itself.\n\n\"Israel is internationally recognised as the occupying power over our land and people,\" he tweeted. \"[It] should be condemned for its use of force to destroy the camp's infrastructure, facilities, and homes, and to kill, arrest, and displace innocent people.\"\n\n\"It is the Palestinian people that have the right to self-defence. There is no such right for an occupying power,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: An army spokesperson says security forces are \"putting an end to the regime you know\"\n\nSoldiers in the West African country of Niger have announced a coup on national TV.\n\nThey said they had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions and closed the nation's borders.\n\nNiger President Mohamed Bazoum has been held by troops from the presidential guard since early on Wednesday.\n\nHe was promised Washington's \"unwavering support\" in a call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.\n\nUN Secretary General António Guterres also said he had spoken to the president and offered the UN's full support to the uranium-rich country.\n\nMr Bazoum is a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militancy in West Africa.\n\nTwo neighbouring countries, Mali and Burkina Faso, have experienced coups triggered by jihadist uprisings in recent years.\n\nIn both countries the new military leaders have fallen out with France, the former colonial power, which also formerly ruled Niger - a vast, arid country on the edge of the Sahara desert and one of the poorest nations in the world.\n\nMr Bazoum's whereabouts are unclear but in a statement on Twitter on Thursday morning he said the \"hard-won gains will be safeguarded\" and that Nigeriens who love democracy will see to it.\n\nForeign Minister Hassoumi Massoudou has declared himself the head of state and called on all democrats to \"make this adventure fail\".\n\nIn the TV announcement on Wednesday, Col Maj Amadou Abdramane, alongside nine other uniformed soldiers behind him, said: \"We, the defence and security forces... have decided to put an end to the regime you know.\n\n\"This follows the continuing deterioration of the security situation, and poor economic and social governance.\"\n\nHe also said that all of the country's institutions had been suspended and that the heads of the ministries would take care of day-to-day business.\n\n\"All external partners are asked not to interfere,\" he went on. \"Land and air borders are closed until the situation has stabilised.\"\n\nHe added a night curfew would take effect from 22:00 until 05:00 local time until further notice.\n\nCol Maj Abdramane said the soldiers were acting for the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP).\n\nThis coup is yet further bad news for French and Western efforts to restore stability to the part of West Africa known as the Sahel. When neighbouring Mali chose to partner up with Russia's Wagner Group in place of the French, Paris moved its centre of operations in the region to Niger.\n\nThis coup, even if it turns out to be short-lived, has shown that even Niger cannot necessarily be relied on to be a permanent safe base. Western influence in the region is shrinking like a water pool in the dry season.\n\nThe governments in Burkina Faso, Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali have all decided they would rather work with Russia's brutal Wagner mercenaries than any Western force. Wagner's primary interests in Africa have appeared to be more about enriching themselves and extending the Kremlin's influence than following the Western goals of trying to nurture better governance.\n\nFor the two major insurgent groups in the region, those linked to so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda, this is good news. They thrive on instability, poor governance and local resentment of the government. So a coup in Niger is likely to further hamper efforts to contain them.\n\nAfter the soldiers' TV announcement Mr Blinken called for the release of President Bazoum.\n\nHe told a news conference in New Zealand that \"what it clearly constitutes is an effort to seize power by force and to disrupt the constitution\".\n\nIn neighbouring Mali, heavily armed Russian Wagner mercenaries are helping the military regime to fight jihadist insurgents. Niger's unrest comes on top of existing Western anxiety about Wagner operations and the Sahel region's instability.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin, keen to expand Russian influence in Africa, is hosting African leaders in St Petersburg on Thursday.\n\nThe West African economic bloc Ecowas has said it \"condemns in the strongest terms the attempt to seize power by force\" in Niger.\n\nOn behalf of Ecowas, Benin's President Patrice Talon has arrived in the capital Niamey on a mediation mission.\n\nMr Talon said \"all means\" would be used, if necessary to restore constitutional order in Niger, \"but the ideal would be for everything to be done in peace and harmony\".\n\nSupporters of President Bazoum rallied in Niamey earlier on Wednesday\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, crowds in Niamey took to the streets in support of Mr Bazoum. A BBC reporter also saw heavily armed forces loyal to the president stationed around the national broadcaster.\n\nThe city was mostly peaceful, although soldiers behind the coup fired shots to break up the protests.\n\nNiger is grappling with two Islamist insurgencies - one in the south-west, which swept in from Mali in 2015, and the other in the south-east, involving jihadists based in north-eastern Nigeria.\n\nPresident Bazoum, who was democratically elected in 2021, is a close ally of France, and other Western nations.\n\nNiger has experienced four coups since independence from France in 1960, as well as numerous attempted coups.", "Many of the children housed in hotels arrive in small boats\n\nThe \"routine\" housing of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels is unlawful, the High Court has ruled.\n\nThe charity Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) brought legal action against the Home Office over the practice.\n\nThe High Court said children could be placed in hotels for \"very short periods in true emergency situations\" but not \"systematically or routinely\".\n\nThe Home Office said it had \"no option\" but to temporarily use hotels.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"In light of today's judgment, we will continue to work with Kent County Council and local authorities across the UK to ensure suitable local authority placements are provided for unaccompanied children, in line with their duties.\"\n\nThe Home Office and Department for Education had opposed the legal challenge, saying the use of hotels for unaccompanied children was lawful and \"a matter of necessity\".\n\nMore than 5,400 unaccompanied child asylum seekers have been housed in hotels since July 2021, of whom 32% were under 16.\n\nConcerns have been raised after more than 400 children went missing from these hotels, with charities warning some are being groomed by criminal gangs.\n\nMost children seeking asylum in the UK arrive by small boats in Kent, where the council has a legal duty to look after them.\n\nIn a ruling on Thursday, Mr Justice Chamberlain said: \"From December 2021 at the latest, the practice of accommodating children in hotels, outside local authority care, was both systematic and routine and had become an established part of the procedure for dealing with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.\n\n\"From that point on, the home secretary's provision of hotel accommodation for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children exceeded the proper limits of her powers and was unlawful.\"\n\nHe also said Kent County Council was acting unlawfully in failing to accommodate and look after unaccompanied child asylum seekers.\n\n\"In ceasing to accept responsibility for some newly-arriving unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, while continuing to accept other children into its care, Kent County Council chose to treat some unaccompanied asylum-seeking children differently from, and less favourably, than other children, because of their status as asylum seekers,\" he said.\n\nIn 2021 Kent County Council refused to accept any more unaccompanied child asylum seekers, warning its resources were overwhelmed.\n\nFollowing this the Home Office decided to house those children in hotels on a temporary basis while they waited to be moved to local authority care.\n\nThe challenge by ECPAT was heard in London, alongside similar claims brought by Brighton and Hove City Council and Kent County Council.\n\nBrighton and Hove City Council, which has also seen children go missing from Home Office hotels in its area, welcomed the ruling.\n\nCouncil leader Bella Sankey said: \"[Home Secretary] Suella Braverman must now urgently enforce this system so that the hotels can be emptied and all local authorities can play their part in safeguarding children.\"\n\nThe court heard that earlier this month 154 children remained missing from hotels, including a 12-year-old.\n\nThe judge said: \"Neither Kent County Council nor the home secretary knows where these children are, or whether they are safe or well.\n\n\"There is evidence that some have been persuaded to join gangs seeking to exploit them for criminal purposes.\"\n\nIn response to the ruling, Patricia Durr, chief executive of ECPAT, said: \"It remains a child protection scandal that so many of the most vulnerable children remain missing and at risk of significant harm as a consequence of these unlawful actions by the secretary of state and Kent County Council.\"\n\nAsylum seekers are often accommodated in hotels while the Home Office decides whether they can stay in the country but this can be a lengthy process.\n\nThe Home Office has said it wants to cut down on the use of expensive hotels for asylum seekers and refugees, which costs the country around £7m a day.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"We have always maintained that the best place for unaccompanied children to be accommodated is within a local authority.\n\n\"However, due to the unsustainable rise in illegal Channel crossings, the government has had no option but to accommodate young people in hotels on a temporary basis while placements with local authorities are urgently found.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man whose rape conviction has been overturned after a 20-year fight has said the past two decades felt like he had been \"kidnapped by the state\".\n\nAndrew Malkinson was jailed in 2004 for the attack on a woman in Salford, serving 17 years in prison for a crime he always said he did not commit.\n\nHis case was referred to the Court of Appeal in January after new evidence pointed to another potential suspect.\n\nMr Malkinson, 57, said: \"I was innocent and finally they listened.\"\n\n\"But I have been innocent all along, for each of those 20 years that came before today,\" he said.\n\n\"It has taken nearly 20 years to persuade my kidnappers to let me go.\"\n\nOverturning his conviction, Lord Justice Holroyd said Mr Malkinson could \"leave the court free and no longer be subject to the conditions of licence\".\n\nPolice also apologised for what they described as a \"grave miscarriage of justice\".\n\nThe first Mr Malkinson knew of the crime was when he was arrested in his hometown of Grimsby, two weeks after the assault and attempted murder in Salford.\n\nHe had been in the area at the time, working temporarily as a security guard.\n\nMr Malkinson was found guilty following a trial in 2003 and sentenced to life with a minimum term of seven years.\n\nHowever, he served a further 10 years in jail after his tariff expired.\n\nAndrew Malkinson was cleared by senior judges at the Court of Appeal\n\nHis barrister Edward Henry KC told the court this was because Mr Malkinson would never \"falsely confess to abhorrent crimes which he did not commit\".\n\nMr Malkinson previously applied twice for his case to be reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) but he was turned down, eventually being released from prison in December 2020.\n\nAt the time of his trial, there was no DNA evidence linking him to the crime and the prosecution's case against him was based solely on identification evidence.\n\nAfter his release, advancements in scientific techniques allowed his legal team, supported by legal charity Appeal, to provide new analysis that cast doubt on his conviction to the CCRC.\n\nThe body then commissioned its own testing which found that DNA from the victim's clothing matched another man on the national police database.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) later conceded Mr Malkinson's conviction was unsafe because new evidence pointed to another man, who the court ordered can only be identified as Mr B.\n\nAndy Malkinson's custody picture two weeks after the rape - and the e-fit of the suspect\n\nBoth the CPS and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirmed in May they would not contest a fresh appeal.\n\nPolice said in January that a man had been arrested and released under investigation in light of the new information, but no decision had been made on whether he will be charged.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Mr Malkinson said: \"When a jury finds you guilty when you are innocent, reality does not change.\n\n\"You know you did not commit the crime, but all the people around you start living in a false fantasy universe and treat you as if you are guilty.\n\n\"Now I have finally been exonerated, I am left outside this court without an apology, without an explanation, jobless, homeless, expected to simply slip back into the world with no acknowledgement of the gaping black hole they opened up in my life\n\n\"A black hole that looms so large behind me that I fear it will swallow me up.\"\n\nHe continued: \"People convicted of rape are the lowest of the low. I did not commit the crime, but I was treated as if I did. I spent 17 years on my guard against every threat.\n\n\"Seventeen years counting down the minutes to lock up, so I could be behind my door and safe from other prisoners, but not safe from my own mind, imagining I would die there, perhaps murdered.\n\nHis mother Trisha Hose said: \"For nearly 20 years people have assumed that I was just a loyal but deluded mother in denial about what my son was capable of doing.\n\n\"I knew the system had got it wrong, but it seemed like there was nothing I could do about it.\"\n\nNow he had been cleared, Ms Hose said she was \"no longer a deluded mother\" and her son was \"no longer a monster\".\n\n\"But what has been done to him cannot be undone,\" she said.\n\n\"The damage will be with him for the rest of his life, and the woman who got attacked has been denied justice, just as my son was.\"\n\nMr Malkinson was convicted of carrying out the rape in Salford in 2003\n\nOpening the appeal earlier, Mr Henry said: \"This is the most troubling case which may have wide implications for the administration of criminal justice.\n\n\"This is a historic case - and a historic injustice.\n\n\"Grave failures that must lie at the door of GMP that wholly undermined a fair trial.\"\n\n\"No-one else should have to go through what Mr Malkinson has endured.\"\n\nLord Justice Holroyde said other points argued by Mr Malkinson's legal team, about \"crucial\" material that was not disclosed at the time of his trial, \"raised a number of substantial and important points\".\n\nHe said the court would take time to consider them and give a decision on them later in writing.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has apologised for a \"grave miscarriage of justice\"\n\nGMP's Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson said the force was \"truly sorry\" to Mr Malkinson over the \"grave miscarriage of justice\".\n\nShe said the force was \"also profoundly sorry to the victim of this crime, who not only suffered an horrific trauma 20 years ago, but also relived the experience during a criminal trial, and now may endure additional harm caused by learning that the true offender has not yet been brought to justice\".\n\nCases like Mr Malkinson's were \"thankfully very rare\", she said, but added that the force had and would continue to \"fully co-operate with any further reviews and action will be taken if it is found that anything could have been done differently\".\n\nShe said she had offered to meet Mr Malkinson \"to personally deliver this apology\".\n\n\"We are determined to work with our colleagues in the CPS to ensure all new evidence is fully examined and that the person truly responsible is convicted,\" she said.\n\nCCRC chairman Helen Pitcher said she welcomed the decision to overturn Mr Malkinson's conviction.\n\n\"In the ever-changing world of forensic science, new evidence can come to light years after a conviction,\" she said.\n\n\"We used our special powers to take advantage of DNA breakthroughs to find evidence that we considered could overturn this conviction.\n\n\"We recognise that Andrew has had a very long journey to clear his name, but sadly the evidence that led to the court overturning his conviction only became available years after his conviction.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A drink-driver has admitted killing charity cyclist Tony Parsons and burying his body to cover up the crime.\n\nAlexander McKellar, 31, was speeding and had been drinking when he caused Mr Parsons' death.\n\nHe and twin brother Robert McKellar admitted trying to defeat the ends of justice by hiding the body in a grave in the Auch Estate near Bridge of Orchy in September 2017.\n\nMr Parsons' remains were not found until January 2021.\n\nHis family said it had been \"heartbreaking\" to live with so many unanswered questions over the six years since he went missing.\n\nAlexander McKellar (L) and twin brother Robert appeared at the High Court in Glasgow\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard how Alexander McKellar collided with Mr Parsons on the A82 between Bridge of Orchy and Tyndrum on 29 September 2017.\n\nMcKellar did not seek medical assistance for the 63-year-old at the roadside.\n\nThe damaged car involved in the killing was dumped at the nearby Auch Estate along with the brothers' phones.\n\nThey then returned in a truck to where Mr Parsons was still lying.\n\nHe was placed into the vehicle along with his bike and other personal belongings.\n\nThe brothers went back to the Auch Estate and initially hid Mr Parsons' body in a part of the woods.\n\nHe was later taken to another location used for \"the purposes of disposing dead animals\".\n\nThe brothers then dug a grave and buried Mr Parsons along with his personal possessions.\n\nProsecutors said the brothers got help trying to repair the car used in the killing, claiming it had been damaged when it hit a deer.\n\nTony Parsons was last seen outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel in September 2017\n\nThe two men had been due to stand trial accused of Mr Parsons' murder.\n\nBut Alexander McKellar pled guilty to the reduced charge of culpable homicide.\n\nHis brother had his not guilty plea to murder accepted.\n\nThe pair both admitted attempting to defeat the ends of justice.\n\nMr Parsons was last seen in September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nHe then continued cycling south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum, but there were no further sightings.\n\nMr Parsons' family were in court to hear the guilty plea\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nHis remains were eventually found in a remote area in January 2021.\n\nMr Parsons' family were at the High Court in Glasgow to hear the guilty plea.\n\nIn a statement, they described him as \"a much-loved husband, dad and grandad\".\n\nThey said: \"When he said goodbye and set off on his charity cycle from Fort William that Friday, none of us expected it to be the last time we would be able to see or speak to him.\n\n\"Throughout the six years since he went missing and then the subsequent criminal investigation, we had been left with many unanswered questions and it has been heartbreaking for each and every member of the family being unable to get these answers.\n\n\"As you can imagine, not knowing what has happened to someone and then the devastating news that we were provided has taken its toll on all of us as a family.\"\n\nThe case will continue on Friday.", "Fellow Welshman Barry John (left) playing for the Lions with JPR Williams (right) against New Zealand in 1971\n\nWales rugby legend JPR Williams has called on the sport's chiefs to pay more attention to the links between concussion and the impact on players.\n\nThe 1970s star and surgeon spoke as researchers found a link between repeat rugby concussions and reduced blood and oxygen flow to the brain in later life.\n\nThe study said it may show why memory, thought processes and co-ordination declined in some ex-players tested.\n\nWorld Rugby has said it welcomes new research into players' welfare.\n\nWilliams, a British and Irish Lion renowned for his toughness on the field in the Welsh game's 1970s golden era, said governing bodies must take more notice of research.\n\n\"There is no doubt the generations after us are going to be left worse off than we were,\" said Williams, 74.\n\nCommenting on the findings of the study, in which he was involved, he said: \"I'm not pleased, but it backs up what we felt was the problem.\"\n\nA separate legal case is ongoing where former players are suing the WRU, RFU and World Rugby, previously known as the International Rugby Board.\n\nThe players say they sustained permanent brain injuries in the game.\n\nJPR Williams says the research \"backs up what we felt was the problem\"\n\nThe case will be decided by a judge based on the evidence presented in court.\n\nThomas Owens, co-lead investigator on the University of South Wales (USW) study, said research found that retired players with a history of concussion had mild cognitive impairment.\n\n\"This is a state whereby the cognitive function of these individuals, in term of the way someone thinks, remembers information, processes that information and co-ordinates the body's movements declines over time, and particularly throughout ageing\".\n\nHe said this put them at \"increased risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases later in life\".\n\nBut the researchers said not everyone who played contact sports would go on to develop cognitive decline.\n\nWilliams said he had no concerns for his health but his generation was worried about neurodegenerative diseases.\n\nFormer Bridgend captain Meredydd James has undergone tests as part of the research\n\nHe is particularly concerned about the generations that came after him, especially given the intensity of the game now.\n\nWilliams said: \"I had been an orthopaedic surgeon for 35 years. I thought it was good to get involved because of the concern about lots of sports having problems with concussion\".\n\nHe cited \"serious worries, particularly with the laws of the game now, where they stand right on top of each other\".\n\n\"There seems to be a bit of a conflict between the laws, and the early onset of cognitive degeneration,\" he said.\n\nHe said cognitive health was not really known about when he played, but much less time was spent training.\n\n\"The game was amateur, we only probably had physical contact once a week. Now they have it every day, the brain needs time to recover, it's like any organ in the body, it is quite a worry, it's repetitive, not even huge bangs but repetitive small injuries to the brain can be a problem in later life.\"\n\nThe 55-cap full-back wants the game to return to how it was in the 1970s, with more space for players, \"to decrease the ferocity of the hits\". He also wants reduced tackling and contact in training.\n\nHe urged governing bodies \"to take more notice than they do\" of studies such as this.\n\nWilliams reflected on an infamous moment of his career when he was stamped on by New Zealand prop John Ashworth while playing for Bridgend against the All Blacks in 1978.\n\nKnowing what he knows now, he probably would not have returned to the field after having his face stitched up by his father at the side of the pitch.\n\nScientists at USW's neurovascular research laboratory analysed the brain health of 20 retired players aged between 60 and 80 who had suffered concussions.\n\nFor the first time, researchers found they had reduced blood and oxygen flow to the brain due to less nitric oxide, which helps blood vessels regulate blood around the body.\n\nSome exhibited signs of mild cognitive impairment and all were outperformed by the control group in cognitive function tests.\n\nThe researchers said this was the first study to determine mechanisms that may cause cognitive decline and has implications for other contact sports.\n\nIt is hoped the research may contribute to improving protection for players and help with the introduction of pitch-side blood or saliva tests for concussion.\n\nJPR Williams (third from right) with fellow ex-rugby stars at the launch of BBC Wales series Slammed\n\nMr Owens said: \"It's important to note that we don't want to stop players playing rugby, but we want to make them inherently aware of the risks associated with forms of brain trauma and concussion.\n\n\"Make them aware, improve the way that we detect concussion at the pitchside and then improve the way we care for players following retirement.\"\n\nFormer Bridgend RFC captain Meredydd James also took part in the study, and said there was no knowledge about the dangers of concussion in his era, but he started to feel the effects later in life.\n\n\"Initially you have some aches and pains, I used to have a bit of back trouble,\" he said.\n\n\"I think for the first 20, 30 years you just go along with it and you can't say it was definitely related to rugby.\n\n\"But I think when you get to 55-plus, a little bit of memory loss, perhaps the recall, perhaps balance, those are some things starting to kick in, and you think: 'Concussion, dementia could it be something like that'?\"\n\nThere are other studies taking place investigating the health of former players. Lifestyle changes, including poor diet, alcohol dependency and lack of exercise may also accelerate the cognitive decline of former athletes.\n\nUSW researchers said they recognised this study had limitations in the relatively small sample size and it relies on participants remembering past concussions.\n\nBut they are aiming to carry out a larger study and investigate the potential differences in brain health between male and female athletes in contact sports.\n\nWorld Rugby previously said it \"welcomes all research that can inform and support our recently launched strategy to cement rugby as the most progressive sport on player welfare\" and undertook \"a wide-ranging evaluation of contact training\".\n\nIn 2021 it said: \"It is at the heart of everything that we say and do as a sport. World Rugby recently committed to double our investment in player welfare and new concussion research and initiatives.\"\n\nThe WRU has been asked to comment.", "A newly-wed couple have celebrated their marriage by climbing Skye's second-highest summit in their wedding outfits.\n\nVictoria Forbes and Mark Lyons carried the wedding dress, suit and climbing gear up Sgùrr Dearg.\n\nThe keen climbers from the Scottish Borders then donned their wedding outfits to scale the top section, called the Inaccessible Pinnacle.\n\nTheir wedding photographer captured the moment before they abseiled back down.\n\nThe 3,234ft-high (986m) mountain in the Cuillins is topped by an imposing rocky formation, nicknamed the 'In Pinn'.\n\nMark stressed they would not have attempted the roped climb and abseil descent - and the long walk there and back - if they had not had the skills and appropriate equipment to do so safely.\n\nPortree-based Becy Stabler, of Belle Art Photography, captured the climb for the newly-weds' wedding album.\n\nVictoria and Mark, who became engaged during a trip to north-west Africa's Atlas Mountains, had previously climbed Sgùrr Dearg.\n\nThey were wed in a ceremony on 17 July close to the mountain and saw an opportunity to rekindle the memory.\n\nMark, who has been climbing since the 1990s, said: \"We were married in Glen Brittle just below the Cuillin mountains and due to our special memories of the original climb we decided to revisit it in our wedding attire the following day.\n\n\"Our amazing wedding photographer Becy Stabler accompanied us so we could have photos alongside our wedding photos.\"\n\nReaching the In Pinn, which involves rock climbing for the ascent and an abseil back down, meant walking and scrambling over rocky terrain for more than two hours.\n\nMark said: \"On the Inaccessible Pinnacle there was a handful of fellow climbers. The love and all the congratulations that came with this is beautiful and we thank everyone for their best wishes.\n\n\"The wedding dress and suit held up well until we had an impromptu swim in the loch sat in Coire Lagan on the walk out.\"\n\nHe added: \"The climb would never have happened if we weren't perfectly happy we could do it safely in the conditions that were given and our use of the necessary safety equipment carried.\n\n\"We would climb the In Pinn again - but will never repeat it dressed up.\"", "The solicitors' watchdog in England and Wales has confirmed it is investigating law firms accused of helping clients make false asylum claims.\n\nIt comes after a Daily Mail reporter, posing as an economic migrant, asked law firms for help applying for asylum.\n\nTwo companies allegedly agreed to help devise fictional backstories aimed at increasing the success of a claim.\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk has urged the regulator to use the \"full force of sanctions\" at its disposal.\n\nWriting to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Mr Chalk said: \"Solicitors are critical to the operation of a fair immigration system. I know that the overwhelming majority take their professional duties and obligations extremely seriously.\n\n\"However, any examples of practices which fall short of the high ethical standards we expect of solicitors risk serious disruption to the immigration system, tarnishing the reputation of those working in this area, and critically undermining public confidence.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak echoed his minister's sentiments saying: \"It is vital that those found to be abusing their position face the full consequences of their actions.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the regulator said: \"We can confirm we are investigating the firms/individuals. As a result of the information provided, we are looking to take urgent action to make sure the public are protected.\n\n\"If we find evidence that solicitors or firms we regulate have acted in ways that contravene our rules, and in particular their duty to act legally and uphold the law, we can and will take action.\"\n\nLast November, the regulator carried out a review of the immigration and asylum sector which concluded it was generally \"satisfied with the quality of service being provided\".\n\nFollowing the review it issued new guidance on immigration work and committed to producing a further report in 12 to 18 months.\n\nMr Chalk said the follow-up review should be carried out \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Solicitors Regulation Authority monitors more than 200,000 solicitors in England and Wales. As part of its work it monitors solicitors to ensure they are complying with the rules and investigates concerns. It also has the power to close down firms.\n\nThe Daily Mail published its story on Monday.", "Fifth LV= Insurance Ashes Test, The Kia Oval (day one of five)\n\nEngland face a battle to level the Ashes after Australia enjoyed the better of the first day of the fifth Test at The Oval.\n\nFinally winning the toss for the first time in the series, Australia pounced on the opportunity to put England in on a green-tinged pitch and dismissed the home side for 283 before moving to 61-1, 222 behind.\n\nHarry Brook held England together with 85 from 91 balls, adding 111 for the fourth wicket with Moeen Ali, who made 34.\n\nBut England were hurt by two clusters of wickets. At one stage they lost three for 11, on the other occasion four for 28.\n\nSimilarly, Australia were wasteful. They dropped five catches, most crucially Brook when he had scored only five. The tourists also missed the opportunity to run out Brook when he had 50.\n\nBrook eventually fell to Mitchell Starc, who claimed 4-82, with Australia then making an assured start to their reply through openers David Warner and Usman Khawaja.\n\nChris Woakes had Warner well held at second slip by Zak Crawley, leaving Khawaja unbeaten on 26 and Marnus Labuschagne on two.\n\nOf concern to England was a groin injury Moeen sustained while he was batting. The off-spinner did not take the field as he underwent an assessment. James Anderson, backed to play in this Test despite taking only four wickets in the series, bowled seven unsuccessful overs.\n\nAt 2-1 down, England know Australia have retained the urn, but are looking to protect an unbeaten home record in Ashes series that stretches back to 2001.\n• None Pick your team of the series\n• None Brook could have same impact as Pietersen - Vaughan\n• None Relive day one as it happened\n\nBrook made his Test debut on this ground a year ago and has since established himself as the present and future of England's middle order. On this occasion he was the engine of a freewheeling England innings with his 11th score of 50 or more in 12 Tests.\n\nThe hosts thrilled and frustrated in equal measure. An opening stand of 62 between Crawley and Ben Duckett, who was busy for 41, belied the early conditions before both men and Joe Root fell in the space of 22 balls. Root's was the first in a string of limp dismissals from the middle and lower order.\n\nDuckett and Crawley both benefitted from being dropped and England would have been in huge trouble at 78-4 had Brook been held by diving wicketkeeper Alex Carey. Reprieved, he built the vital stand with Moeen.\n\nMoeen had been careful, scoring only 11 from 37 balls, before his injury. With restricted movement, he swung two sixes off Cummins before aiming one heave too many at recalled off-spinner Todd Murphy.\n\nBy this point, Brook was batting gloriously, scoring square of the wicket on both sides, playing handsome straight drives and picking up two leg-side sixes of his own.\n\nHowever, Moeen's dismissal sparked England's second mini-slump. Ben Stokes played across a very good delivery from Starc, Jonny Bairstow wafted an ugly chop on off Josh Hazlewood and Brook's airy drive ended in the hands of Steve Smith.\n\nEven after that, Woakes and Mark Wood continued the momentum. Wood sped to 28 before a hack at Murphy and Woakes, who was dropped twice and successfully overturned being given lbw, lofted a glorious straight six off Starc in his 36.\n\nAustralia have been on the back foot for most of the past two Tests and looked to still be suffering a hangover in a poor first hour when they wasted the conditions. Starc and Hazlewood were wayward with the new ball, Warner dropped Duckett at first slip and a flying Smith put down a very tough chance off Crawley.\n\nBut an excellent spell from captain Pat Cummins changed the momentum. After Mitchell Marsh had Duckett caught down the leg side, Cummins got his reward with extra bounce to Crawley and Australia gradually chipped away.\n\nIn the face of England's swift scoring, Australia kept the field spread and the boundaries protected.\n\nThough Cummins' throw missed the chance to run out Brook, the tourists had the fortune of the injury that contributed to Moeen's downfall and Starc followed up with a wonderful burst in the afternoon - the ball that bowled Stokes nipped away sharply to take off stump.\n\nWith the help of Murphy, it was Starc who mopped up the tail after tea, giving Australia around two hours to bat.\n\nWarner had failed to score when a tickle down the leg side off Stuart Broad went away off Bairstow's fingertips, a very hard chance. Warner also survived a review for caught behind off Broad and an edge off Wood that dropped short of Bairstow.\n\nThe opening stand was worth 49 when Warner fenced at Woakes, allowing Crawley to take the smart catch. Khawaja remained unmoved, leaving well and showing all the sound judgement that has made him Australia's leading run-scorer in the series.\n\n'We got up to a respectable total' - what they said?\n\nEngland batter Harry Brook, speaking to BBC's Test Match Special: \"We got up to a respectable total. I felt good today, I got that bit of luck early on, I just tried to put that pressure back on them and play like I have the last 12 months: positive, looking to always put the pressure on, backing myself.\"\n\nAustralia spinner Todd Murphy, speaking to Sky Sports: \"Winning the toss and bowling, the first objective is to bowl them out. We managed to do that, we created a lot of chances - it would've been nice if we could've held on to all of them but it's a good day, all in all. To be 61-1 at the end is nice.\"", "Police say the death of Sinéad O'Connor is not being treated as suspicious, following the discovery of her body on Wednesday.\n\nThe Irish singer and activist, 56, best known for the song Nothing Compares 2 U, was found at her home in Herne Hill, south London at 11:18 BST.\n\nPolice say she was \"unresponsive\" and \"pronounced dead at the scene\".\n\nLondon Inner South Coroner's Court said no medical cause of death was given and an post-mortem will be conducted.\n\nThe results could take \"several weeks\" and a decision on whether an inquest will be needed will be decided when they are are known, the court added.\n\nO'Connor's family announced the news of her death on Wednesday evening \"with great sadness\", saying \"her family and friends are devastated\".\n\nShe will be remembered for many political statements, including in 1992 when she controversially ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II during a performance on US TV show Saturday Night Live.\n\nShredding the picture, which she removed from a frame in her mother's home after her death, was a protest against child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.\n\nTributes have been pouring in for the Brit and Grammy Award-winning artist, including from singer Annie Lennox , who shared a poetic tribute to O'Connor, calling her \"fierce and fragile... impulsive, bold and beautiful... with an incredible voice\".\n\n\"May the angels hold you in their tender arms and give you rest,\" she added.\n\nThe Pretenders' singer Chrissie Hynde told BBC Radio 2: \"She was a really fun person, she was such a riot to hang out with.\n\n\"But she was always angling to stir it up - she really poked the hornets' nest, and [was] certainly a one-off and a huge talent. She is without question in a better place - so fly on, sweet angel.\"\n\nSinéad O'Connor singing on the BBC in 2013\n\nSpeaking on the red carpet for the Mercury Prize nominations, artist Jessie Ware told the BBC she was a \"trailblazer\".\n\n\"I just remember Nothing Compares 2 U - asking my dad to play it in the back of the car over and over,\" she said.\n\n\"That voice, her honesty and fearlessness was transcendental\".\n\nOne fan left a handwritten tribute to O'Connor on the doorstep of her former home near Dublin\n\nThe Taoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar also paid tribute to O'Connor, who was born in Dublin.\n\nHe said her music \"was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched\".\n\nSinn Fein vice-president Michelle O'Neill delivered a tribute at Stormont, the Northern Ireland Assembly, saying:\"Ireland has lost one of its greats, such a hugely talented female artist, a real trailblazer.\n\n\"She was an Irish woman in the music industry who led the way and her loss will be felt greatly by many.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinéad O'Connor: In her own words\n\nThe Smiths singer Morrissey wrote on his website: \"She had the courage to speak when everyone else stayed safely silent. She was harassed simply for being herself. Her eyes finally closed in search of a soul she could call her own.\"\n\nOne fan left a handwritten tribute to O'Connor on the doorstep of one of her former homes in Bray, County Wicklow, which read: \"May your journey to the afterlife be beautiful and healing.\"\n\nIrish TV presenter Laura Whitmore said on Instagram: \"As an Irish woman growing up in the 90s, she was everything, showing girls were cool.\n\n\"Irish women could be recognised globally and shaved heads not just for guys - though not a look I could carry off.\n\n\"My mam told everyone who visited Sinéad lived on our road - she was our royalty. Rest in peace Queen x.\"\n\nSinead O'Connor performed on stage at the Vogue Theatre in 2020 in Vancouver, Canada\n\nO'Connor, who shot to international fame in the 1990s, was also remembered by Oscar-winning singer and songwriter Glen Hansard.\n\nHe said: \"Ireland has always preferred its heroes on the wall. Too scared and afraid to deal with them in the room. Now we can finally hang her picture on the wall and revere her for the giant she was.\"\n\nA 2022 documentary about O'Connor, called Nothing Compares, was set to be aired on television for the first time by Sky on 29 July.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, RTE music journalist Dave Fanning, who did the first-ever interview with the singer and met her more than 200 times, described her as a \"generous person,\" but acknowledged she was a \"polarising\" figure.\n\n\"When she tore up the picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live and people said she'd ruin her career, she did ruin her career, because that was the plan.\n\n\"She never wanted to be famous, to be a pop star, she felt she was a protest singer.\"\n\nKathryn Ferguson, the Belfast film-maker behind the project, said she was \"devastated\" by the news of O'Connor's death.\n\n\"My father introduced me to Sinéad's music in the late '80s,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Front Row.\n\nThe London Irish Centre is holding a tribute to O'Connor on Thursday night, with Annie Mac and guests.\n\nO'Connor had recently moved back to London, tweeting in early July that she had been away for 23 years.\n\n\"Very happy to be home,\" she said, adding: \"Hopefully touring Australia and New Zealand toward end 2024. Europe, USA and other territories beginning early 2025.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who hosted a family fleeing the war in Ukraine has driven a mother and her two daughters 2,500 miles back to their home country.\n\nKatya Voichenko has been living in the Moray town of Burghead since she arrived in Scotland nine months ago.\n\nBut with her children feeling homesick, Katya wanted to rejoin her partner Dima and son Leo in Ukraine.\n\nSo Danny Ralph and his friend Chris Harris decided the best thing to do was to take them home themselves.\n\nKatya Voichenko came to Scotland last year with her daughters\n\nKatya is from the city of Sumy, about 20 miles from the Russian border.\n\nShe came to Scotland last year with her daughters Masha and Ksyusha, and has been living in Danny's house in Burghead.\n\nKatya said it had been a \"difficult\" decision to come to Scotland because of the uncertainty.\n\n\"We didn't know what we would have here, how it would be. It was scary,\" she said.\n\nKatya said they ended up getting on very well with Danny and they enjoyed their time in Scotland.\n\nShe was able to keep up her hobby of pottery in Danny's house, even passing on some of that knowledge to her daughters.\n\nBut she acknowledged there were difficulties.\n\nShe said: \"It's very difficult for mothers who had a full family in Ukraine before the war, but now they're raising children without the father, who's stayed in Ukraine.\n\n\"It's a really important reason why some people are going home.\"\n\nKatya's partner and son had to stay in Ukraine when the war broke out. Men aged 18 to 60 were not allowed to leave as they were to prepare for service in the armed forces.\n\nShe said her own children were very homesick.\n\n\"They want to study in Ukraine. They want to work in the future in Ukraine,\" Katya said.\n\nWhen Danny and Chris saw how Katya and her daughters were feeling, they decided to undertake a road trip.\n\n\"You're thinking about your own kids, your own bairns,\" Danny said.\n\n\"You do things for friends, and they're our friends.\"\n\nThey bought a van for the journey, which they plan to donate to charity when they get back to Scotland.\n\nIn addition to Katya and her daughters, they also used the van to carry children's clothes and medical supplies which they donated to a hospital in Kyiv.\n\nAnd on the return journey, they are taking a group of 10 refugees back to Scotland.\n\nThe journey included a detour to Luxembourg so Katya could see her sister\n\nThe five-day journey to Ukraine included a detour to Luxembourg so Katya could see her sister, Leanna.\n\n\"The last time I saw my sister was in the beginning of the war,\" she said.\n\n\"It was terrible. We spent a lot of time in shelters under the house waiting for bombs.\"\n\nThere were tears at the emotional reunion - but they could not stop for long. The group then continued through Poland, stopping off in Poznan, before heading towards the border with Ukraine.\n\nOnce they got through the busy vehicle checkpoint, they drove on towards Kyiv on roads that had been bombed and rebuilt.\n\n\"It kind of goes bump bump bump... but they're putting it back together really quickly,\" said Danny.\n\nIt was dark when the van arrived in Kyiv, but there was a welcome party waiting for their arrival.\n\nKatya's mother Nadia, partner Dima and son Leo now live in the city, and were there to greet them, clearly relieved to be reunited after nine months apart.", "The image (right) was discovered behind the Highlander Portrait - one of the most widely replicated portraits of Charles\n\nA lost image of Bonnie Prince Charlie has been uncovered using X-rays.\n\nIt was discovered behind the well known Highlander Portrait, which appears on Jacobite memorabilia.\n\nAn X-ray and conservation analysis have revealed that the original portrait of Charles, with brown eyes, was painted on top of what appears to be a Jacobite battle flag.\n\nDoctor Bendor Grosvenor is the Conservator and Art Historian who made the discovery.\n\nThe unknown portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie has gone on display at the West Highland Museum in Fort William.\n\nIt shows Charles wearing tartan, a white cockade in his bonnet, and the Order of the Thistle, the pre-eminent Scottish Order of Chivalry.\n\nExperts believe some of the portrait was repainted during the 19th Century to make Charles \"bonnier\", even giving him blue eyes instead of brown.\n\nDr Bendor Grosvenor, who discovered the portrait, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland Programme about the find.\n\n\"This is an image that's on the snuff boxes, Jacobite glasses, I think it's been on a few shortbread tins as well. But we've never known where the original image comes from,\" he said.\n\n\"Most of the images are thought to be taken from a little engraving, which was called The Highlander Portrait, made by an artist called Robert Strange, who was in the Princes retinue. He was a Jacobite rebel.\n\n\"But we never knew where the image came from, the original one, and I think this is it. And there it was, hiding beneath another portrait of the prince, which had been made bonnier at some point in the 19th Century by giving him sort of various details like blue eyes and slightly nicer hair, that sort of thing.\"\n\nA painting made of Bonnie Prince Charlie in the 1740s and the new digital depiction of him as an older man\n\nPrince Charles Edward Stuart was the grandson of the Catholic King James II of England - who was also King James VII of Scotland - who was deposed in favour of his Protestant daughter Mary and son-in-law William of Orange in the \"Glorious Revolution\" of 1688.\n\nBorn in Rome, he was known in his lifetime as \"the Young Pretender\" and \"the Young Chevalier\" - but his most famous nickname is \"Bonnie Prince Charlie\" due to his boyish looks and alleged charm.\n\nSupporters of the family, known as Jacobites, fought a series of rebellions to reclaim the throne, and Bonnie Prince Charlie led the rising of 1745 which sought to remove the Hanoverian \"usurper\" George II.\n\nArriving on Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, he travelled across the Highlands to assemble a Jacobite army, defeating the government forces at the Battle of Prestonpans in East Lothian before advancing into England as far as Derby.\n\nBut hopeful of receiving support from France, he retreated back to Scotland and the following year the Jacobites suffered a crushing defeat at Culloden, near Inverness.\n\nHe escaped back to France, famously with the help of Flora MacDonald who disguised him as a woman as he made his way by boat to Skye.\n\nBonnie Prince Charlie never returned to Scotland again, and died in Italy in 1788 at the age of 67.\n\nThe original portrait was likely to be made in Scotland, during the 1745 Jacobite uprising. At this time, the prince was retreating from Edinburgh and he was heading to Culloden.\n\nDr Grosvenor said: \"They were looking for a new portrait of the king looking particularly Scottish because that was the target audience if you like. So they needed someone to paint him in highland garb and this picture was painted quite quickly and I have to be honest, from the X-ray that I can see, not particularly well.\n\n\"At some point later on, they thought, well he doesn't look like the bonnie prince of legends so we'll just beautify him a bit.\"\n\nThe museum is known as a Jacobite focused museum, with a collection of objects relating to the Jacobean Era\n\nThe earlier portrait was painted on top of a Jacobite battle flag with a red saltire on a white background.\n\nIn the X-ray image, it shows the coat of arms of the Menzies of Shian, who fought for Charles during the uprising.\n\nA banner of a similar description was captured after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.\n\nCharles stayed at Castle Menzies on his way north to Inverness in 1746, so it could be that the portrait was painted at about this time.\n\nDr Grosvenor found the painting in 2019 at an auction and said he had a feeling something more was there.\n\n\"I'm a Jacobite obsessive and I'm always optimistic so I saw this portrait and I thought, there's something wrong with it because he's got blue eyes and the prince had brown eyes.\n\n\"I just sort of plugged away. The pandemic came along and then finally I was able to get it X-rayed and suddenly beneath the image we could see in the X-ray, not only the earlier portrait, but that it was painted on top of a Jacobite battle flag.\"\n\nThe portrait, which is on is on loan from Dr Grosvenor, will be displayed in the museum's Jacobite gallery until the end of December 2023.\n\nVanessa Martin, curator manager of the West Highland Museum said: \"The discovery of this unknown portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart is a remarkable accomplishment and we are delighted that Dr Grosvenor has chosen to loan this important painting to the West Highland Museum for its inaugural public display.\n\n\"It will be exhibited in our Jacobite gallery alongside an image of the X-ray revealing the original portrait and the banner hidden beneath the now visible portrait.\"", "Tanks hit by Russian mines are either being quickly repaired or scavenged for parts\n\nThe general in charge of Ukraine's stuttering counter-offensive in the south has said Russian defences are making it difficult for military equipment, including Western tanks and armoured vehicles, to move forward.\n\nGen Oleksandr Tarnavskyi says his forces are struggling to overcome multi-layered minefields and fortified defensive lines.\n\n\"That is why most of the tasks have to be performed by troops.\"\n\nHe says Russia's military has displayed \"professional qualities\" by preventing Ukrainian forces from \"advancing quickly\".\n\nLatest unconfirmed reports from the US suggest the main thrust of the counter-offensive has begun. The Institute for the Study of War says Ukrainian forces appear to have broken through \"certain pre-prepared Russian defensive positions\".\n\nBut so far there's little evidence that Western supplied tanks and armoured vehicles have been able to tip the balance decisively in Ukraine's favour.\n\nSeveral Leopard tanks and US Bradley fighting vehicles were damaged or destroyed in the first days of the offensive, near the city of Orikhiv.\n\nUkraine's 47th Brigade, which had largely been trained and equipped by the West to try to break through Russian lines, were soon stopped in their tracks by mines and then targeted by artillery.\n\nRussia released multiple videos of the incident claiming Ukraine's offensive had already failed. In reality it was an early setback rather than a decisive blow.\n\nRussia released footage of tanks it said it had destroyed in the early days of the offensive\n\nWe visited the same brigade's outdoor workshop, hidden in a forest behind the front line, where they are now trying to repair more than a dozen armoured vehicles - most of them US Bradleys.\n\nThey first arrived unscathed but now bear the scars of battle. Broken tracks and buckled wheels - the tell-tale signs that several have hit Russian mines.\n\nSerhii, one of the engineers, says: \"The faster we can repair them, the faster we can get them back to the front line to save someone's life.\"\n\nBut he also admits that some are beyond repair and will have to be either scavenged for spare parts or \"returned to our partners\" to be rebuilt.\n\nWhile Western armour has provided Ukrainian troops with better protection, it has not been able to punch through the rows of Russian mines - one of the biggest barriers for Ukraine's advance.\n\nTravelling the southern front we also saw British supplied Mastiff armoured vehicles damaged and destroyed.\n\nMaksym, a tank commander near the front line, says Russian lines are defended by rows of minefields\n\nThe 47th Brigade is now using some of its older, Soviet-era tanks to clear minefields. But they too can't escape the explosives hidden in the ground, even when fitted with specialist mine-clearing equipment.\n\nNearer the front line, tank commander Maksym showed us his recently-damaged T-64 tank. It's been fitted with two rollers on the front to deliberately set off the mines. He lost one of the rollers the night before as he was trying to clear a path for troops.\n\n\"Normally our rollers can withstand up to four explosions,\" he says. But the Russians, he adds, have been laying mines on top of each other to destroy their mine clearing equipment.\n\n\"It's very hard because there are too many mines,\" Maksym says, adding that there were often more than four rows of minefields in front of the Russian defensive lines.\n\nIt's been painful to watch the battle unfold for Doc and his drone reconnaissance team from Ukraine's Volunteer Army.\n\nUkrainian drone pilot Doc says Russia is increasingly using remote-controlled mines to slow them down\n\nDoc, his call sign, took part in last year's successful offensive on Kherson. But he says this time it's proving to be much tougher. For the first time in the war, he says, soldiers are being injured by mines more than artillery: \"When we go forward we meet minefields everywhere.\"\n\nDoc shows me a video he recently filmed from one of his drones while Ukrainian troops advanced towards a Russian trench.\n\nThere's a massive explosion as soon as the soldiers enter. The trench was empty but rigged with mines. Doc says Russian forces are now using remotely controlled mines. \"When our soldiers get to the trenches they push a button and it blows up, killing our friends.\" He says he's seen the tactic being used over the past two weeks and calls it \"a new weapon\".\n\nThere is a military logic to Ukraine's offensive in the south. It's seen as key to dividing Russian forces and reaching the occupied cities of Melitopol and Mariupol - all the way to Crimea. But the focus on this axis means that Ukraine is also now attacking Russian defensive lines where they're strongest.\n\nSlow or not, the offensive is taking place and it will definitely reach its goal\n\nGen Tarnavskiy said his forces were doing \"hard and painstaking work\". He said \"any defence can be broken but you need patience time and skilful actions\".\n\nUkraine was slowly wearing down their enemy, he said. Russia didn't care about losing men, and recent changes in their military leadership \"means everything is not OK\", he added. He insisted that Ukraine had yet to commit its main strike force.\n\n\"Slow or not, the offensive is taking place and it will definitely reach its goal,\" he says.\n\nI ask Gen Tarnavsky how we can judge whether it's a success or a failure?\n\nHe smiles and replies: \"If the offensive were not successful, I wouldn't be talking to you now.\"", "Office of the president of Ukraine\n\nUkraine's military says it has had success on one of the front lines in southeast Ukraine, as Western officials talk of a major thrust taking place.\n\nIn a video published by President Zelensky, Ukrainian troops said they had taken the village of Staromaiorske.\n\nThe village, 150km (90 miles) east of the city of Zaporizhzhia, was liberated under dense artillery fire and air strikes, said the army.\n\nA senior Ukrainian defence adviser said every advance is seen as \"a milestone\".\n\nUkraine has not confirmed that it has beefed up its counter-offensive, but Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine's attacks had \"significantly\" intensified.\n\nHe told reporters in St Petersburg they had had no success: \"All counter-offensive attempts were stopped, and the enemy was pushed back with high casualties.\"\n\nRussian-backed militia leader Aleksandr Khodakovsky contradicted Mr Putin, saying Ukraine had methodically shelled Staromaiorske for several days and made gains, holding on to the outskirts and pushing on.\n\nPresident Zelensky posted video of troops holding up a Ukrainian flag in the village and Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said they were now \"continuing to clear the settlement\".\n\nRussian military blogger WarGonzo said the news was disturbing as Staromaiorske was a key Russian outpost on the front line in the southeast.\n\nRussia's war bloggers are considered an alternative source of information from the front line in the absence of official accounts.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive began on a number of fronts last month but has seen very few clear gains so far. Kyiv's generals have warned that fast results are almost impossible because of Russia's fortified defensive lines and rows of minefields.\n\nThe man in charge of operations in the south, Gen Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, has told the BBC that \"any defence can be broken but you need patience, time and skilful action\".\n\nYuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister, told the BBC Ukrainian forces were making steady progress.\n\n\"Every metre, every village and every town is a milestone,\" he said.\n\n\"Yesterday's liberation of Stairomaorske is a very logical continuation of our campaign which has begun in early June.\n\n\"Those who are impatient should realise that the progress of the Ukrainian armed forces in the given circumstances is very steady.\"\n\nAlthough there has so far been no word from Kyiv, unnamed US defence officials have told American outlets that a new push has begun in the Ukrainian counter-offensive.\n\nThe US-based Institute for the Study of War said an \"intense frontal assault\" had been launched towards Robotyne, to the south-east of Zaporizhzhia city and some 10km (6 miles) south of the town of Orikhiv.\n\nWarGonzo said Ukrainian forces were bombarding Russian forces on the northern and eastern outskirts of Robotyne, although that was not confirmed by Kyiv. The Russian defence ministry said Ukrainian attacks there had been repelled.\n\nUkrainian commentators have warned that talk of a new phase in the counter-offensive is premature. Military expert Oleksandr Kovalenko said Ukrainian forces were getting closer to breaking through Russia's defensive lines in the south but it might be too early to suggest they had fully done so.\n\nMs Maliar has spoken of a \"gradual advance\" in Ukraine's push towards the two cities of Melitopol and Berdyansk. Any advance towards either city would mark a decisive step in the military campaign.\n\nIf Ukraine's forces are able to make further progress in Robotyne, the next settlement to the south is Tokmak, on the road to Melitopol.\n\nOne area where Ukraine has said it is advancing is south of Bakhmut, the eastern city captured by Russian forces after a long and ferocious battle that reduced it to ruins.\n\nMs Maliar said Ukrainian forces were gradually moving forward and fighting was taking place in three villages on the front line directly south of the city. \"The fighting is pretty harsh. Enemy fire is intense,\" she said.\n\nIn a separate development, Ukraine's parliament has voted to extend martial law for another 90 days, barring men of fighting age from leaving the country.\n\nMartial law was imposed when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The vote also means parliamentary elections due in October will be delayed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term for murdering Met Police sergeant Matiu Ratana.\n\nSgt Ratana, 54, was shot in the chest and leg at Croydon custody centre by Louis De Zoysa, who had smuggled an antique gun into the building following his arrest on 25 September 2020.\n\nHe was found guilty of murder, having claimed diminished responsibility.\n\nSgt Ratana's partner Su Bushby said her grief was \"tormenting\" and spoke of an \"intense\" feeling of emptiness.\n\nDe Zoysa, 26, of Banstead, Surrey, shot himself after the attack and was left with brain damage.\n\nThe defendant, who communicated in court using a whiteboard, remained impassive as the whole-life order was handed down.\n\nDe Zoysa was found guilty of murder in June\n\nSentencing at Northampton Crown Court, Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson said De Zoysa's autism and the impact on his family were not sufficient mitigating factors for a lesser term.\n\nHe said: \"You acted in cold blood. You intended to kill Sgt Ratana. You aimed the gun at his chest at near point-blank range.\n\n\"Even as he fell you re-aimed and fired a second shot at him. The aggravating factors outweigh the mitigating factors.\"\n\nDe Zoysa, who will serve his sentence at Belmarsh prison, becomes the 65th person in jail in England and Wales under a whole-life order\n\nDuring a three-week trial, the jury was shown video footage of the New Zealand-born sergeant being hit in the chest by the first of three shots discharged by De Zoysa.\n\nA second bullet struck him in his thigh before De Zoysa was wrestled to the ground by other officers.\n\nSgt Ratana, who was known as Matt, died of his injuries in hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the shooting was shown to the jury\n\nIn the hours before Mr Ratana's death, De Zoysa was arrested while walking along London Road in Norbury, south London.\n\nHe told the two arresting officers he was carrying cannabis. However, in a holster hidden under his left arm he was also found to be carrying an antique Colt revolver.\n\nHis waistband was checked and he was frisked, but the officers missed the gun. They had no metal detector in their patrol car.\n\nDe Zoysa was then taken to Croydon custody centre in the back of a police van. Detectives believe it was during this journey he moved the gun from the holster to his hands, still cuffed behind his back.\n\nThere was also no metal detector at the entrance to the custody area, so the gun was not found as he entered. Once inside the custody suite, Sgt Ratana told De Zoysa he would need to be searched again.\n\nAs another officer pulled him to his feet, De Zoysa brought his still-cuffed hands from behind his back and shot Sgt Ratana in the heart.\n\nMs Bushy told the court she had \"lost her soulmate\" and had been \"in a state of limbo\" ever since.\n\nShe said: \"I just sat there, waiting and willing him to walk through the door. I still do to this day.\n\n\"I am hoping that one day it will get easier but at the moment the nightmare continues.\n\n\"At this moment in time, I cannot forgive him for what he has done; the person who shot Matt and ripped my life apart, my life as I once knew it.\"\n\nThe court also heard victim impact statements from other members of Sgt Ratana's family.\n\nHis sister Jessica Williams said: \"The cruel and senseless actions of one man have left me and my family broken.\n\n\"The impact of what this person has done has left me shattered... I feel like I could drown in the amount of grief I carry each day.\"\n\nSgt Ratana's brother James William Young said he had felt \"hatred and anger\" but \"most of all pain and sorrow\" since the shooting.\n\n\"The loss of my brother has been the hardest event in my life.\"\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley described Sgt Ratana as an outstanding officer who \"treated everyone with respect, with compassion and with good humour\".\n\nHe said: \"Whether it was on the streets or in the custody centre, as a uniformed police officer, on the rugby field or later as a coach, it's clear that he was someone who made an enduring impact wherever he went.\"\n\nYou can watch the full story of the case on BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The officer was said to have flashed his badge after picking a fight\n\nA woman has claimed she was pushed and threatened by an off-duty police officer at a Tom Jones concert before he flashed his badge to try to avoid being thrown out.\n\nNatalie Wood, 32, said he swore at her and tried to start a fight with her partner at Monday's Cardiff Castle gig.\n\nThe event organiser said incidents were taken seriously and it was committed to \"a safe and secure environment\".\n\nSouth Wales Police has referred it to its Professional Standards Department.\n\n\"We'd got our spot and we were just chilling when (the support act) Far From Saints came on,\" said Ms Wood, from Risca, Caerphilly county.\n\n\"You've got people brushing past you, squeezing through, which is fine... then I got shoved so hard I nearly fell over.\n\n\"The next thing I turn round and this man and his partner are both looking at me, really smug.\n\nThe off-duty officer is led out of the Tom Jones show at Cardiff Castle\n\n\"The girlfriend came marching towards me, swearing at me in my face. They were drunk, so she was slurring and swearing.\n\n\"She turned around and tapped her partner on the shoulder and says 'sort her out'\".\n\nMs Wood said the pair then started verbally abusing her and the rest of her group and that the man then tried to start a fight with her partner, Owain, before the event stewards intervened.\n\n\"My partner said to him 'you need to leave now. If you want to hit me then do it, I'm not going to fight you'. They had to physically grab him and pull him away,\" Ms Wood added.\n\n\"I think they were going to kick him out at this point, but then he pulls out his police badge.\"\n\nMs Wood described the officer's behaviour as \"mind-blowing\", and called it an \"abuse of power\".\n\nNatalie Wood claims she was pushed by the off-duty officer\n\n\"The stewards, they were only young lads, they didn't know what to do,\" she said.\n\n\"Everybody around us was asking us if we were OK. They all witnessed it. Other people were asking security to kick them out.\"\n\nAccording to Ms Wood, the officer and his partner were then moved to another part of the venue, but she claimed he continued to taunt her and her group.\n\nAbout 40 minutes later, she saw a large group of security running through the crowd before the officer and his partner were removed from the venue.\n\n\"Everybody was cheering and he was getting dragged out, smiling,\" she said.\n\nShe said she was told by stewards that he had been \"thrown out for an altercation with someone else\".\n\nTom Jones, pictured here at a gig earlier in July, played Cardiff Castle again on Monday\n\nMs Wood said she has reported the incident to South Wales Police and wants to see the officer disciplined, describing him as \"not fit to be a police officer\".\n\n\"He clearly thinks he's untouchable. He isn't on duty. He isn't working. He has no need to have his badge on him,\" she said.\n\n\"His behaviour, regardless of what your job is, is totally unacceptable and despicable\".\n\nA spokesperson for Depot, the event organiser, said: \"On Monday evening, members of the public approached our security staff to report an ongoing incident and in line with our protocols, a man was given a verbal warning.\n\nA short while later, staff were alerted to another disturbance in the crowd involving the same person - and having already been given a warning, we made the decision to eject him from the premises.\n\n\"Incidents like these are taken seriously by our team and we remain committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for everyone at our events.\"\n\nIn a statement, South Wales Police said: \"We are aware of a social media post following a recent Tom Jones concert in Cardiff.\n\n\"The matter has been referred to the Professional Standards Department\".", "O'Connor was best known for her single Nothing Compares 2 U, written by Prince\n\nIrish singer and activist Sinéad O'Connor has died at the age of 56.\n\nHer family announced the news \"with great sadness\", saying \"her family and friends are devastated\". The cause of death has not been made public.\n\nShe was best known for her single Nothing Compares 2 U, released in 1990, which reached number one and brought her worldwide fame.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar said her music \"was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched\".\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins praised O'Connor's \"authenticity\" as well as her \"beautiful, unique voice\".\n\n\"What Ireland has lost at such a relatively young age is one of our greatest and most gifted composers, songwriters and performers of recent decades, one who had a unique talent and extraordinary connection with her audience, all of whom held such love and warmth for her,\" he said.\n\nBorn Sinead Marie Bernadette O'Connor in Glenageary, County Dublin, in December 1966, the singer had a difficult childhood.\n\nAs a teenager, she was placed in Dublin's An Grianan Training Centre, once one of the notorious Magdalene laundries, originally set up to incarcerate young girls deemed to be promiscuous.\n\nOne nun bought her a guitar and set her up with a music teacher - which led to the launch of O'Connor's musical career.\n\nShe released her first critically acclaimed album The Lion And The Cobra in 1987, which entered the top 40 in the UK and US.\n\nHer follow-up was I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, which included Nothing Compares 2 U.\n\nWritten by Prince, the song reached number one around the world, including in the US and the UK.\n\nIrish singer Sinéad O'Connor has died at the age of 56\n\nO'Connor, who was outspoken in her social and political views, released 10 studio albums between 1987 and 2014.\n\nIn 1991, she was was named artist of the year by Rolling Stone magazine and took home the Brit Award for international female solo artist.\n\nThe following year, one of the most notable events of her career took place when she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on US TV show Saturday Night Live, where she was the invited performer.\n\nFollowing an a cappella performance of Bob Marley's War, she looked at the camera and said \"fight the real enemy\", a protest against child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.\n\nHer actions resulted in her being banned for life by broadcaster NBC and protests against her in the US, which saw copies of her records destroyed in New York's Times Square.\n\n\"I'm not sorry I did it. It was brilliant,\" she said in an interview with the New York Times in 2021.\n\nO'Connor's last studio album, I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss, was released in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinéad O'Connor: In her own words\n\nConverting to Islam in 2018, the Dublin singer changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat, but continued to perform under her birth name. She released a memoir, Rememberings, in 2021.\n\nIn January 2022, her 17-year-old son Shane was found dead after being reported missing two days previously.\n\nWriting on social media following his death, she said he had \"decided to end his earthly struggle\" and requested \"no-one follows his example\".\n\nThe singer later cancelled all live performances for the rest of 2022 due to her \"continuing grief\" following the death of her son.\n\nO'Connor paid tribute to Shane in one of her final tweets, calling him \"the love of my life, the lamp of my soul, we were one soul in two halves\".\n\nConverting to Islam in 2018, the Dublin singer changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat\n\nBelfast filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson, one of the last few people to speak to O'Connor before her death, said she was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nFerguson had been working on a documentary film about O'Connor, titled Nothing Compares, which is set to be released this Saturday.\n\n\"Our film really, for me, it was a love letter to Sinéad. It was made over many, many years,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Front Row. \"And made because of the impact she'd had on me as a young girl growing up in Ireland.\n\n\"She is one of the most radical, incredible musicians that we've had. And we were very, very lucky to have had her.\"\n\nSocial media was also flooded with tributes to the singer after her death was announced on Wednesday evening.\n\nSinger Alison Moyet said O'Connor had an \"astounding presence\" and a voice that \"cracked stone with force by increment\".\n\n\"As beautiful as any girl around & never traded on that card. I loved that about her. Iconoclast.\"\n\nIrish comedian Dara O'Briain said of her death: \"That's just very sad news. Poor thing. I hope she realised how much love there was for her.\"\n\nMusician Tim Burgess of the Charlatans said: \"Sinead was the true embodiment of a punk spirit. She did not compromise and that made her life more of a struggle. Hoping that she has found peace.\"\n\n\"How she suffered. Poor, poor Sinéad. Rest in peace, you amazing, brave, beautiful, unique wonder.\"\n\nJournalist Caitlin Moran posted: \"She was decades before her time, and fearless. Rest in power, queen.\"\n\nIrish film director Mark Cousins added: \"Sinéad O'Connor was our Irish wild side. Such a big part of our imagined lives.\"\n\nSinger Bryan Adams, who had collaborated with O'Connor, wrote: \"RIP Sinéad O'Connor, I loved working with you making photos, doing gigs in Ireland together and chats, all my love to your family.\"\n\nIn a Twitter post, Irish mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor, who O'Connor once sang into the ring for a UFC fight in Las Vegas, wrote: \"Ireland has lost an iconic voice and one of our absolute finest, by a long shot. And I have lost a friend.\"\n\nNo-one sang like Sinéad O'Connor. No-one.\n\nHer every note screamed with naked passion. She turned Prince's saccharine Nothing Compares 2 U into an almighty howl of pain and loss.\n\nThose emotions were her bedfellows. She had a traumatic childhood. Her parents divorced when she was eight, and her mother - who she later claimed had abused her - died in a car accident in 1985.\n\nAs a teenager she was arrested for shoplifting and sent to a Magdalene Asylum, which she described as a \"prison\" where the \"girls cried every day\".\n\nAll those harrowing experiences, and ones yet to come, poured into her music. I Am Stretched On Your Grave is a hauntingly beautiful song about love and loss while Three Babies, from her second album, laid bare her sorrow after she had suffered several miscarriages.\n\nShe also took on other people's pain. Her breakthrough single, Mandinka, contained oblique references to female genital mutilation. 1990's Black Boys On Mopeds addressed police brutality against black men, two years before the LA riots thrust the issue into the spotlight.\n\nAlthough she was a controversial figure, there was always a tenderness to her protests. When she ripped up a picture of the Pope on US television, she was thinking about victims of abuse, not about her image.\n\nHer later albums featured guest spots by her own children, and hymns to peace and community. Earlier this year, she won a classic album award in Ireland, and dedicated it to the country's refugee community.\n\nNothing Compares 2 U was the outlier: a song that made her famous against her wishes. At heart, she was a protest singer with a voice that demanded to be heard. That is how we should remember her.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans\n\nAn agreement expected to see US President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, plead guilty to tax charges and admit a gun offence has dramatically fallen apart in court.\n\nThe plea deal, negotiated over several weeks, was likely to spare the younger Mr Biden prison time.\n\nBut a judge on Wednesday said she could not \"rubber stamp the agreement\".\n\nThe case marks the first time the justice department has charged the child of a sitting president.\n\nHunter Biden's lawyers have been given 14 days to hash out a new deal with the prosecution.\n\nIt follows a five-year investigation into the finances of the US first son, who arrived on Wednesday morning at the court in Wilmington, Delaware.\n\nIn a plea agreement announced last month, he was to be charged with two misdemeanour counts for failing to pay his taxes on time in 2017 and 2018.\n\nHe was also to admit that he had illegally possessed a gun while being a drug user, and agree to drug treatment and monitoring in lieu of a more serious felony charge and possible jail time.\n\nBut during the three-hour hearing, US District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika questioned whether the deal would also provide Hunter Biden with immunity from crimes he could be found liable for in the future.\n\nShe said the agreement contained \"non-standard terms\" and its proposed resolution for the gun possession offence was \"unusual\".\n\nOfficials with the justice department are still investigating whether Hunter Biden violated federal laws that required him to register as a foreign agent while working in China and Ukraine during his father's vice-presidency, CNN reported.\n\nLegal teams for both sides were seen negotiating in full view of reporters inside the court in an effort to salvage the plea deal or carve out a narrower agreement.\n\nBut the hearing ended with Judge Noreika, a Trump appointee, declining to sign the deal. She gave the two parties a fortnight to reach a new agreement and brief her.\n\nHunter Biden, who initially offered to enter a guilty plea, ended by pleading not guilty for the timebeing.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the White House said the president and first lady \"love their son and they support him as he continues to rebuild his life\".\n\n\"Hunter Biden is a private citizen and this was a personal matter for him,\" said press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.\n\nThe misdemeanour tax counts are minor charges compared to the more serious allegations against Hunter that congressional Republicans have introduced in committee hearings.\n\nRepublicans allege that he was offered an unusually lenient plea deal because he is the president's son.\n\nThe House of Representatives Oversight Committee has already heard testimony from a whistleblower who claimed the justice department had deliberately stalled the tax investigation.\n\nThat is denied by the US Attorney for Delaware, David Weiss, who led the investigation.\n\nMr Weiss was appointed by former President Donald Trump and left in place by the Biden administration to finish the investigation into Hunter.\n\nHe has offered to testify in front of Congress to address criticism of the inquiry.\n\nRepublicans, who are examining various allegations against Hunter Biden, have focused on a notorious laptop that he apparently abandoned in a computer repair shop in Delaware.\n\nThe contents have been used to try to prove bribery and corruption against the president's son, and to attempt to connect his father to illegal business dealings.\n\nBut Democrats say it is no coincidence that Republicans are attacking the justice system while Mr Trump faces two criminal indictments and may soon learn of charges against him in two more cases.", "Temperatures reached 45C in Rome, Italy in the recent heatwave\n\nThe heatwaves battering Europe and the US in July would have been \"virtually impossible\" without human-induced climate change, a scientific study says.\n\nGlobal warming from burning fossil fuels also made the heatwave affecting parts of China 50 times more likely.\n\nClimate change meant the heatwave in southern Europe was 2.5C hotter, the study finds.\n\nAlmost all societies remain unprepared for deadly extreme heat, experts warn.\n\nThe study's authors say its findings highlight the importance of the world adapting to higher temperatures because they are no longer \"rare\".\n\n\"Heat is among the deadliest types of disaster,\" says Julie Arrighi from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and also one of the authors.\n\nCountries must build heat-resistant homes, create \"cool centres\" for people to find shelter, and find ways to cool cities including planting more trees, she says.\n\nIn July, temperature records were broken in parts of China, the southern US and Spain. Millions of people spent days under red alerts for extreme heat.\n\nExperts say extreme heat can be a very serious threat to life, especially among the elderly. According to one study, more than 61,000 people were estimated to have died from heat-related causes during last year's heatwaves in Europe.\n\n\"This study confirms what we knew before. It shows again just how much climate change plays a role in what we are currently experiencing,\" said Friederike Otto from Imperial College London.\n\nClimate scientists say decades of humans pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are causing global temperatures to rise.\n\nBut not all extreme weather events can immediately be linked directly to climate change because natural weather patterns can also play a part.\n\nScientists in the UK, US and Netherlands in the World Weather Attribution group studied the recent heatwaves to identify the fingerprint of climate change.\n\nUsing computer models, they simulated a world without the effects of emissions pumped into the atmosphere to the real-world temperatures seen during the heatwaves.\n\nThe North American heatwave was 2°C (3.6°F) hotter and the heatwave in China was 1°C hotter because of climate change, the scientists concluded.\n\nThe world has warmed 1.1C compared to the pre-industrial period before humans began burning fossil fuels.\n\nIf temperature rise reaches 2C, which many experts warn is very likely as countries fail to reduce their emissions quickly enough, these events will occur every two to five years, the scientists say.\n\nThe study also considered the role of El Niño, a naturally occurring powerful climate fluctuation that began in June. It leads to higher global temperatures as warm waters rise to the surface in the tropical Pacific ocean and push heat into the air.\n\nThe study concluded that El Niño probably played a small part but that increased temperatures from burning fossil fuels was the main driver in the more intense heatwaves.\n\nA run of climate records have fallen in recent weeks, including global average temperatures and sea surface temperatures particularly in the North Atlantic.\n\nExperts say the speed and timing is \"unprecedented\" and warn that more records could tumble in the coming weeks and months.\n\nDangerous wildfires in Greece forced thousands of people to evacuate hotels at the weekend. Experts say that the hot and dry weather created favourable conditions for fire to spread more easily.\n\nCould powerful heatwaves and summer wildfires, which have devastated communities and displaced tourists in Greece, become the new normal in Europe?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWreaths have been laid in the grounds of Belfast City Hall to mark 70 years since the Korean War armistice.\n\nNorthern Ireland veterans were in attendance, as well as members of the Korean community in Northern Ireland.\n\nAlbert Morrow, who served in the war, described his experience as \"absolutely horrendous\" and something that he will never forget.\n\nEvents were held across the UK and in South Korea on Thursday to remember the conflict.\n\nL/Cpl Morrow, who drove his battalion's ambulance, was in attendance at Belfast City Hall, and recounted his service.\n\n\"To be quite honest, when you think of what happened, of our comrades who were killed wounded and taken prisoner of war, you know, you can never forget it,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he thinks of these fellow soldiers \"all the time\".\n\nL/Cpl Albert Morrow said he thought about soldiers who were killed or taken prisoner of war \"all the time\"\n\nL/Cpl Morrow said one particular moment from the conflict sticks in his mind.\n\n\"All hell broke loose. I just got away and no more, and the medical officer and the driver in his Jeep were about four vehicles behind and they were trapped, they were taken prisoners of war.\"\n\n\"I just got out by the skin of my teeth,\" he said.\n\nIn June 1950, with the support of China and the Soviet Union, North Korea launched an attack on South Korea across the 38th parallel.\n\nSouth Korea was supported by the United States and allied countries.\n\nAfter three years of war, in July 1953, an armistice was signed by the two sides at Panmunjom which left Korea divided as it had been in 1950.\n\nEstimates vary, but at least two million Korean civilians, up to 1.5m communist forces, and around 30,000 US, 400,000 South Korean and 1,000 UK troops are believed to have died.\n\nThere is a monument in memory of 1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles is in the grounds of Belfast City Hall\n\nCapt Basil Singleton, who served as a lance bombardier in Korea, was also at the wreath laying in Belfast.\n\nHe said he served in the Army for three and a half years, having joined up after leaving school.\n\n\"I was born and brought up in the north-west, and when we left school there was no work.\n\n\"There was a scheme here in which we could join join as short service regulars,\" he said.\n\nCapt Basil Singleton said he was thinking of his comrades who died during the war\n\nCapt Singleton said he did not generally like to talk about his time in Korea but noted: \"It was a bit rough, including the weather.\"\n\nHe added that attending events offers an opportunity to remember.\n\n\"We're thinking of our comrades who we lost and didn't come back home,\" he said.\n\nMembers of the Korean community in Northern Ireland turned up to express their thanks to the veterans.\n\nSang-Sub Hyon, leader of the Korean Society in Northern Ireland, said witnessing the war in Ukraine had increased his gratitude for those who served in Korea.\n\n\"I would like to say thank you to the veterans,\" he said.\n\n\"Especially witnessing the Russian-Ukrainian war, I appreciate the sacrifice of the war veterans from 16 countries.\"\n\n\"Because of their sacrifice Korea can keep its freedom, enabling today's republic.\"", "Joe Lewis' superyacht - the Aviva - helped the billionaire secure his bail bond on Wednesday\n\nA New York City court has imposed sweeping restrictions on British billionaire Joe Lewis as he awaits trial on insider trading charges.\n\nMr Lewis, 86, pleaded not guilty and was granted $300m (£230m) bail.\n\nBut the Manhattan judge required him to surrender his passport and banned him from using his superyacht.\n\nMr Lewis is not allowed to travel abroad, including to the Bahamas oceanside resort he reportedly co-owns with Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake.\n\nThe tycoon, whose family trust owns Tottenham Hotspur football club, can still use his private plane - for business - within the boundaries of restricted domestic travel.\n\nDuring Wednesday's hearing before Judge Valerie Figueredo, the bail bond was secured by Mr Lewis' 223ft (68 metre) yacht, the Aviva, and private aircraft.\n\nMr Lewis was charged with 16 counts of security fraud, and three counts of conspiracy for crimes alleged to have taken place between 2013-21, according to the 29-page indictment.\n\nLawyers for Mr Lewis, whose net worth is estimated more than $6.4bn, called the charges an \"egregious error\".\n\nThe allegations are \"ill conceived\" and will be \"vigorously defended in court,\" Mr Lewis' lawyers said.\n\nNew York prosecutors allege he hatched a \"brazen\" scheme that enriched his friends, which include two of Mr Lewis' pilots, who are facing charges, too.\n\nJoe Lewis has an estimated net worth of more than $6.4bn and says the charges are an error\n\nThe pilots, Patrick O'Connor and Bryan Waugh, also pleaded not guilty to insider trading charges.\n\nMr O'Connor and Mr Waugh, of New York and Virginia respectively, are accused of illegally making millions of dollars from Mr Lewis' tips.\n\nTheir bail was set at $250,000 each.", "Mr Yousaf has launched the fifth prospectus in the Building a New Scotland series\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has unveiled plans for citizenship and passports in an independent Scotland.\n\nA new Scottish government paper sets out proposals on migrants' rights and freedom of movement in the event that the country leaves the union.\n\nThe prospectus is the fifth in the Building a New Scotland series, which was launched by former first minister Nicola Sturgeon last year.\n\nOpposition MSPs have labelled the plans a waste of taxpayers' money.\n\nSpeaking at launch event in Edinburgh attended by \"New Scots\" including Ukrainian and Syrian refugees, Mr Yousaf said a move to a more \"inclusive\" Irish-style citizenship system would be beneficial morally and economically.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland it would address \"barriers\" facing those seeking citizenship and help to halt a decline in Scotland's working-age population.\n\nThe new paper, called Citizenship in an independent Scotland, proposes that Scotland would allow those born outside the country after independence to be automatically entitled to Scottish citizenship, if at least one of their parents is a Scottish citizen.\n\nIt also outlines the rights of British citizens to claim dual nationality at the point of independence and set out proposals to make it easier for those from overseas to apply for Scottish citizenship.\n\nThe paper proposes that Scotland would remain part of the Common Travel Area after independence, allowing British and Irish citizens to live and work in Scotland without restrictions, while Scottish citizens would retain those same rights in the UK and in Ireland.\n\nThe new prospectus was launched at a roundtable event in Edinburgh\n\nThe government claims that the Common Travel Area arrangements would mean there would be no new passport or immigration checks at any of Scotland's land, sea or air borders with the UK.\n\nThe first minister dismissed concerns about such an arrangement, pointing to EU member Ireland's current relationship with the UK under the Common Travel Area.\n\nHe added: \"If Scotland has a really open, inclusive model of citizenship that allows people to come here to work, to be part of society, to contribute, why on earth would they want to move away from Scotland?\"\n\nMr Yousaf insisted the Scottish government had spent a \"fraction\" of the £3 billion he said it spends every year on \"mitigating the effects of Westminster austerity and the cost of living crisis\".\n\n\"These papers are important because we were elected, of course, with a mandate for a referendum and to make that positive case for independence,\" the SNP leader said.\n\nAccording to the proposals, Scottish citizens would have the right to a Scottish passport, which they should be able to apply for and receive by the first day of independence.\n\nThe paper says that any valid UK passports would continue to be recognised in Scotland until their expiry date, stating it would not be a requirement of Scottish citizenship to hold a Scottish passport.\n\nThe passports, which would be a burgundy red colour, would follow EU standards for international travel documents and would be available in lengths of five years for children and ten years for adults, it is proposed.\n\nThe government reiterated its ambition for Scotland to rejoin the EU and set out how it proposes to safeguard the rights of EU citizens.\n\nThe document says their rights would be upheld in line with the protections of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement \"until such time as they can exercise their reciprocal EU treaty rights to free movement in Scotland once again\".\n\nMr Yousaf launched the new paper alongside Independence Minister Jamie Hepburn and Circular Economy Minister Lorna Slater\n\nOther papers laid out economic proposals and said democracy can be \"renewed\" with independence.\n\nIn response to the latest prospectus launch, Scottish Labour constitution spokesperson Neil Bibby said the Scottish government was \"distracted by its constitutional obsession\".\n\nScottish Conservatives constitution spokesperson Donald Cameron said the publication was a \"blatant misuse of public money and resources by the SNP\".\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat communities spokesperson Willie Rennie also criticised the use of government time and money for something that \"just isn't going to happen\".\n\nThe paper was launched amid a dispute over Scottish government ministers using civil service staff to develop policy in reserved areas.\n\nCabinet Office minister Lucy Neville-Rolfe told the Lords this week that \"sanctions\" for Scottish ministers would be considered as part of a review of the Cabinet Manual, which codifies the conduct and operation of government and civil servants.\n\nLabour peer George Foulkes suggested Scottish ministers could face financial penalties and told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland the UK \"was never meant to be a union of equal partners\".\n\nBut Robert Hazell, a professor of government and the constitution at University College London who was involved in compiling the Cabinet Manual, told BBC Scotland it was \"perfectly proper\" for civil servants to work on the Scottish government's agenda.\n\nSNP MP Tommy Sheppard told BBC Scotland: \"No unelected Lord or UK minister will dictate how our democratic institution operates.\"\n\nYour passport is a key to your identity.\n\nIt's the one document that really links you to the state you belong to - or don't want to belong to.\n\nMy passport is a few years old and a bit worn.\n\nThere are three key trigger phrases for anyone who follows the Scottish constitutional debate: \"United Kingdom\", \"European Union\" and \"Her Britannic Majesty\" - the current state, Brexit and the future of the monarchy.\n\nThe Scottish government event was all about citizenship - the people who hold the passport of an independent Scotland.\n\nThe aim is to follow the Irish model - those born outwith the country after independence will be entitled to Scottish citizenship, if one of their parents is a citizen here.\n\nThat's the same as the 2013 independence white paper almost ten years ago - it said the birth must be registered in Scotland to take effect.\n\nThere's nothing surprising here - but there is a real emphasis that this is necessary for a stronger economy with more people working for good public services.\n\nThe policy is welcoming of \"New Scots\". Tie that in with a critique of Westminster migration policies and a strong dose of pro-EU rhetoric, it's a frequent flyer for anyone covering this beat.\n\nQuestioned if a \"watered-down\" Scottish citizenship would lead to back door migration to the rest of the UK - the first minister turned the argument on its head, saying if there's an open and inclusive model why would they want to move away from Scotland?\n\nThese papers are often launched on sluggish news days when parliament is on holiday - guaranteeing a good bit of news coverage.\n\nIt feeds into the critique from the opposition that the Scottish government shouldn't be \"wasting\" money on this - particularly after the Supreme Court ruling last autumn that said aspects of the constitution are reserved.\n\nThe Conservatives believe a line should now be drawn but the SNP resist, portraying that as a further squeeze on Scottish democratic institutions.\n\nWhat are more problematic for the first minister is perhaps, his own internal critics in the nationalist movement.\n\nThey could hit out at the drawing up of shiny burgundy passport plans - but may feel the journey to a successful strategy to gain a fresh independence referendum has not yet been properly embarked upon.", "Soldiers have gone on national TV in Niger to announce they have carried out a coup. Army spokesperson Col Maj Amadou Abdramane said defence forces had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions and closed the West African country’s borders. It comes after Niger President Mohamed Bazoum was held by troops from the presidential guard.", "Joseph Merrick became a celebrity in Victorian London, even being visited by a royal\n\nPrejudice has hampered attempts to build a statue to the Elephant Man, his biographer has claimed.\n\nJo Vigor-Mungovin, who traced Joseph Merrick's grave, has been trying to raise the estimated £100,000 cost for a monument in his native Leicester.\n\nBut progress has been slow with critics saying the idea was a \"freak show\" and the city was already \"ugly enough\".\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin said: \"There is a fear of what the statue would be like - but he was an inspirational figure\".\n\nJoseph Merrick's skeleton has been preserved at the Royal London Hospital\n\nBut the plans for the statue have been backed by artist and disability campaigner Alison Lapper who said anyone offended should \"get over it\".\n\nMerrick was born in Leicester in 1862 but his physical disabilities forced him into a workhouse.\n\nIn 1884 he joined a travelling exhibition and eventually found his way to the Royal London Hospital, where he died in 1890.\n\nWhile Merrick's skeleton was kept at the hospital, his soft tissue was buried in a common plot but its location was forgotten.\n\nJo Vigor-Mungovin traced the location of Joseph Merrick's grave, which is now marked with a plaque\n\nShortly after tracking down the site of his grave, Mrs Vigor-Mungovin began looking into erecting a statue to Merrick.\n\n\"I wasn't expecting it to be controversial,\" she said. \"But I've come across the same reaction over and over.\n\n\"When I approach funding sources or venues, people seem interested at first but when they hear it will be a statue of the Elephant Man, they seem a bit shocked.\n\n\"They either say 'you can't do that' or stop answering emails or the phone.\n\n\"I'm a descendant of Tom Norman, the showman who worked with Joseph, and I've even been accused of being an accomplice to a 'Vampire showman's crime'.\"\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin says the 1980 movie has had a huge impact on perceptions\n\nA letter printed in the Leicester Mercury newspaper said: \"He was a freak of nature... our poor city has become ugly enough without a statue of this poor man being displayed.\"\n\nThe appeal's Facebook page has been challenged, with one person questioning whether Merrick deserves a statue, saying: \"He had a rare condition and apparently that makes him somewhat amazing.\"\n\nOther comments from people called it a \"freak show\", or said \"let's have another [statue] of a bear dancing on hot coals\", and \"disfigurement should not be celebrated\".\n\nDespite only raising a fraction of the cost, Mrs Vigor-Mungovin said she was still trying to realise her dream, with fundraising events, new designs for the statue and a possible exhibition of items related to Merrick.\n\nThe statue has so far only been sketched out\n\n\"I think the maquette [miniature design] will put a lot of people's mind at rest,\" she said.\n\n\"And I am hoping to get items from the Royal London Hospital for the exhibition, maybe even the full-size copy of his skeleton.\"\n\nIt is not the only statue of a notable Leicester figure being planned for the city - and others appear to have been more warmly received.\n\nPlans for a statue to commemorate murdered playwright Joe Orton have received backing from famous names from the acting world and hit its fundraising target of more than £100,000 in November.\n\nAnd last April then-MP Keith Vaz said a statue should be built in memory of Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in a helicopter crash outside the club's stadium in 2018. The design Mr Vaz suggested was of two elephants, with the animal being a symbol of good luck in Thailand.\n\nThe statue of Alison Lapper was on display in Trafalgar Square from 2005 to 2007\n\nArtist Ms Lapper, who was born without arms and with shortened legs, became famous when a statue of her, naked and pregnant, was displayed on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth.\n\n\"Attitudes have changed since then, but not hugely,\" she said. \"I remember sitting below my statue and seeing children being hurried away, people muttering it was 'inappropriate' but it started a conversation which is still going on today.\n\n\"I can't imagine how hard it must have been being disabled in the Victorian era, it was hard enough for me being born in the 60s.\n\n\"It would be great to see a statue of Joseph, especially if it highlights his courage getting himself out of the workhouse.\n\n\"People still feel uncomfortable around disability but if that's all that stopping this, then I say 'Tough, get over it'.\"\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin said: \"People's ideas of him are dominated by the film from the 1980s, they want to feel sorry for him.\n\n\"But the real story is he had quite a good life, all things considered.\n\n\"He took control, he used his condition to his advantage, it's a powerful story.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Travis Scott has performed a handful of live shows since his Astroworld tour in 2021\n\nTravis Scott has promised fans his live show in front of Egypt's pyramids will go ahead in the future.\n\nThe rapper's desert gig was cancelled at the last minute after promoters Live Nation had insisted it was going ahead this Friday.\n\nFollowing reports Egyptian authorities had pulled the plug, organisers confirmed on Wednesday the show was off due to \"complex production issues\".\n\nBut Travis has insisted the gig isn't dead and he'll share a new date soon.\n\nThe gig - timed to coincide with the release of his new album Utopia - sold out quickly after it was announced.\n\nAbout two weeks ago Live Nation Middle East was forced to deny local reports that the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate had blocked the gig in Giza, home of the pyramids.\n\nThe group - which has the power to grant permission for live performances - was said to be unhappy with various elements of the show.\n\nAnd on Wednesday Live Nation tweeted to confirm the show had in fact been cancelled.\n\n\"We understand that this news is disappointing and not the outcome any of us desired,\" they said.\n\nIt said refunds would be available to any ticketholders.\n\nThe pyramids aren't usually associated with high-profile music events\n\nThe cancellation will be a blow for Travis, who's been building up to the release of Utopia for weeks now, according to NME commissioning editor Tom Smith.\n\n\"It's not just all about the performance,\" he says.\n\n\"There's a lot to consider when these launches are going on - this is just one part of what is a huge rollout.\"\n\nTom thinks two things played a big part in the cancellation - the unique venue and Travis's reputation.\n\nHe points out the pyramids are \"an ancient structure\" not used to hosting music events attended by thousands.\n\n\"Obviously you can go to a music venue or a festival field and there are well-organised structures and processes for that,\" he says.\n\n\"But when you're taken into an ancient structure, like the pyramids, things are obviously going to be a lot more tricky and a lot more hard to pull together at the last minute.\"\n\nEgyptian authorities said they had safety concerns about the concert following the death of 10 fans in a crowd surge at Travis's 2021 Astroworld gig in Houston in the United States.\n\nTravis - who has two children with Kylie Jenner - has since tweeted to say: \"Egypt at the pyramids will happen.\"\n\nHe blamed the cancellation on \"demand and detail logistics\" and said the plans would need a bit of \"time to set lay on lands\".\n\nBut Tom, from the NME, thinks what happened at Astroworld will affect Travis's plans for some time.\n\n\"His name will always be somewhat attached to what happened,\" he says.\n\n\"I know there's been discussions around who was to blame but ultimately it was a huge tragedy.\"\n\nThe rapper has been wrapped up in legal action since the Astroworld tragedy.\n\nLast month a jury panel in Texas decided not to charge him with any criminal offences.\n\nBut he and Live Nation are still facing multiple lawsuits over the crush, in which hundreds of fans are believed to have been hurt.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Donald Trump is accused of pressuring an employee to delete security footage at his Florida home, in new criminal charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified files.\n\nThe latest indictment adds one count of wilful retention of defence information and two of obstruction, making 40 charges in total in this case.\n\nMr Trump denies any wrongdoing and has called the prosecutor \"deranged\".\n\nHe is fighting multiple legal cases as he runs for president again.\n\nIn a Friday morning interview, he reiterated that he would not end his 2024 campaign even if he is criminally convicted.\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty to earlier charges in the case, alongside his personal aide Walt Nauta, who also received two additional charges of obstruction on Thursday.\n\nThe property manager at the former US president's Mar-a-Lago estate, Carlos de Oliveira, has also now been indicted.\n\nThe revised charge-sheet outlines alleged efforts between Mr Nauta and Mr de Oliveira to obstruct the justice department's investigation.\n\nAccording to the court document, they conspired in an effort to delete surveillance video after the Department of Justice issued a subpoena demanding footage of the area where it said confidential documents were held.\n\nProsecutors claim Mr de Oliveira twice told Mar-a-Lago's director of information technology that \"the boss\" wanted the server deleted, in a conversation he said must remain between them.\n\nThe IT worker responded that he did not believe he had the authority to do so, according to the indictment.\n\nThe employee, who is not named or charged in the indictment, has been identified as Yuscil Taveras.\n\nThe charge-sheet also describes a scene in which Mr de Oliveira \"walked through the bushes\" into a property adjacent to the Mar-a-Lago resort to meet Mr Nauta.\n\nLater, the court filing adds, Mr Trump phoned Mr de Oliveira and promised him legal counsel at Mr Nauta's request.\n\nA lawyer for Mr de Oliveira has declined to comment on the allegations.\n\nThe updated indictment also says that Mr Trump knowingly discussed a top-secret document with biographers visiting Mar-a-Lago to interview him.\n\nThe paper Mr Trump allegedly revealed to the biographers contained possible plans to attack \"Country A\", which refers to Iran.\n\n\"Look what I found... Isn't it amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look,\" Mr Trump allegedly said to one of his guests.\n\nThe indictment included images of files allegedly stored in a shower\n\nThe documents case is led by special prosecutor Jack Smith, who is also overseeing a separate investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Trump's attorneys John Lauro and Todd Blanche met officials at Mr Smith's office in Washington DC.\n\nThe former president said on Thursday his lawyers had received no indication of timing of when charges may be filed in the case.\n\nIn an emailed statement, his presidential campaign dismissed the fresh charges as a \"way to salvage their illegal witch hunt\".\n\nCongressional Republicans also defended Mr Trump against what many in the party have called a \"weaponised Department of Justice\".\n\nMissouri Senator Josh Hawley suggested the charges had been timed to distract from the collapse of a plea deal for President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, over tax and gun offences.\n\nMr Biden is also facing a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents, some of which were discovered in a garage at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.\n\nOn Friday, a former Trump lawyer said \"the evidence is so overwhelming\" against his former client.\n\n\"I think this original indictment was engineered to last a thousand years and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity,\" Ty Cobb, who represented Mr Trump early in his presidency, told CNN.\n\nThe latest charge against Mr Trump adds to a growing list of legal problems for the property and reality TV mogul.\n\nHe currently awaits trial on 34 felony counts in a hush-money case in New York, and also faces a defamation case from writer E Jean Carroll.\n\nGeorgia prosecutors are still weighing whether or not to press state charges over an alleged effort to overturn the election results there.\n\nFormer Trump aide Stephen Moore told the BBC the charges against the former president would only serve to solidify his nomination in the Republican presidential race.\n\n\"The more they indict him, the more his popularity goes up with Republicans\", he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How much do you know about classified documents?", "The record-breaking UK heat experienced in 2022 will be regarded as a cool year by the end of this century, the Met Office says.\n\nIts report shows that last year was \"extraordinary\", with a heatwave pushing the UK record over 40C for the first time.\n\nHot years like 2022 will be the average by 2060, if carbon emissions are as expected, the authors say.\n\nBy 2100, it would be a cooler-than-average year across the UK.\n\nClimate change is having an increasing impact on all parts of the UK, playing a key role in pushing last year's temperatures to record highs.\n\nWhile rain might be the dominant factor in the current UK climate, just a year ago the UK was suffering from a powerful heatwave that helped make 2022 the warmest year in records dating back to 1884, and also broke the central England temperature series that goes back to 1659.\n\nThe UK's highest daily temperature last year was 40.3C, recorded at Coningsby in Lincolnshire, which beat the previous high mark by a significant margin.\n\nThis was not an isolated incident, according to the Met Office, with persistent warmth prevalent across the year.\n\nThe Met Office's State of the UK Climate report for 2022 shows that apart from December, every month last year was warmer than the 1991-2020 average.\n\nAs well as persistent warmth, one key aspect of the study shows that extreme temperatures in the UK are changing much faster than the average.\n\n\"The actual extremes that we're seeing, the highest, the hottest days, those are really increasing markedly too,\" said lead author Mike Kendon.\n\n\"We're going to see very, very many more days, exceeding 30, 32 or 35C. So warmer summers will become very much more frequent, and hot days will become very much more frequent.\"\n\nDrought was declared in several regions of the UK as a result of the heatwave\n\nOne of the elements that might have led to a very hot year in 2022 and may help explain the current wetter summer are changes in the jet stream, the fast-moving winds that carry weather systems across the Atlantic to the UK.\n\nIn recent years the jet stream has shown a tendency to get stuck, meaning that weather patterns can persist or become \"blocked\" in place for weeks. There is a school of thought that a warming climate is causing this change.\n\n\"I think the jury is out, but there is definitely some science showing that we are getting these much more persistent, static kind of weather patterns, similar to what we've got at the moment with the heatwaves,\" said Prof Liz Bentley, from the Royal Meteorological Society.\n\n\"It will be interesting to see if there's conclusive evidence that climate change has led to that. And that's going to be a pattern that we see going forward in future.\"\n\nThe authors of the Met Office study say that 2022's record year for the UK was made much more likely by climate change.\n\n\"The heatwave that is happening now across southern Europe, the heatwave that we saw last year, all of these things are fitting into a pattern,\" said Mr Kendon.\n\n\"These things emphasise that our climate is changing. And it's changing now, and it's changing fast.\"\n\nLooking forward, under a medium emissions scenario, there's a 1-in-15 chance that the UK would hit 40C in any one year by the end of the century.\n\n\"That trend for [extreme temperatures] is going to increase as we go through this century,\" said Prof Liz Bentley.\n\n\"If you look at future climate projections, we are on a path for hotter, drier summers. So 2022, for me was very much a sign of things to come in future years with our changing climate.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the government's independent climate advisers warned the UK still needed to make climate change preparations a more important priority.\n\nThe extreme 40C heat in July last year caused extensive disruption across the country, including for transport, power supply and healthcare.\n\nBut even though these temperatures will become increasingly likely with climate change, the UK still has much further to go to properly prepare for intense heat and other extreme events, such as flooding, according to its advisers.\n\nThe report also underlines some other key impacts of climate across the UK last year.\n\nThe ten-year period from 2013 to 2022 is the warmest ten-year period on record.\n\nNear coasts, surface temperatures were the highest for the UK in a series dating back to 1870.\n\nLast year was also one of least snowy years on record, compared to the last six decades.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Kevin Spacey was in court in London to hear the verdict on Wednesday\n\nHollywood actor Kevin Spacey wept in court as he was cleared of all charges in his sexual assault trial in London.\n\nJurors at Southwark Crown Court returned not guilty verdicts for nine sexual offence charges relating to four men between 2001 and 2013.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Spacey said he was \"grateful\" to the jury as he thanked them for their deliberations - which took more than 12 hours.\n\nOutside the court the Oscar winner added he was \"humbled\".\n\nThe US actor was acquitted of seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nAfter the verdict was read, he put his hand on his chest, looked at the jurors and mouthed \"thank you\" twice before they left the room.\n\nAddressing journalists on the court's steps Mr Spacey said there was \"a lot for me to process\".\n\n\"I would like to say that I am enormously grateful to the jury for having taken the time to examine all of the evidence and all of the facts carefully before they reached their decision,\" he said.\n\n\"I am humbled by the outcome today. I also want to thank the staff inside this courthouse, the security, and all of those who took care of us every single day.\"\n\nJurors rejected the prosecution's claims Mr Spacey had \"aggressively\" grabbed three men by the crotch and had performed a sex act on another man while he was asleep in his flat.\n\nProsecutors told the jury the star had left the four complainants feeling \"small, diminished and worthless\".\n\nMr Spacey, who turned 64 on Wednesday, denied all charges - saying the allegations against him were \"weak\", \"madness\" and a \"stab in the back\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Spacey 'humbled' by outcome after being cleared of charges\n\nUnder questioning from Mr Spacey's lawyer, Patrick Gibbs KC, the complainants had all denied either seeking financial gain, attempting to further their career or giving false accounts to the jury.\n\nBy law all complainants are entitled to life-long anonymity.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said prosecutors respected the jury's decision.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesman said: \"The function of the CPS is not to decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence, but to make fair, independent and objective assessments about whether it is appropriate to present charges.\"\n\nThe trial lasted nearly four weeks and jurors heard from multiple witnesses - including Mr Spacey himself.\n\nDefence witnesses included Sir Elton John, who appeared by video link from Monaco, as well as Sir Elton's husband, David Furnish.\n\nThe Hollywood star won best actor Oscar in 2000 for American Beauty, and best supporting actor in 1995 for The Usual Suspects.\n\nHe was also the artistic director at the Old Vic Theatre in London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nMr Spacey's career came to a halt in 2017 after a number of accusations of inappropriate behaviour were made against him.\n\nAt the time, he had the starring role of Frank Underwood in Netflix political drama House of Cards, which he lost.\n\nHe was charged with the offences against three men by the CPS in May 2022, with additional charges from a fourth complainant added in November 2022.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about his first night of freedom\n\n\"Even if you fight tooth and nail and gain compensation, you have to pay the Prison Service for so-called 'board and lodging',\" said Andrew Malkinson, after his first night as a free man.\n\nMr Malkinson - who was formally cleared of a rape he did not commit by the Court of Appeal on Wednesday - explained the rules which govern any financial claim he has to make.\n\nThe rules were originally imposed by judges in the case of men wrongly convicted of the murder of paperboy Carl Bridgewater in 1978.\n\n\"It's kind of sick,\" said Mr Malkinson, who served 17 years in prison before eventually being released in 2020.\n\nThe rules date back to a decision made in 2007 by the House of Lords, when it was the UK's highest court.\n\nCousins Vincent and Michael Hickey, two of those convicted of the murder of Carl Bridgewater at a farm near Stourbridge in 1978, were freed by the Court of Appeal.\n\nTheir convictions were found to be fundamentally flawed in 1997, and the then home secretary Jack Straw decided that they and their co-defendant James Robinson were entitled to compensation.\n\nMichael Hickey was awarded £1.02m and Vincent Hickey received £550,000 but, in each case, a 25% deduction was made from the section of their compensation which reflected their loss of earnings while in prison.\n\nThis was because of the living expenses they had not had to fund while in prison.\n\nThe men appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) but the court ruled in favour of the law lords' decision.\n\nMr Malkinson's compensation also depends on whether the justice secretary decides \"a new or newly discovered fact shows beyond reasonable doubt that he did not commit the offence\".\n\nThe maximum payment in cases where someone has been in jail for more than 10 years is £1m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMichael O'Brien spent 11 years in prison before his conviction for the murder of Cardiff businessman Phillip Saunders in 1987 was overturned, and he is campaigning to change the law.\n\nHe told the BBC's World at One programme: \"I remember my solicitor phoning me up, and she said, 'They're going to charge you bed and board'.\n\n\"What's the logic in this? They don't charge guilty people, they only charge innocent people.\n\n\"It was the final insult, as far as I was concerned, to an innocent man.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said deductions from compensation were sometimes made when there had been \"substantial savings\" made on living costs while a person was in custody.\n\nMortgage or rental costs might be considered.\n\nA ministry source said: \"There's a big difference between bed and board and living costs.\n\n\"There's a big difference between a deduction and being required to pay money back.\"", "The DUP withdrew from the Stormont executive in February 2022\n\nThe DUP leader has said he is hopeful his party can get the progress it needs to go back into power sharing.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson was speaking after a meeting with the head of the NI Civil Service, Jayne Brady.\n\nHe will continue to engage with the government and has made \"his summer available\" for further talks on the Windsor Framework, he said.\n\nThe party has insisted new legislation is needed before it will end its 18-month boycott of the executive.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) walked out of Stormont's power-sharing executive in February 2022 in protest over a Brexit deal which introduced new checks and restrictions on goods moving from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said new legislation may be required at Westminster and the government now has \"a lot more clarity\" about what the DUP is seeking.\n\nMs Brady's talks with the parties focused on how to run government in a future executive, in the context of a challenging budget position.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said this \"process has come to the end of the road\".\n\nMs O'Neill added she didn't share the secretary of state's \"overly optimistic assessment\" that a Stormont executive would return in the autumn.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said the DUP needed to get over internal party wrangling and put people first\n\nLast week Chris Heaton-Harris said he was \"hopeful\" about the return and believed a resolution was \"getting much closer\".\n\n\"I don't think there is any evidence to back that up,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"I hope that changes but I don't think anyone who was sitting in that meeting today is under any allusions that anything has changed in terms of the DUP's and the British government's game of chicken.\"\n\nStephen Farry described Thursday's meeting with Ms Brady as a \"stock take exercise\", and said discussions had gone as far as they could.\n\nThe Alliance deputy leader said the current situation was \"stalemate\", with no progress over the past few weeks.\n\nMr Farry said he was deeply worried about the future of Northern Ireland and believed excuses were being made for parties to stay out of government.\n\nThe power-sharing government at Stormont collapsed in February 2022\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said: \"I don't think it's about getting a bigger stick to beat the DUP with; I don't think that's going to work.\"\n\nHe stressed that pressure was already on the DUP to return to the executive and he hoped Mr Heaton-Harris would assist in the restoration of Stormont.\n\nMr Beattie said he remained optimistic about a return of the executive by the autumn.\n\nThe SDLP was not at the talks as it has confirmed it will form the official opposition.\n\nIt feels like a process which has now passed its best before date.\n\nIt served a purpose in keeping the parties engaged with civil servants in the absence of Stormont.\n\nIt also allowed preparations to be put in place for the executive's return in the face of mounting budget pressures.\n\nBut with no hint of when or if Stormont might return, these talks have \"run out of steam\", to quote one party source.\n\nWith no best before date set for the talks between the DUP and the government, the political drift is likely to continue for some time.\n\nJayne Brady, who was appointed head of the NI Civil Service in June 2021, met political leaders on Thursday morning\n\nMs Brady has previously warned that even if ministers are to return to an executive this year, an overspend of this year's budget was \"now unavoidable\".\n\nMs Brady outlined her position in a letter to Mr Heaton-Harris earlier this month.\n\nShe said Stormont departments have \"reached the limit\" of what they can do to manage budget pressures this year and the remaining gap did not stem from an \"unwillingness\" to act, but from a legal position.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glystra beach is in one of the areas worst affected by the fires. Azadeh Moshiri reports on the aftermath there.\n\nEvacuation orders have been issued for areas close to two central Greek cities threatened by new outbreaks of wildfires.\n\nCitizens in areas around Volos and Lamia have been told to move to safety as the country remains in the grip of a severe heatwave.\n\nMeanwhile, fires continue to rage on the islands of Rhodes, Corfu and Evia.\n\nGreece is one of a number of countries currently grappling with wildfires, in which more than 40 people have died.\n\nTwo people have died in the fires near Volos, the fire service has confirmed - a farmer who died after he went to release his sheep to protect them, and a woman who was in a mobile home in Chorostasi.\n\nKostas Agorastos, mayor of Greece's Thessaly region, which includes Volos, has accused \"brainless workers\" of starting the fire, according to the Ellada 24 news channel.\n\nHe added that it had broken out on four simultaneous fronts.\n\nIn Rhodes, where a state of emergency is in place and from where thousands of tourists have been forced to flee, high winds have continued to fan the flames and villages remain at risk.\n\nSome firefighters, who have been battling the blazes for days, have begun to lose hope.\n\n\"Every day, every night, we are here and we achieve nothing,\" Savas Filaderis, who is from Rhodes, told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"We can't stop it,\" he said.\n\n\"Everybody, all the people, they fight. The civil people, the government, they are but... for nothing. I believe we fight for nothing.\"\n\nIn southern Italy, fires in Sicily and Puglia have also been fuelled by high winds and tinder-dry vegetation, meaning firefighters have been struggling in many areas to douse the flames and create firebreaks.\n\nThe church of St Benedict the Moor in the Sicilian city of Palermo was among the buildings that have been destroyed in the fires.\n\n\"The damage is enormous,\" said Vincenzo Bruccoleri, superior friar of the convent.\n\nEnrico Trantino, the mayor of Catania, another city on the island, told the BBC the high temperatures had melted underground electrical cables, which had left parts of the city without power and water.\n\nHowever, Italy is expected to become much cooler in the coming days, according to BBC Weather.\n\nThe heaviest death toll so far is in Algeria, with more than 30 victims, including 10 soldiers surrounded by flames during an evacuation in the coastal province of Bejaia, east of Algiers.\n\nMost of the fires have now been contained.\n\nIn neighbouring Tunisia, the country's Interior Minister, Kamel Feki, said on Wednesday that all of the wildfires were under control and there had been no loss of life.\n\nThe European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, said support was being sent to affected countries, including Tunisia and Greece.\n\nBut Yamina Saheb, lead author on the United Nations' climate change panel, known as the IPCC, told the BBC that people in the African region felt they were being left to fend for themselves without international help.\n\n\"People are scared and they don't really understand why there is no international help,\" she said.\n\nMs Saheb said she had spoken to friends and colleagues in the affected areas, who were finding it hard to understand why there was no European aid when they were so close to the continent.\n\n\"They say, if the situation gets worse, what are we going to do? Are we going to die, all of us? Is Africa going to die because of climate change, and Europe will be watching that, just watching and not doing anything?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents in Algeria return to areas blackened by wildfires\n\nThe EU has also said it wants to sign contracts for up to 12 firefighting planes in order to improve its ability to fight blazes fuelled by climate change. These would be the first it would fully own.\n\nA team of climate scientists - the World Weather Attribution group - said this month's intense heatwave in Southern Europe, North America and China would have been virtually impossible without human-induced climate change.\n\nThe fires have dealt a blow to the summer tourism industry, especially in Greece, where the industry accounts for one in five jobs and is vital for Rhodes and many other islands.\n\nHoliday firms Jet2 and Tui have cancelled departures to the island for the coming days.\n\nTui said that it had already brought hundreds of people home, while hundreds more were expected to make it back to the UK on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has not advised against travel to the affected parts of Greece, but has urged tourists to check with tour operators for updates.\n\nThousands of people have also been evacuated on Evia and Corfu, while Crete - another major holiday destination - is on high alert.\n\nOther European countries have not escaped the heatwave unscathed. Portugal, Croatia and the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica are among other places that have experienced wildfires in recent days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the wildfires? If it is safe to do so, you can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Co-op has warned some communities could become \"no-go\" areas for shops due to soaring levels of retail crime.\n\nThe convenience store operator said crime in its outlets had hit record levels, increasing by more than one third over the past year.\n\nThere were about 1,000 cases of crime, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour in its shops every day in the six months to June, the chain said.\n\nBut it cited figures indicating police did not attend most retail crimes.\n\nThe Co-op said a Freedom of Information request had shown many police forces did not prioritise retail crime, with, on average, 71% of serious retail crime not responded to by police.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said forces were doing \"everything possible to tackle offenders and support retailers in reducing shoplifting and attacks on retail staff\".\n\nBut the Co-op called for an \"urgent change\" from the police and \"for all forces to target repeat and prolific offenders to reverse the existing environment in many cities where criminal gangs operate, exempt from consequences\".\n\nCo-op Food managing director Matt Hood said retail crime was driven by \"repeat and prolific offenders and, organised criminal gangs\". In the worst cases, he said it could even be described as \"looting\".\n\nHe pointed to \"horrific incidents of brazen and violent theft\" in stores which left staff feeling \"scared and threatened\".\n\nWhile the Co-op had \"invested significantly\" in security, he said \"we need the police to play their part\".\n\n\"Too often, forces fail to respond to desperate calls by our store teams, and criminals are operating in communities without any fear of consequences.\"\n\nThe Co-op said one of its stores in inner London was \"looted\" three times in one day. \"This level of out-of-control crime is unsustainable and could even see some communities become a no-go area for local stores,\" it added.\n\nOne Co-op store manager in Leeds, David, said shoplifting had always been a problem but things had \"really changed since the pandemic\".\n\n\"It feels like these offenders can simply come in and take what they want - they live in our communities and do what they want, they steal your livelihood from you. They come in with bags, sacks or clothing which can conceal hundreds of pounds worth of stock - coffee, meat, spirits.\n\n\"They know the police don't have the resource or, simply can't attend quickly enough.\"\n\nZarah, a Co-op store manager in East London, said what was most frightening was when the criminals clambered over the kiosks and just tip the products into their bags.\n\n\"I have spent 20 years at Co-op, and it is worse now than ever before,\" she said.\n\n\"We call the police, and have been told to call '101'. It is being normalised, but colleagues are terrified, and their families are worried for them everyday they come into work.\"\n\nChief Constable Amanda Blakeman of the NPCC said police forces took any incident of violence \"incredibly seriously\", and would \"prioritise our response where there is a risk to individuals\".\n\n\"For these types of offences, police focus on targeting prolific offenders, organised crime networks, and ensuring effective prevention measures are in place.\"\n\nThe Co-op figures show 175,000 instances of retail crime in the first six months of this year - a rise of 35% on the same time last year.\n\nEarlier this year, data analysed by the BBC showed shoplifting offences had returned to pre-pandemic levels as the cost of living rose.\n\nThe figures showed that police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland recorded nearly 33,000 incidents of shoplifting in March - 30.9% more than March 2022.\n\nIn an effort to clamp down on such theft, some stores have been limiting the number of items on shelves, others fit the likes of steaks and cheese with security tags and replace coffee with dummy jars.\n\nThe Co-op said it believed dummy packaging would only become a more \"prevalent and familiar sight\" in retailing.\n\nThe chain also uses interactive and remote monitored CCTV in store, issues body-worn cameras and communication headsets for store staff, and employs covert and non-covert guards.\n\nCo-op campaigns and public affairs director Paul Gerrard told 5 Live's Wake up to Money the company spends £40m a year on security measures, four times the national average for convenience stores.\n\nHe said the retailer was losing significant amounts of money. \"This isn't [just] a ham sandwich and a bottle of milk.\"\n\nHe said one store in the West Country had \"the same individual target our store stealing thousands of pounds worth of product every single week\".\n\nThere were stores in many big cities where \"the viability of the stores is being put at risk because of the activities of criminal gangs\".\n\nSuch shops were challenging to run, he said, because of the cost of keeping them open.\n\nThe bill for security and the toll taken on staff who were afraid to come to work drove up the amount it cost to \"operate safely\" in those stores meaning they were not making any money.\n\nIf a store became \"non-viable commercially\" and had to close, it risked leaving a whole community in a retail \"desert\", he added.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues in this story? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Det Insp Rachel Miskelly said the women identified had been treated appallingly\n\nSix women have been identified as victims of human trafficking after they were \"forced into prostitution and exploited\", the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said.\n\nOfficers said it was the result of a \"significant\" investigation conducted with authorities in Romania.\n\nThey were investigating a group suspected of trafficking young women for the purpose of sexual exploitation.\n\nTwo men, 29 and 36, and a woman aged 35 have been arrested.\n\nThey are accused of controlling prostitution for gain, brothel keeping and money laundering.\n\nOn Thursday, the PSNI said the six victims, all aged in their 20s, had been enticed to travel with the false promise of lawful employment in Northern Ireland and had been trafficked through Dublin.\n\n\"The grim reality is that, upon arrival, they're forced into prostitution and exploited,\" Det Insp Rachel Miskelly said.\n\nShe accused crime groups of targeting vulnerable individuals to \"identify, groom and exploit them\", adding that all the women had come from the same area of Romania, and had experienced \"some form of hardship\".\n\n\"These young women have been treated appallingly,\" Det Insp Miskelly continued.\n\n\"They have been forced to engage in sexual activity, and the money made at their expense lines the pockets of the crime group members.\"\n\nThe brothels believed to be linked to the group were in the greater Belfast area, as well as Newtownabbey.\n\nHowever, police said victims were sent to various locations in Northern Ireland for sexual exploitation purposes.\n\nA joint investigation team was set up with Romanian authorities to gather evidence on the suspects and identify potential victims.\n\nBoth teams have also been working closely with the National Crime Agency, the Public Prosecution Service, An Garda Síochána (Irish police), Woman's Aid and the International Justice Mission.\n\nHowever, police believe there are still more victims to be found.\n\nDet Insp Miskelly urged members of the public, and human trafficking victims, to contact them with information.\n\n\"We want to help you,\" she said. \"I assure you that you will be treated with respect and sensitivity - every step of the way.\"", "Joseph Merrick left Leicester and joined a travelling show to avoid the workhouse\n\nA statue of Joseph Merrick - the so-called Elephant Man - will not be put up in his hometown of Leicester after a campaign failed to raise enough money.\n\nLocal historian and Merrick biographer Jo Vigor-Mungovin started the appeal in 2019, hoping to raise £130,000.\n\nThe target was later lowered to £67,000 but only a fraction was collected, amid some criticism of the idea.\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin has now said \"no-one is interested\" and that she would back plans for a plaque instead.\n\nMany people are aware of the story via the 1980 movie starring John Hurt\n\nMs Vigor-Mungovin said other statue appeals in Leicester had hit their targets but she had only managed to raise just under £3,000.\n\n\"I couldn't raise what I needed. I couldn't get companies interested, like they did with the Joe Orton statue,\" she said.\n\n\"It just got to the point where I thought 'I can't do this any more - no-one is interested', and they are not and that is the simple fact.\"\n\nAs well as writing an account of Merrick's life, Mrs Vigor-Mungovin tracked down his unmarked grave in a London cemetery.\n\nJo Vigor-Mungovin said the statue was supposed to be a inspiration for those facing challenges\n\nShe said: \"He had this disability and there are no statues of someone with a disability.\n\n\"He was such an independent and inspirational young man, who shows us, no matter what you are going through and who you are, you can achieve great things.\n\n\"And that is what should have been celebrated.\"\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin is supporting plans for a plaque near the site of Merrick's birth on Lee Street and for \"Joseph's Garden\", a green area in the East End of London close to where he lived and died.\n\nMoney raised for the statue will go towards the projects.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James Martin makes cookery programmes for ITV, and fronted similar shows for the BBC until 2015\n\nTV chef James Martin has been asked to change his behaviour at work after ITV received complaints about his treatment of production staff.\n\nConcerns were raised during the recent filming of James Martin's Spanish Adventure, his latest travel cooking show.\n\nIn a joint statement, Martin and production company Blue Marlin said they \"agree lessons have been learned\".\n\nAn ITV spokesman said \"people and their welfare\" was their \"highest priority\".\n\nBlue Marlin Television, which has made several programmes with Martin, also took responsibility for damaging his house and garden during a separate incident in 2018.\n\nThe damage led to the presenter becoming angry, something which he and the company said he \"wholly regrets\".\n\nMartin is a co-founder of the production company with Fiona Lindsay, and the pair are currently its joint managing directors.\n\nAccording to US publication Deadline, Martin was \"accused of berating people\" and \"reducing them to tears in front of other colleagues\" while filming the Spanish Adventure programme in May.\n\nThe news outlet also alleged Martin was \"changing schedules at the last minute, giving his team just a few hours of sleep before the following morning's shoot\", which he reportedly arrived an hour late for himself.\n\nAn ITV spokesman said: \"Following a complaint we received in May from members of the Blue Marlin production team about the filming of James Martin's Spanish Adventure, we contacted Blue Marlin to discuss these concerns and to understand how the issues raised were being addressed and what actions were being taken.\n\nIn a joint statement, James Martin (pictured in 2021) and Blue Marlin said \"lessons have been learned\"\n\n\"As a result, we made a number of recommendations for Blue Marlin to implement as soon as possible, sharing best practice of some of our own relevant procedures around staff welfare and reiterating our Supplier Code of Conduct.\"\n\nIn their joint statement, Martin and Lindsay said they \"have taken on board ITV's recommendations and their sharing of best practice, and are in the process of fully implementing\".\n\nMartin is well known for presenting several cookery programmes for ITV, and previously fronted similar shows for the BBC from 2005 until 2015.\n\nThis is the second time ITV has been made aware, formally or informally, of complaints about Martin, after a separate incident in 2018.\n\nDuring the production of James Martin's Saturday Morning, Martin became angry after a drain was blocked at his home, where the programme was being filmed.\n\nBlue Marlin said it \"accepted responsibility\" for \"an unfortunate incident\" which \"occurred after filming\", adding that Martin's home had been \"badly damaged\".\n\n\"James was shocked by what had happened and on reflection acknowledges he responded emotionally, which he wholly regrets,\" the company added in their statement. \"James apologises for any offence or upset caused, as he did at the time to the crew involved.\"\n\n\"Following this and some issues filming James Martin's Spanish Adventures, James and Blue Marlin Television agree that lessons have been learned which have been discussed with members of the team and with ITV.\"\n\nMartin and Lindsay's statement added: \"Since the 2018 incident, Blue Marlin Television has continued to film over 500 shows at James' home.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, an ITV spokesman said: \"At ITV people and their welfare are our highest priority. The production companies who make shows for us have primary responsibility for the duty of care of everyone they work with, both on and off screen.\n\n\"We make clear our expectations in this regard as part of our pre-greenlight [pre-commissioning] duty of care processes.\n\n\"This includes having appropriate independent controls in place to enable everyone who works on their shows to confidently and confidentially raise concerns.\"", "On Wednesday, Sinéad O'Connor's family announced her death \"with great sadness\".\n\nThe Irish singer-songwriter died at the age of 56.\n\nHere, a selection of images pay tribute to her unforgettable talent and unique style.\n\nPerforming at the Metro in Chicago, 1988\n\nSinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor was born on 8 December 1966 in the affluent Glenageary suburb of Dublin.\n\nHer debut album in 1987, The Lion and the Cobra, was a storming success, earning O'Connor a Grammy nomination for best female rock vocal performance.\n\nHer follow-up album, the Grammy-winning I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, featured her most successful single, a cover of the Prince song Nothing Compares 2 U.\n\nIt was propelled to the top of the charts in the UK, Ireland and the US by a haunting video which chiefly featured a close-up of the singer's face as she sang, and - memorably - cried.\n\nO'Connor in the iconic video for Nothing Compares To You\n\nKurt Cobain, Courtney Love, their daughter Frances Bean Cobain and Sinead O'Connor at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1993\n\nIn 1999, O'Connor was ordained a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, an independent Catholic church, not in communion with Rome.\n\nDespite her disdain for the Church hierarchy, O'Connor always maintained she was a practising Christian and a devout Catholic.\n\nO'Connor in Lourdes, France, being ordained as a Priest by the Reverend Dr Michael Cox in 1999\n\nO'Connor was outspoken on subjects ranging from religion to women's rights and racism, once tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II on US TV.\n\nO'Connor, with her daughter Roisin, during an Anti-Racism demonstration in Dublin city centre, in 2000\n\nPromoting her album Theology in New York, in 2007\n\nOn stage at the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival in Byron Bay, Australia, 2008\n\nO'Connor converted to Islam in 2018, and changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat, but continued to perform under her birth name.\n\nIn January 2022, O'Connor's 17-year-old son Shane took his own life.\n\nA year later, she received the Classic Irish Album award for I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got at the RTÉ Choice Music Prize in March 2023.\n\nO'Connor receives her award at the RTÉ Choice Music Prize in Dublin, Ireland\n\nTributes have poured in for the award-winning artist, with singer Annie Lennox describing O'Connor as \"fierce and fragile\" with an \"incredible voice\".\n\n\"May the angels hold you in their tender arms and give you rest,\" she added.", "\"Governments around the world need more people to study forestry,\" says Mercy Babatunji\n\nYoung people with a passion for the environment are being urged to train as foresters and told they are pretty much \"guaranteed a job\".\n\nStudents are even dropping out of their degrees after being offered full-time roles by firms \"desperate\" for staff.\n\nIndustry leaders said a workforce crisis threatened the UK's ambitious tree-planting targets to fight climate change.\n\nThe Welsh and UK governments said they were investing in skills and training.\n\nA new project at Bangor University in Gwynedd aims to tackle common misconceptions about the industry and attract a younger and more diverse workforce.\n\nStudents in the Inspiring Future Foresters group plan to take to social media and visit schools to tell their own stories.\n\n\"Anyone who hears about forestry thinks it's just about big men with chainsaws cutting down trees,\" said masters student Mercy Babatunji, but she insisted there were many other career opportunities.\n\nThe 25-year-old from Ondo state in Nigeria hopes to work as an urban forester after finishing her studies, promoting and managing trees in towns and cities.\n\n\"We all know of the grievous effects of climate change - governments around the world need more people to study forestry and get into this field,\" she said.\n\n\"Everyone just walks into a job,\" after training, Katie Somerville-Hall says she was told\n\nKatie Somerville-Hall, 24, from Reading, claimed that students had been told on their open day that \"everyone just walks into a job afterwards\".\n\n\"It's a growing sector with a lot more jobs than there are people with the expertise to do them - which is a massive bonus,\" she said.\n\n\"I really like the idea of hopefully having a positive impact on a landscape and environment over a long time frame,\" said Beth Scott, 26, from Stirlingshire, who has already lined up a job with a forestry firm back home in Scotland once her dissertation is handed in in September.\"\n\nBranching out: Beth Scott has a job lined up when she returns to Scotland\n\nThe students acknowledged they had \"fallen\" into forestry, having studied other courses at undergraduate level and felt there was generally \"a lack of awareness\" about the subject as an option for young people.\n\nBangor is one of only three universities across the UK training foresters to degree level, while provision at FE colleges was described in 2021 as being \"at crisis point\" in a report by leading forestry organisations.\n\n\"We anticipate that there are currently around 500 unfilled professional positions in the UK and probably a further 10,000 support positions,\" said Dr Tim Pagella, who runs the undergraduate forestry programme at Bangor University.\n\nThe workforce is ageing too - by 2030 about 20% of current foresters are set to have retired.\n\n\"I think it is a crisis for us - when we think about climate change, trees are one of the first things we talk about - and yet the profession that delivers trees for us is struggling to recruit people.\"\n\nHe said there had been instances of students going on work experience placements and not coming back: \"They've gone straight into a job with a nice car, a nice salary and a woodland.\"\n\n\"In most European countries a forester is seen as someone with a high level of skill,\" says Sean Reilly of Forest Industry Safety Accord\n\nBut the sector suffered from an image problem that needed tackling, he said, and urged more discussion about forestry - \"a hugely broad discipline\" - in the school curriculum.\n\nGovernments have committed to speed up tree planting to help soak in carbon emissions, with a UK target of 30,000 hectares of new woodland being created every year by 2025.\n\nDr Pagella said it was \"undeniable\" those goals were at risk due to a shortage of professional foresters coming through the system.\n\nThe organisation which looks after health and safety in forestry also has concerns about the UK's workforce shortage.\n\nAt the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Llanelwedd, Powys, this week, Forest Industry Safety Accord (FISA) has launched a new bursary to support students on professional forestry degree courses.\n\nDirector Sean Reilly claimed the industry had not been regarded as a \"professional\" career choice in the UK in recent decades and that needed to change.\n\n\"In most European countries a forester is seen as someone with a high level of skill and playing a major role within a local environment or community,\" he added.\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said the forestry sector had \"a crucial role to play in the environmental and economic future of Wales.\"\n\n\"The work we are doing as part of our timber strategy and net zero skills plan looks at how we can ensure we have the right skills and the right training for the future,\" he said.\n\nA UK government spokeswoman said it was spending £4.9m on projects to support forestry education and skills under the Nature for Climate Fund.\n\n\"This includes a new professional forester apprenticeship programme at the University of Cumbria, the first degree-level forestry apprenticeship that has been offered in the UK,\" she said.", "Google's earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February's deadly tremor, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found.\n\nGoogle says its alert system can give users up to a minute's notice on their phones before an earthquake hits.\n\nIt says its alert was sent to millions before the first, biggest quake.\n\nHowever, the BBC visited three cities in the earthquake zone, speaking to hundreds of people, and didn't find anyone who had received a warning.\n\nThe system works on Android phones, essentially any phone that isn't an iPhone. Android phones, which are often more affordable, make up about 80% of the phones in Turkey.\n\n\"If Google makes a promise, or makes an implicit promise, to deliver a service like earthquake early warning, then to me, it raises the stakes,\" says Prof Harold Tobin, director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.\n\n\"They have a responsibility to be able to follow through on something that is directly related to life and limb.\"\n\nGoogle's product lead on the system, Micah Berman, insisted it had worked. \"We are confident that this system fired and sent alerts,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHowever, the company did not provide evidence that these alerts were widely received.\n\nMore than 50,000 people died in February's earthquake.\n\nAfter the first major 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the early hours of the morning, another major tremor shook the surrounding area at lunchtime.\n\nThe BBC was able to find a limited number of users who received a warning for this second quake.\n\nGoogle's Android Earthquake Alert System was announced in Turkey in June 2021.\n\nThe system is operational in dozens of countries around the world. The company describes the ability to send quake alerts as a \"core\" part of its Android service.\n\nIt works by using Android's vast network of phones. Smartphones contain tiny accelerometers that can detect shaking.\n\nWhen many phones shake at the same time, Google can pinpoint the epicentre and estimate the strength of a quake. Google has made an explainer on how it works.\n\nWhen an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or greater is detected, the Android system can send a warning.\n\n\"This is an alert unlike any you've probably seen on your phone before. It takes over your phone screen,\" Mr Berman says.\n\nThe warning says \"drop, cover, hold\" and is accompanied by a loud alarm.\n\nIt should also override a user's do not disturb mode automatically, so you don't need to switch it on.\n\n\"No matter what state your phone is in, you should get that warning,\" Mr Berman says.\n\nGoogle claims the system successfully sent alerts on 6 February to millions of people.\n\nHow much warning people should have got from Google would depend on how far away they were from the earthquake, Mr Berman explains. A message travelling over the internet can travel much faster than the waves of an earthquake travelling through the earth.\n\n\"Sometimes [the warning] might be a second or a fraction of a second, sometimes it might be 20 or 30 seconds, sometimes it might be 50 or 60 seconds,\" he says.\n\nDespite extensive reporting across the earthquake zone in the hours, days and weeks after the quake, no-one mentioned getting an alert to the BBC.\n\nSo we began to search specifically for people who had got the warning.\n\nOur team travelled to Adana, Iskenderun and Osmaniye, cities between 70km (43 miles) and 150km (93 miles) away from the epicentre.\n\nWe spoke to hundreds of people with Android phones.\n\nAlthough we managed to find a small number of people who had got an alert for the second earthquake, we couldn't find anyone who got a warning ahead of the first, most powerful quake.\n\nIn Iskenderun, we spoke to Alican who lost his grandmother when a hospital collapsed. He says he had received the alert before, but he didn't get it this time.\n\nWe put our reporting from the earthquake zone to Google's Mr Berman.\n\nHe said: \"It's possible, given the massive impact of the first event, that this just quietly happened in the background, while users were really paying attention to lots of other things. At the end of the day, I think that's probably the most likely explanation.\"\n\nBut the people we spoke to were adamant that none arrived.\n\nFunda, who has been living in a temporary tent encampment since the quake, says she lost 25 members of her family.\n\n\"We literally dumped people into the ground. My brother-in-law and nephew were buried hugging each other,\" she says.\n\nFunda lost 25 members of her family in the quake\n\nShe owns an Android phone but told us she was \"certain\" she didn't get an alert.\n\nAfter an earthquake you would expect people to post on social media that they had received a warning. This is common in other countries where quakes have occurred since Google's system launched.\n\n\"One of the few feedback sources that we have is being able to look on social media,\" Mr Berman says.\n\nAnd yet after the first earthquake in Turkey, social media was unusually quiet - something Mr Berman accepts.\n\n\"I don't have a resounding answer for why we haven't seen more reaction on social media to that particular event,\" he says.\n\nThe BBC asked for data that showed people had received the notification. The only evidentiary document Google shared was a pdf with 13 social media posts the company had found of people talking of a warning that day.\n\nSo we contacted the authors of the posts.\n\nOne was Ridvan Gunturk, who had posted that he had got a warning in the city of Adana. However, after speaking to the BBC, he clarified that this was for the second earthquake. He confirmed he had not received an alert for the first earthquake.\n\nRidvan Gunturk received an alert for the second quake\n\nIn fact, only one of the social media posts referenced a warning about the first quake, giving a detailed account. The BBC has spoken to the author of the post, but they wouldn't give their name.\n\nThe author said they believed they had received an alert, but couldn't be completely certain of their memory of events at the time.\n\nGoogle also said it had received feedback from user surveys that say the system worked. However, it declined to share this information.\n\nProf Tobin told the BBC Google's system was relatively new, and could be useful, but that it was important for the company to be transparent.\n\n\"If you are delivering an essential life safety or public safety piece of information, then you have a responsibility to be transparent about how it works and how well it works,\" he says.\n\n\"We're not talking about an anecdote of, 'oh it's popped up here and there.' These are intended as blanket warning systems. That's the whole point.\"\n\nTurkish earthquake expert Prof Sukru Ersoy told the BBC his wife was in the earthquake zone. She has an Android phone but did not receive an alert.\n\nHe says that he has not spoken to anyone who got a warning.\n\n\"If Google's system had worked, perhaps it could have been very beneficial,\" he says.\n\n\"But the system not working in an important earthquake such as this one begs the question: if this is a beneficial system, why couldn't we benefit from it in this major earthquake, one of the biggest earthquakes of the last 100 years?\"\n\nIn a statement given to the BBC by Google after the interview, Mr Berman said: \"During a devastating earthquake event, numerous factors can affect whether users receive, notice, or act on a supplemental alert - including the specific characteristics of the earthquake and the availability of internet connectivity.\"\n• None Why was the Turkey-Syria earthquake so deadly?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heatwaves: Are lower temperatures around the corner?\n\nUS President Joe Biden has announced measures to try to tackle the effects of extreme heat as 180 million Americans are under heat watches and warnings.\n\nMajor cities including Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington DC, were under heat emergencies on Thursday.\n\nThe striking actors' union Sag-Aftra was forced to pause picket lines amid New York City's excessive heat warning.\n\nThe extreme heat is expected to last through the weekend.\n\n\"I don't think anybody can deny the impact of climate change anymore,\" President Biden said on Thursday at a White House press conference.\n\nHe unveiled new measures designed to help workers most vulnerable to heat, increase funding for weather forecasting, and expand water storage capacity in the western states.\n\nHe also said the US Forest Service will award more than $1bn (£781m) in grants to help cities and towns plant trees, which can help lower temperatures in urban areas significantly.\n\nMr Biden said heat is the \"number one weather-related killer\" in the US, causing 600 deaths each year.\n\n\"The construction workers who literally risked their lives working all day in blazing heat, and in some places don't even have a right to take a water break, that's outrageous,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this week, Texas Congressman Greg Casar held a food and water strike to protest against a Texas law overriding protection for people working outdoors in intense heat.\n\nHe cited the death of a 40-year-old postal worker who died on his route, and a 35-year-old believed to have died of heat exhaustion while working to restore power in Texas' Harrison County.\n\nSan Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego joined Mr Biden at the event virtually on Thursday.\n\nMayor Gallego said: \"Phoenix is on the front line of climate change.\"\n\nShe has been pushing for Congress to pass a bill adding extreme heat to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema)'s list of major disaster qualifying events, which would aid response funding.\n\nMayor Nirenberg told BBC News San Antonio had seen unrelenting heat for consecutive years and it was a new \"reality that we're having to face and accommodate through smarter infrastructure\".\n\nHe added that \"heat related illness calls for emergency response are up 50% just this year\".\n\nHeat indices across the East Coast are reaching over 100F (38C)\n\nCritics said Mr Biden's measures do not go far enough, and that while these measures are important, climate change will continue to worsen without addressing the use of fossil fuels.\n\nSweltering humidity is exacerbating the high temperatures in some parts of the US, increasing the heat index - or what the temperature feels like to humans when humidity is combined with the air temperature.\n\nIn Washington, DC, and New York City, temperatures are expected to feel like 107F (41C) and 105F (40C) respectively, on Friday.\n\nOne subway cleaning worker, Jessica, told the BBC on Thursday that \"it feels like the world is ending\".\n\nHer job requires her to be in a non-airconditioned environment most of the time.\n\nShe said, \"It's horrible, it's torturous. I try to take cooling and water breaks when I can.\"\n\nEast coast night-time lows between now and the weekend will be as much as 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit above average for the region, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).\n\nThe largest US power grid operator, PJM, issued a level one emergency on Thursday for the 13-state eastern US grid in anticipation of an increased demand for electricity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnd record-breaking heat continues to bake the Southwest and Central US.\n\nPhoenix, Arizona, has now endured 28 consecutive days with the mercury at or above 110F (43C).\n\nThe evenings have offered little respite - overnight temperatures have not dropped below 90F (32C) for at least 16 days.\n\nEl Paso, Texas, has surpassed even Phoenix, hitting 42 consecutive days of temperatures at or above 100F (38C) on Thursday.\n\nIn addition to the scorching weather, some parts of the US are facing intense thunderstorm systems.\n\nSome 180,000 people are without power in Michigan after a storm soaked the region and downed power lines on Wednesday.\n\nThe Upper Midwest and Great Lakes are forecast to get more thunderstorms, which could bring 75-mph winds and golf-ball-sized hail, on Thursday afternoon into Friday.\n\nThose storms will then spread into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic late Friday into Saturday, the NWS predicts - bringing damaging winds, hail and possible flash flooding.", "An extra 5,000 hospital beds will be available this winter to help the NHS in England to cope, health bosses say.\n\nIt will mean nearly 100,000 permanent beds accessible at the busiest time of the year - a 5% rise on current levels.\n\nNHS England is also promising quicker discharge arrangements to get patients out of hospital when they are medically-fit to leave.\n\nThis will be achieved through the rollout of what have been dubbed \"care traffic control centres\".\n\nThese centres bring together the NHS, community, housing and charity teams to help co-ordinate support for those patients who need help once they leave hospital.\n\nThe idea is that plans for a prompt and efficient discharge can be started shortly after patients are admitted to hospital, thanks to better co-ordination among teams over follow-up care.\n\nLast winter, one-in-eight beds were taken by patients who were ready to be released, but could not be discharged because of a lack of available support.\n\nMany departments already use this approach, but NHS England has requested all areas have joint teams in place for winter.\n\nHospitals will also be provided with financial incentives to improve performance, such as keeping A&E waiting times to four hours or less.\n\nThe details have yet to be finalised, but it is thought likely it will include extra money for the 2024-2025 financial year for those hospitals that exceed expectations over the winter period.\n\nAlongside these measures there will be at least 10,000 'virtual' hospital beds open by autumn. Under such an arrangement, doctors provide remote monitoring of patients in their home, who would otherwise have to be admitted to hospital.\n\nThey have been used in recent years for patients with conditions such as respiratory infections and heart problems.\n\nThere will also be the option for hospitals to open emergency escalation beds if needed, NHS England said.\n\nSarah-Jane Marsh, from NHS England, said the measures would help the service increase its \"resilience\" during the busy winter months.\n\nMatthew Taylor, of the NHS Confederation - which represents hospitals - said the measures were based on \"sound evidence\", but questioned whether there will be sufficient funding and staff to make the plan work. One-in-10 nurse posts are currently vacant.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinéad O'Connor: In her own words\n\nTributes have poured in for \"radical and incredible\" Sinéad O'Connor after the Irish singer's death at 56.\n\nShe had a voice that \"cracked stone\", said English musician Alison Moyet, while British band Massive Attack spoke of the \"fire in her eyes\".\n\nEnglish musician Jah Wobble told the BBC the singer and activist had \"the essence of a Celtic female warrior\".\n\nHer family announced the death \"with great sadness\" on Wednesday. The cause of death was not made public.\n\nThe Grammy-winning singer shot to international stardom in 1990 with the hit ballad Nothing Compares 2 U, and released 10 studio albums between 1987 and 2014.\n\nAs a teenager in Dublin, she was placed in one of the notorious former Magdalene laundries, originally set up to incarcerate young girls deemed to be promiscuous.\n\nIn 1992 she faced controversy after ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on US TV show Saturday Night Live in protest against child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.\n\nShe suffered personal tragedy in January last year when her 17-year-old son Shane was found dead.\n\nIn one of her final tweets, she called him \"the love of my life, the lamp of my soul\".\n\nMoyet paid tribute to O'Connor's \"astounding presence\" and voice that \"cracked stone with force by increment\".\n\n\"As beautiful as any girl around and never traded on that card. I loved that about her. Iconoclast,\" she said on social media.\n\n\"Devastated,\" Massive Attack said. \"Honestly, to bear witness to her voice, intimacy in the studio. On the road every single person stopped - dropped their tools during soundtrack. The fire in her eyes made you understand that her activism was a soulful reflex and not a political gesture.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinéad O'Connor: In her own words\n\nFormer Public Image Ltd bassist Jah Wobble, who collaborated with O'Connor, said she was a \"very special person\".\n\nHe told the BBC World Service's Newshour that her voice was \"very powerful, very controlled... there was a sweetness and fragility to it\" - but it was \"no secret... that there was a degree of sadness\", he added.\n\n\"There are no words,\" REM lead singer Michael Stipe said in his tribute.\n\nThe Smiths singer Morrissey wrote on his website: \"She had the courage to speak when everyone else stayed safely silent. She was harassed simply for being herself. Her eyes finally closed in search of a soul she could call her own.\"\n\nOne fan left a handwritten tribute to O'Connor on the doorstep of one of her former homes in Bray, County Wicklow, which read: \"May your journey to the after life be beautiful and healing.\"\n\nOne fan left a handwritten tribute to O'Connor on the doorstep of her former home\n\nUS singer-songwriter and pianist Tori Amos remembered \"such passion, such intense presence and a beautiful soul, who battled her own personal demons courageously\".\n\nThe Pogues singer Shane MacGowan and his wife Victoria Mary Clarke said: \"We don't really have words for this but we want to thank you Sinéad for your love and your friendship and your compassion and your humour and your incredible music.\"\n\nThe Pretenders' singer Chrissie Hynde told BBC Radio 2: \"She was a really fun person, she was such a riot to hang out with.\n\n\"But she was always angling to stir it up, she really poked the hornet's next, and certainly a one-off and a huge talent. She is without question in a better place - so fly on sweet angel.\"\n\nGlen Hansard busks every Christmas Eve on Dublin's Grafton Street to raise money for the anti-homelessness charity the Simon Community, paid tribute to O'Connor on Instagram.\n\nThe Oscar-winning singer and songwriter recalled asking her to perform with him one year. \"I had a few numbers for her and wasn't sure she'd respond,\" he said. \"She got back saying 'I'll be there'. She was nervous but in great form.\"\n\n\"Ireland has always preferred its heroes on the wall. Too scared and afraid to deal with them in the room. Now we can finally hang her picture on the wall and revere her for the giant she was.\"\n\nSinger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as Cat Stevens - called O'Connor a \"tender soul\". Like him, O'Connor converted to Islam as an adult, a decision she announced in 2018.\n\nActor Russell Crowe recalled meeting O'Connor by chance last year when he was working in Ireland. One of Crowe's friends recognised and ran after the singer when she walked past their table at a pub in Dalkey.\n\nActor Russell Crowe recalled meeting the \"amazing\" O'Connor while he was in Ireland last year\n\n\"She came with us back to the table and sat in the cold and ordered a hot tea,\" Crowe recalled.\n\n\"In a conversation without fences we roamed through the recent Dublin heatwave, local politics, American politics, the ongoing fight for indigenous recognition in many places, but particularly in Australia, her warm memory of New Zealand, faith, music, movies and her brother the writer.\n\n\"I had the opportunity to tell her she was a hero of mine. [After she left] we sat there the four of us and variously expressed the same thing. What an amazing woman. Peace be with your courageous heart Sinéad.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, music journalist Dave Fanning, who did the first ever interview with Sinead O'Connor and has met her more than 200 times, described her as a \"generous person,\" but acknowledged she was a \"polarising\" figure.\n\n\"When she tore up the picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live and people said she'd ruin her career, she did ruin her career, because that was the plan.\n\n\"She never wanted to be famous, to be a pop star, she felt she was a protest singer.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'll remember her as a generous person, a really gentle person, I know she was polarising, I think ahead of her time, she was unwilling to be quiet... but she was prescient and she opened us all to a world which wasn't necessarily as cosy as we thought.\"\n\nA 2022 documentary about O'Connor, called Nothing Compares, was set to be aired on television for the first time by Sky on 29 July.\n\nKathryn Ferguson, the Belfast filmmaker behind the project, said she was \"devastated\" by the news of O'Connor's death.\n\n\"My father introduced me to Sinéad's music in the late '80s,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Front Row.\n\n\"Her album, the Lion and the Cobra, was played on repeat as we drove around Belfast... And it became this visceral soundtrack to my early childhood. And then, in the early '90s, my friends and I felt like we really discovered her for a second time, and could really see how she looked, heard what she had to say.\n\n\"And she became this huge icon of ours and someone we were so proud of, and that she was from Ireland - Ireland. So she had a huge impact on me as a young Irish teenager.\"\n\nFerguson added: \"She is one of the most radical, incredible musicians that we've had. And we were very, very lucky to have had her.\"\n\nIrish TV presenter Laura Whitmore posted on Instagram: \"As an Irish woman growing up in the 90s, she was everything, showing girls were cool, Irish women could be recognised globally and shaved heads not just for guys - though not a look I could carry off.\n\n\"My mam told everyone who visited Sinead lived on our road - she was our royalty. Rest in peace Queen x.\"\n\nPerforming in the Netherlands in 2001\n\nO'Connor's former manager Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh told BBC Radio 4's Today her \"music and her voice were really her channel for expressing emotions, her trauma, her pain and joy and pleasure\".\n\nHe added: \"People associate very heavy subject matters with her, but she was as light-hearted as any of us and as capable as enjoying herself as any of us.\"\n\nPolitical figures also paid tribute to O'Connor, including Irish President Michael D Higgins, who said: \"One couldn't but always be struck by the depth of her fearless commitment to the important issues which she brought to public attention.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Mr Kim had a \"friendly talk\" with Mr Shoigu, who handed him \"an autographed letter\" from Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media reported\n\nKim Jong Un showed off North Korea's latest weapons to Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday.\n\nPyongyang invited the Russian delegation led by Mr Shoigu, as well as Chinese officials.\n\nThey will attend Pyongyang's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, marked typically by massive military parades.\n\nThe weapons on display included the Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).\n\nSuccessfully tested in April, it is believed to be the country's first ICBM to use solid propellants, which makes it quicker to launch than liquid-fuel ones.\n\nAlso on show were two new drone designs, including one resembling the primary offensive strike drone used by the US Air Force, according to NK News, a specialist site focusing on North Korea.\n\nMr Shoigu's visit comes amid accusations that Pyongyang is supplying Russia with arms for use in its war in Ukraine - a claim that both Pyongyang and Moscow deny.\n\nNorth Korea's KCNA news agency said Mr Kim and Mr Shoigu discussed \"matters of mutual concern\" in the fields of national defence and on the international security environment.\n\nThe delegations' visit for North Korea's Victory Day - as the 1953 end of hostilities is called in the North - is expected to finish on Thursday with an extensive military parade. The Koreans are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the conflict ended.\n\nBoth Russia and China are long time allies of North Korea. Their visit marks the first time Mr Kim has thrown open the doors to foreign guests since the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe last time Pyongyang invited foreign government delegates for a military parade was in February 2018.\n\nMr Shoigu praised the North Korean military as the \"most powerful in the world\", according to state media\n\nMr Kim had a \"friendly talk\" with Mr Shoigu, who handed him an autographed letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin, KCNA said, adding that he had later called North Korea's military \"the most powerful\" in the world.\n\nThe visiting Chinese delegation, led by politburo member Li Hongzhong, also handed a personal letter from Mr Xi to Mr Kim.\n\nMr Kim reportedly told Mr Li that \"the Korean people will never forget the fact that the brave soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers shed blood to bring about the war victory\".\n\nBeijing had sent troops in the autumn of 1950 to support North Korea in the war against South Korea. The then Soviet Union also supported North Korea in the war.\n\nSince the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Russia has remained a natural ally for North Korea because of their mutual dislike for the US.\n\nSome analysts say the inclusion of Chinese and Russian envoys in this year's Victory Day parade hints at a possible loosening of Covid restrictions.\n\nThis comes weeks after images of North Koreans walking around without masks were shown on state media.\n\nThe reclusive country had sealed itself off from all trade and diplomatic ties in early 2020, even with Russia and China, its main economic and political partners.", "Melody Powell has her heart set on a post-pandemic trip to New York\n\nMajor airlines are charging some disabled passengers double to fly from the UK, the BBC has found.\n\nNearly 30 carriers contacted by the BBC said passengers with mobility problems must purchase a full-price ticket for a personal care assistant (PA).\n\nThis is despite Civil Aviation Authority guidance on EU law, maintained by the UK post-Brexit, urging airlines to subsidise the cost.\n\nDisabled people with mobility issues say the situation is discriminatory.\n\nMelody Powell has been saving up to visit friends in New York who kept her company online during years of Covid shielding, but says the extra cost makes flying impossibly expensive.\n\nMelody, 25, uses a wheelchair and needs to fly with a PA to help her reach the toilet and get off the plane. She now has enough money to pay for her own fare - almost £600 - but is still a long way from being able to afford another full-price ticket.\n\n\"Seeing how much it will cost me to fly because I'm disabled is quite scary,\" she says.\n\nLISTEN: You can hear more about airline charging on the BBC Access All podcast.\n\nRichard Amm is unable to visit his family in South Africa during the festive season or at short notice, when PA tickets can cost £1,500.\n\nWhen his 77-year-old mother broke three ribs recently, flying over was too costly.\n\n\"I would love to visit my mum,\" Richard says. \"But facing double the cost, it just isn't really feasible for me to go.\"\n\nRichard says the cost of a PA ticket means he is unable to visit his family in South Africa at Christmas\n\nThe 40-year-old uses a wheelchair and has trouble lifting his arms, so needs help on long flights.\n\nHe feels the current situation is \"totally discriminatory\" and makes it even harder for disabled people to manage the already high costs of living.\n\n\"Most of us are too poor to even afford a ticket for ourselves,\" Richard says.\n\nAccording to disability charity Scope the average additional monthly cost of being disabled is about £600 - because of the higher cost of specialist equipment and higher usage of essentials like energy.\n\nBut the employment rate for disabled people is 54%, compared to 82% for non-disabled people.\n\nBBC News contacted more than 100 airlines, including all that fly from Heathrow, to find out how many insist on a PA and whether they offer a discount.\n\nBritish Airways told the BBC that it provided discounted PA fares on direct flights to Brazil and US, but refused to specify by how much. US law allows for subsidised tickets, but only if the airline believes a PA is necessary for safety reasons and the individual does not.\n\nBut in reality, the BBC has been told, this excludes the majority of disabled passengers as it is extremely rare for the clause to be activated - as most people who are told they need a PA already accept that they do.\n\nBeing told by airlines to travel with, and pay for, a PA is a common frustration for disabled passengers, says Josh Wintersgill, a wheelchair user and entrepreneur who is trying to improve aviation accessibility.\n\n\"With many not requiring companions, being forced to travel with someone feels very undermining and incurs additional costs. This is significantly unfair and borderline discriminatory,\" he says.\n\nHe says there is a need for \"drastic international collaboration\" to improve \"outdated and ineffective regulations and guidelines\".\n\nEuropean aviation regulations, maintained by the UK post-Brexit, explicitly advise airlines to offer discounts for passengers who require an escort, but they are advisory only, and cannot be enforced.\n\nThe CAA, which regulates UK aviation policy set by the Department of Transport, also recommends free or discounted PA tickets, but again lacks the power to impose them. The CAA's chief, Anne Bowles, told the BBC that while there was no legal requirement for airlines to offer free or discounted seats to an accompanying person, \"our view is that it is best practice for airlines to do so\".\n\nAdopting these recommendations would bring the aviation sector in line with travelcard schemes across the UK that provide free or discounted travel to disabled people - and sometimes their carers - on buses, trains and taxis. Similar PA concessions also apply at ticketed events.\n\nMelody is frustrated that there is no obligation for airlines to offer discounted fares.\n\n\"When it comes to any sort of legislation that's meant to help disabled people, it's never a legally binding thing,\" she says. \"It's always 'a suggestion' that people conveniently forget exists.\"\n\nAirlines and airports are required to provide disabled passengers with assistance to the plane free of charge, including help to board and disembark the aircraft, in line with anti-discrimination commitments.\n\nHowever, during the flight itself, airline staff are not expected to help disabled passengers access the toilet or evacuate the aircraft.\n\nThis is because airlines are not considered service providers under the UK Equality Act, leaving few legal options to challenge disability discrimination in air travel.\n\nAirlines are only required to follow the Montreal Convention, a set of rules which limit responsibility to personal injury or loss and damage of baggage.\n\nCampaigner Chris Wood said more legislation was needed because the current advice was just \"guidance, not the law\".\n\nWhat the rules should be and what we want are \"two different things\", he told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, suggesting that airlines should show \"a little bit of empathy\".\n\nThe founder of Flying Disabled added that some airlines are \"great\", but they all \"need guidance\".\n\nAirlines and airports are required to help disabled passengers on and off planes free of charge\n\nLast year the government conducted an aviation consultation that addressed accessibility for disabled passengers but, like its aviation passenger charter, it did not specifically address additional ticket costs for PAs.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC over the widespread failure of airlines to adopt recommendations to subsidise PA fares, the Department for Transport said it was \"committed to ensuring\" accessible air travel but did not address the additional ticket charges.\n\nEnforcing global disability rights in air travel is a challenge because there is no collective means of imposing obligations internationally.\n\nFor example, when a 2019 lawsuit in Canada found that requiring obese passengers and those with a disability to purchase two seats was discriminatory, the country's airlines began to subsidise PA tickets - but for domestic flights only.\n\nLegal experts have told the BBC that the most probable path for change is for a bloc of countries, such as the EU, to impose a member-wide standard that might then become a global norm. Post-Brexit, the UK's position would require its own unique commitments.\n\nA host of failings have been highlighted by the disabled community in recent years. These include being left on planes or at terminals for a long time when waiting for assistance, difficulties accessing the toilet and wheelchairs being lost or damaged.\n\nRather than face the additional costs and challenges of flying as a disabled passenger, many avoid it.\n\nBen Iles, 44, likes to travel but has flown just twice in the past 20 years, having had bad experiences getting on and off planes - he now prefers to use a van that is adapted to his wheelchair.\n\n\"I have everything I need,\" he says.\n\nBut there are some signs of progress for disabled and less mobile travellers - the Department for Transport said last month that it planned to give the CAA the power to fine airlines for breaching consumer laws.\n\nThis includes removing the reimbursement cap for damaged wheelchairs, which are currently treated like regular luggage and valued by weight, not price.\n\nThe CAA has also suggested a ranking to provide transparency about the disability performance of different airlines.\n\nIn response to the BBC's findings, Airlines UK, the industry trade body, said its airlines held a \"proven track record\" of constructive engagement on disability issues and would continue to be supportive of any initiative that improved quality and access to air travel.\n\nDo you have a similar story to the passengers in this article? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCaptain Lindsey Horan came to the rescue of defending champions the United States after the Netherlands had threatened an upset at the Women's World Cup.\n\nNew Manchester City signing Jill Roord put the Dutch on course for a famous win after a clinical finish from the edge of the box.\n\nThe Stars and Stripes have been a superpower on the world stage, winning their previous 13 matches spanning three tournaments, but they struggled to break down a resolute Netherlands defence until Horan equalised with a header from a corner.\n\nIn a repeat of the 2019 final - which the USA won 2-0 in Lyon - Savannah DeMelo fired wide when the game was goalless while Trinity Rodman forced Daphne van Domselaar into a fingertip save moments after the Dutch had taken the lead.\n\nIt looked like being a bitterly frustrating day for the USA when Julie Ertz had a header deflected behind before Horan equalised.\n\nThe United States stay top of Group E with four points from two games - the same number as the Netherlands who trail on goal difference.\n\n\"We performed brilliantly and at times it was really fantastic,\" said Netherlands coach Andries Jonker. \"You have to be happy with 1-1.\n\n\"These games are battles from the first second to the last. The only thing you can say is that women's football has evolved incredibly.\n\n\"We're there, along with the US, and I'm very satisfied with that.\"\n\nThe USA face Portugal next at Eden Park, Auckland, on Tuesday (08:00 BST) while the Netherlands play Vietnam in Dunedin at the same time.\n\nPortugal beat Vietnam 2-0 in the other Group E game on Thursday.\n• None Reaction as the United States and Netherlands draw at the Fifa Women's World Cup\n• None What do you know about past 24 hours at World Cup?\n\nBoth sets of fans applauded their teams off the pitch at full-time after an entertaining affair in front of 27,312 fans.\n\nWellington was awash with colour hours before the lunchtime kick-off as fans took to the streets of New Zealand's capital city early.\n\nThere was a carnival atmosphere inside the fan park with some supporters dressed top to toe in stars and stripes. Others from the Netherlands arrived at the ground in national costume.\n\nOne supporter inside the ground held up a sign saying: \"They're not just women, they're legends\".\n\nHelicopters buzzed above the city from early morning adding to the sense of occasion, while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was on official business in the city, broke off from talks to cheer on the defending champions.\n\nBilled as the biggest fixture of the 48 group games taking place in Australia and New Zealand, it did not disappoint.\n\nThe United States, who also defeated the Netherlands at the Olympics in 2021, are strongly tipped to win a fifth World Cup despite 14 of their players appearing at their first World Cup.\n\nBut Andries Jonker's side produced a thoroughly impressive performance and looked set to send out a powerful message until Horan's equaliser.\n\nThe Netherlands had required a 93rd-minute winner in their final qualifying game against Iceland just to make this World Cup.\n\nYet despite being denied the services of influential forward Vivianne Miedema because of injury, the 2019 runners-up once again look as though they could go deep in this tournament.\n\nThe United States are yet to fire on all cylinders at this World Cup.\n\nVlatko Andonovski's side were guilty of wasting a hatful of chances in their 3-0 win over debutants Vietnam, while against the Dutch they once again created enough opportunities to have taken maximum points.\n\n\"In the first half, we allowed them to take control of the tempo and slow down the tempo a lot more than we wanted,\" said the USA coach.\n\n\"It was a difficult match and even though it didn't finish the way we wanted it to finish, I thought it was a very good match.\"\n\nThere was frustration when Alex Morgan, who had a penalty saved against Vietnam, thought she had scored the winner after poking Trinity Rodman's pass into the net.\n\nHowever, it was ruled out for offside while Rodman dragged a great chance wide in the closing stages.\n\n\"I think the first half, we could be a little disappointed in how we played but I think we fixed things right away,\" said captain and goalscorer Horan.\n\n\"The pressure that we got on, the amount of chances and opportunities that came from it - I'm so proud of the team and their response.\"\n\nAndonovski will expect his players to be firing when they return to Auckland next week to face Portugal in the third and final group game.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands).\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Rose Lavelle (USA).\n• None Attempt missed. Andi Sullivan (USA) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Emily Fox.\n• None Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Trinity Rodman (USA) left footed shot from long range on the right is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Emily Fox.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alex Morgan (USA) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trinity Rodman with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Trinity Rodman (USA) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rose Lavelle with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sophia Smith (USA) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Trinity Rodman (USA) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Sophia Smith. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "BBC Correspondent Jenny Hill reports from the village of Vati in Rhodes, as fires continue to spread across the region.\n\nTens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and abandon holidays on Greek islands including Rhodes and Corfu.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fire breaks out on cargo ship carrying 3,000 cars off Dutch coast\n\nA fire on a cargo ship carrying almost 3,000 cars off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland has left one sailor dead and 22 other crew members hurt.\n\nSome of the crew leapt 30m (100ft) into the sea to escape the blaze.\n\nA major salvage operation is in full swing in the North Sea and rescue teams fear the fire could burn for days.\n\nMembers of the crew initially tried to douse the flames themselves, but were overwhelmed and were eventually forced to flee.\n\nSeven of them jumped into the water, said the captain of the Ameland lifeboat, Willard Molenaar.\n\n\"One by one, they jumped and we had to fish them out of the water,\" he told public broadcaster NOS. \"They were really desperate so they had to jump - you don't just do that for the sake of it.\"\n\nPhotos shared by the coastguard showed the Panamanian-flagged Fremantle Highway engulfed in smoke, with flames licking the deck in an area of the North Sea.\n\nThe coastguard told Dutch news agency ANP the fire could continue for days. The sides of the ship were being doused with water to cool it down, but rescue boats avoided pouring too much water on board because of the risk of sinking.\n\nThe cargo ship left the port of Bremerhaven in northern Germany at about 15:00 local time on Tuesday on course for Port Said in Egypt.\n\nIt ran into trouble overnight, about 27km (17 miles) north of the Ameland in the Wadden Sea, on the edge of the North Sea designated a World Heritage site.\n\nThe coastguard said the cause of the fire was unknown, but an emergency call between rescue services later emerged suggesting it had \"started in the battery of an electric car\".\n\nAbout 25 of the vehicles on the ship were electric.\n\nThe cause of the fire has not yet been established\n\nA tugboat was used to pull the cargo ship out of major shipping routes to and from Germany.\n\nThe freighter, which is operated by K-Line but owned by a subsidiary of the Japanese shipbuilding firm Imabari Shipbuilding, is currently stationary, but the Dutch coastguard said it might be listing.\n\nThe immediate challenge for emergency crews at the scene is to extinguish the fire and keep the cargo ship afloat.\n\nSalvage boats have been circling the ship in preparation for all possible scenarios and an oil-recovery vessel has been sent to the scene in case of a leak. Air traffic officials have barred planes from flying near the ship.\n\nThe North Sea foundation environmental group said the Wadden Sea had become increasingly vulnerable because of bigger ships using an extremely busy shipping route.\n\nFour years ago, 270 shipping containers, some containing chemicals, fell off another Panamanian-registered cargo ship in a storm and some of the containers washed up on Dutch beaches.\n\nLast year, a cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury cars caught fire and sank off the Azores. Lithium-ion batteries in the cars caught fire on board the Felicity Ace.\n\nAlthough water was ineffective in putting out the fire, firefighters eventually brought it under control before the ship went down while being towed.\n\nThe ship was being doused on both sides to cool it down", "Sinéad O'Connor saw music as the therapy to escape a turbulent childhood.\n\nHer rebellious nature was mainly driven by resentment at the abuse she suffered as a child and her experience in a Dublin reformatory.\n\nIt was music that rescued her, unleashing a creative talent that made her a worldwide music star - but also a rebel prepared to be controversial and never play the game of being an image-led pop star.\n\nWith her elfin features and skinhead look she was one of pop music's most recognisable figures.\n\nSinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor was born on 8 December 1966 in the affluent Glenageary suburb of Dublin.\n\nShe was the third of five children of Sean O'Connor and his wife Marie. The couple had married young and their relationship, often stormy, ended when O'Connor was eight.\n\nHer brother, Joseph, once described their mother as deeply unhappy and disturbed and prone to physical and emotional abuse of her children.\n\nO'Connor eventually moved out to go and live with her father but she often played truant to go shoplifting.\n\nEventually she was placed in Dublin's An Grianan Training Centre, once one of the notorious Magdalene laundries, originally set up to incarcerate young girls deemed to be promiscuous.\n\nOne nun discovered that the only way to keep this rebellious teenager in check was by buying her a guitar and setting her up with a music teacher. It was to be the saving of her.\n\nThe success of her first album made her a huge concert draw\n\nA volunteer at the institution had a brother who played in the Irish band In Tua Nua. She did record a song with them but they felt she was too young to become a full-time member.\n\nAt 16 her father moved her to a boarding school in Waterford where a teacher recognised her talent and helped her produce a demo tape featuring two of her own compositions.\n\nA meeting with the producer and composer Colm Farrelly saw them come together with other musicians to form the band Ton Ton Macoute.\n\nThey made an immediate impact and, when they relocated to Dublin, O'Connor dropped out of school to go with them.\n\nHer second album won her a Grammy\n\nEventually she moved to London and found herself an experienced manager in Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh, who had previously worked for U2.\n\nAs well as guiding her musically, Ó Ceallaigh imbued her with his own brand of republican politics. She caused a stir when she praised the Provisional IRA, although she later apologised.\n\nEver the rebel, she firmly rejected attempts by her record company to change her punk look and become more girly.\n\n\"What they were describing,\" O'Connor later told the Daily Telegraph, \"was actually their mistresses. I pointed that out to them which they didn't take terribly well.\"\n\nShe also fell out with the producer who had been brought in to mastermind her first album. After much persuasion, the record company allowed her to produce it herself. By this time she was seven months pregnant by her session drummer, John Reynolds, whom she went on to marry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinéad O'Connor: In her own words\n\nThe Lion and the Cobra, released in 1987, was a storming success. It featured what would become the typical O'Connor sound, overdubbed harmonies and atmospheric backgrounds held together by her distinctive voice. It earned a Grammy nomination for best female rock vocal performance.\n\nOne single, Mandinka, did well in the US and was the song she chose to sing on Late Night with David Letterman, her first American primetime TV appearance.\n\nShe topped this with her follow-up album, the Grammy-winning I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, which featured her most successful single, a cover of the Prince song Nothing Compares 2 U.\n\nIt was helped to the top of the charts in the UK, Ireland and the US by a striking video that largely featured a close-up of her face as she sang.\n\nShe cried during the making of the video and later said she found it difficult to sing the song because it reminded her of the loss of her mother, who had died in a car accident in 1985.\n\nBut controversy was never far away. She refused to perform at a concert venue in New Jersey unless it dropped its normal practice of playing the US national anthem before she went on.\n\nThe venue reluctantly agreed but it led to a boycott of her songs by a number of US radio stations.\n\nA month after the release of I'm Not Your Girl, a collection of jazz standards, O'Connor performed a version of Bob Marley's War on NBC's Saturday Night Live, substituting some of the words so it became a protest against child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.\n\nTo the horror of the producers she held up a photo of Pope John Paul II to the camera and tore it in half. NBC received more than 4,000 complaints from viewers and many destroyed copies of her records.\n\nAt a subsequent live appearance she was booed so much she couldn't perform. At the end of 1992 she returned to live in Dublin.\n\nHer fourth album, Universal Mother, featuring writing contributions from Germaine Greer and Kurt Cobain, failed to emulate the success of her earlier work. It was to be her last studio album for six years.\n\nHaving split from her husband, she found herself locked in a long custody battle with the journalist John Waters, who had fathered her second child, a daughter named Roisin. The stress caused her to attempt suicide in 1999.\n\nIn one of the stranger turns of her life she was ordained a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, an independent Catholic church, not in communion with Rome. Despite her disdain for the Church hierarchy, O'Connor always maintained she was a practising Christian and a devout Catholic.\n\nShe went back into the studio in 2000 to record the album Faith and Courage. Largely self-penned, it failed to break into the Top 20 in all but the Australian album charts.\n\nThere was a brief second marriage with the journalist Nick Sommerlad before she had a third child, Shane, with the musician Donal Lunny.\n\nShe surprised many by being ordained as a priest\n\nThe 2002 album Sean-Nos Nua featured a reworking of traditional Irish folk songs. A year later she released a compilation of previously unheard tracks and demos before announcing she was retiring from music.\n\nBoth her mental and physical health were suffering, Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she was also battling the painful condition of fibromyalgia.\n\nA spell in Jamaica resulted in her seventh studio album, Throw Down Your Arms, a collection of reggae-flavoured covers that met with positive reviews.\n\nShe gave birth to her fourth child, Yeshua Francis Bonadio in 2006, fathered by her then partner Frank Bonadio. The following year she released yet another album, Theology. It failed to ignite the charts.\n\nA third marriage in 2010 to long-time friend Steve Cooney lasted less than a year.\n\nShe came back to musical form with How About I Be Me (and You Be You) released in 2012, which reached number five in Ireland and 33 in the UK charts.\n\nThere was a very public spat with the singer Miley Cyrus in 2013 after O'Connor published a letter on her website, criticising Cyrus for her overtly sexual videos. Cyrus responded by describing O'Connor as \"crazy\".\n\nAt her best she was an artist of real talent\n\nO'Connor proved she could still deliver the goods with the release of her 2014 album I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss. She appeared on the cover wearing a wig and figure-hugging black dress while caressing a guitar.\n\nBut her mental health was still precarious. In November 2015, after recovering from a hysterectomy, she posted a message on Facebook announcing she was staying at a hotel and contemplating suicide. She was found safe and well and received medical treatment.\n\nConverting to Islam in 2018, she changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat, but continued to perform under her birth name.\n\nShe released a memoir, Rememberings, in June 2021 and took part in media interviews to promote it, some of them fraught. The singer said she felt \"badly triggered\" by an interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her mental health struggles and the media's coverage of it.\n\nMore trauma came in January 2022, when her 17-year-old son Shane took his own life. The musician posted a series of concerning tweets in the wake of his death, indicating she was considering suicide and telling followers she had been admitted to hospital.\n\nSinéad O'Connor was a precocious talent who used music as a means of dealing with the demons inside her. A contradictory figure in many ways, she always refused to toe the establishment line, something that saw her achieve less success than she deserved.\n\nThe singer though was unapologetic and unrepentant for those life choices. \"I always say, if you live with the devil, you find out there's a god.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can visit the BBC Action Line for help.", "The stark, emotional video for Nothing Compares 2 U was an MTV staple in 1990\n\nIn 1990, Sinéad O'Connor scored a worldwide hit with Nothing Compares 2 U, a song of unspeakable loss and heartbreak.\n\nIt was the defining moment of her career - one that thrust her unwillingly into the mainstream.\n\nBut the story of the video, and how she came to record it, is full of surprising twists and turns.\n\nAfter her death at the age of 56, here's a closer look at how she recorded her most famous song.\n\nIt's 15 July, 1984 and Prince has just flown back from Dallas, where he watched the Jacksons' Victory tour. As soon as he steps off the plane, he heads to the recording studio.\n\nThere, with only his engineer Susan Rogers in attendance, he writes and records the initial version of Nothing Compares 2 U in a matter of hours.\n\n\"I was amazed at how beautiful it was,\" Rogers told Duane Tudahl, in his book Prince & The Purple Rain studio sessions.\n\n\"He took his notebook and he went off to the bedroom, wrote the lyrics very quickly, came back out and sang it. I was very impressed with it.\"\n\nRogers theorised that the song was written about Prince's housekeeper, Sandy Scipioni, who had been forced to quit when her father died unexpectedly of a heart attack.\n\n\"Sandy was the person who made sure he had his favourite beverage, which was Five Alive, and she made sure the house was clean, and that there were fresh flowers on the piano, and that the socks and underwear were washed,\" Rogers told BBC 6 Music in 2018.\n\n\"She had been gone and Prince's mood was getting darker and darker. He would just ask, 'When is Sandy coming back?' That might have been the inspiration for the song.\"\n\nPrince's friend, Jerome Benton, had a different story - saying Prince wrote the song for him after he split up with his fiancée.\n\nEither way, the musician felt the song didn't suit his public image at the time. He decided to give it away to The Family, a band he'd formed around his then-girlfriend Susannah Melvoin, and the singer Paul Peterson.\n\nPrince removed his vocals, added some orchestral overdubs and handed the song over. It was released on The Family's sole album in 1985, which promptly tanked, and the group split up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince's engineer Susan Rogers and The Family's St Paul Peterson speak to BBC 6 Music\n\nNothing Compares 2 U was never released as a single, and seemed destined for obscurity until Sinéad O'Connor's manager, Fachtna O'Ceallaigh, remembered it and suggested she cover it for her second album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got.\n\nOther accounts suggest she was introduced to the song by Steve Fargnoli, who had looked after Prince in the Purple Rain era, and took over as O'Connor's manager around the time of the recording.\n\nEither way, O'Connor immediately connected with the track. She and O'Ceallaigh were a couple, but their relationship was on the rocks. Prince's lovelorn lyrics matched her own state of mind. If he was gone, she could do whatever she wanted, she could see whomever she chose - but nothing would compare to him.\n\n\"They were in the process of breaking up when we recorded Nothing Compares 2 U,\" said Chris Birkett, who co-produced and engineered the song, in an interview with Sound On Sound.\n\n\"That's probably why she did such a good vocal. She came into the studio, did it in one take, double-tracked it straight away and it was perfect because she was totally into the song. It mirrored her situation.\"\n\nAt this point, it's a good idea to go and listen to The Family's original recording or Prince's demo, which was released in 2018. The song is there, but it's all dressed up in Paisley finery. Every line ends with a baroque piano figure, the bridge is drowning in syrupy strings, there's even a saxophone solo.\n\nWhatever emotion Prince was channelling, he did his best to hide it. O'Connor did the opposite.\n\nWorking with Japanese jazz virtuoso Gota Yashiki and Soul II Soul producer Nellee Hooper, she put a line through all the ornate R&B flourishes and pared the song back its bare essentials.\n\nThe arrangement is simple - a drum loop, some gauzy strings and a haunting choir of backing vocals. They're pushed and pulled by the tidal wave of her voice, like sand on a beach, as she wrestles with various stages of devastation.\n\nShe starts quietly, almost cowering as she sings: \"It's been seven hours and 15 days since you took your love away.\" Then she's defiant: \"Since you been gone, I can do whatever I want\" but her bravado collapses into anguish once she realises that \"nothing will take away these blues\".\n\nBy the chorus, she's face to face with grief. Her voice strives for power, but it cracks again. Then, In a change to Prince's melody, she shifts the pitch of the final \"to you\" to a despondent monotone, the dissonance illustrating her pain.\n\nIt's one of the all-time great vocal performances.\n\nO'Connor's other hits include Mandinka, I Am Stretched On Your Grave and Thank You For Hearing Me\n\nIn O'Connor's hands, Nothing Compares 2 U was always going to be a hit, but the video made it a phenomenon.\n\nDirector John Maybury shot several hours of footage of the singer walking through a washed-out Paris. You can see glimpses of it in the finished promo - O'Connor dressed in black, reflected in the Seine, walking through the stunning Parc de Saint-Cloud.\n\nBut once she'd performed the song to the camera, Maybury knew her close-up had to be the focus.\n\nFrom the beginning, O'Connor stares straight at us, her pale green eyes peering out of the screen, searching for connection. But as she sings, she breaks eye contact, glancing down, as though she's unable to keep her emotions in check.\n\nAt the end, famously, two tears roll down her cheeks.\n\nThose tears were genuine, and they represented a loss Prince could never have imagined when he wrote Nothing Compares 2 U in the middle of his Purple Rain hot streak.\n\nO'Connor's mother had died in a car crash in 1986, when the singer was still a teenager. They had not had an easy relationship. O'Connor later accused her of being mentally and physically abusive. But when she sang Prince's final verse, all that grief came flooding back.\n\n\"All the flowers that you planted, mama, in the back yard / All died when you went away/ I know that living with you, baby, was sometimes hard / But I'm willing to give it another try.\"\n\nThat's the moment that prompted those tears.\n\n\"I didn't know I was going to cry when I sang in the video because I didn't cry in the studio recording it,\" she later recalled.\n\n\"[But] every time I sing that song I think of my mother. I never stop crying for my mother. I couldn't face being in Ireland for 13 years because of it.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by SineadOConnorVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nPrince reportedly didn't like O'Connor's version - maybe because it outsold all of his own songs in the UK and the US.\n\nWhen O'Connor finally met him, the animosity seemed real. In her 2021 memoir, she said he told her off for swearing in interviews, then challenged her to a pillow fight, only to bash her with something hard he'd slipped into his pillowcase.\n\nDespite that, she still held Nothing Compares 2U in great reverence,\n\n\"It's really about emotions, it's not about notes,\" she told BBC 6 Music in 2016.\n\n\"I think I'm probably similar to millions of people who loved the song, and we're all people who associated the song with a loss of some kind.\"", "The King's swan marker was in charge of the count, which covers the Thames from London to Abingdon in Oxfordshire\n\nA historic royal census, known as \"swan upping\", has revealed a 40% drop in the number of cygnets on the River Thames, compared with last year.\n\nThe decline has been blamed on avian flu but also a growing problem of violence, including shootings, catapult attacks and dogs killing swans.\n\nOnly 94 cygnets were found on the five-day search of the Thames.\n\nThe King's swan marker, David Barber, said the result was \"disappointing\" but, because of avian flu, expected.\n\nLast week saw the colourful spectacle of counting swans, but the outcome has been a much more sombre result.\n\nThe impact of avian flu had been \"horrendous, terrible to see,\" said Mr Barber, who was in charge of the count, which covered the Thames from London to Abingdon in Oxfordshire.\n\nCygnets are weighed and measured in the \"swan upping\"\n\nDown from 155 in 2022, it was the lowest number of cygnets for seven years. But those found had been \"in good condition\", Mr Barber said.\n\nAnother factor in the decline was high flood-water washing away nests.\n\nBut there were also concerns about \"vandalism\", including:\n\nThis was the first \"swan upping\" carried out under the insignia of King Charles, in an annual event dating back to the 12th Century.\n\nTeams row up the river, dressed in scarlet outfits, stopping to count, weigh and measure any young swans they find.\n\n\"Swan upping\" began as the Crown protecting its ownership of swans, but it is now about wildlife conservation. Swans were once a delicacy in medieval banquets but are now a protected species.\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "Phoenix's chief heat officer David Hondula (centre) has been educating residents about heat Image caption: Phoenix's chief heat officer David Hondula (centre) has been educating residents about heat\n\nChief heat officers are a new and rare phenomenon - there are only three in the entire United States - but experts say they are becoming key figures on the front line of climate change.\n\nOver the past few years, the cities of Miami, Los Angeles and Phoenix have all hired the officials. They are tasked with both short- and long-term tasks: protecting the most vulnerable residents during heat emergencies and brainstorming how to make cities more resilient to high temperatures in the future.\n\nIn Phoenix, where temperatures have soared above 110F (43C) for nearly a month, chief heat officer David Hondula has had his work cut out.\n\n“I've been on the phone and sending more text messages than I can remember in my life. There’s this constant coordination and engagement and creativity and brainstorming,” he told the BBC.\n\nAt the weekends, Hondula has been heading out with his team on the city��s trailheads to warn residents about the heat to try to prevent dangerous mountain rescues.\n\nIn the background, he’s also working on implementing the city’s tree planting programme to shield residents from heatwaves in the future.\n\n“There's a lot of work to do ahead of us,” Hondula said.", "'You were able to think about what you would do'\n\nThe judge is going over the details of the case, and what happened on 25 September 2020. He says that De Zoysa knew that he was in possession of a gun, that he knew the gun could kill, and that he tried to retrieve the gun while he was handcuffed. \"You had no lawful or good reason for the possession of the loaded gun or the cartridges,\" he says. He notes it was 50 minutes between the time he was stopped, and when he shot Mr Ratana. While in custody, \"you were able to think about what you would do\". \"You posed a lethal risk\" not just to Ratana, but also to other officers nearby, judge says. He says he was treated with \"conspicuous compassion and kindness\" on previous occasions when he was arrested.", "Ukraine's Olga Kharlan offered her sabre when Russian Anna Smirnova approached for a handshake\n\nUkrainian fencer Olga Kharlan has been disqualified for refusing to shake hands with Russian Anna Smirnova at the World Fencing Championships. Kharlan, the first fencer to face a Russian or Belarusian since the former's full-scale invasion of her homeland, won 15-7 in Milan. The 32-year-old rejected Smirnova's handshake afterwards, instead offering her sabre to tap blades. It led to an appeal from Smirnova, who staged a 45-minute sit-down protest. \"My message today is that we Ukrainian athletes are ready to face Russians on the sports field but we will never shake hands with them,\" Kharlan said afterwards. Smirnova, competing under a neutral flag, remained standing on the piste following the first-round contest before being handed a chair as her protest continued. Her appeal looked to have been dismissed, with Kharlan still showing as through to the last 32 when Smirnova eventually walked off after being spoken to by an official, allowing the next bout to start. However, the results later showed that Kharlan, a four-time individual world champion and four-time Olympic medallist, had been disqualified from the women's sabre individual. Kharlan claimed that Emmanuel Katsiadakis, the president of the International Fencing Federation (FIE), had assured her that it was \"possible\" not to shake hands and offer a touch of her blade instead. \"I thought I had his word, to be safe, but apparently, no,\" Kharlan added. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has called upon sports federations to handle Ukrainian athletes and Russians competing as neutrals with \"the necessary degree of sensitivity\" following Kharlan's disqualification, adding: \"We continue to stand in full solidarity with the Ukrainian athletes and the Olympic community of Ukraine.\"\n\nAnna Smirnova refused to leave the piste and was handed a chair as her protest continued\n\nIn fencing, shaking hands is part of the rules of the sport and refusal to do so results in a black card and expulsion. Ukrainian fencers have not competed where rivals from Russia and Belarus have been permitted to enter as neutral athletes since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Belarus is a key Russian ally and served as a launchpad for the invasion. However, the Ukrainian government updated its position on Wednesday, granting permission for its athletes to compete against Russians and Belarusians who participate as neutrals, as is the case at the World Fencing Championships. Mykhailo Podolyak, the adviser to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, shared a photo on his Twitter feed, external which appeared to show Anna Smirnova with a Russian soldier. \"The photo features Anna Smirnova, the Russian fencer who Ukrainian Olga Kharlan refused to shake hands with at the World Championships after winning a fair bout,\" Podolyak said. \"As you can see, she openly admires the Russian army, which is killing Ukrainians and destroying our cities. The International Fencing Federation (FIE) disqualified the Ukrainian representative for not shaking hands with the Russian,\" he added. \"FIE should this be taken as a position? Doesn't Russian money smell of blood?\" Mykhailo Illiashev, president of Ukraine's fencing federation (NFFU), said the organisation would be appealing against Kharlan's disqualification. Ukraine's Elina Svitolina, a Wimbledon semi-finalist earlier this month, is among those to have shown support for her compatriot. Svitolina has refused to shake hands with Russian and Belarusian opponents and said Kharlan's decision was \"the right thing to do for our people\". \"Why don't Russians respect our position?\" she added. Kharlan's Ukrainian team-mate - Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Igor Reizlin - was scheduled to take to the piste against Russian Vadim Anokhin on Wednesday but did not present himself, subsequently forfeiting.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicola Foster (left) and Yvette Sampson bonded over their loss of their daughters\n\nIn 2018, two new mothers died of herpes - a common, normally mild infection - just weeks apart, shortly after giving birth by Caesarean section at the same NHS Trust. Following an inquest into both deaths, their families say they will continue their fight to find out what happened.\n\nOnce a month for the past year and a half, Yvette Sampson and Nicola Foster have met up in a coffee shop in Canterbury, Kent. The first meeting, says Nicola, was \"very tearful. They still are now, sometimes. Because we've both been in the same situation, we understand how the other's feeling.\"\n\nAt first glance, the two women are not natural companions. Their personalities are very different - Yvette, 54, is quiet and softly spoken while Nicola, 56, is louder and more forthright.\n\nBut their inner cores - an ironclad determination sustained by overwhelming grief - matters more than any superficial characteristics. \"We have helped each other. No-one else can understand it unless you've been through it,\" says Nicola.\n\nDespite not meeting until 2021, the two women have known of each other since the summer of 2018, when their daughters died seven weeks apart in extraordinary circumstances.\n\nYvette's daughter Kimberley died in May that year aged 29, three weeks after giving birth to her second child by Caesarean section. Then in early July, 32-year-old Samantha Mulcahy, Nicola's daughter, died 10 days after she gave birth to her first child, also by Caesarean section.\n\nAt the time, health officials insisted the two deaths were not linked. But a BBC investigation in 2021 established apparent links between the two deaths - both had been operated on by the same surgeon.\n\nOn 14 July a coroner concluded that it was \"unlikely\" that the surgeon was \"the source of the infection\", leaving unanswered questions for their families.\n\nBoth Samantha and Kimberley were treated in hospitals run by the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. And on 26 July, the coroner ruled both had died following a \"disseminated\" herpes infection before or around the delivery of their babies that caused multi-organ failure.\n\nIt is estimated about 70% of adults have one of two types of the herpes simplex virus by the age of 25, but for the vast majority of people this will only cause occasional, mild symptoms at worst.\n\nDeaths caused by HSV-1 - herpes simplex 1 - are almost unheard of in healthy people.\n\nIn a statement after the inquest into Kimberley and Samantha's deaths, the trust's chief executive Tracey Fletcher offered \"sincere condolences\" to their families, adding that it had made changes since 2018 \"to ensure that if such a rare infection arising from this virus is suspected, it will be treated more quickly\".\n\nIn mid-July 2018, Yvette attended a meeting with senior clinicians at the trust. By this point, she knew of the death of Nicola's daughter, Samantha. Yvette asked whether any of the same healthcare staff had treated Samantha and Yvette's own daughter, Kimberley.\n\n\"I was told, it was something they were still looking into,\" she says. \"And then I said, but if you do find out there is a healthcare [link] you will let us know, won't you? And they said yes.\"\n\nShe now believes the trust was not being honest, however. Though Kimberley had been treated at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, and Samantha at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, the same surgeon had performed both Caesarean operations, an inquest into both women's deaths heard. And by the time of that meeting, the trust knew this. At the inquest, the trust did not deny that it withheld this information from the families.\n\nMs Fletcher, the trust's chief executive, apologised after the inquest for the \"additional and unnecessary suffering the trust has caused these families through failing to answer their questions after Kimberley and Samantha's deaths and contributing to the delays in their inquests being heard\". She said the trust was changing the way it responds when things go wrong, adding: \"We are truly sorry.\"\n\nYvette says she was \"definitely\" lied to when it told her Samantha and Kimberley had not been treated by the same staff.\n\nDespite the trust failing to acknowledge any link, the two mothers refused to accept the narrative that their daughters' deaths had been unfortunate, unlikely coincidences. \"I couldn't let it go,\" says Yvette, who with her husband Louis is raising Kimberley's two children.\n\nBoth Nicola and Yvette knew of the other family affected but investigated each death alone.\n\nNicola did spend time on Facebook trying to find the Sampsons but couldn't locate them. Yvette isn't on social media, and while similarly keen to speak to Samantha's family, she wanted to \"respect\" the grief they were going through.\n\nAs well as grieving for her daughter, Nicola - who owns a cleaning firm - also had to try to support her son-in-law, now on his own with a new baby.\n\nRyan Mulcahy's life had swung violently from the high of having his first child to losing his wife in a matter of days.\n\nRyan says he felt could not grieve for Samantha because he needed to be there for their daughter\n\nSamantha and Ryan were teenage sweethearts who married in September 2017. It wasn't too long before Samantha found out she was expecting a baby. Though there were complications during the pregnancy, their daughter was born healthy. \"I felt like my world was complete,\" Ryan says.\n\nBut Samantha wasn't recovering as expected, and despite what had happened to Kimberley only a few weeks previously, doctors struggled to identify what was making Samantha ill.\n\n\"She just kept saying, 'It hurts. It hurts,'\" remembers Ryan. \"I told her… that I loved her and just to keep fighting.\"\n\nBut she died before she could be moved.\n\nIn the aftermath of her death, Ryan felt \"complete numbness\". He says he wanted to grieve but felt he couldn't because he needed to be there for their daughter, as Samantha would have wanted.\n\nRyan says of their child: \"The one thing that terrifies me is that later on, she's going to blame herself.\" He worries she will think \"'this wouldn't have happened to Sam if she wasn't there' - that's what I don't want.\n\n\"I want her to know that it's nothing to do with her.\"\n\nLike Nicola, Ryan has spent the years since desperately trying to find out what happened to Samantha, both for himself and his daughter.\n\nA breakthrough came in the summer of 2021, when Yvette was on holiday in Tenerife. She received an email - a batch of documents she had requested through Freedom of Information requests after being advised to do so by the BBC.\n\nThat is when she found out that the same surgeon, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had operated on both Kimberley and Samantha, and that the trust had been encouraged in the summer of 2018, by an external laboratory, to test the surgeon - to check if he could have infected them, something the trust never did.\n\n\"I was in total shock,\" she said in an emotional witness statement at the inquest. \"I felt betrayed. I even felt foolish that I had let these people [from the trust] into my home. I had trusted and believed in what they told me.\"\n\nFollowing the initial BBC story, Nicola and Yvette met up and have become firm friends since, a bond strengthened when both went through the gruelling inquest process.\n\nThe start of the inquest was delayed for several weeks when, the night before it was due to begin, the trust applied for reporting restrictions to prevent the same surgeon who carried out both procedures being named.\n\nOver nine days, the families had to sit through aggressive questioning as the trust's barrister probed both mothers' enduring belief that their daughters had been infected, unwittingly, by the same surgeon.\n\n\"I know they have a job to do,\" says Nicola. \"But sometimes I think they need to actually stop and think before they speak and maybe think if that was their daughter, and that had happened to them. How would they actually feel?\"\n\nThen on 14 July, after numerous delays, the coroner, Catherine Wood, outlined her conclusions.\n\nYvette Sampson says the loss of her daughter has left her family \"absolutely heartbroken\"\n\nMs Wood found that \"on the balance of probabilities, it was unlikely that the obstetrician in common was the common source of the infection\", in part as the trust had never tested the surgeon back in 2018. Ms Wood was unable to come to a conclusion as to how the virus had been caught by the two women.\n\nIn Kimberley's case, the coroner found that doctors should have considered that she may have been suffering from a viral infection 48 hours earlier than they did - and that if they had, and treated her accordingly, she may have survived.\n\nMs Wood found that in Samantha's case, her symptoms were not so straightforward to spot, so \"there was no clinical indications to commence\" anti-viral drugs before it was likely already too late to make a difference.\n\nAs the rain started to pour outside Maidstone Town Hall, where the inquest was heard, both Nicola and Yvette reflected on the loss their families have suffered. Despite the coroner's conclusion, both remain convinced the surgeon did infect their daughters.\n\n\"Losing Sam has left a massive void in our lives and a little girl without her mummy,\" says Nicola.\n\n\"The last five years have felt like a real fight for answers. I've not been able to grieve properly because I've been so focused on getting answers about what happened to Kim, and why it happened. It's consumed my life. I'll always be angry and upset at everything I've had to go through to get to this stage,\" says Yvette.\n\n\"Whilst I have some answers as to how Kim came by her death - as a mother, there are still many questions I have about what happened, which remain outstanding.\"", "The English National Opera's new home is set to be announced in December\n\nThe English National Opera (ENO) has been given until 2029 to move its headquarters out of London under Arts Council England (Ace) plans.\n\nThe company, currently based at the London Coliseum, will be given £24m to deliver an opera in the capital and establish a new main base.\n\nThe funding, which will be granted between 2024 and 2026, is on top of the £11.5m for 2023.\n\nThe ENO's new home is expected to be announced in December, it said.\n\nThe opera company has been told by the Arts Council to relocate from the capital by 2026 or lose its public funding.\n\nCulture Secretary Lucy Frazer said she welcomed the agreement made with the \"treasured national institution\".\n\n\"I look forward to seeing the plans it develops to make sure more people across the country can experience its fantastic work,\" she added.\n\nThe English National Opera has until 2029 to move out of its main base at the London Coliseum\n\nIn November last year, Ace said it would axe the opera company's £12.6m core annual grant, replacing it with £17m over three years - effectively halving the funding - as part of a plan to relocate.\n\nIt came after the Arts Council was instructed by the government to spread more money beyond the capital.\n\nAfter a backlash, Ace announced in January it would spend £11.5m in 2023 to sustain a programme of work in London, while helping it to start planning for a new base by 2026, with five cities later shortlisted.\n\nThe Arts Council has now confirmed it has extended the deadline to relocate by three years, from March 2026 to March 2029.\n\nEquity has previously said a survey of its members working at the ENO showed more than two-thirds would quit the company - and the profession - if it left London. Many said they had caring responsibilities, partners working, or children going to school in the capital.\n\nThe London Assembly also formally objected in June to the relocation outside of the capital.\n\nIn a joint statement, the opera company and Ace said the longer timeframe to find a new base would mean \"more stability, allow for consultation with staff, more work in London and more time for the ENO to develop partnerships in the new city and to establish a programme there\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Peter Flavel said the handling of Mr Farage's case had \"fallen below the bank's high standards\"\n\nThe boss of Coutts, the prestigious private bank for the wealthy, has stepped down over the handling of Nigel Farage's bank account closure.\n\nNatWest - which owns Coutts - said Peter Flavel's resignation had been mutually agreed and would be immediate.\n\nMr Flavel said how the bank handled Mr Farage's account had \"fallen below\" its \"high standards of personal service\".\n\nMr Farage said \"ultimate responsibility for the dossier de-banking me for my political views\" lay with Mr Flavel.\n\nThe departure of the Coutts boss comes after Dame Alison Rose, the boss of NatWest Group, resigned over the row on Wednesday.\n\nNatWest, which is 39% owned by the taxpayer, has been under fire after Dame Alison admitted she had made a mistake in speaking about Mr Farage's relationship with Coutts.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Flavel said it was \"right that I bear ultimate responsibility for this, which is why I am stepping down\".\n\nPaul Thwaite, Dame Alison's interim replacement at the top of NatWest, said Mr Flavel's departure was \"the right decision for Coutts and the wider group\".\n\nMohammad Kamal Syed is set to take over as the boss of Coutts on an interim basis.\n\nIn early July, Mr Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and a prominent Brexiteer, said that his account at private bank Coutts had been closed and that he had not been given a reason.\n\nThe BBC reported that it was closed because he no longer met the wealth threshold for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nHowever, Mr Farage later obtained a report from the Bank which indicated his political views were also considered.\n\nThe 40-page document flagged concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and also questioned the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a client. It said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts' \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nThe former UKIP leader said it was \"only a matter of time before Peter Flavel, Coutts CEO, stood down\".\n\n\"I even wrote to Mr Flavel twice before going public and didn't receive an acknowledgment,\" he added.\n\nMr Farage also posted on social media screenshots of emails he said he sent to Mr Flavel, one of which stated he had planned to show up at Coutts with a \"security van to collect [redacted] approx in cash\".\n\nLabour's Ed Miliband told the BBC Newscast podcast that the row was a \"bad episode\" for NatWest and Coutts but added we need to \"move on\".\n\nThe shadow climate change and net zero secretary said it was \"right\" for NatWest boss Dame Alison to resign, but added: \"When people try and then sort of make it into a sort of grand conspiracy against lots of people, I sort of slightly part company with it.\"\n\nHe continued: \"I think it was bad, it shouldn't have happened but let's not blow it up into sort of the biggest thing ever.\"\n\nThe fallout from Mr Farage having his bank account closed has raised questions over whether banks can terminate accounts due to a person's political views.\n\nThe law states that every person in the UK has a legal right to hold a basic bank account, and that banks \"must not discriminate against consumers\" for a list of reasons such as sex, race, religion and also political beliefs.\n\nThe government met bank bosses on Wednesday who agreed to reforms on the closure of customer accounts.", "The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates to a 22-year high, which will increase costs for borrowers\n\nThe US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years as it fights to stabilise prices in the world's largest economy.\n\nThe decision lifted the Federal Reserve's influential benchmark rate to a range of 5.25% to 5.5%.\n\nIt marked the eleventh increase since early 2022, when the Fed started raising borrowing costs to try to cool the economy and ease price inflation.\n\nThe Fed offered few firm clues as to what it might do next.\n\n\"We're going to be going meeting by meeting,\" bank chairman Jerome Powell said at a press conference following the announcement.\n\n\"It is certainly possible that we would raise the funds rate again at the September meeting if the data warranted,\" he said. \"And I would also say it's possible that we would choose to hold steady.\"\n\nWednesday's decision came ahead of central bank meetings in Europe and Japan.\n\nIn the UK, where inflation was 7.9%, the Bank of England is widely expected to raise its key rate at its next meeting on 3 August from the current 5%.\n\nIn the US, some analysts said the Fed had done enough.\n\nInflation in the US was 3% in June. That was down from a peak of more than 9% last year, when prices were rising at the fastest pace in four decades.\n\n\"We think they're at a point where the Fed funds rate is restrictive enough to slow the economy, slow activity and allow inflation to trend lower,\" said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at insurance firm, Nationwide Mutual, adding that she did not expect to see further hikes this year.\n\nThe Fed has already brought interest rates up from near zero less than 18 months ago, putting to an end an era of low-cost borrowing that started during the financial crisis.\n\nThe moves have hit the public in the form of more expensive loans for homes, business expansions and other activity.\n\nIn theory, that should reduce borrowing demand and encourage saving, eventually cooling the economy and making it harder for firms to raise prices.\n\nBut the economy in the US has held up better than many expected so far - especially in the labour market, where jobs continue to be added at a robust pace and wages are rising.\n\nMr Powell said he expected the job market would have to weaken further and growth slow more before the Fed could be confident its job was done.\n\n\"It's not that we're aiming to raise unemployment but we have to be honest about the historical record,\" he said.\n\nWhile acknowledging progress, he also noted that so-called core inflation - which does not include food and energy prices - remained more than double the Fed's 2% inflation target.\n\nAndrew Patterson, senior economist at Vanguard, said the Fed was worried about declaring victory prematurely, mindful of mistakes made in the 1960s and 1970s, when bank leaders embraced signs that inflation was easing only to see the problem flare up again.\n\n\"They had a positive inflation report this past month but ... they're going to want to see more of that going forward before they're comfortable,\" he said. \"They're not going to take anything off the table or pin themselves into a corner.\"\n\nDavid Henry, investment manager at Quilter Cheviot, said the Bank of England and European Central Bank were \"much further behind\" than the US on controlling inflation, which could lead to a \"bifurcation\" or division in policy among developed economies.\n\n\"They would love to have luxury that the Fed has in declaring the job nearly done, but instead talk is of rates of 6%, if not more,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"There is a chance the US begins talking about rate cuts before the BoE has had a chance to pause and assess the impact of its actions, and this would have a significant impact on stock and bond prices on both sides of the Atlantic.\"", "LeBron James said his family was \"together, safe and healthy\", as son Bronny was discharged from hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe 18-year-old collapsed on court while practising with his University of Southern California (USC) basketball team in Los Angeles on Monday.\n\nHe was discharged on Thursday, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center confirmed.\n\n\"I want to thank the countless people sending my family love and prayers,\" LA Lakers great James said.\n\n\"Everyone doing great. We have our family together, safe and healthy, and we feel your love,\" the four-time NBA champion added in a social media post on Thursday, shortly before the hospital issued a statement.\n\n\"Thanks to the swift and effective response by the USC athletics' medical staff, Bronny James was successfully treated for a sudden cardiac arrest,\" the hospital said.\n\n\"He arrived at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center fully conscious, neurologically intact and stable. Mr James was cared for promptly by highly-trained staff and has been discharged home, where he is resting.\n\n\"Although his workup will be ongoing, we are hopeful for his continued progress and are encouraged by his response, resilience, and his family and community support.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Twitter owner Elon Musk was called \"irresponsible\" for a tweet implying, without evidence, that a Covid vaccination might be involved.\n\nThe eldest of three siblings, Bronny has a younger brother, Bryce Maximus, 16, and sister, Zhuri, eight.\n\nHe joined the USC after carving a reputation as one of the top prospects in US high school basketball, and his famous father has previously spoken of extending his career to be able to play in the NBA with his son.", "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said his new social media app, Threads, is drawing more repeat users than he had expected.\n\nThe app attracted more than 100 million sign-ups within days of its launch this month in a challenge to Elon Musk's rival platform, X, formerly Twitter.\n\nBut analysts questioned whether Threads would be able to keep people engaged.\n\nOutside data firms have reported that sign-ups and time spent on the platform have declined since the launch.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said the initial success had taken executives by surprise and \"we're seeing more people coming back daily than I had expected\".\n\nHe said improving that engagement was the company's focus now and success was not a \"foregone conclusion\".\n\n\"We have a lot of work to do to really make Threads reach its full potential,\" he said.\n\nHis remarks came as Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, reported a surge in advertising sales and solid user growth, with 3.07 billion people globally active on one of its apps each day.\n\nThe gains suggest Meta is emerging from last year's slump, when advertising sales fell in the face of increased competition, privacy changes from Apple and general economic weakness.\n\nMeta said it raked in $32bn in advertising sales in the April-June period, up 11% from the prior year.\n\nThat was better than analysts had expected, with growth accelerating from the prior quarter.\n\nThe results helped lift the firm's shares in after-hours trade. The price per share has already more than doubled since the start of the year, as investors buy into Mr Zuckerberg's campaign to cut costs and refocus the tech giant.\n\nMeta said it employed about 71,469 people at the end of June, down 14% from a year earlier. It said the figure only reflected the impact of about half of the thousands of layoffs it has announced in recent months.\n\n\"There's a lot to feel good about when it comes to Meta right now,\" said Insider Intelligence principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson.\n\nShe said the company still had to navigate a weak advertising market and tough competition in advertising and artificial intelligence. Its virtual reality investments also have yet to pay off.\n\n\"These things will weigh on Meta in the second half of the year, but thanks to the momentum .. it will be in a stronger position to face those challenges,\" she said.", "Singapore is scheduled to execute a woman for the first time in almost 20 years, human rights advocates say.\n\nSingaporean national Saridewi Djamani, 45, was found guilty of trafficking 30g (1.06oz) of heroin in 2018.\n\nShe will be the second drug convict to be executed in three days, after fellow Singaporean Mohd Aziz bin Hussain, and the 15th since March 2022.\n\nSingapore has some of the world's toughest anti-drug laws, which it says are necessary to protect society.\n\nAziz was convicted of trafficking 50g of heroin. Under Singapore law, the death penalty can be applied for trafficking of more than 15g of heroin and more than 500g of cannabis.\n\nSingapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said Aziz was accorded \"full due process\", and that his appeal against his conviction and sentence was dismissed in 2018.\n\nIn April, another Singaporean, Tangaraju Suppiah, was executed for trafficking 1kg (35oz) of cannabis that he never touched. Authorities say he co-ordinated the sale via mobile phone.\n\nThe CNB declined to comment on Saridewi Djamani's case when contacted by the BBC.\n\nBritish billionaire Sir Richard Branson, has again criticised Singapore for its executions, saying the death penalty is not a deterrent against crime.\n\n\"Small-scale drug traffickers need help, as most are bullied due to their circumstances,\" Mr Branson said on Twitter, adding that it was not too late to stop Saridewi Djamani's execution.\n\nShe is one of two women on death row in Singapore, according to the Transformative Justice Collective, a Singapore-based human rights group. She will be the first woman executed by the city-state since hairdresser Yen May Woen in 2004, the group said. Yen was also convicted of drug trafficking.\n\nLocal media reported that Saridewi testified during her trial that she was stocking up on heroin for personal use during the Islamic fasting month.\n\nWhile she did not deny selling drugs such as heroin and methamphetamine from her flat, she downplayed the scale of those activities, noted judge See Kee Oon.\n\nAuthorities argue that strict drug laws help keep Singapore as one of the safest places in the world and that capital punishment for drug offences enjoys wide public support.\n\n\"There is no evidence that the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect or that it has any impact on the use and availability of drugs,\" said Amnesty International's Chiara Sangiorgio in a statement.\n\n\"The only message that these executions send is that the government of Singapore is willing to once again defy international safeguards on the use of the death penalty,\" she said.\n\nAmnesty International noted that alongside China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, Singapore is one of only four countries to have recently carried out drug-related executions.", "Some patients who pay a charge for NHS dental treatment are likely to see an increase in costs as part of changes announced by the Scottish government.\n\nThe move is part of a new payment system which ministers hope will see more dentists provide NHS care.\n\nThe government says the number of treatment codes will also be simplified, reducing workload.\n\nHowever, dentists say the new system still falls short of the reform required to make it fit for purpose.\n\nThe announcement comes two years after the SNP pledged to abolish NHS dentistry charges in its manifesto for the 2021 Holyrood election.\n\nPublic Health Minister Jenni Minto said: \"While patients that are required to pay an NHS charge are likely to see an increase in costs, this will be dependent on overall treatment plan.\n\n\"Around 40% of patients will continue to receive free NHS care and treatment, as they did under the previous arrangements.\n\n\"We are confident that the modernised system, with increased clinical freedom for dentists, will provide longer-term sustainability to the sector and encourage dentists to continue to provide NHS care.\".\n\nPublic Health Minister Jenni Minto says the new system will give dentists more clinical freedom\n\nThe British Dental Association insists the reforms, to be rolled out from 1 November, will do little to tackle oral health inequality across Scotland.\n\nAnd they have warned government ministers not to view the new package as a \"final destination\".\n\nDavid McColl, chairman of the British Dental Association's Scottish dental practice committee said: \"We've secured some improvements, but the fundamentals of a broken system remain unchanged. \"The Scottish government have stuck with a drill and fill model designed in the 20th Century. They were unwilling to even start a conversation on making this service fit for the 21st.\n\n\"Ministers cannot pretend this is a final destination for NHS dentistry in Scotland. We struggle to see how these changes alone will close the oral health gap, end the access crisis or halt the exodus from the NHS.\"\n\nThe new system will cut the number of payment codes used by dentists from about 400 to 45.\n\nThe Scottish government says the changes will make the system less of a burden for practices, while it also \"reaffirms our commitment to the sector and to all NHS patients in Scotland\".\n\nHowever, the BDA says surging costs have already left practices delivering some NHS care at a financial loss.\n\nThese include items such as dentures that require laboratory work, which have seen significant increases in fee levels.\n\nDentists also question whether the reforms will be enough to prevent millions of people losing access to treatment within the NHS.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament Covid recovery committee recently concluded its inquiry into the recovery of NHS dentistry.\n\nIt recommended that the Scottish government provides costings for - and consults on - different service model options.\n\nScottish Labour's health spokesperson Jackie Baillie said the payment reform plans \"fall far short of the mark and risk forcing more and more dentists into the arms of private practice\".\n\nShe added: \"The very existence of NHS dentistry is in doubt on the SNP's watch.\n\n\"The government must listen to dentists and implement proper pay reform before access to dentistry becomes even worse.\"\n\nLast year, a BBC investigation revealed four out of every five NHS dentists in Scotland are not accepting new adult patients for treatment on the health service.\n\nOur researchers could not find any dentists taking on adult NHS patients in nine local authorities.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 80% of NHS practices were not accepting new child patients.\n\nThe Scottish government said that more than 95% of the population were registered with an NHS dentist.\n\nIt added that the dental workforce in Scotland (54 dentists per 100,000 population) was stronger than in England (42 per 100,000 population).", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNiger's President Mohamed Bazoum is in good health after being taken captive by his own presidential guard, the French foreign minister has said.\n\nCatherine Colonna told AFP news agency the coup was not \"final\".\n\nShe said Mr Bazoum had spoken to Emmanuel Macron and added there was a \"way out\" for the coup plotters if they listened to the global community.\n\nOn Thursday, coup supporters attacked the headquarters of the ousted president's party.\n\nThey set it on fire, stoning and burning cars outside. The small group of arsonists had broken away from a larger show of support for the coup leaders outside parliament, where Russian flags were on show.\n\nThe army has now given its backing to the troops who detained Mr Bazoum on Wednesday. Russia has joined other countries and the UN in calling for his release.\n\nThe 64-year-old was elected as Niger's president two years ago, and has been a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa.\n\nThe US and France, the former colonial power, both have military bases in the uranium-rich country - and have strongly condemned the coup.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken called up Mr Bazoum promising Washington's \"unwavering support\".\n\nThe United Nations (UN) said it has suspended its humanitarian operations in Niger. It is unclear whether the coup was the reason behind the suspension.\n\nThe UN has previously said more than four million people in Niger are in need of humanitarian assistance.\n\nOn Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded the release of Mr Bazoum \"immediately and unconditionally\".\n\nMr Bazoum tweeted a defiant statement on Thursday morning: \"The hard-won achievements will be safeguarded. All Nigeriens who love democracy and freedom will see to it.\"\n\nHis foreign minister has also been trying to rally support and urge dialogue, but the army chief of staff said he was backing the takeover to avoid fighting within the armed forces.\n\nIt remains unclear who is really in charge of Niger as the junta has not announced its leader.\n\nState TV has been repeating the late-night coup announcement interspersed with patriotic music and Quranic verses - and its usual lunchtime news bulletin was not aired.\n\nBut in the capital, Niamey, shops and markets opened for business and after delays due to heavy rain early in the morning, coup supporters took to the streets.\n\nThe hundreds who gathered outside the National Assembly had some Russian flags, while others held up hand-written signs saying: \"Down with France\" and \"Foreign bases out\".\n\nA Russian flag was on show during a pro-coup demonstration held after morning downpours cleared\n\nPolice later fired tear gas to disperse those who had gone to the headquarters of the ruling party, where party activists ran away when they saw the protesters coming.\n\nSome people were injured in the fracas and the burnt-out carcasses of vehicles now surround the PNDS Tarraya party building.\n\nThe coup supporters accuse the party of corruption and not doing enough to improve the security situation and end the long-running jihadist insurgency.\n\nTwo neighbouring countries, Mali and Burkina Faso, have experienced coups triggered by Islamist uprisings in recent years.\n\nIn both countries the new military leaders have moved closer to Russia after falling out with France.\n\n\"I hope they will install good security in the city and help us to achieve better conditions, because we have good resources. I don't care if they just want to follow Burkina Faso or Mali,\" Djibo, a supporter of the coup, told the BBC.\n\nA number of well-known pro-Kremlin commentators on Telegram - one of the few major social media platforms not banned in Russia - have been posting comments in support of the coup, saying it is an opportunity for Russia and Wagner to get into Niger.\n\nFor the moment, there is no evidence of any Russian involvement in this takeover. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said constitutional order in Niger should be restored, Reuters says, quoting Russia's state-owned Tass news agency.\n\nSome civil society groups in Niger have been calling for a move away from France and towards Russia in recent weeks.\n\nThe junta has reprimanded France for violating the closure of the country's borders after a military plane landed at an air-force base on Thursday morning.\n\nThis coup is yet further bad news for French and Western efforts to restore stability to the part of West Africa known as the Sahel. When neighbouring Mali chose to partner up with Russia's Wagner Group in place of the French, Paris moved its centre of operations in the region to Niger.\n\nThis coup, even if it turns out to be short-lived, has shown that even Niger cannot necessarily be relied on to be a permanent safe base. Western influence in the region is shrinking like a water pool in the dry season.\n\nThe governments in Burkina Faso, Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali have all decided they would rather work with Russia's brutal Wagner mercenaries than any Western force. Wagner's primary interests in Africa have appeared to be more about enriching themselves and extending the Kremlin's influence than following the Western goals of trying to nurture better governance.\n\nFor the two major insurgent groups in the region, those linked to so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda, this is good news. They thrive on instability, poor governance and local resentment of the government. So a coup in Niger is likely to further hamper efforts to contain them.\n\nThe takeover was announced by a spokesman, Col Maj Amadou Abdramane, who said the takeover was instigated by the deteriorating security situation \"and poor economic and social governance\".\n\nBut Niger's private L'Enqueteur newspaper has suggested the coup was prompted by President Bazoum's attempt to remove Gen Abdourahamane Tchiani as commander of the presidential guard.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: An army spokesperson says security forces are \"putting an end to the regime you know\"\n\nThe turn of events has split people in Niger - and some are shocked and upset.\n\nWhile it was under way on Wednesday, hundreds of the president's supporters defied the soldiers to to protest and call for the military to return to the barracks.\n\nThey dispersed after warning shots were fired - the only gunfire heard in this bloodless seizure of power.\n\n\"The coup is very regrettable. It makes me sad because I want the best for our country. Niger will regress now,\" Mustapha, a resident of Niamey sheltering at home with his wife and three-year-old son, told the BBC.\n\nNiger's Foreign Minister Hassoumi Massoudou has called on the population to oppose the takeover.\n\nIn an interview with the channel France24, he said that the situation could still be resolved through dialogue and said envoys sent from neighbouring Nigeria were talking to the military.\n\nBenin's President Patrice Talon who planned to a mediation mission on behalf of the West African regional bloc, Ecowas, has had to abandon his trip because of the border closure.\n\nThe vast arid country on the edge of the Sahara desert - one of the world's poorest nations - has experienced four coups since independence from France in 1960, as well as numerous attempted coups.", "Lawyers for former US President Donald Trump have met federal prosecutors, fuelling speculation he may be charged over efforts to overturn the 2020 US election result in the coming days.\n\nMr Trump's attorneys John Lauro and Todd Blanche met officials at the office of special prosecutor Jack Smith in Washington DC, US media report.\n\nMr Trump said earlier this month that he expected to be indicted in the case.\n\nOn Thursday, he said his lawyers got no indication of when action could follow.\n\nHe wrote on social media: \"My attorneys had a productive meeting with the DOJ [Department of Justice] this morning, explaining in detail that I did nothing wrong, was advised by many lawyers, and that an Indictment of me would only further destroy our Country.\"\n\nMeetings between lawyers and prosecutors are not unusual ahead of charges being filed.\n\nThe former president was at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday.\n\nMr Trump previously said he had been told by Jack Smith's office that he was a target of the federal investigation into efforts to overturn his defeat in the presidential election.\n\nAccording to media reports, the target letter Mr Trump received on 16 July cites three federal statutes: conspiracy to defraud the US, deprivation of rights and tampering with a witness.\n\nThe letter also called for the ex-president to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment\", Mr Trump claimed.\n\nDozens of top Trump administration officials and advisers have been interviewed as part of the special prosecutor's investigation, including former Vice-President Mike Pence and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.\n\nThe investigation has focused on his actions in the two-month period between his election loss and the riot in Washington DC, where Trump supporters stormed Congress as lawmakers certified Democrat Joe Biden's victory.\n\nThose who have testified before the grand jury said they were asked about efforts by Mr Trump's team to organise slates of \"fake electors\" who would claim he had defeated Mr Biden in seven key states.\n\nProsecutors in the state of Georgia are also investigating the former president on similar grounds, focusing on whether he illegally pressured officials there to discard Mr Biden's poll victory.\n\nA decision by prosecutors in Atlanta on whether to indict Mr Trump is expected next month.\n\nIn June, Mr Smith's team charged Mr Trump in a different case with mishandling classified documents. A trial on that indictment is due to begin in federal court in May 2024 - months before the presidential election.\n\nMr Trump has also been charged in New York City with falsifying business records over 2016 hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.\n\nHe is currently leading the Republican party's efforts to unseat Mr Biden in the 2024 election.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: US senator freezes in front of reporters\n\nMitch McConnell has had at least three falls this year, US media report, as speculation grows over the health of the US Senate's most senior Republican.\n\nMr McConnell, 81, abruptly stopped speaking mid-sentence during a news conference on Wednesday before concerned colleagues led him away.\n\nThe Senate Minority Leader later returned to the media session and told reporters he was fine.\n\nIn March, he suffered a concussion after falling at a Washington DC hotel.\n\nMr McConnell had just begun greeting the press at the weekly Republican leadership news conference before suddenly freezing and falling silent, staring straight ahead for about 20 seconds.\n\nHis Republican colleagues were heard asking him if he was OK.\n\n\"You OK, Mitch?\" asked Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, an ex-orthopaedic surgeon. \"Anything else you want to say or should I escort you back to your office?\" he added.\n\nMitch McConnell froze at the news conference but later returned to answer questions\n\nMr Barrasso then helped Mr McConnell step away from the conference.\n\nMr McConnell returned a short while later and answered \"yeah\" when asked if he was fully able to do his job.\n\nWhen Mr McConnell said he was \"fine\", an aide of his added that the senator had \"felt lightheaded and stepped away for a moment\".\n\n\"He came back to handle Q&A, which as everyone observed was sharp,\" the aide said.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr McConnell told reporters that President Joe Biden had called to check on him.\n\nThe senator said that he had joked \"I got sandbagged\", in reference to Mr Biden's tumble over a sandbag at an event in Colorado last month.\n\nMr McConnell contracted polio at the age of two, which led to partial paralysis in his left leg.\n\nA rigorous physical therapy regime ensured he was able to walk without needing a brace, but he has long struggled to navigate stairs and other obstacles.\n\nThe Kentucky lawmaker, who has served in the Senate since 1985, has reportedly endured at least three falls this year.\n\nIn February, he tripped and fell on a snowy day in Helsinki, Finland while on his way to a meeting with the Finnish president, CNN reports.\n\nDays later, in early March, he fell and hit his head while at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington, suffering a concussion and minor rib fracture.\n\nHe was discharged from hospital later that month and did rehab, not returning to Congress for nearly six weeks.\n\nEarlier this month, the Republican fell while getting off a plane at Washington's Reagan National Airport, according to NBC News.\n\nA source told NBC that Mr McConnell has recently been using a wheelchair to navigate through crowded airports.\n\nMr McConnell's office has declined to comment on the incidents.\n\nIn 2021, Kentucky's Republican-controlled legislature passed a law - with his support - that requires the state's Democratic governor to pick a successor of the same party if Mr McConnell is incapacitated and must leave office before his current term ends.\n\nNevertheless, Mr McConnell has refused to entertain questions about his future, telling CNN last October that he is \"certainly going to complete the term I was elected to by the people of Kentucky\".", "The Duke of Sussex is to take The Sun's publisher to court over claims it used illegal methods to gather information on him.\n\nPrince Harry's case could go to trial in the High Court next year after a judge ruled on Thursday that parts of his claim can proceed.\n\nWhile his allegations of some illegal methods will go to trial, a judge dismissed his phone-hacking claims.\n\nPrince Harry has alleged that journalists and private investigators working for The Sun and now-defunct News of the World used unlawful methods to obtain information about him.\n\nThe latest round of the royal's battle with the UK tabloid press revolved around at what point Harry knew enough about the alleged methods used against him in order to sue.\n\nUnder the law, claimants have six years after a privacy breach in which to take action.\n\nLawyers for NGN have argued that he waited too long to bring the claim, and said it should therefore be dismissed.\n\nBut the court previously heard Harry claim there was a \"secret agreement\" between Buckingham Palace and NGN which had prevented him from taking legal action sooner.\n\nIn March 2023, Harry disclosed for the first time a supposed deal between royal aides and senior NGN executives, which stipulated any privacy actions against the company should be delayed, and then settled out of court.\n\nHe relied on this context to explain why he had not brought his claim years earlier.\n\nLawyers for NGN have previously disputed the existence of any secret agreement, describing it as \"Alice in Wonderland stuff\".\n\nMr Justice Fancourt said Harry's amended case submitted earlier this year - which was reliant on the existence of the \"secret agreement\" - did not \"reach the necessary threshold of plausibility and cogency\".\n\nHe said emails between the Palace and NGN suggested there was \"at some time an understanding\" that the Royal Family's claims \"would be addressed informally\" at a late date, but the \"vague and limited\" evidence provided by Harry's lawyers did not amount to proof of Harry's specific claims.\n\nFrom 2012, the judge ruled, Harry was \"on notice\" that he may have been hacked after finding out about the practice at the News of the World.\n\nThe judge said Harry \"could easily\" have had his lawyers investigate further, at which point a \"much fuller picture would have emerged\". The judge said the phone-hacking claim was therefore too late.\n\nA spokesperson for NGN called the ruling a \"significant victory\" for the company.\n\nThey said: \"The judge, Mr Justice Fancourt, found his claims in relation to the alleged 'secret agreement' were not plausible or credible.\n\nHugh Grant is also taking legal action against NGN\n\n\"It is quite clear there was never any such agreement and it is only the Duke who has ever asserted there was.\"\n\nBut the judge ruled that there should be a trial around other alleged methods used to get information about Harry, identified in the ruling as \"blagging of confidential information from third parties, and instructing private investigators to do these or other unlawful acts\".\n\nThe judge said Harry had a \"realistically arguable\" case that he did not know enough about any use of the methods back in September 2013, the point at which NGN argue that his six-year window to bring a claim began.\n\nHarry says he did not have enough information to bring a claim until 2018.\n\nThursday's ruling does not take a position on whether Harry waited too long to bring a valid claim, only that \"it is not sufficiently clear at this stage that it was issued too late\" and should be decided at trial.\n\nThe trial could feature \"many other\" claimants, including actor Hugh Grant, and is due to start in January 2024, although could run into 2025.\n\nHarry's legal action against the Sun is one of three major claims he is making against the publishers of British tabloids.\n\nHe gave unprecedented testimony in court last month as part of his claim against the Mirror Group, and is also attempting to sue the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday over alleged breaches of privacy.", "The BBC's Azadeh Moshiri has been to Glystra beach near Kiotari, one of the areas worst affected by the wildfires in Rhodes.\n\nWhole buildings have been destroyed here and even the beach umbrellas are gone.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Andrew Malkinson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about his first night of freedom\n\nAndrew Malkinson, who served 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, has spoken of the toll the miscarriage of justice had on his \"psychology, being and soul\".\n\nHe told the Today programme he felt \"joy at finally telling the world the truth\" but also anger \"that I was even tried for this\".\n\nMr Malkinson, 57, said he was late to the interview because he slept in.\n\nHost Justin Webb said \"we at least owe him that\".\n\nMr Malkinson was jailed in 2004 for an attack on a woman in Salford, serving 17 years in prison.\n\nHis conviction was overturned on Wednesday by the Court of Appeal.\n\nHe said his arrest and trial was \"like a real bad dream happening in real time\".\n\n\"I maintained my innocence - 'I didn't do this',\" he said. \"But once you've been convicted, you're processed like meat in an abattoir.\"\n\n\"Nobody offers any empathic understanding or anything like that.\"\n\nHe said he would expect compensation but was \"living on benefits\".\n\nAndrew Malkinson was cleared by senior judges at the Court of Appeal\n\nHis case was referred to the Court of Appeal in January after new evidence pointed to another potential suspect.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has confirmed the suspect was rearrested and released pending further investigation.\n\nMr Malkinson said he was \"very shocked [on the day he was arrested] - how am I a suspect?\"\n\n\"To have someone looking at you like you've committed such an act is horrific,\" he said, adding his \"fervent hope was that it would clear up\".\n\nMr Malkinson told how a combination of studying pure maths and Buddhist meditation kept him resilient in prison.\n\n\"It helped discipline my head. In HMP Frankland you could just read science books and study books.\n\n\"There is something pure about mathematics it's the truest thing we have.\"\n\nAndrew Malkinson had always insisted he was mistakenly identified as the attacker\n\nMr Malkinson said he never felt tempted to falsely admit the crime to get out of jail sooner by doing a rehabilitation programme.\n\n\"It means I would get into group therapy, listen to the horrific stories and they would say 'tell us what you did' and it would stick in my throat.\n\n\"The only thing I could do was to be true to myself and keep telling the truth.\n\n\"It's taken an extremely heavy toll on my person, my psyche - my psychology, my being, my soul - if you want to put it like that. It's been a heck of a devastating experience.\"\n\nSpeaking about what he could be owed, he said: \"I feel very strongly about this - somehow, the prison service has lobbied the government so that even if you fight tooth and nail to gain compensation, you have to pay the prison service a large chunk of that for so-called board and lodging.\"\n\nMr Malkinson, who is originally from Grimsby, told BBC Newsnight night he banned his mum and sister from coming to see him while he was in prison with sex offenders.\n\n\"My mother had her son convicted of a horrific rape - if you saw the newspaper headlines, emotive case - she suffered immensely.\n\n\"I wouldn't let [my mother and sister] visit me - it's too emotionally taxing, even if it's once a month.\n\nHowever he also said it was \"very, very important\" that his family and partner stuck up for him.\n\nHe said he was still in touch with his partner and described her as \"the best friend you could ever ask for\".\n\nHe also spoke of his sympathy for the rape victim.\n\n\"She's been let down,\" he said.\n\n\"She thought that I was the perpetrator because she was traumatised when she picked me out of the parade.\"\n\nEmily Bolton, director of the legal charity Appeal, questioned why it has taken nearly 20 years for Mr Malkinson's case to be overturned.\n\n\"The truth is this case is an indictment of both the Court of Appeal and the Criminal Cases Review Commission,\" she said.\n\n\"These so-called 'safety nets' in our justice system missed three earlier opportunities to put this obvious miscarriage of justice right.\"\n\nHelen Pitcher, chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, said she welcomed the court's decision.\n\nShe added: \"In the ever-changing world of forensic science, new evidence can come to light years after a conviction. We used our special powers to take advantage of DNA breakthroughs to find evidence that we considered could overturn this conviction.\n\n\"We recognise that Andrew has had a very long journey to clear his name, but sadly the evidence that led to the court overturning his conviction only became available years after his conviction.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Victim impact statements from the relatives of some of the victims have been read out in court.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung was just 15, and his older brother said the family found out about his death through social media.\n\nThe victim had trained as a hairdresser and paid a fee of £12,000 to travel from France to the UK.\n\nThe family were \"very shocked\" and \"trembled\" at the news of his death.\n\nNguyen Huy Phong was 35 when he travelled to England with the hope of working as a bricklayer.\n\nHis widow said the family were very said. He had been the family's main breadwinner and it would be very hard for his wife to earn money.\n\nBui Phan Thang was 37 and his wife said he had borrowed money to travel to Germany to work, but then decided to try to go to the UK.\n\nHe was a father of three and his wife said it would be very hard for them as they owed more than £15,000.\n\nTran Hai Loc and Nguyen Thi Van were married. The 35-year-olds were found lying side by side in the trailer.\n\nThe couple had planned to travel to Hungary to work as fruit pickers, but unexpectedly decided to travel to the UK.\n\nTheir deaths had made the whole family very sad, the court heard. Their two children were aged four and six at the time.\n\nThe children still looked at photos of their parents, the court heard.\n\nThe family still owed $14,000 and didn't know how they would repay it. Their lives would be \"very difficult\", their statement said.", "Madonna has said she is \"on the road to recovery\" in her first statement since a bacterial infection left her in a hospital's intensive care unit.\n\nOn social media, the singer said \"my focus now is my health\" and thanked her fans for their \"positive energy\".\n\nThe star, 64, said: \"I assure you, I'll be back with you as soon as I can!\"\n\nThe pop star said her current plan was to reschedule her forthcoming North American concerts and begin her Celebration Tour in the UK in October.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Madonna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the statement, she wrote: \"Thank you for your positive energy, prayers and words of healing and encouragement. I have felt your love.\n\n\"I'm on the road to recovery and incredibly grateful for all the blessings in my life.\n\n\"My first thought when I woke up in the hospital was my children.\n\n\"My second thought was that I did not want to disappoint anyone who bought tickets for my tour. I also didn't want to let down the people who worked tirelessly with me over the last few months to create my show. I hate to disappoint anyone.\n\n\"My focus now is my health and getting stronger and I assure you, I'll be back with you as soon as I can!\n\n\"The current plan is to reschedule the North American leg of the tour and to begin in October in Europe.\"\n\nShe had been due to start the greatest hits tour in Canada on Saturday, 15 July. The European leg is scheduled to begin with four nights at London's O2 Arena from 14 October.\n\nShe finished her statement by saying: \"I couldn't be more grateful for your care and support.\"\n\nIt comes two weeks after her manager Guy Oseary revealed the star had developed a \"serious bacterial infection\" on 24 June, which led to \"a several day stay in the ICU\".\n\nAt the time, he said she would \"need to pause all commitments, which includes the tour\".\n\nMadonna's greatest hits span several decades - including Into The Groove (1985), Like A Prayer (1989), to Vogue (1990) and Hung Up (2005) to name a few.\n\nIn announcing the tour back in January, she told fans: \"I am excited to explore as many songs as possible in hopes to give my fans the show they have been waiting for.\"\n\nIt is likely that she was in the final stages of a rehearsal regime when she became ill.\n\nShe called off a number of shows in her more experimental, theatre-based Madame X tour in 2019 and 2020 because of knee and hip injuries.", "A huge metal construction girder has fallen onto a busy road in Bangkok, killing at least one person and critically injuring several more.\n\nRescue workers rushed to the scene to search for survivors from crushed cars and damaged buildings.\n\nThe girder was part of a project to build elevated highways in the city.\n\nBangkok's Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said the cause of the accident is not yet known.", "Crawford Lake is a limestone sinkhole that has filled with water\n\nCrawford Lake, a small body of water in Ontario, Canada, is being put forward as the location that best records humanity's impacts on Earth.\n\nScientists are trying to define a new geological time period to recognise the changes we've made to the planet, and Crawford is their model example.\n\nIts sediments have captured fallout from intense fossil fuel burning, and even the plutonium from bomb tests.\n\nThe muds would be symbolic of the onset of a proposed Anthropocene Epoch.\n\nResearchers want to acknowledge their significance by making them a \"golden spike\", or more properly a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point.\n\nOther great transitions in geological time are associated with a GSSP. Often, it's literally a brass nail hammered into some cliff face deemed to be of major scientific importance.\n\nBut for Crawford, it would be a brass plaque next to a frozen section of the sediments, kept in a museum in the Canadian capital, Ottawa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"1950 is right around here\": Watch Brock University's Francine McCarthy describe the layers in the \"dirty lollipop\" (Video courtesy of TheAnthropocene.org)\n\n\"Crawford is just brilliant for this,\" explained Dr Simon Turner from University College London.\n\n\"A core from its bottom muds looks like a massive dirty lollipop, but it contains these beautiful, annually laminated sediments.\n\n\"Those annual layers record fossil fuel combustion products, plutonium, changes in geochemistry, changes in micro-ecology - all the sorts of things that chart environmental change,\" the secretary to the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) told BBC News.\n\nThe post-war nuclear tests spread plutonium around the globe\n\nYou may have seen the famous Chronostratigraphic Chart featured in textbooks and on school classroom walls, detailing the 4.6-billion-year history of Earth.\n\nIts blocks of time - like Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous - trip off the tongue.\n\nWe currently live in the Holocene Epoch, which covers the time from the end of the last ice age, 11,700 years ago.\n\nDrilling through the ice-covered lake to recover its bottom muds\n\nIt's been the job of the AWG for the past decade to try to establish whether or not the chart should be updated.\n\nOn this question, the AWG is convinced the case has been made. A formal start date has also been identified - the 1950s.\n\nThis decade marks the beginning of the \"Great Acceleration\", when the human population and its consumption patterns suddenly speeded up. It coincides with the spread of ubiquitous \"techno materials\", such as aluminium, concrete and plastic.\n\nIn Crawford's sediments, scientists are able to detect the quickening, year on year.\n\nIn warm summer months, the growth of algae prompts the lake water to produce tiny chalk crystals (calcite) that fall to the lake bottom as a white layer; in cold winter months, the algae and other organisms die back and their organic matter settles out as a brown/black layer.\n\nBut captured within these light-dark bands are the broader environmental changes around the lake.\n\nIt's almost as if the scientists are reading a barcode at a supermarket check-out.\n\n\"We see these spheroidal carbonaceous particles - 'fly ash' - that are produced by the very high temperature combustion of fossil fuels, primarily coal,\" said Prof Francine McCarthy from Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario.\n\n\"And the reason, of course, for the increase in these SCPs is that just a few 10s of km up wind from Crawford is the largest industrial city in Canada, Hamilton, where steel mills had been operating through most of the 20th Century and into the present day.\"\n\nAnother key marker - indeed, the primary marker - is plutonium.\n\nSamples of the Crawford muds were sent to the UK earlier this year to try to determine where exactly in the muddy layers the presence of the radioactive element first appears and then ticks upward.\n\n\"We see plutonium in sediments and other materials from about 1945 onwards, relating to the atomic weapons testing programme. But really the point at which plutonium deposition went global was following high-yield thermonuclear bomb tests, starting in 1952,\" said Prof Andrew Cundy.\n\n\"One of the plutonium isotopes we're looking at has a half-life of 24,000 years, so it will be visible in the sediments for at least 100,000 years. Beyond that, the SCPs will still be detectable,\" the University of Southampton scientist told BBC News.\n\nSamples sent to Southampton will show when the plutonium signal first appears\n\nThe AWG wants to pick a specific year for the start of the Anthropocene Epoch, and the Southampton tests will influence this decision.\n\nIt's an extraordinary idea that geologists many millennia from now could be studying today's sediments to understand the profound changes earlier humans had imposed on Planet Earth.\n\nBut this is how stratigraphy - the study of layered deposits through time - is done.\n\nThe proposed change to the Chronostratigraphic Chart: Epochs are sub-divided into Ages, or Stages. The first Age of the Anthropocene may well be called the Crawfordian after the lake\n\nTake for example Munsley Bog on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.\n\nThere, if you pick the right place in the soggy ground, it's possible to pull up mud layers that record the last great epochal transition - from the Pleistocene into the Holocene.\n\nTraces of pollen track the loss of Arctic-Alpine plants and the invasion of birch and willow, as Northern European glaciers receded and temperatures rose.\n\n\"When we look back, what we are learning is that some of these transitions can be really quick, in just 30 or 40 years; so within a generation,\" explained Prof Sabine Wulf from the University of Portsmouth.\n\nThe AWG will present its recommendations on establishing a new epoch to the wider geological community later this year. Ultimately, it will be up to the International Commission on Stratigraphy as to whether it wants to update that famous chart of Earth history.", "Huw Edwards has been named as the BBC presenter at the centre of days of allegations and speculation.\n\nThe Sun newspaper first reported that the presenter, who was not named, was alleged to have paid a young person for sexually explicit photos. Other people have since alleged inappropriate contact.\n\nHere is a timeline of events:\n\nThe parents of the young person contacted South Wales Police. The force said the information related to \"the welfare of an adult\", and that \"no criminality was identified\".\n\nA family member went to a BBC building to make a complaint about the behaviour of a BBC presenter, according to the corporation.\n\nThe family member made a 29-minute call to the BBC's audience services team, which then referred it to the BBC's corporate investigations team.\n\nThey decided the complaint didn't include an allegation of criminality, but did merit further investigation. It \"was very serious\", according to director general Tim Davie.\n\nThe investigations unit said they emailed the complainant to ask for more information so they could verify the claims, and carried out checks to verify the identity of the complainant.\n\nThe corporate investigations team had received no reply to the email so tried to call the mobile number provided by the complainant. They said the call didn't connect.\n\nHowever, the Sun later reported that \"the family say no-one from the corporation rang them for a proper interview after the initial complaint\".\n\nThe BBC said no additional attempts to contact the complainant were made after this date, but the case \"remained open\".\n\nThe Sun newspaper told the BBC via the corporate press office about allegations concerning Edwards. According to the BBC, the claims made by the Sun contained new allegations, which were different from those received by the investigations team.\n\nThe BBC said this was the first time Mr Davie or any executive directors were made aware of the case. They set up an incident management group to lead the response.\n\nA senior manager spoke to the presenter about the allegations, and Edwards first learned of the allegations on this day, his wife said. The BBC said it was agreed that he shouldn't appear on air while the allegations were being investigated.\n\nWhen later asked why the presenter was not spoken to sooner, Mr Davie said: \"You don't take that complaint directly to the presenter unless it has been verified.\"\n\nThe Sun's first story was published, about the mother's claims that an unnamed BBC presenter paid their child tens of thousands of pounds for explicit photos over three years, beginning when they were 17. That raised questions about whether the behaviour was illegal.\n\nThe paper quoted the mother as saying the young person used the money to fund a crack cocaine habit, and that she was worried her child could \"wind up dead\".\n\nThe young person sent a WhatsApp message to the paper on this evening denying the claims, saying their mother's statement was \"totally wrong and there was no truth to it\", according to a later letter from their lawyer.\n\nIn its first public statement, the BBC said any information would \"be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes\".\n\nThe BBC also made contact with the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe Sun published further allegations, quoting the mother as saying the presenter was pictured in his underwear \"ready for my child to perform for him\".\n\nThe BBC said it received some materials from the family member regarding the complaint on this and the following day.\n\nMeanwhile, following speculation about the star's identity on social media, BBC presenters including Gary Lineker, Jeremy Vine, Rylan Clark and Nicky Campbell denied involvement to publicly clear their names.\n\nThe BBC said it had suspended a male staff member and was \"working as quickly as possible to establish the facts in order to properly inform appropriate next steps\".\n\nThe Sun reported that the presenter allegedly made two calls to the young person and asked them \"what have you done\", and appealed to them to call their mother to \"stop the investigation\".\n\nRepresentatives from the BBC met detectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command, but there was \"no investigation at this time\".\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, the lawyer representing the young person at the centre of the original allegations disputed their mother's account of events, saying \"the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are rubbish\".\n\nThe letter claimed the young person sent the newspaper a denial on Friday, but that it proceeded to publish \"their inappropriate article\".\n\nIn response, the Sun said it had \"reported a story about two very concerned parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and the welfare of their child\".\n\nTheir complaint \"was not acted upon by the BBC\" and it had \"seen evidence that supports their concerns\", the Sun added. \"It's now for the BBC to properly investigate.\"\n\nThe parents told the Sun they stood by their account. The step-father was quoted as saying the allegations were originally put to the BBC \"for an hour\".\n\nDuring a press conference to launch the BBC's annual report and an interview with Radio 4, Mr Davie gave more details of the corporation's response.\n\nThe director general said he wanted to examine whether the BBC raises \"red flags quick enough\" when such complaints are made.\n\nThe BBC accepted there were \"lessons to be learned following this exercise\", and the organisation's group chief operating officer will assess whether protocols and procedures are appropriate.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, another young person told BBC News they had felt threatened by the presenter.\n\nThe individual in their early 20s said they were contacted on a dating app and pressured to meet up, but never did. When the young person hinted online that they might name the presenter, they were sent abusive messages.\n\nJeremy Vine said the presenter \"should now come forward publicly\" because the new allegations \"will result in yet more vitriol being thrown at perfectly innocent colleagues\" and the BBC \"is on its knees with this\".\n\nThe Sun alleged that the presenter broke Covid lockdown rules to meet a 23-year-old, who he had met on a dating site.\n\nThe paper also published what it said was an Instagram chat between the presenter and a 17-year-old, in which the presenter sent messages including love heart emojis.\n\nDetectives ended their assessment of the details and decided there was no information to indicate that a criminal offence had been committed.\n\nEdwards' wife Vicky Flind named him as the BBC presenter at the centre of the allegations.\n\nShe said she was doing so \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children\".\n\nEdwards was \"suffering from serious mental health issues\", she said. \"As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years. The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published.\n\n\"To be clear, Huw was first told that there were allegations being made against him last Thursday.\"\n\nMr Davie sent an email to staff saying an internal investigation would continue now police were no longer involved.\n\nThe Sun said it had no plans to publish further allegations, and would \"provide the BBC team with a confidential and redacted dossier containing serious and wide-ranging allegations which we have received, including some from BBC personnel\".\n\nThe BBC reported fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Edwards towards junior staff. Two current workers and one former member of staff claimed they were sent messages that made them uncomfortable.", "Baroness Foster arrived at the inquiry on Tuesday morning\n\nFormer Stormont first minister Baroness Foster has said the UK government should have stepped in to make decisions in the absence of ministers at Stormont.\n\nShe was giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 inquiry on Tuesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland's devolved government did not function from January 2017 to January 2020.\n\nHealth officials have argued this affected Northern Ireland's preparedness for health emergencies.\n\nThe inquiry is focusing on Northern Ireland this week and its preparedness in the run-up to the pandemic.\n\nFormer deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill is scheduled to appear on Wednesday.\n\nBaroness Foster told the inquiry Northern Ireland ministers \"could and should\" have been in charge of Stormont's government departments in the lead-up to the pandemic.\n\nHowever, she pointed out that the Northern Ireland Office \"took a policy decision not to intervene at that time\" and instead left Northern Ireland \"without any ministerial cover\".\n\n\"Because of course we are a devolved administration - the Westminster government is sovereign at all times,\" she told the inquiry.\n\n\"And if there is a deficiency in the Northern Ireland administration then those people in Westminster with responsibility for Northern Ireland have a responsibility.\"\n\nShe added: \"If there is a gap in resilience in part of the UK, surely that should concern the government of the UK.\"\n\nBaroness Foster used this platform to stress the absence of Westminster politicians in the running of Northern Ireland.\n\nOn several occasions she told the Covid-19 inquiry that the lack of input made Northern Ireland less resilient when the time came to facing a major health emergency.\n\nReferring to the time as \"realpolitik\", Baroness Foster said in the absence of power sharing the responsibility lay with Westminster to \"step in\".\n\nBaroness Foster highlighted that in October 2016 a report from Professor Rafael Bengoa had recommended changes to the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said that all parties saw this as a \"necessity\" but following the collapse of Stormont in January 2017 this was not implemented.\n\nLast week, Robin Swann, who served as health minister during the pandemic, told the inquiry a lack of reform and investment in the health service hindered its response to the pandemic\n\nBaroness Foster said she was proud of the response of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and the health service to the Covid pandemic, especially in the absence of ministers.\n\nHowever, she added that she was unsure if any amount of planning would have left Northern Ireland \"fit for purpose\" to deal with the Covid pandemic due to its scale and nature.\n\n\"The number one risk on the risk register across the UK was for a flu pandemic and what came towards us was not a flu pandemic but a very transmittable disease in the community,\" she said.\n\n\"Therefore the need to scale up and have the capability to deal with that was something we had to dig very deep into very quickly.\"\n\nGiving his evidence, former permanent secretary at the Department of Health, Richard Pengelly, rebutted any suggestion that nothing happened in the absence of Stormont minsters.\n\nHe said that \"preparatory work\" continued but any strategic change required ministers in place.\n\n\"In that three-year period there were no issues about the work we were doing in the department as regards the development of our emergency response plan or emergency preparation that had a minister been in place, they would have landed on the ministers desk.\"\n\nFormer deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill (left) is set to give evidence to the inquiry on Wednesday\n\nThe first phase of the inquiry is looking at how prepared the UK and the devolved institutions were for the pandemic.\n\nIt plans to hold hearings until at least 2025, but updates and reports will be published by its chair Baroness Hallett as it continues.\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Sir Michael McBride told the inquiry there was \"no doubt\" the absence of ministers had a significant impact on Stormont's preparedness for a pandemic.\n\nHe added Brexit also affected pandemic planning, with resources diverted to aid with implementing changes.\n\nThere was also a \"very significant\" shortfall in resources and staff to deal with the response required, the chief medical officer said.", "BBC Newsnight has this evening been hosting a discussion on the latest developments in the story - with opposing views being presented.\n\nSun columnist Rod Liddle – who was formerly editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme – said the newspaper had “behaved impeccably” and had published the story because the accusations being made were in the “public interest”.\n\nHe said the aim of the coverage was to “hold the powerful to account”, in particular regarding concerns about safeguarding at the BBC.\n\nAppearing on the same panel, Jacqui Hames, from the campaign group Hacked Off, said the newspaper had to provide “urgent answers” about its coverage.\n\nShe said the Sun had forgotten that “there were real people involved in this story” and asked why Sun editors had not appeared on the programme.\n\nAppearing to refer to the hacking scandal of the early 2010s, she said the Sun’s coverage of this story showed “nothing has changed”.\n\nThe Sun has defended its reporting, saying in a statement that the allegations it published were “always very serious”.\n\n“We must also re-emphasise that The Sun at no point in our original story alleged criminality and also took the decision neither to name Mr Edwards nor the young person involved in the allegations,” it said.", "Rob Roberts now sits in Parliament as an independent MP\n\nAn MP suspended for sexually harassing a member of staff has claimed the Conservative party \"abandoned me and lied to my face\" when he needed help.\n\nDelyn MP Rob Roberts was suspended from the party for 12 weeks following Parliamentary investigation and now sits as an independent.\n\nMr Roberts said at one stage he was on the brink of suicide before getting help from a fellow MP.\n\nThe Conservative party has been asked to comment.\n\nParliament's independent complaints and grievance scheme found Mr Roberts repeatedly propositioned a former employee and asked him to be less alluring.\n\nThe Delyn MP said he believed the judgement in his case was wrong, but had not spoken out due to \"respect for this House\".\n\nHe made the remarks as the House of Commons considered another Privileges committee report rebuking the conduct of Boris Johnson's allies who were accused of a \"co-ordinated\" attack on the initial inquiry into the former prime minister's Partygate denials to Parliament.\n\nRob Roberts was suspended from the Commons for six weeks after he was found to have sexually harassed a staff member\n\nMr Roberts said the debate was about \"respect\" for the Commons, its decisions, processes and committees before discussing his own case.\n\n\"In May 2021, I was found to have broken the House's sexual misconduct policy following a lengthy investigation and was suspended from the service of this House,\" he added.\n\n\"I believed at the time the judgement was wrong. That remains my belief.\n\n\"I've been told a number of times that I can't say anything about the situation which deviates from that which is in the report which I believe to be in error.\n\n\"And so out of respect for the House and its processes at significant personal cost, I have said nothing so as not to bring myself, the process or the House into disrepute.\"\n\nMr Roberts suggested he had been shunned by other MPs and his own party \"abandoned me and lied to my face\".\n\nHe added: \"When, at one particularly low point, I find myself balanced on the handrail of Westminster Bridge I found the will to step backwards instead of forwards and seek help.\n\n\"A good friend from these benches intervened and I am in his debt.\"\n\nMr Roberts said he had been in counselling for more than a year and praised the support he received through that process.", "Aretha Franklin died without a known will in August 2018\n\nWhen Aretha Franklin died from pancreatic cancer in August 2018, it was thought that she had left behind no will for an estate worth millions.\n\nBut months later, handwritten wills were found in a cabinet and under a sofa cushion at her home in suburban Detroit, Michigan.\n\nA jury will now determine which of two documents should be ruled as the Queen of Soul's valid last testament.\n\nThe trial began on Monday and is expected to last less than a week.\n\nA six-person jury at the Oakland County Probate Court will hear from witnesses, including the Franklin children, her niece Sabrina Owens and a handwriting expert.\n\nAn 18-time Grammy Award winner, Franklin recorded dozens of chart-topping songs and was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.\n\nBut the singer known for hits like Think, I Say a Little Prayer and Respect was intensely private about her finances and is said to have resisted preparing a formal will despite years of ill health.\n\nWhen she died at age 76 the absence of a will meant her assets - including homes, cars, furs and jewellery - were to be equally split among her four sons.\n\nBut nine months on from her death, wills were discovered at her home.\n\nOne son is arguing that the papers dated June 2010 and found inside a locked cabinet are the real will.\n\nTwo other sons say a will dated March 2014 and found in a spiral notebook under sofa cushions should take precedence.\n\nOn Monday, Judge Jennifer Callaghan told jurors the only decision they had to make was whether the 2014 document can be accepted as a valid will.\n\nDespite their differences, both documents would see the sons share revenue from Franklin's music and copyrights.\n\nEach version was scribbled by hand and difficult to decipher, with words scratched out and notes in the margins. Such a condition would make them inadmissible in most states, but Michigan law allows for handwritten wills as long as they meet other criteria.\n\nTheodore White II - Franklin's third child, from her brief marriage to her former manager - argues that the notarised 11-page document from 2010 is the valid will.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aretha Franklin: In her own words\n\nThat version lists him as a co-executor or personal representative to the estate, along with Ms Owens, the niece. It also calls for Kecalf and Edward Franklin, the singer's second and fourth sons, to \"take business classes and get a certificate or a degree\" if they wish to benefit from the estate.\n\nMeanwhile, Kecalf and Edward argue that the 2014 version is their mother's primary will.\n\nKecalf replaces his brother as a co-executor in the four-page document. He and his grandchildren would also inherit his mother's $1.2m (£934,000) gated mansion - a home described by Edward's attorney as \"the crown jewel\".\n\nThe newer document also stipulates that Franklin's gowns either be auctioned or handed over to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.\n\nClarence Franklin, the eldest child, is not involved in the dispute. He lives in an assisted living facility in Michigan and is under a legal guardianship.\n\nA lawyer for his guardian told the BBC they will not participate in the trial and \"have reached a settlement that gives Clarence a percentage of the estate without regard to the outcome of the will contest\".\n\nThe family rift had earlier driven Ms Owens to quit as representative of her aunt's estate.\n\n\"Given my aunt's love of family and desire for privacy, this is not what she would have wanted for us, nor is it what I want,\" she wrote in a 2020 court filing.\n\n\"I love my cousins, hold no animosity towards them, and wish them the best.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans pay their respects to Aretha Franklin in Detroit\n\nEarlier this year, the court in Pontiac, Michigan, heard three voicemail messages, recorded in the months before Franklin died, in which she discusses another will she was preparing with an estate lawyer.\n\nIn the messages, Franklin is heard expressing certain \"firm intentions\" from a Detroit hospital bed, but attorney Henry Grix testified he believed she \"hadn't made up her mind\" about her final wishes.\n\nThe judge has excluded that document from consideration in the trial.\n\nThe Franklin fortune was estimated at $80m when the star died in 2018, but more recent valuations and several years of unpaid taxes have vastly reduced that number.\n\nAccording to an inventory filed in court, and seen by the BBC, the late singer's assets are valued at just under $6m.\n\nNicholas Papasifakis, who currently serves as Franklin's personal representative, said he is not participating in the trial and is not taking a side in the dispute.\n\n\"Once there has been a determination by the Court as to the disposition of Ms Franklin's Estate,\" he wrote in an email, \"I will follow that determination in distributing Ms Franklin's assets.\"", "A review led by the NHS Race and Health Observatory has raised significant concerns about a focus on skin colour in routine health checks for newborns.\n\nThe Apgar score, determined by a series of quick assessments immediately after birth, traditionally includes checking whether the baby is \"pink all over\".\n\nThe report questions its relevance and accuracy for some babies belonging to ethnic minorities.\n\nAnd it calls for an immediate update of maternity guidelines.\n\nThe wide-ranging review also looks at the diagnosis of newborn jaundice.\n\nEngland's former chief midwife Prof Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, who now co-chairs the NHS Race and Health Observatory group working on maternal and neonatal health, said: \"This biased assessment is exemplified by terms like 'pink' being used to describe a well-perfused baby [with good blood supply], disregarding the diversity of skin colours within our population.\n\n\"Consequently, it raises concerns about the clinical accuracy of such assessments when applied to ethnically diverse populations.\"\n\nLed by researchers from Sheffield Hallam University, the work reviews scientific literature and policies and involves interviews with 33 healthcare professionals and 24 parents.\n\nFirst, it considers the Apgar score, devised in the 1950s.\n\nHealthcare professionals check the baby's muscle tone, pulse, reflex response, breathing rate and appearance, giving each component a maximum score of two.\n\nThis often includes assessing the baby's appearance as:\n\nThe lower the overall score, the more likely the baby is to need urgent help.\n\nExperts say alternative systems for checking wellbeing should be evaluated.\n\nThe report also says there are concerns about the \"subjective nature\" of guidelines for assessing jaundice - a yellowing of the skin, whites of the eyes and gums caused by a build-up of a substance called bilirubin.\n\nAll babies are checked for jaundice, in the first few days of life - often midwives will do a visual check together with an assessment of how alert a baby is and how well it is feeding.\n\nThough it is common and often resolves on its own, jaundice can cause very serious problems if not treated at the right time. A blood test can check levels.\n\nBaby Jaxson was five days old in this picture, taken shortly before he was treated\n\nLauren Clarke, a research practitioner in the East Midlands, had her son Jaxson in 2019.\n\nShe says by the time he was diagnosed with jaundice, when he was 6 days old, the levels were \"very high and needed urgent treatment\" but believes it should have been picked up and treated earlier.\n\nLauren said she noticed Jackson's eyes and skin looked yellow in his first few days but when she approached staff about it they told her to \"keep an eye\", with no further advice.\n\nA midwife and two maternity support workers checked her baby visually after she went home but Lauren did not feel listened to.\n\nIt was only when she was admitted for treatment for a separate infection that staff on the ward did a blood test on Jaxson.\n\nLauren says when they got the results a junior doctor \"took him immediately out of her arms\" and gave him rapid light treatment.\n\nLauren told the BBC: \"It was so hard when he was being treated with light therapy. I couldn't feed him and he was crying so much.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think if he had not been mixed-race the jaundice would have been picked up sooner.\"\n\nThe hospital held a review and said concerns about jaundice should have been escalated.\n\nThe review says the baby's skin tone \"may have made it more difficult to determine if the jaundice was getting worse.\"\n\nRecommendations included better training for staff and making more use of handheld meters to measure jaundice levels.\n\nThe review says there is a need for more consistent training for healthcare staff and parents on how to spot jaundice in babies belonging to ethnic minorities and recommends establishing a national image database.\n\nProf Dunkley-Bent and Dr Daghni Rajasingam, who co-chair the NHS Race and Health Observatory group working on maternal and neonatal health, said the review represented an urgent call to action.\n\n\"There is a pressing need for more objective outcome measures to mitigate the impact of racial bias when employing these assessments,\" they said.\n\n\"By rectifying these anomalies that are present in our current practices, we can strive towards a more equitable healthcare system that upholds the health and wellbeing of all newborns, irrespective of their ethnic background.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ocean Viking received an alert about the boat in distress via a helpline for migrants\n\nMigrants saved in one of the first rescue operations in the Mediterranean since hundreds of people died when a boat sank off the Greek coast, say nothing could deter them from trying to reach Europe. They spoke to the BBC's Alice Cuddy - on board a rescue vessel patrolling the sea for migrant boats in distress.\n\nAs the giant red and white rescue ship sails across an expanse of Mediterranean Sea, the horizon is interrupted by the sight of a dark blue inflatable boat, crammed with bobbing heads.\n\nRescue workers from the charity SOS Mediterranée don helmets and life jackets as they race to the scene in speedboats. They quickly pull the migrants on board the vessels one by one, counting as they go.\n\nThe boys and young men, most from The Gambia, have been at sea for 15 hours and have made it 54 nautical miles from the Libyan town of Castelverde, near Tripoli. They are in a state of distress.\n\nSome later tell me that shortly before rescuers arrived, a fight had almost broken out on board the over-packed boat. Some were determined to keep going, while others were begging to give up and try again later. One dropped his phone in the sea in the melee.\n\nOne wears the familiar pale blue of a Manchester City football shirt, others are holding iPhones. Few have brought any water or food. Many cannot swim, armed only with the inner tubes of tyres to use as flotation devices should they end up in the sea.\n\nSome of the migrants had already attempted to cross many times\n\nThere is panic during the rescue as a Libyan coastguard vessel appears on the horizon. Many of the boys have previously been pulled back to Libya by its coastguard, which the EU has provided with ships, training and funding.\n\nSome of the migrants grin as they sit down in the rescue speedboat - one takes a selfie on his phone. One later tells me that when he grabbed the hand of one of the rescuers, he thought: \"Now I have entered Europe.\"\n\nThe group are rushed back to SOS Mediterranée's ship, the Ocean Viking, where they undergo medical checks and receive new clothes and drawstring bags containing supplies like toothbrushes.\n\nThe charity alerts Italian authorities, who quickly assign the southern city of Bari as the port at which to disembark, telling them to head there \"without delay\".\n\nThis follows a new law which requires such vessels to immediately head to a port rather than continue to patrol for more migrant boats.\n\nBari will take almost three days to reach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo, as we set sail, we speak to some of the migrants in rooms set up as medical facilities and accommodation areas on the deck of the ship. Most speak English - all of their names have been changed.\n\nThe migrants tell us they were not ignorant to the risks they were facing. Many say it was not their first attempt at reaching Europe - some had narrowly avoided death, having been picked up from boats in distress and returned to Libya.\n\n\"Seven times I have been trying,\" one 17-year-old says.\n\nEvery migrant I speak to has friends who have died attempting the same journey. Some have also been following news on social media of the Greek disaster - one of the deadliest migrant sinkings in years, in which up to 750 people are believed to have died - which happened less than two weeks earlier. Those migrants had also set sail from Libya.\n\nOne says it didn't put him off because he believes those migrants would have had the same mindset as him.\n\n\"It's either you reach Europe or you die at sea,\" the teenager tells me. \"There's only two options.\"\n\nSOS Mediterranée had received an alert about the rubber boat from Alarm Phone, an emergency helpline for migrants in trouble at sea, and European border agency Frontex.\n\nMore than 80% of the group are unaccompanied minors, aged under 18. Many of the boys had started their journeys years earlier, when they left home hoping to make money to send back to their families.\n\nMany say they have lost one or both parents and, as the eldest sons in their families, they feel responsible for supporting loved ones.\n\nThey are mostly from The Gambia - more than 2,000 miles south and west of Libya.\n\nThe Gambia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says Gambians have emigrated at a higher rate per capita than any other nation in Africa in recent years.\n\nIt says from 2015 to 2020, more than 32,000 Gambians arrived in Europe through what is known as \"irregular\" migration. It says a similar number arrived between 2020 and 2022.\n\nThe Central Mediterranean is the main migratory route into the European Union. Frontex says that in the first five months of this year, the number of detected crossings more than doubled compared to the same period in 2022 - to 50,318. It is the highest number recorded since 2017.\n\nRelieved to be on the boat and heading to Europe, the boys relax enough to start telling me how they got there.\n\nThey took different routes to get to Libya, using networks of smugglers, to cross multiple countries from Africa's west to north coast.\n\nEighteen-year-old Suma says his journey began when he was put in contact with an \"agent\" in nearby Mali, with whom he planned the start of his journey to Europe, travelling through Algeria to Libya. Along the way, he says he was tied up, beaten and denied food by smugglers.\n\nNo-one he travelled with to Libya was on the boat with him, and the BBC was unable to independently verify his claims - but others have similar stories.\n\nIn the time it takes us to reach land, the migrants settle into life on the ship, playing games of football, cards and the game Connect Four - and dancing to music played on a loudspeaker.\n\nThere is a moment of excitement when they have the clothes they travelled in returned to them. They sift through a large pile to find their own items and take them over to buckets of soapy water to wash them, before hanging them on ropes to dry.\n\nFor many, these clothes are their only personal items - everything else had to be left either back at home or in Libya.\n\nLife on the ship marks a stark change from the way they tell us they had been living before they set sail.\n\nIn Libya, they say they lived in compounds run by smugglers as they tried to get the money together for the Mediterranean crossing. Many say this leg of the journey cost them 3,500 Libyan dinars (£570).\n\nSuma's step-dad sent him some of the cash, and another boy says his family had taken out a loan against their business to help fund the journey.\n\nOthers make vague references to working for the smugglers.\n\n\"This journey, I didn't pay… so I'm very lucky,\" one said. \"I was working with the man. I was helping him arrange things.\"\n\nMany of the teenagers say they also spent months in Libyan detention centres after being picked up by the Libyan coastguard during attempted crossings - where they say they were tortured and given little food. Many of them have scabies.\n\nThe migrants washed and dried the clothes they had been wearing when they were rescued\n\nOnce they had enough money to cross the Mediterranean, the migrants approached agents to make the arrangements.\n\nSuma says he has learned not to trust them, explaining: \"What they will tell you and [what] they will do is a different thing most of the time.\"\n\nHe says he had been previously told he would be transported on a boat with around 55 to 60 people on board, only to find a small rubber raft with 80 to 90 passengers.\n\n\"We [just have to] believe, you know, we leave everything in the hands of God. And everyone has to be on that rubber boat,\" he says.\n\nAdama says he was on a boat holding about 125 occupants that sank - he was one of 94 who survived.\n\n\"I just see my friend dying. I help a lot but I cannot help all of them… I see them, they're going.\"\n\nThere is hope among the migrants on board the Ocean Viking as we near the Italian coast, but also some traces of regret. Suma says he misses home, but that it would bring \"shame\" on him to return after borrowing money from loved ones for the voyage.\n\n\"It's a disgrace, you know.\"\n\nSome knew little about the plan for their dangerous voyage or where it was headed - beyond the promise of Europe - while others had their minds set on landing on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a common arrival point for migrants.\n\nSeveral also tell us that they had hoped all along to be picked up at sea by SOS Mediterranée's Ocean Viking rescue vessel, never thinking they would make it alone all the way to Italy.\n\nOne teenager tells us he was tracking the ship on his phone before setting off.\n\n\"I like social media, even the vessel finders, I have all of them on my phone. I will look at the weather, I will look at the rescue ships,\" he says.\n\nCritics of groups like SOS Mediterranée argue that they act as a pull-factor that encourages migrants to make the dangerous journeys.\n\nHowever, SOS Mediterranée says numbers of migrant crossings are not affected by whether or not they are on patrol.\n\n\"People leave no matter what - ships or no ships,\" says Claire Juchat, operations communications officer.\n\nShe adds that in a 72-hour period following the rescue of the teenagers, when no NGO vessels were on patrol, 5,000 migrants arrived on the island of Lampedusa.\n\nShe also notes most rescues are conducted by authorities.\n\nAccording to figures from the United Nations refugee agency, more than 64,000 people have arrived in Italy after crossing the Central Mediterranean so far this year. More than 1,000 of those have been from The Gambia.\n\nThe migrants are greeted in Bari by health and border officials, as well as Red Cross and UN workers\n\nThe teenagers tell us they view Europe as a place of safety and stability, where they can return to school and get a good job.\n\nOn the ship, the crew give the group a lesson in basic Italian, as they sit on the deck carefully making notes and repeating phrases.\n\nWhile some have friends who have successfully made the crossing before them and have shared details of their new lives, Europe is mostly an abstract idea for the migrants. Much of their knowledge is based on their favourite football teams and players.\n\n\"I want to be a footballer. Like Ronaldo,\" one says. \"Marcus Rashford!\" another exclaims. Lots are excited to be disembarking in Italy - the country of the Serie A league, and its new champions Napoli.\n\nWhen the ship docks at the port of Bari, the teenagers, who had earlier been singing and dancing on the deck, go quiet, clutching grey blankets, and documents to present to authorities. Some shake as they wait to be called.\n\nThey are greeted at the port by health and border officials, as well as Red Cross and United Nations workers. Some are taken away in paediatric ambulances for health treatment. Others are put in coaches and transported to reception facilities, where they will undergo further assessments.\n\nSara Mancinelli, operations manager with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, on board the vessel, told me that their right to stay in Europe will be determined by their individual circumstances.\n\n\"Even if in their country there is no war or persecution, they may have some… reasons why they are recognised for some kind of protection,\" she says.\n\nChiara Cardoletti, the UN refugee agency's representative for Italy, says that partly due to a \"dramatic upsurge in arrivals\" the reception capacity in the country is \"currently insufficient to respond to the needs of unaccompanied migrants and others\".\n\nAs he prepares to take his first step on European soil, Suma turns around and waves goodbye to us.", "After a day in which the BBC produced a fuller timeline of its actions through this story, where are we now?\n\nFor the BBC, key questions remain, primarily around what it did having received the complaint in May.\n\nIt's difficult to assess the actions of the Corporate Investigations Team without knowing exactly the detail of the complaint. We still don't have that.\n\nBut on the face of it, one email attempt that the complainant didn't respond to and one phone call that didn't connect don't, on the surface of it, look like huge efforts were made to check out the allegations.\n\nThat might have been understandable if the complaint had been about a presenter getting a fact wrong in a broadcast.\n\nBut we know that it was deemed serious by the BBC, though not involving criminality. A serious complaint about a high-profile presenter, reportedly involving huge sums of money to a younger person, surely warranted more dedicated investigation.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie may be all too aware of this, which is why he talked earlier about an internal review to assess whether the processes are up to scratch and whether red flags are raised quickly enough.\n\nThe BBC has now faced the media about this story. It had little choice as the briefing to launch the annual report was already in journalists' diaries.\n\nBut Mr Davie also appeared on the World at One on Radio 4 for a lengthy interview. His comment that this wasn't a \"good situation\" was an understatement.\n\nBut he also gave a clear explanation of what the BBC has been managing - balancing its duties as an employer of a presenter who must be treated fairly with its role as a public service broadcaster which aims for transparency.\n\nOf course, cynics might say that Mr Davie must have breathed a sigh of relief when the Metropolitan Police asked the BBC to pause its investigation. At one point in the interview, the director general said he couldn't comment for that reason.\n\nIt's the equivalent of kicking this into the, if not long, then certainly slightly taller than cropped, grass. A bit of a breathing space for the BBC to take stock.\n\nBut the pressure on Mr Davie and the corporation is intense, with media crews training their cameras on New Broadcasting House in central London for days now.\n\nThis story has become a series of claims and counterclaims. The Sun and the family stand by their account. The Sun told us it feels as if the family is \"being attacked by the BBC for not fully understanding their complaints system\".\n\nIt says that after the original complaint in May, a payment of £1,000 was made in June to the young person by the presenter. A sign of \"no action\" from the BBC.\n\nIt does feel uncomfortable that the presenter was not spoken to by bosses for almost seven weeks. That the complaint was not escalated until the Sun approached the BBC before publishing its story.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, faced questions on Tuesday about the corporation's presenter row\n\nBut the Sun also has questions to answer, particularly after the legal letter sent to the BBC on behalf of the young person on Monday.\n\nDid they approach the young person for comment as they prepared to report their story - as the lawyer claims they didn't. What evidence do they have to back up their allegations that have dominated the front pages? Why have they not named the presenter?\n\nIt's unclear how this story ends. The BBC has now reported allegations from a second person. The Sun has a new front page about the presenter allegedly breaking lockdown rules to meet a young stranger from a dating site.\n\nWill there be more to come - or just more claim and counter-claim?", "California's governor had blocked previous bids to release Leslie Van Houten (right)\n\nLeslie Van Houten, a former follower of notorious cult leader Charles Manson, has been released on parole after serving more than five decades of a life sentence for two brutal murders.\n\nVan Houten, 73, was a 19-year old member of the \"Manson family\" when she took part in the murder of a Los Angeles grocer and his wife in 1969.\n\nFive previous bids for her parole were blocked by California's governors.\n\nThat decision was later reversed by a state appeals court.\n\nA former homecoming queen, Van Houten was the youngest Manson follower to be convicted of murder for her role in the death of a California grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary.\n\nDuring the killings - which took place just days after the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others - Van Houten held down Rosemary LaBianca while someone else stabbed her. She later also admitted that she stabbed the woman after she was dead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVan Houten's lawyer, Nancy Tetreault, told the BBC that she left a women's prison in California early on Tuesday morning and was likely to be on parole for three years.\n\n\"She had a long job of detaching herself from the cult mentality and accepting responsibility for her crimes\" Ms Tetreault said. \"It took her a long time. She had decades of therapy. So she felt guilt and deep remorse.\"\n\nCharles Manson, considered one of America's most notorious cult leaders, directed his followers to commit nine murders and hoped the killings would start a race war, called \"Helter Skelter\" after a famous song by the Beatles. He died in prison in 2017.\n\nFollowing her life sentence, Van Houten earned both a bachelors and masters degree while in prison, where she also worked as a tutor for other inmates.\n\nAfter being denied parole dozens of times during her incarceration, Van Houten was finally recommended for parole in 2016. But the recommendations were rejected by California Governor Gavin Newsom and his predecessor, Jerry Brown.\n\nThe last time she was blocked from parole, in 2020, was ultimately overruled by a California appeals court.\n\nOn 8 July, however, Mr Newsom said that he would not block her parole this time, paving the way for her release on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement last week, the governor said he remained disappointed at her release, which he said was unlikely to be heard by California's Supreme Court if the legal battle continued.\n\n\"More than 50 years after the Manson cult committed these brutal killings, the victims' families still feel the impact,\" the statement said.\n\nLeslie Van Houten (right) was the youngest Manson follower to be convicted of murder for her role in the death of Leno LaBianca\n\nNow out of prison, Van Houten is expected to spend about a year at a halfway house, where her lawyer said she would need to learn to navigate a reality much different to when she first was put behind bars.\n\n\"She has to learn to use the internet. She has to learn to buy things without cash,\" Ms Tetreault told the AP. \"It's a very different world than when she went in.\"\n\nIn repeated parole hearings, Van Houten expressed regret for her role in the killings and involvement with Manson, later acknowledging that she had let him overpower her \"individual thinking\".\n\n\"I bought into it lock, stock and barrel,\" she said of his beliefs in a 2002 parole hearing. \"I took it at face value\".", "Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda (r) hosts Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and the leaders of member countries.\n\nNato leaders are gathering in Lithuania for a crucial summit that could shape the direction of the war in Ukraine and the future of the Western alliance.\n\nThe 31 allies hope to show Russia they have the resolve to support Ukraine militarily for the long term.\n\nThey arrive with a welcome boost after Turkey dropped its objections to Sweden joining the alliance.\n\nBut there remains disagreement over what to say about Ukraine's own ambitions of future membership.\n\nIt is thought some allies will promise Kyiv new security guarantees designed to deter future Russian aggression. They will also discuss providing more weapons and ammunition.\n\nOn the membership issue, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants Nato to say Ukraine could join as soon as possible after the fighting ends - setting out explicitly how and when this could be achieved.\n\nBut some Nato nations are reluctant to go too far, fearing the promise of near-automatic membership could give Russia an incentive both to escalate and drag out the war.\n\nJens Stoltenberg, the Nato secretary general, said no final decision had been made on the language of the final communiqué, but added: \"I am absolutely certain that we will have unity and a strong message on Ukraine.\"\n\nBut after late night talks on Monday, he announced that Turkey had agreed to support Sweden's application to join Nato. The news was welcomed by the US and Germany, as well as Sweden itself.\n\nTurkey had spent months blocking Stockholm's application, accusing it of hosting Kurdish militants. Mr Stoltenberg said the two sides had worked together to address Turkey's \"legitimate security concerns\".\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier suggested he would back Sweden if the EU re-opened frozen membership talks with Ankara - a request that was rejected by EU officials.\n\nOver their two-day meeting, Nato leaders are expected to agree new plans to deter and defend the alliance against future Russian aggression by beefing up their forces in the east.\n\nAnd they are also expected to step up their financial commitment, making the target of spending 2% of national wealth on defence a minimum figure, rather than a general ambition. Rishi Sunak's spokesman said the UK prime minister would call on allies directly to meet this target.\n\nSecurity is tight in Vilnius, with Nato forces - including Patriot air defence missiles - defending a summit taking place only a short distance from Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.\n\nThe overarching aim of the meeting is for Nato to convince President Vladimir Putin of the alliance's long-term military commitment to Ukraine.\n\nOfficials hope this could begin to change the Russian leader's thinking, putting doubt in his mind that he can outwait the West.\n\nAs such, some see this summit as potentially as important as military gains on the battlefield in persuading Mr Putin to change his strategy.\n\nSo some Nato members will promise Ukraine new security guarantees. US President Joe Biden has suggested Ukraine could get the kind of military support his country gives Israel - long-term commitments designed to deter potential aggressors.\n\nThe alliance will also deepen its institutional links with Ukraine. An existing forum - the Ukraine Nato Commission - will be upgraded to a Ukraine Nato Council. This will give Ukraine the ability to summon meetings of the alliance as an equal partner round the table. \"The right to consult is not insignificant,\" said one official.\n\nBut perhaps most importantly, some members are expected to set out more explicitly Ukraine's pathway to joining the alliance.\n\nNato agreed at its 2008 summit in Bucharest that Ukraine \"will\" become a member and supported its application. But the alliance did not say how and when this might happen. Critics say giving Ukraine a destination but no itinerary allowed Mr Putin to risk his invasions in both 2014 and 2022.\n\nMr Biden will meet Mr Zelensky at the summit, a US official told Reuters, although the Ukrainian president is yet to officially confirm his participation at the event.\n\nLeaders are expected to beef up their forces in Eastern Europe\n\nKyiv accepts Nato cannot formally invite Ukraine to join while fighting rages. That would risk plunging the alliance into war with Russia, as Nato would be obliged under Article 5 of its treaty to defend any member that is under attack.\n\nInstead, Kyiv wants a clear promise of post-war membership with a timeline, so it knows victory will bring the security guarantee of Nato's nuclear umbrella.\n\nOne way for Nato to signal its desire to welcome Ukraine into its ranks would be to shorten the so-called membership application plan, known as the MAP. This is the formal process which tests whether a country meets Nato's strict military and governmental standards - and it can take decades.\n\nBut it is what Nato might actually say about Ukraine's potential membership that is dividing the alliance.\n\nThe Baltic states and eastern European nations are pushing for as much clarity as possible. They want the alliance to make clear how much progress Ukraine has made towards membership, especially how much more closely its army can operate with other Nato forces, now that it shares similar weapons and strategies. They also want Nato to make clear what further conditions Ukraine must meet to achieve membership.\n\nGitanas Nauseda, the president of Lithuania, said Nato should avoid Ukraine's membership becoming a horizon: \"The more you walk towards it, the farther it is.\"\n\nBut some allies - including the US and Germany - are cautious about promising Ukraine too much. They want Ukraine to do more to tackle corruption, strengthen its judiciary and ensure civilian control over its military.\n\nSome also worry about Nato getting dragged into open conflict with Russia. They fear promising Ukraine membership after the war would give Putin an incentive both to escalate the conflict and drag it out, maintaining low-intensity fighting to prevent Ukraine ever joining.\n\nOther allies also fear losing room for manoeuvre in any post-war negotiations. They want to use the promise of Nato membership as a carrot for Ukraine and a stick for Russia, but only after the fighting has ended.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Civil servants have been running Northern Ireland departments since the executive collapsed 16 months ago\n\nStormont departments have \"reached the limit\" of what they can do to manage budget pressures this year, Northern Ireland's top civil servant has said.\n\nJayne Brady outlined her position in a letter to Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris last week.\n\nSeen by BBC News NI, it states that civil servants have made £1bn of \"challenging\" budget decisions to date.\n\nCivil servants have been running Northern Ireland departments since the executive collapsed 16 months ago.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Northern Ireland Office said the Northern Ireland secretary was \"acutely aware of the challenges faced by departments and civil servants\".\n\nA budget set by the government for this financial year asked permanent secretaries to make savings.\n\nMs Brady, who has been the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service since 2021, said in her letter that many of those decisions taken to balance the books would \"normally have required ministerial or executive consideration as a matter of law\".\n\nShe went on to warn the government there remains an unfunded pay pressure of £571m, and a further £437m of pressures requiring decisions.\n\nJayne Brady said civil servants have made £1bn of \"challenging\" budget decisions to date\n\nMs Brady said the remaining gap did not stem from an \"unwillingness\" to act, but from a legal position.\n\nShe added that even if ministers are to return to an executive this year \"it is my view that we are beyond the point in the financial year where such decisions are feasible\".\n\nShe concluded that an overspend of this year's budget was \"now unavoidable\".\n\nMs Brady has been holding regular discussions with the Stormont parties about how to run government in a future executive, and in the context of a challenging budget position.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris said that \"difficult decisions\" would rest with departments until power-sharing is restored\n\nShe told the secretary of state her assessment is that the process should \"now move into a different and more political phase of engagement\" involving the UK government.\n\nShe concluded that the \"most pressing need is for action to mitigate the immediate damage of the budget cuts\", as well as stabilising public services.\n\nSinn Féin MP John Finucane said there should be \"no more delays\" in restoring the executive, which he said must be \"the collective priority\".\n\nIn a statement issued on Tuesday, Mr Finucane said a return to Stormont was \"the only defence our community has against Tory austerity\".\n\nThe Alliance Party's Eoin Tennyson said Mr Heaton-Harris needed to \"inject some momentum\" into efforts to restore the executive.\n\n\"Even if ministers do come back in the latter part of the year, it's still going to be virtually impossible to operate within the financial constraints of the kind of punishment budget which we've seen,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We need an injection of finance in order to ensure that we can invest to save.\"\n\nOfficials are also working to provide the government with further information on revenue raising proposals by the end of the month.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Northern Ireland Office said its focus was on restoring the executive and the secretary of state would have further engagements with parties in the coming weeks.\n\n\"While action has been taken to ensure governance can continue, including through setting two Northern Ireland budgets, this position is not sustainable,\" its statement continued.\n\n\"In the meantime, the secretary of state will continue to engage with the Northern Ireland Civil Service on the management of departmental budgets for this financial year, and working on budget sustainability including the implementation of revenue raising measures.\"\n\nOn Monday, Mr Heaton-Harris said that funding alone \"will not solve\" the many financial challenges Northern Ireland faces.\n\nHe was speaking as MPs debated a budget bill for this financial year.", "Mikala Jones captured the hearts of surfer fans with GoPro footage inside massive waves\n\nAmerican professional surfer Mikala Jones has been fatally killed in an accident off the coast of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands.\n\nThe loss of Jones, 44, who was from Hawaii, sent shockwaves through the surfing community. He was cherished as one of the sport's greats, heralded for his ability to ride breaking waves.\n\nTributes poured in over social media shortly after his death was announced.\n\nDetails around the cause of death are unclear.\n\nJones' daughter Isabella confirmed her father's death in an Instagram post on Sunday.\n\n\"Dad got into a bad surfing accident and didn't make it,\" she wrote.\n\nShe also shared childhood photos of the two together.\n\n\"I wish you were still here with us, you weren't supposed to leave yet. This is too soon,\" she wrote.\n\nJones built his surf following by capturing GoPro footage of himself riding inside giant waves that would tower over his head moments before crashing down.\n\n\"Between his countless cover shots and video parts and his mesmerizing GoPro footage, Mikala was easily one of the 21st Century's most photogenic surfers,\" magazine Surfline wrote.\n\nThe professional surfing community took to social media to pay their respects.\n\n\"So shattered to hear the news,\" three-time surfing World Champion Mick Fanning wrote.\n\n\"He was a wonderful person an incredible artist, his GoPro photos were mind-blowing,\" Brian Bielmann, a surf photographer, wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"We're gonna miss him so much.\"\n\nReef, an apparel company for which Jones was previously an ambassador, released a statement in his memory, calling Jones \"a contemporary surfing POV content creator ahead of his time\" and \"arguably one of the most barreled surfers on the planet\".", "Tour operators accused of safety failures in the lead up to the deadly White Island volcano disaster are facing a landmark trial in New Zealand.\n\nTwenty-two people died when the country's most active volcano suddenly erupted on 9 December 2019.\n\nIt had been showing signs of unrest for weeks, with workplace regulators saying the eruption was not unforeseeable but tour operators were unprepared.\n\nSix parties face fines of up to NZ$1.5m ($928,000; £724,000) if found guilty.\n\nAt the time of the eruption, 47 people were on White Island - also known by its Maori name of Whakaari. Almost half of those present were killed, including 17 people from Australia, three from the US, and two from New Zealand. Another 25 people were injured, many suffering horrific burns.\n\nThe disaster prompted the most extensive and complex investigation ever undertaken by WorkSafe NZ, the nation's main health and safety regulator, which itself has been criticised for failing to monitor activities on the island between 2014 and 2019.\n\nThirteen parties were initially charged in December 2020 with exposing people to risk of harm under the health and safety act. They were accused of failing to assess and mitigate risks, to adequately inform tourists of the dangers, and to provide protective equipment.\n\n\"This was an unexpected event, but that does not mean it was unforeseeable and there is a duty on operators to protect those in their care,\" WorkSafe chief executive Phil Parkes said at the time.\n\nNone of the charges relate to events during or after the eruption, and the defendants include companies which did not have tourists at the volcano at the time.\n\nThe case against one tour operator has since been dropped, and another six pleaded guilty before trial - some just days ago. Most are yet to be sentenced.\n\nWhite Island Tours, which was responsible for the safety of all except one of those killed, is among the companies which have admitted the charges.\n\nSix defendants remain, including members of the Buttle family, who have owned White Island since 1936.\n\nPeter, James and Andrew Buttle, the three brothers who inherited the island, have been charged in their roles as directors of Whakaari Management - which granted licences to tour operators and also faces charges at a company level.\n\nID Tours New Zealand Limited and Tauranga Tourism Services Limited are also contesting their charges in court.\n\nThe judge alone trial, which begins hearing evidence on Tuesday, is expected to last four months.\n\nOnce a popular sightseeing destination visited by thousands every year, tourists have not been back to White Island since the tragedy.\n\nThe volcano had been erupting in some form since 2011, and was rated at Volcanic Alert Level 2 at the time of the disaster, indicating \"moderate to heightened volcanic unrest\".", "Pupils were allowed to leave the school after being locked down for the morning\n\nA teenage boy is being questioned on suspicion of the attempted murder of a teacher who was stabbed at a school.\n\nThe male teacher was taken to hospital with a single wound after being attacked at Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire just after 09:00 BST.\n\nFirearms officers arrested the suspect two hours later in Stoke Orchard, about three miles (4.8km) away, and a knife was seized.\n\nThe injured teacher was discharged from hospital on Monday evening.\n\nTewkesbury Academy has said it would reopen on Tuesday.\n\nGloucestershire police received a call from the ambulance service on Monday morning saying a teacher had been injured in a corridor at the school.\n\nOfficers said a \"thorough\" search was conducted after initial reports suggested the boy was still on the school's property.\n\n\"It was initially thought that the suspect had fled the scene and hidden himself within the school grounds,\" said Assistant Chief Constable Richard Ocone, of Gloucestershire Police.\n\n\"This search was both complex and meticulous in nature as we sought to ensure there were no further injured parties as well as seeking the arrest of the suspect,\" he added.\n\nTwo other schools also went into lockdown following the stabbing and further searches were conducted to make sure no-one else was hurt.\n\n\"Specialist resources including the National Police Air Service and plain-clothed officers were deployed to search the wider area,\" said ACC Ocone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police said there will be more officers in the area over the coming days\n\nOne teacher kept his pupils safe by sitting in front of a classroom door and barricaded it, said one parent.\n\nDaniel said his daughter video called him and he could see her teacher \"supporting the whole class\".\n\n\"The teacher sat right by the door. He barricaded the door, put some boxes there and kept everyone cool even though he must have been scared himself,\" he added.\n\nMichelle, whose 13-year-old son Alex is in Year 8, said she was very relieved to be able to collect him from school.\n\n\"You get the message from school to say it has been locked down and it says urgent,\" she said.\n\n\"Then you hear that a teacher has been stabbed and the children are all locked down. The first instinct is to get to the school as quickly as you can, which I didn't do, and I listened to the school and stayed away as long as I possibly could.\"\n\nMichelle said the teacher involved was \"very popular\" with parents and pupils alike.\n\nEmergency services were seen outside Alderman Knight school, which shares the same site\n\nPolice said they were keeping an \"open mind\" about a possible motive and more patrols would be seen in the area.\n\n\"At this time there is no evidence to suggest it is terrorism related. However, we are keeping an open mind while further enquiries are carried out,\" said ACC Ocone.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said she was \"deeply concerned\" by the stabbing.\n\n\"We are closely monitoring the situation and remain hugely grateful to the emergency services who are currently on the scene,\" added Ms Keegan.\n\n\"My department is on hand to support the school as the situation unfolds.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A parent of a pupil praised one teacher who supported his class during the incident\n\nMartyn and Julia, parents of Year 7 student Katie, said the school and police had kept them informed.\n\n\"The school was communicating throughout the morning. The students were allowed to turn their phones on, which we were most grateful for.\"\n\nJulia said: \"Hearing about it this morning felt very strange - it doesn't happen here. I know it sounds a cliche and you see it happening on the news in other places.\"\n\nErica, who has a child at Tewkesbury Academy, said she was happy that the incident was resolved quickly.\n\n\"It is worrying that these things can happen in any school and all the more important that as parents we take responsibility for teaching our children awareness of the destructive nature of this type of incident,\" she said.\n\nParents said the police and school had kept them informed\n\nRichard Stanley, leader of Tewkesbury Borough Council, said it had been a difficult day for the community.\n\n\"Tewkesbury is a very safe place, it's a small community and I don't think there's a particular issue here. It's a national issue in terms of young people carrying knives.\"\n\nLaurence Robertson, Conservative MP for the town, said he planned to meet with the education secretary and the home secretary to discuss knife crime.\n\n\"The government has taken certain steps to bring it [knife crime] back under control, but I would be the first to say that much more needs to be done,\" he told BBC Points West.\n\nFollowing the incident, The National Education Union (NEU) tweeted that its thoughts were with all staff, pupils and parents involved.\n\n\"This is a shocking incident. Violence has no place in our schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nACC Ocone said: \"This was clearly a very distressing incident and our thoughts are with the victim, their family and everyone impacted by what happened.\n\n\"We are working with the school and other agencies to ensure appropriate support is available and local people will see more police in the area over the coming days as the investigation continues.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Russian media has speculated that Rzhitsky could have been tracked on the Strava fitness app\n\nA former Russian submarine captain who worked as a mobilisation officer has been shot dead while jogging in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar.\n\nSeveral Russian media outlets speculated that Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, may have been tracked via his profile on the Strava fitness app.\n\nRussian investigators say they arrested a man in connection with the killing.\n\nThe suspect was named as Serhiy Denysenko, born in the Ukrainian city of Sumy in 1959.\n\nSeveral Russian Telegram channels claimed Mr Denysenko was the former head of the Ukrainian Karate Federation.\n\nThe Investigations Committee has also released a video of the alleged arrest, but the man's face is blurred in it, making it difficult to verify the identity of the person.\n\nIt later published CCTV footage allegedly of Capt Rzhitsky on his morning run, followed by a man on a bike.\n\nThe former naval officer was shot in the back and the chest in a park near the Olimp sports centre, Russian daily newspaper Kommersant reported.\n\nBaza, a Russian Telegram channel with close ties to the police, reported that the killer could have tracked Capt Rzhitsky's runs on Strava as he regularly followed the same route while running.\n\nA BBC Verify analysis of Capt Rzhitsky's profile - which is public - shows that he frequently ran through the area where he is reported to have been killed. Facial analysis carried out by the BBC confirmed the profile belonged to Capt Rzhitsky.\n\nHis address and personal details had also been uploaded to the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets (Peacemaker), a vast unofficial database of people considered to be enemies of Ukraine.\n\nThe word \"liquidated\", in red letters, has now been superimposed on his photograph on the site.\n\nIn a statement, Ukraine's military intelligence said the park was deserted due to heavy rain, \"so there are no witnesses who could provide details or identify the attacker\".\n\nAnton Gerashchenko, a Ukrainian interior ministry adviser, tweeted that Russian media were accusing Ukraine of involvement but he did not say whether that suspicion was justified.\n\nCapt Rzhitsky's watch and headphones were found at the scene, indicating robbery was not the motive, according to Russian news outlet Mash.\n\nHe reportedly commanded the Krasnodar submarine, named after the city, in the Russian navy.\n\nUkrainian media has said he could have been in command of the vessel when it carried out a missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia in July 2022, which killed 28 people, including three children.\n\nThe Ukrainian government said the attack came from Kalibr cruise missiles launched from a submarine in the Black Sea.\n\nBut Baza has quoted Capt Rzhitsky's father saying that his son resigned from the Russian armed forces in December 2021 - before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe subsequently became the deputy mobilisation officer in the Krasnodar region.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nTop seed Carlos Alcaraz underlined his status as the man likeliest to stop Novak Djokovic winning another Wimbledon after beating 2021 finalist Matteo Berrettini in the fourth round.\n\nThe 20-year-old Spaniard fought back to win 3-6 6-3 6-3 6-3 and reach the SW19 quarter-finals for the first time.\n\nAlcaraz will next face Denmark's Holger Rune, who won 3-6 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov.\n\nDjokovic, 36, remains the man to beat after his victory over Hubert Hurkacz.\n\nThe Serb second seed, who cannot meet Alcaraz until the final, is aiming for a fifth successive Wimbledon title which would also see him equal Roger Federer's record of eight men's singles victories.\n• None Djokovic wins but made to feel 'miserable' by Hurkacz's serve\n• None Eubanks 'living the dream' as grass becomes 'best friend'\n\nAlcaraz has emerged as the main challenger to Djokovic's recent dominance at the All England Club.\n\nHaving grown up on clay courts in Murcia, grass is the Spaniard's least natural surface and how quickly he has successfully adapted his game is a mark of his considerable talent.\n\nHe warmed up for Wimbledon by winning the title at Queen's in only the third grass-court event of his professional career.\n\nThe success served to increase his expectations of lifting another trophy in London this month - and so will passing his biggest test so far.\n\nBerrettini is still one of the biggest threats on grass, even though he has been hampered by a recurring abdominal injury this year.\n\nThat menace was shown in a first set where he fought off three break points before taking Alcaraz's serve for a 5-3 lead and serving out the opener.\n\n\"I knew it was going to be really tough - Matteo is a great player,\" said Alcaraz.\n\n\"It is not easy to come back after losing the first set, but I knew I would have my chances.\n\n\"I had to stay focused, that's something I am working on, to not lose my mind.\"\n\nAlcaraz's speed and athleticism meant he was able to soak up the Italian's huge serves and groundstrokes, turning defence into attack with his own power from the baseline.\n\nA single break of serve was enough to secure the second set before Alcaraz ramped up the intensity in the third.\n\nThe US Open champion broke to move 3-1 ahead and, as a result, the pressure forced Berrettini into more errors as he looked to blast his way back into the match.\n\nWith his second serve also under scrutiny, Berrettini lost serve again to hand over the set and it led to him pleading with umpire John Blom for the roof to be closed because of fading light.\n\nThe Italian said his game was \"suffering\" with the increasing darkness and there was a short break as the match moved indoors under the lights.\n\nBoth players comfortably held serve in the opening seven games, until Alcaraz pounced to break and serve out the match in the following game.\n\nNow he faces Rune - another 20-year-old who he has known since they played junior tournaments as 12-year-olds - in the first Wimbledon men's quarter-final between two players under the age of 21.\n\nAsked about his reaction to reaching the last eight, Alcaraz said: \"It is something I really wanted.\n\n\"I came in with that goal to get into the quarter-finals. Now I'm looking for more.\n\n\"It is my dream to win this title one day. I hope to reach that dream this year.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The BBC still has many questions to answer after lawyers representing the young person at the centre of the allegations disputed the mother’s account.\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, the lawyer makes claims that throw doubt on the story that has dominated front pages through the weekend, but with the BBC facing the media as it presents its annual report, the corporation's director general can expect the event to be dominated by the crisis.", "The star is due to perform at a Norwegian festival on Wednesday\n\nPop star Lil Nas X was among four Americans reportedly stopped by Norwegian police for mistakenly riding e-scooters through a major Oslo tunnel.\n\nAuthorities briefly closed the six-lane Festning Tunnel after the incident, but none of the riders were detained.\n\nThe tourists apparently got lost after following a GPS route into the tunnel on Monday evening.\n\n\"They apologised. We have escorted them out,\" police said. They did not confirm if Lil Nas X was among the party.\n\nHowever, the rapper posted photographs of the incident on his Instagram story.\n\n\"About to go to jail in Norway,\" he captioned one, taken inside the tunnel itself.\n\nIn a later picture, he posed with two police officers, joking that he'd been let off because they were fans.\n\nThe tunnel's operations manager, Vidar Pedersen, later gave his account of the incident to Norway's Dagbladet newspaper.\n\nHe said police were called soon after the scooters were spotted entering the tunnel, and approached the riders after checking CCTV footage.\n\n\"At one point, they also crossed the road, then realised it wasn't such a good idea,\" Pedersen said.\n\n\"We then sent two police patrols, guided them out and onto the quay at the waterfront.\"\n\nLil Nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, is in Norway to perform at Wednesday's Slottsffell festival.\n\nHe recently appeared at Glastonbury, taking second billing on the Pyramid Stage to Elton John.\n\nThe rapper, who became an overnight sensation with the song Old Town Road in 2019, appeared at Elton's request, after the star called him \"a hurricane of fresh air\".\n\nHe rose to the occasion with a visually-stunning, sexually-charged set that incorporated dozens of rock and samples, from Michael Jackson's Bad to Nirvana's Something In The Way, alongside his own hits, including That's What I Want, Industry Baby and Montero (Call Me By Your Name).\n\nAlongside multiple costume changes, the star was surrounded by dozens of dancers, as well as a giant metal snake and a huge furry horse... but no e-scooters.\n\nThe 24-year-old is not the first tourist to get stuck in one of Norway's complex and busy tunnel system.\n\nIn 2019, a man who said he followed a route given by Google Maps entered the nearly 10-mile long Opera Tunnel complex. He was not charged or detained.", "Lilia Valutyte was stabbed as she played in the street in Boston in July 2022\n\nA man stabbed to death a nine-year-old girl as she played in the street last summer, a jury has concluded.\n\nLilia Valutyte died from a single stab wound to the chest in Boston on 28 July, Lincoln Crown Court heard.\n\nDeividas Skebas was found unfit to plead due to his mental health. In a trial of the facts, the jury determined he had killed Lilia.\n\nThe 23-year-old was given an indefinite hospital order, with the judge stating it was necessary to protect the public.\n\nThe jury of six men and six women took 30 minutes to make their unanimous decision on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nLilia was playing with a hula hoop in Fountain Lane in the Lincolnshire town, outside the shop where her mother worked, when Skebas stabbed her.\n\nLilia Valutyte was described by family friends as a 'happy child' and a 'beautiful person'\n\nEarlier, prosecutor Christopher Donnellan KC, told the jury: \"He thrust the knife straight into her chest and through into her heart.\"\n\nJurors were shown CCTV footage of a man running towards Harry Potter fan Lilia before stabbing her and running away.\n\nDespite the efforts of paramedics and an off-duty police officer, Lilia was confirmed dead at 19:11 BST, the court heard.\n\nDeividas Skebas has been given an indefinite hospital order\n\nPolice arrested Skebas two days later and found a Sabatier paring knife behind a radiator at his home, which was consistent with the injury suffered by the youngster.\n\nTraces of Lilia's blood were also found on a grey Calvin Klein T-shirt belonging to the Lithuanian national, the court heard.\n\nDuring police interviews, Skebas, of Thorold Street, Boston, admitted he had stabbed Lilia and identified himself from CCTV.\n\nAndrew Campbell Tiech KC, representing Skebas, told the jury he could not challenge any of the evidence as he had no instructions.\n\nSkebas was now undergoing treatment at Rampton Hospital, a high-security facility in Nottinghamshire, the court heard.\n\nAfter the jury's verdict, Judge Mrs Justice McGowan DBE said the hospital order was \"necessary to protect the public from serious harm\".\n\nShe added he could still face a murder trial if his mental health improved.\n\nFollowing Lilia's death, members of the public left soft toys and notes at the scene.\n\nThese were later sent to children in Lithuania, where her family originally came from.\n\nHer mother Lina previously described her daughter as \"a normal child\" who \"loved to dance, travel and try new things\".\n\nBBC Look North reporter, Jessica Lane travels to Lithuania to learn more about the man whom a jury determined killed nine-year-old Lilia Valutyte in a trial of the facts.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president was arraigned last month on charges including wilful retention of national defence information\n\nDonald Trump has asked for his trial on charges of illegally stashing classified documents to be postponed until after the 2024 election.\n\nIn a filing on Monday, lawyers for the former US president said a proposed trial date of 11 December would deny them reasonable time to prepare.\n\nThey also cited challenges in finding an impartial jury due to the election.\n\nMr Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 counts during an arraignment in Miami, Florida, last month.\n\nProsecutors allege he illegally held on to files with sensitive information at his Mar-a-Lago estate and obstructed federal government efforts to retrieve them.\n\nThe Department of Justice has not commented on the latest filing, which applies both to Mr Trump and his aide Walt Nauta, who has also pleaded not guilty in the case.\n\nThe trial date was initially set for 14 August, but it was later postponed until 11 December to give both sides more time to prepare. Prosecutors asked for that delay, anticipating the defence would oppose the initial schedule.\n\nIn the filing, Mr Trump's lawyers describe the case as \"extraordinary\" and argue the amount of evidence that needs to be reviewed warrants a delay.\n\nThey argue it will be \"challenging\" to prepare for the trial before the presidential election in November 2024, for which Mr Trump is currently the frontrunner to win the Republican nomination.\n\nHis legal team then ask the federal court in Florida to hold off altogether on setting a new date for criminal proceedings to begin.\n\n\"The government's request to begin a trial of this magnitude within six months of indictment is unreasonable, telling, and would result in a miscarriage of justice,\" argues the document filed by Chris Kise, one of Mr Trump's lawyers.\n\n\"[It] will create extraordinary challenges in the jury selection process and limit the defendants' ability to secure a fair and impartial adjudication,\" it adds.\n\nJudge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the initial stages of the case, will rule on the request.\n\nMr Trump is facing 37 counts, including wilful retention of national defence information and obstruction of justice.\n\nAccording to the indictment, Mr Trump directed Mr Nauta to move boxes that were a focus of the investigation from a storage room at the resort. Prosecutors said he can be seen on surveillance footage moving the boxes.\n\nMr Nauta, who was indicted at the same time as Mr Trump, has denied six charges, including conspiracy and making false statements.\n\nMeanwhile, in Georgia on Tuesday a grand jury was picked that may decide whether to bring charges against Mr Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.\n\nHe has described the criminal investigation as a \"strictly political witch hunt\".\n\nThe indictment included images of files allegedly stored in a shower at Mar-a-Lago", "A young person has told BBC News they felt threatened by the BBC presenter at the centre of a row over payment for sexually explicit photos.\n\nThe individual in their early 20s was first contacted anonymously by the male presenter on a dating app.\n\nThey say they were put under pressure to meet up but never did.\n\nWhen the young person hinted online they might name the presenter, they were sent abusive, expletive-filled messages.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, the young person - who has no connection to the person at the centre of the Sun's story about payments for photos - said they had been scared by the power the presenter held.\n\nThey said the threats made in the messages - which have been seen and verified by BBC News - had frightened them, and they remain scared.\n\nThe new allegations of menacing and bullying behaviour by the high-profile presenter raise fresh questions about his conduct.\n\nBBC News has contacted the presenter directly and via his lawyer but has received no response to the latest allegations.\n\nAfter the two had first connected on the dating app, the conversation moved to other platforms.\n\nAt this stage, the presenter revealed his identity and told the young person not to tell anyone.\n\nLater, the young person alluded online to having contact with a BBC presenter, and implied they would name him at some point.\n\nThe presenter reacted by sending a number of threatening messages.\n\nBBC News has been able to verify that the messages were sent from a phone number belonging to the presenter.\n\nThe young person's online post has also been seen by BBC News.\n\nWhile the individual has spoken to BBC News, they have not made a complaint to the BBC corporate investigations unit which is looking into allegations.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Lithuania, the prime minister's press secretary said she had not seen these new allegations but urged any victims to come forward to get support and have their claims investigated.\n\nClaims about the unnamed BBC presenter first surfaced in the Sun newspaper on Friday night.\n\nThe paper quoted a mother as saying her child, now 20, had used the money paid for explicit photos to fund a crack cocaine habit, and worried they could \"wind up dead\".\n\nA lawyer for the young person has since said the accusations were \"rubbish\" but the family are standing by the account.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, faced questions on Tuesday about the corporation's presenter row\n\nThe BBC has been defending the handling of its own investigation into the allegations.\n\nAt a press conference, BBC director general Tim Davie said the presenter was not spoken to until last Thursday - seven weeks after the first complaint was made to the corporation.\n\nTwo attempts had been made to contact the family involved, before the Sun approached them with new claims last week, the BBC said.\n\nThe BBC has now paused its own investigation into what happened while police examine the matter.\n\nThe presenter, who has been suspended, is not being named because of concerns about defamation and breaching his privacy.\n\nHave you been affected by this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "BBC News does not know the identity of the young person and has not spoken directly to them\n\nClaims made by the mother at the heart of the BBC presenter scandal are \"rubbish\", a lawyer representing the young person has said.\n\nThe lawyer told the BBC \"nothing inappropriate or unlawful\" took place and the young person sent a denial to The Sun before it published the claims.\n\nThe Sun first reported allegations on Friday that a BBC presenter had paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos.\n\nThe paper says it has seen evidence to back the mother's claims.\n\nIn their letter sent on Monday to the BBC, the lawyer says the young person sent a message on WhatsApp to the paper on Friday evening denying the claims, saying the statement their mother made to the newspaper was \"totally wrong and there was no truth to it\".\n\nNonetheless, the lawyer added, the Sun newspaper proceeded to publish \"their inappropriate article\".\n\n\"For the avoidance of doubt, nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place between our client and the BBC personality and the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are rubbish,\" the lawyer writes.\n\nThe lawyer also said press reporting amounted to an invasion of privacy, and criticised both the Sun and the BBC for not contacting their client.\n\n\"Nobody from the Sun newspaper appears to have made any attempt to contact our client prior to the publication of the allegations on Friday 6 July,\" the lawyer writes.\n\nThe lawyer also claims in the letter that the mother and the young person are estranged.\n\nIn response, the Sun said: \"We have reported a story about two very concerned parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and the welfare of their child.\n\n\"Their complaint was not acted upon by the BBC.\n\n\"We have seen evidence that supports their concerns. It's now for the BBC to properly investigate.\"\n\nThe Sun published a new story on Monday evening after BBC News disclosed excerpts from the young person's legal letter.\n\nIn a new interview, the mother and step-father who have made the claims said they \"stand by\" their allegations.\n\nThe step-father is quoted in the article as saying allegations were put to the BBC \"for an hour\", appearing to contradict a previous statement in Monday's edition which stated: \"The family say no-one from the corporation rang them for a proper interview after the initial complaint.\"\n\nThe article also reports that the step-father went to the police about the matter but was told \"they couldn't do anything as they said it wasn't illegal.\"\n\nBBC News does not know the identity of the young person and has not spoken directly to them.\n\nIt has not seen any of the Sun's body of evidence, or the dossier the Sun reported was handed to the corporation by the family over the weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens next in BBC presenter claims? David Sillito explains in 50 seconds\n\nThe BBC said on Sunday that a staff member had been suspended, but has not identified him.\n\nThe corporation said it was working as fast as possible \"to establish the facts in order to properly inform appropriate next steps\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is \"assessing\" information from the BBC over the allegations made against the presenter but has said there is currently no investigation.\n\nDetectives held a virtual meeting with BBC representatives on Monday, a spokesperson for the force said.\n\nIn its report on Friday, The Sun claimed that a BBC presenter had paid the individual tens of thousands of pounds for the images, starting when the young person was 17.\n\nThe BBC said it first became aware of a complaint in May, and that \"new allegations\" were received on Thursday, the day before the Sun first published its claims.\n\nOn Sunday, the Sun reported that the young person's family was said to be upset by the corporation's latest response, alleging \"no-one from the BBC rang them for a proper interview after the initial complaint\".\n\nThe paper also claimed the BBC presenter made what it called two \"panicked calls\" to the young person - who is now 20 - after the original story came out.", "Apple supplier Foxconn has pulled out of a $19.5bn (£15.2bn) deal with Indian mining giant Vedanta to build a chip making plant in the country.\n\nThe move comes less than a year after the companies announced plans to set up the facility in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.\n\nSome analysts say it marks a setback to the nation's technology industry goals.\n\nHowever, a government minister says it will have no impact on the country's chip making ambitions.\n\n\"There was recognition from both sides that the project was not moving fast enough,\" Taiwan-headquartered Foxconn said in a statement.\n\n\"There were challenging gaps we were not able to smoothly overcome, as well as external issues unrelated to the project,\" the firm added.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Foxconn told the BBC that the decision was made in \"mutual agreement\" with Vedanta, which has assumed full ownership of the venture.\n\nIt added that it would \"continue to strongly support the government's 'Make in India' ambitions\".\n\nNew Delhi-based Vedanta said it had \"lined up other partners to set up India's first [chip] foundry\".\n\n\"The surprise pull-out of Foxconn is a considerable blow to India's semiconductor ambitions,\" Paul Triolo from global advisory firm Albright Stonebridge Group told the BBC.\n\n\"The apparent cause of the pull-out is the lack of a clear technology partner and path for the joint venture,\" he added. \"Neither party had significant experience with developing and managing a large-scale semiconductor manufacturing operation.\"\n\nHowever, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India's Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, said on Twitter that Foxconn's decision had \"no impact on India's semiconductor fab[rication] goals. None.\"\n\nMr Chandrasekhar added that Foxconn and Vedanta were \"valued investors\" in the country and \"will now pursue their strategies in India independently\".\n\nThe Indian government has been working on strategies to support the chipmaking industry.\n\nLast year, it created a $10bn fund to attract more investors to the sector, in a bid to become less reliant on foreign chipmakers.\n\nPrime Minister Modi's flagship 'Make in India' scheme, which launched in 2014, is aimed at transforming the country into a global manufacturing hub to rival China.\n\nIn recent years, several other firms have announced plans to build semiconductor factories in India.\n\nLast month, US memory chip giant Micron said it would invest up to $825m to build a semiconductor assembly and test facility in India.\n\nMicron said that the construction of the new facility in Gujarat will begin this year. The project is expected to directly create up to 5,000 roles, and another 15,000 jobs in the area.", "Riikka Purra led the Finns Party to second place in April elections and her party now controls key ministries\n\nFinland's far-right finance minister, Riikka Purra, has apologised for a string of racist comments she posted 15 years ago that have just come to light.\n\nDescribing the posts as \"stupid\", she said she was sorry for the harm and resentment they had caused.\n\nMs Purra's Finns Party secured high-profile cabinet posts in the new government of conservative Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.\n\nBut in only three weeks it has been beset with accusations.\n\nIt is not a good look for a government that has barely got to grips with office, and for a prime minister who is due to welcome US President Joe Biden to Helsinki on Thursday.\n\nPresident Sauli Niinisto, who was attending the Nato summit in Lithuania, suggested it would be wise for the new government to \"take a clear stance of zero tolerance of racism\" which was soon forthcoming.\n\nMr Orpo made clear on social media there was \"zero tolerance for racism\" and each of the government's ministers were committed to working against racism at home and abroad.\n\n\"I'm not a perfect person, I've made mistakes,\" said Ms Purra on Twitter. She also co-signed a government statement with Mr Orpo and two other coalition party leaders assuring Finns that the entire cabinet was committed to equality and non-discrimination.\n\nRiikka Purra (left) has joined the prime minister (second right) and two other coalition party leaders in signing a statement on zero tolerance of racism\n\nHer anti-immigration, Eurosceptic Finns Party narrowly won second place in April elections, their best-ever result, finishing behind Mr Orpo's National Coalition Party. As well as taking up the post of finance minister she is also Finland's deputy prime minister.\n\nBut it was a series of racist comments made on a party colleague's blog in 2008 that have stirred controversy, written under the username \"riikka\" and uncovered by Finnish media.\n\nOne written on 25 September 2008 complained of young people of immigrant origin on a train: \"If they gave me a gun, there'd be bodies on a commuter train, you see.\"\n\nShe also referred to \"Turkish monkeys\" and then made a racial slur about black street hawkers selling \"fake Vuittons\" while she attended a conference in Spain: \"Greetings from Barcelona, there is no 'alarming immigration problem' to be seen here.\"\n\nInitially she did not confirm the comments were hers but did point out that the comments had been written years before she entered politics. Accepting that she had written and said \"stupid or absurd\" things, she was adamant that \"in this position, stage of life and age, I would not write anything like that\".\n\nBy Tuesday afternoon she had admitted the comments were hers but made clear they were 15 years old: \"I do not accept any kind of violence, racism or discrimination.\"\n\nShe became leader of the Finns Party, pushing their support to 20.1% of the electorate, after predecessor Jussi Halla-aho stepped down.\n\nHe is now speaker of parliament. It was his own blogging in 2008, including racist remarks about Islam and Somalis, that led to his resignation from a parliamentary committee in 2012.\n\nRiikka Purra's racist past is the most serious threat to Finland's young government so far - though is not the only scandal.\n\nAt the end of June, her party colleague Vilhelm Junnila was forced to resign as economy minister for making references to Adolf Hitler at a far-right event in 2019 and for references to abortions in Africa.\n\nLast week, Interior Minister Mari Rantanen - who is in the same party as Ms Purra - made clear she did not subscribe to conspiracy theories, after media reports alleged she believed Finns were being replaced by other races.\n\nThe Orpo-led coalition is made up of four parties. They have promised Finns they will lower government debt and tighten immigration rules on citizenship and residence permits.", "The former prime minister, Theresa May, argued the bill would \"consign more people to slavery\"\n\nSome senior Tory MPs have criticised the government's asylum reforms as MPs overturned changes made by the House of Lords to the Illegal Migration Bill.\n\nFormer PM Theresa May was among more than a dozen Tories arguing for a different approach from ministers.\n\nBut their calls did not stop MPs voting to reject revisions peers had made to the bill in the Lords.\n\nThe bill is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill seeks to deter people from making the crossing by toughening up the rules and conditions around seeking asylum.\n\nAs it was debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr Sunak said he was \"throwing absolutely everything\" at tackling Channel crossings.\n\nBut the passage of the bill has not been easy, with peers voting for 20 changes and campaigners calling on MPs to reject the government's proposals.\n\nThe amendments voted for by the Lords have been overturned by MPs in a series of 18 votes, although ahead of the debate, the Home Office offered several concessions, including on time limits for the detention of children and pregnant women.\n\nThe bill now heads to the Lords again, for peers to consider the changes made by MPs.\n\nIn a Commons debate, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick accused peers of \"wrecking\" the government's asylum reforms by trying to make amendments.\n\nMr Jenrick said it was \"vital\" that the bill was passed quickly and described amendments made by the Lords as being \"riddled with exceptions and get-out clauses\".\n\nThe government's concessions were not enough to win the backing of some Tory MPs, who raised concerns over how the bill treats unaccompanied children and the victims of modern slavery.\n\nMrs May said the bill \"will consign more people to slavery\", adding she would have to \"persist in disagreeing with the government\" on this issue.\n\nThe former prime minister told MPs: \"I know that ministers have said this bill will enable more perpetrators to be stopped, but on modern slavery I genuinely believe it will do the opposite.\n\n\"It will enable more slave-drivers to operate and make money out of human misery.\"\n\nShe was among 16 Conservatives who voted against the government's rejection of protections for people claiming to be victims of modern slavery.\n\nThere were also rebellions from Conservative MPs connected to the limits and conditions of detaining unaccompanied children.\n\nOne of the rebels, former Conservative minister Tim Loughton, said the \"assurances that we were promised have not materialised or, if they have, I am afraid nobody understands them\".\n\nHe complained about the timing of the concessions and said \"more work needs to be done\" on scrutinising the bill before it becomes law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick says cartoons in an asylum reception centre were painted over as they were not \"age appropriate\" for teenagers.\n\nOne of the most controversial aspects of the bill would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove migrants arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nStephen Kinnock, Labour's shadow immigration minister, said the government's Rwanda plan was \"fundamentally flawed\", and he accused Mr Jenrick of \"pettiness\" for painting over Mickey Mouse cartoons in an immigration centre.\n\nMr Kinnock said the bill would \"only make a terrible situation worse\" by increasing the asylum backlog, and \"ensure people smugglers are laughing all the way to the bank\".\n\nWith Parliament due to break for summer at the end of next week, the bill faces a prolonged stand-off between peers and the government during so-called parliamentary ping-pong, when legislation is batted between the Lords and Commons until agreement on the wording can be reached.\n\nThe latest figures show more than 13,000 migrants have made the crossing so far this year, including more than 1,600 in the last four days.\n\nThe government's efforts to curb the number of small boats crossing the Channel have been hampered in Parliament and the courts.\n\nA plan to house asylum seekers on a barge moored in Dorset has been delayed.\n\nAnd the government's policy of sending migrants to Rwanda is set for a legal battle in the Supreme Court.\n\nOn Monday, a senior Home Office official confirmed the department was paying to keep nearly 5,000 beds empty across the country, in case a sudden influx of migrants caused overcrowding at detention centres.\n\nThe government has stressed it remains committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, and has said it will challenge a Court of Appeal ruling last week that this was unlawful.", "Threads will add an alternative home feed of posts as part of a series of updates to the new social media app after users complained.\n\nInstagram boss Adam Mosseri said a feed for Threads showing posts in chronological order is currently being worked on.\n\nUsers want to see posts from accounts they follow rather than chosen by Threads' algorithm.\n\nMr Mosseri said the new feed was \"on the list\" of changes to Threads.\n\nMeta, which owns Threads, Instagram and Facebook, launched the social media app last week and more than 100 million users have signed up to use it.\n\nMr Mosseri said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, had given an alternative feed a \"thumbs up\", after a number of users expressed frustration at not being offered a feed of posts from people they followed, in the order in which they were posted.\n\nOther features \"on the list\", according Mr Mosseri, include:\n\nWhile it is possible to view Threads on the web, via Threads.net, there is no desktop interface - posts can be made only via the app - and that too was something the company was \"working on\", according to Mr Mosseri.\n\nThere is also no search function. When it announced the app's launch, the company said it would add a \"more robust search function\" along with improvements to the selection of recommended posts.\n\nMeanwhile the only way currently to fully delete a Threads profile is to delete the associated Instagram account, which many users would be reluctant to - another issue the company is looking to fix.\n\nWhen Threads was launched, Meta announced it planned to allow it to communicate with other social-media platforms, such as Mastodon, using something known as the fediverse.\n\nBut this suggestion while welcomed by some, has met opposition.\n\nThe idea of the fediverse is it is like email. Someone on Gmail can exchange emails with someone using Hotmail, for example, and the fediverse could be described as that idea applied to social media.\n\nAt some point in the future Meta wants users to be able to use their Threads account to interact with other social-media platforms using ActivityPub - a protocol with the necessary programming code - such as Mastodon, WordPress or Reddit-alternative Lemmy.\n\nBut some worry Threads threatens the idea of this system altogether, because of a practice big tech companies have utilised in the past - \"embrace, extend and extinguish\", when a company with a lot of resources extends what is possible from a new technology so drastically it becomes the new standard, leaving people with no choice but to use its platform.\n\nMastodon chief executive Eugen Rochko dismissed these fears, saying Meta joining Threads was \"validation of the movement towards decentralised social media\" and \"a clear victory for our cause\".\n\nBut concern among users has grown with over a hundred Mastodon communities joining what they call the \"fedipact\" - an agreement to block Meta from being able to access their community under any circumstances - so even when Threads does begin to support ActivityPub, users will not be able to access everything on the fediverse.\n\nOne other feature coming to Threads at some point may also receive mixed reviews. There is no advertising on the platform - for now.", "Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have been taking part in strikes over pay\n\nThe government is considering pay increases of 6-6.5% for public sector workers, the BBC understands.\n\nOfficial pay review bodies for employees including teachers, junior doctors and police have recommended the pay rise. Inflation to May was 8.7%.\n\nThe announcement will be made on Thursday, following formal sign off from the prime minister and chancellor.\n\nGovernment sources have told the BBC any rises over 3.5% would need to come out of existing departmental budgets.\n\nThe BBC has been told that all of the independent bodies have all recommended pay rises of between 6% and 6.5% for public sector workers, also including prison officers, senior civil servants and the armed forces.\n\nBut there have been heavy hints from ministers in the past few weeks that they may not accept these recommendations, stressing their argument for wage \"discipline\" during a period of high inflation.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak says pay awards should be \"responsible\" to avoid making inflation worse. He has made tackling rising prices his top political priority.\n\nDepartments had told pay review bodies they had budgeted for pay rises of about 3.5%.\n\nThe salaries of NHS staff in England - apart from junior doctors and dentists - are not included in these recommendations.\n\nUnder a deal set out earlier this year, NHS workers will receive a 5% pay rise. Ambulance workers, nurses, physios and porters will also get a one-off sum of at least £1,655.\n\nIt's expected the PM and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will tell ministers any awards higher than this will have to be funded through cuts or savings elsewhere in their own departments.\n\nA decision not to accept the recommendations would prompt fresh tensions with unions, raising the prospect of continuing public-sector strikes.\n\nMr Hunt ruled out funding pay rises with government borrowing during an interview on ITV1's Peston programme.\n\nIncreasing public sector pay through borrowing would \"pump billions of pounds of extra money into the economy\" leading to businesses \"putting up their prices\" and driving further inflation.\n\nAnd in a speech to leading figures from finance and business at the Mansion House this week, he said: \"Borrowing is itself inflationary.\"\n\nThe prime minister spoke to journalists ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania\n\nSpeaking at a news conference at the Nato summit in Lithuania, Mr Sunak said his decision about pay would be guided by \"fairness\" to public sector workers and taxpayers, as well as \"responsibility\".\n\nHe said he did not want to do anything that would \"fuel inflation, make it worse or last for longer\".\n\nSpeaking on Monday during a visit to Avon and Somerset police force, Home Secretary Suella Braverman would not answer directly whether the government should abide by recommendations on public sector pay.\n\nPraising police officers, she said: \"They do incredibly heroic work, day in, day out, and they save lives and it's right that we properly reward them for their sacrifice and their dedication.\n\n\"We know that there's an ongoing process - it is a decision for the whole of government.\n\n\"I don't want to pre-empt that process and the conclusions of that consideration, but it's right that we properly reward frontline police officers and bear in mind that we're in a very challenging situation, economically.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner declined to say whether her party would accept pay body recommendations.\n\nShe said she hadn't \"seen the books\" but a Labour government would do its best to negotiate a deal that was acceptable to public sector workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's fiscal rules are “non-negotiable”, says its deputy leader, but there is \"room in the middle” for pay rises.\n\nMr Sunak has previously pledged to halve inflation this year to about 5%, as part of his top five priorities since becoming prime minister.\n\nThe rate at which prices are rising remained unchanged at 8.7% in May, despite predictions it would fall.\n\nPersistent inflation levels would make it hard to cut taxes before the next election, Chancellor Hunt said in an interview with the Financial Times.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said he and the chancellor were \"completely united on wanting to reduce taxes for people\".\n\n\"But the number one priority right now is to reduce inflation and be responsible with government borrowing,\" he added.\n\nAlmost half of public sector workers are covered by pay review bodies, including police and prison officers, the armed forces, doctors, dentists and teachers.\n\nThe pay review bodies are made up of economists and experts on human resources, with experience in both the public and private sector and are appointed by the relevant government department.\n\nTheir recommendations are not legally binding, meaning the government can choose to reject or partially ignore the advice, but it is usually accepted.\n\nSome agreements have been reached, including a pay settlement for more than a million NHS staff in England.", "The Spider-Man star is currently taking a year-long break from acting\n\nFilm star Tom Holland says getting sober is \"the best thing I've ever done\", after realising he'd become \"enslaved\" to alcohol.\n\nSpeaking to the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, the star said his journey to sobriety began with \"a very, very boozy\" Christmas last year.\n\nBut after deciding to do dry January, he said, \"all I could think about was having a drink. It really scared me\".\n\n\"I just was like, 'Wow, maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing.\"\n\nThe realisation prompted him to extend his no-drinking rule for another month, but he found it hard to resist England's drinking culture.\n\n\"I felt like I couldn't be social,\" Holland said. \"I felt like I couldn't go to the pub and have a lime soda. I couldn't go out for dinner. I was really, really struggling.\n\n\"I just sort of said to myself, like, 'Why? Why am I enslaved to this drink? Why am I so obsessed by the idea of having this drink?'\"\n\nShaken, he set himself a target of going six months without drinking, and felt he had turned a corner when he celebrated his 27th birthday on 1 June.\n\nBy that time, he said, he was \"the happiest I've ever been in my life\".\n\nThe star went on to list some of the benefits he'd felt since giving up drink.\n\n\"I could sleep better. I could handle problems better,\" he said. \"Things that would go wrong on set, that would normally set me off, I could take in my stride. I had such better mental clarity. I felt healthier, I felt fitter.\n\n\"I'm happy to say it - I was definitely addicted to alcohol. I'm not shying away from that at all.\"\n\nHolland is currently dating his Spider-Man co-star Zendaya\n\nThe Spider-Man star added that getting sober had had some knock-on effects. He has distanced himself from the rugby community \"because so much of it is about how much can you drink\". And he also inspired his mother to get sober.\n\n\"She's loving it, and it's been amazing,\" he said. \"I can't believe the difference that I feel from not drinking. Yeah, I feel amazing.\"\n\nHolland is currently nine months into a year-long break from acting, after a gruelling shoot for the Apple TV series The Crowded Room.\n\nSpeaking last month, the star said he had found it \"tough\" to play a character based on \"the campus rapist\" Billy Milligan, a US man who claimed to have 24 alternate personalities.\n\nMilligan was the first person to be found not guilty of his crimes by reason of insanity - on the basis of dissociative identity disorder - and instead of going to prison he spent a decade in psychiatric hospitals.\n\n\"We were exploring certain emotions that I have definitely never experienced before,\" Holland told Extra TV.\n\n\"And then on top of that, being a producer, dealing with the day-to-day problems that come with any film set, just added that extra level of pressure.\n\n\"I'm now taking a year off, and that is a result of how difficult this show was.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Holland: \"There are kids who look up to Spider-Man\"\n\nAlthough the past year has seen him confront difficult issues, the actor has been supported by his girlfriend and Spider-Man co-star Zendaya.\n\nSpeaking to the Smartless podcast last week, he said he was \"lucky that I have someone like Zendaya in my life\".\n\n\"It's interesting being in a romantic relationship with someone that is in the same boat as you,\" he added.\n\n\"You can share your experiences and all that sort of stuff - and that's worth its weight in gold.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The recent anonymous complaint to the council says the new door colour is still a shade of pink\n\nAn Edinburgh woman who was ordered to repaint her pink door is facing a new council investigation over its latest colour.\n\nMiranda Dickson, 48, recently painted her door in the New Town \"an off-white\" after a previous green makeover was rejected by planners.\n\nBut Edinburgh Council has now received a fresh complaint that the door is back to pink.\n\nLast year Ms Dickson faced a £20,000 fine if she did not change the colour.\n\nMs Dickson told BBC Scotland she was stunned by the latest development.\n\nShe said: \"I am speechless that someone has complained about this colour as far as I was concerned this chapter in my life was closed.\n\n\"I'm shocked and distraught about it. It is definitely not the same colour as it was originally painted - it's an off-white.\n\n\"I feel bullied and that it has now become personal.\"\n\nMs Dickson first received an enforcement notice last year which said her pink door did not meet the standards of a house in the World Heritage Site.\n\nIt stated she must repaint it to its original colour of white or apply for planning permission.\n\nMiranda Dickson says her door is not \"bright pink\" as the complaint letter stated\n\nAfter an appeal failed she applied for planning permission to paint it green.\n\nIn April, before she received the outcome of her application, she painted the door green because she was near the fine deadline if it remained pink.\n\nLast week planners rejected the green colour so she painted it an \"off-white\" and applied again for retrospective planning permission.\n\nBut in a fresh twist the council said it had received a new complaint that the door was again pink.\n\nMs Dickson has previously said she was confused why she was being issued an enforcement notice when there were many other brightly coloured doors in the area.\n\nBut the council said it could only act where it had received a complaint.\n\nMs Dickson says there are other brightly painted doors in her neighbourhood which is a conservation area - her door (before it was repainted) is bottom left\n\nMs Dickson had spent 18 months renovating her childhood home in Drummond Place after her parents died.\n\nThe mother-of-two, who is a brand director in the drinks industry, moved back to Edinburgh two years ago after working in the US for nine years.\n\nShe had been told that she had until 7 January to change the colour of her front door after a complaint led to a council enforcement notice, which she appealed.\n\nMs Dickson said she had looked up the council's guidelines online before she painted the door.\n\nShe said that when she first received a warning letter from the council last year, she asked which colours would be allowed.\n\nMiranda Dickson next to the door when it was repainted green - which was also rejected by planners\n\nThe chief planning officer wrote back telling her to \"stick to traditional colours\" like dark red, dark grey, sage green, dark blue or black.\n\nBut then she received a council enforcement letter in October telling her to paint her door white.\n\n\"It's not like my door is in a bad condition,\" she said.\n\n\"It costs a lot of money to have the front door painted because they are very large. It's not a quick job.\n\n\"The council needs to act with more clarity over paint colour.\"\n\nA City of Edinburgh Council spokeswoman said: \"We have received a complaint alleging that the door has been repainted pink. We're currently looking into this and so can't say more at this time.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma MacKenzie is devastated she may have to leave despite signing a lease on a flat and accepting a job.\n\nA Canadian exchange student who has no degree due to the exams marking boycott fears she may have to leave Scotland.\n\nEdinburgh University student Emma MacKenzie, 22, has signed a lease on a flat and accepted a full-time job.\n\nBut she cannot renew her visa to stay in the UK unless she has received her qualifications by the 26 July deadline.\n\nShe is one of the students at 145 institutions across the UK have been affected by the University and College Union's (UCU) boycott.\n\nThe union says the boycott, which began on 20 April, could affect thousands of graduates.\n\nIt has vowed to continue its action until employers make an improved offer on pay and conditions.\n\nEdinburgh University said it was \"profoundly sorry that we have not been able to shield our students from the impact of this UK-wide dispute\".\n\nMiss MacKenzie, who paid £4,700 tuition fees for the year as well as £1,000 on her visa, said she was beginning to fear that she would have to fly back to Toronto.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It is a devastating situation and these past few weeks have been a whirlwind of anxiety and feeling out of control.\n\n\"I feel failed by the university. I've done everything asked of me and I've rightfully earned and paid for my degree.\"\n\nEmma was hoping to secure a two year visa so she could continue to live in Edinburgh\n\nShe completed the first three years of her undergraduate degree at Toronto University.\n\nBut now that her exchange visa is running out she wants to secure a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa, which allows people who graduate from one of the top 50 universities in the world to apply to remain in the UK for up to two years.\n\nShe said Toronto University cannot give her the undergraduate award she worked for because the marking boycott means she has not yet received her final grades from Edinburgh.\n\nMiss MacKenzie said Edinburgh had also been unwilling to provide her with projected grades, or even a \"Pass/Fail\" note - either of which would have allowed her to apply for the HPI visa and stay in Scotland.\n\nThe student said she had been in touch with the university for several weeks trying to resolve the situation.\n\nShe said: \"The last communication I had I was told the university has been given legal advice not to assist me and apologised for not being able to give me the information I was looking for.\n\n\"If nothing changes in the next few weeks I'm going to be forced to go back to Canada and it's very up in the air.\n\n\"Do I need to sublet the flat? Am I going to lose my flat altogether? My job? I don't know what to tell them. It's very, very disheartening.\"\n\nOther Edinburgh University students have described how they received empty scrolls with a letter of apology at their graduation ceremonies on Tuesday.\n\nA protest was held in Bristo Square outside the university's McEwan Hall, where the ceremony took place.\n\nA protest was held in Bristo Square outside McEwan Hall where the graduation ceremony took place on Tuesday\n\nIzzi Brannen, 22, said it was \"shameful\" for the university to be handing out empty scrolls, adding: \"I'm very angry. It was down to the university to settle this dispute but they didn't so now I have an empty scroll.\n\n\"The fact that I don't have a degree is going to affect my future. It's very uncertain.\n\n\"I've paid £9,250 a year plus maintenance. It's shameful. If you go to university and work hard, which I have, you should get a degree.\"\n\nAnother graduand, Mariangela Alejandro-Cortez, said she had paid about £79,000 to come to Scotland to study at Edinburgh and was severely in debt.\n\nShe added: \"It makes me really angry knowing that I have not only spent a lot of money but I've spent four years of my life working really hard to get this degree and I just don't have one and I don't know if I'll ever get one.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students protest as they graduate without their final marks\n\nA University of Edinburgh spokeswoman said: \"We recognise the significant impact this industrial action is having on our students' lives and future plans.\n\n\"The impact of the boycott varies from student to student and we are supporting individuals on a case by case basis, including arranging individual meetings to advise on alternative visa options where there are delays in providing marks to a visiting student's home institution.\n\nHow have you been affected by the marking boycott? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Michigan jury has ruled that a 2014 document found in Aretha Franklin's couch after her death is a valid will to her multi-million dollar estate.\n\nA two-day trial pitted the late Queen of Soul's children against each other in a battle over two handwritten versions of the singer's final wishes.\n\nAttorneys for two of Franklin's sons had asserted their half-brother Ted White \"wants to disinherit\" them.\n\nTuesday's verdict ends a nearly five-year legal squabble within the family.\n\nWhen Franklin died from pancreatic cancer in August 2018, it was widely believed she had not prepared a will to roughly $6m (£4.6m) in real estate, cash, gold records and furs, or to her music copyrights.\n\nBut, nine months later, her niece Sabrina Owens - the estate's executor at the time - discovered two separate sets of handwritten documents at the singer's home in Detroit.\n\nOne version, dated June 2010, was found inside a locked desk drawer, along with record contracts and other documents.\n\nA newer version, from March 2014, was found within a spiral notebook containing Franklin's doodles wedged beneath the living room sofa cushions.\n\nThe 2014 will includes the quote \"...being of sound mind, I write my will and testimony\"\n\nSix jurors in the city of Pontiac were tasked with determining whether or not the latter document qualifies as a valid will - a verdict they reached in less than an hour.\n\nAt the heart of the dispute are the distinctions between the two documents over what the soul superstar's four children would inherit.\n\nUnder the will now ruled valid, three sons would evenly split her music royalties and bank funds, while the youngest child Kecalf and his grandchildren would inherit his mother's primary residence, a gated mansion last valued at $1.2m (£928,000).\n\nThe 2010 document meanwhile would see a more even distribution of Franklin's assets, but requires that Kecalf and another son Edward \"must take business classes and get a certificate or a degree\" in order to benefit from the estate.\n\nKecalf and Edward have argued the newer document revokes the intentions of the older one, while their half-brother Ted argued it did not.\n\nTaking the stand, Kecalf testified that his mother often handled business on the couch and it \"doesn't strike me as odd\" that a will had been found there.\n\nDuring closing arguments on Tuesday, his lawyer argued the nature of the notebook's discovery was \"inconsequential\".\n\n\"You can take your will and leave it on the kitchen counter,\" said Charles McKelvie. \"It's still your will.\"\n\nAnd Edward's lawyer, Craig Smith, highlighted the document's first line - \"To whom it may concern and being of sound mind, I write my will and testimony\" - to argue their mother was \"speaking from the grave\".\n\n\"Teddy wants to disinherit his two brothers,\" he alleged. \"Teddy wants it all.\"\n\nTed, who was his mother's touring guitarist, told the trial that Franklin would have written a will \"conventionally and legally\" rather than by \"freehand\".\n\nHis attorney Kurt Olson pointed out on Tuesday that the 2010 will was under lock and key in the house rather than under the cushions.\n\n\"They're trying to make Ted a bad guy,\" said Mr Olson.\n\nAretha's son Kecalf Franklin (right) argued her handwritten will did not strike him as odd\n\nFranklin's eldest child Clarence, who lives in assisted housing under a guardianship, was not involved in the dispute.\n\nHe will receive an undisclosed percentage of the estate in a pre-trial agreement reached between his brothers and his guardian.\n\nSurveys suggest more than 70% of black Americans do not have wills, in part because of centuries of distrust in the US legal system and concerns over the seizure of black-owned property.\n\nHeirs to other prominent musicians, such as Prince and James Brown, took several years to resolve rows over their estates.\n\nAt the time of Franklin's death, her fortune was estimated to be $80m, but more recent valuations and several years of unpaid taxes have vastly reduced that number.\n\nNicholas Papasifakis, who currently serves as Franklin's personal representative, has previously said he will follow the court's determination and distribute her assets accordingly.\n\nOutside court after the verdict, Kecalf Franklin said: \"I'm very, very happy. I just wanted my mother's wishes to be adhered to. We just want to exhale right now. It's been a long five years for my family, my children.\"\n\nAlthough he did not appear to speak with his brother Ted in the courtroom, he added: \"I love my brother with all my heart.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Aretha Franklin in her own words", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marius Draghici is sentenced for his role in the killing of 39 people found in Essex\n\nA people trafficker has been jailed for 12 years and seven months over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who died in a lorry container.\n\nMarius Draghici, 50, from Romania, admitted 39 counts of manslaughter and one count of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nThe bodies were discovered on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard conditions in the trailer must have been \"unspeakable\".\n\nMarius Draghici was referred to as the \"right-hand man\" to one of the ringleaders\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Garnham, said Draghici \"was a small but essential cog in the wheels of this criminal conspiracy\" that \"put would-be migrants at risk of death\".\n\nHe was also sentenced to four years and two months in prison for the unlawful immigration offence, to be served concurrently.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDraghici was in charge of the migrants' onward transportation in the UK - acting as a driver - and prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC described him as the \"right hand man\" to one of the ringleaders, Gheorghe Nica.\n\nFellow Romanian Nica, of Basildon, Essex, is one of four men already convicted of manslaughter - and one of 11 in total now jailed in connection with the deaths.\n\nThe victims included 28 men, eight women and three children varying between the ages of 15 and 44.\n\nThey had paid a fee of £10,000, rising to £13,000, for what was promised as a \"VIP\" route to Europe and the hope of better-paid work.\n\nThe migrants travelled on 22 October, 2019, from Paris to Bierne, a town in northern France, where they were then seen being taken by taxis to a shed on an isolated farm.\n\nThey later clambered into a lorry, which was seen on CCTV footage making its way across France towards the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, where it was loaded onto a ferry bound for Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex.\n\nTemperatures rose to 38.5C (101F) in the container, by which point oxygen levels had slumped and the air was too toxic for human life.\n\nThey suffocated to death, dying from asphyxia and carbon monoxide poisoning.\n\nMany of the victims hoped to find better paid work in the UK\n\nAudio recordings from the victims' final voice messages to loved ones were played to the Old Bailey, which the judge described as \"pitiful\".\n\nThe HGV driver Maurice Robinson, of Craigavon, County Armagh, opened the trailer up on the industrial estate in the early hours of 23 October and discovered their bodies - before eventually calling 999.\n\nDraghici fled the country but was eventually detained in the Romanian capital Bucharest before being extradited in late 2022.\n\nHe admitted to having been at the isolated Collingwood Farm in Orsett, Essex, where migrants were dropped off during previous trafficking operations on 11 and 18 October.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nVictim impact statements from relatives were read in court, including the account of trained hairdresser Nguyen Huy Hung, 15, who paid £12,000 to travel from France to the UK.\n\nMarried couple Tran Hai Loc and Nguyen Thi Van, who had two young children still in Vietnam, planned to work as fruit pickers in Hungary but unexpectedly decided to travel to the UK.\n\nTheir family said they still owed $14,000 (£10,860) and that life was \"very difficult\" without them.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter in January 2021\n\nDefence barrister Gillian Jones KC said Draghici did not play a managerial role in the operation, and was \"under direction\", and he fled the country because he was \"terrified\" and \"horrified\" by what happened.\n\nMr Justice Garnham accepted that Draghici felt \"genuine remorse\" for what he did.\n\nDet Ch Supt Stuart Hooper of Essex Police said: \"This has never been about being triumphant, this has always been about delivering justice for 39 families who had their worlds ripped apart.\"\n\nNational Crime Agency deputy director Tom Dowdall said: \"It was an appalling example of just how callous people smuggling gangs are, who are prepared to risk the lives of those they transport for financial gain.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bank of America has been ordered to pay out $150m (£116m) in penalties after it was found to have opened credit cards without customers' permission.\n\nRegulators also discovered the bank \"double-dipped\" fees from customers and withheld promised reward bonuses.\n\nThe violations at the US's second-largest bank affect hundreds of thousands of customers and date back to 2012 in some cases, regulators said.\n\nBank of America has not admitted or denied the investigation's findings.\n\nThe bank has been ordered to refund customers and pay a total of $150m in penalties to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).\n\nCustomer refunds are expected to be worth more than $80m, the CFPB said.\n\nThe regulator said Bank of America illegally applied for and enrolled consumers in credit card accounts without their knowledge or authorisation to help bank employees reach sales incentive goals.\n\nCustomers were charged unjustified fees and \"suffered negative effects to their credit profiles\", said the CFPB.\n\nBank of America is also accused of double-dipping fees that were charged when a customer had insufficient funds in their account.\n\nPeople were charged $35 when a transaction was declined. But Bank of America allowed fees to be repeatedly charged for the same transaction.\n\nThe lender said it has since ended charging the $35 fee for insufficient funds and reduced overdraft fees.\n\nBank of America also eliminated sales goals for its credit card staff in January 2023, and agreed to keep that change in place for at least three years.\n\nRohit Chopra, director at the CFPB, said: \"Bank of America wrongfully withheld credit card rewards, double-dipped on fees, and opened accounts without consent.\n\n\"These practices are illegal and undermine customer trust. The CFPB will be putting an end to these practices across the banking system.\"\n\nPresident Joe Biden has pledged to crack down on \"junk fees\" imposed by companies across a range of industries, including sales of concert tickets and airline flights.\n\nHe has urged Congress to outlaw certain charges, such as fees for quitting a mobile phone or pay TV service before the contract expires.\n\nUnder his direction, the CFPB increased its scrutiny of banks and their customer fees in 2022, soliciting complaints from consumers about practices such as overdraft fees.\n\nThe White House has said its push has led to more than $5bn in annual savings for the public, after many banks, including Bank of America, voluntarily eliminated or reduced the charges.\n\nBank of America said the money it made from overdraft and non-sufficient fund fees has dropped more than 90% as a result of changes made in the first half of 2022.\n\nThe bank was fined $20m in 2014 and ordered to pay more than $700m to customers for deceptive marketing and illegal charges related to its credit cards. It was also ordered to pay $225m in penalties last year for botching the distribution of unemployment benefits.\n• None What are junk fees and how might Biden tackle them?", "A bounty was recently offered by Hong Kong authorities for Nathan Law\n\nHong Kong police have raided the family home of Nathan Law, a leading pro-democracy activist in exile in the UK.\n\nLocal media reported that Mr Law's parents and one of his brothers were also taken away for questioning.\n\nThe raid comes a week after authorities issued a HK$1m (£99,100; US$127,800) bounty for his arrest, as well as for that of seven other activists.\n\nMr Law, who fled to the UK in 2020 where he was granted political asylum, is yet to comment on the developments.\n\nThe raid happened on Tuesday morning and police have now confirmed to BBC News Chinese that three people were detained on \"suspicion of assisting a person on the run to continue behaviour that threatens national security\".\n\nLocal media is reporting that the three individuals were subsequently released after questioning.\n\nPolice have also said more \"law enforcement actions, including arrests\" could be made.\n\nHong Kong authorities on 3 July issued arrest warrants and rewards for information leading to the capture of Mr Law and seven other Hong Kong political activists living in exile.\n\nThe eight activists targeted are accused of colluding with foreign forces - a crime that can carry a sentence of life in prison. The offence comes under Hong Kong's draconian security law which was imposed three years ago after widespread pro-democracy protests took place in the former British territory in 2019.\n\nHong Kong's Chief Executive John Lee told a media briefing on Tuesday that investigations against activists would intensify as Hong Kong authorities seek to \"pursue them for life\".\n\n\"We will exhaust all means to pursue them... We will also pursue the forces behind the scenes that support and perhaps even control them.\n\n\"As I have said, we should treat them as 'rats on the streets' and avoid them,\" he said, repeating earlier comments.\n\nLast week, Mr Lee urged the activists to give themselves up, adding that otherwise they would spend their days in fear.\n\nThe countries in which the activists live - the UK, the US and Australia - do not have extradition treaties with China, and have condemned the order from Hong Kong authorities.\n\nHowever, at least five people with connections to the activists have been arrested in Hong Kong since the announcement. The police said they \"do not rule out the possibility that more arrests will be made\".\n\nMr Law told the BBC last week he would have to be more careful following the order.\n\nHe is one of the most prominent figures in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, and was one of the unofficial leaders of the 2019 demonstrations.\n\nAfter fleeing Hong Kong in 2020, he had issued a statement saying he had cut off all ties with his family.\n\nHe told the BBC last week he felt his situation was \"relatively safe\" in the UK, but he would have to be more vigilant as a result of the bounty's announcement.\n\n\"There could possibly be someone in the UK - or anywhere else - to provide informations of me to (the Hong Kong authorities). For example, my whereabouts, where they could possibly extradite me when I'm transiting in certain countries,\" Mr Law said.\n\n\"All these things may put my life in to dangerous situations if I'm not careful enough of who I meet or where I go. It makes me have to live in a more careful life.\"", "The illegal migration bill is currently passing through Parliament\n\nThe UK government has offered to limit detention periods for children and pregnant women to get its migration bill passed.\n\nMPs will vote later on 20 changes backed by peers in the House of Lords.\n\nWhile Conservative MPs are expected to reject most changes, ministers have made concessions to get the bill through Parliament.\n\nThe bill is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Tuesday ahead of a Nato summit, he said his plan was \"starting to work\" and he \"always said it would take time\".\n\nHe added that he always expected crossings \"would rise in the summer,\" after latest figures showed more than 1,000 migrants made the dangerous journey over two days last week.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill is the government's attempt to deter people from making the crossing by toughening up the rules and conditions around seeking asylum.\n\nThe bill would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove migrants arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe bill originally removed the existing time limits on how long unaccompanied children and pregnant women could be detained, but they were reinstated by peers in the Lords.\n\nNow ministers have proposed an amendment to allow immigration bail to be granted after eight days to unaccompanied children in detention.\n\nThe government has also agreed to keep the current limit on detaining pregnant women at 72 hours.\n\nSome of the government's critics over the child detention issue have said they will accept the eight-day compromise, but intend to push for more concessions on the quality of accommodation provided.\n\nAnother new change means the duty on the home secretary to remove anyone entering the UK without permission will only apply when the legislation becomes law, not retrospectively.\n\nWith Parliament due to break for summer at the end of next week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the amendments would help the \"crucial\" new law pass \"swiftly\".\n\nIt would also \"send a clear message that the exploitation of children and vulnerable people, used by criminals and ferried across the Channel, cannot continue,\" she added.\n\nThe government's efforts to curb the number of small boats crossing the Channel have been hampered in Parliament and the courts.\n\nA plan to house asylum seekers on a barge moored in Dorset has been delayed.\n\nAnd the government's policy of sending migrants to Rwanda is set for a legal battle in the Supreme Court.\n\nOn Monday, a senior Home Office official confirmed the department was paying to keep nearly 5,000 beds empty across the country, in case a sudden influx of migrants caused overcrowding at detention centres.\n\nThe government has stressed it remains committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, and has said it will challenge a Court of Appeal ruling last week that this was unlawful.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Wallace will be forgiven for his frankness\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s remarks about Ukraine needing to be more grateful should be seen in context. He was not voicing frustration or anger. He was instead suggesting Kyiv needed to be more politically savvy. He was saying Ukrainian officials should understand more about the internal politics of their allies, particularly the United States. They should not be surprised, he suggested, there were a few “grumbles” on Capitol Hill if they turned up in Washington with a shopping list of weapons, as if the US government were like a branch of Amazon. They should understand, Wallace said, they were asking some countries to give up the bulk of their ammunition stocks. So Wallace’s remarks were like a parent telling a child to remember to write a thank-you letter to a relative so they get a present next year too. It might not have been very diplomatic for him to say this in the middle of a summit designed to emphasise Nato unity. But Wallace is known for his outspoken support for Ukraine and his efforts to send Western military arms and ammunition to the country - so he will probably be forgiven for his frankness, which will come as no surprise to Britain’s allies.", "Australia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is appealing against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes.\n\nA judge last month ruled articles alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had murdered four Afghans were true.\n\nIt was the first time in history any court has assessed claims of war crimes by Australian forces.\n\nMr Roberts-Smith is not facing criminal charges and maintains his innocence. His grounds for appeal are unknown.\n\nThe former special forces corporal sued three Australian newspapers over a series of articles alleging serious misconduct while he was deployed in Afghanistan between 2009-2012 as part of a US-led military coalition.\n\nAt the time the articles were published in 2018, Mr Roberts-Smith was considered a national hero, having been awarded Australia's highest military honour for single-handedly overpowering Taliban fighters attacking his Special Air Service (SAS) platoon.\n\nThe 44-year-old claimed the papers ruined his life with their reports that he had broken the moral and legal rules of war.\n\nHis defamation case - dubbed by some \"the trial of the century\" - lasted 110 days and was rumoured to have cost up to A$25m ($16.3m; £13.2m).\n\nOn 1 June a Federal Court judge threw out the case against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Canberra Times, ruling it was \"substantially true\" that Mr Roberts-Smith had murdered unarmed Afghan prisoners and civilians and bullied fellow soldiers.\n\nJustice Anthony Besanko also found that Mr Roberts-Smith lied to cover up his misconduct and threatened witnesses.\n\nAdditional allegations that he had punched his lover, threatened a peer, and committed two other murders were not proven to the \"balance of probabilities\" standard required in civil cases.\n\nMr Roberts-Smith, who left the defence force in 2013, has not been charged over any of the claims in a criminal court, where there is a higher burden of proof.\n\nNone of the evidence presented in the civil defamation case against Mr Roberts-Smith can be used in any criminal proceedings, meaning investigators must gather their own independently.\n\nBut the case has raised the spectre of a possible wider reckoning over claims of war crimes by Australian forces.\n\nIn 2020, a landmark investigation known as the Brereton Report found \"credible evidence\" that elite Australian soldiers unlawfully killed 39 people in Afghanistan.\n\nIt recommended that 19 current or former soldiers should be investigated over alleged killings of prisoners and civilians from 2009-13.\n\nAustralian troops were deployed to Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021, as part of a US-led coalition that ousted the Taliban after the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States. The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021.", "Boris and Carrie Johnson have announced the birth of a son, their third child together and first since he stood down as prime minister.\n\nFrank Alfred Odysseus Johnson was born on 5 July, according to a social media post by Mrs Johnson.\n\nThe new baby joins son Wilfred and daughter Romy, both born during Mr Johnson term in office.\n\nOn Instagram, Mrs Johnson said the family was \"all very smitten\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by carrielbjohnson This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr and Mrs Johnson's first child, Wilfred, was born on 29 April 2020, in the early months of the Covid-19 crisis, and their daughter Romy born on 9 December 2021.\n\nThe former prime minister has four grown-up children with second wife Marina Wheeler, and another daughter from an affair.\n\nHe did not have any children with his first wife Allegra Mostyn-Owen.\n\nWriting on social media Mrs Johnson said: \"Welcome to the world Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson born 5th July at 9.15am. Can you guess which name my husband chose?\n\n\"Seeing my older two embrace their new brother with such joy and excitement has been the most wonderful thing to see.\n\n\"Thank you so much to the incredible NHS maternity team at UCLH. They really are the most amazing, caring people. I feel such immense gratitude.\"\n\nMr Johnson stood down as an MP on 9 June, just hours after he was handed a report from a committee of MPs investigating whether he misled Parliament about lockdown events in Downing Street.", "Helen Ray said: \"Each family has received an unreserved apology from me on behalf of the trust.\"\n\nAn ambulance service has apologised to families following a review into claims it covered up errors by paramedics and withheld evidence from coroners.\n\nThe families of a teenager and a 62-year-old man were not told paramedics' responses were being investigated by North East Ambulance Service (NEAS).\n\nThe deaths, in 2018 and 2019, were raised by a whistleblower last year.\n\nNEAS chief executive Helen Ray said she was sorry \"for any distress caused to the families\" by past mistakes.\n\nAmong the findings of the independent review carried out by Dame Marianne Griffiths, were inaccuracies in information provided to the coroner, employees who were \"fearful of speaking up\" and \"poor behaviour by senior staff\".\n\nThe study, commissioned by the former health secretary Sajid Javid in August, examined four of the five cases that were highlighted by the whistleblower, initially in The Sunday Times.\n\nIt found two bereaved families were left in the dark about investigations into the response of paramedics called to help their loved ones.\n\nQuinn Milburn-Beadle was declared dead by paramedic Gavin Wood, who did not follow guidelines\n\nThe family of 17-year-old Quinn Milburn-Beadle, from Shildon, County Durham, only found out what happened when a family liaison officer visited a few days before her inquest in April 2019.\n\nThe review said a rapid response paramedic - who has since been struck off - \"did not adhere to national and local guidelines\" in stopping CPR and declaring her dead.\n\nIt found that \"however small the probability of recovering was\" the teenager \"deserved that chance and so did her family\". A narrative verdict was recorded by the coroner almost two years after her death.\n\nIn the case of 62-year-old Peter Coates from Dormanstown near Redcar, he had called 999 in March 2019 when a power cut meant his home oxygen supply stopped working. The review discovered crews arrived 36 minutes after his call.\n\nIt found one team had stopped to refuel the ambulance en route and another was unable to make the three-minute journey because a power cut had prevented the gates at the ambulance station from opening.\n\nMr Coates' family, who eventually learned what happened via the whistleblower, believe if the crews had reached him sooner \"he might still be alive\".\n\nPeter Coates died before an ambulance arrived at his home\n\nAnother call highlighted in the report was in November 2019 when a 62-year-old man had fallen on to a wooden laundry basket.\n\nDespite his niece telling 999 operators she feared he had suffered a punctured lung and was struggling to breathe, it took more than an hour for an ambulance to arrive. In that time the man was in cardiac arrest and died.\n\nThe review found there was a \"trend\" for NEAS to provide coroners with \"confusing or conflated\" information rather than the original material and there was \"no independent communications with families\" which would have \"lessened the trauma\".\n\nIt also found opportunities for learning were missed, with established processes not being followed by NEAS.\n\nIt noted \"leadership dysfunction\" and \"antagonism\" between leadership teams. Staff were \"fearful of speaking up\" and those who did raise concerns were left \"anxious, frustrated and stressed\", it said.\n\nIncluded among the recommendations were:\n\nThe review also stated that NEAS - the second smallest ambulance trust in the country - required additional funding.\n\nThe review into North East Ambulance Service was announced by the government last August\n\nDame Marianne Griffiths paid tribute to the families for sharing their testimonies.\n\n\"It is clear that they are not only devastated by the loss of their loved ones but also by the ambulance service's response to the legitimate questions about their care,\" she said.\n\n\"The families' primary motivation remains to spare others this pain.\"\n\nShe added the NEAS \"co-operated fully\" with the investigation and the current executive team was \"committed to making the recommended changes\".\n\nNEAS chief executive Helen Ray said she had written to the families involved to apologise and invited them to meet in person, adding that the 15 recommendations were being \"actioned at pace\".\n\n\"There were flaws in our processes and these have now either been addressed or are being resolved. We are grateful the report recognises that we have a new leadership team committed to addressing the issues,\" Ms Ray said.\n\nShe added governance, systems and processes relating to investigations and coronial reports had been \"strengthened\" and resources had been increased allowing issues of concern to be \"easier to be flagged\".\n\nEarlier this month, health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) identified improvements to NEAS services were needed during a fresh inspection of emergency and urgent care services.\n\nHowever, the CQC said NEAS had made \"some improvement\" and moved its rating from \"inadequate\" to \"requires improvement\".\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "A man accused of killing a retired teacher after a row about Welsh independence admitted to police that he pushed him, a court has heard.\n\nPeter Ormerod, 75, died after getting into a row with Hywel Williams, 40, outside a pub in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, on 24 September 2022.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard the men were arguing about Wales' place in the UK.\n\nMr Williams, from Grangetown, Cardiff, denies manslaughter, saying he acted in self defence.\n\nThe jury heard a 999 call he made to Dyfed-Powys Police about 40 seconds after the incident.\n\nDuring the call Mr Williams told the call handler \"I pushed him\" after the former maths teacher swore at him.\n\n\"I don't believe this is happening,\" he said on the call.\n\nThe court also heard that Mr Ormerod was bleeding heavily from his ear and had a weak pulse.\n\nOn CCTV footage shown in court, Mr Williams could be seen pushing Mr Ormerod, who hit his head on the ground and stopped moving.\n\nMr Williams' mother, Marilyn Williams, who was standing next to her son, could be heard screaming: \"Oh Hywel, Hywel.\"\n\nHe replied: \"Whatever, mam. He can't come at me like that,\" followed by expletives about Mr Ormerod.\n\nThe CCTV footage also showed Mr Williams getting a defibrillator opposite Burry Port railway station.\n\nMr Ormerod died in hospital four days later, having suffered traumatic head and brain injuries.\n\nThe court heard he previously taught at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys in Carmarthen, and at the Welsh language school Ysgol Bro Myrddin.\n\nMalcolm Parker, landlord of the Portobello Inn pub was one of the first to arrive at the scene and gave evidence on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHe said Mr Ormerod was visibly unhappy leaving the pub on 24 September last year, slamming a gate behind him.\n\n\"He looked like he had a bee in his bonnet,\" Mr Parker told the court.\n\nHe said during the altercation Mr Ormerod \"moved into the other man's personal space\" causing Mr Williams to push him.\n\nMr Parker described the push as \"a panic push\", and said he could hear Mr Ormerod's head hit the pavement.\n\nMr Williams \"couldn't stop shaking\" and was visibly upset afterwards, he said.", "One head teacher said having pupils asking to go to the toilet within minutes of a lesson starting was \"massively disruptive\"\n\nAnita Ellis said letting pupils go to the toilet within minutes of a lesson starting can be \"massively disruptive\".\n\nRoyal Wootton Bassett Academy is one of many schools across the UK following the practice as it also sees a rise in vandalism and vaping during lessons.\n\nBut a charity has called for the government to look again at how schools decide rules around pupils' access to toilets.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wiltshire, Ms Ellis said: \"If you can imagine a class of 30, every student after a few minutes asks to go to the toilet then learning is stagnating.\n\n\"The learning does stop and so it is massively disruptive.\"\n\nShe said the policy was about \"protecting the students\".\n\nAnd while they do have a right to go to the toilet, in an \"ideal world they would be able to go to the toilet whenever they wanted to\", she added.\n\n\"We do have to consider the safety but also the learning of all children.\"\n\nThe rules mean that pupils are free to use toilets before and after school and during lunch and breaks.\n\nThey can still be used during lessons but this is decided on a case-by-case basis and there are some exceptions for students with medical passes.\n\nHowever, the move has not been universally popular.\n\nBowel and bladder charity Eric has called for the government to look again at how schools decide rules around access to toilets.\n\nThe Department for Education said all schools \"should have arrangements in place to allow pupils to use toilet facilities when they need them\".\n\nA spokesperson said it also backs head teachers to have rules to manage pupil behaviour.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reading levels among Year 6 pupils in England have fallen, after a controversial Sats paper, which some teachers and parents said was too hard.\n\nScoring was moderated so that pupils needed fewer marks to reach the expected level. Despite that, fewer pupils achieved that level in 2023 than in 2022.\n\nStandards either increased or remained the same in other individual subjects.\n\nBut combined reading, writing and maths levels are still lower than pre-Covid.\n\nThis year, 59% of pupils reached the expected level in these three subjects combined - compared to 65% in 2019.\n\nBy 2030, the government wants 90% of children leaving primary school to reach the expected standards in reading, writing and maths.\n\nResults show 73% of pupils met the expected standards in reading, down from 75% in 2022.\n\nConcerns were raised about the length and complexity of this summer's reading paper, the contents of which were first seen by the BBC.\n\nOne question asked 10 and 11-year-olds to find a similar word to \"eat\" in a passage that contained both \"consume\" and \"feeding\" - although, according to the mark scheme, both answers were acceptable.\n\nThe scoring of this year's reading paper suggests it was harder than last year's. Just 24 marks were needed to meet the expected level, compared with 29 in 2022.\n\nThe Standards and Testing Agency deemed the relative difficulty of the reading paper to be appropriate.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) says its tests are developed over three years, and this year's papers were trialled with around 1,000 pupils.\n\nRecruitment manager Victoria Williams says she was \"devastated\" that her daughter Georgina had been upset about the reading paper\n\nVictoria Williams's daughter Georgina was one of the pupils who was unable to finish the Year 6 Sats reading paper.\n\nShe found out on Tuesday morning that she had scored 108 in reading - comfortably past the 100-mark boundary needed to reach expected standards, but not quite the \"magic\" 110 score that her school had told her she was capable of.\n\nHer mother says Georgina will be \"bound to be disappointed\", especially after being \"so upset\" on the day she sat the test.\n\nThe recruitment manager, from Princes Risborough, in Buckinghamshire, said Georgina had told her the paper had been \"awful\" and that she had sat crying to herself during the test.\n\n\"There's this enormous build-up to the Sats, which is debatable sort of how healthy that is,\" Mrs Williams told the BBC.\n\n\"She felt she had let herself down. She couldn't understand why she hadn't been able to finish the paper, because in all the practices she had managed to do so.\n\n\"We had to do a lot of reassuring and propping up and reminding her that it's not that important.\"\n\nMrs Williams said she was concerned the bad experience might stick with Georgina - \"my children don't seem to forget these things\" - but hopes fun activities like the end-of-term play are \"enough to counter any disappointment\".\n\nIn other subjects, the proportion of pupils reaching the expected level was:\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb said it was \"encouraging to see attainment levels improving in some key subjects\" after the pandemic had disrupted pupils' education.\n\nHe said the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) had been \"crucial in helping those pupils most in need of support\".\n\nLast month, MPs stressed that about 13% of schools in England did not take part in the NTP in 2021-22, and urged the government to take faster and more effective action to help students catch up.\n\nStephen Morgan, Labour's shadow schools minister, said \"children's education [was] paying the price for the failure\" of the NTP.\n\nTiffnie Harris, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said schools were \"straining every sinew to improve results\" and asked the government to address \"the national crisis caused by teacher shortages and inadequate funding\".\n\nPaul Whiteman, of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said Sats were a \"snapshot of what a child can do\" and it was \"time to change the system of statutory assessment\".\n\nHe added that some school leaders were \"rightly frustrated\" by problems accessing pupils' results online on Tuesday morning.\n\nCapita, which runs the online system, said it had been \"operational, just busy\", and urged teachers to be patient.\n\nThe NAHT raised concerns about missing and incorrectly marked papers last year. According to the Standards and Testing Agency, 7,437 pupils - just over 1% of the cohort - were missing outcomes on results day in 2022.\n\nStandard Assessment Tests, or Sats, are tests that children take in Year 6, at the end of Key Stage 2. They are national curriculum assessments in English grammar, punctuation and spelling, English reading and maths.\n\nThe government's Standards and Testing Agency says the purposes of Sats tests are to:\n\nChildren also sit Sats in Year 2, at the end of Key Stage 1.\n\nDid your child struggle with the reading test? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "China represents the \"largest state-based threat\" to Britain's economic security, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has told the BBC.\n\nIt comes as figures show the government intervened in eight attempted takeovers of UK firms by Chinese buyers last year over national security fears.\n\nThat was more than any other country, but UK and US deals were also targeted.\n\nMr Dowden said the decisions were \"country agnostic\" but he was \"clear-eyed\" about UK national security.\n\n\"I'm very clear that I do not want us to decouple from China, I don't think it's in our interest,\" he said.\n\n\"But at the same time, we have to be clear-eyed about protecting our national security, just in the same way that the Chinese are.\"\n\nUnder the National Security and Investment Act 2021, the government has the power to block or impose remedies on investments deemed to pose a national security risk.\n\nIn a report, the Cabinet Office said it had received 866 notifications about potential breaches in the last financial year, relating to areas such as defence, energy, advanced materials and communications.\n\nOf these it chose to \"call in\" 65 for further assessment - 42% of which involved acquirers associated with China, 32% with the UK, and 20% with the US.\n\nThe Cabinet Office approved most of these deals but issued \"final orders\" in 15 cases, blocking, unwinding or imposing conditions on the deals to protect national security.\n\nIt said eight of these final orders involved acquirers associated with China, four with the UK, and three with the US.\n\nAsked why Chinese deals were disproportionately targeted, Mr Dowden said: \"The first [reason] is China is just a very big investor, globally. And the second is, as we set out in our national security review, China represents the largest state-based threat to economic security.\n\n\"So it's not a surprise that we should look carefully at Chinese transactions. But equally, we look across the board.\"\n\nChinese firms have been targeted by regulators around the world in the last few years amid concerns that the Chinese state might use them for spying purposes.\n\nProminent examples include telecoms giant Huawei, which was banned in 2020 from the UK's 5G mobile networks - a decision mirrored by other countries.\n\nLast year, Chinese-owned social media app TikTok was banned on UK government devices as part of a security review.\n\nIn the report, Mr Dowden said the National Security and Investment Act was meant to be \"light touch\", incentivising investment in the UK, while also protecting national security \"in an increasingly volatile world\".\n\nHe told the BBC that by blocking or imposing remedies on deals, foreign investors would have more confidence to invest in Britain \"because they know it's safe\".\n\n\"But at the same time, we cannot find ourselves in a situation where we totally decouple from an economy like China's, it's not in our national interest in terms of jobs and prosperity,\" he said.\n\n\"What we have to do is de-risk that engagement. And that is precisely what this kind of legislation enables us to do.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC presenter 'needs to come forward now', says Vine\n\nThe presenter at the centre of claims about his private life could be sacked now that fresh allegations have been made, Jeremy Vine has said.\n\nBut Vine - unconnected to the claims - said even if the presenter was sacked he would still not be named by the BBC and urged him to name himself.\n\nThe BBC and the Sun published new claims following the original allegation that the presenter paid a young person for explicit photos.\n\nThe BBC has suspended the presenter.\n\nAppearing on his programme on Channel Five on Wednesday, Vine, who also hosts a programme on BBC Radio 2, said allegations had reached a \"dangerous point\" for the presenter.\n\n\"Look at the damage to the BBC, look at the damage to his friends,\" Vine said.\n\nHe added: \"The idea that he could just remain anonymous forever, and then walk back into the building with his ID pass? Oh no, that's not going to happen.\"\n\nThe initial allegations, first reported by the Sun on Friday, were that the presenter paid a young person for explicit photos, beginning when they were 17.\n\nThe paper quoted a mother as saying her child, now 20, had used the money paid for explicit photos to fund a crack cocaine habit, and she was worried they could \"wind up dead\".\n\nA lawyer for the young person has since said the accusations were \"rubbish\" but the family are standing by the account.\n\nThe Sun declined a request from BBC News for an interview with a representative, and did not answer a series of questions about the story, including what evidence it had seen for the claims.\n\nThe presenter is not being named because of concerns about defamation and breaching his privacy.\n\nOn Tuesday, the BBC published an investigation in which an individual in their 20s said they said were sent abusive and menacing messages by the presenter.\n\nThe Sun then published another story claiming the presenter broke Covid lockdown rules in February 2021 to meet a 23-year-old he had met on a dating site, and sent what they described as \"quite pressurising\" messages.\n\nIt said it had seen messages suggesting that as well as visiting the 23-year-old's home, he sent money and asked for a photo. He was sent a semi-naked photograph.\n\nThe Sun has also published what it says is an Instagram chat between the presenter and a 17-year-old, where the presenter sent messages including love heart emojis.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify these messages.\n\nVine is one of several high-profile stars at the corporation who say they have been falsely accused of being the presenter at the centre of the claims by people on social media.\n\nHe told viewers the presenter's name not being public could risk the safety of other presenters.\n\nHe spoke of his wife worrying about him going to a Bruce Springsteen concert at the weekend. \"She gave me a baseball cap, and said 'you'd better wear this,\" he said.\n\nVine said on the programme that he knows the presenter concerned but had not spoken to him.\n\n\"I am very worried about his state of mind,\" he said. \"And what this is doing to him. I haven't spoken to him but I gather from somebody who has that he is described as angry and keen to play long.\"\n\nVine said that it was possible that the presenter was in \"some sort of terrible crisis where they've been unable to judge what's right and what's wrong anymore\" - but the longer he remained anonymous, the worse it would be for him.\n\n\"I think this is very very dangerous point for the presenter,\" he said.\n\n\"You could almost say anything about the person... if this [story] isn't closed off.\"\n\nVine cited the case of Carl Beech - a notorious fantasist behind false allegations of a VIP paedophile abuse ring in the heart of government who was subsequently jailed.\n\n\"We will have a Carl Beech figure arrive without a doubt, and you will have some extraordinary, untrue allegation which won't be answered.\"\n\nHe added the recent additional allegations made him think BBC director general Tim Davie \"could sack him\".\n\nSpeaking to a reporter following his show, Vine said: \"I never, ever want to go through this again. We are all waiting. We are all just waiting to play itself out.\"\n\nFollowing a virtual meeting between corporation executives and detectives on Monday the BBC was asked to suspend its internal investigation into the matter.\n\nThe Met Police said it was reviewing the claims \"to establish whether there is evidence of a criminal offence being committed\".\n\nIf the presenter obtained sexually explicit images of a young person when the young person was under 18, that could be investigated as a possible criminal offence.\n\nA police force has confirmed it was contacted by the family in April and that \"no criminality was identified\".\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "UK wages have risen at a record annual pace fuelling fears that inflation will stay high for longer.\n\nRegular pay grew by 7.3% in the March to May period from a year earlier, official figures showed, equalling the highest growth rate last month.\n\nHowever, despite the record increase, pay rises still lag behind inflation - the rate at which prices go up.\n\nThe pace of wage rises has come under increasing focus by the Bank of England as it tries to control inflation.\n\nThe Bank has raised interest rates 13 times in a row in an attempt to reduce the rate of inflation, but it has remained stubbornly high.\n\nIt currently stands at 8.7%, well above the Bank's target of 2%.\n\nThe concern is that strong wage growth will increase costs faced by companies and force them to push up prices for their goods even higher.\n\nOn Monday, the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said reducing inflation is \"so important\" as people \"should trust that their hard-earned money maintains its value\".\n\nWhile pay is growing at record rates, it is still not increasing fast enough to keep up with rising prices in the shops. Regular pay fell by 0.8% after the effect of inflation was taken into account.\n\nThe latest wage figures were higher than expected and Ashley Webb, UK economist at Capital Economics, said this \"won't ease the Bank of England's inflation fears significantly\".\n\nLast month, the Bank of England raised interest rates by more than expected, lifting its key rate to 5% from 4.5%.\n\nMr Webb said that while he expected the Bank to push rates to 5.25% at its next meeting in August, he added \"we can't rule out\" an increase to 5.5%, saying \"much will depend\" on next week's inflation figure.\n\nDeutsche Bank said that an increase in rates to 5.5% next month \"now looks more likely than not\".\n\nForecasts of more rate rises by the Bank have helped to push mortgage costs to their highest level for 15 years.\n\nIn January, when the UK's inflation rate was above 10%, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to halve it by the end of the year.\n\nMel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, told the BBC's Today programme that while forecasts still suggest that would happen, \"it is not going to be easy\".\n\nThe figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also showed:\n\nThere are indications that what is called \"tightness\" in the labour market - where there are too few workers to fit the jobs available - is starting to ease.\n\nHowever, business groups have continued to stress the difficulty of finding the right workers, despite the slight rise in unemployment and fewer vacancies.\n\nThe government is now offering all workers a \"Midlife MOT\" on their careers to help those in their mid-40s and above to retrain.\n\nThe ONS data showed that pay rises were highest for those in better paid sectors such as finance, and were lower in retail.\n\nThe most up-to-date figures for just the month of May seem to show wage rises beginning to slow. This raises the possibility that pay increases have now peaked, which could lead to a calmer path for inflation.\n\nKitty Ussher, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said that while wage costs remain \"very acute\" for companies there were some \"hopeful signs\" in the latest ONS figures, \"with the number of vacancies falling and more people coming out of inactivity back into the labour market\".\n\nThe Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, said: \"Our jobs market is strong with unemployment low by historical standards. But we still have around one million job vacancies, pushing up inflation even further.\"\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the figures were \"another dismal reflection of the Tories' mismanagement of the economy\".\n\n\"Britain is the only G7 country with a lower employment rate than before the pandemic and real wages have fallen yet again,\" he added.", "A volcanic eruption has sent lava and smoke pouring out of the side of Mount Fagradalsfjall, near Iceland's capital Reykjavik.\n\nIt comes after intense earthquake activity in the area. Local authorities said on Monday there was no imminent hazard to people in the region.\n\nThe volcano is located in the country's southwest, on the Reykjanes Peninsula, which is known to be a seismic hotspot.\n\nDomestic flights were delayed after the eruption created a plume of smoke over the road connecting the capital to the country's largest airport.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The coastal cliff path has had several serious landslides in recent years\n\nA popular coastal path could be moved due to fears of landslides in the area, according to local officials.\n\nTown councillors said they were concerned the scenic coastal path that stretches above Nefyn beach towards Porthdinllaen could be re-routed because the land is \"very unstable\".\n\nOne expert has warned threats to coastal paths in Wales will rise due to climate change.\n\nGwynedd council said it was working with Nefyn Town Council on a solution.\n\nThere have been concerns regarding the Nefyn coastline for some time with the latest major landslide happening in 2021.\n\nGruffydd Williams, who represents Nefyn in Gwynedd council, said it would be a \"travesty\" if the path was lost.\n\n\"It's part of the heritage of the local community,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been using it for well over a century. It's used on a daily basis by old and young people and tourists love to come and take in the fantastic views we have here.\"\n\nThe coastal path attracts visitors and is an important walking route for local residents\n\nMared Llywelyn Nefyn, the chairwoman of the town council, said the path brings a big economic boost to the area.\n\n\"We sent questionnaires out to businesses and all of them state that the path is an integral part of why people come to stay here,\" she said.\n\nMared Llywelyn Nefyn stressed the importance of the path for the local economy\n\nDr Paula Roberts, from Bangor University, said the threat to coastal paths like this one would increase over the next few years due to the increasing impact of climate change.\n\n\"More intense weather patterns, more energetic wave patterns and Increasing rainfall… unfortunately it's landslides that will occur,\" said Dr Roberts.\n\n\"The more threats we see across the coastline in Wales, local authorities are going to have to think about moving coastal paths or doing some work to maintain them in their current positions.\"\n\nNefyn Town Council said it was formulating a bid to the UK government's Levelling Up Fund in order to get investment to secure the land.\n\nGwynedd council said its priority was ensuring the safety of walkers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The last major landslide happened in 2021\n\n\"We appreciate that Llwybr Penrallt is an important and popular resource for people and we emphasise it is still open and we have no plans to close it,\" it said.\n\n\"Many landslides have been in Nefyn and Morfa Nefyn in recent times, and unfortunately the reality is we are likely to see more as the sea level rises and as we see more extreme weather because of climate change.\n\n\"Engineering reports showed recently that Llwybr Penrallt was very unstable. In response we have been looking at options that would ensure access to the coastal path in the long term.\"", "Doug Paulley, one of four disability campaigners who had brought the case against the government, said they now planned to appeal against the latest ruling\n\nA ruling which decided a survey used to inform the government's National Disability Strategy was \"unlawful\" has been overturned at the Court of Appeal.\n\nThe strategy aims to improve disabled people's lives and tackle issues such as housing and inaccessible public transport.\n\nThe government has welcomed the Court of Appeal's decision and says the plans can now \"move forward again\".\n\nBut disability-rights campaigners plan to appeal against the latest ruling.\n\nThe High Court had found the survey of disabled people had failed to consult effectively.\n\nThe government had failed to provide enough information on the proposed strategy to allow for meaningful responses, campaigners had told the High Court.\n\nBut in the Court of Appeal, Lady Justice Laing ruled \"the purpose of the survey was to find out information and views which might 'inform' the strategy\" and those surveyed could not have been given more information about the strategy \"because it did not exist\".\n\nThe High Court judge had been wrong to rule the survey was subject to \"the Gunning requirement\", Lady Justice Laing said, and therefore wrong to rule the work and pensions secretary had acted unlawfully.\n\nThe Gunning principles include requiring public bodies to provide the information people need to contribute to a consultation and that the decision makers take the result into account.\n\nBut in January 2022, the High Court ruled Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey \"took on a duty to consult which she did not properly discharge and, as a result, the consultation she carried out, principally by means of the survey, was not lawful\".\n\nCampaigners Doug Paulley, Jean Eveleigh, Victoria Hon and Miriam Binder, who has since died, had brought the case against the government.\n\nMr Paulley said they now were \"really frustrated\" the ruling had been overturned - and they had \"lost on a technicality\".\n\n\"The original strategy and consultation was a travesty,\" he said. \"We feel it was a waste of money and time and an insult to disabled people.\"\n\nThe consultation \"didn't allow us to say anything on the important issues for disabled people\",\" Mr Paulley added.\n\nWhen details of the national Disability Strategy were announced, in 2021, charities welcomed some of the measures but said other aspects lacked scope and ambition.\n\nAfter the High Court ruling, a number of policies were paused, including proposals to ensure every disabled person who wanted to start a business had the opportunity and exploring how to increase opportunities for disabled people to serve in the armed-forces reserves.\n\nOn Tuesday, Disabled People, Health and Work Minister Tom Pursglove said: \"I welcome the Court of Appeal's judgment that our National Disability Strategy is lawful, meaning we are able to continue with the important work contained within it.\n\n\"I am delighted that we are now able to move forward again with this ambitious agenda, implementing the commitments we set out in this long-term strategy to transform disabled people's lives for the better.\"", "One video shows a pick-up truck driving past Abdul Rahman Hardan - who is wearing a dark top and standing in the middle of the road - moments before he is shot dead in Jenin\n\nEyewitnesses and the family of a 16-year-old Palestinian shot dead during Israel's military assault in Jenin have told the BBC he was unarmed and killed \"for no reason\", after videos emerged of the moment of his death.\n\nTwelve Palestinians, including four teenage children, and one Israeli soldier were killed during the two-day incursion in the occupied West Bank last week.\n\nIsrael said all the Palestinians who were killed were combatants.\n\nBut the videos show Abdul Rahman Hassan Ahmad Hardan, 16, was unarmed when he was shot.\n\nThe teenager was shot in the head outside al-Amal hospital on the second day of the military incursion, which Israel said was intended to root out a \"safe haven of terrorism\" in Jenin refugee camp.\n\nIt follows over a year of rising numbers of Palestinian armed attacks targeting Israelis, while Israel has intensified its deadly military raids in the West Bank. At least 160 Palestinians and more than 30 Israelis have been killed since January.\n\nIsrael's government said its military operation last week was to stop the camp being a \"refuge\" for armed groups. It said it seized \"hundreds\" of guns and other weapons, including \"advanced\" improvised explosives.\n\nIt was its biggest assault in the West Bank in two decades, involving drone strikes into a packed urban area and armoured diggers causing massive destruction.\n\nThe United Nations accused Israel of using excessive force, while the Palestinian leadership called it a \"war crime\".\n\nIsrael Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Lt Col Richard Hecht, asked by the BBC last week about the casualties, said: \"There were 12 people killed, every one that was killed was involved directly with terrorism.\"\n\n\"A 17-year-old may be regarded as a minor but he's holding weapons and firing... We can show that evidence. We have pictures of all of them, and intel that they were involved.\"\n\nAfter his death, Abdul Rahman Hardan was claimed as a member by the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. However, his family has distanced itself from the claim, and Israel has yet to show evidence he posed a threat at the time he was fatally shot.\n\nUnder international law, the use of firearms by security forces against civilians is defined as a measure of last resort, and can only take place to stop an \"imminent threat of death or serious injury\".\n\nChildren are also given added protections under international humanitarian law.\n\nSixteen-year-old Abdul Rahman was killed at 13:00 (10:00 GMT) on Tuesday, as confrontations had continued in the city. Some involved gunmen firing towards Israeli forces.\n\nOthers involved Palestinian youths throwing rocks at Israeli jeeps and armoured troop carriers - a frequent occurrence as young men try to repel Israel's military raids into Palestinian cities.\n\nIn one video, first verified by the Times newspaper, the teenager can be seen standing in the street next to al-Amal hospital, close to a group of boys or young men. Rocks or other debris appear on the ground in the vicinity. No weapons are visible and Abdul Rahman appears unarmed.\n\nAround 13 seconds into the footage, which has no sound, he leans forward to look down a street next to the hospital. He is then seen falling to the ground, having been shot in the head.\n\nThe original source of the video is not known to the BBC, but the boy's family and the eyewitnesses verified it as showing Abdul Rahman being shot.\n\nA second video shows paramedics and bystanders rushing to Abdul Rahman Hardan's aid moments after was shot\n\nA second video filmed by a journalist outside the hospital shows the following moments, in which a paramedic rushes to Abdul Rahman and picks him up before carrying him along the street. The boy is suffering a catastrophic bleed from the head as he is carried towards the hospital entrance.\n\nNo weapons are visible in the area where the teenager fell nor elsewhere in the footage.\n\nThe IDF said it was inconclusive as to whether the footage documented the killing of Abdul Rahman by its forces.\n\nIslamic Jihad - listed by Israel and the West as a terrorist organisation - claimed the 16-year-old as a fighter. Social media pictures later emerged in which he had posed with assault rifles at unknown dates. Such pictures are not uncommon among young men and teenagers in Jenin and surrounding villages.\n\nThe refugee camp is a highly militarised environment where the official Palestinian leadership has lost control, and armed groups see themselves as a core of resistance to Israel's military occupation - now into its 57th year. Human rights groups have frequently condemned militant groups putting weapons in the hands of minors.\n\nThe teenager's father, Hassan Ahmad Hardan, told the BBC that his son was on his way to the hospital to donate blood when an Israeli military vehicle entered the street.\n\n\"He was standing in the street to cross it when they shot him in the head from the back,\" said Mr Hardan.\n\n\"He did not carry anything with him - no stone, no weapon, nothing,\" he added.\n\nIn an interview with the Times, his family also said Abdul Rahman was not a militant and did not belong to any armed group.\n\nTwo eyewitnesses also told the BBC the teenager was unarmed.\n\n\"We were standing in one of the streets near the presence of occupation [Israeli] forces. After that, the occupation sniper shot the martyr Abdul Rahman without any reason or justification,\" said one eyewitness, who asked that his name was not published.\n\n\"The martyr was unarmed and did not carry anything,\" he added.\n\nOf the 12 Palestinians killed in Jenin last week, two were aged 16 and two were 17 years old. Ten of the total were claimed as members by militant groups.\n\nThe IDF said it continued to examine the video, asking to receive it in its \"unedited entirety\".\n\nIn a statement, a spokesman said: \"As of this time, it is not possible to say with certainty that the video does indeed document the neutralization of Abdul Rahman Hassan by IDF forces.\"\n\nThe spokesman said it was \"unfortunate\" that earlier reports \"discounted the Islamic Jihad's claim of responsibility for the neutralized terrorist and his association with the terrorist organization\".\n\nHe went on: \"The IDF operated in a densely populated and complex combat zone, where hundreds of armed gunmen fired indiscriminately in the area. The IDF does everything in its power to avoid harming uninvolved individuals and operates precisely against terrorist organisations.\"", "Claims relating to allegations about an unnamed BBC presenter have been dominating the headlines after the Sun newspaper reported that the presenter was alleged to have paid someone for sexually explicit photos, beginning when they were 17.\n\nOn Monday, that young person's lawyer said nothing inappropriate or unlawful had taken place.\n\nRos Atkins explains what we do and do not know about how the BBC's handling of the complaint and what might happen next.", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nUkrainian Elina Svitolina says war in her homeland has made her mentally stronger after she reached a surprise Wimbledon semi-final.\n\nJust three months after returning to the tour, having had a baby in October, she beat top seed Iga Swiatek 7-5 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 in the last eight.\n\nShe said she was glad to \"bring a little happiness\" to Ukrainians and that war had altered her perspective.\n\n\"Mentally, I don't take difficult situations as a disaster,\" she said.\n\n\"There are worse things in life.\n\n\"I think war made me stronger and also made me mentally stronger.\"\n\nThe former world number three had the vocal backing of a passionate Centre Court crowd who were emotionally invested in a player who is producing some of the best tennis of her career against the backdrop of turmoil of the war and joy of becoming a mother.\n\nShe was grateful for the support in the stands but was even happier at the impact her run to the semi-final she \"didn't really expect\" might have back home.\n\n\"There were many videos on the internet where the kids are watching on their phones. This really makes my heart melt seeing this,\" the 28-year-old said.\n\nSvitolina capitalised on Swiatek's errors - 41 of them unforced - to reach her third Grand Slam semi-final, and second at the All England Club after also reaching this stage in 2019.\n\nShe did not let herself be distracted by a delay after the first set while the Centre Court roof was closed because of rain, and she kept her nerve to serve out the victory at the first time of asking to record a memorable win that will lift her from 76th in the world rankings to most likely within the top 30.\n\n\"I have this motivation, like huge motivation, to come back to the top. But I think having a child, and war, made me a different person. I look at the things a bit differently,\" she said.\n\nShe might be motivated by her daughter, but how did baby Skai react when she saw her mum on a video call after this big victory?\n\n\"She was really distracted with her ice cream, so I was not the priority there,\" Svitolina smiled.\n\n\"She is still at this age when she doesn't care if I win, if I lose.\"\n\nBut one person who does care is beaten opponent Swiatek, who said after the defeat that she was \"rooting for\" her friend to win a maiden Grand Slam trophy on Saturday.\n\n\"I told her on the net that I hope she wins this tournament,\" said the Pole, who has shown her support for Ukraine since the Russian invasion by wearing on her cap a yellow and blue ribbon - the colours of the Ukrainian flag.\n\nSvitolina and the other Ukrainian players at Wimbledon and other grass-court events this summer have also had the support of the LTA and the All England Club, which have funded their accommodation and provided them with places to train this summer.\n\n\"[I'm] really thankful for the Championships to also give us extra support,\" she said. \"Of course, generally speaking, it was unbelievable what England did and is doing for Ukrainians. We can't thank them enough for doing everything that's in their power.\"\n\nSvitolina will face unseeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova in the semi-finals on Thursday after the 2019 French Open runner-up beat American fourth seed Jessica Pegula.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Gal Luft at the US Energy Security Council conference in 2013\n\nThe head of a US think tank has been charged with acting as a Chinese agent and attempting to broker the sale of weapons and Iranian oil.\n\nGal Luft \"agreed to covertly recruit and pay\" an unnamed ex-US official to publicly support certain Chinese policies, federal prosecutors say.\n\nThe 57-year-old allegedly attempted to broker arms sales involving customers in China, Libya, the UAE and Kenya.\n\nA Twitter account associated with him has denied he is an arms dealer.\n\nMr Luft, a joint US and Israeli citizen, is considered a fugitive, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday.\n\nIn 2016, officials say he failed to register as a foreign agent while acting to advance Chinese interests in the US.\n\nHe is alleged to have lobbied an ex-US official who was an adviser to then President-elect Donald Trump to convince him to \"publicly support certain policies with respect to China\".\n\nMr Luft is said to have written draft comments on behalf of the same unnamed US official, which were later published in Chinese media and sent to American universities.\n\nMr Luft is the co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, which is based outside Washington DC and describes itself as focused on energy and US security. It was co-founded by Mr Luft and lists former CIA Director James Woolsey as an adviser, according to its website.\n\nProsecutors also accuse him of attempting to broker arms sales without a US permit. He allegedly worked to help Chinese companies sell anti-tank launchers, grenade launchers and mortar rounds to Libya.\n\nHe also allegedly attempted to sell \"aerial bombs and rockets\" to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and \"strike\" drones to Kenya.\n\nFederal officials say he attempted to bypass US sanctions on Iranian oil by directing an associate to say that the oil was Brazilian.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Mr Luft was arrested in Cyprus on US charges on 17 February this year and fled after being released on bail pending extradition.\n\nA day later, a Twitter account in his name with 15,000 followers said he had been arrested in Cyprus \"on a politically motivated extradition request by the US\".\n\nHe is charged with eight counts, including failing to register as a foreign agent, evading oil sanctions, two counts of making false statements to investigators and three counts of illicit arms trafficking.\n\nHe faces decades in prison if found guilty.", "Postal workers have accepted a deal to end a long-running row over pay and conditions, a union has said.\n\nIt comes after some 115,000 workers held 18 days of strikes last year, causing postal delays across the UK.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union (CWU) said that workers \"overwhelmingly\" backed the deal but warned anger at the firm \"doesn't end with today's result\".\n\nRoyal Mail, which lost millions of pounds through the strikes, said the deal would help it to stabilise.\n\n\"The agreement provides Royal Mail a platform for the next phase of stabilising the business whilst continuing to drive efficiencies and change,\" a spokesman for Royal Mail said.\n\n\"The three-year pay deal agreed provides certainty for employees and ensures Royal Mail remains the industry leader on pay, terms and conditions.\"\n\nThe CWU said the agreement was backed by 75% of voting members.\n\nRoyal Mail said that the three-year agreement includes a 10% salary increase, some of which was given in 2022, and a one-off lump sum of £500 for CWU members working for Royal Mail and Parcelforce.\n\nMedian pay at Royal Mail is £32,465 a year, and the average pay for a postal delivery worker is £25,777.\n\nThe company said the deal also includes a commitment to no compulsory redundancies during its duration.\n\nCWC general secretary Dave Ward said the dispute had been the \"most challenging period in both the history of the union and the company\".\n\nHe added that the result will be the \"start of the union reconnecting in every workplace\".\n\n\"We all know what is going on in workplaces across the UK and we are going to deal with it\", he said.\n\nSeveral industries across the UK have experienced strikes in recent times as workers seek pay rises in line with the soaring cost of living.\n\nWalkouts have also taken place in sectors such as the railways, nursing, the civil service and Border Force.\n\nRoyal Mail has previously said it is moving from its traditional business of delivering letters - which is no longer profitable - to the fast-growing world of parcel deliveries, driven by the increasing popularity of online shopping.\n\nBut the company faces fierce competition from other couriers and in February it claimed it was losing about £1m a day.\n• None Royal Mail says strikes have cost it millions", "The boy was stabbed in West Ham Park\n\nFour teenagers have been arrested in connection with the \"tragic and senseless\" killing of a 16-year-old boy in east London.\n\nThe teenager was stabbed in West Ham Park in Forest Gate late on Sunday afternoon and taken to an east London hospital where he died the next day.\n\nTwo teenagers, aged 14 and 16, arrested on suspicion of murder have been bailed pending further enquiries.\n\nTwo 16-year-olds have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThe boy's family has been told; formal identification has not yet taken place.\n\nThe borough commander for Newham, Ch Supt Simon Crick, said: \"This is a tragic and senseless murder of a young person in Newham.\n\n\"My thoughts at this time are with the victim's family and friends. As a father myself I can only imagine the pain they are suffering.\n\n\"This incident will send shockwaves through our communities and I appeal to the many people who will have been in the park at the time of the stabbing to come forward and speak to us about what they may have seen.\n\n\"We all have a responsibility to bring those who committed this senseless attack to justice.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mabli Cariad Hall was \"beautiful, smiley and happy\", a family friend said in a tribute\n\nAn eight-month-old was in her pram outside a hospital when she was hit and killed by a car, an inquest has heard.\n\nMabli Cariad Hall was struck by a white BMW outside Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire in June, along with a pedestrian.\n\nShe died from a severe traumatic brain injury at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children four days later.\n\nIn a statement, her family said the loss of Mabli had changed their lives forever.\n\nThe inquest at Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire Coroner's Court was told that at 11:50 BST, the police received an emergency call of a crash involving a car and pedestrians.\n\nIt happened in front of the hospital's main entrance.\n\nDuring the inquest opening, coroner Paul Bennet said: \"I extend my sincere condolences to Mabli's parents and also to her grandparents who are here this morning.\"\n\n\"And to say how sorry I am that we have to meet in such difficult and tragic circumstances for you and the family,\" he added.\n\nMabli Hall died after being hit by a car outside Withybush Hospital\n\nMabli, from Neath, was airlifted from the hospital to Cardiff before being transferred to hospital in Bristol.\n\nHer funeral was held a week ago in Tonna, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nThe driver of the BMW suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital, along with their passenger and pedestrian, who was also hit.\n\n\"The pain and grief we are suffering as a family is indescribable,\" Mabli's family said in the statement.\n\n\"During this terribly painful time, we still have no answer to the central question we inevitably ask regarding the tragic loss of our beautiful baby girl.\"\n\nA damaged BMW was removed from Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest\n\nThey added that the opening of the inquest and the Dyfed-Powys Police investigation would hopefully provide the information they needed to explain why the tragedy happened.\n\n\"As a family we also hope that the outcome of this process will help reduce the risk of such a tragedy happening to others in future,\" the family said.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned until 25 January 2024, pending a full investigation.", "Tewkesbury Academy was locked down following the attack on Monday morning but reopened on Tuesday\n\nA teenage boy has been charged after a teacher was stabbed in a corridor at a school.\n\nThe 15-year-old was charged with attempted wounding with intent and possession of bladed article following the attack at Tewkesbury Academy.\n\nMaths teacher Jamie Sansom was wounded just after 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named due to his age, remains in police custody and will appear at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nHe was arrested in Stoke Orchard, some three miles (4.8km) from the school, about two hours after the stabbing.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Mr Sansom, who has taught at Tewkesbury Academy since 2017, said he had not been breaking up a fight between students when he was wounded.\n\nHe said he was \"recovering well\" from his injuries and hoped to be back in the classroom before the summer break if doctors gave him the \"all-clear\".\n\nPolice said he suffered a single stab wound and was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and was discharged later the same day.\n\nJamie Sansom said he had received more than 100 messages of support, which he described as \"a big boost\"\n\nThe academy was locked down and two neighbouring schools were also asked to shut their doors as a precaution following the incident, Gloucestershire Police said on Monday.\n\nIt added there would be a police presence at the school over the coming days to provide reassurance to pupils.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'She says that she's going to be a doctor and help people like Daddy'\n\nTechnology entrepreneur Nick Hungerford, whose daughter inspired him to set up a charity to support bereaved children, has died at the age of 43.\n\nMr Hungerford, who had terminal bone cancer, set up Elizabeth's Smile, which is named after his two-year-old daughter.\n\nThe charity said on its website that it was deeply saddened to share the news of its founder's death.\n\n\"Nick's smile will inspire, always,\" the charity said.\n\nMr Hungerford co-founded the investment platform Nutmeg in 2011. The idea was famously rejected 45 times in a row by funders, but the business was bought by JP Morgan in 2021 for a reported £700m.\n\nHe was first diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer in 2019 when he felt a pain in his right thigh, and had an operation to remove his femur.\n\nBut at the end of 2021, the cancer returned and he revealed two weeks ago in The Telegraph that he had two or three months left to live.\n\nNutmeg said in a statement that Mr Hungerford was one of Britain's \"most successful fintech entrepreneurs\".\n\n\"Nick was passionate about helping empower people to achieve their full potential,\" the company said.\n\n\"We are incredibly proud of the journey Nick started.\"\n\nMr Hungerford started Elizabeth's Smile in the US in 2022 and launched it in the UK last month.\n\nAnnouncing his passing, the charity said he died on 6 July.\n\n\"We are deeply saddened to share the news of Nick's death. In loving memory of our founder, our work to make sure grieving children reach their full potential continues.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on 30 June Mr Hungerford said that he had had the \"opportunity to reflect on life in a way that so many people don't get to do\", and that he felt there was a \"real lack of understanding\" of the impact on children of losing a parent.\n\n\"I don't want to compare it to business problems, but it was like seeing a huge gap in the market,\" he said, adding that he found it unacceptable that his daughter and other children should have to live with the emotional impact of bereaved parents.\n\nHis charity is focusing on building up knowledge with researchers and clinicians around the world about the impact on a child of losing a parent.\n\nMr Hungerford said the research would contribute towards developing products for the second part of the charity, the Smile Network, which already has a series of books guiding those around bereaved children on how to deal with parental loss.\n\nIt will also help connect bereaved children to a network that has been set up by a parent, so that when the parent dies, the child can continue to receive advice and guidance around things like which university to go to, or where to work.\n\nMr Hungerford said that his daughter Elizabeth had been \"very, very brave\" and wanted \"to be a doctor so she can help people like Daddy\".\n\nHe said he had set up an artificial intelligence website with videos of himself answering hundreds of personal questions, so that his daughter would be able to log on and \"talk\" to him.\n\n\"She will have pictures, stories and access to my network of friends, so she will be able to build up a full picture of me,\" he said.", "Jamie Sansom said he hopes to be back at the school before pupils break for summer\n\nA teacher who was stabbed at a school said he is recovering well and has been \"boosted\" by messages of support.\n\nJamie Sansom was attacked in a corridor at Tewkesbury Academy, Gloucestershire, just after 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe maths teacher said he could not \"comment in detail\" on what happened but confirmed he was not breaking up a fight between students at the time.\n\nPolice were given more time on Tuesday to question a teenager arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\n\"On police advice, I can't comment in detail about what happened but I do want to address some misinformation which has been circulating in coverage of yesterday's incident,\" said Mr Sansom, who is from Newport but lives in Gloucestershire.\n\n\"It is simply not true to say that I was intervening in a fight between students. In my view, there was no point at which Tewkesbury students faced any direct threat.\n\n\"I am pleased to say that I am recovering well. My thanks to everyone who helped put me on the road to what is expected to be a full recovery.\n\nPupils were locked down for several hours while armed police combed the area\n\n\"I have received more than one hundred messages of support, which has been a big boost. It was hugely uplifting.\"\n\nMr Sansom, who has taught at the school since 2017, said he hoped to be back in the classroom before the summer break if doctors gave him the \"all-clear\".\n\n\"I'm due to move to a new school at the end of the year, and it would mean a lot to me to have the opportunity to say goodbye,\" he added.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Sansom's aunt said: \"We're shocked and stunned something like this could happen.\n\n\"Jamie is a very caring person, a lovely guy and highly thought of.\"\n\nGloucestershire Police said officers would continue to have a presence in the area over the coming days\n\nThe Gloucestershire school reopened earlier after \"careful consultation with police\", a spokesman for the academy said.\n\n\"We feel it is important for our students to be able to return to a sense of normality in their school, where we will be providing a range of additional mental and emotional support for students and staff,\" they said.\n\n\"Police will retain a presence at the school for the coming days to provide reassurance.\"\n\nYouth charity Young Gloucestershire has opened a hub for students distressed by Monday's events.\n\nChief operations officer Alicia Wynn said the incident would \"ripple\" through the community and have a \"long term\" effect.\n\nThe school has reopened and police are continuing investigations\n\nGloucestershire Police said it was keeping an \"open mind\" about a possible motive for the attack.\n\nThe suspect was arrested two hours later in the village of Stoke Orchard, about four miles away, after a chase involving firearms officers, plain-clothed officers and the National Police Air Service.\n\nGloucestershire County Council commended staff and pupils at the school for how they responded.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the member of staff injured in the attack and his family, as well as for the students, wider school community and parents who faced an agonising wait for news as to the safety of their children,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Whilst, thankfully, this type of incident is extremely rare, the impact on those involved can be significant so we are doing all we can to assist the school as they support students, staff and the wider school community.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of double 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya in a case related to testosterone levels in female athletes.\n\nThe 32-year-old South African was born with differences of sexual development (DSD) and is not allowed to compete in any track events without taking testosterone-reducing drugs.\n\nA three-time 800m world champion and 800m and 1500m Commonwealth champion, Semenya has been in a long-running dispute with World Athletics.\n\nRegulations requiring her to have hormone treatment were introduced by the governing body in 2018. Semenya has twice failed in legal battles to overturn the decision.\n\nHowever, the case at the ECHR was not against sporting bodies or DSD rules - but specifically against the government of Switzerland for not protecting Semenya's rights and dates back to a Swiss Supreme Court ruling three years ago.\n\nIn a lengthy judgement published on Tuesday, the ECHR found the Swiss government did not protect Semenya from being discriminated against when its Supreme Court refused to overturn a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), which upheld the World Athletics rules.\n\nCas has previously ruled that testosterone rules for athletes like Semenya, were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nWhile the judgement would appear to vindicate Semenya's long-held view that she has suffered discrimination, it's uncertain if or how the court's decision will impact the current restrictions on DSD athletes.\n\nWorld Athletics has doubled down on its position in its efforts to protect fair competition in the female category, and is also keen for the Swiss courts to challenge the ECHR verdict.\n\nThere is a three-month window to lodge an appeal. In terms of competing - if that's what she wants - that leaves Semenya in a similar position to where she was before the ECHR ruling, unless she takes medication to suppress her testosterone or World Athletics is forced to change its position on DSD athletes, and it's not clear how that could happen.\n\nAs it stands, she still cannot compete in female track events.\n\nAn ECHR statement said Semenya \"had not been afforded sufficient institutional and procedural safeguards in Switzerland\" to allow her to \"have her complaints examined effectively, especially since her complaints concerned substantiated and credible claims of discrimination as a result of her increased testosterone level caused by differences of sex development.\"\n\nThe EHCR ruling suggests that the World Athletics' DSD regulations were \"a source of discrimination\" for Semenya \"by the manner in which they were exercised and by their effects\", and the regulations were \"incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights\".\n\nThe decision, made by a panel of seven people at the ECHR, was split 4-3 in favour of Semenya and may allow her to challenge the Swiss Supreme Court or Cas rulings.\n\nWorld Athletics described the ECHR chamber as \"deeply divided\" and said it will ask the Swiss government to refer the case to the ECHR Grand Chamber for a \"final and definitive decision\".\n\nWorld Athletics said: \"We remain of the view that the DSD regulations are a necessary, reasonable and proportionate means of protecting fair competition in the female category as the Court of Arbitration for Sport and Swiss Federal Tribunal both found, after a detailed and expert assessment of the evidence.\n\n\"We will liaise with the Swiss government on the next steps. In the meantime, the current DSD regulations, approved by the World Athletics Council in March 2023, will remain in place.\"\n\nA statement from Semenya's lawyers said: \"Caster has never given up her fight to be allowed to compete and run free. Today's judgment is testament to her resilience and courage. This important personal win for her is also a wider victory for elite athletes around the world.\n\n\"It means that sporting governance bodies around the world must finally recognise that human rights law and norms apply to the athletes they regulate.\"\n\nA statement from Athletics South Africa said the ruling \"vindicated\" its belief that the existing DSD rules were \"ill-conceived\" - and that it would seek legal advice about the consequences for Semenya's potential future participation in athletics.\n\nUnder regulations introduced in 2018, athletes with DSD were only allowed to compete in track events between 400m and the mile if they reduced their testosterone levels.\n\nHowever, in March World Athletics ruled that DSD athletes must now have hormone-suppressing treatment for six months before being eligible to compete in all events.\n\nSemenya ran in the 5,000m at last year's World Championships in Oregon but failed to qualify for the final.\n\nShe has argued that taking testosterone-reducing medication could endanger her health and that the ruling denied her and other athletes with DSD the right to rely on their natural abilities.\n\nBecause of the ruling, she could not defend her 800m title at the Tokyo Olympics, which took place a year later than planned in 2021.\n\nSemenya, who has always been legally identified as female, has said she should be able to compete in women's events even if her testosterone levels are higher than her competitors.\n\nIn 2019 she told BBC Sport she had been \"crucified\" but will \"never stop fighting\" against the regulations brought in by World Athletics, then known as the IAAF.", "Mr Zelensky holding a Ukrainian flag from the destroyed city of Bakhmut\n\nNato states have said Ukraine can join the military alliance \"when allies agree and conditions are met\" after President Volodymyr Zelensky criticised the \"absurd\" delay to accession.\n\nIn a communique, Nato said it recognised the need to move faster but would not be drawn on a timeframe.\n\nEarlier Mr Zelensky said there seemed to be \"no readiness\" to invite Ukraine to Nato or make it a member.\n\nHe is now in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where the summit is happening.\n\nKyiv accepts it cannot join Nato while it is at war with Russia but wants to join as soon as possible after fighting ends.\n\nBut Mr Zelensky, tweeting before Mr Stoltenberg's comments, said that the lack of an agreed timeframe meant his country's eventual membership could become a bargaining chip.\n\n\"A window of opportunity is being left to bargain Ukraine's membership in Nato in negotiations with Russia. Uncertainty is weakness,\" he said.\n\nNato might not have said when and how Ukraine might join the alliance. But diplomats emphasised that they had set out a clearer path to membership, and the onerous application process had been shortened significantly.\n\nThe alliance had recognised Ukraine's army was increasingly \"interoperable\" and more \"politically integrated\" with Nato forces and it would continue to support reforms to Ukraine's democracy and security sector.\n\nDiplomats also highlighted the creation of a new Nato-Ukraine Council, meeting on Wednesday for the first time, which will give Kyiv the right to summon meetings of the whole alliance.\n\nBut the decision to give no sense of timescale will be seen as a setback for Ukraine.\n\nEven though such detail was always unlikely, Mr Zelensky's decision to say the absence of a timetable was \"absurd\" only emphasised his diplomatic failure.\n\nSome member states fear near-automatic membership for Ukraine could give Russia an incentive to both escalate and prolong the war.\n\nThe focus now will move to what long-term security guarantees Nato members will promise Ukraine as an alternative to early membership.\n\nIn the past, Western security pledges failed to deter two Russian invasions. Nato allies hope a third round will be robust and explicit enough to persuade the Kremlin that further aggression would be too costly.\n\nAddressing crowds in Vilnius later, Mr Zelensky said: \"Nato will give Ukraine security. Ukraine will make the alliance stronger.\"\n\nMr Zelensky also presented a battle flag from the destroyed city of Bakhmut - the site of the longest, and possibly bloodiest, battle in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe Vilnius summit comes a day after Turkey dropped its opposition to Sweden joining the military alliance.\n\nTurkey had previously spent months blocking Sweden's application, accusing it of hosting Kurdish militants. The country will now become the alliance's 32nd member after Finland - which borders Russia, joined in April.\n\nBoth countries announced their intention to join Nato after Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nA series of military packages for Ukraine were also announced at the summit on Tuesday.\n\nA coalition of 11 nations will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made F-16 fighter jets at a centre to be set up in Romania in August, officials said.\n\nIn May the US gave the go-ahead for its Western allies to supply Ukraine with advanced jets, including the long sought F-16s - a significant upgrade on the Soviet-era planes it is currently using.\n\nUkraine had repeatedly lobbied its Western allies to provide jets to help with its recently-begun counter-offensive aiming to retake territory seized by Russia.\n\nHowever experts say the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly and operate Western jets will take some time.\n\nMeanwhile Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying that Moscow would be forced to use \"similar\" weapons if the US supplied controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine.\n\nThe weapons release bomblets over a wide area and are banned by more than 100 countries over their impact on civilians.\n\nMr Shoigu said Russia had similar cluster weapons but had so far refrained from using them.\n\nRights groups say Russia and Ukraine have already used cluster munitions during the 17 months of war since Russia invaded last February.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal have confirmed the signing of England midfielder Declan Rice from West Ham for £100m plus £5m in add-ons.\n\nThe Gunners' announcement comes after the 24-year-old issued an open letter to Hammers fans saying how 'tough' a decision it had been to leave the club.\n\nRice has signed a five-year contract with Arsenal in a deal which has the option of a further year.\n\n\"I've been looking at Arsenal over the last couple of seasons and the trajectory they've been on,\" he said.\n\n\"Not last season but the season before, they [only] finished fifth, but you could see the style of play Mikel was implementing.\n\n\"Last season was an outstanding season, blowing pretty much every team out of the water with the exception of Manchester City.\"\n• None 'Rice can be Arsenal's Vieira - but pressure now on Gunners'\n\nRice has moved on after captaining West Ham to the Europa Conference League title last season.\n\nHe is Arsenal's third major signing this summer as they look to go one better than their second-placed finish in the Premier League last season.\n\nHis arrival follows the recruitment of Germany international Kai Havertz from Chelsea in a £65m deal and Netherlands defender Jurrien Timber from Ajax for a fee which could rise to £38.5m.\n\n\"He is a player with tremendous ability, who has been performing at a high level in the Premier League and for England for a number of seasons now,\" said Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta.\n\n\"Declan is bringing undoubted quality to the club and he is an exceptional talent who has the potential to be very successful here.\n\n\"Declan has great experience in the Premier League at only 24 years old. He has captained a very good West Ham team and as we all saw, he recently lifted a European trophy.\n\n\"The responsibility and role he has taken on has been very impressive and we are really excited that he is joining us.\"\n\nArsenal succeeded with their third bid for Rice, having had two earlier offers rejected which were below West Ham's £100m asking price.\n\nPremier League champions Manchester City withdrew from trying to buy the player after they had a £90m offer turned down.\n\nThe initial fee for Rice equals the £100m City paid Aston Villa for Jack Grealish in 2021.\n\nThe Premier League's record transfer is the £105.6m Chelsea paid Benfica for Enzo Fernandez in January 2023.\n\nEarlier this summer, Jude Bellingham moved from Borussia Dortmund to Real Madrid for an initial £88.5m in a deal which could rise to £115m with add-ons.\n• None Quiz: Can you name the most expensive English players?\n\nRice scored 15 goals in 245 games for West Ham, having joined the club as a 14-year-old following his release from Chelsea's academy.\n\nHe signed his first professional contract with the Hammers in December 2015 and made his first senior appearance on the last day of the 2016-17 Premier League season as a substitute against Burnley, going on to make his full debut that August in a start against Southampton.\n\nRice became the club's captain following Mark Noble's retirement in 2022 and, in what proved to be his final season at the London Stadium, was named the Europa Conference League's player of the season as West Ham ended their 43-year wait for a major trophy.\n\nHe has been capped 41 times by England, playing in all five of their matches at last year's World Cup.\n\n\"In football, amazing opportunities arise. Big clubs, like Arsenal, have come for me and it's really hard to turn down,\" said Rice.\n\n\"You only ever get one career and I really believe in what Mikel is building here and the squad he's building. I'm really looking forward to the future with Arsenal.\n\n\"For me as a player, I've come here really hungry to have more success and to spend my best years at this great club.\"\n\nHe added: \"[Arteta] is a massive factor in why I've come here.\n\n\"I know he's going to get the best out of me. I know I've got more levels to go up in my game, and I feel like he's the manager to take me to those next levels.\n\n\"I'm really excited to be working with him.\"\n\nThe numbers are eye-watering and whenever a transfer fee goes into nine figures it's always going to raise eyebrows.\n\nIt says that English talent is still highly desirable, particularly in the context of the league. There's probably an English player tax - perhaps if it was [an equivalent] foreign player transferring in we might be talking about an £80m transfer.\n\nWith Declan Rice you've got a home-grown player, somebody that understands the Premier League, understands the nature of the competition, and is a seasoned England international now. I think that home-grown development is where that English player tax comes from.\n\nAnd of course Arsenal are cemented back in the top six, so West Ham are sniffing additional money that comes from that.\n\nIt also draws a line in the sand for Arsenal in terms of their ambition and the progression they've seen in the last few years. They've become a serious player, they've got some money in the bank and they're happy to splash it on the right player now.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of the Gunners is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Arsenal - go straight to all the best content", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLionel Messi's biggest beef - when it all kicked off against the Netherlands Argentina forward Lionel Messi has signed for American side Inter Miami on a deal that runs until the end of 2025. The seven-time Ballon d'Or winner, 36, left French champions Paris St-Germain at the end of the 2022-23 season. \"I'm very excited to start this next step in my career with Inter Miami and in the United States,\" said Messi, who led his country as they won the World Cup in Qatar last year. Inter Miami co-owner David Beckham said the signing was a \"dream come true\". Messi, who has not previously played for a club side outside Europe, added: \"This is a fantastic opportunity and together we will continue to build this beautiful project. \"The idea is to work together to achieve the objectives we set and I'm very eager to start helping here in my new home.\" On securing the services of a player expected to win another Ballon d'Or this year, Beckham said: \"Ten years ago, when I started my journey to build a new team in Miami, I said that I dreamed of bringing the greatest players in the world to this amazing city. \"[I wanted] players who shared the ambition I had when I joined LA Galaxy, to help grow football in the USA and to build a legacy for the next generation in this sport that we love so much. \"Today that dream came true. I couldn't be prouder that a player of Leo's calibre is joining our club, but I am also delighted to welcome a good friend, an amazing person and his beautiful family to join our Inter Miami community. \"The next phase of our adventure starts here, and I can't wait to see Leo take to the pitch.\" Messi will be available to play for Miami against LIGA MX side Cruz Azul on 21 July in their opening match of Leagues Cup. He will play alongside former Barcelona team-mate Sergio Busquets, who has also signed for Inter Miami until 2025. \"We are overjoyed that the greatest player in the world chose Inter Miami and Major League Soccer, and his decision is a testament to the momentum and energy behind our league and our sport in North America,\" said MLS commissioner Don Garber. \"We have no doubt that Lionel will show the world that MLS can be a league of choice for the best players in the game. We look forward to seeing his debut for Inter Miami in our Leagues Cup tournament later this month.\" Messi won the last of his seven Ballon d'Or awards for the world's best player in 2021, and could win it again this year after leading Argentina to World Cup success in Qatar in 2022. He scored 32 goals in 75 games for PSG and ended last season with 16 goals and 16 assists in Ligue 1. Messi joined the French side in 2021 after spending 21 years with Barcelona. Messi is Barcelona's record scorer with 672 goals and won 10 La Liga titles, four Champions Leagues and seven Spanish Cups. Meanwhile, Busquets joins Inter Miami after spending his whole career at Barca. The 35-year-old won nine La Liga titles, three Champions League trophies and seven Copa del Rey finals. He also helped Spain win the World Cup in 2010.\n• None Can you trust your best mate to be your best man? Find out in Jason Manford and Steve Edge’s new podcast\n• None Can certain foods make you hungrier? Professor Tim Spector takes Michael Mosley through his top food and nutrition tips", "\"Osian has continually amazed the doctors and nurses with his resilience,\" say his parents\n\nThe parents of a teenager who received a heart transplant after developing a rare complication of Covid say he has been on a \"courageous journey\".\n\nOsian Jones, 16, had three heart attacks after developing MISC-C (Multisystem Inflammatory syndrome in children associated with Covid).\n\nOsian, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, first became unwell in February and received his transplant on 30 June.\n\nHe remains in intensive care at Middlesex's Harefield Hospital.\n\nOsian was not aware he had Covid when he first became unwell and was taken to A&E.\n\nHe went on to have three heart attacks and was rushed from Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales to the intensive care unit at Bristol Children's Hospital.\n\nOsian's family and friends have been raising money to support the family while he remains in hospital\n\nHis family were told he had MISC-C, a rare inflammatory syndrome associated with the virus that causes Covid-19.\n\nWith scarring on his heart he was put on an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine and began dialysis treatment.\n\nOsian appeared to be recovering at first, but after facing a number of setbacks the decision was made to move him to Harefield Hospital in Middlesex where he received the lifesaving heart transplant.\n\nHis parents have been staying in Middlesex to be close to him in hospital and hope to stay there until he is discharged.\n\n\"Osian has continually amazed the doctors and nurses with his resilience, his positive attitude and most of all the way he has faced every step of this journey with bravery. We are so incredibly proud of him,\" said his parents.\n\n\"We are now focused on his recovery journey, and ultimately getting him home so that he can return to Stanwell sixth form where he will be doing his A levels with his friends.\"\n\nOsian's family and friends have begun raising money to support the family while he remains in hospital.\n\nOsian's school, Stanwell, in Penarth, has put on a non-school uniform day which raised more than £3,300.\n\nOsian's school raised in excess of £3,300 from a non uniform day\n\nA fundraising walk that took place in his hometown on his 16th birthday also raised over £2,000.\n\nHis supporters hope to raise more funds with a 5km (3 mile) walk around Penarth planned for 15 July.\n\nThanking their local community, Osian's parents Alexis and Andy, said: \"Knowing that you are all behind us has given us enormous strength\".\n\nThey said they had been \"completely overwhelmed by the support for all the local events\".\n\n\"Your efforts mean we can continue to focus on providing maximum support for Osian with his courageous journey to getting back home,\" they said.\n\nA GoFundMe page has also been launched and aims to raise £30,000. Once the cost of Osian's parents staying with him during his recovery have been met, any additional funds raised will go to the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity.\n\nAlso sometimes called Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS), the rare complication of coronavirus occurs mainly in children of school-age, but occasionally in infants or young adults.\n\nAccording to NHS Inform, children with the condition generally develop mild to no symptoms at the time of their coronavirus infection, and usually start to develop MISC-C symptoms about four to six weeks later. Children with MISC-C have a temperature over 38°C (100F) that lasts for at least three to four days.\n\nOther common symptoms include a red rash (spots or blotches) which may be there all the time or come and go, red eyes (conjunctivitis) which are not sticky or itchy, abdominal pain which might be severe, vomiting and/or diarrhoea, sore throat, cough, breathlessness, swollen glands, sore red mouth, swollen hands and feet, headache, dizziness, sleepiness or confusion.\n\nThere are no specific tests for MISC-C. Doctors diagnose by looking at levels of inflammation in the body through blood tests, and at how well parts of the body are working, alongside common symptoms.", "Several Nato members, including the US, are thought to be lobbying for current chief Jens Stoltenberg to stay on\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace has said he is out of the race to become the next Nato chief.\n\nAsked about leading the alliance from the end of September, when Jens Stoltenberg's term ends, he told The Economist: \"It's not going to happen.\"\n\nSeveral Nato members, including the US, are thought to have been lobbying Mr Stoltenberg to stay on.\n\nBut on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said his country was not \"promoting any particular candidate\".\n\nNato - the West's defensive military alliance - has 31 members who agree to help one another if they come under attack.\n\nSpeaking to German media about the top job last month, Mr Wallace said: \"I've always said it would be a good job. That's a job I'd like. But I'm also loving the job I do now.\"\n\nDespite his obvious enthusiasm to succeed Mr Stoltenberg as the next head of Nato, he appears to have failed to get the backing of key allies.\n\nUS President Joe Biden described Mr Wallace as \"very qualified\" for the job when he met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Washington recently.\n\nBut in private, the US is believed to be one of the nations trying to persuade Mr Stoltenberg to stay - at least for another year. This was echoed by Mr Wallace in comments to The Economist.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has re-focused diplomatic attention on Nato's role in the 21st Century and whether it can deter Russian aggression.\n\nMr Wallace proved popular with a number of countries on the alliance's eastern flank because of his leadership in supplying weapons to Ukraine.\n\nBut others have argued for continuity in a time of war, or that the job should be reserved for a former head of government.\n\nMr Stoltenberg, who has been the alliance's top boss for nine years, has neither confirmed or denied his intentions to continue in the job.\n\nHe told reporters last week: \"I am responsible for all decisions that this alliance has to take except for one. And that is about my future. That is for the 31 allies to decide.\"\n\nAnother contender for the role is Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who - if elected - would be the first female Nato chief.\n\nIn his interview with The Economist, Mr Wallace said whoever takes on the role would need to deal with \"a lot of unresolved issues in Nato,\" including differing demands from US and French leadership.\n\nFrance believes Nato's secretary general should come from within the European Union.\n\nWith less than a month to go until the Nato summit in Lithuania, it looks increasingly likely that Mr Stoltenberg will be asked to extend his tenure again.\n\nNato was formed in 1949 by 12 countries and its original goal was to challenge Soviet expansion in Europe after World War Two.\n\nMore recently, Russia has used the expansion of Nato as a pretext for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv is not a member, but has received support from alliance members.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was disappointed his country had not been invited to join Nato at next month's summit in Vilnius, adding that Ukraine would be the strongest member of Nato's eastern flank.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Preparation sessions for Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday are a crucial couple of hours in the Westminster timetable.\n\nThe prime minister and the leader of the opposition sit down with their key advisers to try out attack lines and taunts, master the facts and, crucially, come up with some jokes.\n\nYes, politics is a profoundly serious business, but humour can be a deadly verbal weapon, and create a moment that will leap into the headlines.\n\nAnd for opposition leaders, that chance to grab the country's attention is what PMQs is all about.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, publicly, is not exactly known for cracking gags.\n\nHis early performances at PMQs were not full of levity, one columnist joked back then that even a smile was a collector's item.\n\nBut now, more than three years into the job, after many months ahead in the polls, one of Sir Keir's confidants tells me he is coming up with more of his own jokes.\n\n\"He wouldn't accept 'I can't do humour'\", they tell me, and now will increasingly suggest wisecracks rather than rely on others' lines.\n\nIt is a small, but revealing change in what insiders describe as his strict political regime, a sign of his growing ease, and \"fiercely competitive\" nature, a refusal ever to accept that he can't do things to get better at the job.\n\nThe Labour leader has good reason to be increasingly confident that he will one day walk through Number 10's shiny black door.\n\nA lot has gone right since he took over back in spring 2020, a political lifetime ago.\n\nA Labour source says his three phase plan - \"fix the party, trash the Tories, then develop an offer\" - has been \"vindicated\", recalling in the early days their many critics said he was \"being too slow\", or \"trying to bounce us early\" into making big decisions.\n\nRemember too, when Sir Keir won the leadership there were warnings that Labour might even cease to exist.\n\nThey had been absolutely hammered in the 2019 election. There had been years of vicious infighting, and agonies over antisemitism.\n\nBy any measure, restoring the party to a credible political organisation is an enormous accomplishment.\n\nWithout question, Sir Keir has been helped by the Conservatives' rolling series of crises - the chaos of Boris Johnson's downfall, the market meltdown of Liz Truss' several dozens of days in office, and now the profound problems in the economy.\n\nThe Starmer smile is on show more often at PMQs\n\nBut even with the much more ordered regime of Rishi Sunak, Labour has managed to stay significantly ahead in the polls, making important advances in local elections, and soon to be tested again in a flurry of by-elections you can read about here.\n\nAs a result of a solid and sustained opinion poll lead, Labour is thinking not just about how to win anymore, but in detail about what they would do if they get there.\n\nSir Keir is the first to warn of complacency, repeatedly telling his team to fight \"like they are five points behind\".\n\nBut there is no question he is mulling over how he would govern.\n\n\"He is thinking, I want to be ready and I want to be a good prime minister,\" says an ally.\n\nAnother source tells me he is already using a red box system, like a prime minister would.\n\n\"Everything goes in by late afternoon with a hard deadline and he spends his evenings poring over papers, ideas, drafts, or submissions\", all dealt with by the morning.\n\nBut it may be more than a year still until he has the chance to swap the bag that holds his papers for a real government red box. And there is still an awful lot that could go wrong.\n\nSensing the opportunity and worrying it could go south is \"scary as hell\", says a shadow minister.\n\nThere is a widespread awareness that Labour's massive lead now is likely to narrow as a general election comes closer.\n\nThe Tories \"aren't dead\", says one shadow minister and their party HQ has one of the most successful campaign fighting records in the Western world.\n\nAnd the first rule of politics is always, learn to count.\n\nLabour's poll lead over the Conservatives is expected to narrow\n\nA whopping national poll lead does not automatically translate into winning many more seats in a general election, as one Labour MP in a tightly-fought constituency worries - \"The biggest danger is that you rack up big majorities and don't seal the deal with enough of the seats\".\n\nSir Keir's team can't change the fact that Labour fell so far behind in 2019 that winning an overall majority isn't just climbing a mountain, more scaling the Himalayas. They also of course, like any political organisation, can't control unforeseen events that can shape how voters make decisions.\n\nNot much however is without risk, even issues that ought to be within Starmer's control.\n\nFirst, one source half jokes what could go wrong is \"The Labour Party\"!\n\nThe danger is \"it loses discipline and focus and makes unforced errors\", they tell me.\n\n\"It's been 20 years since we won a general election\", they add, and the party simply doesn't have the habit.\n\nA shadow minister says \"we have to hold our nerve\" and not make any mistakes, or give into pressure from the left of the party.\n\nThe leadership has been accused of control freakery, trying to suppress the left, expelling party members unfairly.\n\nBut a source says the danger of disputes with the left is \"way down the risk register\", the focus has to be on potential voters.\n\nOne shadow minister believes Sir Keir thinks \"I can't be in government and dependent on these people\".\n\nThe logic goes that battles with the left over who gets to run as a Labour MP now are well worth having to avoid having an awkward squad that could make life difficult in Parliament later. Particularly if Labour has to try to run the country as a minority government or with a tiny majority.\n\nThe Labour leader has his eyes firmly on Number 10\n\nThe leadership's most central strategy is one of the reasons why there are grumbles on the left - and that is risky too.\n\nAs we heard from Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves last week, and Sir Keir is likely to argue in our interview on Sunday morning, Labour has put watching the pennies strictly at the top of its list.\n\nWith the economy in serious trouble, they share some of the ethos of the current government, however uncomfortable that might feel, that now is not the time for huge spending or huge tax cuts.\n\nThat discipline means the party has dropped or watered down some promises that activists loved - the plan for free university tuition in England, delaying big spending proposals for green projects.\n\nNo-one is getting promises from Rachel Reeves' cheque book, as we talked about last week.\n\nIt has had an effect on the leader's reputation.\n\nOne union leader says Starmer has \"had the blame for shifts in policy that have made him look a bit shifty\".\n\nAnd there is concern that all the talk of keeping a lid on spending on what Keir Starmer once described as \"good Labour things\" will lead voters to wonder what Labour really would offer.\n\nAnother senior figure tells me: \"The economy is on its knees - sitting there saying, we are very sensible, who is going to listen to that?\"\n\nThere is also a question of the political argument being made.\n\nKeir Starmer and his team have made the case for many years that the deep roots of many of the country's problems relate to the austerity of the coalition years, when George Osborne kept strict limits on spending.\n\nBut if Labour's plan does not include filling in the holes financially to undo that damage, does that stack up?\n\nOne of his MPs, not from the far left of the party, ponders \"it is pretty hard to criticise this government without acknowledging the damage that austerity has caused, and then not say you would spend more… no-one really believes that he wouldn't spend more\". As Labour approaches its National Policy Forum next week, an important powwow with activists and unions, calls for more ambition, like from the leader of the Unite union, Sharon Graham, may become familiar.\n\nStressing the importance of reforming and improving public services, and getting the economy growing without spending billions extra and certainly not borrowing without good reason.\n\nLabour's top team is stuck like glue to the idea that they have to show they would keep a tight grip on public spending, almost as if they are traumatised by past elections when the Conservatives have run the attack that they would splash the cash.\n\nA senior figure suggests the leadership is \"very nervous about making any wrong moves on the economy\".\n\nBut those at the top believe the messiness of the past few months, particularly the rising cost of mortgages, make discipline even more important.\n\nOne shadow minister says: \"The mortgage stuff hits homeowners in places like Stevenage and Luton, swing voters, who are looking for people who are serious on the economy.\"\n\nBut insiders acknowledge turning discipline into electoral excitement might not be easy. Making promises about abstract reform doesn't necessarily get voters running to the polling booths.\n\nAs Parliament packs up for the summer, there is no question that Sir Keir Starmer has cause to be confident. His party is well ahead, but risk is all around.\n\nThere are traps to avoid, big decisions to take, many thousands of miles of campaigning still to go.\n\nWith less time to play football, the Labour leader now tries to stay in a hotel with a gym, to run on a treadmill.\n\nAfter more than three years in the job, even having clocked up many successes, he knows the journey to the job he craves in Number 10 is still a marathon, not a sprint.", "Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess were pronounced dead in hospital on 31 May\n\nNo criminal offences were committed in relation to the deaths of two people off Bournemouth beach, police said.\n\nSunnah Khan, 12, and Joe Abbess, 17, both drowned when they were suspected to have been caught in a riptide next to the pier at the resort on 31 May.\n\nPolice said they investigated whether a sightseeing boat, the Dorset Belle, had caused dangerous sea conditions but concluded it was not to blame.\n\nA man, initially arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, will face no action.\n\nThe Dorset Belle pleasure boat was inspected by police following the deaths\n\nA preliminary inquest hearing last month was told there was a \"suggestion\" a riptide led to the teenagers' deaths.\n\nRiptides are strong currents running out to sea that can quickly drag people and objects away from the shoreline to deeper water.\n\nDet Ch Supt Neil Corrigan, of Dorset Police, said: \"...information was given to police, which indicated that the movement of a boat - the Dorset Belle - immediately before the incident occurred could have contributed toward creating dangerous sea conditions.\n\n\"Witnesses suggested that there had been similar issues with the vessel having created such problems previously.\"\n\nThe beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident\n\nThe boat was later impounded and examined as part of the investigation. It has since been released.\n\nThe detective added: \"...it was necessary to instruct an expert to review the material gathered by police. It was simply not possible to make a decision in this case without expert advice.\n\n\"The instructed expert needed time to review the evidential material and also to consider the prevailing tide and meteorological conditions at the time alongside the topography of the shoreline at the location.\n\n\"As a result of all of the evidence available, we are now able to confirm that we do not believe that the movement of the Dorset Belle contributed to the incident.\"\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council suspended all boat operations from the pier \"as a precaution\" last month.\n\nStephanie Williams wants to improve safety after the death of her daughter\n\nThe beach had been packed during half-term when a number of people swimming off the eastern side of Bournemouth Pier got into difficulties shortly before 16:00 BST.\n\nThe area was cleared while emergency services dealt with the incident. Dorset Police said 11 people were rescued by RNLI lifeguards.\n\nJoe and Sunnah both suffered critical injuries and died in hospital.\n\nJoe, a trainee chef from Southampton was described as a \"fabulous young man\" by his family.\n\nSunnah's mother Stephanie Williams, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, paid tribute to her \"beautiful daughter\", saying \"no parent should ever have to go through what her dad and I are going through\".\n\nShe had her proposals to improve water safety heard in Parliament earlier this week.\n\nAylesbury MP Rob Butler raised the issue during a debate on water safety and drowning prevention.\n\nDorset Police said it would work with the coroner to provide a report covering the incident and investigation.\n\nA further pre-inquest hearing is due to be held on 18 September.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Many people are setting off their travels during the great summer getaway as schools across England and Wales enjoy their six-week holidays.\n\nBut last year's summer season was marked by widespread travel disruption.\n\nSo whether you're travelling by plane, train, road or ferry, will things be smoother this time round?\n\nThis summer is set to be the busiest time for aviation since before the pandemic.\n\nSome 92,404 flights were scheduled to depart the UK in July, according to aviation data firm Cirium - the most since October 2019.\n\nLast summer, demand for travel roared back after Covid travel restrictions were eased. But many airports and airlines that had made cuts during the pandemic struggled to recruit staff quickly enough.\n\nThey insist they've pulled out all the stops to make their operations more resilient this year.\n\nFor example, EasyJet told the BBC in March it started recruiting far earlier than usual and was already fully staffed for summer.\n\nHowever, there are different headaches this year, which could mean further disruption, although not necessarily on the scale of last year's problems.\n\nStrike action, notably by French air traffic controllers, has been causing cancellations and delays for months.\n\nFlights over France to destinations such as Spain and Portugal have also been affected, which Ryanair's boss has repeatedly complained about.\n\nHowever, some action has been called off. Eight days of strikes planned in July and August by ground handlers at Gatwick Airport will now not go ahead.\n\nMany airports struggled to cope last summer\n\nProposed summer strike action by security workers at Heathrow was called off after the Unite union accepted an improved pay offer.\n\nAnd at Birmingham Airport, a strike expected to involve more than 150 security staff and technicians has been suspended after a fresh pay offer.\n\nThe threat of strikes by European air traffic managers at Eurocontrol remains, but no dates have been set. The union involved told the BBC it hopes to reach an agreement with the employer.\n\nThe air traffic control environment is \"challenging\", according to Willie Walsh, who heads up global airline body Iata.\n\nEasyJet has already axed 1,700 summer flights at Gatwick to reduce the chance of last-minute cancellations, blaming what it called \"unprecedented\" air traffic limitations.\n\nEurope's air space remains constrained and clogged up due to the Ukraine war.\n\n\"In the event of French strikes some flights may be rerouted through other, already congested, air space which itself creates additional pressure,\" says aviation expert John Strickland.\n\n\"Manpower shortages in parts of Europe such as Greece and Denmark [are] causing capacity bottlenecks, which create further delays.\n\n\"Indeed one European airline CEO told me that the whole of European air traffic control except the UK was 'a mess'.\"\n\nMr Strickland thinks events like summer storms could add pressure to an already stretched system, leading to delays and cancellations.\n\nOn the railway, industrial action by unions could affect the plans of thousands of people going on day trips or holidays.\n\nRail workers in the RMT union at 14 train companies with government contracts staged a number of one-day strikes in July, although no more are currently scheduled.\n\nTheir dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions has been going on for more than a year now.\n\nThe RMT strikes took place after the union rejected the latest proposals from the industry, which is backed by the government.\n\nThe train companies are under pressure from the government to cut costs. With the national dispute at a standstill, they have since announced controversial plans to close most station ticket offices in England.\n\nTrain drivers in the Aslef union have also been taking action short of a strike in the form of an overtime ban at 15 train companies. The latest overtime ban ends on Saturday 5 August, after starting on Monday 31 July.\n\nBut the union will be holding another week-long overtime ban from Monday 7 to Saturday 12 August.\n\nIn London, strikes on the Underground have been called off following last-minute talks.\n\nTraffic is expected to increase during the summer holiday season, and roads could be busier than usual as train strikes push people into cars instead.\n\n\"It's likely that people will consider altering their journey plans and they may well travel by car instead so it's important they check their vehicle is roadworthy before setting off,\" says Frank Bird, senior network planner at National Highways.\n\n\"We'd also remind motorists to check the weather forecast... and to take plenty of drinking water with them as well as food that won't be affected by the heat in case of delays.\"\n\nThere were long queues at Dover during the Easter holidays\n\nDover is Europe's busiest ferry port, and summer is its peak time as passengers head across the Channel.\n\nIt will be under the spotlight again after many passengers experienced long queues last July and during this year's Easter holidays.\n\nHolidaymakers are being warned to expect to wait up to two-and-a-half hours to pass additional passport checks introduced after Brexit.\n\nIn late May, port boss Doug Bannister told the BBC everything possible had been done to prevent the same level of delays.\n\nHowever, he said \"it would be foolish\" to guarantee there would never be queues. Mr Bannister added that additional passport checks were a factor.\n\nThe port's location between cliffs and the sea means space is limited.\n\nIt says measures in place ahead of the summer holidays include working with coach and ferry operators to spread out travel at peak times, extra space to process coach passengers, and putting in more border control posts.\n\nLocal authorities and emergency services have traffic management plans for busy times, including queuing up lorries on the M20 motorway.\n\nThis system was reinstated ahead of the busy July and August period.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Images have emerged purportedly showing Wagner fighters training Belarusian soldiers at a base south-east of Minsk\n\nUkraine's border guard service has confirmed that Wagner mercenaries have now arrived in Belarus from neighbouring Russia.\n\nThe DPSU says it is assessing how many \"militants\" are in Belarus, which also shares a border with Ukraine, as well as their exact location and goals.\n\nOne unconfirmed report said a convoy of some 60 Wagner vehicles rolled over the border into Belarus early on Saturday.\n\nA deal ended the 24-hour rebellion, which saw the troops seize a city and march on Moscow - aborting it just 200km (124 miles) from the capital.\n\nUnder the agreement, Wagner fighters were told they could join either the regular Russian army or go to Belarus, a close ally of Russia. The Wagner leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was also offered a move to Belarus, however his current whereabouts are unknown.\n\nWagner is a Russian private military company made up of mercenary fighters - many of whom were recruited from Russian prisons. They have fought some of the bloodiest battles since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year.\n\nDPSU spokesman Andriy Demchenko confirmed Wagner's presence in Belarus in a short statement on Saturday.\n\nHe said Ukrainian border guards were \"continuing to monitor the situation\" across the country's northern border. He provided no further details.\n\nEarlier in the day, a Telegram channel associated with a prominent Belarusian opposition blogger reported that a large Wagner convoy entered Belarus from Russia.\n\nBelaruski Hajun channel said the vehicles - including pickups, lorries and buses - were being accompanied by Belarusian traffic police as they headed to the town of Osipovichy, about 85km (53 miles) south-east of the capital Minsk.\n\nThe Belarusian authorities - which view Belaruski Hajun as an extremist channel - have not commented on the issue.\n\nOn Friday, Belarus' defence ministry said Wagner troops were now acting as military instructors for the country's territorial defence forces. It said the fighters were training Belarusian forces \"in a number of military disciplines\" near Osipovichy.\n\nEarlier this week, President Putin revealed that Prigozhin had rejected an offer for his fighters to join the Russian army as a regular unit.\n\nHe told Russia's Kommersant newspaper that many group commanders had backed the plan, to be led by a senior Wagner figure, during talks in Moscow on 29 June.\n\nBut he said that Prigozhin's reply was \"the guys [Wagner troops] do not agree with this decision\".\n\nMr Putin also said that under Russian law, Wagner \"does not exist\", because mercenary groups are not officially recognised. But that \"difficult issue\" should be discussed in parliament, the president added.\n\nThe Kremlin appears to want to differentiate between the Wagner chief and regular Wagner fighters, driving a wedge between them, says the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.\n\nHe adds that this would explain the attempts in Russia's state media to discredit Prigozhin.\n\nSince the 23 June mutiny, there have been conflicting and unconfirmed reports of Prigozhin's whereabouts.\n\nHe is a former Putin loyalist and once even nicknamed \"Putin's chef\" for his catering contracts with the Kremlin. But public infighting between Prigozhin and Russia's ministry of defence over the conduct of the war have put him at steep odds with Russia government.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said on Thursday that Prigozhin should be careful of poisoning following the mutiny.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The day Wagner chief went rogue... in 96 seconds\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Police were called to the shooting school on Friday\n\nA man and a woman have been found dead at a North Lincolnshire shooting school, prompting a murder inquiry.\n\nPolice said they were found at the White Lodge Shooting School in College Road, Thornton Curtis, on Friday but added no-one else was being sought in connection with the deaths.\n\nOfficers were called to the property at about 15:40 BST amid safety concerns.\n\nPolice said inquiries were ongoing but said there was no risk to the wider public.\n\nOfficers said they responded to a call about concern for safety\n\n\"A homicide investigation has commenced, and both deaths are being treated as suspicious at this time until we establish the facts,\" he said.\n\nFurther details about the man and woman have not yet been released. The next of kin of both victims have been informed, police say.\n\nThere is no risk to the wider public, said detectives\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Italian government advised anyone in areas covered by red alerts to avoid direct sunlight for most of the day\n\nSouthern Europe will continue to swelter next week as an intense heatwave shows no sign of abating.\n\nItaly, Spain and Greece have been experiencing high temperatures for several days already.\n\nThe Italian health ministry issued a red alert for 16 cities including Rome, Bologna and Florence for the weekend.\n\nThe heatwave is expected to continue well into next week, with 48C (118.4F) possible in Sardinia, according to Italian media.\n\nSuch a temperature would, however, fall short of the European record high of 48.8C (119.8F) - which was recorded in Sicily in August 2021.\n\nThe Italian weather service said Sardinia would be at the \"epicentre\" of next week's heatwave - which weather forecasters have dubbed Charon, after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology.\n\n\"Temperatures will reach a peak between 19 and 23 July - not only in Italy but also in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans. Several local heat records within these areas may well be broken during those days,\" Italian meteorologist and climate expert Giulio Betti told the BBC.\n\nItaly's government has advised anyone in the areas covered by Saturday's red alerts to avoid direct sunlight between 11:00 and 18:00, and to take particular care of the elderly or vulnerable.\n\nIn Rome, tour guide Felicity Hinton, 59, told the BBC the soaring temperatures combined with overcrowding has made it \"nightmarish\" to navigate the city.\n\n\"It's always hot in Rome but this has just been consistently hot for a lot longer than normal,\" she said.\n\n\"My tour guide friends and I are extremely stressed out. People have been fainting on tours and there are ambulances outside everywhere.\"\n\nRome resident Elena, 62 told the BBC that she has noticed a \"marked change\" in summer temperatures since around 2003, and that they have been growing exponentially since.\n\nMeanwhile, Greece has hit temperatures of 40C (104F) or more in recent days. The Acropolis in Athens - the country's most popular tourist attraction - was closed during the hottest hours of Friday and Saturday to protect visitors.\n\nIn Spain's Canary Islands, a forest fire that broke out on La Palma on Saturday morning forced the evacuation of at least 4,000 people and has so far destroyed 4,500 hectares (11,000 acres) of land.\n\nFernando Clavijo, president of the Canary Islands regional government, said at least 12 houses had been destroyed and attributed the quick spread of the fire to \"the wind, the climate conditions as well as the heatwave that we are living through\".\n\nPeriods of intense heat occur within natural weather patterns, but globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global warming.\n\n\"Heatwaves increase every year in number and intensity... and they are among the most tangible, evident, documented and clearly observable signs of climate change,\" Mr Betti said.\n\n\"European summers have gotten much, much hotter in recent years... What should worry us is that summers without intense and prolonged heatwaves simply don't exist anymore. 'Normal' summers have become a rarity.\"\n\nLast month was the hottest June on record, according to the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC forecaster Helen Willetts looks at the coming week across southern Europe\n\nWhat do you want to know about these heatwaves? We'll be putting your questions to experts in our coverage this week, so let us know what you're wondering or worrying about. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 7 July and 14 July.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nClearly beautiful: \"With all the recent rain we have been getting, it made this Shasta daisy in my garden in Livingston go translucent,\" says Susan Ferguson. \"Later in the day it went back to its usual white colour as it was a sunny day. Never seen this happen to daisies, only heard about this happening to skeleton flowers. My picture seems to be getting a lot of attention in the gardening groups I am in.\"\n\nGo Forth and conquer: \"The groyne dipping into the Forth looks like some forgotten sea monster,\" says Graham Paton of his sun-up shot.\n\nFollow the leader? \"The beautiful puffins on Isle of May,\" says Sandra Motion.\n\n\"Up with the lark to get this picture of the sun rising over Millport,\" says Iain Campbell.\n\nCub scout: Nick Kemp spotted one of this year's new young fox arrivals in Edinburgh. \"It was at the time picking up bird seed beneath a feeder, and probably saw me hiding to get the picture! Shot with a long focus lens.\"\n\nTwo's a crowd: \"I witnessed this osprey catch some food,\" says Marcus Tyler in Perthshire. \"The majestic shot of the osprey leaving with its meal didn't go quite as I thought it would though.\"\n\nTay of sunshine: \"A spectacular rainbow amidst torrential rain and spots of sun, seen from Dundee overlooking the Tay Road Bridge.\" says William Johnston.\n\nA dolphin's tail: \"The dolphins were fantastic at Chanonry Point, Fortrose,\" says Catriona Dalziel. \"I love this picture catching four different poses in one image.\"\n\n\"His happy place\": This is how Alison Challis describes her son Ruaridh's start to the summer holidays at the Silver Sands of Morar.\n\nThere's a storm brewing: An atmospheric Aberdeen harbour shot from Ruaraidh McMahon. \"I was glad that rain was in the distance.\"\n\nHot wheels: \"Captured this photo at Glamis Castle while the stunt team were ending with a bang,\" says Bob Smart. \"A bang loud enough to make my daughter practically jump out of her skin!\"\n\nMaking a splash: \"It was delightful to see cygnets in Edinburgh,\" says Stephen Pusey. \"I was able to snap these two as they enjoyed splashing around in the afternoon sunshine.\"\n\nBatman and robin: Sometimes the captions just write themselves. \"A bit of humour\" at Townhill Loch in Dunfermline, says Jimmy Mason.\n\nLarge fish supper please: \"We were on a whale cruise from Gairloch and captured this minke whale feeding just off the coast of Stornoway,\" says Martin Pirie.\n\nA Fyne sight: \"A bit of sunshine between the showers,\" says Rhona Larkin of this shot overlooking Loch Fyne.\n\nEyes right: Another puffin seen on a trip to the Isle of May, this time by Stevi Jackson.\n\nQuite a feet: \"Me and my mate Stuart Allen on the bench at Fort William after our 96-mile walk over five days for the charity Young Lives vs Cancer,\" says Stuart Meldrum, who is on the right.\n\n\"Two gannets, taken during a boat trip from North Berwick visiting Bass Rock,\" says Alistair McIntosh from Australia.\n\nBus photo bomb: \"There I was, sitting patiently in a field, waiting for the right moment to take a picture of this hare,\" says Alex Mackintosh. \"All was going well until a bus drove past!\"\n\nWing collar shirt: \"Taking a break,\" says Victor Tregubov of this friendly butterfly at Dawyck Botanic Garden.\n\nRock stars: \"The European Land Art Festival and Stone Stacking Championships were held in Dunbar,\" says Janina Dolny. \"Entrants were asked to create beautiful and unique art pieces such as this artistic arch using only the materials nature has provided.\"\n\nThistle do nicely: \"A goldfinch enjoying thistle seeds near Skinflats in Falkirk,\" says Michael Daw.\n\n\"A cheeky deer in my Banchory garden,\" says Eddie Fowler.\n\nFlower power: Karon Wylie captured this lovely image of a bee at Glen Feochan, Kilmore.\n\nDoing the twist: Highland cattle and calves at a farm near Drongan, Ayrshire, from Mike Ogston.\n\n\"My three-year-old Labrador, Eva, enjoying the fantastic view of Neist Point and the lighthouse in the far west of the Isle of Skye,\" says Jon Perkins from Edinburgh.\n\nWinging it: \"A trip to the Trossachs osprey hide,\" says Michael Yuille. \"No fish for the osprey, sadly.\"\n\nA healthy crop of runners: \"The M3 Monikie Triathlon Festival during one of the long sunny spells before the showers started,\" says Stuart Anderson.\n\n\"I spotted these red deer amongst the thistles at Glenshee,\" says Pam Sharp.\n\nThe fox(glove) and the hound: This bright woodland summer scene was captured by Gillian Thomson at Castle Fraser in Aberdeenshire.\n\nCaught red-handed: \"A squirrel feasting on nuts, taken in the Cairngorms,\" says Thomas Hill.\n\nA bit of a mouthful: \"I'd always promised my daughters to take them to the Isle of May to see the puffins and we eventually got around to it after about 10 years,\" says Brian Battensby. \"These three, with beaks full of sand eels, appeared to be waiting patiently for us tourists to move so they could go home to feed their chicks.\"\n\nBright idea: \"I caught this visitor patrolling the petunias in my window box in Glasgow,\" says Valery Tough.\n\nOn yer bike: \"His feet don’t quite reach the pedals,\" says Walter Hoy of this squirrel. \"Spotted this cheeky wee guy in my garden in Galston, Ayrshire.\"\n\nHi expectations: A seal of approval with what looked like a welcoming wave on the approach to Isle of May for Jacki Gordon.\n\nShip to shoe-re: This image of footwear on a wire was taken by Ian Pirrie at Largs.\n\n\"A photograph taken by my 16-year-old daughter, Hannah, at Sandend beach in Aberdeenshire during a lovely evening walk,\" says Sue Smith.\n\n\"A bold wee soul\": Tom Kelly says he was sitting on the banks of the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, when this fox cub appeared just a few yards in front of him and stared right into his camera.\n\nFun on tap: \"The school holidays have definitely started in our house with water balloons replacing dishes,\" notes Rose Brown.\n\n\"I took this from near the triangulation column on Conachair during a high level walk on Hirta, the main island of the St Kilda archipelago,\" says Graham Bullough. \"It comprises a panoramic view of Village Bay, including the ruins from the last inhabitants plus the MoD base first established in 1957.\"\n\nSign of things to come: \"My partner Ryan Salter proposed to me under the John O'Groats sign,\" says Louise Stephen. \"We had the place to ourselves and I snapped this photograph after. I think the black and white captures the silence we experienced there. Beautiful.\" Our congratulations to you both.\n\n\"Scotland doesn't need a filter\": That is how Marie McKnight described this shot from a campsite beside Loch Eil. \"I glanced over and saw a wonderful glow.\"\n\nTravelling light: \"Came across this fellow during a dog walk,\" says Suzanne Lakie. \"Just loved how the sun lit up his 'house'.\"\n\nThe night Skye: \"Beautiful photo taken by my husband, Alex MacDonald, from our home in Kilvaxter, Isle of Skye,\" says Caroline Forsyth. \"He snapped it on his phone quickly. Gorgeous though.\"\n\nLight and shade: \"That Callanish feeling,\" says John Dyer.\n\nSilhou-pet: \"Sunset at Camusdarach beach with my dog Penny reflected in a tidal pool,\" says Kathleen Murphy.\n\nWell worth flagging up: Saltire \"flying high\" at Lochgilphead, says Bryan Wark of his shot.\n\n\"Loch Broom at sunset with trawler Lord Miles approaching Ullapool,\" says Andy Inglis.\n\nSome down time: \"We rushed out from where we were staying to capture and enjoy a beautiful sunset on our holiday in Girvan,\" says Colin Grady.\n\nThere's something in the Ayr: Andrew Carruthers says this beautiful sunset photo over Arran was taken during an evening stroll along Ayr beach.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "The Alternative Funding scheme was set up for households such as those in narrow boats or park homes\n\nA scheme designed to help people who missed out on last winter's £400 energy bill subsidy was a \"staggering failure\", a senior MP has said.\n\nThe Energy Bill Support Scheme Alternative Funding was set up for households who do not have an energy supplier, such as those in park homes.\n\nNearly a million households could apply but only a fraction received the money.\n\nMP Angus MacNeil said the government should reopen the scheme, saying it had \"missed the most vulnerable\".\n\nThe government said it had spent more than £50m supporting 130,000 households without a domestic energy supplier.\n\nAll UK households were eligible for the £400 help with fuel bills, after energy prices rose sharply last year. For households who pay their bills by direct debit, the support was given automatically through monthly payments from October to March.\n\nBut people who live off-grid, on narrow boats, travellers, people in park homes and some tenants and people on heat networks, did not automatically receive the support, because they did not have an energy provider.\n\nThe government set up the Alternative Funding scheme for the over 900,000 households in those categories. It also applied to people living in care homes, who are charged for energy costs in their bills.\n\nBut only 141,000 bill-payers managed to apply for and receive the subsidy before the scheme closed on 31 May.\n\nThere remain 750,000 eligible households who have missed out on the £400 support payment.\n\nPHD student Sheree Smith had hoped money from the scheme would help her\n\nPHD student Sheree Smith said she spent more time at university than at her flat so she didn't have to pay higher energy bills.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"I was really hoping that £400 would have helped me to weather the storm so I could stay in my flat, but ultimately it didn't come in time.\n\n\"I ended up having to return to my parents.\"\n\nMr MacNeil, a former SNP member, who now sits as an independent and chairs Parliament's energy security and net zero committee, said the scheme should be improved and extended so that people could claim the subsidy they were entitled to.\n\n\"A lot of these will be vulnerable people who are particularly suffering the bite of the energy price spike and government should be moving heaven and earth almost, to make sure these people are getting the money,\" Mr MacNeil said in an interview with the BBC's Money Box programme.\n\nIn his role as chair of the parliamentary committee, Mr MacNeil is due to question Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps in September. Mr MacNeil said he would ask him to relaunch the scheme and make it easier to use, since \"clearly delivery has failed\".\n\nSome applicants criticised the scheme for being too complex or not recognising their circumstances. Others said their applications were repeatedly rejected, despite being eligible.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We spent billions to protect families when prices rose over winter, covering nearly half a typical household's energy bill.\n\n\"We're now seeing costs fall even further with wholesale energy prices down by over two thirds since their peak.\"\n\nYou can hear more on this story on the Money Box podcast after broadcast.\n• None More than 700,000 miss out on energy bill support", "Disposable vapes cause litter problems, are a fire hazard and appeal too strongly to children, according to local councils in England and Wales.\n\nThe Local Government Association says 1.3m vapes are thrown away each week and wants them banned by 2024.\n\nSingle use varieties have surged in popularity, driven by Chinese brands such as Elfbar and Lost Mary.\n\nThe UK Vaping Industry Association says they help smokers quit and can be recycled.\n\nDisposable vapes offer a few hundred puffs of nicotine-containing vapour, often with an added flavour of fruit or sweets, in bright plastic packaging – which are thrown away when empty.\n\nThey are easier to use than conventional vapes, or e-cigarettes, which need to be refilled with pods or liquid.\n\nDisposable ones also contain a small lithium battery, which can increase in temperature when crushed, causing fires in bin lorries, the Local Government Association (LGA) warns.\n\nFigures from research firm NielsenIQ suggest the problem could be even bigger than that. It says nearly 300m e-cigarettes (disposable and otherwise) were sold in the UK over the last year.\n\nElfbar and Lost Mary, which are made by the same Chinese firm, Shenzhen Imiracle Technology Co, made up more than half that number. That is an increase of more than four times compared to their sales the year before.\n\nCouncillor David Fothergill, chairman of the LGA’s Community Wellbeing Board, said: “Disposable vapes are fundamentally flawed in their design and inherently unsustainable products, meaning an outright ban will prove more effective than attempts to recycle more vapes.”\n\nCouncils are not against vaping altogether as they believe vapes are less harmful than tobacco and can help smokers to quit.\n\nJohn Dunne, director general of the UK Vaping Industry Association, said that the “low price, accessibility and ease of use” of disposable products had helped bring UK smoking rates to an \"all-time low”.\n\n“The vape industry is working hard to minimise its environmental impact, but this is mainly a consumer education issue about how to dispose of used vapes, which overall are evidenced to be highly recyclable,\" he said.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Disposables have been around for well over a decade and provide a low priced accessible product that helps smokers to quit smoking tobacco.\".\n\nA blanket ban could see “potentially deadly” black market products flood the UK, Mr Dunne warned.\n\nLost Mary vapes on sale in London - the LGA worries that the flavours and packaging of disposable vapes appeal to children\n\nSelling vapes and e-cigarettes to under 18s is illegal in the UK.\n\nLancashire County Council director of public health Dr Sakthi Karunanithi said vaping had originally been seen as a way to curtail the harm caused by tobacco, but said there was a marketing problem.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the advertising was \"unvetted and unscrupulous\".\n\nCouncils are also worried that disposable varieties with “fruity and bubble gum flavours, and colourful child-friendly packaging” could appeal to under-age vapers, and called for restrictions on their display and marketing, similar to those used for conventional tobacco.\n\nThe anti-smoking charity ASH said it did not support a ban, as it would \"turbo-charge\" illegal sales, increasing the risk that children would be able to buy them. It favours higher taxes on disposables and stronger controls on import and sales, deputy chief executive Hazel Cheeseman said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Elfbar said the firm is working on developing a \"comprehensive programme\" to safeguard and protect children.\n\n\"Simply calling for a ban on single use vapes will do nothing to tackle these issues,\" she said.\n\n\"The illicit market will simply fill the void with products that are unlicensed and unregulated containing substances that potentially pose a health risk.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said it was also concerned about the use of vaping products, particularly among young people. Earlier this year it launched a consultation looking into the environmental and health impacts of vaping, and is considering responses.\n\n“We strongly encourage all consumers to consider the environment and dispose of electrical waste, including by making use of take-back schemes at participating retailers,” the spokesperson said.\n\nIn Scotland, Lorna Slater, Minister for Circular Economy, said in June that single use vapes had become a \"big problem - for our environment, local communities and young people,” and promised to announce new plans in the autumn.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Visitors have been affected by the heat at the Acropolis in Greece, which sits on a rocky hilltop and offers little shade\n\nRed alerts have been issued for 16 cities across Italy as extreme heat continues to affect southern Europe.\n\nThe alerts, which indicate risks even for healthy people, apply to tourist hotspots including Rome, Florence, and Bologna for the coming days.\n\nThe heatwave has already lasted longer than usual and night-time temperatures have remained high.\n\nMore high temperatures are expected in Europe next week as another heatwave approaches.\n\nPeriods of intense heat occur within natural weather patterns, but globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global warming.\n\nThe Italian government has advised anyone in the areas covered by Saturday's red alerts to avoid direct sunlight between 11:00 and 18:00, and to take particular care of the elderly or vulnerable.\n\nIn Rome, tour guide Felicity Hinton, 59, told the BBC the soaring temperatures combined with overcrowding has made it \"nightmarish\" to navigate the city.\n\n\"It's always hot in Rome but this has just been consistently hot for a lot longer than normal,\" she said.\n\nA gondolier in Venice told the BBC it was so hot, the city's iconic gondolas are unbearable.\n\n\"The heat... goes up your legs, goes up your feet, it really burns... sometimes the tourists jump in pain when they lean against it\".\n\nMeanwhile, Greece has hit temperatures of 40C (104F) or more in recent days. The Acropolis in Athens - the country's most popular tourist attraction - was closed during the hottest hours of Friday and Saturday to protect visitors.\n\nMatt Finden, 51, from Vancouver, Canada, and his family were among the last tourists to visit The Acropolis before it closed.\n\n\"It was incredible up there. But along the way we saw people passed out getting medical attention, sitting on the backs of ambulances and even vomiting from heatstroke,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Red Cross has been offering water and first aid at the site, which sits on a rocky hilltop and offers little shade to visitors.\n\nThere are also fears of a greater risk of wildfires, especially in areas with high winds. Greece suffered major wildfires in 2021 in another exceptional heatwave.\n\nElsewhere, a forest fire on the Spanish island of La Palma forced the evacuation of at least 500 people, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nThe fire broke out in the early hours of Saturday morning in El Pinar de Puntagorda, destroying at least 11 houses, Fernando Clavijo, president of the Canary Islands, said.\n\nVolunteers from the Hellenic Red Cross handing out water bottles in Athens on Friday\n\nHigh temperatures have also been reaching into central parts of Europe, with Germany and Poland among countries affected.\n\nCzech Republic's meteorological office issued a warning that temperatures over the weekend could go above 38C, which is exceptionally high for the country.\n\nHighs of up to 47C are expected across some parts of southern Spain, south-eastern Italy and possibly Greece later in the week. It is likely that some city records will be broken.\n\nIn the UK, however, heavy showers and gusty winds are expected in parts of England on Saturday.\n\nMeteorologists said this was because the southern shift of the jet stream, which was fuelling the hot weather in Europe, was also drawing low-pressure systems into the UK - bringing unsettled and cooler weather.\n\nThe current heatwave in Europe has been named Cerberus by the Italian Meteorological Society, after the three-headed monster that features in Dante's Inferno.\n\nItalian weather forecasters are warning that the next heatwave - dubbed Charon after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology - could push temperatures back up above 40C next week.\n\nHeatwaves are also being seen in parts of the US, China, North Africa and Japan.\n\nItaly is one of the countries experiencing soaring temperatures\n\nLast month was the hottest June on record, according to the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nThe hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C in Sicily in August 2021.\n\nExtreme weather resulting from warming climate is \"unfortunately becoming the new normal\", the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned.\n\nHow have you been affected by the extreme heat? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moment Just Stop Oil interrupt the First Night of the Proms\n\nTwo protesters from environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil have interrupted the First Night of the Proms at London's Royal Albert Hall.\n\nThe duo mounted the stage and briefly unfurled an orange banner on Friday.\n\nThey were met with boos and jeers from some members of the audience at the BBC's classical music festival, before being led away by security staff.\n\nJust Stop Oil has targeted a number of events this year, including the Ashes, Wimbledon and the Chelsea Flower Show.\n\nIn a tweet, Just Stop Oil said two of its supporters ran onto the stage to demand \"the UK government immediately halt all new oil and gas consents and licences\".\n\nIt added \"they attempted to address the audience before being forcibly removed\".\n\nThe group said the action, which happened shortly after the interval, targeted the event because of the BBC's \"underwhelming coverage of the climate emergency\".\n\nThe group claimed the protesters had used confetti cannons and air horns, but eyewitnesses denied this and video footage shows the protest was stopped quickly.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"There was no disruption to the concert or the broadcast during the few seconds the protesters were on stage.\"\n\nThe Proms opening night featured a new translation of Jean Sibelius's Snöfrid, narrated by actress Lesley Manville, and a new work by Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak, called Let The Light In.\n\nIn response to the incident, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer wrote on social media: \"My message is this: Leave people to enjoy the events they love, and stop damaging your own cause.\"\n\nDuring the Proms programme and before the protest, BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Georgia Mann remarked on how close members of the audience were to the performers at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\n\"Somehow it surprises me every summer when we sit here from this vantage point just how close the Prommers are to the artists - I've said before - touching distance,\" she said.\n\nSix thousand people were gathered in the venue for the sell-out event.", "David Lawson says the results were the worst he has seen\n\nVapes confiscated from school pupils contain high levels of lead, nickel and chromium, BBC News has found.\n\nUsed vapes gathered at Baxter College in Kidderminster were tested in a laboratory.\n\nThe results showed children using them could be inhaling more than twice the daily safe amount of lead, and nine times the safe amount of nickel.\n\nSome vapes also contained harmful chemicals like those in cigarette smoke.\n\nHigh levels of lead exposure in children can affect the central nervous system and brain development, according to the World Health Organization.\n\nIt is thought vapes are being used widely by secondary school children and Baxter College is not alone in trying to stop them vaping during school hours.\n\nThe Inter Scientific laboratory, in Liverpool, which works with vape manufacturers to ensure regulatory standards are met, analysed 18 vapes.\n\nMost were illegal and had not gone through any kind of testing before being sold in the UK.\n\nLab co-founder David Lawson said: \"In 15 years of testing, I have never seen lead in a device.\n\n\"None of these should be on the market - they break all the rules on permitted levels of metal.\n\n\"They are the worst set of results I've ever seen.\"\n\nIn \"highlighter vapes\" - designed with bright colours to look like highlighter pens - the amounts of the metals found were:\n\nThe metals were thought to come from the heating element - but the tests showed they were in the e-liquid itself.\n\nThe lab tests also found compounds called carbonyls - which break down, when the e-liquid heats up, into chemicals such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, also found in cigarette smoke - at 10 times the level in legal vapes. Some even had more than cigarettes.\n\nManufacturers have to follow regulations on ingredients, packaging and marketing - and all e-cigarettes and e-liquids must be registered with the Medicine and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). But the agency is not required to check the claims made in paperwork and has no power to investigate unregistered products.\n\nMHRA head of e-cigarettes Craig Copland said the results would be reviewed to assess whether the vapes posed a health risk.\n\nBBC News showed the findings to Baxter College pupils Leon and Oscar, whose vapes had been confiscated. They admitted in a previous interview they were hooked on nicotine and struggled to give up vaping.\n\nBaxter College pupils Leon and Oscar learning about their confiscated vapes\n\nThe boys say it is easy to ignore the risks.\n\n\"You won't really care, if you're addicted to it - you'll just forget about it,\" Oscar said.\n\nLeon said regulation and policing should be doing more to tackle the problem.\n\n\"They're not really as bothered as they should be,\" he said.\n\nHead teacher Mat Carpenter was horrified by the findings. He has installed sensors in the school toilets to try to reduce opportunities to vape.\n\n\"It's been part of youth culture for a long time and we are a long way behind the curve in influencing children's behaviour around this, which is why we need such a strong message,\" Mr Carpenter said.\n\n\"As a society we are capable of holding two messages, one that if you smoke already vaping can have a positive effect on your health, but children should not be vaping.\"\n\nUniversity of Nottingham epidemiology professor John Britton, who sits on the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Group, said inhaling metals could be dangerous.\n\n\"Lead is a neurotoxin and impairs brain development, chrome and nickel are allergens and metal particles in general in the bloodstream can trigger blood clotting and can exacerbate cardiovascular disease,\" he said.\n\n\"The carbonyls are mildly carcinogenic and so with sustained use will increase the risk of cancer - but in legal products, the levels of all of these things is extremely low so the lifetime risk to the individual is extremely small.\"\n\nBut Mr Lawson said there had been a much greater rise in illegal products recently and \"some of these are hard to distinguish between the ones which are potentially legal\".\n\nProf Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard, who is Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said she was \"genuinely shocked\" by the findings.\n\n\"Unregulated products need to be taken off our streets, out of our shops, and our young people need to be protected.\n\n\"Vaping is something we should be avoiding if we can, albeit better than smoking. If you have any suspicion that your child is using an illicit vape, this is dangerous for their health. Please intervene,\" she advised parents and carers.\n\nThe government has allocated £3m to tackle the sale of illegal vapes in England. It wants to fund more test purchases and have the products removed from shops and is calling for evidence to help cut the number of children accessing vapes.\n\nIt is illegal to sell vapes to under-18s. But a YouGov survey in March and April for Action on Smoking and Health suggests a rise in experimental vaping among 11- to 17-year-olds, from 7.7%, last year, to 11.6%.", "Crews have been pumping the water out of the flooded tunnel in a desperate rescue mission\n\nAt least 40 people in South Korea have died after a weekend of severe rains caused widespread flooding and landslides across the country.\n\nThe disasters have prompted calls from President Yoon Suk Yeol to \"overhaul\" how the country combats extreme weather arising from climate change.\n\nOn Monday, the nation was reeling from a tunnel tragedy where at least 13 people died in their vehicles after becoming trapped by floodwaters.\n\nThe full death toll is still unknown.\n\nBut on Monday, responders were still working to drain the 685m-long (2,247ft) tunnel in the central city of Cheongju - with divers deployed to retrieve victims.\n\nAt least 15 vehicles - including a bus - were trapped in the underpass on Saturday, when floodwater from a nearby burst riverbank poured in.\n\nNine survivors have been found so far. Meanwhile, families of those missing have waited anxiously for information at a local hospital.\n\n\"I have no hope but I can't leave,\" a parent of one of those missing in the tunnel told local news agency Yonhap.\n\n\"My heart wrenches thinking how painful it must have been for my son in the cold water.\"\n\nPolice said they will launch an investigation into the fatal flooding of the underpass.\n\nRescuers approaching the flooded tunnel in Cheongju on Saturay\n\nElsewhere, at least 19 people died in the mountainous North Gyeongsang region in central South Korea after landslides swept away whole houses.\n\nSome 6,400 residents were evacuated early Saturday after the Goesan Dam in North Chungcheong began to overflow.\n\nA number of low-lying villages near the dam as well as many of the roads connecting them were submerged, leaving some residents trapped in their homes.\n\nSong Du-ho, one of these residents, told the BBC he had never experienced rain like that which fell this weekend.\n\nThe water was up to his waist by the time rescue workers came for him in the middle of the night, along with his wife, who has problems with a bad back, he said.\n\n\"I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared when the water was coming in. I could have died,\" the 87-year-old said.\n\nSouth Korea is experiencing one of its most intense summer monsoon seasons on record, with heavy downpours in the past week causing floods, landslides and power cuts across the country.\n\nMore torrential rain is expected this week - with showers forecast to Wednesday.\n\nPresident Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday vowed to \"completely overhaul\" how the country responds to such extreme weather events.\n\n\"Extreme weather events like this will become commonplace. We must accept that climate change is happening and deal with it,\" he said.\n\nHe also stated that a lack of proper management in flood-prone areas had caused many casualties.\n\nDuring a visit to victims in the flood-hit North Gyeongsang province on Monday, Mr Yoon walked past piles of fallen trees and other debris.\n\n\"I've never seen something like this in my life, hundreds of tonnes of rocks rolling down from the mountain. How surprised you must have been,\" AFP reported him telling the villagers.\n\nIn Cheongju where the tunnel flooding occurred, victims' families had criticised local authorities for not shutting off access to the tunnel earlier, when flood warnings were already in place.\n\nPresident Yoon has ordered military deployments to managing the aftermath of downpours across the country. He also announced the designation of hard-hit areas as \"special disaster zones\" eligible for state support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlmost 300mm (11.8in) of rain is reported to have fallen across South Korea on Saturday alone.\n\nThe country typically sees 1,000mm (39.4in) to 1,800mm (70.9in) a year, according to the Korean Meteorological Association - much of that falls during the summer months.\n\nIn the past fortnight, extreme rain has caused floods and landslides across several countries - including India, China and Japan.\n\nWhile many factors contribute to flooding, scientists say a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely.\n\nThe warmer it becomes, the more moisture the atmosphere can hold, resulting in more droplets and heavier rainfall, sometimes in a shorter space of time and over a smaller area.\n\nLast year, South Korea saw record-breaking rains and flooding which killed at least 11 people. These included two women and a teenager trapped in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul.\n\nFollowing this, Seoul authorities banned the construction of such flats, which were featured in the Oscar-winning film Parasite.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "People in Hong Kong should discourage smoking by staring at anyone who lights up in areas where it is banned, the city's health secretary has suggested.\n\nAnswering questions about how to create a tobacco-free city, Lo Chung-mau also said police could not be expected to catch smokers.\n\nHong Kong is currently debating toughening its anti-tobacco measures.\n\nAfter launching a public consultation to reduce smoking in Hong Kong, Prof Lo told fellow lawmakers at a health meeting that the public had a role to play in reducing smoking and that it would be challenging for police officers to catch smokers in the act in time.\n\nProf Lo, who is also a medical doctor, said smoking was bad for the health of everyone and Hong Kong needed a \"culture in society that people are willing to comply with the law\".\n\nHe added: \"When the members of the public see people smoking in non-smoking areas, even if no law enforcement officers can show up immediately, we can stare at the smokers.\"\n\nProf Lo told the panel that law enforcement would be improved. Breaking current smoking rules is punishable with a fine of up to HK$1,500 ($192, £147).\n\nBut he also said when police \"arrive at the scene, the crime may have already stopped\" and so they are unable to take action, going on to suggest smoking rules should be enforced like etiquette over waiting for a bus.\n\n\"No one will say it requires the law to compel people to queue. Our society is able to create a culture where people will comply with this rule of queuing when waiting for buses. I hope the whole of society can build a non-smoking culture.\"\n\nAmong the new measures being considered by Hong Kong's government are banning people born after a certain year from buying tobacco products and significantly increasing the tax on a packet of cigarettes.", "Plans to make it more difficult for children to illegally buy e-cigarettes in England are to be laid out by the government next week.\n\nAn enforcement squad made up of trading standards officers will be set up to carry out test purchases and clamp down on shops selling vapes to under-18s.\n\nThe Department of Health says it will allocate £3m to tackle the issue.\n\nHealth Minister Neil O'Brien said he was particularly concerned about the rising use of disposable vapes.\n\nThe measures will also call for help in identifying how best to stop children from vaping.\n\nOnly people aged 18 and over can buy vapes or e-cigarettes in the UK, but there has been growing pressure on the government to crack down on them being illegally sold to children.\n\nNHS figures for 2021 showed that reported usage of e-cigarettes had risen to 9% among 11 to 15-year-olds in England - up from 6% in 2018. In the same period, vaping among 15-year-old girls jumped from 10% to 21%.\n\nA more recent survey from public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and King's College London found that about one-in-11 (8.6%) young people in England either occasionally or regularly vape.\n\nMr O'Brien will make a speech at the Policy Exchange on Tuesday announcing an \"illicit vapes enforcement squad\" which will carry out projects across England, including making test purchasing at convenience and vape shops.\n\nIt will also issue guidance on how to ensure the laws are being complied with, as well as having the power to remove illegal products from sale.\n\nVapes or e-cigarettes are considered safer than normal cigarettes because they do not contain harmful tobacco, and they have become popular in helping people to quit smoking.\n\nHowever, the NHS advises that vapes are not risk-free, and the long-term implications of using them are not yet clear. The vapour can still contain small amounts of chemicals, including nicotine.\n\nTrading Standards has previously said that shops selling illegal vapes and the sale of e-cigarettes to children were the top threats to the UK's High Streets.\n\nThere is concern that cheap, brightly-coloured vapes are ending up in the hands of 12 and 13-year-olds, with experts discouraging young non-smokers from taking up the habit.\n\nAction on Smoking and Health has called for plainer packaging on vaping products to make them less attractive to children.\n\nASH Chief Executive Deborah Arnold said she was pleased the government has \"finally announced funding for enforcement to tackle the scourge of underage sales\".\n\nShe called for other \"obvious measures\" to be put in place, including taxing disposable vapes to raise their cost to more than \"pocket money prices\" and introducing plain packaging.\n\nCouncils in England have also said vapes should be kept out of sight of children in shops and the legal minimum age of 18 should be marked clearly on each product.\n\nThe UK Vaping Industry Association said the solution is to enforce existing laws on retailers rather than focus on packaging.", "Shekhar Kapur says Hollywood's push to cast actors of colour comes from guilt\n\nDirector Shekhar Kapur has said Hollywood's push for more diverse casts has come from its guilt over \"all the actors who are not getting work\".\n\nKapur said the inclusion of ethnic minority actors in shows such as Netflix's Bridgerton is \"a good thing\" in terms of opportunity.\n\nBut, he said, it hides \"a greater, more fundamental issue\" of which stories are brought to the big screen.\n\nHe added the rise in protests had helped bring the issue to the fore.\n\n\"Hollywood should be telling stories of that culture, of the culture of the brown people, of the African-American people, of the black people, of Asians,\" he told BBC Newsnight's Sima Kotecha.\n\n\"But what's happening is they're still addicted to their, you know, the narrative is still their point of view.\"\n\nKapur is best known for his films Elizabeth and its sequel The Golden Age, both starring Cate Blanchett, and Bollywood films such as Mr India and Bandit Queen.\n\nWhen asked about Hollywood's efforts to increase the diversity of actors in its films, Kapur described it as \"a guilt trip\" and woke.\n\n\"It's Hollywood feeling guilty about all the actors that are not getting work. And because there's a huge rise of protests,\" he said.\n\nThe live-action remake of The Little Mermaid released in cinemas in May starred black actress and singer Halle Bailey as main character Ariel, which caused controversy in some quarters.\n\nHalle Bailey starred in Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid earlier this year\n\nKapur joined the film industry in India as an actor, before going on to become a director.\n\nHis 1998 film Elizabeth, about the early years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, received widespread critical acclaim and several Oscar nominations.\n\nFollowing its release, the director said many of the scripts he received went on to be \"a huge success\", including ones that he turned down.\n\nDiscussing international scripts he would receive, he said: \"It's always an American going in, fixing the world's problem, going to Africa... and I said, 'Don't send me those scripts because it's not true'.\n\nKapur was educated in Delhi before moving to London for a career as a management consultant and chartered accountant\n\n\"For example, if you were going to make Gandhi the answer, the question was: 'Who's the American in it? Who's the American who goes and fixes all the problems? And who's the white man in the film?'\n\n\"And I would refuse to do those films. Absolutely. Because it's not patently not true.\"\n\nKapur was educated in Delhi before moving to London for a career as a management consultant and chartered accountant, but later turned to film directing, releasing his first film Masoom in 1983.\n\nThe 77-year-old, whose most recent film What's Love Got To Do With It? starred Shazad Latif and Lily James, suggested the film industry is contained within far too small a geographical area.\n\n\"I really believe that Hollywood's too concentrated together as like a group,\" he said. \"I think it needs to be taken away and spread out.\n\n\"I would love to see it in Shanghai if you can. I would love to see it in Mumbai or in Tokyo or as it's happening in Seoul.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How the Hollywood strike affects you in 75 seconds\n\nJason Sudeikis, Susan Sarandon and thousands of other actors have joined screenwriters for Hollywood's biggest strike in more than six decades.\n\nActors will not appear in films or even promote movies during the stoppage.\n\nMajor films in production, including the Avatar and Gladiator sequels, may be affected by the shutdown.\n\nThe actors are joining writers who walked out in May, concerned about pay, working conditions and the industry's use of artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nBrian Cox, the lead actor on HBO's Succession, told the BBC the strike could last \"until the end of the year\".\n\n\"The whole streaming thing has shifted the paradigm,\" the Scottish star told BBC Newscast.\n\n\"They are trying to freeze us out and beat us into the ground, because there's a lot of money to be made in streaming and the desire is not to share it with the writers or the performers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTalks for a new contract with studios and streaming giants broke down on Thursday, with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) accusing the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) of being \"unwilling to offer a fair deal\".\n\nAbout 160,000 performers stopped work at midnight, joining the 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), who walked out on 2 May.\n\nBy noon on Friday, union members and their supporters had gathered outside the offices of major studios and streaming services in Los Angeles, New York and other cities.\n\nThe demonstrations have received support from some of the biggest celebrities in the movie and television business, including the stars of the upcoming Oppenheimer movie, who walked off the red carpet on Thursday night.\n\nThe two guilds want studios and streaming services to offer better pay, increased royalties, higher contributions to their pension and health plans, and safeguards on the use of AI in the industry.\n\nProductions likely to be affected include sequels to the Avatar, Deadpool and Gladiator franchises, as well as upcoming seasons of shows such as Stranger Things, Family Guy and The Simpsons.\n\nRed-carpet premieres, promotional interviews and events including the Emmys and Comic-Con, have already been halted, rescheduled or scaled back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The famous faces out and about on the picket line supporting the Hollywood strike\n\nThe strike action is driven in part by an uncomfortable transition to the era of digital streaming, as well as by broader technological changes.\n\n\"AI will affect everybody,\" Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon told the BBC from a picket line in New York.\n\n\"There's definitely always been the feeling that if it isn't solved now, how do we ever solve it in the future?\" she said.\n\n\"If you don't have the foresight to put something in place for the future, then you're screwed. It's clear that nothing is going to change from the top down, it's going to be up to us at the bottom.\"\n\nBoth writers and actors have complained that they make far less money than they used to make and that contracts have been undercut by inflation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Susan Sarandon on the dangers of AI in film industry\n\nFor actors, pay for individual roles has declined, forcing them to seek several more roles to make the same amount of money as they did a few years ago.\n\nWriting contracts have become shorter and more perilous, with payment often not included for writers' work on revisions or new material.\n\n\"We are being victimised by a very greedy entity,\" Fran Drescher, the current SAG president, said on Thursday. \"I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us.\"\n\nThe failed negotiations between the unions and the AMPTP marks the first tandem strike in the industry since 1960. The last actors' strike, in 1980, lasted 10 weeks.\n\nA third union, the Directors Guild of America (DGA), is not participating in the strike after successfully negotiating its own contract in June, but the group has said it \"strongly supports\" those who are picketing.\n\nWith the prospect that the strike could roll on for months, cinemas could face problems, and viewers may be left with nothing new to watch bar reality TV and live sport.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the White House said President Joe Biden \"believes all workers - including actors - deserve fair pay and benefits\".\n\n\"The President supports workers' right to strike and hopes the parties can reach a mutually beneficial agreement,\" spokeswoman Robyn Patterson said.\n\nActors represented by SAG's sister union in the UK - Equity - must continue to work as normal, due to UK employment laws. That includes stars of HBO's House of the Dragon.\n\nThe union has however told US companies it will be keeping a \"very close eye\" on any attempts to move US productions to the UK.", "Ben Wallace says he will step down as defence secretary at the next cabinet reshuffle after four years in the job.\n\nHe told the Sunday Times he would not stand at the next general election, but ruled out leaving \"prematurely\" and triggering a by-election.\n\nMr Wallace has served as defence secretary under three prime ministers and has played a high-profile role in the UK's response to the Ukraine war.\n\nSources told the BBC they expect the next reshuffle in September.\n\nRishi Sunak is reportedly planning to shake up his top team, but no date has been confirmed.\n\nMr Wallace said he was quitting frontline politics due to the toll it had taken on his family, and allies of his have said the decision was not a reflection on Mr Sunak's leadership.\n\nHis Wyre and Preston North constituency is set to disappear at the next election under upcoming boundary changes and he told the newspaper he would not seek a new one.\n\nThe 53-year-old's confirmation of his plans to the Sunday Times comes after days of speculation that he was considering leaving government.\n\nHe has always been popular with Tory party members and his decision is likely to be seen as quite a blow for the party by some Conservatives.\n\nIt also leaves a big vacancy in government, which Rishi Sunak will have to fill.\n\nLast week, the prime minister disowned comments from Mr Wallace in which he suggested Ukraine should show more \"gratitude\" for the military support it has been given.\n\nThe comments were made at a fringe event at the Nato summit in Vilnius, after Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky said it was \"absurd\" that Nato would not give a timetable for his country securing membership of the bloc once the war with Russia is over.\n\nOn Twitter on Saturday evening, writing in Ukrainian, Mr Wallace said his comments had been \"somewhat misrepresented\", and he was making the point that in some parliaments there \"is not such strong support as in Great Britain\".\n\nHe said his comments had not been about governments but \"more about citizens and members of parliaments\".\n\nHe noted the strong support for Ukraine amongst the British public, and added he would \"continue to support Ukraine on its path for as long as it takes\".\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Wallace informed the prime minister on 16 June of his decision to stand down from the cabinet.\n\nMr Wallace, a former soldier, told the Sunday Times: \"I went into politics in the Scottish parliament in 1999. That's 24 years. I've spent well over seven years with three phones by my bed.\"\n\nHe suggested in the interview that he would continue to call for higher defence spending, something he has campaigned for throughout his time in the role.\n\nIt comes weeks after Mr Wallace said he was no longer in the running to be the next secretary general of Nato, a role he was widely reported to be seeking.\n\nThe announcement that Jens Stoltenberg would be continuing in the job effectively ended his hopes of becoming the next head of the military bloc.\n\nMr Wallace has played a vocal role in supporting Ukraine, including overseeing the transfer of weapons and vehicles to its army.\n\nHis position as defence secretary when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine saw his profile increase at home and abroad.\n\nMr Wallace has served longer in the role than any Conservative defence secretary before him, but told the Sunday Times he was conscious of the impact the job has had on his family.\n\nMr Wallace told the newspaper: \"While I am proud to have worked with so many amazing people and helped contribute to protecting this great country, the cost of putting that ahead of my family is something I am very sad about.\"\n\nBefore entering politics as a member of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Mr Wallace served in the Army as an Officer in the Scots Guards.\n\nHe was first elected to the Commons in 2005, and previously served as a minister in the Northern Ireland department and in the Home Office.\n\nWhat is next for him is unclear.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nParts of the US are expected to see record temperatures on Sunday, with warnings of \"dangerous\" heat levels into next week across the south-west.\n\nNearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories, from Florida to California and up to Washington state.\n\nThe country's National Weather Service (NWS) has urged people not to underestimate the risk to life.\n\nOn Saturday, a sweltering 118F (48C) was recorded in Phoenix, Arizona.\n\nIt means temperatures have hit 110F (43C) for 16 days running, which is almost a record.\n\nMobile clinics there have reported treating homeless people suffering from third-degree burns.\n\nMeanwhile, Death Valley in California - one of the hottest places in the world - is forecast to reach 129F (54C), nearing the hottest temperatures ever reliably recorded on Earth.\n\nThe NWS has said that local records could also be set on Sunday in the San Joaquin Valley, Mojave Desert, and Great Basin regions.\n\nIts Saturday-evening update said the temperatures would \"pose a health risk and are potentially deadly to anyone without effective cooling and/or adequate hydration\".\n\nAbout 700 people are estimated to die each year from heat-related causes in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nEnergy consumption in Texas has surpassed records, as many in the state scramble to stay cool.\n\nIn neighbouring Canada, officials say wildfires stoked by above-average temperatures - which have covered parts of the US in smoke - have now burned nearly 10 million hectares (25 million acres) of land.\n\nThe temperatures in America's south-west are the result of an upper level ridge of high pressure, which typically brings with it warmer temperatures, the NWS said earlier, adding that the heatwave was \"one of the strongest\" systems of its kind to hit the region.\n\nLas Vegas, Nevada, may also match its all-time high of 117F (47C) in the next few days.\n\nWeather officials there warned locals who thought they could handle the temperatures that this was \"not your typical desert heat\".\n\n\"'It's the desert, of course it's hot'- This is a DANGEROUS mind set!\", the NWS in Las Vegas tweeted.\n\n\"This heatwave is NOT typical desert heat due to its long duration, extreme daytime temperatures, & warm nights. Everyone needs to take this heat seriously, including those who live in the desert.\"\n\nA woman suffering from heat exhaustion is taken into a medical centre in Texas\n\nThe NWS also warned that \"strong to severe thunderstorms, heavy rain and flooding will be possible in several locations,\" including America's north-eastern New England region.\n\nParts of the south-western US have already grappled with intensely hot temperatures over the past week. In El Paso, Texas, temperatures have been in the triple-digits Fahrenheit for 27 consecutive days.\n\nAir conditioner use in the state has topped its previous record for power consumption as people try to stay cool, while parks, museums and zoos have either closed or shortened their hours.\n\nHospitals were also seeing heat-related admissions.\n\n\"We're getting a lot of heat-related illness now, a lot of dehydration, heat exhaustion,\" said Dr Ashkan Morim, who works in the emergency room at Dignity Health Siena Hospital, outside of Las Vegas.\n\nOvernight temperatures were expected to remain \"abnormally warm\" in some areas, offering little night-time relief from the heat.\n\nThe US heatwave mirrors similar searing conditions in Europe, which forced Greece to close one of its major tourist attractions, the Acropolis, on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe first week of July saw a global average temperature of 63F (17.23C), according to the UN - the highest ever recorded.\n\nScientists say the temperatures are being driven by climate change and the naturally occurring weather pattern known as El Niño, which happens every three to seven years and causes temperatures to rise.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Paolo Ceppi, a lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, said higher global temperatures were undoubtedly contributing to the increased incidence of extreme weather.\n\n\"Of course it's not unusual to have a heatwave in the summer, per se, but what's becoming really unusual is the collection of heatwaves,\" he said.\n\n\"We have this event in southern Europe, but at the same time, we're having another major heatwave in the southern US. Recently we had heatwaves in south Asia, India, China and so on. And unfortunately, this is not surprising.\n\n\"We have the baseline temperatures shifting upwards, and so you are shifting the odds towards more severe extreme events, and fewer cold extreme events.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the extreme heat? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Humza Yousaf said that Mrs Ewing had been a \"colossus of our movement\".\n\nFormer first minister Alex Salmond has led tributes to SNP politician Winnie Ewing at a memorial service in Inverness.\n\nKnown famously as Madame Ecosse, the 93-year-old former MP, MEP, and MSP died last month.\n\nShe became Scotland's first SNP female parliamentarian after her shock victory at the Hamilton by-election in 1967.\n\nMr Salmond told the service in Inverness Cathedral Mrs Ewing was \"the true radical spirit of Scotland\".\n\nHe added: \"Winnie's commitment to Scotland was instinctive, heartfelt, her Scottish nationalism the product of a loving family upbringing even through the turbulence of wartime Scotland.\n\n\"Her real achievement was to tilt the axis of Scottish politics, to put Scottish independence on the map and help define it as a positive, forward-looking, internationalist force.\n\n\"All that and to have the genius to define it in one single phrase ringing through the years; 'Stop the World - Scotland wants to get on'\".\n\nAlex Salmond gave a eulogy at the memorial service in Inverness Cathedral\n\nMr Salmond ended by saying the poet Hugh MacDiarmid had once described Robert Burns as \"the true radical spirit of Scotland\" and said that is \"exactly how we should remember Winnie Ewing\".\n\nA second eulogy was given by former Scottish government Health Secretary Alex Neil who said Mrs Ewing had \"changed the face of British politics forever\".\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf, Scottish Parliament Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch MSP Kate Forbes all gave readings.\n\nMr Yousaf earlier told BBC Scotland that Mrs Ewing had been a \"colossus of our movement\".\n\nFormer first minister Nicola Sturgeon was also at the memorial service\n\nHe added: \"It is actually hard to put into words just what an impact she has had not just on the SNP, the cause of independence but on the country as a whole.\n\n\"She is immortalised in our party and our movement.\"\n\nOther attendees included former Scottish government finance secretaries John Swinney and Derek Mackay, as well as ex-health secretary Jeane Freeman.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross was also at the service and said that Mrs Ewing had served the Highlands well during her time as a parliamentarian.\n\nWinnie Ewing's children Annabelle and Fergus, both SNP MSPs, were at the service\n\nHe added: \"She was a trailblazer not just for the independence movement but also for women in politics.\"\n\nAs well as serving in both the UK and Scottish Parliaments, Mrs Ewing was also a member of the European Parliament from 1975 to 1999, becoming known as Madame Ecosse and being given the title Mother of the European Parliament.\n\nIn July 2001, she announced her intention to stand down as a list MSP for the Highlands and Islands ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections.\n\nMrs Ewing is survived by three children and four grandchildren.\n\nMrs Ewing became known as Madame Ecosse during her time as a Member of the European Parliament", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nA year ago, Ons Jabeur had a photo of the Wimbledon women's trophy on her phone screen as she chased history.\n\nShe swiftly erased it after missing out on the real thing but on Saturday has another chance when she faces Marketa Vondrousova in the final (14:00 BST).\n\nThe popular Tunisian hopes her third major final proves lucky as she aims to be the first African or Arab woman to win a Grand Slam singles title.\n\n\"Hopefully, I can make history not just for Tunisia but for Africa,\" she said.\n\nLike last year, sixth seed Jabeur heads into the women's final as the favourite. The 28-year-old faces Vondrousova, who is ranked at number 42 and is also aiming for her own slice of history by becoming the first unseeded woman to lift the Venus Rosewater Dish.\n\nVondrousova, 24, was in London as a tourist with her wrist in a plaster cast when Jabeur lost to Elena Rybakina last year, following the surgery that sidelined her for six months.\n\n\"I'm just so grateful to be here. It's crazy that this is happening,\" Vondrousova said.\n\nThe Czech was runner-up in the 2019 French Open as a 19-year-old, so like Jabeur - who lost in the US Open final two months after her Wimbledon disappointment - has previous Grand Slam final experience to draw on.\n\nJabeur going to 'learn' from last year\n\nIn the Open era, only one player representing an African nation has won a Slam singles title - South Africa's Johan Kriek at the 1981 Australian Open. Kriek also won again a year later, although by then he was representing the United States.\n\nAs Jabeur seeks to become the first woman from the continent to triumph, she has been motivated by revenge at the All England Club and used that to despatch Rybakina in the quarter-finals.\n\nThe Kazakh was one of four Grand Slam champions Jabeur has had to beat in a tricky route to the final, having also made it past Australian Open title holder Aryna Sabalenka, two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova and 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu.\n\nShe says when it comes to the final, it makes no difference whether you are facing a major champion or not.\n\n\"I think a final is a final,\" Jabeur said. \"Whoever could handle more the emotions, whoever could be more ready on the court, will definitely win that match.\"\n\nJabeur's run to another major final has come in a stop-start season where she has been hampered by injury and had minor knee surgery.\n\nIn typical fashion for a player known as the 'Minister of Happiness' back home, she sees the positives from those troubles and last year's disappointments.\n\n\"[The injuries] teach me how to be very patient and accept whatever happened to me ... because it was out of my control,\" she said.\n\n\"I mean, if you tell me you [would] get injured and be in the final of Wimbledon, I would take it.\"\n\nJabeur, whose emotional displays have won her many fans, is also hoping it will be third time lucky.\n\n\"I'm going to learn a lot from not only Wimbledon's final but also the US Open final, and give it my best,\" she said. \"Maybe this year was all about trying two times and getting it right the third time.\"\n\nAnd perhaps to avoid jinxing things, she has revealed this year what is on her phone's lock screen to motivate her this time round, telling reporters: \"You're going to know after the final.\"\n\nNo clothing sponsor yet, but cat sitter is sorted for Vondrousova\n\nVondrousova has come through tough tests in the past two rounds, knocking out American fourth seed Jessica Pegula in the quarter-finals before a two-set win over Elina Svitolina. The latter came in front of a partisan Centre Court crowd, who were emotionally invested in Ukrainian Svitolina's run that came nine months after having a baby and against the backdrop of war.\n\nShe is the latest in a long line of Czech female tennis players to reach Grand Slam finals, with nine major women's singles finals in the last 10 years - including Saturday's match - featuring players from the country.\n\nBut grass is not her best surface and certainly not one on which she would have expected to win a major title.\n\n\"When it was clay or hard, maybe I would say, yeah maybe it's possible,\" said Vondrousova, who has been flying so far under the tennis radar recently that she no longer has a clothing sponsor.\n\n\"But grass was impossible for me. It's even crazier that this is happening.\"\n\nSo unexpected was her run that she told her husband to stay at home in Prague to look after their cat, Frankie.\n\nShe has now changed her mind.\n\n\"We texted the cat sitter to come to our home,\" she said. \"He [husband] is coming tomorrow.\"\n\nFormer world number one Tracy Austin on BBC's Today at Wimbledon: \"This is the major she [Jabeur] wants. She's put Wimbledon above everything else on the tour. It's what she's wanted her entire career since she was a little girl.\n\n\"Last year it was either 50-50 or Rybakina with a little bit of an edge. But now she's against Vondrousova - number 42 in the world, unseeded, the first unseeded finalist in 60 years, and she's just been playing with house money.\n\n\"Remember in the quarter-finals, Vondrousova was down 4-1 in the final set [against Pegula] and somehow turned that around. She's loosened up and doesn't seem to be bothered about what stage it is. She's been to one final before, Roland Garros a few years back, it will be very interesting.\"\n\nNine-time Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova on BBC's Today at Wimbledon: \"[Vondrousova] has a nice game for grass. Obviously, the variety works for every surface but especially on grass with the drop shots and the slices.\n\n\"She's only won four matches on grass in her career [before this fortnight] and she's been around for six or seven years. So really it's surprising she hasn't done better, but she's finally putting things together.\n\n\"[Against Svitolina] she was firing on all cylinders and looked a veteran of grass-court play.\n\n\"Clearly, Vondrousova likes the roof closed. It takes the wind out of the equation, and you can just hit your shots knowing the ball will land where it's supposed to. Vondrousova should play the final hoping the roof will be closed.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Laura Young has been collecting vapes on daily dog walks\n\nUp to 2.7 million single-use vapes were littered in Scotland last year, a Scottish government report estimates.\n\nZero Waste Scotland was asked to produce an urgent review because of growing concerns about their environmental impact.\n\nIt offers nine options ranging from a total ban to redesigning disposable vapes so they are easier to recycle.\n\nThe Scottish government has welcomed the report and said it will respond fully in the autumn.\n\nThe study estimates that there are 543,000 users of e-cigarettes in Scotland and predicts that without intervention that will rise to 900,000 by 2027.\n\nIt says 22% of all under-18s - around 78,000 - are believed to have used a vape last year with more young people using them than smoking cigarettes.\n\nTwo-thirds of all users are thought to be aged 25 or under.\n\nOptions being put forward for consideration by ministers include a ban either on all single-use vapes or just flavoured ones which appear more attractive to younger people.\n\nBut it comes with a warning that care must be taken to ensure rechargeable vapes are not used as disposable products, thereby creating even more waste.\n\nThe report warns that a ban may be subject to the Internal Market Act which would require UK government consent.\n\nVaping use among young people has increased\n\nIt also suggests a deposit/return style option where consumers would be reimbursed once the product is brought back to the shop for recycling.\n\nThe review was ordered following a campaign by the environmentalist Laura Young who had been collecting discarded vapes while walking her dog in Dundee.\n\nShe described the report as \"particularly worrying\" but said it offered a comprehensive review of potential actions.\n\nShe added: \"Partial solutions will only get partial results. If we are wanting to completely wipe out the unintended consequences from disposable vapes on public health and the environment, a complete ban must be part of the solution.\"\n\nBatteries in single-use vapes mean they should not be thrown away either in a general waste or recycling bin.\n\nInstead they should be treated as electrical waste which means many users struggle to know what to do with them.\n\nThey are accepted at council recycling facilities and in specialist bins in some shops.\n\nDisposable vapes are the most popular vaping device among teenagers in the UK, surveys suggest\n\nSales revenues through grocery outlets have doubled in just six months, the report concludes.\n\nMore than a quarter of all vapes used are single use, rising to more than half among under-25s.\n\nThe majority of single-use vapes are manufactured in China but the report says incentivising a switch to reusables could increase manufacturing share in Scotland and the UK where there is a larger share in the market for making liquid refills.\n\nThe boss of Edinburgh based vaping firm VPZ has said he is not opposed to a ban on single-use vapes as long as it does not inadvertently create a black market.\n\nDoug Mutter, who is also a director of the UK Vaping Industry Association, welcomed the report and said the Scottish government needed to be more bold by introducing licensing and controls for selling vaping products.\n\nHe said: \"The biggest issue remains - where many imported, unregulated, disposable vaping products are readily available from local convenience stores supermarkets and several other general retailers with no age verification checks or control in place.\n\n\"This is a significant problem that threatens the huge progress of vaping in transforming the health of the nation and helping the country meet its smoke-free targets.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has thanked Zero Waste Scotland for producing the report and said it would respond fully in the autumn.\n\nCircular economy minister Lorna Slater said she had invited ministers from other UK governments to discuss the report's contents and what can be done in response.\n\nShe said: \"This report shows that single use vapes have become a big problem - for our environment, local communities and young people. I will take action and will engage with those affected, including young people, over the coming months\"", "Face masks depicting Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin on sale at a souvenir market in St Petersburg last month\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin met Yevgeny Prigozhin five days after the Wagner mercenary boss led a failed mutiny, the Kremlin has revealed. The BBC's Russia Editor gets to grips with the latest twist in the Wagner saga.\n\nSo, let me get this straight.\n\nOn the morning of 24 June, the day of the mutiny, Vladimir Putin accused the Wagner leadership of \"treachery\" and \"a stab in the back\". Later that day, Russian air force pilots were killed, shot down by Wagner fighters.\n\nThen, with the mercenaries just 200km (120 miles) from the Russian capital, the Kremlin and Wagner did a deal. The mutiny was over. No-one was arrested. No-one has been prosecuted.\n\nNot only was Yevgeny Prigozhin not clapped in irons and hauled off to the police station for his rebellion - it's now emerged that five days later he was in the Kremlin, together with his commanders, sitting round the table and chatting with President Putin.\n\nYet another twist and turn in a story that's already surpassed Dostoyevsky for levels of surprise and mystery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Where is Yevgeny Prigozhin? And why does it matter?\n\nWhat we don't know, though, is what exactly was said at that meeting and how it concluded. Judging by what's happened since, this was no \"kiss and make up\".\n\nIn recent days, the Russian state media has been working overtime to discredit Mr Prigozhin.\n\nPotentially embarrassing photographs allegedly taken during the raid of his St Petersburg mansion were leaked to social media and Russian TV. They showed gold bars, weapons and - bizarrely - a large collection of wigs.\n\nLast night Russia-1's flagship show, News of the Week, continued the character assassination.\n\nA report about Mr Prigozhin claimed: \"He's not the Robin Hood he tried to pass himself off as. He was a businessman with a criminal past. Many of his projects were dodgy and not always within the law.\"\n\nAnd what of that deal between the Kremlin and Wagner to end the mutiny on 24 June? According to the agreement, Mr Prigozhin was supposed to leave Russia for Belarus, along with those Wagner fighters who expressed the desire to join him.\n\nLast week the leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, told us that the Wagner chief and his mercenaries weren't there. To summarise his point: they might end up in Belarus - but they might not.\n\nSo that's all clear then. Not.\n\nWhere are Wagner? Where is Mr Prigozhin? What are their plans? What have they agreed with Mr Putin?\n\nFor now, all I can say is this: stay tuned for the next (inevitably bizarre) episode of Russia: the June Mutiny and the Kremlin.", "Comedy legend Peter Sellers played the title role - and two more - in Dr Strangelove\n\nThe family of director Stanley Kubrick have given their blessing for one of his classic films to be adapted for the stage for the first time.\n\nHis 1964 apocalyptic Cold War comedy Dr Strangelove will be staged by Armando Iannucci, who is known for TV political satires The Thick of It and Veep.\n\n\"As a story, weirdly it hasn't gone away,\" Iannucci told BBC News.\n\n\"It seems the right time to remind people of the mad logic behind these dangerous games that superpowers play.\"\n\nThe show will be staged in London's West End next autumn, co-written and directed by double Olivier Award winner Sean Foley.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday Iannucci joked: \"In these sad times, what better way to cheer the nation up than a stage show about the end of the world.\"\n\nDirector Stanley Kubrick (left) with Sellers in character as the US president\n\nKubrick's widow Christiane said: \"We have always been reluctant to let anyone adapt any of Stanley's work, and we never have. It was so important to him that it wasn't changed from how he finished it.\n\n\"But we could not resist authorising this project: the time is right; the people doing it are fantastic; and Strangelove should be brought to a new and younger audience. I am sure Stanley would have approved it too.\"\n\nDaughter Katharina Kubrick added: \"The subject matter of this film is particularly relevant again in our prevailing political climate.\n\n\"People often laugh when they would rather cry, and this is exactly how the film, and now the play, handles the possibility of the ultimate destruction of life on Earth; certainly, an important topic amongst many, to concentrate the mind.\"\n\nThe late director's family also granted access to Kubrick's archive, in which Iannucci said he had found papers relating to the film including \"some discarded scenes, first drafts [and] moments that they were going to shoot and then decided not to\".\n\nHe added: \"There are little shards of ideas there, and one or two of them have developed into full-scale new moments and new scenes in the final [play].\"\n\nArmando Iannucci is known for his TV and film work, but this is his first theatre project\n\nDr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - to use its full title - was released two years after the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.\n\nFoley said it's not hard to see \"the relevance to the idea of a type of Cold War between the West and Russia\" today.\n\n\"That's sadly come very much back into our lives,\" he said. \"You don't have to look very far to understand a kind of relevance about the potential for nuclear conflict, given what's going on with the invasion of Ukraine and everything that Putin is saying.\"\n\nIannucci added: \"Not just with the war in Ukraine, but also the whole apocalyptic sense of global warming and so on - it feels like a very relevant reassertion of the message that, this is the madness staring at us if we don't do anything about it.\n\n\"And currently, we aren't doing anything about it. So the outcome is not good.\n\n\"But if you can leave the theatre with that message and a smile, then all the better.\"\n\nThe pair have decided to keep the story set in the 60s, and Iannucci said it would feel both \"retro\" in its setting, and up-to-date with some of his trademark dialogue.\n\n\"It's got one foot in the 60s and one foot in the present day,\" he said.\n\nFoley added: \"There's something about how the men of that era behave in the film, and there was a specificity around the Cuban missile crisis and all of those things.\n\n\"And the look of it is great, so we quickly decided we're going to keep it in that period and let the obvious resonances just echo.\"\n\nThe film famously starred Peter Sellers in three main roles - the titular German scientist, a British officer who discovers a US general has unilaterally ordered a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and the American president who must attempt to avert all-out annihilation.\n\nThe stage version is now seeking a star to play multiple roles - albeit without the luxury of the time Sellers had to change costumes and make-up.\n\n\"They've got to be a great comic actor, of which we have very many,\" said Foley, who is artistic director of the Birmingham Rep. \"They've got to be of that shape-shifting kind of quality. They've got to want it.\n\n\"It's going to be a really tough gig. I'm sure some people, when we approach them, are going to go, 'No way, I'm not going to be compared with Peter Sellers in those roles.'\n\n\"But there will be someone who has the appetite and skill and talent and sees the opportunity to do it in their own way.\"\n\nIn Dr Strangelove, many of those holding great power over millions of lives are depicted as often actually being inept, ridiculous, reckless or unhinged. That's a strand of political satire that Iannucci picked up in his work like The Thick of It, US version Veep, and 2017 black comedy The Death of Stalin.\n\n\"It's these individuals who are very human and very fallible, and yet on whose word and actions ride the fate of, in Stalin's case millions, and in Dr Strangelove's case humanity,\" he said.\n\nThe writer and director is now also working on another theatre project about Boris Johnson and his role in the pandemic and Partygate, although full details have not yet been announced.\n\n\"Rather than trying to do a TV exploration of what's happening now, doing something live on stage feels like just the right moment to do it,\" Iannucci said of that play.\n\n\"Also, in the last three years, we've been so enclosed in our homes because of the lockdown, and have got addicted to our screens, so actually going out and seeing something live and in the flesh is all the more exciting. That's what excites me about actually doing it as a live stage show.\"", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said the country has to start \"investing in defence properly\" as he defended the UK military's readiness for war.\n\nHe said the army had been \"hollowed out\" over 30 years and the Ukraine war had \"exposed our vulnerabilities\".\n\nMr Wallace said he wanted a bigger budget, amid reports he is asking for a £10bn rise.\n\nUK and European officials have raised concerns over the state of the British armed forces.\n\nMalcolm Chalmers, a British defence expert who advises MPs on national security, told the BBC the UK military \"would run out of ammunition in days if we faced a war, such as the ones the Ukrainians are facing right now\".\n\nWhen asked his reaction to those concerns, Mr Wallace said the UK government was going to spend £34bn on modernising the army.\n\nThe defence secretary said the UK military was \"not any less ready than others\", but added: \"We just need to make sure we get back to spending on our defence properly.\"\n\nMr Wallace spoke to the BBC from Brussels, where he is meeting Nato defence ministers for a summit at which Ukraine will top the agenda.\n\nCalls for increased spending on defence have been growing ahead of an expected spring offensive by Russia in Ukraine, and warnings about the threat from China after a suspected spy balloon was shot down over the US.\n\nWhen asked if he was requesting £10bn more in the upcoming budget, Mr Wallace said the Ministry of Defence - like all other departments - had been affected by rising costs.\n\nBut he said he would \"make the case to the Treasury that I will need some money to insulate myself\".\n\nDespite inflation and military budget cuts in the past, the UK has been one of the biggest supplier of arms to Ukraine in its war against President Vladimir Putin's invading forces.\n\nThe UK is set to become the first nation to start training Ukrainian pilots on Nato-standard aircraft, but the government has indicated that lending jets to Kyiv is a long-term prospect.\n\nAt the end of this year, the UK will be taking over the leadership of Nato's Response Force (NRF) from Germany.\n\nMr Wallace rubbished reports about Nato chiefs asking Germany to stay in charge of the organisation's rapid-reaction force.\n\nThe defence secretary said: \"I mean, to be honest, the simple reality is Nato leadership did not approach anybody. We are taking over the NRF as scheduled and it's interesting that story is based on a source on a German website I've never heard of.\"\n\nDowning Street has confirmed that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will travel to Munich this weekend, joining fellow world leaders for a conference on international security.\n\nLast year's conference, held just before Russia invaded Ukraine, was dominated by concerns over the prospect of conflict in the region.", "Jenny White is worried she will no longer be able to provide the best service she can\n\nCommunity pharmacists in Wales have warned they are close to \"burnout\".\n\nThey described being under increased pressure to deliver more services to patients without adequate financial support from the Welsh government.\n\nWrexham pharmacist Dhimant Patel said the profession was in \"a fantastic position\" to help reduce pressure on GPs but warned \"the funding must follow\" to make it happen.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was committed to helping the profession.\n\nCommunity pharmacists - also known as chemists - dispense prescriptions, sell over-the-counter medicines and can give advice on treating minor ailments and certain conditions.\n\nThey are contracted by the NHS in Wales and received a 1% increase in funding for 2023-24, a figure described as \"insulting\" by one business owner.\n\nJenny White runs The Pharmacy in Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with her husband and said she felt \"under a lot of pressure\".\n\nAs part of her contract, she is required to see patients about their conditions and prescribe certain medicine.\n\n\"I've always wanted to help people and that's why I'm a pharmacist,\" she said.\n\n\"But if we continue as we are, we are just unable to give the best service that we can.\"\n\nMs White said she could develop the services she offers, but it was \"not possible with the funding\" she gets.\n\n\"The 1% uplift in fees is, quite frankly, not good.\"\n\nSpending time with patients means Jenny needs staff to backfill the time when she is away from the dispensary.\n\nEmploying more staff to check the prescriptions has resulted in bigger financial pressures for the business, she added.\n\n\"Anything now that we're not paid for, we are having to seriously consider whether we can viably offer those services.\"\n\nThere are just over 700 community pharmacies in Wales, with about 230 independent and the rest chains, according to Welsh government figures.\n\nDhimant Patel believes pharmacists are in a great position to reduce pressure on GPs\n\nMr Patel welcomed moves for pharmacists to reduce the pressure on GPs.\n\nBut, he added: \"If we are going to be in a position to help with this workload, then the funding needs to come.\"\n\nGareth Rowe, a community pharmacist in Bridgend, said he had seen major changes in his profession over the past 30 years and called the 1% uplift \"insulting\".\n\n\"The vast majority of us are struggling with the day-to-day,\" he added.\n\n\"We just can't do anymore unless we get some funding. Many of us are just feeling burnt out, chasing our tails, trying to do all the things that are required of us.\"\n\nGareth Rowe said the vast majority of pharmacists were struggling\n\nLlyr Hughes, a pharmacist in Criccieth and spokesman for Community Pharmacy Wales, said the changes to working practice were \"some of the biggest\" the profession had seen, resulting in investment in staff, training and facilities.\n\nCommunity Pharmacy Wales, which represents 700 pharmacies, said the 1% put \"huge pressure\" on pharmacists.\n\nThe Welsh government acknowledged the increased demand and said it was \"committed to supporting the profession\" by providing more than £150m.\n\n\"Our community pharmacies have achieved a great deal in increasing support for patients since our significant reforms to the pharmacy contract,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Community pharmacies in Wales receive more NHS funding per pharmacy than in any other part of the UK and we are helping pharmacies implement innovative automated systems to improve efficiency and patient experience.\"\n\nThe Welsh government added that it had issued guidance to GPs to move patients, when appropriate, from 28-day prescribing intervals to 56 or 84 days in an effort to cut the workload.", "Wagner fighters managed to take control over Rostov-on-Don - a Russian city - during their short-lived mutiny\n\nWagner mercenary group head Yevgeniy Prigozhin has rejected an offer to his fighters to serve as a unit in Russia's army, President Vladimir Putin says.\n\nHe told Kommersant newspaper that many group commanders had backed the plan to be led by a senior Wagner figure during recent talks in Moscow.\n\nHe said Prigozhin's reply was \"the guys do not agree with this decision\".\n\nThe talks were held just days after Wagner's aborted mutiny on 23-24 June that challenged Mr Putin's authority.\n\nUnder the deal that ended the short-lived rebellion, the mercenaries were told they could join the regular Russian army or head to Belarus, a close ally of Russia.\n\nWagner has fought some of the bloodiest battles since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nHowever, the US military now assesses that the group is no longer \"participating in any significant capacity in support of combat operations in Ukraine\".\n\nThe comments were made on Thursday by Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder, who also said that \"the majority\" of Wagner fighters were believed to still be in areas of Russian-occupied Ukraine.\n\nIn a separate development, Belarus' defence ministry said on Friday that Wagner fighters were now acting as military instructors for the country's territorial defence forces.\n\nThe ministry said the fighters were training Belarusian forces \"in a number of military disciplines\" near the town of Osipovichy, about 85km (53 miles) south-east of the capital Minsk.\n\nIn Thursday's interview with Kommersant business daily, President Putin said that 35 Wagner commanders, including Prigozhin, had been present at the Kremlin meeting on 29 June.\n\nMr Putin said he had offered them several \"employment options\", including continued service under the command of a senior Wagner commander known by his nom de guerre Sedoi - Grey Hair.\n\n\"Many [Wagner fighters] were nodding when I was saying this,\" Mr Putin said.\n\n\"And Prigozhin, who was sitting in front and didn't see all this, said after listening: 'No, the guys do not agree with this decision,'\" the president added.\n\nHe also said that \"Wagner does not exist\" when asked whether the group would be preserved as a fighting unit. \"There is no law on private military organisations. It just doesn't exist.\"\n\nThis \"difficult issue\" of how to legalise Wagner fighters should be discussed in parliament, Mr Putin suggested.\n\nThe Kremlin appears to want to differentiate between the Wagner chief and regular Wagner fighters, driving a wedge between them, says the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.\n\nHe adds that this would explain the attempts in Russia's state media to discredit Prigozhin.\n\nThe current whereabouts of Prigozhin, a former Putin loyalist, are unknown.\n\nAlso on Thursday, US President Joe Biden said Prigozhin should be careful of poisoning following the mutiny.\n\n\"God only knows what he's likely to do. We're not even sure where he is and what relationship he has [with Mr Putin]. If I were he, I'd be careful what I ate. I'd keep my eye on my menu,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nSpeaking after a summit with Nordic leaders in Helsinki, he also said there was no possibility of Mr Putin winning the war in Ukraine.\n\n\"He's already lost that war,\" the president said.\n\nMr Biden suggested that the Russian president would eventually \"decide it's not in the interest of Russia, economically, politically or otherwise to continue this war. But I can't predict exactly how that happens.\"\n\nHe also expressed the \"hope and expectation\" that Ukraine would make enough progress in its current counter-offensive for there to be a negotiated peace settlement.\n\nBut more than a month into the long-planned Ukrainian counter-offensive, some Ukrainians and their allies are expressing concerns over the slow progress of Kyiv's troops.\n\nOthers believe that Russia's defences will eventually shatter, allowing Ukraine to seize strategically significant territory and to advance towards Crimea, Ukraine's southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The day Wagner chief went rogue... in 96 seconds\n\nUkraine has long asked Western allies to provide more military assistance to help it fight back against the Russian invasion.\n\nAlthough it did not get a solid timeframe for Nato membership at this week's summit in Lithuania, it did receive from G7 members a long-term security framework to help guard against Russian aggression.\n\nOn Thursday, Ukrainian army commander Oleksandr Tarnavskyi told US broadcaster CNN that the military had received the first consignment of cluster munitions promised by the US in a controversial move.\n\nHe stressed that they would make a difference to Ukraine's fortunes on the front line. \"We just got them, we haven't used them yet, but they can radically change [the battlefield],\" Mr Tarnavskyi said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Greek authorities closed the Acropolis during the hottest part of the day\n\nMuch of southern Europe is baking in extreme heat, with Greece seeing temperatures of 40C (104F) or more.\n\nThe Acropolis, the country's most popular tourist attraction, was closed during the hottest hours of the day to protect visitors.\n\nPotentially record temperatures are expected next week as another heatwave approaches.\n\nThe European Space Agency (ESA) says Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland may see extreme conditions.\n\nThe ESA monitors land and sea temperatures via its satellites.\n\nThe hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C in Sicily in August 2021.\n\nThere are also fears in Greece of a greater risk of wildfires, especially in areas with high winds. It suffered major wildfires in 2021 in another exceptional heatwave.\n\nIn Croatia, fires broke out on Thursday, burning houses and cars in at least one village, Grebastica, on the Dalmatian coast. Officials told Croatian TV on Friday morning that the fire had been brought under control.\n\nHigh temperatures have also been reaching into central parts of Europe, with Germany and Poland among countries affected.\n\nCzechia's meteorological office issued a warning that temperatures at the weekend could go above 38C, which is exceptionally high for the country.\n\nMeanwhile in the UK, heavy showers and gusty winds are expected in parts of England on Saturday.\n\nMeteorologists quoted by PA suggested this was because the southern shift of the jet stream which was fuelling the hot weather in Europe, was also drawing low-pressure systems into the UK, bringing unsettled and cooler weather.\n\nVolunteers from the Hellenic Red Cross hand out water bottles\n\nEarlier this week, a man in his forties died from the heat after collapsing in northern Italy - while several visitors to the country have collapsed from heatstroke, including a British man outside the Colosseum in Rome.\n\nThe cause is the Cerberus heatwave - named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that features in Dante's Inferno.\n\nItalian weather forecasters are warning that the next heatwave - dubbed Charon after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology - will push temperatures back up above 40C next week.\n\nHeatwaves are also being seen in parts of the US, China, North Africa and Japan.\n\nItaly is one of the countries experiencing soaring temperatures\n\nGreece's Culture Ministry announced the closure of the Acropolis on Friday from 12:00 to 17:00 (9:00-14:00 GMT), saying similar measures were likely to follow on Saturday.\n\nTemperatures were expected to peak at 41C in central Athens on Friday, but the Acropolis sits on a rocky hilltop and is usually hotter.\n\nThere is little shade on the hill for respite.\n\nEarlier on Friday at least one tourist was stretchered out of the site after falling ill due to the heat, local police said.\n\nSeveral other tourist sites around the Sacred Rock where the Acropolis stands remained open throughout the day.\n\nIn recent days the Greek Red Cross has been deployed to provide water bottles and help people feeling nauseous and dizzy in the heat.\n\nPeople have been advised to drink at least two litres of water a day and to avoid coffee and alcohol, which are dehydrating.\n\nLast month was the hottest June on record, according to the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nExtreme weather resulting from warming climate is \"unfortunately becoming the new normal\", the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned.\n\nPeriods of intense heat occur within natural weather patterns, but globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global warming.\n\nHow have you been affected by the extreme heat? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Somerset-How speaks out about abuse he received, after wife and carer jailed under modern slavery laws\n\nThe wife and carer of a disabled man who they enslaved and left in squalid conditions have been jailed.\n\nSarah Somerset-How and her lover George Webb left Tom Somerset-How bedbound and malnourished in his home in Chichester, West Sussex, for four years.\n\nMr Somerset-How, 40, said he lived \"under duress and threat\" and was forced into \"survival mode\".\n\nAt Portsmouth Crown Court, Ms Somerset-How, 49, and Webb, 40, both of Bognor Regis, were sentenced to 11 years.\n\nIn what is thought to be the first prosecution of its kind, the pair were convicted of wilful neglect and holding a person in slavery or servitude.\n\nIn addition, Webb was also convicted of causing actual bodily harm.\n\nSarah Somerset-How and her lover George Webb left Tom Somerset-How bedbound and malnourished in his home\n\nWhen he was rescued, Mr Somerset-How weighed just 6st 10lbs (43kg).\n\n\"I was literally in bed for 95% of four years. There was one point where I didn't get showered in five weeks,\" he said.\n\n\"The emotional toll's been ridiculous and the psychological toll. It's completely, utterly destroyed me. There's no retribution that will ever equalise what they've done to me.\"\n\nHe added: \"As far as George goes, because he was a carer, he should never, ever have the opportunity to do this to anybody again.\"\n\nThe trial heard that the pair's treatment of Mr Somerset-How, who has cerebral palsy, requires 24-hour care and uses an electric wheelchair, was uncovered by a friend as well as by the victim's sister Kate Somerset-Holmes, an actress who has appeared in Silent Witness and Holby City.\n\nOver four years, Mr Somerset-How was physically and psychologically abused, left without sufficient food and drink and forced to live in squalid conditions after Webb was hired as a live-in carer in 2016, the court heard.\n\nThe lovers took advantage of him for their own financial gains and separated him from his family, who reported the situation to the police in August 2020.\n\nPolice said texts between the defendants' mobile phones showed they had started a sexual relationship together and intentionally neglected Mr Somerset-How to take drugs and plan nights away.\n\nOver four years, Tom Somerset-How was physically and psychologically abused\n\nIn sentencing, Judge William Ashworth said Mr Somerset-How was \"held in slavery, kept in bed, frequently in his own urine and excrement, unwashed, unkempt and absent from contact from other humans\".\n\nHe told the court that Mr Somerset-How had suffered \"serious psychological harm\", was \"humiliated\" and treated as \"a cow to be milked\".\n\nPrior to sentencing, Mr Somerset-How's victim impact statement was read out by the prosecution barrister, Paul Calvin.\n\n\"I go to my room and just scream,\" it said.\n\nThe statement also said that Mr Somerset-How had had suicidal thoughts and been left with significant debt.\n\nDet Con Cheyne Garrett said she was shocked when she realised the scale of the \"depravity\" shown by the couple.\n\n\"He was stuck in that room. His money was spent. It is despicable and it shouldn't have happened,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I am very disappointed by Labour's lack of ambition, says union leader\n\nLabour needs to be \"bolder\" and \"more ambitious\", rather than \"tinkering around the edges\", the head of the UK's second largest union has told the BBC.\n\nUnite leader Sharon Graham warned that otherwise \"apathy\" would be the winner at the next general election.\n\nThe union gives more money to Sir Keir Starmer's party than any other.\n\nMs Graham saw off a bid this week by some members to end Unite's affiliation to Labour, which guarantees the party nearly £1.5m a year.\n\nShe argued it would be the worst time to leave the Labour Party when it was \"within touching distance of power, because that would reduce union influence\".\n\nMs Graham's membership spans public and private sectors, so what influence does she want to exercise?\n\nNext Saturday, Labour's National Policy Forum meets behind closed doors in Nottingham.\n\nIt brings together trade union representatives with MPs, grassroots members, and some shadow ministers.\n\nAlthough any policies agreed there are not guaranteed to be included in the next election manifesto, trade unions can make very clear where their priorities lie.\n\nFor Unite, taking energy companies and the struggling steel industry into public ownership are near the top of its agenda.\n\nDuring a number of meetings with the Labour leadership, Ms Graham has pressed her case that it would be cheaper to buy a steel industry that has lost much of its market value, than to bail out its private owners.\n\nThe Labour leader was publicly urged to do this when he spoke at Unite's policy conference in Brighton this week.\n\nBut while he has talked of \"preserving\" the industry if Labour wins power, he would not commit to acquiring it for the state.\n\nMs Graham is now intending to take a less conventional approach to policy-making.\n\nThe plan is for \"hundreds of organisers\" to go to marginal seats and talk to voters there about the case for taking key industries into public hands.\n\nThe message will be reinforced by Unite-funded billboards.\n\nThe hope is that then voters will press local Labour parties and local candidates to commit to backing nationalisation.\n\n\"We will take our ideas to the people,\" Ms Graham told me.\n\n\"The real decision-makers are the voters. If they push those ideas, politicians tend to move when they speak to voters.\"\n\nHer over-arching criticism is that Labour's leadership is not setting out a distinctive enough alternative to the government, and feels too constrained by the state of the economy.\n\nShe argued that \"we need be as bold as the 1945 Labour government\" which created the NHS. \"There wasn't much money about then, I can tell you,\" she said.\n\nThe next Labour government could leave a lasting legacy, she suggested.\n\n\"People will say they remember when energy companies were privatised and when they paid massive bills, and it was a Labour government that stopped all that.\"\n\nThe Labour leadership would argue that unless the party is trusted on the economy, many of the things trade unions want - like increased employment rights - simply won't happen.\n\nIts strategists also believe that it has to be seen to be moving away from Corbyn-era policies to win back voters who abandoned the party in 2019.\n\nBut Ms Graham told me that abiding strictly by shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves's \"fiscal rules\" had led to \"inertia\", and people were beginning to ask: \"What's the difference?\" between government and opposition.\n\n\"If Labour are saying what's happening now is awful, and it is absolutely awful, they have to come out with solutions to that.\"\n\nWhile Labour is criticising the number of children in poverty, its shadow ministers have been told they can't commit, for example, to provide free school meals for all primary children, because that would be a spending commitment.\n\nMs Graham said the party must \"talk about what they can do to change Britain. People want something to vote for.\"\n\nShe told her members this week that maintaining Unite's financial link to Labour would give her \"maximum leverage\" with the party.\n\nBut so far she hasn't moved policy on energy and steel. So by guaranteeing funds to Sir Keir Starmer, wasn't she actually reducing her bargaining power?\n\n\"The affiliation fee is what you pay to be part of the club. But most of the money we gave Labour traditionally was outside the affiliation fee,\" she said.\n\nFor example, the union donated an additional £3m to Labour before the last election.\n\nBut Ms Graham warned there were \"no blank cheques\".\n\n\"I want to see some movement if we are going to give what we usually give... We would be better off with a Labour government, but I am very, very disappointed with the lack of ambition.\"", "Nottinghamshire Police have released footage of the moment officers caught a speeding motorcyclist.\n\nThe video from April 2022 shows the biker trying to evade arrest by running through gardens and jumping fences in Kelham village. Officers were guided to his location by the force's aircraft.\n\nThe 23-year old biker, who was driving without insurance, has been handed a nine month prison sentence suspended for two years.\n\nPC Sarah Clifton said: “This was an appalling display of riding that could easily have ended in tragedy.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen we picture the fire-and-brimstone types that often lead unions into battle against corporate giants, they rarely have much in the way of Hollywood glamour.\n\nBut the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has always been unique in that respect. The union was once led by former US President Ronald Reagan, then best known as a swashbuckling cowboy from cheesy movies.\n\nAnd less than 24 hours into the guild's campaign against Hollywood's streaming giants, its current leader, Fran Drescher, has caught public attention with a fiery speech from her base in Los Angeles.\n\nBranding corporations including Netflix, Disney and Paramount as \"disgusting\", she accused the streaming powerhouses of \"losing money left and right\", all the while \"giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs\".\n\nThe speech, which quickly went viral, is emblematic of the wider labour fissures playing out across the world. She accused executives of making \"Wall Street and greed their priority\" while ignoring the \"essential contributors that make the machine run\".\n\nWhile the grievances aired by Drescher may be recognisable, the 65-year-old's rise to union leadership is anything but traditional.\n\nShe was born in the Queens borough of New York City to a Jewish family in 1957.\n\nAnd while attending Hillcrest High School in the city, she met Peter Marc Jacobson who she went on to marry in 1977, aged just 21.\n\nIn 2010 she recalled that when the pair married they were \"just kids and didn't know who we truly were. We went through a lot together\". Nonetheless, he would soon become her chief artistic collaborator.\n\nThe couple, pictured here in the 1990s, went on to be a formidable creative duo\n\nHer first break in Hollywood was a minor role in the smash hit Saturday Night Fever, which starred John Travolta.\n\nThe brief cameo role, in which she played a dancer at a club, saw her deliver the line \"So, are you as good in bed as you are on the dance floor?\" to the Hollywood legend.\n\nShe soon found success with a series of roles in films, including the critically acclaimed This is Spinal Tap, where she played publicist Bobbi Flekman, before landing a co-starring role in the short-lived sitcom Princesses.\n\nBut she achieved fame as the creator and star of The Nanny, a US sitcom in which she portrayed Jewish fashionista Fran Fine, who becomes a nanny to a rich British family.\n\nThe show, which she produced and co-wrote with Jacobsen, ran on the CBS network from 1993 to 1999 and earned her two Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.\n\nIn 1999, Drescher and Jacobsen divorced and he subsequently came out as gay.\n\nBut the pair continued their creative relationship, penning the sitcom Happily Divorced, in which she starred as an actress coming to terms with the revelation that her husband is gay.\n\nDrescher, a cancer survivor, wrote a novel, Cancer Schmancer, in which she discussed her experience receiving treatment for the illness and the eight years of misdiagnosis that preceded it. She subsequently founded an organisation of the same name, which lobbies for healthcare reform.\n\nDrescher has been politically active throughout her career. In 2008, she endorsed then Senator Hilary Clinton for president and briefly considered a run to replace Ms Clinton as senator for New York before deciding against it.\n\nAnd she has long expressed opinions to the political left, frequently captioning photos with phrases like \"Capitalism has become another word for Ruling Class Elite!\"\n\nIn a 2017 interview with Vulture, she described herself as an \"anti-capitalist\", noting that she was not \"anti-making-money\", but that it must be \"calibrated within the spectrum of what's a true value\".\n\nHer political activism ultimately saw her launch a campaign to lead the SAG. In 2021 she won a vicious election against actor Matthew Modine to become president of the guild.\n\nThe pair represented different factions of the union and the race became so bitter that Modine accused Drescher of spreading lies about him.\n\nAccording to Deadline Hollywood, Modine said after the election: \"I'm ashamed of Fran Drescher, I'm disappointed. But she'll be judged by the people in the world after she's gone, or by whatever God she worships.\"\n\nDivisions in the union were so widespread that after the Hollywood Writers union voted to strike earlier this year, studio executives reportedly dismissed any possibility that actors would have the resolve to go through with their own strike action.\n\nBut since her election, Drescher has proven to be a steady hand at the head of the union, and has overseen an end to the infighting that previously characterised it. Before taking office, she pledged to end what she called \"dysfunctional division in this union\".\n\nThe call for strike action was ultimately endorsed by 97.9% of voting members, and Membership First - the opposition faction that supported Modine in the 2021 election - recently endorsed her re-election.\n\nAnd as she gears up for what promises to be a tough fight with streaming executives, Drescher has shown a willingness to combine her political role with the dramatic flair that made her name.\n\n\"They [the studios] stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment,\" she told reporters on Thursday as she announced the strike.\n\nAnd jabbing her finger towards the camera, she said: \"We stand in solidarity in unprecedented unity. Our union, our sister unions, and the unions around the world, are standing by us.\"", "Declan Rice says 'tough' to leave West Ham with Arsenal transfer confirmed Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nEngland midfielder Declan Rice says it has been a \"tough\" decision to leave West Ham but that his departure \"is about my ambition to play at the very highest level of the game\". Rice issued a letter to Hammers before his transfer to Arsenal for £100m plus £5m in add-ons was confirmed. West Ham also confirmed the 24-year-old was leaving the club. \"The last few days and weeks have been an absolute whirlwind of emotion,\" said Rice. \"You have taken me into your hearts as one of your own from day one. Even when it was just a handful of fans at the Under-18 or Under-23 games, I felt that love, and it has just grown stronger as the years have passed. \"Playing in front of you has been an honour, we have had such great times together, and you all mean so much to me. \"I want you to know how tough a decision it has been for me to leave an environment that I have loved and cherished so much. \"Ultimately, though, it has only ever been about my ambition to play at the very highest level of the game.\" Rice scored 15 goals in 245 games for West Ham, who he joined as a 14-year-old after being released from Chelsea's academy. He signed his first professional contract with the Hammers in December 2015 and made his first senior appearance on the last day of the 2016-17 Premier League season against Burnley, going on to make his full debut that August against Southampton. He was named the club's captain following Mark Noble's retirement in 2022 and, in what proved to be his final campaign at London Stadium, was named the Europa Conference League's player of the season as West Ham ended a 43-year wait for a major trophy. \"Playing on the opposite team to West Ham for the first time will be an unusual experience,\" added Rice. \"I'm not sure yet exactly how I will feel, but I also know you will all understand and respect that my professional loyalties have to now lie with my new club. \"I will always give 100% every single time I pull on the shirt - because that is how I have been brought up at West Ham, and I'm sure you wouldn't expect anything else.\" 'We did not want to sell Declan' Arsenal succeeded with their third bid for Rice, having had two offers rejected after falling short of the £100m West Ham wanted. Premier League champions Manchester City withdrew from trying to bring in the player after they had a £90m offer turned down. The Gunners are set to add Rice, having signed Germany midfielder Kai Havertz from Chelsea in a £65m deal and Netherlands defender Jurrien Timber from Ajax for a fee that could rise to £38.5m. \"I would like to make it clear to our supporters that we did not want to sell Declan,\" said Hammers joint-chairman David Sullivan. \"We wanted to build our team around him and made a series of improved, long-term contract offers to secure his future. \"However, once Declan made it clear that he wished to move on and seek a new challenge, the club felt it would not be right to stand in his way, acting in the best interests of West Ham United. \"He leaves with the sincere thanks, respect and love of everyone here, having earned his place in history alongside the great Bobby Moore and Billy Bonds as the only players to have captained West Ham United to a major trophy. \"More than that, he has always given absolutely everything for the football club throughout his time with us.​ \"Declan will forever hold a special place in the hearts of Hammers fans and everyone here at the club.\" West Ham, in attempting to replace Rice, could try to sign Mexico midfielder Edson Alvarez from Ajax. The Hammers are interested in the 25-year-old, who is set to play for his country in Sunday's Gold Cup final against Panama. Alvarez joined Ajax in 2019 and had been linked with a move to Borussia Dortmund, who backed off because of the Dutch club's demands.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of West Ham United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Hammers - go straight to all the best content", "PSNI officers first attended the event in uniform in 2017\n\nPolice officers who wish to attend this year's Pride march in Belfast will not be allowed to do so in uniform.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton said: \"I know this decision will come as a disappointment to some.\"\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers first paraded in uniform at the event in 2017.\n\nBut police have faced criticism as some have seen their attendance as an official endorsement of gay rights campaign issues.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Singleton said: \"As a police service, we have had to carefully consider this request from our LGBT+ Network on its merits, the stated purposes and circumstances surrounding the parade and our statutory obligations to act with fairness, integrity and impartiality, whilst upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all individuals, their traditions and beliefs.\"\n\nHe added that Pride events remained \"an important element of our outreach and engagement\".\n\nBelfast Pride hosts events between 21 and 30 July with a parade in Belfast on Saturday 29 July.\n\nThe PSNI's LGBT+ staff support network said it was \"bitterly disappointed\" by the decision.\n\n\"Participating in Pride has been incredibly empowering for LGBT+ officers and staff,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Being visible as a public service in Pride parades inspired hundreds of LGBT+ people to take up policing as a career, it let our communities know we were part of them and that we stood with them against hate crime and discrimination.\"\n\nThe group claimed the decision by the PSNI prevented members from participating in both Belfast Pride shirts or in uniform.\n\n\"It has not been made clear to us what has changed for this year or why previously agreed forms of Pride participation have now been withdrawn by the senior executive team,\" it said.\n\nThe PSNI has U-turned on a decision it made in 2017.\n\nIt would suggest that part of the reason it revisited the issue was that other staff associations within the force were making similar requests to wear uniforms at external events.\n\nIt is also suggesting to me that the theme of this year's parade - which is titled Stand Up For Your Trans - had nothing to do with the decision.\n\nThe PSNI issued its statement on Friday afternoon and did not make anyone available to answer questions on its decision.\n\nYet this is a highly symbolic move and one which was going to attract media attention, scrutiny and questions.\n\nAlliance Party MLA Nuala McAllister, who is also a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, criticised the move.\n\nIn a tweet, she described it as \"a backward step\".\n\nMs McAllister was Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2017 when the PSNI and Gardaí (Irish police) officers marched in uniform in the parade for the first time.\n\nSDLP councillor Séamus de Faoite said he had written to Chief Constable Simon Byrne, seeking an urgent meeting with him and \"leaders within the LGBT+ community\".\n\n\"There has been significant damage to LGBT+ community confidence in policing caused by their decision to withdraw from Belfast Pride,\" he posted on Twitter.\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) councillor Timothy Gaston welcomed the decision by the PSNI, adding that the force had \"no business\" taking part in the parade.\n\nHe said the PSNI had been right to make the decision in order to recognise their \"fairness, integrity and impartiality obligations\".", "An architect has been charged over the deaths of three out of up to 11 victims in the Gilgo Beach murders in New York state over a decade ago.\n\nRex Heuermann, 59, is charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. He is suspected in a fourth woman's death.\n\nOn Friday the married Long Island father pleaded not guilty.\n\nDetectives say they matched DNA from pizza that the suspect ate to genetic material found on the women's remains.\n\nSuffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison told a news conference on Friday: \"Rex Heuermann is a demon that walks among us - a predator that ruined families.\"\n\nThe suspect, who was arrested at his home on Thursday night, is facing three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in the three women's deaths. The judge in the case ordered that he remain in custody, citing the \"extreme depravity\" of the crimes.\n\nAfter a plea was entered on his behalf in court, Mr Heuermann reportedly broke down in tears, telling his attorney: \"I didn't do this.\"\n\nThe lawyer, Michael Brown, said his client was \"distraught\" and called the evidence \"extremely circumstantial\".\n\n\"We're looking forward to fighting this case in a court of law, not the court of public opinion,\" Mr Brown said.\n\nRex Heuermann is an architect who has worked in Manhattan since 1987\n\nMs Barthelemy, Ms Waterman and Ms Costello were found dead in 2010 near a fourth victim, Maureen Brainard-Barnes.\n\nThe women have been dubbed the Gilgo Beach Four. All were sex workers, according to prosecutors.\n\nSuffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney told Friday's news conference that \"each of the four victims were found similarly positioned, bound in a similar fashion by either belts or tape, with three of the victims found wrapped in a burlap-type material\".\n\nThe local prosecutor said the case against Mr Heuermann was built on mobile phone records linking him to the victims, as well as to a pick-up truck that was seen near one of the victim's homes. He allegedly communicated with the victims using \"burner\" phones, which he later disposed of.\n\nPhone records also allowed investigators to determine that the deaths had taken place when Mr Heuermann's wife and children were out of town.\n\nHair found on a piece of burlap used to wrap one of the victims was linked to Mr Heuermann via a sample from a pizza box he discarded in a rubbish bin in Manhattan in January 2023, according to authorities.\n\nInvestigators say he was also snared by taunting calls that a person claiming to be the murderer made to one of Ms Barthelemy's family members using her mobile phone.\n\nMs Barthelemy was abducted in 2009. Ms Waterman and Ms Costello both went missing in 2010.\n\nMr Heuermann is also a prime suspect in the death of Ms Brainard-Barnes, who was abducted in 2007, although he has so far not been charged with her death.\n\nIn 2010, police were searching for one missing woman, Shannan Gilbert, when they discovered the remains of four others.\n\nAltogether, 11 sets of human remains were found on the same stretch of Gilgo Beach between 2010-11, linked to nine women, one man and a toddler. The identities of four, including the toddler, her mother and the man, remain unidentified.\n\nEleven sets of human remains were found on Gilgo Beach in 2010 and 2011\n\nMs Gilbert's remains were eventually found, and an official post-mortem examination was inconclusive. Her family believes she may have been murdered - a theory supported by an independent autopsy that they commissioned.\n\nA new task force to investigate the Gilgo Beach murders was formed in February 2022. Mr Heuermann became the focus of the investigation within a month, Mr Tierney said. More than 300 subpoenas and search warrants were issued by investigators on the case.\n\nSince the task force was formed, Mr Heuermann allegedly also used a burner phone to conduct more than 200 searches about topics related to serial killers and the Long Island investigation.\n\nThis included a search for \"why hasn't the Long Island serial killer been caught\" and \"mapping the Long Island murder victims\", court documents show.\n\nMr Tierney added that \"torture porn\" and \"depictions of women being abused and being killed\" were found on Mr Heuermann's computer.\n\nThe investigation into the other victims is ongoing.\n\nMr Heuermann is the owner of RH Consultants and Associates, a Manhattan architecture firm that describes itself as \"New York City's premier architectural firm\".\n\nThe Associated Press has reported that he has a daughter and a stepson. A neighbour described the 6ft 4in suspect going to work every morning, dressed in a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase.\n\nMr Tierney said that Mr Heuermann had licences for 92 guns and a \"very large safe\" in which firearms were kept.\n\nIn a YouTube interview for a real estate-focused channel last year, he said he had been working in the heart of New York City since 1987, describing himself as a \"trouble shooter\". He added that his work helped teach him to \"understand people\".\n\nPeople who lived near his home in Long Island's Massapequa Park expressed surprise at his arrest.\n\n\"The guy's been quiet, never really bothers anybody,\" neighbour Etienne DeVilliers told CBS, the BBC's US partner.\n\n\"We're shocked. Because this is a very, very quiet neighbourhood. Everybody knows each other, all of our neighbours, we're all friendly.\"", "At least 35 people have been killed by deadly flooding in the country, as torrential rainfall continues to batter central regions for a third day.\n\nThe weather has caused rockfalls, power cuts, damage to infrastructure and a major dam in the central North Chungcheong province to overflow.\n\nThousands of people have been affected by evacuation orders issued by various local governments.", "There have been no arrests and inquiries continue\n\nA murder investigation is under way after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed following a birthday party in north-west London.\n\nPolice and London Ambulance Service were called to Granville Road, Kilburn, at 23:22 BST on Friday following reports of a fight and a stabbing.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nAnother teenage boy and a woman in her early 20s were treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.\n\nFormal identification of the boy who died has yet to take place.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Rogers said: \"We believe that there was a fight following a birthday party, which would have been attended by a number of people.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who was there, and who has not yet spoken with officers, to please come forward.\n\n\"It is vital that we establish what happened.\"\n\nA crime scene cordon remains in place. No arrests have been made.\n\nCh Supt Dan Knowles, in charge of the North West Command Unit which polices Kilburn, said: \"I know that the community will be shocked by this incident in which a young man has lost his life.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many of the buildings at HMP Greenock were constructed more than a century ago\n\nInspectors have called for a 100-year-old Victorian-style prison to be replaced due to concerns about the condition of the facility.\n\nIn a report, HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) called for a new prison estate to replace HMP Greenock, following a visit in March.\n\nThe report praised the staff, but said the building was \"ill-suited\" to the demands of a modern-day prison.\n\nLast year, flooding in HMP Greenock forced the closure of 40 cells.\n\nThe impact of the flooding was still visible in some of the cells, and the health centre, according to the report.\n\nInspectors noted here had been \"significant efforts\" made to address dampness in the cells of the prison as well as the physical deterioration to other parts of infrastructure but questioned the \"long-term durability\" of the repairs.\n\nThe report stated: \"There is still a compelling case for securing a modern replacement prison, preferably in the same locality.\n\n\"That might support a seamless transition of staff, and the excellent prison culture they have developed, into a prison designed for the 21st century and geared up to provide appropriate opportunities more easily for work and rehabilitative activity.\"\n\nA previous inspection of the prison in 2021 also called for a replacement facility to be built.\n\nHMP Greenock is a local community-facing prison, receiving offenders mainly from courts in Greenock, Campbeltown, Oban, Dunoon and surrounding Inverclyde and North Strathclyde areas.\n\nIt houses both male and female inmates.\n\nThe report, produced by HMIPS following a visit to the prison, assessed the prison as satisfactory and generally acceptable across seven areas.\n\nThere was praise for staff who were called \"undoubtedly\" the facilities' \"key assets\". The report noted \"heart-warming\" examples of staff going the extra mile for prisoners in a caring and compassionate manner as well as the excellent relationships formed.\n\n82% of prisoners in HMP Greenock said they were treated with respect by staff all or most of the time, while 79% felt their personal officer was very or quite helpful.\n\nHMIPS said the prison's two Community Integration Units were \"underused\", which the organisation called a \"missed opportunity\" for the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). Arran and Bute halls were opened at the prison in 2014 to help ensure a smoother transition from custody to community for prisoners.\n\nDuring the visit, inspectors came across two examples of clear discrimination at HMP Greenock which were then escalated to the SPS. The report also raised concerns about the lack of interpreters for foreign prisoners.\n\nDespite this, 84% of prisoners said they felt safe all or most of the time within the prison.\n\nHMP Greenock was built between 1907 and 1910, and is made up of five residential areas.\n\nThe SPS owns a replacement site for HMP Greenock but there is no starting date for the project.\n\nA SPS spokesperson said the report \"highlights many areas of good practice\" but they recognised there was more to do in terms of \"progression, infrastructure and work opportunities\".\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"It is pleasing to see recognition for work made to address areas of dampness, and our plans for significant investment in improvements over the next three years.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nMarketa Vondrousova became the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon women's singles title as Ons Jabeur's wait for a major goes on.\n\nVondrousova, 24, is ranked 42nd in the world after missing six months of last season with a wrist injury.\n\nBut the Czech handled the nerves of the occasion better than 2022 runner-up Jabeur to win Saturday's final 6-4 6-4.\n\nSixth seed Jabeur, 28, has now lost all three major finals she has played in and was in tears at the end.\n\nVondrousova, who came to Wimbledon as a fan last year wearing a cast after wrist surgery, fell flat on her back as the magnitude of what she had achieved sank in.\n\n\"I don't know what is happening - it is an amazing feeling,\" said Vondrousova, who beat five seeded players to lift the Venus Rosewater Dish.\n\nAfter sharing a warm embrace with Jabeur at the net, she knelt on the grass again and looked close to tears as she drew the acclaim of the Centre Court crowd.\n\nThen, as is tradition these days, she clambered up to the players' box to hug her team and family - including husband Stepan, who arrived in London to watch the final after previously staying at home in Prague to look after their pet cat.\n\nBy contrast, Jabeur looked heartbroken as she sat on her chair with her head bowed.\n\n\"This is very, very tough. The most painful loss of my career,\" said Jabeur, who had been aiming to be the first African or Arab woman to win a Grand Slam singles title.\n• None New tattoo for Vondrousova after etching name into history\n• None 'My most painful loss' - tears flow again on Centre\n\nVondrousova becomes 'most unlikely' Wimbledon champion\n\nVondrousova reached the French Open final as a teenager in 2019, where she lost to Australia's Ashleigh Barty, before seeing her progress hampered by two wrist surgeries.\n\nClay courts have long been considered the Czech's best surface and she admitted before her semi-final she \"never thought\" she could do well on grass.\n\nBut her game style - using a top-spin forehand to good effect, the ability to play with variety and regularly able to keep the ball in play - has translated to the grass courts.\n\nVondrousova came into Wimbledon having won only four grass-court matches in her career.\n\nEven after winning under the Centre Court roof - which was closed because of winds predicted to reach speeds of 50mph - still owns an 11-11 win-loss record on the surface.\n\nIt led American former world number one Tracy Austin - who was working on BBC Sport's television coverage of the final - saying Vondrousova was the \"most unlikely\" champion.\n\nNerves get better of Jabeur\n\nHistory was at stake for both players, but particularly for Jabeur, who has become a trailblazer for African and Arab women.\n\nBut the Tunisian, who was the pre-match favourite, looked overwhelmed by the weight of expectation.\n\nWhile both players managed beaming smiles for the camera as they posed for the traditional pre-match photograph, the nerves associated with playing in a Wimbledon final quickly became apparent.\n\nJabeur seemed more stressed than her opponent in a tense opening set, even after she took an early break to lead 2-0.\n\nShe stayed rooted to the baseline as she looked to find rhythm, rarely employing her favoured drop-shot and was broken straight back for 2-1.\n\nThree successive breaks of serve - in favour of Vondrousova - were indicative of the tension that remained on both sides of the net, but particularly for Jabeur, who saw a 4-2 advantage disappear.\n\nJabeur, who has an effervescent and engaging personality, is known as the 'Minister of Happiness' back home and usually plays with a smile on her face.\n\nBut her body language became increasingly negative, head bowed and shoulders slumping, clearly unable to compute what was happening.\n\nAfter Vondrousova served out for a one-set lead, Jabeur took a short break in the locker room. When she emerged, she lost serve again before finally growing in confidence and playing more freely to move 3-1 ahead.\n\nHowever, uncertainty quickly reappeared. Vondrousova broke back in the fifth game of a match which continued to provide twists and turns.\n\nJabeur, who lost to Elena Rybakina in last year's final after winning the first set, has become a crowd favourite at the All England Club in recent years.\n\nEncouraging shouts of support came her way after she lost serve again for 5-4 and, despite briefly wobbling with a double fault on her first match point, Vondrousova sealed a famous win.\n\n\"It's going to be a tough day but I'm not going to give up. I will come back stronger,\" said Jabeur, who beat four Grand Slam champions to reach another final.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can you trust your best mate to be your best man? Find out in Jason Manford and Steve Edge’s new podcast\n• None Can certain foods make you hungrier? Professor Tim Spector takes Michael Mosley through his top food and nutrition tips", "Lucy Spraggan, now 31, has told how she was sexually assaulted by a hotel porter during the X Factor 2012\n\nFormer X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan has revealed she was raped by a hotel porter during the production of the ITV show in 2012.\n\nShe withdrew from the show, citing an illness at the time, but told the Guardian the real reason was because she was attacked.\n\nSpraggan said she felt let down by the programme makers.\n\nSimon Cowell, creator of X Factor, said what happened to Spraggan was \"horrific and heart-breaking\".\n\n\"When I was given the opportunity to speak to Lucy, I was able to personally tell her how sorry I was about everything she has been through.\n\n\"Lucy is one of the most authentic, talented and brave people I have ever met.\"\n\nSpraggan, who was 20 at the time, said the assault happened after a night out in central London celebrating the 25th birthday of fellow contestant Rylan Clark.\n\nIn her new memoir, Process: Finding My Way Through, the 31-year-old waives the right to anonymity granted to victims of sexual offences to tell her story for the first time.\n\nShe said she was escorted back to the hotel by a member of the production team when a hotel porter offered to take her to her room.\n\nShe told the Guardian: \"I woke up the next day with this sense of sheer dread.\n\n\"I don't think I've ever felt that level of confusion since. I knew that I'd been raped, but I could not process that. So I put my clothes on and went into autopilot.\"\n\nAlthough the production team called police and an arrest was quickly made, Spraggan said she believed they were \"unprepared\" to deal with what had happened.\n\nSpraggan received financial and medical support in the immediate aftermath of the crime, but the singer said she wasn't given any support after the trial in which her attacker was convicted.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson praised Spraggan for her \"resilience and bravery\", adding the series was produced by Thames (part of Fremantle) and Syco, owned by Simon Cowell.\n\nThey said it was those two companies which were \"primarily responsible for duty of care towards all of its programme contributors\".\n\nA spokesperson for Fremantle said \"to our knowledge, the assault was an event without precedent in the UK television industry\" and they \"believed throughout that we were doing our best to support Lucy\".\n\nBut they added: \"As Lucy thinks we could have done more, we must therefore recognise this. For everything Lucy has suffered, we are extremely sorry.\n\n\"Since then, we have done our very best to learn lessons from these events and improve our aftercare processes.\n\n\"Whilst we have worked hard to try and protect Lucy's lifetime right to anonymity, we applaud her strength and bravery now that she has chosen to waive that right.\"\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues raised in this story, support and advice is available via the BBC Action Line.\n\nYou can see an exclusive broadcast interview with Lucy Spraggan on the BBC on Sunday at 22:00 BST.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Precious objects like this damaged torc were often buried on their own\n\nA section of a Bronze Age twisted gold torc has been found in a field by a metal detectorist.\n\nThe 3,000-year-old fragment was discovered near Mistley, on the River Stour in Essex, and has been declared treasure by a coroner.\n\nFinds liaison officer Lori Rogerson said despite being made of prehistoric gold \"it could have been made yesterday\", which is \"mind blowing\".\n\nIt was also the \"first ever\" torc \"reported as treasure from Essex\".\n\nMiss Rogerson said: \"Gold metalwork from the Bronze Age is rare from Essex.\n\n\"It's always nice to work with prehistoric gold, but you have to remind yourself it is over 3,000 years old.\"\n\nThe detectorist reported the find to the Portable Antiquities Scheme three years ago.\n\nBritish Museum experts confirmed the jewellery was made from at least 75% gold, about 18% silver and some copper.\n\nThe torc, which is 147mm-long (5.7in) long, was crafted from a rectangular rod with four grooves cut into it.\n\nMiss Rogerson said a \"highly skilled\" goldsmith worked on it and \"would have had to twist it, it's a really soft material so it is at risk of tearing,\"\n\n\"He or she would have known just the right point to stop before it broke, while getting those twists in,\" she added.\n\nThe item comes from the Middle Bronze Age and dates to about 1300BC.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook and Instagram. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830", "Hun Sen has ensured that his party faces no strong challenge in the polls\n\nVoting is under way in Cambodia, where the country's long-term leader is virtually certain to extend his party's rule in an election where there are no serious challengers.\n\nPeople turning up to the polls in Phnom Penh told the BBC they expected the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) to sweep all 125 seats in parliament again.\n\nHun Sen, who has been in power for 38 years, faces no real challenge after the only credible opposition party was disqualified in May.\n\n\"It's a rigged election because there are no real strong opposition parties,\" one voter, an aid worker in Phnom Penh, told the BBC earlier this week.\n\nWestern nations, including the US, have also expressed concerns about the integrity of the vote. To ensure the highest possible turnout when people are being offered no real choice, the government has criminalised any attempt to boycott the election or spoil the ballot papers.\n\nOpposition lawmakers this year have reported violent attacks, with Human Rights Watch reporting the government stepped up intimidation and arbitrary arrests of political opposition in the run-up to the poll.\n\nIn May, the government barred the country's main opposition party, the Candlelight Party, on a technicality. The National Election Commission said the party was missing paperwork, which it had not needed for the local elections last year.\n\nCandlelight had won 22% of the vote in local elections last year - and analysts say Hun Sen saw them as a potential threat to his rule.\n\nBut the poll comes as Hun Sen, who cast his vote in the capital early on Sunday morning, shows the clearest signals yet that he's planning to hand power to his eldest son, Hun Manet - possibly within weeks. The military chief has led the CPP's campaign alongside his father.\n\nHun Sen has become increasingly authoritarian in his rule, political analysts say.\n\nIt is the second election in a row where Hun Sen has targeted democratic institutions and crippled the opposition before voting day, analysts say.\n\nIn 2018, his Cambodian People's Party won every single seat in the 125-seat National Assembly after the main opposition alliance was dissolved by the politically controlled courts.\n\nSeventeen other parties are participating in this year's election, but almost all are too small, new or are aligned with the ruling party to be considered credible challengers.\n\nThe vote comes at an uncertain time for Cambodia's economy - with locals reporting struggles with rising fuel prices, stagnant wages and growing debts.\n\nHun Manet is expected to take over from his father\n\nWhile Hun Sen is campaigning for re-election, he has flagged that this may be his last term. In 2021, he said would hand over control to his eldest son who currently commands the Royal Cambodian Army.\n\nHan Manet is a first-time candidate for a parliament seat this election and led the final day of party rallies in Phnom Penh on Friday.\n\nNo timeframe had been given for the transition of power until Thursday, when Hun Sen signalled his son \"could be\" prime minister in three or four weeks.\n\nHun Sen's party has won all six of the national elections held every five years since the 1990s, when the UN helped the Southeast Asian nation of 16 million people become a functioning democracy post decades of civil war and the murderous Khmer Rouge regime.\n\nOver four decades, he has consolidated power through control of the military, police and moneyed interests. Observers say he has dispatched opponents through co-opting, jailing or exiling them.", "Corfu has become the latest Greek island to issue an evacuation order, as the country grapples with wildfires.\n\nPhotos uploaded to social media show flames engulfing Corfu. A fire broke out on the northern part of the island which is popular with British tourists.\n\nIt comes after some 19,000 people were evacuated on the island of Rhodes, which has also been hit by fires.\n\nMany were forced to flee their hotels as the flames continued to spread from the centre of the Greek island.\n\nGreece has been grappling with searing heat, with temperatures exceeding 40C across the country, and fires have blazed for nearly a week in some areas.\n\nA national holiday that had been planned for Monday has been cancelled \"in view of the extraordinary conditions prevailing in the country due to the fires\", the Greek presidency said.\n\nLate on Sunday evening Greece's Emergency Communications Service published evacuation orders for a number of areas of Corfu.\n\nPeople in the areas of Santa, Megoula, Porta, Palia, Perithia and Sinies on the island have been told to evacuate.\n\nBoats in the area had been dispatched to evacuate residents by sea, a government official said.\n\nCorfu - in the Ionian sea off the northwest of Greece - is a destination popular with tourists, with hundreds of thousands Brits visiting every year.\n\nRhodes - an island some 1,027km (670 miles) away - has been battling wildfires fanned by strong winds since Tuesday and after smoke started enveloping tourist areas.\n\nSome 16,000 people were evacuated by land and 3,000 by sea on the island, according to local officials. Greece's Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection said it was \"the largest evacuation from a wildfire in the country\".\n\nThousands of holidaymakers were camped out at Rhodes airport on Sunday, waiting for a flight to get out. Konstantia Dimoglidou, a Greek police spokeswoman, told the AFP news agency that more than 30,000 people have been evacuated across the country so far.\n\nSome tourists said they walked for miles in scorching heat to reach safety. Dead animals have been seen in the road near burnt-out cars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHoliday company Jet2 has now cancelled five flights to Rhodes, while Tui cancelled all flights there until Wednesday.\n\nThe first repatriation flights to take Britons back home are due to arrive on Rhodes. EasyJet will operate two rescue flights with a total of 421 seats on Monday, and a third on Tuesday, in addition to its nine scheduled flights to the island.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK Foreign Office says a five-strong rapid deployment team is in Rhodes, along with four Red Cross workers, to assist British nationals and support travel operators in bringing people home.\n\nAt least three hotels have been destroyed in the dense forest area of Kiotari on the east of Rhodes.\n\nThe deputy mayor of Rhodes, Athanasios Vyrinis said some people had slept in cardboard boxes overnight and warned that there were not enough essentials.\n\nGreece's fire service has warned the situation could worsen as further villages require evacuation and that the battle to contain the flames could take several days. 260 firefighters, backed by 18 aircraft, were battling the fire on Sunday.\n\nSix people were briefly taken to hospital with respiratory problems and were later released.\n\nEmergency services have also been dealing with fires on the island of Evia, east of Athens and Aigio, southwest of Athens. Homes have already been lost to the wildfires on Rhodes and other areas.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to carbon emissions.\n\nSpain and Italy are among the Mediterranean countries which have also experienced intense heat this week, while parts of the US are also seeing records broken.\n\nOfficials estimate 19,000 have been evacuated by land and sea with more people due to be evacuated from three villages - Pefki, Lindos, Kalathos", "The Treasury has called a meeting with bank bosses over account closures, following the row between Nigel Farage and NatWest.\n\nMinister Andrew Griffith said there was \"significant concern\" over claims accounts are shut due to people's political views.\n\nNatWest boss Dame Alison Rose has apologised to Mr Farage, who has called for her to be questioned by MPs.\n\nHe says his account at Coutts, owned by NatWest, was shut because of his views.\n\nThe government was already looking into concerns that some people had their accounts closed or suspended due to their publicly stated views, but the row involving the former Ukip leader has focused public attention on the allegations.\n\nIn a letter to banks seen by the BBC, City Minister Andrew Griffith said the recent allegations of \"client de-banking\" had \"raised significant concern in both Houses of Parliament\".\n\nHe said the government will \"take the action necessary\" to protect lawful freedom of expression.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Griffith's letter will be sent to 19 banks and financial services firms on Monday.\n\nHe said he would call for a discussion with bank bosses \"at the earliest opportunity\".\n\nThe latest government response comes after the Treasury announced plans to subject UK banks to stricter rules over closing customer accounts.\n\nBanks will have to explain why they are closing accounts, and they will have to give a notice period of 90 days before closing an account, to allow people more time to appeal against the decision.\n\nThe new rules are likely to be brought in after the summer, the BBC understands.\n\nWhen Coutts decided to close Mr Farage's account, he said it did not give him a reason.\n\nMr Farage subsequently obtained a document looking at his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nIt said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts' \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nThe document flagged concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and also raised concerns about the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a client.\n\nThe boss of NatWest Group, Dame Alison Rose, then apologised to Mr Farage for what she called the \"deeply inappropriate\" comments.\n\nShe also said that she was commissioning a full review of Coutts' processes on bank account closures.", "In March last year a video appeared to show President Volodymyr Zelensky telling the people of Ukraine to lay down their arms and surrender to Russia.\n\nIt was a pretty obvious deepfake - a type of fake video that uses artificial intelligence to swap faces or create a digital version of someone.\n\nBut as AI developments make deepfakes easier to produce, detecting them quickly has become all the more important.\n\nIntel believes it has a solution, and it is all about blood in your face.\n\nThe company has named the system \"FakeCatcher\".\n\nIn Intel's plush, and mostly empty, offices in Silicon Valley we meet Ilke Demir, research scientist at Intel Labs, who explains how it works.\n\n\"We ask what is real about authentic videos? What is real about us? What is the watermark of being human?\" she says.\n\nCentral to the system is a technique called Photoplethysmography (PPG), which detects changes in blood flow.\n\nFaces created by deepfakes don't give out these signals, she says.\n\nThe system also analyses eye movement to check for authenticity.\n\n\"So normally, when humans look at a point, when I look at you, it's as if I'm shooting rays from my eyes, to you. But for deepfakes, it's like googly eyes, they are divergent,\" she says.\n\nBy looking at both these traits, Intel believes it can work out the difference between a real video and a fake within seconds.\n\nThe company claims FakeCatcher is 96% accurate. So we asked to try out the system. Intel agreed.\n\nWe used a dozen or so clips of former US President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.\n\nSome were real, some were deepfakes created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's James Clayton puts a deepfake video detector to the test\n\nIn terms of finding the deepfakes, the system appeared to be pretty good.\n\nWe mostly chose lip-synced fakes - real videos where the mouth and voice had been altered.\n\nAnd it got every answer right, bar one.\n\nHowever when we got onto real, authentic videos it started to have a problem.\n\nSeveral times the system said a video was fake, when it was in fact real.\n\nThe more pixelated a video, the harder it is to pick up blood flow.\n\nThe system also does not analyse audio. So some videos that seemed fairly obviously real by listening to the voice were allocated as fake.\n\nThe worry is that if the program says a video is fake, when it's genuine, it could cause real problems.\n\nWhen we make this point to Ms Demir, she says that \"verifying something as fake, versus 'be careful, this may be fake' is weighted differently\".\n\nShe is saying the system is being overly cautious. Better to catch all the fakes - and catch some real videos too - than miss fakes.\n\nDeepfakes can be incredibly subtle: a two second clip in a political campaign advert, for example. They can also be of low quality. A fake can be made by only changing the voice.\n\nIn this respect, the ability for FaceCatcher to work \"in the wild\" - in real world contexts - has been questioned.\n\nMatt Groh is an assistant professor at Northwestern University in Illinois, and a deepfakes expert.\n\n\"I don't doubt the stats that they listed in their initial evaluation,\" he says. \"But what I do doubt is whether the stats are relevant to real world contexts.\"\n\nThis is where it gets difficult to evaluate FakeCatcher's tech.\n\nProgrammes like facial-recognition systems will often give extremely generous statistics for their accuracy.\n\nHowever, when actually tested in the real world they can be less accurate.\n\nEarlier this year the BBC tested Clearview AI's facial recognition system, using our own pictures. Although the power of the tech was impressive, it was also clear that the more pixelated the picture, and the more side-on the the face in the photo was, the harder it was for the programme to successfully identify someone.\n\nIn essence, the accuracy is entirely dependent on the difficulty of the test.\n\nIntel claims that FakeCatcher has gone through rigorous testing. This includes a \"wild\" test - in which the company has put together 140 fake videos - and their real counterparts.\n\nIn this test the system had a success rate of 91%, Intel says.\n\nHowever, Matt Groh and other researchers want to see the system independently analysed. They do not think it's good enough that Intel is setting a test for itself.\n\n\"I would love to evaluate these systems,\" Mr Groh says.\n\n\"I think it's really important when we're designing audits and trying to understand how accurate something is in a real world context,\" he says.\n\nIt is surprising how difficult it can be tell a fake and a real video apart - and this technology certainly has potential.\n\nBut from our limited tests, it has a way to go yet.\n\nWatch the full report on this week's episode of Click", "Coal extraction at Merthyr Tydfil's Ffos-y-Fran mine began in 2007 on a 15-year licence\n\nThe operator of the UK's last opencast coal mine has been accused of breaching its licence after inspectors found it was mining outside its permitted area.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil's Ffos-y-Fran mine produces two-thirds of the UK's coal and was supposed to close in September as its planning permission had expired.\n\nSince then more than 200,000 tonnes of coal has been extracted.\n\nOperator Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd said it would not be appropriate to comment \"while the appeal process is ongoing\".\n\nThe owner was issued with a local authority enforcement order to stop digging earlier this year, meaning production must cease by the end of July, but the company appealed against this decision.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which issues licences in the UK, has now sent the company a final enforcement notice, saying it is satisfied the operator is continuing to mine in contravention of the 1994 Coal Industry Act.\n\nIt stated: \"You are required to cease all extraction of coal outside of the licence area with immediate effect and inform the authority that this has taken place.\"\n\nMerthyr (South Wales) Ltd wanted to extend the licence until 2024, arguing coal from the mine was needed by the steel industry.\n\nBut council planning officials refused the application in April, saying the proposed extension did not fit with Welsh government policies on tackling climate change.\n\nIt means production is set to end at Ffos-y-Fran after 16 years of excavation.\n\nIt originally won planning permission in 2005 and work began two years later to excavate 11 million tonnes of coal across a site the size of 400 football pitches.\n\nPeople living close to Ffos-y-Fran have objected to the scheme since its inception\n\nThe other aim was to restore the land - riddled with the remains of old industries - back to green hillside for the community's benefit as work progressed.\n\nBut there was stiff opposition due to the mine's proximity to homes and businesses.\n\nThe closest houses were initially less than 40m (132ft) away, and residents led a long campaign, saying their lives were being blighted by coal dust and noise.\n\nMerthyr (South Wales) Ltd said: \"Having previously advised it would not be appropriate to comment whilst the appeal process is ongoing, we will not be responding to any further requests from the BBC.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said making any comment during the appeal process could \"jeopardise any future decision Welsh ministers may have to make on the matter\".\n\nMerthyr Tydfil council said its planning division \"continue to review the appropriate enforcement options in light of the continued operations taking place, which includes the use of a stop notice\".\n\nIt added: \"We are aware of the steps being taken by the Coal Authority and we will continue to monitor the situation.\"", "Brian Harman overcame an early wobble to stroll serenely to his first major title with a six-shot victory at the 151st Open Championship in Hoylake.\n\nA one-under 70 proved more than enough for the American, who finished on 13 under at a rain-soaked Royal Liverpool.\n\nWorld number three Jon Rahm finished joint second on seven under with Sepp Straka, Tom Kim and Jason Day.\n\nRory McIlroy ended six under, while Matthew Jordan and Tommy Fleetwood were England's best, tied on four under.\n\nIt has been a fairytale week for Jordan, who was on the Royal Liverpool chipping green at the age of three and became a member aged seven.\n\nThe R&A gave him the honour of hitting the opening tee shot on Thursday and he birdied the last to card a one-under-par final round on Sunday that lifted him into the top 10 and qualifies him for next year's Open at Royal Troon in Ayrshire.\n\n\"Normally I just see players on TV and think 'that'd be cool if it happened to me',\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It was just the perfect finish to what has been the most unbelievable week.\"\n\nIt has also been a fairytale week for Harman. The 36-year-old, ranked 26th in the world, becomes just the third left-hander to win the Claret Jug - emulating Bob Charles in 1963 and Phil Mickelson in 2013.\n\nThe victory, which saw him collect £2.3m, is just the third in his career, and first since 2017.\n\nAnd he did it by plotting his way round the links in superb fashion. He only went in two bunkers all week - one of them on the 72nd - holed 59 out of 60 putts from inside 10 feet and had no three putts, statistics that help make champions.\n\n\"I knew I had a six-shot lead on the 18th, I was ready to putt it down that fairway,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"To get it done on the biggest stage, it's what you dream about as a kid.\n\n\"I've always thought about holding this trophy. From my cold, dead fingers it is going to be tough to get it out of my hands.\"\n\nThe champion, who pledged to drink \"a couple of pints\" from the Claret Jug, added: \"This golf course was a real test, it was set up so great - even with the weather. The greens were perfect, the golf course was excellent.\n\n\"I couldn't be happier to be the champion. To all the fans, all the nice words, and all the fans back home tooting me on I appreciate it so much. Thank you.\"\n\nHarman's lead never dropped below three despite bogeys on the second and fifth holes, the latter coming after he drove his ball into a gorse bush, seeing him drop to 10 under.\n\nAt that point Rahm, who had birdied the fifth, was his closest challenger under leaden skies as the rain that had threatened all week finally arrived and stayed for the day.\n\nHarman responded magnificently with successive birdies on the sixth and seventh holes to reassert his dominance, while world number three Rahm stumbled with a bogey on the ninth.\n\nBut for most of the day, Harman was out of sight. Those behind were jousting for second.\n\nStraka birdied the 16th to get to eight under, the lowest of any of those challenging. Around the same time Harman was dropping a shot on the short 13th, with his only missed putt from inside 10 feet of the week.\n\nHowever, once again the American responded with successive birdies to stamp out any final hope for the chasing pack.\n\nStraka bogeyed the last to post a 69 and join South Korean Kim, who had four birdies and an eagle in a four-under 67, the joint lowest round of the day.\n\nRahm birdied the last to climb into a share of second, alongside Australia's Day who had four birdies and two bogeys in his 69 as he crept up the leaderboard to record his best finish in an Open Championship.\n\nCameron Young, who started the day as Harman's nearest challenger, faded with a 73 and five-under total, while Viktor Hovland also shot a 73 to end three under.\n\n'I can't be too frustrated'\n\nMcIlroy had three successive birdies from the third to get to joint second on six under, but a bogey on the 10th deflated both the Northern Irishman and his thousands of followers, who were huddled under umbrellas as the rain lashed down all afternoon on the Wirral peninsula.\n\n\"It was a solid performance,\" said the world number two who finished as the highest placed UK player in joint sixth with Emiliano Grillo of Argentina. \"I improved on my score every day and felt like I putted better.\n\n\"I got off to a really good start but it's just hard to keep that going - as you can see from the leaderboard no-one was going low.\n\n\"Most times I tee it up, I'm right there. I can't sit here and be too frustrated,\" added the winner of last week's Scottish Open.\n\nMcIlroy closed with a 68 to record a 20th top-10 finish in a major since winning when The Open last visited Royal Liverpool in 2014.\n\nOnly 10 players have won majors with more time elapsed between them than the eight years and 347 days from McIlroy's 2014 US PGA Championship win to this Sunday at Hoylake.\n\nJulius Boros holds the record with 11 years and nine days between his US Open wins in 1952 and 1963.\n\nHome favourite Fleetwood began the week on top of the leaderboard after a five-under 66 in round one.\n\nThe 32-year-old, who is from 30 miles up the Merseyside coast in Southport, followed that with two level-par rounds and was enjoying a bogey-free Sunday until he stepped on to the 17th tee on six under.\n\nThe short par-three hole has been under a great deal of scrutiny this week for its penal run-off areas and bunkers and Fleetwood fell foul of it, flying the green with his tee shot and ending up with a ruinous triple-bogey six.\n\nA birdie at the last was greeted with gusto by those gathered in the stands, but his quest for a first major victory goes on.\n\nLawrie Canter closed with a 68 to finish level with fellow Englishman Alex Fitzpatrick on two under, a shot ahead of Tyrrell Hatton.\n\nMichael Stewart ended as Scotland's highest finisher. He was two off the lead after an opening 68 on Thursday and arrived on Sunday at one under par. But a closing 76 saw him slide down the leaderboard to end four over.\n\nSouth Africa's Christo Lamprecht, who was joint leader on day one, was the only amateur to play all four rounds and he finished 11 over to win the Silver Medal.\n• None Her creators, Ruth and Elliot Handler, reveal it all", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nDay four of the Fifa Women's World Cup features two countries who came close to glory four years ago and will be hoping to lift the trophy in 2023.\n\nNetherlands, beaten 2-0 by the United States in the 2019 final, play in the second match on Sunday in Group E against tournament debutants Portugal.\n\nSweden lost to the Netherlands in the semi-finals four years ago before beating England in the third-fourth play-off and they start Sunday's action with a Group G tie against a South Africa side aiming to win a game at a World Cup for the first time.\n\nThe third match comes in Group F, with Manchester City striker Khadija Shaw and her Jamaica side aiming to pull off a shock win over a France team that is fifth in the world rankings and which reached the quarter-finals four years ago.\n• None Get all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Who's playing when? See the full tournament schedule\n• None History, stats and stadiums - visual guide to the Women's World Cup\n\nSweden reached the semi-finals of the 2019 Women's World Cup and last summer's European Championship, so they will be determined to go at least one better this time.\n\nRanked third in the world, they have featured at every World Cup and have only lost three group games since 2003 - all of those coming against the USA.\n\nArsenal's Stina Blackstenius has scored 28 goals for her country and will look to add to that against South Africa, who face a daunting task on Sunday.\n\nSouth Africa are playing in only their second Women's World Cup after failing to progress beyond the group stage in 2019 but have good tournament pedigree in recent years, winning the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations.\n\nThembi Kgatlana will be key for South Africa. She scored her country's first - and so far only - goal on the World Cup stage when she put Banyana Banyana ahead against Spain in Le Havre in 2019.\n\nRachel Brown-Finnis' prediction: Seven out of the eight quarter-finalists at the 2019 World Cup were European teams and it feels like this tournament could go a similar way.\n\nFive of the top six-ranked teams in the world are from Europe, and Sweden are one of them.\n\nWe know how strong they are, and it's hard to look past them in this game, as well as who will get out of this group. South Africa might struggle to keep them quiet. 3-0.\n\nKey stat: Sweden have never won the World Cup, but lost in the 2003 final and have finished third three times - in 1991, 2011 and 2019.\n\nNetherlands reached the final of the 2019 Women's World Cup - when they were beaten 2-0 by the USA - but they face a tough task to repeat that feat.\n\nAndries Jonker's side will hope to begin their campaign with a win against a Portugal team making their debut on this stage.\n\nHowever they are without Vivianne Miedema - one of the best forwards in the world - because of an anterior cruciate ligament injury.\n\nPortugal caught the eye in the build up to the World Cup by holding European champions England to a draw at the start of July.\n\nThe hope for the neutral is that this game ends up being similar to their meeting in Group C at Euro 2022. On that occasion the Netherlands claimed a narrow win in a five-goal thriller.\n\nRachel Brown-Finnis' prediction: This is tricky. The Netherlands were runners-up in 2019 but their recent form is not very good at all.\n\nPortugal are one of the new kids on the block who are looking to impress and they could make a big statement here with a win.\n\nI don't quite see it happening, though. Portugal have got a lot of attacking flair but they do leave themselves open at times.\n\nI think the Dutch will find a way of picking up a point, and also of getting out of the group with the USA, too. 1-1.\n\nKey stat: None of the Netherlands' 11 games at the Women's World Cup have ended goalless, while Portugal are one of eight teams making their debut this year, alongside Haiti, Republic of Ireland, Morocco, Panama, Philippines, Vietnam and Zambia.\n\nFrance have been their own worst enemy at recent tournaments as they struggled for unity under former boss Corinne Diacre - but there's optimism they could finally end their wait for Women's World Cup success.\n\nNow managed by Herve Renard, who masterminded Saudi Arabia's shock win against eventual champions Argentina at last year's men's World Cup, they are among the favourites to win the tournament in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nCaptain Wendie Renard, no relation to the coach, is taking part in her fourth World Cup and her experience will be vital for the French, while 19-year-old Paris St-Germain midfielder Laurina Fazer is an exciting prospect.\n\n\"Obviously France are one of the top three or four teams in the world, but our preparation has been good and we want to show fight,\" said Jamaica manager Lorne Donaldson.\n\n\"We want to make our country proud and get something out of the game.\"\n\nJamaica have had a disrupted build-up to the World Cup, with their players last month expressing their \"utmost disappointment\" in the \"sub-par\" support from the country's football federation in the lead-in to the tournament.\n\nThey do, however, boast Shaw in their ranks.\n\nThe 26-year-old emerged as one of the best forwards in the Women's Super League for Manchester City last season, scoring 31 goals in 30 matches across all competitions.\n\nRachel Brown-Finnis' prediction: I am expecting Jamaica to blast out of the blocks, and they might give France an early scare here... but then peter out as the game goes on.\n\nI still don't think this France team have got everything in order after a difficult few months off the pitch but they are better than they were at last year's Euros, when they reached the semi-finals, so they will be dangerous. 2-1.\n\nKey stat: France have reached at least the quarter-finals in their last three World Cup appearances, with their best result being a fourth-placed finish in 2011.\n• None The Banksy Story charts the rise of this anonymous household name\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our current fossil fuel usage with hydrogen", "Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo said he would attempt to form a government Image caption: Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo said he would attempt to form a government\n\nIf you are just tuning in, here is the latest from a night of high drama in Spain.\n\nThe conservative Popular Party (PP) has won the most seats (136), but have failed to gain an outright majority in parliament.\n\nThe Socialist Party came second with 122 seats, faring better than most observers had expected, while the left-wing Sumar won 31 seats.\n\nThis is according to 99.7% of the votes that have been counted so far.\n\nThe results look set to lead to a hung parliament and a coalition would be needed to reach an absolute majority.\n\nIt was anticipated that the PP and the far-right Vox party would form a coalition.\n\nBut Sunday's results would no longer lead to a clear majority as the two parties have won a total of 169 seats - seven short of the 176 required to win an absolute majority.\n\nLeft-wing parties may now try to come together to see if they've got the numbers to govern.", "BBC presenter Evan Davis has revealed how he learned on the day of his wedding that his seriously ill father had taken his own life.\n\nSpeaking to the Sunday Times, he said 92-year-old Quintin had left a note saying his \"system is closing down\" and he had \"no alternative\".\n\nDavis's brother had texted to break the news while the Radio 4 host was at his wedding reception in July last year.\n\nThe presenter made an impromptu speech telling the guests his father had died.\n\nHe said the occasion turned into \"a very warm-hearted, supportive, reflective day\" - he did not tell the guests it was suicide until later.\n\nDavis, known for hosting TV's Dragons' Den and BBC Radio 4's PM programme, married Guillaume Baltz in a follow-up event to their civil partnership ceremony in 2012.\n\nQuintin was very supportive of his son's relationship, making a \"proud and loving\" speech on that occasion.\n\nBut his wedding in London only included a small number of guests not invited to the first event, including two dozen friends and neighbours.\n\nDuring the ceremony, Davis said he received a message from his brother Roland telling him to \"call ASAP\".\n\nWhen he told him their father had died, Davis hung up and gave his husband the news. Davis called back five minutes later, and learned Quintin had taken his own life.\n\nBut messages from Roland and his other brother, Beric, encouraged Davis to continue the day.\n\nDavis told his guests: \"We've just had some news. My father died. But I don't want you to be alarmed. He was very elderly and it was definitely time.\n\n\"There's actually nothing we can do. So I'm going to propose that we carry on.\"\n\nIt was at work the next day when his colleagues asked how his wedding was, Davis said he \"burst into tears\".\n\nDavis said Quintin had emailed his three sons the previous year informing them of his intention to kill himself.\n\nBut speaking to Sunday Times journalist Decca Aitkenhead with his family's consent, he said he would never know why his father chose his wedding day to do it.\n\nHe said: \"We've all speculated on what the hell was going on in his head... there's no good day, is there? And I know he didn't do it to spoil our day.\"\n\nHe wrote a note for his wife, Davis's mother Hazel, who was in a care home, telling her how much he loved her, and three identical notes for his sons.\n\nAnother handwritten note read: \"To all my family, I am so sorry - so, so sorry - to spring this on you. But it is the best outcome.\n\n\"My system is closing down and I am on the verge of a mental breakdown - ie, I am going mad and physically falling apart. I really have no alternative. Thank you all for being such a wonderful family.\"\n\nQuintin separately left a note pointing out he had \"at no time been helped in any way in deciding to take my own life\", and that he \"perform(ed) this action because I wish to maintain my autonomy\".\n\nHe left a bag of fresh clothes for his wife, \"so she could be topped up at the care home\", and cash for the gardener's weekly wages.\n\nDavis's father and his mother, originally from South Africa, came to the UK after meeting at university, and had been together for 65 years.\n\nWhen his mother was admitted to a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic after she started to show signs of dementia, Davis said he noticed his dad had also started to deteriorate.\n\nQuintin was diagnosed with bowel cancer, and his heart was failing.\n\nDavis said his dad had \"felt very bad\" that he could not look after his wife.\n\nHe said: \"Having been together for 65 years, suddenly being on his own at home was a big deal... I think he felt guilt at not being able to look after her.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can visit the BBC Action Line for help.", "Three months of rain fell in just 24 hours in some areas\n\nFour people in Canada, including two children, have been reported missing in flooding caused by torrential rains in Nova Scotia, police have said.\n\nOfficials say the heaviest rains to hit the Atlantic region in 50 years have triggered floods that have left thousands of homes without electricity.\n\nThree months of rain fell in just 24 hours in some areas.\n\nResidents have been urged not to join in searches for the missing due to the dangerous conditions.\n\nThe two missing children were in a car that was submerged by flood waters, police reported. The three other people in the car managed to escape.\n\nA man and a young person are also missing after the vehicle they were in was also submerged. Two people were rescued from the vehicle.\n\nRoads have been washed away and bridges have been weakened in Nova Scotia, where a state of emergency has been announced in some areas.\n\n\"We have a scary, significant situation,\" said Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, adding that at least seven bridges would have to be replaced or rebuilt.\n\n\"The property damage to homes ... is pretty unimaginable,\" he told a news conference.\n\nHe estimated that is could take several days for the waters to recede.\n\nMore than 80,000 people were left without power at one point.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was very concerned about the floods and promised that the government \"will be there\" for the province.\n\nEnvironment Canada says torrential rain in the eastern area of the province could continue into Sunday.\n\n\"People should not assume that everything is over. This is a very dynamic situation,\" Halifax Mayor Mike Savage told a press conference.\n\nHe added that the city had been hit by \"biblical proportions of rain\".\n\nThe flooding is the latest extreme weather event to hit northeast Canada - recent wildfires have burnt a record area, sending clouds of smoke south into the US.\n\nThere has also been extreme flooding in the US this month. The body of a two-year-old girl found along a river in Pennsylvania is believed to be one of two missing children swept away by flash floods last weekend. Her nine-month-old brother is still missing.\n\nScientists cannot say for certain that such extreme rainfall is caused by climate change, but the floods are consistent with the changes they expect in a warming world.\n\nThis is because the warmer the earth becomes the more moisture the atmosphere can hold. This results in more droplets and heavier rainfall, sometimes in a shorter space of time and over a smaller area.", "Harry and Megan Tooze were found dead under hay bales in their cowshed in 1993\n\nIt was a double murder that shocked a close-knit rural village and intrigued the nation.\n\nIt has been 30 years since the blood-stained bodies of Harry and Megan Tooze were discovered under hay bales in the cowshed at their isolated cottage in Llanharry, south Wales.\n\nWho shot the couple dead is still a mystery and the case remains one of Wales' most notorious unsolved murders.\n\nRetired fruit-wholesaler Harry and his wife Megan led very ordinary and ordered lives.\n\n\"We were told they kept themselves to themselves, they were creatures of habit, old-fashioned... didn't go out ever, didn't socialise particularly but were perfectly pleasant neighbours,\" said former BBC Wales journalist Penny Roberts who reported on the case at the time.\n\nMonday 26 July 1993 began the same as every other - the couple, who were in their 60s - left their farm cottage in the village of Llanharry in Rhondda Cynon Taf and drove their Land Rover to Tesco in nearby Talbot Green to do their weekly food shop, stopping to collect their pensions on the way home.\n\nJust hours later they were dead.\n\nHarry and Megan were said to be creatures of habit who kept themselves to themselves\n\nThe couple's only child, Cheryl Tooze, rang her parents every day in the early evening.\n\nOn this particular evening she tried calling during the ad break of Coronation Street but got no answer.\n\nShe then rang their neighbour Owen Hopkins.\n\n\"[She] telephoned me a little bit distressed and confused that she couldn't get hold of her parents,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' The Murder Files: Harry and Megan Tooze in 2021.\n\n\"Cheryl and I weren't in regular contact or anything but she had our number in case of problems.\"\n\nOwen offered to go to the farm to check on Cheryl's parents.\n\n\"It was quiet, we went round and knocked the door and the door was locked so we shouted and called for Harry,\" he said.\n\n\"I went to the shed, there was nobody about in the yard, I thought maybe he'd fallen over or something.\"\n\nHe rang Cheryl back and told her her parents were not at home and suggested they call the police.\n\nCheryl told him her partner Jonathan Jones was making the 200-mile (322 km) drive from their home in Orpington, Kent, and would be there shortly. Cheryl remained at home phoning other neighbours and waiting for news.\n\nThe couple were shot dead at the home in Llanharry\n\nHe recalled an officer arriving fairly quickly and carrying out some rudimentary searches of the property, knocking on the cottage's doors and windows and calling the couple's names, but getting no response.\n\nMore officers and a dog handler turned up and Owen was asked to show the dog handler around the fields.\n\nOn returning to the cottage, Owen said he found it open, walked into the hallway and could hear someone upstairs. An officer told him it was Cheryl's boyfriend Jonathan Jones.\n\nHe recalled Jonathan coming downstairs and them saying hello to one another before Jonathan walked into the living room.\n\nThe couple's bodies were eventually found by police in the cowshed in the early hours of the following morning, prompting South Wales Police to launch a major murder investigation.\n\nThe couple had both been shot in the head from behind from a distance of about 3ft (0.9m), covered in carpet and hidden under hay bales.\n\nNeither Harry nor Megan were killed in the cowshed. The bodies were moved there, likely carried.\n\nPenny Roberts was the first reporter on the scene.\n\n\"We drove right up… and I could see blood on the hay bales, I could see it very clearly,\" she told The Murder Files programme.\n\nPolice discovered the couple's bodies after their daughter Cheryl became concerned about their whereabouts\n\nSteve Wilkins, a detective for 30 years, visited the couple's property while making the programme.\n\n\"The chances of somebody just passing and selecting it as a potential location to attack appear to be quite remote,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the first things you'd be asking yourself as an officer leading the case would be 'what makes Harry and Megan Tooze potential victims? What is the motive for attacking them'?\"\n\nPenny recalled the police putting a lot of effort into reassuring the public\n\nFormer BBC Wales Journalist Penny Roberts was the first reporter on the scene back in 1993\n\n\"It appeared at that point to be random, totally random and I think people were afraid of that,\" she said.\n\n\"But actually when you look at it, when you looked at the victimology and what police found and told us what they found in the farm house it became pretty clear that Harry and Megan either knew their killer or it was someone they were expecting.\"\n\nSteve said: \"If this had been a random killing I would have expected to assist in establishing a clear motive - robbery, sexual element or signs of a violent struggle but none of these were present.\n\n\"What you get in actual fact is a couple of things that would lead investigators to think this is somebody Harry and Megan Tooze knew.\"\n\nSo what did police have to go on back in 1993?\n\nA neighbour told police they had heard two gunshots at about 13:30 that Monday but had assumed Harry was out shooting rabbits - this gave police a likely time of death.\n\nThen there were items in the house that suggested the couple had been expecting a visitor.\n\n\"Firstly, there's a teacup and saucer in the living room, there's some debate as to whether this is their finest tea set but everyone seems to agree that it wasn't your everyday tea set,\" said Steve.\n\n\"Secondly, there was a shirt laid out for Harry in the bedroom upstairs, the sort of thing you might put on if you were expecting company.\n\n\"So South Wales Police's attention turned to people who knew Harry and Megan, people who might stand to benefit from their deaths.\"\n\nTwo days after her parents were killed, Cheryl Tooze made an appeal to the public with her partner Jonathan sitting alongside her.\n\n\"If there's anyone out there who knows anything in connection with the brutal murder of both my parents please contact the police, please help find the person who has destroyed my life, my mum and dad were my life,\" a visibly upset Cheryl told a room full of journalists.\n\n\"They may as well have killed me too for all my life is worth now.\"\n\nCheryl made an appeal for information following the murders\n\n\"Cheryl and Jonathan, and particularly Cheryl, didn't behave as a bereaved, traumatised daughter - and that doesn't mean she wasn't,\" said Penny.\n\n\"I've spoken to her a lot since and she was clearly going through hell.\"\n\nA couple of years later, Cheryl gave an interview to the BBC where she tried to explain her behaviour at the time.\n\n\"It was all so unreal and I think somewhere, at some stage, I'm not quite sure when it happened, but it was almost as if I split into two,\" she said.\n\n\"I just watched myself, I became another person watching myself and thinking 'what should that person do now?'\n\n\"I know my parents didn't deserve to be killed and I can't cope with the fact that they might have gone through some awful torturing process, you know mental torture, possibly physical torture, I can't cope with that so I have to find my own means of coping, my own way of surviving.\"\n\nSteve said in cases without a clear motive police inevitably look to family members.\n\n\"Police look to family members in these cases because without a clear motive the question must be asked 'who will benefit from their death'?\"\n\nCheryl Tooze was at work the day her parents were killed and her alibi has been corroborated.\n\n\"But Jonathan's alibi appeared to be a lot more flimsy and, as time went on, suspicion turned towards him,\" said Steve.\n\nHe told police on the day the Tooze's were killed he took the day off work and went into Orpington to look for office space to rent - but police could not find anybody who had seen him that day.\n\nHis partial thumbprint was also found on the cup and saucer that had been found in the couple's living room.\n\nHe was arrested in December - five months after the murders.\n\nJonathan Jones was found guilty of Harry and Megan's murders and sentenced to life in prison before being released on appeal\n\nIn early 1995 he stood trial at Newport Crown Court and that April he was found guilty of Harry and Megan's murders and sentenced to life in prison.\n\n\"The papers said that that he committed the crime for £150,000 inheritance but the prosecution in the court openly admitted that no motive was ever established,\" said Steve.\n\n\"This was a case built on circumstantial evidence.\"\n\nCheryl stood by her boyfriend, moving in with his family in Caerphilly after his arrest.\n\nA year after his conviction Jonathan Jones was released on appeal - three appeal court judges took just five minutes to reach their decision.\n\nThe original trial judge was criticised and it emerged police had failed to seal the crime scene properly.\n\nCheryl and Jonathan kissed outside court after his conviction was quashed\n\nAfter walking out of court a free man, Jonathan and Cheryl kissed in front of the waiting media and Cheryl told them: \"Obviously I'm delighted. I've been confident from day one, I've never had any doubts and I was confident that the appeal would be successful.\"\n\nThe thumbprint was the only evidence that placed Jonathan at the farm cottage. Could Jonathan have inadvertently touched the teacup after arriving at the couple's house to search for them?\n\n\"The fingerprint did not lead to any conclusive conclusion that he was given a cup of tea, I hasten to add that the cup was not examined for DNA. Somebody had it, somebody drank from it,\" said Steve.\n\nThe programme asked South Wales Police why the cup had not been analysed for DNA and the force said the case has never closed and is still under active consideration.\n\nThere have been reviews of the case over the years but none have led police to the answers they were hoping for.\n\nThese days the cowshed where the couple were found dead has been converted into a sitting room by the new owner of the house.\n\nThe case remains one of Wales' most notorious unsolved murders\n\nThings have also changed in Llanharry.\n\n\"There was a fear because we didn't know who or how many murderers there were out there, it could have been one, it could have been two, it could have been more,\" said Owen.\n\n\"Fear has subsided but like most people we would like to see justice for Harry and Meg.\"\n\nHave too many years now passed for this case to be solved?\n\n\"I remain a firm believer that justice can be done in this case and many more like it,\" he said.\n\n\"I've seen it before, the truth is out there somewhere and can be found by those with a will to find it.\"", "Temperatures in the final stages of the campaign have hit 40C and millions of voters will be on holiday\n\nSpain is holding a highly unusual election on Sunday at the height of a scorching summer, after four years of left-wing rule.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the vote in response to a dismal performance at the May local elections in which his Socialist party came second to main rival, the conservative Popular Party.\n\nNo general election in Spanish history has ever been held so late into the summer, with temperatures topping 40C in this country of 48 million people. The timing of the vote has been criticised when so many in Spain are on holiday, but 2.6 million voters have chosen to cast their ballot by post.\n\nThe Popular Party (PP) under Alberto Núñez Feijóo have their eye on victory but may struggle to form a government on their own.\n\nTo win a majority they need to secure more than half the 350 seats in the lower house of parliament. Spaniards will also vote for their upper house.\n\nThe conservatives may need the support of far-right party Vox, while Mr Sánchez will be able to look to left-wing grouping Sumar.\n\nLGBT and gender issues have become prominent campaign issues in the run-up to this election. Opposition parties PP and Vox have staunchly criticised the left-wing government's new laws on transgender rights - including making it easier for people to change their legal gender - and abortion.\n\nThey have also attacked Spain's controversial \"Only Yes Means Yes\" law on sexual consent. It was passed only last August but created a loophole that cut jail time for over 1,000 convicted rapists - and Mr Sánchez ended up having to apologise and push through changes.\n\nThe very existence of gender violence has been questioned by some Vox party officials, causing tensions with their potential conservative partners.\n\nNationalism has been a hot issue too. The PP and Vox have labelled Mr Sánchez a \"traitor\" for pardoning jailed pro-independence leaders and downgrading the crime of secession.\n\nOne highly effective right-wing tactic has involved targeting the prime minister with a slogan for relying on separatists to pass key reforms.\n\nHe has been denounced for his pact with Basque separatist party Bildu, led by Arnaldo Otegi, who was jailed for crimes by the Eta militant group.\n\nThe slogan \"Let Txapote vote for you\" accuses Pedro Sánchez of relying on the support of separatist killers\n\nThe slogan Que te vote Txapote, meaning \"Let Txapote vote for you\", refers to another Eta militant who carried out a number of deadly terror attacks.\n\nAs Spain experiences worsening droughts and heatwaves, most parties have measures to fight climate change. Only Vox's electoral programme fails to mention the issue entirely.\n\nThe biggest issue for most voters is the economy, even if much of the campaign has focused on other issues. Spain is enjoying a period of growth and inflation slowed to below 2% in June, one of the lowest levels in Europe.\n\nBut dismal jobless figures are one of the opposition's most frequent lines of attack against the current government. In May, Spain had the highest unemployment rate (12.7%) of all EU countries.\n\nPrime Minister Pedro Sánchez (L) called the snap election but Alberto Núñez Feijóo is favourite to win\n\nHe became the first politician in Spain to snatch power from a sitting prime minister through a no-confidence motion in 2018. Then he narrowly won a confidence vote in January 2020 to form Spain's first coalition government since democracy was restored in the late 1970s.\n\nPedro Sánchez, 51, is seen as a passionately pro-European integrationist and speaks English fluently; he has lectured in economics in Spain and had a spell working for the UN high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nHis brand of governing has been labelled Sanchismo, and his opponents have styled the election as a choice between Sanchismo or Spain, suggesting he is a threat to the country, its traditions and values.\n\nHe has spearheaded a law to bring dignity to victims of dictator Gen Francisco Franco, backed a rule giving workers the right to menstrual leave and laws expanding abortion rights.\n\nBut this snap election could be a gamble too far, as his party trails his conservative rivals. He has accused the PP of seeking to put Spain in a \"sinister time machine\" with the support of far-right Vox and take the country back to \"who knows where\".\n\nMr Feijóo has been less than enthusiastic about the prospect of a coalition with the far right\n\nThe Popular Party leader has knowingly cultivated a low-key image, saying recently that \"what for some may be boring, I think for the majority of citizens are qualities that a prime minister should have\".\n\nHe was seen to have won the only head-to-head TV election debate with Mr Sánchez, telling him he had no right to give lectures on governing pacts because the Socialist leader had relied on separatists.\n\nBut Mr Feijóo was later criticised for skipping the final televised debate before the election, which was attended by both his opponents, Mr Sánchez and Ms Díaz, and his potential coalition partner, Santiago Abascal.\n\nA former civil servant born in Galicia in Spain's north-west, he has led the conservatives since 2022.\n\nHe has gained a reputation as a safe pair of hands, serving as president of the former national health service and of the postal service.\n\nHowever, his rivals have highlighted 10-year-old rumours that he had a close friendship with a Galician drug trafficker and money launderer called Marcial Dorado.\n\nPhotographs of the two on holiday together on a yacht in 1995 were unearthed by Spanish daily El País in 2013.\n\nMr Feijóo says he was unaware Dorado was a criminal when the two became friends because \"back then we had no internet or Google\". Mr Sánchez has accused Mr Feijóo of lying, but the PP leader has hit back accusing him of using \"rubbish\" to seek to discredit him.\n\nSantiago Abascal's party takes a hard line on gay marriage, adoption by gay couples, abortion, euthanasia and transgender rights\n\nHe has led the far-right Vox party he helped found in 2014, and he is known for his controversial declarations. He has said he does not believe in climate change and he has criticised the \"totalitarian law of gender ideology\", which he claims criminalises men.\n\nLast month, he used the riots in France to call for tougher immigration policies. \"Europe is threatened by mobs of anti-Europeans… who are unwilling to adapt to our way of life and our laws,\" he said. \"Europe cannot continue to accept immigrants from Muslim countries.\"\n\nVox has already reached coalition deals with the conservatives in dozens of cities and three autonomous regions - Extremadura in the west, Valencia in the east and Castille and León, north of Madrid. In the Balearic Islands, Vox have reached a pact with the PP but have no positions in government.\n\nNow Mr Abascal is looking for a share of national power too.\n\nHe has cultivated strong ties with other European far-right and nationalist groups, from Hungary's ruling Fidesz and France's National Rally to the Brothers of Italy party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.\n\nMs Meloni has given Vox's election campaign her backing, recording a video to reaffirm the parties' \"great friendship\".\n\nYolanda Díaz has gained popularity in Spain for her headline-grabbing policies\n\nIf Vox are the potential kingmaker for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, then for the Socialists it would be Yolanda Díaz's Sumar (Unite) alliance of 15 left-wing groups.\n\nA former Communist, she has been Spain's second deputy prime minister as well as labour minister and she is keen to be Spain's first female leader too: \"because women's time has come, and women want to be the ones who make history\".\n\nSumar have made a big pitch for the youth vote, pledging €20,000 (£17,139) of funding to help 18-23 year-olds to kick-start their lives.\n\nMs Díaz is a popular politician who has helped increase the Spanish minimum wage to €1,259 and scrapped unpopular labour laws.\n\nSparks flew between Ms Diaz and Mr Abascal in the last televised debate before the election as the two clashed over issues of gender violence, while she and Mr Sánchez appeared to form a united front.\n\nWhile opinion polls have narrowed, the conservatives and Mr Feijóo are favourites to win. But they may need to form a coalition with Vox to form a majority and avoid repeat elections.\n\nThe last opinion polls published in Spain put the PP on 33%-36% of the vote and the Socialists on under 29%. Vox and Sumar are almost neck and neck on 12.5-13.5%.\n\nTo win an absolute majority a party needs 176 seats, so no party would win outright with these results.\n\nVox has made great strides in securing power-sharing deals with the conservatives in three autonomous regions, and lesser alliances have been reached in Murcia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands,\n\nBut Mr Feijóo is less than enthusiastic at the prospect of governing with the far right.\n\nThe PP leader has seemed rattled by his rival's accusations of a \"shameful\" pact with Vox.\n\nIn their TV debate Mr Feijóo said Vox's Mr Abascal would not be a member of a prospective PP government \"if I don't need the votes\". He even offered the Socialists' Mr Sánchez a pact for the losing party to support the winner so that neither would need to rely on either the hard right or left.\n\nBut Vox could be the only option. Last month Maria Guardiola, the PP president of the western Extremadura region, said she would never govern with a party that \"dehumanises immigrants\" and that \"rubbishes\" LGBT rights.\n\nShe later changed her mind and welcomed Vox into her government, stating that \"my word is not as important as the future of Extremadura\".\n\nAs well as taking a hard line on gay marriage, adoption by gay couples, abortion, euthanasia and transgender rights, another big issue that has driven support for Vox is its unequivocal stance on opposing Catalan nationalism.\n\nIt has also taken a dim view over the status of Gibraltar, a British overseas territory at the southern end of the Iberian peninsula.\n\nLast year Vox objected to reports of talks between the UK and Spain by warning that \"any agreement that does not go through the recognition of the Spanish sovereignty of Gibraltar is an act of treason against Spain\".", "The new medal honours \"unsung heroes\" of disasters, such as the Nepal earthquake in 2015\n\nA new British medal is being launched to honour people who have responded to major disasters and emergencies, such as earthquakes and floods.\n\nApproved by King Charles, the Humanitarian Medal will recognise the efforts of emergency workers and relief teams, including charities, service personnel and health workers.\n\nIt will honour the \"unsung heroes\" in emergencies both abroad and in the UK.\n\nThis could be natural disasters, but also war zones and epidemics.\n\nAlongside military and civilian honours, the new Humanitarian Medal will recognise those working in the most serious of disasters, including tsunamis, hurricanes and major industrial accidents.\n\nThe Humanitarian Medal will recognise those responding to disasters and emergencies\n\nThe medal could also be for a sustained response to a health crisis, such as the efforts to tackle Ebola in West Africa.\n\nEligibility for the Humanitarian Medal will be for those providing assistance on behalf of the UK government, but it will not be restricted to British nationals, says the Cabinet Office.\n\nThe medal, with an image of the King on one side and the words \"for humanitarian service\" on the other, will become immediately available, or at least as soon as support is sent to a disaster or catastrophe, whether in the UK or overseas.\n\nEarlier this year King Charles went to meet grieving families in London who had lost relatives in the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey.\n\nA Syrian man who had lost his mother, father and other family members told the King of the urgent need for more international rescue teams to reach those trapped below rubble.\n\nBut the government has faced criticism from aid agencies over its longer-term humanitarian efforts, with its reduction in spending on overseas aid.\n\nMPs on the International Development Committee and development agencies have also highlighted that billions from the overseas aid budget is now being spent within the UK, such as for hotel costs for refugees, rather than helping countries overseas.\n\nIn February King Charles heard from Syrians who had lost family in an earthquake\n\nInternational Development Minister Andrew Mitchell said the humanitarian medal would recognise those who \"show such courage and serve as inspiration in a range of desperate situations\".\n\n\"Our work around the world depends on these extraordinary people, and this award honours their outstanding contribution in responding to a major crisis,\" he said.", "Spain's hard-right Vox, led by Santiago Abascal, could likely form part of the next government\n\nSpain's election on Sunday is provoking political tremors even before polls open.\n\nThe most likely government to emerge - most analysts predict - will be a coalition including a hard-right nationalist party for the first time in Spain since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.\n\nMore left-leaning Spaniards are frantically texting contacts, urging them to make sure to vote - despite the heat and it being holiday time for many - to \"stop the fascists\" in their tracks.\n\nThe political right, meanwhile, has said voters have a choice: Sanchez (the current centre-left prime minister and his coalition including the far-left) or Spain. Implying that under another Sanchez government, the country will crumble.\n\nThe rhetoric this election season has been toxic, with voters becoming increasingly polarised.\n\nIt's a fight over values, traditions and about what being Spanish should mean in 2023.\n\nThis kind of heated identity debate isn't peculiar to Spain. Think of Italy, France, Brazil or the post-Trumpian debate in the US.\n\nBut Spain was already divided. It has been since the civil war in the 1930s and the following four decades of dictatorship under General Franco. To this day, there's never been an open debate here about victims and aggressors. Old wounds still fester.\n\n\"The hard-right, centre-right coalition represents a return to the past, to neo-Francoism,\" Ximo Puig, the former centre-left President of Valencia region told me at an end of campaign rally for Prime Minister Sanchez's centre-left PSOE party on Friday night.\n\n\"Liberal values like gay marriage - Spain was one of the first European countries to legalise it - or the freedom for people to decide their gender - all of that is endangered.\"\n\nMr Puig lost his job this week after a new Valencia government of the centre right PP, and hard-right Vox party were sworn in, following recent regional elections. Many in Spain believe Valencia is a weathervane for the wider country.\n\nXimo Puig, the former centre-left President of Valencia, seen here on the centre-left\n\nThe vice-president of Valencia is now a retired bullfighter from Vox, Vicente Barrera. He's also an apologist for the Franco regime.\n\nTo celebrate summer in Spain's third largest city, there have been bullfights every night in Valencia's packed arena. Women throw flowers and fans in appreciation at the colourfully dressed bullfighters below, as they tease and taunt their horned opponent and a brass band plays to the crowd's cries of \"Ole!\"\n\nVox was busy electioneering just outside the arena, playing a recording on loudspeaker loop of party leader Santiago Abascal promising to \"make Spain great again\".\n\nMost Vox activists refused to speak to us. But pensioner Paco was keen to share his thoughts:\n\n\"Vox defends family values and other traditions, including bullfighting,\" he told me. \"The left call us anti-democratic but they're the ones who don't respect democracy. They want us not to exist.\"\n\n\"I can't even walk into a lefty neighbourhood of Valencia wearing a shirt with a Spanish flag on it,\" 22-year-old Eloy added. \"If I do, people shout 'Facha! Fascist!' at me. It's not nice.\"\n\nDivisions here are so febrile, they're almost tribal.\n\nMany voters identify themselves by the pulsera, the ribbon they wear round their wrist. Yellow and red coloured ones, representing the flag of Spain are a sign of belonging to the right. Rainbow colours stand for LGBTQ+ rights and are also a symbol for the left.\n\nAll part of what many Spanish commentators describe as the current ''footballisation\" of politics here.\n\nBut that risks trivialising how deeply many Spaniards feel about their preferred value set, or how threatened they believe those values are by the other side.\n\nVox are vowing to \"make Spain great again\"\n\nI met Nieves feeling disenfranchised at Valencia's vibrant central market, where she now works. She says Spain may be doing better economically under Pedro Sanchez but the country's poorest weren't benefitting.\n\n\"This isn't now about choosing the extreme right. It's about extreme necessity. Salaries of hard-working people don't allow you to pay your bills. I was paid €4 an hour for years when I worked as a cleaner. I'm saying all this as a worker, a mother and as a housewife. Let's see what happens after Sunday's vote.\"\n\nNieves' sentiments are clear, but the percentage of Spaniards now saying they can live within their means has risen during Pedro Sanchez' time in government.\n\nEmployment figures have gone up. Spain has one of the lower inflation rates in Europe. Mr Sanchez got the EU to allow Spaniards to pay less for gas used to make electricity. He has raised Spain's profile internationally with strong support for Ukraine in its fightback against Russia.\n\nSo how come the anti-Sanchez attacks by the right fall on such fertile ground?\n\nA question I put to his science and innovation minister Diana Morant, formally a local mayor in Valencia region.\n\n\"We see the resurgence of the far-right across Europe,\" she told me. \"The right we have in Spain is not a moderate right. It uses the arguments of hate and tries to dehumanise our leader, the prime minister. While we were busy governing, they were spreading lies. But the people of Spain know what we stand for. Lies cannot win over truth.\"\n\nAt EU HQ in Brussels, there are huge concerns about a resurgence of hard-right nationalist parties across Europe.\n\nEsteban Gonzalez Pons is a key player for the centre-right PP\n\nEsteban Gonzalez Pons is from Valencia. He's a bigwig for the centre-right PP nationwide and in the European Parliament. I asked him if he was concerned it could damage his party's and Spain's reputation to jump into a coalition with Vox.\n\n\"I can tell you, Brussels isn't at all worried if my party ends up in a governing arrangement with Vox. There are all sorts of right-wing governments in the EU now. Look at Italy, Sweden, Finland and Austria.\"\n\n\"Actually,\" he added, \"The UK government is more right wing than Vox. So, thank you BBC for that question but what Brussels really wants is not to have any more communists in the government in Spain.\"\n\nThis election is a story of two Spains.\n\nThe face this country wakes up with after Sunday's election will be radically different depending on who wins. Each side claims the other threatens Spaniards' identity and future.\n\nBut I can't help wondering, considering the record temperatures and drought here - why the parties, and Spanish voters - haven't concentrated more in the leadup to Sunday's election on a very real existential crisis for Spain: climate change.", "Becky Hiton says her anxiety is \"sky high\" and that she will have to leave childminding once the government's funded hours are extended\n\nA drastic decline in childminders could lead to a shortage of places, early years providers are warning.\n\nThere were 9,800 fewer childcare workers in 2022 than in 2019, with childminders down by a fifth.\n\nSome have told the BBC they are being forced to leave because of a lack of pay and appreciation.\n\nChildcare places in England fell by 2% this year, but the government says the population of pre-school children is also decreasing.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-olds are currently eligible for 30 hours of government-funded childcare during term time. By September 2025 this will be extended to children from nine months old.\n\nBut the sector is facing severe workforce challenges.\n\nBecky Hiton, a former teaching assistant and single mum from the Wirral, has been childminding for 10 years. She only takes on children who do not have access to government-funded hours, because she says the amount paid is too low.\n\nOnce the government is paying for all pre-school children of working parents to have 30 hours, she says she will have to leave the profession: \"I'm all for helping parents, but the payments they are offering are nowhere near what I charge now, so I wouldn't make ends meet.\n\n\"My families are happy with everything I offer so it would be a shame to throw it all away, but I need to keep my household running.\"\n\nIn just one year, between March 2022 and 2023, registered childminders in England fell by 3,500 (11%) - meaning a loss of more than 20,000 childcare places, data from Ofsted shows.\n\nHelen Donohoe, chief executive at the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years, says the numbers \"are absolutely falling off a cliff\" and that in a decade there will be less than a thousand left, leaving parents with \"a lack of choice\". She says almost half of people who work in the sector are on in-work benefits.\n\nAt a weekly gathering of the Wirral Childminding Association, which was set up for rural childminders to help and support each other, some are questioning their future.\n\nAll of the childminders in Nikki Griffiths' local group are full and are being inundated with inquiries\n\nNikki Griffiths, who runs the group, says childminders are like \"micro-nurseries\" who have to follow an early years curriculum and do training in their own time, but they are sometimes not seen as professionals.\n\nShe says her local authority pays £4 an hour for three and four-year-olds, so with three children under the age of five, she earns £12 an hour before she has paid for anything else, including training, insurance, utilities and food. \"We feel so undervalued.\"\n\nFrom September, the rate the government will pay on average will increase to £5.62 per hour for three and four-year-olds and £7.95 for two-year-olds. But early-years charities says the cost of providing these places is much higher.\n\nAs well as childminders, the number of staff working for school-based nurseries and for nurseries run by voluntary organisations is falling. Private nurseries were the only type of childcare provider to be employing more staff in 2022 than they were in 2019.\n\nThe most recent figures show there are 334,000 early-years workers, down 10,000 on the peak seen in 2019.\n\nThe government says it is launching a national campaign to support the recruitment and retention of staff.\n\nTo help combat childminders leaving, it is also offering payments of £600 for those who sign up, and £1,200 for those who join through an agency.\n\nProposals to help providers recruit and retain staff include getting rid of the need for a maths qualification, and changing ratios.\n\nBut Neil Leitch, from the Early Years Alliance, says the plans \"are unlikely to be enough to boost workforce numbers\" and \"risks a de-professionalisation of the workforce\".\n\nThe National Day Nurseries Association says one way of plugging the gap could be allowing the sector to recruit from abroad.\n\nStaff at the Jubilee Wood nursery are offered a 75% discount on childcare fees so they can afford to work\n\nZoe Raven, founder of Acorn Early Years Foundation, which is a social enterprise, would love to expand and open new nurseries but the workforce issue is stopping her.\n\n\"I can't come up with a whole new staff team\", she says.\n\nOne of her nurseries in Milton Keynes, Jubilee Wood, currently makes a loss, as most of the children rely on government-funded hours. It is subsidised by nurseries in more affluent areas, which charge higher fees.\n\nZoe worries that when the government's expansion is fully in place, \"there will be an awful lot of women who won't be able to get back to work after they have taken maternity leave\".\n\nMPs from the education committee are expected to release their report into the childcare sector later this week.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) says it is rolling out \"the single biggest investment in childcare in England ever, set to save a working parent using 30 hours of childcare up to an average of £6,500 per year\".\n\nThe DfE official adds: \"To make sure there are enough places across the country, we will be investing hundreds of millions of pounds each year to increase the amounts we pay providers - and will be consulting on how we distribute funding to make sure it is fair.\"\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "In Athens, Hellenic Red Cross workers have been distributing water bottles to keep people hydrated\n\nGreece is bracing for more intense heat this weekend, with meteorologists warning that temperatures could climb as high as 45C (113F).\n\nPeople have been advised to stay home, and tourist sites - including Athens' ancient Acropolis - will be shut during the hottest parts of the next two days.\n\nIt could turn into Greece's hottest July weekend in 50 years, one of the country's top meteorologists says.\n\nMeanwhile, firefighters are continuing to battle dozens of wildfires.\n\nEmergencies and civil protection officials are warning of a very high risk of new blazes across the country.\n\nWestern Attica - just west of Athens - is among the worst-hit areas, along with Laconia in the southern Peloponnese and the island of Rhodes.\n\nGreece's EU partners have provided help, including firefighting planes from France and Italy and more than 200 firefighters from Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. Neighbouring Turkey is also sending some aircraft to help.\n\nGreece - like a number of other European countries - saw a prolonged spell of extreme heat earlier this month.\n\nThe latest heatwave comes at one of the busiest times for the country's tourism industry.\n\nIn its latest bulletin, the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) warns that central and eastern regions of Greece are likely to see temperatures reaching 44C on Saturday.\n\nAnd it forecasts an even hotter Sunday, with 45C possible in central Greece.\n\n\"This weekend risks being the hottest registered in July in the past 50 years,\" said Panagiotis Giannopoulos, a meteorologist with state broadcaster ERT, quoted by AFP news agency.\n\n\"Athens is going to have temperatures above 40C for six to seven days, through to the end of July,\" he added.\n\nAfter a slight drop on Monday a new heat surge is expected on Tuesday.\n\nOfficials fear this could be the worst heatwave since the summer of 1987, when hundreds of deaths were linked to the extreme weather.\n\nAcross Greece, a number of people have already lost their homes to wildfires. In one region, several villages have been consumed by the blazes.\n\nOne man told the BBC he did not even have a bed to sleep on anymore, and was now living in a hotel.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to carbon emissions.\n\nSpain and Italy are among the Mediterranean countries which have also experienced intense heat this week, while parts of the US are also seeing records broken.\n\nOn Friday, Greek firefighters were tackling nearly 80 wildfires across the country", "Labour's leadership says it has agreed an ambitious programme for government without a need for new spending commitments.\n\nLabour's Policy Forum in Nottingham brought together representatives of the shadow cabinet, rank and file party and Labour-supporting trade unions.\n\nIt is part of the process of drawing up a manifesto for government, although not the final word.\n\nSome unions had been pressing for more generous pledges.\n\nOften in such meetings, compromises are reached behind closed doors.\n\nBut Labour leadership sources say they stood firm over the three days of talks in opposing any policy proposals that would have led to new spending commitments.\n\nThe sources insist they had been determined not to give unnecessary ammunition to their political opponents.\n\nA spokesman said: \"This weekend is proof that Keir Starmer has changed the Labour Party, and is ready to change the country in government built on the rock of economic responsibility.\"\n\nOne union, USDAW, which saw its hopes of changes to the benefits system dashed, nonetheless described the policy discussions as constructive.\n\nThe GMB union said that \"after several days of negotiations\", it had secured an \"historic commitment\" to strengthening equal pay rights.\n\nThe party's largest union funder, Unite, was far less pleased.\n\nIn a statement, the union accused the Labour leadership of watering down existing commitments' to workers' rights and ending zero-hours contracts.\n\nIt said: \"As the general election draws nearer Keir Starmer has to prove Labour will deliver for workers and we need clear policies on this.\"\n\nIt described the policy-making process as \"chaotic.\"\n\nThe left-wing group Momentum criticised what it called Sir Keir Starmer's \"fiscal conservatism\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"This has put paid to any hope of the bold, transformative policies we need.\"\n\nHe argued that a higher minimum wage, and free school meals, would have been popular policies but had been rejected.\n\nFurther discussions will take place with the unions before a final election manifesto is agreed.\n\nBut the party leadership has been focussed on emphasising one message above all for the wider electorate - that it would not promise what it does not think it can deliver in government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An RNLI lifeboat crew attended this incident where a sailor onboard suffered a head injury\n\nScores of yachts have retired from the world's largest offshore race due to strong winds and rain.\n\nCompetitors in the 50th Rolex Fastnet Race set off from Cowes on the Isle of Wight on Saturday, heading for Cherbourg via the Fastnet Rock off Ireland.\n\nThis year's event set a new record of 430 yachts, beating the 388 that took part in the 2019 race.\n\nBut organisers said about 86 yachts had retired after a \"brutal\" first night.\n\nOrganisers said about 86 yachts had retired after a \"brutal\" first night in the Fastnet Race\n\nThey described \"numerous retirements and many others seeking temporary shelter from the gale force conditions in the English Channel\".\n\nOne yacht sank - the Sun Fast 3600 Vari - though its crew are said to be safe and well.\n\nHM Coastguard said it was involved in multiple incidents, some involving injured crew.\n\nPoole Lifeboat Station said it had attended yachts encountering problems in \"lively\" conditions\n\nRace director Steve Cole said: \"The strong winds last night were forecast well in advance.\n\n\"The club would like to thank HM Coastguard and the RNLI for their assistance.\n\n\"It is thanks to their effort and skill that the incidents were dealt with professionally and those who required assistance were recovered safely.\n\n\"Now the front has passed the wind and sea state have dropped, and conditions are even set to be light over the next 24 hours.\"\n\nCompetitors in the 50th Rolex Fastnet Race set off from Cowes on the Isle of Wight on Saturday\n\nPoole Lifeboat Station said it had attended yachts encountering problems on Saturday evening in \"lively\" conditions during \"relentless heavy rain\".\n\nVolunteer helm Jonathan Clark said: \"With the challenging conditions out there tonight, RNLI lifeboats from Yarmouth, Swanage and Weymouth are being kept very busy, helping to keep people safe and there are a lot of vessels in Poole tonight seeking safe haven.\"\n\nThe 600-mile challenge has been organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club since 1925.\n\nBoats of all shapes, sizes and age take part in the historic race, which attracts both amateurs and professionals.\n\nThe 600-mile race has been organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club since 1925.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the Greek island of Rhodes after wildfires engulfed large parts of the island.\n\nGreece's fire service told the BBC it apologises for what it called \"a mess\" on the island, warning that the situation could worsen due to weather.\n\nMore than 3,500 people have been evacuated by land and sea to safety.\n\nA further 1,200 will be evacuated from three villages - Pefki, Lindos and Kalathos.\n\nNo injuries have been reported, according to the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection in Greece.\n\nIt said visitors are being evacuated safely from the affected areas of Rhodes - which represent less than 10% of the island's tourist accommodation - and are being redirected to other hotels on the island.\n\nLt Col Yannis Artopoios, spokesperson of the Hellenic Fire Corps, described the fires as the most difficult the service has faced.\n\nThe island has been battling wildfires fanned by strong winds since Tuesday, as Europe deals with a challenging heatwave.\n\nFive helicopters and 173 firefighters were operating in the area, with three hotels in the Kiotari area reported to have been damaged by fire. The areas of Laerma, Lardos and Asklipio were also affected.\n\nPrivate boats joined the Greek coastguard in helping to pick up people from beaches on the east of the island. Greek navy vessels were also reported to be heading to the area, which is popular with tourists.\n\nDeputy fire chief Ioannis Artophios said a ferry is available to accommodate people. Others are being housed at an indoor stadium on the island, according to the island's deputy mayor.\n\nMr Artophios added that firefighters often struggle on Rhodes because of how green it is, which is what makes it an attractive tourist destination.\n\nGreek television showed long queues of tourists with suitcases being taken to safety, with smoke in the background.\n\nAndrea Layfield from Cheshire told the BBC she had been on a boat trip \"but it was getting really scary\".\n\n\"We were asking to go back so they got us and then said they couldn't go any further so we would have to wait on the beach for a while,\" she said.\n\n\"As we waited the fire was coming down the beach but the beach was a dead end,\" she said, adding that hundreds of people were running.\n\nA boat then arrived, taking only women and children, she said. \"I scrambled under somebody's legs and got on.\"\n\n\"We have just literally escaped from a 5 star luxury resort by boat amid severe conditions. We had to follow our instincts rather than directions,\" he told the BBC. \"Poor visibility, smoke inhalation, no real directions.\"\n\nOne moment he said he was on a sun lounger with his family, \"the next ash is falling and smoke rapidly progressing because the winds suddenly got significantly stronger\".\n\nHe is now flying home despite the family's luggage still being in the hotel.\n\nTravel company TUI said a small number of its hotels had been affected and it was relocating customers to alternative accommodation as a precaution.\n\nJet2 also said it was aware of the situation in Rhodes and was asking customers to follow local guidance.\n\nBut Lee Ruane from Northern Ireland, who is in Rhodes on his honeymoon with wife Rosaleen, told BBC News NI they felt stranded by Jet2 and had been given \"no further information\".\n\n\"We were evacuated from the hotel today about two o'clock, and we've had no communication whatsoever from Jet2, from our hotel, nothing,\" he said.\n\nRhodes deputy mayor Konstantinos Taraslias said a change of winds on Saturday morning helped the fire grow bigger and reach tourist areas.\n\nSince breaking out in a mountainous area on Tuesday, the fire has scorched swathes of forest.\n\nFirefighters from Slovakia arrived on Rhodes on Saturday to help local teams battling the fires.\n\n\"The situation in Rhodes is serious and extremely difficult. Due to the strong wind and quickly changing direction of the fire, firefighters had to withdraw and move,\" Slovak Fire and Rescue Services posted on Facebook.\n\nGreece is facing further intense heat this weekend, with meteorologists warning that temperatures could climb to as high as 45C (113F).\n\nIt could turn into Greece's hottest July weekend in 50 years, one of the country's top meteorologists has said.\n\nFirefighters are continuing to battle dozens of wildfires across the country. An area west of Athens is among the worst-hit areas, along with Laconia in the southern Peloponnese and the island of Rhodes.\n\nAnd authorities are warning of a very high risk of new blazes as the heat continues to rise.\n\nPeople have been advised to stay home, and tourist sites - including Athens' ancient Acropolis - will be shut during the hottest parts of the next two days.\n\nGreece - like a number of other European countries - saw a prolonged spell of extreme heat earlier this month.\n\nThe latest heatwave comes at one of the busiest times for the country's tourism industry.\n\nFire trucks line up as firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by the fires in Rhodes? If it is safe to do so, you can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Jamie Foxx thanked his family for keeping details about his illness private. \"They protected me,\" he says\n\nActor Jamie Foxx has said he is on his way back and returning to work after being hospitalised earlier this year.\n\nIn April, his daughter Corrine Foxx said he had experienced a \"medical complication\" but the family did not share details about his health issue.\n\nIn an Instagram post on Saturday, Foxx thanked his family for keeping details about his health \"airtight\".\n\nThe silence led to speculations, the comedian said, but he reassured fans that he was not paralysed or blind.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since he was released from hospital, Foxx thanked his social media followers for messages of support. \"I cannot even begin to tell you how far it took me and how it brought me back\", he said.\n\nHe explained that although many people were eager to hear updates, he didn't want fans to see him \"with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through\".\n\n\"I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie [or] television show,\" Foxx added.\n\n\"My sister Deidra Dixon, my daughter Corrine really saved my life,\" the 55-year-old said, adding that he was only able to make the video for his fans due \"to them, to God, to a lot of great medical people\".\n\nFoxx said that privacy during his illness had been vital to him. \"I cannot tell you how great it feels to have your family kick in in such a way, and y'all know they kept it airtight, they didn't let nothing out.\n\n\"They protected me, and that's what I hope that everyone could have in moments like these.\"\n\nIn May, his daughter said Foxx had been discharged from hospital for \"weeks\" and was making a good recovery. The actor was reportedly in a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where he had been filming Netflix's Back In Action alongside Cameron Diaz.\n\nIn his video to fans Foxx said he had been \"to hell and back\" and his \"road to recovery had some potholes as well\".\n\nBut, he added, \"I'm coming back and I'm able to work\".\n\nMessages of support for Foxx have been pouring in. \"Thankful to see you bro, truly\", Idris Elba commented on Foxx's post. \"God is good,\" said Viola Davis, while John Boyega and Tracee Ellis Ross also sent their love to the star.\n\nFoxx, who stars in the recently released They Cloned Tyrone film on Netflix, also expanded his gratitude to \"the people who are letting me work\".\n\nIn 2024, he is due to host a new music-centric game show, called We Are Family, on US network Fox alongside his daughter, a 29-year-old actress, model and activist.\n\nThe pair said they were \"thrilled\" to have worked on the show.", "Two people have been injured and a man arrested after a car crashed through a wall and into a house.\n\nA 67-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after the car ploughed into his living room in Glenrothes, Fife, at about 19:50 on Friday.\n\nA woman aged 18, who was a passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa, was also taken to hospital before being released.\n\nThe 18-year-old driver has been charged with a road traffic offence.\n\nHe will appear in court at a later date.\n\nA woman aged 67, who was inside the house at the time, was not injured.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers remained at the scene on Saturday.", "Kuki nursing student Chiin Sianching was dragged out of her room, beaten and left for dead\n\nNew allegations of violence against women are emerging in the north-east Indian state of Manipur, as the response to a viral video showing two women being paraded naked by a mob encourages others to speak.\n\nWarning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing.\n\nFor more than two months, Mary (not her real name), a Kuki woman, could not find the courage to go to the police.\n\nHer 18-year-old daughter had been abducted from outside their home, gang-raped overnight and left badly beaten on their doorstep.\n\n\"The attackers threatened that they'd kill my daughter if she spoke about it,\" Mary told me when I met her outside the relief camp where they have been living since ethnic clashes broke out between the Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur in May, claiming more than 130 lives.\n\nA video of two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob emerged last week on social media.\n\nThere was widespread outrage and condemnation, leading to the arrest of six men.\n\n\"I thought if I don't do this now, I won't get another chance.\" she says. \"I will always regret that I didn't even try to get my daughter's attackers punished.\"\n\nMary says that her daughter now talks about killing herself, but that she reassures her she can still make something of her life.\n\nNineteen-year-old Chiin Sianching fears she could easily have met a similar fate.\n\nShe and a friend were singled out for belonging to the Kuki community, she says, and attacked in the hostel they lived in while studying nursing in the state capital, Imphal.\n\n\"The mob kept banging the door of the room we were hiding in, shouting that your men have raped our women, now we will do the same to you,\" she says.\n\nShe called her mother to say that it could be the last time that she would speak to her. Minutes later the two young women were dragged out on to the street and beaten unconscious - Ms Sianching thinks the mob thought they were dead, so ran away.\n\nPolice who found their bodies only realised they were alive after checking their pulses.\n\nFake news on social media, purporting to show women being sexually assaulted by Kuki men were fuelling this mob of Meitei men against Chiin and her friend.\n\nEarly in the conflict a photo of a dead woman was circulated, apparently showing a Meitei nurse who had been raped and killed by Kuki men. Later, many news outlets debunked this.\n\nFaultlines quickly deepened after the conflict flared up, causing a complete separation of two communities who had previously lived alongside one another. Both now have barricades at village entry points and there are continuing reports of overnight clashes.\n\nMeitei groups have told the BBC that women from the community also faced sexual assault - the BBC has not been able to confirm this. But the video of the two Kuki women being paraded naked united Meitei women in protest too.\n\nSinam Surnalata Leima, a Meitei women's leader, condemns the attack on the Kuki women as a \"heinous crime\"\n\nManipur has a longstanding tradition of women playing a powerful role in civil society, among them the Meira Peibis, or torch-bearers - also known as the mothers of Manipur - who have protested against abuses of power by the state and the army, and human rights violations.\n\nSinam Surnalata Leima, who leads the Meira Peibis in a group of villages where the two Kuki women in the video were attacked, says that villagers themselves handed over the main suspect to police.\n\nThen the local members of Meira Peibis got together and burned his house.\n\n\"The burning is a symbol of the community's condemnation of the heinous crime that those men committed, their actions cannot tarnish the whole Meitei community's honour,\" says Ms Leima.\n\nThe accused's wife and three children have been banished from the village.\n\nBut why did the mob act the way it did, in a society that regards its women highly?\n\n\"It was grief and revenge for the Meitei women who had been attacked by Kuki men,\" Ms Leima reasons.\n\nShe does not personally know of any such attacks, but says Meitei women would not discuss a crime of this kind, as it would be considered shameful.\n\nState police said soon after the start of the clashes that they had not received reports of violence against Meitei women, but a spokesman for the Meitei community told me there had been many unreported attacks.\n\nKhuraijam Athouba, who represents a Meitei organisation called Cocomi, said that Meitei women had chosen not to speak about the \"violations they faced\".\n\nIn his view the focus should remain on the issue of killings and displaced people, rather than sexual violence.\n\nThe brother of one of the Kuki women who was seen paraded in the video is tormented by all of these issues.\n\nThe mob that stripped and sexually assaulted his sister, also killed their father and their younger brother - he and his mother were saved as they were visiting family in another village when the clashes started.\n\nThe 23-year-old man has a blank expression for most of the time when I meet him in a small room in the home of one of his relatives.\n\nI ask him what he would like the government and police to do?\n\n\"Arrest each person in that mob, especially those who killed my father and brother,\" he says.\n\n\"And treat both communities with fairness.\"\n\nGracy Haokip: \"If it wasn't for this video, we wouldn't have got so much attention\"\n\nFaith in the federal and state government seems lacking in both communities.\n\nThe Chief Minister of Manipur, N Biren Singh, who belongs to the Meitei community, promised the \"harshest punishment to the accused, including capital punishment\". But when asked about the calls for his resignation for failure to resolve the conflict, he said, \"Don't want to go into this, my job is to bring peace to the state and punish miscreants.\"\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence on the conflict only after the video of the two women sparked national outrage.\n\n\"What happened with the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven,\" he said, adding that no guilty person would be spared.\n\nBut for Ms Leima, that statement painted her community in a bad light and ignored the violence that has raged since May, causing 60,000 people to be displaced.\n\n\"The prime minister spoke when Kuki women were attacked. What about everything we have been facing, are we Meitei women not citizens of India?\" she asks.\n\nThe video has put the spotlight back on the continuing Manipur conflict.\n\n\"If it wasn't for this video, we would have not got so much attention from the government and other political parties,\" says Gracy Haokip, a researcher supporting victims of the clashes, including the nursing student, Chiin Sianching.\n\nShe says it will help the survivors who have courageously shared their experiences while trying to rebuild their lives.\n\nChiin tells me about the speech she gave to the women in her community, when she told them that she had enrolled into another nursing institute situated in her local area.\n\n\"My mother told me that God has kept me alive for a reason, so I have decided I will not give up my dreams.\"", "Stephanie Duthie and her 18-year-old daughter Bryony (right)\n\nThe family of a teenager put in a coma after developing pneumonia while on holiday in Spain have booked a £33,000 medical flight to bring her home.\n\nBryony Duthie, who suffers from a rare chronic kidney condition, fell ill on 16 July on the Costa Del Sol.\n\nThe 18-year-old stirred from her coma on Friday but slipped back into unconsciousness.\n\nDoctors at Vithas Xanit International Hospital Benalmadena have so far been unable to remove her from life support.\n\nHer family hope she can be flown from Malaga to Dundee on Thursday on an IAS Medical plane.\n\nIt will be equipped like an intensive care unit to keep her alive during the journey.\n\nHer mother, Stephanie Duthie, 37, from Dundee, said: \"I'm just in a million pieces. We just need to get her home.\n\n\"The hospital have told us that they want her to be ventilated when she flies.\n\n\"We found a flight company who are willing to fly her home for £33,000 but it's not until next Thursday.\"\n\nMs Duthie, who recently completed a degree in social work, said the pilot plans to fly to Dundee, their nearest airport, provided there is no rain.\n\nIf not, a longer runway at Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow will be used, although this would complicate the journey.\n\nThe family is also facing a second estimated medical bill of 27,000 euro (£23,400) for another nine days of private healthcare in Spain after already being charged more than £13,000 for her first two nights in hospital and initial treatment. The cost was not covered by their travel insurance policy.\n\nThey have set up a fundraising page which has surpassed £50,000.\n\nThe Duthie family thought Bryony, who lost her father when she was three, had become ill because of her chronic kidney problems.\n\nBut a CT scan later revealed she had pneumonia.\n\nWhile doctors have been trying to cautiously bring her out of the coma, they fear she could suffer another seizure at any time.\n\nMs Duthie added: \"She's starting to wake up but when I say that, I mean she's opening her eyes, she's not compos mentis.\n\n\"She can't follow commands, like squeeze my finger or anything like that.\n\n\"They have now put her back into a coma. It's really horrible to watch.\"\n\nMs Duthie is also concerned that her daughter will have to be moved to a state hospital in Spain if she cannot be flown home because the family cannot afford to keep her in private care.\n\nShe said: \"I'm scared to move her now but it's three grand a day just to be there.\n\n\"Her condition, renal tubular acidosis, is so rare and unique that it's taken them so long to get her stable.\n\n\"We just need to get her home.\"\n\nMs Duthie thanked the public for their generosity and kind wishes.\n\nShe added: \"From the bottom of my heart, I just want to say thank you to everybody who has sent anything, from a penny to £100, to those who have shared, who have retweeted.\n\n\"We are forever indebted to these people who have donated, we could never say thank you enough.\"", "British pop-rock band The 1975 has cancelled upcoming concerts in Indonesia and Taiwan after its gig in Malaysia was controversially cut short.\n\nLead singer Matty Healy attacked Malaysia's anti-LGBT laws on Friday and kissed bass player Ross MacDonald on stage - the band was swiftly banned from playing in the country.\n\nHomosexuality is illegal in Malaysia and punishable by 20 years in prison.\n\nIt is shunned - but not illegal - in most of Muslim-majority Indonesia.\n\nBut it is banned in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province.\n\nThe band said it had cancelled its Indonesia and Taiwan gigs \"due to current circumstances\", without elaborating.\n\nTaiwan is largely seen as welcoming to the LGBT community. It was the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage.\n\nIn a statement shared by We The Fest, a music festival in Indonesia's capital Jakarta where The 1975 were scheduled to perform on Sunday, the band said current circumstances made it \"impossible to proceed with the scheduled shows\".\n\nSome of Malaysia's LGBT community were frustrated by events on Friday and worried the spotlight on their community could lead to more stigma and discrimination.\n\nOn Friday, on stage in Kuala Lumpur, lead singer Healy said: \"I don't see the [expletive] point, right, I do not see the point of inviting the 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with.\n\n\"Unfortunately you don't get a set of loads of uplifting songs because I'm [expletive] furious,\" the frontman continued.\n\n\"And that's not fair on you, because you're not representative of your government. Because you're young people, and I'm sure a lot of you are gay and progressive and cool.\"\n\nHealy then kissed his bandmate MacDonald as the band played the song I Like America & America Likes Me.\n\nShortly after the kiss Healy and the band walked off stage, roughly 30 minutes into the set. The singer told the audience: \"Alright, we just got banned from Kuala Lumpur, see you later.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the festival's organisers announced that the remaining line-up for the festival had been cancelled.\n\nThe decision was made after an \"immediate cancellation directive\" from Malaysia's Ministry of Communications and Digital as part of its \"unwavering stance against any parties that challenge, ridicule or contravene Malaysian laws\", a statement said.\n\nMalaysian drag queen Carmen Rose said Healy's attack on anti-LGBT laws was \"performative\" and \"unruly\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC World Service's Newshour, Rose said: \"It is giving white saviour complex and he [Matty Healy] wasn't doing it for our community.\"\n\n\"If he was doing it for our community,\" she added, \"he would know what consequences we would have to go through.\"\n\nAs state elections in Malaysia loom ahead, Rose said politicians would use the event as a \"scapegoat\".\n\n\"It gives them [conservative politicians] more ammo to further their homophobic agenda to gain votes,\" she added.\n\nAsked about life in Malaysia as part of the LGBT community, Rose said \"the government is not on our side\" and she cannot pursue her profession as a drag artist freely in the country - travelling to Singapore for performances instead.\n\nRose said the LGBT community's mental health had been badly affected by constant scrutiny and criticism from the government and society.\n\n\"Matty has a long-time record of advocating for the LGBTQ+ community and the band wanted to stand up for their LGBTQ+ fans and community,\" a source close to The 1975 said Friday night.\n\nHealy has previously used appearances on stage to highlight anti-LGBT laws.\n\nBack in 2019, he invited a male fan on stage during a gig in Dubai. The incident attracted criticism in the country, where homosexuality is punishable by 10 years' imprisonment.\n\nPosting on Twitter after the show, Healy said: \"Thank you Dubai, you were so amazing. I don't think we'll be allowed back due to my 'behaviour' but know that I love you and I wouldn't have done anything differently given the chance again.\"", "Fourth LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Emirates Old Trafford (day five of five):\n\nEngland's hopes of an Ashes comeback were heartbreakingly ended by rain that left the fourth Test as a draw and ensured Australia retain the urn.\n\nOn a hugely frustrating and disappointing fifth day at Old Trafford, persistent bad weather prevented a single ball from being bowled.\n\nThere was a brief gap that allowed a start to be scheduled for 13:00 BST, only for the rain to return.\n\nIt meant England did not get a chance to push for the final five wickets they needed to force a win. Australia remained on 214-5 in their second innings, 61 runs behind the home side.\n\nAt 2-1 up with only one match to play, holders Australia will at least hang on to the Ashes they have possessed since 2017-18 and will now look to complete a first series win in the UK in 22 years.\n\nFor an England team playing such a thrilling style of cricket under captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum, the wait for a first Ashes win since 2015 goes on.\n\nAfter losing the first two Tests they were attempting to become the first England team to come from 2-0 down to win an Ashes series, but it was too big an ask.\n\nThis result also extends an England winless run in Ashes Tests at Old Trafford that dates back to 1981, with the next Ashes Test here not scheduled until 2031.\n\nThe final Test of the series at The Oval begins on Thursday.\n• None 'How are we supposed to feel?' - England's Ashes hopes washed away\n• None TMS Ashes Daily podcast: Australia retain urn but Vaughan says England are 'better'\n\nIn a series that has delivered thrilling, gripping conclusions to each of the first three Tests, this was a colossal anti-climax.\n\nThe most one-sided contest to date - the hosts have been in charge of this Test from the first morning - has ended in a draw shaped by the elements. It is the first draw in 17 Tests since Stokes and McCullum took charge of the England team.\n\nWith that, the fitting prospect of a series decider at The Oval and England's shot at the historic achievement of coming from 2-0 down to win the Ashes was washed away.\n\nKnowing that bad weather for the weekend was always likely, Stokes' side were superb in this match, making the running from the moment the skipper won his fourth consecutive toss.\n\nThey were excellent to reduce Australia to 317 all out, awesome in piling up 592 and had victory in their sights on Friday evening, when the tourists closed on 113-4. Since then, only 30 overs have been bowled.\n\nDespite the grim forecast, expectant fans still turned up at Old Trafford on Sunday morning as groundstaff worked to clear heavy overnight rain from the outfield.\n\nNot long after the delayed start was announced, it started to rain once more. Some of the England players emerged to play football, but eventually even they had to admit defeat and returned to the dressing room soaked to the skin.\n\nWhile it is right to say England have been beaten here by the weather, it is also right to reflect on the errors that led to them being 2-0 down.\n\nEngland have been the better side across the series, but paid a heavy price for missed chances in the first Test at Edgbaston and a sloppy first-innings batting performance in the second Test at Lord's.\n\nThey took the momentum from victory in the third Test at Headingley into an impressive display here and must now pick themselves up from this disappointment to protect the long unbeaten record in home Ashes series.\n\nEngland may need to refresh their bowling attack for The Oval. Chris Woakes is struggling with a quad problem and Stuart Broad has played all five Tests this summer. Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue would be the candidates to come in.\n\nAustralia can celebrate retaining the Ashes but will know they were given a huge helping hand by the weather.\n\nThey omitted off-spinner Todd Murphy in this Test in favour of packing their batting and it has ultimately paid dividends.\n\nThe tourists are also indebted to Marnus Labuschagne, who made a vital century in the second innings to keep England at bay, particularly in the short passage of play that was possible on Saturday.\n\nLabuschagne is one of the few Australia batters improving across the series. David Warner's struggles in England are continuing, while the returns of Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Travis Head and Alex Carey are diminishing.\n\nBut perhaps the biggest concern for the visitors will be the way they crumbled in the face of England's batting assault on the second afternoon at Old Trafford. Their three frontline pace bowlers went for a total of 392 runs from a combined 75 overs, while captain Pat Cummins looked devoid of energy, ideas and authority.\n\nStill, Australia will be leaving this country with the Ashes and the World Test Championship they won by defeating India in the final at The Oval in June.\n\nAfter a drawn series here in 2019, Australia's stated aim this time has always been to win the Ashes outright, rather than just retain them.\n\nAvoiding defeat at The Oval will see them do just that.\n\nEngland captain Ben Stokes, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We did everything we possibly could.\n\n\"We had three hours of cricket in two days - I don't think whatever we did, we would have been able to force a result and that is unfortunately due to the weather.\"\n\nAustralia captain Pat Cummins: \"We're going to try to win it but retaining it is nice. It's not been our best week so rain helped us out a bit there.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"England will have to admit they made mistakes early in the series, particularly in those first two games, but I honestly think they have been the better team.\n\n\"If Australia play the way they have in this Test at The Oval then England will absolutely wipe them.\"\n\nFormer Australia bowler Glenn McGrath: \"Australia's job this week was to not lose this Test and retain the Ashes. They played this game in survival mode and have looked a bit ugly and negative doing it.\n\n\"Australia came in with a clear plan, probably not the usual Australia way, but they achieved it.\"", "Hun Manet, son of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, is expected to succeed his father within weeks\n\nUndeterred by the pouring rain, a long convoy of motorbikes carrying cheering, flag-waving supporters of Cambodia's ruling party revved their engines in preparation for their triumphant final rally in downtown Phnom Penh.\n\nPeople dutifully lined the road as far as you could see, party stickers on their cheeks, the sky-blue hats and shirts they had been given to wear getting steadily wetter.\n\nPerched on the back of a truck, Hun Manet, the 45-year-old eldest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, greeted the crowds proclaiming that only the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) was capable of leading the country.\n\nIndeed, his father had made sure that the CPP was the only party which could possibly win the election.\n\nHun Sen, 70, has run Cambodia in his trademark pugnacious style for 38 years: first in a Vietnam-installed communist regime, then under a UN-installed multi-party system, and more recently as an increasingly intolerant autocrat.\n\nThe only party now capable of challenging his rule, the Candlelight Party, was banned from the election on a technicality in May. The remaining 17 parties allowed to contest it were too small or too little-known to pose a threat.\n\nA few hours after the polls closed, the CPP claimed the expected landslide, with a turnout of more than 80%. There were quite high levels of spoiled ballot papers in some polling stations: that was probably the only safe way voters could show their support for the opposition.\n\nWith Hun Manet expected to succeed his father within weeks of the vote, in a long-prepared transfer of power, this felt more like a coronation than an election.\n\n\"I don't think we can even call it a sham election,\" says Mu Sochua, an exiled former minister and member of the CNRP, another opposition party banned by the Cambodian authorities in 2017.\n\n\"We should call it a 'selection', for Hun Sen to make sure that his party will select his son as the next prime minister of Cambodia, to continue the dynasty of the Hun family.\"\n\nHun Sen, who has been in power for 38 years, faced no real challenge at the election\n\nYet there were signs of nervousness in the CPP before the vote. New laws were hurriedly passed criminalising any encouragement of ballot-spoiling or a boycott. Several Candlelight members were arrested.\n\n\"Why was the CPP campaigning so hard, against no one in this election with no real opposition?\" asks Ou Virak, founder of the Cambodian think tank Future Forum.\n\n\"They knew they would win the election - that was an easy outcome for them. But winning legitimacy is much more difficult.\n\n\"They need to keep weakening the opposition, but at the same time, they also need to satisfy the people, so there is no repeat of previous setbacks and disruptions, like street protests.\"\n\nHun Sen is one of Asia's great survivors, a wily, street-smart politician who has time and again outmanoeuvred his opponents. He has skilfully played off China, by far the biggest foreign investor these days, against the US and Europe, which are trying to claw back lost influence in the region.\n\nBut he has come close to losing elections in the past. He is still vulnerable, to rival factions in his own ruling party, and to any sudden downturn in the Cambodian economy which could sour public opinion against him. So as he prepares for a once-in-a-generation leadership change, he is trying to cement his legacy.\n\nA short drive north of the capital, a 33m-high concrete-and-marble monolith was built recently, which he calls the Win-Win memorial.\n\nThe Win-Win Memorial opened in 2018 and reportedly cost $12m\n\nIts massive base is covered in carved stone reliefs, echoing Cambodia's greatest historic monument, Angkor Wat.\n\nThey depict Hun Sen's flight from Khmer Rouge-ruled Cambodia to Vietnam in 1977, his triumphant return with the invading Vietnamese army in 1979, and his eventual deal with the last of the Khmer Rouge leaders in 1998 that ended the long civil war - his win-win for the Cambodian people.\n\nDelivering peace and prosperity has long been Hun Sen's main claim to legitimacy. Since 1998, Cambodia has had one of the world's fastest-growing economies, albeit from a very low base.\n\nBut it is a model of growth which has concentrated wealth in the hands of a few families - the number of ultra-luxury cars on the roads of such a low-income country is jarring. It has encouraged rapacious exploitation of Cambodia's natural resources and it has left many ordinary people feeling that they are not winning under Mr Sen.\n\nPrak Sopheap lives with her family at the back of an engine repair shop, squeezed between the main road and one of the many shallow lakes in the low-lying land outside Phnom Penh. They have been there for 25 years, fishing and cultivating vegetables on the lake.\n\nToday, though, much of the lake has been filled with rubble by a property developer and Ms Sopheap's family have been ordered to leave.\n\nShe showed me a document from the local council, confirming how long she had lived there, and another document, a summons to court on a charge of illegally occupying state land. She feels powerless and angry - and she is not alone.\n\nPrak Sopheap has been ordered to leave her home of 25 years\n\nLand disputes are among the most incendiary grievances in Cambodia. All property deeds were destroyed in the Khmer Rouge revolution.\n\nSince the end of the civil war, millions of hectares have been allocated for commercial development, a lucrative arrangement which has made many politicians and businesses allied to Hun Sen very rich.\n\nThe courts very rarely rule against these powerful interests. Transparency International ranks Cambodia as 150th out of 180 countries for corruption: in the Asia-Pacific region, only Myanmar and North Korea rank lower.\n\n\"Hun Sen always talks about his 'win-win policy'\", says Ms Sopheap. \"But we feel it is he alone who wins. We cannot feel at peace, as we now face eviction. We, the real Cambodian people, who live on this land, are suffering in the name of development.\"\n\nThose who have tried to campaign against land grabs and evictions have been harassed, beaten and jailed, as have trade unionists and supporters of opposition parties. I asked Ms Sopheap how she would vote in this election. \"Who can I choose?\" she asked. \"Who can protect me?\"\n\nHalf of those eligible to vote are under 35 years old. The CPP has tried attracting them by having Hun Manet and other younger party leaders run this year's campaign, with a slick social media strategy.\n\nBut as most Cambodians have no memory of war or the Khmer Rouge, Ly Chandravuth, a 23-year-old law graduate and environmental activist, says the old CPP campaign points are no longer persuasive.\n\n\"Hun Manet's biggest challenge will be that my generation is very different from previous ones, who were traumatised by the Khmer Rouge,\" he says.\n\n\"Since I was a child, I have watched the ruling party reminding us of that tragedy, telling us that as they brought peace, we should support them. But that argument is less and less effective. Every time the ruling party brings it up, the young generation mocks them, because they have been repeating it for 30 years.\"\n\nCan Hun Manet modify the rough-house, sometimes thuggish leadership style of his father to a softer and more subtle kind of rule? Despite his Western education, his years heading the army and his long apprenticeship, he has never yet held a top political office.\n\nWith him, other \"princeling\" sons of Hun Sen's contemporaries, such as Defence Minister Tea Banh and Interior Minister Sar Keng, are also expected to replace their fathers in the cabinet - a dynastic shift which keeps the levers of power with the same families, but in less experienced hands. The next few years could be a delicate, even dangerous time for Cambodia.", "Caryn Savazzi and her son marking the beginning of their holiday in Cardiff Airport\n\nA British family taken in by a local family when their hotel in Rhodes was evacuated say it has \"restored their faith in human kindness\".\n\nCaryn Savazzi from South Wales arrived on the island with her husband and sons on Saturday, unaware their hotel had already been evacuated amid wildfires.\n\nThey were taken to a school, where a local family offered them shelter.\n\nBut other Britons remain without a bed.\n\nMany were forced to flee their hotels as the wildfires continued to spread from the centre of Greek island towards its eastern coast where many of the beaches and resort hotels are situated.\n\nRhodes has been battling wildfires fanned by strong winds since Tuesday and after smoke started enveloping tourist areas, roughly 19,000 people were evacuated from the zone in the path of the fire.\n\nOfficials estimate 19,000 have been evacuated by land and sea with more people due to be evacuated from three villages - Pefki, Lindos, Kalathos\n\nSome holidaymakers ended up at hotels in other parts of the island, but with many hotels at capacity, other people had to source emergency accommodation, sleeping on mattresses on the floors of sports halls, basketball courts and conference rooms.\n\nAnd the situation worsened on Saturday evening as planes brought in even more tourists - including like Ms Savazzi, whose hotel had already been evacuated before the family had even arrived.\n\nHoliday company Jet2 has now cancelled five flights to Rhodes, while Tui cancelled all flights there until Wednesday.\n\nThomas Cook has taken a different approach, and said customers booked to travel in Rhodes on Sunday and Monday \"have still been keen to enjoy their holiday\" as most areas of the island remain open.\n\nBut for customers due to travel to other parts of Rhodes on Tuesday 25 July it is offering to cancel and issue a full and swift refund should they no longer wish to travel.\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet says it will operate extra flights to bring British holidaymakers home. Two flights will leave on Monday, with 421 seats available in total, and a third on Tuesday in addition to its nine scheduled flights.\n\nMs Savazzi, from South Wales, said some volunteers were even offering cuddles to distressed tourists as they arrived through Saturday night, as well as supplying them with food, shelter and water.\n\nShe said she, her husband and two young sons were preparing to sleep on a school floor when a volunteer came in to ask if there was any family of four among those sheltering in the school.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"My husband put his hand up. We were the only family of four there.\n\n\"The volunteer said a local family had space for us in their home. Now we are staying with them near Rhodes.\n\n\"A man took us back to his house, where his wife was still up at 2.30am, making up the sofa for us so we could sleep.\n\nMs Savazzi took a photo of the crowds of stranded tourists as they arrived into Rhodes\n\n\"The couple are in their early 50s and their two daughters are travelling at the moment. They thought 'we've got space, let's help out'. They're clearly incredibly kind people,\" she added.\n\nMs Savazzi and her family are sharing the home with two other stranded families the couple have taken in from Germany and Poland.\n\n\"An English family have also been taken in by the family's cousins, who live next door,\" Ms Savazzi said.\n\n\"We are all mucking in, and we made breakfast together this morning. I love how five nationalities have come together to help each other out.\n\n\"It's just sheer luck we have got the room, and this family have been just wonderful with us.\"\n\nShe added: \"Families were being evacuated yesterday so our plane should never have taken off to come into a disaster zone.\n\n\"Instead there should have been empty planes taking people out of there, not plane loads arriving.\"\n\nOne of the sports halls in Rhodes was cleared to accommodate stranded holidaymakers on Saturday night\n\n\"It's absolutely awful, but we consider ourselves to be the lucky ones.\"\n\nThe family are among a number taken in by locals after they were evacuated from hotels destroyed - or at risk of being destroyed - by the wildfires.\n\nAt least three hotels have been destroyed in the dense forest area of Kiotari on the east of the island.\n\nLeigh Mitchell and his family were taken in by a local Greek man after they were told they was no space at a nearby hostel after their hotel was evacuated.\n\nMr Mitchell, from Birmingham, told the BBC: \"Luckily we met a local Greek man and we are now at his house about to eat octopus and rice.\n\n\"If it wasn't for him I really don't know what we would have done.\"\n\nWhile tourists stuck on the island are getting by on makeshift mattresses in conference rooms, and in some cases, on the streets, travel operators have made the decision to cancel incoming flights to Rhodes over the next few days.\n\nThe deputy mayor of Rhodes, Athanasios Vyrinis said some people had slept in cardboard boxes overnight and warned that there were not enough essentials.\n\nGreece's fire service has warned the situation could worsen as further villages require evacuation.\n\nThe Foreign Office, which has flown a five-strong rapid deployment team and four British Red Cross workers to Rhodes Airport to assist British nationals, advises travellers affected by the wildfires to follow the guidance from emergency services and to call 112 if there is immediate danger.\n\nThe British ambassador to Greece said a \"rapid deployment team\" had been sent by the Foreign Office to help British tourists.\n\nSome British holidaymakers will endure another night in makeshift shelters in the absence of any communication from their holiday providers.\n\nConnie Woods said there has been no communication from Tui\n\nConnie Woods, 18, from Newry, Northern Ireland, said she will be sheltering in a school for a second night. She was previously staying at the Pefki Island hotel before it was evacuated on Saturday.\n\nA Tui rep visited the school earlier but when Ms Woods asked some questions, their response was that \"they have no information at this time\".\n\nMs Woods said there were already hundreds staying at the school and more would be arriving tonight. \"It's getting quite crowded,\" she said.\n\n\"So many young children, families with no luggage, newborn babies. It's awful\".\n\nNicola McCullen, 46, from Kilmarnock, slept on a mattress in the street after arriving late on Saturday night on a Tui flight from Glasgow to Rhodes.\n\nShe said that tonight she will be sleeping in an empty school as she has not heard from the holiday company Tui.\n\nMs McCullen's partner had taken her away on holiday to celebrate her getting a new job.\n\n\"We haven't had a proper meal, the locals bring around water. Tui has said nothing,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"The ants are crawling all over my mattress,\" she said, still waiting to hear what will happen next.\n\nA Tui spokesperson said its teams were \"following advice from the local authorities\".\n\n\"A small number of hotels have been impacted and as a precaution we're relocating affected customers and providing them with alternative accommodation.\n\n\"Our main priority is always the safety of our customers and we'll continue to keep a close eye on the situation.\"", "A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is unprecedented.\n\nDangerous heatwaves in Europe could break further records, the UN says.\n\nIt is hard to immediately link these events to climate change because weather - and oceans - are so complex.\n\nStudies are under way, but scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding.\n\n\"I'm not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory,\" Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics, says.\n\n\"The Earth is in uncharted territory\" now due to global warming from burning fossil fuels, as well as heat from the first El Niño - a warming natural weather system - since 2018, says Imperial College London climate science lecturer Dr Paulo Ceppi.\n\nHere are four climate records broken so far this summer - the hottest day on record, the hottest June on record globally, extreme marine heatwaves, record-low Antarctic sea-ice - and what they tell us.\n\nThe world experienced its hottest day ever recorded in July, breaking the global average temperature record set in 2016.\n\nAverage global temperature topped 17C for the first time, reaching 17.08C on 6 July, according to EU climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nOngoing emissions from burning fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas are behind the planet's warming trend.\n\nThis is exactly what was forecast to happen in a world warmed by more greenhouse gases, says climate scientist Dr Friederike Otto, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"Humans are 100% behind the upward trend,\" she says.\n\n\"If I'm surprised by anything, it's that we're seeing the records broken in June, so earlier in the year. El Niño normally doesn't really have a global impact until five or six months into the phase,\" Dr Smith says.\n\nEl Niño is the world's most powerful naturally occurring climate fluctuation. It brings warmer water to the surface in the tropical Pacific, pushing warmer air into the atmosphere. It normally increases global air temperatures.\n\nThe average global temperature in June this year was 1.47C above the typical June in the pre-industrial period. Humans started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when the Industrial Revolution started around 1800.\n\nAsked if summer 2023 is what he would have forecasted a decade ago, Dr Smith says that climate models are good at predicting long-term trends but less good at forecasting the next 10 years.\n\n\"Models from the 1990s pretty much put us where we are today. But to have an idea about what the next 10 years would look like exactly would be very difficult,\" he says.\n\n\"Things aren't going to cool down,\" he adds.\n\nThe average global ocean temperature has smashed records for May, June and July. It is approaching the highest sea surface temperature ever recorded, which was in 2016.\n\nBut it is extreme heat in the North Atlantic ocean that is particularly alarming scientists.\n\n\"We've never ever had a marine heatwave in this part of Atlantic. I had not expected this,\" says Daniela Schmidt, Prof of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.\n\nPress play to see the map animated.\n\nIn June temperatures off the west coast of Ireland were between 4C and 5C above average, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration classified as a category 5 heatwave, or \"beyond extreme\".\n\nDirectly attributing this heatwave to climate change is complex, but that work is ongoing, Prof Schmidt says.\n\nWhat is clear is that the world has warmed and the oceans have absorbed most of that heat from the atmosphere, she explains.\n\n\"Our models have natural variability in them, and there are still things appearing that we had not envisaged, or at least not yet,\" she adds.\n\nShe emphasises the impact of this heat on marine ecosystems, which produce 50% of the world's oxygen.\n\n\"People tend to think about trees and grasses dying when we talk about heatwaves. The Atlantic is 5C warmer than it should be - that means organisms need 50% more food just to function as normal,\" she says.\n\nThe area covered by sea-ice in the Antarctic is at record lows for July. There is an area around 10 times the size of the UK missing, compared with the 1981-2010 average.\n\nAlarm bells are ringing for scientists as they try to unpick the exact link to climate change.\n\nA warming world could reduce levels of Antarctic sea-ice, but the current dramatic reduction could also be due to local weather conditions or ocean currents, explains Dr Caroline Holmes at the British Antarctic Survey.\n\nShe emphasises it is not just a record being broken - it is being smashed by a long way.\n\n\"This is nothing like anything we've seen before in July. It's 10% lower than the previous low, which is huge.\"\n\nShe calls it \"another sign that we don't really understand the pace of change\".\n\nScientists believed that global warming would affect Antarctic sea-ice at some point, but until 2015 it bucked the global trend for other oceans, Dr Holmes says.\n\n\"You can say that we've fallen off a cliff, but we don't know what's at the bottom of the cliff here,\" she says.\n\n\"I think this has taken us by surprise in terms of the speed of which has happened. It's definitely not the best case scenario that we were looking at - it's closer to the worst case,\" she says.\n\nWe can certainly expect more and more of these records to break as the year goes on and we enter 2024, scientists say.\n\nBut it would be wrong to call what is happening a \"climate collapse\" or \"runaway warming\", cautions Dr Otto.\n\nWe are in a new era, but \"we still have time to secure a liveable future for many\", she explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about COP28?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Carles Puigdemont, who fled Catalonia after leading a breakaway independence vote in 2017, appears at rallies remotely\n\nUnder the heat of the Barcelona sun, a pro-independence party, Together for Catalonia, is holding a campaign event ahead of Sunday's general election in Spain.\n\nAbout 40 people are gathered to hear speeches before a video message is shown, recorded by the former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont.\n\nHe lambasts the Spanish state, comparing its lack of democratic credentials to Hungary and Poland, and calls for an independent Catalan republic.\n\nIt is a low-key event compared to the massive demonstrations that led up to Catalonia's attempt to secede in 2017.\n\nThe Spanish authorities responded to that bid by clamping down with police action and temporarily imposing direct rule in the region, while Mr Puigdemont fled to Belgium, where he has remained ever since.\n\nBut this Sunday's Spanish general election could have a major impact on the country's simmering territorial issue. The result, many believe, will decide whether the relationship between Catalonia and Madrid improves or flares up once again.\n\n\"If the right wins, the situation could complicate in Catalonia,\" said Lola García, a journalist at La Vanguardia newspaper who wrote an account of the 2017 crisis.\n\n\"We might well go back to seeing heightened tensions there.\"\n\nIncumbent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has sought to re-engage with pro-independence leaders\n\nSocialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared improving the febrile atmosphere in Catalonia a priority when he first took office in 2018, and again when he formed a new coalition government in 2020.\n\nWith that aim in mind, his administration pardoned nine politicians who had been jailed for their role in the 2017 independence bid.\n\nIt also reformed the penal code, eliminating the crime of sedition and modifying the crime of misuse of public funds - both of which changes benefitted Catalan leaders who were facing legal action.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sánchez's government has also engaged in slow-moving talks with the pro-independence Catalan administration aimed at resolving the territorial problem.\n\n\"Today the situation in Catalonia is nothing like it was in 2017, 2018 or 2019,\" Mr Sánchez said recently, describing the Socialists as \"a party that defends the union of Spain\".\n\nHowever, reducing the tensions in Catalonia has come at a cost for Mr Sánchez.\n\nThe conservative People's Party (PP) and far-right Vox have repeatedly attacked him for making concessions to nationalists and for receiving the parliamentary support of the pro-independence Catalan Republican Left (ERC).\n\nThe four main candidates, from left to right: Current PM Pedro Sánchez, Deputy PM and Sumar party leader Yolanda Díaz, Vox party leader Santiago Abascal and Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo\n\nHis reliance on the parliamentary votes of the Basque nationalists of EH Bildu - the successor to the political wing of the defunct Basque group Eta, which is deemed a terrorist organisation by the EU - has compounded that opprobrium, with some in his own party also expressing unease.\n\nAlberto Núñez Feijóo, the PP's candidate for prime minister, warned that Mr Sánchez has \"made Spain a hostage of those who want to break the territorial unity of our country\", a message many voters seem to endorse.\n\nThe conservative leader has also tacitly criticised Mariano Rajoy, the PP's prime minister during the 2017 Catalan crisis.\n\n\"We probably should have acted earlier and not let things go as far as they did,\" Mr Núñez Feijóo said, suggesting he would be more proactive than his predecessor.\n\nA Spanish government that is hostile to regional identities could have an upside for the independence movement, reviving it after several years of in-fighting, according to journalist Lola García.\n\nShe also believes plans by the Catalan government, led by the moderate ERC, to stage a Madrid-approved referendum on independence in the coming legislature are likely to go nowhere.\n\n\"The Catalan government is aware that it will not achieve [a negotiated referendum] either with the PP in government or the Socialists,\" she said. Instead, she believes the regional administration is pushing for increased powers within its current arrangement as an autonomous region.\n\nWith the PP ahead of the Socialists according to most polls, but looking unlikely to secure an absolute majority, it is quite possible that Spain's next government will be formed by the conservatives in a coalition with the hardline unionists of Vox.\n\nWe know a PP-Vox government would mean a threat to political freedoms and rights and democratic institutions here\n\n\"We already know that a PP-Vox government would mean a threat to political freedoms and rights and democratic institutions here in Catalonia,\" said Meritxell Serret, minister of Foreign Action and the EU for the Catalan government.\n\nShe pointed to areas of Spain where the two right-wing parties have already formed governing partnerships since local elections in May, such as the Valencia region and the Balearic Islands.\n\nIn both cases, the new local government has announced plans to eliminate the office for defence of local languages, which opponents see as an attempt to eliminate regional identities.\n\nWhile Ms Serret says the Catalan government is not satisfied with the concessions made by the Sánchez administration, she frames the possibility of Vox entering a right-wing coalition in dramatic terms.\n\n\"Vox have been threatening they will illegalise pro-independence parties, for example,\" she said.\n\n\"We fear, and people fear, that they can represent a step back for our democracy to very dark moments when civil rights [and] freedoms were not only attacked, but were annulled. This is what they represent nowadays.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlights to Rhodes have been cancelled and tourists left in limbo after wildfires spreading across the Greek island forced thousands to flee hotels.\n\nHoliday company Jet2 cancelled five flights to Rhodes, while TUI cancelled all flights there until Wednesday.\n\nThe deputy mayor of Rhodes, Athanasios Vyrinis said some people had slept in cardboard boxes overnight and warned that there are not enough essentials.\n\nOfficials estimate about 19,000 people have been evacuated by land and sea.\n\nOne family has resorted to sleeping on mattresses on a conference room floor, while others are desperately searching for alternative accommodation.\n\nGreece's fire service has apologised and warned the situation could worsen.\n\nA further 1,200 will be evacuated from three villages - Pefki, Lindos and Kalathos.\n\nRhodes has been battling wildfires fanned by strong winds since Tuesday, as Europe deals with a challenging heatwave.\n\nJet2 said all flights to Rhodes up to and including next Sunday were cancelled, but planes would still bring tourists back home from the island.\n\nEasyJet said flights were operating as normal, but package holidays to the island were cancelled until Wednesday.\n\nRyanair said flights to Rhodes were still running and not affected by the wildfires.\n\nA British Airways flight scheduled for Monday will still be running to bring tourists home, said the operator, adding that customers either already in Rhodes or due to fly out could change their flights free of charge.\n\nThomas Cook said it currently had 300 customers in Rhodes, 40 of which had been evacuated, and any holidays in the affected areas scheduled between before 31 July would be cancelled. But customers who had holidays booked in unaffected areas of Rhodes would still be able to travel if they wished to.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDeputy mayor Mr Vyrinis said: \"There is only water and some rudimentary food - we don't have mattresses and beds.\"\n\nSpeaking to Open TV from an assembly point, the deputy mayor said people were using cardboard boxes to sleep in and people arriving in Rhodes had nowhere to stay.\n\nLesley Young - who arrived in Lindos, Rhodes on Saturday morning - said she could not go to their hotel because it had been evacuated.\n\nDespite having holiday insurance worth £2,000 to use for alternative accommodation, Ms Young said: \"We have not been able to find anything at all.\"\n\n\"So we have been taken to the sister hotel of the one we booked and they have set up mattresses on the floor of one of their conference rooms.\n\n\"They have really tried to do the best but we have no idea how long we will be in this situation.\"\n\nLesley Young and her family were offered mattresses on the floor of a conference room\n\nMs Young, who is on holiday as a group of seven including three children and four adults, said they had a two week holiday booked but was unsure if they would stay that long.\n\n\"Luckily we have our luggage and the children are jumping up and down on the mattresses,\" she added.\n\nA couple on their honeymoon said they had been moved from a beach, where they were stranded with thousands of other people, by the Greek army in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nNo injuries have been reported, according to the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection in Greece.\n\nIt said tourists are being evacuated safely from the affected areas - which represents less than 10% of the island's tourist accommodation - and are being redirected to other hotels on the island.\n\nERT has reported that the areas that have been affected by the wildfires still have no power.\n\nGreek authorities are urging locals to donate breakfast items such as croissants and fruit, as many tourists are complaining about the lack of a plan regarding food.\n\n\"It's very stressful,\" said John Miller, who has been evacuated, with his family, twice from his hotel.\n\nThe hotel they were at in Kiotari had multiple power cuts so they were being transferred to Plimmiri, he said on Saturday.\n\n\"There is bedlam in Rhodes tonight,\" said Mr Miller, from Kent.\n\nHe said the roads were gridlocked and the military was on its way.\n\nJohn Miller, who has been evacuated twice, says the roads are gridlocked\n\nSimon Wheatley had to flee his hotel, alongside his pregnant fiancé and three-year-old son, and is still searching for alternative accommodation for the next few nights.\n\n\"I haven't found a hotel for this evening,\" he said, adding that the family needed accommodation until Tuesday, when they are due to leave.\n\nHe said tannoys across the hotel said \"immediate evacuation\" and urged people to take only essentials.\n\nThey packed everything they could into one suitcase and left two suitcases behind, he told the BBC.\n\nSimon Wheatley said some hotel residents were waiting in 38C heat from mini buses\n\nMr Wheatley, from Cheltenham, said his family was \"one of the lucky ones\" because they had a hire car, while others at the hotel had to wait for shuttle buses or taxis.\n\n\"People were there with wet t-shirts over their mouth trying to breathe more effectively because the air by then was unbearable.\n\n\"It was like a bad bonfire in November, you could not handle the smoke at all.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has advised travellers in Greece affected by wildfires to follow the guidance from emergency services and to call 112 if there is immediate danger.\n\nThe British ambassador to Greece said a \"rapid deployment team\" had been sent by the Foreign Office to help British tourists.\n\nAndrea Layfield, who was initially evacuated by boat from a beach, said there were thousands of people and they were \"screaming and fighting\".\n\nOne boat arrived and was only taking women and children, she told the BBC.\n\nAfter being taken to safety, Andrea said her and a friend were taken back to their hotel by staff in their own cars.\n\nThey were then woken up by banging on the doors for evacuation at 01:00 and \"we could see the fire coming over the hill\" she said.\n\n\"It has been very, very scary,\" she said, adding the air was \"horrific\" and causing her breathing difficulties.", "Twitter has changed its brand and logo from its famous blue bird to \"X\".\n\nThe new white X on a black background has replaced the blue bird on the desktop version of the social network, although is yet to appear on the mobile app.\n\n\"Tweets\" will also be replaced, according to Twitter's owner Elon Musk, and posts will be called \"x's\".\n\nThe billionaire changed his profile picture to the new logo and added \"X.com\" to his Twitter bio.\n\nMr Musk wants to create a \"super app\" called X - his vision for a new kind of social media platform that he has been talking about creating for months.\n\nOn Sunday, the billionaire said he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting: \"And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.\"\n\nHe then shared a picture of the new X branding projected onto the side of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Musk, who has changed the name of the business to X Corp, said the replacement \"should have been done a long time ago\".\n\nHe posted an image of a flickering X on Twitter, and later in a Twitter Spaces audio chat, replied \"Yes\" when asked if the Twitter logo would change.\n\nLinda Yaccarino, Twitter's new chief executive, wrote on the platform that the rebrand was an exciting new opportunity.\n\n\"Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate,\" she said.\n\n\"Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.\"\n\nThe bird is called Larry which Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone said, in 2011, is a tribute to basketball star and Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird.\n\nPeople took to Twitter to mourn the loss of the logo, including Martin Grasser who designed it in 2012.\n\n\"Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird,\" he said. Later the tweet was shared by Jack Dorsey, Twitter's best-known co-founder with a goat emoji, which means 'greatest of all time'.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor some people in Asia, super-apps including India's PayTM and Indonesia's GoJek have been a vital part of everyday lives for the past few years.\n\nThe apps let users pay for services through a finance system.\n\nWeChat is a messaging and social media platform that has evolved into one of the region's biggest apps in terms of its range of services and number of users.\n\nLast year, it was estimated to have 1.29 billion users in China alone.\n\nDrew Benvie, social media commentator and founder of digital agency, Battenhall said, \"Musk is going full throttle for the everything app space, leaving old Twitter in his wake, and eyeing the successes of Asia's trailblazers like WeChat and Moj.\n\n\"Succeeding in just a couple of additional services, such as shopping or payments, could be all that's needed to make X better than Twitter was. But there are already so many alternatives, so Musk and co are playing an enormous game of catch-up.\"\n\nTwitter's website says its logo, depicting a blue bird, is \"our most recognisable asset\".\n\n\"That's why we're so protective of it,\" it added.\n\nThe firm temporarily replaced the logo in April with Dogecoin's Shiba Inu dog, helping drive a surge in the meme coin's market value.\n\nMr Musk was later accused of insider trading by a group of Dogecoin investors, who claimed he had profited from driving up Dogecoin's value.\n\nBusiness commentator Justin Urquhart Stewart said Twitter's \"loyal but aging base\" would not like the changes.\n\n\"The younger generations have moved onto other apps and Twitter does look at bit old-fashioned.\"\n\n\"Elon Musk has got to be careful as you are almost starting from scratch with an older audience meanwhile damaging the original brand,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Twitter logo designer speaks out on changes\n\nThe very rapid rebranding of Twitter has also caused some security concerns.\n\nJake Moore, global cyber adviser at security firm ESET, said the transition from one company name to another could encourage phishing, where criminals impersonate people or organisations to steal users' data.\n\n\"A rebrand is the perfect opportunity to send phishing emails requesting users to sign in via a new URL from a link within that email - but of course that link wouldn't be genuine and that's where people could be tricked into handing over their genuine Twitter credentials without their usual level of caution,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Cyber-criminals can easily prey on this, especially those searching for that new URL.\"\n\nMr Musk has long had a fascination with the letter X - although no-one really knows why.\n\nOne of his first business ventures in 1999 was known as X.com, which was an online banking platform.\n\nJust three years later, Mr Musk made $165m when X.com - by then merged with PayPal - was bought by eBay.\n\nElon Musk and Grimes' first child is named X Æ A-12\n\nHe also owns the X.com domain name, which now redirects to Twitter.\n\nMr Musk is also chief executive of SpaceX, the commercial American aerospace company founded in 2002.\n\nThere is also the name of his first child with musician Grimes - X Æ A-12 Musk.\n\nMr Musk also recently launched his long-awaited artificial intelligence start-up - xAI - in a bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea has led to civilian evacuations and disrupted transport, Russian authorities have said.\n\nSergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed governor of occupied Crimea, said Ukraine was behind the attack, without providing evidence.\n\nMr Aksyonov said local residents living within five kilometres of the blast were being evacuated.\n\nRail services across the Kerch bridge have also reportedly been halted.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Russian authorities stopped traffic on the bridge, but then swiftly reopened it to cars.\n\nA later update from the Moscow-installed government said road traffic was again halted until further notice.\n\nMr Aksyonov said infrastructure facilities in the Krasnogvardeysky district in Crimea were the target.\n\n\"According to preliminary data, there were no damages or casualties,\" Mr Aksyonov wrote on a Telegram post.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify the attack.\n\nThe district where the strike was reported is more than 160km (100 miles) from the Kerch bridge.\n\nThe bridge, often referred to as the Crimea bridge, was opened in 2018 enabling road and rail access between Russia and Crimea - Ukrainian territory annexed by Moscow in 2014.\n\nIt has become a symbol of Russian occupation and is also an important re-supply route for Russian forces in southern Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday, a blast on the bridge killed two people and damaged the road but the railway line, which runs parallel to it, was not damaged.\n\nThe Kremlin blamed Kyiv for Monday's attack and said Ukraine had carried out a \"terrorist\" act. Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to retaliate and accused Ukraine of launching a \"senseless\" and \"cruel\" attack.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the Crimea bridge is a legitimate target.\n\nSpeaking on Friday he spoke of the need to \"neutralise\" the bridge, explaining it was \"the route used to feed the war with ammunition and this is being done on a daily basis\" and that Kyiv sees it as \"an enemy facility\".\n\n\"So, understandably, this is a target for us,\" Mr Zelensky said, in a video address to the Aspen security conference in the US.\n\nMonday's alleged attack was the second major incident on the Kerch bridge in the past year.\n\nIn October 2022, the bridge was partially closed following a huge explosion. It was fully reopened in February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nIt may not have been a thrilling performance, but England did what they needed to do in their opening Women's World Cup game against Haiti - win.\n\nThe European champions were lacklustre and wasteful in their 1-0 victory, struggling to put away the chances they created while looking occasionally sloppy in defence.\n\nMeanwhile Haiti, who are ranked 49 places below the Lionesses, proved why they are in Australia among the 32 best teams in the world with a fearless performance that tested Sarina Wiegman's side.\n\nBut a penalty from Georgia Stanway was enough to give England a crucial three points - and it was just the third time in six World Cup appearances they have won their opening match.\n\n\"It's so important to win your first game in a tournament,\" said Stanway. \"It's been a long build-up to today and we're kind of happy to just get over the line.\n\n\"Haiti caused us problems, were a threat on the counter-attack, were fast, physical, and they challenged us in areas that we probably didn't expect.\"\n\nGoalkeeper Mary Earps was called into action twice, tipping Melchie Dumornay's strike over the bar before pushing away Roseline Eloissaint's goal-bound effort.\n\n\"[The win] puts us in a good place,\" said Earps. \"But for sure there's plenty we need to review and reflect on because we have set ourselves a higher standard than that.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\nA lengthy build-up to the tournament - which kicked off eight weeks after the Women's Super League ended - as well as uncertainty from Wiegman on her best XI and injuries to key players, were all contributing factors in England's underwhelming performance.\n\nAlessia Russo, given the nod ahead of Rachel Daly in attack, worked tirelessly but was often isolated.\n\nCaptain Millie Bright played the full 90 minutes despite not having featured since March after having knee surgery, and looked understandably rusty.\n\nAnd England were sloppy in possession, allowing Haiti to capitalise on the counter-attack with the dangerous pace of Dumornay and Batcheba Louis.\n\n\"I think it takes a little bit to find your feet,\" said Stanway. \"Coming into a major tournament the pressure is high and the build-up is so long. It's been a long process.\"\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It was really poor from England. [They were] sloppy in possession, taking too long to play the pass and then getting caught.\n\n\"I didn't expect it to be that close. I thought it would be competitive but certainly not for that long. I was really impressed with Haiti.\"\n\nWiegman said Haiti's counter-attack made it \"pretty hard for us\" but she saw improvements in the second half.\n\n\"We wanted to be on the ball all the time and we were a lot. We created chances but also lost balls,\" the manager added.\n\nEngland had 11 shots on target against Haiti - their most on record at the World Cup - but have now failed to score in 337 minutes of open play.\n\nEx-England forward Eniola Aluko told ITV there was \"predictability\" to their attacking play, which consisted of \"a lot of crosses\" from wingers Lauren Hemp and Chloe Kelly.\n\n\"In the first half Russo was playing, but if that is the approach and the pattern of play, should it be Rachel Daly up there instead? She is stronger in the air,\" added Aluko.\n\n\"If you want to be less predictable, you need more creativity, especially in the number 10 role. Ella Toone looked a bit disconnected. Lauren James is a bit more creative, offers more movement and interchanging of positions.\"\n\nWiegman introduced James and Daly later in the second half and England could have extended their lead with Kelly, Stanway and Daly all having attempts, but Haiti also grew in confidence and tested Earps.\n\nEngland's back four of Lucy Bronze, Bright, Alex Greenwood and Jess Carter have not played together often and it was clear they need time to become better connected.\n\n'There are positives to take from today'\n\nBut despite clear teething problems and a growing concern for England's lack of ruthlessness in front of goal, they have still lost just once under Wiegman in 33 games.\n\nIt is also worth remembering they underwhelmed in their opening match of Euro 2022 before responding with an 8-0 thrashing of Norway in their second group game and going on to win the tournament.\n\n\"England have got a clean sheet. Mary Earps made some fantastic saves and dealt with the transitions and they managed to come through it,\" former England midfielder Karen Carney told ITV.\n\n\"Tournament football is about building momentum, getting points on the board and moving forward. There are definitely some positives to take from today.\"\n\nWiegman's demeanour remained cool as she acknowledged a dry period in goalscoring but highlighted clearly which areas England need to improve before their second group game against Denmark, who began with a win over China.\n\n\"Ruthlessness... what does that mean?\" said Wiegman. \"Sometimes it means the connections with the cross, the timing of the cross, where the cross ends in the penalty box and little things like that.\n\n\"We were very close to scoring a goal but their defence was tough too. We will keep trying and working on it, starting again tomorrow.\"\n• None The Banksy Story charts the rise of this anonymous household name\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our current fossil fuel usage with hydrogen", "Wagner fighters on the streets of Rostov-on-Don during the mutiny\n\nA mercenary who took part in the attempted mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin says he and his fellow fighters \"didn't have a clue\" what was going on.\n\nIn the space of just 24 hours, the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, staged an insurrection, sending troops into the southern city of Rostov, then further on towards Moscow.\n\nWagner fighters rarely talk to the media, but BBC Russian spoke to a junior commander who found himself in the middle of the action.\n\nGleb - not his real name - had previously been involved in the fighting for the symbolic town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. As the mutiny began, he was resting with his unit in barracks in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region.\n\nEarly in the morning on 23 June they got the call to join a column of Wagner fighters leaving Ukraine. The order came from a Wagner commander who Gleb is reluctant to name for security reasons, but who was acting on orders from Prigozhin and the Wagner Command Council.\n\n\"It's a full deployment,\" he was told. \"We're forming a column, let's move out.\"\n\nGleb says no-one was told where the column was heading, but he was surprised when he realised they were moving away from the frontline.\n\nThe Wagner fighters encountered absolutely no resistance, he says, as they crossed the Russian border into the Rostov region.\n\n\"I didn't see any border guards,\" he recalls. \"But the traffic police saluted us along the way.\"\n\nWagner says this photo shows Russian border guards at a checkpoint laying down their weapons\n\nChannels closely associated with Wagner on the messaging app Telegram later claimed that border guards at the Bugayevka checkpoint had laid down their weapons as the Wagner fighters arrived.\n\nThese channels shared a photo purportedly from the scene showing two dozen unarmed individuals in camouflage.\n\nAs they approached Rostov-on-Don, the fighters were given orders to surround all the law enforcement agency buildings in the city and to occupy the military airport. Gleb's unit was told to take control of the regional offices of the Federal Security Service (FSB).\n\nAs they approached the building it appeared to be completely locked and empty. They flew a drone overhead to check for any signs of life.\n\nEventually, after half an hour, a door opened and two people came out onto the street.\n\n\"They said, 'Guys, let's make a deal',\" Gleb recounts. \"I said, 'What's there to make a deal about? This is our city'.\n\n\"So we just agreed that we would leave each other alone. They came out to smoke from time to time.\"\n\nRostov journalists have reported a similar situation with many government buildings in and around the city. The Wagner fighters would first fly drones over them and then surround them. No-one was allowed to leave, but delivery couriers were allowed in with food.\n\nWhile all this was going on Wagner leader Prigozhin was at the Russian army's Southern Military District headquarters meeting Russia's Deputy Defence Minister, Lt Gen Yunus-bek Yevkurov, and the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Lt Gen Vladimir Alexeyev.\n\nPrigozhin demanded that they hand over the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.\n\nA screengrab from a video which shows Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin making a speech in Rostov-on-Don on 24 June\n\nAt the same time as Prigozhin was in his meeting, there was another column of Wagner fighters on the move.\n\nGleb confirms media reports that this column was led by Wagner founder Dmitry Utkin, a former special forces officer who is rarely seen in public.\n\nThis column was on the main highway towards Voronezh, and apparently bound for Moscow, he says.\n\nSo did Gleb know the plan - what Prigozhin was intending or planning to do?\n\nHe swears as he bluntly says he didn't have a clue. \"We learned what was happening from Telegram, just like you did.\"\n\nAs the day went on, pictures of what was happening in Rostov were beamed around the world. People were surprised to see local residents and even local journalists apparently smiling and chatting to some of the normally tight-lipped Wagner fighters occupying their city.\n\n\"It was the ex-cons,\" says Gleb, referring to the many serving prisoners or convicts conscripted into Wagner last year. \"Nobody told them not to, nobody cares about them.\"\n\nFor established fighters like Gleb, who were hired long before the war in Ukraine, the rules are much more clearly understood.\n\nHe told the BBC that back in the spring, they had been told by the senior command that anyone who spoke to the media would be \"nullified\", ie killed. Several former Wagner fighters have told us the same thing.\n\nOn the evening of 24 June, Gleb was contacted by one of his superiors and told, without any explanation, that he and his unit should now return to base in Luhansk.\n\nAs they made their way back to barracks, they were following the news on Telegram.\n\nThey read that criminal charges had been initiated against Prigozhin, then dropped, and that he was to move to Belarus.\n\nThey then read that Wаgner fighters would not be held accountable for their role in the mutiny because of their \"combat merits\", according to President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.\n\nFor Gleb and his unit, their future is now unclear. They've been told to stay in their barracks in Luhansk and await further orders.\n\nTheir hosts, authorities of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic, pro-Russian separatist militants in eastern Ukraine, are keen to find out more about their future plans and what will happen to their equipment and ammunition, he says.\n\nWhen asked why he doesn't leave Wagner, Gleb has a simple answer: \"My contract hasn't expired yet.\"", "The group (photographed here before their Latitude festival appearance) have been making music together since they were teenagers in Edinburgh\n\nYou have never seen a live band like Young Fathers.\n\nHeadlining the BBC Sounds stage at the Latitude festival, you don't even need to know their songs to be swept away by the sheer force of their musical attack.\n\nThis is a show that is pure propulsion.\n\nThe band's music is a blend of soul, gospel, hip-hop and tribal chants: I Saw has a loping glam rock beat and a playground chorus; Geronimo is all coiled, sinister tension; and the anthemic hook of Get Up is so incendiary, it threatens to set the moshpit on fire.\n\nOn this tour, founder members Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham 'G' Hastings are joined on stage by two female vocalists - and, at times, each of them seems to be singing their own version of the same song, lost in the music, before they suddenly snap back in sync with a ferocious roar.\n\nThe show is thrilling to watch, to be a part of, and it has rightfully earned them a reputation as Britain's most exciting live act.\n\nBefore making their latest album, Heavy Heavy, the Edinburgh trio drew a chart of the bands they wanted to emulate: Talking Heads, Massive Attack, Suicide, Sly and the Family Stone.\n\n\"What I was trying to do was write a list of bands who have created their own artistic thing,\" says Hastings, speaking to the BBC backstage at Latitude.\n\n\"They don't sound like anyone else. They live in their own space. That's what we were trying to do.\"\n\nIt was almost as if they needed something to aspire to, says Massaquoi.\n\n\"If you train yourself to run a mile in under five minutes, you notice over the months that you have more energy and you can run further. Whereas, with music and creativity, it's hard to gauge when you've improved.\"\n\nThey decided to rely on their instincts.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nTheir messy studio, a windowless squat next to a graveyard in Scotland, was set up so that they could record \"as soon as we came through the door\", says Massaquoi.\n\nThe goal was to capture the spontaneity and joy they've always conveyed on stage - a decision prompted by the pandemic, when \"everybody had time to reflect and gain a bit of appreciation for what we do\".\n\nIn practice, it meant the album was created in the almost the same way they started out, rapping into a karaoke machine in Hastings' teenage bedroom.\n\nVocals were sung communally around the microphone. If one person made a mistake, the other two would roll with it, folding the chaos into the creative process.\n\n\"We hardly even talk,\" says Massaquoi. \"A lot of it is instinctual.\"\n\nIn the end, they recorded over four album's worth of material - a patchwork of group vocals, free-flowing percussion, politically-charged hip-hop and African melodies.\n\nBut, betraying their origins as a \"weird kind of boyband\" (their words), they edited that music down to a ruthlessly efficient 32 minutes.\n\n\"As people that love a pop song, we're pretty brutal with ourselves,\" says Hastings, recalling how direct the studio conversations could be: \"Just take that out. Get to the point. This is the best it.\"\n\n\"We like short songs and hooks and sweet things,\" he explains.\n\nThe reviews were effusive, even for a band that's used to critical acclaim.\n\n\"Heavy Heavy pulls in the listener with an empathetic lust for life that never wavers,\" wrote AllMusic's Andy Kellman.\n\n\"From the opening woody drag of the bassline on Rice to the chug and claps of Holy Moly, Heavy Heavy bursts with overwhelming momentum, as if to say, 'Keep up, if you can,'\" added Will Pritchard in Pitchfork.\n\n\"Succinct and underpinned by a catchy melodic structure, it further cements Young Fathers' as one of the more unique acts to exist today,\" concluded the NME's Dhruva Balram.\n\nThe album is already being tipped for a nomination at this year's Mercury Prize (they previously won with their debut, Dead, in 2014) and it's success has seen them rise to the top of this summer's festival bills.\n\nBut even though they're a semi-mainstream prospect in 2023, they've never felt fully embraced by the industry.\n\nThe trio met at a high school youth club and were signed at the age of 15 to what they've previously called, \"a nasty, horrible production deal\".\n\nAfter a series of false starts, they landed on their unique sound over two mixtapes, Tape One and Tape Two, the second of which won them the Scottish Music Prize.\n\n\"When we were young, we were outsiders in Scotland,\" says Hastings. \"We were outsiders at hip-hop nights, we were outsiders at any night.\"\n\n\"None of our friends used to come to the gigs,\" adds Massaquoi. \"Some of them didn't like the music - although I like that. That's honest.\"\n\nDespite, or perhaps because of, those challenges, they maintain an enormous sense of self-belief.\n\n\"We're one of these bands that comes about every 15 or 20 years,\" says Massaquoi, referencing that list of iconoclasts that Hastings drew up in the studio.\n\n\"In the end, people will realise that, but you have to hold onto the vision and say, 'people will get it eventually'.\n\n\"It's frustrating while it's happening but the world doesn't owe you any favours. All you can do is put in the time and the effort and increase your chances of the luck happening.\"\n\nThe band's high-profile Glastonbury set introduced them to a new legion of fans - Graham is pictured on the left with Kayus between the backing singers\n\nThe band hit the headlines with their Glastonbury performance last month, after they dedicated Shame to Home Secretary Suella Braverman, leading the audience in a chant of: \"Say it loud and say it clear, refugees are welcome here\".\n\nAs with everything they do, Young Fathers' protest came from experience. Massaquoi came to the UK when he was four years old, as his parent fled the civil war in Liberia.\n\nHe doesn't remember much of the transition - but what sticks is hearing Maxi Priest's version of Wild World in a refugee camp in Ghana.\n\nThe song's message of hope amidst the sadness of leaving home resonates with him to this day.\n\nHe wants Young Fathers' music to have the same impact on their fans - and being outside pop's inner circle makes that easier, they argue.\n\n\"Historically, a lot of bands get worse over time,\" observes Hastings.\n\n\"But when you get a bit more comfortable and things get a bit easier and there's a bit of budget from the record label, you start to realise why the music can take second place to the lifestyle... Not that I'm living a mad lifestyle, but you can see the seeds of it happening.\n\n\"But because we can work on our own - the three of us in a room, no windows, pretty spartan - I hope that makes us a bit foolproof.\"\n\n\"We're a working class band at a time when there's a lack of them, and that's a completely different mind-set to have,\" adds Massaquoi.\n\n\"We come from a place where if we're not doing this, we have to get a job.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Unilever has said it will let Russian employees be conscripted to be sent to Ukraine if they are called up.\n\nThe consumer goods giant, which has about 3,000 employees in Russia, has policies that cover the well-being and safety of its workers.\n\nHowever, in a letter to campaign group B4Ukraine, it said it would comply with Russian conscription law.\n\nUnilever has been under pressure to pull out of Russia, but says the situation is \"not straightforward\".\n\nIn a letter to B4Ukraine, which campaigns for companies to cease operating in Russia to hurt its economy, Unilever said it \"absolutely condemns the war in Ukraine as a brutal, senseless act by the Russian state\".\n\nIt also said it had responsibility for its 3,000 workers, adding that it had \"global principles including the safety and well-being of our employees\".\n\nNevertheless, the British firm, which makes products including Marmite and Cornetto ice creams, said it was \"aware of the law requiring any company operating in Russia to permit the conscription of employees should they be called\".\n\n\"We always comply with all the laws of the countries we operate in,\" wrote Reginaldo Ecclissato, Unilever's chief business operations and supply chain officer.\n\nA spokesperson for the firm declined to say whether any Russian employees had been called up.\n\nAny who are will not continue to be paid by the firm, the spokesperson added.\n\nIn its letter, it said it had paid 3.8bn roubles (£33m) in tax to the Russian state in 2022, which was a similar amount to the previous year.\n\nThe majority of its business in Russia is personal care and hygiene products, but it continues to supply ice cream.\n\nAt least 25,000 Russians have been killed in the war, according to research by the BBC's Russian service and Russian website Mediazona, but other sources put the figure much higher.\n\nIn February, UK intelligence services estimated that between 40,000 and 60,000 Russian troops had died.\n\nRussian soldiers have also been accused by the UN of war crimes, including rapes, \"widespread\" torture and killings.\n\nUnilever and other Western firms have been under pressure to pull out of Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHowever, Unilever has said this is \"not straightforward\". If it abandoned operations, they would be \"appropriated and then operated\" by the Russian state.\n\nIt has not managed to find a way to sell the business that \"avoids the Russian state potentially gaining further benefit, and which safeguards our people\".\n\nIt said there were no \"desirable\" ways forward, but continuing to run the business with \"strict constraints\" was the best option at present.\n\nHowever, the Ukraine Solidarity Project, which is part of B4Ukraine, said Unilever's response was \"jaw-dropping\".\n\n\"One day you're manufacturing ice cream, the next you're gearing up for the front line. You can't say Unilever isn't offering its employees varied work experience,\" said campaigner Valeriia Voshchevska.\n\n\"If this is protecting your workers, I'd hate to see what putting them in harm's way looks like.\"", "Caryn Savazzi from south Wales tells the BBC that she arrived in Rhodes last night but ended up sleeping in a school rather than a hotel.\n\nShe travelled from Cardiff with her family and says she started to get worried when the pilot said \"if you look to the right you can see the wildfires\".\n\nDescribing the scene at Rhodes airport as \"carnage\", she says they ended up in a \"mass of queues\" but were eventually taken to a shelter in a school.\n\n“The locals have been marvellous - handing out water, food and lots of kindness.\n\n“But there was nothing from Tui or Jet2, just two young workers who were like rabbits in the headlights handing out cookies.\"\n\nShe, her husband and two children are now staying with a local family who took them in.\n\n\"Families were being evacuated yesterday so our plane should never have taken off to come into a disaster zone.\n\n\"Instead there should have been empty planes taking people out of there, not plane loads arriving.\"", "Thousands of people have been evacuated from wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes.\n\nTourists have fled from their hotels to emergency shelters, while some holidaymakers returning to the UK described people being covered in ash and still smelling of smoke from the fires.", "Zana Cousins-Greenwood said Harry Styles was \"what you want him to be, which is lovely\"\n\nA horse trainer has told how she urged Harry Styles to \"fake it to make it\" when getting in the saddle for his latest music video.\n\nIn the video for Daylight, the singer rode a horse from Hertfordshire-based Stampede Stunt Company.\n\nHandler Zana Cousins-Greenwood had to keep her experience secret after they met on set in Kent 14 months ago.\n\nShe said: \"We trained him to ride, we trained him to look good and he listened.\"\n\nStampede Stunt Company said Harry Styles \"took the time with everybody and learnt all the skills\"\n\nThe former One Direction singer revealed he had never a ridden a horse to Ms Cousins-Greenwood and her team as they shared a lunch break together.\n\nThis meant Styles only had about 20 minutes of training before cameras started rolling.\n\n\"We said to Harry 'just look like you're confident on a horse - fake it until you make it',\" Ms Cousins-Greenwood told BBC Three Counties Radio.\n\nThe Hemel Hempstead company has worked with many celebrities including Sir Anthony Hopkins and the late Paul O'Grady.\n\nUsually, stars visit the training centre to practice. However, due to his busy schedule, the team met Styles for the first time on set at a circus outside a garden centre.\n\nStampede Stunt Company has been training horses for 20 years\n\nTowards the end of the video, released on Wednesday, Styles rears the horse in slow motion while coolly holding eye contact with the camera.\n\n\"I'm pleased that the horse went nice and high, he can be lazy at times,\" said the trainer.\n\nThe Friesian horse, named Teake, was not initially meant to star in the video.\n\nHarry Styles only received 20 minutes of training before filming started\n\nOriginally a horse named Carnival was chosen, with Teake brought along to the shoot to keep the white stallion company.\n\nHowever, the the video's director preferred Teake and Carnival was forced to instead appear in the background of a shot.\n\nPoppleguy has previously worked with the comedian and broadcaster Paul O'Grady\n\nThe firm also provided a parrot for the video shoot.\n\nPoppleguy the parrot sits on Styles' shoulder as he feeds him a cashew nut.\n\nMs Cousins-Greenwood said that inclusion was unplanned because, although the parrot often features in music videos, he does not normally like to sit on people's shoulders.\n\n\"He's a little bit picky and he went straight on Harry Styles' shoulder, the sign of a good vibe,\" she said.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "A day out at the beauty salon allowed Afghan women to chat in a relaxed setting\n\nHair and beauty salons across Afghanistan will close in the coming weeks on the Taliban's orders.\n\nTheir closure will lead to the loss of an estimated 60,000 jobs.\n\nSalons had been allowed to keep operating since the Taliban retook power two years ago, but it reversed its position last month.\n\nThe decision further restricts spaces open to Afghan women, who are already barred from classrooms, gyms and parks.\n\n23-year-old Zarmina was in a beauty salon getting her hair dyed dark brown when news of the approaching closures came through.\n\n\"The owner got a big shock and started to cry. She is the breadwinner for her family,\" the mother of two said.\n\n\"I couldn't even look at the mirror when my eyebrow was being done. Everyone was in tears. There was silence.\"\n\nBeauty salons gave women a safe space to share their joys and sorrows\n\nZarmina lives in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban's conservative citadel where the supreme leader resides.\n\nShe says it's common here for men to ban their daughters from wearing make-up or going for a beauty treatment.\n\n\"Most women walk around in a burqa or hijab here. We have accepted it as part of our culture.\"\n\nZarmina was married at 16. She says a chat at the beautician was enough to give her a rare sense of freedom.\n\n\"I wasn't allowed to leave my house on my own, but I managed to persuade my husband, and was allowed to visit the beauty salon two or three times a year.\"\n\nShe used to go to the salon with a woman from her neighbourhood, developing a deep friendship with one of its workers.\n\n\"In the past, women used to talk about ways to influence their husbands. Some were open about their insecurities.\"\n\nBut the economic crisis had gradually intruded into their lives after the Taliban retook power in August 2021 following the withdrawal of US forces from the country.\n\nWomen's freedoms have steadily shrunk since then.\n\n\"Now women only talk about unemployment, discrimination and poverty,\" Zarmina says.\n\nMadina covers her head with a scarf when she leaves home. Only her husband and female members of her family can see her coloured hair.\n\nThe 22-year-old lives in Kabul, and keenly follows the latest beauty trends online.\n\n\"Every woman I know loves to improve her style. I love the latest fashion and wearing make-up.\"\n\nMany Afghan women choose elaborate make-up for their wedding day\n\nShe says going to the beauty salon has kept her marriage fresh.\n\n\"My husband really loves to see my hair in different colours and cut in different styles.\n\n\"He always takes me to the beauty salon and waits patiently at the door,\" she says proudly.\n\n\"He compliments my looks when I walk out, which makes me feel good.\"\n\nHer ambition was to become a lawyer but the Taliban stopped women going to university. She's been unable to find work since as women are also banned from many other roles.\n\nMadina used to accompany her mum to the salon as a child and vividly recalls how women would openly share their life stories with each other.\n\n\"Women employees in the salon no longer wear skirts or jeans, they're all in hijabs.\"\n\n\"No-one knows who is a Taliban supporter and no-one wants to say anything about politics.\"\n\nIn the past, grooms were allowed to watch their bride get ready. Madina even remembers some men taking photos inside the salon. This is all now banned.\n\nThe Taliban says beauty salons are forbidden by Islam\n\nBut Madina says she at least has joyful memories of her \"big day\" to cherish.\n\n\"I went to the beauty salon and got full bridal make-up before my wedding last year,\" she says.\n\n\"When I looked at myself in the mirror, I was so beautiful. It transformed me. I couldn't describe my happiness.\"\n\nFor 27-year-old Somaya from the north-western city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a beauty salon is a necessity.\n\nThree years ago she suffered burns to her face, losing her eyebrows and eyelashes after a heater in her room exploded.\n\n\"I couldn't bear to look at my face. I looked ugly,\" she says, her voice full of emotion.\n\n\"I thought everyone was looking at me and laughing at me because my eyebrows were gone. I didn't go out for a couple of months. I cried a lot during that time.\"\n\nMedical treatment healed her wounds, while the beauty salon helped her recover her sense of self.\n\nSome beauty salons were defaced as soon as the Taliban took over\n\n\"I went to the beauty salon and had micro-blading [a semi-permanent form of cosmetic tattooing]. It made me look much better,\" she says.\n\n\"When I looked at my eyebrows, I started to cry. They are tears of joy. The beauty salon gave me my life back.\"\n\nSomaya has a master's degree in psychology and works as a mental health counsellor. She has seen the number of women seeking her services swell since the Taliban imposed sweeping restrictions. She is not alone in using the beauty parlour for \"therapy\".\n\n\"For us, salons are more than places to do your make-up. It helped us hide our sorrows. It gave us energy and hope.\"\n\nZarmina agrees. As she walked home that June day, from what would be her last trip to the salon, she kept looking back.\n\nShe was fully aware of what she was losing - her tiny stab at independence.\n\n\"I paid for myself at the salon and it gave me strength and power. I have money but I can't spend it on myself in the beauty salon. This makes me feel poor.\"", "Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez was an early voter in Madrid calling for a big mobilisation of voters\n\nSpaniards are going to the polls in a general election that offers a choice of two starkly contrasting visions.\n\nSocialist leader Pedro Sánchez voted in Madrid and called for a big turnout.\n\nPrime Minister since 2018, he hopes the government's social reforms and its handling of a strongly performing economy will win over voters.\n\nBut his party has been lagging in polls behind the conservative People's Party (PP) led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who may end up needing far-right support.\n\nThis is the first Spanish general election of modern times held in the searing heat of mid-summer, when many Spaniards are on holiday.\n\nPolling for Spain's 37 million voters will continue Sunday until 20:00 (18:00 GMT), although almost 2.5 million have already cast their ballots by post.\n\nMr Feijóo, 61, caused controversy during the campaign by appearing to cast doubt on the management of postal votes.\n\nThe conservative leader wants to roll back many of the Socialist reforms. If he turns to the Vox party to form a majority in Spain's 350-seat parliament, it would mean the first far-right involvement in government since the Franco dictatorship ended in 1975.\n\nConservative leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo (R) is eyeing victory but he is unlikely to win a majority in parliament\n\nVox leader Santiago Abascal is a Spanish nationalist whose popularity has been driven as much by a fierce opposition to Catalan separatism and feminism as by anti-immigration policies.\n\n\"This will be a victory of progress over backwardness, the future over the past, truth over lies,\" Mr Sánchez has said. \"The right is focusing on telling lies, we are focusing on making a comeback.\"\n\nSince 2020, Mr Sánchez, 51, has led the first coalition government of Spain's modern era together with Unidas Podemos, to his left.\n\nHis administration has navigated the pandemic, a volcanic eruption on the Canary island of La Palma and the impact of the war in Ukraine, while overseeing a steady drop in the jobless rate and one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe.\n\nHowever, these issues have featured much less during the campaign than Mr Sánchez would have liked. Instead, he has faced fierce criticism of his government's reliance on the parliamentary support of Basque and Catalan separatists.\n\nThe right has cast Mr Sánchez as a cynical power-grabber, willing to engage with the enemies of Spain's constitutional democracy in order to remain in office.\n\nMr Feijóo has said that if elected he plans to reverse a series of reforms introduced by the left-wing government, including laws tackling the legacy of the Franco nationalist dictatorship and making gender transition easier. He also wants to review new euthanasia and abortion legislation.\n\nHe has appealed to Spaniards to give him enough votes to \"end the impasses\" in the country's politics. \"A strong majority that doesn't need to rely on radicals is crucial in order for us to move forwards,\" he said.\n\nHe has come under pressure in the latter stages of the campaign over his friendship with a notorious Galician drug trafficker, Marcial Dorado, during the 1990s. Mr Feijóo has said he was unaware of Dorado's criminal activities at the time.\n\nIn regional and municipal elections in May, the PP gained ground as the Socialists and other parties on the left suffered losses.\n\nHowever, a new left-wing platform, Sumar, has been formed for the general election, gathering 15 parties under the same banner, including Unidas Podemos. Led by charismatic labour minister Yolanda Díaz, Sumar is aiming to secure third place ahead of Vox, and thus give Mr Sánchez a chance of forming a new coalition government.\n\nThe PP and Vox have already formed dozens of coalitions and governing partnerships on a local level.\n\nThe parties on the left warn that victory on Sunday for Mr Feijóo would open the door to the far right entering the national government, bringing with it a rolling back of rights for immigrants, women and the LGBTQ+ community.", "Fourth LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Emirates Old Trafford (day four of five):\n\nEngland dodged the rain to take the vital wicket of Marnus Labuschagne but their Ashes hopes remain in the balance going into the final day of the fourth Test against Australia.\n\nOn a fourth day that could have been entirely lost to rain, a period of dry weather allowed 30 overs of play from 14:45 BST at Old Trafford.\n\nEngland were frustrated for a long period by Labuschagne, who made only his second overseas Test hundred and shared a stubborn partnership of 103 with Mitchell Marsh.\n\nAs the light faded, England were ordered to bowl spin and Joe Root's off-breaks provided an unlikely source of inspiration.\n\nHe had Labuschagne caught behind by juggling wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow for 111 and almost had Marsh held at short leg.\n\nRain arrived at the scheduled tea break of 17:00, preventing any further action and leaving Australia on 214-5, still 61 short of making England bat again. Marsh has 31 and Cameron Green three.\n\nWith more bad weather forecast for Sunday, England are left hoping for enough time to force the win that would level the series at 2-2 and turn the fifth Test at The Oval into a decider.\n\nThough victory is now almost out of the question for Australia, a draw would be enough for them to retain the urn.\n• None How day four at Old Trafford unfolded\n• None England will win 3-2 if they win fourth Test - Vaughan\n\nThis series has produced three thrilling Tests, with the drama in the fourth now coming through England's battle with the weather. It would be a huge anti-climax if the rain has a decisive say in the destination of the Ashes urn.\n\nEngland were fortunate to get any play on Saturday. Overnight rain persisted into the morning and early afternoon, but the ground was readied at a remarkable speed. The empty stands filled rapidly as news of a start filtered through.\n\nThough the overheads were ideal and the crowd expectant, England were blocked by an unresponsive surface - there was no sign of the uneven bounce from earlier in the match - and the determination of Labuschagne and Marsh.\n\nThe reverse swing of Friday evening also disappeared as the ball became wet. When England persuaded the umpires to change it and looked to bring Mark Wood into the attack, they were told the light was not fit enough for pace. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as Root proved to be the most threatening bowler.\n\nEngland will return on Sunday wishing for the weather to be kind. There is the possibility of 98 overs of play and second new ball available nine overs into the day.\n\nFor Australia, they will not only be looking to repel England, but also build a lead to make the hosts' route to victory longer. Their inclusion of both Marsh and Green in this Test, extending the batting line-up, was done partly with this scenario in mind.\n\nLabuschagne delivers when Australia need it most\n\nThis has been a difficult series for Labuschagne. Beginning ranked as the world's number one Test batter, he had not managed a half-century before this match.\n\nHe hinted at a return to form with 51 in the first innings and then delivered what could yet prove to be an Ashes-saving hundred.\n\nWith Australia 113-4 overnight, Labuschagne began on 44 and Marsh one. Though Labuschagne took a painful blow on the finger from a Wood bouncer, he was largely untroubled by England's short-ball plan.\n\nMarsh, usually so aggressive, was a calm foil. He has struck only four fours in a 107-ball stay and two of those came in successive deliveries from Chris Woakes, who spent time off the field suffering from stiffness.\n\nWhen Root came on, Labuschagne lofted two sixes over long-on, but also flashed an edge off an arm-ball past slip Zak Crawley when he was on 93.\n\nHe went to his 11th Test ton by pinching a single off Moeen Ali before making an error attempting to cut Root and was given out on review.\n\nGiven the stakes and urgency of the situation, this was a curiously flat performance from England's seamers.\n\nThey got little movement from the ball or the pitch and chewed up precious time as they deliberated over field placings and tactics.\n\nA bouncer plan achieved little other than knocking the ball out of shape, after which came the stroke of luck with Wood being denied the chance to bowl, resulting in the call to Moeen and Root.\n\nWhile Moeen mixed some dangerous bounce with regular loose deliveries, Root constantly made things happen.\n\nHe was convinced on-field umpire Nitin Menon had made a mistake for the Labuschagne wicket, celebrating towards the Party Stand even before the review was complete. In the same over, an inside edge off Marsh went in and out of the fingers of bat-pad fielder Harry Brook.\n\nGreen survived a review off Moeen from the final ball before the tea break. England would have been happy to bowl more spin after the interval, only to be denied the opportunity.\n\nAustralia batter Marnus Labuschagne, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It's always very special getting a Test hundred. It doesn't happen too often but I'm disappointed I couldn't get us to tea.\n\n\"We were so close to having a tremendous day there. For us, this is about saving this Test match and retaining the Ashes.\"\n\nEngland batting coach Marcus Trescothick: \"We got more play than we expected. It looked like a complete washout so it's a bonus. We're one wicket closer but it's still frustrating.\n\n\"It really does depend on the weather. We wanted to get two or three wickets today and we'll take any play we can tomorrow.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"England were a bit flat. There wasn't much of their usual chatter and the noise from the players you get when you are going for a win.\"", "Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu faces pressure from reservists and former security chiefs ahead of key vote on the country's judicial reform\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been discharged from hospital after emergency surgery to fit a pacemaker.\n\nMr Netanyahu had been admitted to the Sheba Medical Centre on Saturday night.\n\nHis hospitalisation came ahead of a key vote expected in parliament on Monday on contentious plans to overhaul Israel's judiciary.\n\nProtests against the reform have swept across Israel, with many workers vowing to strike if it goes ahead.\n\nIn a video on Sunday following the surgery, Mr Netanyahu said he was in \"excellent health\" and planned to be in parliament for the vote.\n\nThe vote will amount to a showdown between the hard-line religious-nationalist coalition and swathes of Israeli society. Parliament began debating the highly contested bill to limit the Supreme Court's powers on Sunday.\n\nOne by one, Israeli opposition MPs took to the floor of the parliament chamber, pleading with the government to ditch its judicial reform plans.\n\nThe last few days have seen tens of thousands of protesters march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to oppose the justice system changes, with people filling the main highway.\n\nMany protesters camped up at Sacher Park in Jerusalem, near the parliament, after the four-day protest march.\n\nAnti-government protesters camped up near the Knesset - Israel's parliament - as lawmakers debate and vote on plans to limit Supreme Court's powers\n\nDemonstrations near the parliament are expected, and the coalition also faces the threat of a mass boycott of service duty by thousands of military reservists, including hundreds of air force pilots, if the law passes.\n\nThree former army chiefs of staff and dozens of senior Israeli security officials signed a letter on Saturday criticising the government's judicial reform plans and supporting reservists.\n\n\"This legislation is destroying the common foundations of Israeli society, ripping the people apart, dismantling the army and inflicting fatal harm to Israel's security,\" the letter reads.\n\nBrothers in Arms, which represents 10,000 reservists, have voiced their frustration at the government's plans.\n\n\"We've tried everything, this is where we draw the line,\" Eyal Nave, one of the leaders of Brothers in Arms, said.\n\n\"We pledged to serve the kingdom and not the king,\" Mr Nave said. Appealing directly to Mr Netanyahu, he said: \"You and only you are responsible for what is happening here. We had faith in the government but the government broke us.\n\n\"I will not volunteer to serve in a dictatorial state,\" Mr Nave added.\n\nA boycott by such a large number would seriously impact the operational capability of the Israeli military and so this is being seen as one of the most pivotal moments in the anti-government protest movement so far.\n\nIsrael's Supreme Court is the only source of scrutiny on the government's use of its power.\n\nMr Netanyahu's critics worry the reform will severely undermine Israel's democracy by weakening the judicial system.\n\nSupporters of the reforms argue that the Supreme Court has become increasingly \"activist\" over the decades, hindering the policies of democratically elected governments. They accuse judges of making politically-based decisions.\n\nBut many worry the prime minister - who currently faces corruption charges, which he denies - is trying to use the judicial reform to thwart his own legal issues.\n\nMerav Michaeli, a former government minister who chairs Israel's Labour party, said \"a tiny majority\" of politicians was \"coming to really ruin the state of Israel\".\n• None What is the crisis in Israel about?", "The attack happened in the town of San Luis Río Colorado on the US border\n\nA man has been arrested in Mexico on suspicion of setting fire to a bar after he was kicked out, killing 11 people, officials say.\n\nThe attack happened on Friday night in San Luis Río Colorado, which borders the United States. The bar sits just one street away from the border.\n\nAuthorities say a drunk young man hurled a Molotov cocktail at the Beer House bar after being thrown out.\n\nHe had reportedly been harassing women before being ejected.\n\nThe mayor of San Luis Río Colorado tweeted on Saturday afternoon that a suspect had been arrested. He has not yet been named.\n\nThe fire killed seven men and four women and left four other people hospitalised, according to a statement from the Sonora state Attorney General's Office. A number of those injured were rushed across the border to hospitals in the United States for treatment.\n\n\"According to versions (from) several witnesses, the person with a young, male appearance was disrespecting women in that bar and was expelled,\" the statement said.\n\nIt described the object thrown as \"a kind of 'Molotov' cocktail\".\n\nInvestigations continue to \"clarify the facts\" and \"bring justice\" it said, adding that \"in Sonora, no one is above the law\".\n\nIt is unclear if the incident is related to organised crime, which has plagued Mexico for years.", "The Barbie film has become the US and Canada's biggest film of the year so far, said distributor Warner Bros.\n\nAn estimated $155m (£120m) was made in its opening weekend, the company said.\n\nMeanwhile, new release Oppenheimer - also out on Friday - made $93.7m (£72m) in the US, said Universal Pictures.\n\nThe features come at a time when cinemas in general are struggling as they lose out to competition from streaming.\n\nMeanwhile, in the UK, Vue said both films had led to the cinema chain seeing its busiest weekend in four years.\n\nVue, which has 91 cinemas throughout the UK and Ireland, said it saw its biggest weekend in four years and second biggest weekend in history by admissions, with director Greta Gerwig's Barbie on track to become the biggest film of 2023, ahead of Super Mario Bros.\n\nThe two films brought in half a million people to Vue screens, with 4,000 sold out viewings across the UK and Ireland, the company said.\n\nVue added that its most popular sites for Barbie sellouts include Cambridge, Glasgow St Enoch, Leeds Kirkstall, Bolton, Islington in London.\n\nOppenheimer's plot is centred on the development of the first atomic bomb, starring Cillian Murphy and directed by Christopher Nolan.\n\nMeanwhile, Barbie tells a coming-of-age story of the children's character where she explores her identity and encourages friend Ken to establish individuality.\n\nThe two films were both released on Friday and the competition between them both was referred to on social media as \"Barbenheimer\".\n\nThe opening weekend for Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, has seen its ticket sales overtake that for the opening weekend of blockbuster Super Mario Bros, making Barbie the biggest film of 2023 so far.\n\nOn Twitter, one user said that it had been years since she had felt like going to the theatres to re-watch a movie, but Barbie had achieved that for her. She said it would \"remain a timeless masterpiece over the years - ideas really are forever\".\n\nBefore the films' release, Odeon in the UK said more than 200,000 advance tickets had been bought and some 10,000 filmgoers were expected to see both the Barbie and Oppenheimer films during the opening weekend.\n\nMeanwhile, Vue cinema in the UK reported on Friday that Barbie's pre-sale purchases were \"higher than any other blockbuster released this year\". Admissions on Friday were the highest for any Friday since the pandemic - and the chain's third biggest Friday ever.\n\nUniversal Pictures said Oppenheimer had made £8.05m in the UK and Ireland since Friday.\n\nIt added that Oppenheimer was forecast to have a better opening three days than Christopher Nolan's other blockbusters - space-themed Interstellar, war thriller Dunkirk and sci-fi hit Inception.\n\nEarlier in July, stars left the premiere of Oppenheimer early because of strike action over grievances including the encroachment of artificial intelligence in the making and writing of Hollywood films.\n\nThe film made $93.7m (£75m) in international markets, bringing its global total to $174.2m (£135m), Universal Pictures said.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says \"there is still a long way to go\"\n\nLabour must learn the lessons of its by-election defeat in Uxbridge, Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nThe Labour leader had blamed the loss on London Mayor Sadiq Khan's plans to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) - a tax on polluting vehicles.\n\nConservative Steve Tuckwell won the seat after campaigning against the tax.\n\nAddressing Labour's national forum, Sir Keir said there was \"something very wrong\" when a Labour policy was on \"each and every Tory leaflet\".\n\nIn a bruising week for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour and the Lib Dems took two safe Tory seats. Labour's Keir Mather, 25, won in Selby and Ainsty, North Yorkshire, overturning a 20,137 majority to become the youngest sitting MP.\n\nThe Conservatives clung on narrowly in the third by-election, in Uxbridge, Boris Johnson's former seat, despite a big swing to Labour.\n\nSir Keir said that while the by-election win in North Yorkshire should give Labour \"every reason to be confident\", the loss in Uxbridge showed there was \"still a long way to go\".\n\nThe Conservative win in Uxbridge sparked debates about both parties' green policies.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC the Ulez plan had cost Labour victory - but Mr Khan has defended the measure as the \"right one\".\n\nSpeaking during a visit to Shefford in Nadine Dorries' constituency of Mid Bedfordshire, the Labour leader told journalists: \"I don't think there is any doubt that Ulez was the reason that we lost the election in Uxbridge.\"\n\nSir Keir said he had spoken to the London mayor, adding: \"But we're not sitting back, we're not looking over our shoulder. We're pressing forward.\"\n\nSources close to Mr Khan told the BBC he was in \"constructive listening mode\" but added that he had no plans to delay the scheme's expansion at the end of August.\n\nAsked whether Labour needs to rethink its climate polices, Sir Keir said: \"When it comes to green commitments, it's not a question of whether they should be done, of course it needs to be done - it's how they're done.\n\n\"So there's a discussion to be had about that.\"\n\nMr Tuckwell, the winning candidate in Uxbridge, said the \"damaging and costly Ulez policy\" had cost Labour the chance of winning the seat.\n\nThe Ulez is a £12.50 daily charge for driving in London, applicable if the vehicle does not meet certain emission standards. It initially covered the same central area as the congestion charge before widening to the North and South Circular roads in 2021.\n\nA further expansion to cover all London boroughs is due to start on 29 August.\n\nOn Friday, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the Uxbridge result showed that \"when you don't listen to voters, you don't win elections\".\n\nCities need clean air, she said, but she warned that people who needed new vehicles must get \"proper compensation and support\" so that the policy does not come \"at the cost of working families\".\n\nSome on the right of the Conservative party say that pulling back from some green policies would prove popular with voters, at a time when families are feeling cost-of-living pressures.\n\nTory MP Craig Mackinlay, chairman of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, has suggested delaying the ban on new diesel and petrol cars, pushing it back \"at least\" five years to 2035.\n\nDowning Street sources say there are no plans to change climate targets - but that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will try to set his party apart from Labour in the coming months.\n\nAs the major parties digest the by-election results, ex-climate minister Lord Ian Duncan, a Conservative, warned that if Sir Keir and Rishi Sunak do not put politics aside and agree a common approach to climate change, people will face \"serious challenges\".\n\nLord Duncan, who was the parliamentary under secretary for climate change from July 2019 to February 2020, said a \"bipartisan approach\" was needed from both parties to \"get behind\" common climate policies.\n\nThe UK government's net zero tsar, Chris Skidmore, said it would be an \"abdication\" of responsibility if ministers \"play politics\" with environmental policies.\n\nMr Skidmore, the Conservative MP for Kingswood, said: \"The net zero review I chaired demonstrated that net zero isn't just an environmental policy, but a key economic driver of future growth and investment that can transform Britain for the better, but this requires all political parties not to play politics with safeguarding our futures.\"\n\nHe urged politicians to prioritise \"the lives and health of the public and the opportunity for economic growth\" ahead of \"gamesmanship\".\n\n\"It is also really bad politics, given that the environment and taking action on climate change consistently polls third in the issues that voters care about,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least one person has been killed and 19 injured in Russian missile strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, officials have said.\n\nThe Transfiguration Cathedral in the Unesco world heritage-listed historic centre was also badly damaged.\n\nRussia claimed its Odesa targets were being used to prepare \"terrorist acts\" and blamed Sunday's cathedral attack on Ukrainian air defence.\n\nMoscow has been launching near-constant attacks on Odesa since it withdrew from a landmark grain deal on Monday.\n\nRegional governor Oleh Kiper said 14 people, including four children, were taken to hospital on Sunday after the blasts - that also destroyed six residential buildings. .\n\nKyiv accused Russia of \"destroying\" the cathedral as part of a campaign to \"systematically\" harm the Orthodox Church in the country.\n\n\"A war crime that will never be forgotten and forgiven #RussiaIsATerroristState,\" its foreign ministry tweeted.\n\nThe damage is as colossal as the cathedral itself. The cracks along its walls represent the strain Odesa has found itself under after a week of constant attacks from the skies.\n\nThere is no doubt this was a direct hit from a missile.\n\nMost of the roof is missing. The building's thick ancient walls are still standing but there are pillars leaning at a worrying angle.\n\nTeams have been ferociously picking up debris since the impact in the small hours of this morning.\n\nThey show us fragments of what they say was the Russian missile, which destroyed a place of worship under Moscow's control. A cruel irony which is likely to be unintended.\n\nThe building is Odesa's largest Orthodox church and was consecrated in 1809. It was demolished by the Soviet Union in 1939, before being rebuilt in 2003.\n\nAndriy Palchuk, the archdeacon of the cathedral, said he was the first person to arrive at the scene.\n\n\"The destruction is enormous; half of the cathedral was left without a roof, and the central piles and foundation were destroyed,\" he said.\n\n\"All the windows and stucco moulding were blown out. There was a fragmentary fire, the part where icons and candles are sold in the church caught fire. It was all on fire, burning.\"\n\nUnesco, the UN's cultural agency, said it was \"deeply dismayed and condemns in the strongest terms\" the attack on the historic centre of Odesa.\n\nIt has repeatedly urged Russia to cease attacks on Odesa. The city's historic centre was designated an endangered World Heritage by the organisation earlier this year, despite Russian opposition.\n\nBut in an update posted to Facebook, Ukraine's southern command said Russia had targeted the Odesa region with at least five different types of missiles.\n\nThe head of Ukraine's presidential office, Andriy Yermak, repeated calls for more missiles and defence systems after the latest attack on Odesa.\n\n\"This is the undisguised terror of a peaceful city,\" Mr Yermak wrote on Telegram. \"The enemy must be deprived of the opportunity to attack civilians and infrastructure.\"\n\nMoscow has notably stepped up attacks on the port city since it withdrew from the UN backed grain deal on Monday and Ukraine has accused it of targeting grain supplies and infrastructure vital to the deal.\n\nA strike earlier this week destroyed some 60,000 tonnes of grain, officials said.\n\nOdesa is Ukraine's biggest port, and millions of tonnes of grain have been shipped from its docks under the terms of the deal.\n\nThe deal - brokered by Turkey and the UN - between Russia and Ukraine was struck in July 2022, allowing cargo ships to sail along a corridor in the Black Sea.", "Mr Feijóo said it was his duty to try to form a government, but his chances look very slim\n\nSpain has entered a phase of political uncertainty that could see the country return to the polls in just a few months.\n\nThe conservative People's Party (PP) won the most seats but fell short of a parliamentary majority, even with the support of the far-right Vox party.\n\nNow, the conservatives and the incumbent Socialists will both separately try to form coalitions.\n\nPP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and his rival, Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, will each begin negotiations on Monday to try to head off a fresh vote, which might take place by the end of 2023.\n\nAs the leader of the party that won the most votes, Mr Feijóo will be invited by King Felipe VI to try to form a government. If Mr Feijóo declines on the grounds that he cannot muster enough support - as former PP leader Mariano Rajoy did in a similar situation in 2015 - the king may turn to Mr Sánchez.\n\nIf the candidate accepts the king's invitation, he then has two months to secure a majority.\n\nFailing that, new elections must be held.\n\nPP official Borja Sémper said Mr Sánchez is the first person Mr Feijóo will call to ask him to agree to support the PP in forming a \"solo government with specific agreements\" - a request the Socialist prime minister is unlikely to agree to.\n\nDespite the inconclusive results, Mr Feijóo told cheering conservative supporters that it was now his duty to try to form a government.\n\n\"Spaniards know we have gone from being the second force to the party with the most votes,\" he said, adding: \"I hope this doesn't start a period of uncertainty in Spain.\"\n\nBut that is what Spain is facing. Because with far-right party Vox on 33 seats and Mr Feijóo's PP on 136, they would be seven seats short of an absolute majority of 176 in parliament.\n\nThat is why Mr Sánchez's Socialists and his far-left allies Sumar appeared happiest in the wake of the results.\n\n\"The reactionary bloc of regression, which set out a complete reversal of all the advances that we've achieved over the past four years, has failed,\" he told supporters.\n\nSocialist supporters in Madrid were delighted with leader Pedro Sánchez's performance\n\nOne Spanish website, El Español, said that despite the PP's victory, Mr Sánchez still had a chance of forming a government.\n\nBut those very slim chances would require going even further than before in securing separatist support.\n\nMr Sanchez would need the support of hardline, pro-independence party Together for Catalonia (Junts). But its leader, Carles Puigdemont, who has been living in self-imposed exile in Belgium since Catalonia's failed independence bid in 2017, said earlier this month that Junts would not support either the Socialists or the PP.\n\nOn Monday, the party's general secretary Jordi Turull seemed to indicate the party could use its new kingmaker status as a bargaining chip to advance the cause of Catalan independence.\n\nBut although Mr Sánchez has taken steps to normalise relations with the separatists by pardoning jailed pro-independence leaders and downgrading the crime of secession, he has repeatedly and firmly said that he would not allow Catalonia to hold a referendum on self-determination.\n\nWhile PP leader Mr Feijóo declared victory after the results were announced, one of the few leaders who showed no sign of celebrating was far-right Vox leader Santiago Abascal. \"It's a day of concern,\" he said on Sunday night.\n\nPolitical analyst Iago Moreno said the far right blamed the conservative PP for \"complicity in the demonisation of Vox\", seeing Sunday's result as the beginning of a journey to a \"second round\" which could come by Christmas.\n\n\"We have not achieved our objectives to kick Pedro Sanchez out... There will probably be another election where we can make this happen,\" Mr Abascal said.\n\nWhile the Socialist leader and Sumar put on a show of unity in a TV debate last week, conservative leader Mr Feijóo was conspicuously absent, giving the impression that Vox was on its own.\n\nBut Vox voters did come out in force, backing Mr Abascal's platform of anti-immigration and anti-feminism. Many saw him as their best hope of defending Spain's traditional values.\n\nTurnout topped 70% on Sunday, as voters sensed the importance of this rare mid-summer election. That was partly due to almost 2.5 million postal votes being cast, but polling stations were busiest in the morning before the heat took hold.\n\nVox remains the third biggest party, with the support of three million of Spain's 37 million voters, but not significantly ahead of Sumar and with a big drop in seat numbers.\n\nVoting numbers were buoyed on Sunday by 1.6 million young voters having the right to take part in the election for the first time.\n\nAn estimated 10 million Spaniards are already on holiday and one man at a coastal polling station made a point of wearing a snorkel and flippers.\n\nMany voters said they felt there was too much at stake in this election, even if it was being held in mid-summer. One father of three, called Sergio, told the BBC that many people he knew were anxious and angry that an extreme-right party might end up in government.\n\nI support Vox because I see it as the only party that can radically change all the left-wing policies that have been approved little by little", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeven Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested while trying to halt the annual Pride parade in central London.\n\nImages on social media showed police removing demonstrators who managed to briefly stop the march.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said seven people were arrested for public nuisance offences.\n\nBefore the parade started, LGBTQ+ Just Stop Oil members called on Pride to stop accepting sponsorship money from \"high-polluting industries\".\n\nOrganisers estimate more than 30,000 participants from across 600 organisations took part in the parade.\n\nSpeaking after the arrests, Will De'Athe-Morris, from Pride in London said he did not want the protest to overshadow the parade's core message.\n\n\"Pride is a protest and pride is a celebration,\" he told the BBC. \"We are protesting for LGBT+ rights and for our trans siblings, who must never march alone.\"\n\n\"So for us anyone who tries to disrupt that protest and parade is really letting down those people who use this space once a year to come together to celebrate and protest for those rights.\"\n\nProtesters stopped in front of a Coca-Cola float in Piccadilly\n\nPolice said the parade was briefly delayed for around 17 minutes while officers dealt with the protesters at Piccadilly's junction with Down Street.\n\nBBC Radio London's Rob Oxley said the protesters \"sat down in front of the Coke float for around 20 minutes\".\n\n\"The DJ on the float continued to play music and the crowd cheered as they were removed.\"\n\nOrganisers estimated around 30,000 participants from across 600 organisations took part in the parade\n\nBefore the parade started, LGBTQ+ members of Just Stop Oil called on organisers to condemn new oil, gas and coal licences.\n\n\"These partnerships embarrass the LGBTQ+ community at a time when much of the cultural world is rejecting ties to these toxic industries,\" they said in a statement.\n\nLGBTQ+ people are \"suffering first\" in the \"accelerating social breakdown\" caused by climate change, they added.\n\nMayor of London, Sadiq Khan, says many people involved in the parade are passionate about tackling climate change, but disruption isn't the right approach\n\nThe procession started at midday at Hyde Park Corner and people peacefully made their way through Westminster's streets - it finished at Whitehall Place.\n\nA number of stages hosted performances from LGBTQ+ acts as part of the celebrations.\n\nThe parade began at Hyde Park Corner and weaved its way through central London - it is due to end at Whitehall Place\n\nMr De'Athe-Morris urged protesters not to \"rain on this parade\".\n\n\"There are so many more opportunities during the year to share your messages, please don't try and rain on this parade,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't want to see a day marred in any way by people trying to disrupt it.\"\n\nEarlier, Sadiq Khan described Just Stop Oil as a \"really important pressure group\" despite the disruption threats.", "Violence has erupted across France since the killing of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop on Tuesday\n\nA French policeman has been charged with homicide and is now in custody over the killing of a teenager during a traffic stop near Paris on Tuesday.\n\nThe 17-year-old, named as Nahel M, was shot at point-blank range as he drove off and crashed soon afterwards.\n\nAnger at his killing has sparked violence across the country. A march led by the boy's mother was marred by clashes on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIn a third night of unrest, 667 people were arrested, French officials say.\n\nIn Paris, shops were ransacked and cars set on fire overnight despite a heavy police presence.\n\nAcross France, 40,000 police officers were deployed, with 249 of them injured in Wednesday night's clashes, according to the interior ministry.\n\nEarlier, bus and tram services in Paris and the wider region stopped operating at 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Thursday. Night-time curfews were in place in some suburbs.\n\nIn the town of Nanterre, where the teenager was killed, a huge fire engulfed the ground floor of a building where a bank is located.\n\nVideo and pictures on social media also appear to show piles of rubbish ablaze in several places.\n\nOfficers were injured on Thursday afternoon as well, during violence in Nanterre that followed a largely peaceful march calling for justice. It was attended by more than 6,000 people.\n\nPrime Minister Élisabeth Borne said she understood the outpouring of emotion following the 17-year-old's death, but condemned the riots.\n\n\"Nothing justifies the violence that's occurred,\" she said.\n\nThe teenager's death has sparked a wider conversation about the power of the police and the relationship between the authorities and people from France's suburbs, who feel segregated from the country's prosperous city centres.\n\n\"We have a law and judicial system that protects police officers and it creates a culture of impunity in France,\" Nahel's lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme.\n\nBut Nahel's mother said she did not blame the police in general, or the system, for the killing - just the officer who fired the lethal shot that killed her son.\n\nThe officer accused of killing him said he had fired because he felt his life was in danger. His lawyer told French radio station RTL that his client discharged his firearm \"in full compliance of the law\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Friday morning, Thierry Clair, deputy secretary general of Unsad-Police trade union, said an investigation would \"determine whether this is a case of a legal or illegal use of a weapon\".\n\nHe said that by law, police officers may use their weapons in certain circumstances.\n\n\"The key thing is the principle of proportionality with the nature of the threat,\" Mr Clair said. \"For instance, one of the cases refers to stopping a vehicle whose occupants refuse to comply and present a risk for someone else if they attempt to escape.\n\n\"And the incident we're talking about - in which a weapon was used - might fall into that category.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'They've taken my baby' - Mother of teen shot by police", "Three people, two of them children, have died in a flat fire in Cambridge\n\nTwo children and a woman have died after a fire in a flat.\n\nCambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) said more than 30 firefighters were called to Sackville Close, King's Hedges ward, Cambridge, at about 01:10 BST on Friday.\n\nIt said a boy and a girl were rescued, but died later in hospital, and a woman in her 30s died at the scene.\n\nA man in his 30s escaped before crews arrived and remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nThe East of England Ambulance Service (EEAS) said an infant from an adjoining property was also taken to hospital for assessment.\n\nEmergency services attended the scene on Friday morning and a police cordon remains in place\n\nCFRS area commander Stuart Smith said it was \"a devastating and deeply upsetting incident that will touch many people\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the relatives, friends and neighbours of the family,\" he said.\n\nPolice, ambulance, air ambulance, and fire crews from across the county were sent to the scene.\n\nFlowers have been laid close to where the fire took hold\n\nPeter Griffin, 30, who lives close by, said it was \"devastating\".\n\n\"We woke up... and looked out and there was kind of an orange glow coming from the flat,\" he said.\n\nHe said the crews were \"very organised\" and \"seemed to get the fire under control quite quickly\".\n\nCFRS said firefighters were met with smoke coming from the ground and first floor of a two-storey building and worked to stop it spreading to neighbouring properties.\n\nMr Smith said it would have \"a huge impact on the local community\".\n\n\"Our fire safety team was in the area visiting residents yesterday to provide fire safety information and reassurance, and will be returning next week,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the fire service was \"looking after the welfare of all those who responded to or supported this incident\".\n\nEEAS said three ambulances, three Hazardous Area Response Team vehicles, two ambulance officer vehicles and response cars from the East Anglian Air Ambulance and Essex and Herts Air Ambulance \"were called out\".\n\nA representative said the service wanted to \"extend its deepest sympathies to all those affected\".\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire has begun.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Toys and flowers were left outside the scene of the stabbings in 2021\n\nA woman who murdered her eight-week old son and attempted to murder his two-year-old sister has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.\n\nThe woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, accepted she stabbed the children in Northern Ireland on 27 July 2021 but had denied the charges.\n\nIn a statement, the children's father said: \"Words cannot describe what my family and I have been through.\n\n\"We never got to see my son grow up but will never forget him.\"\n\nThe woman was convicted at Belfast Crown Court in March.\n\nShe was given an automatic life sentence and her minimum term has now been set.\n\nDuring the trial a prosecution barrister put to the defendant that she had stabbed her children out of \"spite and animosity\" against her partner, which she denied.\n\nA psychiatrist told the trial the woman told him: \"He destroyed my life so I destroyed his.\"\n\nAfter the woman stabbed the children she made five phone calls, including one to the children's father, telling him their daughter was \"lying slowly bleeding\".\n\nIt was only after this call that she phoned 999, telling police: \"I killed my kid for him.\"\n\nThe woman was sentenced at Belfast Crown Court\n\nBoth children were taken to the emergency department at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and were treated as they lay side-by-side.\n\nThe young girl was successfully treated for a stab wound to her chest but her baby brother was later pronounced dead.\n\nAfter her arrest the defendant made the case that she stabbed her children and then turned the knife on herself as she wanted them all to die together.\n\nDuring police interview the woman detailed how she had lifted a knife to stab her baby but then stopped after he looked at her and smiled.\n\nShe said she kissed both children, told them they \"would always be in her heart\", then stabbed the baby twice through the heart.\n\nA doctor who treated the little girl said her stab wound was \"as close to penetrating the heart as you can get\" and that she was \"a very lucky little girl\".\n\nOn Friday the court was told of the lasting impact witnessing her brother's death had on the girl, who is now four and who lives with foster carers.\n\nA clinical psychologist's report found she had been observed \"re-enacting\" the incident through play, both in her foster placement and at nursery - where she was seen stabbing a toy doll with play scissors.\n\nThe court was told she had suffered \"significant terror\" and \"the most serious breach of trust from the person who should have cared for her the most\".\n\nThe girl has been left feeling \"unsafe, confused, sad, stressed, terrified and anxious\" - and that what she went through will have \"a lifelong effect\", the court heard.\n\nThe woman previously made references to her partner's use of drink and drugs, and also claimed that he beat and sexually abused her.\n\nShe described her relationship as making her feel like \"a dog in a cage\" and said stabbing the children and herself was her only chance to \"escape him\".\n\nThe court heard that her partner was not at home at the time of the stabbings. He had been excluded from the family home following an allegation of assault against the defendant three days previously.\n\nOn Friday Judge Donna McColgan said evidence read to the jury regarding the woman's partner made it clear that he was \"a most unsavoury character\".\n\nDet Insp Gina Quinn says the murder of the baby boy was \"senseless and tragic\"\n\nJudge McColgan said the breach of trust in the case was \"exceptionally high\" and that the defendant was suffering from \"mild to moderate depression\" at the time of the attacks.\n\nShe said it was an \"exceptionally grave case\".\n\nJudge McColgan also paid tribute to the \"tireless and unrelenting\" work of Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers who attended the scene and tried to save the lives of both children.\n\nSpeaking to reporters after court, police officer Det Insp Gina Quinn said that a tiny, innocent life was taken in \"senseless and tragic\" circumstances.\n\nShe added that the family had lost an opportunity to see one of the children grow up, while the surviving child has lost her brother.\n\n\"There is nothing I can do or say that will undo this loss or begin to ease their pain,\" she added.\n\n\"My thoughts, and that of the investigation team, are with the surviving child, the family and the wider community who have all been affected.\"", "The woman is especially concerned about the effect of the mould on her children's health\n\nA woman from County Antrim has said she is concerned black mould in her home is putting her children's health at risk.\n\nThe mother of three lives in a property in Ballymena owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.\n\nShe has raised concerns several times in the past three years but told BBC News NI the problem was getting worse.\n\nThe Housing Executive said it was working on the issue and was \"committed to getting the ongoing damp problems resolved\" as soon as possible.\n\nIt said it had spent £6,000 on work so far, including fitting new insulation, improving windows, removing mould and supplying dehumidifiers.\n\nThe woman, whose name is not being disclosed by BBC News NI, said that mould on her ceiling is the first thing she sees when she wakes up and the last thing she sees when she goes to bed.\n\nThe woman says parts of her home are \"literally crying with condensation\"\n\nThe woman has fibromyalgia and said the biggest trigger for her condition was stress.\n\nShe told BBC News NI she is especially concerned for her son.\n\n\"The mould in his room appears faster than I can get rid of it,\" she said.\n\n\"He's asthmatic and there's health implications there too.\"\n\nHer worries increased after learning last year about the death of a toddler in England who was exposed to mould, she said.\n\n\"It was heart-breaking and it was scary because I'm thinking my babies are living in conditions not dissimilar to what that child was living in.\"\n\nShe added: \"I have told the Housing Executive, the people I am supposed to tell… to have this problem sorted and it never goes away. It is so demoralising.\n\n\"I have had suicidal thoughts about this place because it is just so difficult to keep fighting.\"\n\nThe Ballymena mum said the mould in her asthmatic son's bedroom \"appears faster than I can get rid of it\"\n\nIn May the Housing Executive said tenants may face some short-term delays to non-emergency repairs in the Mid and East Antrim area.\n\nA previous contractor stopped working for the housing body on 30 April.\n\nA new contractor is not due to begin work until September.\n\nUrgent and emergency repairs would continue as normal, said the Housing Executive.\n\nHowever the Ballymena mum said she had no confidence that the mould problem would be sorted anytime soon.\n\n\"I am resigned to the fact I am going to have another winter where I am burning gas just as quick as I put it in to the meter,\" she said.\n\n\"My walls are literally crying with condensation. It's bleak, it's miserable.\"\n\nA Housing Executive spokesman said it planned to carry out \"further substantial work to prevent damp and mould in this house\".\n\nThis includes damp proofing, improving loft insulation and repairing the roof.\n\n\"It is our intention that this be completed as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nThere are damp problems throughout the home\n\nThe spokesman added: \"Our priority is to proactively ensure our tenants live in safe, warm and dry homes.\n\n\"We ask tenants to report suspected cases of damp and mould in their homes to us immediately so we can determine the cause and take remedial action.\n\n\"We take this issue very seriously and inspect any report we receive as a priority, with a maintenance officer inspecting each report of damp, mould or condensation\".\n\nIndependent councillor Rodney Quigley said maintenance and repair delays were the biggest issue in the Ballymena area.\n\n\"I am getting phone calls on a daily basis and people calling in to the office weekly,\" he said.\n\n\"The longer this goes on the worse it is going to get. There is an avenue there to have these issues addressed but there is nobody there to do it.\"\n\nHe said there were more than 50 houses in the Ballymena area \"that can't be rented out because of the maintenance issues\".\n\n\"This has led to a shortage of housing,\" he added.", "The withdrawal of support will add hundreds of pounds to some household bills\n\nEnergy bills for most households in Northern Ireland will increase by hundreds of pounds a year from Saturday as government support comes to an end.\n\nThe Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) Scheme was introduced in November 2022, applying a discount to the unit rate of electricity and gas prices.\n\nBut the discount no longer applies from Saturday, having been gradually reduced from since January.\n\nA reduction in April meant bills rose despite price cuts by suppliers.\n\nDeirdre McCausland, a single mother-of-two from west Belfast, who is with Budget Energy, said she was in shock at the increase in bills.\n\nShe said it was \"the worst timing ever\" and that \"something needs to be done about it\".\n\n\"I just keep thinking how much more pressure are families - not just single people like me - the working poor [under]. How much more are we going to be able to tolerate all this?\" she told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra.\n\n\"I only found out about the rise through an email.\n\nDeirdre McCausland, a single mother from west Belfast, said she was in shock at the increase in bills\n\n\"It is the worst timing ever. This is just before the summer - my children got off today, it is their last day of school, and then we are being hit with all these costs.\n\n\"I am just wondering, when is it going to stop?\n\n\"I have a 14-year-old and a nine-year-old. When I was young growing up my parents protected me from poverty; I can't protect my children [and] because of social media they are more aware than ever of what lies ahead.\n\n\"That is an absolute shambles and something needs to be done about it.\"\n\nWhat will this mean for bills?\n\nThe majority of customers will see the tariffs charged by their supplier frozen or cut but the withdrawal of the EPG support will mean that their bills actually increase.\n\nRaymond Gormley of the Consumer Council described the move as \"unfortunate\" as he said prices remained at about double the pre-Covid pandemic norm.\n\nHe said the government would review the need for the scheme every three months until next spring.\n\n\"So if energy prices increase significantly in the winter, the Consumer Council will make the argument to government that they should reinstate a subsidy\".\n\nFalling electricity prices have been offset by a reduction in government support\n\nPower NI is the largest electricity supplier in Northern Ireland, with about 479,000 domestic electricity customers.\n\nIt announced a 7.1% decrease in its standard tariff but the end of the government discount means customers will see an increase of about £49 a year.\n\nThat means a typical annual bill will rise from £966 in June to £1,015 from July.\n\nSSE Airtricity, Electric Ireland and Budget Energy are not changing their tariffs - customers will see their average bills rise by about £127 a year.\n\nClick Energy is reducing its standard tariff by 10.36% and other tariffs also also being cut to offset the reduction of government support - customers will see no change in their typical yearly bills.\n\nIt is the smallest of the five Northern Irish electricity suppliers, with about 24,000 customers.\n\nSSE Airtricity provides gas to about 195,000 customers in the Greater Belfast area\n\nSSE Airtricity announced a decrease of 12.2% effective from July but customers will actually see their gas bills increase by about £134 a year because of the loss of government support.\n\nThat means a typical customer's annual bill will rise from £1,266 in June to £1,399 in July.\n\nSSE Airtricity serves about 195,000 customers in the Greater Belfast area and 3,200 customers in the Gas to the West area.\n\nBills for Firmus Energy customers will increase by about £328 in both the Ten Towns gas network and the Greater Belfast gas network areas.\n\nFor those in the Ten Towns gas network area, a typical annual bill will rise from £1,147 in June to £1,475 in July.\n\nA typical bill for customers in the Greater Belfast area will rise from £1,190 in June to £1,518 in July.\n\nFrom January to March this year energy bills in Northern Ireland were being discounted by up to 13.6p a unit for electricity and 3.9p a unit for gas.\n\nThat support was reduced from April to June 2023 - bills were discounted by up to 3.8p per unit for electricity and 2.6p per unit for gas.\n\nThe EPG will drop from about £454 a year in discount for the average household to nothing from 1 July 2023.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Utility Regulator imposes price controls on the major suppliers: electricity firm Power NI, SSE Airtricity gas in greater Belfast and Firmus Energy gas in the so-called Ten Towns network.\n\nThe regulator approves the maximum tariffs based on the costs for providing the service and a small profit margin.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhere's Vladimir Putin? That's what we were wondering most of Monday - two days after a dramatic insurrection by the Wagner Group that saw a convoy of mercenary fighters headed to Moscow.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Putin announced a deal to end the Wagner mutiny late on Saturday. But when would the president himself comment on the controversial agreement?\n\nIt was controversial because the Wagner mercenaries had rebelled, seized military sites (with apparent ease) and then marched on Moscow; Russian air force pilots had been killed in the mutiny. Yet the Kremlin had agreed not to prosecute Wagner fighters or their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in return for calling off the uprising.\n\nOver the last week, President Putin has made a series of unusual public appearances - all televised - in an apparent attempt to steady the ship.\n\nOn Monday we hear from Mr Prigozhin: an audio message posted online presenting his side of the story. He says his men headed to Moscow to \"hold to account\" those leaders he blamed for \"mistakes\" in the Ukraine war.\n\nThen late into the evening, an announcement is made. \"Standby: President Putin will address the nation.\" Now it feels like the Kremlin leader is playing catch-up.\n\nPutin appears on TV screens after 10pm. A late-night address from him is very unusual. Social media buzzes with rumours that this will be a speech that will \"decide the fate of Russia\". With trepidation we switch on Russian TV to hear the president speak.\n\nIt quickly becomes clear this address will not decide the country's fate. There are no major announcements. But the five-minute speech does provide clues to how the Kremlin is going to spin the dramatic events of the weekend to its benefit.\n\nPutin paints a picture of a Russia that has united to defeat the treachery of Wagner's leaders.\n\nHe tries to bring everyone on side: he thanks the Russian public, Russian officials, religious leaders, the Russian armed forces and his security services. He distinguishes between the leaders of the mutiny and regular Wagner fighters and commanders, whom he praises as patriots. Crucially, he presents himself as the man who averted major bloodshed.\n\n\"As soon as these events began to unfold,\" he says, \"in keeping with my direct instructions, steps were taken to avoid spilling blood\".\n\nRemember that controversy I was talking about? He doesn't address that. But, hey, Russia has stepped back from the brink. That's the main thing.\n\nOn Monday he was playing catch-up. By Tuesday morning it's full steam ahead to try to restore his authority.\n\nAt a hastily arranged event the Russian authorities are going heavy - very heavy - on the pomp and ceremony. Some 2,500 soldiers, Russian Guard and security officials are lined up on the Kremlin's Cathedral Square. This is the site of coronation (and funeral) processions of Russian tsars.\n\nCue Putin: To the presidential fanfare he descends the many steps of the Kremlin down onto the square (red carpet all the way, of course) and with a backdrop of the onion domes of Kremlin cathedrals the president - and commander-in-chief - delivers a speech to his troops.\n\nBut even before he starts to speak, the imagery says it all. It's all here in one place: the Orthodox Church, the Kremlin, the president and the army. It reminds me of the old Imperial Russian slogan: \"For faith, for the Tsar and the Fatherland.\"\n\nIn other words, the visual messaging here is all about presenting Russia as a country uniting behind Vladimir Putin. It's almost as if they want Russians to think that the Church, the military, and the president are interlinked, even part of one whole.\n\nIn his brief address, President Putin again claims that Russian society has come together after the Wagner mutiny. But most of what he says is praise for his military for \"stopping a civil war\".\n\nThere's a minute's silence for the air force pilots who were killed. The president is paying his respects, but still not addressing the question of why Wagner fighters are not being prosecuted over their deaths.\n\nSpeech over. Cue the national anthem and a gun salute.\n\nOverall message: the president's not only in charge. With the help of the Russian army and the Russian people, he's just scored a great victory.\n\nThis is probably the most surprising Putin video of the week - perhaps of the year. That's because it's a very un-Putin-like Putin we see, in terms of getting up close and personal with the crowds.\n\nThe official reason President Putin is visiting Dagestan is to chair a meeting on domestic tourism.\n\nBut it's not the meeting that dominates news bulletins later on Russian TV. It's the crazy scenes that follow.\n\nThe Kremlin leader is shown being mobbed by an adoring crowd in the city of Derbent.\n\nWe've grown used to seeing Vladimir Putin keeping his distance from those he comes into contact with. Remember those long Kremlin tables with Putin seated safely at one end and his guests at the other?\n\nNot here. In Dagestan he's kissing children, hugging women, shaking hands and posing for photos.\n\n\"Screaming, squealing, applause,\" exclaims the presenter of a popular talk show on the Russia-1 channel. \"Even rock stars don't get this kind of welcome. The West is scoffing that after Prigozhin's mutiny the president has been weakened. This proves the opposite is the case.\"\n\nPutin's behaviour seems so out of character. On the other hand, nothing feels particularly normal any more in Russia.\n\nThe Russian president had just survived an armed mutiny. Perhaps he feels the need to demonstrate - to the country, to the political elite, and to himself - that he still has supporters out there. A \"spontaneous\" expression of public adoration would fit the bill.\n\nAs I view these images, I suddenly remember what happened last weekend, after the deal was done to end the mutiny. As Wagner fighters led by Mr Prigozhin had left Rostov on Saturday night, they were cheered on the streets.\n\nHas Vladimir Putin seen those images? Does he feel the need for his own \"hero\" moment?\n\nWe'll probably never know.\n\nPresident Putin's attending a business conference on Russian brands in Moscow. It doesn't exactly make for another rock-star moment.\n\nStill, any opportunity to try to show (a) he's in charge (b) he's active (c) he has the support of the people.\n\nThe Russian president is applauded as he enters the hall. He sits down and listens to one of the organisers deliver opening remarks.\n\n\"Vladimir Vladimirovich, along with you and the whole country we, too, lived through the events of 24 June [the mutiny] with anxiety,\" she says addressing Putin. \"We are all with you and we all support you.\"\n\nAs if to prove it, the delegates give Vladimir Putin a standing ovation.\n\nFrom the same event, we see another slightly more bizarre video. President Putin is doodling on an interactive whiteboard.\n\nThe result is a cartoon-like red face with three strands of hair. A curious picture from a leader who has learnt the art of political survival.\n\nLines of loyal troops, gun salutes, screaming fans and a standing ovation. With these kinds of images, the Kremlin leader is trying to show he's back in control.\n\nHe even has time to doodle. He must be feeling confident.\n\nFollowing the mutiny, we've witnessed a turbo-charged Putin this week. He was here, he was there, he seemed to be everywhere. It was almost as if he'd kicked off his campaign for re-election (his presidential term expires next year).\n\nBut positive pictures do not change the fact that the rebellion had taken the Kremlin by surprise. It was a threat. The Wagner fighters had been well on their way to Moscow when the mutiny was called off. It was an unprecedented challenge to Putin's authority.\n\nAnd the long-term consequences of that are still unclear.", "Busy night for cab drivers after shutdown of public transport\n\nTaxi drivers here in Paris and across France are having a busier night than usual, following the nationwide suspension of bus and tram services. People leaving Paris Gare du Nord are frantically trying to book Ubers, while others have been jumping in taxis waiting outside the station. The bus stops are empty. When I approach a driver and ask to go to Nanterre, the epicentre of the protests, he looks at me in shock. “Nanterre! Too dangerous.” I then head towards a group of drivers, who laugh - with one saying he’ll take me there for €250 (£215). Eventually one agrees to take me for a (far) more reasonable price. The 30-minute journey is quiet - the only sign of the protests is a burnt vehicle on the side of a road, and police cars driving past us, heading further into the district.", "Ukrainian soldiers have liberated villages during the counter-offensive, but President Zelensky acknowledges progress has been slow\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive against Russia will be difficult and \"very bloody\", the US' highest-ranking military officer has said.\n\nGen Mark Milley said he was unsurprised that progress had been slower than predicted - but added that Ukraine was \"advancing steadily\".\n\n\"It goes a little slow, but that is part of the nature of war,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as Volodymyr Zelensky accused \"some\" Western partners of delaying promised training for Ukrainian pilots.\n\nSeveral Western countries have pledged to train Kyiv's pilots on US-made F-16 fighter jets, but the Ukrainian president said some allies had been \"dragging their feet\" on the promise.\n\nPresident Zelensky has previously acknowledged that the Ukrainian offensive was making slow progress.\n\nGen Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience at the National Press Club in Washington on Friday that the counter-offensive was \"advancing steadily, deliberately working its way through very difficult minefields... 500m a day, 1,000m a day, 2,000m a day, that kind of thing\".\n\nHe added he was not surprised that progress had been slower than expected. \"War on paper and real war are different. In real war, real people die,\" he said.\n\n\"Real people are on those front lines and real people are in those vehicles. Real bodies are being shredded by high explosives.\n\n\"What I had said was this is going to take six, eight, 10 weeks, it's going to be very difficult. It's going to be very long, and it's going to be very, very bloody. And no-one should have any illusions about any of that.\"\n\nUkrainian soldiers were \"assaulting through minefields and into trenches\", he said, adding that \"this is literally a fight for their life\".\n\nHe said the US was giving Ukraine \"as much help as humanly possible\".\n\nGen Milley is the principal military adviser to the president, the secretary of defence, and National Security Council.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's military commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny said the counter-offensive had been hampered by a lack of adequate firepower.\n\nIn an interview with the Washington Post published on Friday, he said he was frustrated by the slow deliveries of weapons promised by the West, from modern fighter jets to artillery ammunition.\n\n\"I do not need 120 planes. I'm not going to threaten the whole world. A very limited number would be enough,\" he said.\n\nSeparately, the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, is reported to have made an unannounced visit to Ukraine last month where he met President Zelensky and Ukrainian intelligence officials.\n\nThe CIA director is said to have discussed Ukraine's counter-offensive against Russian forces, as well as reaffirming the US commitment to intelligence-sharing.", "The M23 rebel group remains active in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where civilians have fled fighting\n\nThe government's deal to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda risks \"downgrading\" UK foreign policy, a former cabinet minister has said.\n\nA final report by a United Nations Group of Experts, published earlier this month, concluded that the Rwandans were supporting the M23 rebel group which is active in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is subject to UN and US sanctions.\n\nJustine Greening withdrew £21m in aid funding to the country in 2012 when she was international development secretary after the United Nations first reported that the Rwandans were helping the M23 rebels.\n\nWhile the US and EU have directly told the Rwandan government to cease its support for M23, a UK regional envoy released a more general statement condemning \"external\" support for rebels without naming Rwanda.\n\nMs Greening told BBC Newsnight: \"It's important that UK foreign policy and this country's leadership on important matters of human rights atrocities including violence against women is not downgraded as a result of our domestic policy approaches.\n\n\"This UN report also underlines the practical complexity and sustainability issues of intertwining the delivery of Britain's asylum policy with any third country, particularly one facing such demonstrable wider regional stability challenges,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UN report, written for the Security Council, said advances by the M23 group had displaced a million citizens in Kivu province and that in the mineral rich areas where it was active there were \"incidents of rape, including gang rape by M23\".\n\nIt also named Rwandan Defence Force generals and advisers to President Kagame as directing some M23 activity. The Rwandan government has said the report is \"concocted\".\n\nOn Thursday the Court of Appeal ruled that the UK government's Rwanda policy was unlawful.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to take the matter to the UK Supreme Court.\n\nThe five-year trial - announced in April 2022 - would see some asylum seekers sent to Rwanda on a one-way ticket, to claim asylum there.\n\nThey may be granted refugee status to stay in Rwanda. If not, they can apply to settle there on other grounds, or seek asylum in another \"safe third country\".\n\nThe government says the plan will deter people arriving in the UK through \"illegal, dangerous or unnecessary methods\", such as on small boats which cross the English Channel.\n\nA government spokesperson told the BBC: \"Our ground-breaking Migration and Economic Development Partnership will see those who make dangerous and illegal journeys to the UK relocated to Rwanda, where they will be supported to build new lives.\n\n\"Rwanda is a safe and secure country, with a track record of supporting asylum seekers.\"", "Emmanuel Macron has accused protesters of exploiting the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range.\n\nAt a crisis meeting, France's president said more officers would be deployed to contain the violence, but stopped short of declaring a state of emergency.\n\nHe urged parents to keep rioting children at home and social media platforms to remove certain content.\n\nFrance has been rocked by three nights of unrest after Nahel M, 17, was killed as he drove away from a traffic stop.\n\nMore than 915 arrests were made on Thursday night alone, officials said, and the government announced it would deploy 45,000 police officers in a bid to contain further violence.\n\nMr Macron said that about a third of those arrested for rioting were \"young, or very young\", with Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin later clarifying that some were as young as 13.\n\nImploring parents to take action, he said it was their \"responsibility\" to keep any child intending to protest \"at home\".\n\nMr Macron condemned the violence of the last three days \"with the greatest firmness\" and said Nahel's death had been used to justify acts of violence - calling it an \"unacceptable exploitation of the adolescent's death\".\n\nHe also urged social media companies such as TikTok and Snapchat to take down \"the most sensitive types of content\" that had been posted, and supply authorities with the names of people using their services to organise violence.\n\nA spokesperson for Snapchat said it had a \"zero tolerance\" for content that promoted violence and hatred, and would continue to monitor the situation closely.\n\nFrom Lille and Roubaix in the north to Marseille in the south, shops were ransacked across France on Thursday night, streets were badly damaged and cars set on fire. The interior ministry said there had been more than 3,880 fires on public roads, compared with 2,391 on Wednesday.\n\nPolice in Marseille, France's second-largest city, had already arrested 80 people by Friday evening. It followed more clashes between protesters and riot police.\n\nPublic transport halted early in some places and curfews were enforced, with a nationwide curb on buses and trams running from 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT).\n\nThe damage in cities such as Roubaix became apparent as night turned to day on Friday\n\nSome public events have also been cancelled, including two concerts by French pop star Mylène Farmer, due to take place at the Stade de France just outside Paris on Friday and Saturday night.\n\nFrance's capital has been at the heart of the unrest because Nahel lived in Nanterre, a north-west Parisian suburb, and was killed there just after 09:00 on Tuesday.\n\nHe was shot after refusing to stop for a traffic check and died after emergency services attended the scene. A video, shared online in the hours following Nahel's death, showed two police officers trying to stop the vehicle and one pointing his weapon at the driver.\n\nThe officer who fired the fatal shot has since been charged with voluntary homicide and apologised to the family. His lawyer said he is devastated.\n\nNahel's death has reignited debate around the state of French policing, including a controversial 2017 firearms law which allows officers to shoot when a driver ignores an order to stop.\n\nMore widely, it has led to questions of racism in the force. The UN's human rights office said the unrest was a chance for France \"to address deep issues of racism in law enforcement\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA spokeswoman pointed to a recent report by the UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination, which last December expressed concern at aspects of French policing, including what the report suggested was the disproportionate use of identity checks and imposition of fines on specific ethnic groups.\n\nNahel's mother, Mounia, made her own accusations, saying the officer who shot her son \"didn't have to kill\" him.\n\n\"He saw the face of an Arab, of a little kid, he wanted to take his life,\" she told broadcaster France 5. Nahel was of Algerian descent.\n\nOn Thursday, Mounia led a largely peaceful march of more than 6,000 people in Nanterre. Wearing a white T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan \"Justice pour Nahel\" (\"Justice for Nahel\"), she said she hoped the tribute would be an opportunity for the community in and around Paris to remember her only child.\n\nBy late afternoon, the march had descended into violence, sparking the third night of unrest. Police fired tear gas at masked protesters who set fire to various objects, with people thought to have been out on the streets until the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nNahel's funeral is due to be held in Nanterre on Saturday morning.\n\nIn the UK, travellers have been warned to expect disruptions when trying to reach France over the weekend. The Foreign Office told people to \"monitor the media, avoid protests, check the latest advice with operators when travelling and follow the advice of the authorities\".", "Intense and widespread rioting has been taking place across France, following the shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop.\n\nVideo on social media showed the moment the police shooting of Nahel M took place, in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on 27 June.\n\nRiots erupted later that same day and have continued each day since, spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe officer involved has apologised to the family and been charged with voluntary homicide.", "William J Burns said the failure of the Ukraine war risked undermining Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia\n\nThe Ukraine war is having a \"corrosive\" effect on Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia, according to the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).\n\nRussian disaffection over the war is providing new opportunities for the CIA to collect intelligence, the agency's Director William J Burns said.\n\nAmerica's top spy made the comments while delivering the annual lecture at the Ditchley Foundation in the UK.\n\nHe was speaking a week after the mutiny by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\nMr Burns said everyone had been \"riveted\" by the scenes last Saturday of Prigozhin's \"armed challenge\" to Moscow, when his Wagner mercenary forces marched towards Russia's capital.\n\nPrigozhin's actions were \"a vivid reminder of the corrosive effect of Putin's war on his own society and his own regime\", he said.\n\nThe CIA director said the impact not just of Prigozhin's actions but also his statements - which included an indictment of both the rationale and execution of Russia's invasion - would play out for some time.\n\n\"Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership,\" Mr Burns said in his prepared remarks.\n\n\"That disaffection creates a once in a generation opportunity for us at CIA,\" referring to the role of the agency in recruiting human agents to provide intelligence.\n\n\"We are not letting it go to waste,\" he said to laughter from the audience. \"We are very much open for business.\"\n\nThe CIA has recently launched a new social media campaign to try and reach people in Russia, including a video posted to the Telegram social media site, which is widely used by Russians. The campaign provided instructions on how to contact the CIA on the dark web without being monitored.\n\nThis video gained 2.5 million views in the first week.\n\nDirector Burns also reiterated the message other US officials have previously made in public that the US had no part in Prigozhin's mutiny.\n\nHe did not directly address recent reports in the Washington Post that he made a secret visit to the Ukrainian capital before the mutiny.\n\nIt was reported that discussions included the possibility that progress in Ukraine's counter-offensive might open the way for negotiations from a position of greater strength if substantial territory was taken.\n\nMr Burns - who previously served as the US Ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008 - said spending much of the last two decades trying to understand Russian President Putin had given him a \"healthy dose of humility about pontificating about Putin and Russia\".\n\nBut he added that one thing that he had learnt was that it was always a mistake to underestimate Mr Putin's fixation on controlling Ukraine.\n\nThe Russian leader believed that without Ukraine, Russia could not be a major power and Mr Putin himself could not be a great leader, he said.\n\n\"That tragic and brutish fixation has already brought shame to Russia and exposed its weaknesses,\" Mr Burns said.\n\n\"Putin's war has already been a strategic failure for Russia: its military weaknesses laid bare, its economy badly damaged for years to come, its future as a junior partner and economic colony of China being shaped by Putin's mistakes.\"\n\nTurning to China, the CIA boss said it would be foolish for the US to attempt to decouple because of the deep economic interdependence between the two countries.\n\n\"China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and increasingly the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do so,\" he said.\n\nThe US should instead \"sensibly de-risk and diversify by securing resilient supply chains, protecting our technological edge and investing in industrial capacity\", he added.", "Stephen Lawrence was killed in April 1993, at Eltham in south-east London\n\nEarlier this week, the BBC publicly named a major suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder. In response, Stephen's mother Baroness Doreen Lawrence said, \"It should not have taken a journalist to do the job that a huge, highly resourced institution should have done.\" Correspondent Daniel De Simone started investigating the case after the Metropolitan Police stopped.\n\nInvestigating the murder of Stephen Lawrence is a journey into the past and the present.\n\nStephen was murdered 30 years ago in a racist attack by a gang of young white men.\n\nTwo years ago, I set out to follow a lead which had the potential to bring significant new information to light.\n\nThe Met had stopped investigating Stephen's murder in 2020. I wanted to do what I could to investigate the outstanding suspects and hold them to account.\n\nI had no previous experience of covering the case and I felt daunted by it. Journalists had been covering the story since the 1990s, and there had been more than 15 police investigations or official inquiries. Who was I to imagine I could find anything new?\n\nThe lead I followed related to a man who was said to have possibly been there when Stephen was murdered. I was unsure whether this was as a witness or a suspect. I did not know the man's identity, and it took months to get a name. In the meantime, I read everything I could about Stephen's case.\n\nWhen I got a name, I realised the man - Matthew White - was the person in the case known as Witness K.\n\nI had read a lot about Witness K. His claimed role did not involve being present during the attack, but instead acting as a central link in a chain of how information was passed around on the night of the murder.\n\nThis chain was said to have included a brief visit by K to the home of suspects Neil and Jamie Acourt.\n\nWhite died in 2021, aged 50, around the time I started investigating, meaning I was unable to approach him.\n\nA constant source of help and advice was Clive Driscoll, the retired Met detective who had brought two of Stephen's killers to justice. He told me that following the two murder convictions he achieved in 2012, he had focused on the other killers.\n\nOne of those he investigated was Matthew White, and Clive told an extraordinary tale of finding that an approach by one of White's stepfathers had been disastrously mishandled by the Met in 1993.\n\nClive had arrested White in late 2013, after personally tracing the right stepfather, who said White had admitted being present during the murder. But Clive had been unable to complete his investigation after Scotland Yard replaced him as senior investigating officer and he was asked to retire.\n\nI felt silly even thinking it, but I was trying to conduct my own murder investigation.\n\nAn artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\", Matthew White photographed a fortnight after the murder, and a police e-fit\n\nThe complexity of Stephen's case has increased with time - and the number of investigations and inquiries have only added to the already large volume of information.\n\nI had to try to get across three decades of evidence, much of it hidden in police files. I gained access to previously secret documents about the case and read every transcript from the 1998 Macpherson public inquiry into the murder. Several people helped me confidentially, providing crucial information during the process of checking and corroboration.\n\nIt became clear there was a gaping hole in the case.\n\nOn the night of the murder, Stephen's friend Duwayne Brooks had said there were six attackers, and gave a description of a fair-haired attacker who did not fit the profile of the five well-known prime suspects. Eyewitnesses to the murder had described the same person. Who was he? Why did everyone seem to have forgotten about this key point?\n\nIn addition, Matthew White had been referred to many times in the case. I found Kent Police had told the Met in 1997 to get to the bottom of his role, and had raised the prospect of him being present during the attack. The issue had been raised during the Macpherson inquiry hearings the following year.\n\nIn 2000, I discovered a witness had told the Met about White confessing to being present during the attack and playing a leading role in it. This witness had spoken to police independently of White's stepfather, who Clive Driscoll tracked down. Checked against the evidence of Duwayne Brooks and eyewitnesses, the account of White's confession was compelling.\n\nIt was clear that White was a suspect and that police had eventually treated him as one. How fair was this designation? Was he the sixth man?\n\nI sought to crosscheck everything else I was finding on White against other evidence, including witness accounts from 1993. White surely had an alibi for the night, given that he was known as Witness K and appeared so prominently in narratives of the case?\n\nThe failure of the first police investigation had polluted all later attempts to gather evidence and get to the truth. I found the same thing.\n\nIt was therefore surprising that, despite everyone accepting the first investigation had been a disaster, there was still a reliance on many statements gathered by it. I was particularly distrustful of anything gathered by a particular detective.\n\nI did not want to take anything from 1993 at face value, so - where possible - I spoke to witnesses from the time myself. I spent weeks in Eltham, south-east London, and travelled all around the country finding people. Many witnesses remain reluctant to help, and I was frequently told to get lost.\n\nI built a timeline of the night of the murder and the days following it. I also listed and investigated all possible case theories relating to White: these included various ways in which he could have played a part in the group that attacked Stephen, and various ways in which he could, instead, have been a witness.\n\nThe complexity of the scene that night in April 1993 meant I particularly wanted to check if White had somehow been an eyewitness to the attack or its aftermath - or had spoken to an eyewitness or attacker within moments of the murder.\n\nThere were people seen near the crime scene in the minutes before the attack who are not accounted for.\n\nThe sightings - on a roundabout in sight of where Stephen was stabbed - were by witnesses passing through the area.\n\nOne of those seen in the area could have been White, so I did what I could to check this possibility.\n\nOn the night of the attack, there was another group of young men near the scene. When spoken to by police, this group accepted being nearby, but generally denied going onto the roundabout. When I spoke to members of the group, they denied seeing White that evening.\n\nWhen I spoke to another witness who had passed through the scene just before the attack, that person also denied seeing White.\n\nI found nothing to support a case theory that White had been a bystander on the roundabout.\n\nOver time, the least likely case theory of all came to be the \"Witness K\" one accepted by police in 1993. When I checked White's alibi, I found it did not exist. He had lied.\n\nI also found that a witness had given a false account relating to White, which had allowed him to claim that he first heard about the stabbing from a local girl who had passed by the crime scene in the aftermath.\n\nFrom my own research, it was apparent the Met had not checked his alibi for at least 15 years, despite sending a file to prosecutors after Clive Driscoll was prevented from completing his investigation.\n\nThe fact that a false account was told was a crucial discovery. Who else was not telling the full truth?\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.\n\nI sought to consider all evidence that undermined the possibility of White being present during the attack. There were reasons to doubt he would have behaved in some of the ways he apparently did - if he had been present - including visiting the scene after the attack and telling other people who was responsible for the murder.\n\nBut his stepfather said he had behaved like the murder had been an \"everyday occurrence\".\n\nI also kept finding that people were sympathetic to White, in a way they were not towards suspects Neil and Jamie Acourt - or to David Norris, who was convicted of murdering Stephen in 2012.\n\nThe same thing kept happening in relation to Gary Dobson - the other man jailed in 2012 - with various people casting doubt on his conviction and saying he was a nice bloke. If people kept saying that about the racist drug-dealing murderer Gary Dobson, was it a surprise there was sympathy for White?\n\nI also kept being told false and malicious rumours about Stephen Lawrence.\n\nI realised what I was encountering was deep-seated racism that dehumanised Stephen. Some people clearly did not care about the victim. Racism had killed Stephen, and it was blocking the truth from being told.\n\nWhite himself was plainly the source of some of the rumours. Two people with very close links to him made the same false claims to me, independently of one another. I shall not repeat the lies, but they showed that White was telling lies about Stephen to justify what happened to him.\n\nThis was deeply ironic given that White was a violent drug-using thief - a total contrast to Stephen.\n\nIn the end, it was clear to me that White was indeed a major suspect in the murder. The BBC decided to identify him as such, and Scotland Yard's highly unusual response was to name him as a suspect and apologise for its handling of the case.\n\nThe evidence relating to White points towards, not away from, outstanding suspects in the case.\n\nWill there ever be full justice for Stephen Lawrence?\n\nIf you have information about this story that you would like to share with BBC News' Stephen Lawrence investigation please get in touch. Email SLInvestigation@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nYou can also get in touch using SecureDrop, a highly anonymous and secure way of whistleblowing to the BBC which uses the TOR network.\n\nPlease note that the SecureDrop link will only work in a Tor browser. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The court heard that Mr Afriyie's arms had been folded when he was Tasered\n\nA youth worker Tasered after being stopped by police while driving through central London in April 2018 has lost a High Court damages fight.\n\nEdwin Afriyie, who is in his mid-30s, said he suffered head, back and leg injuries during the incident in King William Street.\n\nMr Afriyie took legal action against the City of London Police and made a misfeasance allegation.\n\nPolice disputed his claims and a judge ruled against him on Friday.\n\nA barrister representing Mr Afriyie, who lives in Hayes, west London, said the Tasering was not in response to any \"identified threat\".\n\nDavid Hughes said the police's use of Tasers should be proportionate and lawful and suggested that their authority had been wrongfully exercised.\n\nMr Afriyie is black, but the judge said he had not \"advanced a claim\" under equality legislation nor sought to argue that officers' treatment of him was \"motivated by his race\".\n\nShe had watched police bodycam footage showing Mr Afriyie being Tasered after officers said he was being arrested for not providing a breath sample.\n\nMr Afriyie, who has not been charged with a driving offence arising from the incident, was standing with his arms folded when he was hit and footage, available online, showed him falling backwards, landing with his head on a step and his body on the pavement.\n\nShe said police had proved that a police constable \"honestly believed\" that the use of the Taser was \"necessary\".\n\nThe judge added that the belief was \"objectively reasonable\".\n\n\"Mr Hughes submitted that I should find as a fact that nothing was about to happen that necessitated the use of force,\" she said.\n\n\"He may be right that nothing would, in fact, have happened had the Taser not been discharged.\n\n\"However what matters is whether [the officer's] belief in what might happen, so as to justify the use of the Taser, was objectively reasonable.\"\n\nMrs Justice Hill had also overseen a trial of the same case at the High Court last year but fell ill and was unable to complete it.\n\nIt was reported elsewhere that Mr Afriyie is considering an appeal.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Nicola Bulley went missing on a dog walk in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, on 27 January\n\nThe press watchdog said it was not currently planning to launch an editorial standards investigation into the coverage of Nicola Bulley's disappearance.\n\nMs Bulley, 45, disappeared in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, while walking her dog and her body was found 23 days later.\n\nA coroner found she drowned after accidentally falling into cold water.\n\nHer family have criticised sections of the media for its coverage.\n\nLancashire Police came under fire for revealing Ms Bulley's struggles with alcohol and perimenopause.\n\nDuring the huge search, police urged against people fuelling damaging rumours making their job harder and attracting sightseers to the village where she disappeared.\n\nIndependent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) chief executive Charlotte Dewar told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the watchdog was still considering the case.\n\nShe said: \"We can conduct editorial standards investigation where there are serious and systemic breaches of the Editors' Code.\n\n\"I think at this point on this issue we aren't there, but we are very actively looking at it.\n\n\"And of course, should it be clear that that has transpired then then we would take that step.\"\n\nMs Bulley's phone was found on a bench close to River Wyre and was still connected to a work conference call\n\nMs Dewar was shown some examples of media coverage and was asked if she was happy that certain headlines were not an intrusion into Ms Bulley's family.\n\n\"I haven't said that,\" the Ipso boss said.\n\nShe added: \"We look very specifically at individual instances of concern.\n\n\"We were in touch with family liaison officers who were representing the family and other public bodies involved.\n\n\"We've given a very clear opportunity and been very, very open that we'd like to engage with them about their concerns, but at this point, there's nothing active.\"\n\nDr James Adeley, senior coroner for Lancashire, said there was \"no evidence\" to suggest Ms Bulley intended to take her own life.\n\nHe said she would have had to have had \"sufficient knowledge of cold water shock to realise as to how rapidly a death may occur as otherwise she may be spotted and saved\".\n\nNicola Bulley drowned after falling into cold water, Dr James Adeley, senior coroner for Lancashire ruled\n\nSpeaking after the inquest findings, Ms Bulley's family said they still received \"negative targeted messages\" on social media, as well as seeing \"wildly inaccurate speculation\" on a number of platforms months after her death.\n\nThey added: \"The last few months have been extremely tough to process for our family.\n\n\"The emotional impact will stay long in our hearts and whilst we will never forget the loss of our Nikki, we will forever remember her as a brilliant mum, partner, daughter and sister that we all knew and loved so very much.\"\n\nMs Bulley, who worked as a mortgage adviser, was last seen walking her springer spaniel Willow after dropping off her two daughters, aged six and nine, at school on 27 January.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Euclid telescope has successfully launched into space on a mission to understand some of the Universe's greatest mysteries.\n\nThe €1.4bn (£1.2bn) telescope was primed to go up on a Falcon-9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday.\n\nEuclid's goal is to make an immense 3D map of the cosmos in a bid to better understand so-called dark matter and dark energy.\n\nResearchers know virtually nothing about these phenomena, which appear to control the structure and expansion of the cosmos.\n\nAlthough primarily a European Space Agency project, the mission also has significant scientific and engineering inputs from the US space agency Nasa.\n\nEuclid will carry out its work from an observing position on the opposite side of our planet to the Sun.", "Cardiff announced the signing of Emiliano Sala on 19 January, 2019, two days before the plane he was on went missing\n\nCardiff City has been ordered to pay Nantes the transfer balance for Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash before he could play for the Welsh side.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Fifa has told the Championship club to pay more than €11m (£9.45m).\n\nThat covers the last two instalments of the €17m agreed between the clubs.\n\nMeanwhile, French prosecutors have confirmed several employees of FC Nantes have been arrested.\n\nThat is as part of an investigation into money laundering and tax fraud.\n\nIn a statement, Nantes public prosecutor's office said the FC Nantes club manager, his deputy general manager and two people, including a players' agent, were placed in police custody but have since been released pending an investigation.\n\nCardiff City has been in dispute with FC Nantes over the transfer fee since the striker's death in January 2019.\n\nThe Argentine had just become Cardiff City's £15m record signing when the plane carrying him from France to Wales crashed into the English Channel.\n\nIn May, the club said it would continue legal action against FC Nantes through the French courts after a Swiss Federal Tribunal decided the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) did not have the power to deal with the club's claim for damages.\n\nArgentine artist Gabriel Griffa painted this mural of the player in Carquefou, near Nantes\n\nCardiff failed in its appeal to the CAS over the Fifa ruling, and in January paid the first instalment, believed to be around £7m, of the Sala fee to Nantes.\n\nOn Friday, the club issued a statement confirming the decision by Fifa they should pay the final two instalments.\n\nBut it questioned the timing of the Fifa ruling, saying: \"It would have been fairer if the requirement to pay FC Nantes had been deferred until the conclusion of the French police investigations and the club's claim against FC Nantes in the French courts.\"\n\nSeparately, French investigators confirmed on Friday they were investigating employees of FC Nantes over a number of charges including:\n\nPhilippe Astruc, district attorney for the Court of Justice of Rennes said: \"The French Football Federation has instituted civil proceedings before the investigating judge, as part of its mission to regulate the activity of sports agents in the discipline of football and to defend the moral and material interests of French football.\n\n\"The investigations mainly focused on the analysis of contracts, bank accounts and financial flows, with analysis of the numerous documents seized during the search.\n\nRadar contact was lost when the aircraft was 22 nautical miles (40 km) north-north-west of Guernsey\n\n\"A laundering of large-scale tax evasion would also have been updated against one of the protagonists\"\n\nCardiff City claims Sala's transfer had not been finalised at the time of his accident.\n\nIn May they launched a counter-claim in France for around €100m.\n\nNantes Commercial Court said last week it would hold a hearing on the merits of that case, probably in the second quarter of 2024.", "Peter McCully was recently elected as a councillor for the Alliance Party\n\nA suspicious item wrapped in a Pride flag was left at the home of a politician in Northern Ireland, with police treating it as a hate crime.\n\nThe Alliance Party said Peter McCully, who sits on Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, was targeted in the incident in Portrush, County Antrim.\n\nIt was one of two hoax devices left outside homes in Hopefield Avenue.\n\nIn both cases the devices were wrapped in Pride flags. Controlled explosions were carried out on them by the Army.\n\nThe Alliance Party said the second alert was at the home of one of its former councillors.\n\nThe security operation in the area was declared over at 16:30 BST on Friday.\n\nHopefield Crescent, Hopefield Grove and Hopefield Avenue have been reopened and people have been able to return to their homes.\n\nMr McCully, who lives in his family home, told BBC News NI's Talkback that it was shocking and disruptive for him and his mother, who was in the house at the time.\n\n\"Portrush is a welcoming and inclusive place and to have this incident on our doorstep is tarnishing the reputation of the town,\" he said.\n\nAnother security operation began in Portrush on Friday\n\nHe and other residents who had to leave their homes were able to return at about 01:00 BST on Friday.\n\nHe said there had been a \"toxic culture\" emerging around LGBT issues in recent weeks and months.\n\n\"I feel this is almost an escalation of that - we have seen a number of incidents recently,\" he said.\n\n\"It's clear that we are facing a rising tide in prejudice of LGBT people.\"\n\nPolice said the devices were now being forensically examined and have appealed for anyone with information or footage from the affected area to contact them.\n\nDet Ch Insp Hamilton said: \"The placement of these devices has caused untold disruption to the lives of local people, many of whom have had to leave their homes while we made sure the area was safe for them.\n\n\"Those responsible care nothing for the impact they have on communities, nor do they care about the fear and uncertainty their actions cause.\n\n\"Such attempts to intimidate and threaten are completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThe Alliance Party said: \"Nobody should face this kind of threat when simply doing their job.\"\n\nPolice have cordoned off Hopefield Avenue for much of Friday\n\nIt said the use of a Pride flag \"adds an extra sinister edge\" and \"has echoes of both the dark days of our troubled past and more recent times\".\n\nAlliance condemned those behind what it described as the \"appalling attacks\".\n\nRepresentatives of Northern Ireland's other main political parties joined in the condemnation.\n\nA charity supporting LGBT people in Northern Ireland said it was concerned by the incident.\n\nThe Rainbow Project said support was available to anyone who was affected by the alert.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all those caught up in this incident and we understand the alarm this incident will cause to LGBTQIA+ communities,\" it said.\n\nDetectives are urging anyone who finds anything \"unusual or out of the ordinary\" not to touch it but to contact the police immediately.", "A video still from the fatal Paris traffic stop shooting\n\nProsecutors have begun piecing together what happened before the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M by a police officer.\n\nThe officer has been charged with homicide and remains in custody.\n\nIn their outline of events after questioning eyewitnesses and reviewing CCTV footage, prosecutors say the teenage driver had already ignored a police demand to stop, when officers caught up with the car and drew their weapons.\n\nMeanwhile an account has been posted online by one of the passengers, which French media say they have verified but the BBC has not.\n\nIn this account the passenger, also a teenager, says the officers hit Nahel M with the butts of their guns three times, causing him to take his foot off the brake of the car.\n\nProsecutors are due to talk to this witness on Monday.\n\nAround 08:00 on Tuesday, two policemen on motorcycles spotted a Mercedes with a Polish number plate driving fast in a bus lane, Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache told journalists.\n\nTurning on their siren, the officers caught up with the car at a traffic light. Three young men were inside.\n\nThe officers told the driver to stop but the vehicle pulled away, ignoring the red light. The officers gave chase and notified their unit by radio.\n\nAt 08:16, the Mercedes stopped in heavy traffic. Both officers got off their motorcycles, drew their weapons and approached the car.\n\nThey later told prosecutors that they pointed their guns at the driver to \"deter him from driving away again\".\n\nThey asked the driver to turn off the ignition, but the car moved forward. One of the officers fired, fatally wounding the young man in the chest.\n\nAfter the car ran into a roadside barrier, one of the passengers was arrested and the other fled on foot.\n\nThe passenger says the three friends were driving around Nanterre when the car strayed into the bus lane and was chased by two policemen on motorcycles.\n\nAfter Nahel stopped the car, the young man says in his video and in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper, one of the officers hit the teenage driver with the butt of his gun.\n\nHe alleges that the second policeman also struck Nahel before the first officer again hit him.\n\nHe told Le Parisien that the blows left Nahel M \"a little stunned\".\n\nThe third blow, according to this account, caused Nahel to take his foot off the brake and the vehicle to move forward. After the officer fired, Nahel M slumped forward and his foot pressed on the accelerator, the passenger said.\n\nWhen the car came a standstill, the passenger said, he decided to flee because he was afraid he would be shot too.\n\nQuestions have been asked about the car, a Mercedes A class AMG. Officials describe it as a rented vehicle.\n\nThe passenger who fled said that someone had lent it to the three youths, without giving any details.\n\nAccording to the French motoring website Autoplus, German sportscars with Polish number plates can be hired for €300-3,000 (£260-2,600) a day.\n\nThis type of short rental is popular with young men in French housing estates, Autoplus says.\n\nNahel M did not have a criminal record but was known to police.\n\nHe had previously been cited for driving without a licence - he was too young to have one - and for refusing to comply with an order to stop.\n\nHe was due to appear before a juvenile court in September.", "Scientists have braved 50C heat and venomous snakes to track down a \"leopard-print\" frog virtually unknown to science and learn how it reproduces.\n\nArgentinian conservation scientists are fighting to protect the tiny Santa Fe frog, which is under threat as its habitat in one of the world's driest forests, the Dry Chaco, is cut down.\n\nThey discovered it hides in caves, emerging only to call for a mate.\n\nAnd for the first time they found tadpoles of the species.\n\n\"It's not been an easy journey so far, but we're determined to do what we can to secure the future for this wonderful amphibian,\" said Isis Ibañez, who leads the Santa Fe frog project, based in Buenos Aires.\n\nThe Santa Fe frog (Leptodactylus laticeps) is largely unknown to science despite being discovered more than a century ago.\n\nFound only in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay, the frog is now rare due to the loss of the tropical dry forests in which it lives.\n\nThe researchers set up camera traps to locate the brightly-coloured frogs and study their behaviour.\n\nMost frogs attract a mate by calling loudly from a pond, stream or swamp, but this species lives underground.\n\nThe team found the males emerged at nightfall to advertise their presence, then hopped back down their burrows with interested females.\n\nFinding the frogs meant searching in the dark\n\nAfter digging for hours at night they eventually found evidence of eggs and tadpoles for the first time.\n\nInvestigating the frog's breeding behaviour is the first step towards protecting it in the wild.\n\nBy drawing attention to the plight of the frog the conservation scientists hope to highlight the biodiversity of the Dry (or Grand) Chaco - and other animals at risk of extinction.\n\n\"This species is a clear example of why we have to defend the forest in the Dry Chaco,\" said team member, Camila Deutsch. \"We don't have much time.\"\n\nThe scientists are also liaising with local community leaders, hunters and farmers to learn more about the frog and how to better protect it.\n\nThree of the team members: Camila Deutsch, Gabriela Agostini and Sofia Perrone\n\nThe Grand Chaco has a mixed landscape of low, dry forests and savannas\n\nThe Grand Chaco is a large expanse of forest and dusty plains straddling parts of Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay.\n\nThe Chaco woodlands have been gradually cleared over the past few decades to make way for cropland and ranches.\n\nThe forest has one of the highest deforestation rates on the planet though it attracts less attention than its Amazon neighbour.\n\nThe area has been dubbed \"El Impenetrable\" and even \"hell on Earth\" for its inaccessibility and extreme temperatures. Temperatures can reach 50C in the daytime and there is very little rainfall.\n\nYet wildlife thrives in the harsh conditions, including hundreds of different birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.\n\n\"It's a dry forest with an incredible biodiversity,\" said Gabriela Agostini.\n\nAmphibians are at high risk of extinction. A pathogenic fungus has been ravaging populations around the world for about 40 years.\n\nThe animals are also under pressure from habitat loss and hunting.\n\nThe Santa Fe frog project is supported by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) - an initiative run by Fauna & Flora, BirdLife International and the Wildlife Conservation Society.", "A number of workers at the RNLI have raised some concerns about sexist and bigoted behaviour at the organisation.\n\nInternal surveys from 2021 and 2022 on the attitudes of staff and volunteers working at the UK lifeboat charity cite sexism and bullying.\n\nThe documents, first reported by the Times, have been seen by the BBC.\n\nThe RNLI told the BBC it was sorry to anyone who had faced \"behaviours and actions that no one should have to tolerate\" and \"will act\".\n\nThe organisation, which has more than 30,000 staff and volunteers, had about 3,600 survey responses over two years, mostly positive comments.\n\nBut the survey results show concerns also included \"blame\" culture, misogyny, being overworked, and a lack of space to openly call out inappropriate behaviour.\n\nIn the 2022 survey, one female respondent recounts being \"repeatedly\" called sexist terms by male colleagues.\n\n\"I have not once felt like the RNLI supports women or minorities,\" she said, adding that she would not recommend it \"as an employer to anybody\".\n\nA comment in the previous year's survey described the level of sexism at RNLI stations and around the coast as \"abhorrent\".\n\n\"I have never been at a station/around a branch and not heard an inappropriate comment or joke regarding race, sex or sexual orientation\".\n\nMatters reported to senior members were \"not dealt with effectively and timely,\" the person said, leading to some individuals getting away with \"disgraceful behaviour\".\n\nA respondent to the 2022 survey said their mental health has been affected by many factors, including a lack of holding people to account, being overworked and \"awful misogyny\".\n\nBullying was mentioned in a number of survey responses. There were no specific examples given but a respondent to the 2022 poll talked about experiencing a \"culture of bullying and harassment\".\n\nBut colleagues were praised for being \"caring\" by many survey respondents, and one comment says the RNLI is \"very inclusive of everyone and the relationships in the team make it a great place to work\".\n\nThe RNLI's Code of Conduct says volunteers must not \"participate in any form of inappropriate behaviour or activity\", including bullying, harassment or unlawful discrimination.\n\nSue Barnes, RNLI's People Director, said: \"We are sorry to our volunteers and staff who have faced behaviours and actions that no one should have to tolerate.\n\n\"There is no place for misogynistic, sexist, and non-inclusive behaviours at the RNLI and we are committed to taking action and tackling such behaviour.\"\n\nShe added that it has a \"range of methods\" members can use to report unacceptable behaviour, including a whistleblowing reporting line.\n\n\"We know we have more work to do to ensure we become the truly inclusive lifesaving charity we strive to be,\" she said.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Toys and flowers were left at the scene in 2021\n\nA woman charged with murdering her baby and attempting to murder her toddler told a court that her life was \"a nightmare\".\n\nGiving evidence at Belfast Crown Court, she said she was \"beaten, assaulted, threatened, abused\" by her partner.\n\nHer trial, now in its fourth week, had to be stopped early after the woman broke down when asked to describe what she had done to her children.\n\nShe accepts she stabbed her children in 2021 but denies the charges.\n\nShe is charged with murdering her eight-week-old son and attempting to murder his sister on 27 July 2021.\n\nThe woman cannot be named to protect the identity of her surviving child.\n\nShe told the court she met her partner in 2018 and moved in with him two weeks later.\n\nShe claimed he would lock her in the house for several days at a time, sometimes with no food, and would regularly physically and sexually abuse her.\n\nShe alleged that on one occasion, when her baby was a week old, she was sexually abused by her partner while both her children slept in the same room.\n\nWhen asked what her life was like with her partner, she replied: \"Like in a dog cage\".\n\nShe said: \"My life was a nightmare.\"\n\nThe woman claimed her partner showed her footage of men with guns, and told her: \"These are my friends.\"\n\nShe alleged he threatened her and her family.\n\nThe woman said she \"urinated\" herself because of how scared she was.\n\nShe said when she heard her partner turning the key in their front door she would think: \"What will he do to me today? How will he abuse me today?\"\n\nThe woman said that after the birth of her son she felt \"really distressed\" and had \"no help, no support\" and was \"isolated\".\n\nA defence barrister told the jury that as well as murder and attempted murder, they should consider if the defendant might be guilty of infanticide or manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.\n\nHe said they should consider not just what she did, but why she did it.\n\nHe told the court her life was \"one of horror.\"\n\nThe barrister said: \"She lived in fear that he would kill her.\n\n\"In a click of his fingers she would be gone, disappeared in seconds.\n\n\"It all came tumbling down around her and doing what she did was the only solution she could see.\"\n\nThe barrister asked the woman if she could remember what happened on the day of the stabbings.\n\nShe replied: \"I remember what I did.\"\n\nBut after being asked to recount what she did to her daughter, the woman repeatedly broke down and the trial was halted for the day.", "A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for ramming a police car he was being pursued by, after failing to stop in North Yorkshire.\n\nHe then led a second police vehicle on a high-speed chase before crashing into a field.\n\nMikey Lee Neesham pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and to causing criminal damage to a police car. When arrested, officers found he had no insurance and that his provisional licence had expired.", "Police cars were parked outside the temporary housing unit in Sidegate Lane on Friday\n\nA man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a two-year-old girl was found at a property, police have said.\n\nSuffolk Police said the toddler's remains were found at a temporary housing unit on Sidegate Lane in Ipswich at about 11:45 BST on Friday.\n\nThe force said a Bedfordshire man and a woman of no fixed abode, who are both 22, were arrested in Bury St Edmunds.\n\nA representative said the pair were \"known to the victim\".\n\nThey added that officers were \"not seeking any other suspects in connection with this case at this time\".\n\nAppealing for information, Supt Jane Topping said the force was \"still looking to establish the exact circumstances leading to the death of this child\".\n\n\"Clearly, such a discovery is extremely distressing for everyone concerned,\" she said.\n\n\"We'd ask people not to speculate on social media as to the identity of the child or to the circumstances surrounding her death.\"\n\nIpswich Borough Council, which operates the housing unit, has declined to comment\n\nShe added that a \"highly visible presence of officers\" would \"continue in the area for the next few days with reassurance patrols\".\n\n\"These officers are available to speak to concerned members of the community,\" she said.\n\n\"This is a fast-moving investigation and we are appealing to the local community for any information which may aid this investigation.\"\n\nIpswich Borough Council, which operates the housing unit, has declined to comment.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A mission to uncover the secrets of the Cosmos?\n\nSounds tantalising and whilst we won’t get any answers today, you can watch the beginning of Euclid’s adventure with its launch from Florida this afternoon.\n\nWelcome to live coverage of the lift-off from Cape Canaveral, where you will be able to watch the countdown and launch of the rocket carrying the Euclid telescope.\n\nA collaboration between the European Space Agency and Nasa, Euclid aims to tie down some of the properties of so-called dark matter and dark energy.\n\nWe won’t be bringing you any further text updates on this page, but enjoy the excitement of the launch by watching the video coverage by clicking play at the top.", "Earlier this year, researchers raised eyebrows when Australia's traditionally conservative medicines regulator approved the use of psychedelics to assist therapy sessions.\n\nThe decision will see psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, used for treatment-resistant depression. It will also allow MDMA, known as ecstasy in tablet form, for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\nThe changes come into effect on Saturday, making Australia the first country to classify psychedelics as medicines at a national level.\n\nWhile initial access to the drugs will be limited and costly, many experts and patients are hailing it as a landmark moment.\n\nBut major health organisations have also urged caution.\n\nMarjane Beaugeois was diagnosed with severe depression in 2017. \"Within two months, I lost my mother, grandmother, beloved pet dog and my romantic relationship,\" she recalls.\n\nShe couldn't eat, shower, or leave her house in Melbourne - but says prescription antidepressants left her \"zombie-like, unable to cry, self-soothe or feel better\".\n\n\"I'd still go to bed praying not to wake up,\" the 49-year-old says.\n\nWhen her research for alternative therapies led her to a psilocybin clinic in Amsterdam, she was hesitant.\n\n\"I have no history of drug or alcohol use. As an addiction counsellor, I was always very against it,\" she says.\n\nBut she was also desperate to escape her treatment-resistant depression, so in 2018, she booked herself in.\n\nThe psilocybin was taken in a tea. \"Colours became more vivid. I felt powerfully reconnected to the world; warm and fuzzy. I'm getting emotional just talking about it… it was a massive, beautiful experience of unconditional love.\"\n\nThree sessions later, she felt healed. \"I could smile, feel joy, go about my daily routine with clarity,\" she says. \"When I got home, friends said they saw my eyes shining again.\"\n\nWhen Glen Boyes suggested microdosing psychedelics to treat his crippling depression, his therapist was sceptical.\n\n\"He explained it wasn't something he does, but he couldn't stop me, and would do brain scans to track my progress,\" he says.\n\nThe 33-year-old veteran says he began experiencing \"lingering PTSD\" from his time in the army, during Covid-19 lockdowns in Sydney.\n\nBut after 10 weeks of microdosing and therapy sessions, red areas on his initial brain scans showing blockages had cleared. \"My brain fog evaporated. I could think clearly again.\"\n\nDue to no other country rescheduling these substances for clinical use on a national level, the cohort who've experienced psychedelic therapy is small.\n\nProfessor David Nutt, Head of Neuropsychopharmacology at the UK's Imperial College, congratulated Australia on \"leading the world in this vital treatment innovation\".\n\nPsychedelic researcher and psychiatrist Dr Ben Sessa described the approval as pioneering. \"This is where the global psychedelic spotlight now shines,\" he told the BBC.\n\nDr Sessa has resigned from his job running the UK's primary psychedelic clinical organisation and will spend the next 18 months travelling to Australia to deliver a bespoke psychedelic prescribing training programme.\n\nOther countries have explored psychedelics for compassionate use, including Switzerland, Canada, and Israel - where regulators have made similar decisions, although not nationally like in Australia. Psychedelic clinics also operate legally in countries including Jamaica and Costa Rica.\n\nBut how Australia rolls out clinical prescriptions for both drugs, and at what price tag, will be closely watched.\n\nFirst developed as an appetite suppressant in 1912, ecstasy was used in therapy sessions in the US until the mid-1970s when it was outlawed. It entered Australia in the 1980s as a party drug due to its reported effects of increased energy, empathy, and pleasure, and was criminalised in 1987.\n\nIn the 2000s though, research slowly started up again - with recent trials finding that both MDMA and psilocybin can quickly improve symptoms of severe depression, though little is known about how they do this.\n\nMind Medicine Australia (MMA), a charity which lobbied for psychedelic treatments, is helping to train health professionals tasked with procuring and prescribing the drugs.\n\nTo become an authorised prescriber, psychiatrists must apply to an ethics committee and to Australia's drugs regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). They'll then need to source and supply both MDMA and psilocybin.\n\nOnce all expenses are factored in - including the drugs themselves, supervision from multidisciplinary teams, psychiatrist sessions and hiring a private clinic - costs could spiral to A$30,000 (£15,700, $20,000) per treatment, according to one psychedelics expert.\n\nDue to the prohibitive price tag, Dr Stephen Bright, senior lecturer at Edith Cowan University, says he doubts these treatments \"will be very widely available at all\" for the first 12-18 months.\n\nPhilanthropist Peter Hunt, chair of MMA, disputes those estimates, telling the BBC patients should expect to pay between A$10,000 for two psilocybin assisted therapy sessions, and A$15,000 for three MDMA assisted sessions. \"We costed the treatments with a mental health clinic,\" he said.\n\nBut with no planned government subsidies, the five-figure treatments are expected to remain unaffordable for most patients.\n\nAustralia's major medical and mental health bodies are among the loudest voices pushing back against psychedelic treatments.\n\n\"There's been considerable caution from the scientific and medical community,\" said Kristen Morely, a professor of addiction medicine at the University of Sydney.\n\nAccording to MMA, the \"weight of submissions from thousands of Australians whose current mental health treatments just aren't working\" helped get the TGA approval over the line.\n\nBut the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) have expressed serious concerns.\n\nBoth groups have called for larger-scale studies and better research into psychedelic treatments, warning of unknown risks, long-term side effects and \"potentially very limited benefits\" from their use in therapy.\n\n\"Psychedelic-assisted therapy may offer hope to a small number of people where other treatments have been attempted without success. But it's not a miracle cure,\" warned Professor Richard Harvey, who chairs the RANZCP's Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Steering Group, warned.\n\nHe urged a \"cautious, considered and informed\" approach, due to the \"potential for psychedelic substances to cause fear, panic and re-traumatisation\".\n\n\"Vulnerable people can understandably feel distressed if their experience doesn't match their expectations of this therapy,\" he said.\n\nIt's also unclear, he argued, whether the results from psychedelic treatments stemmed more from the substances themselves, or the psychotherapy.\n\n\"Put simply, psychedelic-assisted therapy is in its infancy. There is more we need to know.\"", "Esther Wang disappeared on Tuesday at Golden Ears Park in the province of British Columbia\n\nA Canadian teenager has been found two days after she went missing in the wilderness of a vast provincial park.\n\nEsther Wang, 16, disappeared after she was separated from her hiking group in the 555sq km (214sq mile) Golden Ears Park in British Columbia.\n\nBut the teen emerged uninjured from a trail on her own on Thursday.\n\nPolice said Ms Wang was recovering with her family.\n\n\"She's healthy, she's happy, she is with family. That's the best possible outcome for us,\" Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt Wendy Mehat said in a statement.\n\n\"Esther's family has expressed sincere gratitude to all first responders and Search and Rescue groups,\" Supt Mehat added. \"They are very thankful for this outcome and request privacy at this time.\"\n\nOfficials said Ms Wang emerged from the East Canyon trail on which she had initially gone missing at around 21:30 local time on Thursday (04:30 GMT Friday).\n\nIt is unclear how she was separated from her group. Local media reported that the group left a lookout point around 14:45 on Tuesday, and realised that Ms Wang was not with them around 15 minutes later.\n\nThe group leader returned to the lookout but could not find her, and so raised the alarm. A search was launched soon after.\n\nMs Wang was checked by emergency services, who determined that she was unharmed during the ordeal - with the exception of some mosquito bites. She was then permitted to return home with her parents.\n\n\"We're elated at the outcome of the search and Esther being returned to her family is what our objective was,\" search and rescue spokesperson Ryan Smith said.\n\n\"We used as many resources as we could. I'd like to thank our partner organizations, the RCMP, other first responders, the helicopter companies that assisted us in this exhaustive search.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was speaking at an awards event\n\nA senior detective has said that children present when he was shot at a sports complex in Omagh in County Tyrone in February witnessed \"horrors that no child should ever have to\".\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell was speaking at the Sunday Life's Spirit of Northern Ireland Awards on Friday night.\n\nThe shooting happened in front of schoolchildren, including his son.\n\nReceiving a special award at the event he also praised the \"amazing\" medical staff who treated him.\n\n\"I am just sorry that these innocent children, including my own son, were subjected to such a harrowing ordeal,\" he said.\n\n\"I am so glad that my son and his friends were not injured, although I appreciate that any psychological trauma will take longer to recover from.\n\n\"We will get through it together,\" he added.\n\nThe shooting happened at a sports complex in Omagh\n\nHe also thanked those who helped him on the night he was targeted.\n\n\"To the brave people who ran to help me when I was shot - that took some guts as they were putting themselves in harm's way,\" he said.\n\n\"And thank you to the emergency services and the amazing medical staff who looked after me in many ways, for many months.\"\n\nIn a pre-recorded message played at the event, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the detective as \"a true hero of Northern Ireland\".\n\nMr Sunak visited him in hospital and met his family in April.\n\n\"When I visited him in his hospital bed, he was still thinking about the future of the society he loves,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nThe event was Mr Caldwell's second public appearance since he left hospital in April.\n\nIt is understood he had a private meeting with King Charles during the monarch's first official visit to Northern Ireland after the coronation.\n\nThe chief constable said the PSNI was proud of Det Ch Insp John Caldwell\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne also paid tribute to the senior officer.\n\nIn a recorded message, Mr Byrne said he was \"proud of his determination and stoicism\".\n\n\"As an organisation, we are so proud of what you have done and what you represent for us, both now and going forwards,\" he added.\n\nThe dissident republican group the New IRA said it carried out the shooting.\n\nSeven men have appeared in court charged in relation to the attack.\n\nThey were remanded in custody to appear before Omagh Magistrates' Court on 27 June.", "Jeremy Clarkson had already admitted his language was \"disgraceful\" and said he was \"profoundly sorry\"\n\nA column by Jeremy Clarkson in the Sun - in which he wrote about the Duchess of Sussex being paraded naked in the street - was sexist, the press regulator has ruled.\n\nA record 25,000 people complained to Ipso, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, about the article.\n\nThe imagery was \"humiliating and degrading towards the duchess\", Ipso chairman Lord Faulks said.\n\nThey added that the article, published by the Sun in December 2022, was also spreading \"dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny\".\n\nResponding to the Ipso ruling the Sun said it \"accepts that with free expression comes responsibility\".\n\nThe Sun and its columnist apologised for the column last December and removed the article from its website. However while it has said the column fell \"short of its high editorial standards and should not have been published\" it has not accepted that it breached the editor's code, saying concerns raised were a \"matter of taste and judgement\".\n\nNevertheless after investigating the article, Ipso ruled the newspaper had indeed broken its editors' code of practice as the piece contained a \"pejorative and prejudicial reference\" to Meghan's sex.\n\nThe watchdog rejected complaints that the piece was discriminatory on the grounds of race, inaccurate or sought to harass the duchess.\n\nIn the column, Clarkson wrote that he was \"dreaming of the day when [Meghan] is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while crowds chant, 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her\".\n\nHe later explained that he had been thinking of a scene in Game of Thrones, but wrote the column in a hurry and forgot to mention the TV show.\n\nThe Sun has published a summary of the regulator's findings on the same page as the column usually appears, as well as running it on the front page of their website.\n\nElsewhere in the column, Clarkson wrote that he hated Meghan \"on a cellular level\".\n\nClarkson compared his hatred of the duchess with his feelings towards former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and serial killer Rose West. The regulator found this comparison was because all three are female.\n\nIpso's chief executive, Charlotte Dewar, told the BBC the regulator had considered complaints from gender equality charity The Fawcett Society and The Wilde Foundation, a charity that helps victims and survivors of abuse.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex dismissed apologies from Clarkson and The Sun\n\nShe said the remedy for this breach was the publication of Ipso's decision for Sun readers and also for the wider public to know the reasons for the finding adding, they had conducted a \"fair, independent, impartial and thorough investigation\".\n\nShe confirmed the complaints about the article had not come from the duchess.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday, Ms Dewar said some complainants had felt passages had \"racial connotations\" but IPSO had not established these references were discriminatory.\n\nAsked if it mattered if the Sun had not accepted that there was a breach of the editors' code, Ms Dewar said: \"What matters to many people is that they did immediately remove the article very shortly after publication and they have apologised and accepted it should not have happened.\"\n\nShe said the complaint had been upheld and the finding meant the paper was required to look at the processes that led to the article.\n\nResponded to Ipso's ruling, the Sun said: \"Half of the Sun's readers are women and we have a very long and proud history of campaigning for women which has changed the lives of many.\"\n\nIt acknowledged Ipso ruled that Clarkson's column \"contained a pejorative and prejudicial reference to the duchess's sex\".\n\nBut it added the regulator had not upheld separate elements of the complaint - that the article was inaccurate, harassed the duchess or included discriminatory references on the grounds of race.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Prince Harry and Meghan for comment, along with Clarkson.\n\n\"This was a particularly egregious example of media misogyny, and our case was that the language in it and the tropes that Jeremy Clarkson used added up to sexism and discrimination against Meghan Markle that was harmful to her,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe called for an investigation into how these \"toxic comments\" made it on to the pages \"of one of our biggest newspapers\".\n\nSenior Labour MP Harriet Harman, the society's incoming chairwoman, called Ipso's ruling \"a big step forward for women in the battle against sexism in the media\".\n\nClarkson has said that when he read the article in the paper, he realised he had \"completely messed up\".\n\nIn January he said he had emailed the couple over Christmas 2022 to tell them \"the language I'd used in my column was disgraceful and that I was profoundly sorry\".\n\nThe Sun as well as deleting the column from its website said at the time that it was \"sincerely sorry\".\n\nHowever, Harry and Meghan's spokesperson dismissed that apology, accusing the paper of profiting and exploiting \"hate, violence and misogyny\".\n\n\"A true apology would be a shift in their coverage and ethical standards for all,\" they said.\n\nThe article attracted the highest number of complaints since Ipso was established in 2014.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrance has seen a quieter night of protests over the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range, the interior minister says.\n\nThere were fewer arrests compared to previous nights - 719 - with the worst clashes in the southern city Marseille.\n\nIn the Paris suburb L'Haÿ-les-Roses, attackers rammed a car into the house of the mayor, injuring his wife as she tried to flee with their two children.\n\nFrench cities have seen unrest since the police shooting of a teenager.\n\nNahel M, 17, was shot during a traffic stop on Tuesday. Large crowds turned out for his funeral on Saturday.\n\nIn a tweet, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin praised law enforcement for their \"resolute action\" which had led to a \"calmer night\".\n\nAround 45,000 police were deployed across the country for a second night on Saturday.\n\nMore than 1,300 arrests were made on Friday night and more than 900 on Thursday.\n\nOfficials hope that a turning-point may have been reached - that rioters are losing energy thanks to the security crackdown and the massive unpopularity of their exactions.\n\nHowever, until more nights of quiet confirm the trend, no-one is assuming anything.\n\nIn Marseille, heavy clashes took place between police and rioters throughout Saturday evening.\n\nIn footage circulating online, police can be seen using tear gas against people in the city.\n\nThe video shows the clashes taking place on La Canebière, the main avenue in the heart of Marseille.\n\nFrench media report that fighting took place between a large group of rioters and officers.\n\nThere was a heavy police presence along the iconic Champs-Élysée in Paris\n\nIn Paris, large numbers of police were seen along the iconic Champs-Élysées avenue.\n\nThere had been calls on social media for protesters to gather there but the police presence seems to have kept most of them away.\n\nThe capital's police said they made 194 arrests. The Paris region stopped all buses and trams after 21:00 for a second night running.\n\nL'Haÿ-les-Roses Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun said his wife and one of his children had been injured when fleeing an attacker who had rammed his house with a car and then set the car on fire.\n\nHe called it \"a murder attempt of unspeakable cowardice\".\n\nIn the northern city of Lille, police special forces were seen on the streets. Images from the city overnight showed firefighters extinguishing blazes in cars that had been set alight by rioters.\n\nTwenty-one people were arrested in the city of Lyon. Clashes were also reported in Nice and Strasbourg.\n\nNahel's funeral service was held at the mosque in Nanterre earlier on Saturday.\n\nSupporters of the family told the news media to keep away. All filming - even on phones - was banned: \"No Snapchat, no Insta,\" mourners were told.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNahel was shot after refusing to stop for a traffic check and died after emergency services attended the scene. A video, shared online in the hours following Nahel's death, showed two police officers trying to stop the vehicle and one pointing his weapon at the driver.\n\nThe officer who fired the fatal shot has since been charged with voluntary homicide and apologised to the family. His lawyer said he was devastated.\n\nNahel's death has reignited debate around the state of French policing, including a controversial 2017 firearms law which allows officers to shoot when a driver ignores an order to stop.\n\nMore widely, it has led to questions of racism in the force. The UN's human rights office said the unrest was a chance for France \"to address deep issues of racism in law enforcement\".\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron condemned the violence on Friday \"with the greatest firmness\" and said Nahel's death had been used to justify acts of violence - calling it an \"unacceptable exploitation of the adolescent's death\".", "For almost two decades James Nutley's parents have lived with unanswered questions over his disappearance\n\nThe parents of a man who has been missing for almost 19 years say they hope renewed interest in the case could finally bring them answers.\n\nJames Nutley, 25, disappeared while on a golfing trip in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 24 October 2004.\n\nAfter visiting three pubs he was captured on CCTV near the Giltar Hotel where he was staying at 23:57, but what happened after that remains a mystery.\n\n\"It is hanging over you all the time,\" said his father Jeffrey.\n\n\"We were thinking 'he'll turn up in a day or two' - 20 years later we're still thinking 'where is he?'.\"\n\nJames's parents Catherine and Jeffrey Nutley said they had not given up hope of one day being reunited with their son\n\nAt the time of his disappearance, James was living at the family home in Caldicot, Monmouthshire, with his parents and sister.\n\nHis parents do not believe he would have taken his own life, saying their \"golf-mad\" son seemed very happy and had been working his \"dream job\" demonstrating golf clubs.\n\nCatherine recalled her son excitedly rushing out of the house to leave for the trip with no idea of what was to come.\n\nShe first realised something was wrong when her sister and a friend came to see her at work.\n\n\"My sister said 'James has gone missing in Tenby',\" she recalled.\n\nJames was captured on CCTV shortly before he vanished\n\n\"That was it, get your things, come home, Jeffrey had had the phone call as well and he was in a bit of a state.\"\n\nShe immediately headed for Tenby, with Jeffrey staying at home by the landline in case James called.\n\nBy the time she arrived the search was well under way.\n\n\"I think we were just numbed,\" she said.\n\nCatherine was told James' possessions - including his driving licence - had been found on the seaside town's South Beach.\n\nJames was on a golfing trip when he went missing in Tenby\n\nThe police search eventually went cold and there have been few breakthroughs over the years.\n\nOver the past 19 years the family have faced the agony of numerous false leads and even a false murder confession.\n\nJames's parents said he was happy and content and work before he went missing\n\n\"We just had a phone call…. 'this is inspector so and so… we're coming up',\" said Catherine.\n\n\"He sat down and said 'we've had some developments and this person has claimed that he murdered James'.\"\n\nThe family were told Richard Fairbrass had given police extensive details about how he and his girlfriend had carried out the murder and thrown James's body into the sea at Stack Rocks.\n\nSince James's disappearance his sister (pictured) has had two children, making him an uncle\n\nHe later confessed to inventing the whole story and in 2006 was jailed for two years for attempting to pervert the course of justice.\n\n\"It set us back a bit, it didn't do us any good at all,\" said Jeffrey.\n\nJames is from a family of keen golfers\n\nRecently the couple have been interviewed for podcast The Missing, which focuses on long-term missing people cases and asks listeners to become part of the search.\n\nIt has prompted renewed interest in the case.\n\nSo what do Catherine and Jeffrey think happened to their son that night?\n\nThe couple said James (second from left) was full of life and enjoyed telling a good story\n\n\"Had James arranged to meet someone to go off to a different life? Or did someone abduct him? There's still questions,\" said Catherine.\n\n\"We did keep thinking 'he's most likely in Spain now lying on a beach'… we still do, until someone tells us differently he could be in Spain,\" said Jeffrey.\n\nThere have been times over the years where the couple have thought they have spotted James through a window or in a restaurant - but all have come to nothing.\n\nJames always looked smart in a suit, his dad Jeffrey said\n\nCatherine said every time she sees a man begging on the street she takes a close look on the off-chance it is her son.\n\nThey are not giving up hope. Despite the passing years they believe it is still possible they will be reunited with their son one day.\n\n\"Well you can't give up can you, until someone tells us differently,\" said Jeffrey.\n\n\"Someone said we should have a memorial service. I said: 'What? Why? You can't have a service when we don't know where he is'.\"\n\n\"You've got no headstone,\" said Catherine.\n\n\"You can't grieve because there's no-one there.\"\n\nCatherine and Jeffrey have collected dozens of press cuttings they have collected over the years\n\nThe couple said they had had to learn to get on with their lives while carrying the burden of not knowing what happened to their son.\n\n\"You always know that someone's missing,\" said Catherine.\n\n\"I say my prayers at night… 'please keep an eye on James, wherever he is'.\"", "Delyth Jones said having migraines affects her life \"massively\"\n\nA woman who has about nine migraines a month has said the condition controls her life.\n\nDelyth Jones, 32, from Ceredigion, said she has missed her children's school concerts and sports days due to them.\n\nA former GP who lost her job after a chronic migraine diagnosis has set up a voluntary support group in Cardiff, citing a lack of support.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was committed to improving care and services.\n\nMs Jones first started having migraines as a teenager and described the pain as \"intense\".\n\n\"It starts as a little tingling behind my eye, and I think 'oh yes, I'm going to have a migraine today',\" she said.\n\n\"[It's] a huge pressure running back towards the back of my head from my eye. The pain, I can't describe it.\"\n\nMs Jones said some of her migraines can last for days.\n\n\"As a mother of three, it affects my life massively. I've missed out on things that they do, school concerts, sports days,\" she said.\n\nDelyth Jones and her three children\n\n\"I've turned into an anxious person. Anxious that people don't believe me when I say that I have one. I feel isolated.\n\n\"Not many other people I know have them and I can't talk to other people about how I feel because they don't understand.\"\n\nMs Jones said she struggled with a lack of support when she went to see the doctor about her migraines.\n\n\"When I went to the doctors there was no literature, no support groups suggested, they were just quite happy to give me the medicine and basically 'that will help you'.\n\n\"It does worry me. It controls your life.\"\n\nDr Anna Maclean, an ex-GP who lost her job after a chronic migraine diagnosis, set up a support group for the condition in Cardiff last year, which now has 60 members.\n\n\"There isn't much expertise within Wales although I'm sure people are trying their best under the difficult circumstances of the NHS,\" said Dr Maclean.\n\n\"So I've just sought to help people and, along with another GP, we've set up this group because the numbers are enormous.\n\n\"Through the group they're all meeting up with people who've got the same symptoms so they don't feel so alone.\n\n\"[Migraines] needs to be made visible. Whilst it doesn't kill you, it absolutely kills your life.\"\n\nDr Llinos Roberts, from the Royal College of General Practitioners, said GPs can refer patients to headache clinics but more funding was needed to improve care in Wales.\n\nDr Llinos Roberts called for more funding to improve care in Wales\n\n\"We know that migraines are very common but the complexity lies in the range of symptoms people might experience,\" she said.\n\n\"There are some symptoms that are more common than others: head pain - often one side of the head, the feeling of nausea, problems with vision... but these can vary according to the individual.\n\n\"There is a need perhaps to increase the amount of funding to help patients see professionals who have a particular interest in migraine care.\"\n\nCharity The Migraine Trust said there was a \"long way to go\" to improve awareness.\n\nAccording to its research, one in seven people in Wales live with the condition, and one in ten people in the UK.\n\n\"I think there's a lot the Welsh government could do,\" said its chief executive Rob Music.\n\n\"If you think about just how common my migraine is, and just the impact that it has, and so poorly understood it is.\n\n\"I think we very much feel that that the migraine needs to should do must to get to where menopause is now.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it recognised the \"debilitating effects\" of migraines.\n\n\"We are committed to working with the NHS to improve care, services and access to services,\" it said.\n\nIt said a headache toolkit was recently launched to support frontline clinical teams in diagnosing and planning care for patients.", "\"There is no free lunch\" when it comes to funding public companies such as Thames Water, Lord Howard has told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which is billions of pounds in debt, faces a crisis, prompting fresh calls for it to be nationalised.\n\nLord Howard, who led the privatisation of the water industry more than 30 years ago, denied the plan has failed.\n\nGreen Party's Caroline Lucas said water firms should be placed under public ownership.\n\nThames Water, which serves a quarter of the UK population, has faced heavy criticism over its performance following a series of sewage discharges and leaks, with its chief executive quitting last week.\n\nThe company is in talks to secure extra funding, and the government has said \"a lot of work is going on behind the scenes\" and that a process was in place \"if necessary\".\n\nLord Howard, who was the minister charged with privatising the water under industry under Margaret Thatcher's government, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that long-term investments in infrastructure required major investment.\n\n\"You can pay for them by borrowing, in which case interest has to be paid to the lenders, or you can pay for them by raising private capital, in which case dividends have to be paid to the people who provide that capital,\" he said.\n\n\"That is the only choice available, there is no free lunch.\"\n\nLord Howard said industries under public ownership must \"compete for resources\" with the likes of health, education and police, saying that when water was nationalised it was \"way down the queue\".\n\n\"When you release it into the private sector, you have recourse to private capital - you can make the investment that's needed,\" said Lord Howard, who was also the former Conservative party leader.\n\nHowever, he accepted with hindsight that some companies should have been raising more of their capital through issuing equity.\n\n\"I think it is arguable that the companies have been allowed to take on too much debt,\" he said.\n\nAnother Conservative peer, Lord Tyrie, said it would be a \"mistake\" to renationalise water companies, as they were \"better off... in the private sector, subject to some discipline in the market\".\n\nA process of renationalising would be \"disruptive\", with costs passed onto customers through higher bills over a \"sustained period\", he told BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster.\n\nBut Lord Tyrie, the former chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), criticised \"poor quality regulation\" of the sector - and called for a commission to consider the issue.\n\nMs Lucas, a Green Party MP and former party leader, told the Today programme that when privatisation took place water firms were \"essentially handed a monopoly\". She accused them of \"loading up debt to pay their dividends to shareholders\".\n\n\"This is an experiment that has totally failed - water remains in public ownership in most other countries for good reason,\" she said.\n\n\"We should be prioritising public need and environmental protection, and not private profit.\"\n\nLord Howard described her remarks as a \"diatribe\".\n\nThe Lib Dems have joined calls for the water industry to operate on behalf of the public, drawing up a bill to relaunch the firms as US-style \"public benefit companies\".\n\nUnder the plans, they would not be renationalised, but the water regulator would force them to be run for the good of the environment, as well as for profit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'They've taken my baby' - Mother of teen shot by police\n\nThe killing of Nahel M, 17, has sparked riots in cities across France as well as the town of Nanterre to the west of Paris where he grew up.\n\nAn only child brought up by his mother, he had been working as a takeaway delivery driver and played rugby league.\n\nHis education was described as chaotic. He was enrolled at a college in Suresnes not far from where he lived, to train to be an electrician.\n\nThose who knew Nahel, who was of Algerian descent, said he was well-loved in Nanterre where he lived with his mother Mounia and had apparently never known his father.\n\nHis record of attendance of college was poor. Nahel had been in trouble before and was known to police, but family lawyers stressed he had no criminal record.\n\nHe had given his mother a big kiss before she went to work, with the words \"I love you, Mum\".\n\nShortly after nine in the morning on Tuesday he was fatally shot in the chest, point-blank, at the wheel of a Mercedes car for driving off during a police traffic check. At 17 he was too young for a licence.\n\n\"What am I going to do now?\" asked his mother. \"I devoted everything to him,\" she said. \"I've only got one, I haven't got 10 [children]. He was my life, my best friend.\"\n\nHis grandmother spoke of him as a \"kind, good boy\".\n\n\"A refusal to stop doesn't give you a licence to kill,\" said Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure. \"All the children of the Republic have a right to justice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNahel had spent the past three years playing for the Pirates of Nanterre rugby club. He had been part of an integration programme for teenagers struggling in school, run by an association called Ovale Citoyen.\n\nThe programme was aimed at getting people from deprived areas into apprenticeships and Nahel was learning to be an electrician.\n\nOvale Citoyen president Jeff Puech was one of the adults locally who knew him best. He had seen him only a few days ago and spoke of a \"kid who used rugby to get by\".\n\n\"He was someone who had the will to fit in socially and professionally, not some kid who dealt in drugs or got fun out of juvenile crime,\" Mr Puech told Le Parisien.\n\nHe praised the teenager's \"exemplary attitude\", a far cry from what he condemned as a character assassination of him painted on social media.\n\nHe had got to know Nahel when he lived with his mother in the Vieux-Pont suburb of Nanterre before they moved to the Pablo Picasso estate.\n\nShortly after his death an ambulance man, Marouane, launched a tirade against a police officer, explaining later that he knew the boy as if he was his little brother. He had seen him grown up as a kind, helpful child. \"He never raised a hand to anyone and he was never violent,\" he told reporters.\n\nHis mother believes the police officer who shot him \"saw an Arab face, a little kid, and wanted to take his life\". She told France 5 TV she blamed only the one person who fired the shot, not the police: \"I have friends who are officers - they're with me wholeheartedly.\"\n\n\"May Allah grant him mercy,\" read a banner unfurled over the Paris ring road outside Parc des Princes stadium.\n\nFlowers were left at the site where Nahel died\n\n\"Police violence happens every day, especially if you're Arab or black,\" said one young man in another French city calling for justice for Nahel.\n\nBut the family's lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, said this was not about racism, but about justice.\n\n\"We have a law and judicial system that protects police officers and it creates a culture of impunity in France,\" he told the BBC.\n\nNahel had been the subject of as many as five police checks since 2021 - what is known as a refus d'obtempérer - refusing to comply with an order to stop.\n\nWhen he was stopped by police, he was driving a Mercedes with Polish number plates, with two passengers and no licence.\n\nAs recently as last weekend, he had reportedly been placed in detention for refusing to comply and was due to appear before a juvenile court in September.\n\nHis name was on a police file called a Taj, used by authorities for a variety of investigations.\n\nLast September a judge imposed a \"disciplinary measure\". Most of the trouble he got into involved cars: driving without a licence or insurance and using false number plates.\n\nBut Nahel had never been convicted, said family lawyer Jennifer Cambla, and had no criminal record. Being known to police was not the same as a criminal record, because he had never been tried for anything listed on his police file, she told French TV.\n\n\"I think in this kind of suburb it's pretty rare that a young person hasn't been stopped by police or hasn't been in custody,\" Ms Cambla said.\n\nThe riots that his death has provoked are a reminder for many in France of the events of 2005, when two teenagers, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, were electrocuted as they fled police after a game of football and ran into an electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.\n\n\"It could have been me, it could have been my little brother,\" a Clichy teenager called Mohammed told French website Mediapart.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSarina Wiegman says England are in a \"good place\" despite being held by Portugal in their final match on home soil before heading to Australia for the 2023 Women's World Cup.\n\nThe Lionesses were frustrated as they failed to find the net and twice hit the bar on their way to registering 23 attempts in front of a 26,267 crowd in Milton Keynes.\n\n\"We should have put it in the back of the net. We all know that,\" said the England boss, who flies to Australia with her players on Wednesday.\n\n\"We created lots of chances, and of course we wanted to score that goal. Today it just wouldn't go in.\n\n\"I think we are in a very good place. We did a lot of things, as individuals and as a team, both on and off the pitch.\n\n\"This was the first game after we've not seen each other for a long time.\"\n• None Did England's draw with Portugal provide more questions than answers?\n\nWiegman's side were not at their fluent best, though they had chances to seal victory in the second half.\n\nGeorgia Stanway hit the bar at the end of the first half, substitute Alessia Russo was denied by a goalline block from Ana Borges, while Lucy Bronze's header also hit the bar.\n\nEngland take on Canada in a friendly behind closed doors on 14 July, eight days before their opening match of the World Cup on 22 July,\n\nWiegman used 17 players and tried several systems throughout the game at Stadium MK in an attempt to fine-tune plans.\n\nBut the Lionesses, whose 30-game unbeaten run ended with defeat by Australia in their previous match, struggled to click for large periods against Portugal and looked frustrated.\n\nAll eyes were on the team selection as Wiegman had bold choices to make in attack, opting for Rachel Daly and Lauren James over Russo and Chloe Kelly from the start.\n\nBut it was a flat first half from England. They lacked energy, presumably impacted by the fact they had not played for several weeks following the end of the Women's Super League (WSL) season, and were forced out wide for large periods by a stubborn Portugal defence.\n\nDaly should have scored early on though when Lauren Hemp curled in an inviting cross at the back post, only for her to poke the ball wide, while James showed glimpses of quality, combining nicely with full-back Bronze on the right-hand side.\n\nHowever, it was not until the second half that the European champions started to show spark and their superiority.\n• None All the best 2023 Women's World Cup content\n\nRusso's introduction had an impact as she dropped in deep to link up with James, who moved to the number 10 position and was more effective than Ella Toone had been in the opening half.\n\nThe striker had the best of the chances, firing wide on two occasions when teed up by Kelly, as well as being denied by Borges' block on the line.\n\nIn a flurry of chances, Bronze's header crashed against the crossbar and Kelly also had a shot parried away. Hemp had an earlier chance but she could not get her header on target.\n\nIt gives Wiegman food for thought on team selection and what system to play, with England's opening game of the World Cup fast approaching.\n\nEngland are not short of talent, even with several key players missing through injury, but finding a way for them to work together remains Wiegman's biggest challenge - and she appears to be more unsure on how the team will look than she was going into Euro 2022.\n\nSeveral key players will miss the World Cup through injury including captain Leah Williamson and forward Beth Mead - who were both watching on in Milton Keynes - meaning England will have to adapt in Australia.\n\nThey were most effective when they were able to get in behind Portugal's defence in the second half, with Kelly particularly fruitful out wide.\n\nAs the game wore on, England's connections started to build, and James' link-up play with Bronze and Russo in particular helped her claim for a World Cup starting position.\n\nThe Chelsea forward was one of England's brightest players, while Daly failed to take her chance from the start as number nine, struggling to have an impact and missing a few opportunities.\n\nYoung Manchester City defender Esme Morgan was backed by Wiegman to start at centre-back despite struggling against Australia, but here she showed maturity and composure alongside Jess Carter.\n\nIf Millie Bright, who has not featured since March because of a knee injury, does not recover in time for the opening game of the tournament, Morgan has shown she is capable of playing there.\n\nAll in all, the shutout provided successful auditions for James, Morgan and Russo, less so for Toone and Daly.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alessia Russo (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lauren James.\n• None Diana Gomes (Portugal Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Inês Pereira (Portugal Women).\n• None Attempt saved. Laura Coombs (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Laura Coombs (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Chloe Kelly (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alessia Russo (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Katie Robinson.\n• None Attempt missed. Chloe Kelly (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Niamh Charles with a cross.\n• None Tatiana Pinto (Portugal Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Londiani Junction, near the western town of Kericho in Kenya, is said to be a busy area\n\nAt least 48 people have been killed in a road accident at a busy junction in Kenya, police and witnesses say.\n\nIt happened after a lorry carrying a shipping container lost control at Londiani Junction, near the western town of Kericho, local media report.\n\nPolice commander Geoffrey Mayek said 30 others were seriously injured but added the number \"could be more\".\n\nHe also raised concerns that \"one or two\" people could still be trapped underneath the overturned vehicle.\n\nTom Mboya Odero, another regional police commander, was quoted by AFP news agency as saying the lorry travelling towards Kericho \"lost control and rammed into eight vehicles, several motorcycles, people who were by the roadside, vendors, and other people who were on other businesses\".\n\nEye witnesses told Kenyan media the driver had been trying to avoid a bus that had broken down on the road.\n\nKenyan president William Ruto said he had been distressed to hear that some of those killed were \"young people with a promising future and business people who were on their daily chores\".\n\n\"We urge motorists to be extra cautious on roads, especially now when we are experiencing heavy rainfall,\" Mr Ruto added in a tweet.\n\nAn image circulated online showed what appeared to be a red shipping container lying on its side at the bottom of a small grassy bank, at the side of a road.\n\nThe town's governor, Dr Erick Mutai, described the incident as a \"dark moment\" for Kericho.\n\n\"My heart is crushed,\" he said in a Facebook post, alongside the photograph of the container.\n\nDr Mutai added that the necessary emergency services had been deployed to the scene.\n\nRainfall is thought to be hindering rescue operations, according to local reports, but it is not clear if the weather played a part in the accident.\n\nRoad accidents are a well known problem in East Africa, because roads outside the bigger cities are often narrow.\n\nThe World Health Organisation said on its website last year that the continent as a whole had the highest road traffic fatality rate in the world.\n\nLast year 34 people died in central Kenya when their bus careered off a bridge and plunged into the Nithi River below.", "Several schools have been targeted by the rioters. One of them is Nursery School Albert Samain – its canteen was severely damaged by the flames.\n\nSome of the pupils wrote a sign and hung it outside the main entrance. It reads:\n\n“Please do not burn the schools. It’s super important. Thank you.”\n\nMarie is a mother-of-four, and spoke to us outside her home.\n\n“We are scared for our children. They cried all night long, because of the fire and the explosions.”\n\nHer son chimes in: “I couldn’t sleep because of the explosions. I thought they were going to burn our home. I thought they were going to burn me too.”\n\nYesterday we reported from an office building that was burned to the ground.\n\nToday, residents told us that some of the people who set fire to it were directly related to the people who worked there. Several of them were their cousins.\n\nThe 500 employees who had offices there are likely to be temporarily laid off.\n\nKamel, a man in his 40s who’s lived in Roubaix his whole life, summed up what so many people in this area feel:\n\n“These people are destroying their own communities and their own neighbourhood. The riots are incomprehensible.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden spells out new path for student loan relief\n\nThe US Supreme Court has struck down US President Joe Biden's proposal to wipe out billions in student debt.\n\nThe 6-3 ruling effectively cancels the plan, which would have forgiven about $10,000 (£7,800) per borrower - and up to $20,000 in some cases.\n\nThe decision affects the loans of more than 40 million Americans.\n\nIt has left the US public \"angry,\" Mr Biden said. He pledged to put in place new measures to reduce university debt using other existing laws.\n\nThe loan forgiveness plan has been in limbo since some conservative states sued, arguing the president overstepped his authority. The Supreme Court agreed.\n\nIn the wake of the decision, Mr Biden spoke from the White House, saying: \"I know there are millions of Americans in this country who feel disappointed and discouraged or even a little bit angry. I must admit I do too.\"\n\nBut he vowed to work with the Department of Education to find other means to help people ease the financial burden.\n\n\"Today's decision has closed one path. Now we're going to start another,\" he said.\n\nThe total federal student debt has more than tripled over the past 15 years, rising from about $500bn in 2007 to $1.6tn today.\n\nLast year, the US Treasury took a $430bn charge to cover $300m in costs associated with the loan forgiveness programme, as well as additional costs associated with an extension of a Covid-era moratorium on payments through the end of the year.\n\nThe Biden administration faced plaintiffs in two separate cases, one involving six Republican-led states - Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina - and the other involving two individual student loan borrowers.\n\nIn both cases, plaintiffs argued the executive branch did not have the power to so broadly cancel student debt.\n\nThe Supreme Court ruled the two individual borrowers did not persuasively argue they would be harmed by the loan forgiveness plan, effectively ruling that they had no legal standing to challenge the Biden administration's proposal.\n\nDuring arguments in February, the Biden administration said that under a 2003 law known as the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, or Heroes Act, it had the power to \"waive or modify\" loan provisions to protect borrowers affected by \"a war or other military operation or national emergency\".\n\nIn its ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that while the act allows Mr Biden's education secretary, Miguel Cardona, to \"make modest adjustments and additions to existing provisions, not transform them\".\n\nJustice John Roberts wrote that the modifications made by the Biden administration \"created a novel and fundamentally different\" loan forgiveness programme that \"expanded forgiveness to nearly every borrower\" in the US.\n\nHe added that the administration's use of the Heroes Act \"does not remotely resemble how it has been used on prior occasions\".\n\nThe high court's ruling fell along ideological lines, with its three liberal judges dissenting.\n\nIn her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that \"the result here is that the court substitutes itself for Congress and the Executive Branch in making national policy about student-loan forgiveness\".\n\n\"Congress authorised the forgiveness plan... the [education secretary] put it in place; and the president would have been accountable for its success or failure,\" she wrote.\n\n\"But this court today decides that some 40 million Americans will not receive the benefits of the plan (so says the court) that assistance is too 'significant'\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe White House had previously estimated that almost 90% of US student borrowers would have qualified for relief under the plan.\n\n\"This decision is going to impact a lot of people in this country. But it's disproportionately going to impact people who are already historically marginalised,\" Ranen Miao, a 22-year-old recent graduate told BBC News outside the Supreme Court.\n\n\"The people who take out student loans are not the children of millionaires and billionaires. They're the children of working families,\" added Mr Miao, who declined to disclose how much student debt he has.\n\nClegg Ivey told CBS, the BBC's US partner, the Supreme Court had \"made the right decision\" and that he disagreed with the Biden administration's approach to the issue.\n\n\"I have student loans and I certainly would have benefited,\" he said. \"But if that's what we want, let's talk to our congressman. Congress... should actually do its job.\"\n\nPolling data shows that support for the student loan forgiveness proposal largely fell along political lines.\n\nOne poll conducted by Marquette Law School in May found that 31% of Republicans favoured the proposal, compared to 69% of independents and 87% of Democrats.\n\nThe Supreme Court's ruling on Friday was swiftly applauded by senior Republican lawmakers.\n\nHouse Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the loan initiative is \"unlawful\" and would mean that Americans without student loans \"are no longer forced\" to pay for those who do.\n\nIn total, approximately 43 million people in the US owe money for student loans - or about one-in-six US adults with at least some post-secondary education.\n\nFederal reserve data shows that the median student loan is about $17,000. About 17% of borrowers owe less than $10,000, while about 7% owe over $100,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmong those on the high end of the debt spectrum is Satra Taylor, a part-time student and campaigner for the group Young Invincibles who owes about $103,000. She told the BBC she expects the figure to grow as she continues a doctoral programme.\n\n\"My family does not come from generational wealth. I had no other option but to take out student loans to ensure I could put food on my table and pay my rent,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm deeply saddened by this decision... but I'm also hopeful that President Biden will ensure student debt cancellation happens.\"", "Britons travelling to France may face disruption and are advised to monitor the media, the Foreign Office has said, as the country grapples with widespread rioting.\n\nIn new travel advice, the government urged Britons to avoid the riots, saying their locations and timings were \"unpredictable\".\n\nThey also said it was \"more important than ever\" to get travel insurance.\n\nRiots began on Tuesday after police shot a 17-year-old of Algerian descent.\n\nNahel M was killed as he drove away from a traffic stop. His death has reignited debate around the state of French policing, including questions of racism in the force.\n\nThe Foreign Office updated its travel advice for France on Friday, warning there could disruption to road travel and local transport, and that further curfews may be imposed by some local authorities.\n\nBritons should check the latest travel information from operators and follow the advice of local authorities, it said.\n\nThe government said it was \"more important than ever to get travel insurance and check it provides sufficient cover\". It has also provided online guidance on foreign travel insurance.\n\nSo far, the Foreign Office has not changed its advice to warn against all but essential travel - a move which would invalidate many travel insurance policies.\n\nMore than 470 people were arrested in further violence on Friday evening, but France's interior minister insisted there had been a \"downturn\" in unrest.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron said thousands more officers would be deployed to contain the violence, but stopped short of declaring a state of emergency.\n\nParis Aeroport, which manages Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports, reported road and rail disruptions from the capital to its airports from 21:00 local time.\n\nAs of early on Saturday morning, rail services from the UK to France on the Eurostar were scheduled as normal.\n\nAround 17 million British nationals visit France every year, according to the Foreign Office.\n\nClamart, a Parisian suburb which was the first place to declare a curfew, announced restrictions between 21:00 and 06:00 local time from Thursday until Monday.", "The British have a love-hate relationship with the NHS.\n\nAccording to researchers at the King's Fund, the public gave the NHS its worst rating since records began 40 years ago. Just 29% said they were satisfied with the NHS in 2022.\n\nAnd yet we still love it. A whopping 90% of the public agrees the service should be free and available to everyone.\n\nBut with more than seven million people on waiting lists, almost everyone knows someone who isn't getting the care they need.\n\nAs the NHS approaches its 75th anniversary, politicians are falling over themselves to praise the service.\n\nBut when the cameras aren't rolling, the message you hear can be a very different one. Just like us, politicians have a love-hate relationship with the NHS.\n\n\"The whole system is paralysed and not improving - all the progress is going backwards.\" That's not the kind of thing you're likely to hear a minister say in public but it is the candid verdict of a former health minister talking privately.\n\nThey say the NHS chief executive has become the \"rationer-in-chief\" tasked with \"spreading the jam more and more thinly\" as the demand for care races ahead of what's available.\n\nAnother Conservative former minister tells me the \"National Health Service is an oxymoron\", a contradiction, because \"the leadership is incredibly patchy and outcomes are mixed\".\n\nFor Labour, a source says there is increasing \"anxiety and jeopardy\" about the future of the service and \"it really is a case of change or die\".\n\nYou'd be hard pressed to find a politician who would admit that services are being rationed but in off-the-record conversations that word comes up again and again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Are you in a parallel universe on economy and NHS? - PM asked\n\nOne of the former ministers says \"people have to understand that there is rationing according to wait\" - saying that is the \"trade-off\" with the traditional model.\n\nA former government adviser says \"people know there is rationing - the service is pretty good when you get it - but you might not\".\n\nYou won't find health rationing on any political leaflet or Facebook ad.\n\nBut the public's attachment to the concept of the NHS remains extremely strong. Before and after the pandemic voters are in no mood for a discussion about changing its core principles - despite all the problems.\n\nThe former government health adviser tells me that any serious conversation about fundamental change is nigh on impossible.\n\n\"Any sophisticated Tory politician knows they'd sign their own death warrant\" if they raised the prospect of a wholesale change, they say.\n\nRemember Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's proposal to fine patients if they missed a GP appointment? It was ditched almost as soon as it was suggested.\n\nAnother former official describes the public's strong emotional connection to the idea of the institution itself, saying: \"It's like your family. I'll moan and moan and moan about it, but if someone else from outside has a go at them, I'll have them on toast. It's like criticising your football team - they can naff off!\"\n\nPlenty of politicians talk about reforms to the service - whether that is working with the private sector or this week's workforce plan. But whether it is required or not, it is almost unthinkable now that any mainstream politician would argue for a sweeping change to the whole system.\n\nOf course, that has an impact on what governments choose to do to try and improve the service, which might not be the most effective long-term focus.\n\nOne former official suggests: \"Politicians want solutions with easy metrics like cutting waiting lists.\n\n\"If you do cut them in the short term, that just means more operations, it doesn't address stopping people being ill in the first place.\"\n\nA former minister says rather than go for bold reforms after the pandemic \"we have gone straight back to the voodoo land of heroic pointless commitments that will never get met because as a country we are so ill\".\n\nAnother suggests ministers are actually scared of telling the public hard truths about increasing cost pressures in the health service. \"The public has unrealistic expectations of what we can deliver - the government is frightened of that,\" they say.\n\nAnd as we've talked about many times here and on the show, unless and until governments confront the aching gaps in care for the elderly and vulnerable, the rest of the health service has to absorb the costly consequences of social care system that to a large extent just doesn't work.\n\nOne of the former ministers I've spoken to is intensely frustrated that it is so hard to have a full conversation about the NHS, saying that \"it's a political problem, not a resources problem. Our politicians just aren't finding the space\" to talk about really bold changes.\n\nOne former adviser agrees, saying \"everyone of all stripes is scared to take it on\".\n\nYet the fact politicians find it almost impossible to talk about alternatives is also a tribute to the longevity of the NHS and the public's belief in it.\n\nThe former adviser suggests that while people have to wait and outcomes vary \"as a system it is extraordinarily fair and that has to be worth something\".\n\nLove it and hate it. It is most certainly here to stay.", "Victor Lee died from stab wounds, the Met Police said\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Victor Lee, who was found dead in a canal in north-west London last Sunday.\n\nVictor's body was pulled from the Grand Union Canal after police were called to reports of a stabbing. He was declared dead at the scene.\n\nThree boys, aged 14, 15 and 17, were charged with murder and robbery on Saturday.\n\nThey are set to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA post-mortem examination on Wednesday concluded that the 17-year-old from Ealing died from stab injuries.\n\nPolice are continuing to appeal to the public for information and witnesses, earlier asking for dashcam footage of anyone driving near Scrubs Lane between 17:15 and 18:15 on Sunday.", "Toys and flowers were left at the scene of the incident in 2021\n\nA woman has been found guilty of murdering her eight-week old son and attempting to murder his two-year-old sister.\n\nThe woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, accepted she stabbed the children on 27 July 2021 but denied the charges.\n\nBut jurors rejected her argument and found her guilty after more than five hours of deliberations.\n\nThe woman was convicted at Belfast Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nShe will receive an automatic life sentence, with the amount of time she has to serve before being considered for parole to be set at a later date.\n\nThe woman placed her head in her hands and sobbed \"no, no, no\" as the guilty verdict was read out.\n\nThe juror who read the verdict also broke down as she read it and had to sit down to compose herself.\n\nWhen handing down the life sentence, Judge Donna McColgan said \"this has been a very difficult and stressful case\".\n\n\"I will be excusing the jury from jury service for the rest of their lives,\" she added.\n\n\"Counselling will also be made available to all jurors.\"\n\nOver the last six weeks, Belfast Crown Court has heard harrowing evidence.\n\nAfter the woman stabbed the children, she made five phone calls, including one to the children's father, telling him that their daughter was \"lying slowly bleeding\".\n\nIt was only after this call that she phoned 999, telling police: \"I killed my kid for him.\"\n\nThe trial was held at Belfast Crown Court\n\nDuring the trial, prosecuting counsel read a statement from the children's father to the court, as he was deemed too unwell to attend court as a witness.\n\nHe said on the evening of the stabbings, he was in England and had missed a call from his then partner as he was sleeping.\n\nHe returned her call and she told him she had killed the baby, that the baby's sister was slowly bleeding and that she was going to kill herself.\n\nHe then phoned the police.\n\nDuring the trial, the jury was shown harrowing footage from the body cameras of police officers who responded to a 999 call made by the defendant.\n\nThe videos showed the woman sitting on her living room floor in handcuffs and bleeding from a self-inflicted wound to her neck.\n\nThe footage also captured a police officer attempting to drive the injured girl to hospital in a PSNI car before handing her over to paramedics.\n\nBoth youngsters were taken to the emergency department at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and were treated as they lay side-by-side.\n\nWhilst the young girl was successfully treated for a stab wound to her chest, her baby brother was later pronounced dead.\n\nFollowing her arrest, the defendant made the case that she stabbed her children and then turned the knife on herself as she wanted them all to die together.\n\nThe court heard that during subsequent police interviews, she made references to her partner's use of drink and drugs, and also claimed that he beat and sexually abused her.\n\nWhen asked by a detective what she was thinking at the time, she said: \"I wanted to kill all three, all of us so that [their father], could have a happy life together with his new woman.\n\n\"This was the only solution that came to my mind.\"\n\nThe woman also spent four days in the witness box at Belfast Crown Court where she was questioned about the events of 27 July 2021 - and where she denied stabbing her children out of spite and malice towards their father.\n\nSobbing as she gave evidence, the defendant claimed she tried to resuscitate her baby son after stabbing him in the chest and also told the jury that after attacking her daughter, she then tried to keep her alive by holding her to her chest.\n\nShe said she did not know what \"was going on in my mind at that time\" and told the court she could not forgive herself and wished she could \"turn back time\".\n\nThe defendant sobbed as she was taken from the dock and back into custody.", "The council's leader Bridget Smith said it had helped address a reliance on expensive agency staff\n\nThe local government minister has formally requested a council ends its trial of a four-day week \"immediately\" over concerns about \"value for money\".\n\nSouth Cambridgeshire District Council's trial was due to run until 2024, but in a letter, Lee Rowley said such an approach could breach its legal duties.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat-led council is the first in the UK to trial the system.\n\nDefending the scheme, leader Bridget Smith said it had helped address a reliance on expensive agency staff.\n\nShe said an assessment showed that \"performance was maintained\" and added that she was \"surprised\" to receive the letter and wanted to meet \"with ministers to discuss this matter\".\n\nThe authority started the pilot in January for the 450 desk-based staff at its office in Cambourne.\n\nIt was recently extended until next March.\n\nMr Rowley said his department would \"shortly be issuing clear guidance\" about the working practice\n\nMr Rowley wrote to Ms Smith with a formal request for the council to \"end your experiment immediately\".\n\nHe said he had concerns about the impact of the trial on the needs of local taxpayers at a time when the council should be \"cutting backlogs, answering queries and improving efficiency\".\n\n\"I strongly believe in the ability of councils to innovate and find new ways to discharge their responsibilities,\" he said.\n\n\"Removing up to 20% of the capacity to do those activities is not something which should be acceptable for a council seeking to demonstrate value for money for its taxpayers and residents.\"\n\nHe said while some private sector organisations \"may choose to experiment with their own capital and capacity regarding 'four-day working weeks', local government should not do the same\".\n\nHe added that such an approach could breach the council's legal duties under the Local Government Act and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities would \"shortly be issuing clear guidance\".\n\nAbout 450 staff at South Cambridgeshire District Council have been trialling a four-day week\n\nIn a statement, the council leader said she was \"surprised to receive Mr Rowley's letter and we have written to him to request a meeting with ministers to discuss this matter\".\n\n\"This is a trial, but we have already seen strong independently assessed evidence which showed that performance was maintained, and in some cases improved, in the first three months,\" she said.\n\n\"At the start of our trial, we were carrying a £2m annual agency bill.\n\n\"During the first three months of the trial, we filled four permanent posts that had previously been impossible to fill [and] this has reduced our annual bill by £300,000.\"\n\nShe added that as time had gone on, it had become \"increasingly clear that recruitment has been positively affected, both in terms of the quality and number of applicants, and the consequent success in filling vacant posts\".\n\nJoe Ryle, director of the 4-Day Week campaign group, also criticised Mr Rowley's request.\n\nHe said the move \"flies in the face of all the evidence, which shows the four-day week has been a huge success at the council\".\n\n\"The four-day week with no loss of pay is already being rolled out across the private sector, so it's only fair the public sector are included too,\" he added.\n\n\"There is no good reason to end this trial, which is already bringing many benefits to council workers, local residents and saving the council money.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n• None Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'They've taken my baby' - Mother of teen shot by police\n\nAt least 150 people have been arrested across France on a second night of mass unrest over Tuesday's fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy by police near Paris during a traffic check.\n\nTown halls, schools and police stations were set on fire. President Emmanuel Macron said this was \"unjustifiable\".\n\nThe police officer who opened fire is now under formal investigation for voluntary homicide.\n\nNahel M was shot at point-blank range as he drove away from police.\n\nFrench prosecutors argue that the use of a firearm was not legally justified.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, President Macron held a crisis cabinet meeting to discuss the escalating riots.\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that France had witnessed \"a night of unbearable violence\".\n\nHe said \"the state must be firm in its response\", adding that 40,000 police officers would be mobilised across the country later in the day to prevent any further violence.\n\nOvernight, clashes were reported across suburbs of Paris - but some of the most violent confrontations were in Nanterre, where the teenager was shot dead.\n\nVideos shared on social media showed cars being set alight and shops being ransacked on Wednesday across the Paris region.\n\nA prison in Fresnes, south of the capital, was also attacked with fireworks by rioters overnight, AFP reported.\n\nThe news agency said videos showed about 20 young men attacking the entrance to the prison with fireworks and projectiles. Videos shared to social media showed an alarm sounding during the attack.\n\nThe violence was particularly concentrated around the Pablo Picasso district there, where young people took to the streets after the sun set.\n\n\"They're backing off! Let's go guys, let's go, death to cops!\" one yelled, while various cars and rubbish bins were set alight.\n\nWhile the violence was concentrated in that district, protesters targeted other regions across Paris, with many firing fireworks into police stations.\n\nIn the northern city of Lille, footage posted online showed people inside the town hall of the Mons-en-Barœul suburb setting documents and chairs alight.\n\nAnd elsewhere, in the western town of Rennes, about 300 people gathered to pay tribute to the teen. Some of them also lit fires and were dispersed by police.\n\nOn Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said the shooting of Nahel was \"unforgivable\".\n\nBut his comments drew an angry reaction from police unions, who accused him of rushing to judge the officers involved.\n\nThe Alliance Police union called for them to be presumed innocent until found guilty, while the rival Unité SGP Police also spoke of political interventions that encouraged \"anti-cop hatred\".\n\nMr Darmanin said he would be taking legal action against another group, France Police, after it published what he called an \"unacceptable and abject\" tweet seeking to justify the teenager's killing.\n\nThe now-deleted tweet said \"bravo\" to the officers who \"opened fire on a young criminal\" and blamed the teen's parents for his death, claiming they had been \"unable to educate their son\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNahel's mother Mounia, speaking in a social media video, said they had taken away her baby and urged people to join a march in remembrance of her son.\n\n\"He was still a child. He needed his mother,\" she said. \"He kissed me goodbye in the morning and said, 'I love you mum'.\n\n\"An hour later, I was told that someone shot my son. What shall I do? He was my life. He was everything to me.\"\n\nThe officer accused of killing him, who said he had fired because he felt his life was in danger, is in custody on charges of voluntary manslaughter.\n\nNahel, who a neighbour says came from a French-Algerian family, is the second person this year in France to have been killed in a police shooting during a traffic stop. Last year, a record 13 people died in this way.\n\nRights groups have criticised a 2017 law change which broadened the framework for when officers can use firearms.\n\nCiting official statistics, Le Monde newspaper reported that the annual number of police shootings at moving vehicles has consistently been higher since the change.\n\nCampaigner Rokhaya Diallo told BFMTV that more shots fired meant a higher risk of being hit, especially for people of colour.\n\nReuters news agency found that a majority of victims of lethal police shootings during traffic stops since 2017 were black or Arab.\n\nFirefighters extinguish a burning vehicle in Nanterre following protests in the wake of Nahel's death\n\nAccording to French media, police initially suggested the teen drove his car towards them with the intention of hurting them.\n\nBut footage posted online and verified by the AFP news agency shows an officer pointing his weapon at the driver through his window and appearing to fire at point-blank range as he tries to drive off.\n\nThe agency also reports that a person in the video can be heard saying: \"You're going to be shot in the head\" - but it is unclear who says it.\n\nTwo others were in the car at the time of the shooting. One fled while another, also a minor, was arrested and held by police.\n\n\"Nothing justifies the death of a young person,\" President Macron told reporters in Marseille, calling for \"calm for justice to be done\".\n\n\"I would like to express the feelings of the entire nation at what has happened and the death of young Nahel, and to tell his family of our solidarity and the nation's affection.\"\n\n\"We have a teenager who has been killed. It's inexplicable, unforgivable,\" he said, adding that the the case was immediately referred to the courts where he hoped justice would \"do its job quickly\".\n\nAuthorities have opened two separate investigations following the teen's death - one into a possible killing by a public official, and another into the driver's failure to stop his vehicle and the alleged attempt to kill a police officer.", "Victor Lee died from stab wounds, the Met Police said\n\nA teenager who was fatally stabbed and then found in the Grand Union Canal in north west London has been named by police.\n\nVictor Lee, 17, from Ealing, was pulled from the water near Scrubs Lane after police were called to reports of a stabbing on Sunday.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene and a murder investigation was launched.\n\nOn Friday the Metropolitan Police arrested three teenagers, all on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe trio - aged 14, 15 and 17 - remain in custody at a south London police station, the Met added.\n\nPolice said a post-mortem examination held on Wednesday gave the cause of Victor's death as stab wounds.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Howie continued to appeal for information and dashcam footage of anyone driving near Scrubs Lane between 17:15 and 18:15.\n\nHe added: \"We are continuing to provide Victor's family with support during this traumatic time and our thoughts remain with them.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has spoken to leaders at the England and Wales Cricket Board after a report highlighted discrimination in cricket.\n\nThe Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) said racism, sexism, classism and elitism are \"widespread\" in the game.\n\n\"For people who love cricket that was hard to read,\" said Sunak.\n\n\"My first reaction was that it is really sad to see a sport I love being described like that.\"\n\nThe ICEC was announced by the ECB in March 2021 in the wake of global movements such as Black Lives Matter and Me Too.\n\nThe damning report made 44 recommendations, including that the ECB makes an unreserved public apology for its failings. ECB chair Richard Thompson apologised on Tuesday.\n\n\"I've spoken to the team at the ECB and I think they have approached it in the right way,\" Sunak told BBC Test Match Special during the second Ashes Test at Lord's.\n\n\"They commissioned this report off their own back because they wanted to be proactive, so they deserve credit for that.\n\n\"From conversations I have had, they are absolutely committed to fixing the problems and for this to be a reset moment for cricket.\n\n\"We all want it to be open for everybody from all backgrounds and where everybody can feel respected and supported when playing it.\n\n\"I'm confident the leadership of the whole cricketing family share that ambition.\"\n\nSunak said he will monitor the ECB's response to the report in the coming months.\n\n\"I want to see cricket to be inclusive and open to everybody,\" he said. \"I don't want to pre-empt how the ECB will respond.\"\n\nThe ICEC criticised the lack of cricket in state schools, saying a talent pathway structurally aligned to private schools is partly to blame for \"elitism and class-based discrimination\".\n\nSunak praised the African Caribbean Engagement Programme (ACE), which helps young people from more diverse communities into the game, and was asked how cricket could be brought back into state schools when many pitches had been sold off by a series of governments.\n\nHe said: \"We as a government have put more money into school sports - £600m over the next couple of years. The government, typically, doesn't dictate what sports schools should play.\n\n\"After meeting the Lionesses [the England women's football team] we did support their campaign to make sure girls had access to the same sports as boys, as well as a minimum amount of sport we want all schools to do.\"\n\nSunak spoke of his own childhood playing and watching cricket. He said he had not experienced racism in the game but had in wider society.\n\n\"There are instances in your childhood that stay with you,\" he said.\n\n\"But those instances I suffered as a child don't think would happen to my kids today because we have made incredible progress as a country.\n\n\"Of course there are pockets where we are not doing as well and we have to strive to be better.\"\n\nSunak was also asked about the pressures of running the country and admitted it \"weighs very heavily\".\n\n\"When we have inflation at the levels it is at, the impacts on pay packets, budgets and what people can do for their kids,\" he added.\n\n\"It is my responsibility to fix it and make the situation better.\"\n\nThe prime minister distanced himself from his predecessors, saying he wanted to \"act with integrity\" when asked how he would restore trust in politicians.\n\nHe said: \"There are lots of ways you can do that, acting with integrity, doing the right thing and doing the things you say.\"", "Prince Harry is claiming up to £440,000 in damages for newspaper articles published by Mirror Group Newspapers which he alleges breached his privacy.\n\nAmounts being claimed were released on the final day of the trial examining allegations of phone hacking.\n\nThe case has been brought by Prince Harry and three others.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers have highlighted 33 stories in their claim, including reports about his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy and his drug taking.\n\nThe duke's lawyers initially suggested he could be awarded up to £320,000 if his case is successful in relation to the 33 stories.\n\nIn a document released later, they said he is also seeking further damages of about £120,000. This relates to allegations of unlawful information gathering by MGN publications, including over the targeting of his late mother, Diana Princess of Wales.\n\nA barrister for MGN said this week the Duke of Sussex was only entitled to £500 for a private investigator's attempt to get personal details about him.\n\nThe highest damages application is for a 2005 \"splash\" on the front page in the Daily Mirror which reported the prince's then-girlfriend Chelsy Davy was to \"dump him\".\n\nA second article was headlined \"Chelsy Is Not Happy\".\n\nHis lawyers said the story included photos of Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy taken at a distance and went into detail about the state of their relationship.\n\nThey claimed highly specific details of telephone contact between the couple were included.\n\nLawyers alleged a private investigator and \"flight and call data blagger\" in South Africa helped with details for the story.\n\nA court document stated: \"The article came at a difficult and vulnerable time for the Duke of Sussex, where details of his mistakes were played out so publicly.\"\n\n\"Whilst the Duke of Sussex was remorseful for his actions, the article added to his embarrassment by revealing the impact on his personal relationship with Ms Davy, with humiliating details of private arguments between the couple and added to his sense of distrust and paranoia of those around him.\"\n\nThe second highest award claimed, £25,000, relates to a story in the Sunday People in 2003.\n\nIt reported a disagreement between Prince Harry and the Prince of Wales over whether to meet Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell who had angered the brothers by selling secrets about their mother.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers said the article contained \"private and sensitive information\" about the disagreement.\n\nHe believed the language used mirrors voicemail messages he would have left for Prince William at the time suggesting he was the victim of phone hacking.\n\nPrince Harry is claiming £20,000 for a Daily Mirror story in 2002 suggesting he had hosted parties where he and friends had taken cocaine and ecstasy.\n\nIt quoted the duke as saying he \"only used cannabis spliffs\" and his father Charles, now King, as saying he felt \"huge relief\" at this comment.\n\nThe document said Prince Harry did not supply the quote and links the story to a series of payments to a tracing agency the claimants said was involved in unlawful information gathering.\n\nPrince Harry was at Eton at the time which had a zero-tolerance drugs policy.\n\nClaim records for articles relating to the actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner have also been released.\n\nThe Coronation Street actor Ms Sanderson's claims totalled more than £331,000 with the biggest demand for £75,000 relating to a single story about her difficult relationship with her father.\n\nThis was \"heart-breaking, traumatic and humiliating\" she said, suggesting information about her had been gathered illicitly.\n\nMr Turner is claiming more than £131,000 for stories including coverage of his trauma over being accused and cleared of sexual offences.\n\nIn the final hours of the trial the defendant's barrister Andrew Green KC argued there was no objective evidence Prince Harry's phone had been hacked.\n\nHe questioned whether his opponents had proved any of the claims they had made.\n\nPrince Harry's barrister David Sherborne criticised Mr Green for repeatedly describing private investigators who had been convicted of criminal offences as \"rotters\".\n\nMr Sherborne said he had become \"something out of a Beano comic, by describing a few rotters who did a few naughty things. That exemplifies the truly dismissive nature of the defendant's attitude to the thousands of victims\".\n\nJudgement in the case is not expected for months.", "The French interior minister has asked regions to ban the sale of fireworks, petrol cans and flammable products\n\nCome to Nanterre to get an all-round view of the crisis boiling over in France. But if you are a journalist, be advised to keep your head down.\n\nAn approach to a group of young men - some bearded, one built like a bodybuilder - outside the Le 35 café prompts an aggressive outburst of swearing and a pointed finger directing me to keep out.\n\nAt the scene where police shot dead a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent last Tuesday, women in Islamic headscarves shout abuse at police and the media from passing cars.\n\nWandering through the streets incognito - without a camera or notebook - past burned-out cars and smashed premises it is possible to pick up glimpses of the last catastrophic few days.\n\nThree middle-aged white ladies, Lucille, Marie and Jeanne, are chatting with a black male friend on a bench outside their block of flats. The area is pristine, surrounded by gardens - like many other apartment blocks in Nanterre.\n\nThey don't want to be photographed as they fear their children would be identified and targeted as a result, but they are happy to chat.\n\nPeople living in Nanterre have endured several nights of violence, looting and rioting\n\n\"The last three nights have been appalling. Between midnight and 4am it is bedlam outside our windows. No-one can sleep. I feel like I'm living on another planet,\" says Lucille.\n\nDo they perhaps not feel the anger from the rioters is understandable, when one of Nanterre's young residents, Nahel, has been shot dead at a police check?\n\n\"This rioting has nothing to do with what happened. Of course, the kid shouldn't have been killed. But what was he doing joyriding without a licence at eight o'clock in the morning, when children are going to school?\"\n\nMarie looks at a smashed bus-shelter daubed with graffiti that reads \"one cop, one bullet\".\n\n\"You see what it says there? That I am completely against. I don't think the police are racist. There are good and bad in every group of people,\" she says.\n\nThey have little time for the dead teenager's mother, Mounia, who took part in a mass march in memory of Nahel on Thursday.\n\n\"What was she doing up on that open-top van in the march? It was undignified. That wasn't a march of grief. She's playing politics.\" The others nod in agreement.\n\nPublic buildings like this tax office have been singled out for attack in Nanterre and across France\n\nNot far away on the Avenue Georges Clemenceau, lined with plane trees, the préfet who heads the Hauts-de-Seine department has come to survey the wreckage that was the front of the local tax office. \"Deplorable, lamentable,\" he says.\n\nFirework rockets fired by rioters at the building have left gaping holes in upper-floor windows. At street level, every pane has been smashed with a heavy instrument. Charred tax forms are scattered outside the entrance.\n\nAmong the onlookers is tax inspector Cyril, who lives in Nanterre but also declines to be photographed.\n\n\"What I feel is just wretched sadness,\" he says. \"This tax office serves the people of Nanterre. The money that comes from here is used to buy them services. What on earth is the point of attacking it? It's a totally disproportionate response.\"\n\nCyril, however, says he is broadly sympathetic with people who want to protest against Tuesday's killing.\n\n\"I'm not sure if racist police is correct. Let's just say they have an attitude. The kids around here have all had rough treatment, often because they were doing something stupid, sure.\n\n\"But look, this was a kid,\" says Cyril. \"The officer was an adult. He had a gun. It was his job to be in control of the situation. And he wasn't.\"\n\nThe local Nike store in Nanterre was trashed as rioting escalated on Thursday night\n\nThere are far stronger views, of course, among locals who took part in the memorial march.\n\nLike Bakari, who doesn't justify the riots but believes they are understandable: \"Certain people react against violence with violence.\"\n\n\"I wasn't surprised by [Nahel's killing] because we have all had bad experiences with police. There are good and bad everywhere, but the large majority of police are racist.\"\n\nOr Yasmina: \"I absolutely hate the French police. I wish them the worst. The whole system is corrupted by a systemic, racist ideology.\n\n\"[Nahel] could have been my kid brother. It blows my mind to think that a kid like that can make some stupid mistake, like anyone could do. He didn't deserve to die.\"\n\nThe town of Nanterre is far from the hellhole of isolated social deprivation some would like to depict. It is spacious, clean and two stops on the commuter train from the Arc de Triomphe in the centre of Paris.\n\nThe towers of La Défense business district are a stone's throw away.\n\nThere is a theatre, a university, the national opera dance school, and a large park named after former President Charles de Gaulle's culture minister André Malraux. Unfortunately, yesterday the children's roundabout that has stood there for the last 50 years was burned down.\n\nThe over-riding impression one takes away of the town is of two universes colliding.\n\nOn one level, all the standard accoutrements of the generous French state are plain to see.\n\nTricolours fly; the préfet comes to survey his domain; Metro trains whizz underground and, in the looming towers of La Défense multinationals make their billions.\n\nParis-Match photographer Eric Hadj says social media has helped the rioters mobilise\n\nBut in the same geographic space, there is another way of being: one which appears utterly alienated from the system; which is quick to see and reflect hostility; which says \"ici on est chez nous\" - this patch is ours - and gives the finger to unwanted outsiders, like the press.\n\nAt a petrol station by the tax office, veteran Paris-Match photographer Eric Hadj is surveying his smashed-up car and preparing forms for the insurance claim.\n\n\"We were here on Thursday during the march. Some big guys came and told us to get out. They made it quite clear we risked something very nasty if we didn't. When we came back today, of course the car had been totally wrecked.\"\n\nHadj has been through a lot of riots in his time but says he has never seen anything like this.\n\n\"This is worse, far worse than 2005,\" he says.\n\nEveryone here is looking back to the last sustained rioting that shook the French banlieues or suburbs for three weeks, wondering how long the latest unrest will last.\n\n\"Today there is social media, which gives the rioters a big advantage. But, above all, it is more violent. They have rockets. Whatever restraint there was has been removed,\" says the photographer.\n\nGérard Collomb, the former socialist mayor of Lyon and interior minister under President Macron, is well-known for his pithy sayings.\n\nWhen he left office in 2018, he lamented the worrying tendency of French society to divide into communities - the very contradiction, he thought, of a single, unified Republic.\n\n\"Today we are living side by side,\" he said. \"Tomorrow, I fear we will be face to face.\"\n\nIn Nanterre it is one face of France against another.", "Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day, owner Elon Musk has said.\n\nIn a tweet of his own, Mr Musk said unverified accounts are now limited to reading 1,000 posts a day.\n\nFor new unverified accounts, the number is 500. Meanwhile, accounts with \"verified\" status are currently limited to 10,000 posts a day.\n\nThe tech billionaire initially set stricter limits, but he changed these within hours of announcing the move.\n\nMr Musk said the temporary limits were to address \"extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation\".\n\nHe did not explain what was meant by system manipulation in this context.\n\n\"We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users,\" Mr Musk explained on Friday, after users were presented with screens asking them to log in to view Twitter content.\n\nThe move was described as a \"temporary emergency measure\".\n\nIt is not totally clear what Mr Musk is referring to by data scraping, but it appears he means the scraping of large amounts of data used by artificial intelligence (AI) companies to train large language models, which power chatbots such as Open AI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard.\n\nIn simple terms, data scraping is the pulling of information from the internet. Large language models need to learn from masses of real human conversations. But the quality is vital to the success of a chatbot. Reddit and Twitter's huge trove of billions of posts are thought to be hugely important training data - and used by AI companies.\n\nBut platforms like Twitter and Reddit want to be paid for this data.\n\nIn April, Reddit's chief executive Steve Huffman told the New York Times that he was unhappy with what AI companies were doing.\n\n\"The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,\" he said. \"But we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.\"\n\nTwitter has already started charging users to access its application programming interface (API), which is often used by third party apps and researchers - which can include AI companies.\n\nThere are other potential reasons for the move too.\n\nMr Musk has been pushing people towards Twitter Blue, its paid subscription service. It's possible he is looking at a model where users will have to pay to get a full Twitter service - and access to unlimited posts.\n\nSignalled by a blue tick, \"verified\" status was given for free by Twitter to high-profile accounts before Mr Musk took over as its boss. Now, most users have to pay a subscription fee from $8 (£6.30) per month to be verified, and can gain the status regardless of their profile.\n\nAccording to the website Downdetector - which tracks online outages - a peak of 5,126 people reported problems accessing the platform in the UK at 16:12 BST on Saturday.\n\nIn the US, roughly 7,461 people reported glitches around the same time.\n\nInitially, Mr Musk announced reading limits of 6,000 posts per day for verified accounts, 600 for unverified accounts, and 300 for new unverified accounts.\n\nIn another update Mr Musk said \"several hundred organisations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively\".\n\nHe later indicated there had been a burden on his website, saying it was \"rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis\".\n\nA server is a powerful computer that manages and stores files, providing services such as web pages for users.\n\nAdam Leon Smith from BCS, the UK's professional body for IT, said the move was \"very odd\" as limiting users' scroll time would affect the company's advertising revenue.\n\nMr Musk bought the company last year for $44bn (£35bn) after much back and forth. He was critical of Twitter's previous management and said he did not want the platform to become an echo chamber.\n\nSoon after taking over, he cut the workforce from just under 8,000 staff to about 1,500.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, he said that cutting the workforce had not been easy.\n\nEngineers were included in the layoffs and their exit raised concerns about the platform's stability.\n\nBut while Mr Musk acknowledged some glitches, he told the BBC in April that outages had not lasted very long and the site was working fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Maya Forstater found herself out of a job after tweeting \"gender-critical\" views\n\nA woman who lost out on a job after tweeting gender-critical views is to get a £100,000 payout after a decision from an employment tribunal.\n\nTax expert Maya Forstater did not have her contract renewed in March 2019 after writing tweets saying people could not change their biological sex.\n\nShe was found to have experienced discrimination while working for the Centre for Global Development (CGD).\n\nThe think tank said it would continue to try to build an inclusive workplace.\n\nIn their decision on Friday, three London judges said Ms Forstater should receive compensation of £91,500 and interest of £14,904.31.\n\nThe sum is to reflect lost earnings, injury to feelings and aggravated damages after the CGD's decision not to renew her contract or fellowship.\n\nMs Forstater, the founder of campaign group Sex Matters, believes biological sex is immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity.\n\nShe told The Times on Friday that the ruling \"sends a message to employers that this is discrimination like any other discrimination\".\n\nMs Forstater was congratulated in a tweet by Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who has courted controversy with her own statements on trans issues.\n\nThe contentious and high-profile case even proved divisive in the courts.\n\nMs Forstater lost her original case in 2019, when she was told by a tribunal judge that her approach was \"not worthy of respect in a democratic society\".\n\nBut she appealed, and won the backing two years later of a High Court judge - who said her views were protected by the Equality Act 2010.\n\nA fresh tribunal was ordered, and ruled last year that Ms Forstater experienced \"direct discrimination\" related to her beliefs.\n\nCommenting on the July 2022 ruling, charity Stonewall said the decision did not \"change the reality of trans people's workplace protection\".\n\nIt added: \"No-one has the right to discriminate against, or harass, trans people simply because they disagree with their existence and participation in society.\"\n\nResponding to Friday's tribunal decision, a CGD representative said the organisation \"has and will continue to strive to maintain a workplace that is welcoming, safe and inclusive to all\" and would now be able \"once again to focus exclusively on our mission - reducing global poverty and inequality through economic research that drives better policy and practice\".", "Dutch racing driver Dilano van 't Hoff has died after a crash at a race in the Formula Regional European Championship.\n\nThe 18-year-old MP Motorsport driver was competing in the second race at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, organisers announced.\n\nFrench driver Anthoine Hubert lost his life at the same circuit during a Formula 2 race in 2019.\n\nThe race organisers said: \"We want to express our sincere condolences to the family, team and friends.\"\n\nThey added: \"Royal Automobile Club of Belgium, the Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps and SRO Motorsports Group join Alpine and ACI in expressing their sincerest condolences to the driver's family, team and friends.\"\n\nOrganisers of the headline GT race, the 24 Hours of Spa, said on social media: \"All start line entertainments for the 24 Hours of Spa have been cancelled and there will be a minute's silence before the start of the race to honour the memory of Dilano.\"\n\nThe Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine is a European Formula Three racing series intended to be a stepping stone to the FIA Formula Three Championship.\n\nFormula 1 boss Stefano Domenicali said on Twitter: \"We are so sad to learn of the passing of Dilano van 't Hoff today at Spa-Francorchamps.\n\n\"Dilano died in pursuit of his dream to reach the pinnacle of motorsport. Along with the entire motorsport community, our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.\"\n\nMcLaren also added: \"The McLaren Racing Team are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Dilano van 't Hoff in a Formula Regional race at Spa-Francorchamps today.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and the entire MP Motorsport team at this difficult time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC has suspended the presenter at the centre of allegations of serious misconduct.\n\nWe understand the corporation has also now contacted the police.\n\nFor an organisation that says it aims for transparency, this statement felt inevitable after a weekend when the corporation was on the front pages of many newspapers.\n\nBut there are still many questions that need to be answered.\n\nWhat exactly did the BBC do on 19 May after the complaint was made? What was the nature of that complaint? Was it clear at that point that potential criminality was involved?\n\nDid they interview the presenter? Did they consider contacting the police at the time? Did they consider suspending the presenter then?\n\nThe BBC has confirmed it has now spoken to the family of the individual involved, but how many attempts were made to contact the family after their original complaint?\n\nDid the BBC consider taking the presenter off air at the time, while they were looking into the allegations?\n\nThe BBC has said its internal processes \"proactively deal with such allegations\" and it is important to state that we don't know the full facts. The presenter may be innocent.\n\nThese are claims made in a newspaper. We don't know if they are true.\n\nThe director general Tim Davie, in an email to BBC staff, addressed the questions around why the presenter has not been named. He also hasn't been named by the Sun newspaper.\n\n\"By law, individuals are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy, which is making this situation more complex,\" Mr Davie writes.\n\nThe BBC has also referred to \"new allegations\" only put to them on Thursday which it says are \"of a different nature\". That was presumably when they were contacted by the Sun newspaper.\n\nThere are questions to answer here too; did the complaint made in May reference possible criminality or did the information about sexually explicit photographs allegedly solicited from a 17-year-old only emerge on Thursday?\n\nThis afternoon's statement announcing the suspension and contact with \"external authorities, in line with our protocols\" comes after Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer held talks with Mr Davie.\n\nFrom Ms Frazer's comments after the conversation, it looks as if she has been reassured about the corporation's investigation process. She said she wants to give the BBC space to conduct its enquiries.\n\nSpace, but presumably not much time. It has already been nearly two months since the original complaint.\n\nThe BBC today referred to the matter as a \"complex and fast moving set of circumstances\". It said it expects to have a further update in the coming days.\n\nThey do need to move fast. Speculation is rife and growing. Other BBC presenters have felt forced to deny their involvement.\n\nIn his email to staff, Mr Davie said \"I am wholly condemning the unsubstantiated rumours being made on the internet about some of our presenting talent\".\n\nReputationally, this has already been damaging for the BBC, which has been accused of looking evasive and being slow to act.\n\nDespite today's statement, the director general is still under pressure as he tries to steer the BBC through this crisis.\n\nOn Tuesday - in a coincidence of timing he could probably do without - Mr Davie will launch the BBC's annual report and face the media. It's likely one story will dominate the coverage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTreasury minister Victoria Atkins has refused to say if the government will follow its pay review bodies' advice on salary rises for public sector workers.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, she said other ministers were considering the recommendations and would make a decision in \"due course\".\n\nThe pay review bodies provide advice on workers' salaries including doctors, teachers and the police.\n\nThe guidance is not legally binding and ministers can ignore the advice.\n\nBelow-inflation pay rises have led to strikes across the public sector hitting schools and hospitals.\n\nThe BBC understands that at least two pay review bodies are recommending increases below the rate of inflation - but higher than last year's awards.\n\nCurrently inflation - the rate at which prices are rising - stands at 8.7% but food inflation on items such as bread and chocolate stands at 18.3%.\n\nAsked if the government would abide by the advice, Ms Atkins said she hadn't seen the recommendations but ministers would look at them \"very carefully\".\n\nHowever, she warned that the decisions were being made at a time when the UK was facing \"very strong inflationary currents\".\n\nGovernment ministers have repeatedly argued that high pay rises could fuel further inflation and damage the UK economy.\n\nQuestioned on pay rises on Saturday the prime minister said: \"It would be incredibly short-sighted of the government to do something that might sound great today but ultimately just make the inflation problem worse for everybody in the long run.\"\n\nTrade unions have warned that, without action, workers will quit the public sector for better paid roles elsewhere.\n\nDave Penman, head of the FDA trade union which represents senior civil servants said: \"Last year the government hid behind the pay review bodies, now the bodies are recommending higher pay increases they are planning to ignore them. This will only end in further disputes that are entirely avoidable.\"\n\nAsked if the government had any plans to introduce tax cuts, Ms Atkins said: \"We do not have the headroom at the moment to look at tax cuts.\n\n\"But as soon as we can, as soon as we have taken the measures that we are taking to reduce inflation, then we will be able to start having those conversations.\"\n\nAppearing on the same programme, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said Labour would \"not play fast and loose\" with the nation's finances, if it returned to power after the next general election.\n\nShe said she was confident the party could meet its pledge to borrow money to fund green policies - but only if it didn't conflict with her fiscal rules.\n\nIn 2021, Ms Reeves had promised to invest £28bn a year, every year up to 2030, on projects such as offshore wind farms, planting trees and developing batteries.\n\nHowever, earlier this year she watered down the plans, saying instead that a Labour government would ramp up investment over time, aiming to reach £28bn a year after 2027.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves: UK needs to get a grip on its debt\n\nAsked if she would fulfil the pledge, Ms Reeves said she was \"confident\" but added that it was subject to her limits on spending.\n\n\"Debt is now the same size as our whole economy - we've got to get a grip of that,\" she said.\n\nThe shadow chancellor insisted that Labour's spending plans were \"not on the same track\" as the Conservatives, pointing to her policy to scrap the non-dom tax status as an example of how her party differed from the government.\n\nNicola Headlam, a chief economist at Red Flag Alert, a business intelligence company, told BBC Radio Five Live that \"bearing down\" on public sector workers and not meeting the recommendations of the pay review bodies was not the answer because other people in the workforce earn more.\n\n\"If you're a public sector worker, you're paying a mortgage, you've still got to pay the prices you see in the supermarkets.\n\n\"You've got a triple impact on you - thunder, lightning and rain and there are some other people with a larger umbrella who are still stoking inflation.\n\n\"We're starting to run out of good choices and it's because of a lack of growth in the economy, because of this inflation we seem to be unable to get a handle on, because of rising interest rates. It really is very, very difficult.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nAs the gloom turned to late evening sunshine, a pocket of England's most vocal fans got to their feet.\n\n\"Don't take me home. Please don't take me home,\" they sang.\n\nThat song has become an anthem of English sport but some of those supporters would probably stay true to their word - camp out on the famous Western Terrace if they could.\n\nHeadingley has another epic in store.\n• None England start well in chase to keep Ashes alive\n• None Reaction to day three at Headingley\n\nThere is something about the Ashes and Sundays.\n\nThe finales at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge in 2005, Ben Stokes' epic here in Leeds in 2019 and Lord's dramatic conclusion last week - was that really just last week? - all happened on the supposed day of rest.\n\nYou just know there will be nothing restful about Sunday.\n\nIt will be yet another day of squirming in your seat.\n\nThat sinking split second as ball passes bat - was that an edge? The cruel wait for a review - please that's going over, surely it's going over?\n\nCricket knows how to put us all through the wringer.\n\nAnd this series, despite Australia now sitting 10 wickets from their first series victory on these shores for a generation, has refused to let us sit comfortably.\n\nThe series scoreline may be in danger of turning decisive but the matches have gripped us at every turn, with Saturday's action - a day crammed into less time than it takes Tom Cruise to complete his latest impossible mission - no different.\n\nAgain, with conditions handed to them on a platter after the rain relented, England looked to have taken a stranglehold on the third day with four quick wickets - each a cannonball into the bows of the Australian ship trying to position itself out of England's reach.\n\nBut Travis Head, at the ground he once spent a summer calling home, did his best Ben Stokes impression to ensure none of us will sleep comfortably.\n\nOf course it was Stuart Broad - it's always Broad in the Ashes - who pumped his legs to end Head's onslaught, but England's victory surge had earlier been set up by the man it seemed had been forgotten.\n\nAfter 15 months out of the side, with serious personal doubts over whether his chance would ever come again, England have called on Chris Woakes in their hour of need in Leeds, with the urn on the line.\n\nAnd throughout this Test Woakes has proven that the hair may be greyer but - in England at least - he is still as dependable as ever.\n\nWoakes missed the entirety of England's first Bazball summer, hobbling around and watching on TV after being flogged more than any other England seamer, from Brisbane to Barbados, during the dark winter of 2021-22.\n\nEven before the first Test of this summer against Ireland, Woakes was put up to speak to the media only to be dropped.\n\nBut when finally given his chance again, after three wickets in the first innings, he removed Usman Khawaja, Alex Carey and, crucially, Mitchell Marsh in the second - each celebrated with his typical polite enthusiasm.\n\n\"I haven't played in front of a crowd in England for a couple of years, it brings out that emotion in you when you hear that roar,\" he said afterwards.\n\n\"It's easy to forget how good it is when you haven't played for a while.\"\n\nBefore this Test Woakes pulled Stokes to one side, wanting to ask if he had any advice in his first game under the all-rounder's captaincy.\n\n\"Nah, you just do you,\" Stokes told him. \"If I change the field don't worry about it because I just like doing rogue things.\"\n\nThankfully for England, Woakes did just that.\n\nHis dismissal of Carey was his 100th in England and, while his struggles overseas have been well-documented, here he is among the best.\n\nOf the 16 others to have taken 100 men's Test wickets in this country, only the late great Shane Warne has a better average.\n\nWoakes' injuries last summer meant he missed England's chases of 378 against India and 277, 299 and 296 against New Zealand - the latter, again, on this ground.\n\nThose stunning pursuits have warped the mind, somehow making this latest target of 251, of which 27 runs have already been knocked off without loss, look strangely manageable.\n\nThe history of this series suggests the reality will be anything but.\n\nEngland must do it all in the knowledge that defeat would end their Ashes hopes and hand Australia their first victory in England since 2001.\n\n\"It's more excitement than nerves,\" Woakes said.\n\n\"Naturally in a run chase there's always nerves around. But they are good nerves - the thought of winning the Test, chasing down a score, and keeping yourself in the series.\"\n\nOf course England have their 2019 win here to look back on, a game Woakes was a part of.\n\nThat day Stokes ended 135 not out and his unlikely batting partner at number 11, Jack Leach, was unbeaten on one.\n\n\"If I'm batting number 11, I'll get one not out and let Stokesy do the rest,\" Woakes joked when asked if he was ready for similar.\n\nIf there is a repeat by 4pm on Sunday, those in the stands may have to be carried home.\n\nIn the meantime, strap yourself in for another Ashes nail-biter.\n• None It's sink or swim for rookie police officers in Belfast:\n• None Four movies that predicted the future wrong: Are practical hoverboards and flying cars just a distant dream?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak on US providing cluster bombs to Ukraine\n\nRishi Sunak has reiterated that the UK \"discourages\" the use of cluster bombs after the US agreed to supply them to Ukraine.\n\nThe UK is one the countries to have banned the weapons, which have a record of killing civilians, under an existing convention.\n\nThe PM emphasised the government's continued support for Ukraine.\n\nOn Friday, US President Joe Biden said he had made a \"very difficult decision\" to supply them to Kyiv.\n\nSpain and Canada, two of 123 nations to ban cluster bombs, have criticised the decision to send them, which has also been condemned by human rights groups.\n\nCluster munitions are a method of dispersing large numbers of tiny bomblets from a rocket, missile or artillery shell that scatters them in mid-flight over a wide area.\n\nThey are meant to detonate on impact, but a significant proportion of them fail to explode initially - often when they land on wet or soft ground. This means they can explode at a later date, killing or injuring people.\n\nNeither the US, Ukraine or Russia are signatories of the international treaty - the Convention on Cluster Munitions - banning the use or stockpiling of them over the indiscriminate damage they can inflict on civilian populations.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Selby, Yorkshire, on Saturday, Mr Sunak said the UK is \"signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use\".\n\n\"We will continue to do our part to support Ukraine against Russia's illegal and unprovoked invasion, but we've done that by providing heavy battle tanks and most recently long-range weapons, and hopefully all countries can continue to support Ukraine,\" he added.\n\n\"Russia's act of barbarism is causing untold suffering to millions of people.\"\n\nMr Sunak is due to meet with Mr Biden in London on Monday, ahead of a Nato summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Tuesday.\n\nRishi Sunak spoke carefully when asked for his response to the US now giving cluster munition to Ukraine.\n\nHe didn't criticise the US's decision but did point out that the Convention discourages use of the bombs.\n\nThe UK is the second largest provider of military assistance to Ukraine - only behind the US.\n\nAs the conflict in Ukraine evolves, so too are the responses of Kyiv's allies - on this issue the US and UK have gone in different directions.\n\nMr Biden justified supplying the weapons by saying the \"Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".\n\nSpeaking to CNN in an interview due to air on Sunday, he said it had taken \"a while to be convinced\" to make the \"very difficult decision\" to send them.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has hailed the \"timely\" move to deliver the bombs.\n\nUkraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said his troops would not use them in urban areas to avoid risking civilian lives, adding \"these are our people, they are Ukrainians we have a duty to protect\".\n\nBut Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles has said her government's position is that cluster bombs should not be used for the \"legitimate defence of Ukraine\".\n\nGermany, which has also signed the convention, said it would not provide them to Ukraine but that it understands the American position.\n\nIn a statement, the Canadian government said it does not support the use of the weapons and emphasised its commitment to \"putting an end to the effects cluster munitions have on civilians - particularly children\".\n\nHuman Rights Watch said both sides had used the weapons in the war, causing \"numerous deaths and serious injuries to civilians\".\n\nThese comments were echoed by Amnesty International, who said cluster munitions pose \"a grave threat to civilian lives, even long after the conflict has ended\".\n\nThe UN human rights office has also been critical, calling for their use to \"stop immediately\".\n\nNato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said the military alliance takes no position on cluster munitions.\n\nTobias Ellwood, the chairman of the UK's defence select committee, urged the US to \"reconsider\" its decision - which he said was the \"wrong call and will alienate international goodwill\".\n\n\"Their use leaves deadly unexploded ordnance over the battlefield, killing and injuring civilians long after the war is over,\" the Conservative MP added.\n\nRussia described the US decision as an \"act of desperation\" in the face of the \"failure of the much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive\".", "Selena Lau, eight, was \"intelligent, cheeky and loved\"\n\nA former pupil and residents near a school where an eight-year-old girl died when a Land Rover crashed through a wall have been paying tribute.\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left at the Wimbledon school after police removed the cordon.\n\nSeveral people including a baby girl were taken to hospital after the incident at The Study Preparatory School on Thursday.\n\nAn eight-year-old girl and a woman in her 40s remain in a critical condition.\n\nPeople came to pay their respects on Saturday at Wilberforce House\n\nA 46-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been released on bail.\n\nAmelia, 19, attended The Study Preparatory School in 2015. She and her brother laid flowers down on Saturday afternoon to pay their respects.\n\n\"I think the Study is a tightly knit community, it's quite a small school so even after people left, we are all together,\" she said.\n\n\"We came to pay our respects because it's not just a school, it's a community as well.\"\n\nMax Austin, a councillor for Wimbledon, said his sister also used to attend.\n\n\"This is normally a very happy time here, everything is decorated for the tennis, the kids will get involved with it and the schools. There's a sort of crude juxtaposition between the festive atmosphere here in Wimbledon and now this,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement released earlier Selena was described by her family as an intelligent and cheeky girl. An end-of-term tea party had been taking place at the south-west London school when the Land Rover crashed through the fence and into a building.\n\nParents with a young child paid their respects at the scene of the crash and said everyone had been affected by it.\n\n\"Everyone is questioning how it could've happened,\" they said.\n\nPeople came to leave flowers by The Study Preparatory School\n\nThomas Barlow, a councillor for Wimbledon Village, said everyone was shocked and it was horrendous it could happen on the last day of term.\n\n\"The whole village is in shock, a lot of the people had connections to this school,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A BBC presenter has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17, according to The Sun.\n\nThe newspaper reported that the unnamed male presenter had paid the alleged victim tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nIt is understood that the BBC is looking into the allegations, and that the star is currently not scheduled to be on air in the coming days.\n\nThe Sun said the young person's family complained to the BBC on 19 May.\n\nThe family is reported to have become frustrated that the star remained on air and approached the newspaper, but said they wanted no payment for the story.\n\nThe mother told the paper that the anonymous individual, now aged 20, had used the money from the presenter to fund a crack cocaine habit.\n\nShe described to the paper how her child had gone from a \"happy-go-lucky youngster to a ghost-like crack addict\" in three years.\n\nFollowing the reports, several high-profile BBC presenters have taken to social media to deny they are the presenter in question.\n\nBroadcaster Rylan Clark tweeted on Saturday that he was not the presenter, saying \"that ain't me babe\" and adding that he is filming in Italy for a BBC programme.\n\nSeparately BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine has also distanced himself from the Sun story, saying the allegations are not about him.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Just to say I'm very much looking forward to hosting my radio show on Monday — whoever the 'BBC Presenter' in the news is, I have the same message for you as Rylan did earlier: it certainly ain't me.\"\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker did not mention the allegations specifically, but writing on Twitter later on Saturday evening he said: \"Hate to disappoint the haters but it's not me.\"\n\nNicky Campbell tweeted that he has reported an anonymous Twitter account to the police over a post claiming he was the presenter.\n\n\"I think it's important to take a stand. There's just too many of these people on social media. Thanks for your support friends,\" he said.\n\nThe corporation said the information would be \"acted upon appropriately\".\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We treat any allegations very seriously and we have processes in place to proactively deal with them.\n\n\"As part of that, if we receive information that requires further investigation or examination we will take steps to do this. That includes actively attempting to speak to those who have contacted us in order to seek further detail and understanding of the situation.\n\n\"If we get no reply to our attempts or receive no further contact that can limit our ability to progress things but it does not mean our enquiries stop.\n\n\"If, at any point, new information comes to light or is provided - including via newspapers - this will be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes.\"\n\nBBC's culture editor Katie Razzall said many questions remain unanswered, including how the corporation has investigated the family's complaint and if it was appropriate for the presenter, who has not been named, to stay on air after a serious allegation was made.\n\nThe BBC's statement appears to suggest its initial investigation may have been hampered by a lack of response from the family, she said.\n\nThis allegation, if proven, would mean the career of a high-profile BBC presenter is likely to be over.", "The remnants of a cluster bomb found in a field in Ukraine in April 2023\n\nSeveral allies of the US have expressed unease at Washington's decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs.\n\nOn Friday, the US confirmed it was sending the controversial weapons to Ukraine, with President Joe Biden calling it a \"very difficult decision\".\n\nIn response, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Spain all said they were opposed to the use of the weapons.\n\nCluster bombs have been banned by more than 100 countries because of the danger they pose to civilians.\n\nThey typically release lots of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area.\n\nThe munitions have also caused controversy over their failure - or dud - rate. Unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years and then indiscriminately detonate.\n\nMr Biden told CNN in an interview on Friday that he had spoken to allies about the decision, which was part of a military aid package worth $800m (£626m).\n\nThe president said it had taken him \"a while to be convinced to do it\", but he had acted because \"the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".\n\nThe decision was quickly criticised by human rights groups, with Amnesty International saying cluster munitions pose \"a grave threat to civilian lives, even long after the conflict has ended\".\n\nUS National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters the American cluster bombs being sent to Ukraine failed far less frequently than ones already being used by Russia in the conflict.\n\nBut on Saturday, some Western allies of the US refused to endorse its decision.\n\nWhen asked about his position on the US decision, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighted that the UK was one of 123 countries that had signed up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the production or use of the weapons and discourages their use.\n\nHis comments came ahead of a meeting with President Biden, who is due to arrive in the UK on Sunday before a Nato summit in Lithuania.\n\nThe prime minister of New Zealand - one of the countries that pushed for the convention's creation - went further than Mr Sunak, according to comments published by local media.\n\nChris Hipkins said the weapons were \"indiscriminate, they cause huge damage to innocent people, potentially, and they can have a long-lasting effect as well\". The White House had been made aware of New Zealand's opposition to the use of cluster bombs in Ukraine, he said.\n\nSpain's Defence Minister Margarita Robles told reporters her country had a \"firm commitment\" that certain weapons and bombs could not be sent to Ukraine.\n\n\"No to cluster bombs and yes to the legitimate defence of Ukraine, which we understand should not be carried out with cluster bombs,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Canadian government said it was particularly concerned about the potential impact of the bombs - which sometimes lie undetonated for many years - on children.\n\nCanada also said it was against the use of the cluster bombs and remained fully compliant with the Convention on Cluster Munitions. \"We take seriously our obligation under the convention to encourage its universal adoption,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThe US, Ukraine and Russia have not signed up to the convention, while both Moscow and Kyiv have used cluster bombs during the war.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany, a signatory of the treaty, said that while it would not provide such weapons to Ukraine, it understood the American position.\n\n\"We're certain that our US friends didn't take the decision about supplying such ammunition lightly,\" German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told reporters in Berlin.\n\nUkraine's defence minister has given assurances the cluster bombs would only be used to break through enemy defence lines, and not in urban areas.\n\nMr Biden's move will bypass US law prohibiting the production, use or transfer of cluster munitions with a failure rate of more than 1%.\n\nMr Sullivan, the US national security advisers, told reporters the US cluster bombs have a dud rate of less than 2.5%, while Russia's have a dud rate of between 30-40%, he said.\n\nThe US Cluster Munition Coalition, which is part of an international civil society campaign working to eradicate the weapons, said they would cause \"greater suffering, today and for decades to come\".\n\nThe UN human rights office has also been critical, with a representative saying \"the use of such munitions should stop immediately and not be used in any place\".\n\nA spokesperson for Russia's defence ministry described the move as an \"act of desperation\" and \"evidence of impotence in the face of the failure of the much-publicised Ukrainian 'counter-offensive'\".\n\nRussia's foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova also said Ukraine's assurances it would use the cluster munitions responsibly were \"not worth anything\".\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has previously accused the US and its allies of fighting an expanding proxy war in Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive, which began last month, is grinding on in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.\n\nLast week, Ukraine's military commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny said the campaign had been hampered by a lack of adequate firepower. He expressed frustration with the slow deliveries of weapons promised by the West.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the US president for \"a timely, broad and much-needed\" military aid package.\n\nOne by one, America's Nato allies have been lining up to distance themselves from its decision to supply Ukraine with controversial cluster bombs.\n\nBritain, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made clear, is a signatory to the 2008 convention that prohibits their production and use - and discourages their use by others.\n\nCanada went further, with a government statement saying it was committed to putting an end to the effects of cluster munitions have on civilians, particularly children.\n\nSpain said these weapons should not be sent to Ukraine, while Germany said it was also against the decision, although it understood the reasoning behind it.\n\nEven Russia condemned it, despite having made extensive use of cluster munitions itself against Ukraine, saying it would litter the land for generations.\n\nBut Gen Sir Richard Shirreff, a former deputy commander of Nato in Europe, defended the decision, saying their deployment should make it easier for Ukraine to break through Russian lines.\n\nIf the West had provided more arms sooner, he said, then there would not have been a need to provide this weapon now.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: After Saturday's storms, what can we expect for the next few days?\n\nThunderstorms have hit parts of the UK as a hot weather warning remains in place for regions across England.\n\nHeavy showers followed a humid start for many areas on Saturday, with afternoon temperatures approaching 30C in parts of the south-east.\n\nA Met Office yellow thunderstorm alert, which covers most of England and Scotland, has been in place since 09:00 BST and warns of potential flooding.\n\nRain also disrupted play at both Wimbledon and the men's Ashes.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK government's Health Security Agency and the Met Office issued a yellow heat-health alert for six regions in England: London, the South East, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, and Yorkshire and the Humber.\n\nThe alert, which is due to last until 09:00 on Sunday, was soon followed up by warnings of heavy showers, thunderstorms and potential flash flooding.\n\nThe Met Office's yellow thunderstorm warning took effect in parts of England, Scotland and Wales at 09:00 on Saturday and lasts until 23:59. A separate warning has been issued for the whole of Northern Ireland for Sunday, from 10:00 until 21:00.\n\nGenerally a Met Office yellow warning for thunderstorms means there is a small chance homes and businesses could be flooded quickly and communities cut off by floodwater, while public transport risks being cancelled in affected areas.\n\nAt-risk areas will most likely be across east Wales, England and into south-east Scotland, according to BBC Weather's Simon King.\n\nThe storms will be quite localised but \"could be nasty\" if you get caught up in one, the forecaster said, with torrential rain, lightning, hail, gusty winds and the risk of some localised flooding all possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLincoln, in the East Midlands, York in the north-east of England and Carlisle, which sits on the border with Scotland, had all experienced thunder and rain by midday on Saturday, according to the Met Office.\n\nIn Scotland, those attending the second day of TRNSMT music festival in Glasgow were warned to expect warm spells of 24C alongside high winds and thundery downpours.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced the Tiree Music Festival, usually held off the west coast of the country, could not go ahead due to gale force winds.\n\nFurther public events have been impacted by the weather in England - two major sporting events in particular.\n\nShowers disrupted play at Wimbledon, south-west London, but they should ease later this afternoon with increasing sunshine expected into this evening, BBC Weather's Simon King said.\n\nAs the sixth day of the tennis tournament got under way, some of the early matches - which began at 11:00 - were suspended after heavy rain began to fall on the outside courts.\n\nAt the men's Ashes, in Headingley, Leeds, play could only begin at 16:45 after persistent rain hampered proceedings on the third day of the cricket series.\n\nSunday will be a drier day for most of the UK, however there will still be some showers around with sunny spells in between, BBC Weather's Stav Danaos said.\n\nThere is a chance of rain across south-east England and East Anglia in the morning and some of this could be thundery as it pushes north-eastwards, he said.\n\nThe forecaster added that the main focus of the heavy showers and thunderstorms on Sunday will be across Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is expected to feel cooler and fresher with less humidity across the UK compared to Saturday.\n• None How do the new heat-health alerts work?", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nRace director Christian Prudhomme said \"the Tour de France is sad\" after Mark Cavendish crashed out of what is set to be his final appearance in the event.\n\nManxman Cavendish, 38, broke a collarbone in an innocuous-looking crash about 60km from the finish of stage eight from Libourne to Limoges.\n\nThat means he is set to retire on a record-equalling 34 stage victories - the same as Belgian legend Eddy Merckx.\n\n\"It is an emotional day, he was so sad just after the fall,\" said Prudhomme.\n\nCavendish announced in May he would retire at the end of the season.\n\n\"He is the best sprinter in the history of the Tour de France and he wanted to try to win the 35th stage,\" added Prudhomme.\n\n\"He is sad, we are sad, the Tour de France is sad.\"\n\nAfter missing last year's Tour, Cavendish entered this year's race looking to take sole ownership of the record for stage victories.\n\nThe Astana Qazaqstan rider was agonisingly close to doing just that on Friday, but an issue with his gears allowed Jasper Philipsen to pip him.\n\nCavendish was \"bitterly disappointed\" by that - and within 24 hours his race was over.\n\nHe hit the deck after touching wheels with Pello Bilbao and was helped into the back of an ambulance and taken to hospital in Perigueux.\n\n\"Everyone in the team is hurting,\" said Mark Renshaw, who was Cavendish's lead-out man from 2009-2011 and in 2016, and joined Astana as a sprint adviser prior to the Tour.\n\nCavendish made his Tour debut in 2007 and has failed to finish seven of his 14 appearances.\n\nMads Pedersen, who won Saturday's stage, said it had been a \"pleasure\" to ride against him.\n\n\"I always had a good relationship with him in the peloton,\" said the Dane. \"It's so sad for a legend to finish the Tour like this.\"\n\nTwo-time winner Tadej Pogacar said: \"I think everybody here wanted him to win one stage, and yesterday he was super close. It's a bad moment.\n\n\"He was one of my favourites when we were kids. Him sprinting on the Champs-Elysees.... we just wanted to have his style and his legs.\"\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our fossil-fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australia bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "It's a well-worn trope that the politicians who look after our wallets are the ones who tend to win.\n\nWith interest rates still climbing, inflation still gobbling up spending power and taxes at historically high levels, times are hard for millions.\n\nA winning political party certainly needs smart answers. Labour has been miles ahead in the polls for many months, but can the party, and its shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves - who is on our show this Sunday - persuade you their answers add up?\n\nLabour are not short of slogans about the state of the economy. You only need to glance at their MPs' social media, or dip into the House of Commons for a few minutes, to hear one of the economic charges they are levelling against the Conservatives.\n\nBut when you look closely at the party's actual plans, it is not so easy to spot the difference.\n\nTaxes are already very high and Labour has no desire to raise them beyond a couple of specific, and relatively minor changes, like charging VAT on private school fees and altering non-dom status (where a UK resident whose permanent home is outside the country pays British taxes on money earned here but not on income from overseas).\n\nWhat about spending on public services? With the election probably still more than a year away Labour doesn't want to be drawn - although you'll hear some shadow ministers make warm noises about spending \"more\".\n\nAnd there's not an obvious difference when it comes to spending on benefits either. Both main parties want to keep the very expensive protection for pensioners - the so-called \"triple lock\".\n\nTo the irritation of many Labour left-wingers they have not committed to getting rid of the two-child limit, where parents who have a third or subsequent child do not qualify for additional financial support. So on the traditional areas of tax, spending and benefits, playing spot the difference between the government and the wannabe government doesn't get you that far.\n\nThere are important distinctions we'll come to in a second, but it is worth pondering the mixture of politics and policies that seems to make the gap quite narrow.\n\nFirst, Labour know the Conservatives will grab any shred of evidence to suggest their opponents will splash the cash irresponsibly.\n\nMs Reeves has long been trying to counter that with the strict message that all spending has to be paid for. Her so-called \"fiscal rules\" mean a hypothetical Labour government would only borrow to invest.\n\nThat is frustrating to some in Labour, with one MP on the party's left telling me: \"I know the front bench is concerned about appearing credible, and the conclusion is to spend less money, but because things are so bad we have to be much bolder.\"\n\nAnother MP said the \"self-imposed strait-jacket is going to be more and more of a problem\".\n\nThere is zero chance that Ms Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer are going to budge on this.\n\nThat's not just because they don't want to give the Tories an inch, but because they have what a source described as a genuinely \"hard-headed\" even \"zealot-like\" approach to controlling spending. This is not just a political decision, it's based on principles too.\n\nWith the economy in a bad way, a safety-first attitude prevails - especially after the pandemonium of the Truss government last autumn.\n\nAs one Labour-backing City insider says: \"The whole approach right now is to ensure investors are confident in the UK.\"\n\nAnother source suggested \"people in the City are quite worried that this government and the regulators have already moved a long way to the interventionist side of things - Rachel will have heard that in spades\".\n\nLabour also knows not to reveal its hand this far from an election. That's partly because the financial pressures people face will change by the time the UK goes to the polls. And there is always a risk of your rivals nabbing your plans.\n\nThere are differences though - most notably Labour's promise to spend up to £28bn a year on shifting to a greener economy. The party would create a National Wealth Fund to invest in big projects and create a state-owned green power firm called GB Energy.\n\nWhile Ms Reeves may not have an intensely detailed programme, she does have a new brand: \"Securonomics\".\n\n\"Securonomics\" is meant to be a whole new way of doing business. Making and selling more in the UK, creating more lasting jobs, and working more closely with industry to make sure the country is competing with its rivals.\n\nIt is meant to sound radical, but what it means in practice is unclear. As one source put it: \"Securonomics is extremely clever because it feels like there is a lot in there but it is not very obvious what is.\"\n\nThere is an opportunity for Labour here. Even without the finer details, there is clear difference over how much the main parties would be prepared to intervene in the economy.\n\nLabour has watered down its pledge to invest in more green energy\n\nLabour is also likely to make a big thing in the run up to the next election of expanding workers' rights. While what will actually end up in the manifesto is yet to be finalised, one shadow minister says you can expect it to be a \"big part of the offer\" across the UK.\n\nSo while Labour's Treasury team shares some of the Conservatives' view that now is not the time to go wild with public spending or borrowing, there are important distinctions.\n\nBut that shared instinct to be careful with the cash is getting stronger because of what is happening to interest rates.\n\nOne economist notes that if short and medium-term interest rates are one percentage point higher than expected it raises borrowing by £20bn in the medium term.\n\nSo it is getting more expensive for the government to borrow - as is the cost of repaying the debts the country already has.\n\nOf course there are always economic choices about taking an alternative approach. But the desire to keep debt down is something Labour's leadership and the Conservatives share.\n\nMs Reeves has scaled back her green ambitions just as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has talked down the prospect of tax cuts.\n\nVoters on the left may be frustrated that Labour is promising less than in recent years, but it is harder to make big promises when there is less to go around - so we shouldn't expect a cheque book election.", "Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have been taking part in strikes over pay\n\nRishi Sunak has said any pay offer to public sector workers had to be \"fair, affordable and responsible\" in order to control rising prices.\n\nThe PM said it would be \"short-sighted\" to do something now that made inflation worse in the longer term.\n\nTackling inflation meant taking \"difficult decisions\" that would benefit the country, he added.\n\nIt comes as he reportedly faces pressure from ministers to accept the recommendations of pay review bodies.\n\nThe Times reported that five Cabinet ministers were lobbying the prime minister to accept pay recommendations believed to centre on around 6%.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Selby, Yorkshire, on Saturday, Mr Sunak said \"no decisions have been made\" on whether to abide by the proposals.\n\n\"It would be incredibly short-sighted of the government to do something that might sound great today but ultimately just made the inflation problem worse for everybody in the long run,\" he said.\n\n\"So that's what we'll be guided by. We want to be fair, we want things that are affordable and responsible.\"\n\nHe said the government was \"working incredibly hard, night and day, to bring inflation down\", but warned it required \"difficult decisions\".\n\n\"Ultimately if we don't do that it will just make the situation worse and it will last for longer, that's not going to do anyone any good,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"I wouldn't be the right kind of prime minister if I took the easy course. I'm going to do the right long-term thing for the country and that means bringing inflation down.\"\n\nHundreds of thousands of workers have been taking part in strikes over pay, including teachers, junior doctors, nurses, civil servants and rail workers.\n\nSome agreements have been reached, including a pay settlement for more than a million NHS staff in England.\n\nAlmost half of public sector workers are covered by pay review bodies, including police and prison officers, the armed forces, doctors, dentists and teachers.\n\nThe pay review bodies are made up of economists and experts on human resources, with experience in both the public and private sector and are appointed by the relevant government department.\n\nTheir recommendations are not legally binding, meaning the government can choose to reject or partially ignore the advice, but it is usually accepted.\n\nMr Sunak has pledged to halve inflation this year to about 5%, as part of his top five priorities since becoming prime minister.\n\nThe rate at which prices are rising remained unchanged at 8.7% in May, despite predictions it would fall.", "Decades after deferring a place at art school, Steps' Ian 'H' Watkins has rediscovered his love of painting\n\nAlmost 30 years ago Ian Watkins, better known to many as H from Steps, was all set to become a painter.\n\nAt the age of 18 he was accepted at Cardiff School of Art and Design but decided to defer his place to \"dip his toe\" into the world of performance. As they say, the rest is history.\n\nSteps' debut single, 5,6,7,8, was released in 1997, kicking off more than 25 years of hits including Tragedy, One for Sorrow and Last Thing On My Mind.\n\n\"I packed up my artistic dreams in a box and put it on the top shelf,\" said Ian.\n\n\"I always knew I would open it up one day. And now's that time.\"\n\nIan says he is endlessly inspired by the Welsh landscape\n\nThis weekend his summer exhibition of landscape oil paintings opens at Cardiff's Adamo Gallery.\n\nIan traces his love of art back to his childhood in south Wales' Rhondda Valley.\n\n\"My gran got me a watercolour set, I must have been about five or six, and I would copy beautiful Turner paintings of sunsets reflecting on water,\" he said.\n\n\"I adored my gran. She was just the best hugger and oh my god she would support me in every way. She was just gorgeous.\"\n\nHis grandmother lived to see the early years of his rise to fame.\n\nIan's art is currently being shown at Cardiff's Adamo Gallery\n\n\"She was super proud of 5, 6, 7, 8 and then she passed just shortly after that, but she got to see,\" he said.\n\nIn later years a painting he had made as a child at his grandmother's dinner table was found, framed and now proudly hangs on his mother's wall.\n\nSteps back in 1998 (from left to right: Lee Latchford-Evans, Lisa Scott-Lee, Ian 'H' Watkins, Faye Tozer and Claire Richards)\n\nLife in Steps was a whirlwind with seven studio albums, seven compilation albums, thirty singles and five arena tours.\n\nIan first picked up a paintbrush again about 10 years ago, but in 2016 became a father to twin boys Macsen and Cybi and his painting took a back seat.\n\n\"[I was] juggling lots of balls, spinning plates, it was tough and creatively I was drained,\" said Ian, 47.\n\n\"I was having to think about PE kits and swimming lessons and who's fallen today with a bump on their head, who's bitten who, I went through that phase - but now my kids are seven, they can clear up their own breakfast tray, they can dress themselves so I was in the right zone to make decisions that I wanted to kind of be creative again.\"\n\nIan is dad to twin boys Macsen and Cybi\n\nThe family live near Cowbridge in Vale of Glamorgan, and Ian recently organised the town's first Pride.\n\n\"I decided to be the change that I wanted to see. I want my children to grow up in a more diverse place,\" he said.\n\nIan is also busy with Steps. Last year saw a string of summer shows to celebrate their 25th anniversary, the release of single Hard 2 Forget and their third greatest hits album Platinum Collection. Next month they headline at Brighton Pride.\n\nIan says painting allows him the flexibility to spend quality time with his children\n\nLife remains busy, but these days Ian's priority is his children and he has been able to settle into a routine of painting when the boys are at school.\n\n\"I'm at a place in my life now where I can juggle balls and manage them whereas before I lived and breathed Steps - now Steps isn't my life, it's my job now, my children are my full-time job and I get to paint around them,\" he said.\n\nHe puts his easel and sketchbook into the back of his car, drop the boys at school and sees where the day takes him.\n\n\"I never have anything planned - I could go to Southerndown or Brecon or any beautiful location and I will be inspired,\" he said.\n\nIan creates vibrant landscape oil paintings of some of Wales' best-loves beauty spots\n\nHe said he was endlessly inspired by the Welsh landscape.\n\n\"I'm spoilt for choice,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just so diverse, it's so beautiful, it's incredible. You've got mountains and lakes and hillsides and waterfalls, everything is right on our doorstep.\n\n\"I paint from real life, but I also love the spiritual elements to my paintings as well. There's a lot of me in my work.\"\n\nThe world of fine art has at times been accused of being elitist. With his pop fame, has he experienced any snobbery?\n\nGallery owners Sophie Usher and Richard Blunt had been \"very clever\" in the way they had put together the exhibition, he said.\n\n\"They haven't kind of played on the Steps card so people appreciate and like my work for my work,\" he said.\n\nSophie said such was the appetite for Ian's paintings, some had sold even before the official opening.\n\n\"People are really captivated by how authentic the landscapes are,\" she said.\n\nIan is thrilled with the reception to his work.\n\n\"I'm finally where I wanted to be,\" he said.\n\n\"All of the jigsaw pieces have slotted in at exactly the right time. It's beautiful.\"", "Hundreds of German police have used batons and pepper spray to quell crowds targeting an Eritrean cultural festival in the central town of Giessen.\n\nThe protesters were angry that the festival went ahead in Giessen, calling it a propaganda exercise by the authoritarian Eritrean regime.\n\nA police statement said clashes took place for hours on Saturday, and that 26 police officers were injured.\n\nPolice arrested nearly 100 people and had to stop traffic in the town centre.\n\nThe police statement said protesters threw bottles and stones at police, damaged some vehicles and ripped down fencing around the festival venue.\n\nThey also threw stones at buses carrying participants to the festival, the statement said.\n\nVideo on Twitter appears to show crowds of protesters engaged in running battles with police in the town.\n\nThe town authorities had tried to stop the festival going ahead after similar unrest erupted last year, but a local court overturned the ban.\n\nGiessen has about 84,000 residents and lies roughly 50km (30 miles) north of Frankfurt am Main.\n\nThe festival is organised by the Central Council for Eritreans in Germany, which is considered close to the Eritrean embassy.\n\nIn recent years Germany has granted asylum to many Eritreans - they form one of the largest groups of African migrants seeking to settle in the EU.\n\nHuman rights organisations have documented large-scale abuses by the authorities in Eritrea, including strict censorship, forced labour and military conscription that is likened to slavery.", "Machynlleth's town clock dominates the skyline of the small mid-Wales town\n\nIt's the town where the time is always one minute past nine - well, that's if you rely on its old clock.\n\nAnd because the clock has been broken for three years, the only chime you'll get from Machynlleth in mid Wales is on social media.\n\nMaybe TikTok would have been a more apt platform, but Twitter is where you will hear the hourly bell of Wales' ancient capital.\n\n\"As the clock's stopped, people here don't grow old,\" joked one passer-by.\n\n\"This is where time stands still - we all stay younger.\"\n\nWhile London's Big Ben has had an £80m refurbishment, the 78ft (23.7m) tall Victorian clock in the seat of Wales' first parliament has not chimed since October 2020.\n\nBig Ben is finally ringing again in the UK's capital following a refurbishment\n\nSo one elusive and cheeky resident has created a parody Twitter account for the Machynlleth town clock - which \"bongs\" every hour.\n\n\"The fact that someone has taken the time and effort to create a Twitter account and bong on every hour for such a long time, shows the passion people have for fixing our beloved clock,\" said town mayor Jeremy Paige.\n\n\"No-one seems to know who runs the account but whoever it is, is doing so with a glint in their eye and a burning passion to see the real clock actually chime again. I love it, it's such a charming idea.\"\n\nMr Paige said fixing the clock and actually hearing it again was \"the single biggest issue people talk to me about when I'm walking around town - and it's on a daily basis!\"\n\nResidents in the Powys town want their Grade II listed timepiece to be right more than twice a day, preferably in time for its 150th anniversary celebrations in July 2024.\n\nSo the clock, metaphorically, is ticking.\n\nThe landmark in the middle of the Powys town was paid for by residents in the 19th Century, to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Fifth Marquess of Londonderry's eldest son, who lived nearby.\n\nA plaque on the clock says it was erected in 1873 - but it was actually finished in 1874 because of a family bereavement\n\nBangor architect Henry Kennedy won a competition to design the clock tower and it was constructed by local builder Edward Edwards, mostly using stone from north-west Wales.\n\nIt first broke in 1881 after a storm shattered two of the clock's faces and locals again dipped into their pockets to pay for repairs.\n\nA nine-year fundraiser helped pay £200,000 to fix the clock again in 2012, but now time stands still in Machynlleth once more. The broken timepiece has been the talk of the town for almost three years.\n\nSome locals say they have given up looking at Machynlleth's clock if they want to know the time\n\n\"It's by the bus stop so nobody knows if it's the right time when they look at the timetable because they can't compare it,\" one local told the BBC.\n\n\"So all the buses show up a nine o'clock - so sometimes it's right, which is quite funny!\"\n\nWhile another passer-by pointed out: \"It is a sad thing because it makes the town feel that there's not enough investment in it.\"\n\nMachynlleth's townspeople raised £1,000 to build the clock in the 1870s - but the structure itself cost £800\n\nThe rest of the £200 raised by public subscription for the clock was spent on trees which line the adjoining streets\n\nA £55,000 bill to repair and refurbish the clock has been signed off by the local community council, meaning the eight-week refurbishment can happen over the summer.\n\nThe bill will account for more than 5% of the town council's annual budget, with the other half of the funds coming from Welsh historic buildings body Cadw.\n\n\"It's a bit of a totem of the town because if the clock is not healthy, it asks a question of the town,\" said Mr Paige.\n\nWork has begun to fix the Machynlleth clock so people will be able to hear the chimes in the autumn\n\n\"The clock is held in great affection and is meaningful to the town because it was paid by townsfolk and built by townsfolk.\n\n\"It's iconic to us and as there's only 2,000 people in the town, we're basically a T-junction and the clock is at the cross-section of that - you can't get through town without seeing it.\n\n\"The clock being fixed is important to the health of our town.\"", "Police have found £60,000 worth of suspected cannabis after responding to a report of a woman being threatened in a flat in Belfast.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested over multiple offences including drug possession and making threats to kill.\n\nPolice received reports of disorderly behaviour in King Street at about 04:30 BST on Friday.\n\nTwo men were attempting to gain entry to flats by banging on the door and making threats to a woman inside.\n\nPolice said one of the men was arrested before a search of his flat led to the discovery of large quantities of suspected herbal cannabis.\n\nDet Sgt McVeagh said: \"The estimated value of the drugs is around £60,000. A large sum of money was also recovered.\"\n\nThe man was arrested on suspicion of several offences including possession of a Class A controlled drug; possession of a Class B drug; possession of a Class B controlled drug with intent to supply; possession of criminal property; attempted burglary; and making threats to kill.\n\nHe remains in custody assisting with enquiries.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThere were 160,000 fans at Silverstone for the race on Sunday Max Verstappen cruised to victory in the British Grand Prix for his sixth win in a row and a record-equalling 11th consecutive triumph for Red Bull. McLaren's Lando Norris fought off an attack from Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes after a late safety car to finish second and give the 160,000 fans a double home podium to cheer. Verstappen's eighth win in 10 races this year brought Red Bull level with the record McLaren established in their historic 1988 season with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. Oscar Piastri made it a great day for McLaren with fourth, ahead of George Russell's Mercedes.\n• None 'Norris shows McLaren progress but work still to do' Verstappen was untouchable out front, once he had overtaken Norris for the lead on lap five after the McLaren jumped ahead when the world champion suffered too much wheelspin at the start. This victory, which puts Verstappen's championship lead over team-mate Sergio Perez at 99 points, extends a run of Red Bull wins that dates back to last season's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. On Verstappen's current apparently unbeatable form, Red Bull will break McLaren's record at the next race in Hungary in two weeks' time and are likely to move far beyond it as the season progresses. Verstappen reduced this grand prix, like so many this year, to a demonstration run once into the lead. But behind him the race, static for a long period, came alive after the safety car, which was called when Kevin Magnussen's Haas caught fire down the Wellington straight. The fans arrived at Silverstone in huge numbers from Friday through to Sunday Divergent tyre choices introduced jeopardy and intrigue for everyone else over the final 14 laps. Norris and Piastri had looked on course for a double podium for McLaren, who introduced a major upgrade for Norris to great effect at the last race in Austria and gave it to Piastri at Silverstone as well. But the safety car changed everything and gave Hamilton a chance not only to jump ahead of Piastri but also to briefly threaten Norris. The seven-time champion, who started seventh, drove steadily in the opening laps, biding his time once he had re-passed Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin, which overtook him on the first lap. Hamilton moved up as the pit stops started to happen ahead of him, with first Charles Leclerc pitting his Ferrari out of fourth place, followed by the second Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, the Mercedes of Russell, and Piastri. It meant Hamilton was on course to finish fifth behind Piastri and Russell, but stopping under the safety car allowed him to jump both and line up behind Norris at the restart. Norris had hinted heavily several times before his stop that he might prefer the soft tyre, without ever explicitly asking for it, and McLaren stuck with their choice for hards as he came in, just as a virtual safety car turned into a full safety car, because changing tack would have caused too many risks and created too big a delay. Norris expressed over the radio his fears that he would struggle to hold Hamilton back, with the Mercedes on soft tyres and the McLaren on hard, but the 23-year-old weathered an early storm after the restart with aplomb and then edged away to consolidate his second place. Piastri, also fitted with hard tyres at his pit stop, was equally impressive in a car not quite up to the same specification as his team-mate, lacking a new front wing. The Australian rookie lost his hopes of a podium with the safety car, which allowed Hamilton to jump him. But in the closing laps, as Hamilton dropped away from Norris, the Mercedes came under pressure from Piastri, who crossed the line less than a second behind. Russell was the only man in the top 10 to choose soft tyres rather than mediums for the start, and he jumped up a place to threaten Leclerc for fourth place. But he lost out by stopping before the safety car and came home fifth as Sergio Perez recovered from yet another poor qualifying session to finish sixth from 15th on the grid. The last driver he passed was Alonso, whose Aston Martin team have in the last few races fallen away from their strong form in the first six races of the season. Ferrari's day crumbled after a promising start. Leclerc had no pace in the first part of the race, spending the first half of the race with Russell right behind him not quite managing to get past. Leclerc made an early stop for hard tyres and then came in again under the safety car for mediums. But he again struggled and lost eighth place to the impressive Williams of Alex Albon, who chose soft tyres at the safety car, in the closing laps. Sainz, who was left on hard tyres when he did not stop under the safety car, lost three places in a few corners as Perez, Leclerc and Albon all passed him after the restart, and trailed in a disappointing 10th.\n• None Watch the hypochondriac detective and his team on BBC iPlayer now\n• None The cosmic culture war between Marvel and DC comics: Uncover the story of one of the greatest rivalries in the history of pop culture", "The BBC is coming under growing pressure after one of its top presenters was accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17.\n\nThe allegations, first reported by the Sun, are that the unnamed star paid tens of thousands of pounds to the young person over three years.\n\nAs the star faces serious questions about their conduct, so does the organisation itself.\n\nThis is a very clear crisis for the BBC. There are already accusations that since May, when it's claimed the family first complained, it hadn't handled the investigation into the unnamed presenter properly.\n\nWho carried it out? How did they try and contact the family who complained?\n\nWhat steps did they take to question the presenter and to investigate further?\n\nWho in the BBC knew about the accusations?\n\nNow we still don't know whether the presenter has or hasn't been formally suspended. The BBC press office won't tell us. All we know is that he won't be on air in the near future.\n\nIf the BBC don't name him is that fair to the other BBC presenters who have found themselves in the middle of a social media frenzy being wrongly and unfairly accused?\n\nThe BBC put out a statement defending its response to the complaint on Friday evening, but since then there has been nothing new.\n\nBut BBC News programmes and its website, and most Sunday newspapers, are leading on this story. So that doesn't seem like a strategy that can hold.\n\nThe pressure will be on the BBC to show they are taking action.\n\nMPs are now scrutinising and suggesting the response hasn't been handled properly. So the political heat is on and will only increase - the Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has spoken to Director General Tim Davie.\n\nFor him, this represents another high-profile crisis to grapple with this year alone.\n\nIn March, he was embroiled in an impartiality row with Gary Lineker and in April, Richard Sharp resigned as BBC chairman after a report into his appointment found he had \"failed to disclose potential perceived conflicts of interest\", including his involvement in the facilitation of an £800,000 loan for then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nNow in July, Mr Davie has to get a grip on another scandal that has the potential to severely dent the Corporation's reputation.", "Janet Yellen is the second senior Washington official to visit Beijing in as many months\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called on China to work with Washington to fight the \"existential threat\" of climate change.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, she said the two countries - the largest greenhouse gas emitters - had a joint responsibility to lead the way on climate action.\n\nShe called on China to support the US-led Green Climate Fund.\n\nMs Yellen is on a four-day trip to Beijing in an attempt to boost relations between the two countries.\n\nChinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, who was among those to meet with Ms Yellen, said he regretted \"unexpected incidents\", such as the row over a spy balloon, had hurt ties with the United States.\n\nThere has been no formal co-operation between China and the US on climate change since the administration of former President Donald Trump.\n\nAnd China briefly suspended climate talks entirely with the US last year after senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, which is self-ruled but Beijing sees as a breakaway province it will eventually unite with.\n\nBut in a sign that co-operation could soon resume, Ms Yellen called on China to work together with the US to fight climate change and mitigate the effects on poorer countries.\n\nDuring the roundtable meeting in Beijing with finance experts, she called on China to support US-led institutions like the Green Climate Fund, which was set up to help developing nations adapt to climate change and lessen its effects.\n\n\"As the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases and the largest investors in renewable energy, we have both a joint responsibility - and ability - to lead the way,\" she said.\n\nChina is now the world's biggest investor in solar energy, and biggest producer of solar panels and wind turbines but saw its carbon dioxide emissions rise 4% in the first quarter of this year compared to 2022.\n\nThe US, meanwhile, has invested billions of dollars in recent years into initiatives aimed at tackling climate change but also saw its emissions rise slightly last year, according to the International Energy Agency.\n\nWhile Ms Yellen wants China to join the US in funding the worldwide transition to renewables, the sticking point is China's insistence that it is still a developing country.\n\nBeijing says it is up to the US and Europe to pay for the energy transition, because they have historically created most of the emissions.\n\nMs Yellen is the second senior Washington official to visit Beijing in the last two months. Her presence there is aimed at easing tensions and restoring ties between the world's two superpowers.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing last month, making him the highest-ranking Washington official to visit the Chinese capital in almost half a decade. He met President Xi Jinping and foreign minister Qin Gang.\n\nAt the end of his trip, Mr Blinken said that while there were still major issues between the two countries, he hoped they would have \"better communications, better engagement going forward.\"\n\nHowever, the next day President Joe Biden referred to Mr Xi as a \"dictator\" - triggering outrage from Beijing.\n\nIn another sign the trade dispute between the two countries is far from being resolved, China this week announced it was tightening controls over exports of two materials crucial to producing computer chips.\n\nFrom next month, special licences will be needed to export gallium and germanium from China, which is the world's biggest producer of the metals.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland won the European Under-21 Championship for the first time in nearly 40 years after a dramatic last-minute penalty save by James Trafford ensured the Young Lions held on to beat Spain.\n\nTrafford, who is set to join Burnley from Manchester City in a deal that could be worth up to £19m, kept out Abel Ruiz's low spot-kick in the 99th minute after a lengthy VAR check.\n\nThe 20-year-old then produced another brilliant stop on the follow-up before being mobbed by his team-mates.\n\nThe winning goal came with virtually the last kick of the first half when a Cole Palmer free-kick deflected off team-mate Curtis Jones and wrong-footed goalkeeper Arnau Tenas to find the bottom corner.\n\nSpain, who had scored 13 goals in the tournament, had a Ruiz goal ruled out for offside after half-time, before Trafford's late heroics sealed England's victory.\n\nThe win meant Lee Carsley's talented side are the third England team to win the competition after previously picking up the trophy in 1982 and 1984.\n\nThey are also the first team to record six successive clean sheets in the tournament's history.\n• None Which of England's Euro U21 winners could step up?\n• None Best action and reaction from England's triumph\n• None How did England's 1984 winners do afterwards?\n\nThe Young Lions have played an exciting brand of football in Georgia, with a side packed with attacking talent.\n\nEngland started the final positively, with Newcastle's Anthony Gordon having the first meaningful chance when his shot was pushed wide by Spain keeper Tenas.\n\nGordon was then involved again as he looked to tee up Morgan Gibbs-White before an interception from Jon Pacheco prevented the Nottingham Forest player from having a tap in.\n\nSpain soon came into the match, with Alex Baena curling an effort past Trafford's post before scuffing another effort wide after he had picked up a loose pass by Gibbs-White.\n\nChelsea defender Levi Colwill headed against the crossbar from an excellent delivery from Palmer, before the Manchester City man gave England the lead when his free-kick was deflected in by Liverpool's Jones.\n\nThe half ended with bad blood as Palmer's celebration led to a melee between both benches, which resulted in England coach Ashley Cole and Spanish fitness coach Carlos Rivera being sent to the stands.\n\nEngland were under immense pressure during the second period, and it looked to have paid off for Spain when Ruiz headed in from a Baena cross, only for the offside flag to go up. Ruiz had another chance to equalise, but headed wide from inside the six-yard box.\n\nThe match ended in dramatic style when Colwill - so highly rated by England's staff following his week training with the senior team - was judged to have fouled Ruiz in the box.\n\nTrafford got down well to save the resulting penalty and an immediate follow-up to give England victory and spark scenes of jubilation.\n\nThe bad blood continued, however, with nine yellow and four red cards handed out by the final whistle, as Gibbs-White and Antonio Blanco were both sent off in the final throes.\n\nNow that England have won the trophy, the discussions will start about which of these young stars will be knocking on the door of the senior squad and be in with a chance of playing in the senior European Championships next summer.\n\nTrafford, who is on the brink of becoming the third-most expensive English goalkeeper ever, will rightly take the headlines for his heroic double save in the last minute of added time of the final.\n\nHowever, that moment just capped off what had already been a superb tournament, having been a standout player in this team from the very first game.\n\nTrafford has shown he is the very definition of a modern-day goalkeeper - comfortable with the ball at his feet, dominant when coming for crosses and making eye-catching saves when called upon.\n\nHe also has immense self belief, telling people that he would one day play for England while he was on loan at Accrington Stanley.\n\nDuring this competition he has spoken about his desire to play at the highest level and he will now get the chance next season when he becomes a Premier League number one at Turf Moor.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Camello (Spain U21) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt saved. Aimar Oroz (Spain U21) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty saved! Abel Ruiz (Spain U21) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Levi Colwill (England U21) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Abel Ruiz (Spain U21) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Aimar Oroz with a cross.\n• None Offside, England U21. James Garner tries a through ball, but Cameron Archer is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Noni Madueke (England U21) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Harvey Elliott (England U21) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cameron Archer.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Gómez (Spain U21) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ander Barrenetxea. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our fossil-fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australia bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "I think we've got quite an extraordinary situation here - we've got reputations, careers, and futures at stake.\n\nNone of the principals have spoken out openly about what has happened and if you analyse that from a newsroom point of view, this is a pretty unsatisfactory position to be in because this is a 72-hour news cycle but nobody is really clearer about where the truth lies.\n\nIf you analyse this from a legal perspective, this is really coming down to some very difficult questions about privacy.\n\nThe firm that the young person has instructed to contact the BBC is not a modest, high street firm, they are a multinational practice so they know what they're doing.\n\nThey have repeatedly emphasised that their client alleges this is a breach of their privacy.\n\nThat's quite a strong allegation to make. Yet because the individual hasn't been named it's not necessarily going to end up in the courts.\n\nI think when you look at this - reporting claim and counter-claim - we end up in a situation where the public wants us to tell them what this really amounts to in legal terms - is this going to amount to a court case?\n\nWe don't know, and no-one seems to be sure at the moment.", "Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees says a committee run by politicians cannot be a substitute for an independent inquiry\n\nBereaved families say a Senedd committee \"muddies the waters\" amid renewed calls for a Wales-specific Covid inquiry.\n\nAnna-Louise Marsh-Rees, leader of Covid-19 Bereaved Families Cymru, said a committee run by politicians could not be a substitute.\n\n\"It cannot possibly cover the range of issues and get to the level of granularity that we need,\" she said.\n\nThe committee said people would have chances to \"have their say\".\n\nMs Marsh-Rees said the committee, which meets for the first time next week, was \"not the same as a Wales inquiry\".\n\n\"It is 100% not. It's not independent. We want it to be taken out of the political arena,\" she said.\n\nThe Wales Covid-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee was set up as part of a deal between Welsh Labour and the Welsh Conservatives, to identify any gaps in what the UK inquiry said about Wales.\n\nIt follows a long-running row over whether Wales needs its own inquiry into the pandemic, calls for which have been resisted by the Welsh government.\n\nLucy O'Brien, a lawyer with extensive experience in public inquiries and judicial reviews, said she was concerned that the Senedd committee would not have the resources to adequately scrutinise decisions made during the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"With an independent public inquiry, the inquiry would be resourced to approach witnesses and compel evidence and hold public hearings.\n\n\"Say the UK public inquiry found there were issues with care homes in Wales and that was part of Baroness Hallett's recommendations, would the Senedd committee then be contacting care homes in Wales to obtain evidence? I think that's unlikely because I think they're unlikely to be resourced to do so.\"\n\nLawyer Lucy O'Brien says she is concerned the Senedd committee will not have adequate resources\n\nA spokesperson for the Welsh government said they would not be providing running commentary on the evidence the inquiry was taking and would not be speculating on any conclusions the inquiry may come to.\n\nMs O'Brien said she was \"surprised\" the Welsh government voted against holding a Welsh independent public inquiry.\n\n\"We know Wales went in its own very different direction to the UK government during the pandemic and that in many areas the response in Wales was different to the rest of the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It's surprising to us from a legal perspective that the Senedd voted against that.\"\n\nThe committee is being co-chaired by Joyce Watson, Labour Member of the Senedd for Mid and West Wales, and Tom Giffard, Conservative MS for South Wales West.\n\nThe Conservatives are co-chairing the committee with Welsh Labour which has been criticised by Plaid Cymru.\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesperson Mabon ap Gwynfor said both parties wanted to \"quieten the issue\" of a public inquiry and \"push it into the long grass\".\n\n\"It's not just the gaps we need to look at, we need to look at the Covid issue in the round in Wales because health is devolved,\" he said.\n\nLeader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies said the party was committed to \"enabling this committee to work to its fullest ability like any scrutiny committee in the Welsh Parliament.\"\n\nHe added: \"The challenge is obviously to government backbenchers to make sure they step up to the plate and act as backbenchers, not an extension of the Welsh government.\"", "Rachel Reeves wants to be the next Chancellor. She wants to be a Chancellor that can get the economy growing, sort out public services, and get taxes for working people down.\n\nBut it was abundantly clear this morning that if Labour wins the next election she will, above all else, be a Chancellor that keeps an extremely tight grip on spending.\n\nAs we said yesterday, that’s partly politics, but also partly a genuine plan.\n\nBut it was striking this morning that Reeves said again and again and again, that her \"fiscal rules\", her limits on spending, are at the top of her list.\n\nShe doesn’t want to delay the party’s plan for shifting the economy to a greener way of doing business. But if that has to wait because the sums don’t add up, so be it.\n\nShe disputed that her plans would be like the Conservatives’ for day-to-day spending as we head towards the next election.\n\nBut the two main parties do share an ethos that now is not the time to go crazy with public spending or tax cuts.\n\nIn political terms, the next election is a lifetime away, but after many months ahead in the polls, Reeves is seen as a likelier and likelier bet to be the next Chancellor.\n\nA champion chess player as a child, she joked the party was a \"rook ahead after about thirty moves\", but playing an opponent that normally beats them, reluctant to take anything for granted at all.", "Warning have been put in place at some north coast beaches\n\nPotentially toxic blue-green algae have been spotted at fresh locations along the north coast, Northern Ireland environmental authorities have warned.\n\nThe bacteria were found at Portstewart and Castlerock beaches earlier this week.\n\nRed flag warnings were extended west to the beach at Downhill on Sunday, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) said.\n\nThese have also been extended to Benone beach as a precautionary measure.\n\nRed flag warnings were extended west to the beach at Downhill on Sunday\n\nBlue-green algae is not actually an alga but rather a type of bacteria called cyanobacteria.\n\nIt can cause illness in humans but is particularly dangerous for pets and has been implicated in the deaths of several dogs in other locations where it has been detected.\n\nSwimmers and dog walkers have been advised to adhere to any advice about getting into the water.\n\nScientists from the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute are working with DAERA, assisting with modelling to predict how tidal flows will affect the algal blooms.\n\nDownhill Beach is popular with dog walkers but pet owners have been warned of the possibility of potentially toxic algae\n\nA scientist told BBC News NI last Friday that the organism cannot survive in salt water, but it was still being washed from Lough Neagh down the River Bann to the coast.\n\nThe DAERA officials have encouraged people to get involved in citizen science and help monitor the presence of blue-green algae, via an app or by contacting the department directly.", "Nuria Sajjad was said by family members to have \"embodied joy, kindness and generosity\"\n\nA second girl has died from her injuries after a car crashed into a school in south-west London on Thursday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has named eight-year-old Nuria Sajjad as the second victim.\n\nSelena Lau, eight, also died after the incident in Wimbledon.\n\nIn a statement released by the police on Sunday, Nuria's family described her as the \"light of our lives\".\n\nShe \"embodied joy, kindness and generosity and she was loved by all around her,\" the statement added.\n\nNuria's family said they were announcing the news with \"profound sorrow\", and made a request for privacy.\n\nThey also thanked emergency services and those working at St George's Hospital, as well as the parents of Nuria's classmates and school staff, \"for all they have done to ease Nuria's journey\".\n\nSeveral people were taken to hospital after the crash at The Study Preparatory School, which involved a Land Rover.\n\nTributes were paid to Selena after her death was announced on Thursday.\n\nFamily members described her as an \"intelligent and cheeky girl\" who was \"adored and loved by everyone\".\n\nScores of people have visited the school over the weekend\n\nParents and children have been visiting the school over the weekend to lay flowers and pay their respects.\n\nMerton Council said it was offering counselling to the families affected, as well as pupils and staff at the school.\n\nA woman in her 40s remains in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nThe driver of the vehicle - a 46-year-old woman - has been bailed until late July, having been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nOfficers have asked the public to avoid speculation while an investigation is carried out, but have said they are not treating the crash as terror-related.\n\nThirty-five police vehicles were sent to the scene, and officers teamed up with paramedics to give first aid to a number of people who were injured.\n\nAn end-of-term tea party had been taking place at the school when the vehicle crashed through the fence and into a building.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it sent 15 ambulances to the scene and treated 16 people.\n\nThe private girls' school is just a mile away from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, which has been hosting the world-famous Wimbledon tennis tournament.\n\nThe school is now closed until September.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dozens of protesters gathered outside Stradey Park Hotel on Saturday\n\nThe UK government has \"lost control\" of the asylum system, a councillor has claimed.\n\nOn Friday, Carmarthenshire council failed in a High Court bid to stop Stradey Park Hotel, in Llanelli, being used to house up to 241 asylum seekers.\n\nThe Home Office said the plans were necessary and that the asylum system was under \"incredible\" strain.\n\nIt comes as dozens of protesters, for and against the plans, gathered outside the hotel on Saturday.\n\nLocal councillor Martyn Palfreman called on the UK government to \"get a grip\" of the asylum system - saying it had lost it.\n\nFormer racial equality commissioner Aled Edwards also said more work needed to be done in the community to to allay \"irrational fears\" and \"address legitimate ones\".\n\nMaxson Kpakio, 45, is originally from Liberia but has lived in Swansea for 20 years, and came to Wales as an asylum seeker.\n\n\"I am an activist who advocates for social justice and peace. Where I see a group talking about peace and love, I am part of them,\" he said.\n\nMaxson Kpakio said \"asylum seeking is a right for everybody\"\n\nHe was confronted at one point by protesters who oppose the asylum plan.\n\n\"I don't think it was necessary for any confrontation. It was the group from the other side who came to me, and asked me why I'm here, and I told them,\" he said.\n\n\"We had a frank conversation where I tried to educate them as well. Asylum seeking is a right for everybody.\"\n\nResident Helen Thomas, who is against the plans, said a lot of people in the community are scared, partly by how the issue has divided locals.\n\nMs Thomas said some people against the plan have been labelled racist, but said she has friends from many different backgrounds, adding: \"I am not racist, I never have been.\"\n\nDozens of protesters gathered outside Stradey Park Hotel on Saturday\n\n\"My plea would be with the UK government to get a grip on an asylum system, which they have clearly lost the grip of,\" councillor Martyn Palfreman told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"In terms of what happens next and the asylum seekers arrival in Llanelli, the honest answer is I don't know.\"\n\nPolice were called to the hotel on Friday after protesters blocked vehicles entering the site\n\n\"We've been told previously they will be arriving next week, we don't know any more details in terms of the composition of the group that will be arriving or exactly when they will be arriving,\" added Mr Palfreman.\n\nThe Labour councillor for the Hengoed ward of Llanelli added that his \"real concern\" is that the asylum seekers themselves will have anger directed towards them, which he hopes \"doesn't happen\".\n\nLlanelli MP Dame Nia Griffith said she was very disappointed with the outcome of Friday's hearing.\n\n\"I think it's particularly upsetting for the residents who live closely to the hotel and whilst people have a right to their opinion I would actually beg them to be very considerate,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to work together with other countries to find solutions that will last... there has to be a really concerted effort to work internationally with partners so there are proper agreements.\"\n\nFollowing Friday's hearing, council leader Darren Price said he was disappointed and that the authority would consider the judge's reasons on Monday.\n\nThe hotel has faced local opposition since it first announced the plans\n\nAled Edwards, the former commissioner for racial equality in Wales, said a conversation was needed with people in the community to allay \"irrational fears\" and \"address legitimate ones\".\n\n\"If we spend the time explaining to people what people's backgrounds are, what they can offer us, what they can bring us... I think it could become much better,\" he said.\n\n\"But there is a toxicity to the debate around the globe that is not good.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the number of people arriving in the UK in need of accommodation had reached record levels.\n\n\"The Home Office is committed to making every effort to reduce hotel use and limit the burden on the taxpayer,\" a spokesman said.", "The armed gang smashed windows in the house\n\nA man and woman suffered a \"terrifying experience\" when an armed gang smashed windows when attempting to break into their home, the police have said.\n\nThe incident happened shortly before 20:30 BST on Saturday at Swilly Close in Portstewart, County Londonderry.\n\nThe man suffered minor injuries, which required treatment, and the woman was uninjured but shaken.\n\nTwo men and two women were arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.\n\nThe arrests came after police stopped a car on the Portmore Road.\n\nThe attack happened at a house in Swilly Close, Portstewart\n\nThe men, aged 31 and 34, and women, aged 28 and 61, remain in custody.\n\nPSNI Det Sgt Colhoun said: \"This was a terrifying experience for the occupants of the property and our investigation is now under way to establish what happened, who was involved and a motive.\"\n\nPolice are appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time, and saw anything suspicious to get in contact.", "Fireworks were a popular weapon during the recent rioting in France\n\nFrance has banned the sale, possession and transport of all fireworks during the upcoming Bastille Day festivities.\n\nThe government issued a decree on Sunday prohibiting \"pyrotechnic articles\" for the 14 July celebrations that mark France's national day.\n\nThe move comes after rioting sparked by last month's police killing of 17-year-old Nahel M by police in Nanterre.\n\nHowever, the ban does not apply to official firework displays organised by local authorities.\n\n\"In order to prevent the risk of serious disturbances to public order during the 14 July festivities, the sale, carrying, transport and use of pyrotechnic articles and fireworks will be prohibited on national territory until 15 July inclusively,\" said the edict, published in the French official gazette.\n\nFireworks were a popular weapon during the week of unrest, which included some of France's worst urban violence for almost 20 years.\n\nAnd even in normal times, events in public squares and streets on the evening of Bastille Day have often been disrupted in previous years by young people throwing firecrackers.\n\nPrime Minister Élisabeth Borne said that in addition to the restrictions on fireworks, a \"massive\" security presence would be deployed in order to keep the peace and \"to protect the French during these two sensitive days\".\n\nShe told Le Parisien newspaper that many people were \"quite worried\" about the possibility of fresh incidents of violence during the national holiday.\n\nMore than 3,700 people were taken into police custody in connection with the recent protests, including at least 1,160 minors, according to official figures.\n\nBastille Day marks the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris more than 200 years ago, a key event in the French Revolution.", "Ofwat has been accused of being \"complacent\" over the Thames Water affair, which has seen it lose its chief executive and face collapse over its massive debts.\n\nThe company is fighting for survival and has until early next year to stave off temporary nationalisation.\n\nMP Sir Robert Goodwill said the regulator had questions to answer over whether it had \"been asleep at the wheel\" over the case.\n\nSir Robert, a Conservative MP who chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, told the BBC the regulator had been \"very complacent\" over Thames Water.\n\nThe company is facing problems servicing its debts of £14bn, but Ofwat said earlier this week that shareholders were \"reluctant\" to invest and it expected the firm to request an increase in bills at the next price review.\n\nBut Sir Robert said Thames was heavily in debt and about 80% of its finances came from borrowing. \"That means as interest rates have gone up, about half their debt is linked to inflation. They've had massive increases in the cost of that debt,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said the committee, which would also be questioning water companies on Wednesday, wanted to know where the debt came from.\n\nSir Robert believed the firm was taking money out in the form of debt payments, instead of dividends. \"Our suspicion is that a lot of this debt is with these very funds that own the shares,\" he said.\n\nThe committee chairman said the MPs would want to know: \"Have Ofwat been asleep at the wheel or have they just not had the powers to inquire into some of the finance structures?\"\n\nOfwat's appearance on Wednesday will be the second appearance in as many weeks in front of politicians. Last week its chief executive David Black gave evidence to the Lords' business committee when he denied the watchdog had failed to regulate the industry well.\n\nBut he admitted there were \"hard lessons to learn\" and that he had been \"angered\" by excessive chief executive pay in the industry.\n\nThames Water is not the only water company in the spotlight. The management of Southern Water is also up for scrutiny.\n\n\"It does seem rather reckless,\" Sir Robert said. \"Southern Water's credit rating has been downgraded yet again. The owners of these companies are having put to put money in yet again. My worry is the money that we're paying as water users will be going to service that debt, rather than what we want to see, which is paying to clean up our rivers and improve sewage treatment.\"\n\nHowever, the chair of the select committee argued a return to nationalisation was not the answer: \"I can remember when water investment was way back in the queue behind hospitals and education and to be fair, we have seen massive investment in improving our infrastructure.\n\n\"The general problem with pollution is when it rains. Many older houses have the water from their roofs going straight into the sewer, which massively overloads the system, and that's something that can be addressed with storm-water tanks. It can also be addressed by people putting in water bowsers or catching the grey water and using that to flush their toilets.\"\n\nThames Water, which is due to publish its annual results on Monday, said it would be making no comment.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC on Sunday Ofwat said: \"Thames Water need to develop a robust and credible plan to turn around the business and transform its performance for customers and the environment. For a long time, we have been pushing them to improve their financial resilience, including to cut debt. We will continue to safeguard customers' interests as they do that.\"\n\nThe BBC has also approached Southern Water for comment.", "A member of the archaeology team examines skeletal remains discovered during preparatory works for a new hotel in central Dublin\n\nAbout 100 skeletal remains from the Middle Ages have been unearthed during excavations for a Northern Ireland firm's new hotel in Dublin.\n\nBurial sites dating back more than 1,000 years were found at Capel Street where an abbey, St Mary's, once stood.\n\nAt least two of the remains are believed to date back to the early 11th Century.\n\nThe excavations have been commissioned by Beannchor, which is building its new Bullitt Dublin hotel on the site.\n\nThe abbey used by the Savigniac and Cistercian orders opened in the 12th Century.\n\nCarbon dating of one of the discovered graves predates that by 100 years, indicating the presence of a Christian settlement on the site prior to St Mary's being built.\n\nThe archaeological investigations at the site, which formerly housed Boland's Bakery, also unearthed the foundations of buildings dating back to the 1600s.\n\nEdmond O'Donovan, director of excavations for Courtney Deery Heritage Consultancy (CDHC), at the Capel Street site\n\nThe finds were discovered close to a former Presbyterian meeting house dating from 1667.\n\nParts of a domestic house known as the 'Dutch Billies' have also been found.\n\nIt was constructed in about 1700 by settlers who came to Dublin after William of Orange ascended to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1689.\n\nWhile the skeletal remains will be painstakingly excavated, cleaned and sent for further analysis, before ultimately being given to the National Monuments Services, the other structures found during the examination of the site are set to be incorporated into the design of the new hotel complex.\n\nBeannchor Group, which runs high-profile hotels and bars in Northern Ireland, has undertaken similar restoration of historic buildings in the past, including Belfast's Merchant Hotel, which was a former bank.\n\nIt said the Dublin project is by far its biggest and most complex project to date.\n\nThe 17th Century Presbyterian meeting house will be central to the development of a new bar and restaurant concept.\n\nThe 'Dutch Billies' house will also be preserved while a building with surviving ovens from the Boland's Bakery dating from 1890 will be renovated and repurposed.\n\nEdmond O'Donovan, director of excavations for Courtney Deery Heritage Consultancy (CDHC, said St Mary's Abbey was Ireland's largest and most wealthy medieval abbey in its day.\n\nArchaeologists examine remains at the site of the medieval St Mary's Abbey\n\n\"It was demolished after 1540 when the monastery was disbanded by Henry VIII and was later the site of a 17th Century Presbyterian meeting house.\n\n\"One of the things that was intriguing and exciting about the excavation is that we found an early burial or at least a number of burials that we suspect to be quite early.\n\n\"We have one that's carbon dated to the 11th Century and we have a second burial that was found with a diagnostic stick pin from the 11th Century.\n\n\"And that suggests that there was an earlier Christian and potentially monastic foundation here which predates the Savigniac and Cistercian Abbey.\"\n\nBill Wolsey, managing director of Beannchor, said it was impossible to have foreseen what the project would entail at its outset in 2017.\n\n\"As time went on, we began to understand just how complex this project may be,\" he said.\n\nSkeletal remains unearthed at the site of a new hotel being developed by Belfast-based Beannchor Group in Dublin\n\n\"Great care has been taken to preserve and incorporate elements of these early surviving buildings into the new development, on what we now know is one of the most significant heritage sites in the city.\"\n\nThe new Bullitt Dublin hotel is expected to open in 2025.", "Four people have been injured during an annual bull run through the streets of Pamplona in Spain.\n\nEvery year thousands of tourists come to watch locals run 875m (0.54 miles) through the streets, chased by bulls, but animal rights activists have long-criticised the festival.\n\nThree people were trampled during the event and one person was injured by a bull's horns, emergency services said.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nUSA forward Megan Rapinoe, one of the most successful players of her generation, says she will retire at the end of the season.\n\nThe 2019 Ballon d'Or winner made the announcement days before she leaves for her fourth Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.\n\n\"I did want to do it my own way,\" the 38-year-old said.\n\n\"I feel very grateful that I'm here and that I have the trust of this team and that my body has held up this long.\"\n\nTwo-time World Cup winner Rapinoe will retire at the end of her club side OL Reign's NWSL campaign, with the regular season ending in October and the play-off final on 11 November.\n\nShe made the announcement ahead of USA's friendly against Wales on Sunday.\n\n\"It is with a really deep sense of peace and gratitude and excitement that I want to share with you guys that this will be my last season, my last World Cup and my last NWSL season,\" she said.\n\n\"I could have never imagined where this beautiful game would have taken me.\n\n\"I feel so honoured to have represented this country and this federation for so many years, it's truly been the greatest thing that I've ever done and is something I'm so grateful for.\"\n\nIn 2019, Rapinoe was named Best Fifa Women's Player and won the World Cup golden boot and golden ball to go with her Ballon d'Or.\n\nShe has been capped 199 times and scored 63 goals for USA since making her debut in a friendly against Republic of Ireland in 2006.\n\nShe also won an Olympic gold medal at London 2012.\n\nRapinoe could add to her achievements this summer, she is part of the USA team bidding to make history by winning a third consecutive World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nHer career began in 2002 playing for Elk Grove Pride in the Women's Premier Soccer League.\n\nShe had spells in Australia and France before joining Seattle Reign, now known as OL Reign, winning three NWSL Shields and one Women's Cup.\n\nUSA head coach head coach Vlatko Andonovski called her \"one of the most important players in women's soccer history and a personality like no other\".\n\nRapinoe's achievements on the field have been mirrored off it - she is one of the most influential voices in sport.\n\nShe publicly came out as gay in 2012 and has spoken out about racism, sexism and homophobia, as well as being a leading voice in the campaign for equal pay for the USA women's team.\n\nIn 2016, she was the first white athlete and first female to take a knee during the national anthem in a show of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.\n\nBowing out in The Bay\n\nRapinoe is set to win her 200th cap in Sunday's game against Wales at PayPal Park in San Jose, California, her home state.\n\n\"It does feel very special, it feels kind of perfect,\" she said.\n\n\"I have like 40 people coming over for the game, this is the closest I'll ever get to playing in Redding in my career.\n\n\"It means a lot to be able to do it in the Bay, it feels like a second home.\n\n\"I grew up playing here and playing all over this area. It's where crazy little Megan got her start so it feels right to say I'm ending it here.\"", "A drone camera operator in San Diego has been documenting the antics of an adventurous seal who has been mounting the boards of surfers.\n\nNicknamed Sammy, the baby seal has been riding the waves on the boards of surfers for a number of weeks.\n\nAccording to drone operator Ed Hartel, marine animal rescue organisation Sea World has been to visit Sammy, ensuring that he is in good health and in no danger.", "The American president touched down at Stansted Airport near London on Sunday\n\nUS President Joe Biden has landed in the UK ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania later this week - which comes after several allies questioned his call to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.\n\nThe UK and Canada are among those who voiced concern about supplying the bombs, which are widely banned because of the danger they pose to civilians.\n\nThe US says they are needed because Ukraine's weapon stocks are dwindling.\n\nThe two men are expected to discuss various issues, including the war in Ukraine.\n\nMr Sunak has not directly criticised his US counterpart following Friday's cluster bomb announcement - but on Saturday he said that the UK was one of 123 countries signed up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty which bans the production or use of the weapons.\n\nOther US allies have gone further, however. Nato partner nation New Zealand said on Sunday the munitions could cause \"huge damage to innocent people\".\n\nCluster bombs typically release lots of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area. Unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years before they detonate.\n\nThe US says it has received written reassurances from Kyiv that Ukrainian troops will not use the weapons in Russia or in urban areas.\n\nWhile in the UK, Mr Biden will also meet King Charles for the first time since the King was crowned.\n\nMembers of Nato - a military alliance of 31 Western nations - will then meet in Vilnius on Tuesday and Wednesday. Boosting ammunition stockpiles and reviewing defence plans will be on the agenda.\n\nFinland will attend its first summit since joining in April, and plans from Sweden to follow suit have been blocked by Turkey, which accuses it of harbouring terrorists. Mr Biden is expected to seek support from Mr Sunak to help broker a deal with Turkey.\n\nUkraine harbours its own ambitions of joining Nato. But speaking to CNN before his trip, Mr Biden said this could not happen until the war was over - in line with the alliance's long-standing policy.\n\nCiting Nato's mutual defence pact, Mr Biden pointed out that members undertake to protect \"every inch\" of each other's territory - meaning that \"if the war is going on, then we're all in war\".\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously accepted this position, while requesting a \"signal\" that his country will be able to join the alliance when the war is over. He is expected to attend this week's summit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US decision to fulfil a Ukrainian request for cluster bombs came on Friday. Officials said this was part of a military aid package worth $800m (£626m).\n\nMr Biden told CNN it had been a \"very difficult decision\" but that he had eventually acted because \"the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".\n\nBut a number of Nato allies quickly distanced themselves from the decision.\n\nCanada and Spain - both member states - added their own opposition to that of New Zealand.\n\n\"No to cluster bombs and yes to the legitimate defence of Ukraine, which we understand should not be carried out with cluster bombs,\" Spain's Defence Minister Margarita Robles said.\n\nBut Germany, another signatory of the treaty and Nato member, said that while it would not provide such weapons to Ukraine, it understood the American position.\n\nOne of the concerns surrounding their supply is their failure - or dud - rate. Unexploded bomblets can indiscriminately detonate.\n\nBut the US has said its cluster bombs fail less frequently than those Russia is already using in the Ukraine war.\n\nUkraine has promised the weapons will not be used in civilian areas and will monitor and report on their use, but Russia dismissed these assurances as \"not worth anything\".\n\nThis is, potentially, an awkward visit coming at a critical time for the US-led Nato alliance.\n\nPresident Biden may not have intended to cause offence by skipping King Charles' coronation in May, but his absence was noted.\n\nThen there is the business over who should be the next secretary general of Nato. The UK and the Baltic states favoured the British Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, who has been instrumental in galvanising Western support for Ukraine.\n\nBut without US backing, that's a non-starter - and Mr Biden instead appears to favour the former German defence minister and European Commission head, Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nAnd there is also the row over cluster bombs. The UK is among 123 nations to ban these weapons which can cause indiscriminate harm to civilians.\n\nBut the US is going ahead, in the heat of international criticism, in supplying them to Ukraine as its forces struggle to break through Russia's defences in the south of Ukraine.\n\nBut Mr Biden's stopover in Britain is so brief that any cracks in the transatlantic alliance are likely to be smoothed over by warm handshakes and ample protocol.", "Janet Yellen says talks with China on various issues have been \"substantive and productive\"\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said her visit to Beijing has marked a \"step forward\" in efforts to stabilise relations between the two countries.\n\nMs Yellen spoke at the end of a four-day trip, during which talks were held over issues including climate change.\n\nShe described the talks as \"direct, substantive and productive\" and said both sides had learned more about each other.\n\nHowever, she admitted the US and China still had \"significant disagreements\".\n\n\"No one visit will solve our challenges overnight,\" she said.\n\n\"But this trip will help build a resilient and productive channel of communication with China's new economic team.\"\n\nThe US-China relationship has deteriorated in recent years. Issues dividing the countries include human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, territorial claims to Taiwan and the South China Sea and Beijing's growing domination of a host of industries.\n\nChinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, who was among those to meet with Ms Yellen, said on Saturday he regretted \"unexpected incidents\" - such as the row over a spy balloon - had hurt ties with the United States.\n\nMs Yellen stressed the need for better communication in order to try and overcome these issues, adding that US President Joe Biden did \"not see the relationship between the US and China through the frame of great power conflict.\n\n\"We believe that the world is big enough for both of our countries to thrive.\"\n\nOn the issue of economic competition, Ms Yellen said the US sought a \"dynamic and healthy global economy that is open, free and fair, not one that is fragmented or forces countries to take sides\".\n\nShe said any future curbs to business with China would be implemented \"in a transparent way\" and focus on sectors where the US had \"specific national security concerns\".\n\nEarlier in the visit, Ms Yellen criticised Beijing's curbs against US firms, including the tightening of controls over exports of two materials crucial to producing computer chips.\n\nThe move follows Washington's efforts in the past year to curb Chinese access to some advanced computer chips.\n\nMs Yellen said the US would fight back against China's \"unfair economic practices\".\n\nIn response, China's finance ministry said \"the nature of China-US economic and trade relations is mutually beneficial and win-win\" and that there was no winner in a trade war.\n\nOn climate change, Ms Yellen urged Beijing to work with the US and support institutions like the Green Climate Fund, which was set up to help developing nations adapt to climate change and lessen its effects.\n\nThe Treasury Secretary was the second senior Washington official to visit Beijing in the last two months.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing in June - the highest-ranking Washington official to visit the Chinese capital in almost half a decade.\n\nHis sentiments at the end of his trip echoed Ms Yellen's. He said that while there were still major issues between the two countries, he hoped they would have \"better communications, better engagement going forward.\"\n\nHowever, the next day President Joe Biden referred to Mr Xi as a \"dictator\" - triggering outrage from Beijing.\n\nDespite the political tensions, trade between the two countries grew in 2022 for the third year in a row.\n\nAccording to official figures, China exported more than $536bn (£422.3bn) worth of goods to the US last year, while $154bn of goods went in the other direction.", "Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a report that an indecent image appeared briefly during a children's screening of the Super Mario Bros Movie.\n\nThe incident happened at Londonderry's Waterside Theatre on Friday.\n\nIt is understood the children, believed to be of primary-school age, were at the event as part of a summer scheme.\n\nIt is believed an image of a partially undressed woman appeared on screen for several seconds before being removed.\n\nThe theatre has described what happened as \"unfortunate but serious\" and apologised.\n\nIn a post on Facebook on Friday night, staff said they would be \"working with the relevant authorities\".\n\nBBC News NI has asked Waterside Theatre and Arts Centre for a statement.\n\nParents of the children who attended the screening were informed of the incident by organisers soon after it occurred, BBC News NI understands.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was later informed.\n\nThe incident happened at the Waterside Theatre and Arts Centre in Derry\n\nA PSNI spokesperson said they had received a report of an indecent image appearing briefly on the screen and had begun an investigation.\n\n\"Enquiries remain ongoing and anyone with information that could help with this investigation is asked to contact police,\" they added.\n\nIn a Facebook post on Friday, the theatre said it was \"aware of an unfortunate but serious incident happening today\".\n\n\"The welfare of our visitors is always our main concern and we will be working with the relevant authorities,\" the statement goes on.\n\n\"We offer or sincere apologies to all those affected.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Gary Middleton called for enquiries to establish what had happened.\n\n\"There needs to be an investigation into how this happened and particularly the equipment used,\" he said.\n\n\"It's important that parents and those involved are kept informed.\"\n\nSean Mooney, an SDLP councillor for Derry and Strabane District Council, said it was \"an unfortunate matter and unfortunate it happened\".\n\n\"It would be concerning for the children seeing something that's inappropriate,\" he said.\n\n\"But this is pending investigation.\"", "Lawson Wood made his first scuba dive nearly 60 years ago\n\nWhen Lawson Wood was a boy growing up in the Borders he was constantly getting into trouble with his mother.\n\nBorn in Duns, he moved to a house \"between the school and the sea\" in Eyemouth - and that was where a lifelong fascination began.\n\nHis mother would tell him \"home first, then the beach\" but he inevitably ended up with his school uniform soaking.\n\nLittle could either of them have imagined that it would lead to a career as an underwater photographer.\n\nHe now has more than 50 books to his name - and many awards - with two new editions of his works An Underwater Guide to the Red Sea and The World's Best Tropical Dive Destinations just released.\n\n\"I was born and brought up in the Scottish Borders and lived just next to the sea, really, in Eyemouth - virtually as far south in the south-east of Scotland, as you can get,\" he said.\n\n\"So I spent my youth scrabbling around the rock pools, going to the sea.\n\n\"I just had this utter fascination for what I could see in the rock pools or washed up on the beach and started exploring more and attempting to find out a bit more about things as well.\"\n\nIt quickly led to more serious underwater adventures.\n\n\"I got a mask and snorkel and then I could see further,\" he said.\n\n\"I had my first scuba dive at age 11 - that's back in August 1965 - and I wasn't 12 until the October.\n\n\"From then on, I guess, a passion has become a profession.\"\n\nLawson's work has taken him \"pretty much all around the UK\" and then on to Europe, the Red Sea and the Caribbean - which means it is not easy to answer which location he likes best.\n\n\"It's really hard, to be honest with you, because you can't really compare,\" he explained.\n\n\"I can't compare Eyemouth with the likes of the Red Sea because they're entirely different types of of water.\"\n\nHe describes the latter as \"clear blue\" with tropical fish and coral reefs even if there are \"equally as brilliant colours in waters around the UK and Scotland in particular\".\n\nWhen pressed, though, he admits that his favourite spot probably has to be off the south east coast of Scotland.\n\n\"I helped to co-found the Berwickshire Marine Reserve, so this is obviously very close to my heart,\" he said.\n\nAnd how does underwater photography differ from the dry land variety?\n\n\"I could try and paint you a picture,\" said Lawson.\n\n\"Apart from being in the sea, of course, you know it's salt water, so it's extremely corrosive, you're physically under pressure because of the environment.\n\n\"You're in a reduced light, you're moving and the element around you is probably also moving and the creature or animal or whatever it is that you're trying to photograph is also moving.\"\n\nHe said you also have to get used to having a limited amount of time to get your shot with factors such as air supply and equipment playing a part.\n\nThere have been occasions too when he has got into some difficulties.\n\n\"I have been in areas where there have been really strong currents,\" he said.\n\n\"You've got to try and either swim out of them or go along with them and if there's a support boat overhead then you're just going to put up a little marker buoy where the boat can see where you are.\n\n\"When you eventually get back up, you know, you might be half a mile away from where you started but at least the boat will be there to see your marker buoy and collect you.\"\n\nLawson has also encountered creatures most of us would rather keep at a much greater distance.\n\n\"I've obviously been in the water many times with sharks,\" he said.\n\n\"There's only been a couple of times when I've thought: 'I'm not so sure I am enjoying this experience'.\n\n\"But again, you know, they're just wild animals and you're in their domain and they're a lot more comfortable in their space than we are.\"\n\nHe laughs at any suggestion he might want a quiet retirement away from the sea.\n\n\"I'm 69 now, I'm 70 in October - I don't really have any plans to stop,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm working on a few projects right now which get me into the water both here and overseas.\"\n\nHe is currently editing one book about the Mediterranean and is about to start another on the North Sea and the English Channel.\n\nSo the next time you see a figure emerging from the water with a camera in its hand it might just be that boy who started out scrabbling around in the rock pools of the Scottish Borders.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An unnamed BBC presenter is facing fresh allegations by the Sun newspaper after it claimed he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos.\n\nThe star was pictured in his underwear \"ready for my child to perform for him\", their mother told the paper.\n\nIt is unclear how old the young person was at the time, but the paper has claimed they were 17 when payments from the presenter started.\n\nThe BBC has said it takes any allegations very seriously.\n\nThe allegations, first reported by the Sun on Friday, are that the BBC presenter paid £35,000 for explicit photos over a three-year period.\n\nThe young person's mother told the paper her child, now aged 20, had used the money from the presenter to fund a crack cocaine habit.\n\nShe said if the alleged payments continued her child would \"wind up dead\", the paper reported on Saturday.\n\nThe Sun said the young person's family complained to the BBC on 19 May.\n\nThe family is reported to have become frustrated that the star remained on air and approached the newspaper, but said they wanted no payment for the story.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said on Friday: \"We treat any allegations very seriously and we have processes in place to proactively deal with them.\n\n\"As part of that, if we receive information that requires further investigation or examination we will take steps to do this. That includes actively attempting to speak to those who have contacted us in order to seek further detail and understanding of the situation.\n\n\"If we get no reply to our attempts or receive no further contact that can limit our ability to progress things but it does not mean our enquiries stop.\n\n\"If, at any point, new information comes to light or is provided - including via newspapers - this will be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes.\"\n\nThe BBC has not said anything further about the allegations since its statement on Friday.\n\nBut serious questions remain for the BBC about what investigations went on since the family says it alerted the corporation.\n\nCaroline Dinenage, senior Conservative MP and chair of the Culture, Media and Sport committee, said: \"It's vital that TV companies have in place the right systems and processes to ensure their stars, who have disproportionate power and influence over the lives and careers of others, don't abuse it.\"\n\nThere is pressure on the corporation's HR department to \"investigate these latest claims quickly and explain what has happened since this story first came to light back in May\", she added.\n\nEarlier, former home secretary Priti Patel said the BBC's response had been \"derisory\" and called for a \"full and transparent investigation\", accusing the corporation of becoming a \"faceless and unaccountable organisation\".\n\nThe presenter is not due to be on air in the near future, but BBC News has not been told whether or not there has been a formal suspension.\n\nBut the BBC will need to answer if this should have happened sooner, if the investigation should have been more thorough, and if it is fair to its other presenters unconnected to this who are finding themselves facing false rumours.\n\nThe Sun says there will be a probe by the head of corporate investigations team who has spoken to the family, but the BBC has not confirmed this.\n\nFollowing the first Sun report, BBC presenters took to social media to deny they were the star in question, including Rylan Clark, Jeremy Vine, Nicky Campbell and Gary Lineker.\n\nThis is a disconcerting time for them when they have no involvement in the allegations.", "A man who had to be rescued from the tiny North Atlantic isle of Rockall has said he was \"off his head\" to attempt a world record.\n\nCam Cameron had hoped to spend 60 days on the uninhabitable rock, 230 miles (370km) west of North Uist, to raise money for veterans charities.\n\nHe called for help after 30 days as his tent was being damaged by \"terrifying\" weather conditions.\n\nThe army veteran was rescued by helicopter and taken to Stornoway.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday Show, Mr Cameron said he had thought following in the footsteps of world record holder Nick Hancock for about 15 years before he attempted the challenge.\n\nMr Hancock managed 45 days on the isle in 2014.\n\n\"It just seemed a really difficult challenge,\" he said. \"I'd followed Nick Hancock during his attempt and I kind of put it to bed - you know, you'd have to be off your head to do something like that.\n\n\"And that was me, I was literally was off my head.\"\n\nCam Cameron, right, was rescued from Rockall by a search and rescue helicopter\n\nAbove the water level, Rockall is only 100ft (30m) wide and 70ft (21m) long.\n\nBefore embarking on his record attempt in the Outer Hebrides, Mr Cameron, from Cherhill near Calne in Wiltshire, said he had spoken to past record holders as well as fishermen familiar with the waters around Rockall.\n\nThe former Gordon Highlander was told he was \"mad\" to consider the challenge because it was the \"roughest place on earth\".\n\nPrior to the rescue, Mr Cameron said he had been getting into a routine and had plenty to do - including filming his stay on the isle for a documentary.\n\nHe enjoyed spotting minke whales and waving to fishing vessels, adding \"there was not a moment I was bored\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man hoping to spend 60 days on an uninhabitable island\n\nBut he said he knew \"something was up\" when the island's many birds disappeared.\n\n\"I'd suffered two weeks of storms and it was literally sustained westerlies for 25 knots for two weeks,\" he added. \"I could handle that because I know it can be a dreadful stormy place.\n\n\"The waves just continued to mount and mount and mount, until two days before I made the call, I could no longer remain in the accommodation - my kit was being washed away, the webbing and ropes were being worn through with the constant to and fro of the waves.\"\n\nAfter receiving the distress call at 08:55, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency sent a search and rescue helicopter from Stornoway to Rockall.\n\nMr Cameron was rescued 10 hours after he called for help - which he said was \"one of the toughest decisions\" he had made.\n\n\"From day one I'd already accepted that and there was kind of no backing out by that stage. I didn't want to let myself down or the team,\" he said.\n\nBut he added: \"In the last two weeks there were no fishing vessels because the weather was so rough - and that was hell.\n\n\"I don't think there's anything as terrifying as being on that rock - 300 miles from people, 200 miles from the nearest bit of land. It was a lonely time.\"\n\nMr Cameron said he had everything he needed to survive in his living pod\n\nAsked what he would say to anyone considering the challenge, Mr Cameron said: \"Go for it if that's what you want to do.\"\n\nHowever he caveated his enthusiasm saying \"be absolutely sure that this is something you want to do - because it's potentially life changing, potentially life threatening\".\n\nAs for whether he would return himself, Mr Cameron said: \"I don't know - that's the plan.\"", "The attack caused fires in several cars, authorities say\n\nAt least eight people have been killed in an attack on a residential area in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, the country's authorities have said.\n\nUkraine's interior ministry said another 13 people were wounded in the Russian shelling of the town of Lyman.\n\nThe strike caused fires in a house, a printing shop and three cars which have now been put out by rescuers, the ministry said.\n\nIt comes as the country marks the 500th day of the invasion.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive, which began last month, continues to grind on in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.\n\nIts advances have been slow, as Russia continues its missile and drone attacks.\n\nThe small city of Lyman is a key railway hub in the Donetsk, and was initially captured by Russia but then retaken by Ukraine's army in October.\n\nRussia had been \"concentrating quite powerful forces\" there, the spokesman of Ukraine's eastern group of forces, Serhiy Cherevatyy, told Ukrainian television on Friday.\n\n\"At around 10:00, the Russians struck the town with multiple rocket launchers,\" the regional governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on social media on Saturday. He said a house and a shop were damaged.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the claims.\n\nAuthorities shared photos of the aftermath of the attack on social media\n\nOn Thursday, 10 people, including a woman aged 95, were killed after a Russian rocket hit an apartment building in Lviv, western Ukraine.\n\nAnother 40 people were injured in what the mayor of Lviv described as \"one of the biggest attacks\" on the city's civilian infrastructure.\n\nAnd the previous week 13 people were killed - including children - when a restaurant and shopping centre were struck in Kramatorsk, an eastern city close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.\n\nFor months, Russia has been carrying out deadly missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, often hitting civilian targets and causing widespread blackouts.\n\nOn Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Snake Island - a place that has became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance after being retaken by Ukrainian forces - to mark the 500th day of the invasion.\n\n\"I want to thank from here, from this place of victory, each of our soldiers for these 500 days,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nOne month into its long-awaited counter-offensive, Ukraine says its forces are making gains - although Mr Zelensky previously admitted progress was slow.\n\nAnd earlier this week, the US's highest-ranking military officer, Gen Mark Milley, said although Ukraine was advancing steadily, its counter-offensive against Russia would be difficult and \"very bloody\".\n\nThe Ukrainian General Staff has reported that Ukrainian forces have conducted offensive operations south and north of what is left of the eastern city of Bakhmut - most of which has been under Russian control.\n\nLast week, Ukraine's military commander-in-chief said its campaign had been hampered by a lack of adequate firepower and expressed frustration with the slow deliveries of weapons promised by the West.\n\nBut on Friday, the US announced it would be giving Ukraine cluster bombs - a controversial type of weapon that is banned in more than 120 countries, including the UK, because they have a record of killing civilians.\n\nThe US has faced criticism for its decision, but Mr Zelensky thanked the US for the \"timely, broad and much-needed\" aid.", "Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp visited the birthplace of Dylan Thomas in Uplands, Swansea\n\nHollywood star Johnny Depp said he was \"dumbfounded\" after visiting the birthplace of Dylan Thomas in Swansea.\n\nHe made the visit ahead of a Swansea Arena gig with his band Hollywood Vampires, which also features Alice Cooper, on Friday.\n\n\"During this visit you get to see where all of his thoughts came from, it's a lot to take in,\" he told Nation Cymru.\n\n\"I'm still floating a little, having been in the room where Under Milk Wood began.\"\n\nActor Depp, 60, has been in a string of Hollywood blockbusters, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.\n\nThe house, in Uplands, Swansea, was restored in 2005 to how it would have looked when Dylan Thomas lived there, after previously being used as a student bedsit.\n\nPerhaps Wales' best-known writer, Thomas was born in 1914 in the front room of the house and is known for his poems, short stories and plays, including Under Milk Wood.\n\nDepp was said to have been \"amazed\" at the small size of Dylan Thomas' bedroom, where much of his writing was done\n\nCustodians of Dylan Thomas' birthplace said on Facebook that Depp was \"amazed that so much important Welsh writing\" was done in a bedroom as small as Thomas' was.\n\nHe was given the tour by owner Geoff Haden, who showed Depp a restored window overlooking Swansea Bay that was Thomas' inspiration for the phrase \"ships sailing across rooftops\".\n\nDepp said he has been a fan of Thomas' work since he was a child and his older brother introduced him to Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog, a collection of Thomas' short stories.\n\n\"And then of course all the poetry, all of the stuff that just takes your head apart,\" he added.\n\nBefore leaving, Depp wrote in the visitors' book: \"All respect always, Johnny.\"", "Outside of the course there are peer support groups, exercise classes and dinners\n\nMotherhood is often thought to be one of life's best experiences, but many mums find it lonely.\n\nWhen Bethanie Casey had her babies she couldn't understand why she was feeling so low.\n\nLiving in Norton, Powys, Ms Casey experienced residual postnatal depression after both pregnancies.\n\nShe is one of a number of women who benefitted from an intervention service, delivered by the charity Mind, for mums with mental health challenges.\n\nMs Casey, 28, said she \"had this realisation one day: Why did I feel so down? Why was I so tired? Why did I feel so alone?\"\n\nShe had \"no family or friends around\" and her partner was working 65-hour weeks.\n\nA health visitor suggested she enrol in a course called Mums Matter.\n\nIt was founded by Tracy Lewis, who works for Mind, after she spotted a major need to help mothers with isolation and loneliness in rural Wales.\n\nBethanie says \"no-one judged\" her for saying what she felt at the group\n\nThe course lasts for eight weeks and each week focuses on a different subject.\n\nMs Lewis said: \"I think the really hard-hitting [week] is usually three, which is the unhelpful thinking patterns and when we look at strategies to why they have got unhelpful thinking, how we can break the unhelpful thinking.\"\n\nThe charity said the project has helped more than 400 mums, who can either be self-referred or referred by a healthcare professional, if they are over 18.\n\nAlongside the course, several of the mums have volunteered to create a peer support group.\n\n\"I just felt so safe and embraced there, and it was a place to honestly express how I was feeling - the loneliness, the guilt, the intrusive thoughts - and no one judged me,\" Ms Casey said.\n\nShe said her \"life has changed\" because she realised she was not alone.\n\n\"Before, I was stuck in those negative patterns and cycles, and I couldn't get out of the hole. Now I've got somebody giving me a ladder, getting me right out.\"\n\nMum-of-three Becca Hughes, 29, from Builth Wells, has also taken part in the course.\n\nMs Hughes had a baby with a new partner who then died unexpectedly.\n\nShe said raising her children alone while grieving \"put a huge strain on my mental state\".\n\n\"Life got so difficult in the following years that I attempted to take my own life,\" she said.\n\nBecca has become a volunteer to help other mums like her\n\nMs Hughes, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, said she found \"some social situations quite difficult\" but felt like she \"fitted in\" with the group in ways she did not with other mother and baby groups.\n\n\"I used to think I was mad for thinking this thing, and then I'd go there and someone would say it and I was like 'oh my God I'm not mad',\" she said.\n\n\"It's changed my life,\" she added, particularly the week where she learnt to \"deal with negative thoughts and handling pressures\".\n\nWilna says she is able to understand her feelings better after doing the Mums Matter course\n\nWilna Evans, 31, moved to Wales from South Africa with her family as a child.\n\nShe later met and married her husband, Geraint, and stayed behind with him when the rest of her family returned to South Africa in 2015.\n\n\"Being a farmer's wife can be lonely at the best of times, let alone when your entire family gets on a plane back to South Africa. I felt as though I had no-one,\" Mrs Evans said.\n\n\"My husband single-handedly looks after 2,000 sheep and 100 cattle. It's a seven-day-a-week job, so when I had my first daughter in 2019, I had absolutely no help.\n\n\"I had a lot of anger and frustration built up, I didn't know why I was getting really angry at everything.\"\n\nWilna Evans says the family dynamic works well now she understands how to \"set boundaries\" and give herself time away from the children\n\nMrs Evans said she was \"surviving not thriving\" and felt \"incredibly lonely\".\n\nShe enrolled on the course, which she said helped her to figure out how to manage motherhood and maintain her own identity.\n\nNow the children stay with their dad on the farm twice a week, while she takes time to herself and works in the community farm shop.\n\n\"I feel part of a community now, like-minded women, we can all ring each other whenever we want,\" she said.\n\nNamrata Bhardwa says the group is a space to talk about the \"cultural issues\" she experienced\n\nNamrata Bhardwa, 29, also found living in rural Wales difficult with a new baby.\n\nShe grew up in Coventry, which had \"really strong Asian communities and influence\", before moving to to Rhayader, Powys, where \"the nearest temple is two hours away\".\n\nShe took part in the project and found it helped her to \"explore all kinds of often-taboo issues relating to motherhood, from mental health to postnatal sex, in a completely non-judgmental and often light-hearted way\".\n\nSimon Jones from Mind Cymru said as many as one in four mums experience mental health challenges during pregnancy.\n\nHe said a recent report from the Maternal Mental Health Alliance showed all seven Welsh health boards had increased their budgets for perinatal mental health services.\n\n\"Clearly good work is underway, but there are still issues around budget underspend and standards not being met, and more work for health boards to do to make sure that every woman in Wales has the same level of access to high quality, accessible care,\" he said.\n\nDeputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing Lynne Neagle said having a baby \"can be a challenging time mentally and physically\" but said the project was \"a fantastic example\" of early intervention.\n\nFor details of organisations which offer advice and support, go to BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elton John told his millions of fans on Saturday night that they would remain in his \"head, heart and soul\", concluding his marathon farewell tour in Stockholm with one of his biggest hits - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.\n\nThe 76-year-old singer has won five Grammy awards in a spectacular career spanning 50 years and nearly 4,600 performances worldwide.\n\n\"It's been my lifeblood to play for you guys, and you've been absolutely magnificent,\" he told the audience at Sweden's Tele2 Arena.\n\nElton John paid an emotional tribute to his current band and crew, some of whom have been touring with him for many years.\n\n\"They're really incredible,\" he said, \"and they are the best, I tell you, the best.\"\n\nHe kicked off his show with Bennie and the Jets, and went on to perform many other hits, including Philadelphia Freedom, Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man and Candle in the Wind.\n\nHis Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour began in North America in 2018, and this was his second night performing in Stockholm.\n\nThe tour spanned the globe - he played to more than six million fans, and one of the highlights was his headline slot at the Glastonbury Festival last month.\n\nThat concert drew one of the biggest crowds in the festival's history and a British TV audience of millions.\n\nHis gig in Stockholm included a video message from Coldplay, who were performing in the Swedish city of Gothenburg at the same time.\n\nThe band's Chris Martin told Elton: \"From all the bands and artists you've helped and inspired, we love you so much.\n\n\"We are so grateful for everything you've done for the Aids Foundation, anytime you've been kind to anybody,\" he said.\n\nIt is one of the highest-grossing concert tours ever: Billboard magazine reports that it is the first to reach ticket sales of $900m (£701m).\n\nElton reflected on his life towards the end of this grand finale, telling the audience about his \"52 years of pure joy playing music\".\n\nHe confirmed he would \"never be touring again\", but he may do a \"one-off thing\" in future.\n\n\"I want to appreciate my family, my sons, my husband, everything. I've earned it,\" he said.\n\nHe dedicated his song Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me to his band, crew and family. The concert lasted more than two hours.\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "Mark did not get the £400 help with his energy bill last winter\n\nMore than 700,000 households in Great Britain have missed out on £300m worth of support for energy bills, according to BBC analysis of government figures.\n\nThese are households in places such as park homes and houseboats who did not have an energy supplier to apply a one-off £400 payment automatically.\n\nThe government said in February that more than 900,000 such households were eligible.\n\nBut only about 200,000 applications were made before the 31 May deadline.\n\nThe government announced last year that all households would get £400 taken off their energy bill over winter. For households who pay their bills by direct debit, the support was given through monthly payments from October to March.\n\nHowever, for those with non-conventional energy set-ups the government launched the £400 Energy Bill Support Scheme Alternative Funding earlier this year.\n\nBBC Verify analysis of data from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero shows that of the more than 200,000 applications made under the scheme:\n\nMatt Cole from the charity, the Fuel Bank Foundation, said it was disappointing that so many people had missed out and believed it was down to a number of factors.\n\n\"The launch of the scheme in spring this year rather before winter when it was needed most, the reliance on families self-identifying that they were eligible rather than them automatically receiving it, and the somewhat complex process to claim help will all have contributed.\"\n\nThe government said it had spent more than £50m \"supporting 130,000 households without a domestic energy supplier\".\n\nThis data suggests just over £300m of the possible £360m in Great Britain had not been claimed before the deadline.\n\nPeople who thought they were eligible needed to apply on the government website or call a helpline, which is what Mark, who lives on his narrowboat, did.\n\n\"A lot of people [on canal boats] tried to put an application through for claiming for it [but] we hit a barrier when it said: 'Do you live in a marina or are you off grid?'\n\n\"The minute you clicked 'off grid' you went through to a box that said 'you are not eligible at this time'.\"\n\nMark uses three and a half bags of coal for his multi-fuel stove each week in winter. He had been paying around £9 per bag but last winter the price nearly doubled.\n\n\"[The £400 payment] would've been a great help. That money's had to come from somewhere so it's had to come out of the rest of my budgeting or my savings.\n\n\"It would've made my winter a bit easier, maybe I could have spent a bit more money on the grandkids.\"\n\nCarol says she had to fight for her payment after being rejected several times\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We spent billions to protect families when prices rose over winter, covering nearly half a typical household's energy bill.\n\n\"We're now seeing costs fall even further with wholesale energy prices down by over two thirds since their peak.\n\n\"We are urging councils to process applications and complete final checks as quickly as possible to ensure all those eligible receive the support they need.\"\n\nThe government said anyone who did not apply before the deadline should visit its Help for Households page.\n\nCarol lives on a park home site south east of Runcorn. She says the application process was simple, but she was forced to apply three or four times because she kept getting rejected.\n\n\"We got refused, I don't know how many times. I kept going, I wouldn't give up. Because I thought, 'Why should I give up?' I've worked all my life, I've paid into the system.\n\n\"[The £400] was very important because 99.9% of people on these sites are all retired and a lot of them only have a basic pension, or maybe a bit of a top-up pension.\n\n\"But it's not going very far because food's gone up, petrol's gone up, so the £400 was absolutely a godsend.\"\n\nPark homes were the largest single group seeking the £400 support, with 47,400 households out of the 203,580 who applied.\n\nTenants in private accommodation had the highest rejection and cancellation rates, with 47% of applications from this group being stopped. Applications were rejected if people had already received support, made a duplicate application or were not eligible.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics estimated that about 137,000 care home residents in England pay for some or all of their care, and these were eligible to apply for the support.\n\nThere were just under 22,000 applications from households in care homes across Great Britain.\n\nIn a similar scheme for Northern Ireland, 28,000 households were eligible for £600 worth of support, totalling around £16.8m.\n\nThere were just over 8,000 applications in Northern Ireland from those without a domestic electricity supply, with just over 4,000 already paid by 1 June 2023 and 160 awaiting payment.\n\nOf the rest, just over 2,700 were cancelled or rejected and just over 1,000 were still being worked on. This means almost 23,000 Northern Ireland households may have missed out on an estimated £13.6m.\n\nYou can hear more on this story on the Money Box podcast.\n\nHere are some energy saving ideas from environmental scientist Angela Terry, who set up One Home, a social enterprise that shares green, money-saving tips:", "Just Stop Oil have said they were not responsible for an incident at ex-chancellor George Osborne's wedding, which saw a protester throw orange confetti over the newly married couple.\n\nThe protest was similar to those carried out by the environmental group.\n\nBut, a spokesperson told the BBC they did not know the protester's identity.\n\nThe group had posted a clip from news agency PA on Twitter with the message: \"You look good in orange George Osborne.\"\n\nIn the video a woman in a smart floral dress approaches George Osborne and Thea Rogers as they leave the church and begins throwing confetti, taken from a union jack paper bag.\n\nIn a statement the group said: \"If it was a form of protest (which is yet to be established) we applaud it and thank the person concerned.\n\n\"It was peaceful and not especially disruptive but got massive media attention for Just Stop Oil's demand.\"\n\nThe group added that the media should focus on more important issues including the government's decision to license over 100 new oil and gas projects and wildfires in Canada.\n\nIt came as an email, widely shared online, made several unsubstantiated claims about Mr Osborne's private life.\n\nReports suggest Mr Osborne has contacted the police about the email.\n\nAround 200 people, including ex-Prime Minister David Cameron and Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove attended the ceremony in the village of Bruton, Somerset.\n\nMr Osborne was previously married to Frances Osborne, but the pair divorced in 2019 after 21 years of marriage.\n\nMs Rogers previously worked as an adviser to Mr Osborne, and in 2016 was awarded an OBE for her work.", "Sam Pegram's family say they have spent the past four years fighting legal battles\n\nIt is more than four years since a Boeing 737 Max airliner crashed into remote farmland outside the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.\n\nOne hundred and fifty seven people were killed. On Monday, an inquest in Horsham, West Sussex will finally take place into the deaths of three of the British citizens who were on board.\n\nFor relatives of those who died, it is a landmark moment.\n\nLawyers for the families will be seeking a verdict of unlawful killing.\n\nThe inquest will look into the deaths of humanitarian workers Sam Pegram and Oliver Vick, as well as sustainability campaigner Joanna Toole.\n\n\"Sam was just a joy to have in your life,\" his mother Deborah says, blinking back tears. \"Right from when he was a little boy, he wanted to help people.\"\n\nSitting at home with her husband Mark and her other son Tom, she struggles to find the right words to tell me about the wound that opened up in their lives when the plane went down.\n\nShe talks about 25-year-old Sam's smile, and his wicked sense of humour.\n\n\"He just made our lives better, really… and he's left a really big hole.\"\n\nThe family have spent the past four years fighting legal battles, trying to gain some kind of justice for Sam, as well as to obtain compensation.\n\n\"It's just been a constant struggle,\" says Mark. \"I mean, on top of the grief and the normal things that you deal with having lost somebody, you to have to continually relive it.\n\n\"You have to tell that story to your lawyers, to opposition lawyers, to a forensic psychologist… going right into the depths of what you were feeling the day you found out.\n\nFlight ET302 - a passenger flight from Ethiopia to Kenya - crashed shortly after take-off because of a design flaw.\n\nFlight control software that was meant to be used in very limited circumstances to make the plane easier and more predictable to fly deployed at the wrong time due to a sensor failure.\n\nIt pushed the aircraft into a catastrophic dive, despite the pilots' frantic efforts to keep it in the air. But arguably that plane should never have left the ground in the first place.\n\nJust months before, an identical failure had caused another 737 Max to crash into the sea off Indonesia, costing 189 lives. Yet the model was allowed to continue flying.\n\nBoeing later admitted responsibility for the loss of ET302.\n\nBut under the terms of an agreement reached with the US government in 2021, it gained immunity from prosecution, in return for paying $2.5bn in fines and compensation.\n\nThat deal was done quietly, without the knowledge of the victims' families. It has been challenged in court, so far without success.\n\nSam's brother Tom is furious at what he sees as a failure to hold anyone to account for the disaster.\n\n\"I feel like, how can you believe in justice when there's people that are responsible for hundreds of deaths?\" he says.\n\n\"You'd think in a world where there's justice, within weeks or months there would be people in prison. And there obviously isn't, to this day.\"\n\nAt the recent Paris Airshow, I met one of Boeing's top executives, chief strategy officer Marc Allen, and I asked him if he had a message for the bereaved families.\n\nAfter expressing \"such deep sympathy and condolence\" for those who lost loved ones in both crashes involving the 737 Max, he emphasised Boeing's new commitment to safety.\n\n\"We can be sure we can show up and tell them, 'here's what we do better now, in the face of this terrible, terrible loss,'\" he said.\n\nReeling off a long list of changes that have been made within the company, he told me he disagreed \"with this idea that there hasn't been full accountability throughout the organisation\".\n\nJoanna Toole was one of three British passengers on board flight ET 302\n\nFor the Pegrams though, these were \"just words\".\n\nFor the family now, the priority is to keep Sam's memory alive. They plan to use compensation funds from Boeing to set up a charitable foundation, to promote the humanitarian causes he cared about.\n\n\"We can help refugees, asylum seekers, and we can also help young people who want to go and do the work like Sam did,\" says Mark.\n\nMeanwhile, with the crash having occurred in Ethiopia, and most of the legal wrangling in the United States, the inquest is seen as a vital step.\n\nIt is the only formal inquiry into the affair to take place in this country, and the verdict - though largely symbolic - could send out a powerful message.\n\nAnd for Joanna Toole's father, Adrian, it also serves another purpose.\n\n\"For me, it represents what may be my only opportunity to actually talk about Joanna to what is effectively a captive audience,\" he says.\n\n\"And what I hope to point out is what has been lost with Joanna's death.\n\n\"To her partner, Paul, to me, and to the international sustainability effort.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland kept their Ashes hopes alive by beating Australia by three wickets in the third Test in another nerve-shredding Headingley finale.\n\nHarry Brook hit a superb 75 but it was left to bowlers Chris Woakes and Mark Wood to drag the hosts over the line in pursuit of 251.\n\nBrook's mature knock took them to within 21 of victory, after talisman Ben Stokes fell for 13 following lunch on day four with 90 still needed.\n\nBrook put on 59 with Woakes before top-edging a cut off Mitchell Starc, who almost won the series for Australia with a vicious 5-78.\n\nThat wicket brought Wood to the crease amid gripping tension and he hit Pat Cummins for six and thrashed Starc for four to spark jubilation in the stands.\n\nWith four needed, Wood was dropped by Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey before Woakes, who finished unbeaten on 32, slashed the winning runs.\n\nEngland's win makes the series 2-1 to Australia with two Tests to play, setting up a grandstand finale that could yet match the iconic contest in 2005.\n\nThere is a nine-day break before the fourth Test at Old Trafford starts on Wednesday, 19 July.\n\nEngland keep the show rumbling on\n\nAfter 1981 and 2019, 2023 can now be added to the list of Headingley Ashes epics.\n\nIt may not have reached the ultimate climax of Stokes and Jack Leach's 10th-wicket partnership four years ago but it was still another day of almost tortuous tension.\n\nEvery run was cheered and wickets were met with silence - apart from in the pockets of Australian green and gold in the stands.\n\nJoe Root's departure shortly before lunch and Stokes' soon afterwards threatened to give Australia the win that would seal their first Ashes series in England for 22 years.\n\nBut Brook, batting on his home ground in his first Ashes series, played the situation perfectly, only to fall with the finish line in sight.\n\nHe found a gritty partner in Woakes, who battled through the short-ball attack and played the anchor to Wood at the end.\n\nThe scenes of celebration were reminiscent of those four years ago - England getting their first win on the board after two tight Tests that could have gone either way.\n\nThey have to do what they have never done before - come from 2-0 down to win the Ashes - but, after three gripping Test matches, they have ensured the show rumbles on with the series getting the ending it deserves.\n\nBrook's knock came after he was dropped back down to number five in the order, having taken the injured Ollie Pope's position at number three in the first innings.\n\nHe came in at 93-3 and started shakily in a stand of 38 with Root before driving Scott Boland twice through the covers to get him on his way.\n\nBrook held his nerve after the losses of Root, Stokes and Jonny Bairstow - the latter playing on from a wild drive with the target 80 runs away, at which stage Australia were favourites.\n\nBrook, 24, has made his name as an attacking batter in his first 10 Tests - here becoming the quickest batter to 1,000 Test runs in terms of balls faced - but restrained himself while putting away the bad balls with the field spread.\n\nAt the other end, Woakes was more aggressive. He managed to slash the ball through the off side, although was fortunate to fend the short ball three times into empty spaces.\n\nWhen Brook top-edged a bouncer, Australia still had a sniff but Wood, who took seven wickets in the match bowling at extreme pace, hooked Cummins over fine leg en route to 16 not out.\n\nIt was fitting, however, that Woakes, who also contributed a crucial six wickets, hit the winning runs after 15 months out of the side.\n\nStarc almost wins it for Australia\n\nAfter starting on 27-0, England had added 15 runs relatively calmly amid the tension, before Ben Duckett was pinned lbw by Starc's left-arm pace for 23.\n\nThe hosts promoted Moeen Ali in Brook's place but he only made five before a Starc inswinger crashed into his leg stump.\n\nZak Crawley batted well for 44 but, in a dismissal that sums up his Test career, edged a big drive to Mitchell Marsh through to the wicketkeeper a ball after hitting the same shot through the covers.\n\nRoot attempted to pull a wayward ball from Cummins and gloved it down the leg side.\n\nStarc, though, was the major threat and was rewarded by having Stokes taken down the leg side before Bairstow's wild swish.\n\nAustralia missed the control of spinner Nathan Lyon, ruled out of the series with a calf injury last week, but have more than a week to regroup before seeking a series-clinching victory again.\n\nEngland batter Harry Brook on Test Match Special: \"I don't think I can quite believe it yet, to do it here in front of my home crowd.\n\n\"It's a phenomenal win and sets up the rest of the series.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Fantastic. Both teams have produced three games of cricket you only dream of commentating on.\"\n\nAustralia captain Pat Cummins: \"Another one right down to the wire and a great Test match. Unfortunately we are not on the right side of this one.\"\n\nFormer England spinner Phil Tufnell: \"Australia are the hunted and this England side like being the hunters.\n\n\"If England go up to Old Trafford and strike that first blow it could unravel for the Australians. It's beautifully teed up.\"\n• None Watch the hypochondriac detective and his team on BBC iPlayer now\n• None The cosmic culture war between Marvel and DC comics: Uncover the story of one of the greatest rivalries in the history of pop culture", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details Katie Boulter's bid to reach the Wimbledon last 16 for the first time ended quickly as she was outclassed by defending champion Elena Rybakina. The British number one was the final home player left in the singles draws, but lost 6-1 6-1 in just 57 minutes. Kazakhstan's Rybakina, seeded third, showed why she is heavily tipped to retain her title in a powerful display. The 24-year-old dominated with her first serve and broke Boulter five times to move into the fourth round. Rybakina, who had faced question marks about her level after recently being debilitated by a virus, will face Brazilian 13th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia for a place in the quarter-finals. It was a difficult defeat for 26-year-old Boulter to digest and she looked dejected as she gave a muted thanks to the Centre Court crowd for their support when she departed. When the dust settles, she will reflect on an encouraging British grass-court season which she hopes will be the springboard to greater consistency across the tour. \"I have to pick myself up and look at the positives,\" said Boulter, who was aiming to reach the last 16 of a major for the first time. \"I'm sure it's going to be a tough night but I'm going to sit here tomorrow morning and tell you that I'm at a career-high ranking, I've had some seriously positive weeks. \"I've come off the back of five long weeks with no injuries, no issues. \"They're the things I'm going to be focusing on and really pushing forward on the rest of the year.\" With her aggressive and flat groundstrokes suiting the grass courts, Boulter has thrived on the surface this year with a first WTA title at the Nottingham Open last month that lifted her to a career-high ranking of 77th in the world. The Briton was able to replicate that level in her first two matches at the All England Club, hitting winners and serving strongly to beat Australia's Daria Saville and Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova. Stepping up in class against an opponent of Rybakina's calibre was always likely to be difficult. Rybakina quickly found her rhythm and that spelt trouble for Boulter, who was unable to make a dent on her opponent's serve before being broken herself in the fourth game. Boulter's style suits playing on the slicker grass courts. But Rybakina was able to soak up the pressure and quickly impose herself. That sapped Boulter's confidence and quietened the home crowd, who were primed to create a boisterous atmosphere under the Centre Court lights. The players only walked on to court at 20:48 BST after slow progress on Saturday, leading to thoughts they might not beat the 23:00 curfew set to stop the day's play at the All England Club. When Rybakina sealed the opening set after 26 minutes with a second-serve ace, there seemed little threat of that being an issue. The British fans tried their best to raise Boulter's spirits at the start of the second set, but it quickly followed the same pattern as the first. Rybakina's pace of ball continued to take time away from the world number 89, who was unable to stem the flow of errors as she valiantly tried to stop the rot. There was no mercy from Rybakina. She won the final four games to earn a 13th successive win at Wimbledon and underline why she is one of the women to beat. \"She's clearly the defending champion for a reason,\" Boulter added. \"Her ball is a lot quicker and the majority of girls don't hit the ball like that, it's quite flat. You don't really see where she's going. She disguises it very well. \"I struggled with it a lot. She was relentless, at the end of the day. She was the much better player.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our fossil-fuel usage with hydrogen\n• None How did Mitchell Johnson rise from the ashes? The former Australia bowler talks about restoring his reputation following his public ridicule in 2010", "Crowds belted out tracks as Sam Fender headlined the main stage on Saturday\n\nThe second night of Scotland's biggest festival closed on a high despite heavy rain and the threat of thunderstorms.\n\nActs including Brooke Combe and Maisie Peters kicked off Saturday's line-up before Kasabian and Sam Fender took to the main stage.\n\nUp to 50,000 people are expected at Glasgow Green for each day of TRNSMT.\n\nPulp closed the show on Friday - their first performance in Scotland for over 10 years.\n\nRoyal Blood and Becky Hill will headline on Sunday, with The 1975 scheduled to close the festival.\n\nScotRail has put on extra train services to cope with demand, including more late-night trains running to Inverclyde, Ayr, Edinburgh, and East Kilbride.\n\nThousands headed to the main stage on Saturday for Mimi Webb\n\nNewcastle rocker Sam Fender closed the festival's second night with pyrotechnics, fireworks and confetti as he remarked on the journey he had taken from the festival's beginning.\n\nHe said: \"We've played every stage in this festival, from a little stage over there to the main stage.\n\n\"It's just really surreal.\"\n\nSam Fender closed the second night of the festival\n\nFestival organisers had urged fans to \"prepare for all weather\" on Saturday with the majority of Scotland covered by a yellow Met Office alert for thunderstorms.\n\nGlasgow Green turned to mud following heavy showers, though it did little to dampen spirits.\n\nConditions are expected to improve on Sunday but more rain has been forecast.\n\nIt came after Tiree Music Festival was cancelled on Thursday, just a day before it was due to begin, because of gale force winds.\n\nFans arrived at Glasgow Green in high spirits on Saturday\n\nBrooke Combe from Midlothian gave it her all as the first act on the main stage\n\nMaisie Peters also performed on the main stage a few weeks after the release of her new album The Good Witch\n\nElijah Hewson from Irish rockers Inhaler had crowds singing along\n\nKasabian frontman took to the stage on Saturday\n\nBritpop legends Pulp brought the first night of the festival to a colourful close on Friday, following acts including George Ezra, Niall Horan, the Beautiful South's Paul Heaton and The View.\n\nThe band, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, surprised fans at the end of 2022 by announcing a run of shows this summer at festivals and outdoor gigs across the UK.\n\nCocker told crowds: \"We are Pulp, you are Glasgow. We are going to spend some time together this evening.\n\n\"This is the furthest north we've ever been.\"\n\nPulp, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, were the headline act on Friday\n\nFormer One Direction singer Niall Horan entertained the crowd on Friday\n\nFestival-goers enjoyed The View perform on the main stage\n\nYou can watch coverage of TRNSMT festival on BBC iplayer.", "Heavy rain in Delhi has caused parts of the city to flood, leaving residents stranded and vehicles at a standstill.\n\nPeople have had to plough on through the floods - or sit in the water in traffic jams.\n\nA local resident, Sarita Gupta, said: \"I don't know what the government is doing about this. It's not just one year it happens every year.\"", "Susan Hall has been a councillor in Harrow since 2006 and a member of the London-wide Assembly since 2017\n\nThe Conservative Party has complained to the Evening Standard about its \"contemptible\" front-page coverage of the selection of Susan Hall as the Tory candidate to be London's mayor.\n\nDeputy party chairman Nickie Aiken said the full-page picture of the London Assembly member the newspaper had used was a \"clear mockery\".\n\nShe said there was a \"whiff of misogyny\" about the paper's coverage.\n\nThe Evening Standard has been approached for comment.\n\nMs Hall was announced as the Tories' candidate earlier, after winning 57% of the vote from members.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a letter shared on Twitter, Ms Aiken wrote to Evening Standard editor Dylan Jones, saying: \"I am writing to you to express my sincere disappointment in your front page today.\n\n\"Your choice of photo of Susan Hall is a clear mockery, and it is contemptible, especially as the first female candidate for London mayor from either of the two main parties.\"\n\nParty chairman Greg Hands backed Ms Aiken's complaint, saying the coverage was \"extremely disappointing\".\n\nMs Hall was running against only one other hopeful, Mozammel Hossain, after David Cameron's former special adviser Daniel Korski dropped out of the race.\n\nHe was accused of groping TV producer Daisy Goodwin at 10 Downing Street in 2013, an allegation he denied.\n\nMs Hall will go up against Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan on 2 May.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "American model Gigi Hadid was arrested and fined in the Cayman Islands earlier this month over cannabis possession, it has been revealed.\n\nThe 28-year-old and her friend were detained after their luggage was searched as they arrived on a private jet for a holiday on 10 July.\n\nThey pleaded guilty in court and paid a fine, but no conviction was recorded.\n\nHadid's representative said the marijuana was purchased legally in New York \"with a medical license\".\n\n\"It has also been legal for medical use in Grand Cayman since 2017. Her record remains clear and she enjoyed the rest of her time on the island,\" they said in a statement shared with the PA news agency.\n\nAccording to the Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control, Hadid and her friend Leah McCarthy were arrested for \"the importation of marijuana and importation of utensils used for the consumption of marijuana\".\n\nIt was a small amount, seemingly for personal consumption, the agency added.\n\nThey were taken to a detention centre and released on bail, local newspaper the Cayman Marl Road reported.\n\nThe pair appeared in the Cayman Islands summary court two days later, where they were fined 1,000 Cayman Islands dollars ($1,200; £920).\n\nDespite this, the model appeared to still enjoy her holiday.\n\n\"All's well that ends well\", she told her Instagram followers on Tuesday, posting photos of the beachside getaway.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gigihadid This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGigi Hadid is one of the world's most famous models - and reportedly one of the highest paid. She has worked with leading luxury brands including Versace, Chanel, Fendi and Marc Jacobs and has graced the cover of Vogue more than 30 times.\n\nThe Cayman Islands is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean that has beautiful beaches, coral reefs and abundant marine life.", "Energy firm BP has been fined £650,000 after a worker died when he plunged from an offshore platform into the sea.\n\nSean Anderson, 43, fell through an open grating on the Unity installation, about 112 miles (180km) north-east of Aberdeen, on 4 September 2014.\n\nMr Anderson, from the Tyne and Wear area, fell about 72ft (22m) into the water.\n\nBP had been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws last week by a jury at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.\n\nSheriff Graham Buchanan said that although what happened was \"tragic and devastating\" for Mr Anderson's family, it had been an isolated incident.\n\nHe added that a man had died, and that a fine on a profitable company such as BP must have \"some economic impact\".\n\nMr Anderson had been working as a scaffolder for Cape, a company which was carrying out work on the platform. Unity was being operated by BP at the time of the incident.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Anderson fell through the open grate at about 04:00.\n\nThe alarm was raised and a fast-rescue craft found him face down in the water.\n\nDespite attempts to resuscitate him, Mr Anderson was pronounced dead.\n\nThe cause of death was given as head and chest injuries as a result of his fall.\n\nBP had pled not guilty to health and safety charges, but was convicted by the jury's majority verdict of failing to have suitable control measures in place for open gratings on the platform's lower deck.\n\nDuring the trial the defence argued that the existence of a hard barrier around the open grating had ensured there was no risk as far as was reasonably practicable.\n\nHowever, prosecutors said that the open grating did pose a risk, and that other safety measures could have been adopted.\n\nOn Wednesday, defence counsel Murdo Macleod KC expressed the company's \"deepest condolences\" to Mr Anderson's family.\n\nHe said it was a highly unusual and rare case, and told Sheriff Buchanan that BP had a \"rigorous\" approach to safety.\n\nMr Macleod said no attempt was being made to minimise the fact that a fatality had occurred, but argued that the level of culpability was low.\n\n\"It was drilled into every worker that barriers were not to be crossed,\" he said, describing this as a cardinal rule.\n\nFollowing the financial ruling, BP said it acknowledged the outcome of the court proceedings.\n\n\"This was a tragic incident,\" a spokeswoman added. \"While we know nothing can be said to change the pain felt by Sean Anderson's family and friends, our deepest condolences remain firmly with them to this day.\"\n\nA Health and Safety Executive spokesman said: \"BP failed in their duty to have suitable and sufficient control measures in place in respect to open gratings on the platform.\n\nAt the time of the incident, Cape described Sean as \"a popular, hard-working and experienced employee\".", "A shooting has left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand, hours before the city is due to open the Fifa Women's World Cup.\n\nSix other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident at 07:22 (19:22 GMT) on a construction site in the central business district.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Footage shows the impact of attack on Odesa grain terminals\n\nRussian missile attacks on Ukraine's Black Sea coast have destroyed 60,000 tonnes of grain and damaged storage infrastructure, officials say.\n\nAgriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi said a \"considerable amount\" of export infrastructure was out of operation.\n\nRussia has pulled out of a deal guaranteeing safe passage for exports across the Black Sea.\n\nLater on Wednesday Russia's President Putin accused the West of using the grain deal as \"political blackmail\".\n\nHe added he would consider rejoining the international agreement, in place since last summer, only \"if all principles under which Russia agreed to participate in the deal are fully taken into account and fulfilled\".\n\nHis comments came shortly after Russia's defence ministry declared that from midnight on Wednesday night (21:00 GMT), any ships heading to Ukrainian ports would be viewed as potential carriers of military cargo and party to the conflict.\n\nSome north-western and south-eastern areas of the Black Sea would be temporarily dangerous for shipping, it added.\n\nRussia began targeting Ukraine's ports in the early hours of Tuesday within hours of its withdrawal from the grain deal.\n\nMore strikes followed overnight into Wednesday, targeting grain terminals and port infrastructure in Odesa and further down the Black Sea coast in Chornomorsk, two of the three ports that were included in the export deal.\n\nAt least 12 civilians, including a nine-year-old boy, were wounded during the attacks, which also caused damage to blocks of flats, military officials said.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said each missile strike was a blow not just to Ukraine, but to \"everyone in the world striving for a normal and safe life\".\n\nFrance and Germany also condemned the attack. Germany Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that by covering Odesa with a hail of bombs, Russian President Vladimir Putin was robbing the world of any hope of Ukrainian grain and \"hitting the world's poorest\".\n\nThe infrastructure ministry published a series of photos showing damage to silos and other grain facilities. Officials said there had been damage to wharves and reservoirs, but it was international and Ukrainian traders that had suffered the most.\n\nRussian war commentators said the damage proved that Kyiv was unable to shoot down the majority of Russian missiles and drones.\n\nOfficials said the co-ordinated attack involved Kalibr cruise missiles, Onyx supersonic and Kh-22 anti-ship missiles as well as kamikaze drones, fired from the Black Sea, Crimea and southern Russia. Although 37 Russian missiles and drones were shot down, a number did penetrate Ukrainian defences, they said.\n\nRussia had called its initial attack on Odesa a \"mass revenge strike\" for an attack on the Russian-built bridge over the Kerch strait linking occupied Crimea to Russia.\n\nSeaborne drones were blamed for Monday's bridge strike that knocked out a section of bridge and killed a Russian couple.\n\nExplosions were reported for several hours from the ammunition depot in Crimea\n\nCrimea saw further disruption on Wednesday. Some 2,200 residents were evacuated from four villages near a military training range after a fire triggered hours of explosions at a nearby ammunition depot.\n\nRussian-installed officials also shut a 12-km (7.5-mile) section of the Tavrida motorway that links the cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol in southern Crimea to the bridge over the Kerch strait. Construction of the road by Russia's occupation authorities began in 2017.\n\nA series of explosions were heard in the area from about 04:30 (01:30 GMT) on Wednesday.\n\nOfficials did not explain the cause of the fire near the city of Staryi Krim. But unconfirmed reports on social media spoke of three Ukrainian strikes.\n\nRussia's appointee boss in Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said the cause of the fire at the military range was being investigated, but that no-one was hurt.", "Tobias Ellwood is a former army veteran who served with British forces\n\nAfghan women have derided a British Conservative MP for being naïve after he referred to the country as peaceful and \"transformed\", but barely mentioned human rights following a recent visit.\n\nIn a widely criticised video, Tobias Ellwood urged the UK to re-engage with the country and reopen its embassy.\n\nThe Taliban welcomed his remarks - seen as a rare PR coup for their government, which no country recognises.\n\nSince retaking power 2021, the Taliban have restricted many Afghans' rights.\n\nThere has been global condemnation of their mistreatment of women in particular.\n\nOn Wednesday Afghan women held a rare protest against the Taliban's decision to shut female beauty parlours and salons.\n\n\"The British politician says that he is optimistic and he's happy about the situation in Afghanistan… Today we went on the street to ask for our rights and they try to stop us and beat us. You have seen the videos,\" said one of the women taking part in the protest in Kabul.\n\nAnother woman asked if Mr Ellwood knew that people in the country were \"hungry and unhappy\".\n\n\"There's no suicide attacks any more, but poverty is at its peak, businesses are collapsing,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Ellwood, the chairman of Parliament's defence select committee, visited Afghanistan with the Halo Trust, a de-mining organisation.\n\nEarlier this week, he tweeted and shared a video following his trip, which prompted some to compare it to a promotional video.\n\n\"It's about time you prepare to move in with your Taliban brothers. After all, it's safe and thriving,\" Afghan activist Nilofar Ayoubi said on Twitter.\n\nIn his video, Mr Ellwood said security in Afghanistan had \"vastly improved\" since the Taliban returned to power, and suggested the West encourage the uptake of women's rights \"incrementally\".\n\n\"After Nato's dramatic departure, should the West now engage with the Taliban? You quickly appreciate this war-weary nation is for the moment accepting a more authoritarian leadership in exchange for stability,\" he said.\n\nThe video contains one reference to women and girls at the end.\n\nThe MP told the BBC \"we need to engage more directly, more robustly\" with the Taliban.\n\nInterviewer Yalda Hakim, who is of Afghan origin, had asked him: \"Do you think it sends a certain message when it comes to things like human rights, women's rights, if you just say, 'They've got solar panels now, they've got less violence and therefore we should open up our embassy and be back in the country'?\"\n\n\"You're simplifying what I'm saying,\" Mr Ellwood replied. \"The current strategy of shouting from afar is not working.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Afghan women had been barred from sitting university entrance exams this year - the latest move curtailing what they are allowed to do.\n\nAfghan women protesting in December 2021 - since then such opposition to the Taliban has become rarer\n\nFawzia Koofi, the first ever female deputy speaker of the Afghan parliament, told BBC Newshour she was angry at the MP's remarks.\n\nShe said it showed ignorance of how restricted life had become for Afghan women.\n\n\"Women literally are not even allowed to, I think, breathe normally in the streets. When they are out, they [the Taliban] ask them, 'Why are you in the streets?' If you're not allowed to go to university and school and work, why are you in the street? That's a feeling I think only those women and their families would understand.\"\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have criticised the remarks by Mr Ellwood, a former soldier who served with British forces.\n\nOne senior Tory colleague on the committee he chairs said the MP had posted an \"utterly bizarre video lauding the Taliban's management of the country\". Mark Francois said it had been described by a fellow member of the committee as a \"wish-you-were-here video\".\n\nMr Francois raised the issue at prime minister's questions on Wednesday.\n\n\"I and some of my colleagues on the Defence Committee were absolutely stunned to see a video posted by our own chairman lauding the Taliban's governance of Afghanistan, not mentioning they're still trying to identify and kill Afghan civilians who sided with Nato forces, and also not mentioning the fact they don't like girls to go to school,\" he told the house.\n\nUK PM Rishi Sunak said he would look into Mr Ellwood's visit.\n\nCorrection 11 August 2023: This article was amended as we wrongly said Mr Ellwood had served in Afghanistan. After leaving the British Army he visited the country and region over a dozen times. We apologise for the error.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nThe waiting is almost over. The biggest Fifa Women's World Cup - featuring European champions England and debutants the Republic of Ireland - will finally get under way on Thursday.\n\nAustralia and New Zealand are co-hosting the ninth edition, which for the first time will feature 32 nations including defending world champions the United States.\n\nIt is the first Women's World Cup with two co-hosts.\n\nNew Zealand launch the tournament against Norway at Eden Park (08:00 BST kick-off) before Australia play the Republic of Ireland at Stadium Australia, Sydney, on the same day (11:00 kick-off).\n\nBut what should have been a day of celebration of women's sport was overshadowed by an early morning shooting in Auckland, which left two people plus the gunman dead, and six others injured.\n\nSupporters getting ready to head to a fan park near the waterfront, which was close to the incident, expressed their shock and sadness at the news.\n\nFifa said the tournament would proceed as normal and organisers hope the opening two games will attract an aggregate crowd of 100,000 fans.\n\nIt is on course to be the most-watched Women's World Cup, with more than 1.3 million tickets bought in advance for the 64 matches at 10 venues across nine cities.\n\nOrganisers are targeting a record two billion television viewers for the 2023 edition, a figure that would double the audience that watched the 2019 World Cup in France.\n\n\"The future is women. Thanks to the fans for supporting what will be the greatest Fifa Women's World Cup ever,\" said Fifa president Gianni Infantino.\n\nAs well as the Republic of Ireland, seven other nations are making their debuts at this World Cup - Vietnam, Zambia, Haiti, Morocco, Panama, the Philippines and Portugal.\n\nWhile the United States - who are chasing a fifth world title - are the number one side in the world, Zambia lie 77th and are the lowest ranked team at the tournament.\n\nThe final takes place at Stadium Australia on 20 August (11:00 kick-off).\n• None Are world champions USA still the team to beat?\n• None Ten players to watch at the Women's World Cup\n\nThis Women's World Cup has been labelled the biggest women's sports event ever to be staged. One thing is certain: the tournament will be huge in terms of showcasing - and growing - women's football around the world.\n\nFor the first time, Fifa will directly pay players at the Women's World Cup. Amounts increase for the deeper that teams progress, ranging from about £24,000 per player for the group stage to just over £200,000 allotted to each champion.\n\nThese are significant sums at a time when the average salary in the women's game worldwide is £11,000, according to last year's Fifa benchmarking report. Overall prize money has increased from £23m in 2019 to £84m.\n\nIn another first, referees will announce the reasoning for video assistant referee (VAR) decisions to fans in stadiums and television audiences via a microphone and loudspeakers.\n\nAs at the men's World Cup in Qatar last year, referees are also encouraged to stop time-wasting, so added time is likely to be lengthy while long goal celebrations will also extend stoppages.\n\nMeanwhile, captains will be permitted to wear armbands with messages about inclusion, gender equality and peace after rainbow armbands were not allowed at the men's tournament last year.\n\nNone of the eight available armbands, however, explicitly advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusion.\n• None What do stats say about chances of USA v England final?\n\nWho will win this Women's World Cup?\n\nThe last time the United States lost a World Cup game was in 2011 when they were defeated on penalties by Japan in the final in Frankfurt, Germany.\n\nSince then they have won 13 out of 14 on the global stage and they head into this edition chasing a record third successive success following triumphs in 2015 and 2019.\n\nHowever, boss Jill Ellis has stepped down since guiding the Stars and Stripes to World Cup glory in France in 2019, while two-time World Cup and Olympic gold medal winner Carli Lloyd has ended her international career.\n\nWith 14 of the 23 players appearing at their first World Cup, and Megan Rapinoe - regarded as a genuine American icon - announcing this will be her fourth and final World Cup, will there be a changing of the guard at the top of women's football?\n\nEngland's unforgettable Euro 2022 success has rightly placed them in conversations when it comes to predicting World Cup favourites.\n\nHowever, injuries have hit hard and the Lionesses are without several key players including Beth Mead, who was named Euro 2022's best player and won the Golden Boot award given to the tournament's top scorer.\n\nSpain have the best women's player in the world in Alexia Putellas, while two-time winners Germany have a strong and experienced squad.\n\nFrance are led by experienced manager Herve Renard, while co-hosts Australia will be backed by large crowds and have Chelsea's prolific forward Sam Kerr.\n• None Get to know the England World Cup squad\n• None Who will win Women's World Cup? Rita Ora & co have the answer\n\nOlympic champions Canada are also hoping to go deep in the tournament, but they are one of several nations whose World Cup preparations have been disrupted by domestic issues.\n\nSpain and France have also made headlines in recent months as rows between players and federations have escalated, although France's issues appear to have been resolved with the appointment of Renard.\n\nJamaica - and even Nigeria's head coach - have taken action or called out their federations over issues such as pay, resources and personnel.\n\nEngland's players are frustrated with the Football Association over its stance on performance-related bonuses.\n\nMeanwhile, the South Africa squad selected by coach Desiree Ellis did not participate in their final warm-up fixture on home soil before leaving for the World Cup, meaning a back-up team, which included a 13-year-old girl, was hastily assembled to face Botswana in order to avoid a fine.\n• None Women's World Cup: Why some players are shunning their teams\n• None Lionesses to pause bonus talks until after World Cup\n\nWith 32 teams at this edition, - up from 24 in 2019 and 16 as recently as 2011 - there are 736 players at this World Cup.\n\nThree of those players are appearing at the tournament for a sixth time - Marta (Brazil), Onome Ebi (Nigeria) and Christine Sinclair (Canada).\n\nHaving turned 40 in May, defender Ebi is the oldest player in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nBut she still trails Brazil's Formiga, who holds the record as the oldest player to take part in the competition at 41 years and 112 days in 2019.\n\nMeanwhile, there are a number of players who are barely out of high school.\n\nSouth Korea's Casey Phair, 16, will become the youngest ever player at a Women's World Cup if she appears in either of her country's first two group matches against Colombia or Morocco.\n• None Three legendary players turned managers at the World Cup\n• None From working in a supermarket to Women's World Cup\n\nThe United States, Netherlands, England, France and Canada are among the nations who will be without key players due to injury.\n\nAs well as captain Becky Sauerbrunn (foot), the United States' injury list includes forward Mallory Swanson (torn patellar tendon), midfielder Sam Mewis (knee) and forward Christen Press (knee).\n\nVivianne Miedema, the all-time Netherlands leading scorer, is out with anterior cruciate ligament damage - the same injury that has prevented England's Leah Williamson and Mead from taking part.\n\nAttacking midfielder Fran Kirby (knee) is also missing for the Lionesses.\n\nFrance are deprived of midfielder Amandine Henry (calf), five-time Champions League winner Delphine Cascarino (ACL) and striker Marie-Antoinette Katoto (ACL).\n\nAnother player ruled out because of an ACL injury is Canada forward Janine Beckie.\n• None Women's World Cup: Football Australia head calls for more research into ACL injuries\n\nHow to follow on the BBC...\n\nThe BBC is your destination for coverage 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\n\nWith 33 live games on BBC TV and iPlayer, alongside coverage of the key matches on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds, football fans can enjoy the Australia and New Zealand Women's World Cup wherever they are.\n\nWith first pick of the last-16 stage, the BBC will show England's first knockout game if they make it past the group stage.\n\nThe BBC is the only place you can watch both semi-finals on 15-16 August. The final, on Sunday, 20 August, will be broadcast by both the BBC and ITV.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has signed for Ligue 1 side Lorient five days after being cleared of rape.\n\nThe left-back, 29, whose City contract expired in the summer, has signed a two-year deal with the French club.\n\nHe was cleared at Chester Crown Court on Friday of raping a woman and attempting to rape another.\n\nThat followed a trial in January when Mendy was cleared of six counts of rape and one of sexual assault.\n\nMendy became the world's most expensive defender when City paid Monaco £52m to sign the France defender in 2017.\n\nCity's director of football Txiki Begiristain described him as \"one of the world's best full-backs\" when the highly rated defender joined the club.\n\nHe won the Premier League in his first season with City before being part of the France squad that claimed the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n• None Mendy 'will never return to former life'\n\nHowever, he last played competitive football in August 2021, appearing for City at Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nMendy was arrested later that month and remanded in custody for five months before going to trial for the first time last August.\n\nJurors failed to reach verdicts on two counts of rape and attempted rape, prompting the re-trial at which he was acquitted last week.\n\nThe portrait painted of him during the case led to his own legal team, led by Eleanor Laws KC, to state that \"life, as he knew it, is over, in football in the UK\".\n\nAfter he was acquitted, several high-profile players including Netherlands forward Memphis Depay and Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr showed their support for Mendy on social media.\n\nLorient, who finished 10th in Ligue 1 last season, announced Mendy's return to French football in a statement: \"Benjamin Mendy, world champion 2018, quadruple winner of the Premier League under the colours of Manchester City and French champion of Ligue 1 with Monaco, comes to reinforce the Lorient workforce for this new season. Welcome Benjamin.\"\n\nThe French club play at Bournemouth in a pre-season friendly on 5 August and will begin their league campaign at champions Paris St-Germain on 13 August.", "Police in Nevada have confirmed they served a search warrant this week in connection with the unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.\n\nDetectives carried out the search at a home in Henderson, a suburb of Las Vegas where Shakur was gunned down in September 1996.\n\nLas Vegas Metropolitan police did not provide further details of the search, citing the ongoing investigation into his murder.\n\nShakur was 25 when he was killed.\n\nNo arrests have been made and no suspects are currently in custody.\n\nThe home that was searched is less than 20 miles (32km) from the Las Vegas strip where Shakur was shot in a drive-by shooting.\n\n\"LVMPD can confirm a search warrant was served in Henderson, Nevada on July 17, 2023, as part of the ongoing Tupac Shakur homicide investigation,\" a Las Vegas police statement said.\n\n\"We will have no further comment at this time.\"\n\nLas Vegas Police Lt Jason Johansson told the Las Vegas Review Journal that detectives were working on the cold case once more.\n\n\"It's a case that's gone unsolved and hopefully one day we can change that,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nShakur, whose stage name was stylised as 2Pac, released his debut album in 1991 and went on to enjoy chart success with hits including California Love, All Eyez on Me, Changes and I Ain't Mad at Cha.\n\nHe died on 13 September 1996, a week after he was shot four times in his car while waiting at a red light.\n\nShakur, who sold more than 75 million records worldwide, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.", "The stolen gold coins were discovered near Manching in 1999, and are thought to date back to the first century BC\n\nFour people have been arrested in Germany over the theft of a hoard of Celtic gold coins worth about €1.6m (£1.4m).\n\nHundreds of coins were taken from a museum in Manching, Bavaria, during a night raid in November.\n\nMany of them dated from around the 1st Century BC.\n\nThe authorities say there is \"overwhelming evidence\" in the case and that investigations are continuing. More details are expected on Thursday.\n\nThat includes whether part of the horde of coins has been recovered.\n\nThe arrests were made on Tuesday during a search operation in the northern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.\n\nBavaria's interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said the suspects were \"professional burglars\".\n\n\"The mission continues,\" Ch Insp Ludwig Waldinger from the Bavarian police told the Bild newspaper.\n\n\"We are searching properties in several federal states.\"\n\nThe coins were unearthed during a 1999 archaeological dig near Manching - considered to be the biggest discovery of Celtic gold in the 20th Century. They had been on display since 2006.\n\nPolice at the time of their theft suspected that those involved sabotaged the museum's alarm system. Just before the break-in, nearby internet cables were cut, causing widespread outages.\n\nThis meant the alarm system was not triggered when a door was pried open, although it was able to record when the robbery, which lasted less than 10 minutes, took place.\n\nThe authorities had been exploring whether the theft involved organised crime and was linked to previous raids.\n\nIn 2017, a hefty gold coin weighing 100kg was snatched from a Berlin museum. Two years later, thieves took 21 pieces of jewellery and other valuables in a dramatic diamond heist at Dresden's Green Vault museum that was caught on CCTV.\n\nThe loss of the coins devastated the museum and the wider community.\n\nRupert Gebhard, head of collections at the State Archaeological Collection in Munich, said it felt \"like losing an old friend\".", "McDonald's workers who have suffered sexual harassment or other abuse should go through the company's complaints process, the prime minister has said.\n\nMore McDonald's staff and former staff have come forward since the BBC first reported on dozens of allegations at the fast-food chain.\n\nRishi Sunak said it was now the company's responsibility to \"take the right steps\".\n\nThe firm said all allegations would be investigated thoroughly whenever details were shared.\n\nAll proven breaches of McDonald's code of conduct would be met with \"the most severe measures the company could legally impose, up to and including dismissal\", it said.\n\nMr Sunak told BBC News: \"Anyone involved should come forward and talk to the company's complaints process about that, and that's the right way to deal with this problem.\"\n\nMany of the McDonald's workers and former workers who have come forward told the BBC they had previously approached the company about what they had experienced, but no action had been taken.\n\nLiv and her father Steve said the \"toxic culture\" included sexism, racism and homophobia\n\nLiv said she was \"spoken down to\" including sexist remarks, and that a senior manager at her branch in the east of England also made racist and homophobic comments.\n\n\"I couldn't take it any more,\" she said. She said the branch was \"too OK\" with a toxic culture of racism and sexism.\n\n\"Having a culture like that in such a big company is not OK,\" said Liv.\n\nShe alleges that the manager was not disciplined, and his behaviour did not improve. Eventually she quit.\n\nHer father Steve said the lack of empathy from staff for his daughter was \"heart-breaking\".\n\nLinda, not her real name, is a current employee at a McDonald's branch in Wales.\n\nShe says she has complained about a significantly older male colleague repeatedly attempting to follow her into the toilet. She alleges he has repeatedly made sexual comments about her over the last two years, since she was 16.\n\nAfter reporting his behaviour to two managers, she was told to ignore him, and the male colleague still works with her.\n\nMany staff, former staff and parents of staff have come forward to allege not only a toxic culture but some serious incidents including sexual harassment, assault and bullying.\n\nThe BBC has verified that the people speaking out have worked for McDonald's.\n\nClaire Brook, an employment law solicitor at Aaron & Partners, said that even though McDonald's is a franchise model and not employing the staff in question directly, it was \"still very much an HR and reputational crisis for the brand\".\n\n\"These very many serious allegations and reports are a stark reminder of the consequences of failing to create an appropriate work environment, which has its added challenges for large, multi-site franchise models,\" she said.\n\nAlistair Macrow, chief executive of McDonald's UK & Ireland, said the allegations were \"deeply distressing\" and that he appreciated \"the bravery it will have taken the people in question\" who have come forward.\n\n\"We ask anyone who has experienced or witnessed any inappropriate behaviour to contact our confidential and independently operated Business Integrity Line, if you feel able to,\" he said.\n\nEvery one of the 177,000 employees in McDonald's UK deserved to work in a \"safe, respectful and inclusive workplace\" he added.\n\n\"There are clearly instances where we have fallen short and for that we deeply apologise.\"\n\n\"There is simply no place for harassment, abuse, or discrimination of any kind at McDonald's.\"\n\nThe number for the hotline is: 0800 0903674", "The actor arriving at Southwark Crown Court in London on Wednesday morning\n\nHollywood actor Kevin Spacey left the four men who made allegations against him in a sexual assault trial feeling small, diminished and worthless, prosecutors have said.\n\nSumming up, Christine Agnew KC told Southwark Crown Court the case involved an \"enormous imbalance of power\".\n\nKevin Spacey denies nine sexual offences between 2001 and 2013.\n\nEarlier, the jury was told four counts against him had been removed because of legal technicalities.\n\nThe four indecent assault charges, which were alternative, lesser counts, were struck off by the judge due to a \"legal technicality\" - not because the prosecution had abandoned any allegation.\n\nIn her closing speech, prosecutor Ms Agnew told jurors the case was \"about power and taking advantage of that power\".\n\nShe questioned Mr Spacey's claim that his accusers were motivated by money and suggested the trial was a result of his \"aggressive, oppressive and intimidatory behaviour\".\n\nThere was no doubt he was \"a very famous and lauded actor\" who was \"used to getting his own way\", she said - and his behaviour made his accusers \"feel small, it made them feel diminished, it made them feel worthless\".\n\n\"He is undoubtedly someone who is kind to those he chooses to be kind to,\" she said, referring to character witnesses for Mr Spacey.\n\nBut she added: \"History is littered with those who are benevolent to some and cruel to others.\"\n\nShe went on to say it was \"not simply a strength-in-numbers case\" against Mr Spacey but that of four separate men who told friends and family, the police and then the court their stories in search of justice.\n\nThese men were entitled to the same protection in law as a woman, she told the jury at Southwark Crown Court.\n\n\"Why on earth should these men put up with what they say has happened to them?\" she asked.\n\nShe added they were not motivated by \"money, money, money\" but instead had come forward because they no longer wanted to be the \"secret keeper\" for someone who had abused them.\n\nMr Spacey, 63, denies using his celebrity to get people into bed, and has rejected claims he is a sexual bully.\n\nHe previously called the case against him \"weak\".\n\nHis defence lawyers are expected to sum up their case on Thursday.", "A US country star has denied claims his new music video is an anti-Black Lives Matter anthem that promotes vigilante gun violence.\n\nJason Aldean's Try That In A Small Town was pulled off air on Monday by Country Music Television, days after its release.\n\nOn Twitter, Aldean, 46, rejected the criticism, calling it \"meritless\" and \"dangerous\".\n\nThe song was released in May, but the video came out last Friday and quickly began to draw a backlash.\n\nThe three-minute production features clips of masked protesters, Molotov cocktails and a burning American flag as well as CCTV of robberies.\n\n\"Well, try that in a small town, see how far ya make it down the road,\" Aldean sings.\n\nThe lyrics also refer to \"a gun that my granddad gave me\" and communities \"full of good ol' boys, raised up right\".\n\nThe video was filmed in front of a courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee. Critics noted that a white mob lynched a young black man, Henry Choate, from the building in 1927.\n\nBut Aldean said on Twitter on Tuesday that the song has nothing to do with race and is instead a celebration of small-town values.\n\n\"In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests,\" he said.\n\n\"These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.\"\n\nThe award-winning country music artist was speaking a day after his video was dropped from air by Country Music Television.\n\n\"Try That in a Small Town, for me,\" he tweeted, \"refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief.\"\n\nFollowing Aldean's post, Sheryl Crow tweeted: \"I'm from a small town. Even people in small towns are sick of violence. There's nothing small-town or American about promoting violence.\"\n\n\"This is not American or small town-like. It's just lame,\" Crow, 61, added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTennessee legislator Justin Jones, a pro-gun control activist, tweeted: \"We have an obligation to condemn Jason Aldean's heinous song calling for racist violence. What a shameful vision of gun extremism and vigilantism.\"\n\nBut fans of Aldean rallied to his defence.\n\nOne comment on the YouTube video accused the media of celebrating rap songs glorifying violence, \"but a video by a country singer about self defense and neighbors looking out for each other is banned\".\n\nIn his tweet, Aldean cited his 2017 performance at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas where a gunman opened fire from a hotel room, killing 58 people.\n\n\"NO ONE, including me, wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families ripped apart,\" said Aldean, a vocal conservative.\n\nOn Wednesday, Try That In A Small Town was number one on Apple's iTunes download chart.", "A firefighter operates during a wildfire at Aghios Charalambos area in Loutraki\n\nLarge swathes of southern Europe continue to swelter in record heat as wildfires rage across the continent.\n\nTemperatures hit a high of 46.3C in Sicily on Tuesday, and crews battled fires in Greece and the Swiss Alps.\n\nMost of Italy's major cities are on red alert, meaning the extreme heat carries a health risk to everybody not just vulnerable groups.\n\nScientists say climate change is making heatwaves longer, more intense and more frequent.\n\nAcross the world, millions of people are being impacted by extreme weather; from soaring temperatures in the US and China, to heavy rainfall in East Asia.\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says heatwaves will become more severe in the years ahead, and that extreme weather patterns highlight the need for more climate action.\n\n\"These events will continue to grow in intensity and the world needs to prepare for more intense heatwaves,\" said John Nairn, senior extreme heat advisor at the UN agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Chris Fawkes tells us how high temperatures in the northern hemisphere are\n\nSince Monday, Greece has seen multiple wildfires break out across the country - including one which led to the evacuation of 1,200 children from a summer camp.\n\nThe most severe fire in Greece currently is in the Dervenochoria region north of Athens, where billowing smoke can be seen on satellite images.\n\nOther fires continue to rage in towns of Loutraki - a coastal town near the city of Corinth - and in Kouvaras, south of the capital.\n\nThe EU announced it will send amphibious aircraft to Greece which are designed for aerial firefighting\n\n\"Our main concern is protecting human life,\" fire service spokesman Yannis Artopios said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, crews in Switzerland are battling a wildfire close to the village of Bitsch in canton Valais which authorities said started on Monday afternoon and spread \"explosively\" overnight.\n\nAnother wildfire on the Spanish island of La Palma, which started on Saturday, has destroyed 20 homes.\n\nBut, cooler overnight temperatures and higher air humidity levels helped firefighters gain the upper hand in their battle against the blaze and bring it under control.\n\nConstancio Ballesteros, 51, visits his Castro y Magan winery devastated by the forest fire in La Palma\n\nRed alerts, warning people of a very high health risk due to the intense heat, remain in place for most of Italy, Spain, Greece and parts of the Balkans.\n\nOfficial maximum temperatures for Tuesday have not yet been confirmed, but provision results showed a high of 45.3C in Figueres in north-west Spain, 44.5C in Bauladu on the island of Sardinia, and 46.3C in Licata on Sicily.\n\nThe highest temperature ever recorded in Europe was set in August 2021 when the mercury hit 48.8C (119.8F) in the Palermo region of Sicily.\n\nTwenty Italian cities have been issued with severe weather warnings as large parts of the country continues to swelter\n\nExtreme temperatures have also gripped other parts of the globe including the US and China.\n\nMore than 80 million people in western and southern US states are under advisories for a \"widespread and oppressive\" heatwave.\n\nTemperatures at California's Death Valley hit a near-record 52C (125.6F) Sunday, while on Monday Arizona's state capital Phoenix tied its record of 18 consecutive days above 43C (109.4F).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina provisionally broke its record for all-time highest temperature on Sunday when it recorded 52.2C (126F) in its western Xinjiang region, according to the UK Met Office.\n\nAlso in Asia, on China's eastern coast torrential rain brought on by Typhoon Talim has displaced thousands.\n\nTalim is heading for Vietnam where 30,000 people in the storm's path have moved to safer ground.\n\nIt comes as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to \"completely overhaul\" the country's approach to extreme weather after dozens were killed in widespread flooding and landslides at the weekend.\n\nResidents in Fuzhou, Fujian province in China, had to be evacuated following heavy rainfall brought on by Typhoon Talim\n\nLeading UK scientist Dr Frederieke Otto, from Imperial College London, told the BBC that \"what we are seeing at the moment is exactly what we expect in a world where we are still burning fossil fuels\".\n\nHumans are \"100% behind\" the upward trend in global temperatures, she explains.\n\nThe International Energy Agency has said there can be no new oil, gas or coal projects if governments are serious about tackling climate change.\n\nScientists say Europe in particular is warming faster than many climate models predicted.\n\n\"There is a feeling that it's going out of control,\" University of Reading Prof Hannah Cloke explains.\n\n\"We have a lot of work to do to pin down exactly what's happening. These heatwaves are frightening...We know this will be really deadly.\"\n\nShe said more than 61,000 people were estimated to have died from heat in Europe last year, and this year would be similar.\n\nHow have you been affected by the extreme heat? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center on 11 September, 2001\n\nTony Blair was warned there could be a UK terrorist attack \"even more appalling\" than 9/11, declassified government documents have revealed.\n\nDays after the 2001 US attacks, the then prime minister was told of the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.\n\nIn the letter, ex-defence minister Sir John Stanley said he was almost certain terrorists would get a \"dirty\" bomb.\n\nThe papers also reveal how Baroness Thatcher wrote to Mr Blair to praise his \"resolve\" following the attacks.\n\nNearly 3,000 people were killed in the four attacks on the US on 11 September 2001. Hijackers had crashed two airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and a third hit the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Department of Defense.\n\nThe fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania after a passenger revolt.\n\nA few months after the 9/11 attacks, the newly released files reveal Mr Blair was warmly praised by a political opponent - ex-Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher.\n\n\"I greatly admire the resolve you are showing,\" ran her handwritten note, dated April 2002. She said Mr Blair had shown Britain was a \"staunch defender of liberty\" and \"a loyal ally of America\".\n\n\"That is the very best reputation our country can have,\" she wrote, with the words firmly underlined in her blue felt pen.\n\nOther stories from the National Archives:\n\nBaroness Thatcher praised Tony Blair for his support of the US\n\nHowever, the papers reveal Mr Blair had earlier been given a stark warning about the terrorist threat to the UK.\n\nWriting privately to the prime minister in the days after the 9/11 attacks, Tory MP Sir John Stanley said it \"was not in the national security interest\" to put some of the points he wanted to raise in the public domain.\n\nSir John highlighted the 1995 Sarin attack on the Japanese underground, which had killed 12 people, and pointed out a 1998 Foreign Office intelligence assessment suggesting anthrax could kill millions in a British city.\n\nIt seemed \"well nigh certain\" that terrorist organisations would obtain a portable \"dirty\" nuclear device, he wrote, \"if they have not done so already\".\n\nThe 9/11 attacks prompted the then-Labour government to take immediate precautionary measures, boosting security at airports and government buildings. But Sir John Stanley believed there needed to be a more fundamental shift.\n\nHe urged the government to base security, civil defence, and intelligence policies on the assumption that \"a terrorist WMD attack on one or more of the centres of population in the UK will be attempted, and attempted in the near and foreseeable future\".\n\nHe said more money should go into national intelligence, and civil defence should be rebuilt to deal with the consequences of a WMD attack. There should be provision of vaccines, and anti-radiation supplies to increase the chances of survival in case of a biological chemical or nuclear attack, he wrote.\n\nSir John said there must be far closer surveillance and easier detention of suspect terrorists in the UK, and the government should have powers to determine security measures for building in private as well as public ownership.\n\nIain Duncan Smith, who had just become Conservative Party leader, followed up his colleague's letter, saying the view \"from such a source\" should be taken \"with great seriousness\".\n\nMr Blair responded by saying he had commissioned reviews of anti-terrorist measures immediately after the attack. He said it would take time to develop and introduce new systems but they'd be brought in \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe said the greatest threat was still from conventional attacks, rather than WMD.\n\nBehind the scenes the government did take action. Many of the points raised by Sir John were addressed, though it's unclear if his particular intervention made an impact.\n\nSir David Omand was security and intelligence coordinator [Permanent Secretary] in the Cabinet Office from 2002 and established the CONTEST counter terrorism strategy.\n\nEven before he arrived, work was well under way to prevent WMD attacks, or deal with them if they took place. For example, equipment was being developed to detect radioactive material at UK entry points - work which became known as \"Operation Cyclamen\".\n\nAnti-viral drugs were stockpiled and decontamination vehicles procured. The Prevent strategy was established to try to stop people supporting terrorism.\n\nAccording to Sir David, the emergency planning was often done quietly, because the government didn't want to \"put people in fear\".", "Our door is always open, says Sir Richard\n\nMI6 has recruited a number of Russians disaffected by the Ukraine war, its chief has revealed, as he appealed for more to defect and work with them.\n\nIn a speech in Prague, Sir Richard Moore said many Russians were \"silently appalled\" to see their armed forces \"pulverising\" Ukrainian cities.\n\n\"They are watching in horror as their soldiers ravage a kindred country.\"\n\nHe said the door was always open to any Russians who wanted to join the UK spy agency to work to end the bloodshed.\n\n\"We will handle their offers of help with the discretion and professionalism for which my service is famed. Their secrets will always be safe with us,\" he added.\n\nHis appeal was made during his only public appearance this year at the British Embassy in Prague, 55 years after the crushing of the Prague Spring by Russian tanks.\n\nSir Richard, known as \"C\", used the location to draw on the horrors inflicted there when 250,000 troops stormed the Czech Republic to suppress reforms aimed at liberalising the communist country.\n\nHe said many Russians were wrestling with the \"same dilemmas and the same tugs of conscience\" as their predecessors did in 1968.\n\n\"They know in their hearts that Putin's case for attacking a fellow Slavic nation is fraudulent, a miasma of lies and fantasy.\n\n\"I invite them to do what others have already done this past 18 months and join hands with us,\" he said.\n\nSir Richard admitted he was baffled by the events of 24 June when heavily-armed Wagner mercenaries advanced to within 200km of Moscow.\n\nHe said the deal President Putin was forced to cut with the Wagner leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was a humiliation.\n\nWagner has fought some of the bloodiest battles since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nBut following the mercenaries' short-lived rebellion, the whereabouts of Prigozhin, a former Putin loyalist, are unknown.\n\nSir Richard said, however, that as far as they knew, he was still alive.\n\nHe added that the solution to the Ukraine war was simple - Russia just needed to withdraw its troops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The day Wagner chief went rogue... in 96 seconds\n\nAsked how far Mr Putin, who has referred to nuclear weapons, was prepared to go, Sir Richard said: \"He really didn't fight back against Prigozhin, he cut a deal to save his skin, using the good offices of the leader of Belarus.\n\n\"Even I can't see inside Putin's head, but ... the only people who have been talking about escalation and nuclear weapons are Putin and a handful of henchmen around him.\n\n\"That is irresponsible, it's reckless and it is designed to try and weaken our resolve in supporting Ukraine and it will not work.\"\n\nOn the subject of AI, Sir Richard said it was being used to disrupt the supply of weapons to Russia but insisted machines would not replace human spies.\n\nHuman agents were \"never just passive collectors of information\" and \"sometimes they can influence decisions inside a government or terrorist group\", he said.\n\nBut he said technology was moving \"with startling speed\".\n\nHe said his teams were using AI \"to augment, but not replace\" their own judgement about how people might act in various situations.\n\n\"They're combining their skills with AI and bulk data to identify and disrupt the flow of weapons to Russia for use against Ukraine.\"\n\nBut Sir Richard said AI may also be used by hostile states \"in damaging, reckless and unethical ways\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Timetables of all trains run by Transport by Wales are to be examined after \"massive\" changes to travel patterns in the aftermath of Covid.\n\nTfW chief executive James Price told MPs that running old timetables \"just isn't working\" with people working from home and commuting at weekends.\n\nMr Price played down the possibility it could mean fewer services.\n\nHe also admitted services between north and south Wales have performed \"incredibly badly\".\n\nBut the official said the route known as the Welsh Marches line is the only profitable service the Welsh government-owned organisation has.\n\nIt is expected the timetable review - which will report back to ministers in the autumn - will look at all plans TfW has to boost services.\n\nTfW confirmed it would meanwhile postpone some improvements to services planned for December - including a service to link Bangor to Manchester Airport, and to increase the number of trains between Cardiff to Cheltenham.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said many users \"will be concerned that a timetable change will ultimately lead to fewer services\".\n\nMPs challenged Mr Price over poor services and disruption from the south Wales Metro work at a hearing of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday.\n\nOne said constituents had been given \"final warnings\" by employers because they were regularly late for work.\n\nPassengers have not returned in the numbers that previously used buses and trains since the worst of the pandemic passed.\n\nIt has meant the Welsh government has had to find extra money for the bus sector to try to maintain services.\n\nThe chief executive told the Commons committee that some future plans - because of the availability of trains and the \"capability\" of Network Rail - \"are going to have to be postponed. Not all of them, but some of them\".\n\n\"Whilst we go through the summer, what we are going to do is review all of our timetables,\" he said.\n\n\"What we've seen is a massive change in travel pattern as a consequence of Covid.\n\n\"Running a timetable that was designed probably 10 years ago - when no-one thought working from home was going to be a thing, when no-one thought a big commute at the weekend is going to be a thing - just isn't working.\n\n\"We've seen our pinch points completely moved. So we're reviewing all of that.\"\n\nLater, committee chair and Conservative MP Stephen Crabb asked if there was a possibility some passengers would see fewer services.\n\nHe said in a \"completely unconstrained world\" it \"could lead to that type of thing\".\n\nBut the official said: \"I personally don't think that government will be very interested in taking services away from anyone because that's a very difficult thing to do.\n\n\"This is predominantly around what new services do we do against what new services we promised to do.\"\n\nAfter criticism from a number of the MPs, Mr Price admitted that the Welsh Marches rail services have been performing \"incredibly badly\" due to problems \"which were not predicted\".\n\nThis was mainly due to the temporary withdrawal of Class 175 trains for safety checks after a number of fires meaning inferior trains had to be used instead.\n\nThe replacements were \"typically non-air conditioned\", he said. \"They are typically trains that like to run at 75 miles an hour, not 90 miles an hour, so they tend to lose time on longer distance journeys.\n\n\"As a consequence of all of those things coming together, we ran a poorer quality service with less capacity that was struggling to keep to time for a period of time.\"\n\nDue to \"global supply chain\" component failures it had taken \"four or five months\" for the company TfW leases the 175 trains from to get them back in service.\n\n\"I would say we are approaching an acceptable level of performance,\" he said.\n\n\"What I now need to do over the next couple of months is take that to a good level of performance. And then our ambition, obviously, is to run an excellent service.\"\n\nMr Price said that before the pandemic the Welsh Marches line had been \"much less utilised than it is today\" and that now \"we are seeing much higher demand on the Marches line\".\n\nHe said the Welsh Marches line was, in fact, \"the only line that makes us any money\".\n\n\"If we can make money, we can spend that money elsewhere, we can cross-subsidise our services,\" he said.\n\nTfW is currently undergoing a major upgrade of the Valleys lines network, which has seen costs ballooning by more than £260m to £1bn.\n\nMr Price said that was due to inflation, Covid and unforeseen infrastructure constraints, such as having to build a private power network for the Rhymney line.\n\nThe work, which includes electrification, has caused significant disruption. Currently the Treherbert line is entirely replaced with buses from Pontypridd.\n\nJames Price spoke to members of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday\n\nBeth Winter, Labour MP for Cynon Valley, said: \"A lot of people from the valleys travel to Cardiff for work - a lot of people have been late for work. Some people have had final warnings from their employer.\"\n\nMr Price said most of the disruptive work has been complete \"apart from the line through to Treherbert\".\n\nApart from services on the latter line, he said he would like to have a \"moment soon\" where he can say \"people can get back to using the valleys lines\".\n\nHe admitted that the first few weeks of the organisation's bus replacement service during the early days of the upgrade was \"not what it should have been and quite a few people were significantly impacted\".\n\nMr Price promised that despite rising costs the full Metro would be delivered, because it would not be value for money to have leased the new trains and not have infrastructure for them to run on.\n\nHowever he said the scheme is trying to eliminate \"unnecessary scope\" to reduce costs - suggesting some standards that may not need to apply and do not impact safety will not be met, although he did not explain what they were.", "David Goodwillie made three appearances for Scotland between 2010 and 2011\n\nRapist David Goodwillie's new team says the former Scotland international \"deserves a chance\".\n\nGoodwillie, who was ruled to be a rapist in a 2017 civil case, played for ninth-tier side Glasgow United FC in a friendly match last Wednesday.\n\nThe 34-year-old has seen several moves to clubs in Scotland, England and Australia collapse due to fan outrage.\n\nGlasgow United, based in Shettleston in the city's east end, did not confirm if Goodwillie had signed a contract.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland has said previously that it is unacceptable for a club to employ a footballer who has \"been found by a senior judge to be a rapist\".\n\nIt comes ahead of Goodwillie speaking out for the first time since the 2017 ruling on the Anything Goes podcast by Scottish actor and reality star James English.\n\nIn a series of clips released ahead of its broadcast, the footballer says he does not feel like he has had justice and both parties have been left in limbo.\n\nGlasgow United, which plays in the West of Scotland third division, selected Goodwillie to play in a match against West of Scotland Premier Division side Pollok but lost 7-0.\n\nA Glasgow United FC spokesperson said club officials met the player several weeks ago.\n\n\"After listening to David and meeting his young family and the rejection he has had from numerous clubs who pulled out of signing him after sponsors made threats to pull out we thought he deserves a chance,\" they told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"All he wants is to be left in peace and be allowed to play the game he loves.\n\n\"We are a club who has a number of members with varying needs we look after in different ways we don't just turn people away.\"\n\nIn 2017, Goodwillie and former Dundee United teammate David Robertson were ordered to pay £100,000 in damages after a judge ruled they raped a woman at a flat in Armadale, West Lothian, in 2011.\n\nNeither faced a criminal trial over the rape accusation after prosecutors said there was not enough evidence.\n\nRobertson retired from football aged 30 in the days after the ruling, while Goodwillie left English side Plymouth Argyle by \"mutual agreement\".\n\nHowever, the forward soon signed with League One side Clyde, who he played for more than 100 times captained before leaving in 2022.\n\nRaith Rovers sparked outrage by signing Goodwillie in January 2022 and a loan move back to Clyde also collapsed.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland described the Raith Rovers move as a \"clear message of disregard to survivors of rape and sexual violence\".\n\nThe forward was released without playing a game in September 2022, with Raith Rovers admitting it \"got it wrong\" by signing him.\n\nIn February this year Northern Premier League side Radcliffe FC, based in Bury, Greater Manchester, released the striker after one game following a public outcry.\n\nFour months later, Goodwillie's contract with Australian semi-professional club Sorrento FC was rescinded. The club apologised to anyone \"that may have been caused offence by his signing\".\n\nSunday Post journalist Marion Scott, who was the first person to tell the story of his victim, Denise Clair, said Goodwillie has never shown any remorse.\n\nAhead of his podcast interview, she told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"I think he's only speaking out now because he's come to the end of his rope, people are now waking up to the fact that they don't want a rapist to be a role model for their children and that's why football clubs have repeatedly turned him away.\n\n\"In this country if someone can kick a ball then they seem to be put up on a pedestal as if they are some kind of hero. It doesn't matter what they do in their private life - well I think the tide is turning and people are disgusted by behaviour like that.\n\n\"I hope Denise will just take this and get on with her life as she always has done. She is one of the most dignified and strong and powerful women, she has done so much to shine a light on the appalling way victims of sexual crimes are treated in this country.\"", "Wallace says the government accepts the vast majority of the Etherton's report's recommendations in principle, but will deal with them in more depth after the summer recess.\n\nWallace continues to say today's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is a \"very different place\" from the late 1960s-90s.\n\n\"Our LGBT colleagues are an integral part of the defence family,\" Wallace adds.\n\n\"There is no place for prejudice in today's modern armed forces.\"\n\nWallace admits \"cultural change takes time\", but says it is important to note the armed forces would not be in the position it is in now if it wasn't for people fighting for change.\n\nIn his closing remarks, Wallace quotes one veteran who says: \"I don't feel like a veteran - I don't feel like my service was recognised.\"\n\nWallace says: \"You are one of us - you have proven yourself to be the best of us.\" He again apologises for historic wrongs.", "Private rents rose faster last month than they have since records began in January 2016, latest figures show.\n\nAcross the UK, rents grew 5.1%, with higher percentage rises recorded in Wales and Scotland, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nHousing costs are usually people's largest monthly outlay, meaning sharp increases have a big impact on budgets.\n\nHowever, property prices are rising more slowly, as higher mortgage rates limit what home-buyers can afford.\n\nUK house prices ticked up 1.9% in the year to May, down from 3.2% in the 12 months to April.\n\n\"UK annual house price inflation slowed again in May for the seventh consecutive month,\" said Aimee North, head of housing market indices at the ONS.\n\n\"While the average UK house price remains higher than 12 months ago, prices are now £7,000 below the recent peak in September 2022.\"\n\n\"UK rental prices increased again, with the highest annual inflation since records began in 2016,\" Ms North said.\n\nThe cost of renting rose 5.8% in Wales, 5.5% in Scotland and 5.1% in England in the 12 months to June, the ONS figures show.\n\nThe highest rises in England were found in the West Midlands at 5.4%. In the North East they rose by only 4.4%. In London, rents went up 5.3%.\n\nThe latest housing statistics are released against a backdrop of easing inflation.\n\nOn Wednesday, the ONS said inflation rose 7.9% in the year to June, a slowdown from 8.7% in May.\n\nBut a series of interest rate rises over the last 18 months has pushed up mortgage rates for both homeowners and landlords.\n\nMichelle Lawson, director at Lawson Financial, a Fareham-based broker, said rising mortgage, combined with regulatory changes meant rising rents were \"no surprise\".\n\n\"Landlords cannot absorb these rises any more and they are naturally having to be passed up the chain,\" she said.\n\nOther property brokers said a shortage of available properties meant demand was outstripping supply in the rental market.\n\nRhys Schofield, managing director at Derbyshire-based mortgage advisers, Peak Mortgages and Protection said demand was up 48% compared to pre-Covid levels while property to rent was \"like hen's teeth\"\n\n\"Rents being forced ever upward certainly doesn't do tenants any favours,\" he said.\n\nProperty values increased by only 1.9% in the year to May, the most recent month statistics are available for.\n\nHouse prices had previously been rising much more quickly than that, with annual house price inflation hitting 14% last year. They peaked in September 2022.\n\nThere was wide variation in house price inflation around the UK, however.\n\nIn England, the average house price grew 1.7% to £304,000 in the year to May.\n\nIn Wales it rose 1.8% to £213,000.\n\nIn Scotland, the average price was up 3.2% at £193,000. And Northern Ireland saw the average rise 5% to £172,000.\n\nWithin England, the North East recorded the highest percentage increase in house prices while the East saw no growth.\n\nGabriella Dickens, a senior UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said they were still forecasting an overall \"peak-to-trough\" drop in house prices of around 10%.\n\n\"Note, though, that even if prices do fall that far, they still will be around 15% above their pre-Covid level,\" she added.", "Danielle Watts shows off her new dentures\n\nA woman who extracted her own teeth because she couldn't find an NHS dentist says crowdfunding a new set of dentures has transformed her life. On Tuesday afternoon, MPs will question dental experts from NHS England as part of an official inquiry prompted by a BBC investigation into the dentistry crisis.\n\nOne by one, over several months, Danielle Watts pulled out 13 of her own teeth.\n\nFor years she had been living with terrible pain and discomfort as a result of chronic gum disease, which meant that her teeth - otherwise healthy and unaffected by decay - were becoming loose and falling out.\n\nBut Ms Watts, from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, found herself in a \"dental desert\" - an area where no dentists offer NHS care - and couldn't afford the thousands of pounds of private treatment needed to fix her teeth.\n\nDanielle Watts was in constant pain and self-conscious about how she looked and spoke\n\nNow, a crowdfunding campaign has helped raise enough money to let her have a set of dentures fitted - meaning she can smile again.\n\n\"I've got a mouthful of teeth, which feels amazing,\" Ms Watts says. \"I'm not ashamed any more.\"\n\nThe BBC featured her story last year - when our research revealed the extent to which people across the UK were struggling to access NHS dentistry.\n\nThe Covid pandemic had left dental practices with severe backlogs of patients needing appointments, and this exacerbated an NHS funding gap which meant dentists had to take on more private work to survive.\n\nFollowing our investigation, the Health and Social Care Committee launched an inquiry into dentistry, and the cross-party committee has today been hearing evidence from senior NHS England and government figures.\n\nA Government health minister has acknowledged that NHS dentistry in England needs a complete overhaul. Appearing before a committee of MPs, Neil O'Brien said the time for small tweaks to the system had passed, and a much deeper reform was needed.\n\n\"We want to grow the overall level of activity that NHS dentistry is delivering, particularly to do that by making NHS work more attractive in lots of different ways, by fundamentally overhauling the contract that has been there since 2006, which is now pretty badly showing its age,\" he said.\n\nThe Department of Health in England says improving NHS access is a priority, and that it has made an extra £50m available \"to help bust the Covid backlogs\" - but tens of thousands of people, like Ms Watts, are still struggling to find an NHS dentist.\n\nLast August, she described how she no longer smiled at people and had stopped going out and socialising.\n\n\"I won't go out and meet new people. I avoid crowded situations. I walk with my head down all the time,\" she told us.\n\nDescribing herself as \"quite a happy, smiley person\", she said she would hang her head to hide her mouth when she laughed in front of people, \"because I know what they're seeing\".\n\nDanielle Watts did not dare to smile in front of people because of her missing teeth\n\nAt the time, Ms Watts's despair was striking.\n\n\"I'm 42 years old and I can't eat and drink. I'm on painkillers every day. I'm not a 90-year-old woman. This shouldn't be happening to me now,\" she said.\n\nNot only was eating increasingly difficult, but her damaged gums were also at risk of infection. In fact, late last year she was hospitalised for three weeks after one such infection got out of control.\n\nBut following our report, a friend persuaded her to set up a crowdfunding page to see if they could raise the money to get her teeth fixed.\n\nIt raised about £2,500, which - along with some funds raised by her mother's church - was enough to get Ms Watts fitted with a set of dentures.\n\nShe says the kindness of strangers has completely transformed her life.\n\n\"I'm in no pain at all, there is no bleeding, my teeth are all facing the same way,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't have to hide anymore. To be able to talk to somebody face-on, to be able to smile at somebody, is something I haven't done for several years.\"\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measures to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nMs Watts knows she is extremely lucky - and that not everyone will be able to benefit from the sort of crowdfunding campaign that helped her.\n\n\"Part of me feels bad because there are so many people who are in my position, but they haven't had that help - so I feel very guilty as well as being incredibly grateful.\"\n\nShe says she feels especially privileged because people donated money during a cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"People still put their hands in their pockets and gave what they could - it's absolutely massive.\"\n\nHave you resorted to DIY dentistry because of a lack of NHS dentists? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Illegal Migration Bill is set to become law after the government won a final series of votes in the Lords.\n\nThe legislation is central to the prime minister's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nUnder the bill, the home secretary has a legal duty to detain and remove anyone entering the UK illegally.\n\nIn a late-night debate in the House of Lords, peers rejected attempts to reinsert time limits on child detention and modern slavery protections.\n\nThe bill will now go for royal assent and become law.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UN released an unusually critical statement, claiming the bill breaks the UK's obligations under international law.\n\nIn a joint statement the UN human rights chief Volker Turk and the UN refugees head Filippo Grandi said the bill \"will have profound consequences for people in need of international protection\".\n\n\"This new legislation significantly erodes the legal framework that has protected so many, exposing refugees to grave risks in breach of international law,\" Mr Grandi said.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the government took its international obligations seriously, and that nothing in the bill required the government to act incompatibly with international law.\n\nThey added: \"Our Illegal Migration Bill is a key part of our work to deter and prevent people from making small boat crossings, as it will see people who make these dangerous, illegal and unnecessary journeys detained and swiftly removed.\"\n\nAs it stands it is unclear what will happen to people coming to the UK on small boats in the coming months, according to BBC home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nThe bill places a legal duty on the government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country. But there are no similar return deals with any other countries, our correspondent said.\n\nAnd the Rwanda plan was ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal last month, although ministers are challenging the judgement.\n\nOn Tuesday, an accommodation barge arrived in Portland Port, Dorset, where it is due to eventually house 500 asylum seekers.\n\nThe first asylum seekers are expected to board the Bibby Stockholm later this month, despite protests from locals.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said that the government wants to \"open more\" accommodation facilities for asylum seekers.\n\nFor weeks, the government was locked in a battle over the final shape of the bill with the Lords, where a cross-party group of peers made repeated amendments.\n\nIn the last few days, the bill passed between the House of Commons and House of Lords three times, in a process known as parliamentary ping-pong.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May led a series of backbench rebellions in the Commons over plans to restrict access to the UK asylum system for victims of modern slavery.\n\nUnder the bill the duty to remove anyone who comes to the UK illegally applies to victims of trafficking and slavery, accompanied children and unaccompanied children as soon as they turn 18.\n\nMs May, who as home secretary introduced the Modern Slavery Act, said the bill \"will enable more slave drivers to operate and make money out of human misery\".\n\nThe government argued that anyone identified as a potential victim of modern slavery would be returned home or to another \"safe country away from those who have trafficked them\".\n\nHowever, on Monday Mrs May did not vote for an exemption from the bill for suspected victims of slavery to allow them to access support and co-operate with criminal proceedings against traffickers.\n\nThe legislation would also scrap existing legal caps on how long those entering the UK illegally can be held ahead of being deported.\n\nMPs and peers had attempted to reinsert the three day-limit on how long children can be detained, as well as the 24-hour maximum for children unaccompanied by an adult. But the plans were dropped after they were again rejected in the House of Commons.\n\nThe government had already made concessions on the detention of unaccompanied children, who will be granted immigration bail after eight days, and on pregnant women, for whom the current limit of 72 hours detention will be retained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe end of the stand-off between peers and MPs paves the way for the bill to receive royal assent - when the King formally agrees to make the bill into an Act of Parliament, or law.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, Home Office minister Lord Murray of Blidworth said the number of small boat arrivals had \"overwhelmed\" the UK's asylum system and that accommodation was costing taxpayers £6m per day.\n\n\"With over 45,000 people making dangerous Channel crossings last year this is simply no longer sustainable,\" he told peers, adding it was \"only right\" that the \"business model\" of human traffickers be broken.\n\nHe urged the Lords to \"respect the will of the elected House and the British people by passing this bill\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper called he new law \"a con which will only make the Tories asylum chaos worse\".\n\n\"The asylum backlog is a record high, the number of people in hotels is still increasing, the Rwanda plan is unravelling and June boat crossings were higher than last year,\" she said.", "Radio operator Emma Riley was discharged from the Navy for being a lesbian in the 1990s\n\nRishi Sunak has apologised for the historical treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the military for being gay.\n\nThe PM called the ban an \"appalling failure\" of the British state.\n\nIt was illegal to be gay in the British military until 2000 - with thousands of veterans thought to be affected.\n\nA report into their treatment recommended they be given a financial reward and that the PM publicly apologise.\n\nAddressing MPs, the prime minister said: \"Many endured the most horrific sexual abuse and violence, homophobic bullying and harassment all while bravely serving this country.\"\n\nThe LGBT Veterans Independent Review, led by Britain's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experiences of 1,145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.\n\nHomosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 but a ban continued in the armed forces. According to the report, the Ministry of Defence said at the time that justification for the policy included \"maintenance of operational effectiveness and efficiency\" - but the report said there had been an \"incomprehensible policy of homophobic bigotry\" in the armed forces.\n\nIt heard shocking accounts of homophobia, bullying, blackmail, sexual assaults, \"disgraceful\" medical examinations, and conversion therapy.\n\nIt makes 49 recommendations to the government including:\n\nThe government said it would respond in full after summer recess.\n\nSome of the veterans affected watched the PM's public apology.\n\nOne of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy radio operator for three years before she was arrested and discharged for being a lesbian after telling a colleague her sexuality in the early 1990s.\n\nShe told BBC News she welcomed the report, and hoped it would be put into place \"swiftly.\"\n\n\"Having our history, experiences and enormous pain acknowledged and apologised for, hearing that the armed services and government that perpetuated institutional bullying will now be held accountable to finally support LBGT+ veterans, is a relief,\" she said.\n\nVeterans have previously told the BBC how their lives were devastated by the ban.\n\nCarol Morgan, who was dismissed after telling her bosses she was gay in 1978, kept her sexuality secret for another 30 years and said she had been \"robbed\" of her life.\n\nKen Wright, 62, served in the Royal Air Force Police before losing his job when his bosses found out he was gay.\n\nHe described how losing his position in the military had left him feeling as though \"his country didn't want him.\"\n\nHe added: \"After being denied the opportunity to defend one's country, being told you aren't good enough to wear the uniform, it takes huge inner strength to feel reconciled all of a sudden today.\n\n\"Carrying that insult for 35 years scars you for life.\"\n\nOlympian Dame Kelly Holmes, who served in the army and came out as gay last year, called the publication of the report a \"historic moment\", while Catherine Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said it was \"an important step towards justice\" for those whose military careers were \"ruined\" because of their sexuality.\n\n\"Many were imprisoned, experienced corrective violence and lived with the stain of criminal convictions because of who they loved and which left some homeless and many unable to work,\" she said.\n\nThe report says many faced invasive medical examinations, intrusive police investigations and in some cases, as recently as 1996, were sent to prison for their sexuality. Many still have a criminal record to this day.\n\nIt also details how some veterans faced a complete loss of income, while others were deemed ineligible to claim their pension because of their dismissal.\n\nThe report comes more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for being gay, won a case in the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the ban.\n\nThe armed forces charity Royal British Legion called on the government to accept the report's recommendations in full.\n\nThe charity's director general Charles Byrne welcomed both the report and Mr Sunak's \"landmark apology\", saying many people who had dedicated their lives to the country were \"forced or felt pressured to leave the armed forces, and this mistreatment destroyed or shortened their career\".\n\nFollowing the report, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he was \"deeply sorry\" on behalf of the government and the armed forces.\n\n\"I say again to the veterans' community I'm deeply sorry for what happened to you. The very tolerance and values of western democracy that we expected you to fight for, we denied to you - it was profoundly wrong,\" he said in the House of Commons.\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer also said he was pleased with the apology and that it was a \"significant moment\" for the LGBT community.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"On behalf of the British state I apologise\"", "Sage Todz (left) has recorded a track with fellow rapper Mace the Great (right)\n\nRappers Sage Todz and Mace the Great have made a track together following race and language controversies involving S4C and the Eisteddfod.\n\nIt comes after the Welsh language channel apologised for confusing the two in a photo mix-up.\n\nBefore that, it emerged that Sage Todz could not play the National Eisteddfod because of his use of English lyrics.\n\nS4C gave its support to the rappers, saying the track \"highlights a number of important issues\".\n\nIn the video, the pair deliver the song in front of the BBC's Cardiff office.\n\nRapping in front of the Central Square building, Mace says: \"I seen something on the TV with a picture of me that said it was Sage/But true say we all look the same/I done Texas, Boomtown, World Cup, Glasto/Still you don't know man's name/Disrespect - what a shame.\"\n\nThe track refers to controversies involving both S4C and the National Eisteddfod\n\nAfter Sage, from Penygroes, Gwynedd, was told he could not appear at the Eisteddfod because of the festival's language rules, he wrote on Twitter that his songs were \"finished products, not subject to change\".\n\nIn Welcome to Wales he addresses the matter saying: \"I respect the policy, bless/Ain't gotta perform ain't no stress/Last year I jumped on the stage and killed it/The choice is inconsistent at best.\"\n\nMace the Great said he was unhappy with the circumstances that inspired the song\n\nSpeaking about the track on Wednesday, 29-year-old Mace, from Cardiff, told the BBC: \"I'm not happy about what happened but I'm happy with the outcome. We have each been able to say our piece.\n\n\"We are clearly not the only people in the country that feel this needs to be spoken about and things need to change.\n\n\"I'm not happy how it came about, but I'm happy with the song and what it has started in the country.\"\n\nS4C chief executive Sian Doyle said the channel was \"fully supportive\" of Sage and Mace, adding: \"We hope this great track is successful as it highlights a number of important issues.\"\n\nThe National Eisteddfod has been asked to comment.", "Patients can expect severe disruption to services as senior hospital doctors in England prepare to strike for 48 hours, from 07:00 Thursday, over pay, NHS England warns.\n\nThousands of planned appointments are being postponed.\n\nConsultants will stop seeing many patients and will not be around to supervise the work of junior doctors.\n\nThey will provide so-called Christmas Day cover, meaning emergency care and a small amount of routine work.\n\nThe walkout is over the government's \"final offer\" of a 6% rise - in line with pay-review body recommendations but far below what doctors, who say their pay has been eroded by inflation, want.\n\nThe longest junior-doctors' walkout so far - across five days - ended on Tuesday. Their strike had caused tens of thousands of postponed appointments, England's top doctor, Prof Sir Stephen Powis, said. And the consultants' walkout was expected to have an even bigger impact.\n\nThe back-to-back action had left NHS services with almost no time to recover, Sir Stephen said.\n\n\"This could undoubtedly be the most severe impact we have ever seen in the NHS as a result of industrial action, with routine care virtually at a standstill for 48 hours,\" he said.\n\n\"We are working closely with the British Medical Association [BMA] and the British Dental Association to ensure that emergency and urgent care is prioritised and patients remain safe - but in the eighth month of industrial action and with more than 600,000 appointments already affected, it's becoming even more challenging to get services back on track after each round of action.\"\n\nOn the strike days, people should use 999 in life-threatening emergencies and NHS 111 online for other health concerns. GP services and pharmacies can also be accessed in the normal way.\n\nThose not told their appointments have been postponed should attend as normal.\n\nRadiographers, who scan patients, plan to strike for 48 hours in some parts of England from 08:00 on 25 July.\n\nUnlike junior doctors at the start of their dispute, consultants are not asking for full pay restoration in one go. Instead, they want the government to start giving pay rises that at least match inflation, currently just above 11%.\n\nNHS consultants earn more than £126,000 a year, on average, including extra pay for additional hours and performance. They can also be paid extra for private work - but not all do it.\n\nTheir pay has fallen 27% since 2008, once the Retail Price Index (RPI) measure of inflation is taken into account.\n\nOnce changes to tax and pension contributions are factored in, the shortfall is 35%, the BMA says.\n\nBut the government says it has acted on the BMA's request for pension reform, increasing the tax-free threshold on pensions contributions.\n\nConsultants plan more industrial action, on 24 and 25 August, unless a pay deal is agreed.\n\nDr Vishal Sharma, who chairs the BMA consultants committee, said the strikes were \"a last resort\" and the union had \"been left with no choice\".\n\nHe said: \"The responsibility for this industrial action lies squarely at the door of the government. It still does not need to go ahead.\n\n\"We are deeply disappointed that since our ballot result, in which 86% of consultants voted to strike, we have not had a single meeting with the secretary of state and that the prime minister has now apparently closed the door to negotiation, when negotiation is the only route out of this dispute.\n\n\"Patient safety is an absolute priority for consultants, which is why we gave six weeks' notice of these strike dates.\"\n\nClear processes were in place to help safeguard patient care during the strike, Dr Vishal Sharma added.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman implored consultants \"to be clear-eyed about the risk to patients\".\n\n\"They should be in no doubt that this does have the capacity to cause patient harm\" and \"does nothing to help us collectively cut waiting times\", he said.\n\nThe government says 6% is \"very much in line\" with private-sector rises.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"These are highly paid individuals receiving a significant pay increase, so we would ask them again to think again.\n\n\"It is not too late to avoid the damage that this would do to patients and to the wider health service.\"\n\nAlongside strikes, hospitals have faced other challenges to return to full capacity since the Covid-19 pandemic, including:\n\nAt the end of May, 7.47 million people were waiting to start routine hospital treatment - up from 7.42 million a month earlier and nearly three million more than before the pandemic - the highest number since the measure was introduced, in August 2007.\n\nOne in 20 has been waiting more than a year - although the NHS is close to eliminating waits of more than 18 months.\n\nAre you a consultant with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if willing to speak to a BBC News journalist. You can also make contact in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page but cannot see the form, visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or email HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A former Conservative minister has called for new sentencing guidelines to prevent women being jailed for taking abortion pills after the legal time limit.\n\nIt comes after the imprisonment of a mother-of-three last month under a 162-year-old law.\n\nDowning Street has previously said there are no plans to change abortion laws or sentencing guidelines.\n\nThe case of 45-year-old Carla Foster sparked outrage from some MPs when she was sent to jail for two years, having been found guilty of inducing an abortion after the legal limit during lockdown under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act.\n\nHer sentence has now been halved by the Court of Appeal and she will also be released from prison.\n\nDame Maria Miller introduced a 10 Minute Rule Bill calling for guidelines for judges handling abortions after the legal time limit\n\nDame Maria, a former equalities minister, presented her bill to Parliament using a 10-minute rule motion, which allows backbench MPs 10 minutes to outline their proposals.\n\nShe told MPs that judges are reliant on Victorian legislation without modern sentencing guidance.\n\nProviding \"compassionate\" guidance would mean Ms Foster's \"heart-breaking situation could have been avoided altogether\", she said, and she \"would not have had to endure weeks of prison away from her children\".\n\nThe MP for Basingstoke said the reason the law was originally introduced was to try and prevent women dying during backstreet abortions.\n\n\"We now live in a time where abortion is far less dangerous than giving birth so there's been a complete change,\" she said.\n\n\"The fair and equal treatment of women matters and abortion is the only medical procedure in the UK subject to the criminal law.\n\n\"Women who find themselves having an abortion outside of the law for whatever reason deserve our compassion, not punishment.\"\n\nDame Maria said she wanted to see far more wide-reaching reform, \"taking women seeking abortion away from the sanctions of criminal law\", but that this bill would be \"a small step in the right direction\".\n\nShe added the government would not bring forward its own legislation as the issue of abortion is a matter of conscience and should \"come from the backbenches\" to avoid party politics.\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy said \"no other patient group would be treated this way\"\n\nHowever, Labour MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy, said the 1861 Act should be scrapped altogether.\n\nShe told MPs the bill \"could actually end up make things worse\" by normalising the criminalisation of women over abortion.\n\nMs Creasy said no \"sensible, modern law\" could be based on the 1861 Act, which she said also criminalises \"obstructing a clergyman\", and highlighted concerns around women being investigated for \"a healthcare decision\".\n\nThere had been 67 prosecutions in the UK under the 1861 Act in the last 10 years, Ms Creasy said, and Home Office data showed 40 women were investigated in 2021.\n\nMs Creasy did not take the issue to a vote, meaning the bill passed its first stage with cross-party support, including from the Commons' longest serving male and female MPs - known as the Mother and Father of the House - Labour's Harriet Harman and Tory Sir Peter Bottomley.\n\nHowever, the bill is unlikely to make further progress in its current form without government support.", "Noel Clarke has appeared in films including Kidulthood and TV Shows like Doctor Who\n\nNoel Clarke is seeking approximately £10m damages from the Guardian over articles about his alleged behaviour towards several women, according to court documents seen by BBC News.\n\nIn the eight articles, 20 women who worked with Mr Clarke over a 15-year period made misconduct allegations.\n\nThe actor and producer, who denies the allegations, says the articles have had a \"catastrophic\" effect on his career.\n\nShould he win his case, a judge will decide what damages he is entitled to.\n\nAccording to documents lodged at London's High Court as part of a defamation claim against the Guardian, as well as claiming for general damages which cover harm to reputation, Mr Clarke is seeking special damages which cover specific financial losses.\n\nMr Clarke's claim says \"the impact on him financially has been devastating\".\n\nThe claim adds that as well as \"every existing or upcoming contract\" being cancelled, Mr Clarke has \"not had one single work contract\" since the first Guardian article about him was published in April 2021.\n\nChannel 5 TV show Highwater (a greenlit show which he says would probably have begun shooting in winter 2021)\n\nBBC TV show Crongton (a greenlit show which he says was likely to be shot around late summer 2022)\n\nStudioCanal movie Something in the Water\n\nLegal fees on dealing with Guardian allegations when first published, involving two law firms\n\nThe total approximate figure, excluding VAT, comes to\n\nMr Clarke is also claiming aggravated damages, for what his lawyers describe as the \"relentless, targeted, vicious and persistent nature of the wholly unjustified defamatory campaign\" launched against him by the Guardian.\n\nThe next significant stage due in the case is a hearing at the High Court to determine the exact meaning of the articles, whether they are defamatory and whether they are statements of fact or opinion.\n\nThis was scheduled to take place this week on Thursday 20 July. But the court has been told that Mr Clarke wishes to instruct new solicitors.\n\nHigh Court judge Mrs Justice Steyn has now made an order that in order to give Mr Clarke the time to do this, the hearing has been rescheduled to take place in October or early November 2023.\n\nNoel Clarke's defamation case is due to be heard at London's High Court\n\nThe Guardian does not yet appear to have filed an official defence with the court, but Mr Clarke's legal team assert in court papers that \"it appears from the pre-action correspondence\" that the Guardian appears \"to be intent on robustly defending\" the case.\n\nAccording to an order made in May by Mr Justice Murray, the Guardian is not required to submit its defence to the court before the result of the autumn hearing is known.\n\nGuardian News & Media has said in a statement: \"The Guardian's investigation was deeply reported and researched, relying on the testimony of 20 women, all of whom knew Noel Clarke in a professional capacity. We stand by our reporting and will be robustly defending our journalism.\"\n\nThe legal papers in the case have only recently been obtained by BBC News. The majority should have been made publicly available more than six months ago.\n\nThe BBC has been told that that the relevant Government department is investigating to see what went wrong, and is improving processes to ensure it doesn't happen again.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Clarke were first published by the Guardian in 2021.\n\nAs a result, Bafta suspended his membership as well as the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award that he had been presented with days earlier.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in March 2022 there was not enough evidence against him to warrant a criminal investigation.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Insurance costs are now the highest on record, research from Confused.com has found\n\nDrivers are in for a \"shock\" as insurance premiums are up 40% on last year, according to a comparison site.\n\nResearch by Cardiff-based Confused.com has found an increase in claims and more expensive repairs have led to the record rise in costs.\n\nThe firm's boss Steve Dukes said some drivers had already seen \"hefty increases in their premium\".\n\nCar insurance now costs an average of £776 a year, up £222 compared to last year and the highest on record.\n\nThe news comes as inflation in the UK dropped to 7.9% in the year to June, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced.\n\nPrevious figures showed that inflation had stayed flat at 8.7% in April and May.\n\nConfused.com boss Steve Dukes said some drivers will be \"surprised\" by their renewal costs\n\nA rise in the number of claims since the easing of Covid restrictions has pushed up car insurance premiums, as has the increasing price of car repairs and replacement vehicles.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers said last month that the cost of vehicle repairs increased by a third over the course of a year to £1.5bn, the highest figure since it began collecting data in 2013.\n\nMr Dukes said his price comparison business was seeing \"much higher rates of shopping around,\" and that there were options for drivers who were faced with soaring insurance renewal costs.\n\nPeople who need motor insurance for their businesses have also faced steep increases in their renewal costs.\n\nIce cream man Owen Herbert has frozen the cost of his cheapest Cornetto at £1, despite the rising cost of keeping his business going.\n\n\"It did come as a surprise,\" said Mr Herbert, from Port Talbot.\n\n\"In my experience when renewing insurance, usually it goes down, particularly if you've got no claims.\n\n\"Even when you go on comparison websites, you see that the price is still increased compared to what we were paying last year.\"\n\nIce cream seller Owen Herbert says he sees \"quite a lot of anger\" from customers when he raises his prices\n\nIn addition to insurance costs, Mr Herbert is dealing with increased costs for ingredients and sauces, while high fuel prices have been a constant concern.\n\nHe has been forced to pass on some of his costs to his customers, and not all of them are understanding.\n\n\"I get quite a bit of anger from the adults,\" Mr Herbert said.\n\n\"If they've come to the van with four or five children and they see an increase, then I'm the one that gets it in the throat.\n\n\"Whereas the big oil companies or the energy companies, they're invisible to people. You can't go to them face-to-face and complain.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNewry in the 1890s was a growing port town with a busy canal, railway and a town hall under construction.\n\nInto this scene, under false pretences, entered a family of Lithuanian Jews. Little did they know that 50 years later, their arrival would ultimately save a descendant's life.\n\n\"The family came in 1890 to Newry,\" Lill Fanny Saether told BBC News NI.\n\nShe's been piecing together her ancestors' story for decades.\n\n\"They were originally going to America. They were fooled by the captain to think they were in New York but they were in fact in Newry.\n\n\"There was a consular in Newry called Stokes and he helped all the people who came from other countries who couldn't speak English.\n\n\"So he and his family were of great help to my family.\"\n\nLill Fanny Saether visited buildings in Newry where her family lived\n\nLill began tracing her roots in the mid 1990s, when her children bought her a family tree as a birthday present.\n\nThis week she visited Newry to explore some of the buildings that have proved crucial to her very existence.\n\n\"The first address was 30 Mill Street,\" Lill said.\n\nToday, 30 Mill Street is the headquarters of St Vincent de Paul in the city.\n\nBut on 1 August, 1906 it was the setting for the wedding of Joseph Mendle and Flossie Freeman - Lill's grandparents.\n\nA marriage certificate shows that Lill's grandparents were married at Mill Street and a birth certificate shows that Elsie was born in on Kilmorey Terrace\n\nThe resultant marriage certificate states that Joseph was a draper living at 13 Canal Street and Flossie was the daughter of Abraham Freeman - also a draper.\n\nThe document states that 30 Mill Street was her home address at the time of the marriage.\n\nThe couple then moved across town to Kilmorey Terrace - a location Lill visited for the first time this week.\n\n\"My mother was born here in number seven in 1909,\" she said.\n\n\"It's quite moving. She lived there for two years until 1911. Then the family emigrated to Norway.\"\n\nA copy of Elsie's birth record issued in 1929 highlights her date of birth as 18 August 1909 and her residence as 7 Kilmorey Terrace.\n\nElsie (back middle) and her siblings in Norway in 1920\n\nBut it was events some 33 years later around 750 miles away in Oslo that would highlight the importance of documents like this.\n\n\"They were obviously Jewish and like the other Jewish families were victims of the Nazis occupation and persecution.\n\n\"In October and November 1942 they arrested first the men and then all the women and children.\n\n\"But because my mother was born here [in the United Kingdom] and had kept her British citizenship she saved her life.\n\n\"There were certain nationalities that were exempt and that was those that weren't occupied, that were neutral and those that were allies with Germany.\"\n\nElsie's brother and sister were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp\n\nWhen the Nazis came to the family's apartment they took Elsie's sister, who was born in Norway. Their brother, who was also born in Norway, had already been arrested.\n\nThey were sent to Auschwitz during the Holocaust, \"so they perished\", said Lill.\n\nShe added: \"But my mother and her mother and my grandfather and the sister that was born here, they were able to escape to Sweden in the middle of December 1942.\n\n\"The fact that she was born here...that means I'm alive, and my daughters and my grandchildren.\"", "Yale economist Fiona Scott Morton is highly regarded but her appointment was criticised by big political groupings in Brussels\n\nA highly qualified American economist, Fiona Scott Morton, has pulled out of a top European Commission post after her appointment prompted widespread European criticism.\n\nShe said that \"given the political controversy\", the best course of action was not to take up the job of Chief Competition Economist.\n\nThe loudest objections to her appointment came from France.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron waded into the issue saying he was \"dubious\".\n\n\"Are there no great European researchers who have the academic skills for this job? If that's our conclusion then it's extremely worrying,\" he told reporters on Tuesday.\n\nIf someone of that calibre was not available he said Europe's academic systems had a very big problem, pointing out that US and Chinese rules would have barred a European from getting the same kind of job.\n\nMs Scott Morton, a Yale University economics professor, is undoubtedly highly qualified, having worked for the US justice department's antitrust department during the Obama presidency.\n\nBut she has also worked as a consultant for big tech firms such as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon - exactly the kind of big tech digital giants her job would have required to challenge in her role as chief competition economist in Brussels.\n\nEU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, who has earned a reputation for taking on some of the biggest US tech firms, had robustly defended the appointment before MEPs in Brussels on Tuesday and described her corporate experience as an asset.\n\nBut in a statement on Wednesday she accepted Ms Scott Morton's decision not to take up the post \"with regret and full respect for her integrity\".\n\nIf anything, experience in private companies should be an asset, not an inconvenience\n\nFiona Scott Morton said her decision had been made not only because of the political storm surrounding her appointment but also the importance of the European Union's competition directorate having the full backing of the EU.\n\nThat prospect had become increasingly slim in recent days, not just because of President Macron's intervention.\n\nThere was also opposition from several of Ms Vestager's Commission colleagues.\n\nAnd the four biggest political blocs in the European Parliament all called on Ms Vestager to reverse the appointment, saying they had \"learnt with dismay\" that a non-EU candidate could hold such a prominent position \"at a time of intense scrutiny of our institutions vis-a-vis foreign interference\".\n\nHowever, Philippe Lamberts, co-president of the Greens, said that after talking to Ms Scott Morton his concerns had been addressed.\n\nSome commentators, such as European think tank Bruegel, said criticism of the appointment was unjustified as the role involved overseeing economic evidence in competition enforcement and protected the process not the competitors.\n\nFrench Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole said \"the European Commission and more broadly us Europeans\" were very lucky to have attracted someone of her calibre.\n\nMr Vestager told MEPs on Tuesday that the suggestion that someone's nationality might lead to bias was \"questionable\", and that Prof Scott Morton would need to recuse herself from only handful of cases.", "Nigel Farage says he has evidence that Coutts bank decided to close his account because his views \"do not align\" with their values.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, he said he had gained access to a report by the bank's wealth reputational risk committee via a subject access request.\n\nThe BBC previously reported that his account was being closed because he fell below the financial threshold.\n\nIn the Telegraph article, former UKIP leader Mr Farage says that the \"36-page\" document shows that he was targeted \"on personal and political grounds\".\n\nAccording to what the Telegraph says are minutes of a meeting of Coutts' wealth reputational risk committee held on November 17 2022, they read: \"The committee did not think continuing to bank NF [Nigel Farage] was compatible with Coutts given his publicly-stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation.\n\n\"This was not a political decision but one centred around inclusivity and purpose.\"\n\nHe also said there was a perception that he was regarded as \"racist and xenophobic\", which he called an \"appalling slur\".\n\nThe BBC has not seen the document.\n\nIn a video posted to his Twitter account, Mr Farage said he put in a subject access request because he wanted to establish the reason \"behind them closing the account\".\n\nHe said it read like \"a brief that you could give to a barrister ahead of a serious criminal trial\", and made several references to Brexit and Russia.\n\nHe added that the document said that closing his accounts for financial reasons was not justified because his \"economic contribution is now sufficient to retain on a commercial basis\".\n\nCoutts said: \"Our ability to respond is restricted by our obligations of client confidentiality.\n\n\"Decisions to close accounts are not taken lightly and take into account a number of factors including commercial viability, reputational considerations, and legal and regulatory requirements.\"\n\nLast month, Mr Farage went public with the fact that his account was being shut, and said he believed it was for political reasons. He later said he had been turned down by nine other lenders.\n\nBut people familiar with Coutts' move subsequently told the BBC it was a \"commercial decision\", and that the criteria for holding an account with the bank \"are clear from the bank's website\".\n\nCoutts requires its customers to borrow or invest at least £1m with the bank or hold £3m in savings.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that Mr Farage had reduced his business with the bank below its financial eligibility criteria.\n\nIn response, Mr Farage did not dispute the fact he did not meet Coutts' threshold, but added that the bank had not had a problem with it for the last 10 years.\n\nHe later tweeted that at \"no point\" had Coutts given him a minimum threshold.\n\nAmid the row, Andrew Griffith, economic secretary to the Treasury, wrote a letter to the Financial Conduct Authority calling for a review in to whether banks are closing accounts of those who are \"politically exposed\".\n\nSomeone classed as a politically exposed person, or PEP, generally presents a higher risk for financial institutions as their position makes them potentially vulnerable to bribery or corruption.\n\nMr Griffith said that while he recognised the importance of measures taken to prevent money laundering, \"it is crucial that an appropriate balance is struck\" so that elected officials and their families can access banking services.", "We are pausing our live coverage of Travis King, the US soldier who crossed the border from South Korea to the North without authorisation.\n\nIt's still unclear why he fled to North Korea. Pentagon officials are investigating the incident, and have said his safety is Washington's top concern.\n\nThere has been radio silence from Pyongyang and behind the scenes, officials are desperately trying to open communication lines.\n\nWe've learned from local media in the last few hours that King served two months in a South Korean jail on assault charges and was released on 10 July.\n\nHis mum has also told US television that she couldn't believe what her son what had done, and wished he was home in the US safe.\n\nOur writers on this page were Kelly Ng in Singapore and Ali Abbas Ahmadi in London, with editing by Ayeshea Perera and Joel Guinto.", "No-one has been convicted of Daniel Morgan's murder\n\nThe family of murdered private detective Daniel Morgan has reached a settlement with the Met Police, 36 years after his murder.\n\nMr Morgan, 37, was found with an axe in his head in the car park of a pub in Sydenham, south-east London in 1987.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has admitted liability for its errors and corruption and is paying undisclosed damages.\n\nNo-one has been convicted over the killing, which has led to five inquiries at a cost of some £40m.\n\nMr Morgan's family believes he was about to expose police corruption when he was silenced.\n\nCommissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologised and admitted liability, saying the case had been \"marred by a cycle of corruption, professional incompetence and defensiveness that has repeated itself over and over again\".\n\nHe added Mr Morgan's loved ones had been \"repeatedly and inexcusably let down\" by the force since the beginning.\n\nThey were given \"empty promises and false hope\" as five investigations failed and as the force \"prioritised its reputation at the expense of transparency and effectiveness,\" Sir Mark said.\n\nAn independent panel found in 2021 that the Met repeatedly covered up its failings to protect its reputation and was \"institutionally corrupt\".\n\nThe panel, led by Baroness O'Loan, said it was unlikely anyone would be brought to justice.\n\nSir Mark Rowley was appointed as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police last year\n\nThe commissioner's statement on the settlement said that \"no words can do justice to the pain and suffering that has been a feature of the family's lives for more than three decades, as they have fought for justice\".\n\n\"Their tenacious campaigning has exposed multiple and systemic failings in this organisation.\n\n\"I have met with the family and listened to vivid and moving accounts of the devastating impact those failings have had on their lives.\n\n\"They have explained how their trust in policing has been eroded. The personal commitment I made to tackling corruption in this organisation when I took over as commissioner has never been stronger.\"\n\nDaniel Morgan's family have been fighting for justice for more than three decades\n\nHis body was found by a BBC sound producer in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, where he had met for a drink with his business partner, Jonathan Rees, on 10 March 1987.\n\nHe was lying face up with an axe embedded in his head. Although a watch had been stolen, his wallet had been left and a large sum of money was still in his jacket pocket.\n\nThe pocket of his trousers had been torn open and notes he had earlier been seen writing were missing.\n\nAfter his death, his business partner at Southern Investigations and local police officer, Sidney Fillery, went on to to reposition the firm, selling police information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World and to the Mirror Group's titles.\n\nMr Morgan's family believes he was gathering evidence to expose corruption in the Met Police.\n\nBetween 1987 and 2011, the Met and other forces arrested 67 people in connection with the murder. Eight of those arrested had been police officers.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the family's lawyer Raju Bhatt said the nine commissioners in office since the murder had come to represent \"consistent failure of courage and integrity\".\n\nHe added: \"A perceived need to protect the organisation from reputational damage has served only to nurture and encourage a culture of impunity.\n\n\"Whether or how Sir Mark and his senior leadership choose to face up to that sickness and translate the words of his apology into reality is his challenge.\n\n\"What the Met owes this family is a bit of gratitude for exposing a culture of impunity.\"\n\nThe family and the police said the \"mutually satisfactory\" terms of the agreement would remain confidential.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of Sicily and Sardinia will be the hottest parts of Europe on Wednesday\n\nRed alerts for extreme heat are in place in most of Italy's main cities as a heatwave intensifies in Europe.\n\nTemperatures are expected to peak on Wednesday, with 23 cities on high alert - from Trieste in the north-east to Messina in the south-west.\n\nThe warnings mean the heat poses a threat to everybody, not just vulnerable groups.\n\nWildfires are also raging across the continent, including in Greece and the Swiss Alps.\n\nMillions of people in the northern hemisphere are being affected by scorching temperatures.\n\nIt is being caused by a high pressure system bringing warmer, tropical air, south of a jet stream currently stuck over central Europe.\n\nAnd the heat is forecast to last through Wednesday across most of southern Europe, following several days of temperatures in excess of 40C (104F).\n\nBBC Weather says parts of the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily will be the hottest again, with highs of around 46C or 47C.\n\nThe heatwave, which has swept across the country, has been described by local media as settimana infernale - or \"week of hell\".\n\nMany buildings on the island of Sicily are not equipped to deal with temperatures this high. Lots of families live on the ground floor, in apartments with very few windows, and it is quite common for large families to live together in small spaces.\n\nTwo people - a man and woman aged 69 - were found dead in their homes in the Sicilian capital Palermo on Tuesday, with several local newspapers attributing their deaths to the heat.\n\nIn the south of Italy, which is poorer than the north, many cannot afford air conditioning, or even fans.\n\nThe heat is particularly tough on homeless people.\n\nSergio Ciresi, a priest running Catholic charity Caritas, which offers a shower service and homeless shelters in Palermo, told the BBC the heat was \"making people more impatient and short-tempered\".\n\n\"In the last few days we noticed people getting angry a lot more easily, and starting fights with each other.\"\n\nThere have also been power cuts on the island as a result of high demand for air conditioning.\n\nThe Italian health ministry has asked emergency rooms across the country to activate so-called \"heat codes\", assigning a separate group of medical staff to treat people who come in with symptoms caused by the heat.\n\nSimilar measures were brought in at the start of 2020, when Italy became the epicentre of the Covid pandemic in Europe.\n\nThere has been a 20% increase in the number of patients being admitted with heat-related symptoms, according to the health ministry.\n\n\"We are seeing an increase in admissions of patients with headache, tachycardia, dehydration and confusion,\" said Dr Tiziana Maniscalchi, director of emergency medicine at a hospital in Palermo.\n\nShe said some of her patients had died, with exposure to extreme heat a contributing factor.\n\n\"For people who already have a fragile health, being exposed to these temperatures can have devastating consequences,\" she said.\n\n\"I am worried, because the people who will pay the price are the most vulnerable and frail.\"\n\nA new record-high temperature of 41.8C was reportedly recorded in the capital Rome on Tuesday.\n\nRed alerts also remain in place across Spain, Greece and parts of the Balkans.\n\nTemperatures are expected to fall on Thursday for many in Europe, including northern Italy - where red alerts will be removed for six cities.\n\nBut BBC Weather's Matt Taylor says that temperatures could be in the mid to high 40s for many in the central and eastern Mediterranean by the weekend and carrying on into next week - which could potentially come close to breaking records.\n\nTunisia in North Africa is also expected to register 50C in some spots, he added.\n\nThe UN weather agency, the World Meteorological Organization, has warned that the heatwave in Europe could continue into August, and that the extreme temperatures sweeping the globe are the new normal in a world warmed by climate change.\n\nIn Greece, staff at the Acropolis in Athens, one of the country's top tourist attractions, will stop working for four hours a day from Thursday in protest at working conditions during the heat, a union representing its workers has said.\n\nMultiple wildfires have also swept across the country since Monday - including one which led to the evacuation of 1,200 children from a summer camp.\n\nThe most severe fire burned in the Dervenochoria region, north of Athens. Others also continue to rage in the towns of Loutraki - near the city of Corinth - and in Kouvaras, south of the capital.\n\nIn Mandra, west of Athens, residents have told the BBC damage from fires could have been avoided if emergency crews had arrived earlier.\n\nThe Greek fire service said it was doing the best it could to fight wildfires in very poor weather conditions, adding the \"main concern is to protect lives, save belongings and the forests\".\n\nSome have levelled criticism at the government, claiming there are not enough firefighters to respond to the number of blazes currently raging in the country.\n\nGreek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who cut his trip to Brussels short this week in wake of the fires, said the climate crisis was the main factor behind the blazes.\n\nMr Mitsotakis has faced these criticisms before, apologising in August 2021 for failures in tackling that summer's wildfires.\n\nScientists have long-warned that climate change will make heatwaves more frequent, more intense and last longer in duration.\n\nExperts say Europe in particular is warming faster than many climate models predicted.\n\nMore than 61,000 people were estimated to have died from the heat in Europe last year, and there are fears this year will be similar.\n\nHas the heatwave affected you or your holiday? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Gen Syrskyi (L), seen here with President Volodymyr Zelensky, is leading Ukraine's renewed offensive in the east\n\n\"We'd like to get very fast results, but in reality it's practically impossible,\" says the man overseeing Ukraine's renewed offensive in the east.\n\nWe meet Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi at a secret location beside the command vehicle he uses to visit his troops and keep an eye on the battle. On top is a powerful machine gun. Inside, a large screen displays multiple live video feeds of the battlefield from hundreds of drones.\n\nLook up Gen Syrskyi online and you will see him described as \"the most successful general of the 21st Century so far\".\n\nIt's a lot to live up to.\n\nHe led the defence of Kyiv at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. He was the mastermind behind Ukraine's surprise and successful counter-attack in Kharkiv last summer. Now, he's head of military operations in eastern Ukraine - one of the two main axes in Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\nWe watch a feed of the heavily shell-scarred fields around Bakhmut, where some of his troops are trying to take back ground. I ask him if it's his goal to recapture the city? He smiles and says: \"Yes, of course. I try to do it.\"\n\nBut even he admits that, more than a month since it started, Ukraine's long-awaited offensive on multiple fronts is going slower than many had hoped.\n\nHe says in the east, just like the south, the area is saturated with mines and defensive barriers. The Russians, he says, have many strongholds: \"Therefore, our advances are really not going as fast as we would like.\"\n\nWe'd like to get very fast results. But in reality it's practically impossible\n\nBut Gen Syrskyi believes Ukraine still has one distinct advantage.\n\n\"I believe the unity of our military leadership and our soldiers' trust in each other is a strong point of our army.\"\n\nThat's in stark contrast to Russia's military hierarchy, which appears to be suffering from infighting, with senior officers being removed from command.\n\nGen Syrskyi is lionised by those around him, who admire his commitment, determination and cunning. Relaxation is a daily session in the gym. He sleeps for just four-and-a-half hours a night.\n\nTo the south and north of Bakhmut, Ukraine says it has retaken nearly 30 sq km (about 12 sq miles) of territory from the Russians.\n\nFor him recapturing Bakhmut is also \"a matter of honour\": \"We lost many of our brothers, our servicemen, when we were defending Bakhmut… therefore we simply have to return it.\"\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, told us that Russian forces in the city would soon be trapped. But artillery shells were still raining down on one Ukrainian position we visited just 3km from the city.\n\nAlex, one of the soldiers from Ukraine's 57th Brigade, describes the situation as \"tense\".\n\nHe points to a large crater created by a Russian artillery shell from earlier that morning. It landed just a few metres from his trench.\n\nShortly after, we too had to run for cover.\n\nFar away from the shelling, commanders in a deep bunker are co-ordinating the efforts to recapture Bakhmut.\n\nTwo months ago, when I was last here, Ukraine was losing ground and in danger of being encircled. Now, the tables have turned.\n\nCol Oleksandr Bakulin, commander of the 57th Brigade, tells me it's now the Russians who are in trouble.\n\nHe says he doesn't underestimate his enemy, but that the regular Russian troops he now faces are not like Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenaries who eventually captured the city earlier this year.\n\nWagner, he says, \"were uncomfortable enemies… they were killing for the sake of killing\".\n\n\"If we put in a bit of effort, Bakhmut could be encircled,\" Col Bakulin says. Contrary to conventional military wisdom, he also says his casualties in the offensive are fewer than when his unit was static, defending the city.\n\nMoving forward, albeit slowly, he says has also boosted morale so \"the losses are easier to bear\".\n\nFor the first time on the eastern front, the numbers of Ukrainian forces now match those of Russian troops - about 160,000. However, Ukraine is still outgunned by Russian artillery.\n\nM777 howitzers, supplied by the US, are already in position around Bakhmut\n\nCould the dynamics change with the arrival of US-supplied cluster munitions, which contain dozens of small bombs that can be sprayed out over a wider area? More than a hundred countries have banned them.\n\nCol Bakulin says they're needed to \"inflict maximum damage on enemy infantry\". \"The more infantry who die here, the more their relatives back in Russia will ask their government 'why?'\"\n\nBut, he adds: \"I can't say that cluster bombs will solve all our problems on the battlefield.\"\n\nHe also acknowledges they're a controversial weapon: \"If the Russians didn't use them, perhaps conscience would not allow us to do it too.\"\n\nGen Syrskyi confirmed that US cluster munitions had now arrived in Ukraine and would be ready to use within days. We saw the US-supplied M777 howitzers, which will fire the shells, already in position around Bakhmut.\n\nThe general says the city's recapture would have more than just symbolic value. He argues Bakhmut is also of strategic importance - as the gateway to other key cities in the region.\n\nBut, he says: \"Our people wait for victories. They need small victories.\"", "A senior Conservative MP has been criticised for saying Afghanistan has been \"transformed\" under the Taliban.\n\nIn a video posted from the country on Monday, former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said corruption was falling and security had \"vastly improved\".\n\nFellow Tory Mark Francois called the video \"bizarre\", whilst former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said it was not \"welcome\".\n\nDowning Street said it disagreed with Mr Ellwood's assessment.\n\nBut Mr Ellwood defended his comments, saying stability in the country was on a \"different level\" than during times of conflict.\n\nIn a BBC News interview, he added that it was time for the UK to establish diplomatic ties with the Taliban rather than \"shouting from afar\".\n\nBritish diplomatic and embassy staff were withdrawn after the Taliban's August 2021 takeover of the country after Western troops pulled out.\n\nMr Ellwood, who chairs the Commons defence select committee, tweeted his video during a trip to Helmand province with a landmine clearance charity.\n\nThe Bournemouth East MP said Afghanistan was \"a country transformed,\" with solar panels starting to appear \"everywhere\" whilst the country's opium trade \"all but disappeared\".\n\n\"This war-wary nation is for the moment accepting a more authoritarian leadership in exchange for stability,\" he added, whilst calling for the West to \"re-engage\" diplomatically.\n\nReopening the British embassy, he added, would be a way to \"incrementally\" encourage \"progressive changes\" in areas like girls' education and rights for female workers.\n\nHowever, in the Commons on Tuesday, Sir Iain said the video was \"not a very welcome statement to have made\" given the \"persecutions that have taken place in Afghanistan\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iain Duncan Smith and Johnny Mercer on Tobias Ellwood’s comments about Afghanistan being \"peaceful and stable\".\n\nMr Francois, who also sits on the defence committee, said the video \"made no mention of the fact that the Taliban is still attempting to identify and kill Afghan citizens who helped our armed forces, or of the fact that young girls in Afghanistan do not even have the right to go to school\".\n\nMr Ellwood, whose brother was killed by Islamists in the 2002 Bali bombings, said he wanted to ensure terrorism does not \"flourish\" in Afghanistan.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, he said he understood his comments would \"cause waves\", but he was pleased he had \"shone a light on a country that we ran away from\".\n\n\"The current strategy of us shouting from afar to try and effect the agenda in Afghanistan is not working,\" he said, adding that he was speaking an \"an individual MP\".\n\n\"We need to engage more directly, more robustly, and that can be done if we open up the [British] embassy\".", "Donald Trump has said he expects to be arrested by a federal inquiry into the US Capitol riot and efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.\n\nThe ex-president said in a social media post he had been informed by special counsel Jack Smith on Sunday night that he was a target of their investigation.\n\nMr Trump posted he had been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment\".\n\nThe special counsel has not commented on Mr Trump's statements.\n\nSuch an indictment would be Mr Trump's third for alleged criminal offences, including 37 counts brought by Mr Smith's team in June accusing the president of mishandling classified documents.\n\nMr Trump has also been charged in New York City with falsifying business records in 2016 hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.\n\nHe is due to stand trial in that case next March, while a date for the classified documents case is still being contested by the president's lawyers.\n\nSpeaking in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday night, the former president expressed his frustration at the latest development.\n\n\"I didn't know practically what a subpoena was and grand juries and all of this. Now I'm becoming an expert, I have no choice because we have to,\" he said at the campaign event. \"It's a disgrace.\"\n\nEarlier in a post on his Truth Social platform, Mr Trump claimed that he had been sent a letter \"stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment\".\n\nMr Smith was appointed special counsel by US Attorney General Merrick Garland shortly after Mr Trump announced his presidential campaign last autumn.\n\nHis team was tasked with investigating Mr Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving the White House and with managing a sprawling federal investigation into the riot at the US Capitol and attempts by Mr Trump and his advisers to \"interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election\".\n\nThe special counsel's office has not discussed what specific criminal violations they are considering. It is not known if others have been told they are a target.\n\nLast December, a House committee investigating the events of January 6 recommended four separate criminal charges be brought against the former president and his associates:\n\nThe Democratic-led committee - which included two Republicans - described the criminal referrals as a \"roadmap to justice\", but prosecutors do not have to follow a congressional committee's recommendations.\n\nMr Smith's own investigation has involved interviews with dozens of top Trump administration officials and advisers, including former Vice-President Mike Pence and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.\n\nAccording to public comments by some who have testified before the grand jury, questions have focused on efforts by Mr Trump's team to organise slates of \"fake electors\" who would claim that the former president had defeated Democrat Joe Biden in seven key battleground states.\n\nState prosecutors in Atlanta, Georgia, are also investigating the former president on similar grounds, focusing on whether he illegally pressured state officials there to discard Mr Biden's victory. In a December 2020 phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Mr Trump asked that Georgia officials \"find 11,780 votes\" that would flip the state to Mr Trump.\n\nA decision by Georgia prosecutors on whether to indict Mr Trump is expected next month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nMr Trump is currently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, with double-digit polling leads over his nearest rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.\n\nSpeaking to CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday, Gov DeSantis suggested Mr Trump \"could've come out more forcefully\" to stop the Capitol riots but said he hopes the former president \"doesn't get charged\".\n\n\"I don't think it'll be good for the country. But at the same time I've got to focus on looking forward, and that's what we're gonna do,\" said Gov DeSantis.\n\nMr Trump's lead over his Florida rival has grown over the course of the past four months, even as his first two indictments were announced.\n\nHe has frequently painted the investigations - and indictments - as an attempt by his political opponents to prevent him from returning to the White House.\n\nThe former president's team has said that both indictments led to a surge in fundraising for his campaign. In recently released figures, Mr Trump raised more than $17m (£13m) for his campaign from April to June, with millions more directed to an account that could be used to help finance his legal defence.", "Some of the greatest English poets of the 20th Century were ruled out by Downing Street as candidates for poet laureate, government files reveal.\n\nNames such as WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Robert Graves were passed over as being unsuitable.\n\nThe job dates back to the 17th Century, and has been filled by some of the most celebrated poets in history, including Tennyson and Wordsworth.\n\nThe papers, released on Wednesday, date from the 1960s to the 1980s.\n\nIn May 1967, the appointments secretary at 10 Downing Street found himself having to draw up a list of the country's best poets. The incumbent, John Masefield, had died after 37 years in the post.\n\nIt was the middle of the so-called \"swinging '60s\" and the idea of a poet laureate seemed archaic to many.\n\nBut poetry was increasingly popular, thanks to the work of a new generation of writers, like Allen Ginsberg in the US, and the Liverpool poets in Britain.\n\nHarold Wilson, the prime minister, was in no rush to make a decision. John Hewitt, who was appointments secretary at Number 10, was told to investigate potential candidates.\n\nOther stories from the National Archives:\n\nYorkshire-born WH Auden was considered ineligible as he had become a US citizen in 1946\n\nHe approached leading figures in the arts, as well as dons at Oxford and Cambridge. Dame Helen Gardner, Merton Professor of English at Oxford, had some \"fairly caustic\" comments about the \"present quality of poetry\" and the \"lack of any outstanding talent\", the papers reveal.\n\nAuden was excluded because he was an American citizen. John Betjeman was one of the most popular poets. But Dame Helen described him as \"a lightweight, amusing but rather trivial\". He had \"critical views about the establishment\", she said, which were deemed to be not appropriate.\n\nRobert Graves was \"probably the best poet available\", she added, but his \"manner of life must surely rule him out\". Graves had criticised the role and spent most of his time in Majorca.\n\nStevie Smith was not a popular choice with the poetry establishment\n\nThe popular poet Stevie Smith she dismissed as \"absurd\". She \"wrote 'little girl poetry' about herself mostly.\" Cecil Day-Lewis was \"a possible\" - he produced \"run of the mill poetry but nothing particularly outstanding\".\n\nThat view was echoed by the chair of the Poetry Society, Geoffrey Handley-Taylor. He told Hewitt that Graves was \"too peculiar\" and \"too anti-establishment\". Betjeman, he said, \"called himself a poetic hack and there was some truth to this\".\n\nHe described Smith as \"unstable\". By contrast Day-Lewis was \"a good administrative poet\" and \"a safe bet\".\n\nAs the months passed, more names were put forward. Some nominated themselves. Allen Ginsberg proposed the singer Donovan, just 21, whose work \"Sunshine Superman\" and \"Mellow Yellow\" had topped the charts. In August, Ginsberg sent a hand drawn \"flower card\" to Number 10 with the words \"Donovan for Laureate\". Officials did not respond.\n\nUS beat poet Allen Ginsberg was an advocate of Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan for the post\n\nOn September 14, 1967, Hewitt wrote to the prime minister proposing Day-Lewis. The alternative, Betjeman, would be a \"backward-looking choice\", he said. He had been described as \"the songster of tennis lawns and cathedral cloisters\".\n\nHarold Wilson agreed, but he wanted Hewitt to explore the possibility of appointing additional poets laureate for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. That was not pursued, and in January 1968, the announcement was made.\n\nBut four years later, the search began again, after Day-Lewis died.\n\nAuden was again under consideration, according to newspaper reports, and apparently the bookies' favourite.\n\nNumber 10 was warned by Ross McWhirter - of the Guinness Book of Records - that Auden was said to be the author of a \"pornographic\" poem entitled \"The Gobble\", published in an underground magazine.\n\nMcWhirter worried that if Auden were selected this could \"bring disgrace upon the appointment\" and this would reflect on the Queen herself. The now-Sir John Hewitt told him Auden wasn't on the shortlist.\n\nThis time Philip Larkin was under serious consideration - described by Hewitt as \"a first-rate craftsman\". But the critic Jon Stallworthy warned Larkin disliked public speaking. Officials were advised he was a \"reserved\" man who would not be an ambassador for poetry.\n\nPhilip Larkin was passed over because officials were advised he was a “reserved” man\n\nThe so-called \"poets' conference\", representing younger writers, suggested Adrian Mitchell and George MacBeth - but they didn't make it into the final selection.\n\nThen Prime Minister Ted Heath, picked Betjeman - who accepted, writing that he was \"honoured and delighted and at the same time humbled\".\n\nIn 1984, a new laureate was needed, following Betjeman's death. There is no discussion of merit in the file.\n\nMrs Thatcher's officials put together a list of names and recommendations. Larkin was the most popular choice, but one unnamed figure objected.\n\nTed Hughes was picked, even though only two people proposed him - and no explanation was given.\n\nThe trial of selecting a new laureate following the death of the previous one is now a thing of the past. Whereas it used to be a lifetime post, since 1999 the appointment has been for a fixed term of 10 years. Current incumbent Simon Armitage's tenure runs until 2029.\n\nReacting to the newly declassified files, Mark Ford, Professor of English at University College London, said: \"The laureateship is such a peculiar role that finding a suitable candidate is not easy - 1967 was clearly a particularly trying year.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A kitchen shrine adorned with serpents, a bakery, human skeletons, exquisite frescos, and yes, a picture of something that looks very much like pizza. These are among the new finds being turned up at the Pompeii Archaeological Park.\n\nDig anywhere in the ancient city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD79 and you will unearth a treasure - a snapshot of a lost Roman world.\n\nIt's extraordinary to think that one-third of the city buried under pumice and ash has yet to be excavated.\n\n\"Much of that will be for future generations,\" says Alessandro Russo, the co-lead archaeologist on the new dig.\n\n\"We have a problem to conserve what we've already found. Future generations may have new ideas, new techniques.\"\n\nThe latest work returns to a sector in the park last explored in the late 19th Century.\n\nBack then, archaeologists had opened up the frontage of houses on Via Di Nola, one of Pompeii's main thoroughfares, but hadn't delved far behind.\n\nThey had identified a laundry but that was about it.\n\nExcavation work under way in the searing summer heat, in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius\n\nNow, the diggers are progressively pulling away the volcanic ash and pea-sized stones, known as lapilli, that smothered Pompeii during the two catastrophic days of the Vesuvian eruption.\n\nThe dig site is, in effect, a whole city block. It is known as an insula and is some 3,000 sq m (32,000 sq ft) in size.\n\nBBC News has been given exclusive access to the investigation with Lion TV, which is making a three-part series to be aired early next year on the BBC.\n\nThe giant oven could have baked 100 loaves of bread daily\n\n\"Every room in every house has its own micro-story in the grander story of Pompeii. I want to uncover those micro-stories,\" says Gennaro Iovino.\n\nThe other co-lead archaeologist wants you to imagine that you are entering a delightful atrium - an entrance hall - with a hole in the roof where lion figureheads direct rainwater down onto a fountain, next to a statue.\n\nThe builders were clearly doing some repairs at the time of the eruption because the roof tiles are neatly stacked in two piles. But this is not a magnificent villa, like some of the imposing homes found elsewhere in Pompeii.\n\nThis building would have been part-commercial because, on turning right, you are confronted by a giant oven, big enough to be producing 100 loaves a day.\n\nRoughly 50 bakeries have already been found in Pompeii. This, however, can't have been a shop because there is no shop front.\n\nIt's more likely to have been a wholesaler, distributing bread across town, perhaps to the many fast-food joints for which Pompeii was so famous.\n\nThe discovery of a fresco depicting a piece of round flatbread on a silver tray, accompanied by pomegranate, dates, nuts and arbutus fruits, caused a sensation when it was announced to the world in June.\n\nIt's not a pizza, though. Tomatoes and mozzarella, two ingredients in the classic Neapolitan recipe, were not available in Italy in the first century AD.\n\nPerhaps it's a piece of focaccia? The pizza thing started as a bit of a joke, says Gennaro. \"I emailed a picture to my boss, saying 'first the oven, now the pizza'.\"\n\nWith Naples - the home of pizza - a short distance away, the discovery naturally caused a sensation\n\nThe world just went crazy after that. A cover will soon be built over the fresco to try to protect it from the elements.\n\nThe 20,000 visitors who come to Pompeii every day will demand to see the \"ancestor to the pizza\", as some are now describing the fresco subject.\n\nFor the moment, the skeletons are being kept in a specially constructed store room\n\nIt's easy to forget that Pompeii was a human tragedy. We have little idea how many died. You have to believe most residents left when they saw the horror unfolding at the top of Vesuvius.\n\nSkeletons have been recovered, perhaps 1,300 to 1,500 in total, and the new dig has its own examples: two women and a child of unknown sex.\n\nA ball joint at the top of a human thigh bone (femur)\n\nLooking at where the victims were found, it's obvious that they were trying to take cover, hoping that by hiding under a staircase, they would be safe.\n\nWhat they hadn't counted on was the roof collapsing from the weight of all the lapilli and ash. The heavy stonework smashed their bodies.\n\nThe drama of those momentous days in October AD79 are also revealed on the other side of the atrium in what was once a bedroom.\n\nThe bed itself is a charred mass - caused by a fire. It is barely recognisable apart from its broad outline seared into the walls and floor.\n\nThe bedroom might have caught fire when a lamp was knocked over in the panic to escape the eruption\n\nIf you look closely at the debris, you can see blackened fragments of the textile bedclothes and even the filling from the mattress.\n\nA fragment of what is left of the mattress\n\nArchaeologists can tell from the position of these carbonised remains that the fire occurred relatively early in the eruption. They speculate that a lamp might have been knocked over in the panic to get out.\n\n\"It would be interesting to understand who were the people that didn't make it,\" wonders park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel.\n\nWall paintings that look like modern-day wallpaper - \"We're always looking for a surprise,\" says Gabriel Zuchtriegel\n\n\"Were they the poor? More women than men? Or maybe people who had property and tried to stay to protect what they had, while others who had nothing just took off and ran.\"\n\nTowards the back of the area so far excavated there is a wall that encloses three rooms. It's here that the removal of lapilli and ash has exposed more astonishing artwork.\n\nIn the middle room, covered by a tarpaulin, is yet another elegant fresco. It shows the episode in the myth of Achilles where the legendary hero soldier - with his unfortunate Achilles heel - tried to hide dressed as a woman to avoid fighting in the Trojan War.\n\nIn the third room, I pull back another tarp to reveal a magnificent shrine. Two yellow serpents in relief slither up a burgundy background. \"These are good demons,\" says Alessandro. He points to a fresco further down the wall just above an opening to a box of some kind.\n\n\"This room is actually a kitchen. They would have made offerings here to their gods. Foods like fish or fruits. The snake is a connection between the gods and the humans.\"\n\nAs the insula is further revealed, scaffolding is being put up around what remains of the buildings to make protective roofing. In the future, the park hopes to erect a high walkway so tourists can see the new treasures that are emerging.\n\n\"People sometimes ask [us], 'What would you like to find? What are you looking for?'\" explains Gabriel. He says such questions are misleading.\n\n\"What we're really looking for is what we don't know. We're always looking for a surprise. It's all emerging evidence, leading us somewhere, but we don't know where that journey goes.\"\n\nAdditional reporting by Rebecca Morelle, Alison Francis and Tony Jolliffe. The BBC/Lion TV series (Pompeii: The New Dig) will be broadcast early next year.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew Zealand is in mourning after a shooting in Auckland left two people dead, hours before the city opened the Fifa Women's World Cup.\n\nSix other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident at 07:22 (19:22 GMT) on a construction site in the central business district.\n\nPM Chris Hipkins said the attack was not being seen as an act of terrorism.\n\nThe tournament would go ahead as planned, he confirmed.\n\nWhile no political or ideological motive for the attack had been identified, police had neutralised the threat and the public could be assured that there was no ongoing risk, the prime minister said.\n\nAuckland Mayor Wayne Brown said the shooting was not in any way related to the Women's World Cup.\n\nThe shooter, 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, tore through a construction site with a pump-action shotgun, plunging the busy centre of New Zealand's largest city into lockdown.\n\nThe man was known to police and had a history of family violence and mental health issues. He had been subject to a home detention order but had an exemption to work at the site. He did not have a license to own a firearm.\n\nMr Hipkins addressed the victim's families in a televised speech, saying, \"The whole nation is mourning with you\".\n\n\"The victims went to work this morning as they do every morning, but they won't be coming home tonight,\" he said.\n\nPolice will look specifically into how the man got hold of a firearm despite New Zealand's strict gun control laws.\n\n\"I've got confidence that they will investigate fully what happened here and they will be able to provide answers to questions we have in time,\" he said.\n\nAll Fifa personnel and football teams are safe and have been accounted for. Earlier, he had warned people to stay home and avoid travelling into the city, Mr Brown said.\n\n\"I can't remember anything like this ever happening in our beautiful city. This morning's events have been tragic and distressing for all Aucklanders, as this is not something that we are used to,\" Mr Brown wrote on Twitter.\n\nFifa expressed its \"deepest condolences\" to the victims' families and said it was in communication with New Zealand authorities.\n\n\"The participating teams in close proximity to this incident are being supported in relation to any impact that may have taken place,\" it said.\n\nThe opening match between New Zealand and Norway in the city's Eden Park got under way at 19:00 local time (07:00 GMT).\n\nSport Minister Grant Robertson said there would be extra police in the area to provide reassurance.\n\nThe ninth Women's World Cup is being co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia.\n\nPolice said they heard reports of a person discharging a firearm inside the construction site, and the gunman moved through the building and continued to fire.\n\nThe man then went into a lift shaft and police attempted to engage with him.\n\nFurther shots were fired by the man and he was found dead a short time later, police said.\n\nFollowing the shooting there was a large armed police presence in the central business district not far from the waterfront and the fan park.\n\nTatjana Haenni, chief sporting director for National Women's Soccer league USA, is staying close to where the shooting happened.\n\nShe told BBC News she had woken up to sounds of police cars arriving and was told to stay inside. \"So far we feel safe,\" she said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "It will be \"His Majesty\" whose name appears on UK passports from this week\n\nThe first British passports issued in King Charles's name are being released this week, the Home Office has said.\n\nPassports will now use the wording \"His Majesty\", with the era finally ending for passports using \"Her Majesty\", for the late Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe last time \"His Majesty\" appeared on a passport was in the reign of King George VI, which ended in 1952.\n\nFive million passports have been issued already this year under the name of the late Queen.\n\nThe one person who will not need a passport is the King himself. By convention the monarch does not have to carry a passport to travel, because it is a document issued in his own name.\n\nThe updated passports are the latest stage in the gradual transition in reigns, with stamps and some coins now carrying the King's head. Banknotes will begin to change next year.\n\nSince the late Queen's death last September there has been a steady process of switching to images and insignia of the new King, with an emphasis on using up existing stocks rather than having an abrupt change.\n\nIt will be the same for passports, with any existing supplies with \"Her Majesty\" being used until they run out, alongside the arrival of the new version.\n\nThe new passports will now carry the words: \"His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of His Majesty...\"\n\nBut the previous \"Her Majesty\" passports will also continue to be valid until their expiry date.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said: \"For 70 years, Her Majesty has appeared on British passports and many of us will not remember a time when she did not feature. Today marks a significant moment in UK history.\"\n\nAfter problems with delays to issuing passports last year and industrial action this year, the Home Office says 99% of passports are being issued within 10 weeks of application.\n\nUK passports in their modern form, with photo and signature, have been issued since 1915, with the first security watermark being added in 1972 and machine-readable passports introduced in 1988.\n\nIn 2020, after leaving the European Union, UK passports changed from a burgundy colour, used since 1988, to dark blue.\n\nThis was described as returning to an \"iconic blue\", which prompted arguments on social media over the colour of new and old passports, with debates over whether the pre-EU and post-EU versions were really blue or black.\n\nGet the latest royal news from our weekly free newsletter - sign up here.", "Russia has accused the West of putting commercial interests ahead of humanitarian ones with regards to the grain deal\n\nRussia's withdrawal from the deal allowing Ukraine to safely export grain through the Black Sea is a \"stab on the back\" for those in drought-hit countries, Kenya's government has said.\n\nThe country is in a region experiencing one of the worst droughts in decades.\n\nMoscow said on Monday that it would not renew the deal, accusing the West of not keeping its side of the bargain.\n\nThe Russian blockade of Ukrainian ports last year threatened to cause food shortages in parts of Africa.\n\nGrain prices also soared, but the deal, brokered in July 2022 by Turkey and the UN. allowed vital Ukrainian produce back on the world market.\n\nRussia's decision was condemned by world leaders, who said it would affect some of the planet's poorest people.\n\nRussia said it would return to the agreement if its conditions were met.\n\n\"The decision by Russia to exit the Black Sea Grain Initiative is a stab on [sic] the back at global food security prices and disproportionately impacts countries in the Horn of Africa already impacted by drought,\" Korir Sing'Oei the top civil servant in Kenya's foreign affairs ministry said in a tweet.\n\nMore than 50 million people across Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan are in need of food aid because of successive years of failed rains.\n\nRussia said that Ukraine's failure to export more grain to poorer countries was one of the reasons it pulled out of the deal.\n\nHowever, the UN said that under the grain deal, Ukraine has shipped 625,000 tonnes of food as humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.\n\nThe deal formally came to an end at just after midnight on Tuesday Istanbul time (21:00 GMT). It had let cargo ships pass through the Black Sea from the ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny/Pivdennyi.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin had long complained that parts of the deal allowing the export of Russian food and fertilisers had not been honoured.\n\nRussia also complained that Western sanctions were restricting its own agricultural exports. Mr Putin repeatedly threatened to pull out of the agreement.\n\nThe country's foreign ministry on Monday reiterated these grievances, accusing the West of \"open sabotage\" and of \"selfishly\" putting the commercial interests of the deal ahead of its humanitarian goals.\n\nBut Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters he believed that Mr Putin \"wants to continue the agreement\" and that they would discuss the renewal of the deal when they meet in person next month.\n\nThe grain deal is important as Ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of sunflower, maize, wheat and barley.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country intended to continue exporting grain, highlighting that the agreement was made up of two deals that mirrored each other - one signed by Ukraine and the other by Russia.\n\n\"We are not afraid,\" he said of Russia's decision to withdraw from their deal.\n\n\"We were approached by companies who own vessels and they're willing to continue shipping grain if Ukraine agrees to let them in and Turkey - to pass them through.\"\n\nMykhaylo Podolyak, an adviser to Mr Zelensky, suggested an international armed patrol force could be created to escort ships carrying grain from Ukraine and ensure their safety.\n\nHe admitted, however, that there may not be many countries willing to create such patrols.\n\nNikolay Gorbachev, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association, told the BBC that his members had identified alternative means of exporting grain - including through its Danube River ports.\n\nBut he conceded that the ports would be less efficient, reducing the amount of grain Ukraine can export and raising the cost of moving it.\n\nWorld leaders were quick to condemn the decision, with EU commission President Ursula von der Leyen accusing Russia of a \"cynical move\", while the US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, described the move as an \"act of cruelty\".\n\nNgozi Okonjo-Iweala, who heads the World Trade Organization (WTO) said Black Sea trade in food, feed and fertiliser was \"critical to the stability of global food prices\" - adding that hope must be kept alive that Moscow would reconsider pulling out of the deal.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, meanwhile, said the organisation would look for solutions to the \"rise in human suffering\" that would \"inevitably\" follow Russia's decision.\n\n\"There is simply too much at stake in a hungry and hurting world,\" said Mr Guterres.\n\nThe Kremlin's announcement came just hours after an attack on a bridge in Crimea that killed two civilians. Ukraine has not officially claimed responsibility but a source in the country's security service told BBC Russian it was behind the attack.\n\nMr Peskov said Russia letting the deal expire was unrelated to the attack. \"Before this attack, the position was declared by President Putin\", he told reporters in Moscow.\n• None What was the Ukraine grain deal?", "Nigel Farage has launched a fresh attack over Coutts bank's decision to close his account.\n\nThe BBC had previously reported Mr Farage had fallen below the financial threshold needed for an account, citing a source familiar with the move.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4 on Wednesday, Mr Farage said the BBC had fallen for \"spin\" and restated that he had been \"cancelled\" for his political views.\n\nCoutts said decisions to close an account \"are not taken lightly\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the BBC was told dropping under the wealth threshold could prompt the bank to conduct a wider review of the customer's profile, including reputational and legal risk.\n\nIn the Commons on Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it \"wouldn't be right\" for financial services to be denied to those expressing lawful free speech and said the government would be \"toughening the rules around account closures\" following a consultation.\n\nThe BBC has been told the government is preparing to announce tighter regulations on banks, which is expected to include giving customers more notice of planned account closures, and the rationale behind them, and therefore more ability to appeal decisions.\n\nFormer leader of the UK Independence Party Mr Farage spoke to BBC Radio 4's World at One after he obtained a report on Tuesday that had reviewed his suitability as a client of Coutts, and which has since been published in the Mail.\n\nHe told the programme that the report had mentioned Brexit and his alleged links to Russia.\n\n\"Apparently, I'm a risk to them. I have virtually no links of any kind to Russia whatsoever. This is political. There is no other way of looking at it,\" he said.\n\nThe document also gave examples of Mr Farage's views, including his retweet of a Ricky Gervais joke about trans women and his friendship with tennis player Novak Djokovic, who is opposed to Covid vaccinations, to flag concerns that Mr Farage is \"xenophobic and racist\".\n\nHe said the 40-page document shows that in November 2022, Coutts' reputational risk committee \"met and said, I did not align with their values, that somehow I wasn't part of their diversity and inclusion agenda and that for those reasons there should be a glide path to closing my account\".\n\nThe document - which the BBC does not have a copy of - makes disclosures including:\n\nMr Farage said the report stated \"very clearly\" that he had met the bank's commercial criteria.\n\n\"For them to try subsequently to pretend that it's for commercial reasons just is not true.\"\n\nHe later told BBC Newsnight he was \"literally shocked\" when he saw the report, which he described as a \"personal hit job\". \"This bank is behaving now like a political campaigning organisation,\" he said.\n\nEconomist Frances Coppola told the same programme that \"having read the report, I actually don't think that's the reason why they closed his account. The report makes it clear that the reason they closed the account was that Nigel paid off his mortgage and the house was released as a security and that brought him below the criteria for an account at that bank.\"\n\nThe bank, owned by NatWest, says customers must borrow or invest £1m or have £3m in savings. Mr Farage previously did not dispute that he did not meet Coutts' threshold but said the bank had not had a problem with this for the past 10 years.\n\nCoutts said on Wednesday it recognised \"the substantial interest\" in Mr Farage's case.\n\n\"We cannot comment on the detail given our customer confidentiality obligations. However, it is not Coutts' policy to close customer accounts solely on the basis of legally held political and personal views. Decisions to close an account are not taken lightly and involve a number of factors including commercial viability, reputational considerations, and legal and regulatory requirements.\n\n\"We recognise the critical importance of access to banking. When it became clear that our client was unable to secure banking facilities elsewhere, and as he has confirmed publicly, he was offered alternative banking facilities with NatWest. That offer stands,\" it added.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it was discussing the situation with NatWest.\n\nFCA chief executive Nikhil Rathi told MPs: \"You'd expect that we are talking to NatWest Group about this.\n\n\"A specific adjudication on an individual case is a matter for the Financial Ombudsman Service.\"\n\nHe told the Treasury Select Committee: \"If a complaint is made and it is determined that there has not been an appropriate consideration of this case, that would then of course be relevant for us from a supervisory perspective.\"\n\nThe BBC's previous report, published at the start of July, cited people familiar with Coutts' decision to shut his account as saying it was a \"commercial decision\".\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Farage called for the BBC to apologise for its previous reporting, and said he would be making a complaint.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday former Brexit secretary David Davis accused the bank of lying about the \"commercial viability\" of Mr Farage's account in anonymous briefings to the BBC.\n\nSeparately, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, called for an inquiry into what happened to the Coutts bank account.\n\nMr Sunak's press secretary said after PMQs it would be \"incredibly concerning and wrong\" if Mr Farage's account was closed due to his political opinions.\n\n\"No-one should be barred from bank services for their political views,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said elsewhere that this \"exposes the sinister nature of much of the diversity, equity and inclusion industry\".\n\n\"NatWest and other corporates who have naively adopted this politically biased dogma need a major rethink.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA HM Treasury spokesperson said: \"It would be of serious concern if financial services were being denied to anyone exercising their right to lawful free speech.\n\n\"We will soon set out plans to crack down on this practice by toughening the rules around account closures, protecting freedom of expression.\n\n\"In the meantime, people can complain to the Financial Ombudsman Service which has the power to direct a bank to reopen an account.\"\n\nThe government since January has been taking evidence on how private companies' right to commercial independence is balanced with individuals' rights to freedom of expression.\n\nGovernment insiders have told the BBC the government's view is that the balance has \"tipped\" too far in companies' favour.\n\nCoutts said: \"We understand the public concern that the processes for ending a customer relationship, and how that is communicated, are not sufficiently transparent.\"\n\nThe bank added that it welcomed the Treasury plans to prioritise the review of the regulatory rules relating to politically exposed persons.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Salma Hayek in the Black Mirror episode Joan Is Awful\n\nSingaporean actress, model and former radio DJ Jamie Yeo has no problem with being deepfaked. In fact, she signed up for it.\n\n\"It's a bit like that Black Mirror episode with Salma Hayek,\" Ms Yeo jokes.\n\nShe was speaking to the BBC the day after the release of the new series of Charlie Brooker's Netflix show. In the first episode, actress Salma Hayek, playing a fictionalised version of herself, signs away her image to a production company.\n\nThe deal allows it to use an artificial intelligence or AI-generated deepfake version of the Hollywood A-lister to \"star\" in their new TV drama. What she says and does in the show is controlled by the computer.\n\nThe consequences for Ms Hayek - without spoiling the story - are not good.\n\nConcerns about the impact of AI are partly behind the first Hollywood actors' strike in more than four decades, bringing the US movie and television business to a halt.\n\nIt comes after Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) failed to reach an agreement in the US for better protections against the misuse of AI for its members.\n\nThe actors' union has warned that \"artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to creative professions\" as it prepared to dig in over the issue.\n\nHowever, Ms Yeo is not worried. She is one of a growing number of celebrities embracing AI-generated advertising.\n\nThe new technology is being met with a mixture of excitement and trepidation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Yeo has just agreed a deal with financial technology firm Hugosave, which allows it to use a digitally manipulated likeness of her to sell their content.\n\nThe process is fairly simple. She spends a couple of hours in front of a green screen to capture her face and movements, then a couple more hours in a recording studio to capture her voice.\n\nAn AI programme then synchronises the images with the audio to create a digital alter-ego capable of saying practically anything. The results are uncanny.\n\n\"I do understand the concern, but this technology is here to stay,\" she says. \"So even if you don't embrace it because you're scared, there will be other people who will embrace it.\"\n\nSome already have. As part of his deal with PepsiCo, superstar footballer Lionel Messi allowed it to use a deepfake version of himself to advertise Lay's crisps.\n\nNot only can online users create personalised video messages from \"Lionel Messi\", they can get him to say it in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish.\n\nFellow football superstar David Beckham and Hollywood legend Bruce Willis have also dabbled with deepfake technology - though, unlike Ms Yeo, they have so far stopped short of signing away full image rights.\n\n\"I think deepfakes will just become part of normal practice in the advertising industry over the next few years,\" says Dr Kirk Plangger, a marketing expert at King's College London.\n\n\"It opens the door to all kinds of creative options. They're able to micro-target consumers and are often extremely persuasive.\"\n\nThe efficiency of the process also makes it attractive from a commercial point of view.\n\n\"You're not doing that much work for the money you're charging,\" Ms Yeo says.\n\n\"It's also good for the client on a budget because they get so much more content than from a normal shoot. So it works for everyone.\"\n\nThe client - in this case Singapore-based Hugosave - agrees.\n\n\"Having this technology available means we can literally produce hundreds of videos in a matter of days. Compare that to the months, if not years, that we'd need if we were filming the content in the traditional way,\" says Braham Djidjelli, Hugosave's co-founder and chief product officer.\n\n\"We're able to leverage the benefit of AI while also retaining the human touch of a trusted local face - in this case Jamie's.\"\n\nBut, as analysts such as Dr Plangger point out, there is a \"dark side\" to the technology.\n\n\"It's not something we can put back into the box,\" he says. \"The advertising industry needs to wake up to the risks as well as the possibilities of artificial intelligence. It means stepping back, as a society, and thinking about what is the proper or ethical use of this technology.\"\n\nOne of the things Dr Plangger is referring to is a looming \"crisis of trust\", where consumers cannot tell between what is real or fake. This is something already being exploited by vested interests online and can range from synthetically manipulated pornography to misinformation to political messaging.\n\nThis week BBC News is focussing on AI, how the technology affects our lives and what impacts it may have in the near future.\n\nBut there are also more practical risks for the talent voluntarily signing up to be deepfaked. Currently, there are no clear laws relating to AI to ensure your image is properly protected.\n\nFor example, what happens if a brand uses your digital avatar to endorse a product that may damage your image or your alter-ego makes a joke in poor taste?\n\n\"We are in uncharted territory when it comes to AI and deepfake technology,\" says Tng Sheng Rong, an intellectual property lawyer at Rajah and Tann in Singapore.\n\n\"Many, many issues can arise. Who owns the intellectual property? Who do you go to for legal recourse? The truth of the matter is that the existing laws don't provide a robust enough regulatory framework to guard against these issues.\"\n\nThat may be the final hurdle for advertisers before they start buying rights to digital versions of Hollywood A-listers, for example.\n\nAt this early stage, Ms Yeo says she is very mindful of the risks, but her decision was informed mainly by trust - both in Hugosave and in the way business is done in Singapore.\n\nBut ultimately, she says, it is about staying ahead of the curve.\n\n\"If you want to still be in the game, then you've got to learn how to be in it. Because if you don't, you should probably just retire.\"", "Russia's president will not attend a summit in South Africa next month, according to the country's presidency.\n\nThe announcement comes after South Africa's leader said any attempt to arrest Vladimir Putin would be a declaration of war against Russia.\n\nIf Mr Putin had left Russian soil, he would have been subject to an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant.\n\nSouth Africa is an ICC signatory and expected to help in Mr Putin's arrest.\n\nRussia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will represent the country at the two-day summit instead.\n\nHowever, Mr Putin will take part in the Brics conference - an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - by video link, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to Russian media.\n\nThe Brics grouping is seen by some as an alternative to the G7 group of advanced economies.\n\nIn a statement, South Africa's presidency described the agreement for Mr Putin not to attend as \"mutual\" and said it had come about following a \"number of consultations\" on the summit.\n\nSupporters of Russia have criticised the decision, saying South Africa should have insisted and used its sovereignty to protect and defend its friend.\n\nSouth Africa's invitation to Mr Putin, issued before the ICC accused him of war crimes in Ukraine, has caused controversy both nationally and internationally.\n\nIt came to be seen as a move by the government to stray from the middle ground it has sought to tread, alongside other African nations, in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.\n\nBut President Cyril Ramaphosa's government became frantic as pressure to arrest President Putin mounted.\n\nThe biggest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, went to court to try to force the authorities to arrest Mr Putin, should he set foot in the country. Global human rights group Amnesty International was also part of the challenge.\n\nCourt documents reveal that Mr Ramaphosa was firmly against any such move, stating that national security was at stake.\n\n\"Russia has made it clear that arresting its sitting president would be a declaration of war. It would be inconsistent with our constitution to risk engaging in war with Russia,\" he said in an affidavit.\n\nMr Peskov denied Moscow had told South Africa that arresting its president would mean an act of war, but said it was \"clear to everyone what [that kind of] infringement against the head of the Russian state would mean\".\n\nRussia has consistently described the ICC arrest warrant as outrageous and legally void, because the country is not a member of the organisation.\n\nThe African continent remains split over the war between Russia and Ukraine, with some countries showing reluctance to back United Nations' resolutions condemning Russia for its actions in Ukraine.\n\nThe reasons for this vary from country to country, but experts say one factor is the economic ties that some, including South Africa, have with Moscow.\n\nA sanctioned Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, is said to be one of the biggest donors to South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC).", "Adil Iqbal was told he was guilty of \"the most indescribable reckless driving\"\n\nA driver who filmed himself speeding at 123mph before hitting and killing a pregnant mother-of-two has been jailed for 12 years.\n\nAdil Iqbal admitted causing the death of Frankie Jules-Hough, 38, by dangerous driving on the M66 in Bury, Greater Manchester, on 13 May.\n\nThe 22-year-old also admitted causing serious injury to her son, aged nine, and nephew, aged four.\n\nThe family's solicitor described the sentence as \"insulting\".\n\nManchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard how Iqbal, from Accrington, Lancashire, was driving his father's BMW with one hand and holding his phone with the other to film himself, possibly to upload to Facebook, as he tailgated and undertook other vehicles and swerved across lanes.\n\nMs Jules-Hough had pulled over on the hard shoulder with a tyre puncture, with her two sons and nephew in the car.\n\nShe was making a call to say she would be late when she let out a \"blood-curdling scream\", the court heard.\n\nThe BMW 140i undertook a motorbike then swerved, over-compensated and hit a crash barrier before spinning around and ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's Skoda Fabia at an estimated 92mph.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adil Iqbal filmed himself speeding at 123mph before ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's car\n\nShe was 17 weeks pregnant with her first daughter, Neeve, and suffered unsurvivable brain injuries.\n\nThey both died two days later in hospital surrounded by family, with Ms Jules-Hough having never regained consciousness.\n\nHer son and nephew were left in a coma suffering serious brain injuries with their long-term outcomes remaining uncertain, the court heard.\n\nBoth spent weeks in intensive care in hospital. Her youngest son, who was also in the car, was relatively unscathed.\n\nDashcam footage and film from Iqbal's phone was shown to the court, watched by relatives of Ms Jules-Hough, some of whom gave emotional victim impact statements before the defendant was jailed.\n\nThe court heard from drivers who had seen Iqbal on the motorway, including Johnathan Hoyle who saw him six minutes before the crash and thought he was \"an accident waiting to happen\".\n\nAnother driver, Sophie Dodswell, was said to \"scream out\" as he came within inches of her car at about 120mph.\n\nFrankie Jules-Hough was taken to hospital after the crash but later died\n\nFrank Hough, Ms Jules-Hough's father, said his family had been devastated \"all because a young man wanted to show off, wanted to show his friends on social media how daring and cool he thought he was\".\n\nHe added: \"Our worlds have been torn apart and for what? So this boy could try to make himself feel like a big man.\"\n\nCalvin Buckley, Ms Jules-Hough's partner, said in a victim impact statement: \"What I witnessed that day, that weekend, those hours of desperation, those minutes praying for a miracle or those seconds watching my partner take her last breaths, will stay with me for a lifetime.\"\n\nTom Spencer, her nine-year-old son's father, described arriving at the scene. \"Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw,\" he said.\n\nThe court was told Iqbal had been convicted of driving without insurance in 2019 and in December 2021 posted a video to Facebook after filming himself speeding in a Lamborghini Huracan in Dubai.\n\nTwo months before the M66 crash, he was given a warning by police after being stopped while racing an Audi on public roads.\n\nEmergency services attended the crash scene on 13 May\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Maurice Greene told him: \"She was killed as a result of the most indescribable reckless driving by you Adil Iqbal, leading to the devastation of a family.\"\n\nHe was also banned from driving for 14 years.\n\nSolicitor Rose Gibson-Harper, who represents the victim's family, said the sentence was \"insulting and an injustice\" due to \"an act of sheer stupidity\".\n\n\"Last year, judges were given the power to hand down greater sentences to those convicted of death by dangerous driving,\" she said.\n\n\"Previously, the maximum tariff was 14 years but it was increased to life imprisonment.\n\n\"This case stands as one of the worst examples of dangerous driving I have witnessed in my 27-year career as a catastrophic injury lawyer, and we expected the justice system to fulfil its duty and utilise its new-found powers.\"\n\nFollowing Ms Jules-Hough's death, a GoFundMe appeal was set up by a friend and has raised more than £50,000 for her family.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Other countries are also experiencing a cost-of-living squeeze - but not as much as the UK.\n\nSome of the reasons are the same - energy prices, shortages of goods and materials, and the fallout from Covid. But the annual inflation rate for countries which use the euro is estimated to be 5.5% in June down from 6.1% in May.\n\nInflation has been falling in the US too - it is less than half that of the UK. Inflation was 3% in the year to June, according to data, from 4% in May.\n\nThat was down from 4.9% in April and marked the 11th month in a row that price increases had eased. In an effort to curb rising prices, the US central bank has increased its key interest rate to 5.25%, up from near 0% a year ago - and the highest level since 2007.\n\nSo, why are there differences? Some economists say Brexit is a factor. Trade is not as easy now between the UK and the EU, helping to push up food prices, and there is less competition. Brexit also contributed to labour shortages which began during the Covid pandemic - although Covid was the main factor there. Fewer people in work means workers have more power to ask for pay rises, and this helps push up inflation.\n\nClimate change has also helped push up food prices due to shortages of vegetables after extreme weather hit crops in Spain and Morocco. Higher energy prices also led to farmers cutting down the amount of crops they produce.", "Ukraine's then-president described Tony Blair as a \"sincere friend\" of his country in the archived documents\n\nTony Blair was urged to back Ukraine's dream to join the EU to form a barrier against Russian threats, newly released records from his time as PM show.\n\nHis special Europe adviser told him Kyiv wanted a \"special relationship... if only we would show more interest,\" the National Archives reveal.\n\nUkraine's then-president, Leonid Kuchma, also wrote to Mr Blair appealing for his support.\n\nBut Nato has refused to give Kyiv a timeline for membership.\n\nAccording to the documents dating back more than 20 years, Mr Kuchma appealed directly to then-prime minister Mr Blair to back Ukraine's long-term goal of \"full-scale European and Euro-Atlantic integration, including the full-fledged EU membership\".\n\nIt had been barely a decade since Ukraine gained independence in 1991 and President Kuchma, in power since 1994, added in a handwritten note that he pinned great hopes on Mr Blair, as a \"sincere friend\" of Ukraine... on your personal support in this exceptionally important issue\".\n\nMr Kuchma had first declared Ukraine's intention to join the EU in 1998, but there was little enthusiasm for it in Germany or France. One of the biggest stumbling blocks was that Ukraine was beset with corruption and its businesses run by powerful oligarchs.\n\nFor all his Western leanings, Mr Kuchma's own government was tainted by the gruesome 2000 murder of a journalist, Georgiy Gongadze, who was one of the Ukrainian leader's biggest public critics. Mr Kuchma has always denied complicity in his death.\n\nAccording to the newly released documents, Roger Liddle, who served as an adviser to Mr Blair on European affairs, said immediate EU or Nato membership was unlikely but he urged the prime minister to become more engaged.\n\nAfter July 2001 talks in Crimea, 13 years before it was seized by Russia, he wrote to the prime minister: \"Strengthening Ukraine's shaky democracy and economy increases stability on the EU's future eastern borders and acts as a formidable barrier to any resurgence of Russian imperialism to the West.\"\n\nBy December 2001, after a Ukrainian delegation had taken part in talks in the UK, Mr Liddle said the Ukrainians were \"depressed... that most of Europe and the new US administration is running them down\".\n\nGeorge W Bush had become US president that year, and had decided that Russia's Vladimir Putin was a \"very straightforward and trustworthy\" leader. The 9/11 attacks were very recent and the US needed Russian support to enable the military campaign to go ahead in Afghanistan.\n\nOther stories from the National Archives:\n\nUkraine's Leonid Kuchma repeatedly pressed the EU for membership, here with EU Commissioner Chris Patten\n\nKataryna Wolczuk, professor of East European politics at the University of Birmingham, believes that by 2001 UK leaders had little concern about Russia's future plans for Ukraine, as President Putin was \"still in his Euro-Atlantic ally mood\".\n\nAfter the talks at Chevening with the Ukrainians, Roger Liddle's conclusion was: \"We have too rosy a view of Putin (who according to them is a clever, presentable power politician, but no democratic hero). And we rubbish Ukraine.\"\n\nProf Wolczuk argues that President Kuchma and his entourage were instinctively pro-European: \"They knew they couldn't trust Putin and Russia, and yet the system Kuchma presided over was a hostage of that system.\"\n\nThe archive documents also show support for Ukraine's position from the UK's ambassador to Kyiv, Roland Smith, who cautioned against a proposal by then-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw for the EU to give Ukraine \"special neighbour status\" along with Belarus and Moldova.\n\nThe ambassador wondered why the plan appeared formulated to deny Ukraine the chance of full EU membership: \"Because Ukraine is simply too big? Because really we think that Ukraine ought to go back to Russia where she belongs?\"\n\nHe asked why it differed from the plan for countries such as Bulgaria and Romania, which eventually joined the EU in 2007.\n\nIn 2004 Ukrainians took to the streets protesting against electoral fraud, in an Orange Revolution that saw supporters back a pro-European president over a candidate backed by the Kremlin.\n\nIn the event the EU did choose a watered-down relationship for Ukraine and its neighbours, and the UK played a big role in supporting it.\n\nBut Mr Blair's European adviser said in his archived note at the end of 2001 that the main Ukrainian pitch had been for \"associate membership\" of the EU - far stronger than what was then being offered.\n\nThat agreement was eventually signed in 2014, months after Ukraine's pro-Russian president had refused to go through with it, triggering a revolution that ultimately brought him down.", "Travis King, the American soldier who fled to North Korea, had been detained for getting into fights in South Korea before he crossed the border.\n\nCourt documents showed he also damaged a police car and had recently spent time in a detention facility in Seoul.\n\nThe 23-year-old serviceman had been recently released and was being sent back to the US when he escaped.\n\nHe joined a tour of the Joint Security Area and fled into North Korea, which has not commented so far.\n\nIt remains unclear what his intentions were for crossing the border. US authorities have said that he did so \"wilfully, of his own volition\" and expressed concern about his well-being.\n\nPrivate 2nd Class (PV2) King's mother Claudine Gates told ABC News she could not imagine her son doing such a thing. He \"had to be out of his mind\", she said.\n\nMs Gates said she had last heard from the US soldier \"a few days ago\", when he told her he would soon be returning to Fort Bliss, his army base in Texas.\n\nPV2 King was reportedly investigated for assault in South Korea in September 2022. According to local media, he was suspected of punching a Korean national in a nightclub in Seoul.\n\nHe was fined 5m won (£,3,000; $3,950) for \"repeatedly kicking\" the back door of a police car and screamed \"foul language\" at the officers trying to apprehend him.\n\nLocal reports quoting officials said he was released on 10 July after serving two months in jail on assault charges, but did not elaborate.\n\nTravis King, dressed in a black shirt and black cap, is seen on the tour before he crossed the border\n\nAfter his release, he was placed under military observation for about a week in South Korea.\n\nHe was escorted to the airport in Incheon, near Seoul, for a flight back to the United States, where he was to face disciplinary action.\n\nBut he did not board the plane. The Korea Times, quoting an airport official, said he arrived at the boarding gate alone as military police officers were not allowed to accompany him all the way to the plane.\n\nAt the gate, he reportedly approached an American Airlines official and claimed his passport had gone missing. An airline employee then escorted him out of the departures area.\n\nAfter parting ways with his escort, he is reported to have left the terminal to embark on a tour of the Demilitarised Zone, or DMZ, between North and South Korea, where foreigners can visit via tour companies.\n\nIt is not clear how PV2 King managed to get on one of these tours, as it typically takes between three days and a week for an individual to be authorised, and the trips are usually closely monitored.\n\nAn eyewitness on the same border tour described hearing the soldier laughing loudly before making a run across the border.\n\nThe United Nations Command, which operates the DMZ, said it believed the soldier was now in custody of the North. A senior US commander said there had been no contact with the soldier and the incident was being investigated by US Forces Korea.\n\nRetired General Robert Abrams, a former commander of United States Forces Korea, told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight he believed we were \"seeing the opening act\" of a \"tragedy of the utmost proportion\".\n\n\"I've got serious concerns for [PV2 King's] health and welfare... I was actually glad they didn't shoot him on sight when he came sprinting across the military demarcation line,\" Ret. Gen Adams said. \"He's in for a very rude awakening on how North Koreans treat people who unlawfully enter the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's Stuart Broad has become just the second pace bowler to take 600 wickets in Test cricket.\n\nBroad, 36, reached the mark by removing Australia's Travis Head on day one of the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.\n\nEngland team-mate James Anderson is the only other quick bowler to achieve the feat.\n\nBroad is fifth on the all-time list and Anderson third, with spinners Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne and Anil Kumble completing the top five.\n\nNottinghamshire bowler Broad made his debut against Sri Lanka in Colombo 2007, going on to make 166 Test appearances to date and be part of four Ashes-winning sides.\n\nHe began the Old Trafford Test on 598 wickets but moved to 599 when he trapped Usman Khawaja lbw, before bringing up 600 when Head was caught by Joe Root on the boundary.\n• None How many of Broad's Test victims can you name?\n\n\"Never in my dreams did I think this would be a thing,\" Broad told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Michael Vaughan was the skipper that gave me my first cap and my ultimate feeling there in Sri Lanka was never that this was the end game but instead that I wanted to win series and create memories.\n\n\"Some players feel like they have achieved what they wanted to after getting a Test cap and I've been fortunate enough to create memories. Never did I think I would be up there with the greats of the game.\"\n\nIn taking his 600th scalp, Broad surpassed Ian Botham to become the highest wicket-taker from any nation against Australia, with 149.\n\nOnly Australians Shane Warne (195), Dennis Lillee (167) and Glenn McGrath (157) have taken more in Ashes Tests.\n\nBroad is known for his devastating spells of bowling that turn matches in England's favour, including famously at his home ground Trent Bridge in 2015 when he took 8-15 to bowl out Australia for 60.\n\nHe also took 5-5 in just 5.1 overs against India at the same ground in 2011, including his first Test match hat-trick as MS Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar fell in successive deliveries.\n\nRank these five magic spells of Stuart Broad bowling.\n\nBroad, who is the son of former England batter Chris, is also well known for the hold he seemingly has over David Warner, having dismissed the Australia opener 17 times during his career.\n\nOnly two other players have dismissed a single batter more in Test cricket.\n\nA second hat-trick against Sri Lanka in 2014 also means he is the only England bowler to take two Test hat-tricks.\n• None David Warner on the Ashes, sledging and Stuart Broad rivalry\n\nBroad has also played 121 one-day internationals and 56 T20s in his career. Overall, he has taken 843 international wickets across all three formats, putting him seventh on the all-time list.\n\nIn 2016 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to cricket.", "It could be 18 months until the next UK general election but already a number of Scottish MPs have decided not to stand.\n\nThe eight SNP MPs who will not contest the election include the group's former Westminster leader Ian Blackford and current deputy leader Mhairi Black.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack and Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, will also stand down.\n\nHere is a full list of those who have announced their decision to leave Westminster.\n\nThe former NHS surgeon has represented Central Ayrshire as an SNP MP since 2015.\n\nIn a letter to constituents, she said \"aggression and contempt\" towards SNP MPs had \"become the norm\" under Boris Johnson's tenure.\n\n\"While he has gone, his toxic legacy remains and only time will tell if this changes after the next election,\" Dr Whitford added.\n\nBut she described her eight years in Parliament as \"rewarding\" and pledged to continue campaigning for Scottish independence in her retirement.\n\nJohn McNally, the SNP MP for Falkirk, was first elected to Westminster in 2015\n\nJohn McNally ran a barber's shop in Denny before being elected to the local council.\n\nIn 2015, he made the jump to Westminster as SNP MP for Falkirk.\n\nThe 72-year-old told constituents his decision to stand down at the next election came after some \"soul searching\".\n\n\"It's not a decision I have taken lightly, it has been a privilege to speak on behalf of such a vibrant community,\" he added.\n\nMhairi Black, the SNP's deputy leader at Westminster, was the parliament's youngest MP since 1832 when she was elected aged 20 in 2015.\n\nNow 28, she is one of the most high-profile figures to announce their decision to not contest the next election.\n\nThe MP for Paisley and South described Westminster as an \"outdated, sexist and toxic\" working environment.\n\nAnd she cited safety concerns, social media abuse and unsociable hours as she explained her decision.\n\nAn SNP MP for Dundee East since 2005, Stewart Hosie is one of the most experienced politicians in the party at Westminster.\n\nHe is currently the SNP's treasury spokesperson but she was the SNP's deputy leader to Nicola Sturgeon from 2014 to 2016.\n\nThe 60-year-old said he made the decision after a \"great deal of thought\" and serving his constituency had been the \"greatest privilege\" of his life.\n\n\"I will, of course, remain an active member of the SNP and find other ways in which I can help further the cause of Scottish independence,\" he said.\n\nDouglas Chapman, the MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, is a former SNP national treasurer.\n\nHe resigned as party treasurer in May 2021, claiming he was not given enough information to do the job.\n\nA police investigation into party finances launched in July 2021 led to the arrest and subsequent release of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and her husband, ex-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell.\n\nHe said he reached the decision not to stand at the next election after discussions with \"family and close political friends\".\n\nAngela Crawley was one of the SNP's intake of 56 MPs who arrived at Westminster in 2015 following huge general election success.\n\nDuring her time in the Commons, the MP for Lanark and Hamilton East has campaigned for paid leave for those who experience miscarriage.\n\nIn a letter to constituents she said her the unpredictable nature of her job had come at a \"personal cost and required many difficult compromises\".\n\nShe said it had been an \"honour and a privilege\" to serve her community but \"it is now time to put my partner and our young family at the centre of my daily life.\"\n\nPeter Grant, a former leader of Fife Council, was elected to Westminster as an SNP MP in 2015.\n\nHe has won another two elections in Glenrothes since then but he has told constituents he has doubts whether he could cope with the \"physical and mental demands\" another full parliamentary term.\n\nHe said he would be in his late 60s by the end of another five year parliament.\n\n\"In politics as in many areas of public life it's important to know when it's time to step down,\" he said. \"For me that time has not yet come but it is likely to come during the next Parliament and it is fairer on everyone if I acknowledge that now\".\n\nIan Blackford is a well-known face in Westminster, thanks to his regular appearances at Prime Minister's Questions while leader of the SNP group.\n\nHe stood down from the role in December following speculation that some of his MPs were plotting against him. He was succeeded by Stephen Flynn.\n\nThe former banker has been the MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber since 2015 when he defeated former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy in a controversial campaign.\n\nHe said he had thought \"long and hard\" whether to stand in the next general election and that he was \"privileged and humbled that people across my home constituency have put their trust in me at three elections\".\n\nAlister Jack was first elected MP of Dumfries and Galloway in 2017, defeating the SNP's Richard Arkless.\n\nHe succeeded David Mundell as Scottish Secretary in 2019 and has served in the same role under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe businessman and farmer told ITV Border he would not trigger a by-election by accepting a peerage in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list and moving to the House of Lords.\n\nBut when he was asked if he would go to the Lords after the next election, he replied: \"Who knows?\"\n\nDouglas Ross is the leader of the Scottish Conservative party, an MP and an MSP.\n\nHe was voted into Westminster in 2017 when he took the Moray seat from the SNP's Angus Robertson; he retained the seat with a majority of just 513 in 2019.\n\nShortly after becoming leader the following year, he confirmed that he would only continue to be an MP until the next general election.\n\nHe has been an MSP for the Highlands and Islands since 2021, and he has opposed proposed boundary changes which would \"carve up\" his Westminster constituency.", "The pain and distress of not being able to see an NHS dentist are \"totally unacceptable\", an inquiry has told the government.\n\nA review was launched after a BBC investigation found nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK were not accepting new adult patients.\n\nSome people drove hundreds of miles for treatment or even resorted to pulling out their own teeth, the BBC found.\n\nThe government says it invests more than £3bn a year in dentistry.\n\nBut the damning report, by the Commons' Health and Social Care Committee, says more needs to be done, and quickly.\n\nDental reforms - recommended to the government more than 15 years ago - have still not been implemented, it says.\n\nLast year's BBC's investigation found eight in 10 NHS practices were not taking on children.\n\nBetween May and July 2022, BBC News contacted nearly 7,000 NHS practices - believed to be almost all those offering general treatment to the public.\n\nIn a third of the UK's more than 200 council areas, the BBC found no dentists taking on adult NHS patients.\n\nResearchers could also not find a single practice accepting new adult patients in Lancashire, Norfolk, Devon or Leeds.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nCompared with other nations, Scotland was found to have better access to NHS dentistry for adults, with 18% of practices accepting new patients.\n\nHowever Wales, England and Northern Ireland were at 7%, 9% and 10% respectively.\n\nConservative MP Steve Brine said hearing about someone in \"such pain and distress\" that they used pliers to pull out their teeth \"demonstrates the crisis in NHS dental services\".\n\n\"Rarely has an inquiry been more necessary than this one,\" said the chairman of the cross-party committee which wrote the report.\n\nDeclining levels of NHS dentistry should be \"sounding alarm bells\", he said, adding: \"Today we register in the strongest terms possible our concern for the future of NHS dental services and the patients who desperately need access to them.\"\n\nNHS dental treatment is not free for most adults, but it is subsidised - if you can get an appointment.\n\nDanielle Watts, from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, found herself in a \"dental desert\" - an area where no dentists offer NHS care - and could not afford the thousands of pounds of private treatment needed to fix her teeth.\n\nOne by one, over several months, she pulled out 13 of her own teeth.\n\nDanielle Watts has removed 13 of her own teeth\n\nFollowing the BBC's report, a friend persuaded her to set up a crowdfunding page which has since helped raise enough money to enable her to have a set of dentures fitted.\n\nShe says the kindness of strangers has completely transformed her life.\n\nDanielle Watts shows off her new dentures\n\n\"I'm in no pain at all, there is no bleeding, my teeth are all facing the same way,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't have to hide any more. To be able to talk to somebody face-on, to be able to smile at somebody, is something I haven't done for several years.\"\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measure to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nEnsuring that everyone who needs an NHS dentist is able to access one within a reasonable timeframe and a reasonable distance, is one of the key recommendations in the report.\n\n\"We are concerned this will be too little too late for those dentists who have already left the NHS,\" the report says.\n\nIt adds the current dental contract, which pays dentists for batches or courses of treatments delivered rather than for every single item or procedure, such as a check-up or a filling, is not fit for purpose.\n\nThe system of paying NHS \"units of dental activity\" (UDAs) can be a disincentive to dentists seeing new patients, including those who have higher levels of disease and require more time to treat, the report warns.\n\nThe British Dental Association (BDA) told the committee: \"We have a higher award for treating three or more teeth, but many of the new patients presenting to dentists and their teams now have far more disease than that. People have not been able to present [during Covid restrictions]. They are presenting much later; they have far more disease and the disease is often more complex to treat.\"\n\nThe BDA says workload backlogs, made worse by Covid, will take many years to clear.\n\nSome dental practices are struggling to deliver their NHS contractual commitments, often simply as a result of being unable to fill vacancies, the association claims.\n\nThe government says it recently announced a 40% increase in dentistry training places and has made changes \"so dental therapists and hygienists can deliver more treatments\".\n\n\"We invest more than £3bn a year in dentistry and have already increased the funding practices receive for high needs patients to encourage dentists to provide more NHS treatments,\" said a spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nIt says the NHS dental contract has been reformed to encourage more dentists to provide NHS treatments and to allow dental therapists and hygienists to offer extra services.\n\nThe government also said it would set out further measures \"to improve access shortly\".\n\nLouise Ansari from Healthwatch England said: \"Ultimately, only a fundamental and fully resourced dental contract reform can tackle these deep-seated problems, and we call on the government to publish its dental recovery plan urgently.\"\n\nAre you struggling to find an NHS dentist? Are you a dentist with a view on this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government will break its own deadline to provide schools in England with guidance on policies for transgender pupils.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak had promised the advice before the summer holidays, which begin this week for many schools.\n\nThe delay is because the attorney general for England and Wales has advised part of the guidance may be unlawful.\n\nShe told ITV's Robert Peston the guidance would take longer than expected to be published, but did not give a deadline.\n\nOne of the most controversial matters the guidance was expected to address is what schools should do if a child wanted to change their name, use different pronouns or change their appearance, hairstyle or clothes - what is known as socially transitioning - and whether to involve parents in the decision.\n\nIn 2020, a report commissioned by NHS England found that socially transitioning was not a neutral act - but neither was doing nothing - and more information was needed about its outcomes.\n\nMinisters were considering advising against allowing social transitioning in schools altogether.\n\nBut, as first reported in the Times, the attorney general, Victoria Prentis, has said an outright ban would be unlawful.\n\nWhen asked if it was the government's position that schoolchildren should not change gender ID without the parents being involved, Ms Keegan said: \"Yes, we think parental consent is really very important.\"\n\n\"We do think it's important that parents are involved in this discussion,\" she said.\n\nAsked why the government was planning on introducing guidance on the issue instead of legislation, she said schools had been asking for guidance, which \"is quicker than legislation\".\n\nA ministerial statement to confirm the hold-up is expected on Thursday.\n\nThe attorney general is also understood to be concerned about the guidance advising teachers that they do not have to use a child's pronouns or chosen name if they do not want to, and suggesting that doctors are consulted before a child socially transitions at school.\n\nMinisters now have to work out what to do next: either compile guidance that is lawful, or contemplate changing the law - with the expectation of the legal challenges this could provoke.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) will publish a draft for consultation before the final guidance, which will be non-statutory, or advisory, guidance.\n\nNo new deadline has been set for the advice. The DfE has been contacted for comment.\n\nThere are no official estimates of how many trans, non-binary or gender fluid pupils are in the UK. But in May a survey of 7,000 teachers in England for BBC News suggested that about 8% of primary-school and 75% of secondary school teachers taught trans or non-binary pupils.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"It is frustrating that [the government] has now got to the point of producing something but appears to be locked in an internal political squabble which is causing a further delay.\n\n\"At present, schools have to navigate this complex and sensitive subject entirely on their own.\n\n\"We will be looking very closely at the guidance when it is published and consulting with our members to ensure it is proportionate, fair and deliverable.\"", "The UK is set to win a battle with Spain to host a multi-billion-pound electric car battery plant in Somerset, the BBC understands.\n\nThe boss of Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata is expected to fly to London next week to finalise the deal.\n\nSome in the car industry have described the plant as the most significant investment in UK automotive since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s.\n\nTata's chairman is scheduled to meet the prime minister mid-next week.\n\nSources familiar with the matter say that although the deal has yet to be signed, engagement has moved from negotiations to drafting and choreography of how the landmark agreement will be presented.\n\nUp to 9,000 jobs would be created at the Bridgwater site, close to the M5.\n\nThe UK government has acknowledged the urgent need for electric vehicle battery manufacturing in the UK to secure the future of the car industry.\n\nThe country's automotive sector employs up to 800,000 people directly and in the supply chain.\n\nWhen pressed on the subject last week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told the BBC to \"watch this space\".\n\nTata was considering another site in Spain and the expected decision to choose Somerset will be presented as a major achievement for the UK government.\n\nThe government has been criticised for lacking a clear industrial strategy and falling behind the US and EU in attracting investment.\n\nLast week, one of the world's biggest carmakers, Stellantis, warned it may have to close UK factories if the government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal. The firm, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric cars in the UK but told the BBC this was under threat.\n\nIn the case of Tata's new plant, the UK's expected success has not been easily or cheaply won.\n\nThe government has said that while it does not recognise a figure of £500m in reported subsidies, they concede that it is in the hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nThe gigafactory would be built at the Gravity business park near Bridgwater\n\nThis would take the form of cash grants, energy subsidies and other training and research funding.\n\nIndia's Tata has extensive steel interests in the UK including the Port Talbot plant in South Wales and the government will also offer around £300m to subsidise, upgrade, and decarbonise those operations.\n\nAlong with additional energy discounts, it will bring the total incentive package to Tata close to £800m.\n\nGovernment sources conceded that while the two investments will not be announced at the same time, the two projects are linked.\n\nThe Somerset site's access to power, a skilled UK automotive workforce and the British heritage of Jaguar Land Rover's brands are also cited as helping the UK bid.\n\nAlthough the price tag will be seen as high, the UK is reluctantly involved in an international subsidy war which has been dramatically escalated by the US Inflation Reduction Act - a piece of legislation offering $370bn (£299bn) in sweeteners to companies prepared to locate production and supply chains in the US.\n\nThe EU is preparing its own package in response.\n\nSome industry insiders hope that the Tata battery investment will open the door to further battery investments in the UK, which currently only has one plant in operation next to Nissan's Sunderland factory, and one barely on the drawing board in Northumberland.\n\nBy contrast the EU has 35 plants open, under construction or planned.\n\nNumber 10 said it did not comment on commercially sensitive matters.", "HMS Unicorn was moved to Dundee in 1873\n\nHMS Unicorn, Scotland's oldest ship, has received £1.11m in funding towards its continued restoration and preservation.\n\nThe preservation work is restoring strength and robustness to the hull to improve resilience ahead of a planned move to a nearby dry dock.\n\nThe ship, which was moved to Dundee in 1873, will be the centrepiece of a new maritime heritage centre.\n\nThe donation comes from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF).\n\nThe Unicorn Preservation Society said the money provided 95.69% of the total financial investment needed for immediate conservation repairs to the ship, which launched in 1824.\n\nThe restoration work includes replacing rotten timbers in the hull of the ship and retaining as much of the original fabric as possible.\n\nThis work follows recently-completed £100,000 repairs to the ship's original roof to help prevent rainwater causing further internal damage.\n\nRay Macfarlane from the NHMF said: \"It is not only the oldest ship in Scotland but one of the oldest in the world, and incredibly one of the last remaining warships from the age of sail, still afloat.\"\n\nHMS Unicorn is the third-oldest ship in the world and has been under the care of the Unicorn Preservation Society since 1968.\n\nThe latest preservation work is expected to be completed in about 18 months. The ship will remain open to visitors while the work is carried out.\n\nHMS Unicorn is the third-oldest ship in the world\n\nMuseum director, Matthew Bellhouse Moran, said: \"This is an absolute game changer for us as a charity as it allows us to press on with the critical preservation work which desperately needs to take place and is long overdue.\n\n\"This work is essential to preserve the historic fabric of this much-loved ship, replacing rotten and missing timbers which is causing rapidly accelerating structural damage and strain.\"\n\nA £20,000 donation by American entrepreneur John Paul DeJoria, in November 2022 and a £100,000 grant received from the Headley Trust in February provided the remaining funds required to carry out the immediate conversation work.\n• None Scotland's oldest ship goes under the microscope", "Roald Dahl's racism was \"undeniable and indelible\" the museum said\n\nThe Roald Dahl Museum has condemned the racism of the author in a new statement.\n\nIt said it \"condemns all racism directed at any group or individual\" and that the author's racism was \"undeniable\".\n\nDahl's family apologised in 2020 for his antisemitic remarks.\n\nThe museum, in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, said it was working on being \"more welcoming\".\n\nA spokesperson for Antisemitism Policy Trust said: \"We welcome this action from the museum and are pleased that it intends to pursue anti-racism education.\n\n\"We trained staff and trustees, working closely with the museum leadership, and have enjoyed positive and constructive conversations.\"\n\nThree years ago, Dahl's family and the Roald Dahl Story Company said the author's remarks were in \"marked contrast to the man we knew\".\n\nThe apology related to comments made by the best-selling author in interviews in 1983 and 1990.\n\n\"Roald Dahl's racism is undeniable and indelible but what we hope can also endure is the potential of Dahl's creative legacy to do some good,\" the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre said in a statement on its website.\n\nEarlier this year, the author's publisher was criticised for plans to \"censor\" stories and release new versions that would have removed references to things like characters' weight.\n\nThe museum has said it had worked to be more inclusive and welcoming\n\nThe museum said it does not repeat the author's statements publicly, but does keep a record in its collection \"so it is not forgotten\".\n\nIt said that since 2021 it had worked with several organisations within the Jewish community, including the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council, the Community Security Trust, and the Antisemitism Policy Trust, to include training for staff and trustees.\n\n\"We want to keep listening and talking to explore how our organisation might make further contributions towards combatting hate and prejudice, supporting the work of experts already working in this area, including those from the Jewish community,\" it said.\n\n\"We are working hard to do better and know we have more to do.\"\n\nThe museum added it wanted to explore other ways the charity could combat \"hate and prejudice\".\n\nIt said it was also creating teaching resources to \"combat prejudice\" by championing children's rights through the experience of Dahl's characters.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata has confirmed plans to build its flagship electric car battery factory in the UK.\n\nThe new plant in Somerset is expected to create 4,000 UK jobs and thousands more in the wider supply chain.\n\nTata said it would invest £4bn in the site, but it is understood that the government is also providing subsidies worth hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nThe plant is described as the most important investment in UK automotive since Nissan arrived in the 1980s.\n\nThe new gigafactory near Bridgwater will be one of the largest in Europe and will initially make batteries for Jaguar Land Rover vehicles like Range Rover, the Defender and the Jaguar brands.\n\nBut the plan is to also supply other car manufacturers as well, with production at the new factory due to start in 2026.\n\nTata has been in negotiations for months to secure state aid for the project and the government confirmed on Wednesday that Tata had been offered a \"large\" incentive to site the plant in the UK. The subsidies are likely to be in the form of cash grants, discounts on the cost of energy, and training and research funding.\n\nBut Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the BBC that Tata's decision was based on a wider range of factors.\n\n\"Tata is an international business and will consider a number of factors when deciding where to invest. Last autumn the chancellor cut taxes specifically so that we could encourage investments like this,\" he said.\n\n\"We're making lots of changes and it's this whole package that's attractive, like investment in skills and apprenticeships, infrastructure in road, rail and broadband.\n\n\"It's also the approach we're taking to regulation after leaving the EU,\" he added.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney MP welcomed the decision, saying it came \"after years of the south west being neglected by government investment\".\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said that the investment had come at a critical time for the UK.\n\n\"With the global industry transitioning at pace to electrification, producing batteries in the UK is essential if we are to anchor wider vehicle production here for the long term,\" said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes.\n\nBatteries typically account for a large proportion of the value of an electric vehicle, so a reliable supply is expected to be vital for the future of the UK car industry.\n\nBut the government has been criticised for lacking a clear industrial strategy and falling behind the US and EU in attracting investment in low-carbon technologies such as battery manufacturing.\n\nSharon Graham, general secretary at the Unite union, said: \"The US and Europe have clear, proactive plans for jobs and investment. We cannot continually lag behind.\"\n\nShe said the government should use the opportunity to set out a \"strategic long-term industrial plan\", and require that the new factory be constructed with UK-made steel.\n\nSome industry insiders hope that the Tata battery investment will open the door to further battery investments in the UK.\n\nThe UK currently only has one plant in operation next to Nissan's Sunderland factory, and one barely on the drawing board in Northumberland.\n\nAnother proposed battery manufacturer, in the north east of England, Britishvolt, went into administration earlier this year.\n\nBy contrast the EU has 35 plants open, under construction or planned.\n\nShadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds welcomed Tata's new plant, adding that Labour would ensure \"announcements like this aren't a one-off, but the basis for a growing economy, with good jobs in our industrial heartlands\".\n\nAs well as owning Jaguar Land Rover, Tata has extensive steel interests in the UK including the Port Talbot plant in South Wales and the government is also expected to offer around £300m to subsidise, upgrade, and decarbonise those operations.\n\nParliament's cross-party Business and Trade Committee is holding an inquiry into the UK's electric vehicle battery manufacturing sector.\n\nIts chairman Darren Jones, said Tata's decision to site the new plant in the UK was \"very welcome\" but he raised questions over the scale of the subsidies provided.\n\n\"We will want to reflect... on the subsidy package that was required to secure this decision and if this approach is scalable to meet the need for further battery manufacturing sites for other car companies across the UK.\"\n\nThose concerns were echoed by the FairCharge group, which represents other companies in the electric vehicle sector.\n\nFairCharge's founder, Quentin Willson, said there was a fear in the industry that Tata's investment could \"sweep up\" all available government support.\n\n\"I truly hope that other companies in the battery, critical minerals, charging and EV supply chains won't be neglected,\" he said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former executive at Nissan and Aston Martin - who is now at EV charging firm Pod Point - said the UK needed a strategic industrial strategy to \"lift all boats\".\n\n\"Support must come in all shapes and sizes for businesses of all shapes and sizes,\" he said. \"One gigafactory doesn't equal success, it equals part of the puzzle.\"", "Fourth LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Emirates Old Trafford (day one of five):\n\nEngland chipped away at Australia's batting on a tense and fluctuating first day of the crucial fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.\n\nAt 2-1 down and needing to win to force a series decider at The Oval, England struck at regular intervals to leave the tourists 299-8 at the close.\n\nStuart Broad took two, with the second - Travis Head hooking to long leg - making him only the fifth bowler in Test history to reach 600 wickets.\n\nChris Woakes was the most consistently dangerous - his 4-52 included a magnificent catch from under-fire wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow to remove Mitchell Marsh.\n\nThough England won the toss, Australia, who only need to draw one of the final two Tests to retain the urn, were presented with ideal batting conditions.\n\nBut scores of 51 each from Marsh and Marnus Labuschagne, 48 to Head and 41 by Steve Smith tell a tale of batters doing the hard work but failing to make telling contributions.\n\nIndeed, at 255-7 Australia were in danger of being bowled out inside a day, only for Alex Carey and Mitchell Starc to resist.\n\nAs the close drew near, Woakes removed Carey with the second new ball, leaving England with the opportunity to mop up the tail on Thursday morning.\n\nAll this against the backdrop of bad weather that is forecast to disrupt the final two days, possibly adding another variable in a series that has already produced three tight finishes.\n• None How day one at Old Trafford unfolded\n• None How many of Broad's Test wickets can you name?\n\nEven day at tense Old Trafford\n\nPerhaps because the stakes are so high, this was a nervy occasion, not helped by the tight nature of the cricket. Only after Bairstow's stunning grab in the evening session did the Old Trafford Party Stand find its voice.\n\nEngland's decision to field first was based on necessity. With the bad weather due at the weekend, the home side needed to give themselves as much time as possible to take 20 Australian wickets.\n\nWhen the coin landed in Ben Stokes' favour for the fourth consecutive match in this series, the overheads suggested a favourable time to bowl, but by the time play began the sun was shining and did so for the remainder of the day.\n\nTherefore, on a flat pitch, it could be that Australia did not make the most of the best batting day of the match - certainly the amount of batters who got out after making starts points to a collective lack of ruthlessness.\n\nBy the end, little had been determined, neither side able to say with certainty they had grabbed the upper hand.\n\nThis was an impressive performance by England with the ball and in the field. To be hyper-critical, they occasionally bowled a touch too wide but, on the whole carried a regular threat and, importantly, held all of their chances.\n\nBroad was wayward with the new ball but still removed Usman Khawaja, then bowled a beautiful spell after tea that included bouncing out Head for the milestone 600th wicket.\n\nMark Wood had the pace to draw a mistake from Smith, Moeen Ali found turn and pinned Labuschagne leg before, while James Anderson was economical bowling from the end that carries his name.\n\nThe pick, though, was Woakes, recalled to play a vital role in the win at Headingley and rewarded for maintaining a full length here.\n\nHe drew David Warner into an edge in the morning session, then bowled a crucial spell in the evening that included removing Cameron Green and Marsh in the same over.\n\nBairstow, under-pressure for his glovework, had been untidy throughout the day, but the swoop to his right to grasp the edge off Marsh was as spectacular as it was unexpected. Sitting on the floor with both fists clenched, he celebrated with gusto.\n\nIt looked like England would be defied by Carey and Starc, yet the dependable Woakes was trusted with the second new ball, taking an edge as Carey looked to leave.\n\nEven if captain Pat Cummins said he would have bowled first, Australia knew they were one strong batting performance away from effectively retaining the urn.\n\nThe tourists had even lengthened their line-up by including all-rounder Green at the expense of spinner Todd Murphy, but could still not take full advantage of the flat pitch and warm sun.\n\nOnly Khawaja, trapped on the crease by Broad, failed to get in. There were partnerships of 46, 59, 63 and 65 for the second, third, fourth and sixth wickets respectively, only for the majority of the top order to find sloppy ways of getting out.\n\nWarner at least avoided falling to Broad, but played a loose drive at Woakes. Smith looked ominous until he played across the line against Wood. Labuschagne made his first half-century of the series, then missed an innocuous delivery from Moeen.\n\nHead was suckered into England's short-ball plan and, as Marsh and Green looked to to be swinging the day Australia's way, both fell in the space of five Woakes deliveries.\n\nCarey and Starc dropped anchor, their stand of 39 coming at little more than two runs an over, before Carey's misjudgement against Woakes.\n\nThat left Starc unbeaten on 23, joined by skipper Cummins on one.\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special: \"I'm intrigued by this pitch, I don't think you can play aggressively constantly. England will come out and bat quickly. Australia have lost an opportunity here.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad: \"My mum has been an amazing support for me and her mindset has always been playing for fun and it always felt like a hobby to me.\n\n\"I've reconnected massively with that - Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes that's been their philosophy and I've loved every moment of it.\"", "Kingspan is a shirt sponsor for Ulster and holds naming rights to the province's Ravenhill stadium\n\nUlster Rugby has shown \"absolute disrespect\" by agreeing a one-year extension to its Kingspan on-shirt sponsorship, a Grenfell fire relatives' group has said.\n\nThe deal will see the company logo remain on Ulster's senior men's jersey, and some leisurewear, for next season.\n\nThe UK government has previously called for Ulster Rugby to reconsider its relationship with Kingspan.\n\nSeventy-two people died in the fire in west London in 2017.\n\nDuring an inquiry, Kingspan's business practices were criticised.\n\nBut the company said its products made up 5% of the insulation at Grenfell and was used without its recommendation.\n\nKarim Mussilhy, from Grenfell United, told BBC News NI last year that Ulster Rugby players should remember the \"pain and anguish\" on the families when wearing shirts sponsored by Kingspan.\n\nHis uncle was among those killed in the London tower block fire and has in the past urged the team to cuts its ties with the insulation firm.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karim Mussilhy, from Grenfell United, told BBC News NIthat Ulster Rugby players should remember the \"pain and anguish\"\n\nMr Mussilhy and other bereaved relatives have campaigned to get the team to end the sponsorship deal and remove Kingspan's branding from its stadium and its shirts.\n\nHe said on Wednesday that the latest announcement \"shows an absolute disrespect for all those affected by the Grenfell tragedy\".\n\n\"We have met with [Ulster Rugby chief executive] Jonny Petrie and his team multiple times during their previous sponsorship deal,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this year grafitti was daubed on Ulster Rugby's Kingspan Stadium overnight\n\n\"We urged him and the board to cut all ties with Kingspan, including sharing with them a large file of evidence from the public inquiry about Kingspan's contribution to our families deaths which speaks for itself.\n\n\"This same evidence was enough for Mercedes to cut ties with Kingspan for their Formula One team in 2021.\n\n\"Instead, Ulster Rugby have decided to disregard these facts, and not just cut previous ties, but to extend their deal.\"\n\nMr Mussilhy urged all supporters of the club to stand with the relatives and \"demand the board reverse this decision\".\n\nHe added that it was time that \"all teams across the sporting world start thinking about ethical sponsorship and not just money\".\n\nUlster Rugby told BBC News NI it did not wish to comment on the continuing sponsorship deal.\n\nGolfer Shane Lowry has also been criticised by campaigners for his sponsorship deal with Kingspan.\n\nEd Daffarn, who is also with campaign group Grenfell United, told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme that he loved golf but that it was \"so difficult\" to see Lowry with Kingspan written on his shirt.\n\nHe added that the relatives group has tried contacting Mr Lowry about their concerns, but did not get any reply.\n\nConchúr Mac Adaim, of Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) in Belfast, said Ulster Rugby supporters do not welcome the sponsorship extension.\n\n\"It appears to us that Ulster Rugby's management cares more about the financial relationship with Kingspan than it does the opinions of supporters who are opposed to the continued presence of Kingspan in our local rugby club,\" he said.\n\n\"It is not too late to do the right thing and end all association with Kingspan.\"\n\nKingspan holds naming rights to Ulster Rugby's stadium in a contract until the end of the 2023/24 season.\n\nEarlier this year grafitti was daubed on Ulster Rugby's Kingspan Stadium.", "Children in some areas of England are waiting up to 18 months on average for dental general-anaesthetic treatment and teeth extractions, an investigation reveals.\n\nSome have been left with prolonged dental pain, according to information shared with BBC News.\n\nThe parents of one girl who has waited three years for extractions say the pain keeps her up at night.\n\nRemoving decayed teeth is the most common reason for needing the service.\n\nAt the start of this year, more than 12,000 under-18s were on waiting lists for assessment or treatment at community dental service (CDS) providers, data obtained by the Liberal Democrats from the NHS Business Services Authority and shared with BBC News earlier this year reveals.\n\nChildren are referred to a CDS provider when they have tooth decay too severe to be treated in general practice.\n\nThey also treat those with physical or learning disabilities when general practice is not a practical option.\n\nThe longest average wait faced by children for general-anaesthetic treatment at a CDS provider is 80 weeks, at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nBut some providers have much lower average waits - at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, it is just three weeks.\n\nElla Mann, eight, from Dovercourt, Essex, has been waiting three years to have rotten teeth removed.\n\nElla has bad pain from her teeth\n\nShe first went to the dentist with a painful milk tooth in December 2019, was given a temporary filling and told it needed to be removed but has still not had the NHS procedure - and now, seven more of her milk teeth need to be removed.\n\nElla's family are frustrated at the wait\n\nElla's father, Charlie, says the pain \"keeps her up at night\".\n\nHe says: \"It always seems to be in the evening that she suffers the pain. So then obviously we've got the problem of overnight and then fatigue because obviously she's awake most of the night.\n\n\"She's started to sort of resent brushing her teeth because it's giving her pain - and we're starting to get concerned it's going to cause further problems.\n\n\"You're waiting and waiting and waiting for something to be done about it. They are doing temporary fillings. They're doing temporary jobs on it.\n\n\"It's just not right that children should be waiting.\"\n\nTooth decay is the most common reason six- to 10-year-olds are admitted to hospital.\n\nIn England, more than 42,000 teeth were extracted from under-19s in 2021-22, costing the NHS an estimated £81m.\n\nOffice for Health Improvement and Disparities analysis reveals a gap between regions in England.\n\nIn the 2021-22 financial year:\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nStaff at Maybury Primary School, in Hull, are doing their best to help keep pupils' teeth healthy.\n\nEvery pupil brushes their teeth after lunch.\n\nHead teacher Alison Grantham says toothache \"has a massive impact on learning because they're missing lessons\".\n\n\"And if you're coming to school and you're trying to concentrate and trying to learn while you're in pain, then that's going to have impact, too,\" she says.\n\n\"Trying to get dental support in this area, it is really hard for parents to sign children up for a dentist. This area that the children come from, there is a high level of tooth decay.\n\n\"We don't like to see any of our children suffering or in pain - but a lot of the time, there's something you can do straightaway that can help that. \"But with teeth, it's far more difficult. There's no magic solution.\"\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measure to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nDentists from the charity Teeth Team visit children at primary schools across Hull and parts of East Yorkshire. And BBC News joined them at Maybury Primary in May.Among the 169 children given a dental check-up that day, there were 263 decayed teeth.\n\nSome of these children will need extractions under general anaesthetic in hospital.\n\nSara Feldt, from Teeth Team, says the needs in the school are \"exceptionally high\".\n\n\"A high proportion of those are in urgent need, which is four or more decays or cavities in the children's teeth,\" she says.\n\n\"We've had two today that have told us that they are in pain. One told us that they've got an abscess, so we're going to deal with that.\n\n\"It's disturbing. It's not very nice to see, because a child's going under a general anaesthetic for something that's preventable. It doesn't have to happen.\n\n\"Good oral hygiene, regular toothbrushing, limiting sugar, limiting the fizzy drinks. We need a little bit more education out there to prevent this happening.\n\n\"I like the fact that we're coming into the schools, because sometimes that's the only kind of time the children will see a dentist.\n\n\"We all know that the access to a dentist at the moment is really difficult. So to be able to do that, I think it's really positive.\n\n\"It needs to be rolled out nationwide, not just Hull.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We are working to improve access to NHS dental care - investing more than £3bn a year into dentistry - and the number of children seen by NHS dentists rose by 43.6% last year.\n\n\"We have increased the funding practices receive for urgent care, to encourage dentists to provide more NHS treatments and we're also taking preventative measures to improve children's oral health, such as expanding water-fluoridation schemes - which can significantly reduce the number of children experiencing tooth decay. Further reforms are planned for this year.\"\n\nAre you a parent whose child is experiencing a long wait for dental treatment? You can share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "There is \"no reason\" that Afghans refugees should become homeless when they leave temporary hotels this summer, a minister has said.\n\nJohnny Mercer confirmed that people still living in taxpayer-funded hotels and apartments will have to leave from as soon as the end of July.\n\nThousands are still living in temporary accommodation after coming to the UK after the Taliban's takeover in 2021.\n\nLabour accused ministers of \"kicking them out onto the street\".\n\nShadow armed forces minister Luke Pollard likened Mr Mercer, the veterans minister, to a \"bailiff serving the eviction notices\".\n\nBut Mr Mercer said the government had been \"extremely generous,\" and extra funding would be given to councils to help people resettle.\n\nThousands of people fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took back control of the country in August 2021 after Western forces pulled out.\n\nAround 21,100 Afghans have come to the UK under two separate schemes: one for vulnerable people and religious minorities, another for those who worked for the British military and UK government.\n\nThose resettled through the two schemes have been given indefinite leave, as well as the right to work and claim benefits.\n\nThe government says around 8,000 people were still in temporary accommodation in March, of which around half had been there for over a year.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Mercer said \"many hundreds\" had moved out since then, but did not give a precise figure.\n\nAlthough there had been progress in helping people move out of \"costly\" hotels, he added, there was more to do to help Afghans move out and achieve the \"opportunity to live self-sufficiently\".\n\nThe government says notices to quit have been issued since April, and those being told to leave have received at least three months' notice.\n\nIt says that there will be flexibility for those with medical needs and those waiting a short period before moving into confirmed accommodation.\n\nIt adds councils will be given an extra £7,100 per person to support those moving out with paying for deposits, furniture, and rent advances.\n\nMr Mercer told MPs there was \"no tangible reason why any Afghan family should present as homeless\" given the government support on offer.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England and Wales, said it supported the idea of getting resettled Afghans into permanent homes.\n\nBut it warned that finding the required amount of affordable accommodation would be \"extremely challenging\" given pressures on the asylum system and an \"acute shortage\" of housing.\n\n\"Councils remain hugely concerned that large numbers of families - some of whom are particularly vulnerable - may have to end up presenting as homeless,\" added LGA chair Shaun Davies.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Netherlands goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has been moved out of intensive care following a bleed on the brain.\n\nThe ex-Manchester United and Ajax player, 52, was taken to hospital while on holiday in Croatia before being transferred to a Dutch hospital.\n\n\"I'm happy to share that I'm no longer in the intensive care unit,\" Van der Sar said in a statement on his Twitter.\n\n\"However, I'm still in hospital. I hope to go home next week and take the next step in my recovery.\"\n\nThere was an outpouring of goodwill messages to Van der Sar after news of his condition broke on 7 July and he expressed his gratitude in the latest update.\n\n\"We want to thank everyone for all the great and supportive messages,\" he added.\n\nVan der Sar, who won 130 caps for his country, resigned from his role as Ajax chief executive in May after the side finished third in the Dutch league and failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since 2009.\n\nHe retired from playing after leaving United in 2011 before joining the Ajax board in 2012, and becoming the club's chief executive in 2016.\n\nVan der Sar made 266 appearances for the Red Devils and helped them to win four Premier League titles and the 2008 Champions League. He also played for Fulham and Juventus.", "South Korean soldiers stand guard in the village of Panmunjom in the Joint Security Area\n\nNorth Korea is believed to have detained a serving US army soldier who crossed the heavily fortified border from South Korea without permission.\n\nThe man, identified by the Pentagon as Private 2nd Class (PV2) Travis King, 23, was on an organised tour of the UN-run zone dividing the two countries.\n\nThe crisis comes during a particularly tense time with the North, one of the world's most isolated states.\n\nA senior US commander said there had been no contact with the soldier.\n\nAdmiral John Aquilino Commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command said he was \"not tracking\" contact with North Korea.\n\nHe said PV2 King had acted willingly by \"making a run\" across the border without authorisation, and the incident was being investigated by US Forces Korea.\n\nOn its travel advisory, the US tells its citizens not to travel to North Korea due to \"the continuing serious risk of arrest\" and the \"critical threat of wrongful detention\".\n\nHours after his detention, North Korea launched two suspected ballistic missiles into the nearby sea, however there has been no suggestion that it is tied to the soldier's detention.\n\nSouth Korea's military confirmed the missile launch, which comes as tensions run high on the Korean peninsula.\n\nIt is unclear if the soldier has defected to North Korea or hopes to return, and there has been no word yet from the North.\n\nIn a statement, a Pentagon spokesperson said that PV2 King had been in the army since January 2021.\n\nHe is a cavalry scout - a reconnaissance specialist - originally assigned to an element of the army's 1st Armoured Division on a rotation with the US military in South Korea.\n\nBut he got into trouble there - officials in Seoul have confirmed that he spent two months in prison for assault charges.\n\nThe Yonhap news agency quoted \"legal sources\" as saying that he was fined for \"repeatedly kicking\" the back door of a police patrol vehicle in the capital's Mapo district, and shouted \"foul language\" at the police who apprehended him.\n\nHe was also suspected of punching a Korean national at a nightclub in September, the report said.\n\nIt is unclear if these were the reasons for his imprisonment.\n\nPV2 King was released from prison on 10 July and was escorted to the airport for a US-bound flight.\n\nSeoul officials said he passed through airport security but then somehow managed to leave the terminal and get on a tour of the border, from where he crossed over into North Korea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn eyewitness on the same tour told the BBC's US partner CBS News that they had visited a building at the border site - reported by local media to be the truce village of Panmunjom - when \"this man gives out a loud 'ha ha ha' and just runs in between some buildings\".\n\n\"I thought it was a bad joke at first but, when he didn't come back, I realised it wasn't a joke and then everybody reacted and things got crazy,\" they said.\n\nThe United Nations Command, which operates the Demilitarised Zone and joint security area (JSA), said earlier its team had made contact with the North Korean military to try to negotiate his release.\n\n\"We believe he is currently in DPRK [North Korean] custody and are working with our KPA [Korean People's Army - North Korea's military] counterparts to resolve this incident,\" it said.\n\nIt is unclear where or in what conditions PV2 King is being held.\n\nGreg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Washington DC-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, told the BBC that authorities in the North were likely to \"try pump information out of him\" about his military service and \"try to coerce him into becoming a propaganda tool\".\n\nThe Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separates the two Koreas and is one of the most heavily fortified areas in the world.\n\nIt is filled with landmines, surrounded by electric and barbed wire fencing and surveillance cameras. Armed guards are supposed to be on alert 24 hours a day.\n\nThe DMZ has separated the two countries since the Korean War in the 1950s, in which the US backed the South. The war ended with an armistice, meaning that the two sides are still technically at war.\n\nDozens of people try to escape North Korea every year, fleeing poverty and famine, but defections across the DMZ are extremely dangerous and rare. The country sealed its borders in 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and has yet to reopen them.\n\nThe last time a soldier defected at the JSA was in 2017, when a North Korean soldier drove a vehicle, then ran by foot across the military demarcation line, South Korea said at the time.\n\nThe soldier was shot at 40 times, but survived.\n\nBefore the pandemic more than 1,000 people fled from North Korea to China every year, according to numbers released by the South Korean government.\n\nThe detention of the soldier presents a major foreign policy headache for US President Joe Biden. PV2 King is believed to be the only American citizen currently in North Korean custody. Six South Koreans remain in detention there.\n\nRelations between the US and the North plummeted in 2017 after US student Otto Warmbier, who had been arrested a year earlier for stealing a propaganda sign, was returned to the US in a comatose state and later died.\n\nHis family blames the North Korean authorities for his death.\n\nThree US citizens were later freed during Donald Trump's presidency in 2018. But ultimately, a series of talks held between Kim Jong Un and the former US president did little to improve the relationship.\n\nNorth Korea has since tested dozens of increasingly powerful missiles that could carry nuclear warheads, which have been met by a slew of sanctions by the US and its allies.\n\nThe detention of the US national comes on the same day as a US nuclear-capable submarine docked in South Korea for the first time since 1981.\n\nThe submarine was specifically supplied to help the country deal with the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.\n\nAhead of its deployment there were threats of retaliation from the authorities in Pyongyang, which warned the US that sending nuclear weapons to the peninsula could spark a nuclear crisis.", "Melanie C is one of the 11 singers on the track, marking her third appearance on an England song\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C, pop star Self Esteem and Wolf Alice singer Ellie Rowsell have teamed up to record a song for England's Women's World Cup team.\n\nTitled Call Me A Lioness, the track references England players Chloe Kelly and Ella Toone, who scored the winning goals at the 2022 Euro final.\n\nBoth players are back on the squad for the World Cup, which kicks off in Australia this week.\n\nMel C said she was \"cheering on our women's team to bring it home again\".\n\nShe's joined on the song by Marika Hackman, Rachel Chinouriri, Shura, Jasmine Jethwa, Rose Gray, Highlyy, and Al Greenwood of the aptly-named band Sports Team.\n\nThe track was co-written by rising star Olivia Dean, who said she wanted to capture a feeling of \"togetherness\".\n\n\"We wanted to make a song that gives girls a soundtrack to their pride of the Lionesses and of being a woman, and to unite everyone in that pride,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Whenever I hear Call Me A Lioness I think about being in a beer garden singing it at the top of my lungs with my friends.\"\n\nThe song is being released as an \"unofficial\" anthem, after the Football Association stopped commissioning music for England's international campaigns following the 2014 men's World Cup in Brazil.\n\nProceeds from sales and streams will benefit charities that support grassroots girl's and women's football, including Football Beyond Borders, Manchester Laces, Street Soccer London and Girls United.\n\nEngland are seeking to add the World Cup to the European Championship title they won last summer\n\nCall Me A Lioness was the brainchild of songwriter Glen Roberts, who realised that England's victory last summer was being soundtracked by the same old songs: from Sweet Caroline to Three Lions.\n\nHe called up Dean and asked her to help him write an anthem specifically for the women's team.\n\nThe duo took inspiration from Gabby Logan's BBC commentary at Euro 2022, when she said: \"The Lionesses have brought football home. Now it's down to the rest of us to make sure it stays here. You think it's all over? It's only just begun.\"\n\nWith the song complete, they formed an 11-person squad of their own to record the vocals.\n\n\"It was pretty surreal to be surrounded by so many incredible musicians singing a song about women's football,\" said Hackman. \"I definitely wouldn't have pictured that for myself when I was a kid!\"\n\n\"I love the song so much. The Lionesses are the future and I am so proud and excited to get behind them this summer,\" added Self Esteem, the stage name of singer Rebecca Lucy Taylor.\n\n\"Recording it was very fun. Can't believe I'm on a song with Melanie C. Baby Becky is quaking.\"\n\nThe record is released on Wednesday 19 July, under the name Hope FC - a reference to Hope Powell, the former manager, player and coach of the national team, who made her international debut at the age of 16 and went on to score 35 goals for the England team.\n\nIt marks Mel C's third appearance on an England song, after 1998's (How Does It Feel To Be) On Top Of The World and a 2014 cover of Take That's Greatest Day.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Emily said working for McDonald's was the \"worst experience\" of her life\n\nOver 100 more former and current McDonald's workers have come forward to allege they faced harassment and bullying at the chain, following a BBC investigation.\n\nThe BBC's probe that found workers as young as 17 claiming they were being groped and harassed almost routinely.\n\nNow more stories are surfacing, putting further pressure on McDonald's.\n\nThe chain said it had \"stringent\" standards and would investigate all allegations brought to it.\n\n\"There are clearly instances where we have fallen short and for that we deeply apologise,\" Alistair Macrow, chief executive of McDonald's UK & Ireland said in a statement given to the BBC.\n\nThe BBC's first investigation heard from 100 current and recent UK staff at outlets of the fast-food chain, who reported experiencing abuse, including sexual assault, harassment, racism and bullying.\n\nAfter the article was published on Tuesday, a flood of others got in touch to share allegations of similar experiences, including parents of employees.\n\nThe new allegations made to the BBC include:\n\nSome workers told the BBC they felt too scared to report the alleged behaviour, others that they did complain but were ignored by managers or faced retribution.\n\nEmily worked at a branch of McDonald's in the North West when she was 17. She told the BBC it was her first job after leaving college.\n\n\"The environment was really toxic - I was constantly being asked inappropriate things by other, male, crew members.\n\n\"At one point a manager groped me, and hit me on the bottom, and then laughed,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know who to go to... Everyone would have stuck up for the manager, so there was no one I could report to.\"\n\nEmily said she told the manager who groped her, to leave her alone. She also emailed the company's staff support service to report him but received no reply.\n\nThen, a week after the incident, she says she was fired for \"being rude to staff\". She is convinced it was because she spoke out.\n\nOn Tuesday, the prime minister described the allegations made to the BBC as \"deeply concerning\".\n\nCaroline Nokes, chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, said the claims were \"horrific\" and were about power... older managers exploiting what is, at McDonald's, a very young workforce\".\n\nThe chair of parliament's Business and Trade Committee, Darren Jones, said McDonald's should terminate franchise deals if branches were not following labour law correctly.\n\nMcDonald's said it took the additional reports brought to them by the BBC \"extremely seriously\".\n\nThe chain said it would look into all reports of harassment, abuse or discrimination of any kind and that proven allegations would be met with \"the most severe measures we can legally impose, up to and including dismissal\".\n\nOne allegation that was investigated at the time it was reported involved allegations of sexual harassment by a manager.\n\nCaspar said his manager had kissed him \"on the lips\".\n\nCaspar, who worked at a McDonald's in the West of England, claimed that a manager tried to kiss him while he was 17.\n\nCaspar said that he had \"backed away\" but that the manager had put his hand on the back of Caspar's head, pulled it towards him and kissed him \"on the lips\".\n\nThe franchisee group supervisor interviewed Caspar about the situation, but the manager was not suspended.\n\nMcDonald's boss for UK & Ireland, Mr Macrow, said there was \"simply no place for harassment, abuse, or discrimination\" at the company.\n\nThe BBC began investigating working conditions at McDonald's in February, after the company signed a legally binding agreement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in which it pledged to protect its staff from sexual harassment.\n\nMr Macrow said that more than 2,000 managers had completed full awareness training and that most restaurant teams were now working within the new protections, which aim to create \"a safe and respectful workplace\". He added that the company has stringent rules to ensure its workplaces around the world are safe and respectful.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Ella Mann needs to be placed under general anaesthetic for the operation to remove her teeth\n\nAn eight-year-old girl waiting three years to have three teeth removed has been left in \"agony\".\n\nElla Mann, from Dovercourt in Essex, first went to the dentist with an issue with a baby tooth in December 2019.\n\nShe was given a temporary filling and told it needed to be removed but has still not had the NHS procedure.\n\nTwo more of her baby teeth now need to be removed and Ella's mum, Stacy Welch, said the pain \"keeps her up at night\".\n\nThere are 1.6 dentists for every 10,000 people in Tendring, compared with two dentists for every 10,000 in the neighbouring Colchester district.\n\nThe parents of Ella Mann (bottom left, pictured with her sister 10-year-old Olivia) said she is agony from her baby teeth which need to be removed\n\nMs Welch, 42, said Ella was taken to the dentist with \"really bad toothache\" when she was five and referred to have the tooth removed.\n\nBut she said it has been \"very long drawn out process\" and despite trips to the dentist \"every three months\" Ella is yet to have the tooth, or the other other two baby teeth, taken out.\n\nThe youngster has now been placed on an NHS waiting list for the tooth extraction.\n\nMs Welch said Ella \"can't brush her teeth properly\" and the pain \"keeps her up at night\".\n\nShe also has had to have time off school for the dental appointments and because of the pain.\n\nElla, who has been on the waiting list for more than a third of her lifetime, will now have to to be placed under general anaesthetic for an operation to remove the teeth.\n\nElla's dad Charlie Mann, 54, said his daughter was sometimes in \"agony\".\n\n\"I don't like seeing anyone crying, let alone my own kids, and can't do anything about it,\" he said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it was investing more than £3bn a year into dentistry and it would soon be announcing further measures to improve access to dentists.\n\nHealthwatch England last year warned of people struggling to get dental treatment as increasing practices closed to new patients.\n\nA BBC investigation identified cases of people driving hundreds of miles in search of treatment and pulling out their own teeth without anaesthesia.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Susan Hall has been a councillor in Harrow since 2006 and a member of the London-wide Assembly since 2017\n\nSusan Hall has been selected by Conservative members to become the party's mayoral candidate for London after winning 57% of the vote.\n\nShe was running against only one other hopeful, Mozammel Hossain, after David Cameron's former special adviser Daniel Korski dropped out of the race.\n\nHe was accused of groping TV producer Daisy Goodwin at 10 Downing Street in 2013, an allegation he denied.\n\nMs Hall will go up against incumbent Sadiq Khan on 2 May.\n\nMs Hall, who has been a councillor in Harrow since 2006 and a London Assembly member since 2017, said: \"It is a huge honour to be the Conservative candidate for mayor of London and I am so grateful to everyone for their support.\n\n\"Over the coming months, I will work tirelessly to defeat Sadiq Khan and offer Londoners the change we need.\"\n\nMs Hall, who describes herself as a \"Londoner through and through\", ran a hairdressing salon with her husband in Harrow before entering politics.\n\nShe said she was the right candidate as she had been \"holding the mayor to account for years\".\n\nMs Hall was supported by party chairman Greg Hands and deputy Nickie Aiken\n\nHer three main priorities are to stop the expansion of ULEZ, improve the Met Police and create more affordable housing.\n\n\"I want to make sure that the £9bn that the mayor receives from the government is spent properly,\" Ms Hall said.\n\nThe Conservative Party came under criticism from mayoral hopeful Samuel Kasumu, who had failed to make the shortlist of three, after it refused to re-examine the selection process when Mr Korski withdrew, leaving only two candidates.\n\nMr Kasumu, a former adviser to Boris Johnson, described the current system as lacking \"real transparency or mechanisms for accountability\".\n\nA spokesperson for London Labour said: \"The Conservative candidate for mayor is a hard-right politician who couldn't be more out of touch with our city and its values.\n\n\"Londoners deserve better than a candidate who represents the worst of the Tory failure and incompetence over the last 13 years.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's refusal to abolish the two-child limit on claiming some benefits will be challenged at a meeting of the party's policy body this weekend.\n\nSir Keir has faced a backlash from across his party over the issue.\n\nThe meeting, held behind closed doors in Nottingham, is an important staging post in drawing up the next manifesto.\n\nHowever, policies agreed there will not automatically be included.\n\nThe content of six policy documents will be finalised and sent to the party's annual conference in October.\n\nThe party leadership has already accepted some amendments to the draft documents - including restating the commitment to rail nationalisation and improving the provision of early years education - though without a spending commitment attached.\n\nBut a range of other proposed changes have not been agreed, and will be up for debate - including on welfare.\n\nBoth the county's largest union, Unison and the shop workers' union Usdaw are backing an amendment to \"end the punitive features\" of the benefit system, including specifically the benefits cap and the two-child limit.\n\nThe cap, which came into force in 2017, restricts child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in a family, with only a few exceptions.\n\nThe Child Poverty Action Group estimates removing the limit would cost £1.3bn a year but would lift 250,000 children out of poverty overnight.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the policy would not change under a Labour government.\n\nAlthough he did not give a reason during the interview, members of his shadow cabinet said it was because this would constitute an unfunded spending commitment.\n\nSir Keir referenced the backlash to his interview during an event with former Labour leader Sir Tony Blair on Tuesday, saying there was a row ongoing within the party about \"tough choices\".\n\n\"We have to take the tough decisions,\" he said, adding that the experience of former PM Liz Truss's premiership showed \"if you make unfunded commitments then the economy is damaged and working people pay the price\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: Labour will not make \"unfunded commitments\" like Liz Truss\n\nThe leadership wants to establish economic credibility above all, and avoid giving the Conservatives the ammunition to run a \"Labour's tax bombshell\" campaign, which proved so successful in 1992 - also after 13 years of Tory government.\n\nSir Keir's critics fall in to two camps - both of which go beyond his usual detractors.\n\nThe first involve those who want to see the policy changed - from Unison, which nominated Sir Keir for the leadership, to some former shadow ministers, to Labour's moderate leader in Scotland, Anas Sarwar.\n\nThe second group - who are muttering privately rather than publicly - are with the programme when it comes to refraining from uncosted commitments.\n\nTheir view is roughly this:\n\nThat Sir Keir committed to not changing a Conservative policy in his interview with the BBC on Sunday.\n\nThey feel instead - like deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth - he could have denounced the policy, but simply explained the money was not there to change it yet, as the Conservatives have crashed the economy.\n\nThey feel that approach would have left the door open to addressing the issue when or if the economy improves, and therefore have avoided the current row.\n\nSir Keir confirmed his position on the two-child benefit cap in a BBC interview on Sunday\n\nSir Keir, though, will be aware that the two-child limit is far less unpopular with potential voters than it is with party members.\n\nBut a shadow cabinet ally of Sir Keir's denied that he had attempted to throw potential voters in former Labour strongholds in the Midlands and northern England - known as the \"red wall\" - some red meat.\n\nThe ally insisted Sir Keir was absolutely committed to tackling child poverty and that his robust response on the issue was simply to quash any speculation that an unfunded commitment could be wrung out of him.\n\nBut there is a wider frustration that while Labour is attacking the government's record - for example, on child poverty - shadow ministers are constrained in proposing solutions.\n\nAt the policy forum this weekend, there will also be a push by some unions and left-wing delegates in particular for the party to commit to free school meals for all primary school children in England.\n\nThe left-wing group Momentum will be pushing for a more radical agenda across the board this weekend - from public ownership to rent controls and increasing international aid.\n\nThey are unlikely to win many victories but in alliance with the unions their hope is that on benefits and school meals, the leadership will be given a clear message.\n\nThere are many in the party that would not sign up to some of Momentum's preferred policies.\n\nBut there is a wider concern in Labour's ranks about whether the party's programme can inspire, and not just reassure, potential voters.", "The shockwaves triggered by the impact of Russia's invasion on food and energy bills have been felt globally. But inflation in the UK has climbed faster and been more stubborn than in the US and EU.\n\nSome, including Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, claim Brexit may be to blame. But it's a complex picture.\n\nSingling out the impact of Brexit isn't easy, especially with the effects of a pandemic and a war. But there is evidence that the red tape - the form filling and other hurdles - required to bring goods into the country may have added to food bills.\n\nMore than a quarter of our food is imported from the EU.\n\nResearchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) compared how the prices of some of those items rose compared with those of food from elsewhere. The differences may reflect other factors, and may not be purely down to Brexit.\n\nBut the academics claimed that if they were, then the extra red tape could have added £250 in total to the typical household's grocery shopping bills between December 2019 and March 2023, with meat and cheese particularly affected.\n\nMost of that rise - about £210 - they say came through before our current cost-of-living crunch, in 2020 and 2021, as businesses were preparing and first implementing the new processes.\n\nBut in total, the LSE team reckons the changes could have accounted for over a quarter of the rise in food bills we've seen since the end of 2019. By contrast, the cost savings in new trade deals agreed since then have been minimal.\n\nSo while Brexit may not have been the biggest reason for our surging food inflation, the higher costs it added may have played a significant part.\n\nBut here's a small crumb of comfort - even with these changes, academics at Oxford Economics believe food is 7% cheaper in the UK than on average in the EU.\n\nAnd official statistics show a smaller part of spending in the UK goes on food - less than £1 in every £8 - than in France or Germany.\n\nHowever, a trip to the butchers, deli counter or nipping out for a pizza could become still more expensive.\n\nThe remainder of post-Brexit import checks and formalities on items brought into the UK to guard against risks to animal health and food fraud are due to be phased in from October, after they were postponed during the pandemic.\n\nThe government has streamlined several processes in the meantime, considerably reducing the extra bills importers were due to face.\n\nBut meat, dairy or fish products, for example, will have to be signed off as safe by a vet before entry, at a cost of hundreds of euros.\n\nEvery consignment of goods in such medium- and high-risk categories entering the UK will face a new charge at border posts of up to £43.\n\nThe changes will cost businesses hundreds of millions of pounds per year. And customers may ultimately foot the bill.\n\nMeanwhile, the end of free movement means 330,000 fewer workers in the UK, according to one estimate from economists at the Centre for European Reform.\n\nThat is 1% of the workforce, but it is hitting some sectors harder than others - transport, hospitality and retail are all seeing more acute staff shortages.\n\nSuch employers tend to have to offer larger pay rises to attract and keep staff. While that is good news for those in work, who might have scored a bigger pay rise than they would have done otherwise, those costs are often passed on to customers.\n\nThen there is a less visible possible impact. Investment - in things like equipment, skills and IT - has stalled since the referendum.\n\nEconomists, including those at the government's own independent forecasters, say part of that gap may reflect Brexit-related costs or uncertainty. That makes the UK less efficient than it could be, meaning the cost of producing stuff is higher.\n\nBut with the Windsor Framework settling the arrangements for trading with the EU between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, economists hope some uncertainty has disappeared, and investment may get a boost. But that takes time.\n\nThe current inflation shock is truly global. But those escalating bills in the UK may come with a Brexit surcharge on top - just when households and businesses feel they can least cope.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWomen in Afghanistan have held a rare protest against the Taliban's decision to shut female beauty parlours and salons.\n\nWomen shouted \"work, bread and justice\" while they were gathered in the capital city, Kabul.\n\nTaliban guards responded with water cannons, and some protesters said stun guns were also used against them.\n\nWomen's rights have been increasingly restricted since Taliban rulers returned to power in 2021.\n\nAround 50 women took part in the protest on Wednesday, according to AFP news agency.\n\nThe Taliban have given businesses one month from 2 July to close thousands of beauty salons across the country.\n\nThey said the wearing of wigs and the practice of eyebrow-plucking were against Islamic values and parents were wasting money on beauty parlours when couples get married.\n\nThe decision further restricts the spaces accessible to Afghan women, who are already barred from classrooms, gyms and parks. More recently, the Taliban also banned them from working for the United Nations.\n\nThe closure of all beauty salons will lead to the loss of 60,000 jobs, Afghanistan's chamber of commerce said.\n\nBeauty salons were last shut when the Taliban ruled between 1996 and 2001. They stayed open after the Taliban retook power two years ago following the withdrawal of US forces, but shop windows were often covered up and images of women outside salons were spray painted to hide their faces.\n\nThe Taliban's restrictions on women, which include strict dress codes and limits to them travelling alone, have continued despite international condemnation.\n\nThere have been minor sporadic protests against measures introduced by the Taliban, but any form of dissent is being crushed.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Women in Afghanistan face an uncertain future following the Taliban's takeover", "Broadcaster Dan Wootton has admitted making \"errors of judgement in the past\" but denied any criminality as he responded to claims made against him.\n\nReports have included claims he offered media colleagues thousands of pounds for explicit material of themselves.\n\nWootton said on his GB News show he was the victim of a \"witch hunt\" by \"nefarious players\".\n\nThe publishers of the Sun and MailOnline say they are looking into allegations against him.\n\nVarious claims made on social media and in publications including the Byline Times, which first reported the story, and the Guardian, formed part of a campaign to get Wootton \"cancelled\", he told viewers of GB News' Dan Wootton Tonight.\n\nWootton was previously executive editor at the Sun, whose publisher News UK told the BBC: \"We are looking into the allegations made in recent days. We are not able to make any further comment at this stage.\"\n\nHe later became a columnist for MailOnline, owned by DMG Media, a spokesperson for which said: \"We are aware of the allegations and are looking into them.\"\n\nThe claims include that he used fake online identities and offered money to individuals in return for filming themselves carrying out sex acts.\n\nByline Times said it had given a dossier of evidence to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nA spokesman for the force said it had been contacted in June \"with regards to allegations\" of offences committed by a man.\n\n\"Officers are assessing information to establish whether any criminal offence has taken place,\" they said. \"There is no police investigation at this time.\"\n\nWootton said the allegations had been spread by a \"race to the bottom\" on social media, and claimed that \"dark forces\" were trying to bring down GB News.\n\nHe said: \"These past few days I have been the target of a smear campaign by nefarious players with an axe to grind.\n\n\"I, like all fallible human beings, have made errors of judgement in the past. But the criminal allegations being made against me are simply untrue.\n\n\"I would like nothing more than to address those spurious claims. I could actually spend the next two hours doing so, but on the advice of my lawyers I cannot comment further.\"\n\nGB News said it had no comment at this time.\n\nWootton declined to comment further when contacted by BBC News.\n\nDuring his time at the Sun, Wootton was known for breaking stories such as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepping down from royal duties.\n\nHe previously edited the newspaper's showbiz column Bizarre. He left his role as executive editor of the Sun in early 2021, and joined the MailOnline.\n\nHe was also previously showbiz editor at the News of the World and appeared on ITV's Lorraine as the programme's showbiz correspondent. He was named showbiz reporter of the year at the British Press Awards three times.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Frome is the largest town in the rural constituency of Somerton and Frome\n\nOn Thursday Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a triple by-election test, after three of his own MPs stood down. BBC political editor Chris Mason has visited each area to find out what activists and voters think of the parties' chances.\n\n\"We are going to lose them all horribly.\"\n\nPolitical parties like to manage expectations before elections. In other words, talk down their chances. But there is no mistaking the gloom in senior Conservative circles about the three contests to become an MP in different corners of England.\n\nEach race is fascinating because each offers an insight into the different varieties of race that will help shape the outcome of the next general election, expected next year.\n\nI have been to North Yorkshire, to Somerset and to west London to talk to voters. And I have talked to senior campaigners from the main parties too.\n\nAnd yes, there aren't many optimistic Tories.\n\n\"Why would you go out and vote for us, right now? What is the incentive? The incentive is to give us a kicking, because these contests aren't about picking a government,\" one minister tells me.\n\nAnother Tory figure is even more blunt.\n\n\"Of course we are going to lose. In one it is about lies. The other about drugs. And the third about not getting a peerage. How do you defend any of that?\"\n\nThey are referring to the former MPs Boris Johnson, David Warburton and Nigel Adams respectively.\n\nThe Conservative pessimism is matched by a broadly chipper mood among Labour activists in both Uxbridge and South Ruislip and Selby and Ainsty, and Liberal Democrats in Somerton and Frome.\n\nIn all three spots, there is a recurring theme to the issues that matter.\n\nFirstly, the cost of living. One mum pushing a buggy through the streets of Frome told me she thinks twice before putting the kettle on, knowing the spiralling cost of her bills.\n\nIt was no different in Selby or in Uxbridge.\n\nSpiralling prices and what several people described as an economic \"crisis\" - for their budgets, and the wider country.\n\nThe NHS too is a uniting topic from rural Somerset and North Yorkshire to the north-west London suburbs. Interminable waits at A&E. The difficulty getting an appointment with the doctor. The difficulty even getting registered with an NHS dentist.\n\nBut let's examine each contest individually - as they each offer an insight into a crucial tussle come the general election expected next year.\n\nIt is the latest case study in the re-emergence of a political rivalry that had gone rather quiet. And the south west of England is where it is perhaps at its keenest.\n\nFor years, Cornwall, Devon and Somerset were something of a heartland for the Lib Dems. But their stint in coalition government with the Tories nearly wiped them out. It is only now that they are showing signs of recovery.\n\nThe Lib Dems now run Somerset Council. They won a by election in Tiverton and Honiton, in Devon, just over a year ago.\n\nThe party held Somerton and Frome until their near-death experience, in 2015. And they are confident they are going to win it back.\n\nThey reckon they are being well received in the villages that traditionally lean Conservative. And they are hopeful the Guardian's endorsement will help tempt Labour and Green voters to vote for them instead.\n\nSir Ed Davey, the party's leader, has visited the area six times.\n\n\"We are going to get absolutely smashed in Somerset,\" says one Tory activist, in contrast, who has campaigned there.\n\nSelby and Ainsty has been Conservative since constituency boundaries changed in 2010\n\nSome 240 miles from the Somerset countryside, a slice of North Yorkshire countryside. Selby and Ainsty.\n\nThis seat, on its current boundaries, is, or was, a rock solid Conservative constituency.\n\nBeyond Selby and Tadcaster, it is a rural patch. Labour could win a general election outright and comfortably without taking a seat like this.\n\nAnd yet still the Conservatives are worried it could be a goner for them.\n\nLabour are emphasising that a win for them would amount to \"the biggest majority we've overturned since the end of the Second World War\" - a line which speaks to both their confidence and a splash of expectation management, in case they don't manage it.\n\nYes, Selby had a Labour MP as recently as when the party was last in government in 2010. But the constituency boundaries have changed since then.\n\nA victory for Sir Keir Starmer's party here would be an astonishing achievement, but appears doable.\n\nAnd so finally to west London, to Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nThis is a contest that has the central figure of the politics of the last few years at its heart: one Boris Johnson. The ex-prime minister is the former MP here. His resignation triggered this by-election.\n\nI encountered no shortage of views about Mr Johnson - from the unrepeatable to the warm, and sometimes a bit of both from one and the same person.\n\nUxbridge and South Ruislip has long been a Conservative seat. But Labour has been eyeing the prospect of winning here for a bit.\n\nIt is the kind of seat where the party would face awkward questions if it didn't manage to win; if it failed to turn stonking national opinion poll leads into actual votes and an actual election win.\n\nAnd, crucially, taking a seat directly from the Conservatives.\n\nBut there is a twist here.\n\nThe extension of what is known as London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone, which charges the owners of the most polluting transport to drive around. Ulez, as it is known for short, provokes real anger from many here.\n\nAnd its critics blame the Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\n\"If we lose it'll be down to Ulez,\" one senior Labour source told me, adding \"the Tories have done a good job of trying to make it a single issue contest, and for some it's very motivational\" - in other words it'll determine how some people vote.\n\n\"It's a tough seat,\" says another London Labour source, while claiming the importance of Ulez can be overstated compared to issues such as the cost of living.\n\nNot one, but a trio of contests in three different corners of England, with the capacity to make the political weather - and shape the mood of the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, as a general election edges ever closer.\n\nYou can see the full list of candidates for each constituency here:\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "About 390 children with special educational needs (SEN) in Northern Ireland are still waiting for a suitable school place for September.\n\nThat is according to the most recent figures from the Education Authority (EA).\n\nBut it also said that more than 5,000 children with a statement for SEN had a confirmed pre-school or school place.\n\nThe authority said it is \"working to ensure all children will be placed appropriately as soon as possible\".\n\n\"We absolutely recognise that this is an extremely anxious time for those parents/carers and children waiting for the confirmation of a school place,\" it said.\n\n\"Supporting children with SEN and ensuring all children with statements receive a placement which fully meets their needs to ensure that they are happy, learning and succeeding, remains a top priority.\"\n\nThe authority has also confirmed that fewer than five special schools out of 32 will close their nurseries in 2023/24 to admit more children into Primary One.\n\nIt did not, however, specify which special schools are affected.\n\n\"In areas of high demand, nursery children have been placed in a range of settings including specialist provisions in mainstream schools, satellite settings aligned with special schools and, in some cases, parents have opted for mainstream nursery settings with support,\" the Education Authority said.\n\nThe authority had warned in May of significant pressures on school places for children with special education needs for 2023/24.\n\nDespite the progress that the authority has made in finding school places for many children with SEN, there are hundreds of families still uncertain about a suitable school place for their child even though the summer holidays have begun.\n\nBBC News NI has been speaking to some.\n\nFinn McCabe's statement of Special Educational Needs (SEN) has not yet been finalised\n\nDearbhla McCabe is still seeking a suitable pre-school place for her three-year-old son Finn.\n\nFinn is autistic, non-verbal and has sensory issues.\n\nGiven Finn's needs, Dearbhla said that a special school nursery would be most suitable for him.\n\n\"Finn has severe learning difficulties, he cannot even ask for a drink,\" she said.\n\n\"He gets frustrated as he can't communicate, but he will display challenging behaviour.\n\n\"If he was in a special school, they would have speech therapists to help him with his communication, whether to try to get him speaking or teaching a different way to communicate using different aids.\"\n\nFinn's statement of special educational needs has not yet been finalised.\n\nA statement is a legal document which sets out a child's needs and the support they should have in school.\n\nDearbhla said that Finn's statement should have been completed by now and that not knowing if he would have a pre-school place was very difficult.\n\nShe has two other children who have also been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).\n\n\"There's nobody that knows their child better than a parent and I know what Finn needs.\n\n\"We're constantly trying to keep him safe and we're trying to keep a routine.\n\n\"I need to have some sort of consistency to know how I can go forward as a mother to provide for and support my children.\n\n\"At the minute all my attention is on fighting to make sure that Finn gets the education he is entitled to.\"\n\nFionn Kernohan's mother said the family is in limbo as he has no confirmed school place\n\nCliodhna Kernohan's 4-year old son Fionn has no confirmed Primary One place in a special school for September.\n\n\"He is already statemented with severe learning difficulties and is non-verbal,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"He still has toileting needs, he isn't there with it yet, we're doing everything we can but he isn't suitable for a mainstream school at all.\n\n\"Honestly I cannot tell you the stress, the anxiety and the lack of sleep.\"\n\nCliodhna said that the summer school holidays also meant it was harder to get answers.\n\nShe also said that other Primary One children with a place had been able to visit their new schools and meet their teachers before the term ended.\n\n\"As an autistic child as well, routine is so important.\n\n\"So we are really in limbo at the minute.\n\n\"I don't have anything to communicate to Fionn about what's happening.\n\n\"I don't understand how kids who need support more than ever, the government, the Education Authority, don't feel they are a priority.\n\n\"It's been an uphill battle for me to find support, get medical appointments, get him a pre-school place, get him support in pre-school.\n\n\"And now the most serious one that I face to date is getting a Primary One place for him.\"\n\nThe mother of Anna-Rose Houtman (left, pictured with her sister) said she needs a full-time classroom assistant\n\n\"Along with that, she has a learning disability and development delays,\" she said.\n\n\"She's very intuitive, she understands everything you tell her and she communicates using Makaton.\"\n\nAnna Rose has been offered a place in a mainstream pre-school, but no additional support in the form of a trained classroom assistant is yet in place for her.\n\n\"She needs a full-time classroom assistant,\" Laura said.\n\nBut as Anna Rose's statement is only a draft at present that is not in place.\n\n\"It has to be an appropriate classroom assistant that has the skills and experience of working with children with Down's syndrome,\" she added.\n\n\"The process is very stressful, it's been very cumbersome and time-consuming.\n\n\"It really has highlighted to me how differently my child has been treated and it shouldn't be like that.\n\n\"If my child didn't have a disability I would have known on 28 April where she was going.\n\n\"There just seems to be all these barriers put in place.\n\n\"The future for any child is bright with the right intervention.\"", "King Charles III has been presented with Scotland's crown jewels in Edinburgh in a ceremony to mark his Coronation.\n\nHe received the crown and sceptre which form part of the Honours of Scotland.\n\nThe national thanksgiving service at St Giles' Cathedral also featured a new sword named after the late Queen Elizabeth.\n\nBefore the service, the crown jewels were brought from Edinburgh Castle to St Giles' in a procession down the Royal Mile involving about 100 people from various aspects of Scottish life.\n\nMore than 700 members of the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force were part of the procession.\n\nThe event was rounded off by a 21-gun salute at Edinburgh Castle and a Red Arrows flypast.\n\nProtesters chanted \"not my king\" gathered on Edinburgh's Royal Mile ahead of the thanksgiving service.\n\nAnother anti-monarchy group hosted a rally outside Holyrood, which was attended by Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater.\n\nThat concludes our coverage of the thanksgiving and dedication. The editors were Paul McLaren and Heather Sharp, and the writers were Bryn Palmer, Craig Hutchison and Antoinette Radford. Thank you for joining us.", "Thirty million users have signed up for Meta's newly launched Threads app on its first day, the company's chief Mark Zuckerberg says.\n\nHe pitched the app as a \"friendly\" rival to Twitter, which was bought by Elon Musk in October.\n\nExperts say Threads could attract Twitter users unhappy with recent changes to the platform.\n\nBut Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino said though Twitter is \"often imitated\", its community can \"never be duplicated\".\n\nThreads allows users to post up to 500 characters, and has many features similar to Twitter.\n\nEarlier, Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform \"friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success\".\n\nBut Mr Musk responded: \"It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.\"\n\nWhen asked on Threads whether the app will be \"bigger than Twitter\", Mr Zuckerberg said: \"It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it.\n\n\"Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will.\"\n\nThe launch has had a warm response online, with one person telling the BBC they saw Threads as a \"much-needed competitor\" to Twitter.\n\nCompetitors have criticised the amount of data the app might use. This may include health, financial, and browsing data linked to users' identities, according to the Apple App Store.\n\nSome users have also expressed concern that it is not possible to delete your Threads profile without deleting the associated Instagram profile. Meta told the BBC: \"At this time, you can't delete your Threads profile without deleting your Instagram account. This is something we're working on. In the meantime, you can deactivate your Threads profile at any time.\n\n\"Deactivating your Threads profile will not deactivate your Instagram account\".\n\nDeactivation will mean your Threads profile, your posts and interactions with others' posts won't be visible, the firm added.\n\nUsers can download and delete Threads data by visiting their Instagram settings, Meta says.\n\nThreads is now available to download in over 100 countries including the UK, but not yet in the EU because of regulatory concerns.\n\nHave you signed up for Threads and what do you think of the app? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nMeta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, called the new app an \"initial version\", with extra features planned including the ability to interact with people on other social media apps like Mastodon.\n\n\"Our vision with Threads is to take what Instagram does best and expand that to text,\" the firm said prior to its launch.\n\nDespite Threads being a standalone app, users log in using an Instagram account. Their Instagram username carries over, but there is an option to customize their profile specifically for Threads.\n\nUsers will also be able to choose to follow the same accounts they do on Instagram, Meta says. The app allows users to be private on Instagram, but public on Threads.\n\nThe new app's release comes after criticism of Meta's business practices.\n\nLast year, Meta whistleblower Frances Haugen said the company had put \"profits over safety\" and criticised how the platform was moderated.\n\nThe company was also rocked by a scandal in which it allowed third parties, including British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, to access Facebook users' personal data.\n\nIn an apparent reference to this controversial past, Mr Musk joked on Monday \"thank goodness they're so sanely run\".\n\nThere are several alternatives to Twitter available, such as Bluesky and Mastodon, but these have struggled to gain traction.\n\nThreads has a significant advantage because it is connected to Instagram, and the hundreds of millions of users already on that platform.\n\nOn Threads, posts can be shared to Instagram and vice versa and can include links, photos, and videos of up to five minutes in length.\n\nHowever, some early users on Wednesday reported problems when uploading images, hinting at teething problems.\n\nUsers see a feed of posts, which Meta calls \"threads\", from people they follow as well as recommended content.\n\nThey are able to control who can \"mention\" them and filter out replies to posts that contain specific words.\n\nUnfollowing, blocking, restricting or reporting other profiles is also possible, and any accounts users block on Instagram are automatically blocked on Threads.\n\nWhile Meta stresses ties to Instagram, media coverage has focused on its similarity to Twitter, with some investors describing the app as a \"Twitter killer\".\n\nPosts can be shared between Threads and Instagram and can include links, photos, and videos\n\nOn Saturday, Twitter boss Elon Musk restricted the number of tweets users could see on his platform per day, citing extreme \"data scraping\".\n\nIt was Mr Musk's latest push to get users to sign up to Twitter Blue, the platform's subscription service.\n\nTwitter has also announced that its popular user dashboard TweetDeck will go behind a paywall in 30 days' time.\n\nSince Mr Musk took over, many users of Twitter have publicly expressed their dissatisfaction with the platform and his stewardship - citing erratic behaviour and political views.\n\nLast month, Mr Musk and Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg agreed - possibly in jest - to a cage fight, and Mr Zuckerberg's early posts on Threads mentioned his interest in mixed martial arts.\n\nWhile Threads will be available in the UK, it is not yet available in the EU because of regulatory uncertainty, particularly around the EU's Digital Markets Act.\n\nBut the company says it is looking into launching in the EU.\n\nThat act lays down rules on how large companies such as Meta can share data between platforms that they own. The sharing of data between Threads and Instagram is part of the issue.\n\nMeta maintains protecting privacy is fundamental to its business.", "Parliament's standards watchdog is to publish the findings of an inquiry into groping allegations against former government whip Chris Pincher on Thursday, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe report could lead to a by-election in his constituency, if a suspension of more than 10 days is agreed.\n\nSources familiar with the process said they expected the punishment to meet the threshold for a recall petition.\n\nMr Pincher quit as deputy chief whip after groping allegations last year.\n\nBoris Johnson's handling of the allegations led to the downfall of his government after a wave of ministers resigned.\n\nThe Standards Committee's report on the investigation is expected to be published at 09:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe sanction recommended by the committee will have to be agreed by MPs.\n\nMr Pincher does have the right to appeal to an independent expert panel, if he can provide new evidence or point to a procedural inaccuracy.\n\nThe report follows an investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner over allegations of \"actions causing significant damage to the reputation of the House\".\n\nMr Pincher quit his government role in June last year, after allegedly assaulting fellow guests at the Carlton Club in London.\n\nHe apologised for \"drinking far too much\" and embarrassing \"himself and other people\".\n\nIn the days that followed, Mr Johnson faced questions about what he knew about earlier accusations of sexual misconduct against Mr Pincher before appointing him deputy chief whip.\n\nThe BBC reported that Mr Johnson was made aware of a formal complaint about Mr Pincher's \"inappropriate behaviour\" while he was a Foreign Office minister from 2019-20.\n\nAt the time, Mr Johnson was already under immense pressure over revelations about lockdown parties in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nIn the wake of the controversy, dozens of ministers submitted their resignations, with Mr Johnson ultimately deciding to stand down as prime minister.\n\nMr Pincher currently sits as an independent member in the House of Commons.\n\nThat is because he had the Conservative whip removed when a formal complaint about him was made to the standards commissioner, which examines reports of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct.\n\nMr Pincher has told the Conservative Party he will step down as an MP at the next general election, due in 2024.\n\nHe was elected to the Tamworth seat with a majority of more than 19,000 in 2019.", "Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Crown Court, London for the fifth day of his trial\n\nAn alleged victim of sexual assault by Kevin Spacey has accused the actor of coming out as gay to \"disguise\" his behaviour, a court has heard.\n\nThe man told Southwark Crown Court he believed Mr Spacey's decision to come out showed he was \"somebody not taking ownership\" of his alleged behaviour.\n\nHe rejected suggestions from Mr Spacey's lawyer that some things he had told police were \"completely untrue\".\n\nThe US actor denies 12 sex offences against four men between 2001 and 2013.\n\nThe complainant, who was cross examined for more than two hours on Thursday by defence barrister Patrick Gibbs KC, said the alleged incident dated back to 2005.\n\nHe spoke from behind a screen, as Mr Spacey listened from the glass-walled dock.\n\nThe alleged victim said he felt \"belittled\" and \"worthless\" after the incident in a theatre - telling a jury the alleged assault felt like it lasted an \"eternity\".\n\n\"The way he treated me - I felt subhuman. I felt completely powerless,\" he added.\n\nOn Wednesday, jurors heard the alleged victim's police interview, in which he said Mr Spacey \"smelt of booze\" before grabbing him \"like a cobra\".\n\nHe said Mr Spacey had directed a \"machine gun\" of \"vile comments\" at him.\n\n\"It was horrific. I've never had anyone speak to me in that way,\" he said during Thursday's cross examination.\n\n\"He wasn't screaming at me, but it was like a torrent.\n\nHe added he was then physically attacked by the actor, who he said grabbed his penis.\n\n\"I didn't scream. I didn't shout. I was in such shock,\" he said.\n\nAsked how this could have happened at a busy event where there were lots of people, he responded: \"I think it's the phrase 'hiding in plain sight'.\"\n\nThe complainant said he had only told one friend about what had happened.\n\nWhen questioned on this he said that \"it was a completely different climate, way before MeToo\". He said he would have been seen as a \"troublemaker\".\n\nMr Spacey, 63, has been described by the prosecution as a \"sexual bully\".\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty all the charges he faces. These include seven counts of sexual assault and three counts of indecent assault.", "Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Court in London for the fourth day of his trial\n\nActor Kevin Spacey grabbed a man \"like a cobra\" in a West End theatre and made a \"barrage of vile comments\" which were of a sexual nature, a court has heard.\n\nThe man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the Hollywood star \"smelled of booze\" and grabbed him with \"such force it was really painful\".\n\nIn a police interview, played at Southwark Crown Court, the man said he froze and pushed Mr Spacey's arm away.\n\nThe American actor is facing 12 charges, all of which he denies.\n\nOn the fourth day of Mr Spacey's trial, jurors watched the taped police interview of one of the complainants, a man who alleges he was sexually assaulted by Mr Spacey while at a theatre event in 2005.\n\nThe man said that when they were alone, Mr Spacey grabbed his penis \"like a cobra coming out and getting hold\".\n\n\"It was aggressive,\" he said. \"It wasn't trying to be a seduction. It was angry.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Spacey's response, he said \"he sort of laughed\".\n\nOn his first impressions of Mr Spacey, the man said: \"My opinion when he arrived was he smelled of booze. He looked dishevelled. He did not look like he had been to sleep.\"\n\nThe man told the police officer he was \"taken aback\" by the alleged crude comments made by the star, saying: \"It was very aggressive. I have never had anyone talk to me in that way.\"\n\nHe said he was \"feeling very shocked\" and was \"feeling very uncomfortable\".\n\n\"It was an abuse of power,\" the man said.\n\nAsked why he had come forward to police, he said it was as if he had \"allowed somebody, in a way, to denigrate me\".\n\n\"I hope he does the right thing - if he apologises then maybe I won't want him to go to court,\" he told police.\n\n\"I hope unburdening for me will bring some closure and justice. Because it was an injustice.\"\n\nMr Spacey, 63, is accused of sex offences against four men between 2001 and 2013.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty in January to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nAll four accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMarylebone Cricket Club members involved in altercations with Australia players in the Long Room at Lord's \"brought shame\" on the club, says the organisation's chair.\n\nBruce Carnegie-Brown said the MCC will take a \"tougher stance\" on members' behaviour following the incident on day five of the second Ashes Test.\n\nUsman Khawaja and David Warner were involved in clashes with spectators as Australia walked off for lunch.\n\nThree members have been suspended.\n\n\"The members shown on camera have brought shame on MCC,\" Carnegie-Brown said in a letter to members. \"Their actions hinder our efforts to promote the positive things our club does to promote and celebrate the game of cricket.\"\n\nCarnegie-Brown added there would be \"further disciplinary sanctions\" for any other members guilty of being involved in \"direct confrontation\" with the Australia players and encouraged anyone with evidence of wrongdoing to come forward.\n• None Follow day one of the third Ashes Test\n\nIn response to the incident the MCC will increase the size of the roped-off cordon used by teams as they make their way through the Long Room to their dressing room, starting with Saturday's second T20 between England and Australia in the Women's Ashes and continuing to the end of the summer.\n\nThey will also restrict members' access in and around stairwells when the teams are coming off the pitch.\n\nA thorough review of pavilion protocols will then take place at the end of the season.\n\nBased at Lord's, which it owns, the MCC acts as custodian and arbiter of the laws and spirit of cricket.\n\n\"The pavilion at Lord's provides a unique experience, but we must recognise that as it stands this special atmosphere is at risk, both for players and members,\" said Carnegie-Brown.\n\n\"The steps outlined must be taken for our great club to reassure the players who want to visit and become part of its rich history, and for all spectators (including members themselves) to feel safe, welcome and inspired by their time spent here.\"\n\nThe incident came after England's Jonny Bairstow was controversially stumped by Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey, with the tourists going on to win by 43 runs and take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.\n\nThe MCC apologised \"unreservedly\" to the Australia team for the incident.\n• None Watch all episodes of We Hunt Together on BBC iPlayer\n• None Meet the most iconic tennis players of the 1970s and 1980s", "Prince Harry's claim that executives struck a royal deal to stop phone hacking claims is \"Alice in Wonderland stuff\", the newspaper's lawyers have said.\n\nNews Group Newspapers wants to stop his claim, saying he ran out of time to sue for alleged privacy breaches.\n\nThe royal says he delayed suing because royal aides struck a deal with the tabloid's owners to receive an apology.\n\nHis case against the Sun is one of three damages claims he is pursuing.\n\nIn April, lawyers for News Group Newspapers (NGN), the owners of the Sun and the News of the World, which was closed down over hacking, asked the High Court to stop the Duke of Sussex's damages claim.\n\nThey argued he had waited longer than a legal deadline of six years to begin his action.\n\nThe duke's lawyers say that in 2012, NGN had promised to royal aides that he and Prince William would ultimately receive an apology for alleged breaches of their privacy - and they agreed that would come after the media empire had resolved other claims against its newspapers.\n\nBut the court heard that during 2017 and 2018, there had been a series of e-mails between Buckingham Palace and NGN executives over how and when to resolve the \"unfinished business\" - the suggestion being that the Royal Family was running out of patience.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers say a lack of progress on an apology and compensation prompted him to launch his own damages claim in 2019.\n\nBut fighting back at the High Court on Wednesday, Anthony Hudson KC, for NGN, said it was \"Alice in Wonderland stuff\" to suggest that these emails amounted to evidence of an agreement.\n\n\"He is seeking to rely on an agreement that increasingly seems to be such a secret agreement that nobody other than the claimant knows anything about it,\" he said.\n\n\"The logic is that the [purported secret] agreement meant that NGN would settle or admit the case. [Prince Harry] doesn't say who... was involved in making this very significant agreement. No evidence about that at all.\n\n\"He does not say who at NGN... entered into this very substantial agreement other than the all-encompassing and vague phrase 'senior executives'.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers have asked the court to consider why there has been no evidence disputing his account of a NGN-Palace agreement from two key executives - Rebekah Brooks and Robert Thompson.\n\nBut Mr Hudson said this claim was \"Alice In Wonderland stuff\" because neither had been in place at the time it was said to have been struck.\n\nMr Justice Fancourt is expected to rule on the future of Prince Harry's claim in the coming months.\n\nThe duke is also waiting for judgement in his separate claim against the Mirror Group, which led to his unprecedented testimony in court in June.\n\nThe duke is also attempting to sue the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday over breaches of privacy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dorset Police was involved in carrying out raids as part of Operation Mille\n\nPolice have seized up to £130m worth of cannabis plants and arrested almost 1,000 people in the UK's largest ever crackdown on organised crime.\n\nMore than 180,000 plants were discovered in raids across England and Wales in June.\n\nOfficers also seized 20 firearms, £636,000 in cash and 20kg of cocaine, with a potential street value of £1m.\n\nThe operation has been described as the \"most significant\" of its kind ever run across UK law enforcement.\n\nSome 182,422 plants were seized, worth an estimated £115m-£130m\n\nOperation Mille targeted what law enforcement believe is a cash cow for organised crime gangs (OCGs) who are also involved in other offences such as money laundering, Class A drug smuggling and violence.\n\nCannabis is a Class B drug, not Class A like heroin or cocaine, but large-scale cannabis cultivation is seen as a key source of illicit income for criminal gangs.\n\nThe aim of the month-long operation was to disrupt OCGs by taking out a key source of their revenue, apprehending those involved and gathering intelligence on how the networks operate.\n\nSteve Jupp, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead for Serious and Organised Crime, said the operation had \"successfully disrupted a significant amount of criminal activity\".\n\n\"We know that organised networks involved in cannabis production are also directly linked to an array of other serious criminality such as Class A drug importation, modern slavery and wider violence and exploitation,\" he said.\n\n\"The intelligence gathered will also help inform future law enforcement across the country.\"\n\nAround 11,000 officers from all 43 police forces in England and Wales, as well as the National Crime Agency and Immigration Enforcement, co-ordinated over 1,000 warrants in June.\n\nOf those arrested, more than 450 people have since been charged.\n\n\"Cannabis-related crime is often thought to be 'low level', however there are clear patterns around the exploitation and violence organised crime groups are using to protect their enterprises,\" Mr Jupp added.\n\n\"We also frequently find that cannabis production is just one aspect of their criminal operations and that they are complicit in wider offending which blights our communities.\"\n\nThe NPCC is a body which brings leaders across police forces in the UK together to set policy direction.\n\nThis was among the items seized during the operation\n\nAlmost £650,000 in cash was seized", "A music festival in the Inner Hebrides has been cancelled the day before events were due to begin as a result of \"extreme weather\".\n\nOrganisers of Tiree Music Festival said the decision had been \"incredibly difficult\" but necessary in order to get campers and staff back to safety.\n\nIslanders have rallied to accommodate those stranded, with strong winds and rain forecast from Friday.\n\nThe BBC understands hundreds are on Tiree for the small-scale event.\n\nIt was due to run from Friday to Sunday and features acts such as Wet Wet Wet, Tide Lines and Skerryvore.\n\nOrganisers said they had secured all campers with accommodation for the night and had begun bussing people to homes and halls across the island.\n\nThey advised Friday's ferry to Oban was at 10:35 and foot passenger tickets for sailings across the weekend would be valid for this journey.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Anyone who is able to make their own way to the ferry terminal tomorrow [Friday] morning should do so. For everyone else, we will provide transport for you.\n\n\"Vehicles will be boarded on a first come first served basis. Campervans are welcome to remain onsite or move to an alternative location on the island. Campervans wishing to leave Tiree should speak directly with CalMac.\n\n\"We must once again stress to everyone who was planning to come to Tiree, or who are on their way to us, to please turn around and make your way home.\"\n\nJim Gamble owns a house in Tiree and plans to accommodate stranded festival-goers for the night.\n\nHe was not attending the festival, but decided to open his home to help those who might be struggling after the cancellation.\n\nJim Gamble is opening his home to stranded festival-goers\n\n\"The message went out to the community, so we're just responding to that,\" he said.\n\n\"I can accommodate about four or five people, and transport comes into it with how many folk we can fit in the car.\n\n\"The whole community pulls together in situations like this.\n\n\"You'll see that, with all those cars waiting outside.\"\n\nGarth Harrison, from Kenmore, and Ali Lamont, from Dunkeld, are attending the festival for the first time.\n\n\"We're gutted obviously,\" said Mr Harrison.\n\nAli Lamont and Garth Harrison arrived on Tiree on Thursday\n\n\"We took a couple days off work so that's really not ideal. But you can't blame the organisers for cancelling it because you can see the tents and everything are falling down.\n\n\"We do wish that they could've looked at the forecast and told us and maybe given a bit of a warning about it ahead of everyone coming here and setting up.\n\n\"We've no idea where we're going tomorrow morning so it's not brilliant.\"\n\nMs Lamont added: \"If you're coming all the way to Tiree, you take the risk.\"\n\nMhairi Marwick was due to teach at the Fèis Thiriodh and play with Celtic Worship at the festival.\n\nMhairi Marwick was due to perform at the festival\n\nShe said: \"I'm so gutted for the team who have put so much work and time and effort into this.\n\n\"It's a brilliant festival, so it's such a shame. It's one of these festivals on everyone's radar for the summer, so it's just devastating for the bands.\n\n\"It's really sad it's not happening this year.\n\n\"But I don't think there's many musicians who have arrived on the island and the boat's not coming tonight, so it might be quiet over the weekend.\"\n\nShe said an impromptu ceilidh had broken out in a nearby hall where revellers sheltered from the strong winds.\n\nOrganisers earlier said the safety of people on the site was their first priority and they did not take cancelling events lightly.\n\nThe Scottish folk music festival was scheduled to feature 26 acts as well as beach yoga, Gaelic song workshops, walking tours and magic shows.\n\nA ceilidh which was set to welcome the festival on Thursday night has also been cancelled.\n\nCalMac said its Thursday evening sailing to Tiree from Oban was unable to berth.\n\nIt said the Oban ferry terminal would remain open overnight tonight to accommodate those without accommodation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elle Edwards was an innocent bystander when she was shot outside a pub\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering Elle Edwards who was shot outside a pub on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Edwards was an innocent bystander when Connor Chapman opened fire with a sub-machine gun as he targeted two men in the culmination of a gang feud.\n\nThe beautician, 26, was enjoying a night out with friends when she was shot outside the Lighthouse in Wirral.\n\nTim Edwards called his daughter's killer \"a coward\" as he was taken down to the cells at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nHe had tears in his eyes and stared at Chapman as the verdicts were returned and quietly said, \"yes\".\n\nSpeaking outside court, he said: \"It's a big relief because now we can start again.\n\n\"We've been through hell and we deserve now to be given a life back that we had before, which will never be the same.\n\n\"It's now a new chapter, it's a new beginning for our family.\n\n\"It's the worst day, but the best of the worst days.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tim Edwards describes Connor Chapman as a \"coward\" following the verdict\n\nCo-defendant Thomas Waring, 20, was also found guilty of the possession of a prohibited firearm and assisting an offender by helping to burn out the stolen Mercedes used in the shooting.\n\nMr Justice Goose said he would sentence Chapman and Waring at 14:00 BST on Friday.\n\nAs the judge told the security guards to take both men to the cells, Mr Edwards said \"coward\" to Chapman, who had hidden in the far corner of the dock to try to keep out of view.\n\nThe trial heard the attack followed a feud between gangs on the Woodchurch and Beechwood estates, on either side of the M53 in Wirral.\n\nConnor Chapman and Thomas Waring were convicted following a three-and-a-half week trial\n\nThe prosecution said Chapman was attempting to kill Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, both of whom were seriously injured in the shooting.\n\nThe pair, from the Beechwood estate, had attacked another man, Sam Searson, in the street the day before, the trial was told.\n\nThree other men who were unconnected to the feud, Harry Loughran, Liam Carr and Nicholas Speed, were also injured in the shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of Connor Chapman's attack, which killed Elle Edwards, is released.\n\nChapman lay in wait outside the pub in a stolen Mercedes for almost three hours before firing the weapon, which was capable of firing 15 rounds a second.\n\nHe told the jury he had not been using the vehicle, which he described as a \"pool car\" for him and other criminals, on the night of the murder but had given the car key to another man, whom he refused to name.\n\nCCTV footage showed Chapman drive away from the Lighthouse in the moments after the shooting and then arrive at Private Drive in Barnston, the home of Waring.\n\nHe was then seen in the footage appearing to drop the gun as he walked towards Waring's home.\n\nMs Edwards was fatally shot outside the Lighthouse pub\n\nChapman admitted a charge of handling stolen goods before the trial started.\n\nHe told the jury on 31 December he had travelled with the unnamed man who took the car key when the Mercedes was burnt out in Frodsham, Cheshire.\n\nHe denied that Waring had been with him, although mobile phone evidence showed Waring's phone travelled with the car.\n\nChapman fled to a holiday home in Montgomery in Wales and was arrested at a Tesco store in Newtown in Wales on 10 January.\n\nChapman was also found guilty of attempted murder, two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, as well as possession of a gun and ammunition.\n\nBoth men were convicted following a three-and-a-half week trial with the jury deliberating for three hours and 48 minutes.\n\nChapman used a Skorpion sub-machine gun similar to the one which was shown to the jury\n\nOn Thursday morning, before the jury was sent out to deliberate, Waring appeared in the dock with a red mark visible above his eye and on his cheekbone.\n\nIn a hearing which can be reported following the conclusion of the trial, William England, defending Waring, said he had been attacked after arriving back at HMP Altcourse on Wednesday.\n\nHe said: \"He was smashed around the side of the face with a kettle and told 'that's what happens to grasses'.\"\n\nMr England said the man who carried out the attack later said if he had not done it, he would have been stabbed.\n\nWaring did not give evidence in the trial but, in cross-examination, his barrister suggested Chapman had gone to his home on Private Drive, Barnston, following the shooting.\n\nChapman claimed he was at home all night and denied claims he was the man seen on CCTV near Waring's home.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Det Supt Paul Grounds said Chapman had \"continued to deny his involvement in Elle's death, forcing her family to endure the ordeal of a trial where they have had to relive over and over the last moments of her life\".\n\n\"His cowardly actions on that night rightly shocked the whole of Merseyside and the UK,\" he said.\n\nHe said Chapman's decision to fire at the crowd outside the pub showed the \"arrogance and contempt he had for anyone else\".\n\nWaring helped to burn out the stolen Mercedes after Ms Edwards was murdered\n\nDet Supt Grounds said the jury had \"seen through\" Chapman's lies and \"righty convicted him\", adding: \"I am pleased that we have secured justice for Elle and her family and that a dangerous man has been removed from the streets.\"\n\nMerseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell said the force has worked \"around the clock\" with many officers \"forsaking their own Christmases\" to support the victims, reassure people nearby and \"bring Chapman to justice\".\n\nShe said she wanted to thank the \"many brave witnesses\" who came forward with evidence \"to ensure this toxic individual was brought to justice and the wider community of Wallasey who pulled together with empathy and compassion\".\n\n\"Dangerous, ruthless individuals like Chapman will never be welcome in Merseyside.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir says people's circumstances should not hold them back and \"you don't have to change who you are, just to get on\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to improve children's speaking skills, as part of a drive to break down class barriers to opportunity.\n\nHe also promised to give vocational and academic learning equal status, in a speech on education policy.\n\nTouching on his own background, he said people from working class backgrounds were now less able to advance in life.\n\nBut his speech was interrupted by protesters, unveiling a banner saying: \"No more u-turns, Green new deal.\"\n\nThe two young people who were protesting were standing right behind Sir Keir on the podium. Later, climate group Green New Deal Rising claimed responsibility for the disruption.\n\nThe Labour leader's speech unveiled details of the fifth and final \"mission\" the party is focused on ahead of the general election, expected next year.\n\nThe missions are expected to form the backbone of the party's election offer to voters, and shape its priorities in government if it wins power.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir promised a goal of half a million more children reaching early learning targets by 2030, as well as a review of the curriculum from the beginning of primary school through to the end of compulsory education.\n\nHe said a Labour government would \"tear down\" obstacles to opportunity, which he dubbed the \"class ceiling\".\n\n\"There's something more pernicious here, a pervasive idea, a barrier in our collective mind that narrows our ambitions for working class children and says - sometimes with subtlety, sometimes to your face - this isn't for you,\" he said.\n\nHe said the previous Labour government didn't \"eradicate the snobbery that looks down on vocational education, didn't drain the well of disrespect that this creates, and that cost us.\"\n\nHe said more children should study sport or a creative arts subject until they are 16, as well as a focus on digital skills.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change protesters interrupt Sir Keir Starmer speech calling for a \"green new deal right now\".\n\n\"For our children to succeed, they need a grounding in both, need skills and knowledge, practical problem-solving and academic rigour,\" he said.\n\n\"But now - as the future rushes towards us, we also need a greater emphasis on creativity, on resilience, on emotional intelligence and the ability to adapt.\"\n\nLabour has already committed to recruiting 6,500 extra teachers in shortage subjects such as maths, paid for by removing tax breaks for private schools, which the party calculates will raise over £1bn a year.\n\nIt also wants to use that additional funding to pay teachers a £2,400 retention bonus after they have completed their first two years of training.\n\nBut the Labour leader declined to commit to giving teachers in England a 6.5% pay rise this year - the figure reportedly set to be recommended by the pay review body for the profession, amid the economic backdrop.\n\nHe told the BBC's political editor Chris Mason he would be negotiating \"every day of the week\" to resolve the strike.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme he also did not committed to delivering universal free school meals in primary schools, something the Labour-run Welsh government has committed to delivering by next year.\n\nIn his interview, he admitted financial constraints would be a \"big factor\" for him to consider, amid a \"broken\" economy.\n\nSir Keir's speech unveils the detail on Labour's education pledge, marking the last of his \"missions\" as the party eyes the next general election. The Labour leader has said his missions would form \"the backbone of the Labour manifesto and the pillars of the next Labour government\".\n\nThe other commitments include securing the \"highest sustained growth\" in the G7 group of nations, by the end of Labour's first term, removing fossil fuels from all of Britain's electricity generation by 2030, improving the NHS and reforming the justice system.\n\nThe National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) union welcomed Labour's proposals but warned they must be matched by \"significant additional investment\", not only in education but in community support and social care.\n\n\"There is no doubt that schools can play a vital role in helping children to thrive no matter what their background, but they need the appropriate resources to do so,\" Paul Whiteman, NAHT general secretary, said.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan dismissed Sir Keir's speech as \"a load of old nonsense\".\n\nShe accused Labour of offering \"gimmicks that don't help children or working class children\", saying the government was focused on high quality education and apprenticeships to help social mobility.\n\nShe dismissed Sir Keir's plans on improving speaking skills, insisting that this already happened throughout the curriculum, adding: \"We have revolutionised our education system and skills system.\"\n\nAsked about the Green New Deal Rising protest during the speech, Sir Keir denied backtracking on Labour's £28bn green prosperity plan, saying \"We haven't backed down, we've doubled down.\"\n\nAnd he condemned Just Stop Oil's protests as \"hugely arrogant\", saying: \"When I put what they're doing against what we set out in our mission about clean energy, about net zero, you can see the difference between protest and power.\n\n\"Glueing yourself, interrupting, interfering with other people's lives in this arrogant way, compared with the actual change we can bring about, which is with a Labour government absolutely committed to clean power by 2030.\"", "Mothers may have been underpaid about £1bn in state pension owing to information missing from their national insurance (NI) records.\n\nSince 1978, the system has included credits for parents who took time out of employment to bring up children.\n\nUntil 2010, this was known as home responsibilities protection (HRP), but it may be missing from some NI records.\n\nPeople who may be affected will receive letters from the government as part of a campaign to correct the issue.\n\nSome people affected may have died and their families will be entitled to check their eligibility and make a claim for any arrears.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue and Customs are working together to find people affected and correct their records so they receive the right amount of state pension.\n\nThere are high levels of uncertainty over the amount that could have been underpaid. This could range from £300m to £1.5bn, the DWP has said.\n\nIts central estimate is that £1bn is owed, to about 210,000 people, of which 43,000 have died. That would equate to an average shortfall of about £5,000 each.\n\nIf someone claimed child benefit before May 2000 and did not provide their NI number on the claim, their NI record may not show the correct number of qualifying years of HRP, which could affect their state pension entitlement.\n\nWomen in their 60s and 70s are most likely to be affected, the government said.\n\nHMRC is using NI records to identify as many people as possible who might have been entitled to HRP between 1978 and 2010 and have no HRP credits on their NI record.\n\nIt will write to people who meet these criteria from the autumn, to find out if they are eligible to claim. If they are eligible, they can apply online.\n\nDWP will recalculate the state pension entitlement and let people know whether they are due any arrears.\n\nPension consultants LCP have been running a tool to allow people to check they are not missing out.\n\nSir Steve Webb, a former pensions minister who is now a partner at LCP, said: \"The scale of these errors is huge. It is shocking that so many women have been underpaid so much money. This makes it essential that things are put right as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nAlice Guy, head of pensions and savings at investment platform Interactive Investor said: \"The state pension is crucially important, especially for many women who are less likely than men to have a private pension income and are more likely to be living in poverty in retirement.\"\n\nA spokesman for the government said: \"Most people's records will be unaffected, and we will shortly be launching a new online tool to help people check whether they need to claim. HMRC will also begin writing to those likely to be affected from the autumn.\n\n\"Our priority is ensuring everyone receives the financial support to which they are entitled, and state pension underpayment rates due to official error remain low at 0.5% of expenditure. Where errors do occur, we are committed to fixing them as quickly as possible.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nAndy Murray dazzled under the Wimbledon lights again as he led Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in a Centre Court thriller stopped by a 23:00 BST curfew.\n\nBritain's Murray is ranked 40th but showed his pedigree on the SW19 grass to lead 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (7-2) 6-4.\n\nThe second-round match was stopped at 22:39 because of the restrictions put in place by the local council.\n\nMurray, who has regularly played late in recent years, and Tsitsipas will resume a captivating contest on Friday.\n\nMoments after 36-year-old Murray had wrapped up the third set, tournament referee Gerry Armstrong walked on to the court and discussed stopping play for the night with each player.\n\nMurray, who screamed out as he fell just before serving out for the lead, signalled to his team the match was being cut short, while 24-year-old Tsitsipas quickly packed his bags.\n\nThe pair will return to Centre Court after Spanish top seed Carlos Alcaraz plays France's Alexandre Muller in the first match, which starts at 13:30.\n• None Djokovic set for 'duel of the veterans of the tour'\n\nEyes were instantly drawn to this potential blockbuster when the draw was made last Friday and, after both players negotiated their opening matches on different paths, it was billed as the box-office match of the tournament so far.\n\nFurther fuel was added by the memories from their feisty clash at the 2021 US Open, where Murray said he \"lost respect\" for Tsitsipas after a lengthy bathroom break before a final set which the Greek won.\n\nThis time, all the drama remained on the court.\n\nMurray is a two-time champion at the All England Club and has been talking bullishly about his chances of going deep in the draw this fortnight.\n\nDespite missing out on a seeding, which left him vulnerable to a tough early test, the former world number one insisted he had the ability and nous to cause anyone problems.\n\nFor many people, Tsitsipas felt ripe to be on the end of an upset.\n\nWith grass not his favourite surface and a patchy record on the surface this year, there was an optimism among the home fans that Murray could earn his most notable Grand Slam win since having career-saving hip surgery in 2019.\n\nAfter cruising past Ryan Peniston on Tuesday, the Scot also had the benefit of a day off, while Tsitsipas only came through a five-set duel with Dominic Thiem at almost 20:00 on Wednesday.\n\nBut the 2021 French Open runner-up and 2023 Australian Open finalist looked sharp - physically and mentally - as he showed glimpses of the form which has seen him long tipped to win one of the sport's four major titles.\n\nThere were tense moments in a tight first set where both players dominated on serve, Tsitsipas taking control of the tie-break to move ahead.\n\nThe second set followed a similar pattern.\n\nTsitsipas was edging the rallies as he continued to find range with his forehand, leaving Murray struggling to cope with his ferocious and consistent hitting from that side.\n\nBut, like he has done so often over the years, Murray continued to battle and managed to hold his service games with few issues as neither player conceded a break point.\n\nThat teed up another tie-break - and this time it was Murray who dominated it after finding his first serve when it mattered.\n\nMurray playing under the floodlights on Centre Court always creates a special atmosphere and the player, by now demanding more noise from the almost-capacity crowd, thrived on the energy.\n\nAfter not having a serious look at Tsitsipas's serve in the opening two sets, Murray broke to love right at the start of the third and maintained the momentum to move into the lead.\n\nHowever, there was a serious scare when he fell on the baseline.\n\nThe sound of his scream, along with the knowledge of his injury history, left the whole of Centre Court anxious and there was relief when he clambered to his feet before serving out.\n\nIt had long felt the end of the third set was the natural point to suspend the match and once that was agreed, Murray walked off to a thunderous ovation.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Okapi keeper Hannah Owens said Arabi had been \"bonding closely with mum K'tusha\"\n\nThe \"incredibly special\" birth of an okapi will help to reveal \"one of the least known and understood species on the planet\", a keeper has said.\n\nOkapis are only found in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where about 10,000 remain in the wild.\n\nChester Zoo said Arabi, a six-week-old female, had been named after a village in DRC's Okapi Wildlife Reserve.\n\nOkapi keeper Hannah Owens said it would be \"a real privilege\" to watch the \"energetic\" female calf grow.\n\nShe said the calf would become \"a vital part of the global population of her species\" and was \"already showing lots of personality\".\n\n\"Okapis are one of the least known and understood species on the planet, so every birth is incredibly special indeed,\" she said.\n\nOkapis are also called forest giraffes because of their long necks and zebra-like stripes\n\nShe said since being born, Arabi had been \"bonding closely with mum K'tusha while snuggled away in her nest\".\n\n\"Mum has been doing a fantastic job of feeding and nurturing her calf every day, and now that she has a little more confidence, Arabi decided it was time to explore the outside world.\n\n\"It didn't take long before she was confidently stretching her legs in the sunshine.\"\n\nOkapis are also called forest giraffes because of their long necks and zebra-like stripes on their hindquarters, which act as camouflage in their rainforest habitat.\n\nThe zoo said their \"shy and elusive nature\" meant the animals remained a mystery to many up until they were scientifically discovered in 1901.\n\nMs Owens said it would be \"a real privilege\" to watch the \"energetic\" female calf grow\n\nThe zoo and its partners in the DRC, where the animals are protected by law, have been working to support the last remaining populations of okapi, which is endangered in the wild.\n\nA representative said commercial logging, open-cast mining, agriculture and human settlement had resulted in the loss of the ungulate's habitat and limited access to food and water sources.\n\nThey said okapis were also hunted for meat, which is consumed locally, and their skins, which have a high value in the illegal wildlife trade.\n\nAnimal and plant director Mike Jordan said the arrival was \"not only a cause for celebration, but also a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to the conservation and protection of this charismatic species\".\n\n\"Through our continued efforts, we hope to inspire others to join us in safeguarding these remarkable creatures and their threatened habitats,\" he added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The St Michael's project will bring huge economic prosperity to the area, Gary Neville said\n\nFormer footballer Gary Neville has talked about lessons he learned as he unveiled more details of his £400m development in Manchester city centre.\n\nThe ex-Manchester United star revised the original plans for the scheme after a backlash from conservationists.\n\nHe admitted the idea to knock down a pub and the front of the Bootle Street police station was a \"huge mistake\" but said the project was now back on track.\n\nWork on the first phase of the project began last year.\n\nNeville, who is to join BBC One's Dragons' Den as a guest Dragon for the 2024 series, said the 15-year journey to regenerate the site had been a \"bumpy ride\".\n\nPlans for the site were unveiled in 2016 but the project has been hit by a series of setbacks\n\nPlans for the scheme were approved in 2018 after the original proposals were revised following criticism from conservation groups, including Historic England (HE).\n\nNeville told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money: \"It's been challenging all the way through for different reasons.\"\n\nHe cited the global Covid-19 pandemic, worldwide recession in 2007 and planning issues \"which I take personal responsibility for\".\n\n\"I recognise the mistake that I made,\" the football pundit said.\n\nHe also said rising interest rates had caused \"issues in the market\".\n\n\"What will ultimately happen, is that development will stop for a period because people won't want to borrow money at the interest rates that are available, which is really, really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to make sure that development continues because the construction sector is one of the biggest employers in this country.\"\n\nOf his plans for the front of the Bootle Street police station and the Sir Ralph Abercromby pub he said: \"I don't know why or how I was thinking that at the time.\n\n\"I love old buildings, I have always renovated old buildings, the idea that we looked at that pub and the front of Bootle Street police station and thought we should knock it down, that was a huge mistake.\"\n\nHe added: \"I have openly admitted that we got it wrong but we have been corrected and we have owned up to our mistakes and we are now on site.\"\n\nHe said the redevelopment would eventually become a global landmark and it would be of massive benefit to Manchester.\n\nHe said it would create 2,200 jobs, and 700 extra jobs during construction, result in a significant affordable housing contribution \"into the millions\" and bring \"huge economic prosperity\" to the area.\n\n\"We are proud of this project,\" he said, adding it would raise standards in hospitality, residential living and commercial buildings in the city.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The MoD abandoned an effort to enforce restrictions on mentioning the SAS in an inquiry into the operations\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has confirmed for the first time that UK Special Forces are at the centre of a war crimes inquiry.\n\nThe MoD on Wednesday abandoned an effort to restrict any mention of Special Forces' involvement in alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.\n\nThe MoD's stance had been challenged by bereaved family members and by several media outlets, including the BBC.\n\nThe inquiry follows years of reporting into alleged SAS unlawful killings.\n\nIn a statement ahead of a hearing of the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"The inquiry is now reaching the stage of substantive hearings, and I can confirm that the allegations relate to the conduct of UK Special Forces.\"\n\nThe decision to confirm the involvement of Special Forces units in operations under scrutiny from the inquiry reverses the position previously held by the MoD.\n\nMr Wallace said the confirmation of Special Forces involvement was made only \"in the exceptional circumstances of this inquiry\".\n\n\"Outside of this very specific context, such confirmation should not be seen to alter the longstanding position of this government, and previous governments, to not comment on the deployment or activities of the UK Special Forces,\" he said.\n\nThe MoD had previously argued that the inquiry should restrict from the public \"any evidence or documents or words or passages of documents, that tend to confirm or deny the alleged involvement of United Kingdom Special Forces in the operations that are to be investigated\".\n\nBut on Monday, less than 48 hours before they were due to argue their case in front of the chair of the inquiry, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, MoD lawyers wrote to the inquiry saying the ministry \"proposed to abandon that part of their application\".\n\nThe reversal, confirmed at the hearing on Wednesday, means that evidence of involvement of UK Special Forces in the alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan can be discussed openly in the inquiry hearings and reported publicly.\n\nA long-running investigation by the BBC uncovered evidence clearly indicating that one SAS unit operating in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011 killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances in one six-month tour.\n\nFurther reporting by the BBC uncovered specific cases that caused concern at the highest level of UK Special Forces, including a 2012 raid in which a different unit killed two parents and gravely wounded their two infant boys.\n\nThe MoD is still pursuing a request for all Special Forces personnel involved in the operations in Afghanistan to automatically be granted anonymity, and for all witness evidence about the operations themselves to be held in closed hearings, away from both the bereaved families and the public.\n\nThe MoD's lawyer, Brian Altman KC, also said that the ministry intended to keep in place its \"neither confirm nor deny\" policy in relation to naming specific UK Special Forces units or sub-units, arguing that the identification of \"particular force elements\" would pose a risk to future capabilities and operations.\n\nLawyers for the families of Afghans killed in seven separate Special Forces operations argue that the overall restrictions being sought by the MoD are \"unjustifiable and seriously damaging to the credibility of the inquiry\".\n\nTessa Gregory, a partner at Leigh Day, the law firm representing the families, said that the relatives had suffered \"years of cover up and obfuscation\" and remained concerned even as the inquiry began that the MoD was \"seeking to shut the door on them and prevent evidence being heard in public\".\n\n\"The bereaved families now put their trust in the inquiry to uncover the truth,\" Ms Gregory said.\n\nSpeaking at the opening of the hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Lord Justice Haddon Cave said that, in line with the 2005 Inquiries Act, \"as much as possible should be heard in public to allay public concerns about the subject matter of the inquiry\".\n\nBut the chair acknowledged that some evidence would need to be heard in closed hearings, because of national security concerns. \"The essential task is to balance the competing considerations in the public interest,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the MoD said: \"It is not appropriate for the MoD to comment on cases which are within the scope of the Statutory Inquiry and it is up to the Statutory Inquiry Team, led by Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, to determine which allegations are investigated.\"\n\nA lawyer for the Royal Military Police, Paul Greaney KC, told the inquiry on Wednesday that it was currently investigating allegations of unlawful killings in Afghanistan and had received evidence from informants on a confidential basis.\n\nStressing the importance of continuing its investigations without prejudicing potential prosecutions, and avoiding discouraging new informants coming forward, the RMP said it was seeking its own restrictions around three key areas: matters relating to its ongoing investigations; the identities of confidential informants; and the covert techniques and methods employed by the RMP so far in its investigations.\n\nDo you have information about this story that you want to share?\n\nGet in touch using SecureDrop, a highly anonymous and secure way of whistleblowing to the BBC which uses the TOR network.\n\nOr by using the Signal messaging app, an end-to-end encrypted message service designed to protect your data.\n\nPlease note that the SecureDrop link will only work in a Tor browser. For information on keeping secure and anonymous, here's some advice on how to use SecureDrop.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA tourist filmed carving names on to an inner wall at Rome's ancient Colosseum says he did not realise how old the monument was when he acted.\n\nBristol-based Ivan Dimitrov made the comment in a letter of apology to Rome's mayor, saying he understood \"the seriousness of the deed\".\n\nHe etched \"Ivan + Hayley 23\" - his and his girlfriend's names - on the 2,000-year-old amphitheatre with a key.\n\nHis actions were filmed by a bystander in June and sparked condemnation.\n\nA five-day police search followed and he now reportedly faces legal proceedings.\n\nIn the letter, seen by BBC News West, Mr Dimitrov offered his \"heartfelt and honest apologies to the Italians and to the whole world\".\n\nHe continued: \"I admit with profound embarrassment that only after what regretfully happened did I learn of the antiquity of the monument.\"\n\nHe said that he praised those who \"guard the inestimable historical and artistic value of the Colosseum with dedication, care and sacrifice\".\n\nHe added: \"I am also aware of the fact that a similar conduct, in my country, would result in far more serious consequences.\n\n\"For this reason I assume all responsibility and I will sincerely and concretely commit myself to redeem and remedy the mistake I made.\n\n\"The incivility, superficiality and thoughtlessness with which I acted, damaging the Colosseum to the detriment of anyone who legitimately wishes to admire and enjoy it, have no justification.\"\n\nThe lawyer for Mr Dimitrov, Alexandro Maria Tirelli, told the BBC: \"We have already formulated a plea bargain request.\n\n\"The boy will certainly benefit from a suspended sentence, the fact is heinous but not serious.\"\n\nThe 27-year-old man was filmed by another visitor who verbally reprimanded him before handing the recording to security officials.\n\nA video of the scene was uploaded on to YouTube and shared across social media.\n\nIf convicted of an offence, he could face a fine of up to 15,000 euros (£12,500) as well as a prison sentence of between two and five years.\n\nMr Dimitrov's lawyer told Il Messaggero newspaper that it is hoped the letter will help his client avoid the harshest sentence.\n\nThe Colosseum is one of the best-known symbols of Imperial Rome, and Italy's most popular tourist site.\n\nIt is a protected Unesco World Heritage Site, meaning it is considered to be a place of \"outstanding universal value\".\n\nThe incident prompted widespread condemnation in Italy and across the globe.\n\nItalian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said it \"was offensive to everyone around the world who appreciates the value of archaeology, monuments and history\".", "There has been a rise in the number of young adults in England who report feelings of severe distress, according to a new survey.\n\nThe study found one in five 18 to 24-year-olds said they experienced severe distress at the end of 2022, compared to around one in seven in 2021.\n\nThe research suggested reports of severe distress rose across all age groups, except for those over 65.\n\nExperts have pointed to the pandemic, cost of living and healthcare crisis.\n\nResearchers used a point-based score during telephone interviews to assess severe distress for the survey. People had not necessarily sought clinical help or a diagnosis at this point.\n\nThe research team, including academics from King's College London and University College London (UCL), say the rise in reports needs to be urgently addressed.\n\nDr Leonie Brose, from King's, said: \"The last three years have seen an unprecedented series of events that can be seen to be contributing to a worsening in people's mental health - a pandemic, a cost of living crisis, and a healthcare crisis.\n\n\"Our study shows that England's wellbeing is steadily getting worse.\n\n\"What's required now is a strategy that puts equality, wellbeing and sustainability at the heart of society's response.\"\n\nThe monthly telephone survey was conducted between April 2020 and December 2022 and involved some 51,800 adults in total.\n\nEach month, a new group of adults were asked how often in the last 30 days they had experienced a number of negative feelings such as worthlessness or hopelessness, feeling nervous or feeling so depressed nothing could cheer them up.\n\nParticipants were asked to rate their feelings on a five-point scale, with higher scores placing them in the severe category.\n\nOverall, the proportion of people reporting severe distress increased from 5.7% to 8.3%, with some groups affected more than others, including participants from low-income backgrounds.\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of adults reporting any distress was about a third during this time - it dipped to 28% in May 2021 and rose back to 32% by the end of that year.\n\nCommenting on the study, Prof Sir Simon Wessely, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, King's College London, said: \"The strength of this study is that it is large, population based, and can look at trends over time.\n\n\"Overall it suggests that what one might call normal feelings of distress, unhappiness or anxiety that probably do not require or indeed receive professional help have not changed much in recent years.\n\n\"But there has been a definite increase in more severe levels of distress, some of which may reach what we call \"clinical\" levels, in which some form of assessment, most likely in primary care, might be indicated.\n\n\"Of particular concern is that this is seen most in young people, confirmed by other studies.\"\n\nDr Michael Bloomfield, at UCL, said it was \"particularly concerning\" that the high levels of distress were \"most marked during young adulthood\", adding that this was a key period of development \"and this may represent elevated risk of subsequent mental health problems\".\n\nHe said: \"A mentally healthy adult population is in everyone's interests. Investing in improving mental health pays for itself many times over.\"\n\nThe report is published in Jama Network Open.\n• None Information for young people on mental health and wellbeing - Mind.website The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A vigil held last month included the release of blue balloons, a request by the boys' families\n\nThe two teenagers who died in an e-bike crash which sparked a riot in Cardiff will be buried in the same plot as they were best friends, their families said.\n\nThe joint funeral for Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, will be held in Ely, the Diocese of Llandaff added.\n\nTheir deaths, which happened after they were followed by a police van, sparked unrest in the suburb of Ely on 22 May.\n\nAbout 200 motorbikes, two limousines, four hearses and eight Rolls-Royce cars will form the procession on Thursday.\n\nThis element of the funeral has been arranged by their friends, the diocese said.\n\nFollowing their deaths, a riot broke out in Ely leading to 27 arrests and 15 officers being injured on Monday 22 May.\n\nA riot broke out in the Cardiff suburb shortly after the boys died in a collision\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has launched an investigation into their deaths and South Wales Police's actions.\n\nA few days after the boys died, a vigil attended by about 800 people included the release of hundreds of blue balloons, at the request of the bereaved families.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, and will be buried in the same plot, their families said\n\nSpeaking ahead of the funeral, the Reverend Canon Jan Gould said: \"It's important for the family especially, but actually for the whole community have some closure now and to begin to move on.\n\n\"My hope is that moving on from this now, the community can begin to rebuild. And hopefully the families will find some peace from the service.\"\n\nDuring the service, a moment of silence will be held and Ms Gould will be preaching about the Gospel passage of Jesus stilling in the storm.\n\nShe added: \"I'm going to be talking about how grief can sometimes feel like a storm that's overwhelming and we don't know how to feel.\n\nHarvey (L) and Kyrees were friends since nursery\n\n\"We can have all kinds of feelings that we can't manage and I'm going to be encouraging them to reach out for that peace that Jesus brought when he stilled the storm and that he longs to still the storms of our lives.\"\n\nRoad closures are being managed by Cardiff council and schools in the area will also close due to the number of mourners expected.\n\nTy Coch Road, from the roundabout with Archer Road, and Grand Avenue, from its junction with Howell Road, will both be closed from midday to 14:00 BST.\n\nThe service will begin at 13:00 at Church of the Resurrection in Ely.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nathan Evans became an overnight star when a sea shanty he posted on social media went viral.\n\nBut he has told a new BBC documentary of the hard times he endured before his 60-second clip became an international sensation.\n\nThe 28-year-old shot to fame in late 2020 when a TikTok video of the 19th Century shanty Wellerman led to a record deal and a Number 1 single in several countries, including the UK.\n\nNathan, from Airdrie, was a postman at the time but he had only been in the job a few months after recovering from mental health problems.\n\nIn What Next for the Wellerman? he tells how he had to quit his building trade job as a steel erector after having panic attacks.\n\n\"Having to get up at 5.30 and do 12 hours on shift and it was always hard graft as well,\" Nathan says.\n\n\"When it's cold, it's dreadful. When you are outside and dealing with the cold it's quite miserable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNathan tells the documentary that before he left the job he was struggling with his mental health.\n\n\"There was one day I was on site - my chest went, my breathing went and I started getting sweaty and I thought 'I am going to start crying here'.\n\n\"I started having a panic attack in the cherry picker and I was like 'I'm not doing this any more'.\"\n\nNathan was off work for a couple of months and started putting more effort into his music, uploading videos to Facebook and Instagram and also TikTok, at the insistence of his niece and nephew.\n\nIn response to one of his songs, a follower asked him to do a sea shanty called Leave Her Johnny.\n\nNathan admits that he knew nothing about the song or the genre of music but it became his most popular video, with fans suggesting dozens of others for him to perform.\n\nWellerman was on the list but it took Nathan months to get around to it.\n\nHowever when he uploaded it in December 2020, the clip immediately took off.\n\nNathan is trying to have success as a singer-songwriter\n\nNathan recalls that before his success he and wife Holly, who he met at school, were having a tough time.\n\nHolly tells the programme: \"We were always under pressure thinking 'is the next wage going to be enough to cover everything?'\"\n\n\"It was like the flick of a switch,\" Nathan says.\n\n\"Life just flipped upside down. I went from all that struggling with all this debt and then the next minute I was signed to a record company, I had a manager.\n\n\"I paid the debt off and managed to buy myself a house that we'd been dreaming of.\"\n\nHolly admits that his success came so quickly and he was so busy that she feared she might be losing him.\n\n\"It messed with us a wee bit,\" she says.\n\n\"We had a really hard year. I honestly didn't think we'd still be together.\"\n\nNathan grew up in Airdrie in Lanarkshire\n\nNathan says he knew he had to use the chance to establish his music career and took every opportunity available.\n\n\"I could see where I wanted to go and thought there was nothing going to stop me from getting to there,\" he says.\n\nHolly says: \"He's destined for great things and you have to let Nathan do what he wants to do and see where it takes him.\"\n\nHowever, making a career in music when you are known as the sea-shanty guy has not been easy.\n\nHe has been spending a lot of time in Germany where they have been keen to promote his new songs, which are more pop music orientated.\n\n\"Back home, because I don't get the exposure I do in Germany, even family members will ask me 'are you still doing music?\"\n\n\"They don't see the TV shows I am doing in Germany, and the gigs and the festivals.\"\n\nAt the end of April, Nathan was in Germany making a music video when Holly went into labour four weeks early.\n\nNathan dashed back home to Lanarkshire where their first child Hunter had a complicated birth which included time in intensive care.\n\n\"It was really scary,\" Nathan says.\n\n\"But now he's healthy and his lungs work perfectly fine.\"\n\nNathan says the BBC documentary is trying to show people he is not just The Wellerman and the guy from TikTok.\n\n\"Hopefully we can steer away from that TikTok star and become Nathan Evans the artist,\" he says.", "A more detailed survey of the number of newts in the pond at Cavers Castle is being carried out\n\nPlans to restore a roofless, crumbling castle in the Scottish Borders have been held up by great crested newts.\n\nThe presence of the protected species in a pond at Cavers Castle, near Hawick, has delayed a decision on a bid to bring it back into use.\n\nThe council's planning committee was being recommended to approve the application for the site.\n\nHowever, it deferred a decision to get a \"handle on the full population\" of newts in the pond.\n\nThe castle was demolished by explosives in the 1950s\n\nParts of Cavers Castle, also known as Cavers House, are believed to date back to the 15th or 16th Centuries.\n\nThe building was substantially extended in about 1750, followed by a \"massive redesign and remodel\" in the late 19th Century.\n\nWhen one of the last owners died in 1949, a buyer could not be found for the property so its contents were auctioned off and much of it demolished by explosives in 1953.\n\nThe planning committee met to discuss its fate last month but deferred a decision for a site visit.\n\nNow the discovery of the newts has put the decision on hold again.\n\nScottish Borders Council's principal planning officer Craig Miller told councillors: \"After the last committee we did receive an indication that there may be a European Protected Species within the pond at the south end of the site.\n\n\"The applicant was asked to carry out a pond survey and that was carried out and passed to the ecology officer confirming that the species was present in the pond.\n\n\"The survey did not contain enough detail or land searches to ascertain how many of the protected species were using the site and we need to get a handle on the full population\".\n\nA decision on the plans to bring the building back into use has been delayed\n\nMembers agreed to defer a final decision until a more detailed survey had been carried out.\n\nThe committee will meet again in August but they were told there was no guarantee the information would be available in time for that.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment a man drives his Range Rover in front of an oncoming train\n\nA businessman had a close brush with disaster after he drove his Range Rover in front of an oncoming train.\n\nDalat Gulzar, 51, of Mill Lane, Chester, ignored signs and warning lights when he drove across the level crossing at Llanbedr station, Gwynedd.\n\nMold Crown Court heard heard he risked the lives of his and the train's passengers in a \"moment of absolute madness\".\n\nFollowing a trial Gulzar was banned from driving for 12 months.\n\nFootage played in court showed his black Range Rover driving across the train tracks, seemingly unaware of the approaching train on 19 June last year.\n\nShocked onlookers waiting to board the train from the station are seen holding their hands to their mouths as they witness the near miss.\n\nThe court heard the train's emergency brakes had to be applied.\n\nGulzar, of Mill Lane, Chester, pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving but was convicted by a jury.\n\nNathan Goldstein, defending, said his client was a \"hard working family man\" who experienced a \"moment of absolute madness\" that will have a profound effect upon his life.\n\nThe court heard Gulzar was of previous good character and that he would suffer as a result of a driving ban.\n\nIt was told he might have to close his business if he was unable to serve his customers.\n\nJudge Wyn Lloyd-Jones told Gulzar he had fallen below the standards of a careful and competent driver, and he could have caused \"serious injury or death\".\n\nSentencing him on Wednesday, the judge said: \"It's obvious the train driver who gave evidence suffered emotionally as a result of what unfolded before him.\n\n\"One of the things he said was this was one of the nearest misses he has had.\n\n\"CCTV from the train made for shocking viewing.\"\n\nGulzar was sentenced to a 12-month community order, ordered to carry out 120 hours unpaid work and to pay £2,400 court costs.\n\nGulzar was also banned from from driving for 12 months.", "The government has announced plans to sanction Iranian officials behind what it called hostile activities in the UK.\n\nThe foreign secretary said since January 2022 there had been 15 credible threats by Iran's regime to kill or kidnap Britons or UK-based people.\n\nUnder existing legislation, the UK can sanction Iranians for human rights violations or nuclear proliferation activities within the Islamic republic.\n\nThe UK will not \"tolerate this malign behaviour\", James Cleverly said.\n\nThe new plans would allow the government to target Iranians responsible for \"hostile activities towards the UK and our partners… including threats to our people, property or security\". Iranians sending missiles and drones to Russia could also be sanctioned.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Iran had increased its efforts \"to kill or kidnap individuals perceived to be enemies of the regime outside of Iran, including in the UK\".\n\nUnder the new regime, Iranians could also be sanctioned for undermining \"peace, stability and security in the Middle East and internationally\", for using or spreading \"weapons or weapons technologies from Iran\", and undermining democracy, rule of law and good governance.\n\nThe Foreign Office said legislation establishing the new sanctions regime would be put before parliament later this year.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said the move showed that \"the UK has sent a clear message to the regime - we will not tolerate this malign behaviour and we will hold you to account\".\n\n\"Our new sanctions regime will help to ensure there can be no hiding place for those who seek to do us harm,\" he added.\n\nLabour has asked Mr Cleverly for an update on the proscription of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).\n\nShadow foreign secretary David Lammy told the Commons: \"The government will be aware of the long-standing strength of feeling from many sides of the House and from members of the Iranian diaspora on the question of proscription of the IRGC...\n\n\"I understand, of course, that there are diplomatic dimensions to this question, but I'm sure this House would welcome an update from him on the issue.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What debris has been found and what does it mean?\n\nOceanGate, the owner of the Titan submersible that imploded last month, killing all five passengers on board, has fully suspended its activities.\n\nThe company posted a one-line note on its website saying it had stopped \"all exploration and commercial operations\".\n\nOn its website the company had also advertised tours of the Portuguese archipelago of Azores and the Bahamas.\n\nAn investigation is ongoing into how the sub imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck on 18 June.\n\nLed by the US Coast Guard, authorities said the inquiry would aim to prevent similar accidents in future.\n\nChief investigator Cpt Jason Neubauer said last month that the Coast Guard had convened its highest level of investigation, and that the probe would be run jointly with Canadian, UK and French authorities. The investigation would be able to recommend civil or criminal charges, Cpt Neubauer said.\n\nOn 28 June the Coast Guard said debris and human remains from the Titan had been recovered and returned to land - concluding an early stage of the investigation. Authorities said the debris would be taken to a US port for more analysis.\n\nCpt Neubauer said in a statement last week that there was still \"a substantial amount of work\" left for investigators.\n\nOceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush, 61, died on board the Titan alongside the four other passengers: British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleman, 19, British businessman Hamish Harding, 58, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, a former French navy diver.\n\nRush earned a reputation as an ambitious explorer and a passionate leader, one who occasionally broke rules to pursue his dream of exploring the sea.\n\nHe was on board the Titan for several successful dives, though he had reportedly ignored warnings over the safety of his sub.", "Russian state-controlled TV has embarked on an apparent campaign to discredit Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in the wake of his failed mutiny in late June.\n\nKey channels showed what they said were images taken during searches at his opulent home outside St Petersburg, arguing that his riches reflected very badly on him.\n\nThey also recalled his criminal past and suggested that he was driven by greed, but failed to mention Prigozhin's persistent and often crude criticism of Russia's military and of how it pursues the war in Ukraine.\n\nThis is the first time that the state media machine's reporting of Prigozhin has been so prolific, so personal and so full of damaging details about his biography.\n\nUntil recently, Russian TV would portray a positive image of the Wagner mercenary group, which has fought alongside the Russian military during its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPhotos said to be from inside Prigozhin's house appeared on state-run network Rossiya 1 on 5 July.\n\nOfficials released shots of what they said was the opulent interior of Prigozhin's home\n\n\"Let's have a look how this fighter for the truth lived, someone who has two criminal convictions and who kept claiming that everyone else was a thief,\" said a commentator on 60 Minutes, a talk show.\n\n\"Let's have a look at the palace built for this campaigner against corruption and crime,\" Eduard Petrov said sarcastically.\n\nThe footage showed piles of cash, various weapons, the house's opulent interiors and vast gardens - complete with a parked helicopter, an assortment of wigs and apparently fake passports issued to Prigozhin in different names.\n\nA cupboard of wigs was pictured during the alleged raid on Prigozhin's house\n\nLater, similar footage was shown as part of the channel's main evening news bulletin, one of the most popular in Russia. It also featured ingots of gold and \"suspicious packets of white powder\", which Rossiya 1 suggested could be an illegal drug.\n\nIt also dwelt at length on Prigozhin's criminal past.\n\nHe received his first criminal conviction in 1979, aged just 18, and got a suspended two-and-a-half year sentence for theft. Two years later, he was sentenced to 13 years in jail for robbery and theft, nine of which he served behind bars.\n\n\"They say that it is the experience and connections he received from crime lords behind bars which helped him walk the path from a hot dog seller to an authoritative master of cauldrons and pans,\" Rossiya 1's correspondent quipped, referring to Prigozhin's past role as a caterer for the Kremlin.\n\nThis role also earned him the nickname \"Kremlin's chef\".\n\nOne of the photos shown by Russian state TV showed a sledgehammer with the inscription \"Use in case of important negotiations\". This appears to be a reference to the brutal killing with a sledgehammer of a man Wagner accused of betrayal in November 2022.\n\nWriting on the sledgehammer appeared to read: \"In case of important negotiations.\"\n\nOn the same evening, state TV's Channel One suggested that Yevgeny Prigozhin was linked to Western intelligence, which was now \"too shy\" to admit involvement in his apparent mutiny.\n\nNTV, one of Russia's three most-watched television stations, argued that he was driven by greed and criminal past.\n\n\"What happened has obvious roots in his personality, business interests and his crime-ridden past,\" it said. As for Prigozhin's alleged riches, \"fighting for truth costs a lot of money\", NTV quipped.\n\nUntil several months after the start of Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine, officials, media and Prigozhin's own press service denied Wagner existed.\n\nFor a period of time afterwards, state TV celebrated Wagner's involvement in the \"special military operation\" in Ukraine.\n\nMentions of Wagner had all but disappeared from state media by the time Prigozhin embarked on his \"march for justice\", vowing to punish Russian military commanders whom he accused of incompetence.\n\nVast quantities of cash and gold bars were also reportedly found in the search\n\nPrigozhin himself, who has fallen almost completely silent on social media after his apparent mutiny, has not commented on the images.\n\nBut one channel linked to Wagner argued that it was not unusual for a businessman as wealthy as Prigozhin to own an expensive home: \"What's the wow factor here, then?\" it asked.\n\nAfter previously denying there were any links between Wagner and the state, President Vladimir Putin - speaking shortly after Prigozhin's mutiny failed - said the state fully funded the military company, spending an equivalent of about $1bn (£787m) on it in May 2022 to May 2023 alone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins considers the key questions over the whereabouts of Yevgeny Prigozhin", "Four retired detectives who ran the first Stephen Lawrence murder investigation will not face criminal charges for their actions in the case.\n\nLawrence was murdered in April 1993 in a racist attack in south London.\n\nThe initial investigation failed to bring anyone to justice - although two of the murderers were jailed in 2012.\n\nAnnouncing its decision, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it understood its news \"may be deeply disappointing\" to Lawrence's family.\n\nThe officers had been investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), but the CPS chose not to pursue a criminal prosecution after considering a file of evidence for nearly three years.\n\nThe retired officers investigated by the IOPC were:\n\nNick Price, head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said that having \"meticulously reviewed substantial amounts of evidence\" it had chosen not to pursue criminal charges.\n\nHe added that the CPS has offered to meet with close family members \"to explain our decision in detail\".\n\nIn 1999 a public inquiry led by Sir William Macpherson said the first Lawrence murder investigation was \"marred by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism and a failure of leadership by senior officers\".\n\nThe Macpherson report was highly critical of Mr Crampton, Mr Weeden and Mr Ilsley for the decision not to make quick arrests - arrests did not take place for two weeks despite police receiving information implicating four of the prime suspects within 24 hours of the stabbing.\n\nIn 1997 an investigation by the police watchdog had also been critical, but only Mr Bullock was still serving in the Met and therefore available for a disciplinary process.\n\nThe IOPC investigation which led to the referral to the CPS first started in 2014 and looked into allegations of corruption against another officer - John Davidson - who worked on the first Stephen Lawrence murder investigation.\n\nThe investigation, which was carried out by the National Crime Agency (NCA) on behalf of the IOPC, followed an official review by barrister Mark Ellison KC, which said there were outstanding lines of inquiry into allegations that Mr Davidson was in a corrupt relationship with the father of David Norris, one of Stephen's killers.\n\nThe claims were made by Mr Davidson's former colleague, Neil Putnam, a corrupt officer turned super-grass.\n\nMr Putnam, who did not work on the Lawrence murder inquiry, alleged that Mr Davidson had admitted the corrupt relationship to him. Davidson denied the claims.\n\nJohn Davidson was told in 2019 that he was no longer under investigation because there was no evidence of corruption on his part in relation to the Stephen Lawrence case.\n\nThe NCA then investigated Mr Putnam and passed a file to the CPS to consider whether he should be charged with perjury or perverting the course of justice. The CPS has decided he will not be charged.\n\nThe IOPC investigation ended up focusing on the four senior officers from the first murder investigation, and their handling of the early part of the case.\n\nIn 2020, the IOPC passed a file of evidence to the CPS, which was asked to consider whether they may have committed the criminal offence of misconduct in public office.\n\nThe criminal offence of misconduct in public office is committed when the office holder acts - or fails to act - in a way that constitutes a breach of the duties of that office.\n\nLast week a BBC investigation identified a sixth suspectin the Stephen Lawrence murder and exposed a series of police failings in relation to him.\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.", "Puffin numbers on Rathlin have gone down in recent years\n\nThink of Rathlin Island and you most likely think of puffins.\n\nBut with numbers declining by 40% since 1999, the race is on to protect the colourful ground-nester from predators before the balance tips.\n\nNow, in a world first, a new project will see ferrets and rats trapped to eradicate non-natives from the island.\n\nAfter a year of preparation, 450 traps with wireless monitoring and 6,000 bait stations are being laid all over the island from this winter.\n\nFerrets are believed to have been introduced to Rathlin Island in the 1980s\n\nThe aim is to have all ferrets and rats removed by 2026, restoring the island to a safe haven for internationally significant breeding seabirds.\n\nAs well as puffins, there are razorbills, kittiwakes, Manx shearwaters, guillemots and fulmars.\n\nMonitoring will continue beyond the five-year £4.5m the LIFE Raft project to maintain biosecurity.\n\nRats most likely arrived on boats more than a century ago.\n\nBut ferrets, voracious and efficient hunters, were released deliberately to control the rabbit population.\n\nBoth species quickly turned their attentions to the seabirds and their young.\n\nThey are now all over the island and RSPB warden Liam McFaul is worried that matters are at a tipping point.\n\nHe said without some control mechanism to control the predators, there could be a day when hardly any puffins will be left on Rathlin.\n\nHe has lived his whole life on the island and has monitored seabirds here for more than 30 years with the RSPB.\n\n\"I can't imagine the day that there wouldn't be any of these seabirds or a real big shift in numbers of the population.\n\n\"Rathlin's such a strategic and important nesting site for the seabirds because it's an off-shore island and in that case should be safe,\" he said.\n\nA team of people, like conservation scientist James Crymble, has spent the year surveying the island and training in preparation for what is a mammoth undertaking.\n\n\"Rathlin is actually quite a big island and it's quite a diverse island as well, there's lots and lots of different habitats, different terrain. The weather's pretty mean and it's going be a huge job,\" he said.\n\n\"The best way to do it is to lay out a grid across the whole island.\"\n\nThat entails laying a trap every 250m, the range an individual ferret will cover.\n\nEverywhere will need to be targeted, said James, including grassy ledges scattered down the cliffs - an undertaking that requires some extreme training.\n\n\"There'll be a huge amount, obviously abseiling, rope access skills, off-roading skills, all terrain vehicles, obviously first aid, things like that.\n\n\"By the end of it we'll be an elite force.\"\n\nHe added: \"And all of that will take place during winter. So absolutely the worst time of year, really, for us walking around.\"\n\nBut winter is the best time to target predators, who will be getting hungry as their prey migrates from the island.\n\nProtecting the seabird population is also about protecting people.\n\nThe economy on the island relies on thousands of visitors who come here every year for the wildlife.\n\nThe cliffs on Rathlin Island are thronged with sea birds\n\nSo while conservation like this - destroying one species to protect another - can be controversial, people on Rathlin are wholeheartedly behind the project.\n\n\"The island resident population have started to catch on to this,\" said Michael Cecil, chair of the Rathlin Development and Community Association.\n\n\"There's more and more interest from around the world, from scientific communities and other islands that are interested in similar things. So yeah, we're starting to pick up a bit of notice, more and more so and islanders are starting to talk about this project.\"\n\nSimilar projects have been undertaken on the Isles of Scilly, in the Shiants off Scotland and, most recently, on Gough Island in the south Atlantic\n\nBut this is the first time that ferrets will be targeted as part of a conservation effort like this.\n\n\"It's not cheap to get rid of these animals, but it's hugely beneficial for the wildlife here,\" said James.\n\n\"Nature is in crisis. We're looking at climate change. We're looking at overfishing at sea and this is the best way to really protect the island for future generations and just give them a bit of a buffer zone to face these overarching global problems.\"\n\nIt will take time for the populations to recover, but at the upside-down lighthouse that is home to Rathlin's Seabird Centre, Liam McFaul is hopeful.\n\n\"Seabirds are a very long-lived species and you're taking out the predators. You're not going to just immediately see next year lots and lots more birds, it'll take a number of years for them to build up.\n\n\"Rathlin is an internationally important mixed seabird colony. There's 150,000 guillemots and 22,000 razorbills, that's just literally breeding birds sitting on the cliffs.\n\n\"When you look on the sea, that's just peppered with birds and you look in the air, they're flying all over the place.\n\n\"So a census of these birds only takes consideration of what's sitting on eggs and on the cliffs. There's thousands and thousands more that's not counted.\n\n\"So lots and lots of monitoring will be done over the next few years, to see the changes from the predators being taken out.\"", "Greta Thunberg was charged for \"disobeying the police\" at this protest in June\n\nClimate activist Greta Thunberg will appear in court in July charged with \"disobeying the police\" during a protest, Swedish prosecutors have said.\n\nMs Thunberg, 20, joined a group of young protesters blockading oil tankers at a port in Malmö in June. Police said she refused to leave when asked to.\n\nShe could face a six-month prison sentence or a fine.\n\nA representative told BBC News that Ms Thunberg was not available for comment.\n\nThe group Ta Tillbaka Framtiden or Reclaim the Future blockaded the Malmö port for six days in June. Some protestors climbed on top of oil tankers, the group said.\n\n\"The climate crisis is already a matter of life and death for countless people,\" Ms Thunberg wrote on Instagram in June when she joined the protest.\n\n\"We choose to not be bystanders, and instead physically stop the fossil fuel infrastructure,\" she added.\n\n\"The prosecutor has filed charges against a young woman who on June 19 this year participated in a climate demonstration which, according to the prosecution, caused disruption to traffic in Malmö,\" the Swedish Prosecution Authority said.\n\n\"The woman has refused to obey the police command to leave the scene,\" it added.\n\nIt told BBC News that Ms Thunberg will appear in court on 24 July, along with three other protestors.\n\nIrma Kjellström, 20, will also appear in court in July.\n\nShe told BBC News that police asked her to leave the port but she refused. She says she was then carried away by officers.\n\n\"We blocked the port in order to stop the use of fossil fuels that are killing innocent people,\" she said.\n\n\"The real crimes continue inside the gate of the port. We are not going to sit and wait while the fossil fuel industry takes our dreams away from us.\"\n\nAsked if she's worried about the consequences of the trial, she replied: \"I personally am more worried about the horrible harm the fossil fuel industry is doing to the world.\"\n\n\"I'm not going to stop while they are threatening the planet.\"\n\nGreenhouse gases have been pumped into the atmosphere by activities such as burning fuels, which have heated up the Earth's atmosphere.\n\nThe world has warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial revolution about 200 years ago.\n\nClimate activists around the world have targeted the fossil fuel industry, including the UK group Just Stop Oil which has been disrupting high-profile sports events this summer.\n\nMuch of the oil and gas industry says that continued production is necessary in order to meet global energy demands.\n\nCutting oil and gas production would be \"dangerous and irresponsible\", the head of energy company Shell told BBC News.\n\nThe International Energy Agency has said that there can be no new investments in oil, gas and coal now if governments are serious about the climate crisis.\n\nUN chief António Guterres recently said investment in new oil and gas production was \"economic and moral madness\".\n\nThis week the world experienced its hottest day on record on Tuesday, topping 17C for the first time.", "Seven children and two adults have been injured after a car crashed into a primary school building in Wimbledon, south-west London.\n\nA gold-coloured Land Rover crashed into The Study Preparatory School in Camp Road just before 10:00 BST.\n\nA major incident has been declared and several people are being treated by paramedics.\n\nAn air ambulance is at the scene and firefighters have also been deployed to the area.", "Ever since this row kicked off, I've wondered whether the prime minister had heard about Baroness Hallett's reputation.\n\nIf there were a national prize for Least Likely To Be A Pushover, this tough no-nonsense former Court of Appeal judge would probably win it. Here's why.\n\nThirteen years ago, Lady Justice Hallett, as she then was, oversaw the heart-breaking inquests into the 2005 suicide attacks in London, in which 52 people were killed by four bombers.\n\nMI5 and the Home Office tried to convince her to keep secret what spooks had known about the ringleader of the attacks. I oversimplify, but after some legal trench warfare, Hallett ruled that the bereaved families must know the facts.\n\nMI5's attempt to overturn that decision in the High Court, with the help of the then Home Secretary Theresa May, was so thin that a judge declared part of their argument to be \"hopeless\" .\n\nLady Justice Hallett had called the law right: there is inevitably a place for confidentiality or secrecy when it comes to sensitive national secrets. But there must also be transparency for the victims of an appalling tragedy.\n\nAnd in the aftermath, ministers found themselves accused of a spectacularly clumsy attempt to cover up the truth. I'll leave you to decide whether that sounds familiar...", "An Israeli-Russian researcher who went missing in Iraq in March is being held captive by a Shia militia, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\n\nElizabeth Tsurkov, a PhD student at Princeton University in the United States, was conducting research in Baghdad when she was kidnapped.\n\n\"We hold Iraq responsible for her safety and well-being,\" Mr Netanyahu's office said.\n\nMs Tsurkov is being held by Kataib Hezbollah, according to Israel.\n\nIt did not specify what the group's demands were.\n\nKataib Hezbollah (Brigades of the Party of God) is a powerful Iraqi Shia militia that gets financial and military support from Iran. The US has designated the group as a terrorist organisation since 2009.\n\nIsrael said the matter was being handled by \"relevant parties... out of concern\" for Ms Tsurkov's \"security and well-being\".\n\nIraq and Israel do not share diplomatic relations. Last year, Iraq's parliament passed a law that criminalises any attempt to normalise ties with Israel, which it has never recognised.\n\nMs Tsurkov's family said in a statement that they hold \"the Iraqi government as directly responsible for her safety\", the Washington Post reported.\n\nMs Tsurkov entered Iraq on her Russian passport, Mr Netanyahu's office said.\n\nThe New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, a Washington-based think tank where Ms Tsurkov is a fellow, said she last contacted them in March and that they later learnt from sources of her kidnap by a \"pro-Iranian militia\".\n\n\"Our first instinct was to shout about her disappearance on the internet, in the media and on these pages,\" the institute said in a statement in its magazine, adding that it decided not to do so because of her family's wishes and in the hope of a quick resolution.\n\nAccording to Ms Tsurkov's website, her research focuses on the Levant - a historical term that refers to a large geographical region including present-day Israel, Syria and other areas - and \"the Syrian uprising and civil war\".\n\nNew Lines said Ms Tsurkov's situation was complicated by that fact that she was \"an outspoken critic\" of the three countries that may be involved in negotiations for her release: Israel, Iran and Russia.\n\n\"All of us feel that the United States needs to be involved in some way in helping [Ms Tsurkov],\" it said, pointing to her involvement with New Lines and Princeton.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, Princeton said: \"We are deeply concerned for her safety and well-being, and we are eager for her to be able to rejoin her family and resume her studies.\"\n\nThe US, Russia, Iran and Iraq have not officially commented yet.", "Ukraine says Russia has planted ‘objects resembling explosive devices’ on the roofs of two reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.\n\nRussia has made counter-claims that Ukraine is planning to attack the plant.\n\nThe BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at what we know about the allegations, and what they tell us about the risk of an incident at Europe’s largest nuclear power station.", "The first trader tried and jailed for \"rigging\" interest rates, Tom Hayes, has won the right to appeal his case after a six-year battle.\n\nMr Hayes, who was sentenced to 11 years in jail in 2015, has been seeking a referral since 2017.\n\nHe will now have his case referred back to the Court of Appeal.\n\nIf it rules in his favour, it has the potential to undo not only his own case but that of nine other traders convicted in the UK of rigging rates.\n\nFighting back tears, the former UBS trader said he was \"massively relieved\". Mr Hayes told the BBC he did not know what to feel as \"it has been so, so long\".\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), the body set up to investigate miscarriages of justice, has decided to refer his case back to the Court of Appeal.\n\nThe CCRC made a provisional decision in 2021 not to refer his case. But two months later the US courts decided the cases against the traders were fundamentally flawed.\n\nMr Hayes served five and a half years in jail and was released in January 2021, still protesting his innocence.\n\nA total of 37 traders and brokers on both sides of the Atlantic have been prosecuted by the US Department of Justice and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for \"rigging\" interest rates.\n\nA spokesperson for the SFO said: \"All our prosecutions are based on evidence and the applicable law. We stand ready to support the Court of Appeal as it considers this referral.\"\n\nThe interest rate traders were accused of manipulating was Libor, the benchmark interest rate that tracks the cost of borrowing cash.\n\nIn January 2022, a US appeal court overturned the convictions of British-born former Deutsche Bank trader Gavin Black and his US colleague Matt Connolly, saying prosecutors had failed to prove they had made any false statements in their trials for fraud.\n\nThe US withdrew its own separate indictment against Mr Hayes last year. He first petitioned the CCRC to send his case back to appeal in 2017.\n\nUpdate 1st August. This article was originally published on the 6th July, the day Tom Hayes won his right to appeal. However the original article did not include a response from the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and this now has been added.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nBritish number five Liam Broady caused arguably the biggest shock at this year's Wimbledon with a remarkable five-set win over Norwegian fourth seed Casper Ruud on a frenzied Centre Court.\n\nKatie Boulter, Britain's top-ranked woman, also reached the last 32 as she continues to thrive in the spotlight.\n\nHis second-round victory came shortly after Boulter beat Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova 6-0 3-6 6-3 in her match.\n\nLater, British former world number one Andy Murray plays Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in a blockbuster final match on Centre Court.\n• None Live TV, text and radio coverage of day four at Wimbledon\n\nBroady told mum to 'chill out' - and remains calm himself\n\nWhen Broady last played on Centre Court in 2016, he was beaten by eventual champion Murray in what he described as a \"slapping\".\n\nThis occasion on the iconic Wimbledon show court could not have been a more different experience for the world number 142 - or a more different outcome.\n\nIn an entertaining post-match interview, Broady joked he told his mum - who he said is usually a nervous watcher - to \"chill out\" because he had already won £85,000 this week by reaching the second round.\n\nBut the manner in which he fought back to seal a memorable victory - staying composed and being clinical - suggested he had also heeded his own advice.\n\nLeft-hander Broady looked in trouble when he fell two-sets-to-one down against Ruud, but produced a stirring fightback - combining grit and guile - to stun an opponent who has played in three of the past five Grand Slam finals.\n\nBroady broke at the start of the fourth set to renew his hopes - and those of the home crowd - nervelessly negotiating the rest of his service games to level the match and force a decider.\n\nRuud has lost in the past two French Open finals, as well as the US Open showpiece last year, but has never got to grips with the grass courts.\n\nLast year he famously joked the surface was only suitable for golf and Broady, further growing in confidence, made him feel even more uncomfortable.\n\nThe Briton, who also reached the third round at the All England Club last year, moved a double break ahead in the fifth set as Ruud's body language became increasingly negative.\n\nBroady rattled off 11 points in a row - holding to love and then breaking for a third time in the set - to leave him on the verge of his first career win over a top-10 opponent in front of a boisterous crowd.\n\nA colourful character who often gets animated on court, Broady knew this was the time where he needed to maintain his focus and produced a composed hold sealed with a crisp forehand winner down the line.\n\nBroady cupped his ears in celebration as the 15,000 home fans erupted, asking them for even more noise when he skipped back into the middle to absorb the plaudits on the greatest day of his career.\n\nIn the third round he will face Canadian 26th seed Denis Shapovalov.\n\nBoulter, 26, was the first home player through to the third round, roaring with delight and breaking out into a beaming smile when she took her third match point against 99th-ranked Tomova.\n\nThe celebration showed her delight at reaching the third round for the second successive year and relief at eventually getting over the line following a tense service game.\n\nBoulter is the only British woman left in the singles draw and will play defending champion Elena Rybakina next.\n\n\"It definitely wasn't easy out there but I kept backing myself and telling myself to go for it. It paid off,\" said Boulter, who hit 37 winners against Tomova and converted five of 15 break points.\n\n\"She is a top player and I expected her to come back with an even better game. She definitely did and made me play more balls.\n\n\"I tried to be as aggressive as possible and managed to do that at the start of the third set.\"\n\nIn front of a buoyant crowd on court 12, Boulter enjoyed another memorable day in a British grass-court season in which she has climbed back into the world's top 100.\n\nNow ranked 89th, she is the leading home hope in the women's singles, having replaced Emma Raducanu - who is missing the event after wrist and ankle surgeries - as British number one.\n\nSuccess in Nottingham, where she won her first WTA title, meant Boulter came into Wimbledon full of confidence that she could produce another strong showing on the biggest stage of all.\n\nThriving under the spotlight, she has matched last year's run to the third round.\n\nWhether Boulter can go even further remains to be seen, and Rybakina will be a considerable step up in class on the other side of the net.\n\n\"I think I'm playing really well. I've played a lot of matches on the grass. I feel very comfortable,\" Boulter added.\n\n\"A lot of it is my self-belief. A lot of matches recently I've really drawn from it to help me get over the line. I definitely did that again.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Watch all episodes of We Hunt Together on BBC iPlayer\n• None Meet the most iconic tennis players of the 1970s and 1980s", "Gershon Fuentes pleaded guilty to raping a 10-year-old girl and was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday\n\nA man has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape of a nine-year-old Ohio girl in a case that made headlines after the victim had to travel to another US state for an abortion.\n\nGerson Fuentes, 28, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of rape in last year's attack.\n\nThe child went to Indiana to terminate the pregnancy after her home state restricted access to the procedure.\n\nIt happened after the US Supreme Court overturned abortion rights.\n\nProsecutors noted that they could not find any evidence that Fuentes, a Guatemalan national, was in the US legally.\n\nHe will only be able to apply for parole after 25 years and could be deported. He will be required to register as a sex offender.\n\n\"Anybody who has ever been in this courtroom for the last 20 years knows how this court feels about babies, young people being violated,\" Franklin County Judge Julie Lynch said at Wednesday's sentencing.\n\nFuentes had confessed in an interview with police to raping the child twice, according to court documents. DNA testing of the aborted foetus confirmed he was the father.\n\nReferred by a child abuse doctor in Ohio, the victim visited a clinic in Indianapolis, Indiana, to have an abortion on 30 June when she was six weeks and three days pregnant, according to the Indianapolis Star newspaper.\n\nThe girl, who turned 10 before the procedure, had to cross state lines as Ohio had outlawed abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for victims of rape or incest.\n\nLegislators acted to restrict access to abortion hours after the Supreme Court repealed the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling, which guaranteed women the right to terminate pregnancies.\n\nThe doctor who carried out the girl's abortion was fined $3,000 (£2,400) in May by Indiana officials for violating her patient's privacy by speaking to media about the case.\n\nThe Indiana Medical Licensing Board, however, did not suspend Dr Caitlin Bernard's licence.", "Singer Coco Lee, who enjoyed pop stardom in Asia in the 1990s and 2000s, has died at the age of 48.\n\nBorn in Hong Kong, Lee moved to the US as a child and released albums in Mandarin and English.\n\nShe also voiced the lead character in the Mandarin version of Disney's hit film Mulan, and performed a song from the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the 2001 Oscars.\n\nHer sisters said she had been in a coma since a suicide attempt at the weekend.\n\nLee had been suffering from depression for a few years, older sisters Carol and Nancy wrote in a Facebook post.\n\nShe tried to take her own life at home on Sunday and was taken to hospital, where she died on Wednesday, they wrote.\n\nShe performed at the 2001 Oscars in Hollywood\n\nLee broke into the Mandopop scene in 1994 with two Mandarin albums. Within the next year, she released an English-language album as well as a third Mandarin album.\n\n\"Not only did she bring us joy with her songs and dances in the past 29 years, she also worked hard to break new ground for Chinese singers in the international music scene and has been doing her utmost to shine for the Chinese,\" Lee's sisters wrote.\n\nShe also sang the Mandarin version of the Mulan theme song, Reflection; while her song Before I Fall in Love is on the soundtrack to the 1999 Hollywood film Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.\n\nHer performances included a Michael Jackson & Friends benefit concert in South Korea in 1999, and she was a judge on TV talent shows including Chinese Idol.\n\nThis past New Year's Eve, Lee said in an Instagram post that she had \"faced major life changing hurdles\", and described 2022 as an \"incredibly difficult year\".\n\nHer latest single Tragic was released on 14 February this year.\n\nIn March, she said on Facebook that she had undergone pelvic and thigh surgery after triggering an old leg injury during dance practice late last year.\n\nIn 2011, Lee married Bruce Rockowitz, former chief executive officer of Hong Kong-based supply chain giant Li & Fung. They have two daughters from his previous marriage.\n\nRumours that they had split started to surface about three years ago, but Lee never addressed them.\n\nOn Wednesday, Lee's sisters wrote: \"In addition to remembering Coco, I hope that you will share her trademark bright smile, honesty and kindness with everyone around you, and continue Coco's wish that all those around her will feel her love and joy.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issues, the following resources may be able to help:", "A manager at Brown's Food Company allegedly assembled female workers to find out who threw a used sanitary towel in the wrong bin\n\nThree people have been arrested after employees at a Kenyan cheese factory were allegedly forced to undress to check who was on their period.\n\nA manager at Brown's Food Company assembled female workers to find out who had thrown a used sanitary towel in an incorrect bin, an official said.\n\nShe made the women strip after attempts to get a confession were unsuccessful.\n\nBrown's says it has suspended the accused manager pending an investigation.\n\nThree people were facing indecent assault charges over the incident, police in Limuru told local media.\n\nIn a video posted to Facebook, Senator Gloria Orwoba said she had received a \"distress call\" about what happened on Monday night.\n\nA manager \"had found a used sanitary towel in one of the bins, and from what I gather, that dustbin was not meant for the disposal of sanitary towels,\" she said.\n\nThe manager initially gathered the women to ask who was responsible, and when she did not receive an answer, she \"needed to find out who was on their period so that she could punish the person that threw the sanitary towel in that bin,\" added Senator Orwoba, who campaigns against period shaming.\n\nShe said that despite her attempts to intervene in the issue, the company was unable to resolve the issue with their employees.\n\nIn a statement on its website, Brown's Food Company said it was \"saddened\" and that the matter \"does not reflect the procedures of the company as a whole\".\n\n\"We are further engaging a women's health expert to help sensitise staff, improve communication, and strengthen our existing policies and procedures,\" the statement read, adding that they are arranging for an independent investigation to take place.\n\nPolice told local media that officers \"conducted a thorough investigation and recorded statements from the victims before arresting three suspects.\"\n\nThey also said similar incidents had taken place in other companies in the area.\n\n\"We have reliably gathered that the demeaning and shaming vice has been going on for a long time. I want to warn any such employers that justice will soon be served to all their victims,\" local police chief Philip Mwania said.\n\nCampaigners say that period shaming is a major problem in Kenya.\n\nIn February, Senator Orwoba was ordered to leave parliament because of an apparent blood stain on her trousers.", "Steven Bridges told the BBC he thought Threads could be good for new influencers\n\nThirty million may have signed up for Meta's newly launched Threads app, but what do its users actually think?\n\nThreads, pitched as a \"friendly\" rival to Twitter, has many similar features to the other social media platform.\n\nIts lead feature is allowing users to instantly create a network with people they follow on Instagram.\n\nAnd Steven Bridges, a YouTuber with 448k followers, told the BBC he saw Threads as a \"much-needed competitor\" to Twitter.\n\n\"Right now, there are a lot of people not happy at all with how Twitter's being run,\" he said.\n\n\"Threads gives them a potentially viable place to engage in the same way that they would use Twitter.\n\n\"People sort of know that Meta can run a social media company, so it gives a little bit of confidence that as it scales it will stick around and hopefully be well-moderated.\"\n\nSteven said that he expected Threads to see an influx of content creators, who will typically create profiles on new social media platforms to attract an audience.\n\n\"Almost every influencer, whether they like it or not, or whether they want Threads to succeed or fail, will be hopping on Threads just in case it does succeed,\" he said.\n\n\"There is potentially a small advantage or a large advantage to being an early adopter of Threads - you certainly will have less people in the Threads ecosystem, so maybe you can get more followers quicker or something like that.\n\n\"Particularly, it's going to be relevant to new influencers that want to gain an audience... because if you post early and post regularly, perhaps you'll grow as the platform itself grows.\"\n\nDhruti Shah, creative lead at consultancy Have You Thought About and a former BBC journalist, called Threads \"really exciting\" as a new platform, but said it might be hard for users to cut through the noise.\n\n\"Right now it honestly feels like you're at an ice skating rink, where everybody's jumping on and everyone's piling in,\" she said.\n\n\"Some people say they're going to be super amazing, because they've got a voice everywhere and a brand and a platform.\n\n\"Other people like me - because I'm not the best ice skater - are slipping and sliding and hoping that they don't get their fingers cut by falling over.\n\n\"That can be fun, but it does mean it's going to take a bit of time to understand what Threads is actually for, and when you're in a place that's really fast-paced, it can be quite overwhelming.\"\n\nDhruti Shah said Threads users are trying to \"showcase their digital presence\"\n\nMeanwhile, Doug Brown, an artist and Edinburgh black cab driver, said he was interested in Threads as it brought together elements from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\n\n\"If I was to create a social networking app, I'd definitely model my app with the best of what the top social media apps offers us,\" he said.\n\n\"Threads by Instagram for me has achieved that, the Threads app looks like Twitter, but the app has brought a lot of the easy-to-use features from Instagram and Facebook together.\n\n\"So far I'm impressed with Threads.\"\n\nDr Ysabel Gerrard, senior lecturer in digital communication at the University of Sheffield, wondered if any app could truly \"replace\" Twitter.\n\n\"I just don't know if that really can happen, because Twitter was its own thing,\" she said.\n\n\"It had its own vibe and you were never going to be able to recreate what happened, because that culture accumulated over years and years and years\".\n\n\"[Threads] is so tied to Instagram in terms of functionality, even just the branding, the associations that we're all making when we talk about it and in the press, and so on. I think it's going to be seen as almost like a TV programme spin off. That's how I see it in my mind.\"", "Katrina Rainey, a mother-of-six, died after being trapped inside a car that was engulfed in flames outside her home\n\nA woman who was murdered by her husband after being set on fire said she was \"so sorry\" some of her children saw the attack, a court heard.\n\nMother-of-six Katrina Rainey was preparing to go to work when Thomas Rainey opened her car door, threw petrol over her and set her alight.\n\nHe will spend at least 18 years of his life sentence in prison.\n\nMr Justice O'Hara said Mrs Rainey's children saw \"something they would never forget - their mother in flames\".\n\nRainey, of Quarry Road in Knockloughrim, County Londonderry, had previously pleaded guilty to his wife's murder.\n\nThe 61-year-old was handed the minimum tariff at Belfast Crown Court, where he sat with his head bowed.\n\nThe judge said he recognised a minimum of 18 years was a significant sentence for a man of Rainey's age.\n\nHe added: \"Given the horror of what he did to his wife, it's the least he deserves.\"\n\nMrs Rainey had got into her car and turned on the ignition when her husband opened the passenger door, threw the petrol over her and set her on fire in October 2021.\n\nHer children were woken from their sleep by their mother's screams.\n\nWhen the emergency services arrived at the scene, Mrs Rainey was being tended to by her children\n\nWhen fire crews arrived at the scene, they witnessed Mrs Rainey's children placing wet towels on her as she lay on the ground.\n\nShe was spoken to by emergency services before being sedated and taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast where she later died.\n\nMrs Rainey said: \"I never thought he would do this. My mother said, 'be careful'.\n\n\"I'm just so sorry my children have seen this. I love them so much.\"\n\nShe also thanked the emergency personnel helping her.\n\nThe police had asked Mrs Rainey if she knew why her husband had done what he did.\n\nThe court heard Mrs Rainey had wanted to leave her husband. She had been to see a solicitor, who had written to Rainey twice.\n\nMr Justice O'Hara said: \"At the time of the murder, [Rainey] was facing divorce, which may have led to the sale of the family farm to which he was especially attached.\"\n\n\"She told police she wanted him out of the house and had been to a solicitor,\" the prosecution said.\n\nThe judge noted that while Rainey had a history of mental health issues, including depression, it was not so severe as to have impaired his conduct.\n\nHe said: \"The defendant planned this murder to the extent that he put petrol in the bucket, he had the bucket to hand as his wife went to drive off to work and he threw the petrol over her.\n\n\"He also had a lighter to hand which he used to start the fire in the confined space of the car which she was strapped into.\"\n\nThe judge noted that Rainey had initially denied setting fire to his wife and was heard at the scene telling her: \"I wouldn't do that, I love you.\"\n\nHe later admitted murdering her.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Det Insp Hazel Miller described Mrs Rainey, 53, as \"a loving and very, very caring mother\".\n\nShe said her children and family circle had experienced \"unimaginable grief and anguish\", and were still trying to come to terms with losing a loved one in such devastating circumstances.\n\nShe described Rainey's actions as \"deliberate and shocking\", which had left a family \"absolutely shattered\".\n\n\"While today's sentencing signifies the end of the judicial process, I know that Katrina's family will be walking away with the heaviest of hearts,\" she added.\n\nMrs Rainey's mother Sandra Heasley spoke of how her life has changed since October 2021. She described her daughter as a \"gentle, sincere, beautiful girl that made time for everyone\".\n\nShe also expressed concern that her grandchildren witnessed their mother's harrowing death.\n\nMrs Rainey's son Alan spoke of the loss his mother's death has had on the family.\n\nAt the tariff hearing last week, the defence said there were a number of mitigating factors in the case, including the fact Rainey had a \"long history of mental health problems\".\n\nThe defence also pointed out the accused and his wife had experienced the death of one of their children in a \"tragic accident\" in 2002.\n\nThe defence accepted Mrs Rainey's murder had been premeditated, but it was \"not significant premeditation\" as it was \"minutes rather than hours or days\".\n\nHe described the murder as \"the ultimate act of domestic violence\".\n\nHe added: \"It was witnessed by the children who heard the screams and ran out to see something they will never be able to forget - their mother in flames.\"\n• None Murderer doused wife in petrol and set her on fire", "Hollywood star Brad Pitt was seen strolling among the crowds on Thursday\n\nHollywood actor Brad Pitt, who has been cast as an F1 driver in a movie, will be seen racing at Silverstone during the British Grand Prix weekend.\n\nPitt is to be filmed racing an adapted Formula 2 machine between practice sessions on Friday.\n\nBritish champion Lewis Hamilton is helping to produce the film featuring the American actor.\n\nThe 59-year-old Oscar-winner is playing the role of a veteran driver returning to the grid after a 30-year absence.\n\nThe plot line has raised eyebrows, given Pitt's age, but Hamilton said: \"Brad looks like he's ageing backwards. He looks great for his age.\n\n\"I can't tell you how excited I am to have Brad Pitt in Formula 1. It's incredible.\"\n\nF1 champion Lewis Hamilton is helping to produce the movie starring Brad Pitt called Apex\n\nWhile Pitt will be alone on the track at Silverstone in a modified car prepared by Hamilton's Mercedes team, it is believed the assistance of computer generated imagery will make him look as though he is racing on this season's grid.\n\nThe film crew will also have a presence on the grid ahead of Sunday's race.\n\nApex has had its own \"Pitt\" stop built trackside for the movie\n\nHamilton has been involved in preparations for the movie, including trying to make it as authentic as possible - a criticism levelled at previous motorsport films.\n\nHe said: \"It is massively exciting to know it is all coming together and we are starting to film this weekend.\n\n\"It's nerves because we have been working on it for so long and we want people to love it and [think that] we captured what the essence of the sport is all about.\"\n\nHamilton said he had spent time at a track in California with Pitt helping him to learn about race-driving.\n\nFilming for Apex is due to continue throughout the remainder of the 2023 season.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wael Sawan says the world \"continues to desperately need oil and gas\"\n\nCutting oil and gas production would be \"dangerous and irresponsible\", the boss of energy giant Shell has told the BBC.\n\nWael Sawan insisted that the world still \"desperately needs oil and gas\" as moves to renewable energy were not happening fast enough to replace it.\n\nHe warned increased demand from China and a cold winter in Europe could push energy prices and bills higher again.\n\nMr Sawan angered climate scientists who said Shell's plan to continue current oil production until 2030 was wrong.\n\nProfessor Emily Shuckburgh, a climate scientist at the University of Cambridge, said firms such as Shell should focus on accelerating the green transition \"rather than trying to suggest the most vulnerable in society are in any way best served by prolonging our use of oil and gas\".\n\nHead of the UN António Guterres recently said investment in new oil and gas production was \"economic and moral madness\".\n\nMr Sawan told the BBC: \"I respectfully disagree.\" He added: \"What would be dangerous and irresponsible is cutting oil and gas production so that the cost of living, as we saw last year, starts to shoot up again.\"\n\nThe world is in a race to ditch fossil fuels in favour of greener alternatives as globally leaders have pledged to keep the world from warming by more than 1.5C this century.\n\nLast year the European Commission outlined how the EU would speed up its shift to green energy to end its dependency on Russian oil and gas.\n\nMany countries do not have the infrastructure to move to more sustainable forms of energy.\n\nMr Sawan said an international bidding war for gas last year saw poorer countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh unable to afford liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments that were instead diverted to Northern Europe.\n\n\"They took away LNG from those countries and children had to work and study by candlelight,\" he said. \"If we're going to have a transition it needs to be a just transition that doesn't just work for one part of the world.\"\n\nClaire Fyson, co-head of climate policy at Climate Analytics, a global science and policy institute, told the BBC: \"The idea that it's a choice between our addiction to fossil fuels or working by candlelight is a gross misrepresentation of reality, when we know renewables are cleaner, cheaper and better for public health.\"\n\nThe UK has pledged to spend £11.6bn on international climate finance but a memo seen by the BBC said economic shocks like the Covid pandemic had \"turned a stretching target into a huge challenge\".\n\nThe head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, has said that \"if governments are serious about the climate crisis, there can be no new investments in oil, gas and coal from now\".\n\nHere are some energy saving ideas from environmental scientist Angela Terry, who set up One Home, a social enterprise that shares green, money-saving tips:\n\nShell has a long history and a headquarters in the UK. But Mr Sawan said a lack of clarity and stability on energy policy and taxation risked making the UK a less attractive place to invest compared with more welcoming countries. The UK has increased tax on UK-derived profits from 40% to 75% until 2028 unless oil and gas prices fall below thresholds for a sustained period - which most energy experts doubt will happen.\n\nThe UK currently imports more than half of its oil and gas - and that proportion is expected to rise without renewed investment in the North Sea. Shell recently decided to sell its stake in a major new undeveloped oil field at Cambo.\n\n\"Ultimately the government needs to make a call as to their views on imported versus domestic production,\" said Mr Sawan.\n\n\"When you do not have the stability you require in these long-term investments, that raises questions when we compare that to other countries where there is very clear support for those investments.\"\n\nMr Sawan was also keen to stress the warm welcome extended to the company by the New York Stock Exchange at a recent investors' meeting where they laid out their plans to cut costs and maximise profits.\n\n\"The welcome we had there was exemplary. The Shell flag was waving next to the New York Stock Exchange flag,\" he said.\n\nHe said that the officials there had underlined his feeling that the US was more supportive of oil and gas companies.\n\n\"They said we continue to value a company that provides us the energy we desperately need. That resonated with me as a person who comes from Lebanon where we are starved of energy.\"\n\nMr Sawan did not rule out moving Shell's headquarters and stock market listing to the US. American oil companies command higher prices for their shares - Exxon Mobil for example is worth 40% more than Shell per dollar of profit.\n\n\"There are many who question whether that valuation gap can only be bridged if we move to the US. A move of headquarters is not a priority for the next three years.\"\n\nBut after that? \"I would never rule out anything that could potentially create the right circumstances for the company and its shareholders. Ultimately, I am in the service of shareholder value,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Shell says it has no plans to move in the short term, Mr Sawan's comments will add to fears that London's stock market is losing its lustre as a venue for multinational companies to raise money after technology darling Arm Holdings recently announced plans to move its primary listing to the US.\n\nA move by the UK's most valuable company to the US would seriously dent Britain's financial prestige and cost jobs in the financial services sector.", "MP Chris Pincher is facing an eight-week Commons suspension after an inquiry found he groped two men at a London club last year.\n\nParliament's standards committee said his \"completely inappropriate\" behaviour was an \"abuse of power\".\n\nThe recommended sanction will need to be endorsed by the whole House of Commons.\n\nThat would trigger a recall petition in his Tamworth constituency, potentially leading to a by-election.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Pincher said he wanted to \"reflect\" on the report's conclusions, but he did not intend to comment further \"at this time\".\n\nHe said he wanted to \"apologise sincerely\" for his conduct, adding that he had sought professional medical help, which is \"ongoing\".\n\nLabour would need a swing of just over 21% to take his Tamworth seat in Staffordshire, where he had a 19,000 majority at the last election.\n\nMr Pincher is already due to stand down as an MP at the next general election, which is expected next year.\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner said the report was \"shocking,\" and Mr Pincher should \"do the decent thing\" and resign as an MP immediately.\n\nThe incident at the Carlton Club, a private members club in central London, was examined by Parliament's standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg.\n\nIt took place in June last year, after an event where Mr Pincher, the government deputy chief whip at the time, had been invited to speak.\n\nFollowing a year-long inquiry, commissioner Daniel Greenberg found the MP had groped a then-employee of the House of Lords on his arm and neck, before groping his bottom.\n\nHe also found that he groped a civil servant on his bottom and then groped his testicles.\n\nMr Pincher was \"heavily intoxicated\" at the time and remembers \"feeling hot and saying to someone 'I'm alright,'\" the commissioner wrote.\n\nBut he \"does not recall any other details about the evening or how he got home,\" Mr Greenberg added.\n\nThe House of Lords staffer told the commissioner he had found the incident \"traumatic,\" and it continues to significantly affect his sleep when he has to recount it.\n\nThe civil servant told the commissioner he had been \"significantly impacted\" by Mr Pincher's conduct, and was taking medication to manage his anxiety afterwards.\n\nIn a report following the inquiry, MPs on the cross-party standards committee, which examines complaints against MPs, concluded Mr Pincher's \"profoundly damaging\" behaviour \"represented an abuse of power\".\n\nThey added that his conduct had broken the Commons behaviour code by causing significant damage to Parliament's reputation.\n\nTheir report added that, in a written submission, Mr Pincher had accepted his behaviour \"damaged his own reputation and that of the government\".\n\nHowever, the committee added that Mr Pincher rejected the suggestion he had done significant damage to Parliament's reputation, arguing he was speaking at the club as a former minister rather than as an MP.\n\nMr Pincher has ten days to appeal to an independent expert panel, if he can provide new evidence or point to a procedural inaccuracy.\n\nIf the eight-week ban is backed by MPs in a Commons vote, it will trigger a recall petition process - under which there will be a by-election in his Tamworth seat if 10% of registered voters sign a petition calling for one.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Mr Pincher was no longer a member of the government, and any sanction was up to MPs to decide.\n\nLiberal Democrat Chief Whip Wendy Chamberlain called on Mr Sunak to confirm he would personally vote to endorse a suspension.\n\n\"Sunak promised to govern with integrity, he must vote with it,\" she added.\n\nMr Pincher was elected as a Conservative MP, but was suspended from representing the party in Parliament last year after the allegations emerged.\n\nFollowing reports about his conduct at the club, Mr Pincher apologised for \"drinking far too much\" and embarrassing \"himself and other people\".\n\nBoris Johnson's handling of the allegations led to the downfall of his government, after a wave of ministers resigned.\n\nAfter the allegations emerged, ministers insisted the former prime minister was not aware of specific allegations against Mr Pincher when he appointed him to the deputy chief whip role.\n\nThe BBC later reported that Mr Johnson was made aware of a formal complaint about Mr Pincher's \"inappropriate behaviour\" while he was a Foreign Office minister from 2019-20.\n\nDozens of ministers submitted their resignations in the wake of the controversy, prompting Mr Johnson, who was already under pressure over the Partygate scandal, to resign as prime minister.", "Flowers was Miley Cyrus's first number one since 2014\n\nMiley Cyrus's Flowers is the biggest single of the year to date, says the Official Charts Company.\n\nThe break-up anthem, which spent 10 weeks at number one earlier this year, has achieved 147 million streams and more than 80,000 downloads.\n\nRaye's Escapism is 2023's second biggest-seller, while SZA's Kill Bill is in third place.\n\nThe Weeknd's two-year-old greatest hits collection, The Highlights, is the most popular album so far this year.\n\nTaylor Swift's Midnights is in second place, followed by Harry Styles' Harry's House.\n\nHowever, new releases are largely crowded out of the album chart, due to the enduring popularity of classic tracks on streaming services - which now account for 86% of music consumption in the UK.\n\nGreatest hits collections by Elton John (at number five), Eminem (seven) and Fleetwood Mac (nine) are among the year's biggest-sellers, after establishing a semi-permanent residency in the weekly countdown.\n\nOnly two albums released in 2023 feature in the Top 10 biggest-sellers list: Lewis Capaldi's Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, at six, and Ed Sheeran's Subtract, at eight.\n\nTaylor Swift, meanwhile, has five albums in the Top 40, with Midnights joined by 1989 (16), Lover (19), Folklore (23) and Reputation (34).\n\nThe Weeknd's Greatest Hits album continues to stream in huge numbers\n\nThe top five best-selling singles of the year are all by female artists - incredibly, the first time this has ever happened in chart history.\n\nThe top 10 also features two Afrobeats artists, Rema and Libianca, both of whom had breakout hits at the start of the year. And Ed Sheeran is missing from the Top 10 for the first time since 2016.\n\nMiley Cyrus's Flowers, meanwhile, was the star's first number one since 2014's Wrecking Ball.\n\nThe song was heavily rumoured to be about the end of her marriage to actor Liam Hemsworth, including a reference to their Malibu home that burned down in a wildfire in 2018.\n\nShe released the track on Hemsworth's birthday, 10 March, and was said to be wearing one of his suits in the video.\n\nFans also speculated that the lyrics were an interpolation of Bruno Mars's When I Was Your Man, which was reportedly played at the couple's wedding.\n\nWhere Mars sang, \"I should have bought you flowers / And held your hand\", Cyrus replied, \"I can buy myself flowers... And I can hold my own hand.\"\n\nHowever, the singer downplayed the autobiographical nature of the lyrics in an interview with British Vogue.\n\n\"I never need to be a master at the craft of tricking an audience,\" she told the magazine, shrugging off the speculation. \"It will set itself on fire all by itself.\"\n\nShe denied that the lyrics were directly about her marriage, saying that the post break-up message of self-reliance was one she needed to hear.\n\n\"I wrote it in a really different way,\" she said. \"The chorus was originally: 'I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand, but I can't love me better than you can.'\n\n\"It used to be more, like, 1950s. The saddest song. Like: 'Sure, I can be my own lover, but you're so much better.'\"\n\nIn the end she decided to choose strength over sadness.\n\n\"The song is a little fake it till you make it,\" she concluded. \"Which I'm a big fan of.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Where is Yevgeny Prigozhin? And why does it matter?\n\nWagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin - who led a short-lived rebellion in Russia last month - is in Russia and not Belarus, the leader of Belarus says.\n\nPrigozhin's whereabouts have been a mystery since the mutiny.\n\nUnder the deal to end the stand-off, charges against him were dropped and he was offered a move to Belarus.\n\nBut on Thursday Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko said: \"As for Prigozhin, he's in St Petersburg. He is not on the territory of Belarus.\"\n\nIn response to Mr Lukashenko's remarks the Kremlin said it was \"not following\" Prigozhin's movements.\n\nMr Lukashenko had helped broker the deal to end the mutiny, and just over a week ago said Prigozhin had arrived in Belarus.\n\nThe BBC tracked Prigozhin's private jet flying to Belarus in late June, and returning to Russia the same evening.\n\nIt has since made several flights between St Petersburg and Moscow - although it is not clear if Prigozhin has been on board. The BBC also can't verify Mr Lukashenko's claim about the Wagner leader's current location.\n\nOn Thursday Mr Lukashenko added that \"as far as I know\" the rest of the Wagner fighters were still at their bases - which could include eastern Ukraine or a training base in Russia's Krasnodar region.\n\nThe Belarus leader said an offer for Wagner to station some of its fighters in Belarus - a prospect that has alarmed neighbouring Nato countries - still stands and he has offered several Soviet-era military sites for their use.\n\n\"But Wagner have a different vision,\" he said, adding: \"Of course I won't tell you about that.\"\n\n\"At present, the issue of their relocation has not been resolved.\"\n\nThe Wagner Group is a private army of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine.\n\nIn his address Mr Lukashenko said he was not concerned about having Wagner fighters in Belarus, adding they would be in the country on \"certain conditions\".\n\n\"The main condition is that if we need to activate them for the defence of our country, then that will be done instantly, in any direction,\" Mr Lukashenko said as he praised Wagner's \"experience\".\n\nBut, he dismissed any potential threat of a Wagner-led mutiny in Belarus.\n\n\"All sorts of things happen in life, but I don't see that situation for now.\n\n\"If they come here, we will pay close attention to them,\" the Belarusian leader said.\n\nMr Lukashenko has ruled Belarus since 1994 and is widely thought to have rigged 2020 elections to maintain power.\n\nOn Wednesday, Russian state TV appeared to turn on Prigozhin, with commentators across several networks attacking the Wagner Group mutiny as a premeditated act of treachery.\n\nOn NTV, anchors concentrated on Prigozhin's character, portraying him as a greedy and violent petty thief and referring to his past as being \"rich in criminality\".\n\nOn Rossiya 1 - one of Russia's most popular networks - hosts called for Prigozhin to face \"accountability\" for his rebellion and shared images from what officials said was a raid on his home in St Petersburg.\n\nOne clip showed a large stash of weapons - including assault rifles, pistols and ammunition - laid out on a bed.\n\nIn other clips, large piles of cash and gold bars, wigs and fake passports belonging to the Wagner chief were shown. Footage of a sledgehammer allegedly belonging to Prigozhin - likely referring to the one used to kill a Wagner deserter several months ago - was broadcast.\n\nWriting on the sledgehammer appeared to read: \"In case of important negotiations.\"\n\nHowever, some Telegram channels associated with the Wagner Group have claimed that the videos were staged and the house in question does not belong to the mercenary boss.\n\nPrigozhin's mutiny saw Wagner mercenaries cross from field camps in Ukraine into the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, seizing command of some military facilities.\n\nWagner fighters then travelled north towards Moscow, prompting the Kremlin to introduce tighter security in many regions, including the capital.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin later said Russian pilots were killed during the mutiny and it also appears to be the case that several aircraft were destroyed.\n\nMr Putin initially accused the group of treason, but under the deal that brought an end to the mutiny, Prigozhin was promised security and the Russian criminal case against Wagner was dropped.\n\nIts fighters were told they could either sign regular army contracts, go home or head to Belarus.\n\nRecent satellite images have shown what looks like tents being erected at a former military base close to Minsk, but there has been no sign yet that this has happened", "The Pentagon will change its security policies after a review into a big leak of classified files found officials struggled to keep up with the number of staff who had top secret access.\n\nNew measures include the appointment of officers to control the level of access to top secret data and installing systems to detect electronic devices.\n\nIt follows the unauthorised publication of dozens of classified files online.\n\nEx-airman Jack Teixeira, 21, is charged with leaking files, which he denies.\n\nThe results of a 45-day review of Pentagon policies and procedures, ordered by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in the wake of the leak, suggested the need to increase oversight for those trusted with classified national security information.\n\nA senior defence official suggested to reporters at a briefing that Pentagon security protocols had struggled to keep pace with the growth in the number of cleared personnel and the number of facilities where secret files are accessed.\n\nWhile some existing policies will be reinforced, others will be updated and new rules developed to address existing gaps, the defence department said.\n\nThe review concluded there was no \"single point of failure\" in the military's procedures, and said the overwhelming majority of staff with access comply with security policies and procedures.\n\nBut it recommended the defence department increase its spending on security measures, create a new office for insider threats, and increase the number of staff overseeing the handling of classified documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe review suggested tightening security measures to prevent the use of electronic devices inside rooms where classified data is held and where confidential information or images could be photographed or recorded.\n\nMr Teixeira, who is in prison awaiting trial after being arrested in April, allegedly leaked files on the online chatroom platform Discord, a popular hangout for gamers.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Mr Teixeira wrote versions of sensitive information and posted it to the chatroom. Later, he is said to have shared photos of US intelligence material after he grew frustrated with a lack of response from the group's users.\n\nMr Teixeira, a former member of the Air National Guard 102nd Intelligence Wing based in Massachusetts, faces up to 15 years in prison over charges of unauthorised transmission of defence information.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to six federal counts of wilful retention and transmission of national defence information in June.", "Both charities claim this is the first case of its kind\n\nA transgender charity's attempt to get an organisation it described as having an \"anti-trans focus\" removed from the charity register has been dismissed.\n\nMermaids launched the legal challenge after the Charity Commission registered the LGB Alliance in 2021.\n\nThe LGB Alliance supports lesbian, gay and bisexual people, but Mermaids alleged the group sought to undermine its charitable activities.\n\nOn Thursday the tribunal ruled Mermaids was not entitled to bring the case.\n\nMermaids' legal challenge is believed to be the first time a charity sought to strip another charity of its charitable status.\n\nBut the tribunal ruled that while Mermaids and its supporters may have been affected by LGB Alliance \"emotionally and/or socially,\" this did not give them the legal right to appeal against their registration as a charity.\n\nMermaids was set up in 1995 to support children and young people questioning their gender identity. It said the LGB Alliance sought to \"destroy\" its reputation and sources of funding.\n\nLGB Alliance says it exists to advance the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people. It insisted it is not transphobic and does not endorse discriminatory behaviour towards any group or individual.\n\nThe tribunal had been asked to consider whether LGB Alliance should have been registered as a charity, but the two judges on the panel were unable to reach an agreement. Both judges agreed the case should be dismissed.\n\nJudges heard arguments about the definition of homosexuality, transgender rights and gender identity services for children and young people, during a week of evidence at the general regulatory chamber in London, in September.\n\nIn their written ruling, the judges said the case was not about the \"rights of gender diverse people, or about the rights of gay, lesbian and bisexual people\", but focussed on a \"small part\" of the law regulating charities.\n\nThe Charity Commission said its role was not to regulate public debate on sensitive issues but to apply the law when registering charities.\n\nBoth LGB Alliance and Mermaids fundraised thousands of pounds to pay for their legal costs.\n\nKate Barker, chief executive officer of LGB Alliance, said she was \"delighted\" with the decision, but added \"the cost to us and to our supporters has been huge\".\n\nShe said the process had been \"bruising\" for LGB Alliance, that it was glad the process had come to an end and it was looking forward to doing more charitable work.\n\n\"We've got projects like a helpline, friends' groups and student networks and a lot of those things were on hold because we had a cloud hanging over us,\" she said.\n\nMermaids said, although disappointed, the ruling had \"no reflection\" on it as an organisation and its work will continue. It is considering whether to appeal.\n\nJolyon Maugham, the director of campaign group Good Law Project, which supported Mermaids, said he felt the judges took a long time to make a decision because they \"found it impossible\" to rule LGB Alliance's charitable status, due to a \"toxic discourse\" about the rights of trans people.\n\nDuring the case, LGB Alliance said the attempt to have it struck off the register was \"profoundly homophobic\", while Mermaids said LGB Alliance had been persistently \"attacking\" them.\n\nThe Charity Commission urged both charities to be respectful and tolerant of each other. \"Demonising and undermining those who think differently is not acceptable from any charity on our register\", it added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe atmosphere in Jenin refugee camp feels like one I have witnessed elsewhere - in Gaza, after wars with Israel.\n\nBut this is the occupied West Bank; where the dynamics are very different. Now it seems like a fast descent into something far more dangerous is already happening.\n\nThe destruction in the camp following the Israeli army's biggest assault there in 20 years is massive.\n\nAs hundreds of troops entered the camp on Monday morning, the army fired missiles from drones - air strikes have not been used in the West Bank for two decades - and tore up roads to clear them of what it said were militants' roadside bombs.\n\nFierce gun battles broke out between the troops and Palestinian militants and continued until Israeli troops withdrew on Tuesday night.\n\nNow for the first time in safety since Sunday, thousands of residents pour into the streets to see the destruction themselves.\n\nThey clamber over rubble, take photos on their phones of the wreckage and compare experiences, pointing out which homes were raided, whose sons have been detained, and where the dead fell. One man walks up to me saying it reminds him of pictures from Turkey and Syria earlier this year - after the earthquake.\n\nThe UN said there was significant damage to water and power networks inside the camp\n\nCars lie crushed and tossed aside where they were hewn out of the path of Israel's D9 armoured bulldozers. The tarmac is torn up, lying everywhere in huge chunks. We walk along what was underneath the streets: rubble, sand and dust.\n\nMany homes have no water or power. Aid volunteers bring crates of bottled water. They join the recovery workers - some driving the few diggers available. One is removing a downed tree from the top of a residential building. It shears away part of the facade of a shop on the ground floor, falling perilously close to us.\n\nThe Israeli armoured convoys pulled out overnight amid intense gunfights with militants. Despite today's calm, everyone fears more is coming. Israel says it will keep doing these kinds of operations \"as long as necessary to uproot terrorism\" while Palestinian militant groups are claiming \"victory\" and vowing revenge.\n\nWe continue our way through the camp and the funeral processions begin. Thousands of mourners chant as they carry stretchers holding the bodies of some of the 12 Palestinians killed since Monday. Four of them were aged under 18. Israel said it was targeting militants.\n\nThousands attended the funerals of the 12 Palestinians killed during the Israeli operation\n\nColumns of people join. As they march, some men are masked and carrying guns; others wear Islamic Jihad headbands and Hamas flags flutter over a nearby building. Anger grips the crowd as it makes its way towards the homes of the dead, where their mothers and wives await.\n\nBut the displays of firepower - in public at least - feel less intense than previous funerals.\n\nI have been coming to Jenin repeatedly over the last year and a half, as a new generation of armed militants has formed, rejecting the ageing Palestinian leadership and shooting at the Israeli army during its growing raids into the city.\n\nThis is a generation that believes the official Palestinian Authority (PA) sold out on their future and became little more than a security company for Israel's military occupation, which secures the expanding Israeli settlements in the West Bank, built on the land Palestinians want for a future state and illegal under international law.\n\nJenin is a city that had already slipped well out of the control of the Palestinian Authority\n\nLess gunfire today, but the frustration only intensifies. Overnight young Palestinian men also clashed with the formal security forces of the PA. Jenin is a city that had already slipped well out of its limited control.\n\nNow the institutional remnants of a three-decades old peace process in the occupied West Bank are being tested to destruction.\n\nIsrael says it will continue to root out what it calls \"a city of refuge for terrorism\" in Jenin, but the Palestinian militant factions say they will intensify their activities. A car-ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday that wounded seven Israelis was described by Islamic Jihad as the \"first response\" to what was happening in Jenin.\n\nThe growing violence is a further sign of the collapse of any political horizons. Some fear that Palestinian cities in the West Bank will see more intensive military attacks and security crackdowns - more akin to the plight of people in Gaza, which is governed by Hamas and blockaded by Israel.\n\nMore Palestinians reject their own internationally recognised leadership and back armed resistance, while Israel remains in the grip of the most extreme government it has ever known, which has vowed to extend what it calls exclusive Jewish rights to all the land.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "China's largest car manufacturer SAIC Motor says it will build its first factory in Europe, after sales of its vehicles on the continent jumped.\n\nThe state-controlled company - which owns the iconic MG brand - says the new plant will produce electric vehicles.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson told the BBC that SAIC has not yet decided whether MG models would be made at the site.\n\nMG, which has roots dating back over a century, was made in the UK until production was moved to China in 2016.\n\nOn Thursday, an SAIC spokesperson told the BBC that the firm was still in the process of securing a site in Europe and finalising other details about the project.\n\n\"We have many brands including MG, IM and Maxus. We are still deciding which will be built at the factory,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nSales of its vehicles outside China surged by 40% in the first three months of the year, according to SAIC.\n\nThe MG brand accounted for the majority of overseas sales, as the number of the cars sold in Europe more than doubled in the same period, the company said.\n\nThe latest announcement comes almost seven years after SAIC halted MG assembling at the Longbridge plant in Birmingham.\n\nIn 2016, MG said assembly in the UK was no longer \"required\" and that cars would arrive in the country \"fully built (and) ready for distribution\".\n\nThe Longbridge plant built cars including MG and the original Mini. It was set up in 1906 and survived World Wars One and Two.\n\nIn the years that followed, the site fought off post-war economic depression and the emergence of the motor industry abroad.\n\nIt also recovered from strike action, mergers, takeovers and drops in its share value.\n\nProduction at the plant was halted after MG Rover collapsed in 2005. The brand was eventually bought by SAIC.\n\nIn 2011, the MG6 was launched. It was the first MG car in 16 years to be assembled at Longbridge.\n\nThe five-seater vehicle was designed in the UK but its parts were made in China.\n\nChinese carmakers - including SAIC, Geely and Great Wall - have seen their market shares grow in recent years.\n\nExports from China have been boosted by the demand for electric vehicles and sales to Russia as many Western countries imposed sanctions on Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nChina exported more than a million vehicles in the first three months of this year, official figures show. As a result it overtook Japan as the world's biggest exporter of cars.\n\nAs well as its manufacturing plants in China, SAIC also has production facilities in Thailand, Indonesia, India and Pakistan.\n\nThe Chinese firm, which has joint ventures with German motor giant Volkswagen and US car maker General Motors, sold 5.3 million vehicles globally last year.\n\nEurope was its largest overseas market with more than 100,000 vehicles sold, according to SAIC.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was Alexander Lukashenko who had brokered the deal to end the Wagner mutiny. So we're told.\n\nSo if there's anyone who can shine a light on this murkiest of stories, surely it's the leader of Belarus. Or so we hope.\n\nWe're part of a small group of journalists invited to the Palace of Independence in Minsk for \"a conversation\" with Mr Lukashenko.\n\nOnly a few weeks ago there'd been feverish speculation about his health. But the Belarusian leader clearly has stamina. The \"conversation\" lasts nearly four hours.\n\nInstead of shining a light, though, he muddies the waters on the recent Russian uprising.\n\nAccording to the agreement between the Wagner Group and the Kremlin, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was supposed to move to Belarus, along with some of his fighters.\n\nThat hasn't happened. Not yet anyway.\n\n\"As of this morning,\" says Mr Lukashenko, \"the Wagner fighters, very serious ones, are still in the camps they'd withdrawn to after Bakhmut.\n\n\"As for Yevgeny Prigozhin, he's in St Petersburg. Or perhaps this morning he flew to Moscow. Or perhaps he's somewhere else. But he's not in Belarus.\"\n\nI ask Alexander Lukashenko whether that means the deal is off.\n\nHe denies that. It feels as if there are conversations going on behind the scenes we're not going to be told about.\n\nSteve Rosenberg (L by the door) was among a group of journalists who spent four hours with Mr Lukashenko\n\nWhen it comes to discussing the mutiny, Moscow and Minsk have not exactly been on the same page.\n\nLast weekend Russian state TV declared that President Vladimir Putin had emerged from these dramatic events a hero.\n\n\"I think that no-one came out of that situation a hero,\" Mr Lukashenko tells me.\n\n\"Not Prigozhin, not Putin, not Lukashenko. There were no heroes. And the lesson from this? If we create armed groups like this, we need to keep an eye on them and pay serious attention to them.\"\n\nThe \"conversation\" moves on to nuclear weapons. In particular, the nuclear warheads Russia has said it is moving to Belarus.\n\nOnce a thorn in his side, Alexander Lukashenko became increasingly reliant on Vladimir Putin after the disputed 2020 election\n\n\"God forbid I should ever have to take the decision to use them,\" Mr Lukashenko had said recently, adding, \"But I won't hesitate to use them.\"\n\nI remind him of those comments.\n\n\"Joe Biden could say the same thing, and Prime Minister Sunak,\" Mr Lukashenko replies. \"And my friend Xi Jinping and my Big Brother President Putin.\"\n\n\"But these are not your weapons we're talking about,\" I point out. \"They're Russian ones. It's not your decision to take.\"\n\n\"In Ukraine a whole army is fighting with foreign weapons, isn't it,\" the Belarusian leader retorts. \"Nato weapons. Because they've run out of their own. So why can't I fight with someone else's weapons?\"\n\nBut we're talking nuclear weapons, not pistols, I reply.\n\nAs you can probably guess from his nuclear comments, Alexander Lukashenko is a controversial figure.\n\nThe US, EU and the UK do not recognise him as the legitimate president of Belarus. In 2020 Belarusians poured on to the streets to accuse him of stealing the country's presidential election. The protests were brutally suppressed.\n\n\"For months her relatives and lawyers have been denied access to her in prison. Why?\" I ask.\n\n\"I don't know anything about this,\" he claims.\n\n\"The last time I interviewed you in the autumn of 2021, there were 873 political prisoners in Belarus,\" I remind Mr Lukashenko. \"Now there are 1,500.\"\n\n\"There is no article in our criminal code for political crimes,\" he replies.\n\nThe absence of an article on political crimes doesn't mean there are no political prisoners, I point out.\n\n\"Prisoners cannot be political prisoners, if there's no article,\" he insists. \"How can they be?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Where is Yevgeny Prigozhin? And why does it matter?", "The Nikolay Zubov LNG tanker, docking in the UK in 2021\n\nShell is still trading Russian gas more than a year after pledging to withdraw from the Russian energy market.\n\nThe company was involved in nearly 7% of Russia's shipborne gas exports in 2022, according to analysis from campaign group Global Witness.\n\nOleg Ustenko, an adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, accused Shell of accepting \"blood money\".\n\nShell said the trades were the result of \"long-term contractual commitments\" and do not violate laws or sanctions.\n\nAs recently as 9 May, a vast tanker capable of carrying more than 160,000 cubic metres of gas compressed into liquid form - liquefied natural gas or LNG - pulled out of the port of Sabetta, on the Yamal peninsula in Russia's far north.\n\nThat cargo was purchased by Shell before heading onwards to its ultimate destination, Hong Kong.\n\nIt is one of a number of LNG cargoes that Shell has bought from Yamal this year, according to data from the Kpler database analysed by Global Witness.\n\nLast year Shell accounted for 7% of Russia's seaborne LNG trade, Global Witness calculates, and was among the top eight traders of Russian-originated LNG that year.\n\nIn March 2022, in the weeks following the invasion of Ukraine, Shell apologised for buying a cargo of Russian oil, and said it intended to withdraw from Russian oil and gas.\n\nIt said that it would stop buying Russian oil, sell its service stations and other businesses in Russia,which it has done. It has also ended its joint ventures with the state energy giant Gazprom.\n\nAnd it said it would start a \"phased withdrawal from Russian petroleum products, pipeline gas and LNG\". But it warned that it would be a \"complex challenge\".\n\nShell said last year it would close all its service stations in Russia\n\nAt first, it kept taking cargoes of LNG from two Russian ports, the one at Yamal and one at Sakhalin in the far east.\n\nShell used to be a minority investor in the Sakhalin gas project, but abandoned that claim in September last year after the Russian government transferred its shares to a local business - and since then has taken no gas from Sakhalin.\n\nBut it still honours the contract with the Russian LNG company Novatek, which obliges it to buy 900,000 tonnes a year from Yamal until the 2030s, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nNovatek is Russia's second biggest gas company, and the taxes it pays are a significant contributor to the Russian government's budget.\n\nOleg Ustenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said: \"It is quite simple: by continuing to trade in Russian gas Shell is putting money into Putin's pockets and helping to fund Russia's brutal aggression against the people of Ukraine.\n\n\"The vast sums that Shell and the whole oil industry have made in Russia should be used to help fund the reconstruction of Ukraine, rather than lining the pockets of their shareholders.\"\n\nA spokesman for Shell said: \"Shell has stopped buying Russian LNG on the spot market, but still has some long-term contractual commitments. This is in full compliance with sanctions, applicable laws and regulations of the countries in which we operate.\n\n\"There is a dilemma between putting pressure on the Russian government over its atrocities in Ukraine and ensuring stable, secure energy supplies. It is for governments to decide on the incredibly difficult trade-offs that must be made.\"\n\nShell is the world's largest trader of LNG, which is not subject to European sanctions, making billions of dollars in profits trading oil and gas last year.\n\nRussia massively reduced its deliveries of gas by pipeline last year, but it has increased the amount of gas it supplies by ship, including to Europe.\n\nThe UK has not imported any Russian gas for over a year, while EU politicians are trying to reduce the amount of Russian LNG the bloc imports. In March, the EU's Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson called on countries and firms to stop buying Russian gas, and not to sign new contracts.\n\n\"It's long overdue that the trading of Russian LNG is looked at with the same disgust as Russian oil trading. Targeting Putin's energy income cannot be about symbolic measures but must concretely put a stop to the huge fossil fuel sums that cement his power,\" said Jonathan Noronha-Gant, senior campaigner at Global Witness.\n\nThe France-based energy company TotalEnergies is a minority shareholder in the Yamal project, and was also a major trader in Russian LNG, the Global Witness analysis reported.\n\nThe BBC has approached TotalEnergies for comment.\n\nUpdate 25 September 2023: Since this story was published, Kpler has updated its data and reduced its assessment of the number of cargoes of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) traded by Shell. Some trades were assigned a probability of Shell being involved by artificial intelligence, based on trading patterns prior to the invasion of Ukraine. Human analysts have subsequently determined that Shell was not involved. As a result of these changes, Global Witness revised downwards its assessment of the proportion of Russia's LNG traded by Shell, and its assessment of Shell's rank among companies trading Russian LNG. The text has been edited to reflect these changes.", "A gold-coloured Land Rover could be seen on school grounds surrounded by emergency responders\n\nAn eight-year-old girl has died after a car crashed into a primary school in Wimbledon, south-west London.\n\nParamedics treated 16 people for injuries after the Land Rover crashed into The Study Preparatory School in Camp Road at about 10:00 BST.\n\nThe driver, a woman in her 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nPolice say they have now removed the Land Rover from the crash site as part of their investigation.\n\nThe school is for girls aged four to 11 and located near Wimbledon Common, with the local MP saying pupils had been gathered for an end-of-year celebration party in the garden.\n\nA major incident was declared, but the Met said it was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Our thoughts are with girl's family - police\n\nAt a news conference Det Ch Sup Clair Kelland, local police commander for south-west London, became emotional, her voice breaking at times.\n\n\"This is a very difficult time for everyone here at the school and across the wider community,\" she said.\n\n\"We would ask people not to speculate while we work to understand the full circumstances of what has happened during this tragic incident.\n\n\"Our officers have already spoken to a number of witnesses and have viewed the CCTV.\"\n\nJohn Tucker, chair of the board of governors, said \"the school community is profoundly affected by this tragedy\".\n\nThe stationary Land Rover could be seen on school grounds, surrounded by plastic sheets and cordons.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service took 10 people to hospital, with St George's Hospital, in Tooting, \"receiving a number of patients who are being cared for by our specialist clinical teams\".\n\nAbout 20 ambulances were parked on Camp Road, along with two fire and rescue vehicles.\n\nFirefighters were seen carrying various cutting equipment away from the scene.\n\nA number of onlookers were earlier stood at the edge of the cordon at the top of the road, including worried parents who were turning up all morning.\n\nAn air ambulance could be seen parked on a field opposite the school\n\nOnce at the scene, they were asked to register their names and details with a police officer.\n\nMany of them were huddled in groups looking very concerned.\n\nMP for Wimbledon Stephen Hammond told the BBC part of the school where the crash happened was where pupils aged between four and eight would have been.\n\n\"It's extremely distressing and extremely concerning,\" he said, speaking earlier before police had announced the girl's death.\n\n\"The size of the response tells you how serious the incident is and there are a number of casualties, and I understand that a number of those are being treated as critical,\" he said.\n\nHe described the location as \"really quite remote\", adding it was situated roughly a mile from Wimbledon village and on the way to several nearby golf clubs.\n\nHe later added pupils were gathered for the last day of term, saying: \"I think it was a usual end-of-year celebration party. Just in the garden.\"\n\nHe also tweeted: \"My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone at The Study.\"\n\nThe school's website has been replaced by a holding page with a statement reading: \"We are profoundly shocked by the tragic accident this morning at Wilberforce House and devastated that it has claimed the life of one of our young pupils as well as injuring several others.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the bereaved family and with the families of those injured at this terrible time.\"\n\nIt added: \"It is still far too soon to fully understand what happened, but we are well aware of the significant impact this dreadful event will have on our pupils and their families.\n\n\"Their welfare remains our top priority and we will be doing everything we can to support them, especially those who suffered injuries.\"\n\nThe school, which costs £5,565 per term, is just a mile away from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club as it hosts the world-famous tennis tournament.\n\nWimbledon and Putney Commons Conservators earlier advised the public to stay away from part of the commons to allow emergency crews to reach the site more easily.\n\nThe Met said several people were treated at the scene for injuries\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his \"deepest condolences\" were with the family of the girl who had died, and his thoughts were with all of those involved and injured.\n\nMr Sunak described the incident as \"horrific\", adding it would have been terrifying for children, staff and parents.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"The incident this morning at a primary school on Camp Road in Wimbledon is absolutely devastating. My heart goes out to everyone affected.\"\n\nThe vehicle was removed later in the day by a police lorry equipped with a small crane\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said she was \"saddened to hear about the tragic incident at the school in Wimbledon this morning\", adding in a tweet: \"My thoughts are with everyone affected.\n\n\"I would like to thank emergency responders at the scene. It is important they are now able to carry out their investigation.\"\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper thanked the emergency services on site \"for their swift response\".\n\nShe said: \"Thinking of all the families, pupils and staff affected by the terrible incident at a primary school in Wimbledon this morning.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the incident in Wimbledon? If you'd like to get in touch, you can email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has been one of the most vocal critics of the Illegal Migration Bill\n\nThe House of Lords has voted to back an attempt to force the government to produce a 10-year strategy on refugees and trafficking, as part of its migration bill.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury led the move to include the strategy in the government's flagship legislation to stop small boat crossings to the UK.\n\nJustin Welby insisted the strategy would improve and not damage the bill.\n\nPeers have voted to approve multiple changes to the bill in the Lords.\n\nBut ministers are expected to ask MPs to overturn the changes when the legislation returns to the House of Commons, where the Conservative government has a majority.\n\nThe bill is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's high-profile pledge to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel - one of his five key pledges.\n\nThe number of migrants crossing from France set a record for June, pushing the total for the year above 11,000.\n\nEarlier, Mr Sunak's spokesman said the government would press ahead with its Illegal Migration Bill, despite the string of defeats it has suffered in the Lords.\n\nMr Welby has been one of the most vocal critics of the bill, previously condemning the legislation as \"morally unacceptable\" and \"politically impractical\".\n\nAs peers debated the bill on Wednesday, Mr Welby tabled two amendments which would require the government to have a 10-year strategy for collaborating internationally to tackle refugee crises and human trafficking.\n\nSpeaking in the Lords, Mr Welby said the amendment was \"intended to be helpful\" and mitigate \"some of the concerns about a lack of a global and long-term perspective on the issues\".\n\n\"I urge the government to develop a strategy that is ambitious, collaborative and worthy of our history and up to the scale of the enormous challenges that we face,\" Mr Welby said.\n\nPeers inflicted further defeats on the government as they debated and voted on detailed changes to the bill. There will be a further day of debate in the Lords before it returns to the Commons.\n\nOne amendment would make it a legal duty for ministers to create safe and legal routes to the UK for refugees by next spring. Two others reinstate and expand a right of appeal against age assessments for migrants claiming to be children.\n\nAhead of Wednesday's debate, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York urged ministers to back changes to the legislation to ensure a \"just\" and \"compassionate\" asylum policy.\n\nIn a letter to The Times signed by eight other faith leaders, the two archbishops warned the legislation \"falls short of our obligation to the most vulnerable\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said he was not going to respond to individual opinions.\n\nBut, he added, Mr Sunak was \"clear that stopping the boats, stopping the cruel cycle of vulnerable people being exploited by criminal gangs, is the fair and compassionate thing to do\".\n\nIf passed, the bill would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove migrants arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThe government has stressed it remains committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, and has said it will challenge a Court of Appeal ruling last week that this was unlawful.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Sunak told the Liaison Committee of senior MPs the government's case would be made in the Supreme Court \"confidently and vigorously\".\n\nIn the first six months of 2023, 11,434 people were detected making the journey from France, according to provisional Home Office figures.\n\nThe June total of 3,824 was the highest since records began in 2018. In June last year, 3,140 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel.\n\nDespite the record June number, the total for the first half of the year was 10% lower than for January-June 2022 (12,747).\n\nIn January, Mr Sunak set out five pledges which he said would address \"the people's priorities\", including passing new laws to stop Channel crossings. But he did not put a timescale on achieving the promise.\n\nLast month, he insisted his plan was \"starting to work\".\n\nLabour has accused the prime minister of chasing \"short-term headlines instead of doing the hard work needed to tackle the problem\".\n\nShadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: \"The numbers of dangerous crossings are rising again, hotel costs are spiralling, all while the government's flagship Rwanda policy unravels in front of their eyes.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles and Queen Camilla at the tapestry visitor centre in Galashiels\n\nThe King and Queen have viewed the Great Tapestry of Scotland, including a new panel commemorating the Coronation.\n\nThey toured the visitor centre in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders to mark 10 years since the tapestry first went on public display.\n\nIts 160 panels charts 420 million years of Scotland's history, heritage, innovations and culture.\n\nThe visit comes after the King was presented with the Honours of Scotland in a day of pageantry in Edinburgh.\n\nBoth republican and royalist protesters also gathered along the Royal Mile during the celebrations.\n\nThe royal couple were greeted by well-wishers waving Union Jack flags as they arrived at the visitor centre on Thursday morning.\n\nThe King was greeted by crowds who lined the streets in Galashiels\n\nThe tapestry was hand-stitched by 1,000 stitchers from communities across Scotland and took more than two years to complete.\n\nIt is more than 140m (450ft) long and was exhibited, in part or whole, throughout Scotland before it was given a permanent home in Galashiels.\n\nEvents featured in the panels include the Battle of Bannockburn, the foundation of the University of St Andrews, the Highland and Lowland clearances and the Clydebank Blitz.\n\nThe King and Queen viewed a new panel commemorating their visit and the Coronation - which features references to the King's interest in fishing, and an image of the Old Man of Lochnagar, from the children's book that he wrote.\n\nQueen Camilla, who is patron of the Royal School of Needlework, was invited to complete the new panel's final stitches.\n\nDorie Wilkie, stitch co-ordinator for the tapestry project, showed her which part of the panel to sew.\n\nShe said: \"The Queen said she is the worst at sewing in the world but she did very well. Afterwards she was joking with the King saying 'I've done some sewing on the panel'.\n\n\"It was lovely to meet them and show them the work of the stitchers who contributed.\"\n\nQueen Camilla adds the final stitches on a new panel for the tapestry\n\nThe couple also met with Alexander McCall Smith, who thought of the idea of the tapestry, artist Andrew Crummy who designed it and Alistair Moffat, a historian who decided which episodes in Scottish history would feature in it.\n\nMcCall Smith said: \"We spoke about the tapestry. I think they are both very interested in the artistic side of it and the historical side and my impression is that they were very interested in it.\n\n\"He comes across as a very kind man and a very sensitive man, so I think we are pretty lucky to have a head of state who is interested in this kind of thing.\n\n\"The tapestry is a living thing, there are some works of art that are static but this is the opposite of that, it really has an ongoing life.\"\n\nCharles and Camilla also visited the Lochcarron of Scotland weaving mill in Selkirk for a private tour.\n\nHundreds turned out for the royal visit and the King praised the work of a yarn bomber who had decorated a post box with a crocheted crown.\n\nThe couple also watched a performance of casting of the colours, which originates from the Selkirk Common Riding, with music from the Selkirk Silver Band.\n\nMore than 400 riders take part in the Selkirk Common Riding, a celebration of the history and traditions of the Royal and Ancient Burgh.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Ariane-5, Europe's heavy-lift rocket, has flown its final mission.\n\nThe vehicle, which has underpinned the continent's access to space for nearly three decades, ended its career by taking up two telecoms satellites.\n\nIt is generally agreed to have been a highly successful launcher, having suffered only two outright failures in 117 outings.\n\nBut the Ariane-5's retirement leaves Europe in a difficult position, with no replacement ready to take over.\n\nThe next-generation rocket, the Ariane-6, is still going through a development and testing phase and may not make its debut until next year.\n\nOne last time: The Ariane soars over the Kourou spaceport\n\nTo compound matters, Europe can no longer use Russian Soyuz rockets, and its smaller vehicle, the Vega-C, has been benched following an in-flight failure last December.\n\nEuropean satellites have been forced to use American services instead. Last Saturday, the €1.4bn (£1.2bn) Euclid space telescope was lofted on a SpaceX Falcon-9 from Florida.\n\nThe unavailability of home-grown rockets prompted European Space Agency director general Josef Aschbacher to declare recently that \"Europe finds itself... in an acute launcher crisis\".\n\nWednesday's final mission was conducted, as usual, from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.\n\nThe two \"passengers\" onboard were a French defence satellite, named Syracuse 4B, and a German demonstration spacecraft, named Heinrich Hertz.\n\nThe Ariane got away right at the start of its launch window at 19:00 local time (22:00 GMT; 23:00 BST).\n\nThe Ariane 6 will work in two versions to complete a range of missions\n\nDr Aschbacher said the Ariane-5 would be remembered as a remarkable vehicle.\n\n\"The performance and the accuracy of the Ariane-5 has been quite unique, but I'm convinced that Ariane-6 will have the same performance and the same accuracy once it's on the launch pad,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe famed accuracy was perhaps best demonstrated on 25 December, 2021, when the rocket lofted the $10bn (£8bn) James Webb Space Telescope.\n\nThe injection into orbit was so precise the observatory did not have to use any of its own fuel to correct the trajectory, effectively doubling a projected operational lifetime from 10 to 20 years.\n\nA new European heavy-lift rocket was commissioned because the cost of producing the Ariane-5 became unsustainable in the face of US competition.\n\nEntrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company has upended the launch market with his re-usable Falcons, undercutting the Ariane's price point.\n\nThe Ariane-6 is intended to be at least 40% cheaper than the Ariane-5, but it remains an \"expendable\" design: a new rocket is needed for every mission.\n\nEurope is moving towards re-usability but the necessary technologies will not be in service until the 2030s.\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Musk is introducing even bigger rockets that promise to reduce launch prices still further.\n\nWednesday's final Ariane-5 flight passed off flawlessly, with Heinrich Hertz and Syracuse 4B released on a path to a geostationary orbit about half an hour after leaving the ground.\n\nAriane-5 goes into retirement having lifted more than 230 satellites into orbit, equating to almost 1,000 tonnes of hardware.\n\nAs well as James Webb, high-profile missions have included the launch of the comet-chaser Rosetta (2004); the giant environmental observer Envisat (2002); the 20-tonne space station freighter, ATV (2008); and, most recently, Europe's Jupiter moons explorer, Juice (2023).\n\nThe rocket was conceived in the 1980s as a way of launching an astronaut shuttle called Hermes. That plan was abandoned because of cost, and the vehicle was brought into service in 1996 purely to loft satellites.\n\nFor much of its career, it was launching half of all big telecommunications satellites.\n\nArtwork: There was a plan for Ariane-5 to launch an astronaut shuttle", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We had to flee. Or my daughters and I would have been killed,\" Fatina al-Ghoul says, weeping as she looks back at a pile of rubble that was once her home.\n\nA bulldozer has already arrived and is clearing up debris from her street, which has been left in ruins.\n\nShe and nine other women, her family and neighbours, fled their homes in Jenin's refugee camp during one of the largest Israeli operations in the occupied West Bank in years.\n\nFatina's family is one of hundreds now returning to what's left of their homes, decimated by drone strikes and fighting between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and armed Palestinians.\n\nThe IDF described it as a \"counter-terrorism operation\", saying they were targeting weapons stores and manufacturing facilities belonging to militant groups in the area.\n\nBut the Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the operation as \"open war against the people of Jenin\".\n\nHundreds of Israeli troops backed by drone strikes entered Jenin refugee camp - where almost 24,000 people live in an area of less than half a square kilometre - on Monday morning, triggering intense gun battles with armed Palestinians inside.\n\nPalestinian health officials said 12 Palestinians were killed over the next two days, including four children, and that more than 100 others were injured. The Israeli military said one of its soldiers was killed as its forces started to withdraw on Tuesday night.\n\nThousands attend the funerals of the 12 Palestinians killed during the two-day Israeli military operation in Jenin\n\n\"My house has been completely destroyed. Everything is broken and burned. It's all damaged,\" Fatina says.\n\nSeveral local hospitals also told the BBC that they were struggling to cope with the fallout from the fighting.\n\nThousands of locals also took to the streets on Wednesday for the funerals of those killed. So far, it has been confirmed to the BBC that eight of the dead were members of the military wings of the main Palestinian factions.\n\nGuns were fired in support of the deceased fighters.\n\nMany residents say they blame the Palestinian Authority (PA), the main governing body of the Palestinians in the West Bank, for not protecting them during the operation.\n\nVideos circulating online showed two PA representatives forced to leave a funeral after being chastised by the crowd.\n\nResidents complained that at the beginning of the operation the PA's security forces simply allowed the Israeli military vehicles to enter the city.\n\nFatina says she also blames the PA for their lack of action. \"This is our home. We are living in fear, and we are the only ones left to protect it.\"\n\n\"There are agreements between the PA and Israel. The PA has not broken the agreement and security services have done their job during the military operation according to what it was asked to do by the Palestinian leadership,\" Mayor of Jenin City and PA member Akram Rajoub told the BBC.\n\nOne fighter from a Palestinian militant group said that Israeli forces had successful destroyed several of its facilities, including a storage unit containing explosives.\n\nHowever, the scale of the operation inside a densely populated city and refugee camp was criticised by the UN's human rights chief.\n\nFor many residents like Fatina, immediate access to drinking water, food and shelter is now critical.\n\n\"Tonight we will sleep on the streets. We can't even sit down inside the house. There is nowhere else to go, for us or any of our neighbours.\"\n\nThe streets inside Jenin's refugee camp have been decimated", "Prosecutors say Mack helped recruit and groom women as sexual partners for the leader of the Nxivm group\n\nUS actor Allison Mack has been released from prison early after serving two years for her role in a sex-trafficking case tied to a cult-like group.\n\nThe 40-year-old pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges in April 2019 related to her efforts to recruit women to the Nxivm sex cult.\n\nMack, best known for her role in the television series Smallville, was sentenced to three years in prison.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed she had been released on Monday.\n\nNxivm, pronounced \"nexium\", started in 1998 as a self-help programme. It claims to have worked with more than 16,000 people including the son of a former Mexican president and Hollywood actresses such as Mack.\n\nProsecutors say Mack helped recruit and groom women as sexual partners for the group's leader, Keith Raniere. Though Raniere, 62, was at the top of this structure and the only man, Mack served as one of his top female deputies.\n\nFemale recruits were allegedly branded with his initials and expected to have sex with him in exchange for becoming a part of the group, which was based in Albany, New York.\n\nThe news of Mack's release was initially reported by the New York newspaper Albany Times Union.\n\nMack, who was arrested in 2018, was facing as much as 17 years in prison but saw her sentence reduced after providing evidence to help prosecutors pursue their case against Raniere.\n\nIn 2020, he was sentenced to 120 years in prison for multiple crimes, including forcing women to be his sexual \"slaves\".\n\nBefore her sentencing, Mack apologised to those she said had been harmed by her actions, calling her involvement with the group \"the biggest mistake and regret of my life\".\n\n\"I am sorry to those of you that I brought into Nxivm,\" she said. \"I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: People on Sandy Row give their views on possible changes to the Twelfth parade route\n\nThe Orange Order is considering changes to future Twelfth of July parades in Belfast after \"abysmal and unacceptable\" scenes at last year's event.\n\nThe organisation added the parade was \"probably the worst for decades\", in an internal document seen by BBC News NI.\n\nThe criticism is believed to relate to anti-social behaviour and excessive drinking at Shaftesbury Square.\n\nA \"circuitous route\" from 2024 is being considered, the document outlined.\n\nThis would see the parade begin and end at Carlisle Circus in the north of the city.\n\nThe Twelfth of July is an annual commemoration of King William III's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.\n\nIt attracts large crowds at events in Belfast and across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe review suggests \"the field\" part of the Belfast parade at Barnett Demense, where speeches are given before the return leg, would be axed.\n\nThe route, covering about 10 miles, which passes through Belfast city centre, would also be shortened by six miles.\n\nThe review was commissioned \"in the aftermath of the abysmal and unacceptable Twelfth of July in 2022\", the document said.\n\nThe current format was \"too long\" and caused \"a significant amount of knock-on consequences\", it added.\n\nThe new proposed route would be introduced from 2024, where marchers would turn back on themselves at Elmwood Avenue, with the parade finishing by 14:00 BST.\n\nThe proposal would see a much shorter route for the parade through Belfast\n\nValerie Quinn, chair of the Ulster Band's forum, said the leaked document was \"very symptomatic of the unsettled feeling within unionism\".\n\n\"It feels like an attack, even though its coming internally,\" she told BBC News NI's Talkback programme.\n\n\"Whoever has leaked this document, it's absolutely reprehensible and they need to look at themselves and what they've caused here.\"\n\nOrangeman and former Belfast councillor Chris McGimpsey said previous attempts by the Orange Order to clean up the Belfast parade's image - such as Orangefest and the \"Battle not the Bottle\" campaign - had not worked.\n\n\"There's always problems with anti-social behaviour in Shaftsbury Square,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"It's almost a tradition in with certain elements in our community to drink too much and cause all sorts of trouble.\"\n\nMr McGimpsey said he believes excessive drinking is largely to blame for what he described as \"general mayhem\" in the area.\n\n\"You bring tens of thousands of people into the city centre when one of the only things open are bars - it's not a good recipe,\" he said.\n\nProf Jon Tonge, from the University of Liverpool, said while shortening the route made some sense, it would not tackle excessive drinking.\n\n\"A lot of the drinkers have nothing to do with the Orange Order - they're out to celebrate the Twelfth,\" he said.\n\n\"But they're out celebrating on the Eleventh Night too - they've already got a lot of alcohol in their system and they're just topping up during the Twelfth itself.\n\n\"I'm not sure the Orange Order can do anything about that.\"\n\nDr Clifford Smyth said the Belfast parade had always been different to elsewhere in the region\n\nDr Clifford Smyth, an Orange Order historian, said issues with anti-social behaviour on the Twelfth are \"not within the ranks\" of the institution.\n\n\"There's a lot of antisocial behaviour in Belfast without any parades or bands being present,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nDr Smyth said the Belfast parade had always been different to parades elsewhere in the region.\n\n\"There's a totally different atmosphere in Belfast to what happens in the rural countryside,\" he said.\n\n\"In fact, a number of significant Belfast lodges have removed themselves from Belfast and gone into County Down.\"\n\nMervyn Gibson said the Orange Order reviews parades for a \"host of reasons\"\n\nBBC NI understands the proposal is one of a number of options being looked at.\n\nAmong them is a proposal by the County Grand Lodge of Belfast that bands wanting to participate in the Belfast Twelfth in 2024 could be asked to sign up to a new \"code of management\", or be barred from involvement.\n\nThe move would see the introduction of an \"approved bands register\".\n\nAll bands seeking to accompany lodges would go through an application process, involving agreeing to instructions covering behaviour and appearance.\n\nThe code is set out in the internal document.\n\nIt states that only approved flags or standards could be carried and \"these shall not display emblems proscribed by legislation\".\n\nIt adds: \"The quasi-military marching and styles of dress is to be discouraged.\"\n\nIndividuals would also be asked not to throw mace poles as \"although an important part of tradition, they could lead to the worshipful master being prosecuted for any injury incurred by anyone in the vicinity\".\n\nThe document states: \"It is strongly considered that this register is the only way forward, ensuring that bands are of the standard demanded.\"\n\nIt adds bands adhering to the new code would prevent \"our adversaries from further demonising our beloved Institution, culture and heritage by citing poor or bad discipline whilst on parade\".\n\nIt is not clear whether it has been agreed that the register is to be implemented.\n\nApproached for comment, the Reverend Mervyn Gibson, grand secretary of the Orange Order, said: \"We are always reviewing our parades for a host of reasons.\n\n\"Discussions have taken place, but no decision has been taken about changes, if any.\n\n\"It will be a matter for Belfast County Grand Lodge after listening to a wide range of views.\"", "A girl has died after a Land Rover crashed into a primary school in Wimbledon, south-west London, on Thursday morning.\n\nThe driver, a woman in her 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nPolice say they are not treating the crash as terror-related.", "Thank you for following our coverage\n\nWe will now be closing this page - thanks for following along with us. For further updates on the crash at The Study Preparatory School in Wimbledon, you can read our news story here. The day's coverage was edited by Heather Sharp and Alex Binley. The writers were Adam Durbin, Thomas Mackintosh and Laura Gozzi.", "Last updated on .From the section Millwall\n\nMillwall's owner and chairman John Berylson died from injuries sustained after his car overturned and hit a tree in the United States.\n\nPolice in Falmouth, Massachusetts, say no other vehicle was involved in the crash on Tuesday.\n\nEmergency services responded shortly before 08:00 local time and found Berylson, the sole occupant, trapped inside the car.\n\nThe 70-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe cause of the crash - described by Millwall as a \"tragic accident\" - remains under investigation.\n\nAmerican businessman Berylson became a significant shareholder of Millwall in 2007 after he led a consortium which invested in the south-east London club, then in League One, and became chairman in October that year.\n\nThe Championship side hailed him as \"a person of such remarkable generosity, warmth, and kindness\", while former players and rival clubs have also paid tribute.\n\nFalmouth Police Department said preliminary investigations into the crash showed that Berylson was driving his Range Rover south on Sippewissett Road in Falmouth, a coastal town on Cape Cod, when it lost control on a curve and left the road.\n\nThe car then rolled over into a ravine and came to rest against a tree.\n\nBerylson was trapped inside the vehicle and was \"extricated by mechanical means\". He subsequently \"succumbed to injuries received in the crash\".\n\nThe crash is being investigated by the Falmouth Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police.\n\nBerylson, who lived in Wellesley Hills in Greater Boston, is survived by wife Amy and children Jennifer, James, and Elizabeth.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. About 2,000 people turned out for the funeral of Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans\n\nThousands of people have attended the funeral of two teenagers whose deaths in an e-bike crash sparked a riot.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died on 22 May in Ely, Cardiff, after the bike they were riding was followed by a police van.\n\nFollowing the service the best friends were buried in the same plot, said their families.\n\nThe funeral procession, including four hearses and nine Rolls-Royces, was led by a group of motorcycles.\n\nHarvey's coffin was followed by Kyrees' and then two further hearses, one with flowers spelling \"forever\" and the other \"young\".\n\nA light aircraft was flying overhead with a banner trailing behind with the words \"RIP Harvey and Kyrees Young Kings\".\n\nEly's Church of the Resurrection, which holds about 1,200 people, was completely filled by the service, with another estimated 800 mourners outside.\n\nTwo hearses arrived for both Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans at about 13:00\n\nThe procession left the funeral home on Cowbridge Road West at about noon and made its way around the boys' housing estate.\n\nIt stopped at both of their homes before making its way to the Church of the Resurrection on Grand Avenue, Ely, for the service at 13:00 BST.\n\nA number of people became emotional as the two coffins were carried into the church by family members and the song All My Life by American rappers Lil Durk and J. Cole was played.\n\nMourners became emotional as they watched the coffins carried into the church\n\nThe service started with the hymn All Things Bright And Beautiful before members of both families shared memories of the boys.\n\nIn a eulogy on behalf of Harvey's parents, his aunt, Mandy, said he was both a \"protector\" and \"class clown\".\n\nShe said Harvey loved his five siblings and enjoyed playing football, rugby and earning belts in kick-boxing.\n\n\"He had so much more to give and learn. Our hearts are shattered,\" she said.\n\nMandy said Harvey was \"inseparable\" from Kyrees, who was described as \"lovable\".\n\nHarvey's girlfriend, Ellie, added: \"Harvey was not only my best friend, but my soulmate. I love you forever.\"\n\nA wake for the boys was held at the Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nThere are about 800 people waiting outside the church, which has had its 1,200 capacity filled\n\nJM, a rapper and friend of Kyrees and Harvey, wrote a song for the occasion.\n\nThe 17-year-old told BBC Newsbeat the song was \"really tough\" for him to write, and that he had to spend hours trying to compose himself while recording it.\n\n\"I'm glad their parents liked it... Harvey's mum Nadine called me her superstar, that meant a lot,\" he said.\n\nThe procession was led by a number of motorbikes\n\nOn the evening of Kyrees and Harvey's deaths, a riot broke out in Ely which saw 15 officers injured and led to 27 arrests.\n\nThe unrest saw cars torched, property damaged and one street was left looking like an \"absolute warzone\".\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has since started an investigation into the conduct of the driver and passenger of the police van that was seen following the pair.\n\nA motorcycle was engraved on the boys' coffins\n\nHundreds of blue ribbons lined the procession route, tied to lampposts, road signs, traffic bollards, gates of houses and on the grills of cars and vans.\n\nThe families of both teenagers had asked mourners to wear something blue.\n\nFlowers and messages were also been left for the boys at the site of the crash that took their lives, on Snowdon Road.\n\nBirthday cards, messages and banners have also been left for Harvey, who would have turned 16 on 21 June.\n\nA plane flew over the area towing the message \"RIP Kyrees & Harvey. Young kings\"\n\nSpeaking ahead of the funeral, the Reverend Canon Jan Gould said: \"It's important for the family especially, but actually for the whole community to have some closure now and to begin to move on.\n\n\"My hope is that moving on from this now, the community can begin to rebuild. And hopefully the families will find some peace from the service.\"\n\nRoad closures have been managed by Cardiff council and schools in the area were also closed due to the number of mourners.\n\nTy Coch Road, from the roundabout with Archer Road, and Grand Avenue, from its junction with Howell Road, was closed from midday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The inquiry is looking how prepared Westminster and the devolved institutions were for the pandemic.\n\nOf course, one issue that dominated government agendas and news cycles was Brexit.\n\nSo, did this affect Northern Ireland too?\n\nAccording to a lawyer for the Executive Office, Brexit had a bigger effect on pandemic contingency planning arrangements in Northern Ireland than anywhere else in the UK.\n\nPlans for Operation Yellowhammer, the government's plans for a no deal Brexit, had \"very significant plans\" on planning for emergencies, and unique circumstances in Northern Ireland made this more pronounced, he said.\n\nThe inquiry also heard the model of Northern Ireland's devolution in Northern Ireland was \"radically different\" to elsewhere in the UK.\n\nThis meant the Executive Office had responsibility for \"civil contingencies and emergency planning\", which included the \"wider consequences\" of disease outbreaks such as Covid.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Labour government would give £2,400 to teachers in the very early stages of their career in England to try to stop them leaving the profession.\n\nThe party says it would also make it compulsory for new teachers to have a formal teaching qualification or be working towards one - a requirement scrapped by the coalition in 2012.\n\nNearly one in five teachers who qualified in 2020 have since quit, according to government figures.\n\nTeacher vacancies have doubled in the last two years, according to the most recent official data for England, while more than 40,000 left their jobs in the last year.\n\nThe plans to improve retention rates, announced by Labour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson on Sunday, would see new incentive payments awarded once teachers had completed a training programme known as the Early Career Framework, which covers their first two years in the classroom.\n\nAppearing on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show, Ms Phillipson said she would introduce extra payments for teachers who have completed their first two years of the early careers framework - a package of training and support for newly qualified educators.\n\nShe told the the programme, payments to get teachers to stay in the profession will \"recognise\" their \"really important development and training\".\n\nMs Phillipson said she aims to \"reset the relationship\" between government and the profession.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg emphasised how previous governments have offered one-off payments and repeatedly asked the Labour MP how her new plans would make a difference.\n\nMs Philipson responded, saying, it is about \"respecting and valuing\" the profession.\n\n\"Teachers and school leaders want the status of teaching restored once more,\"she said.\n\nLabour says the payments would be funded by removing tax breaks for private schools.\n\nIt also said it would offer more professional development to teachers and merge the \"complex network\" of different funds that provide financial incentives to teachers into just one, which it says would make it easier to fill shortages in specific subjects or geographical areas.\n\nAdditional measures for all new teachers to have qualified teacher status would drive \"high and rising standards\" in England's schools, the party said.\n\nEducation is a devolved issue, which means the governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland set their own rules.\n\nThe current starting salary for qualified primary and secondary teachers in England is a minimum of £28,000 outside of London, rising to £34,502 in inner London.\n\nSince 2018, the government is already offering teachers in subjects hit by staffing shortages - Maths, chemistry, physics and languages - early-career payments of between £2,000 and £5,000 based on how long ago they completed their training. Teachers are eligible to apply for the payments from September 2023 and March 2024.\n\nAcademies and free schools in England have been able to recruit teachers without formal teaching qualifications since 2012, when the requirement was scrapped by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government.\n\nIt is unclear if the new policy would affect private schools, which are also able to recruit teachers without formal qualifications.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), welcomed Labour's plans but said the party could still do more.\n\n\"Schools are in the middle of a recruitment and retention crisis, so it is right that Labour should make this a high priority,\" he said.\n\n\"The ambition for every class to be taught by a qualified teacher is also welcome - every parent should be able to expect that their child is taught by someone with the requisite expertise.\n\n\"Plans to improve early career training and ongoing professional development are sensible but Labour will need to be prepared to go further if they are to begin to solve the current crisis.\n\n\"We know that issues such as uncompetitive pay and a punitive inspection system are key factors in pushing people out of the profession, and it is only by tackling these that we will see teaching and school leadership become an attractive proposition once again.\"\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Conservative Party said: \"We have seen yet more evidence this morning that Labour cannot be trusted on a word they say.\n\n\"Labour have flip-flopped so many times on education policy there is no guarantee they will actually stick to this latest announcement.\n\n\"Only the Conservatives are delivering on education and driving up literacy rates - putting parents and pupils first.\"", "Excavations revealed artefacts in deep Ice Age sediments preserved on a hillside above the Medway Valley\n\nResearchers in Kent have unearthed some of the largest early prehistoric stone tools ever found in Britain.\n\nExcavations revealed artefacts in deep Ice Age sediments preserved on a hillside above the Medway Valley.\n\nA total of 800 artefacts, thought to be more than 300,000 years old and buried in material which filled a sinkhole and ancient river channel were discovered.\n\nSenior archaeologist Letty Ingrey said the discovery included a footlong hand axe almost too big to be handled.\n\nMs Ingrey, of UCL Institute of Archaeology, said: \"We describe these tools as giants when they are over 22cm long, and we have two in this size range.\n\n\"The biggest, a colossal 29.5cm in length, is one of the longest ever found in Britain.\n\n\"These hand axes are so big it's difficult to imagine how they could have been easily held and used.\"\n\nExcavations revealed artefacts in deep Ice Age sediments preserved on a hillside above the Medway Valley\n\nShe speculated that the tools might have fulfilled a less practical or more symbolic function.\n\n\"Right now, we aren't sure why such large tools were being made, or which species of early human were making them,\" she added.\n\n\"This site offers a chance to answer these exciting questions.\"\n\nThe excavation site is thought to date to a period in the early prehistory of Britain when Neanderthal people and their cultures were beginning to emerge and may even have shared the landscape with other early human species.\n\nAt this time, the Medway Valley would have been a wild landscape of wooded hills and river valleys, the researchers said.\n\nIt would have been inhabited by red deer and horses, as well as less familiar mammals, such as the now-extinct straight-tusked elephant and lion.\n\nDr Matt Pope, of UCL Institute of Archaeology, said: \"The excavations at the Maritime Academy have given us an incredibly valuable opportunity to study how an entire Ice Age landscape developed over a quarter of a million years ago.\"\n\nThe team also made a second significant find at the site - a Roman cemetery, dating to at least a quarter of a million years later than the Ice Age activity.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said talks on Horizon would begin immediately once the Windsor agreement was implemented (file image)\n\nA deal for the UK's association with the EU's €100bn (£85bn) Horizon research and innovation programme has been negotiated, BBC News understands.\n\nThe proposed arrangement is awaiting approval from the prime minister.\n\nIf Rishi Sunak agrees, an announcement is expected on Tuesday after his talks with the European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nDowning Street said on Thursday morning that a \"deal has not been agreed\".\n\nBut highly-placed sources have now told BBC News that a sticking point over how much research funding the UK is expected to receive has been resolved and that two separate options for associate membership await the prime minister's consideration.\n\nMr Sunak has been said to be enthusiastic about an alternative, UK-led, international collaborative research programme, drawn up by the Science Minister, George Freeman. But the UK research community has constantly and unanimously argued for membership of the European Horizon programme.\n\nIf Mr Sunak rejects the options on his desk, the anger from the scientific establishment will be ''unimaginable\", according to a senior scientific leader.\n\nShould events go as expected, the deal will come as a huge relief to the scientific community. Many of the UK's leading researchers have been left in limbo over the future of their world-leading research projects and in some cases their own jobs and those of their teams.\n\nNobel prize winner Sir Paul Nurse: \"Prime minister should finalise the deal without further delay\"\n\nAssociate membership had been agreed as part of the withdrawal agreement when the UK formally left the EU at the end of January 2020. But the arrangement was not activated because of a disagreement over the Northern Ireland protocol. This was resolved in February of this year and it had been hoped that a deal for Horizon would swiftly follow.\n\nThe EU waived the UK's joining fee for the time it had not been a member, but it stuck to the arrangement agreed with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government about the funding the UK would be expected to receive.\n\nThe government had agreed that if UK researchers received less than 12% of what the UK put in, Britain could terminate the arrangement. The figure for other associate members of Horizon is 8%, but it was thought to be a price worth paying for continuing to be part of the programme by the government at the time.\n\nTalks since the Windsor agreement have focussed largely on renegotiating this figure to be more in line with that of other associate members. It is understood that two formulae have now been agreed between the UK and EU, which await the prime minister's signature.\n\nThe stand-off has bemused UK researchers because pre-Brexit the UK received around £500m more than the £1.5bn a year it put in. For Horizon the government has agreed to pay approximately £2bn a year and given the quality of British science, the research community believes it would get at least the same amount back. Many feel that months have been lost haggling over a hypothetical point.\n\nNews that a draft agreement had been reached was reported on Wednesday afternoon by Politico, but was greeted by a terse statement from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.\n\n\"Talks are ongoing and, therefore, we have not yet agreed a deal.\"\n\nThe UK has some of the best scientists in the world, but some have now moved to EU institutions because of uncertainty over Horizon\n\nOn Thursday morning Rishi Sunak's official spokesman said the Prime Minister was keen to seek \"value for money for taxpayers\" if the UK is to rejoin the scheme, with \"constructive\" discussions still going on.\n\n''I think overall we want to make sure that any deal, whether it is Horizon or the UK alternative Pioneer, is the one that produces the best value for UK science and research and also for taxpayers. That is what the Prime Minister will consider at the appropriate time.\"\n\nJames Wilsdon, a professor of science policy at University College London, told BBC News what while this was \"wonderful news\" the uncertainty over the past three years had \"blighted\" UK-EU scientific collaboration.\n\n\"In haggling over the budget, the UK was in danger of being penny wise but pound foolish — emphasising short-term costs over the huge long-term gains that will flow from UK participation.\n\n\"Hopefully, a compromise has now been reached and the research community can move forward with the clarity and commitment that it has been crying out for.\"\n\nProfessor Lord Krebs, a long-serving and respected scientific adviser to the government from the University of Oxford, said: \"Delays over two years have caused serious and lasting damage to UK R&D.\"\n\nNobel prize winner Sir Paul Nurse said the prime minister should finalise the deal \"without further delay\", a view echoed by Prof Sarah Main, executive director of Campaign for Science and Engineering.\n\n\"I urge the prime minister and president of the European Commission to secure this agreement, enabling researchers to get on with the vital role they play in improving people's lives and livelihoods,\" she said.\n\nVivienne Stern, chief executive of Universities UK, also urged the prime minister to finalise the deal, saying there were a lot of people in Europe \"with their fingers and toes crossed that it gets across the line\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said that among the benefits of joining the programme were greater opportunities for research collaboration - as well as access to larger grants for UK universities.\n\nThe UK is also seeking to rejoin the Copernicus Earth observation programme.", "Twitter is considering legal action against Meta over its fast-growing rival app Threads.\n\nThreads, which was launched to millions on Wednesday, is similar to Twitter and has been pitched by Meta bosses as a \"friendly\" alternative.\n\nTwitter's Elon Musk said \"competition is fine, cheating is not\" - but Meta denied claims in a legal letter that ex-Twitter staff helped create Threads.\n\nMore than 70 million people have signed up for the new app, according to Meta.\n\nTwitter has an estimated 350 million users, according to Statista.\n\nAccording to an SEC filing from 2013, it took Twitter four years to build the same number of users that Threads gained in a day - though Twitter grew its userbase from scratch, while Threads was able to tap into the pre-existing two billion monthly users Meta says Instagram has.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe look and feel of Threads are similar to those of Twitter, BBC News technology reporter James Clayton noted. He said the news feed and the reposting were \"incredibly familiar\".\n\nBut US copyright law does not protect ideas, so for Twitter to be successful in court it would have to prove that its own intellectual property, such as programming code, was taken.\n\nAnd in 2012 Meta was granted a patent for \"communicating a newsfeed\" - the system that displays all the latest posts when you use Facebook.\n\nIn a move first reported by news outlet Semafor, Twitter attorney Alex Spiro sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday accusing Meta of \"systematic, wilful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property\" to create Threads.\n\nSpecifically, Mr Spiro alleged that Meta had hired dozens of former Twitter employees who \"had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information\" that ultimately helped Meta develop what he termed the \"copycat\" Threads app.\n\n\"Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,\" the letter says.\n\n\"Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice.\"\n\nBBC News, which has seen a copy of the letter, has contacted both Meta and Twitter for comment.\n\nMr Musk said that \"competition is fine, cheating is not\" in response to a post on Twitter that referred to the legal letter.\n\nOn Threads, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone posted that \"no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee - that's just not a thing\".\n\nSarah Kunst, managing director at venture capital firm Cleo Capital, told the BBC's Today programme Threads could offer a \"brand-safe environment\" for existing Instagram advertisers who \"feel they can allocate some budget and see what happens\".\n\nShe added that while the app reaching 30 million users could be the result of an initial rush, it will likely see a steady increase in users.\n\n\"They've made it very easy to cross-post to other platforms like Instagram, so I think that we'll continue to see growth,\" she said.\n\nBoth Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg have acknowledged the rivalry over Threads, which is linked to Instagram but works as a standalone app.\n\nAs it launched in 100 countries, Mr Zuckerberg broke more than 11 years of silence on Twitter to post a highly popular meme of two nearly identical Spider-Man figures pointing at each other, indicating a stand-off.\n\nShortly after, and as the word \"Threads\" trended globally on his platform, Mr Musk said: \"It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.\"\n\nTwitter CEO Linda Yaccarino said in a tweet on Thursday that while the platform, is \"often imitated\" it \"can never be duplicated\".\n\nBoth Meta and Twitter have undertaken significant layoffs this year, with Meta announcing in April that it would cut staff levels by approximately 10,000.\n\nTwitter lost a large proportion of its 7,500 employees, as high as 80%, in waves of redundancies following Mr Musk's takeover last October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least six people, including a woman aged 95, have been killed after a Russian rocket hit an apartment building in Lviv, western Ukraine.\n\nAnother 40 people were injured in what the mayor of Lviv described as \"one of the biggest attacks\" on the city's civilian infrastructure.\n\nMayor Andriy Sadovyi said 35 buildings were damaged in the overnight strike.\n\nRussian state TV said a defence academy was hit. It gave no evidence to back up its claim.\n\nEarlier, the Russian defence ministry released a statement saying points of temporary deployment of Ukrainian troops and depots storing foreign-made armoured vehicles were hit using sea-based \"long-range precision weapons\".\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed a \"tangible\" response to the overnight assault by \"Russian terrorists\".\n\nTwo days of mourning were declared in Lviv on Thursday morning.\n\nOn Thursday evening, rescuers - who had been searching the rubble throughout the day - found the body of a woman, the sixth confirmed victim of the Russian strike.\n\n\"Several more people may still be trapped,\" Mr Sadovyi said.\n\nHe added that 60 apartments and 50 vehicles had been damaged.\n\nEarlier in the day, Lviv region head Maksym Kozytskyi said the oldest of the victims - a World War Two survivor - was 95.\n\nDozens of buildings in Lviv have been damaged, including some that have had their roofs blown off.\n\n\"There is a shelter next to the house that was hit by the missile,\" Mr Kozytskyi said.\n\n\"It is in good condition and was open at the time of the alarm. But, only five people were in the shelter from the entire building. Very disappointing.\"\n\nOne witness called Olya told the BBC she was woken by the first explosion, but didn't have time to leave the apartment when she heard a second blast.\n\n\"The ceiling started to fall,\" she said. \"My mother was immediately hit, I jumped out and I was covered in rubble only about knee-deep.\n\n\"I tried to reach my mother, but I couldn't, I got to the window, started screaming, and in about half an hour the rescuers got to me, took me out and took me to hospital.\n\n\"I came back and found out that my mother had died, my neighbours had died. At this point, it seems that I was the only one who survived from the fourth floor.\n\nDr Sasha Dovzhyk, who works at the Ukrainian Institute London but is currently in Lviv, described hiding in her bathroom when she heard the air raid siren.\n\n\"This is what we are supposed to do,\" she told BBC Newsday. \"This is the Ukrainian routine.\n\n\"You are supposed to put two walls and preferably no windows, no glass, between yourself and the street, the outside.\n\n\"When the rocket, the missile, a Kalibr missile as we know now, hit the residential building 2km away, the walls in the bathroom where I was hiding shook, so the impact was quite strong.\"\n\nInterior Minister Ihor Klymenko said there are fears people are trapped under the rubble\n\nUkraine's air force accused Russia of launching the missiles from the Black Sea.\n\nPosting on Telegram, the Armed Forces of Ukraine said \"seven out of 10 Kalibr cruise missiles\" had been shot down.\n\nIt said the missiles - launched from the Black Sea - had been initially heading north but then \"abruptly changed course\" to the west and hit Lviv.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify these claims.\n\nFor months, Russia has been carrying out deadly missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, often hitting civilian targets and causing widespread blackouts.\n\nLast week, 13 people were killed - including children - when a restaurant and shopping centre were struck in Kramatorsk, an eastern city close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.\n\nAlthough Lviv is in western Ukraine, relatively far from the front lines in southern and eastern Ukraine, it has also previously suffered Russian attacks.\n\nLast month, Lviv officials reported that critical infrastructure had been hit in the city in a drone attack.\n\nIf you are in the area or have been affected by what's happened, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Scottish and UK governments are considering reforms to the rental sector\n\nThe Scottish and UK governments are to work together on a law to ban landlords from excluding parents and people on benefits from renting homes.\n\nA BBC investigation found thousands of property listings across the UK were closed to people with children or pets.\n\nThe UK government has tabled a bill to reform the sector - and talks are taking place to extend it to Scotland.\n\nUK Housing Secretary Michael Gove said a joint approach would \"send a clear message to providers\".\n\nThe Scottish government welcomed the proposals, and said it would work with UK counterparts to develop the plans.\n\nHowever a spokesman added that talks should also include a \"close examination\" of Local Housing Allowance, which has been frozen for three years.\n\nA BBC investigation found thousands of adverts for rental homes posted by private landlords and letting agents which said children or pets were not welcome.\n\nAlmost a quarter of just under 8,000 ads examined on the OpenRent website said families were not allowed to rent the homes, while 300 on Zoopla explicitly said children were not wanted.\n\nPrevious studies have also found a large number of ads are \"no DSS\" - closed to people on benefits.\n\nUnder existing equality laws, blanket bans on children have been shown to indirectly discriminate against women.\n\nAnd the National Residential Landlords Association has said any such bans reflected \"the actions of a minority of rogue landlords\".\n\nBut the UK government has moved to make the law more explicit as part of a set of wider reforms of the rental sector.\n\nThe Renters (Reform) Bill was introduced at Westminster in May, and would strengthen the law to make it illegal for landlords and agents to have a blanket ban on tenants who have children or are in receipt of benefits.\n\nIt would also give tenants the right to request a pet in the property, which the landlord must consider and could not \"unreasonably refuse\".\n\nTalks are now taking place about these elements of the legislation extending to cover Scotland.\n\nMr Gove has written to Scottish Housing Minister Paul McLennan to offer a joint approach.\n\nHe said talks had also taken place with the Welsh government.\n\n\"We know this is a priority we share with the Scottish government, and would send a clear message to providers across the whole of Great Britain,\" Mr Gove said.\n\nUK Housing Secretary Michael Gove has written to the Scottish government\n\nThe Scottish government has passed measures of its own capping rent rises at 3%, and has extended a ban on evictions.\n\nIt has also consulted on a new strategy which includes a housing regulator for the sector - similar to one plan in the UK legislation.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are aware of the UK government's plans to introduce a ban on excluding those in receipt of benefits and those who have children, and welcome this proposal.\n\n\"We will work with the UK government as it develops its plans to consider how best to protect these groups in Scotland.\"\n\nHowever, he added that any talks \"must include a close examination of the UK government's decision to freeze Local Housing Allowance rates at 2020 levels for the third year running\", saying affordability was \"the far more significant barrier to accessing a privately rented home\".\n\nThe Scottish government has previously written to UK ministers about this, and Westminster's Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee has also called for rates to be increased.\n\nThe UK government contends that the 2020 level was an \"elevated rate\" which has been maintained in cash terms.", "London Underground workers will strike for almost a week from Sunday 23 July until Friday 28 July, the RMT union has announced.\n\nThe row is over pensions, job cuts and working conditions which the union said could put 600 positions at risk.\n\nThe tube drivers' union Aslef has also announced its members will walk out on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July.\n\nThe action is the latest escalation in a long-running dispute between the unions and Transport for London (TfL).\n\nIn March, thousands of London Underground workers walked out over the same issues.\n\nThe RMT has not yet confirmed which groups of workers will strike on which day, nor whether the action will last for a solid six days.\n\nTfL said it was \"disappointed\" by the union's decision to take strike action.\n\nGlynn Barton, chief operating officer for TfL said: \"There are no current proposals to change pension arrangements and, although we are discussing with union colleagues a range of proposals to improve how London Underground operates, no employee will lose their job or be asked to work additional hours.\"\n\nBut the RMT said staff stood to be poorer in retirement if proposed changes by TfL go ahead, claiming they will lose up to 30% of their pension pot.\n\nThe row comes after passenger numbers failed to recover after the pandemic which led TfL to claim it needs to make £900m in savings.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"This week of action will shut down the London Underground and show just how important the work of our members is.\"\n\nThe union's industrial action began last year and has led to a lot of disruption to services.\n\nHowever, this will be the longest strike to date in a sign of worsening relations between unions and tube bosses.\n\nThe proposals to axe several hundred jobs will leave stations with fewer staff, according to the RMT, which it says isn't safe.\n\nBut pensions appear to be a more crucial red line for the unions, and it is difficult to see how this will be resolved unless they stay as they are.\n\nThere are already separate rail strikes scheduled at 14 train companies on 22 and 29 July, around the time that most schools in the UK are on holiday for the summer.\n\nThose rail strikes also fall on dates of some of the summer's biggest sporting events.\n\nThe golf Open Championship is taking place at Royal Liverpool from 16 to 23 July.\n\nCricket fans travelling to the fourth and fifth Ashes Tests at Old Trafford in Manchester and The Oval in London could also have the challenge of navigating through disrupted services\n\nThe RMT train strikes in June 2023 meant that the Eurovision song contest which took place in Liverpool and the FA Cup final were affected.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Differing ULEZ views \"need to be accommodated,\" says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nSir Keir Starmer has refused to take a side in a by-election dispute over whether to expand London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).\n\nUnder plans from Labour mayor Sadiq Khan, the clean-air zone is set to become three times bigger from 29 August.\n\nBut Labour's candidate in this month's Uxbridge by-election, Danny Beales, wants the expansion halted.\n\nIn a BBC interview, the Labour leader declined to say which view he backed.\n\nHe added that Mr Khan was trying to fulfil his legal obligations to reduce emissions, whilst Mr Beales was trying to fight for his future constituents.\n\n\"Both of those things have to be accommodated,\" he added.\n\nThe Labour leader has previously said that Mr Khan was \"right\" to expand the zone, arguing last month it was part of the fight to curb lung cancer.\n\nBut Mr Beales's comments have put him in the awkward position of having to decide whether to back his by-election candidate or Labour's London mayor.\n\nThe ULEZ was introduced in central London in 2019, developing a previous low emission zone (LEZ) for larger vehicles like buses, lorries and coaches that was first introduced in 2008.\n\nUnder Mr Khan, it was extended to within the North and South Circular roads in 2021.\n\nUnder the London mayor's proposed new expansion, its outer borders would reach Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey.\n\nMotorists must pay a daily £12.50 fee if they drive a vehicle that does not meet specified emissions standards, or face a maximum £180 fine.\n\nGenerally, this will apply to diesel cars more than seven years old, or 17 years for those using petrol.\n\nMr Khan has said widening the scheme will improve London's air quality, but it has proved hugely contentious in outer London boroughs.\n\nIt has also emerged as a key issue in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election on 20 July, when voters will choose a new MP to replace Boris Johnson after his decision to stand down as an MP.\n\nLabour MPs who have campaigned in the constituency acknowledge privately that ULEZ is being raised frequently on the doorstep and will cost Labour votes.\n\nConservative candidate Steve Tuckwell opposes the expansion, which he says will put an additional financial burden on Uxbridge residents.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are calling for a pause in the expansion. Earlier this week, their Uxbridge candidate Blaise Baquiche criticised the generosity of scrappage scheme for low-income Londoners with grants to replace polluting vehicles.\n\nThe Green Party, whose candidate in Uxbridge is Sarah Green, supports the ULEZ expansion. A full list of Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election candidates can be found here.\n\nThe ULEZ expansion has prompted protests from residents in outer London\n\nAt an election hustings earlier this week, Mr Beales said it was \"not the right time\" to expand ULEZ, amid current cost of living pressures.\n\nPressed on whether he agreed with his by-election candidate, Sir Keir replied: \"I completely understand his position,\" adding: \"He's fighting for what he hopes will be his constituents in that by-election if he wins it\".\n\nBut he added that Mr Khan had made the decision to expand the zone in the \"context\" of a legal requirement to reduce air pollution.\n\n\"So reducing this to a political argument for the sake of the by-election, without regard to the background, doesn't make any difference,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he wanted central government to give more support for people and businesses affected by the expansion.\n\nSpeaking earlier in the London Assembly, Mr Khan confirmed Mr Beales had lobbied him for a delay to the scheme, as well as more support for residents.\n\n\"Danny's got a different view to me and I respect him. He's a local champion, he's a fighter,\" the mayor added.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly spoken out against ULEZ expansion, telling MPs last month that Mr Khan was \"not listening\" to the views of residents in outer London.\n\nFive Conservative-led councils have launched a legal challenge to the expansion, with their lawyers arguing in the High Court this week that Mr Khan lacks the legal powers to do so.\n\nThe Conservatives recently cited a proposed congestion charge in Cambridge for winning theirfirst seat on the city council since 2012.\n\nUpdate: A previous version of this story said the Ulez charge needed to be paid by drivers of diesel cars more than seven years old, or 17 years for those using petrol.\n\nIt has now been updated to specify that some older cars will not be eligible for the charge, if they meet the minimum emissions standards.", "Nicole Morelli, with some of the Menopausal Mermaids on Portstewart Strand, before the algae arrived\n\nSwimmers at Northern Ireland's north coast have said they are \"devastated\" after two of the area's most popular beaches were red-flagged as unsafe for bathing by the RNLI.\n\nThe National Trust said potentially toxic blue-green algae had been found at Portstewart and Castlerock.\n\nSampling on Wednesday \"confirmed\" algae at Castlerock and \"suspected blue-green algae\" at Portstewart Strand.\n\nHowever, they remain marked as \"fully open\".\n\nThe RNLI red-flag status means bathing is not permitted and people should not enter the water under any circumstances.\n\nBlue-green algal blooms have been detected at a number of sites across Northern Ireland during the recent good weather.\n\nSuspected algae was reported to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) at Castlerock Beach on 5 July by Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) samplers undertaking bathing water testing.\n\nIt was confirmed as likely to be a potentially toxic species.\n\nNicole Morelli from the Menopausal Mermaids, which formed in 2018, said the warning was disappointing, but she recognised it was \"safety-first\".\n\n\"It's devastating - and a bit of a shock - a lot of people rely on it for both physical and mental health - so it's a bit of a blow,\" she said.\n\n\"The water was quite cold this winter so we have been having some lovely swims as the temperature has risen - especially in July - our busiest time of the year with tourists - but again safety is the priority,\" she added.\n\nBlue green algae can be harmful to humans and is highly toxic to animals.\n\nThe council and The National Trust were informed and erected signage warning users in the area of the presence of potentially toxic blue green algae.\n\nThe NIEA said blue green algae in Lough Neagh has been widely communicated over the past number of weeks and it has now moved downstream with natural flow of water out of the lough through the River Bann, reaching the coast.\n\nThe natural movement of the tides and wave action will break up the algae, with some potentially washing up on the shore.\n\nIt can cause illness in both humans and animals, with a number of dog deaths reported.\n\nTony Hawkins and Liam O'Neill are volunteers at The National Trust.\n\n\"We have been down very early this morning advising people about the blue-green algae warning and about the risks involved with going in the water,\" Tony said.\n\n\"Some have heeded that advice and some didn't and went into the water anyway - but as volunteers all we can do in our capacity is to advise.\n\n\"I think the word has spread to the various sea swimming clubs along the north coast so it's been relatively quiet since about 08:30,\" he adds.\n\nSandra and Raymond McCoy with their dogs Cooper and Maisie\n\nWife and husband Sandra and Raymond McCoy are caravanning in Portrush.\n\nThey said they had some initial concerns about bringing their dogs to the beach.\n\n\"Cooper and Maisie love this beach so we brought them down, but kept them on short leashes, far from the water,\" Sandra explained.\n\nJenny Andrews from Holywood, County Down, told BBC News NI she had been in the water on Wednesday when a loudspeaker made the announcement about the algae.\n\n\"We were about to leave anyway so the kids weren't too disappointed but myself and my partner love sea swimming and would regularly go for dips.\n\n\"I've swapped my wet shoes for walking shoes this morning and I'm going for a walk along the beach instead\".\n\nA sign at Ballyronan on the edge of Lough Neagh warns that no swimming is allowed\n\nRising temperatures and pollution create the right environment for an algal bloom to happen.\n\nNotices warning people not to swim in Lough Neagh were posted after the potentially toxic algae was discovered at several locations.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by National Trust - Portstewart Strand This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe NIEA has encouraged people to get involved in citizen science and help monitor the presence of blue-green algae.\n\nThe Bloomin' Algae App enables members of the public to submit a photo of the bloom taken on their phone and state what activity takes place at the location, so that the potential risks to people and animals can be gauged.\n\nMembers of the public can also report a suspected algae through the incident hotline on 0800 80 70 60 or by e-mail.\n\nThe RNLI and DAERA have been asked for a comment.\n• None Vet warning after four dog deaths in Fermanagh", "Nohema Graber, 66, was prominent in the Spanish-speaking community\n\nA teenager in the US state of Iowa who beat his teacher to death with a baseball bat over a bad grade has been sentenced to life in prison.\n\nWillard Miller, 17, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in April for his role in the 2 November 2021 killing of Nohema Graber, a Spanish teacher.\n\nMiller and co-defendant Jeremy Goodale, now 18, attacked Ms Graber, 66, after she marked down Miller's work.\n\nAged 16 at the time of the murder, both were charged as adults.\n\nOn Thursday, Miller was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole only after at least 35 years.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay at least $150,000 (£117,000) in restitution to the victim's family.\n\nBefore delivering his sentence, Judge Shawn Showers rejected defence arguments that Miller was too young at the time to understand the gravity of his actions.\n\n\"Evil does not have a birthday,\" he said.\n\nFamily members of Ms Graber told the court they did not believe Miller was remorseful.\n\nSeveral relatives mentioned that the murder led to the early death last month of Ms Graber's husband, Paul. He was buried a day before Thursday's sentencing.\n\nMiller apologised to the community and turned to address Ms Graber's relatives seated behind him.\n\n\"I am sincerely sorry for the distress I have caused you and the devastation I have caused your family,\" he said.\n\nPleading with the judge to forego the maximum sentence, Miller said: \"I don't want to be institutionalised so long that I forget who I am and where I come from.\"\n\nProsecutors said the evidence showed both Miller and Goodale had bludgeoned Ms Graber with a bat during the attack in Fairfield, a town of fewer than 10,000 people that lies 100 miles (160km) south-east of the state capitol, Des Moines.\n\nThe day after the attack, police found the mother-of-three's body hidden under a tarpaulin, wheelbarrow and railway sleepers in a local park where she used to walk after school.\n\nIn a police interview, Miller described frustrations with the way Ms Graber taught Spanish.\n\nHe said his marks in her class were lowering his Grade Point Average, an important score during applications for US colleges and scholarships.\n\nMiller met Ms Graber at Fairfield High School on the day of the murder to discuss his poor grade in her class. Goodale was also a student there.\n\nMexican-born Ms Graber had been employed at the school since 2012. She was part of the town's small but growing Latino community.", "The mother of Stephen Lawrence says she is \"bitterly disappointed\" that four retired detectives who ran a failed investigation into her son's murder will not face criminal charges.\n\nBaroness Doreen Lawrence said her \"hope has been in vain\" and the Crown Prosecution Service announcement was a \"disgrace\".\n\nShe said she would seek a review of the CPS decision.\n\nStephen was 18 when he was killed in a racist attack in south London in 1993.\n\nThe initial Met Police investigation failed to bring anyone to justice. Two of the murderers were eventually jailed in 2012.\n\nIn a statement, Baroness Lawrence said there was \"no mention, let alone consideration, of racism in the CPS decision as being the possible reason for the officers acting as they did\".\n\n\"Not a single police officer has been disciplined or will be charged\" over the investigation, she said, adding: \"In my opinion the police have, yet again, got away 'scot-free'.\"\n\nShe added: \"After 30 years in which there have been countless police investigations, a police complaint and a public inquiry I thought there might be some hope of holding those police officers who failed me and my son to account.\"\n\nBaroness Lawrence said the decision had caused her \"immense distress\".\n\nAnnouncing its decision, the CPS said it understood it \"may be deeply disappointing\" to Stephen's family.\n\nBaroness Lawrence said the CPS decision had caused her \"immense distress\"\n\nNick Price, head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said the service has offered to meet with close family members \"to explain our decision in detail\".\n\nMet Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said he did not \"underestimate the impact\" the CPS decision would have and recognised the strength of feeling still felt about Stephen's murder and the initial handling of the case by the police.\n\n\"I have already acknowledged that too many mistakes were made during the first investigation into his death,\" he added.\n\nThe officers had been investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), but the CPS chose not to pursue a criminal prosecution after considering a file of evidence for nearly three years.\n\nIn 1999 a public inquiry led by Sir William Macpherson said the first Lawrence murder investigation was \"marred by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism and a failure of leadership by senior officers\".\n\nThe Macpherson report was highly critical of Mr Crampton, Mr Weeden and Mr Ilsley for the decision not to make quick arrests - arrests did not take place for two weeks despite police receiving information implicating four of the prime suspects within 24 hours of the stabbing.\n\nIn 1997 an investigation by the police watchdog had also been critical, but only Mr Bullock was still serving in the Met and therefore available for a disciplinary process.\n\nThe IOPC investigation which led to the referral to the CPS first started in 2014 and looked into allegations of corruption against another officer - John Davidson - who worked on the first Stephen Lawrence murder investigation.\n\nThe investigation, which was carried out by the National Crime Agency (NCA) on behalf of the IOPC, followed an official review by barrister Mark Ellison KC, which said there were outstanding lines of inquiry into allegations that Mr Davidson was in a corrupt relationship with the father of David Norris, one of Stephen's killers.\n\nThe claims were made by Mr Davidson's former colleague, Neil Putnam, a corrupt officer turned super-grass.\n\nMr Putnam, who did not work on the Lawrence murder inquiry, alleged that Mr Davidson had admitted the corrupt relationship to him. Davidson denied the claims.\n\nJohn Davidson was told in 2019 that he was no longer under investigation because there was no evidence of corruption on his part in relation to the Stephen Lawrence case.\n\nThe NCA then investigated Mr Putnam and passed a file to the CPS to consider whether he should be charged with perjury or perverting the course of justice. The CPS has decided he will not be charged.\n\nThe IOPC investigation ended up focusing on the four senior officers from the first murder investigation, and their handling of the early part of the case.\n\nIn 2020, the IOPC passed a file of evidence to the CPS, which was asked to consider whether they may have committed the criminal offence of misconduct in public office.\n\nThe criminal offence of misconduct in public office is committed when the office holder acts - or fails to act - in a way that constitutes a breach of the duties of that office.\n\nLast week a BBC investigation identified a sixth suspect in the murder and exposed a series of police failings in relation to him.\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The inquiry requested to see messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat set up to discuss the government's pandemic response.\n\nThe government has lost its legal challenge to prevent the Covid inquiry from seeing Boris Johnson's WhatsApps, diaries and notebooks in full.\n\nThe Cabinet Office had argued it should not have to hand over irrelevant material, but inquiry chair Baroness Hallett said it should be up to her to decide what is relevant.\n\nThe government has accepted the ruling.\n\nIt would work towards handing over the material requested by next week, Downing Street said.\n\n\"All elements of this will be discussed in more detail with the inquiry\", No 10 added, describing the judgement as the \"sensible\" and the \"appropriate way forward\".\n\nThe Covid inquiry said it was \"pleased\" with the High Court verdict and added that inquiry chair Baroness Hallett expected to received the material by 16:00 BST on Monday 10 July.\n\nThe decision by the court is likely to strengthen the authority of the inquiry and its ability to demand evidence.\n\nIn its ruling, the court said inquiries should be allowed to \"fish\" for documents.\n\nIt said such exercises could potentially lead to the inquiry getting \"some irrelevant material\".\n\nLord Justice Dingemans and Mr Justice Garnham said Baroness Hallett would return documents she found \"obviously irrelevant\".\n\nThe judges also suggested the Cabinet Office could make its case directly to the inquiry about which documents should be considered irrelevant.\n\nThe court's ruling does not mean that the public will get to see the documents in full as the inquiry could apply its own redactions. It may also decide against making them public at all.\n\nResponding to the court's verdict, Deborah Doyle, a spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group, said: \"This judicial review was a desperate waste of time and money.\n\n\"A successful inquiry could save thousands of lives in the event of another pandemic, and it's a disgrace that the Cabinet Office is trying to obstruct it.\"\n\nDeputy Labour leader Angela Rayner accused Rishi Sunak of \"wasting time and taxpayers' money on doomed legal battles\".\n\nBaroness Hallett is chairing a public inquiry into the pandemic\n\nEarlier this year the Covid Inquiry - set up by the government to examine decision-making during the pandemic - requested to see WhatsApp messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat set up to discuss the pandemic response.\n\nIt also asked to see messages from other politicians including current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe request triggered a row between the inquiry and the government, but also Mr Johnson.\n\nThe former prime minister said he was \"more than happy\" for the inquiry to see his unredacted messages and threatened to send what material he had directly to the inquiry, by-passing the Cabinet Office.\n\nAt a hearing of the case last month, government lawyer Sir James Eadie KC said the Cabinet Office had challenged the inquiry's request with \"considerable reluctance\".\n\nHe argued that the government had a \"real concern\" about people's privacy and notes that some of the material included messages of a personal nature.\n\nIn a confidential submission to the court, the Cabinet Office also flagged \"messages about border incursions by one foreign state into the territory of another foreign state\", as well as \"the trial of foreign nationals in the courts of another foreign state\".\n\nRepresenting the inquiry, Hugo Keith KC said letting the Cabinet Office decide which measures were relevant amounted to the government \"marking its own homework\". He also said it would \"emasculate this and future inquiries\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The family's holding company has not been divided equally among Silvio Berlusconi's five children\n\nIt's been the object of much speculation for weeks: who would lead Silvio Berlusconi's empire after his death?\n\nNow his will has been made public, it is clear he has handed a majority stake in the family's holding company Fininvest to his two eldest children, Marina and Pier Silvio.\n\nThey will jointly own 53% of the family firm.\n\nThe four-time prime minister died on 12 June from leukaemia. One of Italy's richest men, he had amassed a fortune that spanned real estate, television, cinema and sport.\n\nBut he never publicly indicated who should lead his business empire.\n\nIt turns out he did not distribute his shares in an equal way among his five children, who automatically all receive 15.8%.\n\nBerlusconi's decision to give Marina and Pier Silvio majority was written into the will in 2006\n\nMarina and Pier Silvio are his children from his first marriage and they will receive bigger shares than the three other children from his second wife - Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi.\n\nThe two eldest children have held management roles in the family business since the early 1990s.\n\nThey earlier said in a statement that \"no shareholder will exercise overall individual indirect control of Fininvest\".\n\nBerlusconi also left €100m (£85m) to Marta Fascina, his partner at the time of his death and 53 years his junior.\n\nThey were not married, but on his deathbed, he referred to her as his wife. In a letter that was enclosed in his will, he wrote: \"Whatever the amount, be prepared. They will say it's too much or not enough. Never that it's right.\"\n\nBerlusconi's brother Paolo also receives €100m, while the late prime minister's close aide Marcello Dell'Utri will have €30m (£26m).\n\nIt is not yet clear how Berlusconi's many other valuable assets will be passed on; his numerous luxurious villas could be tricky to give to his offspring in an equal way.\n\nIn 2020, Berlusconi added a provision of €100m for his brother Paolo\n\nHis Villa San Martino in Arcore, north-east of Milan, covers 3,500 sq m and dates back to the 18th Century. He also has homes at Lake Maggiore, in Rome, Cannes, the Caribbean and elsewhere.\n\nThe jewel in Berlusconi's crown of properties is Villa Certosa, a mansion in Sardinia that he bought in the 1970s.\n\nHe hosted world leaders there, from Vladimir Putin to George W Bush. It has 126 rooms and looks like a theme park, including a fake volcano that erupts lava. Its value is estimated at €259m.\n\nBerlusconi wrote his will at his Villa Arcore residence near Milan\n\nSilvio Berlusconi was arguably one of the most influential men in Italy's history. For the past 50 years, his shadow has loomed large over parliament, the media, football and the man on the street.\n\nHis will included a handwritten letter to his children, which ends with the words: \"Thanks, so much love to all of you, your Dad.\"\n\nPeople close to the family have described Berlusconi as \"the glue\" who kept his children united.\n\nThe big question is whether that family unity can be maintained now that Berlusconi has gone, and what impact that might have on the future of his business empire.", "Sales of smart speakers have \"fallen off a cliff\" as customers cut back and trade down on electrical items, the boss of Currys has said.\n\nSales overall fell 7% in the year to 29 April as people bought cheaper goods due to the rising cost of living.\n\nShoppers also bought more products on credit to spread their costs.\n\n\"People aren't as interested in Amazon Alexa as they used to be,\" managing director Alex Baldock told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nThis is surprising as many industry analysts have predicted a boom in smart speakers.\n\nHowever, the firm said that after a surge in sales during the first stages of the Covid pandemic, people were not upgrading.\n\nMr Baldock said that shoppers were \"being careful with their money\".\n\nHe said some shoppers were also trading down to buy lower value items.\n\nThese included TVs and smaller kitchen appliances like kettles, where an entry level product \"still boils water for you\", the firm said.\n\nIt said it was \"wary of optimism about consumer spending power\" in the coming year.\n\nSmart speakers were \"selling like hot cakes\" a few years ago, but now sales have come back down, according to Joseph Teasdale, head of tech at Enders Analysis.\n\nHe said people do not tend to replace them once they have one, and \"maybe you buy a second device for the kitchen, but not much more than that\".\n\nBut more importantly, \"smart speakers just aren't that smart\", Mr Teasdale added.\n\n\"They're great if you want to set a timer, find out the weather forecast, or listen to the radio. But they're a long way from an all-purpose artificial intelligence assistant,\" he said.\n\n\"If you don't word your request just right, they don't understand you, and half the time they can't do what you want them to anyway.\"\n\nHe added that privacy concerns were part of why there had been a fall-off in smart speaker sales.\n\n\"Some people will never want an always-on, internet connected microphone in their homes,\" he said.\n\nAmazon said that Currys was responsible for \"a very small number of our High Street device sales\".\n\n\"More than eight million people in the UK use Alexa every day and the number of UK customers interacting with Alexa increased 15% last year,\" the retail giant added.\n\nCurrys said more of its customers were using credit to buy more expensive products, particularly if they thought it could save them money in the long term.\n\nFor example, energy-efficient washing machines, although more expensive upfront, would save money as bills soared.\n\nNearly 18% of goods at the chain were bought this way in the year, compared with 13% previously.\n\n\"Credit has never been more important for customers than during a cost of living crisis,\" the retailer said.\n\nCustomers were choosing more energy-efficient products because they were aware this was better for the environment too, it added.\n\nShares in the retailer dropped more than 7% after it said that it was wary about the prospects for consumer demand bouncing back.\n\nStruggling households have been hammered by rising prices over the past few years as food, energy and fuel costs have soared.\n\nTo battle inflation, the Bank of England has been raising interest rates - but this has been putting more pressure on people with big loans, such as mortgages.\n\nHowever, the pace of general price rises has not eased as much as had been hoped, leading to predictions of more interest rate rises.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Royalist and republican protesters gathered on the Royal Mile\n\nProtesters chanting \"not my king\" gathered in Edinburgh ahead of King Charles' thanksgiving service.\n\nRepublican as well as royalist activists lined the Royal Mile where the King's cavalcade passed on the way to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nAnother anti-monarchy group hosted a rally outside Holyrood, which was attended by Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater.\n\nPolice Scotland later confirmed four people had been arrested.\n\nThey included two women, aged 20 and 21, who were arrested for breach of the peace after allegedly attempting to climb over a crowd safety barrier on the Royal Mile.\n\nThe force said one man was also arrested for theft, while another was arrested in connection with an outstanding warrant.\n\nThree men and one woman were initially arrested for alleged threatening behaviour and failing to desist, but this was later changed to a recorded police warning.\n\nBlacked-out barriers which are about 6ft (72in) in height were erected outside St Giles' where the service took place.\n\nDuring the thanksgiving ceremony the King was presented with the Scottish crown jewels to mark his Coronation.\n\nBlack screens have been installed around St Giles' Cathedral\n\nGrant McKenzie, from the Republic anti-monarchy pressure group, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme his group would be vocal at the event, which he described as \"undemocratic.\"\n\nHe said: \"It's being forced upon us, we've got an unprecedented cost of living crisis.\n\n\"I don't think the public in the UK are particularly interested in their tax payer money being put towards a parade up and down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh - it's tone deaf.\n\n\"Of course people are going to be able to enjoy it if that's what they want to do. Protests by their very nature are disruptive, we will be making ourselves visible and heard.\"\n\nMr Harvie, who is the Scottish government's minister for zero carbon buildings, active travel and tenants' rights, addressed the Our Republic rally outside the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHe told the crowd: \"It's really important for those who want an elected head of state to be heard.\"\n\nThe MSP said it was extraordinary to be \"lavishing taxpayers money on some of the wealthiest people in the world so they can play some kind of Game of Thrones\".\n\nHe added: \"Passing unearned wealth from generation to generation is fundamentally at odds with the democratic society we are trying to build.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs, police lead for the event, said: \"This significant constitutional event took place safely without any disruption to the ceremony or people's procession.\n\n\"Safety was our priority and a number of actions were taken to ensure this, which included an open approach to engaging with potential protest groups.\"\n\nIn the build-up to the event the force said it sought to strike a balance between the right to protest and public safety.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mairs added: \"I would like to thank the overwhelming majority of protestors who engaged with us and also our officers whose professionalism helped ensure the safe delivery of this event for everyone who attended.\"\n\nPatrick Harvie spoke to journalists at the rally outside Holyrood\n\nAs well as those protesting the ceremony, crowds hoping to catch a glimpse of the monarch and people's procession also lined the streets.\n\nOne of those in attendance was royal fan Sheila Clark, from Newton Mearns.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland, she said: \"I'm as close to St Giles' as I possibly could be.\n\n\"It's a very special moment for me personally, I've followed the new King all my life really.\n\n\"I think it's an important part of our heritage throughout Britain and particularly in Scotland, because the King's roots are Scottish. His mother was Scottish, his grandmother was Scottish and I think Scotland is an important part of the United Kingdom.\"", "Health Minister Eluned Morgan will say that difficult questions will need to be asked of the NHS\n\nWales' NHS is not fit for the future in its current form, the health minister has said.\n\nSpeaking at a conference on Thursday to mark 75 years of the NHS, Eluned Morgan warned increased demand on services meant tough choices laid ahead.\n\nShe said the health service would need reform if it was to be preserved for future generations.\n\nGroups representing NHS staff have long complained of worker shortages at all levels in the health service.\n\nA projected rise in cancer and diabetes, among other conditions, means the health service will need to treat even more patients in future.\n\nThe number of people diagnosed with cancer is expected to rise from 20,000 a year to 25,000 a year in the next 20 years.\n\nType 2 diabetes is also projected to rise rapidly, reaching 17% of the population by 2035.\n\nAdvancement in treatment and care, coupled with people living longer, means there are more complex cases to treat.\n\nDuring her speech, the minister also announced an independent review into the management of the NHS and repeated her calls for people to help by looking after their own health and wellbeing.\n\nShe said sacrifices might have to be made, should changes not be made to the health service in Wales.\n\n\"When you have limited resources, you have to make choices - these choices are becoming increasingly difficult as the demand keeps growing.\n\n\"There is only one cake, and my responsibility as the minister is to determine how that is cut up,\" she said.\n\nMs Morgan claimed Wales had more hospital beds per head of population than England but said that, in order to shift care from hospitals to the community, \"we may need to see a reduction in the number of beds\".\n\nShe was also critical of those who train as doctors or dentists in Wales, then move immediately abroad or to work solely in the private sector.\n\n\"When money is really tight we can't afford to be training people - paid for by Welsh taxpayers' money - who will then trot off to some exotic, far, distant land to work exclusively for the private sector or in another country,\" she said.\n\nRetention is also a serious concern, with about 5,000 vacant posts across Wales.\n\nNurses have been taking part in strikes in recent months, although they have been paused\n\nThe health service has faced a series of strikes by workers in a dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nMabon ap Gwynfor, Plaid Cymru's health spokesperson, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast it was essential the NHS recruited more but also retained the staff it already employed.\n\n\"There's not flexible working hours for nurses, they had to fight for their pay and improved working conditions,\" he said.\n\nThe party supports higher taxes to pay improve working conditions in the NHS, he said.\n\n\"We have to look at ways of bringing money in in order to pay them for the work that they are doing,\" Mr ap Gwynfor said.\n\nGareth Davies, for the Welsh Conservatives, said waiting times had increased year-on-year in the 25 years since the NHS has been devolved to Wales and been the responsibility of the Labour government.\n\nHe argued that the issue was not just pay.\n\n\"It's also feeling valued in roles, also and feeling like there are career pathways and career progression,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set out a 15-year plan to recruit and train 300,000 more doctors and nurses in England.\n\nIt is thought the independent group being set up by the Welsh government will focus on NHS governance and accountability and whether it can meet future needs.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that the first regional diagnostics hub, serving about half the population, will include surgery space in the future, to bring down lengthy waiting lists.\n\nWhile plans are still in their infancy for the new centre in south Wales, one NHS boss said he hopes some services will start by the end of this financial year.\n\n\"We will have dedicated space that can't be 'crashed' by the emergency demand,\" says Paul Mears, of Cwm Taf Morgannwg\n\nPaul Mears, head of Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, where the diagnostic hub will be located, said patients would accept travelling further for care if it meant being seen more quickly in the future.\n\nThe new hub based in Llantrisant will cover the Cwm Taf Morgannwg, Cardiff and Vale, and Aneurin Bevan health boards in south east Wales.\n\nWhile it was initially billed as a diagnostics and treatment hub, Mr Mears said the aspiration is for that to include surgery, further down the line.\n\nOpposition parties have long called for the establishment of surgical hubs, which are separated from the demands of emergency patients, to help tackle the post-pandemic backlog.\n\nWaits for orthopaedic operations and other surgeries are among the most stubborn in Wales, with more than 30,000 people waiting longer than two years for treatment.\n\nBut Mr Mears said health boards with extra capacity have already been working with neighbours to reduce their waiting lists, where possible.\n\n\"What we're looking at is how we can work together to think about the collective resources available to us and we've got some really great examples already happening in ophthalmology,\" he said.\n\n\"We have been offering opportunities for our patients to go down to Cardiff to have their procedure to try and make sure that we get as many people through as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe hope is that such hubs will help reduce long waiting lists\n\nThe regional hub will be based in an existing set of buildings near the Royal Glamorgan Hospital and will provide CT and MRI scans as well as ultrasounds in the first instance.\n\nMr Mears hopes mobile services could be on site by spring 2024, but acknowledged it would be some time before the site is fully kitted out and operational.\n\n\"Also we'll be looking to provide treatment there - so theatre capacity to provide day surgery facilities for all sorts of surgical procedures. Potentially some orthopaedic capacity and other surgical specialties,\" he added.\n\n\"Often we have to cancel elective operating lists because we've got huge pressures on the beds from the emergency patients.\n\n\"A facility such as the one in Llantrisant will mean that we will have dedicated space that can't be 'crashed' by the emergency demand coming through the front door.\n\n\"It will give surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses, and others the ability to keep going with the work regardless of how many people are coming through on the emergency side.\"", "Captain Sir Tom Moore became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown\n\nThe £38m raised by Captain Sir Tom Moore when he walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden is \"not under investigation\", the charity which received it has said.\n\nNHS Charities Together said money it received for its Covid-19 Urgent Appeal had \"funded thousands of projects\".\n\nIt said the Captain Tom Foundation, set up after his death, is a \"completely separate organisation\" to it.\n\nThe foundation is subject to an ongoing inquiry into its finances.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, died in 2021 aged 100.\n\nHe became an international figure, during the start of the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020, for his fundraising walks in the grounds of his family home in Marston Moretaine.\n\nCapt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk, which took in 100 laps of his garden\n\nAfter he died, his family set up the Captain Tom Foundation, which is no longer taking donations or making payments due to a Charity Commission inquiry, which started a year ago.\n\nAnnouncing the probe, the commission said \"concerns have mounted\" over the charity and independence from a business run by Capt Sir Tom's family.\n\nAn NHS Charities Together spokesman said: \"The Captain Tom Foundation is a completely separate organisation that was established after Captain Tom did his fundraising for our Covid-19 Urgent Appeal, and the Charity Commission has made clear that the £38m he raised for NHS Charities Together is not under investigation.\"\n\nA statement added that its Covid appeal raised more than £160m from thousands of supporters which had been \"distributed across the network of NHS charities to reach every NHS Trust and Health Board in the UK\".\n\n\"It has funded thousands of projects and provided vital mental health support for NHS staff, training for emergency volunteers, equipment and support for patients, and community partnership programmes to prevent ill health and reduce pressure on NHS services,\" the statement said.\n\n\"The support we continue to provide has never been more vital, and we are thankful to everyone who helps make it possible.\"\n\nA Covid appeal progress report on its website \"demonstrates the difference donations\" are making, the charity said.\n\nRecently, the younger of his two daughters, Hannah Ingram-Moore, who lived with Capt Sir Tom, has been told to knock down an unauthorised building used as a home spa.\n\nThe spa (the C-shaped building to the right of the pond) is at the home where Capt Sir Tom Moore walked 100 laps of the garden in 2020\n\nThe building on the site of the family home - for the use of the occupiers and the Captain Tom Foundation - had received planning permission in August 2021 and had been partly constructed when revised plans submitted in February 2022 including a spa pool, toilets and a kitchen, \"for private use\".\n\nThese revised plans for what was called the Captain Tom Building were turned down by Central Bedfordshire Council in November 2022.\n\nNeither The Captain Tom Moore Foundation nor Ms Ingram-Moore have responded to the BBC's request for comment on the planning application.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is now 100 days since Humza Yousaf was formally elected by the Scottish Parliament as the country's sixth first minister.\n\nThe SNP leader has faced a baptism of fire since then, with his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon being arrested and several of the party's key policies having to be ditched in the face of controversy.\n\nSo are the next 100 days likely to be any easier for Mr Yousaf?\n\nThere is no escaping the fact that Humza Yousaf landed his dream job at an intensely difficult moment for his party.\n\nThe mere fact of Nicola Sturgeon's rather abrupt departure had shaken the SNP.\n\nAnd that was before police moved to arrest the former first minister, as well as her husband and former chief executive, and the party's treasurer for good measure.\n\nAll three were released without charge pending further investigations, but the fact that those inquiries into the SNP's finances are continuing means a black cloud is still hanging over the party.\n\nIt was a cloud which seemed to follow Mr Yousaf around in his opening weeks as first minister.\n\nEvery time he gave a big speech or interview, it would be blown out of the news agenda by a fresh twist in the investigation.\n\nThat was a particular challenge for the man billed as the Sturgeon continuity candidate in the leadership race - which ended in an incredibly tight victory over Kate Forbes in the second round of counting.\n\nAnd on the surface, he has stuck by his predecessor through what she describes as a \"difficult\" and \"traumatic\" period.\n\nWhen asked if he would suspend her SNP membership while the probe continues, he refused - and volunteered that she was \"the most impressive politician in Europe\".\n\nMr Yousaf defeated Ash Regan (left) and Kate Forbes to become SNP leader after a vote of party members\n\nIn one sense Mr Yousaf may have tied his political fortunes to the fate of Ms Sturgeon.\n\nBut in parliament he has also moved to slash her policy platform to ribbons, in what he terms a \"fresh start for Scotland\".\n\nLegislation to set up a National Care Service has been delayed. The Deposit Return Scheme has been sent for recycling.\n\nA ban on alcohol advertising has been scotched; Highly Protected Marine Areas have sunk beneath the waves.\n\nIn quite a few of these cases, Mr Yousaf may have been left with little choice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things to know about Scotland's new first minister Humza Yousaf\n\nQuestions abounded over how the care service would work and be paid for; the recycling plans were beset with issues including a stand-off with the UK government.\n\nThe no-fishing zones had prompted a backbench rebellion spearheaded by Ms Forbes and former minister Fergus Ewing, who acted out the fury of coastal communities by shredding a consultation document in the chamber.\n\nBut Mr Yousaf will also feel he has acted decisively to rip up the more controversial items left in his in-tray by Ms Sturgeon.\n\nComprehensive changes have been made to the government's agenda in a short space of time.\n\nHe has also moved to reset a number of relationships with groups which felt neglected by the previous administration.\n\nThe first was with business groups, in part via the reboot on alcohol advertising and recycling. There is talk of reforming business rates, and a \"new deal\" with the private sector.\n\nHe also signed a new pact with local government which is known as the Verity House Agreement.\n\nAlthough there is always furious spin around the figures, councils have borne the brunt of budget cuts in recent years.\n\nMr Yousaf has promised a new \"fiscal framework\" between town halls and the administration in Edinburgh, along with \"improved engagement on budgetary matters\".\n\nFine words - but they will need to be backed up with hard cash if that relationship is to truly improve.\n\nHumza Yousaf brought a range of new faces into his cabinet - but also retained some Sturgeon loyalists\n\nHas Mr Yousaf also reset relations between the SNP and its leadership?\n\nHe has certainly tried to run his government out of a bigger tent.\n\nMs Sturgeon was famous for keeping a very tight circle of advisors who micromanaged most aspects of policy.\n\nMr Yousaf meanwhile has actively sought to push decisions and responsibility out to his ministers.\n\nHis initial policy prospectus featured each cabinet secretary outlining their goals and duties in their own words, introduced with the words \"I commit that by 2026, I will have...\".\n\nThat may give them more autonomy to make decisions to deliver on these targets, but on the flip side it likely means they will have to carry the can for any issues in their portfolio.\n\nThe departure of several of Ms Sturgeon's top team from government means there is now an assortment of big names with big views on the back benches - which range along a spectrum of loyalty.\n\nThe likes of John Swinney can be relied upon for unswerving support, while Fergus Ewing has ranged off into almost outright rebellion.\n\nMSPs with views differing from those of the leadership tended to be quite shy about airing them publicly when Ms Sturgeon was in charge, but that is no longer the case.\n\nHumza Yousaf has taken part in a number of \"day of action\" door-knocking sessions\n\nA broader debate over the SNP's core policy - independence - has also flourished under Mr Yousaf.\n\nHe has sought to establish himself as the \"first activist\", getting out on the doorsteps regularly - but he also carried responsibility for setting the course of the main pro-independence party.\n\nMs Sturgeon generally sought to keep the membership marching along to the beat of a strategy she herself had drawn up.\n\nBy contrast, Mr Yousaf's big speech to the SNP's independence convention last month instead embraced just about every possible plan.\n\nThere are elements within the party which variously favour a gradual build-up of support; continued efforts to secure a referendum; forcing the issue via an election result; and doubling down on public events like marches.\n\nMr Yousaf's approach is to encourage all of them. Perhaps that will serve to keep them all happy for now, but he may need to swing firmly behind one particular strategy come the party's autumn conference - which unlike the convention is a decision-making event where members get a vote.\n\nMs Sturgeon kept the SNP together as an election-winning machine by corralling pro-independence figures from right across the political spectrum behind one tightly-controlled central vision.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether her successor's more relaxed approach encourages healthy debate - or furious infighting.\n\nHumza Yousaf has cemented the SNP's relationship in government with the Greens\n\nLooking ahead, one thing Mr Yousaf has retained from the Sturgeon era is her deal with the Greens.\n\nThat was underlined when he stood up in the chamber to defend Green minister Lorna Slater from a confidence vote tabled by the Tories.\n\nThat may have helped smooth over the fact that several totems of the Bute House Agreement - like HMPAs - have been ditched.\n\nThe Greens will also hope to wield influence from within the big tent as Mr Yousaf draws up his own policy plans.\n\nHe will spend the summer recess preparing his own Programme for Government - the things he is actually doing, rather than cancelling.\n\nHowever, budgets remain tight. New finance secretary Shona Robison has already warned of a £1bn shortfall next year, and that could double within four years.\n\nSo he may need to be pragmatic and cut his cloth. There is already talk of a retreat from \"universalism\", in particular when it comes to free school meals in secondary schools.\n\nBeyond that, a September court date has been set for the first round of the showdown with the UK government over their move to block Holyrood's gender reforms.\n\nWhoever loses will likely appeal to the Inner House, and eventually to the Supreme Court, so an issue which the government had hoped to put to bed by passing reforms could well follow Mr Yousaf right up to the next set of elections.\n\nAnd there is the small matter of that SNP conference, where Mr Yousaf has promised to bring forward the results of a party governance review as well as a finalised independence strategy.", "Manager Carlo Ancelotti said Real Madrid are \"lucky\" to have the \"fantastic\" Jude Bellingham after the England midfielder impressed on debut in a 3-2 pre-season win against AC Milan in Los Angeles.\n\nIt was another Englishman, Fikayo Tomori, who got his name on the scoresheet, heading the opener for AC Milan, but two second-half goals from Federico Valverde and a superb winner from Vinicius Jr, who ran on to a sublime Luka Modric pass, sent the majority of fans in a 70,000 crowd at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena home happy.\n\nBellingham's 62-minute debut had flashes of his natural technique and confidence, twice bringing roars of approval from the crowd and then praise from his manager Ancelotti.\n\nIn the opening stages Bellingham went on a mazy run by the touchline, leaving a couple of Milan defenders in his wake.\n\nThen, as the opening period drew to a close, a brilliant first-time half-volleyed pass, blending dexterity and a sure touch in a crowded penalty area, almost put Brahim Diaz in on goal.\n\n\"It is rare to find player with this kind of quality,\" Ancelotti said. \"He is only 20, so he can improve. We are lucky to have him in our squad.\n\n\"He was fantastic. He has a lot of rhythm, moves well and has quality finding open spaces.\"\n\nReal paid Borussia Dortmund £88m to sign Bellingham on a six-year contract. They can already be assured the 20-year-old is the real deal.\n\nBellingham eases his way into life at Real\n\nAt his public unveiling as a Real player last month, Bellingham said he liked the idea of being out of his \"comfort zone\".\n\nThere is no club in the world where the glare is quite as intense for quite as long.\n\nBut everything about Bellingham - from his solid family background and parental guidance, to the bravery of his move to Dortmund from Birmingham aged only 17, to his decision not to join any of the Premier League suitors this summer in favour of a switch to the Bernabeu - suggests that if anyone can deal with what lies ahead, it is Bellingham.\n\n\"Real Madrid is a big team with big pressure, but from what he did at Borussia Dortmund, he is ready to accept that,\" said football writer Joel Del Rio, who was covering the AC Milan game for Madrid-based newspaper Marca.\n\n\"He is a player who can do everything.\"\n\nWatching Bellingham in the build-up to the game and then the opening hour, before he was replaced with a congratulatory handshake from Ancelotti, was instructive.\n\nFirst of all, Ancelotti picked him at the tip of a diamond, which is the role he has earmarked for the Midlander.\n\nIt allowed Bellingham to ghost and glide into positions of space as Toni Kross, deployed in the sitting position at the base of that midfield, could dictate play.\n\nDespite his tender years and the elite trophy-winning environment he has joined, Bellingham is not scared to demand the ball. When he gets it, he rarely takes the easy option.\n\nAncelotti said: \"He is distinct from our other midfielders and he is going to help us a lot.\n\n\"He could play left or right to use his characteristics, but his best position is as a number 10, where he has more possibility to get near to the opposition goal.\"\n\nBellingham already seems to have a connection with former Manchester City forward Diaz.\n\nThe pair did the pre-match passing drill together and twice Bellingham almost set the 23-year-old up, first with a flicked pass with the outside of his right foot, which drew appeals for a penalty as Tomori slid in to block, then that beautifully delicate half-volley pass very few players can execute.\n\nTomori, 25, was in conversation with Bellingham after the game and told BBC Sport: \"He is so elegant and will be a really good player for them. He said he has gelled in well and a few of the guys speak English, which makes it easier for him.\n\n\"It is good to see so many English players move to different countries. I know the Premier League is big, but there is football beyond that.\"\n\nJudging by the names of the back of the Madrid shirts being worn at the Rose Bowl, Bellingham is not yet vying with Vinicius in terms of popularity.\n\nBut there were still plenty of number five shirts - most famously worn by Zinedine Zidane, now with Bellingham on the back - in the crowd.\n\nBellingham was showing signs of tiredness when his outing was brought to an end and, with matches against Barcelona and Juventus to come before Real return to Madrid, it will be interesting to see how much involvement he has against Manchester United - who were so keen to sign him before he went to Dortmund - in Houston on Wednesday.", "Corfu has become the latest Greek island to issue an evacuation order, as the country grapples with wildfires.\n\nPhotos uploaded to social media show flames engulfing Corfu. A fire broke out on the northern part of the island which is popular with British tourists.\n\nIt comes after some 19,000 people were evacuated on the island of Rhodes, which has also been hit by fires.\n\nMany were forced to flee their hotels as the flames continued to spread from the centre of the Greek island.\n\nGreece has been grappling with searing heat, with temperatures exceeding 40C across the country, and fires have blazed for nearly a week in some areas.\n\nA national holiday that had been planned for Monday has been cancelled \"in view of the extraordinary conditions prevailing in the country due to the fires\", the Greek presidency said.\n\nLate on Sunday evening Greece's Emergency Communications Service published evacuation orders for a number of areas of Corfu.\n\nPeople in the areas of Santa, Megoula, Porta, Palia, Perithia and Sinies on the island have been told to evacuate.\n\nBoats in the area had been dispatched to evacuate residents by sea, a government official said.\n\nCorfu - in the Ionian sea off the northwest of Greece - is a destination popular with tourists, with hundreds of thousands Brits visiting every year.\n\nRhodes - an island some 1,027km (670 miles) away - has been battling wildfires fanned by strong winds since Tuesday and after smoke started enveloping tourist areas.\n\nSome 16,000 people were evacuated by land and 3,000 by sea on the island, according to local officials. Greece's Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection said it was \"the largest evacuation from a wildfire in the country\".\n\nThousands of holidaymakers were camped out at Rhodes airport on Sunday, waiting for a flight to get out. Konstantia Dimoglidou, a Greek police spokeswoman, told the AFP news agency that more than 30,000 people have been evacuated across the country so far.\n\nSome tourists said they walked for miles in scorching heat to reach safety. Dead animals have been seen in the road near burnt-out cars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHoliday company Jet2 has now cancelled five flights to Rhodes, while Tui cancelled all flights there until Wednesday.\n\nThe first repatriation flights to take Britons back home are due to arrive on Rhodes. EasyJet will operate two rescue flights with a total of 421 seats on Monday, and a third on Tuesday, in addition to its nine scheduled flights to the island.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK Foreign Office says a five-strong rapid deployment team is in Rhodes, along with four Red Cross workers, to assist British nationals and support travel operators in bringing people home.\n\nAt least three hotels have been destroyed in the dense forest area of Kiotari on the east of Rhodes.\n\nThe deputy mayor of Rhodes, Athanasios Vyrinis said some people had slept in cardboard boxes overnight and warned that there were not enough essentials.\n\nGreece's fire service has warned the situation could worsen as further villages require evacuation and that the battle to contain the flames could take several days. 260 firefighters, backed by 18 aircraft, were battling the fire on Sunday.\n\nSix people were briefly taken to hospital with respiratory problems and were later released.\n\nEmergency services have also been dealing with fires on the island of Evia, east of Athens and Aigio, southwest of Athens. Homes have already been lost to the wildfires on Rhodes and other areas.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to carbon emissions.\n\nSpain and Italy are among the Mediterranean countries which have also experienced intense heat this week, while parts of the US are also seeing records broken.\n\nOfficials estimate 19,000 have been evacuated by land and sea with more people due to be evacuated from three villages - Pefki, Lindos, Kalathos", "Spain's hard-right Vox, led by Santiago Abascal, could likely form part of the next government\n\nSpain's election on Sunday is provoking political tremors even before polls open.\n\nThe most likely government to emerge - most analysts predict - will be a coalition including a hard-right nationalist party for the first time in Spain since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.\n\nMore left-leaning Spaniards are frantically texting contacts, urging them to make sure to vote - despite the heat and it being holiday time for many - to \"stop the fascists\" in their tracks.\n\nThe political right, meanwhile, has said voters have a choice: Sanchez (the current centre-left prime minister and his coalition including the far-left) or Spain. Implying that under another Sanchez government, the country will crumble.\n\nThe rhetoric this election season has been toxic, with voters becoming increasingly polarised.\n\nIt's a fight over values, traditions and about what being Spanish should mean in 2023.\n\nThis kind of heated identity debate isn't peculiar to Spain. Think of Italy, France, Brazil or the post-Trumpian debate in the US.\n\nBut Spain was already divided. It has been since the civil war in the 1930s and the following four decades of dictatorship under General Franco. To this day, there's never been an open debate here about victims and aggressors. Old wounds still fester.\n\n\"The hard-right, centre-right coalition represents a return to the past, to neo-Francoism,\" Ximo Puig, the former centre-left President of Valencia region told me at an end of campaign rally for Prime Minister Sanchez's centre-left PSOE party on Friday night.\n\n\"Liberal values like gay marriage - Spain was one of the first European countries to legalise it - or the freedom for people to decide their gender - all of that is endangered.\"\n\nMr Puig lost his job this week after a new Valencia government of the centre right PP, and hard-right Vox party were sworn in, following recent regional elections. Many in Spain believe Valencia is a weathervane for the wider country.\n\nXimo Puig, the former centre-left President of Valencia, seen here on the centre-left\n\nThe vice-president of Valencia is now a retired bullfighter from Vox, Vicente Barrera. He's also an apologist for the Franco regime.\n\nTo celebrate summer in Spain's third largest city, there have been bullfights every night in Valencia's packed arena. Women throw flowers and fans in appreciation at the colourfully dressed bullfighters below, as they tease and taunt their horned opponent and a brass band plays to the crowd's cries of \"Ole!\"\n\nVox was busy electioneering just outside the arena, playing a recording on loudspeaker loop of party leader Santiago Abascal promising to \"make Spain great again\".\n\nMost Vox activists refused to speak to us. But pensioner Paco was keen to share his thoughts:\n\n\"Vox defends family values and other traditions, including bullfighting,\" he told me. \"The left call us anti-democratic but they're the ones who don't respect democracy. They want us not to exist.\"\n\n\"I can't even walk into a lefty neighbourhood of Valencia wearing a shirt with a Spanish flag on it,\" 22-year-old Eloy added. \"If I do, people shout 'Facha! Fascist!' at me. It's not nice.\"\n\nDivisions here are so febrile, they're almost tribal.\n\nMany voters identify themselves by the pulsera, the ribbon they wear round their wrist. Yellow and red coloured ones, representing the flag of Spain are a sign of belonging to the right. Rainbow colours stand for LGBTQ+ rights and are also a symbol for the left.\n\nAll part of what many Spanish commentators describe as the current ''footballisation\" of politics here.\n\nBut that risks trivialising how deeply many Spaniards feel about their preferred value set, or how threatened they believe those values are by the other side.\n\nVox are vowing to \"make Spain great again\"\n\nI met Nieves feeling disenfranchised at Valencia's vibrant central market, where she now works. She says Spain may be doing better economically under Pedro Sanchez but the country's poorest weren't benefitting.\n\n\"This isn't now about choosing the extreme right. It's about extreme necessity. Salaries of hard-working people don't allow you to pay your bills. I was paid €4 an hour for years when I worked as a cleaner. I'm saying all this as a worker, a mother and as a housewife. Let's see what happens after Sunday's vote.\"\n\nNieves' sentiments are clear, but the percentage of Spaniards now saying they can live within their means has risen during Pedro Sanchez' time in government.\n\nEmployment figures have gone up. Spain has one of the lower inflation rates in Europe. Mr Sanchez got the EU to allow Spaniards to pay less for gas used to make electricity. He has raised Spain's profile internationally with strong support for Ukraine in its fightback against Russia.\n\nSo how come the anti-Sanchez attacks by the right fall on such fertile ground?\n\nA question I put to his science and innovation minister Diana Morant, formally a local mayor in Valencia region.\n\n\"We see the resurgence of the far-right across Europe,\" she told me. \"The right we have in Spain is not a moderate right. It uses the arguments of hate and tries to dehumanise our leader, the prime minister. While we were busy governing, they were spreading lies. But the people of Spain know what we stand for. Lies cannot win over truth.\"\n\nAt EU HQ in Brussels, there are huge concerns about a resurgence of hard-right nationalist parties across Europe.\n\nEsteban Gonzalez Pons is a key player for the centre-right PP\n\nEsteban Gonzalez Pons is from Valencia. He's a bigwig for the centre-right PP nationwide and in the European Parliament. I asked him if he was concerned it could damage his party's and Spain's reputation to jump into a coalition with Vox.\n\n\"I can tell you, Brussels isn't at all worried if my party ends up in a governing arrangement with Vox. There are all sorts of right-wing governments in the EU now. Look at Italy, Sweden, Finland and Austria.\"\n\n\"Actually,\" he added, \"The UK government is more right wing than Vox. So, thank you BBC for that question but what Brussels really wants is not to have any more communists in the government in Spain.\"\n\nThis election is a story of two Spains.\n\nThe face this country wakes up with after Sunday's election will be radically different depending on who wins. Each side claims the other threatens Spaniards' identity and future.\n\nBut I can't help wondering, considering the record temperatures and drought here - why the parties, and Spanish voters - haven't concentrated more in the leadup to Sunday's election on a very real existential crisis for Spain: climate change.", "The BBC's Azadeh Moshiri describes what it's like for people waiting at Rhodes airport, trying to get home.", "Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has appeared in court accused of directing banned group Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe 56-year-old Islamist from east London has also been charged with addressing meetings to encourage support for the organisation.\n\nAnother man, Khaled Hussein, 28, was charged on Monday, accused of being a member of the same group.\n\nBoth appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court and did not enter pleas.\n\nAn offshoot of Al-Muhajiroun was banned, or proscribed, in 2006 for glorifying terrorism.\n\nThat ban was expanded in 2010 to include a number of other names, including Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nChoudary was arrested in the capital by counter-terrorism detectives on 17 July, the same day as Mr Hussein, who is from Edmonton in Canada, was detained after getting off a flight at Heathrow.\n\nThe prosecution claims Choudary spoke to weekly online small groups from June 2022 until his arrest, giving lectures on the establishment of an Islamic State in Britain and how to radicalise people.\n\nHe remained silent in court during the 23 minute hearing, other than to confirm his name, date of birth and Ilford address.\n\nChoudary is accused of membership of a proscribed organisation, addressing Al Muhajiroun meetings to encourage support for a proscribed organisation and directing a terrorist organisation, contrary to section 56 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nMr Hussein is charged with being a member of Al Muhajiroun. Prosecutors allege he helped set up its Canadian branch and say he was \"in effect working for\" Choudary.\n\nBoth men were initially held under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and police had been granted extra time to question the suspects in detention before they were charged.\n\nChief Magistrate Paul Goldspring remanded both men in custody and said they should next appear in court at the Old Bailey on 4 August.\n\nNick Price, from the Crown Prosecution Service's Counter Terrorism Division, said: \"The charges relate to the proscribed organisation Al-Muhajiroun, also known as the Islamic Thinkers Society.\n\n\"Criminal proceedings against Mr Choudary and Mr Hussein are now active and they each have the right to a fair trial.\"", "The number of people living with major illnesses in England will rise nine times faster than the healthy working age population, projections show.\n\nBy 2040 nearly one in five will have health conditions such as dementia and cancer, up from one in six in 2019.\n\nThe Health Foundation, which did the analysis, said the population shift would have a major impact on the NHS.\n\nThe think tank said it would require a radical shift, with more care in the community, rather than hospitals.\n\nThe projections suggest there will be 9.1 million people with a major health condition by 2040, a 37% rise in the latest data from 2019.\n\nBy comparison, the number of healthy working-age people will increase by just 4%.\n\nMost of the increase is being driven by the ageing population, but there will be growing numbers of young people living in ill health too, the report said.\n\nThere will be particularly big increases in people living with anxiety and depression, chronic pain and diabetes.\n\nObesity is one of the major factors that will drive rises in illnesses.\n\nThis will more than offset the gains made by fewer people smoking, and lower cholesterol levels.\n\nLead researcher Anita Charlesworth said: \"The challenge of an ageing population with rising levels of major illness is not unique to the NHS.\n\n\"Countries across the globe face the same pressures. How well prepared we are to meet the challenge is what will set us apart.\n\n\"Over the next two decades, the growth in major illness will place additional demand on all parts of the NHS.\n\n\"But the impact will extend well beyond the health service too - and has significant implications for other public services, the labour market and the public finances.\"\n\nShe said while living with a major health condition would not necessarily exclude everyone from the workforce, many would be excluded.\n\nDr Layla McCay, of the NHS Confederation, which represents health managers, said the projections were \"worrying\" given the increased pressure and demand on the NHS which the changes would lead to.\n\nShe said there needed to be a greater focus on prevention to reduce the numbers living in ill health.\n\nAnd she added that investment in social care to support older people would also be needed: \"We know that investment in health will support our ageing population to live well with illness, as well as support economic growth.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nSaudi Arabian side Al-Hilal have permission to speak to Kylian Mbappe after making a world record £259m bid for the Paris St-Germain forward.\n\nThe 24-year-old France captain, who has a year left on his contract, has refused to sign an extension at the French champions and was not selected for their pre-season tour to Japan.\n\nPSG want to sell Mbappe now rather than see him leave for free next summer.\n\nNeymar's £200m move from Barcelona to PSG in 2017 is the current record.\n• None Which players have joined Saudi teams this summer?\n\nPSG activated Brazil forward Neymar's release clause to make him the most expensive player in the world.\n\nShould he move, Mbappe will have commanded two of the three highest fees paid for a player after joining PSG from Monaco for £166m in 2017.\n\nChelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham, Inter Milan and Barcelona have all expressed an interest in Mbappe, who has previously said he intends to leave PSG for free at the end of next season and is believed to prefer a move to Real Madrid.\n\nPSG are open to the idea of Mbappe leaving on loan this summer to see out the final year of his contract elsewhere.\n\nThis would allow him to join Real Madrid for nothing in 12 months' time, keep playing this season and generate a loan fee for PSG.\n\nChairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi has made clear his determination to take a tough stance and there have been suggestions Mbappe would not be selected for an entire year if he refused to break the present impasse. That eventuality would clearly have a negative impact on his hopes of playing for France at Euro 2024.\n\nAl-Hilal are one of the clubs owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. They have already signed Ruben Neves from Wolves and Kalidou Koulibaly from Chelsea this summer.\n\nMbappe has not commented on the bid but responded to a tweet from NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo, who joked: \"Al Hilal you can take me. I look like Kylian Mbappe\"\n\nThe Frenchman replied with a series of crying with laughter emojis.\n• None Mbappe signs lucrative two-year deal with the option of a further year to stay at PSG, turning down a move to Real Madrid.\n• None Scores hat-trick but France beaten on penalties in World Cup final by Argentina.\n• None Wins sixth Ligue 1 title of career and fifth with PSG.\n• None Mbappe tweets he wants to stay at PSG for now but will not extend his contract beyond 2024.\n• None Told by PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi he must sign a new contract if he wants to stay.\n• None Left out of PSG squad for pre-season tour of Japan and South Korea.\n• None French footballers' union says it could take legal action after accusing PSG of \"moral harassment\" for leaving Mbappe out of pre-season tour squad.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Tram company TOL and Transport for London have admitted failures relating to the fatal crash\n\nA survivor of the Croydon tram derailment has said he fears his life will be \"forever defined\" by the crash.\n\nSeven people died and 21 were badly hurt in the crash on 9 November 2016.\n\nStephen Kennedy's victim impact statement was among 10 read out to the Old Bailey on Monday.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) and Tram Operations Limited (TOL) are to be sentenced in a three-day hearing, after accepting failings in their health and safety duties.\n\nThey have been prosecuted by the Office for Road and Rail.\n\nThe tram, carrying 69 passengers, was travelling at three times the speed limit when it toppled over on a sharp bend near the Sandilands stop.\n\nThe people who died were Dane Chinnery, 19, Philip Seary, 57, Dorota Rynkiewicz, 35, Robert Huxley, 63, and Philip Logan, 52, all from New Addington, and Donald Collett, 62, and Mark Smith, 35, both from Croydon.\n\nThe driver of the tram, Alfred Dorris, was cleared , 49, from Beckenham, south-east London, was cleared after blaming the crash on external factors including poor lighting and signage.\n\nDorota Rynkiewicz, Dane Chinnery, Donald Collett, Mark Smith, Phil Seary, Philip Logan and Robert Huxley were killed in the derailment\n\nIn a statement read by prosecutor Jonathan Ashley-Norman KC, Mr Kennedy, 31, described the crash and how it had changed his life.\n\n\"It was like everything was moving in slow motion,\" he said. \"The carriage completely tipped over and I was thrown from my seat.\"\n\n\"Everything went dark. After a few moments the silence was broken by the most terrible screams.\n\n\"I tried to free my arm but it was completely trapped.\"\n\nMr Kennedy said the man sitting next to him, who had been talking to his wife on the phone moments before, was then lying on top of him, unresponsive.\n\n\"He had suffered a fatal head injury. This memory stays with me to this day.\"\n\n\"I remember other passengers stepping over me to get off the tram.\n\n\"I'm not sure how long I lay on the tram floor. The emergency services eventually arrived.\"\n\nMr Kennedy said he woke up at St George's Hospital in Tooting to be told that doctors had been unable to save his arm and it had to be amputated.\n\nMr Kennedy described his difficult recovery and learning to use a prosthetic limb as well as feelings of guilt for having survived.\n\nHe added: \"I fear my life will forever be defined by what happened on 9 November 2016.\"\n\nAmong the other victim impact statements was Jean Smith's, the mother of Mark Smith, 35, who died in the crash.\n\nMs Smith wept as she spoke of her \"nightmare journey\" after he was killed in the \"most brutal and avoidable way possible\".\n\nShe said that no amount of money or justice would bring her son back but getting accountability may \"bring some sense of peace\".\n\n\"We have to live with the consequences of other people's actions for the rest of our lives. I'm living a life sentence. It should never have happened.\"\n\nDuring the hearing, Tracy Angelo said her father Donald Collett was \"very protective and loving\" towards his family and friends.\n\nOn the effect of seeing aerial pictures of the crash site, she said: \"We know our darling, beautiful dad was in amongst that devastation and all he was doing was going to work.\n\nThe tram Alfred Dorris was cleared of failing to take care at work\n\n\"We all remain completely devastated and individually we will never be the same again.\"\n\nMr Ashley-Norman said the main failing of the companies was to make a suitable risk assessment of such a high speed derailment happening.\n\nHe said there were \"missed opportunities\" over the years to take a closer look at the Sandilands curve but action was not taken.\n\nThere was \"over-reliance on fallible humans\" and tram drivers were \"let down\" by their employer TOL, and by TfL, the court was told.\n\nDuring the trial of Mr Dorris, the same court heard how TfL and TOL had allowed a safety blind spot to develop and measures to control the risk of derailments were not in place.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Fraser is due to conclude on Thursday.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Temperatures in the final stages of the campaign have hit 40C and millions of voters will be on holiday\n\nSpain is holding a highly unusual election on Sunday at the height of a scorching summer, after four years of left-wing rule.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the vote in response to a dismal performance at the May local elections in which his Socialist party came second to main rival, the conservative Popular Party.\n\nNo general election in Spanish history has ever been held so late into the summer, with temperatures topping 40C in this country of 48 million people. The timing of the vote has been criticised when so many in Spain are on holiday, but 2.6 million voters have chosen to cast their ballot by post.\n\nThe Popular Party (PP) under Alberto Núñez Feijóo have their eye on victory but may struggle to form a government on their own.\n\nTo win a majority they need to secure more than half the 350 seats in the lower house of parliament. Spaniards will also vote for their upper house.\n\nThe conservatives may need the support of far-right party Vox, while Mr Sánchez will be able to look to left-wing grouping Sumar.\n\nLGBT and gender issues have become prominent campaign issues in the run-up to this election. Opposition parties PP and Vox have staunchly criticised the left-wing government's new laws on transgender rights - including making it easier for people to change their legal gender - and abortion.\n\nThey have also attacked Spain's controversial \"Only Yes Means Yes\" law on sexual consent. It was passed only last August but created a loophole that cut jail time for over 1,000 convicted rapists - and Mr Sánchez ended up having to apologise and push through changes.\n\nThe very existence of gender violence has been questioned by some Vox party officials, causing tensions with their potential conservative partners.\n\nNationalism has been a hot issue too. The PP and Vox have labelled Mr Sánchez a \"traitor\" for pardoning jailed pro-independence leaders and downgrading the crime of secession.\n\nOne highly effective right-wing tactic has involved targeting the prime minister with a slogan for relying on separatists to pass key reforms.\n\nHe has been denounced for his pact with Basque separatist party Bildu, led by Arnaldo Otegi, who was jailed for crimes by the Eta militant group.\n\nThe slogan \"Let Txapote vote for you\" accuses Pedro Sánchez of relying on the support of separatist killers\n\nThe slogan Que te vote Txapote, meaning \"Let Txapote vote for you\", refers to another Eta militant who carried out a number of deadly terror attacks.\n\nAs Spain experiences worsening droughts and heatwaves, most parties have measures to fight climate change. Only Vox's electoral programme fails to mention the issue entirely.\n\nThe biggest issue for most voters is the economy, even if much of the campaign has focused on other issues. Spain is enjoying a period of growth and inflation slowed to below 2% in June, one of the lowest levels in Europe.\n\nBut dismal jobless figures are one of the opposition's most frequent lines of attack against the current government. In May, Spain had the highest unemployment rate (12.7%) of all EU countries.\n\nPrime Minister Pedro Sánchez (L) called the snap election but Alberto Núñez Feijóo is favourite to win\n\nHe became the first politician in Spain to snatch power from a sitting prime minister through a no-confidence motion in 2018. Then he narrowly won a confidence vote in January 2020 to form Spain's first coalition government since democracy was restored in the late 1970s.\n\nPedro Sánchez, 51, is seen as a passionately pro-European integrationist and speaks English fluently; he has lectured in economics in Spain and had a spell working for the UN high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nHis brand of governing has been labelled Sanchismo, and his opponents have styled the election as a choice between Sanchismo or Spain, suggesting he is a threat to the country, its traditions and values.\n\nHe has spearheaded a law to bring dignity to victims of dictator Gen Francisco Franco, backed a rule giving workers the right to menstrual leave and laws expanding abortion rights.\n\nBut this snap election could be a gamble too far, as his party trails his conservative rivals. He has accused the PP of seeking to put Spain in a \"sinister time machine\" with the support of far-right Vox and take the country back to \"who knows where\".\n\nMr Feijóo has been less than enthusiastic about the prospect of a coalition with the far right\n\nThe Popular Party leader has knowingly cultivated a low-key image, saying recently that \"what for some may be boring, I think for the majority of citizens are qualities that a prime minister should have\".\n\nHe was seen to have won the only head-to-head TV election debate with Mr Sánchez, telling him he had no right to give lectures on governing pacts because the Socialist leader had relied on separatists.\n\nBut Mr Feijóo was later criticised for skipping the final televised debate before the election, which was attended by both his opponents, Mr Sánchez and Ms Díaz, and his potential coalition partner, Santiago Abascal.\n\nA former civil servant born in Galicia in Spain's north-west, he has led the conservatives since 2022.\n\nHe has gained a reputation as a safe pair of hands, serving as president of the former national health service and of the postal service.\n\nHowever, his rivals have highlighted 10-year-old rumours that he had a close friendship with a Galician drug trafficker and money launderer called Marcial Dorado.\n\nPhotographs of the two on holiday together on a yacht in 1995 were unearthed by Spanish daily El País in 2013.\n\nMr Feijóo says he was unaware Dorado was a criminal when the two became friends because \"back then we had no internet or Google\". Mr Sánchez has accused Mr Feijóo of lying, but the PP leader has hit back accusing him of using \"rubbish\" to seek to discredit him.\n\nSantiago Abascal's party takes a hard line on gay marriage, adoption by gay couples, abortion, euthanasia and transgender rights\n\nHe has led the far-right Vox party he helped found in 2014, and he is known for his controversial declarations. He has said he does not believe in climate change and he has criticised the \"totalitarian law of gender ideology\", which he claims criminalises men.\n\nLast month, he used the riots in France to call for tougher immigration policies. \"Europe is threatened by mobs of anti-Europeans… who are unwilling to adapt to our way of life and our laws,\" he said. \"Europe cannot continue to accept immigrants from Muslim countries.\"\n\nVox has already reached coalition deals with the conservatives in dozens of cities and three autonomous regions - Extremadura in the west, Valencia in the east and Castille and León, north of Madrid. In the Balearic Islands, Vox have reached a pact with the PP but have no positions in government.\n\nNow Mr Abascal is looking for a share of national power too.\n\nHe has cultivated strong ties with other European far-right and nationalist groups, from Hungary's ruling Fidesz and France's National Rally to the Brothers of Italy party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.\n\nMs Meloni has given Vox's election campaign her backing, recording a video to reaffirm the parties' \"great friendship\".\n\nYolanda Díaz has gained popularity in Spain for her headline-grabbing policies\n\nIf Vox are the potential kingmaker for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, then for the Socialists it would be Yolanda Díaz's Sumar (Unite) alliance of 15 left-wing groups.\n\nA former Communist, she has been Spain's second deputy prime minister as well as labour minister and she is keen to be Spain's first female leader too: \"because women's time has come, and women want to be the ones who make history\".\n\nSumar have made a big pitch for the youth vote, pledging €20,000 (£17,139) of funding to help 18-23 year-olds to kick-start their lives.\n\nMs Díaz is a popular politician who has helped increase the Spanish minimum wage to €1,259 and scrapped unpopular labour laws.\n\nSparks flew between Ms Diaz and Mr Abascal in the last televised debate before the election as the two clashed over issues of gender violence, while she and Mr Sánchez appeared to form a united front.\n\nWhile opinion polls have narrowed, the conservatives and Mr Feijóo are favourites to win. But they may need to form a coalition with Vox to form a majority and avoid repeat elections.\n\nThe last opinion polls published in Spain put the PP on 33%-36% of the vote and the Socialists on under 29%. Vox and Sumar are almost neck and neck on 12.5-13.5%.\n\nTo win an absolute majority a party needs 176 seats, so no party would win outright with these results.\n\nVox has made great strides in securing power-sharing deals with the conservatives in three autonomous regions, and lesser alliances have been reached in Murcia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands,\n\nBut Mr Feijóo is less than enthusiastic at the prospect of governing with the far right.\n\nThe PP leader has seemed rattled by his rival's accusations of a \"shameful\" pact with Vox.\n\nIn their TV debate Mr Feijóo said Vox's Mr Abascal would not be a member of a prospective PP government \"if I don't need the votes\". He even offered the Socialists' Mr Sánchez a pact for the losing party to support the winner so that neither would need to rely on either the hard right or left.\n\nBut Vox could be the only option. Last month Maria Guardiola, the PP president of the western Extremadura region, said she would never govern with a party that \"dehumanises immigrants\" and that \"rubbishes\" LGBT rights.\n\nShe later changed her mind and welcomed Vox into her government, stating that \"my word is not as important as the future of Extremadura\".\n\nAs well as taking a hard line on gay marriage, adoption by gay couples, abortion, euthanasia and transgender rights, another big issue that has driven support for Vox is its unequivocal stance on opposing Catalan nationalism.\n\nIt has also taken a dim view over the status of Gibraltar, a British overseas territory at the southern end of the Iberian peninsula.\n\nLast year Vox objected to reports of talks between the UK and Spain by warning that \"any agreement that does not go through the recognition of the Spanish sovereignty of Gibraltar is an act of treason against Spain\".", "George Alagiah, who has died aged 67, was one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists. Being a friend and colleague of the award-winning foreign correspondent was a privilege - writes Allan Little.\n\nGeorge and I were thrown together when we shared an office in Johannesburg in the Mandela years. So when I think of him I see him not in a television studio in London but on some red dust road, bathed in the light of Africa.\n\nEmpathy was his great strength. He radiated it. It was rooted in the deepest respect for the people whose lives and - often - misfortunes he was reporting on. He could talk to anyone - from heads of state to children in a refugee camp on the edge of a war zone. And everyone wanted to talk to him. You saw him winning their trust, responding to his effortless warmth. He wanted to do well by all of them - to be true and honest and fair.\n\nOnce we sheltered in a stairwell, after three mortar bombs landed close to the hotel we were staying in Central Africa. A colleague reported that heavy shelling had, as they put it, rocked the city centre. Later, George said to me quietly \"Allan don't say that. Heavy shelling didn't rock anything tonight. Three bombs fell close to where we happened to be and gave us a fright. Keep it in proportion.\" And I thought, not for the first time, \"My name is George Alagiah and I'm here to calm you down.\" George didn't want to be dramatic. He wanted to be true.\n\nGeorge could talk to anyone - he charmed these diamond miners in Sierra Leone\n\nI came to understand that I was learning from him at a time when I was still trying to find my own distinctive broadcasting voice. What did I learn? That good reporting, honest and true, is rooted in respect for others. That the best reporters have almost no ego. That they are never the story, but the means by which the voices of others can be heard. I hoped that the values he embodied and lived would rub off on me.\n\nGeorge wasn't just a good reporter; he was a good man. He was completely without malice. He carried his profound decency very lightly without a hint of sanctimony. He seemed unaware of his own instinct for kindness. When we worked in dangerous and morally troubling places, I looked to him for guidance. I loved his unflappability, his calm authority, his extraordinary wisdom. I thought of him as something like an older brother - someone I quietly looked up to, whose success I could admire and celebrate without envy. I'm not ashamed to say that I felt looked after by him. I thought when I was with George nothing bad could happen to me.\n\nI am aware I am in danger of making him sound a bit saintly - he wasn't. He was great fun. He could be a witty and sometimes hilarious raconteur - with a gift for sometimes merciless mimicry. And like all of us, he enjoyed a bit of intrigue and gossip.\n\nGeorge never shied away from complex stories - he went to meet his former Rwandan interpreter in prison\n\nThere is a word in the Nguni languages of Southern Africa that was, I think, George's lodestar. He spoke about it at a party to celebrate his 60th birthday in 2015: Ubuntu. It expresses the idea that human beings are bound together in a shared responsibility for each other.\n\nGeorge and I both interviewed Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who'd helped end South Africa's racist system of white-minority rule. He defined Ubuntu like this: \"I am me because you are you. I can never be free while you are enslaved. I can never be rich while you are poor. We two are connected.\"\n\nA young George, in striped top, at school in Ghana\n\nGeorge had been a migrant twice by the age of 11. Born in Sri Lanka, moved to Ghana and then to a boarding school in England.\n\nAdapting to new cultures and thriving were formative experiences. And it planted in him something that was also key to his talent: he could see how the world looked from the point of view of the Global South - the view from Africa and Asia especially - and convey that perspective to the living rooms of the globally prosperous.\n\nHe later went back to visit his old school\n\nGeorge would never have made such a claim for himself. Off screen he was funny, clever, entertaining, a generous friend and confidant. I told him once that the pan in companion came from the Latin word for bread, that the word carried in it the ingrained human desire to break bread with those we love and care about. He laughed and said, \"How do you know these ridiculous things?\" But I have had some of the richest experiences of companionability and conviviality at George's table, breaking bread.\n\nFor George was also full of a kind of energetic hope. There was something infectious about his optimism. You always walked away from time with George liking the human race more, feeling better about the world.\n\nHe brought that cheerful disposition to his cancer diagnosis. I rang him when I heard the news. \"It's much worse than the public statement implies, Allan,\" he confided. \"But I have great doctors.\"\n\nYears later, when the cancer had returned and we knew it would never go away, I sat with him in the garden of the London home he shared with Frances, his wife of 40 years. \"I'm not afraid to die,\" he said. \"There's no point in that. The only thing I find unbearably painful is the idea of Frances being left here on her own.\"\n\nGeorge dreaded having to leave his wife Frances behind\n\nAlways that in George. Others before self. I saw him one last time shortly before he died. He was very weak. \"Is it wrong to say that there is something positive in all this?\" he said. \"I've had the time to reflect on my life and make sense of it. Time to say to people the things I want them to know. Not everybody is lucky enough to get that…\n\nAnd the next word he used pierced me - and I still feel the sting of it: \"Not everybody is lucky enough to get that luxury.\" And he added in a moment of self-doubt: \"Is it bad, is it taboo, to say that about cancer?\"\n\nI was guided by him, taught by him, at a key time in my own life. I think I will be guided by him all my days. Becoming his friend, being exposed to his abundant affection, has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.\n\nUbuntu: I watched George close up while working in Africa. I marvelled at the way he engaged with people, and the way they reciprocated with their trust.\n\nFor in George's reporting there was an outstretched hand - the outstretched hand of a shared humanity, of solidarity.", "The Maremma sheep dogs' white coat means farmers can easily distinguish them from predators such as wolves\n\nSpecially-trained guardian dogs from the Alps could be used to help protect new born lambs from sea eagles.\n\nHighland falconers are training two Maremma sheep dogs to look out for the large birds of prey in the sky.\n\nThe breed - which have white coats and are easily distinguishable from animals like wolves - typically live with herds driving away predators.\n\nFarmers believe white-tailed sea eagles have killed hundreds of lambs over the last decade.\n\nIt is Scotland's largest bird of prey and was reintroduced on the west coast almost 50 years ago.\n\nFor years, Italian shepherds have used Maremma sheep dogs to scare off wolves - but falconers hope to train the dogs to look out for predators from above.\n\nJonathan and Daisy Ames from Rothiemurchus Falconry near Aviemore are training two young Maremma sheep dogs, called Luigi and Peaches, to protect newborn lambs.\n\n\"This particular breed dates all the way back to the Romans,\" said Mr Ames. \"They've been around for thousands of years.\"\n\nDuring the training - which currently happens for a short time each day - the falconers encourage the dogs to chase a drone with an eagle lure attached.\n\nThey want the dogs' protective instinct to kick in when they see a predator threatening a sheep.\n\nThe aim is for the dogs to live with and protect the herd full-time.\n\n\"It gives them aerial awareness training - and it's a bit of fun as well,\" said Mr Ames added.\n\n\"We have a white-tailed eagle here at the centre and whilst in a controlled environment, we will let the dogs see her eat what they think is a sheep carcass.\n\n\"So before they do go and try it for real, they should've seen a predator eating what they think is their sheep.\"\n\nSea eagles can have an 8ft (2.4m) long wingspan and are sometimes known as flying barn doors.\n\nThe powerful birds of prey can pick up geese and lambs depending on the weather.\n\n\"A lot of work has gone into bringing sea eagles back here and it does a lot of good for tourism and the ecosystem,\" said Mrs Ames.\n\n\"They're really bold birds, and they'll learn very quickly that lambs are an easy prey item to take for their chicks.\n\n\"But they will also quickly learn that there are predators with those lambs that run and bark at them.\n\n\"If the sea eagles get injured they can't hunt and feed their chicks, so they know that the lambs are no longer easy prey.\"\n\nThe dogs will patrol lambing paddocks, instead of trying to protect entire herds.\n\nMr Ames explained: \"From what we understand about eagle behaviour, they don't like heavy confrontation.\n\n\"If they perceive these barking dogs as a top predator, they don't want to want to go in and risk being injured.\"\n\nOnce the dogs are trained, they will join a larger flock in December so the sheep have a couple of months to get to know the dogs before they lamb.\n\nJohn Willie Gilles, the chair of the North Raasay Sheep stock club, has been a crofter since he left school.\n\nJohn Willie Gilles said the eagles are the biggest problems facing his lambs\n\nOver the last decade crofters in the Highlands say that hundreds of their lambs have been taken by sea eagles.\n\n\"It's been an issue since they were introduced,\" said Mr Gilles.\n\n\"We noticed a significant impact on our lambing percentages in 2012, anywhere where the birds were nesting. Our lambing percentages dropped 30% from one year to the next.\n\n\"There's no other reason that it would happen - I've seen enough bad weather and any other problems you can have.\n\n\"But they are the biggest problem we could have.\n\n\"It shows what happens every year: If they're not rearing chicks, they're not killing as many lambs.\n\n\"But if they are rearing chicks, then you're finding lambs with a hole in the ribcage and the soft tissue taken away.\n\n\"The heart, lungs and liver are taken away to feed the chicks.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't know what the solution is, but something's got to be done.\"\n\nMr Ames hopes that if the project is successful, it could secure funding to help other farmers.\n\nA NatureScot spokesperson said: \"The Sea Eagle Management Scheme provides a range of support to holdings affected by sea eagle predation of livestock.\n\n\"This includes support for new ideas proposed by farmers and crofters participating in the scheme, in our collaborative work to mitigate sea eagle predation.\n\n\"The use of guardian dogs to mitigate sea eagle predation in Scotland is a new approach and if there is interest from farmers and crofters in exploring this approach this is something we would consider as we have with other ideas.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Owen, a former advisor to Boris Johnson joins the House of Lords as its youngest member.\n\nA 30-year-old former adviser to Boris Johnson has joined the House of Lords as its youngest peer.\n\nCharlotte Owen was among several allies of the ex-prime minister who were given life peerages in his resignation honours list.\n\nShe was introduced to the Lords on Monday alongside Conservative Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen.\n\nMr Johnson's honours list was criticised by opposition parties for handing out peerages to his \"cronies\".\n\nShe will be known as Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge and will sit as a Conservative peer.\n\nAccording to her LinkedIn profile, Baroness Owen started her career as an intern in then-Chancellor George Osborne's constituency office.\n\nShe also worked as an intern for Mr Johnson when he was foreign secretary, as well as a parliamentary assistant to Conservative MPs Alok Sharma and Sir Jake Berry before joining No 10 as a special adviser in 2021.\n\nSir James Duddridge, who was given an honour by Mr Johnson in 2022 and previously worked as his parliamentary private secretary, told BBC Radio 4's Profile programme she was \"vital to the No 10 operation\".\n\n\"She linked the prime minister with the whole of the parliamentary party,\" he said.\n\n\"She would arrange meetings, feed in information for Boris just to have a quick 20 seconds before going into a meeting to understand what that meeting was going to be about.\"\n\nHowever, others have claimed she was a relatively junior figure.\n\nCharlotte Owen (centre) was present when Boris Johnson announced his resignation outside 10 Downing Street in July last year\n\nBaroness Owen wore traditional scarlet robes for the short introduction ceremony in the Lords, where she swore the oath of allegiance to the King.\n\nAt 30 years old, she is believed to be the youngest person ever to be given a life peerage, which are nominated by prime ministers, opposition leaders and other party leaders.\n\nThe House of Lords said it was not aware of any younger life peers, with its records stretching back to 1958.\n\nHowever, it said there were examples of hereditary peers who became members at a younger age.\n\nThe average age of members of the House of Lords is 71.\n\nLord Houchen was also introduced to the House of Lords on Monday\n\nLord Houchen of High Leven, who was also nominated for a peerage by Mr Johnson, has been the mayor of Tees Valley since 2017.\n\nSome opposition MPs had questioned whether he should be given a peerage while an investigation into claims of \"corruption\" at the Teesworks development is ongoing.\n\nHowever, Lord Houchen has defended his appointment, saying he was on the list because of his efforts on Mr Johnson's levelling-up agenda.\n\nHe denied any claims of corruption at Teesworks and said he had asked for the investigation.\n\nLords, except those who are government ministers or hold specific roles, do not receive a salary. However, they can claim £342 for each day they attend the House.\n\nMembers of the Lords play a role in shaping and scrutinising bills before the become law, as well as holding the government to account.\n\nIn June, the government confirmed Mr Johnson had nominated seven people for life peerages in his resignation honours list.\n\nOthers included Conservative London Assembly member and former mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and other former advisers to Mr Johnson Ben Gascoigne and Ross Kempsell.\n\nThe list was controversial, with some arguing Lord Bailey should decline his peerage over a lockdown party for his staff in December 2020, which is being reinvestigated by the Metropolitan Police.", "This will have a devastating impact on the island - Rhodes resident\n\nOn the Greek island of Rhodes, residents have been stepping up to help those affected by the wildfires. Antonis is a student living in Archaggelos, a village in the east of the island. Since the fires began, he's been bringing in supplies to help neighbours, firefighters and holidaymakers. But he says volunteers like him have received no help from the local government. \"There aren't any authorities to organise anyone... It's mainly schoolteachers and people from the village using their own money to buy food, medical equipment, masks and gloves,\" he says. Most of the tourists, Antonis adds, have been able to go back to their hotels - except for those staying in \"five or six\" hotels that have burnt down. Some locals have given up their own homes to provide beds for those tourists, as well as residents whose homes were damaged by the fires. \"The volunteers are alone. Our voices are not being heard by the Greek government and the local media,\" he says. \"This is going to have a devastating impact on the island, the economy and the climate,\" Antonis adds.", "A cryptocurrency project described as being \"dystopian\" has been launched by AI entrepreneur Sam Altman.\n\nWorldcoin gives people digital coins in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs.\n\nIn sites around the world thousands of people queued to gaze into silver orbs on day one of the project's full launch.\n\nThe BBC visited a scanning site in London where people received free crypto tokens after going through the process.\n\nMr Altman, the chief executive of Open AI which built chat bot ChatGPT says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot.\n\n\"Worldcoin could drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy,\" Mr Altman claimed in a launch letter on the company website.\n\nWorldcoin also claims that its system could pave the way for an \"AI-funded\" universal basic income. But it's not clear how.\n\nThe concept of a universal basic income sees all citizens paid a set salary regardless of their means.\n\nThe first step in this crypto utopia as laid out by Worldcoin though relies on getting millions, maybe even billions, of people to scan their irises to prove they are a human.\n\nSince testing of the scanners began two years ago, Worldcoin says more than two million people have been added to the crypto database in 33 different countries.\n\nAccording to the company most sign ups have happened in Europe, India and southern Africa.\n\nDespite the company's American foundation, the crypto coins are not being offered to US citizens due to regulatory concerns.\n\nNow that the project has fully launched and the crypto tokens are available to claim and to trade, it's expected to grow even more popular.\n\nWorldcoin posted a picture online of people queuing at a site in Japan and said it plans to roll out 1,500 Orbs in locations across the globe.\n\nThe BBC went to try it out at a pop-up site in east London and found a steady stream of people turning up.\n\nThe process starts with scanning your face and iris to prove you are a person. It takes about 10 seconds to stare into the Orb's camera lens and wait for a beep to confirm it has worked. Interestingly the Orb operator says the silver ball used to talk to users - but customer feedback described it as \"creepy\" so they removed the voice.\n\nThe next step is that your iris scan is given a unique number which is checked against the giant database to make sure it's the first time you've done it. If so, the ball beeps again and you are now on the database along with 2.06 million other humans at the time of writing.\n\n25 free Worldcoin tokens are awarded on completion which are currently valued at roughly $2 (£1.56) each. The BBC will sell the coins once they are received and donate any money to Children in Need.\n\nBy the time the BBC left the pop up site, 13 people had been scanned. All were men in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"I came after seeing Sam Altman tweeting about the launch,\" said 37-year-old Moses Serumaga.\n\n'It's good to be early to these things,' said Moses Serumaga after getting his iris scanned in exchange for crypto tokens.\n\n\"I saw that you could get some dollars for it so I thought why not? It could die like other crypto projects or it could be a big thing and go up in value. I didn't want to miss out,\" he said.\n\n23-year-old Tom also scanned his eyeball but said he didn't do it for the money as he doesn't think the value of the tokens will rise.\n\n\"I don't think that amount of money is enough of an incentive unless you live in less developed nations and I don't think there's much possibility of it going up further really,\" he said.\n\nThe scanning process has proven controversial with reports criticising some of the tactics used by orb operators who are paid in commission, with particular concern over those getting sign ups in poorer nations.\n\nPrivacy experts also worry that sensitive data gathered from scanning a person's iris might get in to the wrong hands, even though Worldcoin insists that no data is stored.\n\nEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote a lengthy blog about his concerns and optimism about Worldcoin\n\nVitalik Buterin, the co founder of cryptocurrency network Ethereum, responded to the Worldcoin launch expressing excitement about the project but also issuing a warning about its potential pitfalls.\n\n\"On the whole, despite the \"dystopian vibez\" of staring into an Orb and letting it scan deeply into your eyeballs, it does seem like specialized hardware systems can do quite a decent job of protecting privacy,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he also says that relying on the specialised orbs to carry out the scans could give Worldcoin too much power and make it hard to get the world on-board.\n\nTwitter founder and crypto enthusiast Jack Dorsey tweeted an apparent criticism of the project, describing its mission as \"cute\", and adding the dystopian warning: \"Visit the Orb or the Orb will visit you...\".\n\nMr Altman welcomed criticism, saying online that \"haters\" give his team energy. But he admitted the project was ambitious.\n\n\"Maybe it works out and maybe it doesn't, but trying stuff like this is how progress happens,\" he tweeted.", "\"Turmoil\" at the top of the Conservative Party is to blame for its slow progress on tackling Islamophobia, an independent review has found.\n\nProf Swaran Singh said the \"political upheaval\" of the past two years had impacted the party's efforts.\n\nThe Tories said there had been \"significant progress\" but there was \"still work to be done\".\n\nThe original inquiry was launched in 2020 following high-profile allegations of discrimination within the party.\n\nIn 2021 Prof Singh, a former equality and human rights commissioner, published a report, which found evidence of discrimination and anti-Muslim views at local association and individual level, although it said claims of \"institutional racism\" were not borne out by the evidence.\n\nHis latest review found the implementation of some of his recommendations had been \"slow\".\n\nIt said training at a local level is \"mixed\" and no formal process had been put in place to handle complaints of discriminatory behaviour involving the party's most senior members.\n\nThe report found individuals coming forward with allegations also needed better care.\n\n\"Politics is a rough business, but there is no reason why the complaints process should be indifferent or abrasive to the experience of individuals involved,\" it said.\n\nHowever, the team welcomed \"the wholehearted acceptance by the party\" of the need to implement its recommendations.\n\nSince the 2021 report was published, Boris Johnson was forced out as prime minister, while his successor Liz Truss lasted only 45 days in office after her economic policies sparked chaos in the financial markets.\n\nProf Singh wrote: \"The two years since the publication of the report have seen considerable political upheaval in the UK.\n\n\"In that time, the Conservative Party has had three leaders and seven chairs.\n\n\"This turmoil has impacted on the party's efforts to implement our recommendations.\n\n\"Change took longer than expected, and challenges resulting from the interdependencies between recommendations contributed to delays in implementation.\"\n\nBoris Johnson's resignation sparked months of instability in the Conservative Party\n\nHis review highlighted one case where a complainant experienced further distress after no sanction was completed after nearly a year from the judgement, while the offending continued \"undeterred\".\n\nThe review found that between April and June 2022, there had been 212 complaints to the Conservative Party relating to 137 incidents.\n\nOf these, five complaints were categorised as bullying or intimidation and three as sexual assault, while one complaint was about a member writing articles on an alt-right website.\n\nProf Singh made a number of new recommendations, including reviewing whether complaints against the most senior party members should be handled independently.\n\nConservative Party chairman Greg Hands said the party had made \"significant progress\" on Prof Singh's original recommendations, with 25 complete and just six ongoing.\n\n\"There is however still work to be done and this is a process of continual improvement,\" he said.\n\nProf Singh's original investigation considered a number of cases, including allegations against Zac Goldsmith's London mayoral campaign against Sadiq Khan in 2016 and comments made by former Prime Minister Mr Johnson in 2018, when he wrote that women wearing burkas looked like \"letter boxes\" or \"bank robbers\".\n\nThe review said such cases \"give an impression to some of a party and leadership insensitive to Muslim communities\".", "The number of modern slavery cases reported within the UK care industry has more than doubled in the past year.\n\nThere were 109 potential victims, exploited for personal or financial gain, between January and March - twice as many as the same period in 2022.\n\nBBC File on 4 obtained the figures from the government-approved anti-slavery helpline, run by charity Unseen.\n\nInvestigators trying to protect workers from being exploited say the care industry is now a \"top priority\".\n\nThe Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) - whose role is to protect workers from labour exploitation across the UK - told us there were 17 ongoing care sector investigations and that it was looking at more than 300 pieces of intelligence.\n\nUnseen says the rise in calls about the care sector in the past 12 months is because the government has made it easier for overseas social care staff to work in the UK post-Brexit - and fill thousands of job vacancies.\n\nAs the supply chain gets bigger, there's more chance for exploitation - says the charity.\n\nIn the year to March, the government had issued 102,000 skilled worker, health and care visas to foreign workers - that's up 171% on the previous year. In a statement, it told File on 4 that more than £17.8m had been spent policing modern slavery since 2016.\n\nIt's very rare to hear from a victim of modern slavery in person, but one woman who came to the UK on a work visa - and was forced to work gruelling hours as a carer - has told us her story.\n\nTerri was recruited as a home carer after replying to an advert in her own country\n\nStill frightened of her former employers, we're calling her Terri to protect her identity.\n\nRecruited by an agency in her home country in Africa, Terri was offered work in the UK as a domiciliary carer. The agency told her it would arrange her work visa and transport.\n\nShe was interviewed in person, took an English test, and had to provide proof of her work experience. She was promised a job as a care assistant in the UK through a care company. She was told she would earn up to £29,000.\n\nFor Terri, who was in an abusive marriage, the job was the perfect opportunity to escape with her three children.\n\n\"Butterflies were going through me, it was one of the best days of my life,\" she says.\n\nTerri brought her mother with her to the UK, so she could look after Terri's children. Although Terri would be provided with somewhere to stay through the care company, depending on where she was asked to work, the children and their grandmother went into private rented accommodation.\n\nTerri told us she found her work hours gruelling - up to 20 hours a day - and that she often worked seven days a week. The car she had been promised to travel between clients did not materialise, so she had to walk to appointments.\n\nWhen Terri eventually received her wages from the company two months later, it worked out at less than £2 an hour, which is illegal. Care workers (aged 23 or over) must be paid at least the National Living Wage of £10.42 - for their time at appointments, plus travel time to and from the office.\n\nTerri complained to the care company but it threatened to stop her work and cancel her visa.\n\nShe says other carers she got to know also warned her that the firm's owner had political links in her home country.\n\n\"That makes him very dangerous where we come from - you don't want to go against someone like that,\" she told us.\n\nHer low pay meant she was unable to continue paying rent for her mum and children - and they were forced to leave their accommodation.\n\nTerri was on a night shift while her mother and children spent the night on the streets. They were spotted by a member of the public and Terri was reported to social services.\n\nWhen they asked to see her rota they were shocked. \"This is too much, this is insane,\" she says they told her.\n\nSocial services helped Terri get placed in the National Referral Mechanism, the government system set up to identify and support victims of modern slavery.\n\nShe and her family are now in accommodation provided by social services and are being helped by the charity, Causeway. Terri is now seeking asylum in the UK - and until a decision is made she isn't allowed to work.\n\nThe Home Office has told her she has \"reasonable grounds\" to prove she was a victim of modern slavery.\n\nTerri's mother and children had to sleep rough while she worked a night shift\n\nThe care company Terri worked for is currently being investigated by another government department over the UK's skilled worker visa scheme, says Ian Waterfield, Head of Enforcement at the government-sponsored GLAA. He says the care industry has gone from \"not being on their radar\" to becoming a \"top priority\" in the past 18 months.\n\nModern slavery has infiltrated several employment sectors - including construction and car washes.\n\nThe total number of potential victims referred to the Home Office through the National Referral Mechanism in 2022 was almost 17,000 - the highest number ever recorded.\n\nThe National Police Chief's Council told us it had a dedicated team leading work to \"understand and tackle\" the problem - and that currently there were more than 3,500 active investigations across England and Wales.\n\nHowever, prosecuting cases is difficult. Last year, England and Wales police forces logged nearly 10,000 cases. But half of these were closed because offenders couldn't be tracked down and less than 2% resulted in charges.\n\n\"Victims of modern slavery are extremely vulnerable,\" says Sara Thornton, the former Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner.\n\n\"They will be in terror of the people who've trafficked or enslaved them, who will tell them there's no point going to the police or the local authority or a charity because they won't support you.\"\n\nMs Thornton says the Illegal Migration Bill - which passed into law last week - will make it even harder to support vulnerable victims. The new law allows the government to legally detain and remove all people who unlawfully enter the UK.\n\nShe believes traffickers will use this to persuade their victims not to go to the police, adding that she thinks it is \"a grave, grave concern\" that there is currently no anti-slavery commissioner in place.\n\nTerri is still haunted by her experience. \"There are times when I still have nightmares about what went down at that job,\" she says.\n\nShe now wants to qualify as a nurse.\n\nCorrection: Based on GLAA figures, an earlier version of this article stated there were 300 ongoing care sector investigations. The GLAA has since corrected that figure to us, to 17 investigations and more than 300 pieces of intelligence. The article has been updated accordingly.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "George Ezra was the weekend's final headliner, after Pulp and Paolo Nutini\n\nAs he headlines the Latitude Festival, George Ezra offers some redundant instructions.\n\n\"Halfway through this song,\" he tells the audience, \"I'm going to introduce you to some words and we're going to sing them together.\"\n\nThe audience don't need asking. They already know the drill. They've been singing at the top of their lungs all day.\n\nBy luck or design, festival organisers have planned a whole day of singalongs. A Radio 2 playlist of golden oldies and modern classics.\n\nEzra is at the top of the bill, playing the last show of his 18-month world tour.\n\nBut 12 hours earlier, the main stage in Suffolk opened with Manchester indie band James, celebrating their 40th anniversary by reworking their back catalogue with an orchestra and a gospel choir.\n\nThey start with an ace - a hushed version of Sit Down that blows away any campsite cobwebs in the audience.\n\n\"We came on at this time, where there wouldn't be any noise pollution, so we could do some of our more quiet songs,\" says frontman Tim Booth.\n\nFrustratingly, they almost squander the goodwill, continuing the set with the 2010 album track Dust Motes and an obscure b-side, The Lake. Even Booth admits these tracks will test the audience's \"concentration and patience\", which makes you wonder why they bothered.\n\nBut when they turn to the hits - Tomorrow, Born Of Frustration, Laid - everything comes to life. Then an audience member screams, \"Play Say Something!\" and, to his surprise, the band agree.\n\n\"Don't tell anyone we took a request,\" asks Booth. \"It'd be terrible if this caught on.\"\n\nThe highlight is Sometimes, which ends with a long, lingering chorus that alternates between the choir and the crowd. The band line up at the front of the stage to take it in, clearly moved at the response.\n\nThe stage manager feels the same - and gifts them an extra 10 minutes to keep the magic flowing.\n\nSophie Ellis-Bextor was a huge favourite with the audience\n\nAfter Ireland's Picture This deliver some high-energy pop kicks, The Bootleg Beatles take the stage, boasting the rather unfair luxury of the world's best song catalogue to construct their setlist from.\n\nThankfully, they avoid Maxwell's Silver Hammer and open with the mop top classics - Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, Help - before swerving into the post-Pepper era with I've Got A Feeling, Get Back and Come Together.\n\nThey illustrate the two halves with era-appropriate costume changes, transforming from clean-cut youngsters to shaggy-haired iconoclasts.\n\n\"It's amazing what LSD can do for your hair,\" quips the Bootleg John Lennon.\n\nThe set ends with Hey Jude (what else?) which produces more na-nas than Fyffes.\n\nSophie Ellis-Bextor covers Madonna's Like A Prayer, but she's more like a Ray of Light - high kicking and shimmying around the stage, saying hello to everyone in the audience while streamers flail from her epaulettes.\n\nComplying with proper festival etiquette, she completely ignores her new album to play a Kitchen Disco set that interspersed her hits with covers of Moloko's Sing It Back and Mojo's Lady (Hear Me Tonight).\n\nBut the emotional high point comes when she introduces her mum, former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis, who was watching from the side of the stage.\n\n\"This is her first ever festival,\" Sophie announces. \"It's taken me 25 years to get her to come to a field… It's a bit like seeing the Queen.\"\n\nAs she plays Young Blood - written about the enduring love between her mum and step-dad John Leach, who died in 2020 - the camera pans to Ellis, wiping tears from her eyes.\n\nThe Proclaimers throwback rock and roll set included Letter From America, I'm Gonna Be and Then I Met You\n\nAfter a brief reset, Scottish rockers The Proclaimers take the reins, attracting a massive crowd who just want to belt out (I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles.\n\nNewcomer Mimi Webb has a smaller, younger, but no less enthusiastic audience, chanting her name and sitting on parent's shoulders to scream the words to Red Flags and House On Fire.\n\nWebb's parents also make an appearance - staging a stage invasion to present her with a 23rd birthday cake and lead everyone in an impromptu chorus of Happy Birthday.\n\nThe singer later confesses her birthday wish in 2022 had been to play Latitude.\n\n\"That was my goal for this year [and] I am so, so stoked to be here.\"\n\nMimi Webb was the first act to play the main stage on Sunday who'd had a top 20 hit in the last decade\n\nEzra gets the biggest crowd of the entire weekend, and a young one too - toting glow sticks, bubble guns and Pokemon hats as they dance around to his effortlessly sunny pop songs.\n\nIt would take a hard heart not to warm to tracks like Anyone For You, Budapest, and Paradise, all of which hold the tantalising promise of escape (a dream everyone is trying desperately to hold onto, as the festival ends and they face the quagmire of the carpark).\n\nWhen he switches to the romantic beauty of Hold My Girl, you can hear a pin drop; and when he plays the ebullient Green Green Grass - \"a celebration of life\" - the party spills out beyond the Obelisk arena, with kids and parents dancing around the food stalls.\n\nEzra said Latitude was the final date of his extended world tour\n\nEzra's job seems simple - but writing life-affirming pop songs is much harder than moping around being edgy. The audience embrace him not because he's cool, but because there's a mountain top we're all dreaming of.\n\nThe BBC Sounds tent caters to the audience who want something more visceral, with a noisy, jolting set from Black Midi; and a rare chance to see Siouxsie Sioux, playing only her second UK gig in 10 years.\n\nShe twists bewitchingly across the stage in a silver jumpsuit, punching out the beats of goth-punk anthems like Spellbound, Happy House and Hong Kong Garden.\n\nHer still-loyal fans are so eager to get close that she has to admonish them.\n\n\"You're all packed in like sardines,\" she declares before launching into Kiss Them For Me. \"You need some room to dance\".\n\nBack on the main stage, Ezra is about to wrap up.\n\n\"We've been on tour playing these songs for 18 months and this is our last show,\" he declares.\n\n\"It has been an absolute pleasure to share it with you.\"\n\nThen he launches into Shotgun, his biggest, singalongiest number, augmented by fireworks and confetti and arms being punched in the air.\n\nBut, as if to prove a point, Latitude didn't let their headliner have the last word.\n\nAs the audience file away, the speakers start playing Matthew Wilder's 1980s oddity Break My Stride.\n\nAnd that, for no apparent reason, becomes the closing chorus of Singalong Sunday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEleven people have died after the roof of a school gymnasium in north-east China collapsed while it was being used by a girls' volleyball team, state media reports.\n\nMany of the victims are children, eyewitnesses told local media, although this is yet to be officially confirmed.\n\nOnly eight of the 19 people who were inside the gym in the industrial province of Heilongjiang survived.\n\nPolice have detained the bosses at a local construction company, according to local media.\n\nThey have been accused of dumping perlite, a form of volcanic glass, on the roof of the gym while working on an adjacent building project.\n\nThe mineral had soaked up rain water following heavy downpours, which sent the roof into a collapse at 15:00 local time (07:00 GMT).\n\nThe coach of the middle school's girls' volleyball team was heard calling out the students' names as rescue teams clawed through the rubble in Qiqihar city, China National Radio reported.\n\nParents have criticised school officials, saying there had been a lack of proper communication on the rescue effort, which stretched until Monday morning.\n\n\"They tell me my daughter is gone but we never got to see the child. All the children had their faces covered with mud and blood when they were sent to the hospital. I pleaded, please let me identify the child. What if, that wasn't my child?\" one man said in a video that has been widely-shared on social media.\n\n\"What have [the authorities] been doing four, five, or even six hours after the children were sent to hospital? ... Doctors are not communicating with us about how the rescue is going.\n\n\"We have elderly people at home, we need to [help them] be mentally prepared. There are doctors, police officers and other government officials here. But we have not heard anything from you,\" he said.\n\nMany users on social media in the country echoed concerns from the father in the video, questioning the treatment of worried parents by the police and officials at the scene.\n\n\"Do people mean nothing to them?\" wrote one angry user.\n\nOthers questioned why perlite was present on the roof of the gym in the first place. \"The cost for breaking the law is too low in this country, people don't have any respect for the law, that's the key reason,\" another user wrote.\n\nLax safety standards and poor enforcement have made industrial accidents common in China\n\nConstruction accidents are common in China and have been blamed on lax safety standards and poor enforcement.\n\nIn June, an explosion at a barbecue restaurant in north-west China killed at least 31 people. A preliminary investigation found that a restaurant employee was replacing a broken valve on a liquefied gas tank when the blast occurred.\n\nIn April, a fire at a Beijing hospital killed 29 and led some desperate survivors flee by jumping out of the windows.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsraeli police clashed with crowds of protesters at night after parliament adopted a highly controversial law to limit the Supreme Court's powers.\n\nThe measure - part of a big reform package - will prevent the court from overruling government actions it considers unreasonable.\n\nPolice in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv used water cannon to disperse protesters blocking highways.\n\nAfter months of mass street protests over the judicial reform Monday's Knesset (parliament) vote was an important victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\n\nBut the battle is not over. It may go on for months.\n\nA political watchdog group and centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid plan to petition the Supreme Court to annul the new law.\n\nMoreover, Israel's Histadrut trade union confederation has threatened a general strike and thousands of military reservists, including air force pilots, have vowed to not report for duty if the law is allowed to stand.\n\nFor a country that prides itself on its ability to respond fast to any kind of threat, the fact that Israel's very security might be compromised is causing real anxiety.\n\nMr Netanyahu has insisted the law is necessary for the government to \"carry out policy in line with the decision of the majority of the citizens of the country\".\n\nBut he said he was willing to resume talks with the opposition, even until November, to find an all-inclusive agreement.\n\nThe planned reforms have triggered some of the biggest protests in Israel's history. On Monday at least 22 people were arrested, police said.\n\nOpponents fear the changes could undermine the country's democratic system, tipping it into authoritarian territory.\n\nThey worry that nationalist and ultra-Orthodox religious parties allied to Mr Netanyahu will be able to shape policy with unchecked power.\n\nBut the government argues that the reforms are necessary to correct an imbalance in power which has seen the courts increasingly intervene in political decisions.\n\nThe so-called \"reasonableness\" bill was approved by 64 votes to 0, after the opposition boycotted the final vote.\n\nMounted police tried to move protesters off Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv\n\nThe White House - a key ally of Israel - called it \"unfortunate\" that the law had been passed.\n\nThe vote brings to a head months of turmoil, with Israel's president warning political leaders on Monday that the country was \"in a state of national emergency\".\n\nThe street protests outside the Knesset lasted all of Monday, amid a cacophony of noise from drums, whistles and air horns.\n\nA demonstrator lying in the street told the BBC he was defying \"dictatorship\", adding that his grandfather had been a wartime codebreaker against the Nazis at the UK's famous Bletchley Park.\n\nAsked how long he would stay put he said: \"We will never surrender\".\n\nAnother, Reut Yifat Uziel, the daughter of a paratrooper pictured in an iconic Israeli photograph of the capture of the Western Wall in the 1967 Middle East war, said she feared for her children's future.\n\n\"Netanyahu kidnapped the country and I am worried it will become a theocracy,\" she said.\n\nReut Yifat Uziel said she feared for her children's future\n\nThe protesters - tens of thousands of whom marched some 45 miles (70km) from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem at the end of last week - set up camp in a park between the Knesset and the Supreme Court, which are located almost next to each other.\n\nMr Netanyahu was in parliament for the vote hours after being discharged from hospital following unscheduled surgery for a pacemaker on Saturday.\n\nThe controversial reforms have polarised Israel, triggering one of the most serious domestic crises in the country's history.\n\nHundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets weekly since the start of the year in protest at what they say is an attack on democracy.\n\nFormer heads of Israel's security services, chief justices, and prominent legal and business figures have also been vocal against the government's reforms.\n\nThe measures have also been criticised by the US President Joe Biden, who in his most explicit comments yet called for the \"divisive\" reforms to be postponed.", "The singer began performing rock and roll in the early 1960s but became well-known in the country and western music scene\n\nSinger and songwriter Raymond Froggatt has died aged 81, his bandmate has confirmed.\n\nKnown to his fans as \"Froggy\", the Shropshire-based musician had success in the 1960s providing top-ten hits for The Dave Clark Five and Cliff Richard.\n\nThe performer \"never lost his love for music\" and continued to tour with his band in later life while writing and performing his own songs.\n\nHe died at Shrewsbury Hospital on Sunday.\n\nIn 1968, The Dave Clark Five got a top ten hit with Froggatt's The Red Balloon, with the original version of the song making it to the top three in the Netherlands.\n\nRaymond Froggatt formed his band in the early 1960s\n\nHartley Cain, who was Froggatt's guitarist in the 1960s, fondly remembered him as a \"close and dear friend\" who was \"really generous\".\n\nThe songwriter grew up in Birmingham and spent much of his later life in Telford after falling in love with Shropshire while visiting friends, Cain said.\n\nHe became well-known in the country music scene and recorded about 40 albums.\n\nThe singer grew up in Birmingham and later lived in Shropshire\n\nIn 1965, he formed The Raymond Froggatt Band made up of Lou Clark and Len Ablethorpe in addition to Cain. The group toured England and France before being signed by Polydor Records in 1967.\n\nPerformers Leapy Lee, Daniel O'Donnell, Dominic Kirwan and Gladys Knight are among those who have covered his material.\n\nHis love of music remained strong and he continued to tour in later life, a colleague and friend said\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Dan Kaszeta was blocked from addressing the Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference after attacking government policy on social media\n\nControversial guidance used to vet potential speakers for government-organised events will be changed, a Cabinet Office minister has said.\n\nThe advice saw weapons expert Dan Kaszeta banned from addressing the Ministry of Defence due to criticisms he made of the government on Twitter.\n\nMr Kaszeta called the decision an \"outrage against free speech\".\n\nHe has since received an apology and the government has said it is now reviewing the advice.\n\nIn a written statement, published on Thursday, Cabinet Office Minister Jeremy Quin said the guidance had originally been developed to help civil servants avoid issuing speaking invitations to \"individuals or organisations who have expressed or supported extremist views\".\n\nThe aim, he said, was to prevent events from taking place which \"might lead to the impartiality of the civil service being called into question or its reputation otherwise brought into disrepute\".\n\nHowever, Mr Quin said the guidance was not being used in the way it was originally intended and that there was a risk of it being misinterpreted.\n\n\"It is important that we protect civil service impartiality but not in a way that could result in adverse unintended consequences,\" he added.\n\nThe minister said he had decided to withdraw the current guidance, review it and reissue it in the early autumn \"having ensured that the guidance strikes the right balance\".\n\nIn a letter sent to Mr Kaszeta's lawyers, seen by BBC Newsnight, the government says it does not accept that the guidance is \"unlawful\" but adds - as set out in the written statement - that the Cabinet Office Guidance and the Diversity Network Guidance are being reviewed.\n\nThe letter adds that both documents are \"likely to be revised\" following the review.\n\nThe decision comes three months after Mr Kaszeta - a global expert on nerve agents - was told he could not attend a Ministry of Defence conference because civil servants had \"identified material that criticises government officials and policy\" on his social media platforms.\n\nIn April, Mr Kaszeta, told BBC Two's Newsnight he was \"outraged\" that the government's trawl through his Twitter account - on which he had criticised Brexit and the government's asylum policy - meant he was no longer able to attend the conference on chemical weapons demilitarisation (CWD).\n\nIn an email from the Ministry of Defence, Mr Kaszeta was told: \"The check on your social media has identified material that criticises government officials and policy. It is for this reason and not because we do not value your technical insight, that I'm afraid that we have no choice and must cancel your invitation to the CWD conference.\"\n\nIn another example of a speaker being banned for criticising the government, Prof Kate Devlin saw herself disinvited from an event about women in tech.\n\nThe artificial intelligence expert told the Independent she was blocked from attending due to her criticisms of the government's Online Safety Bill.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said: \"The government is committed to protecting free speech whilst maintaining civil service impartiality. We are reviewing the guidance and have temporarily withdrawn it to prevent any misinterpretation of the rules.\"", "Labour's leadership says it has agreed an ambitious programme for government without a need for new spending commitments.\n\nLabour's Policy Forum in Nottingham brought together representatives of the shadow cabinet, rank and file party and Labour-supporting trade unions.\n\nIt is part of the process of drawing up a manifesto for government, although not the final word.\n\nSome unions had been pressing for more generous pledges.\n\nOften in such meetings, compromises are reached behind closed doors.\n\nBut Labour leadership sources say they stood firm over the three days of talks in opposing any policy proposals that would have led to new spending commitments.\n\nThe sources insist they had been determined not to give unnecessary ammunition to their political opponents.\n\nA spokesman said: \"This weekend is proof that Keir Starmer has changed the Labour Party, and is ready to change the country in government built on the rock of economic responsibility.\"\n\nOne union, USDAW, which saw its hopes of changes to the benefits system dashed, nonetheless described the policy discussions as constructive.\n\nThe GMB union said that \"after several days of negotiations\", it had secured an \"historic commitment\" to strengthening equal pay rights.\n\nThe party's largest union funder, Unite, was far less pleased.\n\nIn a statement, the union accused the Labour leadership of watering down existing commitments' to workers' rights and ending zero-hours contracts.\n\nIt said: \"As the general election draws nearer Keir Starmer has to prove Labour will deliver for workers and we need clear policies on this.\"\n\nIt described the policy-making process as \"chaotic.\"\n\nThe left-wing group Momentum criticised what it called Sir Keir Starmer's \"fiscal conservatism\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"This has put paid to any hope of the bold, transformative policies we need.\"\n\nHe argued that a higher minimum wage, and free school meals, would have been popular policies but had been rejected.\n\nFurther discussions will take place with the unions before a final election manifesto is agreed.\n\nBut the party leadership has been focussed on emphasising one message above all for the wider electorate - that it would not promise what it does not think it can deliver in government.", "The film's marketing campaign has been huge - and hugely successful - with debut takings worldwide of $337m (£293m)\n\n'Barbenheimer' fever took hold in the UK as Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig's Barbie took £30m on their opening box office weekend.\n\nAccording to the UK Cinema Association, that makes it the most successful weekend for UK cinema-going since 2019.\n\nThat year, Disney blockbuster Avengers: Endgame opened with takings of £43.7m.\n\nThe Vue cinema chain said this weekend marked the second biggest in its history by admissions.\n\nBarbie is now on track to become the biggest film released so far this year, ahead of Super Mario Bros.\n\nA more detailed breakdown of the weekend's UK box office figures will be published later on Monday.\n\nBarbie's marketing campaign has been huge - and hugely successful - with debut takings worldwide of $337m (£293m).\n\nUS and Canada takings were enough to make it the biggest opener of 2023 so far in that region.\n\nThe film took an estimated $155m (£120m) according to distributor Warner Bros, while Oppenheimer made $93.7m (£72m), Universal Pictures said.\n\nThe North American box office figure broke the opening weekend record for a female director, easily overtaking the $103.3m opening of Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman.\n\nBoth films have been a welcome relief for cinemas who are battling against the juggernaut of streaming.\n\nOppenheimer's plot is centred on the development of the first atomic bomb, starring Cillian Murphy and directed by Christopher Nolan.\n\nBarbie tells a coming-of-age story of the children's character where she explores her identity and encourages friend Ken to establish individuality.\n\nAccording to Billboard, film polling service PostTrak reported that women made up 65% of the Barbie audience, while 40% of ticket-buyers were under the age of 25.\n\nIt wasn't all plain sailing for Barbie, however. In China, the world's second biggest movie market, the film opened in fifth place.\n\nIndian cinemagoers were in for a surprise at one screening of Nolan's film Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy\n\nIt took just $8.2 million in its opening three days, according to data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway, although it's not unusual for Chinese audiences to favour homegrown cinema over Hollywood and some analysts considered that hitting the $8m mark was above expectations.\n\nMeanwhile, Indian cinemagoers were in for a surprise at one screening of Nolan's film, which was reportedly accompanied by Barbie subtitles.\n\n\"Friend of my cousin posted on insta that a cinema played Oppenheimer with Barbie subtitles,\" wrote Twitter user Sapun.\n\nBarbie's release was delayed in Pakistan's Punjab province on Friday over \"objectionable content\", officials said.\n\nOppenheimer director Christopher Nolan's interview with BBC Culture editor Katie Razzall is on the BBC iPlayer for 11 months.", "Moscow's mayor says \"two non-residential\" buildings were hit in the drone attack\n\nRussia has accused Ukraine of being behind a drone attack that damaged at least two buildings in the capital Moscow early on Monday morning.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry said two drones were \"suppressed and crashed\", adding that there were no casualties.\n\nRussia's state-owned Tass news agency reported that one drone fell close to the defence ministry.\n\nUkrainian officials are yet to comment, but they rarely claim responsibility for attacks inside Russia.\n\nIn a separate development, Russian-installed officials ordered people to evacuate one district of Crimea - the Ukrainian southern peninsular annexed by Moscow in 2014 - after a reported overnight Ukrainian drone attack.\n\nKremlin-appointed regional head Sergei Aksenov said an ammunition depot was hit in the northern Dzhankoi area, and residents of nearby villages were told to leave their homes. He reported no casualties.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine said four people were injured and a grain hangar was destroyed in an overnight Russian drone attacks on two ports on the River Danube, an alternative export route to the Black Sea, its southern Odesa region.\n\nRussia has been launching near-constant attacks on the Odesa region - where Ukraine's major Black Sea ports are located - since Russia withdrew from a landmark grain deal last week.\n\nIn Moscow, the city's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the drone strikes in the Russian capital hit \"two non-residential\" buildings around 04:00 local time (01:00 GMT). In a post on social media, he added that the buildings had not sustained any major damage.\n\nBut state news agencies reported that some drone fragments were found just 2km (1.2 miles) away from the defence ministry's buildings.\n\n\"A Kyiv regime attempt to carry out a terrorist act using two drones on objects on the territory of the city of Moscow was stopped,\" the Russian defence ministry said in a statement.\n\nRussian news agencies reported that drone debris was also found along the city's Komsomolsky Avenue. Moscow's transport department wrote on Telegram that traffic along the route was blocked and photos showed emergency services working at the scene.\n\nTraffic was also stopped on Likhachev Avenue, where a high-rise office building was damaged. Footage published on the military Zvezda TV channel showed missing windows at the top of the building.\n\nMoscow has accused Ukraine of a host of drone attacks on its territory in recent months.\n\nEarlier this month, Russia said Ukraine launched a drone attack on Moscow, forcing flights to be diverted from Vnukovo International Airport. Ukraine did not claim responsibility.\n\nAnd in May Kyiv denied carrying out a drone attack on the Kremlin, which Russia said amounted to an attempt on President Vladimir Putin's life.\n\nMonday's attack comes just a day after Russia targeted Odesa with missile strikes, destroying the historical Transfiguration Cathedral.\n\nUnesco, the UN's cultural agency, said it was \"deeply dismayed and condemns in the strongest terms\" the attack on the historic centre of Odesa.\n\n\"They will definitely feel this,\" he said during his nightly address from Kyiv. \"The target of all these missiles is not just cities, villages or people. Their target is humanity and the foundations of our entire European culture.\"", "Spotify is raising the price of its single-account premium plan for the first time since 2011 and hiking other services as well.\n\nIn the UK, subscriptions will rise by £1 a month to £10.99 for an individual plan, £14.99 for a premium duo plan and £17.99 for a family plan.\n\nThe price of a student plan remains unchanged at £5.99.\n\nIt follows other streaming services which have also increased subscription costs.\n\nSimilar price hikes also apply to the US, Canada and 49 other territories.\n\nIn the US, the cost will go up from $9.99 to $10.99 (£8.57) for those with an individual plan.\n\nThe premium duo service will increase from $12.99 to $14.99, the family plan from $15.99 to $16.99, and the student plan from $4.99 to $5.99.\n\nIn its latest financial results, Spotify said that it beat forecasts by adding 36 million monthly active users between April and June, taking the total to 551 million. Of those, 220 million pay for subscriptions.\n\nHowever, the company's pre-tax losses swelled to €241m (£207.3m) over the three months compared to a €90m loss in the same period last year. Sales rose to €3.1bn but missed analysts' expectations of €3.2bn.\n\nSpotify's chief executive Daniel Ek said the company had a \"very strong quarter\", although its share price dropped by more than 11% after it revealed its results.\n\nMr Ek spoke about the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) might play in the future, such as summarising lengthy podcasts or helping to lower the cost and difficultly of producing audio advertisements.\n\nIn February, Spotify unveiled its \"AI DJ\", which it billed as a personalised \"DJ in your pocket\" that would deliver \"a curated line-up of music alongside commentary\".\n\nOn Monday, Spotify said it was raising prices \"to help us continue to deliver value to fans and artists on our platform\".\n\nSpotify said users \"will be given a one-month grace period before the new price becomes effective, unless they cancel before the grace period ends\".\n\nThe music giant cut 6% of staff in January, citing a need to improve efficiency.\n\nSpotify has been reducing its reliance on the big celebrity signings and expensive original content that have weighed on its bottom line, with the Duchess of Sussex's podcast among high-profile casualties.\n\nIn 2020, Meghan and Prince Harry signed an exclusive deal reportedly worth about $20m.\n\nThat ended last month after the duke and duchess's Archewell Audio parted ways with Spotify in what was said to be a mutual decision.\n\nA deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company also ended last year.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex's podcast Archetypes, which ran for 12 episodes from August 2022, was not renewed for a second series\n\nIn an April earnings call, Mr Ek said the company would \"like to raise prices in 2023\".\n\n\"When the timing is right, we will raise it and that price increase will go down well because we're delivering a lot of value for our customers,\" Mr Ek said.\n\nThe company had already raised prices of US family plans and UK student, duo, and family plans in 2021. Individual subscriptions were previously unaffected.\n\nApple Music, Peacock, Netflix, Max, and Paramount+ have also recently raised subscription prices.\n\nThe new Spotify Premium cost matches the monthly plans of competitors Apple Music and Amazon Music.\n\nThe company will continue to offer a free plan that includes advertising.", "Michael Gove is to relax planning rules in England in an effort to create more homes in \"the hearts of our cities\".\n\nThe levelling up secretary says he wants to make it easier to convert empty retail premises and betting shops into flats and houses.\n\nBut critics say such conversions are often poor quality.\n\nIt comes as Rishi Sunak insists his party will meet its commitment to building a million homes before the next election, expected in 2024.\n\nA report by the Commons housing committee earlier this month found that while ministers are on track to deliver its one million homes target they are not expected to meet their other commitment to deliver 300,000 new homes every year by the mid-2020s.\n\nHitting that figure became harder after the government watered downhousing targets for local councils following a fierce backlash from its own MPs, many of them in rural constituencies.\n\nThe prime minister said his government would not be \"concreting over the countryside\" adding: \"Our plan is to build the right homes where there is the most need and where there is local support, in the heart of Britain's great cities.\"\n\nLisa Nandy, Labour's shadow housing secretary, said: \"It takes some serious brass neck for the Tories to make yet more promises when the housing crisis has gone from bad to worse on their watch.\"\n\nIn a speech in central London on Monday, Mr Gove said the government would \"unequivocally, unapologetically and intensively concentrating our biggest efforts in the hearts of our cities\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday, he said building denser cities would create more \"walkable, liveable communities\" that cut commuting times to work.\n\nHe added that the creation of more \"buzzy urban areas\" would also help the UK economy.\n\nAs part of his plan to build more homes he said he wanted to make it easier to convert shops, takeaways and betting shops into homes.\n\nSome commercial properties can already be converted into homes without planning permission. Under laws known as \"permitted development rights\", more than 10,000 properties - such as former offices - were turned into homes in 2021-2022.\n\nThe Local Government Association has warned that offices, shops and barns are not always suitable for housing, and could result in the creation of poor quality homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anthony Browne: Cambridge is \"already growing incredibly rapidly\" but a lack of water means expansion plans are \"undeliverable”.\n\nMr Gove also wants to ease rules on building extensions to commercial buildings and repurposing agricultural buildings.\n\nIn order to speed up big developments, the government will invest £24m to train up planning authorities. Half of the funding is newly-allocated, while the other half will come from the department's existing budget.\n\nThere will also be £13.5m for what it calls a \"super squad\" of planners to unblock certain projects - a development in Cambridge will be the team's first task. Developers will be asked to pay higher fees to fund improvements to the planning system.\n\nHowever, in an early sign that Mr Gove's plans may attract criticism from the government's own backbenchers, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire Anthony Browne has tweeted: \"I will do everything I can to stop the government's nonsense plans to impose mass housebuilding on Cambridge, where all major developments are now blocked by the Environment Agency because we have quite literally run out of water.\"\n\nAsked about the criticism, Mr Sunak said: \"No one is doing mass house building in Cambridge, this is about adding a new urban quarter to Cambridge.\"\n\nHe added that developments would be done \"in dialogue with local communities\" and that Westminster should not \"ride roughshod\" over their views.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Lisa Nandy claims the government is \"at war with itself\" over housing\n\nThe issue of building more homes has been a tricky one for the government. While there is great demand for housing, particularly among younger voters struggling to get on the property ladder, new housing developments have proved unpopular in Conservative heartlands.\n\nThe National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations, said Mr Gove's policies were \"a positive start\" but \"nowhere near the scale or ambition that is needed\".\n\nThe body's director of public impact, Rhys Moore, said the changes to the planning process were \"relatively piecemeal\" and called for more investment in social housing - homes available for lower rents.\n\nPolly Neate, head of housing charity Shelter, praised Mr Gove for being a minister who is \"not afraid to build\" but warned that plans to convert takeaways into homes risked creating \"poor quality, unsafe homes\".\n\nIn May, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party would give English councils more powers to build on green belt land, but added that new developments would not be permitted if they affected \"the beauty of our countryside\".\n\nHe said he would take \"tough decisions\" and \"back the builders, not the blockers\".\n\nLabour has also said it would reintroduce local housing targets and change the planning system to make it easier to build on brownfield sites.", "This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the UK is heading towards net zero in a \"proportionate and pragmatic way”.\n\nRishi Sunak has promised not to \"unnecessarily\" add costs and \"hassle\" to households to hit climate targets.\n\nThe prime minister said he remained committed to achieving net zero by 2050 but any new measures would have to be \"proportionate and pragmatic\".\n\nSome of his MPs are demanding a rethink on green policies.\n\nIt comes after an unexpected Tory by-election win based on a campaign against the extension of London's clean-air zone.\n\nThe Conservative candidate in Uxbridge and South Ruislip opposed Labour mayor Sadiq Khan's plan to enlarge the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez), under which owners of more polluting cars have to pay a daily charge.\n\nLabour, which had been expected to take the outer London constituency, blamed its defeat on Ulez and suggested it could now rethink the expansion policy.\n\nThe result has reignited debates over the cost and pace of measures to reduce carbon emissions.\n\nSir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a former business secretary, has called on the government to scrap plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in 2030 and rethink new rules for energy certificates.\n\n\"The lesson from Uxbridge is that there are things we can change that will be electorally successful,\" he said on Sunday.\n\nDanny Kruger, the co-leader of a new group of right-wing Tory MPs, also called over the weekend for a \"rethink about the pace and the mechanism of the change we all want to see\".\n\n\"We need a transition that is affordable and particularly affordable for working families, he told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour.\n\nAsked whether he would resist backbench pressure on the issue from his MPs, Mr Sunak replied he was \"standing up for the British people\" at a time of rising living costs.\n\n\"That's having an impact on households' and families' bills - and I don't want to do anything to add to that, I want to make it easier,\" he added.\n\n\"We're going to make progress towards net zero, but we're going to do that in a proportionate and pragmatic way that doesn't unnecessarily give people more hassle and more costs in their life.\"\n\nLow-traffic neighbourhoods aim to reduce motor traffic, but have proved controversial with motorists\n\nThe comments come after other ministers suggested a change in approach on some green policies in recent weeks.\n\nOn Sunday, Housing Secretary Michael Gove said the government should relax a deadline for landlords to achieve new energy efficiency targets, adding that ministers were \"asking too much too quickly\".\n\nEarlier this month, Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he has ended government funding for low-traffic neighbourhoods, and called for councils to look again at unpopular zones in their areas.\n\nThe Times has reported that ministers are considering cutting off councils' access to the national number plate database used to enforce the schemes.\n\nThe newspaper also reported they are considering an \"Aston Martin exemption\" to the 2030 car sales deadline, under which smaller carmakers would be given longer to switch to electric vehicles.\n\nMr Sunak's commitment to green policies was recently questioned by Lord Zac Goldsmith, who quit as a Foreign Office Minister last month and attacked the PM's \"apathy\" over climate change.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Monday, Mr Sunak said reaching net zero - no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - was \"important to me\".\n\nHe added that the UK should be proud of its record in this area, adding it was \"better than the vast majority of other countries that we're compared to\".\n\nShadow communities secretary Lisa Nandy said the Uxbridge by-election had sent a \"very clear message\" to Labour that the cost of living was \"really biting for people\".\n\nShe added that pressures on living costs had \"worsened\" since schemes such as Ulez were designed, adding: \"We will respond to that, and will reflect on that\".\n\n\"We're absolutely committed to cleaning up our air, but we've got to make sure we do this in a way that is helpful, and affordable for people who are currently are really struggling,\" she added.", "Devastating wildfires have forced Greek islands to issue evacuation orders, with fires on Rhodes forcing 19,000 people to leave their homes and hotels.\n\nA drone has captured the scale of the destruction on the seaside town of Kiotari in Rhodes.\n\nRead more about the wildfires here.", "Russia has repeatedly attacked the Ukrainian port city of Odesa in the days since it withdrew from the grain deal\n\nA short life, with its flaws, but the only diplomatic light in the darkness of Russia's invasion.\n\nIt had allowed Ukraine to export its grain to the world through the Black Sea.\n\nA third less than normal, but still 33 million tonnes. However, in recent months, its health had deteriorated.\n\nRussia was accused of slowing the route with naval blockades and long inspections, and the deal finally succumbed.\n\nLast week saw Moscow's official withdrawal. Russia then launched a wave of missile strikes on ports it once promised to leave alone.\n\nEXPLAINED: What was the Ukraine grain deal?\n\nOne site destroyed was a grain terminal owned by one of Ukraine's biggest producers, Kernel. Officials say more than 60,000 tonnes of grain has been destroyed in the past week.\n\n\"We stopped our exports for the first two to three months of the war,\" explains Yevhen Osypov, Kernel's CEO.\n\n\"The prices of oil and grain went up by 50%, and you can see the same happening again now.\"\n\nWhile global grain supplies seem to be stable for now, global markets saw the price of grain rise by 8% within a day of Russia pulling out - the highest daily rise since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin now says his country \"is capable of replacing the Ukrainian grain both on a commercial and free-of-charge basis, especially as we expect another record harvest this year\".\n\nIn an article published on the Kremlin's website ahead of this week's Russia-Africa summit, President Putin wrote that \"Russia will continue its energetic efforts to provide supplies of grain, food products, fertilisers and other goods to Africa\".\n\nBoth Russia and Ukraine are among the world's leading grain exporters.\n\nAt the weekend Russian missile strikes severely damaged Odesa's Transfiguration Cathedral, in the city's Unesco world heritage-listed historic centre\n\nThe Kremlin had earlier agreed not to target port infrastructure in three locations in the region, but that diplomatic shield is no more.\n\nWith damaged ports, no agreed corridor through the Black Sea and Russia controlling most of the coastline, Mr Osypov believes Ukraine's grain export capacity will drop by a further 50%.\n\n\"It's a huge challenge for our farmers because they'll have to sell their products 20% below cost,\" says Mr Osypov, who predicts there will be fewer people in the future working less land.\n\nThe death of the grain deal extends well beyond Odesa's ports. The city's mayor Gennady Trukhanov thinks Moscow just wants to show nothing will be exported without them, and he's right.\n\n\"The most terrible thing is that in order to achieve their goal, they've attacked innocent people,\" he says.\n\nUkraine is known as Europe's breadbasket because of the vast amount of grain it produces\n\nYou're left in little doubt over the scale of Ukrainian grain production when standing 40 metres high on top of a silo in the central Poltava region.\n\nThe plant we're in can hold 120,000 tonnes. It's around a third full, and while Ukraine is unable to export through the Black Sea, it will keep filling up.\n\nThe site is surrounded by an endless agricultural expanse.\n\nThis is a country which can't suddenly stop producing grain. It has to go somewhere - or at least that's the hope.\n\n\"We feel there is a need for us to harvest as much grain as possible,\" says Yulia, a lab technician at Kernel, as she pours samples into a pipe.\n\nBefore the birth of the grain deal, tens of millions of people from some of the world's poorest countries were at risk of starvation because of Ukraine's inability to export it.\n\nTwelve months later, that risk has returned.\n\n\"The Russians probably don't understand what hunger is,\" says Yulia. \"People are starving, there's a large supply, but they can't get it for no reason.\"\n\nLab technicians like Yulia test Ukraine's grain once it has been harvested\n\nMoscow had threatened to pull out before, mainly saying there were too many restrictions on its own agricultural goods.\n\nIt also wants a major bank let into a global payment system, restrictions lifted on Russian fertiliser companies, and for its ships to get full access to insurance and foreign ports.\n\nPresident Putin has now turned those complaints into demands. However, if they were to be met, that would require a relaxation of western sanctions, which is hard to imagine.\n\nLast July, the Kremlin had seemed keen to be \"part of the solution\" when it came to the food crisis that it has directly caused by invading Ukraine.\n\nBattlefield frustrations seem to have changed that stance.\n\nDespite the lack of a pulse, Turkey - one of the main brokers of the grain deal along with the United Nations - is still hopeful it can be resuscitated.\n\nThe UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (left) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan helped broker the grain deal in 2022\n\nSo, assuming the initiative is indeed dead, is there an heir apparent? An alternative solution for Ukraine to export?\n\nRoad and rail has been used through neighbouring countries like Romania and Poland, but there have been times when Ukrainian grain has flooded their markets and driven down prices, to the annoyance of farmers.\n\nThe River Danube has also been developed as a route through central Europe, with two million tonnes of grain making it through in the last 12 months, compared with 600,000 the year before.\n\nHowever both scratch the surface of what Ukraine hopes to shift, and are much more expensive logistically.\n\nDuring her recent visit I asked the head of US Aid, Samantha Power, whether Ukraine's status as \"Europe's breadbasket\" was a thing of the past.\n\nShe'd just announced a package worth almost a billion dollars for Ukraine, which included agricultural modernisation.\n\n\"We're doing what we can, but there's no substitute for peace,\" was her reply.", "Kuki nursing student Chiin Sianching was dragged out of her room, beaten and left for dead\n\nNew allegations of violence against women are emerging in the north-east Indian state of Manipur, as the response to a viral video showing two women being paraded naked by a mob encourages others to speak.\n\nWarning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing.\n\nFor more than two months, Mary (not her real name), a Kuki woman, could not find the courage to go to the police.\n\nHer 18-year-old daughter had been abducted from outside their home, gang-raped overnight and left badly beaten on their doorstep.\n\n\"The attackers threatened that they'd kill my daughter if she spoke about it,\" Mary told me when I met her outside the relief camp where they have been living since ethnic clashes broke out between the Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur in May, claiming more than 130 lives.\n\nA video of two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob emerged last week on social media.\n\nThere was widespread outrage and condemnation, leading to the arrest of six men.\n\n\"I thought if I don't do this now, I won't get another chance.\" she says. \"I will always regret that I didn't even try to get my daughter's attackers punished.\"\n\nMary says that her daughter now talks about killing herself, but that she reassures her she can still make something of her life.\n\nNineteen-year-old Chiin Sianching fears she could easily have met a similar fate.\n\nShe and a friend were singled out for belonging to the Kuki community, she says, and attacked in the hostel they lived in while studying nursing in the state capital, Imphal.\n\n\"The mob kept banging the door of the room we were hiding in, shouting that your men have raped our women, now we will do the same to you,\" she says.\n\nShe called her mother to say that it could be the last time that she would speak to her. Minutes later the two young women were dragged out on to the street and beaten unconscious - Ms Sianching thinks the mob thought they were dead, so ran away.\n\nPolice who found their bodies only realised they were alive after checking their pulses.\n\nFake news on social media, purporting to show women being sexually assaulted by Kuki men were fuelling this mob of Meitei men against Chiin and her friend.\n\nEarly in the conflict a photo of a dead woman was circulated, apparently showing a Meitei nurse who had been raped and killed by Kuki men. Later, many news outlets debunked this.\n\nFaultlines quickly deepened after the conflict flared up, causing a complete separation of two communities who had previously lived alongside one another. Both now have barricades at village entry points and there are continuing reports of overnight clashes.\n\nMeitei groups have told the BBC that women from the community also faced sexual assault - the BBC has not been able to confirm this. But the video of the two Kuki women being paraded naked united Meitei women in protest too.\n\nSinam Surnalata Leima, a Meitei women's leader, condemns the attack on the Kuki women as a \"heinous crime\"\n\nManipur has a longstanding tradition of women playing a powerful role in civil society, among them the Meira Peibis, or torch-bearers - also known as the mothers of Manipur - who have protested against abuses of power by the state and the army, and human rights violations.\n\nSinam Surnalata Leima, who leads the Meira Peibis in a group of villages where the two Kuki women in the video were attacked, says that villagers themselves handed over the main suspect to police.\n\nThen the local members of Meira Peibis got together and burned his house.\n\n\"The burning is a symbol of the community's condemnation of the heinous crime that those men committed, their actions cannot tarnish the whole Meitei community's honour,\" says Ms Leima.\n\nThe accused's wife and three children have been banished from the village.\n\nBut why did the mob act the way it did, in a society that regards its women highly?\n\n\"It was grief and revenge for the Meitei women who had been attacked by Kuki men,\" Ms Leima reasons.\n\nShe does not personally know of any such attacks, but says Meitei women would not discuss a crime of this kind, as it would be considered shameful.\n\nState police said soon after the start of the clashes that they had not received reports of violence against Meitei women, but a spokesman for the Meitei community told me there had been many unreported attacks.\n\nKhuraijam Athouba, who represents a Meitei organisation called Cocomi, said that Meitei women had chosen not to speak about the \"violations they faced\".\n\nIn his view the focus should remain on the issue of killings and displaced people, rather than sexual violence.\n\nThe brother of one of the Kuki women who was seen paraded in the video is tormented by all of these issues.\n\nThe mob that stripped and sexually assaulted his sister, also killed their father and their younger brother - he and his mother were saved as they were visiting family in another village when the clashes started.\n\nThe 23-year-old man has a blank expression for most of the time when I meet him in a small room in the home of one of his relatives.\n\nI ask him what he would like the government and police to do?\n\n\"Arrest each person in that mob, especially those who killed my father and brother,\" he says.\n\n\"And treat both communities with fairness.\"\n\nGracy Haokip: \"If it wasn't for this video, we wouldn't have got so much attention\"\n\nFaith in the federal and state government seems lacking in both communities.\n\nThe Chief Minister of Manipur, N Biren Singh, who belongs to the Meitei community, promised the \"harshest punishment to the accused, including capital punishment\". But when asked about the calls for his resignation for failure to resolve the conflict, he said, \"Don't want to go into this, my job is to bring peace to the state and punish miscreants.\"\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence on the conflict only after the video of the two women sparked national outrage.\n\n\"What happened with the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven,\" he said, adding that no guilty person would be spared.\n\nBut for Ms Leima, that statement painted her community in a bad light and ignored the violence that has raged since May, causing 60,000 people to be displaced.\n\n\"The prime minister spoke when Kuki women were attacked. What about everything we have been facing, are we Meitei women not citizens of India?\" she asks.\n\nThe video has put the spotlight back on the continuing Manipur conflict.\n\n\"If it wasn't for this video, we would have not got so much attention from the government and other political parties,\" says Gracy Haokip, a researcher supporting victims of the clashes, including the nursing student, Chiin Sianching.\n\nShe says it will help the survivors who have courageously shared their experiences while trying to rebuild their lives.\n\nChiin tells me about the speech she gave to the women in her community, when she told them that she had enrolled into another nursing institute situated in her local area.\n\n\"My mother told me that God has kept me alive for a reason, so I have decided I will not give up my dreams.\"", "Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been fined for disobeying a police order to leave a climate protest in the Swedish port of Malmö last month.\n\nThunberg, 20, denied the charge, but was found guilty and ordered to pay 2,500 Swedish krona ($240; £187).\n\nHours later, she took part in another protest and was carried away by police along with five others.\n\nOn both occasions, she was part of a group of protesters that blocked the road for oil trucks in Malmö harbour.\n\nShe was charged in June for failing to leave when ordered to do so by police.\n\n\"I believe that we are in an emergency that threatens life, health and property,\" she told the court in Malmö on Monday, adding that \"countless people\" were at risk.\n\n\"It's correct that I was at that place on that day, and it's correct that I received an order that I didn't listen to, but I want to deny the crime,\" she said.\n\nPolice removed Thunberg during the protest in Malmö in June\n\nThe rally in June, organised by environmental activist group Ta tillbaka framtiden (Reclaim the Future), tried to block the entrance and exit to the Malmö harbour to protest against the use of fossil fuels.\n\n\"We choose to not be bystanders, and instead physically stop the fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future,\" Thunberg said in an Instagram post at the time.\n\nReclaim the Future says that it remains determined to stand up to the industry.\n\n\"If the court chooses to see our action as a crime it may do so, but we know we have the right to live and the fossil fuels industry stands in the way of that,\" group spokesperson Irma Kjellstrom told AFP news agency.\n\nGreenhouse gases have been pumped into the atmosphere by activities such as burning fossil fuels. The world has warmed by about 1.1C than it was in the late 19th century.\n\nClimate activists have targeted the fossil fuels industry. Much of the oil and gas industry says that continued production is necessary in order to meet global energy demands.", "The BBC has apologised to Nigel Farage over its inaccurate report about why his account at Coutts bank was closed.\n\nOn 4 July, the BBC reported Mr Farage no longer met the financial requirements for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nThe former UKIP leader later obtained a Coutts report which indicated his political views were also considered.\n\nMr Farage said he accepted the apologies \"with good grace\", but said questions for Coutts remained.\n\nHe thanked BBC News CEO Deborah Turness - who has written to him - and business editor Simon Jack - who has tweeted - for their apologies.\n\n\"It's not often that the BBC apologise. But for the BBC to apologise, I'm very, very pleased,\" Mr Farage said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Mr Farage said he had had to publish a lot of material in order to clear up misinformation in the wake of the 4 July story.\n\n\"I had to go to very great lengths and great personal damage to undo the story,\" Mr Farage said.\n\n\"There is no fault or no blame on the BBC. This now goes right back to the Natwest Banking Group [owners of Coutts].\n\n\"Someone in that group decided it was appropriate, legal and ethical to leak details of my personal financial situation.\n\n\"That, I think, is wrong on every level - and that is where the spotlight should be and it will.\"\n\nMr Jack, who tweeted his apology, said his story had been \"from a trusted and senior source\".\n\n\"However, the information turned out to be incomplete and inaccurate. Therefore, I would like to apologise to Mr Farage,\" Mr Jack continued.\n\nMr Farage later said: \"Jack says, in the tweet, that his information came from a trusted and senior source. I would suggest that it may well have been a very senior source.\"\n\nOn 21 July, the BBC updated its original article to say it had \"not been accurate\". Mr Farage then asked for a formal apology from the BBC.\n\nOn Monday, the BBC said on its Corrections and Clarifications website: \"We acknowledge that the information we reported - that Coutts' decision on Mr Farage's account did not involve considerations about his political views - turned out not to be accurate and have apologised to Mr Farage.\"\n\nWhen Coutts decided to close Mr Farage's account, he said it did not give him a reason.\n\nMr Farage subsequently obtained a document looking at his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nThe 40-page document provided to Mr Farage included minutes from a meeting in November last year reviewing his account.\n\nThe document flagged concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and also raised concerns about the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a client.\n\nIt said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts' \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nMr Farage said the BBC had fallen for \"spin\" and he had been \"cancelled\" for his political views.\n\nThe boss of NatWest Group, Dame Alison Rose, apologised on Thursday to Mr Farage for what she called the \"deeply inappropriate\" comments made in the document.\n\nShe also said that she was commissioning a full review of Coutts' processes on bank account closures.\n\nMr Farage has called for Dame Alison to be questioned by MPs.\n\nSpeaking on GB News on Monday evening, Mr Farage said he had now submitted a subject access request (a request for a copy of information held about you) to NatWest and had raised his case with the Information Commissioner's Office.\n\nHe also disclosed the contents of the letter sent to him on Monday by the BBC's Deborah Turness, in which she apologised, saying: \"I can understand why you feel this story has contributed to you being put through a considerable and humiliating amount of publicity.\"\n\nThe Treasury has called a meeting with bank bosses over account closures, following the row between Mr Farage and NatWest.\n\nThe BBC will hope its apology will draw a line under the story.\n\nThe fallout is an insight into a key tenet of journalism - sourcing stories. Reporters have to be able to trust their sources and it's standard journalistic practice not to reveal who they are.\n\nIn this case, that trust broke down.", "George Alagiah, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.\n\nAlagiah won awards for reports on the famine and war in Somalia in the early 1990s, and was nominated for a Bafta in 1994 for covering Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq.\n\nHe was also named Amnesty International's journalist of the year in 1994, for reporting on the civil war in Burundi, and was the first BBC journalist to report on the genocide in Rwanda.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.", "Hun Manet, son of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, is expected to succeed his father within weeks\n\nUndeterred by the pouring rain, a long convoy of motorbikes carrying cheering, flag-waving supporters of Cambodia's ruling party revved their engines in preparation for their triumphant final rally in downtown Phnom Penh.\n\nPeople dutifully lined the road as far as you could see, party stickers on their cheeks, the sky-blue hats and shirts they had been given to wear getting steadily wetter.\n\nPerched on the back of a truck, Hun Manet, the 45-year-old eldest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, greeted the crowds proclaiming that only the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) was capable of leading the country.\n\nIndeed, his father had made sure that the CPP was the only party which could possibly win the election.\n\nHun Sen, 70, has run Cambodia in his trademark pugnacious style for 38 years: first in a Vietnam-installed communist regime, then under a UN-installed multi-party system, and more recently as an increasingly intolerant autocrat.\n\nThe only party now capable of challenging his rule, the Candlelight Party, was banned from the election on a technicality in May. The remaining 17 parties allowed to contest it were too small or too little-known to pose a threat.\n\nA few hours after the polls closed, the CPP claimed the expected landslide, with a turnout of more than 80%. There were quite high levels of spoiled ballot papers in some polling stations: that was probably the only safe way voters could show their support for the opposition.\n\nWith Hun Manet expected to succeed his father within weeks of the vote, in a long-prepared transfer of power, this felt more like a coronation than an election.\n\n\"I don't think we can even call it a sham election,\" says Mu Sochua, an exiled former minister and member of the CNRP, another opposition party banned by the Cambodian authorities in 2017.\n\n\"We should call it a 'selection', for Hun Sen to make sure that his party will select his son as the next prime minister of Cambodia, to continue the dynasty of the Hun family.\"\n\nHun Sen, who has been in power for 38 years, faced no real challenge at the election\n\nYet there were signs of nervousness in the CPP before the vote. New laws were hurriedly passed criminalising any encouragement of ballot-spoiling or a boycott. Several Candlelight members were arrested.\n\n\"Why was the CPP campaigning so hard, against no one in this election with no real opposition?\" asks Ou Virak, founder of the Cambodian think tank Future Forum.\n\n\"They knew they would win the election - that was an easy outcome for them. But winning legitimacy is much more difficult.\n\n\"They need to keep weakening the opposition, but at the same time, they also need to satisfy the people, so there is no repeat of previous setbacks and disruptions, like street protests.\"\n\nHun Sen is one of Asia's great survivors, a wily, street-smart politician who has time and again outmanoeuvred his opponents. He has skilfully played off China, by far the biggest foreign investor these days, against the US and Europe, which are trying to claw back lost influence in the region.\n\nBut he has come close to losing elections in the past. He is still vulnerable, to rival factions in his own ruling party, and to any sudden downturn in the Cambodian economy which could sour public opinion against him. So as he prepares for a once-in-a-generation leadership change, he is trying to cement his legacy.\n\nA short drive north of the capital, a 33m-high concrete-and-marble monolith was built recently, which he calls the Win-Win memorial.\n\nThe Win-Win Memorial opened in 2018 and reportedly cost $12m\n\nIts massive base is covered in carved stone reliefs, echoing Cambodia's greatest historic monument, Angkor Wat.\n\nThey depict Hun Sen's flight from Khmer Rouge-ruled Cambodia to Vietnam in 1977, his triumphant return with the invading Vietnamese army in 1979, and his eventual deal with the last of the Khmer Rouge leaders in 1998 that ended the long civil war - his win-win for the Cambodian people.\n\nDelivering peace and prosperity has long been Hun Sen's main claim to legitimacy. Since 1998, Cambodia has had one of the world's fastest-growing economies, albeit from a very low base.\n\nBut it is a model of growth which has concentrated wealth in the hands of a few families - the number of ultra-luxury cars on the roads of such a low-income country is jarring. It has encouraged rapacious exploitation of Cambodia's natural resources and it has left many ordinary people feeling that they are not winning under Mr Sen.\n\nPrak Sopheap lives with her family at the back of an engine repair shop, squeezed between the main road and one of the many shallow lakes in the low-lying land outside Phnom Penh. They have been there for 25 years, fishing and cultivating vegetables on the lake.\n\nToday, though, much of the lake has been filled with rubble by a property developer and Ms Sopheap's family have been ordered to leave.\n\nShe showed me a document from the local council, confirming how long she had lived there, and another document, a summons to court on a charge of illegally occupying state land. She feels powerless and angry - and she is not alone.\n\nPrak Sopheap has been ordered to leave her home of 25 years\n\nLand disputes are among the most incendiary grievances in Cambodia. All property deeds were destroyed in the Khmer Rouge revolution.\n\nSince the end of the civil war, millions of hectares have been allocated for commercial development, a lucrative arrangement which has made many politicians and businesses allied to Hun Sen very rich.\n\nThe courts very rarely rule against these powerful interests. Transparency International ranks Cambodia as 150th out of 180 countries for corruption: in the Asia-Pacific region, only Myanmar and North Korea rank lower.\n\n\"Hun Sen always talks about his 'win-win policy'\", says Ms Sopheap. \"But we feel it is he alone who wins. We cannot feel at peace, as we now face eviction. We, the real Cambodian people, who live on this land, are suffering in the name of development.\"\n\nThose who have tried to campaign against land grabs and evictions have been harassed, beaten and jailed, as have trade unionists and supporters of opposition parties. I asked Ms Sopheap how she would vote in this election. \"Who can I choose?\" she asked. \"Who can protect me?\"\n\nHalf of those eligible to vote are under 35 years old. The CPP has tried attracting them by having Hun Manet and other younger party leaders run this year's campaign, with a slick social media strategy.\n\nBut as most Cambodians have no memory of war or the Khmer Rouge, Ly Chandravuth, a 23-year-old law graduate and environmental activist, says the old CPP campaign points are no longer persuasive.\n\n\"Hun Manet's biggest challenge will be that my generation is very different from previous ones, who were traumatised by the Khmer Rouge,\" he says.\n\n\"Since I was a child, I have watched the ruling party reminding us of that tragedy, telling us that as they brought peace, we should support them. But that argument is less and less effective. Every time the ruling party brings it up, the young generation mocks them, because they have been repeating it for 30 years.\"\n\nCan Hun Manet modify the rough-house, sometimes thuggish leadership style of his father to a softer and more subtle kind of rule? Despite his Western education, his years heading the army and his long apprenticeship, he has never yet held a top political office.\n\nWith him, other \"princeling\" sons of Hun Sen's contemporaries, such as Defence Minister Tea Banh and Interior Minister Sar Keng, are also expected to replace their fathers in the cabinet - a dynastic shift which keeps the levers of power with the same families, but in less experienced hands. The next few years could be a delicate, even dangerous time for Cambodia.", "Holidaymaker Gwenllian Glyn described a plume of orange smoke above their hotel\n\nHolidaymakers from Wales have faced chaotic scenes on the Greek island of Rhodes where wildfires forced the closure of hotels in the south.\n\nOne family described sleeping on a hotel floor, and another told how they fled as the flames approached.\n\nFires have forced 19,000 people to be evacuated in Greece's largest ever such operation.\n\nEasyJet is planning repatriation flights, with one family from south Wales set to return home tomorrow.\n\nCaryn Savazzi from Llysworney, Vale of Glamorgan, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast she, her husband and two children arrived to \"absolute chaos\" at Rhodes airport on Saturday evening.\n\n\"We stood in a queue with the children for two hours,\" she said. \"Lots of people [were] very anxious when they were finding out their hotel was closed and they didn't have an alternative.\"\n\nMs Savazzi said they were eventually taken to a stadium in Rhodes, but at about 3am local time as they prepared to sleep on the floor of a school hall a local family offered them accommodation.\n\n\"They drove us to their home and had a sofa bed set up and we've stayed with them since,\" she said. \"It's been absolutely incredible.\n\nBefore the drama: Caryn Savazzi and her son at the beginning of their holiday in Cardiff Airport\n\n\"We've only had a better experience compared to the horror of others due to luck,\" she said. She has been able to book a flight with her family to Bristol on Tuesday.\n\nLowri Jones, 52, from Crymych, Pembrokeshire, and her 13-year-old daughter Ella were less fortunate.\n\nThey also arrived at Rhodes airport to find out their hotel on the south of the island had been affected.\n\n\"The last 24 hours have been horrific really,\" Ms Jones said. She and her daughter were put in another hotel on the north of the island but had to sleep on the floor because there were no available rooms.\n\nCaryn Savazzi photographed crowds of stranded tourists as they arrived into Rhodes\n\n\"Our situation is better than a lot of people... we've got all our stuff with us and I know a lot of people who are in a worse situation and people fighting the fires,\" she added.\n\n\"We were herded into a bus, dumped at this hotel. [Hotel staff] have handed out water and tried to keep us going. They had 600 people landing here so there's only so much that they can do.\n\n\"We're suppose to be on holiday enjoying ourselves but we've been stressing about where we're going to be next, where we're going to sleep,\" said Ella. \"It's not nice.\"\n\nOfficials estimate 19,000 have been evacuated by land and sea with more people due to be evacuated from three villages - Pefki, Lindos, Kalathos\n\nAnother family from Cardiff described the \"shocking\" experience of having to escape from their hotel on Rhodes.\n\nYnyr Roberts and Gwenllian Glyn, a BBC Wales journalist, on holiday with their children aged 12 and 10, said they had to leave most of their belongings there.\n\nThey described seeing the flames approaching their hotel.\n\nGwenllian Glyn, Ynyr Roberts and their two children had to leave their hotel on Rhodes in a hurry because of the wildfires\n\n\"We saw this big cloud and we received this text on my son's phone saying you have to evacuate the area,\" Ms Glyn said. \"I ran to reception and said I'd like to leave.\"\n\nBut she said there were no buses or plans to evacuate the hotel.\n\n\"Obviously they hadn't really planned for this sort of situation and it's just how quickly it developed from nothing to just massive yellow cloud,\" she said. \"The scariest part was when the flames started right by the hotel and just not knowing how much time we had.\"\n\nGwenllian Gwyn says she and her family scrambled to find a bus to get them to the airport\n\nWhen the fire came closer the family decided to run down a hill below their hotel.\n\n\"We got to the bottom of the hill and i just saw a small minibus and I just said 'please, please can you take us' and he said 'yes jump in',\" she said. A dozen people squeezed into the \"tiny\" vehicle.\n\nYnyr Roberts and his daughter Casi, 10, in Rhodes before having to escape\n\n\"But [my husband] and my daughter weren't with us so we had to scream 'please can my husband and daughter get on',\" she said. \"It was really surreal - you see these things in movies and you don't imagine being there.\"\n\nThey spent hours of trying to get to the airport and managed to return to Wales on Sunday morning.\n\nMarlyn Samuel and her husband, Iwan, from Pentre Berw on Anglesey, also had to flee their hotel on the south of the island because of fires.\n\nMarlyn Samuel from Anglesey says she and her husband were \"scared for their lives\"\n\nShe said they also got an evacuation alarm on their phone but when they went to hotel reception they were told \"everything was fine\" and \"not to worry\" because the fires were only affecting houses higher up\n\n\"But then we got another text, another alarm,\" she said. \"I'll remember that noise until I die.\n\nWild fires and smoke near a hotel in the south of Rhodes island\n\n\"The hotel alarm went and we were evacuated... we were scared for our lives,\" she said, explaining how roads were being closed even though they could not see the fires.\n\n\"The concern was... we would be trapped in the hotel.\"\n\nFire crews were still battling wild fires on Rhodes on Monday\n\nMs Williams said they ended by being evacuated to a school at four in the morning.\n\n\"Fair play the Greeks were very good, we got food, toiletries and water and took care of us,\" she said. \"Last night I [had to] sleep on a very comfortable mattress on the floor.\"\n\nShe and her husband were able to get a flight to Manchester Airport early Monday morning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Photos provided by Ukraine's military show the destruction of grain stores in Reni\n\nRussian drones have attacked Ukrainian ports on the River Danube, destroying grain storage infrastructure, local officials say.\n\nThe facilities are just across the river from Nato-member Romania.\n\nThe Danube is a key export route for Kyiv since Russia pulled out of a deal allowing Ukraine to ship wheat, corn and other products via the Black Sea.\n\nA grain depot was also destroyed in the Black Sea port city of Odesa, which has come under almost nightly attack.\n\nOfficials say more than 60,000 tonnes of grain have been destroyed in the past week.\n\nGlobal markets have seen the price of grain rise by 8% within a day of Russia's pullout from the grain deal, on 17 July.\n\nThe collapse of the deal also means that Russia has resumed targeting of port locations in Ukraine which had been suspended during the deal.\n\nOdesa head Oleh Kiper, whose region also covers the Danube ports of Reni and Izmail, said in his Telegram channel that Russia had attacked the infrastructure there for four hours with Iranian-made drones.\n\nHe said a grain hangar and tanks for storage were destroyed. Other local officials say three warehouses were bombed.\n\nThree drones out of about 15 involved in the attack were destroyed by air defences, Mr Kiper added.\n\nFour people were injured, one seriously, officials said.\n\nRomanian President Klaus Yohannis condemned the attack \"very close\" to his country.\n\n\"This recent escalation pose [sic] serious risks to the security in the Black Sea. It also affects further UA [Ukraine] grain transit & thus the global food security,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nRomanian media reported that soldiers and sailors on the opposite side of the river could see bright lights, and hear the approach of the drones and the explosions.\n\nOne journalist described it as the closest hit to Romanian territory since the beginning of the war. Reni is about 200m from Romania across the Danube and 10km from the Romanian port city of Galati.\n\nThe Danube, as well as road and rail routes from Ukraine to Poland, Romania and other neighbouring countries, have been developed as export channels since the Russian invasion.\n\nTwo million tonnes of grain have been exported by river in the past year, compared with 600,000 the previous year.\n\nBut all these routes have only been able to shift a fraction of what Ukraine needs to export, and are much more expensive logistically than by sea.\n\nThe exports via eastern Europe have also caused anger among farmers in neighbouring countries, where Ukrainian grain has flooded markets and driven down prices.\n\nAs Russian attacks on Ukraine's grain exports continue, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his country is \"capable of replacing the Ukrainian grain both on a commercial and free-of-charge basis\" for countries in Africa that had imported from Ukraine.\n\nMoscow is due to host a Russia-Africa summit later this week.\n\nUkraine, often described as Europe's bread basket, is the world's seventh largest exporter of wheat, and 71% of its land is agricultural.", "Fourth LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Emirates Old Trafford (day five of five):\n\nEngland's hopes of an Ashes comeback were heartbreakingly ended by rain that left the fourth Test as a draw and ensured Australia retain the urn.\n\nOn a hugely frustrating and disappointing fifth day at Old Trafford, persistent bad weather prevented a single ball from being bowled.\n\nThere was a brief gap that allowed a start to be scheduled for 13:00 BST, only for the rain to return.\n\nIt meant England did not get a chance to push for the final five wickets they needed to force a win. Australia remained on 214-5 in their second innings, 61 runs behind the home side.\n\nAt 2-1 up with only one match to play, holders Australia will at least hang on to the Ashes they have possessed since 2017-18 and will now look to complete a first series win in the UK in 22 years.\n\nFor an England team playing such a thrilling style of cricket under captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum, the wait for a first Ashes win since 2015 goes on.\n\nAfter losing the first two Tests they were attempting to become the first England team to come from 2-0 down to win an Ashes series, but it was too big an ask.\n\nThis result also extends an England winless run in Ashes Tests at Old Trafford that dates back to 1981, with the next Ashes Test here not scheduled until 2031.\n\nThe final Test of the series at The Oval begins on Thursday.\n• None 'How are we supposed to feel?' - England's Ashes hopes washed away\n• None TMS Ashes Daily podcast: Australia retain urn but Vaughan says England are 'better'\n\nIn a series that has delivered thrilling, gripping conclusions to each of the first three Tests, this was a colossal anti-climax.\n\nThe most one-sided contest to date - the hosts have been in charge of this Test from the first morning - has ended in a draw shaped by the elements. It is the first draw in 17 Tests since Stokes and McCullum took charge of the England team.\n\nWith that, the fitting prospect of a series decider at The Oval and England's shot at the historic achievement of coming from 2-0 down to win the Ashes was washed away.\n\nKnowing that bad weather for the weekend was always likely, Stokes' side were superb in this match, making the running from the moment the skipper won his fourth consecutive toss.\n\nThey were excellent to reduce Australia to 317 all out, awesome in piling up 592 and had victory in their sights on Friday evening, when the tourists closed on 113-4. Since then, only 30 overs have been bowled.\n\nDespite the grim forecast, expectant fans still turned up at Old Trafford on Sunday morning as groundstaff worked to clear heavy overnight rain from the outfield.\n\nNot long after the delayed start was announced, it started to rain once more. Some of the England players emerged to play football, but eventually even they had to admit defeat and returned to the dressing room soaked to the skin.\n\nWhile it is right to say England have been beaten here by the weather, it is also right to reflect on the errors that led to them being 2-0 down.\n\nEngland have been the better side across the series, but paid a heavy price for missed chances in the first Test at Edgbaston and a sloppy first-innings batting performance in the second Test at Lord's.\n\nThey took the momentum from victory in the third Test at Headingley into an impressive display here and must now pick themselves up from this disappointment to protect the long unbeaten record in home Ashes series.\n\nEngland may need to refresh their bowling attack for The Oval. Chris Woakes is struggling with a quad problem and Stuart Broad has played all five Tests this summer. Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue would be the candidates to come in.\n\nAustralia can celebrate retaining the Ashes but will know they were given a huge helping hand by the weather.\n\nThey omitted off-spinner Todd Murphy in this Test in favour of packing their batting and it has ultimately paid dividends.\n\nThe tourists are also indebted to Marnus Labuschagne, who made a vital century in the second innings to keep England at bay, particularly in the short passage of play that was possible on Saturday.\n\nLabuschagne is one of the few Australia batters improving across the series. David Warner's struggles in England are continuing, while the returns of Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Travis Head and Alex Carey are diminishing.\n\nBut perhaps the biggest concern for the visitors will be the way they crumbled in the face of England's batting assault on the second afternoon at Old Trafford. Their three frontline pace bowlers went for a total of 392 runs from a combined 75 overs, while captain Pat Cummins looked devoid of energy, ideas and authority.\n\nStill, Australia will be leaving this country with the Ashes and the World Test Championship they won by defeating India in the final at The Oval in June.\n\nAfter a drawn series here in 2019, Australia's stated aim this time has always been to win the Ashes outright, rather than just retain them.\n\nAvoiding defeat at The Oval will see them do just that.\n\nEngland captain Ben Stokes, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We did everything we possibly could.\n\n\"We had three hours of cricket in two days - I don't think whatever we did, we would have been able to force a result and that is unfortunately due to the weather.\"\n\nAustralia captain Pat Cummins: \"We're going to try to win it but retaining it is nice. It's not been our best week so rain helped us out a bit there.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"England will have to admit they made mistakes early in the series, particularly in those first two games, but I honestly think they have been the better team.\n\n\"If Australia play the way they have in this Test at The Oval then England will absolutely wipe them.\"\n\nFormer Australia bowler Glenn McGrath: \"Australia's job this week was to not lose this Test and retain the Ashes. They played this game in survival mode and have looked a bit ugly and negative doing it.\n\n\"Australia came in with a clear plan, probably not the usual Australia way, but they achieved it.\"", "NZ justice minister Kiri Allan resigns after being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and crashing her car\n\nNew Zealand's justice minister has resigned with immediate effect, after failing an alcohol breath test following a car crash.\n\nKiri Allan, 39, was charged with careless driving and resisting arrest.\n\nShe is the fourth minister from Prime Minister Chris Hipkins' cabinet to leave since March, ahead of elections due in October.\n\nNo casualties were reported from the crash, which took place in the capital Wellington on Sunday night.\n\nFollowing her arrest, the former minister was detained at a police station for four hours before being released. She is due to appear in court at a later date.\n\nMs Allan, whom Mr Hipkins said had been suffering from \"extreme emotional distress\", will remain as a member of parliament for now.\n\n\"She understood that retaining her ministerial warrant was untenable, especially for a justice minister to be charged with criminal offending,\" said the prime minister in a press conference.\n\nMs Allan, who was also minister for regional development, conservation, and emergency management, had recently taken time off due to \"personal difficulties\", only returning to work last Monday.\n\nShe confirmed her separation from her partner last month and is also facing accusations of poor working relationships with staffers.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Ms Allan said that she had returned to parliament believing she could juggle personal challenges with her job.\n\n\"My actions yesterday show I wasn't okay,\" she said, adding that she will consider her future in politics.\n\nMs Allan was once seen as the darling of the Labour party. She was even tipped to succeed former prime minister Jacinda Arden, who stepped down from her role earlier this year before Mr Hipkins took over.\n\nHer resignation is the latest development in what Mr Hipkins admitted has been a \"messy\" time in his own party.\n\nTransport and immigration minister Michael Wood resigned in June over his failure to disclose a possible conflict of interest in stock ownership. A month earlier, customs minister Meka Whaitiri switched sides to join another party.\n\nFour months ago, police minister Stuart Nash in March was also fired after it was revealed he had given confidential information to donors.\n\nAn April opinion poll predicted a close contest in the upcoming election between the centre-left Labour party and its main opposition the National party.", "Carles Puigdemont, who fled Catalonia after leading a breakaway independence vote in 2017, appears at rallies remotely\n\nUnder the heat of the Barcelona sun, a pro-independence party, Together for Catalonia, is holding a campaign event ahead of Sunday's general election in Spain.\n\nAbout 40 people are gathered to hear speeches before a video message is shown, recorded by the former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont.\n\nHe lambasts the Spanish state, comparing its lack of democratic credentials to Hungary and Poland, and calls for an independent Catalan republic.\n\nIt is a low-key event compared to the massive demonstrations that led up to Catalonia's attempt to secede in 2017.\n\nThe Spanish authorities responded to that bid by clamping down with police action and temporarily imposing direct rule in the region, while Mr Puigdemont fled to Belgium, where he has remained ever since.\n\nBut this Sunday's Spanish general election could have a major impact on the country's simmering territorial issue. The result, many believe, will decide whether the relationship between Catalonia and Madrid improves or flares up once again.\n\n\"If the right wins, the situation could complicate in Catalonia,\" said Lola García, a journalist at La Vanguardia newspaper who wrote an account of the 2017 crisis.\n\n\"We might well go back to seeing heightened tensions there.\"\n\nIncumbent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has sought to re-engage with pro-independence leaders\n\nSocialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared improving the febrile atmosphere in Catalonia a priority when he first took office in 2018, and again when he formed a new coalition government in 2020.\n\nWith that aim in mind, his administration pardoned nine politicians who had been jailed for their role in the 2017 independence bid.\n\nIt also reformed the penal code, eliminating the crime of sedition and modifying the crime of misuse of public funds - both of which changes benefitted Catalan leaders who were facing legal action.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sánchez's government has also engaged in slow-moving talks with the pro-independence Catalan administration aimed at resolving the territorial problem.\n\n\"Today the situation in Catalonia is nothing like it was in 2017, 2018 or 2019,\" Mr Sánchez said recently, describing the Socialists as \"a party that defends the union of Spain\".\n\nHowever, reducing the tensions in Catalonia has come at a cost for Mr Sánchez.\n\nThe conservative People's Party (PP) and far-right Vox have repeatedly attacked him for making concessions to nationalists and for receiving the parliamentary support of the pro-independence Catalan Republican Left (ERC).\n\nThe four main candidates, from left to right: Current PM Pedro Sánchez, Deputy PM and Sumar party leader Yolanda Díaz, Vox party leader Santiago Abascal and Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo\n\nHis reliance on the parliamentary votes of the Basque nationalists of EH Bildu - the successor to the political wing of the defunct Basque group Eta, which is deemed a terrorist organisation by the EU - has compounded that opprobrium, with some in his own party also expressing unease.\n\nAlberto Núñez Feijóo, the PP's candidate for prime minister, warned that Mr Sánchez has \"made Spain a hostage of those who want to break the territorial unity of our country\", a message many voters seem to endorse.\n\nThe conservative leader has also tacitly criticised Mariano Rajoy, the PP's prime minister during the 2017 Catalan crisis.\n\n\"We probably should have acted earlier and not let things go as far as they did,\" Mr Núñez Feijóo said, suggesting he would be more proactive than his predecessor.\n\nA Spanish government that is hostile to regional identities could have an upside for the independence movement, reviving it after several years of in-fighting, according to journalist Lola García.\n\nShe also believes plans by the Catalan government, led by the moderate ERC, to stage a Madrid-approved referendum on independence in the coming legislature are likely to go nowhere.\n\n\"The Catalan government is aware that it will not achieve [a negotiated referendum] either with the PP in government or the Socialists,\" she said. Instead, she believes the regional administration is pushing for increased powers within its current arrangement as an autonomous region.\n\nWith the PP ahead of the Socialists according to most polls, but looking unlikely to secure an absolute majority, it is quite possible that Spain's next government will be formed by the conservatives in a coalition with the hardline unionists of Vox.\n\nWe know a PP-Vox government would mean a threat to political freedoms and rights and democratic institutions here\n\n\"We already know that a PP-Vox government would mean a threat to political freedoms and rights and democratic institutions here in Catalonia,\" said Meritxell Serret, minister of Foreign Action and the EU for the Catalan government.\n\nShe pointed to areas of Spain where the two right-wing parties have already formed governing partnerships since local elections in May, such as the Valencia region and the Balearic Islands.\n\nIn both cases, the new local government has announced plans to eliminate the office for defence of local languages, which opponents see as an attempt to eliminate regional identities.\n\nWhile Ms Serret says the Catalan government is not satisfied with the concessions made by the Sánchez administration, she frames the possibility of Vox entering a right-wing coalition in dramatic terms.\n\n\"Vox have been threatening they will illegalise pro-independence parties, for example,\" she said.\n\n\"We fear, and people fear, that they can represent a step back for our democracy to very dark moments when civil rights [and] freedoms were not only attacked, but were annulled. This is what they represent nowadays.\"", "Twitter has changed its brand and logo from its famous blue bird to \"X\".\n\nThe new white X on a black background has replaced the blue bird on the desktop version of the social network, although is yet to appear on the mobile app.\n\n\"Tweets\" will also be replaced, according to Twitter's owner Elon Musk, and posts will be called \"x's\".\n\nThe billionaire changed his profile picture to the new logo and added \"X.com\" to his Twitter bio.\n\nMr Musk wants to create a \"super app\" called X - his vision for a new kind of social media platform that he has been talking about creating for months.\n\nOn Sunday, the billionaire said he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting: \"And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.\"\n\nHe then shared a picture of the new X branding projected onto the side of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Musk, who has changed the name of the business to X Corp, said the replacement \"should have been done a long time ago\".\n\nHe posted an image of a flickering X on Twitter, and later in a Twitter Spaces audio chat, replied \"Yes\" when asked if the Twitter logo would change.\n\nLinda Yaccarino, Twitter's new chief executive, wrote on the platform that the rebrand was an exciting new opportunity.\n\n\"Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate,\" she said.\n\n\"Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.\"\n\nThe bird is called Larry which Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone said, in 2011, is a tribute to basketball star and Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird.\n\nPeople took to Twitter to mourn the loss of the logo, including Martin Grasser who designed it in 2012.\n\n\"Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird,\" he said. Later the tweet was shared by Jack Dorsey, Twitter's best-known co-founder with a goat emoji, which means 'greatest of all time'.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor some people in Asia, super-apps including India's PayTM and Indonesia's GoJek have been a vital part of everyday lives for the past few years.\n\nThe apps let users pay for services through a finance system.\n\nWeChat is a messaging and social media platform that has evolved into one of the region's biggest apps in terms of its range of services and number of users.\n\nLast year, it was estimated to have 1.29 billion users in China alone.\n\nDrew Benvie, social media commentator and founder of digital agency, Battenhall said, \"Musk is going full throttle for the everything app space, leaving old Twitter in his wake, and eyeing the successes of Asia's trailblazers like WeChat and Moj.\n\n\"Succeeding in just a couple of additional services, such as shopping or payments, could be all that's needed to make X better than Twitter was. But there are already so many alternatives, so Musk and co are playing an enormous game of catch-up.\"\n\nTwitter's website says its logo, depicting a blue bird, is \"our most recognisable asset\".\n\n\"That's why we're so protective of it,\" it added.\n\nThe firm temporarily replaced the logo in April with Dogecoin's Shiba Inu dog, helping drive a surge in the meme coin's market value.\n\nMr Musk was later accused of insider trading by a group of Dogecoin investors, who claimed he had profited from driving up Dogecoin's value.\n\nBusiness commentator Justin Urquhart Stewart said Twitter's \"loyal but aging base\" would not like the changes.\n\n\"The younger generations have moved onto other apps and Twitter does look at bit old-fashioned.\"\n\n\"Elon Musk has got to be careful as you are almost starting from scratch with an older audience meanwhile damaging the original brand,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Twitter logo designer speaks out on changes\n\nThe very rapid rebranding of Twitter has also caused some security concerns.\n\nJake Moore, global cyber adviser at security firm ESET, said the transition from one company name to another could encourage phishing, where criminals impersonate people or organisations to steal users' data.\n\n\"A rebrand is the perfect opportunity to send phishing emails requesting users to sign in via a new URL from a link within that email - but of course that link wouldn't be genuine and that's where people could be tricked into handing over their genuine Twitter credentials without their usual level of caution,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Cyber-criminals can easily prey on this, especially those searching for that new URL.\"\n\nMr Musk has long had a fascination with the letter X - although no-one really knows why.\n\nOne of his first business ventures in 1999 was known as X.com, which was an online banking platform.\n\nJust three years later, Mr Musk made $165m when X.com - by then merged with PayPal - was bought by eBay.\n\nElon Musk and Grimes' first child is named X Æ A-12\n\nHe also owns the X.com domain name, which now redirects to Twitter.\n\nMr Musk is also chief executive of SpaceX, the commercial American aerospace company founded in 2002.\n\nThere is also the name of his first child with musician Grimes - X Æ A-12 Musk.\n\nMr Musk also recently launched his long-awaited artificial intelligence start-up - xAI - in a bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic has withdrawn from next month's Canadian Open in Toronto because of fatigue, the tournament organisers have announced.\n\nThe 36-year-old Serbian lost a five-set Wimbledon final to Spain's world number one Carlos Alcaraz a week ago.\n\nHe will be replaced by American Christopher Eubanks in the main draw.\n\n\"I have always enjoyed my time in Canada but after speaking with my team we believe this is the right decision to take,\" said Djokovic.\n\n\"I would like to thank Karl Hale, the tournament director, for understanding this decision,\" he added.\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam champion has won the Toronto Masters event four times.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Her creators, Ruth and Elliot Handler, reveal it all", "The grizzly population has increased around Yellowstone\n\nA woman has been found dead on a trail near Yellowstone National Park after likely coming into contact with a grizzly bear, park officials have said.\n\nTracks from a grizzly were discovered close to the woman's body on Saturday near the town of West Yellowstone in Montana state, they said.\n\nThe woman was found after \"an apparent bear encounter,\" they added, though no cause of death has been confirmed.\n\nDays before the woman was found on Saturday, Montana's fish, wildlife and parks department warned visitors and staff of the increased danger from grizzlies and urged campers and hikers to carry bear spray and to secure food and rubbish.\n\nRangers issued an emergency closure of the area where the woman was found, which is popular with hikers.\n\nYellowstone has two main bear species - the grizzly and the black bear. While the latter is much smaller, both species are considered potentially dangerous.\n\nThe US National Park Service estimates that grizzly numbers in the greater Yellowstone area have increased from 136 in 1975 to a peak of more than 1,000 in 2021.\n\n\"Grizzly bears may range over hundreds of square miles, and the potential for conflicts with human activities, especially when food is present, makes the presence of a viable grizzly population a continuing challenge,\" it says.", "Rapist David Goodwillie's new team have said they will not walk away from the player despite council criticism.\n\nGoodwillie, who was ruled to be a rapist in a civil case, recently played for Glasgow United FC in a friendly.\n\nGlasgow City Council threatened to bar the club from its training facility, but the club said there had been a \"witch hunt\" against the player.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland said the club had sent a \"clear message of disregard\" to survivors of rape and sexual violence.\n\nGlasgow United FC has not confirmed if Goodwillie has been signed.\n\nCouncil leader Susan Aitken said the ex-Dundee United, Aberdeen and Blackburn player had not shown \"any kind of contrition or remorse\" for his actions and warned any club that signed him would send \"a very clear statement about its attitude to the safety of women and girls\".\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Glasgow United FC, which is based in Shettleston, told BBC Scotland the club would not walk away from Goodwillie \"like every other club\".\n\nThey said: \"David Goodwillie has never been charged for this offence. He has no criminal record and has never appeared on any offenders register.\n\n\"How can he show contrite or remorse for something he staunchly claims he did not do?\"\n\nThey added: \"We do a lot of work in our community helping those in need and this is only an extension of that work.\n\n\"We are supporting David with his mental health and will continue to do so. This witch hunt has gone on for far too long and the use of any person's life as a political football is unacceptable.\"\n\nGoodwillie was charged with rape in January 2011 but the criminal proceedings were halted after the Crown Office said there was \"insufficient evidence in law\" for the case to proceed.\n\nIn 2012, he was given a community service order after pleading guilty to assaulting a man in Glasgow two years earlier.\n\nGlasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said it would be \"outrageous\" for any club to sign Goodwillie\n\nNinth-tier Glasgow United train twice a week at council-owned Greenfield Football Centre but play their home games at the nearby Greenfield Park stadium.\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, Ms Aitken she had asked city official to \"look at\" the local authority's agreement over access to Greenfield Football Centre.\n\nGlasgow United is part of Shettleston Community Sports Trust, which runs the centre on a rolling licence from Glasgow Life - a charity that runs libraries, museums and sports facilities for the council.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland said it was \"deeply disappointed\" by the club's decision to play Goodwillie.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"David Goodwillie has been found by a senior judge to be a rapist. Footballers are role models - particularly for young people - and it's not okay to have someone in this position who has been found to be a rapist.\"\n\nGlasgow United, who play in the West of Scotland third division, selected Goodwillie to play in a match against West of Scotland Premier Division side Pollok on July 12 but lost 7-0.\n\nA few days later, Goodwillie spoke out for the first time since the 2017 ruling on the Anything Goes podcast by Scottish actor James English.\n\nThe footballer said he did not feel like he has had justice and that both parties had been left in limbo.\n\nGlasgow United FC have been warned by the council over access to their training facility\n\nIn 2017, Goodwillie and former Dundee United teammate David Robertson were ordered to pay £100,000 in damages after a judge ruled they raped a woman at a flat in Armadale, West Lothian, in 2011.\n\nNeither faced a criminal trial over the rape accusation after prosecutors said there was not enough evidence.\n\nRobertson retired from football aged 30 in the days after the ruling, while Goodwillie left English side Plymouth Argyle by \"mutual agreement\".\n\nHowever, the forward soon signed with Scottish League One side Clyde, who he played for more than 100 times and captained before leaving in 2022.\n\nRaith Rovers sparked outrage by signing Goodwillie in January 2022 and a loan move back to Clyde also collapsed.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland described the Raith Rovers move as another \"clear message of disregard\" to survivors of rape and sexual violence.\n\nThe forward was released without playing a game in September 2022, with Raith Rovers admitting it \"got it wrong\" by signing him.\n\nIn February this year, Northern Premier League side Radcliffe FC, based in Bury, Greater Manchester, released the striker after one game following a public outcry.\n\nFour months later, Goodwillie's contract with Australian semi-professional club Sorrento FC was rescinded. The club apologised to anyone \"that may have been caused offence by his signing\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ULEZ has become political football, says mum whose daughter died partly due to the effects of London air pollution\n\nA London mother campaigning for stronger action on air pollution has said plans to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) had become a \"political football\".\n\nRosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's daughter Ella died aged nine in 2013 - partly due to the effects of pollution.\n\nShe supports the Labour mayor of London's plans to extend the scheme across the whole of the capital.\n\nBut Labour's leader has said Sadiq Khan should \"reflect\" on the proposals.\n\nThe expansion of the scheme, due to be enforced from the end of August, would mean drivers of the most polluting cars will have to pay £12.50 a day to drive in any part of Greater London.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has blamed the plans for the party's loss at the recent by-election in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, a seat made vacant by the former Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Khan has defended his plan as \"the right one\".\n\nElla Adoo-Kissi-Debrah lived 25m (82ft) from the polluted South Circular Road in south-east London\n\nThe scheme has been strongly opposed by motoring groups and some councils. Five Conservative councils have brought a judicial review of the plans to London's High Court. A judge is expected to make a ruling in the coming weeks.\n\nMs Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who has campaigned for tougher legislation to cut pollution told the BBC on Monday: \"We should this morning be talking about children and the most vulnerable and this has now turned in to a political football\".\n\nElla, from Lewisham, south-east London, was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed by a coroner as a cause of death.\n\nShe was found to have been exposed to \"excessive levels\" of toxic air near her home.\n\nRosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said the current debate around the ULEZ should turn to children's health\n\n\"The coroner was very clear that everyone needs to work together - the Department of Heath, transport, the environment, the mayor of London's office and all councils,\" Ms Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said.\n\nAfter Labour's loss at the Uxbridge by-election, Sir Keir said ULEZ was \"the reason we didn't win there\" adding, \"we've all got to reflect on that, including the mayor\".\n\nHe said he had spoken to Sadiq Khan, but declined to say whether he believed the ULEZ expansion should be paused or scrapped.\n\nSources close to Mr Khan told the BBC he was in \"constructive listening mode\" but added that he had no plans to delay the scheme's expansion at the end of August.\n\nIn the decade since her daughter's death, Ms Adoo-Kissi-Debrah has campaigned for a new law.\n\n\"Mr Khan is legally obligated to clean up the air and so is the government,\" she told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nWhen asked whether she was seeing Labour's commitment to cleaning up the air \"wavering\", she said: \"I am\".\n\n\"We should be talking about different ways to mitigate ULEZ, that is what we should be discussing. People do want clean air.\"\n\nSir Kier Starmer said on Friday: \"When it comes to green commitments, it's not a question of whether they should be done, of course it needs to be done - it's how they're done.\"\n\nMs Adoo-Kissi-Debrah also said she had told Ed Miliband, the shadow secretary of state for Net Zero, she did not think a planned new anti pollution law would ever be introduced.\n\nIf it were to become law, The Clean Air Bill would force the government to act to bring air quality to minimum standards set by the World Health Organization, which are stricter than the UK's current standards.\n\nIt has so far had two readings in the House of Commons.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "George Alagiah said his life and family \"didn't feel like a failure\"\n\nBBC newsreader George Alagiah has said he thinks the cancer he has had since 2014 will \"probably get me in the end\", but that he still feels \"very lucky\".\n\n\"I don't think I'm going to be able to get rid of this thing. I've got the cancer still. It's growing very slowly,\" he said on the podcast Desperately Seeking Wisdom.\n\nAlagiah was first diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in April 2014.\n\nBut he said he was able to look back at the \"great good fortune\" in his life.\n\nSpeaking on the podcast with ex-Downing Street director of communications Craig Oliver, Alagiah said that when his cancer was first diagnosed, it took a while for him to understand what he \"needed to do\".\n\n\"I had to stop and say, 'Hang on a minute. If the full stop came now, would my life have been a failure?'\n\n\"And actually, when I look back and I looked at my journey... the family I had, the opportunities my family had, the great good fortune to bump into (Frances Robathan), who's now been my wife and lover for all these years, the kids that we brought up... it didn't feel like a failure.\"\n\nHe also spoke about his treatment, saying: \"My doctor's very good at every now and again hitting me with a big red bus full of drugs, because the whole point about cancer is it finds a way through and it gets you in the end.\n\n\"Probably... it will get me in the end. I'm hoping it's a long time from now, but I'm very lucky.\"\n\nAlagiah has also worked as a BBC News foreign correspondent and specialist on Africa and the developing world, covering events including the Rwandan genocide and interviewing Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nIn October, the journalist said he was taking a break from TV to have treatment after \"a further spread of cancer\" was discovered. He said in June 2020 that the cancer had spread to his lungs, liver and lymph nodes.\n\nWhen asked what piece of wisdom he would give, he spoke about the need for people to think more collectively.\n\n\"I think it would be to constantly ask the question, 'What is it we can do together?'\" he said.\n\n\"I spent a lot of my time in Africa, and in South Africa they have a word: Ubuntu. It's the idea that I'm only human if I recognise the humanity in you.\n\n\"There's this collective notion of life which I think we have lost.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer West Ham goalkeeper Shaka Hislop is conscious and recovering after collapsing on air before Sunday's friendly between Real Madrid and AC Milan in California.\n\nThe 54-year-old was working as an analyst for US broadcaster ESPN.\n\nHe stumbled and fell to the ground face forwards during a pre-match pitch-side interview at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.\n\nDan Thomas, presenting alongside Hislop, called for assistance as the channel cut for a commercial break.\n\nTemperatures in California on Sunday were reported to be about 30C, but it is unclear if heat was a factor in Hislop's collapse.\n\nIn an update at half-time, Thomas said: \"My mate, Shaka, not here, but as it stands, it's good news.\n\n\"He's conscious. He's talking. I think he's a little embarrassed about it all. He's apologised profusely. Not a man who likes people to make a fuss of him.\n\n\"Obviously far too early to make any sort of diagnosis, but the important thing is that Shaka's conscious and we spoke to his family as well, because you imagine seeing that happen live.\"\n\nHislop played 121 games for West Ham in two spells from 1998 to 2002 and 2005 to 2006. He won 26 caps for Trinidad and Tobago.\n\nEngland midfielder Jude Bellingham made his debut for Madrid as they came from 2-0 down to win 3-2.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "In April, most frontline officers and staff were told they would need to be clean shaven\n\nPolice Scotland has postponed a new clean-shaven policy after taking health and safety advice and listening to officers, the force has said.\n\nThe policy, already delayed from May, would need many frontline officers and staff to remove beards and moustaches.\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation (SPF), the LGBTI Police Association and others criticised the plans and four officers took legal action.\n\nPolice Scotland said the policy would be reviewed again in 12 months.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Speirs said: \"I am very grateful to all divisions, staff associations and unions who provided valuable feedback during the consultation phase.\n\n\"Postponing implementation allows further examination of the evidence base for a policy which is proportionate and justifies change, particularly where that changes has a significant impact on officers and staff.\n\n\"This work will be reviewed in 12 months to ensure we reach an agreed position on a policy which has the health and safety of our people at its core.\"\n\nThe clean-shaven policy was designed to allow officers to wear protective masks\n\nIn April, ACC Speirs had written a message on the force's internal website saying, with some exceptions, frontline officers and staff would need to be clean shaven so they could wear protective FFP3 masks.\n\nHe said the implementation of the policy had been approved by the chief constable and it was due to be introduced on 29 May.\n\nBut the force had not carried out a consultation at this point and the SPF, which represents rank-and-file police officers, said it had been inundated with complaints.\n\nPolice Scotland told the BBC it took the decision to postpone after seeking further health and safety advice and listening to the \"lived experience of its people\".\n\nThe federation's general secretary, David Kennedy, said: \"It was highly criticised from all areas of the service and whether to delay indefinitely, or until proper understanding as to why such a policy would ever be required, can only be described as the correct decision. \"\n\nPolice Scotland did not confirm whether any agreement had been reached with the four male officers who took legal action in relation to facial hair.", "Thousands of people have been evacuated from wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes.\n\nTourists have fled from their hotels to emergency shelters, while some holidaymakers returning to the UK described people being covered in ash and still smelling of smoke from the fires.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England forward Trevor Francis has died aged 69 after suffering a heart attack in Spain.\n\nIn 1979 he became Britain's first £1m footballer when he moved from Birmingham City to Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest.\n\nHe won two European Cups with Forest - in 1979, when he scored the winner against Malmo, and 1980.\n\nFrancis also won 52 England caps, scoring 12 goals, before embarking on a managerial career.\n\nA statement released on behalf of his family said: \"This has come as a huge shock to everybody. We are all very upset.\n\n\"He was a legendary footballer but he was also an extremely nice person.\"\n\nFrancis spent half the year in Spain and the rest in Solihull. He suffered a heart attack 11 years ago and had kept himself fit since with daily power walks.\n\nHe had an annual health check through the League Managers' Association and, according to his spokesman, was \"enjoying life very much\".\n\nFrancis lost wife Helen in 2017, when she died after being diagnosed with cancer. They had married in 1974 and had sons Matthew and James together.\n\nBorn in Plymouth, Francis joined Birmingham as a schoolboy and was the Blues' then-youngest debutant in 1970 aged 16 - a record only beaten by current England and Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham in August 2019.\n\nFrancis went on to score 119 goals in 280 league appearances before his history-making switch to link up with Clough at Nottingham Forest.\n\nAfter Forest's two European Cup wins, he joined Manchester City before having spells with Italian clubs Sampdoria and Atalanta.\n\nA season in Scotland with Rangers followed before he joined QPR, where he also became player-manager.\n\nHe later performed a similar role at Sheffield Wednesday and helped lead them to both the FA Cup and League Cup finals in 1993, losing both to Arsenal.\n\nFrancis retired as a player in 1994, shortly before his 40th birthday, having made 632 appearances and scored 235 goals.\n\nHe then returned to Birmingham as manager between 1996 and 2001 and guided the Blues to the 2001 League Cup final where they lost to Liverpool on penalties.\n\nAfter leaving St Andrew's, his final managerial post was at Crystal Palace where he spent two years.\n\nHe also worked as a media pundit with Sky Sports and BT Sport.\n\nFond tributes were paid to Francis by his former clubs, team-mates and colleagues from within the media.\n\nNottingham Forest said they were \"deeply saddened\" and Francis was \"a true Forest legend who will never be forgotten\". Birmingham City said Francis will \"forever be revered as a giant of the club\" and he was \"the player everyone wanted to see\".\n\nSheffield Wednesday said they were also \"deeply saddened by the passing of Francis\" and said their \"thoughts are with Trevor's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time\".\n\nSampdoria posted a simple \"Rest in peace, Trevor Francis\" while Rangers said they were \"saddened to hear of his passing\".\n\nThe Football Association tweeted: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that Trevor Francis has passed away aged 69. He won 52 caps and scored 12 goals - including two at the 1982 at the World Cup - for the Three Lions between 1977 and 1986. All of our thoughts are with his family, friends and former clubs.\" The EFL added that Francis was \"one of the best English football has ever seen\".\n\nViv Anderson, who played with Francis at Forest, posted a tribute on Instagram: \"Just heard the unbelievable news regarding Trevor Francis, he was such a wonderful person and fabulous teammate he will be sadly missed, my condolences go to his family and friends RIP.\"\n\nReal Madrid and England midfielder Jude Bellingham, who began his career at Birmingham, posted a photo of of himself as a child meeting Francis. Bellingham wrote: \"A very sad day for BCFC and all of football. Beyond legendary, a trailblazer, a great and an icon of the game. The only thing that could exceed his quality and accolades on the pitch was his class off it. Thank you for all the guidance and the benchmarks you set. Rest in peace, King Trevor!\"\n\nFormer England and Rangers team-mate Terry Butcher told BBC Radio 5 Live that Francis would not have looked out of place in the modern game: \"He was sophisticated, elegant; modern football would have suited him down to the ground.\n\n\"He was just class, he really was. He was smooth, he was silky, scored some great goals, a phenomenal player and a very, very nice guy, as everybody says.\"\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, who won 80 caps for England, tweeted: \"Deeply saddened to hear that Trevor Francis has died. A wonderful footballer and lovely man. Was a pleasure to work alongside him both on the pitch and on the telly. RIP Trevor.\"\n\nEx-England goalkeeper Peter Shilton said on Twitter he was \"absolutely devastated\" to hear about Francis' passing and added he was \"such a wonderful gentleman a friend\".\n\nFormer Forest striker Stan Collymore claimed Francis was \"the loveliest of men, humble, humorous, always giving of his time and advice\" before adding \"they say never meet your heroes, well, I met mine and he was an absolute gentleman\".\n\nChris Kamara, who worked alongside Francis at Sky Sports, also said he \"was a gentleman\" and \"the first million pound player who always looked a million dollars\".\n\nFormer Crystal Palace striker Mark Bright, who played under Francis' management at Wednesday, added: \"The club experienced some great times in the early 1990s, both Trev his wife Helen, were very kind in helping me to settle in at the club, I greatly appreciated it then and now. Love to sons Matthew and James.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "A day out at the beauty salon allowed Afghan women to chat in a relaxed setting\n\nHair and beauty salons across Afghanistan will close in the coming weeks on the Taliban's orders.\n\nTheir closure will lead to the loss of an estimated 60,000 jobs.\n\nSalons had been allowed to keep operating since the Taliban retook power two years ago, but it reversed its position last month.\n\nThe decision further restricts spaces open to Afghan women, who are already barred from classrooms, gyms and parks.\n\n23-year-old Zarmina was in a beauty salon getting her hair dyed dark brown when news of the approaching closures came through.\n\n\"The owner got a big shock and started to cry. She is the breadwinner for her family,\" the mother of two said.\n\n\"I couldn't even look at the mirror when my eyebrow was being done. Everyone was in tears. There was silence.\"\n\nBeauty salons gave women a safe space to share their joys and sorrows\n\nZarmina lives in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban's conservative citadel where the supreme leader resides.\n\nShe says it's common here for men to ban their daughters from wearing make-up or going for a beauty treatment.\n\n\"Most women walk around in a burqa or hijab here. We have accepted it as part of our culture.\"\n\nZarmina was married at 16. She says a chat at the beautician was enough to give her a rare sense of freedom.\n\n\"I wasn't allowed to leave my house on my own, but I managed to persuade my husband, and was allowed to visit the beauty salon two or three times a year.\"\n\nShe used to go to the salon with a woman from her neighbourhood, developing a deep friendship with one of its workers.\n\n\"In the past, women used to talk about ways to influence their husbands. Some were open about their insecurities.\"\n\nBut the economic crisis had gradually intruded into their lives after the Taliban retook power in August 2021 following the withdrawal of US forces from the country.\n\nWomen's freedoms have steadily shrunk since then.\n\n\"Now women only talk about unemployment, discrimination and poverty,\" Zarmina says.\n\nMadina covers her head with a scarf when she leaves home. Only her husband and female members of her family can see her coloured hair.\n\nThe 22-year-old lives in Kabul, and keenly follows the latest beauty trends online.\n\n\"Every woman I know loves to improve her style. I love the latest fashion and wearing make-up.\"\n\nMany Afghan women choose elaborate make-up for their wedding day\n\nShe says going to the beauty salon has kept her marriage fresh.\n\n\"My husband really loves to see my hair in different colours and cut in different styles.\n\n\"He always takes me to the beauty salon and waits patiently at the door,\" she says proudly.\n\n\"He compliments my looks when I walk out, which makes me feel good.\"\n\nHer ambition was to become a lawyer but the Taliban stopped women going to university. She's been unable to find work since as women are also banned from many other roles.\n\nMadina used to accompany her mum to the salon as a child and vividly recalls how women would openly share their life stories with each other.\n\n\"Women employees in the salon no longer wear skirts or jeans, they're all in hijabs.\"\n\n\"No-one knows who is a Taliban supporter and no-one wants to say anything about politics.\"\n\nIn the past, grooms were allowed to watch their bride get ready. Madina even remembers some men taking photos inside the salon. This is all now banned.\n\nThe Taliban says beauty salons are forbidden by Islam\n\nBut Madina says she at least has joyful memories of her \"big day\" to cherish.\n\n\"I went to the beauty salon and got full bridal make-up before my wedding last year,\" she says.\n\n\"When I looked at myself in the mirror, I was so beautiful. It transformed me. I couldn't describe my happiness.\"\n\nFor 27-year-old Somaya from the north-western city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a beauty salon is a necessity.\n\nThree years ago she suffered burns to her face, losing her eyebrows and eyelashes after a heater in her room exploded.\n\n\"I couldn't bear to look at my face. I looked ugly,\" she says, her voice full of emotion.\n\n\"I thought everyone was looking at me and laughing at me because my eyebrows were gone. I didn't go out for a couple of months. I cried a lot during that time.\"\n\nMedical treatment healed her wounds, while the beauty salon helped her recover her sense of self.\n\nSome beauty salons were defaced as soon as the Taliban took over\n\n\"I went to the beauty salon and had micro-blading [a semi-permanent form of cosmetic tattooing]. It made me look much better,\" she says.\n\n\"When I looked at my eyebrows, I started to cry. They are tears of joy. The beauty salon gave me my life back.\"\n\nSomaya has a master's degree in psychology and works as a mental health counsellor. She has seen the number of women seeking her services swell since the Taliban imposed sweeping restrictions. She is not alone in using the beauty parlour for \"therapy\".\n\n\"For us, salons are more than places to do your make-up. It helped us hide our sorrows. It gave us energy and hope.\"\n\nZarmina agrees. As she walked home that June day, from what would be her last trip to the salon, she kept looking back.\n\nShe was fully aware of what she was losing - her tiny stab at independence.\n\n\"I paid for myself at the salon and it gave me strength and power. I have money but I can't spend it on myself in the beauty salon. This makes me feel poor.\"", "Zana Cousins-Greenwood said Harry Styles was \"what you want him to be, which is lovely\"\n\nA horse trainer has told how she urged Harry Styles to \"fake it to make it\" when getting in the saddle for his latest music video.\n\nIn the video for Daylight, the singer rode a horse from Hertfordshire-based Stampede Stunt Company.\n\nHandler Zana Cousins-Greenwood had to keep her experience secret after they met on set in Kent 14 months ago.\n\nShe said: \"We trained him to ride, we trained him to look good and he listened.\"\n\nStampede Stunt Company said Harry Styles \"took the time with everybody and learnt all the skills\"\n\nThe former One Direction singer revealed he had never a ridden a horse to Ms Cousins-Greenwood and her team as they shared a lunch break together.\n\nThis meant Styles only had about 20 minutes of training before cameras started rolling.\n\n\"We said to Harry 'just look like you're confident on a horse - fake it until you make it',\" Ms Cousins-Greenwood told BBC Three Counties Radio.\n\nThe Hemel Hempstead company has worked with many celebrities including Sir Anthony Hopkins and the late Paul O'Grady.\n\nUsually, stars visit the training centre to practice. However, due to his busy schedule, the team met Styles for the first time on set at a circus outside a garden centre.\n\nStampede Stunt Company has been training horses for 20 years\n\nTowards the end of the video, released on Wednesday, Styles rears the horse in slow motion while coolly holding eye contact with the camera.\n\n\"I'm pleased that the horse went nice and high, he can be lazy at times,\" said the trainer.\n\nThe Friesian horse, named Teake, was not initially meant to star in the video.\n\nHarry Styles only received 20 minutes of training before filming started\n\nOriginally a horse named Carnival was chosen, with Teake brought along to the shoot to keep the white stallion company.\n\nHowever, the the video's director preferred Teake and Carnival was forced to instead appear in the background of a shot.\n\nPoppleguy has previously worked with the comedian and broadcaster Paul O'Grady\n\nThe firm also provided a parrot for the video shoot.\n\nPoppleguy the parrot sits on Styles' shoulder as he feeds him a cashew nut.\n\nMs Cousins-Greenwood said that inclusion was unplanned because, although the parrot often features in music videos, he does not normally like to sit on people's shoulders.\n\n\"He's a little bit picky and he went straight on Harry Styles' shoulder, the sign of a good vibe,\" she said.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "Radiographers, who perform vital scans on patients, begin a 48-hour strike at 08:00 on Tuesday in parts of England.\n\nStaff at 37 NHS trusts are staging walkouts over pay.\n\nThe government says its offer of a 5% pay rise combined with one-off payments totalling at least £1,655 is \"reasonable\" and \"final\".\n\nPatients can expect disruption to services - but staffing levels akin to those during bank holidays will provide \"life and limb\" emergency cover.\n\nThe Society of Radiographers said nine out of every 10 NHS patients were supported by radiographers, who perform X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerised-tomography (CT) scans, ultrasounds and breast screening, as well as radiotherapy for cancer patients.\n\nA million patients are awaiting scans, it says, contributing to the backlog of more than 7 million people who are waiting for planned NHS treatment.\n\nAnyone needing urgent medical care should come forward as normal, especially in emergency and life-threatening situations if seriously ill or injured.\n\nNHS medical director for secondary care Dr Vin Diwakar said: \"People should continue to use the NHS as they usually would and attend their appointments as normal, unless they have been informed it has been rearranged.\"\n\nJohn Kelly told BBC News he was striking over morale and job pressures, as well as pay.\n\n\"We see the care we are wanting to give to patients decreasing in quality, because we haven't got the time or the availability,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a huge amount of pressure. Obviously nine out of 10 patients that come through the NHS through our doors are going to be seeing a radiographer at some point during their journey.\n\n\"With seven million people on the waiting list, it's absolutely massive that we need to get these people treated, diagnosed. We need to work as fast as possible.\"\n\nNHS radiographer John Kelly told BBC News he was striking over morale and job pressures, as well as pay\n\nIt takes years to become a radiographer. People need a degree or postgraduate qualification and can then expect to earn between around £28,500 and £42,600 a year, depending on experience and how long they have been in the role.\n\nMore than 20,000 Society of Radiographers members were balloted.\n\nDean Rogers, from the Society of Radiographers, said: \"Voting for strike action was a difficult decision for our members, who care above all about the safety and wellbeing of their patients.\n\n\"We need to draw attention to the fact that many radiography professionals are feeling burnt out by low pay and increased hours. They're leaving the NHS, and they are not being replaced in adequate numbers.\n\n\"If the government wants to reduce NHS waiting lists and ensure that patients receive the treatment they need, when they need it, then it must urgently prioritise the recruitment and retention of radiography professionals - and that means talking to us about pay and conditions.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"I want to see an end to disruptive strikes so the NHS can focus relentlessly on cutting waiting lists and delivering for patients.\n\n\"The majority of unions on the NHS Staff Council voted to accept the government's fair and reasonable offer of a 5% pay rise for 2023-24, alongside two significant one-off payments totalling at least £1,655, putting more money in their pockets now.\n\n\"Over a million NHS staff, including radiographers, are already benefiting from that pay rise. The NHS also recently published the first ever NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, to recruit and retain hundreds of thousands more staff.\"\n\nAre you a radiographer with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Thousands of fans have lined streets in central Paris to say farewell to English-French star Jane Birkin.\n\nThe funeral was attended by numerous celebrities, and was live-streamed to crowds outside the Saint Roch church.\n\nPeople held posters and wore T-shirts declaring their love for the star.\n\nThough born in England, Birkin earned her status after successful film roles and songs, as well as being the inspiration for the iconic Hermès Birkin designer bag.\n\nShe was known for her personal and artistic relationship with French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.\n\nIn 1969 Birkin recorded with him the iconic track \"Je T'aime... moi non plus\", banned in several countries and condemned by the Vatican because of its overtly sexual lyrics.\n\nWith her flared jeans, mini dresses and distinctive fringe, she also became a fashion icon in the 1970s.\n\nShe died last week at her home in the French capital at the age of 76.\n\nBirkin's daughters led tributes to the singer and actress\n\nSinger Vanessa Paradis was at the funeral, as well as screen legends Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert and Charlotte Rampling, another British actress who regularly stars in French-language movies.\n\nFrench First Lady Brigitte Macron was also in attendance, along with Birkin's surviving daughters Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, themselves well known as singers and actors.\n\n\"I already feel the emptiness she has left behind,\" an emotional Gainsbourg told attendees.\n\n\"Mother, thank you for not being ordinary and reasonable,\" said Doillon.\n\nMrs Macron (centre-right) and France's culture minister (centre-left) were among the mourners\n\nThe square in front of the church was strewn with flowers, a testament to the affection with which Birkin is held in France.\n\nPeople held banners saying \"Jane Forever\" and \"Thank you Jane Birkin\", and her songs were played through speakers to the crowds.\n\nMany of the well-wishers were emotional. Marie-Pierre Frapart, 63, told AFP she had \"come to pay tribute to our little Englishwoman\".\n\nCrowds outside the church watched the funeral on a big screen", "BBC presenter George Alagiah will be taking a break from TV after discovering his cancer has spread further, his agent has said.\n\nHe was first diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2014 and has stepped back from presenting intermittently for treatment since then.\n\nThe journalist, 66, returned to the BBC's News at Six in April.\n\nWorking in the newsroom \"has been such an important part of keeping energised and motivated\", said Alagiah.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"it's back to the tough stuff\" after a scan showed his cancer had spread further.\n\n\"I'm missing my colleagues\", he said, adding that he was looking forward to returning to the studio \"as soon as I can\".\n\nThe news was confirmed by his agent Mary Greenham.\n\nIn January, Alagiah said he thought the cancer he had had since 2014 would \"probably get me in the end\", but he still feels \"very lucky\".\n\nSpeaking on the podcast Desperately Seeking Wisdom he said that when his cancer was first diagnosed, it took a while for him to understand what he \"needed to do\".\n\n\"I had to stop and say, 'Hang on a minute. If the full stop came now, would my life have been a failure?'\n\n\"And actually, when I look back and I looked at my journey... the family I had, the opportunities my family had, the great good fortune to bump into (Frances Robathan), who's now been my wife and lover for all these years, the kids that we brought up... it didn't feel like a failure.\"\n\nAlagiah underwent 17 rounds of chemotherapy to treat his advanced bowel cancer in 2014 and said he was a \"richer person\" for it upon returning to presenting the following year.\n\nAs well as presenting the news, Alagiah has worked as a BBC News foreign correspondent and specialist on Africa and the developing world, covering events including the Rwandan genocide and interviewing Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nMost people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer, but the NHS advice is to see your GP if you have one or more of the symptoms and they have persisted for more than four weeks.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.", "We're drawing our live page to a close, but before we go let's take a look again at some of George Alagiah's most memorable moments on our screens:\n\nTributes have been pouring in from his colleagues at the BBC, friends elsewhere, and members of the public after a statement from his agent said he \"died peacefully today, surrounded by his family and loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC's director general Tim Davie has described Alagiah as \"one of the best and bravest journalists of his generation\".\n\nToday's page has been edited by me and James FitzGerald and written by Emily Atkinson, Jacqueline Howard and Sam Hancock.", "Penderyn became the first Welsh whisky distiller for over a century when it started production 20 years ago\n\nWhisky made in Wales has been given protected status like Welsh lamb.\n\nSingle malt Welsh whisky is the first spirit to receive geographical indication (GI) status since UKGI was launched in 2021 after Brexit.\n\nProduction has expanded since its revival 20 years ago with exports to more than 45 countries. And the spirit is expected to generate £23m this year.\n\nFour distilleries were part of the final bid for GI status - Penderyn, In the Welsh Wind, Da Mhile, and Coles.\n\nPenderyn boss Stephen Davies said gaining the status was a \"significant milestone\".\n\n\"It assists in safeguarding both the quality of the product and also its source of origin,\" he added.\n\nA total of 20 food and drinks have been officially protected in Wales, including Anglesey sea salt, Caerphilly cheese, Carmarthen ham, Conwy mussels, Denbigh plum, Pembrokeshire early potatoes, Welsh laverbread, west Wales coracle caught sewin and salmon, as well as Welsh wine, cider, leeks, beef, lamb and pork.\n\nRural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths said the Welsh whisky industry played an \"important role in the food and drink sector\" in Wales.\n\n\"I am very pleased for all those involved in gaining this prestigious status and ensures this fantastic product gains the recognition and prestige it deserves,\" she said.\n\nUKGI was set up to ensure certain UK foods and drinks could secure legal protection against imitation after the UK's withdrawal from the EU which runs its own scheme.\n\nUK Food and Farming Secretary Therese Coffey said awarding the Welsh whisky GI status \"shows how the UK government is ready to get behind the best of British food and drink from across the nation - to boost sales at home and abroad, create jobs and grow our economy\".\n\n\"I look forward to meeting some of the distillers at the Royal Welsh Show and celebrating this unique product's wonderful history,\" she added.\n\nThe agricultural show takes place at Llanelwedd in Powys from Monday.", "Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu faces pressure from reservists and former security chiefs ahead of key vote on the country's judicial reform\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been discharged from hospital after emergency surgery to fit a pacemaker.\n\nMr Netanyahu had been admitted to the Sheba Medical Centre on Saturday night.\n\nHis hospitalisation came ahead of a key vote expected in parliament on Monday on contentious plans to overhaul Israel's judiciary.\n\nProtests against the reform have swept across Israel, with many workers vowing to strike if it goes ahead.\n\nIn a video on Sunday following the surgery, Mr Netanyahu said he was in \"excellent health\" and planned to be in parliament for the vote.\n\nThe vote will amount to a showdown between the hard-line religious-nationalist coalition and swathes of Israeli society. Parliament began debating the highly contested bill to limit the Supreme Court's powers on Sunday.\n\nOne by one, Israeli opposition MPs took to the floor of the parliament chamber, pleading with the government to ditch its judicial reform plans.\n\nThe last few days have seen tens of thousands of protesters march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to oppose the justice system changes, with people filling the main highway.\n\nMany protesters camped up at Sacher Park in Jerusalem, near the parliament, after the four-day protest march.\n\nAnti-government protesters camped up near the Knesset - Israel's parliament - as lawmakers debate and vote on plans to limit Supreme Court's powers\n\nDemonstrations near the parliament are expected, and the coalition also faces the threat of a mass boycott of service duty by thousands of military reservists, including hundreds of air force pilots, if the law passes.\n\nThree former army chiefs of staff and dozens of senior Israeli security officials signed a letter on Saturday criticising the government's judicial reform plans and supporting reservists.\n\n\"This legislation is destroying the common foundations of Israeli society, ripping the people apart, dismantling the army and inflicting fatal harm to Israel's security,\" the letter reads.\n\nBrothers in Arms, which represents 10,000 reservists, have voiced their frustration at the government's plans.\n\n\"We've tried everything, this is where we draw the line,\" Eyal Nave, one of the leaders of Brothers in Arms, said.\n\n\"We pledged to serve the kingdom and not the king,\" Mr Nave said. Appealing directly to Mr Netanyahu, he said: \"You and only you are responsible for what is happening here. We had faith in the government but the government broke us.\n\n\"I will not volunteer to serve in a dictatorial state,\" Mr Nave added.\n\nA boycott by such a large number would seriously impact the operational capability of the Israeli military and so this is being seen as one of the most pivotal moments in the anti-government protest movement so far.\n\nIsrael's Supreme Court is the only source of scrutiny on the government's use of its power.\n\nMr Netanyahu's critics worry the reform will severely undermine Israel's democracy by weakening the judicial system.\n\nSupporters of the reforms argue that the Supreme Court has become increasingly \"activist\" over the decades, hindering the policies of democratically elected governments. They accuse judges of making politically-based decisions.\n\nBut many worry the prime minister - who currently faces corruption charges, which he denies - is trying to use the judicial reform to thwart his own legal issues.\n\nMerav Michaeli, a former government minister who chairs Israel's Labour party, said \"a tiny majority\" of politicians was \"coming to really ruin the state of Israel\".\n• None What is the crisis in Israel about?", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nHistory could be made on day five of the Fifa Women's World Cup if Nouhaila Benzina plays for Morocco.\n\nThe 25-year-old defender will become the first player to wear a hijab, the Islamic headscarf, at a World Cup if she features against one of the tournament favourites, Germany.\n\nThat is the second game of the day, with Italy facing Argentina, who are trying to win their first World Cup match, earlier in the morning.\n\nBrazil, who have won all eight of their World Cup openers, get their tournament under way against debutants Panama.\n• None Get all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Who's playing when? See the full tournament schedule\n• None History, stats and stadiums - visual guide to the Women's World Cup\n\nItaly are hoping to build on a quarter-final finish at the 2019 World Cup, which was their first time in the tournament since 1999.\n\nBut they finished bottom of their group at Euro 2022 in England with only one point.\n\n\"This World Cup is important - just as the previous one - because it does continue the growth process. We have qualified for two World Cups in a row and this is extraordinarily important for the growth in Italy,\" said manager Melina Bertolini.\n\n\"Our movement keeps growing. It's a very young movement; it's still fragile.\"\n\nArgentina have never won a sanctioned Women's World Cup match, losing all six games before 2019 and picking up two points in 2019, including a 3-3 draw with Scotland.\n\nCaptain and goalkeeper Vanina Correa, 39, has been in the squad for all four of the tournaments, including this one.\n\nIn the non-Fifa-sanctioned 1971 World Cup, Argentina, who beat England 4-1 in the group stage, lost 4-0 to Italy in the third-place play-off. That is their only previous meeting.\n\nArgentina have bounced back well considering they did not play a game between 2015 and 2017, when they lost their Fifa ranking for inactivity.\n\nRachel Brown-Finnis' prediction: This is another game I am really looking forward to, and again it should be close. I am going with Italy to edge it, so Argentina will have to wait a little longer for their first World Cup finals win. 2-1.\n\nKey stat: Argentina have failed to score in 67% of their Women's World Cup games (6/9), the highest percentage among the teams who have played more than six games in the competition.\n\nMorocco become the first Arab team to play at a Women's World Cup, with captain Ghizlane Chebbak saying: \"We feel that we have to shoulder a big responsibility to show a good image, and to show the achievements that the Moroccan football team has made in terms of progress by qualifying.\n\n\"This is a great milestone for us and we hope that our match with Germany will pave the way for other matches.\"\n\nTeam-mate Benzina, who plays her club football in Morocco, will become the first player to wear a hijab at a senior women's tournament if she plays. The hijab was authorised by Fifa in 2014.\n\nThere are 70 places between the teams in the Fifa rankings, with Germany second in the world.\n\nGerman coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg said: \"All the games are tight. Women's football teams have come ever closer.\n\n\"All the countries coming here are not only proud to be at the World Cup, but they absolutely have the quality to play here and to pose problems.\"\n\nGermany have injury doubts over key players Marina Hegering and Lena Oberdorf.\n\nRachel Brown-Finnis' prediction: I can see Germany winning big here. They will still be hurting from losing last year's Euros final, but they will use it in a good way - to fire themselves up.\n\nIn their eyes, I am sure it has been too long since they last won a World Cup - they were back-to-back champions in 2003 and 2006 - so that's their target this time.\n\nDefeat won't end Morocco's chances of getting out of the group and I'd love to see them emulate their men's team, who reached the semi-finals in Qatar last year, but that is obviously a huge ask. 4-0.\n\nKey stat: Germany's goal difference in World Cup openers is 34-3. Two of the four instances a team have scored at least 10 goals in a Women's World Cup game were Germany in their opening game (11-0 v Argentina in 2007 and 10-0 v Ivory Coast in 2015).\n\nFootball royalty Brazil have won the Copa America Femenina eight times but are yet to win a World Cup, finishing second in 2007.\n\nMarta could become the first player - man or woman - to score in six World Cups - although there is no guarantee the 37-year-old will start.\n\nCoach Pia Sundhage said: \"We're not picking the two best forwards. We will pick forwards who connect with each other.\"\n\nPanama are ranked 52nd in the world and this is their first World Cup.\n\n\"We know everything about Panama. I've been watching; the assistant coach has been watching so many games,\" said Sundhage.\n\nForward Riley Tanner was born and raised in the United States but played for her mother's homeland Panama.\n\nHer team-mates call her 'Frozen' because of her supposed resemblance to the cartoon's blonde character Elsa.\n\nShe told the BBC swapping shirts with Marta after the game would be \"a dream come true\".\n\n\"I am super star-struck,\" said Tanner, who made her Panama debut only this year.\n\n\"It's all happened pretty quickly. I went from only visiting Canada and a mission trip to Costa Rica to flying all the way across the world to play in a World Cup qualifier in New Zealand, so it's just crazy.\"\n\nRachel Brown-Finnis' prediction: I rarely get to watch Brazil in action but I can't wait to see both these teams - there's no way this one will end up as a goalless draw. 3-1.\n\nKey stat: Brazil legend Marta is the top scorer at the Women's World Cup, with 17 goals in 20 matches.\n• None The Banksy Story charts the rise of this anonymous household name\n• None Is hydrogen the solution to our energy needs? The Inquiry explores the potential of replacing our current fossil fuel usage with hydrogen", "George Alagiah returned after over a year off air on BBC News\n\nGeorge Alagiah has said he is \"overwhelmed\" by supportive comments from viewers welcoming his return to BBC One's News at Six.\n\nThe 63-year-old's bowel cancer returned in December 2017, forcing him to take time away from work to receive treatment.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter that the cancer was \"in a holding pattern\", which meant he could work again.\n\nAlagiah replied to the tweet, writing: \"There goes my hope of slipping back into the studio unnoticed! Thanks to all for good wishes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by sophieraworth This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter the news he added he is \"determined to get behind that studio desk as often as I can\".\n\nAfter Alagiah's initial diagnosis in 2014, the disease spread to his liver and lymph nodes, which needed treatment with several rounds of chemotherapy and three large operations, including one to remove most of his liver.\n\nHe returned to work in 2015, but again had to take more time out in 2017 when he was told that his stage four bowel cancer had returned.\n\nUpon his return on Wednesday evening, viewers and fellow colleagues appeared delighted, with many complimenting his new beard.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Nick Dalby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Aliu Ceessay © This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP David Lammy wrote on Twitter: \"So pleased to see George Alagiah back where he belongs. One of the best in the business.\"\n\nVeteran BBC broadcaster John Simpson added: \"It's an absolute delight to see George Alagiah reading the news again - one of the finest and most thoughtful of my colleagues.\"\n\nThe BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said: \"Great to see George Alagiah back on air on 6pm news after cancer treatment - welcome back!\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The green man could stay on longer at pedestrian crossings to give people more time to cross the road in England.\n\nTransport officials are considering a change that would mean people have around seven rather than six seconds to cross the typical road.\n\nThe guidance for local councils is meant to help people with disabilities, and older people.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the idea, saying millions of people currently struggled to cross when the green man was lit.\n\nCurrent UK-wide guidance for traffic engineers assumes an average walking speed of 1.2 metres per second - a figure first calculated in the 1950s.\n\nIt was updated in 2019 to specify that councils could reduce this to one metre per second, either on a \"site‑by‑site basis or as an area‑wide policy\".\n\nNow Active Travel England (ATE), an executive agency of the transport department, is considering adopting one metre per second as its standard recommendation for councils in England.\n\nThe change will be subject to consultation from interested parties. If approved, it will be included in new advice expected to be issued to English councils before the end of the year.\n\nLocal authorities are in charge of traffic management, but Active Travel England factors in adherence to its recommendations when allocating funding for schemes to boost walking and cycling.\n\nResearch published by University College London in 2012 found that 76% of men and 85% of women had a walking speed lower than the 1.2 metres per second standard.\n\nThe average walking speed for men was calculated as 0.9 metres per second, and 0.8 metres per second for women.\n\nAn ATE spokesperson said making crossing times \"inclusive\" was a big part of its plans to boost the number of people making short journeys on foot.\n\n\"Crossing times can be a challenge, particularly for elderly and disabled people, and a bad experience is enough to put someone off doing it,\" they added.\n\nLiving Streets, a charity that promotes everyday walking, welcomed the proposal, saying it recognised walking speeds in the UK's ageing population.\n\n\"Millions of older people, disabled people and families with children struggle to cross the road in the time given,\" added chief executive Stephen Edwards.\n\n\"If people don't feel safe crossing the street, they simply won't make the journey or will make it in a less sustainable and less healthy way,\" he added.\n• None Boardman to lead bid to get more people cycling", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look back at George Alagiah's extraordinary career at the BBC\n\nGeorge Alagiah, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.\n\nA statement from his agent said he \"died peacefully today, surrounded by his family and loved ones\".\n\nA fixture on British TV news for more than three decades, he presented the BBC News at Six for the past 20 years.\n\nBefore that, he was an award-winning foreign correspondent, reporting from countries ranging from Rwanda to Iraq.\n\nHe was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2014 and revealed in October 2022 that it had spread further.\n\nPaying tribute, his agent, Mary Greenham, said: \"George was deeply loved by everybody who knew him, whether it was a friend, a colleague or a member of the public.\n\n\"He simply was a wonderful human being. My thoughts are with Fran, the boys and his wider family,\" she said.\n\nAlagiah died earlier on Monday, but \"fought until the bitter end\", his agent added.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"Across the BBC, we are all incredibly sad to hear the news about George. We are thinking of his family at this time.\n\n\"He was more than just an outstanding journalist, audiences could sense his kindness, empathy and wonderful humanity. He was loved by all and we will miss him enormously.\"\n\nBBC World Affairs editor John Simpson tweeted: \"A gentler, kinder, more insightful and braver friend and colleague it would be hard to find.\"\n\nClive Myrie, presenting the BBC News at One, said: \"On a personal note, George touched all of us here in the newsroom, with his kindness and generosity, his warmth and good humour. We loved him here at BBC News, and I loved him as a mentor, colleague and friend.\"\n\nGeorge Alagiah was a fixture on British TV news for more than three decades\n\nFellow journalists including LBC's Sangita Myska, the Guardian's Pippa Crerar and Mark Austin of Sky News were among those to also pay tribute.\n\nAustin tweeted: \"This breaks my heart. A good man, a rival on the foreign correspondent beat but above all a friend. If good journalism is about empathy, and it often is, George Alagiah had it in spades.\"\n\n\"Growing up, when the BBC's George Alagiah was on TV my dad would shout \"George is on!\". We'd run to watch the man who inspired a generation of British Asian journalists. That scene was replicated across the UK. We thank you, George. RIP xx\"\n\nFormer BBC North American editor Jon Sopel wrote: \"Tributes will rightly be paid to a fantastic journalist and brilliant broadcaster - but George was the most decent, principled, kindest, most honourable man I have ever worked with. What a loss.\"\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner recalled Alagiah visiting him in hospital after he was shot and critically injured in an al-Qaeda attack in Saudia Arabia in 2004.\n\n\"He brought me his book A Passage to Africa, and we talked for hours about the continent he loved and spent so much of his career covering. A true journalist and a great author.\"\n\nAlagiah won awards for reports on the famine and war in Somalia in the early 1990s, and was nominated for a Bafta in 1994 for covering Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq.\n\nHe was also named Amnesty International's journalist of the year in 1994, for reporting on the civil war in Burundi, and was the first BBC journalist to report on the genocide in Rwanda.\n\nHe is pictured here working as a foreign correspondent in Baghdad\n\nGeorge Maxwell Alagiah was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, before moving to Ghana and then England in childhood.\n\nHis main childhood memory of Sri Lanka was leaving it. His parents were Christian Tamils; the country, then called Ceylon, mired in ethnic violence.\n\nHis father, Donald, was an engineer specialising in water distribution and irrigation. Feeling unwelcome and unsafe in his own land, he took his young family to Africa in search of a new and better life.\n\nThe family initially prospered in Ghana but Alagiah's parents decided to educate their children in England. At the age of 11, his father dropped him off at boarding school in Portsmouth; they both had to hold back the tears.\n\nReporting from outside the Houses of Parliament the day after the 2010 general election\n\nHis childhood of change and assimilation helped shape his personality and informed his professional judgement.\n\nThere was some racism. He was almost the only boy of colour; there were \"Bongo Bongo land\" taunts in the showers. He gave up asking people to say his name correctly (his family pronounced it, \"Uller-hiya\").\n\n\"In those days,\" he reflected \"you were almost apologetic if you had a 'funny name'.\" The alternative was to stick out like an \"exotic cactus in a bed of spring meadow plants\".\n\nBut, in some ways, his school in England - St John's College - was a closed and unreal society, which sealed him off from the huge social changes going on outside its walls. The anti-immigrant sentiment in many parts of the country was something that largely passed him by.\n\nAs he grew up, he became, he believed, the \"right sort\" of foreigner in a land where \"class trumps race every time\".\n\nLater, he attended Durham University, where he met, and later married, Frances Robathan.\n\nAfter graduating, he spent seven years at South Magazine, proud of its editorial line which painted an unequal world as an unstable one.\n\nHe joined the BBC as a foreign affairs correspondent in 1989 and then became Africa correspondent, the continent of his childhood.\n\nGeorge Alagiah, pictured in July of last year\n\nIt was often a depressing experience. He interviewed child soldiers in Liberia, victims of mass rape in Uganda and witnessed hunger and disease almost everywhere.\n\n\"There is a new generation in Africa\", he wrote, \"my generation, freedom's children, born and educated in those years of euphoria after independence, we have had a chance. We didn't do much with it.\"\n\nOne of his proudest professional moments came when he broadcast some of the first pictures of the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in 1999, he said.\n\nOther stories he covered in news reports and documentaries included the trade in human organs in India, street children in Brazil, civil war in Afghanistan and human rights violations in Ethiopia.\n\nHe interviewed figures including South African President Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.\n\nMoving to news presenting, he fronted the BBC One O'Clock News, Nine O'Clock News and BBC Four News, before being made one of the main presenters of the Six O'Clock News in 2003.\n\nHe anchored news programmes from Sri Lanka following the December 2004 tsunami, as well as reporting from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and from Pakistan following the South Asian earthquake in 2005.\n\nHe was appointed an OBE for services to journalism in 2008.\n\nAfter Alagiah's initial cancer diagnosis in 2014, the disease spread to his liver and lymph nodes, which needed chemotherapy and several operations, including one to remove most of his liver.\n\nHe said he was a \"richer person\" for the experience upon returning to presenting in 2015, and said working in the newsroom was \"such an important part of keeping energised and motivated\".\n\nHe had to take several further breaks from work to have treatment, and in January 2022 said he thought the cancer would \"probably get me in the end\", but that he still felt \"very lucky\".\n\nSpeaking on the Desperately Seeking Wisdom podcast in 2022, he said that when his cancer was first discovered, it took a while for him to understand what he \"needed to do\".\n\n\"I had to stop and say, 'Hang on a minute. If the full stop came now, would my life have been a failure?'\n\n\"And actually, when I look back and I looked at my journey... the family I had, the opportunities my family had, the great good fortune to bump into [Frances Robathan], who's now been my wife and lover for all these years, the kids that we brought up... it didn't feel like a failure.\"\n\nAlagiah had two children with Frances.\n\nMost people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer, but the NHS advice is to see your GP if you have one or more of the symptoms and they have persisted for more than four weeks.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.", "Firms offering \"quickie\" divorces and will writing are to be investigated by the UK's competition watchdog.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it would examine claims made by online divorce services, which have become more popular since lockdown.\n\nSome vulnerable customers had also contacted it after being pressured into signing up for will-writing services.\n\nThe CMA said there were now many alternatives to law firms, especially where the adviser is not a solicitor.\n\nIt said these alternatives to conventional law firms can be more convenient and cheaper, but \"where they are unregulated, it becomes all the more important that normal consumer protection laws are complied with and, if necessary, enforced\".\n\nOnline divorces, which are promoted as a faster alternative to the traditional process, have received a boost following Covid lockdowns.\n\nHowever, some people complained to the CMA about misleading claims about both the simplicity of the process and prices, leaving them unclear about what they could get help with or what they were paying for.\n\nThey also complained about \"inadequate quality of service\". This included firms using the wrong forms, entering incorrect details and sending papers to the court late.\n\nIn the UK will writing is an unregulated service and anyone can legally draft a document.\n\nThe CMA says in some instances consumers have been attracted by an \"extremely low\" initial fee for advice without being warned how the costs could escalate significantly.\n\nSome complaints involve reports of vulnerable customers being subjected to pressure selling and coercion.\n\nPre-paid probate plans will also come under investigation. This is where customers pay set fees upfront for probate - the legal process of managing someone's estate when they die.\n\nThe idea of these plans is that when someone dies their families will not have to pay anything else towards the finalising of their financial affairs.\n\nApart from pressure selling, the CMA is concerned about there being a lack of transparency about what costs are covered by the plans, or people being sold unnecessary plans. In some cases this can lead to delays in the probate process and bereaved relatives being left unable to settle bills or sell property.\n\nCMA chief executive Sarah Cardell said the three areas identified - online divorce services, will writing and pre-paid probate plans - were essential to people, \"often at the most challenging times in their lives\".\n\n\"That's why it's so important that we investigate so that people can select the right legal service for them - for divorce or probate or will writing - with confidence. It's essential that firms get the basics right, including complying with general consumer law which applies to all traders. Customers must get a fair deal.\"\n\nThe watchdog is calling for consumers who have used any of the services or other interested parties to get in contact by 4 September with details of their experiences.\n\nIf the CMA concludes that firms have breached consumer law, it can respond in a number of ways, including taking enforcement action such as obtaining a court order.\n\nInitially though, it might simply provide advice on complying with the law or obtain a commitment from the company that it will change its practices.\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Barbie film has become the US and Canada's biggest film of the year so far, said distributor Warner Bros.\n\nAn estimated $155m (£120m) was made in its opening weekend, the company said.\n\nMeanwhile, new release Oppenheimer - also out on Friday - made $93.7m (£72m) in the US, said Universal Pictures.\n\nThe features come at a time when cinemas in general are struggling as they lose out to competition from streaming.\n\nMeanwhile, in the UK, Vue said both films had led to the cinema chain seeing its busiest weekend in four years.\n\nVue, which has 91 cinemas throughout the UK and Ireland, said it saw its biggest weekend in four years and second biggest weekend in history by admissions, with director Greta Gerwig's Barbie on track to become the biggest film of 2023, ahead of Super Mario Bros.\n\nThe two films brought in half a million people to Vue screens, with 4,000 sold out viewings across the UK and Ireland, the company said.\n\nVue added that its most popular sites for Barbie sellouts include Cambridge, Glasgow St Enoch, Leeds Kirkstall, Bolton, Islington in London.\n\nOppenheimer's plot is centred on the development of the first atomic bomb, starring Cillian Murphy and directed by Christopher Nolan.\n\nMeanwhile, Barbie tells a coming-of-age story of the children's character where she explores her identity and encourages friend Ken to establish individuality.\n\nThe two films were both released on Friday and the competition between them both was referred to on social media as \"Barbenheimer\".\n\nThe opening weekend for Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, has seen its ticket sales overtake that for the opening weekend of blockbuster Super Mario Bros, making Barbie the biggest film of 2023 so far.\n\nOn Twitter, one user said that it had been years since she had felt like going to the theatres to re-watch a movie, but Barbie had achieved that for her. She said it would \"remain a timeless masterpiece over the years - ideas really are forever\".\n\nBefore the films' release, Odeon in the UK said more than 200,000 advance tickets had been bought and some 10,000 filmgoers were expected to see both the Barbie and Oppenheimer films during the opening weekend.\n\nMeanwhile, Vue cinema in the UK reported on Friday that Barbie's pre-sale purchases were \"higher than any other blockbuster released this year\". Admissions on Friday were the highest for any Friday since the pandemic - and the chain's third biggest Friday ever.\n\nUniversal Pictures said Oppenheimer had made £8.05m in the UK and Ireland since Friday.\n\nIt added that Oppenheimer was forecast to have a better opening three days than Christopher Nolan's other blockbusters - space-themed Interstellar, war thriller Dunkirk and sci-fi hit Inception.\n\nEarlier in July, stars left the premiere of Oppenheimer early because of strike action over grievances including the encroachment of artificial intelligence in the making and writing of Hollywood films.\n\nThe film made $93.7m (£75m) in international markets, bringing its global total to $174.2m (£135m), Universal Pictures said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The bus fare arrest is a big community concern and our communication could have been better, the Met's Ch Supt Andy Brittain tells BBC London\n\nThe Met Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over the treatment of a woman arrested in front of her son in Croydon, south London, after wrongly being accused of bus fare evasion.\n\nFootage of the mother shouting as two officers handcuffed and held her provoked criticism on social media.\n\nThe Met said she was later released when it was confirmed she had paid for her ticket.\n\nThe force added the video was a \"snapshot of a wider incident\".\n\nIt also told BBC London it was trying to \"find the lady involved, and to get her side of the story\" and that \"our comms perhaps could have been slightly better\".\n\n\"Trust has taken a hit,\" Met Ch Supt Andy Brittain, who covers Croydon, said.\n\nThe police officers were working together with Transport for London (TfL) inspectors on Whitehorse Road, Croydon, when the incident happened on Friday morning.\n\nThe police watchdog says it received a \"complaint referral\" from the Met on Monday afternoon, with the complaint alleging the woman was \"racially profiled and verbally abused by an officer\".\n\nThe Met said the woman left the bus after not complying with a revenue inspector's request to check that she had paid her fare.\n\nAccording to the Met, when asked to stop by police she attempted to walk off and became \"abusive\".\n\nAs a result, the force said she was arrested on suspicion of fare evasion and detained.\n\nIn the video, she repeatedly asks one of the officers to let go and says \"I haven't done anything wrong\", while a member of the public films what is happening and asks why she is being arrested.\n\nThe woman was arrested on Whitehorse Road, Croydon\n\nOfficers did eventually check her ticket, which was valid. She was then unhandcuffed and released.\n\nVauxhall Labour MP Florence Eshalomi urged people to be \"careful\" sharing the video as the woman's son was \"very traumatised by the situation\", adding she and other colleagues had raised it with the mayor of London.\n\nThe Met initially said it realised it was a \"distressing video to watch, even more so as a child is seen to be visibly upset by the way in which his mother has been apprehended\".\n\n\"We regret the upset that has been caused to the child.\"\n\nIt also said the incident raised \"questions about the extent to which officers are having to intervene in this way when supporting TfL in their operations\".\n\nMet Ch Supt Andy Brittain, of the South Basic Command Unit, which covers Croydon, later told BBC London: \"I think the social media footage got out, which kind of only showed a small picture of what took place.\n\n\"Then our comms perhaps could have been slightly better and and then it's kind of cascaded into quite a big community concern.\n\n\"For me today, it's about listening to the community, understanding their perspective, what it looked like to them.\n\n\"And I think the big thing as well is to try and find the lady involved and to get her side of the story.\n\n\"Trust has taken a hit as a result of the video, so it's really important we understand what took place.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm a parent like everyone else and to see a child in that much distress is really upsetting.\n\n\"We've paused any operations of that nature to give us time to work out what happened.\"\n\nThe force has said officers' body worn video, which was active for a longer period than the social media clip, had been reviewed.\n\nDespite not initially identifying any \"conduct matters\" the Met said it had voluntarily referred itself to the IOPC due to grave public concern.\n\nThe Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) has said it will \"decide if any further action is required\".\n\nTfL's head of policing and community safety Mandy McGregor said: \"We are aware of this very distressing incident and the impact it has had on the community.\n\n\"We are speaking to the police to understand the wider circumstances and will support them with their investigation to get to the bottom of what happened.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "S Club are to release their first single for 20 years, in tribute to late band member Paul Cattermole, who died of natural causes aged 46 in April.\n\nHis bandmates, Jon Lee, Jo O'Meara, Bradley McIntosh, Tina Barrett and Rachel Stevens, will be seen remembering him in the song's video.\n\nIt has been written by the same team behind the majority of their number one songs, according to The Sun.\n\nThe band said in May they would still do their planned tour later this year.\n\nPaul Cattermole had been due to embark on the band's upcoming tour\n\nSomeone close to the band told The Sun the band's new single \"sounds like a classic which will slot right in with their old tunes\".\n\n\"It is about looking back at what an amazing man Paul was and the video was extremely emotional for them all,\" they said.\n\n\"It celebrates his life and the amazing career S Club have had.\"\n\nIn February, the band announced they were reuniting for a UK and Ireland tour, to mark their 25th anniversary.\n\nS Club 7 were one of the UK's biggest pop bands of the late 1990s and early 2000s.\n\nThe band, pictured with BBC Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills, announced their tour earlier this year\n\nTheir biggest hits were Reach, Don't Stop Movin' and S Club Party, with the band earning 11 UK top 10 singles and four number ones.\n\nThey sold more than 10 million albums worldwide and won two Brit Awards.\n\nCattermole left the group in 2002, swapping pop music for his earlier love of heavy metal.\n\nHe re-joined the group Skua, which he had been previously been involved with as a teenager.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least one person has been killed and 19 injured in Russian missile strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, officials have said.\n\nThe Transfiguration Cathedral in the Unesco world heritage-listed historic centre was also badly damaged.\n\nRussia claimed its Odesa targets were being used to prepare \"terrorist acts\" and blamed Sunday's cathedral attack on Ukrainian air defence.\n\nMoscow has been launching near-constant attacks on Odesa since it withdrew from a landmark grain deal on Monday.\n\nRegional governor Oleh Kiper said 14 people, including four children, were taken to hospital on Sunday after the blasts - that also destroyed six residential buildings. .\n\nKyiv accused Russia of \"destroying\" the cathedral as part of a campaign to \"systematically\" harm the Orthodox Church in the country.\n\n\"A war crime that will never be forgotten and forgiven #RussiaIsATerroristState,\" its foreign ministry tweeted.\n\nThe damage is as colossal as the cathedral itself. The cracks along its walls represent the strain Odesa has found itself under after a week of constant attacks from the skies.\n\nThere is no doubt this was a direct hit from a missile.\n\nMost of the roof is missing. The building's thick ancient walls are still standing but there are pillars leaning at a worrying angle.\n\nTeams have been ferociously picking up debris since the impact in the small hours of this morning.\n\nThey show us fragments of what they say was the Russian missile, which destroyed a place of worship under Moscow's control. A cruel irony which is likely to be unintended.\n\nThe building is Odesa's largest Orthodox church and was consecrated in 1809. It was demolished by the Soviet Union in 1939, before being rebuilt in 2003.\n\nAndriy Palchuk, the archdeacon of the cathedral, said he was the first person to arrive at the scene.\n\n\"The destruction is enormous; half of the cathedral was left without a roof, and the central piles and foundation were destroyed,\" he said.\n\n\"All the windows and stucco moulding were blown out. There was a fragmentary fire, the part where icons and candles are sold in the church caught fire. It was all on fire, burning.\"\n\nUnesco, the UN's cultural agency, said it was \"deeply dismayed and condemns in the strongest terms\" the attack on the historic centre of Odesa.\n\nIt has repeatedly urged Russia to cease attacks on Odesa. The city's historic centre was designated an endangered World Heritage by the organisation earlier this year, despite Russian opposition.\n\nBut in an update posted to Facebook, Ukraine's southern command said Russia had targeted the Odesa region with at least five different types of missiles.\n\nThe head of Ukraine's presidential office, Andriy Yermak, repeated calls for more missiles and defence systems after the latest attack on Odesa.\n\n\"This is the undisguised terror of a peaceful city,\" Mr Yermak wrote on Telegram. \"The enemy must be deprived of the opportunity to attack civilians and infrastructure.\"\n\nMoscow has notably stepped up attacks on the port city since it withdrew from the UN backed grain deal on Monday and Ukraine has accused it of targeting grain supplies and infrastructure vital to the deal.\n\nA strike earlier this week destroyed some 60,000 tonnes of grain, officials said.\n\nOdesa is Ukraine's biggest port, and millions of tonnes of grain have been shipped from its docks under the terms of the deal.\n\nThe deal - brokered by Turkey and the UN - between Russia and Ukraine was struck in July 2022, allowing cargo ships to sail along a corridor in the Black Sea.", "Mr Feijóo said it was his duty to try to form a government, but his chances look very slim\n\nSpain has entered a phase of political uncertainty that could see the country return to the polls in just a few months.\n\nThe conservative People's Party (PP) won the most seats but fell short of a parliamentary majority, even with the support of the far-right Vox party.\n\nNow, the conservatives and the incumbent Socialists will both separately try to form coalitions.\n\nPP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and his rival, Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, will each begin negotiations on Monday to try to head off a fresh vote, which might take place by the end of 2023.\n\nAs the leader of the party that won the most votes, Mr Feijóo will be invited by King Felipe VI to try to form a government. If Mr Feijóo declines on the grounds that he cannot muster enough support - as former PP leader Mariano Rajoy did in a similar situation in 2015 - the king may turn to Mr Sánchez.\n\nIf the candidate accepts the king's invitation, he then has two months to secure a majority.\n\nFailing that, new elections must be held.\n\nPP official Borja Sémper said Mr Sánchez is the first person Mr Feijóo will call to ask him to agree to support the PP in forming a \"solo government with specific agreements\" - a request the Socialist prime minister is unlikely to agree to.\n\nDespite the inconclusive results, Mr Feijóo told cheering conservative supporters that it was now his duty to try to form a government.\n\n\"Spaniards know we have gone from being the second force to the party with the most votes,\" he said, adding: \"I hope this doesn't start a period of uncertainty in Spain.\"\n\nBut that is what Spain is facing. Because with far-right party Vox on 33 seats and Mr Feijóo's PP on 136, they would be seven seats short of an absolute majority of 176 in parliament.\n\nThat is why Mr Sánchez's Socialists and his far-left allies Sumar appeared happiest in the wake of the results.\n\n\"The reactionary bloc of regression, which set out a complete reversal of all the advances that we've achieved over the past four years, has failed,\" he told supporters.\n\nSocialist supporters in Madrid were delighted with leader Pedro Sánchez's performance\n\nOne Spanish website, El Español, said that despite the PP's victory, Mr Sánchez still had a chance of forming a government.\n\nBut those very slim chances would require going even further than before in securing separatist support.\n\nMr Sanchez would need the support of hardline, pro-independence party Together for Catalonia (Junts). But its leader, Carles Puigdemont, who has been living in self-imposed exile in Belgium since Catalonia's failed independence bid in 2017, said earlier this month that Junts would not support either the Socialists or the PP.\n\nOn Monday, the party's general secretary Jordi Turull seemed to indicate the party could use its new kingmaker status as a bargaining chip to advance the cause of Catalan independence.\n\nBut although Mr Sánchez has taken steps to normalise relations with the separatists by pardoning jailed pro-independence leaders and downgrading the crime of secession, he has repeatedly and firmly said that he would not allow Catalonia to hold a referendum on self-determination.\n\nWhile PP leader Mr Feijóo declared victory after the results were announced, one of the few leaders who showed no sign of celebrating was far-right Vox leader Santiago Abascal. \"It's a day of concern,\" he said on Sunday night.\n\nPolitical analyst Iago Moreno said the far right blamed the conservative PP for \"complicity in the demonisation of Vox\", seeing Sunday's result as the beginning of a journey to a \"second round\" which could come by Christmas.\n\n\"We have not achieved our objectives to kick Pedro Sanchez out... There will probably be another election where we can make this happen,\" Mr Abascal said.\n\nWhile the Socialist leader and Sumar put on a show of unity in a TV debate last week, conservative leader Mr Feijóo was conspicuously absent, giving the impression that Vox was on its own.\n\nBut Vox voters did come out in force, backing Mr Abascal's platform of anti-immigration and anti-feminism. Many saw him as their best hope of defending Spain's traditional values.\n\nTurnout topped 70% on Sunday, as voters sensed the importance of this rare mid-summer election. That was partly due to almost 2.5 million postal votes being cast, but polling stations were busiest in the morning before the heat took hold.\n\nVox remains the third biggest party, with the support of three million of Spain's 37 million voters, but not significantly ahead of Sumar and with a big drop in seat numbers.\n\nVoting numbers were buoyed on Sunday by 1.6 million young voters having the right to take part in the election for the first time.\n\nAn estimated 10 million Spaniards are already on holiday and one man at a coastal polling station made a point of wearing a snorkel and flippers.\n\nMany voters said they felt there was too much at stake in this election, even if it was being held in mid-summer. One father of three, called Sergio, told the BBC that many people he knew were anxious and angry that an extreme-right party might end up in government.\n\nI support Vox because I see it as the only party that can radically change all the left-wing policies that have been approved little by little", "Milan Kundera was a fierce critic of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and his books were banned there for years\n\nMilan Kundera, one of the biggest names in European literature in recent decades, has died in Paris aged 94.\n\nHis best-known work was his 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.\n\nAnna Mrazova, a spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library in his home city of Brno in the Czech Republic, said he had died after a long illness.\n\nHe was a towering figure in Czech literature but his scathing criticism of Czechoslovakia's communist regime saw him flee for France in 1975.\n\nA poetic and satirical author, Kundera's novels won praise for their observation of both politics and everyday life.\n\nCzech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said his work reached \"whole generations of readers across all continents and achieved global fame\".\n\n\"He leaves behind not only notable fiction, but also significant essay work.\"\n\nBorn in 1929 into an elite Czech family, his father was a piano teacher and a student of the composer Janacek, and ensured Kundera received musical training at an advanced level.\n\nKundera studied in Prague, becoming a lecturer in world literature. He joined the ruling Communist Party and initially he was an ardent member.\n\nBut his writing soon got him into political trouble. His first novel The Joke - a black comedy published in 1967 - led to a ban on his writing in Czechoslovakia.\n\nIn 1970 he was asked to leave the party after expressing support for the Prague Spring movement, the period of political liberalisation crushed by the 1968 Soviet invasion.\n\nKundera's activism led to his dismissal from his teaching post and his novels were removed from public libraries, while the sale of his work was banned until the fall of the Communist government in 1989.\n\nFor a short time he performed as jazz trumpeter, before emigrating to France in 1975 with his wife Vera, settling first in Rennes then Paris. He became a naturalised French citizen in 1981, two years after he was stripped of his Czech nationality, and eventually wrote in French.\n\nJuliette Binoche and Daniel Day-Lewis in a scene from The Unbearable Lightness Of Being\n\nHe soon secured a reputation as a ground-breaking author with The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which told the story of four Czech artists and intellectuals and a dog caught up in the brief period of reform that ended when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague.\n\nThe book was adapted for the screen in 1987, starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Day-Lewis. But Kundera expressed dissatisfaction with the film and with what he perceived as a lack of acceptance of the novel in the modern world.\n\n\"It seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask,\" he told his friend and writer Philip Roth in the New York Times.\n\n\"So that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.\"\n\nIt was eventually published in his homeland and became a bestseller there in 2006.\n\nHis 1979 work The Book of Laughter and Forgetting spanned seven narratives and containing elements of the magic realism genre, while in 1988 he wrote one of his best novels, Immortality.\n\nIn 1985 he received the Jerusalem Prize - a prize given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society.\n\nAnd while he was a frequent contender for the Nobel Prize for literature, the award remained elusive.\n\nThe Milan Kundera library opened in his home town of Brno in April on Kundera's 94th birthday,\n\nIn 2008 he was beset with more political trouble when he was accused of betraying a Czech airman working for US intelligence.\n\nHe issued an unprecedented and heated denial to Czech news agency CTK, prompting an open letter of support from fellow writers including JM Coetzee and Salman Rushdie.\n\nIt was not until 2019 that he and his wife had their Czech citizenship restored by Prime Minister Andrej Babis, 40 years after they had it revoked.\n\nMilan Kundera was lauded for having a distinctive voice, although he was sometimes criticised for his portrayal of women and preoccupation with the male gaze.\n\nHis final novel in 2014, The Festival of Insignificance, originally published in Italian, received mixed views, with some describing it as a \"battle between hope and boredom\".", "WhatsApp messages sent to and by Boris Johnson before May 2021 have still not been handed over to the Covid inquiry, because they are stuck on his phone.\n\nThe government had until 16.00 BST on Monday to hand over relevant material to the inquiry after the Cabinet Office lost a legal challenge.\n\nBut the BBC understands neither the government nor Mr Johnson's team can access messages on the phone.\n\nThe phone, which Mr Johnson used until May 2021, is with the ex-PM's lawyers.\n\nIt has prompted Whitehall officials to formally notify the inquiry why they have not yet been able to send them the correspondence.\n\nInquiry chair Baroness Hallett had requested access to WhatsApp messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat set up to discuss the pandemic response.\n\nShe also asked to see WhatsApp messages he exchanged with a host of politicians, including then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak, as well as various civil servants, including the UK's top civil servant Simon Case.\n\nBut the former PM's WhatsApp messages are held on a mobile phone which has been turned off and securely locked away since May 2021, due to a security breach.\n\nMr Johnson was forced to change his mobile phone in 2021 after it emerged his number had been publicly available online for 15 years.\n\nThe rest of the messages the High Court ruled should be shared with the inquiry were sent on Monday morning.\n\nBBC political editor Chris Mason says there is widespread irritation within government at the failure to comply with the inquiry's demand to be sent Mr Johnson's messages. Access to a mobile phone conventionally requires knowledge of a passcode - which only the phone's owner would normally know.\n\nMr Johnson's phone - which he used during crucial periods of the Covid pandemic - is currently with his lawyers.\n\nThe BBC understands government officials have attempted to help Mr Johnson access the data on the phone, while in the company of his representatives.\n\nBut the phone has never been in the sole possession of the government, as it belongs to Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Johnson's team say \"he will be happy to disclose any relevant material to the inquiry when it is accessible\" and insist \"full cooperation is underway\".\n\nThe government had attempted to block an order by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett to have access to Mr Johnson's WhatsApps, diaries and notebooks in full.\n\nIn an unprecedented step, the government launched a judicial review of the order. But the High Court rejected the government's argument, ruling inquiries should be allowed to \"fish\" for documents.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"more than happy\" for the inquiry to see his unredacted messages. The former prime minister previously said he had handed over WhatsApp messages, diaries and personal notebooks to the Cabinet Office in unredacted form.", "NASUWT teachers in Scotland went on strike in January\n\nMore teacher strikes could hit schools in England, after a second education union voted to walk out over pay.\n\nThe NASUWT union said 88.5% of around 122,000 balloted members voted for strike action, with a 51.9% turnout.\n\nTeaching unions in England want an above-inflation pay rise that is funded by the government rather than coming out of schools' existing budgets.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) says it has already made a \"fair and reasonable\" pay offer.\n\nA larger union, the National Education Union (NEU), has already held seven national strike days since February and is re-balloting members for more action in the autumn.\n\nOn each of those days, about half of schools have had to close or partially close.\n\nDuring the most recent NEU strikes, last week, most state schools in England restricted access to pupils or were fully closed, according to DfE figures. More were fully closed on Friday (8%) than Wednesday (6%).\n\nNASUWT said it would now consider going on strike in the autumn term, and that it would co-ordinate action with any other education unions that vote to walk out.\n\nIts teacher members in 56 sixth form colleges have already backed strikes so would also be expected to join any action by those in schools.\n\nThe union also plans to begin action short of a strike in September.\n\nIt has not given further detail about what that action could involve, but action short of a strike taken by teachers in other unions this year has included refusing to provide lunchtime supervision or to attend meetings held outside working hours.\n\nDr Patrick Roach, NASUWT's general secretary, said the vote was the largest mandate the union had secured for industrial action in more than a decade.\n\n\"Today our members have sent a strong message to the government and to employers that teachers demand a better deal on pay and to address excessive workload and working hours,\" he added.\n\nThe four teaching unions involved in the dispute with the DfE want an above-inflation pay increase, plus extra money to ensure any pay rises do not come from schools' existing budgets.\n\nMost state school teachers in England had a 5% pay rise for the year 2022-23.\n\nAfter intensive talks, the government offered an additional one-off payment of £1,000. It also increased the offer for most teachers next year to 4.3%, with starting salaries reaching £30,000.\n\nThe DfE described it as a \"fair and reasonable offer\" and said schools would receive an extra £2.3bn over the next two years.\n\nBut all four unions involved in the dispute rejected the offer.\n\nThe DfE said further strike action would cause \"real damage\" to pupils' learning.\n\n\"We recognise and value the hard work of teachers - but we must balance pay offers with the need to make responsible decisions that are affordable so we can continue to tackle inflation,\" an official added.\n\nAre you an NASUWT member with a view on the strike? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Dune star Timothée Chalamet and Hugh Grant of Notting Hill-fame pictured in the forthcoming Wonka\n\nHugh Grant has been pictured for the first time as an Oompa Loompa in the first official trailer for Wonka.\n\nThe movie tells the backstory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka, played by US star Timothée Chalamet.\n\nIt is set before the opening of his famous chocolate factory.\n\nAt the end of the trailer, Wonka meets Grant's green-haired and orange-faced character, who is trapped in a glass jar, noting: \"So you're the funny little man who's been following me?\"\n\nChalamet revealed a still image of him as Wonka in 2021 but now the new trailer shows him in full flow\n\nIt is a departure for Grant, 62, who is best known for playing quintessentially English gentlemen in films like Notting Hill, Love Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary.\n\nPortraying one of the workers at Wonka's factory, he is seen responding: \"I will have you know that I am a perfectly respectful size for an Oompa-Loompa.\"\n\nAfter Chalamet's Wonka appears to be unaware of the people from Loompaland, Grant's character opts to \"refresh your memory\" by playing him a tune and starting to dance.\n\nHe follows in the footsteps of Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp in portraying the character\n\nChalamet, 27, who rose to fame in 2017's Call Me By Your Name and went on to star in Dune, is shown in the clip complete with red coat and top hat at the start of Wonka's journey to becoming the famous confectioner. He's described as \"something of a magician, inventor and chocolate maker\".\n\nWe are informed that the protagonist, who has \"spent the past seven years traveling the world perfecting my craft\", will come up against a feared \"chocolate cartel\". He also teams up with a young girl, played by Calah Lane, on his way to inventing a chocolate that makes those who eat it fly.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Warner Bros. Pictures This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe film, based on Roald Dahl's much-loved children's book Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, has been directed by Paddington film-maker Paul King.\n\nIt also stars Oscar winner Olivia Colman, Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins and Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson, as well as former Great British Bake Off presenter Matt Lucas.\n\nIn taking on the central role, Chalamet follows in the footsteps of Gene Wilder, who starred in 1971's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; and Johnny Depp, who appeared in Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation.\n\nAccording to the on-screen captions, the forthcoming film will tell \"the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today\".\n\nSpeaking in May, Chalamet said: \"To work on something that will have an uncynical young audience, that was just a big joy.\n\n\"That's why I was drawn to it. In a time and climate of intense political rhetoric, when there's so much bad news all the time, this is hopefully going to be a piece of chocolate.\"\n\nFilming for Wonka began in the UK in September 2021, taking place at locations including Lyme Regis, Bath, St Albans, Oxford and the Rivoli Ballroom in Brockley, London - as well as at Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden, near Watford.\n\nWonka is out in UK cinemas in December.", "Crawford Lake is a limestone sinkhole that has filled with water\n\nCrawford Lake, a small body of water in Ontario, Canada, is being put forward as the location that best records humanity's impacts on Earth.\n\nScientists are trying to define a new geological time period to recognise the changes we've made to the planet, and Crawford is their model example.\n\nIts sediments have captured fallout from intense fossil fuel burning, and even the plutonium from bomb tests.\n\nThe muds would be symbolic of the onset of a proposed Anthropocene Epoch.\n\nResearchers want to acknowledge their significance by making them a \"golden spike\", or more properly a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point.\n\nOther great transitions in geological time are associated with a GSSP. Often, it's literally a brass nail hammered into some cliff face deemed to be of major scientific importance.\n\nBut for Crawford, it would be a brass plaque next to a frozen section of the sediments, kept in a museum in the Canadian capital, Ottawa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"1950 is right around here\": Watch Brock University's Francine McCarthy describe the layers in the \"dirty lollipop\" (Video courtesy of TheAnthropocene.org)\n\n\"Crawford is just brilliant for this,\" explained Dr Simon Turner from University College London.\n\n\"A core from its bottom muds looks like a massive dirty lollipop, but it contains these beautiful, annually laminated sediments.\n\n\"Those annual layers record fossil fuel combustion products, plutonium, changes in geochemistry, changes in micro-ecology - all the sorts of things that chart environmental change,\" the secretary to the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) told BBC News.\n\nThe post-war nuclear tests spread plutonium around the globe\n\nYou may have seen the famous Chronostratigraphic Chart featured in textbooks and on school classroom walls, detailing the 4.6-billion-year history of Earth.\n\nIts blocks of time - like Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous - trip off the tongue.\n\nWe currently live in the Holocene Epoch, which covers the time from the end of the last ice age, 11,700 years ago.\n\nDrilling through the ice-covered lake to recover its bottom muds\n\nIt's been the job of the AWG for the past decade to try to establish whether or not the chart should be updated.\n\nOn this question, the AWG is convinced the case has been made. A formal start date has also been identified - the 1950s.\n\nThis decade marks the beginning of the \"Great Acceleration\", when the human population and its consumption patterns suddenly speeded up. It coincides with the spread of ubiquitous \"techno materials\", such as aluminium, concrete and plastic.\n\nIn Crawford's sediments, scientists are able to detect the quickening, year on year.\n\nIn warm summer months, the growth of algae prompts the lake water to produce tiny chalk crystals (calcite) that fall to the lake bottom as a white layer; in cold winter months, the algae and other organisms die back and their organic matter settles out as a brown/black layer.\n\nBut captured within these light-dark bands are the broader environmental changes around the lake.\n\nIt's almost as if the scientists are reading a barcode at a supermarket check-out.\n\n\"We see these spheroidal carbonaceous particles - 'fly ash' - that are produced by the very high temperature combustion of fossil fuels, primarily coal,\" said Prof Francine McCarthy from Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario.\n\n\"And the reason, of course, for the increase in these SCPs is that just a few 10s of km up wind from Crawford is the largest industrial city in Canada, Hamilton, where steel mills had been operating through most of the 20th Century and into the present day.\"\n\nAnother key marker - indeed, the primary marker - is plutonium.\n\nSamples of the Crawford muds were sent to the UK earlier this year to try to determine where exactly in the muddy layers the presence of the radioactive element first appears and then ticks upward.\n\n\"We see plutonium in sediments and other materials from about 1945 onwards, relating to the atomic weapons testing programme. But really the point at which plutonium deposition went global was following high-yield thermonuclear bomb tests, starting in 1952,\" said Prof Andrew Cundy.\n\n\"One of the plutonium isotopes we're looking at has a half-life of 24,000 years, so it will be visible in the sediments for at least 100,000 years. Beyond that, the SCPs will still be detectable,\" the University of Southampton scientist told BBC News.\n\nSamples sent to Southampton will show when the plutonium signal first appears\n\nThe AWG wants to pick a specific year for the start of the Anthropocene Epoch, and the Southampton tests will influence this decision.\n\nIt's an extraordinary idea that geologists many millennia from now could be studying today's sediments to understand the profound changes earlier humans had imposed on Planet Earth.\n\nBut this is how stratigraphy - the study of layered deposits through time - is done.\n\nThe proposed change to the Chronostratigraphic Chart: Epochs are sub-divided into Ages, or Stages. The first Age of the Anthropocene may well be called the Crawfordian after the lake\n\nTake for example Munsley Bog on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.\n\nThere, if you pick the right place in the soggy ground, it's possible to pull up mud layers that record the last great epochal transition - from the Pleistocene into the Holocene.\n\nTraces of pollen track the loss of Arctic-Alpine plants and the invasion of birch and willow, as Northern European glaciers receded and temperatures rose.\n\n\"When we look back, what we are learning is that some of these transitions can be really quick, in just 30 or 40 years; so within a generation,\" explained Prof Sabine Wulf from the University of Portsmouth.\n\nThe AWG will present its recommendations on establishing a new epoch to the wider geological community later this year. Ultimately, it will be up to the International Commission on Stratigraphy as to whether it wants to update that famous chart of Earth history.", "Huw Edwards has been named as the BBC presenter at the centre of days of allegations and speculation.\n\nThe Sun newspaper first reported that the presenter, who was not named, was alleged to have paid a young person for sexually explicit photos. Other people have since alleged inappropriate contact.\n\nHere is a timeline of events:\n\nThe parents of the young person contacted South Wales Police. The force said the information related to \"the welfare of an adult\", and that \"no criminality was identified\".\n\nA family member went to a BBC building to make a complaint about the behaviour of a BBC presenter, according to the corporation.\n\nThe family member made a 29-minute call to the BBC's audience services team, which then referred it to the BBC's corporate investigations team.\n\nThey decided the complaint didn't include an allegation of criminality, but did merit further investigation. It \"was very serious\", according to director general Tim Davie.\n\nThe investigations unit said they emailed the complainant to ask for more information so they could verify the claims, and carried out checks to verify the identity of the complainant.\n\nThe corporate investigations team had received no reply to the email so tried to call the mobile number provided by the complainant. They said the call didn't connect.\n\nHowever, the Sun later reported that \"the family say no-one from the corporation rang them for a proper interview after the initial complaint\".\n\nThe BBC said no additional attempts to contact the complainant were made after this date, but the case \"remained open\".\n\nThe Sun newspaper told the BBC via the corporate press office about allegations concerning Edwards. According to the BBC, the claims made by the Sun contained new allegations, which were different from those received by the investigations team.\n\nThe BBC said this was the first time Mr Davie or any executive directors were made aware of the case. They set up an incident management group to lead the response.\n\nA senior manager spoke to the presenter about the allegations, and Edwards first learned of the allegations on this day, his wife said. The BBC said it was agreed that he shouldn't appear on air while the allegations were being investigated.\n\nWhen later asked why the presenter was not spoken to sooner, Mr Davie said: \"You don't take that complaint directly to the presenter unless it has been verified.\"\n\nThe Sun's first story was published, about the mother's claims that an unnamed BBC presenter paid their child tens of thousands of pounds for explicit photos over three years, beginning when they were 17. That raised questions about whether the behaviour was illegal.\n\nThe paper quoted the mother as saying the young person used the money to fund a crack cocaine habit, and that she was worried her child could \"wind up dead\".\n\nThe young person sent a WhatsApp message to the paper on this evening denying the claims, saying their mother's statement was \"totally wrong and there was no truth to it\", according to a later letter from their lawyer.\n\nIn its first public statement, the BBC said any information would \"be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes\".\n\nThe BBC also made contact with the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe Sun published further allegations, quoting the mother as saying the presenter was pictured in his underwear \"ready for my child to perform for him\".\n\nThe BBC said it received some materials from the family member regarding the complaint on this and the following day.\n\nMeanwhile, following speculation about the star's identity on social media, BBC presenters including Gary Lineker, Jeremy Vine, Rylan Clark and Nicky Campbell denied involvement to publicly clear their names.\n\nThe BBC said it had suspended a male staff member and was \"working as quickly as possible to establish the facts in order to properly inform appropriate next steps\".\n\nThe Sun reported that the presenter allegedly made two calls to the young person and asked them \"what have you done\", and appealed to them to call their mother to \"stop the investigation\".\n\nRepresentatives from the BBC met detectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command, but there was \"no investigation at this time\".\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, the lawyer representing the young person at the centre of the original allegations disputed their mother's account of events, saying \"the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are rubbish\".\n\nThe letter claimed the young person sent the newspaper a denial on Friday, but that it proceeded to publish \"their inappropriate article\".\n\nIn response, the Sun said it had \"reported a story about two very concerned parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and the welfare of their child\".\n\nTheir complaint \"was not acted upon by the BBC\" and it had \"seen evidence that supports their concerns\", the Sun added. \"It's now for the BBC to properly investigate.\"\n\nThe parents told the Sun they stood by their account. The step-father was quoted as saying the allegations were originally put to the BBC \"for an hour\".\n\nDuring a press conference to launch the BBC's annual report and an interview with Radio 4, Mr Davie gave more details of the corporation's response.\n\nThe director general said he wanted to examine whether the BBC raises \"red flags quick enough\" when such complaints are made.\n\nThe BBC accepted there were \"lessons to be learned following this exercise\", and the organisation's group chief operating officer will assess whether protocols and procedures are appropriate.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, another young person told BBC News they had felt threatened by the presenter.\n\nThe individual in their early 20s said they were contacted on a dating app and pressured to meet up, but never did. When the young person hinted online that they might name the presenter, they were sent abusive messages.\n\nJeremy Vine said the presenter \"should now come forward publicly\" because the new allegations \"will result in yet more vitriol being thrown at perfectly innocent colleagues\" and the BBC \"is on its knees with this\".\n\nThe Sun alleged that the presenter broke Covid lockdown rules to meet a 23-year-old, who he had met on a dating site.\n\nThe paper also published what it said was an Instagram chat between the presenter and a 17-year-old, in which the presenter sent messages including love heart emojis.\n\nDetectives ended their assessment of the details and decided there was no information to indicate that a criminal offence had been committed.\n\nEdwards' wife Vicky Flind named him as the BBC presenter at the centre of the allegations.\n\nShe said she was doing so \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children\".\n\nEdwards was \"suffering from serious mental health issues\", she said. \"As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years. The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published.\n\n\"To be clear, Huw was first told that there were allegations being made against him last Thursday.\"\n\nMr Davie sent an email to staff saying an internal investigation would continue now police were no longer involved.\n\nThe Sun said it had no plans to publish further allegations, and would \"provide the BBC team with a confidential and redacted dossier containing serious and wide-ranging allegations which we have received, including some from BBC personnel\".\n\nThe BBC reported fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Edwards towards junior staff. Two current workers and one former member of staff claimed they were sent messages that made them uncomfortable.", "The Burrell Collection has won the prestigious award a year after it reopened\n\nA recently refurbished Glasgow museum has won one of the world's most lucrative art prizes.\n\nThe Burrell Collection has been named the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023, which comes with a £120,000 award.\n\nThe winner was announced by artist Sir Grayson Perry at a ceremony at the British Museum in London on Wednesday.\n\nThe Burrell beat Leighton House (London), The MAC (Belfast), Natural History Museum (London) and Scapa Flow Museum (Orkney) to the title.\n\nThe Burrell Collection in Pollok Country Park houses the 9,000-object collection of Sir William and Constance Burrell.\n\nThe collection - which includes objects from Europe and Asia - was donated to Glasgow by Sir William in 1944.\n\nSir Hector Hetherington, former principal of Glasgow University, described the donation of the collection as \"one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world.\"\n\nKing Charles contemplated Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, one of the world's most recognisable sculptures when he officially reopened the collection\n\nManaged by the charity Glasgow Life, it was officially reopened by King Charles in October 2022, almost four decades after his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, first opened it.\n\nThe internationally renowned museum and gallery had been closed for a five-year £68.25m refurbishment.\n\nThe major redisplay aimed to celebrate diversity through the museum's rich and varied collection and create the most accessible, inclusive and sustainable fine and decorative arts museum in the world.\n\nDuncan Dornan, head of museums and collections for Glasgow Life, was presented with the cash prize.\n\nThe museum sits in the landscape of Pollok Country Park\n\nJenny Waldman, director of the Art Fund and chair of the judges for the competition, said: \"The Burrell Collection is extraordinary - a world-class collection displayed in an inspirational building, in harmony with the surrounding landscape of Pollok Park.\n\n\"Reopened in 2022, the sensitive renovation and collection redisplay invite exploration and delight, with innovative digital displays offering new ways of understanding the art and objects in the museum's light, welcoming spaces.\n\n\"All this was achieved with a strong shared purpose and with the involvement of local community groups in Glasgow.\"\n\nMary Beard, historian, broadcaster and fellow judge, called the collection \"a treasure trove of objects\", with everything from one of the UK's most important collections of Chinese art, to medieval tapestries and stained glass, and works of art by Rembrandt, Degas and more.\n\nSince reopening, the Burrell Collection welcomed over 500,000 visitors and contributed an economic impact of £20m for Glasgow in its first six months.\n\nThe other four finalists, including Scapa Flow, were awarded £15,000.\n\nNick Hewitt, team leader for culture at Orkney islands Council, told BBC Radio Orkney that being on the shortlist had brought the museum national and international coverage.\n\nSpeaking from the ceremony in London he said: \"We genuinely are thrilled to be here. It feels like we're all winners.\"", "Vicky Flind, the wife of newsreader Huw Edwards, has issued a statement on his behalf, naming him as the BBC presenter facing allegations over payments for sexually explicit images.\n\nHere is her statement in full:\n\n\"In light of the recent reporting regarding the 'BBC Presenter' I am making this statement on behalf of my husband Huw Edwards, after what have been five extremely difficult days for our family.\n\n\"I am doing this primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children.\n\n\"Huw is suffering from serious mental health issues. As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years.\n\n\"The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published.\n\n\"To be clear Huw was first told that there were allegations being made against him last Thursday.\n\n\"In the circumstances and given Huw's condition I would like to ask that the privacy of my family and everyone else caught up in these upsetting events is respected.\n\n\"I know that Huw is deeply sorry that so many colleagues have been impacted by the recent media speculation. We hope this statement will bring that to an end.\"", "BBC Newsnight has this evening been hosting a discussion on the latest developments in the story - with opposing views being presented.\n\nSun columnist Rod Liddle – who was formerly editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme – said the newspaper had “behaved impeccably” and had published the story because the accusations being made were in the “public interest”.\n\nHe said the aim of the coverage was to “hold the powerful to account”, in particular regarding concerns about safeguarding at the BBC.\n\nAppearing on the same panel, Jacqui Hames, from the campaign group Hacked Off, said the newspaper had to provide “urgent answers” about its coverage.\n\nShe said the Sun had forgotten that “there were real people involved in this story” and asked why Sun editors had not appeared on the programme.\n\nAppearing to refer to the hacking scandal of the early 2010s, she said the Sun’s coverage of this story showed “nothing has changed”.\n\nThe Sun has defended its reporting, saying in a statement that the allegations it published were “always very serious”.\n\n“We must also re-emphasise that The Sun at no point in our original story alleged criminality and also took the decision neither to name Mr Edwards nor the young person involved in the allegations,” it said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe long-range missile flew for more than an hour before landing short of Japanese waters on Wednesday morning.\n\nPyongyang's launch comes after it threatened retaliation against what it said were recent US spy plane incursions over its territory.\n\nEarlier this week it threatened to shoot down such planes.\n\nWashington has dismissed the accusations, saying its military patrols are in line with international law.\n\nSecurity concerns have ramped up on the peninsula this year after North Korea tested new weapons. The country also conducted a record number of missile launches in 2022 including ones capable of reaching US territory.\n\nIn response, the US and South Korea have increased their joint military drills around the peninsula.\n\nPyongyang so far has continued with its missile launches - testing a new ICBM in April which it described as its \"most powerful\" missile to date. It also tried to launch a spy satellite in May which failed.\n\nNorth Korea's missile on Wednesday flew eastwards from Pyongyang for more than an hour before landing in the sea west of Japan around 11:15 local time (02:15 GMT), the Japanese Coast Guard reported. The high-angled flight covered a 1,000km (621 miles) distance said South Korea's military.\n\nSouth Korean and US officials met immediately after Wednesday's launch, issuing a statement reiterating their \"strengthened\" joint defence.\n\n\"We strongly condemn North Korea's launch of a long-range ballistic missile as a grave provocative act that harms the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and the international community and is a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions,\" the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said.\n\nOn Wednesday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that violation \"needlessly raises tensions\" in the region.\n\nHe added that the launch shows that North Korea's government \"prioritises weapons\" over the \"well-being of its people\".\n\nSouth Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol also convened an emergency meeting of his national security council from Lithuania. where he is attending the Nato summit.\n\nNorth Korea's last launch was in mid-June when it fired two short-range ballistic miles in response to US and South Korean drills. It last test-fired an ICBM in February.\n\nICBMs are particularly worrying because of their long range, including mainland United States.\n\nWhen Pyongyang tested one in November 2022, it fired it at a high-angle, short-range trajectory. But this could have reached the US mainland if it were fired at a lower trajectory, the Japanese government said at the time.\n\nWednesday's launch comes days after heated rhetoric from Pyongyang warning the US to stop its air patrols and proposal for a nuclear submarine to visit Korean waters.\n\nOn Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister, Kim Yo-jong, accused a US surveillance plane of violating North Korea's air space. She said if such flights continued, there would be \"shocking\" consequences.\n\nSuch rhetoric falls into Pyongyang's pattern of \"inflating external threats to rally domestic support and justify weapons tests\", said Prof Leif-Eric Easley, a North Korea expert at Ewha University in Seoul.\n\nHe added Pyongyang often timed launches to \"disrupt what it perceives as diplomatic coordination against it\", referring to the Nato summit where South Korea and Japan leaders were due to meet on the sidelines.\n\nDespite UN sanctions, Kim Jong-Un has repeatedly vowed to increase his country's production of nuclear warheads and development of more powerful weapons.\n\nAnalysts are expecting the latest North Korean hardware to be on display in late July when the country celebrates the anniversary of the Korean War armistice, known in the country as Victory Day.", "We're now closing our live coverage of Prime Minister's Questions - which saw Deputy PM Oliver Dowden and Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner trade criticism, claims and jibes about child poverty, mortgage costs and bringing inflation down.\n\nYou can read more about some of the key issues of the moment here:\n• Mortgages to jump by £500 for a million households\n• No decision yet on public sector pay rises - Sunak\n\nJoin us again next week. We're expecting PM Rishi Sunak to be back at the dispatch box. It will be the last PMQs before the summer recess, and will come a day before three by-elections - seen as an important indicator of the political mood in the country.\n\nToday's page was written by Kate Whannel, Adam Durbin, Andre Rhoden-Paul, Chas Geiger and Ece Goksedef. It was edited by Dulcie Lee and myself, Heather Sharp.", "Jurors were read transcripts from police interviews with Kevin Spacey during the prosecution's final day of evidence in his sex assault trial.\n\nThe actor was questioned five times by Met Police officers in New York and London in 2019. He was not under arrest during the interviews.\n\nSpacey, 63 said he was \"baffled\" by one allegation and didn't recognise two of his accusers, the court heard.\n\nThe Hollywood star denies 12 alleged sex offences between 2001 and 2013.\n\nJurors at Southwark Crown Court have heard evidence from four men who claim the actor attacked them, as well as witnesses supporting their accusations.\n\nBarrister Shauna Ritchie ended the prosecution's case by telling the court how Spacey told police he didn't recognise a man who claims to have been assaulted in the actor's flat.\n\nThe man alleges he went to the actor's flat seeking career advice, and woke up with Spacey performing a sex act on him.\n\nHe told police he would \"never\" have performed a sex act on anyone without their consent, adding: \"I have had a number of consensual one-night stands with many members of the theatre world in my property.\"\n\nSpacey also said he did not recognise another complainant, who alleges Spacey grabbed him \"like a cobra\" after they met at a West End theatre.\n\nHe told police he was \"deeply hurt\" and \"baffled\" by accusations from another accuser, who says he was made to swerve his car off the road when Spacey grabbed him while he was driving.\n\nThe actor said he may have made a \"clumsy pass\" at his final alleged victim but denied deliberately attacking him.\n\nThe interviews were conducted voluntarily with the actor and his attorneys.\n\nSpacey has been described as a \"predator\" and a \"sexual bully\" during previous hearings over incidents which allegedly took place in the UK.\n\nThe American spent time living in London during his stint as the director of the Old Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015.\n\nDuring cross-examination of witnesses, Spacey's defence team questioned the motivations and integrity of his accusers, including that they are seeking financial gain.\n\nSpacey pleaded not guilty in January to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nAll four accusers are entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.", "Margot Robbie plays the lead in the Barbie movie\n\nThe Philippines has requested that a controversial map in the new Barbie movie be blurred, but it will allow the film to be screened.\n\nThe production was banned in Vietnam for allegedly showing the nine-dash line on a map.\n\nThe line is significant as it is used by China to assert its internationally rejected claims in the South China Sea.\n\nBut Philippines censors said they were convinced the map was just \"cartoonish\".\n\nThe Philippines Movie and Television Review and Classification Board said it reviewed the movie twice, and consulted both foreign affairs officials and legal experts.\n\nIt said it was convinced that the cartoon was, in fact, a \"make-believe journey of Barbie from Barbie Land to the 'real world'\", which was an \"integral part of the story\".\n\nThe board added that the dashed lines drawn in a \"child-like manner\" were on several locations on the map, which it identified as Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia. But it noted only eight of those dashes were around the landmass labelled \"Asia\".\n\nIt also added that the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia are not visible on the map in a letter shared with reporters.\n\n\"This is in stark contrast to the maps found in the banned films 'Abominable (2019)' and 'Uncharted (2022)',\" the letter read.\n\nBut it issued a stern warning to filmmakers, saying it would \"not hesitate to sanction and/or ban films that exhibit 'the nine-dash-line'\".\n\nLast week, Warner Bros studio defended the scene, and said the map was a \"child-like\" drawing with no intended significance.\n\nChina, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei all have competing claims in the South China Sea.\n\nIn recent years, Beijing has built military bases on artificial islands in the area, and often conducts naval patrols there in a bid to assert its territorial claims.\n\nIn 2016, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled against Chinese claims in the South China Sea, but Beijing did not recognise the judgement.\n\nThe approval of the movie coincided with the seven year anniversary of that ruling.\n\nThe fantasy film about the famous doll is directed by Greta Gerwig and stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. It is set to open in the Philippines on 19 July.", "Ukraine's leader said people's lives were at stake in the counter-offensive\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged battlefield progress has been \"slower than desired\", weeks into Ukraine's military offensive to recapture areas occupied by Russia.\n\n\"Some people believe this is a Hollywood movie and expect results now. It's not,\" he told the BBC.\n\nUkraine says its counter-offensive has reclaimed eight villages so far in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk to the east.\n\nMr Zelensky said the military push was not going easily because 200,000 sq km (77,220 sq miles) of Ukrainian territory had been mined by Russian forces.\n\n\"Whatever some might want, including attempts to pressure us, with all due respect, we will advance on the battlefield the way we deem best,\" Mr Zelensky added.\n\nHe reinforced the need for Ukraine to be given security guarantees from Nato but said ultimately the goal was membership of the defensive alliance.\n\nNato's secretary general made clear this week that no plan was on the table to issue an invitation to Ukraine at next month's summit in Lithuania.\n\n\"[Jens] Stoltenberg knows my position,\" the Ukrainian leader said \"We've told them numerous times: 'Don't knock the ground from under our feet.'\"\n\nThe Ukrainian leader again made the case for Ukraine to receive US-made F-16s and said he believed fighter pilots could start training as soon as August, and that the first jets could arrive in six or seven months' time.\n\nMr Zelensky was speaking to the BBC to mark a Ukraine Recovery Conference in London focusing on the role the private sector can play in rebuilding his country. He later spoke at the conference, along with UK PM Rishi Sunak.\n\nUkraine's economy shrank by 29.2% in 2022 and earlier this year the World Bank estimated the cost of reconstruction and recovery at $411bn (£339bn).\n\nThe Ukrainian leader told the BBC that the support he needed was not just for recovery but for transformation as well.\n\nHe said \"quick steps\" to be done immediately included finding places for people to live, rebuilding the destroyed Kakhovka dam and decentralising the energy network.\n\n\"But on the larger scale we are speaking about the transformation of Ukraine,\" he explained. \"This is Ukraine not only with its energy and agriculture and industrial complexes, but with its reforms we can see.\"\n\nHe spoke of \"the digitilisation of Ukraine\" as well as judicial and anti-corruption reforms.\n\nWhen I asked him what the endgame of the war looked like at this stage, he made clear that \"victories on the battlefield are necessary\" and that Ukraine would never sit down with whoever was president in Moscow, if Russia remained on Ukraine's territory.\n\n\"No matter how far we advance in our counter-offensive, we will not agree to a frozen conflict because that is war, that is a prospectless development for Ukraine.\"\n\nRussia announced a few days ago that it had moved tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus and President Joe Biden has warned that the threat of Vladimir Putin using them is real.\n\nSo I asked Mr Zelensky if he was worried by that threat.\n\n\"Putin has been dangerous for us since 2014 when he occupied the first of our territories,\" he said.\n\n\"He will talk about the use of nuclear weapons, I don't think he is ready to do it because he is scared for his life, he loves it a lot. But there is no way I could say for sure, especially about a person with no ties to reality, who in the 21st Century, launched a full-scale war against their neighbour.\"\n\nI also asked for his reaction to President Putin telling an international conference in St Petersburg last week that he was a disgrace to the Jewish people. Mr Zelensky lost many of his relatives in the Holocaust, including his grandfather, and it was clear that he was taken by surprise by the question.\n\nHe took a deep breath, put his head down and a few seconds later said he wasn't quite sure how to answer the question.\n\n\"It's like he doesn't fully understand his words. Apologies, but it's like he is the second king of antisemitism after Hitler.\n\n\"This is a president speaking. A civilised world cannot speak that way. But it was important for me to hear the reaction of the world and I am grateful for the support.\"", "A effigy of Michelle O'Neill appeared on the Eastvale Avenue bonfire in Dungannon\n\nSinn Féin's deputy leader Michelle O'Neill has told people using effigies on bonfires to \"catch themselves on\".\n\nIt comes after an effigy of her image, along with Irish tricolours, were displayed on an Eleventh Night bonfire in Dungannon, County Tyrone.\n\nShe urged those responsible to \"join the rest of us in building a better future\".\n\nThe police have said they are treating the incident as a hate crime.\n\nPosting on Twitter, Ms O'Neill said she was determined to be a first minister for all.\n\n\"I will represent the whole community irrespective of who you are and where you come from,\" she said.\n\nA number of other politicians have also reported that their names and imagery were used at other sites.\n\nBonfires are lit in many unionist areas across Northern Ireland on 11 July as part of events to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said it attended 34 bonfire-related incidents.\n\nThe call outs happened between 18:00 BST on 11 July and 02:00 on 12 July.\n\nNIFRS said the number of incidents attended by firefighters was one lower than in 2022, with peak activity between 22:00 and 01:00.\n\nSuzanne Fleming from NIFRS said the majority of callouts were preventative measures, such as radial cooling on properties near bonfires.\n\nOne person was taken to hospital after falling from a bonfire on the Portaferry Road, Newtownards. It is believed the man was part of the crew lighting the bonfire.\n\n\"No bonfire is totally safe. As they get higher, there is obviously a danger,\" Ms Fleming said.\n\n\"Every year we hope that people do take as many precautions as they can because whether it's the building phase or lighting phase, someone could fall and hurt themselves.\"\n\nAn effigy above a poster bearing the name of Cllr Taylor McGrann appeared on a bonfire in Rathcoole\n\nSinn Féin's Taylor McGrann, a councillor in Antrim and Newtownabbey, called for unionist and community leaders to \"stand up against these displays of sectarian hatred\" after his name was highlighted on a bonfire in Rathcoole, north Belfast.\n\nPolice have also said they are treating this incident as a hate crime and that they had liaised with community representatives about having the material removed.\n\nDUP MLA for North Belfast Phillip Brett said he \"condemned without reservation the appearance of this sign\" and called for its immediate removal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlliance Party councillor Michael Long also posted an image which showed several of his election posters on a bonfire, while Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor Gary McKeown tweeted a picture of his image on a bonfire in Belfast.\n\nOn Wednesday, Orange Order grand secretary, the Reverend Mervyn Gibson, described the burning of effigies and election posters as wrong.\n\n\"Bonfires should be celebratory events and not about condemning anyone else's politics or culture,\" he told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nEarlier this week, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson had urged people not to burn flags or effigies on bonfires, describing it as \"wrong and disrespectful\".\n\nOn Tuesday, DUP MLA Deborah Erskine urged bonfire organisers to remove the effigy of Michelle O'Neill in Dungannon, adding that many events would be held \"without burning flags, symbols or effigies\".\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie described this incident as \"vile and hateful\", while Alliance Party MLA Eóin Tennyson said it was \"disgraceful and completely unacceptable\".\n\nBonfires were lit in unionist areas, such as this one in Belfast, on Tuesday\n\nTuesday's incidents come after a picture of Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar and an Irish flag were set alight in Moygashel, County Tyrone, on Saturday.\n\nBonfire and Twelfth of July events are held annually in Northern Ireland by many within the unionist community to celebrate the 1690 victory of the Protestant William of Orange - also known as King Billy - over his Catholic father-in-law, King James II.\n\nThe Eleventh Night bonfire tradition commemorates the preparations for the battle, when large fires were lit to welcome William of Orange to Ireland.", "A review led by the NHS Race and Health Observatory has raised significant concerns about a focus on skin colour in routine health checks for newborns.\n\nThe Apgar score, determined by a series of quick assessments immediately after birth, traditionally includes checking whether the baby is \"pink all over\".\n\nThe report questions its relevance and accuracy for some babies belonging to ethnic minorities.\n\nAnd it calls for an immediate update of maternity guidelines.\n\nThe wide-ranging review also looks at the diagnosis of newborn jaundice.\n\nEngland's former chief midwife Prof Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, who now co-chairs the NHS Race and Health Observatory group working on maternal and neonatal health, said: \"This biased assessment is exemplified by terms like 'pink' being used to describe a well-perfused baby [with good blood supply], disregarding the diversity of skin colours within our population.\n\n\"Consequently, it raises concerns about the clinical accuracy of such assessments when applied to ethnically diverse populations.\"\n\nLed by researchers from Sheffield Hallam University, the work reviews scientific literature and policies and involves interviews with 33 healthcare professionals and 24 parents.\n\nFirst, it considers the Apgar score, devised in the 1950s.\n\nHealthcare professionals check the baby's muscle tone, pulse, reflex response, breathing rate and appearance, giving each component a maximum score of two.\n\nThis often includes assessing the baby's appearance as:\n\nThe lower the overall score, the more likely the baby is to need urgent help.\n\nExperts say alternative systems for checking wellbeing should be evaluated.\n\nThe report also says there are concerns about the \"subjective nature\" of guidelines for assessing jaundice - a yellowing of the skin, whites of the eyes and gums caused by a build-up of a substance called bilirubin.\n\nAll babies are checked for jaundice, in the first few days of life - often midwives will do a visual check together with an assessment of how alert a baby is and how well it is feeding.\n\nThough it is common and often resolves on its own, jaundice can cause very serious problems if not treated at the right time. A blood test can check levels.\n\nBaby Jaxson was five days old in this picture, taken shortly before he was treated\n\nLauren Clarke, a research practitioner in the East Midlands, had her son Jaxson in 2019.\n\nShe says by the time he was diagnosed with jaundice, when he was 6 days old, the levels were \"very high and needed urgent treatment\" but believes it should have been picked up and treated earlier.\n\nLauren said she noticed Jackson's eyes and skin looked yellow in his first few days but when she approached staff about it they told her to \"keep an eye\", with no further advice.\n\nA midwife and two maternity support workers checked her baby visually after she went home but Lauren did not feel listened to.\n\nIt was only when she was admitted for treatment for a separate infection that staff on the ward did a blood test on Jaxson.\n\nLauren says when they got the results a junior doctor \"took him immediately out of her arms\" and gave him rapid light treatment.\n\nLauren told the BBC: \"It was so hard when he was being treated with light therapy. I couldn't feed him and he was crying so much.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think if he had not been mixed-race the jaundice would have been picked up sooner.\"\n\nThe hospital held a review and said concerns about jaundice should have been escalated.\n\nThe review says the baby's skin tone \"may have made it more difficult to determine if the jaundice was getting worse.\"\n\nRecommendations included better training for staff and making more use of handheld meters to measure jaundice levels.\n\nThe review says there is a need for more consistent training for healthcare staff and parents on how to spot jaundice in babies belonging to ethnic minorities and recommends establishing a national image database.\n\nProf Dunkley-Bent and Dr Daghni Rajasingam, who co-chair the NHS Race and Health Observatory group working on maternal and neonatal health, said the review represented an urgent call to action.\n\n\"There is a pressing need for more objective outcome measures to mitigate the impact of racial bias when employing these assessments,\" they said.\n\n\"By rectifying these anomalies that are present in our current practices, we can strive towards a more equitable healthcare system that upholds the health and wellbeing of all newborns, irrespective of their ethnic background.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, is to stay on for another year after his contract was extended again.\n\nMr Stoltenberg's time as secretary general was due to end in October, but the 31 Nato states decided to keep him on rather than opting for someone new.\n\nHis term had already been extended three times - and this news means he will complete a decade at the helm.\n\nOther names had been mooted, but the decision suggests Nato wants continuity and experience amid the war in Ukraine.\n\nMr Stoltenberg, 64, welcomed the news, tweeting: \"Honoured by Nato allies' decision to extend my term as secretary general until 1 October 2024.\n\n\"In a more dangerous world, our alliance is more important than ever.\"\n\nNato - the West's defensive military alliance - has 31 members who agree to help one another if they come under attack.\n\nNorwegian-born Mr Stoltenberg, an economist and former prime minister, is seen as a steady leader, and the announcement comes just a week before the next major Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.\n\nSeveral member states, including the US, were thought to have privately been lobbying Mr Stoltenberg to stay on - although US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said his country was not \"promoting any particular candidate\".\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace had been one of the contenders, previously saying he thought the role would be a \"good job\" and one he would like.\n\nHe proved popular with a number of countries on the alliance's eastern flank because of his leadership in supplying weapons to Ukraine.\n\nBut despite his obvious enthusiasm to succeed, Mr Wallace appeared to have failed to get the backing of key allies.\n\nAnother contender for the role had been Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who would have been the first female Nato chief.\n\nFluent English-speaker who grew up partly in Yugoslavia, where his father was Norwegian ambassador\n\nMarried to Norwegian diplomat Ingrid Schulerud, with two grown-up children\n\nLeader of Nato since 2014, just months after Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine\n\nThe war in Ukraine has re-focused diplomatic attention on Nato's role in the 21st Century and whether it can deter Russian aggression.\n\nThe alliance approved its 31st member - Finland - last year. Sweden has also applied to join, but Turkey and Hungary have not yet approved its entry.\n\nNato was formed in 1949 by 12 countries and its original goal was to challenge Soviet expansion in Europe after World War Two.\n\nMore recently, Russia has used the expansion of Nato as a pretext for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member, but Mr Stoltenberg has consistently said Kyiv will join Nato in the medium term once the Russian invasion is over.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was disappointed his country had not been invited to join Nato at next month's summit in Vilnius, adding that Ukraine would be the strongest member of Nato's eastern flank.", "Hugo Keith asks Ms O'Neill if she agrees with the former head of the civil service in Northern Ireland, David Sterling, who said the three year period between 2017-2020 bought \"decay and stagnation\" to the civil service.\n\nShe says she agrees, but that every effort was made to restore power sharing during that period.\n\nSinn Féin pulled out of the Stormont Executive in January 2017, citing the Democratic Unionist Party's conduct over the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme scandal.\n\nMr Keith puts it to Ms O'Neill that she must bear some responsibility for the lack of devolution in this period.\n\n\"From the vantage point of the citizens of Northern Ireland, to whom there was a duty owed to protect them, to put them in the best possible place, to ensure that they would survive the trauma of a health emergency…there was a general failure to discharge that duty of care?\" he asks.\n\nMs O'Neill replies that all political representatives in Northern Ireland as well as the UK and Irish governments have that responsibility.", "White Lotus actor Paolo Camilli was among those expressing their anger that \"a brief grope, if it's under 10 seconds, isn't considered a crime\"\n\nDoes it count as sexual harassment if an assault lasts less than 10 seconds?\n\nMany young people in Italy are expressing outrage on social media, after a judge cleared a school caretaker of groping a teenager, because it did not last long enough.\n\nShe described walking up a staircase to class with a friend, when she felt her trousers fall down, a hand touching her buttocks and grabbing her underwear.\n\n\"Love, you know I was joking,\" the man told her when she turned around.\n\nAfter the incident, which happened in April 2022, the student reported the caretaker, 66-year-old Antonio Avola, to police.\n\nHe admitted to groping the student without consent, but said it was a joke.\n\nA Rome public prosecutor asked for a three-and-a-half year prison sentence but this week the caretaker was acquitted of sexual assault charges. According to the judges, what happened \"does not constitute a crime\" because it lasted less than 10 seconds.\n\nSince the ruling, palpata breve - a brief groping - has become a trend on Instagram and TikTok in Italy, along with the #10secondi hashtag.\n\nItalians have posted videos looking at the camera in silence and touching their intimate parts for 10 seconds straight.\n\nCamilla posted this video referring to the caretaker's acquittal and the quote: \"Groping lasted just 10 seconds\"\n\nThe videos are often uncomfortable to watch but they have the aim of showing just how long 10 seconds can feel.\n\nThe first was posted by White Lotus actor Paolo Camilli, and since then thousands of people have followed suit.\n\nAnother video was reposted by Chiara Ferragni, Italy's most famous influencer who has 29.4 million followers on Instagram.\n\nAnother influencer, Francesco Cicconetti wrote on TikTok: \"Who decides that 10 seconds is not a long time? Who times the seconds, while you're being harassed?\"\n\n\"Men don't have the right to touch women's bodies, not even for a second - let alone 5 or 10.\"\n\nHe goes on to say that the judges' decision to acquit the caretaker shows just how normalised sexual harassment is in Italian society.\n\nA post on the Freeda Instagram account says: \"This sentence is absurd. The duration of the harassment should not diminish its severity.\"\n\nBut according to the judges, the caretaker did not linger. He groped the teenager only briefly, performing an \"awkward manoeuvre without lust\".\n\n\"The judges ruled that he was joking? Well, it was no joke to me,\" the student told Corriere della Sera newspaper.\n\n\"The caretaker came up from behind without saying anything. He put his hands down my trousers and inside my underwear.\n\n\"He groped my bottom. Then, he pulled me up - hurting my private parts. For me, this is not a joke. This is not how an old man should 'joke' with a teenager.\"\n\n\"That handful of seconds was more than enough for the caretaker to make me feel his hands on me.\"\n\nShe says she feels doubly betrayed - by her school and by the justice system.\n\n\"I'm starting to think I was wrong to trust the institutions. This is not justice.\"\n\nThe student fears the judges' ruling will deter girls and women from coming forward if they are subjected to such attacks.\n\nRecent figures from the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) suggested that 70% of Italian woman who had suffered harassment between 2016 and 2021 did not report the incident.\n\n\"They will feel that reporting abuse is just not worth it. But it is important, because silence protects the aggressors.\"", "The nominations for this year's Emmy Awards are being announced in a virtual ceremony.\n\nWe are not providing text updates but you can watch the shortlist being revealed live by clicking the play button at the top of this page.", "California's governor had blocked previous bids to release Leslie Van Houten (right)\n\nLeslie Van Houten, a former follower of notorious cult leader Charles Manson, has been released on parole after serving more than five decades of a life sentence for two brutal murders.\n\nVan Houten, 73, was a 19-year old member of the \"Manson family\" when she took part in the murder of a Los Angeles grocer and his wife in 1969.\n\nFive previous bids for her parole were blocked by California's governors.\n\nThat decision was later reversed by a state appeals court.\n\nA former homecoming queen, Van Houten was the youngest Manson follower to be convicted of murder for her role in the death of a California grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary.\n\nDuring the killings - which took place just days after the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others - Van Houten held down Rosemary LaBianca while someone else stabbed her. She later also admitted that she stabbed the woman after she was dead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVan Houten's lawyer, Nancy Tetreault, told the BBC that she left a women's prison in California early on Tuesday morning and was likely to be on parole for three years.\n\n\"She had a long job of detaching herself from the cult mentality and accepting responsibility for her crimes\" Ms Tetreault said. \"It took her a long time. She had decades of therapy. So she felt guilt and deep remorse.\"\n\nCharles Manson, considered one of America's most notorious cult leaders, directed his followers to commit nine murders and hoped the killings would start a race war, called \"Helter Skelter\" after a famous song by the Beatles. He died in prison in 2017.\n\nFollowing her life sentence, Van Houten earned both a bachelors and masters degree while in prison, where she also worked as a tutor for other inmates.\n\nAfter being denied parole dozens of times during her incarceration, Van Houten was finally recommended for parole in 2016. But the recommendations were rejected by California Governor Gavin Newsom and his predecessor, Jerry Brown.\n\nThe last time she was blocked from parole, in 2020, was ultimately overruled by a California appeals court.\n\nOn 8 July, however, Mr Newsom said that he would not block her parole this time, paving the way for her release on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement last week, the governor said he remained disappointed at her release, which he said was unlikely to be heard by California's Supreme Court if the legal battle continued.\n\n\"More than 50 years after the Manson cult committed these brutal killings, the victims' families still feel the impact,\" the statement said.\n\nLeslie Van Houten (right) was the youngest Manson follower to be convicted of murder for her role in the death of Leno LaBianca\n\nNow out of prison, Van Houten is expected to spend about a year at a halfway house, where her lawyer said she would need to learn to navigate a reality much different to when she first was put behind bars.\n\n\"She has to learn to use the internet. She has to learn to buy things without cash,\" Ms Tetreault told the AP. \"It's a very different world than when she went in.\"\n\nIn repeated parole hearings, Van Houten expressed regret for her role in the killings and involvement with Manson, later acknowledging that she had let him overpower her \"individual thinking\".\n\n\"I bought into it lock, stock and barrel,\" she said of his beliefs in a 2002 parole hearing. \"I took it at face value\".", "In June Nadine Dorries said she would resign her Mid Bedfordshire seat with \"immediate effect\"\n\nNadine Dorries has been referred to the Conservative chief whip by the UK's top civil servant over claims she sent \"forceful\" messages to officials.\n\nThe Mid Bedfordshire MP announced she would be standing down as an MP just before former PM Boris Johnson's resignation honours list was unveiled.\n\nMs Dorries has accused Rishi Sunak's team of denying her a peerage.\n\nSimon Case said he had flagged messages from Ms Dorries to the Commons Speaker and Tory chief whip.\n\nChief whips oversee discipline in political parties, while the Speaker presides over the House of Commons.\n\nTory MP and public administration committee chairman William Wragg, a frequent critic of Mr Johnson, asked Cabinet Secretary Mr Case if he was aware of \"any rather forceful communications\" sent by Ms Dorries \"to senior civil servants\".\n\nMr Wragg suggested Ms Dorries had threatened to use \"the platform of the Commons and indeed her own television programme to get to the bottom of why she hadn't been given a peerage\".\n\nMr Case said: \"Yes, I was aware of those communications and have flagged them to both the chief whip and Speaker of the House.\"\n\nAsked if he had taken legal advice on whether the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 could \"come into play\", Mr Case said he was \"seeking further advice\". The Act bans the sale of peerages or any other honours, such as knighthoods.\n\nMs Dorries initially announced she was standing down as an MP with \"immediate effect\", but later said she will not resign until she gets more information on why she was denied a peerage.\n\nShe has put in Subject Access Requests to get all correspondence between the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Office.\n\nSubject Access Requests allow an individual to receive a copy of all their personal data held by a government department. The right of access to personal data does not apply to data processed for the honours system, under the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nWhile Ms Dorries remains a member of Parliament, she can turn up in the House of Commons chamber to make her views known.\n\nThe Conservatives - who are trailing Labour in national polls - are facing three by-elections before Parliament's summer recess.\n\nBut if Ms Dorries keeps her party waiting to resign and bring about a further by-election, she could force them into a potentially divisive contest later on - for example, ahead of the autumn party conference season.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats called on the prime minister to withdraw the Tory whip from Ms Dorries - meaning she would no longer be a Conservative MP - while the claims are investigated.\n\nDaisy Cooper, the Lib Dem deputy leader, said: \"These allegations are staggering and it's crucial a swift investigation takes place into whether Nadine Dorries may have broken the law.\"\n\nIt comes as it was confirmed that the Ms Dorries has written a book titled The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson. It will be published days before the Tory Party conference in September.", "Lt-Gen Tsokov has reportedly died following a missile strike in Berdyansk\n\nA senior Russian general has been killed in a missile strike in Ukraine, Russian sources have said.\n\nLt Gen Oleg Tsokov is said to have died in a strike on a hotel housing Russian military commanders in Berdyansk, on Ukraine's occupied southern coast.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has not officially confirmed his death. But it was widely announced by Russian war channels on the Telegram messaging app.\n\nTV host Olga Skabeyeva said \"absolutely all media\" were reporting it.\n\nLt Gen Tsokov was deputy commander of Russia's southern military district. Ms Skabeyeva who presents a talk show on the state-run Rossiya-1 channel said he was killed by a UK-supplied Storm Shadow missile.\n\nAndrei Gurulyov, an MP and retired general who appeared on her popular 60 Minutes show on Tuesday, said the general had returned to Ukraine despite being badly wounded earlier in the conflict.\n\nHe was hit last September while commanding Russia's 144th Motorized Infantry Division in the Svatove area of occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"Unfortunately, he died heroically. This man deserves huge respect,\" the retired general said.\n\nSeveral Russian war accounts on Telegram also reported his death, including blogger WarGonzo and Military Informant, a channel with more than half a million followers.\n\nIn the absence of official comment from Moscow, military bloggers have previously proven an insightful source of information on the Russian side.\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the death, which was also highlighted by Ukrainian officials.\n\nReports said he was caught up in a Ukrainian attack that destroyed a hotel accommodating Russian military commanders in Berdyansk, a city in the south-eastern region of Zaporizhzhia on the coast of the Azov Sea.\n\nImages and video from various parts of Berdyansk have circulated on social media, but none show the exact site of the blast.\n\nBBC Verify has confirmed that one photograph shows a column of smoke rising from the area where the Dune Hotel is located.\n\nSome users said the hotel had been completely levelled, affirming earlier comments from the Berdyansk city military administration, currently operating from Ukraine-controlled territory.\n\nAlthough there is no confirmation that a Storm Shadow cruise missile was used, the UK government said in May that it had donated an undisclosed number of the missiles to Ukraine.\n\nThe Storm Shadow has a range of over 150 miles (240km) - triple that of the missiles Kyiv had previously been using, making it much easier to launch precision strikes.\n\nUkraine has claimed attacks on Russia's military commanders in Berdyansk before, however, there was initially some doubt that Lt Gen Tsokov was there.\n\nRussia's defence ministry had given no official announcement that he had been promoted from his role as commander of the 144th Motorised Infantry Division in eastern Ukraine, to deputy commander of Russia's Southern Military District.\n\nThe military district has a far larger remit, including areas of southern Russia as well as occupied areas of Ukraine. The defence ministry has either been slow to detail changes in command or it has simply avoided announcing them altogether.\n• None Who are Russia's war bloggers and why are they popular?", "Zayn Malik has revealed the reasons behind his abrupt departure from One Direction in his first interview for six years.\n\nThe star quit the band in the middle of their 2015 world tour, initially saying he had taken a break due to \"stress\".\n\nBut speaking to the Call Her Daddy podcast, Zayn said he'd realised the band's days were numbered when other members refused to sign new contracts.\n\n\"I knew something was happening, so I just got ahead of the curve,\" he said.\n\n\"I was like, 'I'm just going to get out of here, I think this is done'.\"\n\nHe continued: \"I just seen it [coming] and I completely selfishly wanted to be the first person to go and make my own record. If I'm being completely honest with you, I was like, 'I'm going to jump the gun here'.\n\n\"I'm a passive dude, but when it comes to my music and my business, I'm serious about it and I'm competitive, so I wanted to be the first to go and do my own thing. That was the reason.\"\n\nThe star added that there were underlying tensions after the band had endured five years of intense fame and scrutiny following their debut on X Factor.\n\n\"There was obviously underlying issues within our friendships, too. We'd got sick of each other if I'm being completely honest.\"\n\nHowever, he said time had given him more perspective on his boy band days.\n\n\"We were close, you know?\" he said of the group. \"We'd done crazy things with each other that nobody else in the world will ever understand and I look back on it now in a much fonder light than I would have [when] I'd just left.\n\n\"There were great experiences, I had great times with them, but we'd just run our course.\"\n\nThe star was speaking ahead of the release of his comeback single Love Like This on 21 July.\n\nOne Direction in 2011 (L-R): Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson\n\nIn the hour-long interview, he also told podcast host Alex Cooper about his struggles with anxiety, his love of cooking and his large collection of pets, including three dogs, three cats, three turtles and six chickens.\n\nHe laughed off his portrayal as \"the moody one\" in One Direction, saying it was \"just a marketing scheme\", and compared the band's public personas to \"the Teletubbies and the Spice Girls\".\n\nAnd he said he had been working to overcome the anxiety that has largely stopped him from performing since he left the band.\n\n\"As a young kid, I loved being on stage and I loved performing. When it became a thing that had a lot of weight behind it, in terms of people watching and stuff, then you're going to have natural feelings of anxiety. It's not a natural thing to do. I had to learn to adjust.\"\n\nThe star also addressed the 2021 incident in which he was accused of harassing his ex-girlfriend, the supermodel Gigi Hadid, and her mother Yolanda.\n\nThe star pleaded no contest to four charges of harassment following a family argument, in which he was alleged to have grabbed and shoved Yolanda.\n\nHe later issued a statement in which he denied hitting the elder Hadid (no charges were filed relating to this accusation) and said he had agreed not to contest the harassment charges so he could concentrate on raising his daughter, Khai, with his ex-partner.\n\n\"I just didn't want to bring attention to anything,\" the star said, emphasising his desire for privacy.\n\n\"I just wasn't trying to get into a negative back and forth with her [Yolanda], or any sort of narrative online where my daughter was going to look back and read that. There was no point.\n\n\"I believe I dealt with it in the best way, an amicable, respectful way, and that's all that needs to be said.\"\n\nZayn also spoke about how becoming a father had changed his outlook on life.\n\n\"When I'm with her, I don't work at all,\" he said. \"I just spend a full day with her doing things that she wants to do, like painting, Play-Doh… go to the park, go to the theme park, go to the zoo.\n\n\"I feel like I've rekindled my own childhood through her, you know?\n\n\"I feel like we get to a certain point in adult life where everything's kind of vague and grey and boring, and she's brought that colour back for me.\"", "President Zelensky with his wife Olena Zelenska at the Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania\n\nG7 members are expected to ratify a wide-ranging security pact with Ukraine at the Nato summit on Wednesday.\n\nBut they stopped short of providing a timeframe for Kyiv to join the security alliance, provoking the anger of President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe security arrangement will include defence equipment, training and intelligence sharing.\n\nAnd UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it would send a \"strong signal\" to Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe security arrangement with Ukraine comes after its President Volodymyr Zelensky raged against Nato's reluctance to offer Kyiv a timeframe for joining the alliance.\n\nG7 leaders will sign the declaration in Vilnius on Wednesday on the side-lines of the second day of a Nato defence summit.\n\nSpeaking ahead of a meeting with President Zelensky on Wednesday, Mr Sunak said Kyiv's allies were ramping up their \"formal arrangements to protect Ukraine for the long term\".\n\n\"We can never see a repeat of what has happened in Ukraine and this declaration reaffirms our commitment to ensure it is never left vulnerable to the kind of brutality Russia has inflicted on it again,\" he said.\n\nBritish officials said the UK had played a leading role in the agreement involving G7 partners Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US. More details are expected on Wednesday.\n\nUS President Joe Biden earlier suggested a model for Ukraine similar to his country's agreement with Israel. Under that deal, Washington has committed to providing $3.8bn (£2.9bn) in military aid per year over a decade.\n\nBut unlike Nato membership - this does not include a clause to come to the target nation's aid during a time of attack.\n\nThe G7 announcement comes after Nato said Ukraine could join the military alliance \"when allies agree and conditions are met\" - a delay Mr Zelensky has called \"absurd\".\n\nKyiv accepts it cannot join Nato while it is at war with Russia but wants to join as soon as possible after fighting ends.\n\nAddressing crowds in the Lithuanian capital on Tuesday, Mr Zelensky said: \"Nato will give Ukraine security - Ukraine will make the alliance stronger.\"\n\nHe also presented a battle flag from the destroyed city of Bakhmut - the site of the longest, and possibly bloodiest, battle in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Zelensky had earlier tweeted that \"uncertainty is weakness\", and said the lack of an agreed timeframe meant his country's eventual membership could become a bargaining chip.\n\nNato might not have said when and how Ukraine might join the alliance, but diplomats emphasised that they had set out a clear path to membership, with the onerous application process shortened significantly.\n\nThey said they had recognised that Ukraine's army was increasingly \"interoperable\" and more \"politically integrated\" with Nato forces, and promised continue supporting reforms to Ukraine's democracy and security sector.\n\nDiplomats also highlighted the creation of a new Nato-Ukraine Council, meeting on Wednesday for the first time, which will give Kyiv the right to summon meetings of the whole alliance.\n\nSome member states fear near-automatic membership for Ukraine could give Russia an incentive to both escalate and prolong the war.\n\nIn the past, Western security pledges failed to deter two Russian invasions. Nato allies hope a third round will be robust and explicit enough to persuade the Kremlin that further aggression would be too costly.\n\nThe two-day Nato summit is taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania\n\nA series of military packages for Ukraine were also announced at the summit on Tuesday.\n\nA coalition of 11 nations will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made F-16 fighter jets at a centre to be set up in Romania in August, officials said.\n\nIn May the US gave the go-ahead for its Western allies to supply Ukraine with advanced jets, including the long sought F-16s - a significant upgrade on the Soviet-era planes it is currently using.\n\nUkraine had repeatedly lobbied its Western allies to provide jets to help with its recently-begun counter-offensive aiming to retake territory seized by Russia.\n\nHowever experts say the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly and operate Western jets will take some time.\n\nIn addition to the G7 security pact, the UK has announced plans to deliver more than 70 combat and logistics vehicles to Ukraine, aimed at boosting its counteroffensive operation.", "After a day in which the BBC produced a fuller timeline of its actions through this story, where are we now?\n\nFor the BBC, key questions remain, primarily around what it did having received the complaint in May.\n\nIt's difficult to assess the actions of the Corporate Investigations Team without knowing exactly the detail of the complaint. We still don't have that.\n\nBut on the face of it, one email attempt that the complainant didn't respond to and one phone call that didn't connect don't, on the surface of it, look like huge efforts were made to check out the allegations.\n\nThat might have been understandable if the complaint had been about a presenter getting a fact wrong in a broadcast.\n\nBut we know that it was deemed serious by the BBC, though not involving criminality. A serious complaint about a high-profile presenter, reportedly involving huge sums of money to a younger person, surely warranted more dedicated investigation.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie may be all too aware of this, which is why he talked earlier about an internal review to assess whether the processes are up to scratch and whether red flags are raised quickly enough.\n\nThe BBC has now faced the media about this story. It had little choice as the briefing to launch the annual report was already in journalists' diaries.\n\nBut Mr Davie also appeared on the World at One on Radio 4 for a lengthy interview. His comment that this wasn't a \"good situation\" was an understatement.\n\nBut he also gave a clear explanation of what the BBC has been managing - balancing its duties as an employer of a presenter who must be treated fairly with its role as a public service broadcaster which aims for transparency.\n\nOf course, cynics might say that Mr Davie must have breathed a sigh of relief when the Metropolitan Police asked the BBC to pause its investigation. At one point in the interview, the director general said he couldn't comment for that reason.\n\nIt's the equivalent of kicking this into the, if not long, then certainly slightly taller than cropped, grass. A bit of a breathing space for the BBC to take stock.\n\nBut the pressure on Mr Davie and the corporation is intense, with media crews training their cameras on New Broadcasting House in central London for days now.\n\nThis story has become a series of claims and counterclaims. The Sun and the family stand by their account. The Sun told us it feels as if the family is \"being attacked by the BBC for not fully understanding their complaints system\".\n\nIt says that after the original complaint in May, a payment of £1,000 was made in June to the young person by the presenter. A sign of \"no action\" from the BBC.\n\nIt does feel uncomfortable that the presenter was not spoken to by bosses for almost seven weeks. That the complaint was not escalated until the Sun approached the BBC before publishing its story.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, faced questions on Tuesday about the corporation's presenter row\n\nBut the Sun also has questions to answer, particularly after the legal letter sent to the BBC on behalf of the young person on Monday.\n\nDid they approach the young person for comment as they prepared to report their story - as the lawyer claims they didn't. What evidence do they have to back up their allegations that have dominated the front pages? Why have they not named the presenter?\n\nIt's unclear how this story ends. The BBC has now reported allegations from a second person. The Sun has a new front page about the presenter allegedly breaking lockdown rules to meet a young stranger from a dating site.\n\nWill there be more to come - or just more claim and counter-claim?", "US comedian Sarah Silverman is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and technology giant Meta, alleging that her copyright has been infringed in the training of the firms' AI systems.\n\nSystems like ChatGPT learn to imitate human language by analysing large datasets of human text.\n\nMeta declined to comment. OpenAI has not yet replied to BBC questions.\n\nTwo other authors in addition to Ms Silverman are bringing the class-action case.\n\nThe case against OpenAI alleges that without the authors' consent \"their copyrighted materials were ingested and used to train ChatGPT\".\n\nThe case against Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, concerns its LLaMa AI system. Initially released to a small group of users primarily working on research, the system was subsequently leaked online.\n\nLLaMa is a \"foundational large language model\" designed to help AI research. In other words it's a very big AI system that can be put to use in a range of tasks.\n\nThe authors claim their books appear in a dataset, compiled by another organisation, which was used to train the LLaMa system.\n\nPatrick Goold a reader in law at City University in London told the BBC it was likely both cases would come down to whether training a large language model is a form of fair-use or not.\n\nThe lawyers assisting the group, Matthew Butterick and Joseph Saveri, are already involved in an earlier case against OpenAI brought by two authors.\n\nThey write that \"since the release of OpenAI's Chat­GPT sys­tem in March 2023, we've been hear­ing from writ­ers, authors, and pub­lish­ers who are con­cerned about its uncanny abil­ity to gen­er­ate text sim­i­lar to that found in copy­righted tex­tual mate­ri­als, includ­ing thou­sands of books\".\n\nBut other legal experts have questioned whether OpenAI can be said to have copied books.\n\nLast year the law firm launched two cases, one on behalf of programmers and another on behalf of artists, who believe their rights have been infringed by AI systems.", "The BBC still has many questions to answer after lawyers representing the young person at the centre of the allegations disputed the mother’s account.\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, the lawyer makes claims that throw doubt on the story that has dominated front pages through the weekend, but with the BBC facing the media as it presents its annual report, the corporation's director general can expect the event to be dominated by the crisis.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk has announced the formation of an artificial intelligence startup.\n\nThe new company is called xAI, and includes several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google.\n\nMr Musk has previously stated he believes developments in AI should be paused and that the sector needs regulation.\n\nHe said the start-up was created to \"understand reality\".\n\nIt is unclear how much funding the entity has, what its specific objectives are or what kind artificial intelligence the company wants to focus on.\n\nThe company's website says the goal of xAI is to \"understand the true nature of the universe.\"\n\nThe new firm will host a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday, which may reveal further details about its aims.\n\nElon Musk was the one of the original backers of OpenAI, which went on to create the popular large language model ChatGPT, which has - often controversially - become popular for uses such as assisting students with writing homework.\n\nHowever, the billionaire's relationship with the company has soured. He has criticised ChatGPT for having a liberal bias.\n\n\"What we need is TruthGPT\", Mr Musk tweeted in February.\n\nHe also disagrees with how ChatGPT has been run - and its close relationship with Microsoft.\n\n\"It does seem weird that something can be a nonprofit, open source and somehow transform itself into a for-profit, closed source,\" Musk said in a CNBC interview.\n\nIn March Mr Musk signed an open letter calling for a pause to \"Giant AI Experiments\", which to date has around 33,000 signatures.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in April Mr Musk said he had been worrying about AI safety for over a decade.\n\n\"I think there should be a regulatory body established for overseeing AI to make sure that it does not present a danger to the public\", he said.\n\nMr Musk has also pitted himself against AI companies due to the data they use to train chatbots - the software that learns how humans interacts by scraping masses of data from various sources to fuel its knowledge and interaction styles.\n\nThe billionaire believes vast amounts of Twitter's data is scraped from the platform, and that the company should be adequately compensated.\n\nMr Musk purchased the microblogging platform in a deal worth billions, before making sweeping changes which led to many leaving the platform in protest, including the producer of shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Bridgerton, Shonda Rhimes, as well as model Gigi Hadid and comedian and actor Stephen Fry.", "\"Poor transport infrastructure\" was cited as a reason preventing Wales from attracting more people visiting the UK.\n\nWales' hopes of becoming a global tourist attraction are hampered by confused marketing, a lack of holiday packages and poor transport connections, MPs have warned.\n\nThe Welsh affairs committee is concerned Wales attracts \"such a small proportion\" of visitors to the UK.\n\nOf 41 million international holidaymakers to the UK in 2019, just over one million visited Wales.\n\nVisit Wales said it would work with VisitBritain on how Wales is marketed.\n\nA report by MPs on the committee highlighted the country's \"relatively low profile overseas\" and said \"Wales lacks a coherent brand for the overseas market\".\n\nThe report said £28bn was spent in the UK by international tourists in 2019, but only £515m - 2% - of that was spent in Wales.\n\nIt also added that it was important the \"UK government bodies responsible for promoting Wales abroad reflect the distinct identity of each part of the UK in their activities\".\n\n\"We are not convinced that VisitBritain is achieving all it can on behalf of Wales.\"\n\nTourism is estimated to be worth £3bn to the Welsh economy.\n\nCommittee chairman Stephen Crabb said there were \"missed opportunities\" for businesses that would thrive on increased visitors and a \"more concerted push\" is needed to promote Wales abroad.\n\nHuw Tudur, owner of Mair's B&B in Bridgend, told BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast that \"nothing has changed\" and Visit Wales' branding \"sends a shiver down my spine\".\n\nHe said: \"We don't need to change in order to bring people in, because we have the assets. We have just got to go up there and tell them.\n\n\"I've had no contact with Visit Wales, or what Visit Wales used to be, for 13 years. No marketing material, documents, maps, pamphlets have been sent through the post.\"\n\nThe MPs said there is a lack of awareness of Wales' strengths as a holiday destination\n\nMr Tudur said the branding was \"old-fashioned: Sheep, rugby and things that don't represent modern Wales\" and that it made their work harder.\n\nMPs recommended Visit Wales work with VisitBritain on how Wales is marketed in international campaigns by February 2024.\n\nThe report said: \"Marketing of Wales must be stronger, with a clear theme devised to attract international tourists based on Wales' unique strengths and attractions.\"\n\nTour operators should be encouraged to include Wales in UK holiday packages, they added.\n\n\"Wales can be reached from London within a few hours. However, it is often not included in UK holiday packages offered by tour operators.\"\n\nThe MPs also expressed concerns that \"poor transport infrastructure\" was having a \"negative impact\" on Wales' ability to attract more of the tourists coming to the UK.\n\nWales \"is often not included in UK holiday packages offered by tour operators\", said MPs\n\n\"Transport infrastructure has been underfunded by the UK and Welsh governments for a number of years,\" they said.\n\nThe report called on governments in Cardiff and Westminster to \"look creatively at ways to better fund transport infrastructure projects\", including a proposed new direct rail link connecting Wales with Heathrow Airport.\n\n\"This would hugely improve connectivity between Wales and Heathrow and make it much easier for international tourists to come to Wales,\" MPs said.\n\nMPs said better infrastructure is needed to improve the tourist trade in Wales\n\nThe report also urged the Welsh government to re-examine its proposals for a visitor levy, warning it \"may have a negative impact on the attractiveness of Wales to international tourists\".\n\nAfter the report was published, Mr Crabb said: \"UK organisations that should be responsible for promoting visits to Wales, such as VisitBritain, routinely overlook it in their own marketing materials.\n\n\"Tour operators fail to consistently offer Wales as a holiday destination. The transport infrastructure puts international tourists off coming to Wales, and the poor road network would make travelling to some special locations challenging.\n\n\"Is it any wonder Wales isn't the global tourist destination it can be?\"\n\nStephen Crabb said Wales was overlooked in international marketing campaigns\n\nJim Jones from North Wales Tourism said the key to marketing Wales was to build connections with communities abroad.\n\nHe highlighted a Japanese tourism guide selecting Conwy as one of the most beautiful towns and villages in Europe in 2015, and said Wrexham AFC's celebrity owners, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, had helped \"put Wales on the map\".\n\n\"Wrexham is now the gateway city into the rest of north Wales,\" said Mr Jones.\n\nHe said tourist websites also need to be made multilingual to make them more accessible.\n\nHuw Tudur says the branding is old fashioned and doesn't represent modern Wales\n\n\"We rely on each other, working together... and marketing through websites like booking.com.\n\n\"To be honest, the branding sends shivers down my spine. We need to redevelop the whole thing, sell our nation and get more support. We need something internal, solid, youthful for each part of Wales to improve branding and how Wales looks to others.\"\n\nSuzy Davies, chairwoman of Wales Tourism Alliance, added: \"I would like to see us targeting more foreign visitors as its been targeted to promote people from within Britain more recently but as Visit Wales is part of the (Welsh) government there is limits in the amount of money that can be spent on internal and foreign marketing and I know that the report mentions this.\n\n\"The tourism economy hasn't been a priority for the Welsh government recently and I hope this changes.\n\n\"It's clear that foreign visitors across the world is crucial and I hope to see better focus on this - which is going to be hard under the current structure and transport infrastructure we have.\"\n\nRob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds' ownership of Wrexham AFC has helped shine an international spotlight on the area\n\nA Visit Wales spokesperson said: \"We are pleased to see the report highlight the positive work of Visit Wales in relation to our own marketing, engagement with the tourism industry in Wales, and co-working in the USA. \"\n\n\"We look forward to continuing to work with VisitBritain on how Wales is marketed within VisitBritain's international campaigns, to tour operators, and in sharing of data with industry - which are crucial components of success in this highly competitive industry.\"\n\nVisitBritain chief executive Patricia Yates said the company has \"generated an additional £34 million in overseas visitor spending for Wales in 2019-20 alone\".\n\n\"We're working with international travel trade to ensure Wales is sold internationally, this year inviting Welsh businesses on trade missions to China, India and the USA.\"\n\nShe said the company is \"bringing international tour operators and media on visits to Wales to boost product and destination knowledge\".\n\nShe added that hey will study the findings of the report closely.", "A young person has told BBC News they felt threatened by the BBC presenter at the centre of a row over payment for sexually explicit photos.\n\nThe individual in their early 20s was first contacted anonymously by the male presenter on a dating app.\n\nThey say they were put under pressure to meet up but never did.\n\nWhen the young person hinted online they might name the presenter, they were sent abusive, expletive-filled messages.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, the young person - who has no connection to the person at the centre of the Sun's story about payments for photos - said they had been scared by the power the presenter held.\n\nThey said the threats made in the messages - which have been seen and verified by BBC News - had frightened them, and they remain scared.\n\nThe new allegations of menacing and bullying behaviour by the high-profile presenter raise fresh questions about his conduct.\n\nBBC News has contacted the presenter directly and via his lawyer but has received no response to the latest allegations.\n\nAfter the two had first connected on the dating app, the conversation moved to other platforms.\n\nAt this stage, the presenter revealed his identity and told the young person not to tell anyone.\n\nLater, the young person alluded online to having contact with a BBC presenter, and implied they would name him at some point.\n\nThe presenter reacted by sending a number of threatening messages.\n\nBBC News has been able to verify that the messages were sent from a phone number belonging to the presenter.\n\nThe young person's online post has also been seen by BBC News.\n\nWhile the individual has spoken to BBC News, they have not made a complaint to the BBC corporate investigations unit which is looking into allegations.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Lithuania, the prime minister's press secretary said she had not seen these new allegations but urged any victims to come forward to get support and have their claims investigated.\n\nClaims about the unnamed BBC presenter first surfaced in the Sun newspaper on Friday night.\n\nThe paper quoted a mother as saying her child, now 20, had used the money paid for explicit photos to fund a crack cocaine habit, and worried they could \"wind up dead\".\n\nA lawyer for the young person has since said the accusations were \"rubbish\" but the family are standing by the account.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, faced questions on Tuesday about the corporation's presenter row\n\nThe BBC has been defending the handling of its own investigation into the allegations.\n\nAt a press conference, BBC director general Tim Davie said the presenter was not spoken to until last Thursday - seven weeks after the first complaint was made to the corporation.\n\nTwo attempts had been made to contact the family involved, before the Sun approached them with new claims last week, the BBC said.\n\nThe BBC has now paused its own investigation into what happened while police examine the matter.\n\nThe presenter, who has been suspended, is not being named because of concerns about defamation and breaching his privacy.\n\nHave you been affected by this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mark Drakeford confirmed the free meals would not be extended over summer\n\nFree school meals will not be extended across the school holidays, Mark Drakeford has confirmed in the Senedd.\n\nThe Welsh government had funded the meals during the pandemic and up to last spring.\n\nThe first minister said the lack of free school meals \"does not mean there is not support\".\n\nA backbench Labour MS suggested ministers should discuss amending the co-operation deal with Plaid Cymru to fund holiday meals for the vulnerable.\n\nThe Welsh government is working on a number of policies with Plaid, including on expanding free childcare and rolling out free school meals to all primary school pupils.\n\nPlaid Cymru said the decision was \"disappointing and has left parents will little time to plan ahead\".\n\nThe Welsh government said the provision had been a \"time-limited crisis intervention in response to the pandemic\", and Mr Drakeford said the budget that had been previously available was not now there.\n\nMeanwhile, Caerphilly council has announced it will use its reserves to feed vulnerable children over summer.\n\nThe first minister was responding to Caerphilly Labour MS Hefin David on Tuesday who called for other councils to follow the local authority's example.\n\nMr David also asked whether the Welsh government would consider funding the scheme across Wales, like it did last year.\n\nMr Drakeford said the lack of free school meals \"does not mean there is not support there for young people\".\n\nThe Welsh government was able to extend the free school meals scheme into the summer holidays previously, because of an \"underspend\" in the budget \"which is part of the co-operation agreement\" with Plaid Cymru, the first minister told the Senedd.\n\nHe said while \"there are no underspends left in that budget to deploy for that purpose\", the government was \"always involved in discussions\" with their Plaid Cymru colleagues to find the best way of using their available budget.\n\nHefin David called for other local authorities to follow Caerphilly council's example.\n\nIn a BBC Wales interview Hefin David said he \"perfectly\" understood that the Welsh government was \"struggling at the moment\" to find the budget for free school meals during the holidays.\n\nBut he added: \"I think it would be interesting for Plaid Cymru to re-look at the co-operation deal and say, is there any money in there that can be put towards additional support for the most vulnerable during school holidays?\"\n\n\"I think it's important that children across Wales, particularly those most vulnerable, have that opportunity during those times when school isn't in session, which is 12 or 13 weeks a year, and I think that is in the gift in part at least of the co-operation agreement.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru spokesperson for social justice Sioned Williams said: \"The commitment within the co-operation agreement relates to free school meals provision for all primary school children within term time. This universal provision is proving to be a huge help for families across Wales.\n\n\"The decision to cut free school meals support to eligible children over the summer holidays without prior notice was disappointing and has left parents will little time to plan ahead as they struggle to make alternative arrangements or save to cover the costs themselves.\"", "A car was set alight in the Damolly Village area on Wednesday morning\n\nAn arson attack in County Down is being treated as a sectarian hate crime, police have said.\n\nA car belonging to Aontú member Sharon Loughran was set alight at about 03:15 BST in Damolly Village, Newry, on Wednesday.\n\nMs Loughran said she is still trying to process the \"horrendous action\" that \"could have killed me\".\n\n\"I cannot for the life of me understand why they are targeting me,\" she added.\n\nSharon Loughran stood for Aontú in the Newry, Mourne & Down district during May's local elections, but was not elected to the council.\n\nThe all-island party was formed in 2019 when its leader, Peadar Tóibín TD, quit Sinn Féin over its stance on abortion.\n\nMs Loughran says that she woke up on Wednesday morning to to the \"smell and sound of an inferno\"\n\nIn a party statement, Sharon Loughran said she woke to the \"smell and sound of an inferno\" beside her house on Wednesday morning.\n\n\"I looked out the window to see my car parked in my driveway consumed by flames,\" she said.\n\n\"The heat was so much that the facia, pipes, electrics, and windows to my house have all been damaged by melting. My house is significantly damaged. I don't have electricity and can't use the water.\n\nPolice are treating the arson attack as a sectarian hate crime\n\n\"Ms Loughran said her house was previously targeted with sectarian graffiti but this latest attack is \"a radical escalation of that intimidation\".\n\n\"I had no involvement in politics before joining Aontú. I am paediatric nurse in Daisy Hill Hospital. I love my job and I am delighted to work for both communities,\" Ms Loughran continued.\n\n\"The only reason I got involved in politics was to stop the closure of key services in Daisy Hill Hospital and Aontú are very active on hospital campaigns around the country.\"\n\nMs Loughran said her house was previously targeted with sectarian graffiti\n\nAppealing for community leaders to \"bring about what influence to stop this shocking violence\", Ms Loughran added: \"I want to continue to work for my community. I have a human right to do so in peace.\"\n\nSinn Féin MP Mickey Brady said the attack \"was a sinister act of intimidation which could have resulted in serious injury or worse\",\n\n\"Sharon recently put herself before the people in the council elections and this action is an attack on the democratic process and the whole community and what makes this attack even more reprehensible is that Sharon is a health worker.\n\n\"All parties must stand united in condemning this appalling attack on Sharon and her family,\" he added.\n\nInvestigating officers have released details of a suspect who is approximately 5ft 10in tall, of slim build, wearing a light-coloured top and bottoms.\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone who may have been in the area, or who may have captured CCTV footage, to contact them.", "Watch the moment a member of Wimbledon security is booed after asking a crowd member to return a caught ball during Christopher Eubanks' quarter-final against Daniil Medvedev.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The Huw Edwards story so far... in 87 seconds\n\nHuw Edwards is in hospital with \"serious mental health issues\", his wife says, as she named him as the BBC presenter at the centre of allegations.\n\nHis wife Vicky Flind said she was issuing a statement on his behalf after days of speculation \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children\".\n\nThe Sun has claimed he paid a young person for sexually explicit images.\n\nThe Met Police says Edwards, 61, will not face any police action.\n\nThe family statement said the news presenter intends to respond to the allegations personally when he is well enough.\n\nThe statement read: \"In light of the recent reporting regarding the 'BBC Presenter' I am making this statement on behalf of my husband Huw Edwards, after what have been five extremely difficult days for our family. I am doing this primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children.\n\n\"Huw is suffering from serious mental health issues. As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years.\n\n\"The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.\"\n\nIn the statement issued through PA News, she said she hoped confirmation of Edwards' identity would bring an end to speculation about BBC presenters unconnected to the allegations.\n\nShe said her husband had been \"first told that there were allegations being made against him last Thursday\".\n\nThe statement appealed for privacy on behalf of their family, and said it was publicly documented that Edwards had suffered mental health problems previously.\n\nMinutes before the family statement was published, a separate update was issued by the Met, which has been assessing the allegations in recent days after discussions with BBC executives.\n\nIt said: \"Detectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command have now concluded their assessment and have determined there is no information to indicate that a criminal offence has been committed.\n\n\"In reaching this decision, they have spoken to a number of parties including the BBC and the alleged complainant and the alleged complainant's family, both via another police force.\"\n\nIt said detectives are \"aware of media reporting of further allegations against the same individual\" but has received \"no specific details or information about these allegations... and therefore there is no police action at this time\".\n\nThe BBC said it would continue its \"fact finding investigations\" into the allegations. It had been put on hold at the Met's request while it carried out its own enquiries.\n\nA spokesperson for the corporation said: \"We will now move forward with that work, ensuring due process and a thorough assessment of the facts, whilst continuing to be mindful of our duty of care to all involved.\"\n\nIn an email to staff, BBC director general Tim Davie said \"this remains a very complex set of circumstances\".\n\nHe said the family statement \"is a reminder that the last few days have seen personal lives played out in public\", adding: \"At the heart of this are people and their families.\n\n\"This will no doubt be a difficult time for many after a challenging few days. I want to reassure you that our immediate concern is our duty of care to all involved.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'This is such dramatic news' - Katie Razzall talks about Huw Edwards\n\nLast night's statements \"have acted like a dash of cold water to the face of all journalists,\" Craig Oliver, Huw Edwards' former boss on the Ten O'Clock News, said.\n\n\"I think that one of the things that's really come of this, is should news just slow down and allow the processes to take place, allow the facts to emerge and then report the story?,\" he told BBC's Radio 4 Today programme.\n\nThe story has raised \"much bigger issues for journalism,\" former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis also told the programme.\n\n\"In what circumstances is it legitimate for a news organisation to investigate and report on the private life of somebody with a high public profile?,\" he asked.\n\nEdwards has worked for the BBC since the mid-1980s, rising from a trainee position to becoming one of BBC News' most recognisable presenters.\n\nAs well as hosting the Ten O'Clock News on television, he has led coverage of major news events, such as elections and the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe initial allegations, first reported on Friday, were that the presenter paid a young person for explicit photos, beginning when they were 17.\n\nThe paper's source was the mother and step-father of the young person - but a letter issued on the young person's behalf by a lawyer described their account as \"rubbish\".\n\nSouth Wales Police previously said it had told the young person's family there was no criminal wrongdoing after being approached prior to their complaint to the BBC and account to the Sun.\n\nIn another statement on Wednesday, the force said it had recently carried out further inquiries and had found \"no evidence that any criminal offences have been committed\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the BBC published an investigation after speaking to an individual in their 20s who said they said were sent abusive and menacing messages by the presenter.\n\nThe Sun then published another story claiming the presenter broke Covid lockdown rules in February 2021 to meet a 23-year-old he had met on a dating site, and sent what they described as \"quite pressurising\" messages.\n\nThe newspaper also published what it says is an Instagram chat between the presenter and a 17-year-old, where the presenter sent messages including love heart emojis.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify these messages.\n\nA spokesperson for the Sun said the newspaper has no plans to publish further allegations about Edwards and will co-operate with the BBC's internal investigation process.\n\nA statement read: \"The allegations published by the Sun were always very serious. Further serious allegations have emerged in the past few days...\n\n\"The Sun will cooperate with the BBC's internal investigation process. We will provide the BBC team with a confidential and redacted dossier containing serious and wide-ranging allegations which we have received, including some from BBC personnel.\"\n\nThe Sun's statement said it had not accused Edwards of criminality in its original front page story.\n\nThe newspaper had reported Edwards had paid the person for pictures when they were 17 - but it did not explain such actions could be an offence. Under-18s are classed as children in the law covering sexual images. This is higher than the age of sexual consent, which is 16.\n\nIn later versions of the story, the Sun changed the wording of this allegation to \"it is understood contact between the two started when the youngster was 17\".\n\nDespite allegations emerging publicly and being widely discussed, media outlets - including BBC News - initially took the decision not to name the presenter due to privacy concerns.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A heatwave is sweeping across parts of southern Europe, with potential record-breaking temperatures in the coming days.\n\nTemperatures are expected to surpass 40C (104F) in parts of Spain, France, Greece, Croatia and Turkey.\n\nIn Italy, temperatures could reach as high as 48.8C (119.8F). A red alert warning has been issued for 10 cities, including Rome, Bologna and Florence.\n\nOn Tuesday, a man in his forties died after collapsing in northern Italy.\n\nItalian media reported that the 44-year-old worker was painting zebra crossing lines in the town of Lodi, near Milan, before he collapsed from the heat. He was taken to hospital where he later died.\n\nSeveral visitors to the country have collapsed from heatstroke, including a British man outside the Colosseum in Rome.\n\nPeople have been advised to drink at least two litres of water a day and to avoid coffee and alcohol, which are dehydrating.\n\nTwo Australian tourists on the streets of Rome told the BBC they were \"really surprised\" by the heat.\n\n\"It does spoil our plans as tourists a bit,\" Melbourne friends Maria and Gloria said. \"We are trying to not go out in the middle of the day.\"\n\nMaria and Gloria, from Melbourne, are visiting Rome\n\nItalian tourists Andrea Romano and Michele La Penna told the BBC their hometown of Potenza, in the Apennine mountains, has \"more humane temperatures\" than Rome.\n\n\"We need to start doing something about climate change. We need to be more responsible. The damage is already done. We need to do something about it. But not only the government… It all starts from people. Each of us needs to do something: use less plastic, don't use the AC, use electric cars,\" said Andrea.\n\nThe Cerberus heatwave - named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that features in Dante's Inferno - is expected to bring more extreme conditions in the next few days.\n\nSpain has been sweltering for days in temperatures of up to 45C (113F) and overnight temperatures in much of the country did not drop below 25C (77F).\n\nThe Andalusian regional government has started a telephone assistance service for people affected by the heat which has received 54,000 calls since it opened in early June.\n\nA satellite image recorded by the EU's Copernicus Sentinel mission revealed that the land surface temperature in the Extremadura region had hit 60C (140F) on Tuesday.\n\nThe UK's national weather service, the Met Office, says temperatures will peak on Friday. BBC Weather says large swathes of southern Europe could see temperatures in the low to mid 40s - and possibly higher.\n\nBut as Cerberus dies out, Italian weather forecasters are warning that the next heatwave - dubbed Charon after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology - will push temperatures back up towards 43C (109F) in Rome and a possible 47C (116F) on the island of Sardinia.\n\nIt isn't just Europe that is hot.\n\nThis summer has seen temperature records smashed in parts of Canada and the US as well as across a swathe of Asia including in India and China.\n\nSea temperatures in the Atlantic have hit record highs while Antarctic sea ice is at the lowest extent ever recorded.\n\nAnd it is going to get hotter.\n\nA weather pattern called El Niño is developing in the tropical Pacific. It tends to drive up temperatures by around 0.2C on average.\n\nThat may not sound much but add in the roughly 1.1C that climate change has pushed average temperatures up by worldwide and we are nudging perilously close to the 1.5C threshold the world has agreed to try and keep global temperatures below.\n\nLet's set things in a historic context to give us some perspective.\n\nThe first week of July is reckoned to have been the hottest week since records began.\n\nBut scientists can use the bubbles of air trapped in ancient Antarctic ice to estimate temperatures going back more than a million years.\n\nThat data suggests that that last week was the hottest week for some 125,000 years.\n\nIt was a geological period known as the Eemian when there were hippopotamuses in the Thames and sea levels were reckoned to be some 5m (16.4ft) higher.\n\nA new study says 61,672 people died in Europe as a result of the heat last year. ISGlobal Institute in Barcelona - which researches global health - said Italy had the most deaths that could be attributable to the heat, with 18,010, while Spain had 11,324 and Germany 8,173.\n\nThe fear is that the heat could cause many more deaths this summer.\n\nCities in Spain with the highest risk of deaths caused by the heat are Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca and Bilbao, according to ISGlobal's research.\n\nA heatwave is a period of hot weather where temperatures are higher than is expected for the time of year.\n\nExperts say periods of exceptionally hot weather are becoming more frequent and climate change means it is now normal to experience record-breaking temperatures.\n\nAt present there is no indication the heat in southern Europe will reach the UK any time soon - with the UK remaining in cooler, Atlantic air throughout next week, according to BBC Weather's Darren Bett.\n\nThe UK is experiencing a July that has been slightly wetter than normal, with temperatures that feel rather low. But this is mostly in contrast to the weather in the UK in June, which was the warmest on record by a considerable margin - something which, according to the Met Office, bore the \"fingerprint of climate change\".\n• None The new normal - why this summer has been so very hot", "Riikka Purra led the Finns Party to second place in April elections and her party now controls key ministries\n\nFinland's far-right finance minister, Riikka Purra, has apologised for a string of racist comments she posted 15 years ago that have just come to light.\n\nDescribing the posts as \"stupid\", she said she was sorry for the harm and resentment they had caused.\n\nMs Purra's Finns Party secured high-profile cabinet posts in the new government of conservative Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.\n\nBut in only three weeks it has been beset with accusations.\n\nIt is not a good look for a government that has barely got to grips with office, and for a prime minister who is due to welcome US President Joe Biden to Helsinki on Thursday.\n\nPresident Sauli Niinisto, who was attending the Nato summit in Lithuania, suggested it would be wise for the new government to \"take a clear stance of zero tolerance of racism\" which was soon forthcoming.\n\nMr Orpo made clear on social media there was \"zero tolerance for racism\" and each of the government's ministers were committed to working against racism at home and abroad.\n\n\"I'm not a perfect person, I've made mistakes,\" said Ms Purra on Twitter. She also co-signed a government statement with Mr Orpo and two other coalition party leaders assuring Finns that the entire cabinet was committed to equality and non-discrimination.\n\nRiikka Purra (left) has joined the prime minister (second right) and two other coalition party leaders in signing a statement on zero tolerance of racism\n\nHer anti-immigration, Eurosceptic Finns Party narrowly won second place in April elections, their best-ever result, finishing behind Mr Orpo's National Coalition Party. As well as taking up the post of finance minister she is also Finland's deputy prime minister.\n\nBut it was a series of racist comments made on a party colleague's blog in 2008 that have stirred controversy, written under the username \"riikka\" and uncovered by Finnish media.\n\nOne written on 25 September 2008 complained of young people of immigrant origin on a train: \"If they gave me a gun, there'd be bodies on a commuter train, you see.\"\n\nShe also referred to \"Turkish monkeys\" and then made a racial slur about black street hawkers selling \"fake Vuittons\" while she attended a conference in Spain: \"Greetings from Barcelona, there is no 'alarming immigration problem' to be seen here.\"\n\nInitially she did not confirm the comments were hers but did point out that the comments had been written years before she entered politics. Accepting that she had written and said \"stupid or absurd\" things, she was adamant that \"in this position, stage of life and age, I would not write anything like that\".\n\nBy Tuesday afternoon she had admitted the comments were hers but made clear they were 15 years old: \"I do not accept any kind of violence, racism or discrimination.\"\n\nShe became leader of the Finns Party, pushing their support to 20.1% of the electorate, after predecessor Jussi Halla-aho stepped down.\n\nHe is now speaker of parliament. It was his own blogging in 2008, including racist remarks about Islam and Somalis, that led to his resignation from a parliamentary committee in 2012.\n\nRiikka Purra's racist past is the most serious threat to Finland's young government so far - though is not the only scandal.\n\nAt the end of June, her party colleague Vilhelm Junnila was forced to resign as economy minister for making references to Adolf Hitler at a far-right event in 2019 and for references to abortions in Africa.\n\nLast week, Interior Minister Mari Rantanen - who is in the same party as Ms Purra - made clear she did not subscribe to conspiracy theories, after media reports alleged she believed Finns were being replaced by other races.\n\nThe Orpo-led coalition is made up of four parties. They have promised Finns they will lower government debt and tighten immigration rules on citizenship and residence permits.", "Airport drop-off charges for drivers have increased by almost a third at UK airports over the past year, according to the RAC.\n\nThese are initial fees charged for dropping off someone as close to a terminal as possible.\n\nThe biggest hikes in so-called kiss and fly charges are at Southampton and Belfast International, the RAC found.\n\nAirports argue the higher fees are to deter drivers from lingering around and help to keep flight costs down.\n\nThe Airport Operators Association, which represents airports in the UK, told the BBC the increased revenue helped \"keep charges to airlines lower\" and helped \"maximise the range of flights that can be offered to all passengers\".\n\nShort-stay parking areas around terminals usually have barriers for entry and exit. Drivers have to buy a ticket to get in and pay for the time they stay to get out.\n\nSouthampton International airport raised its fee from £4 to £6 for 20 minutes while Belfast International has hiked prices from £1 to £3 for 10 minutes.\n\nA spokesperson for AGS Airports, which owns and operates Southampton, said the funds received through higher charges were important in \"supporting the airport's operational costs, which have increased significantly\".\n\nBelfast said the higher charges would be used to fund a \"wider capital investment programme\". The airport is due to begin the construction of a new £20m security building.\n\nThe airport with the highest minimum payment is Stansted where the fee is £7 for 15 minutes, but other airports charge £5 for just five or 10 minutes.\n\nHowever, six of the busiest UK airports have frozen drop-off charges since last summer. Alongside Stansted:\n\nThree airports offer free-drop off outside the departure terminal. These are Cardiff, London City and Inverness.\n\nFor passengers that are being dropped off by taxis or private hire cars, they will most likely have fees added to their fares. Many airports offer free options for dropping passengers off in mid or long-stay car parks connected to terminals by buses.\n\nThe RAC argues that the increased drop-off charges are far too high to charge drivers for such short periods of time - particularly if they are dropping off people with limited mobility or young families.\n\nNicholas Lyes, head of roads policy at the RAC, has been tracking drop-off charges since 2016 and said putting them up had \"become something of an annual ritual\".\n\n\"Thankfully the proportion of airports hiking fees this year is lower than last year, but that will be little consolation as charges across the board have never been so high,\" he said.\n\nResearch. Check out the drop-off facilities and fees on the airport's website. Terminal forecourt drop-off areas are likely to be the most expensive.\n\nHave your payment ready. Once you have found out how to pay, ensure you have payment ready to hand.\n\nSay your goodbyes early. Bid your farewells before you get to the airport.\n\nCheck your taxi fare includes a drop-off fee. If you're booking a taxi to take you to the airport, check to see whether the fare includes or excludes any drop-off fees.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The former prime minister, Theresa May, argued the bill would \"consign more people to slavery\"\n\nSome senior Tory MPs have criticised the government's asylum reforms as MPs overturned changes made by the House of Lords to the Illegal Migration Bill.\n\nFormer PM Theresa May was among more than a dozen Tories arguing for a different approach from ministers.\n\nBut their calls did not stop MPs voting to reject revisions peers had made to the bill in the Lords.\n\nThe bill is central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill seeks to deter people from making the crossing by toughening up the rules and conditions around seeking asylum.\n\nAs it was debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr Sunak said he was \"throwing absolutely everything\" at tackling Channel crossings.\n\nBut the passage of the bill has not been easy, with peers voting for 20 changes and campaigners calling on MPs to reject the government's proposals.\n\nThe amendments voted for by the Lords have been overturned by MPs in a series of 18 votes, although ahead of the debate, the Home Office offered several concessions, including on time limits for the detention of children and pregnant women.\n\nThe bill now heads to the Lords again, for peers to consider the changes made by MPs.\n\nIn a Commons debate, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick accused peers of \"wrecking\" the government's asylum reforms by trying to make amendments.\n\nMr Jenrick said it was \"vital\" that the bill was passed quickly and described amendments made by the Lords as being \"riddled with exceptions and get-out clauses\".\n\nThe government's concessions were not enough to win the backing of some Tory MPs, who raised concerns over how the bill treats unaccompanied children and the victims of modern slavery.\n\nMrs May said the bill \"will consign more people to slavery\", adding she would have to \"persist in disagreeing with the government\" on this issue.\n\nThe former prime minister told MPs: \"I know that ministers have said this bill will enable more perpetrators to be stopped, but on modern slavery I genuinely believe it will do the opposite.\n\n\"It will enable more slave-drivers to operate and make money out of human misery.\"\n\nShe was among 16 Conservatives who voted against the government's rejection of protections for people claiming to be victims of modern slavery.\n\nThere were also rebellions from Conservative MPs connected to the limits and conditions of detaining unaccompanied children.\n\nOne of the rebels, former Conservative minister Tim Loughton, said the \"assurances that we were promised have not materialised or, if they have, I am afraid nobody understands them\".\n\nHe complained about the timing of the concessions and said \"more work needs to be done\" on scrutinising the bill before it becomes law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick says cartoons in an asylum reception centre were painted over as they were not \"age appropriate\" for teenagers.\n\nOne of the most controversial aspects of the bill would place a legal duty on the government to detain and remove migrants arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nStephen Kinnock, Labour's shadow immigration minister, said the government's Rwanda plan was \"fundamentally flawed\", and he accused Mr Jenrick of \"pettiness\" for painting over Mickey Mouse cartoons in an immigration centre.\n\nMr Kinnock said the bill would \"only make a terrible situation worse\" by increasing the asylum backlog, and \"ensure people smugglers are laughing all the way to the bank\".\n\nWith Parliament due to break for summer at the end of next week, the bill faces a prolonged stand-off between peers and the government during so-called parliamentary ping-pong, when legislation is batted between the Lords and Commons until agreement on the wording can be reached.\n\nThe latest figures show more than 13,000 migrants have made the crossing so far this year, including more than 1,600 in the last four days.\n\nThe government's efforts to curb the number of small boats crossing the Channel have been hampered in Parliament and the courts.\n\nA plan to house asylum seekers on a barge moored in Dorset has been delayed.\n\nAnd the government's policy of sending migrants to Rwanda is set for a legal battle in the Supreme Court.\n\nOn Monday, a senior Home Office official confirmed the department was paying to keep nearly 5,000 beds empty across the country, in case a sudden influx of migrants caused overcrowding at detention centres.\n\nThe government has stressed it remains committed to its plan to remove migrants to Rwanda, and has said it will challenge a Court of Appeal ruling last week that this was unlawful.", "Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have been taking part in strikes over pay\n\nThe government is considering pay increases of 6-6.5% for public sector workers, the BBC understands.\n\nOfficial pay review bodies for employees including teachers, junior doctors and police have recommended the pay rise. Inflation to May was 8.7%.\n\nThe announcement will be made on Thursday, following formal sign off from the prime minister and chancellor.\n\nGovernment sources have told the BBC any rises over 3.5% would need to come out of existing departmental budgets.\n\nThe BBC has been told that all of the independent bodies have all recommended pay rises of between 6% and 6.5% for public sector workers, also including prison officers, senior civil servants and the armed forces.\n\nBut there have been heavy hints from ministers in the past few weeks that they may not accept these recommendations, stressing their argument for wage \"discipline\" during a period of high inflation.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak says pay awards should be \"responsible\" to avoid making inflation worse. He has made tackling rising prices his top political priority.\n\nDepartments had told pay review bodies they had budgeted for pay rises of about 3.5%.\n\nThe salaries of NHS staff in England - apart from junior doctors and dentists - are not included in these recommendations.\n\nUnder a deal set out earlier this year, NHS workers will receive a 5% pay rise. Ambulance workers, nurses, physios and porters will also get a one-off sum of at least £1,655.\n\nIt's expected the PM and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will tell ministers any awards higher than this will have to be funded through cuts or savings elsewhere in their own departments.\n\nA decision not to accept the recommendations would prompt fresh tensions with unions, raising the prospect of continuing public-sector strikes.\n\nMr Hunt ruled out funding pay rises with government borrowing during an interview on ITV1's Peston programme.\n\nIncreasing public sector pay through borrowing would \"pump billions of pounds of extra money into the economy\" leading to businesses \"putting up their prices\" and driving further inflation.\n\nAnd in a speech to leading figures from finance and business at the Mansion House this week, he said: \"Borrowing is itself inflationary.\"\n\nThe prime minister spoke to journalists ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania\n\nSpeaking at a news conference at the Nato summit in Lithuania, Mr Sunak said his decision about pay would be guided by \"fairness\" to public sector workers and taxpayers, as well as \"responsibility\".\n\nHe said he did not want to do anything that would \"fuel inflation, make it worse or last for longer\".\n\nSpeaking on Monday during a visit to Avon and Somerset police force, Home Secretary Suella Braverman would not answer directly whether the government should abide by recommendations on public sector pay.\n\nPraising police officers, she said: \"They do incredibly heroic work, day in, day out, and they save lives and it's right that we properly reward them for their sacrifice and their dedication.\n\n\"We know that there's an ongoing process - it is a decision for the whole of government.\n\n\"I don't want to pre-empt that process and the conclusions of that consideration, but it's right that we properly reward frontline police officers and bear in mind that we're in a very challenging situation, economically.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner declined to say whether her party would accept pay body recommendations.\n\nShe said she hadn't \"seen the books\" but a Labour government would do its best to negotiate a deal that was acceptable to public sector workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's fiscal rules are “non-negotiable”, says its deputy leader, but there is \"room in the middle” for pay rises.\n\nMr Sunak has previously pledged to halve inflation this year to about 5%, as part of his top five priorities since becoming prime minister.\n\nThe rate at which prices are rising remained unchanged at 8.7% in May, despite predictions it would fall.\n\nPersistent inflation levels would make it hard to cut taxes before the next election, Chancellor Hunt said in an interview with the Financial Times.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said he and the chancellor were \"completely united on wanting to reduce taxes for people\".\n\n\"But the number one priority right now is to reduce inflation and be responsible with government borrowing,\" he added.\n\nAlmost half of public sector workers are covered by pay review bodies, including police and prison officers, the armed forces, doctors, dentists and teachers.\n\nThe pay review bodies are made up of economists and experts on human resources, with experience in both the public and private sector and are appointed by the relevant government department.\n\nTheir recommendations are not legally binding, meaning the government can choose to reject or partially ignore the advice, but it is usually accepted.\n\nSome agreements have been reached, including a pay settlement for more than a million NHS staff in England.", "Each year thousands of migrants make the journey from Western Africa to the Canary Islands\n\nNegligence may have led to the deaths of migrants whose boat sank after waiting 10 hours for help off the Canary Islands, a lawsuit has alleged.\n\nProsecutors in Gran Canaria say crimes including failure to provide assistance may have been committed.\n\nThirty-six people drowned while attempting to reach the islands in an inflatable boat in June.\n\nSeveral recent incidents have put Europe's response to migration under fresh scrutiny.\n\nSpanish rescue officials were forced to defend their lack of action after it was reported that a Spanish search and rescue ship was only about an hour away from the dinghy.\n\nThe ship did not help them because the rescue operation had been taken over by Moroccan officials, Reuters news agency reported at the time.\n\nA patrol boat was despatched, but it arrived 10 hours after the migrants' dinghy was first spotted by a Spanish rescue plane.\n\nTheir boat sank about 100 miles (160km) south-east of Gran Canaria island on June 21, and 24 survivors were picked up by the Moroccan boat.\n\nSpain's coastal rescue service said the sinking happened in waters monitored by both Spain and Morocco, and that they did not know the vessel's occupants were in danger, Spanish news agency EFE reported.\n\nThe Canary Islands are part of Spain, although they are situated off Africa's western coast. Many migrants travel from Africa to the archipelago in the hope of reaching mainland Europe.\n\nThe Western Africa-Atlantic route is considered one of the world's deadliest migration passages, and at least 543 migrants died or went missing on that journey in 2022, according to the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM).\n\nThe incident comes as Europe's response to migration is being held under increased scrutiny following the sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Greece in June.\n\nGreece's coastguard came under fire for their handling of the tragedy, after the BBC obtained evidence casting doubt on their version of events.\n\nThe UN has called for an investigation into Greece's handling of the disaster, amid claims more action should have been taken earlier to initiate a full-scale rescue attempt.\n\nEarlier this week, 86 people were rescued by the Spanish coast guard off the coast of the Canary Islands. There are also more than 300 people still missing at sea on three boats, after setting off from Senegal two weeks ago.", "Spectators on Railway Road in Coleraine watch the bands\n\nThe Orange Order and approximately 600 bands have taken part in parades at 18 locations on Wednesday to mark the Twelfth of July.\n\nAs well as Belfast and Ballymena, parades were held in towns including Ballinamallard, Magherafelt and Kilkeel.\n\nThe processions mark the victory of King William III over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.\n\nA young band member catches his baton as an Orange band makes it's way along the parade route\n\nSome banners referenced an Orange Order document which suggested plans to shorten the Belfast parade\n\nWilliam, a Protestant, had become King of England, Scotland and Ireland the previous year, after Catholic James II was deposed, and his victory secured his position.\n\nOrange Order Grand Master Edward Stevenson said the event was a \"day to remember\".\n\nHe said there had been \"extraordinary\" numbers of people celebrating.\n\n\"The weather conditions weren't entirely favourable for all throughout the day, but the rain could not dampen the spirits of those on parade,\" he said.\n\nHe said there had been visitors from Scotland, England, Wales, the US and Canada taking part in the parades.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I came to the Twelfth when I was a wee girl and now I bring my children'\n\nConfetti cannons were fired in Belfast city centre as celebrations started early\n\nThe sun came out for spectators in Coleraine, County Londonderry\n\nLast week, an internal Orange Order document suggested the institution was considering plans to shorten the Belfast parade.\n\nIt followed what the Orange Order described as \"abysmal\" scenes at the 2022 march relating to anti-social behaviour and excessive drinking.\n\nThe weather failed to dampen the spirits of those taking part in the parades\n\nLarge crowds turned out in Ballinamallard in County Fermanagh to see the parade\n\nThe organisation's grand secretary, Rev Mervyn Gibson said he hoped it would be a \"family friendly day where we go out and celebrate our culture\".\n\n\"Today is about the glorious Twelfth of July and celebrating victory at the Battle of the Boyne,\" he told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme on Wednesday.\n\nBefore the parade Rev Gibson said he was not worried about the forecast: \"I think if King William was scared of a bit of water, he'd never have crossed the Boyne so a bit of rain isn't going to dampen our spirits.\"\n\nThis year's parades are being held in:\n\nOn Sunday, the annual Rossnowlagh parade in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland took place, as is tradition ahead of the Twelfth.\n\nUp to 60 lodges from Donegal as well as counties Cavan, Leitrim and Monaghan were joined by lodges from across Northern Ireland.\n\nOrangemen in Lurgan began the day by marching to the town's war memorial\n\nOn Tuesday night, the \"Eleventh Night\" was marked by bonfires in many Protestant areas across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC will broadcast highlights from eight demonstrations in a special hour-long programme on BBC One at 21:00 BST and on BBC iPlayer.", "Hundreds of students have been impacted by a marking boycott\n\nQueen's University Belfast (QUB) has been suspended from membership of the umbrella body for university employers.\n\nThe Universities and Colleges Employers' Association (UCEA) said it had taken the action because QUB had made a local agreement on pay.\n\nIn June, Queen's and the University and College Union (UCU) reached agreement to end a marking boycott by some staff.\n\nMore than 750 students at QUB graduated without having their degree results finally confirmed due to the boycott.\n\nThe university said an additional full graduation ceremony for them would take place at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nThe settlement between the university and the UCU at Queen's was the first of its kind across the UK.\n\nThe agreement included a cost-of-living supplement equivalent to 2% of pay for all QUB staff except those on the senior salary scheme.\n\nMany universities across the UK have also been affected by the union's marking and assessment boycott, which is part of a long-running dispute over pay and workload.\n\nThe UCEA conducts pay negotiations with trade unions on behalf of over 140 universities and colleges across the UK.\n\nBut in a statement the UCEA said that Queen's had made a local agreement on staff pay \"outside of the collective pay arrangements\" for 2023-24 to settle the marking boycott.\n\n\"The UCEA Board has now had a chance to consider the representations from QUB and has concluded that this an extremely serious matter and that the actions of QUB are incompatible with continued membership of UCEA,\" it said.\n\n\"Accordingly, the board has informed QUB of its decision to terminate their UCEA membership for a period of three years in the first instance.\"\n\nThe industrial action by staff at Queen's University had lasted for months\n\nIn a statement in response, Queen's defended its decision to make a local arrangement with the UCU to settle the marking boycott.\n\n\"Our focus has always placed our students first,\" the QUB statement said.\n\n\"In the absence of any progress being made nationally regarding the industrial action, the local arrangement between Queen's branch of UCU and the University allowed us to conduct 22 graduation ceremonies for our students.\n\n\"It has also enabled us to provide students awaiting their degree classifications with certainty as to when they will be received.\n\n\"We remain convinced that this local arrangement was the correct and most appropriate course of action for our university and our students.\"\n\nBBC News NI understands the university's suspension from the UCEA means it may be able to set its own pay policy for staff and make its own pay offer.\n\nHowever, that has not yet been confirmed.", "Ms O'Neill became deputy first minister in the months before the pandemic\n\nFormer deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill has said there were \"ad-hoc and tick-box\" meetings between Stormont ministers and the UK government during the pandemic.\n\nMs O'Neill gave evidence to the UK Covid-19 inquiry on Wednesday.\n\nThe inquiry is focusing on Northern Ireland this week and its preparedness in the run-up to the pandemic.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was not an \"easy flow of information\".\n\nShe was being asked about the nature of communication between Stormont ministers and London.\n\n\"I found that meetings were called at short notice, documentation wasn't shared in advance and that would have been at the detriment of planning for the [health] minister,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill added meetings that did take place were to \"hand down\" decisions that had already been taken by the UK government.\n\n\"On many occasions they were what I would describe as ad-hoc and tick-box meetings.\"\n\nEarlier, the Sinn Féin deputy leader told the inquiry there was a distinct lack of resources to run the health and care system during her time as minister for health.\n\nMs O'Neill said health departments \"found it very difficult to manage within the resource that they had particularly as a direct result of austerity\".\n\nShe added austerity had been detrimental to all public services and it undermined the health department's ability to be resilient when faced with a pandemic.\n\nMs O'Neill said her priority as health minister was transforming the delivery of health services in Northern Ireland\n\nMs O'Neill said the first time she was briefed on the risk of an influenza pandemic was in October 2016, several months after she became health minister.\n\nShe was asked if she was made aware of emergency civil contingency plans in the event of a pandemic to which Ms O'Neill responded that her priority during her tenure as health minister was transforming the delivery of health services in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe agreed it would have been better if she had been briefed on the risks facing her department when she took over as minister.\n\nLead counsel to the inquiry, Hugo Keith KC, asked Ms O'Neill if she was briefed on the social care sector planning in the event of a pandemic as part of Exercise Cygnus.\n\nMs O'Neill said she did not recall \"any specific briefing\".\n\n\"But we are an integrated health and social care system which is distinctly different to the system in England and I would assume when we are testing our planning we do so across both health and social care,\" she added.\n\nExercise Cygnus was a three-day event simulation in 2016, carried out by the UK government to test the UK's flu pandemic readiness.\n\nIt involved 950 officials from central and local government, NHS organisations, prisons and local emergency response planners. It led to a series of recommendations, including some on personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nMs O'Neill agreed with lead counsel that politicians were faced with the consequences of a delayed emergency social care plan when Stormont was restored in January 2020.\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Sir Michael McBride told the inquiry there was \"no doubt\" the absence of ministers had a significant impact on Stormont's preparedness for a pandemic.\n\nMs O'Neill accepted that the absence of political leadership had made a significant difference.\n\nShe further explained that she regretted \"there wasn't the political leadership to carry on the work which (she) had started on transforming the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Sinn Féin vice president took up the position of deputy first minister two months before the pandemic hit in March 2020.\n\nNorthern Ireland's devolved government did not function from January 2017 to January 2020.\n\nHealth officials have argued this affected Northern Ireland's preparedness for health emergencies.\n\nThe inquiry is focusing on Northern Ireland this week and its preparedness in the run-up to the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive of the Public Health Agency (PHA) also gave evidence at Wednesday's hearing.\n\nAiden Dawson told the inquiry that he had concerns that the current emergency planning team was not big enough to take on all the roles the PHA needed in the future.\n\nHe said he would like a bigger emergency planning team but the organisation was currently undergoing a review to look at how it was formed, set up and the function it provides. Emergency planning will come under that.\n\nMr Dawson added that, in hindsight, he believed that the PHA should have employed a consultant epidemiologist and had the ability to have Northern Ireland specific modelling capabilities.\n\n\"One of the varying factors we have, which is not seen in the rest of the UK, is that we have an open land border with the Republic of Ireland, which may have had a variation impact on disease progression within Northern Ireland and therefore the ability to monitor and have real time modelling in NI was important,\" he said.\n\nDue to the system of government in Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill held equal powers to the first minister at the time of the pandemic, Arlene Foster.\n\nBaroness Foster appeared before the inquiry on Tuesday.\n\nShe said the UK government should have stepped in to make decisions in the absence of ministers at Stormont between January 2017 to January 2020.\n\n\"If there is a gap in resilience in part of the UK, surely that should concern the government of the UK,\" she added.\n\nBaroness Foster told the inquiry on Tuesday the UK government should have stepped in to make decisions in the absence of ministers at Stormont\n\nLast week, Robin Swann, who served as health minister during the pandemic, told the inquiry a lack of reform and investment in the health service hindered its response..\n\nAt a press conference in May 2020, Ms O'Neill and Baroness Foster told Sky News they had been brought closer together by the pandemic.\n\nHowever, Ms O'Neill was widely criticised the following month when she attended the funeral of senior republican Bobby Storey with hundreds of other mourners.\n\nRegulations at the time stated a maximum of 30 people were permitted to gather together outdoors.\n\nShe insisted she worked within the guidelines but later acknowledged Stormont's public health messaging was \"undermined\" by the controversy.", "Japanese TV personality Ryuchell has been found dead by their manager at the agency's office in Tokyo.\n\nThe 27-year-old's cause of death has not yet been confirmed, but police said they are investigating if they took their own life.\n\nRyuchell married a fellow model, Peco in 2016 and the pair had a son.\n\nIn August 2022, the couple divorced after Ryuchell announced they no longer identified as male, attracting much criticism online.\n\nIn the post shared to Instagram, Ryuchell said they would still live with Peco and their son.\n\nBut many accused the celebrity of being an absent father and criticised their decision to come out. In February, Ryuchell appeared in a YouTube video alongside Peco, who defended her ex-husband and said she supported them as they worked out their sexuality.\n\nRyuchell became an influential LGBT figure in Japan and was well-known for their genderless style of dressing. As they became more famous, they were subject to numerous online social harassment campaigns which largely criticised their personal life and gender non-conformity.\n\nShortly after their death, terms like \"Ryuchell\" and \"character assassination\" started trending on Twitter in Japan, with many expressing shock and sadness.\n\nOne user called Ryuchell a shining light in a harsh world, and referred to suicide as being preventable.\n\nPeco and their son are overseas - on Tuesday she posted a picture of a cake for his fifth birthday. The family are yet to comment on news of Ryuchell's death.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by issues in this article, the following resources may help:", "Emma MacKenzie is devastated she may have to leave despite signing a lease on a flat and accepting a job.\n\nA Canadian exchange student who has no degree due to the exams marking boycott fears she may have to leave Scotland.\n\nEdinburgh University student Emma MacKenzie, 22, has signed a lease on a flat and accepted a full-time job.\n\nBut she cannot renew her visa to stay in the UK unless she has received her qualifications by the 26 July deadline.\n\nShe is one of the students at 145 institutions across the UK have been affected by the University and College Union's (UCU) boycott.\n\nThe union says the boycott, which began on 20 April, could affect thousands of graduates.\n\nIt has vowed to continue its action until employers make an improved offer on pay and conditions.\n\nEdinburgh University said it was \"profoundly sorry that we have not been able to shield our students from the impact of this UK-wide dispute\".\n\nMiss MacKenzie, who paid £4,700 tuition fees for the year as well as £1,000 on her visa, said she was beginning to fear that she would have to fly back to Toronto.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It is a devastating situation and these past few weeks have been a whirlwind of anxiety and feeling out of control.\n\n\"I feel failed by the university. I've done everything asked of me and I've rightfully earned and paid for my degree.\"\n\nEmma was hoping to secure a two year visa so she could continue to live in Edinburgh\n\nShe completed the first three years of her undergraduate degree at Toronto University.\n\nBut now that her exchange visa is running out she wants to secure a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa, which allows people who graduate from one of the top 50 universities in the world to apply to remain in the UK for up to two years.\n\nShe said Toronto University cannot give her the undergraduate award she worked for because the marking boycott means she has not yet received her final grades from Edinburgh.\n\nMiss MacKenzie said Edinburgh had also been unwilling to provide her with projected grades, or even a \"Pass/Fail\" note - either of which would have allowed her to apply for the HPI visa and stay in Scotland.\n\nThe student said she had been in touch with the university for several weeks trying to resolve the situation.\n\nShe said: \"The last communication I had I was told the university has been given legal advice not to assist me and apologised for not being able to give me the information I was looking for.\n\n\"If nothing changes in the next few weeks I'm going to be forced to go back to Canada and it's very up in the air.\n\n\"Do I need to sublet the flat? Am I going to lose my flat altogether? My job? I don't know what to tell them. It's very, very disheartening.\"\n\nOther Edinburgh University students have described how they received empty scrolls with a letter of apology at their graduation ceremonies on Tuesday.\n\nA protest was held in Bristo Square outside the university's McEwan Hall, where the ceremony took place.\n\nA protest was held in Bristo Square outside McEwan Hall where the graduation ceremony took place on Tuesday\n\nIzzi Brannen, 22, said it was \"shameful\" for the university to be handing out empty scrolls, adding: \"I'm very angry. It was down to the university to settle this dispute but they didn't so now I have an empty scroll.\n\n\"The fact that I don't have a degree is going to affect my future. It's very uncertain.\n\n\"I've paid £9,250 a year plus maintenance. It's shameful. If you go to university and work hard, which I have, you should get a degree.\"\n\nAnother graduand, Mariangela Alejandro-Cortez, said she had paid about £79,000 to come to Scotland to study at Edinburgh and was severely in debt.\n\nShe added: \"It makes me really angry knowing that I have not only spent a lot of money but I've spent four years of my life working really hard to get this degree and I just don't have one and I don't know if I'll ever get one.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students protest as they graduate without their final marks\n\nA University of Edinburgh spokeswoman said: \"We recognise the significant impact this industrial action is having on our students' lives and future plans.\n\n\"The impact of the boycott varies from student to student and we are supporting individuals on a case by case basis, including arranging individual meetings to advise on alternative visa options where there are delays in providing marks to a visiting student's home institution.\n\nHow have you been affected by the marking boycott? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wallace will be forgiven for his frankness\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s remarks about Ukraine needing to be more grateful should be seen in context. He was not voicing frustration or anger. He was instead suggesting Kyiv needed to be more politically savvy. He was saying Ukrainian officials should understand more about the internal politics of their allies, particularly the United States. They should not be surprised, he suggested, there were a few “grumbles” on Capitol Hill if they turned up in Washington with a shopping list of weapons, as if the US government were like a branch of Amazon. They should understand, Wallace said, they were asking some countries to give up the bulk of their ammunition stocks. So Wallace’s remarks were like a parent telling a child to remember to write a thank-you letter to a relative so they get a present next year too. It might not have been very diplomatic for him to say this in the middle of a summit designed to emphasise Nato unity. But Wallace is known for his outspoken support for Ukraine and his efforts to send Western military arms and ammunition to the country - so he will probably be forgiven for his frankness, which will come as no surprise to Britain’s allies.", "Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are both nominated for their performances in The Last of Us\n\nSuccession, The Last of Us and The White Lotus lead the nominations for this year's Emmy TV awards.\n\nSarah Snook, Bella Ramsey, Jenna Ortega and Jennifer Coolidge are among the stars up for acting prizes.\n\nTed Lasso, The Bear, Abbott Elementary and Wednesday are among the contenders in the comedy categories.\n\nBut there is significant doubt over whether the ceremony will go ahead as planned on 18 September due to ongoing strike action in Hollywood.\n\nTrade publication Variety has reported that the Television Academy and the ceremony's broadcast network Fox are debating whether to push the ceremony back to November or even January.\n\nThe industry is waiting to see whether the actors' union goes on strike this week, following in the footsteps of the Writers' Guild of America, which would effectively bring all major Hollywood events to a halt.\n\nSuccession stars Sarah Snook, Alan Ruck, Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin are all nominated for acting prizes\n\nBritish nominees in the acting categories include Daniel Radcliffe, Hannah Waddingham, Taron Egerton, Brian Cox, Matthew MacFadyen and Juno Temple.\n\nSir Elton John is nominated for best live variety special for Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium.\n\nIf he wins, he would finally achieve EGOT status, having already won Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.\n\nTwo of the most expensive dramas of the last year, Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, fared slightly less well.\n\nThey scored eight and six nominations respectively, and The Rings of Power was nominated only in technical categories such as visual effects, sound editing, costume and make-up.\n\nThe White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge has already won a SAG Award (pictured) and Golden Globe this year\n\nAustralian actress Elizabeth Debicki is nominated for her portrayal of Princess Diana in The Crown, which is also up for best drama series.\n\nThe fifth season sparked a debate about whether Netflix should state more explicitly to viewers that conversations depicted in the series are imagined, and it therefore is not a historically accurate representation of the royal family.", "A man accused of killing a retired teacher after a row about Welsh independence admitted to police that he pushed him, a court has heard.\n\nPeter Ormerod, 75, died after getting into a row with Hywel Williams, 40, outside a pub in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, on 24 September 2022.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard the men were arguing about Wales' place in the UK.\n\nMr Williams, from Grangetown, Cardiff, denies manslaughter, saying he acted in self defence.\n\nThe jury heard a 999 call he made to Dyfed-Powys Police about 40 seconds after the incident.\n\nDuring the call Mr Williams told the call handler \"I pushed him\" after the former maths teacher swore at him.\n\n\"I don't believe this is happening,\" he said on the call.\n\nThe court also heard that Mr Ormerod was bleeding heavily from his ear and had a weak pulse.\n\nOn CCTV footage shown in court, Mr Williams could be seen pushing Mr Ormerod, who hit his head on the ground and stopped moving.\n\nMr Williams' mother, Marilyn Williams, who was standing next to her son, could be heard screaming: \"Oh Hywel, Hywel.\"\n\nHe replied: \"Whatever, mam. He can't come at me like that,\" followed by expletives about Mr Ormerod.\n\nThe CCTV footage also showed Mr Williams getting a defibrillator opposite Burry Port railway station.\n\nMr Ormerod died in hospital four days later, having suffered traumatic head and brain injuries.\n\nThe court heard he previously taught at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys in Carmarthen, and at the Welsh language school Ysgol Bro Myrddin.\n\nMalcolm Parker, landlord of the Portobello Inn pub was one of the first to arrive at the scene and gave evidence on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHe said Mr Ormerod was visibly unhappy leaving the pub on 24 September last year, slamming a gate behind him.\n\n\"He looked like he had a bee in his bonnet,\" Mr Parker told the court.\n\nHe said during the altercation Mr Ormerod \"moved into the other man's personal space\" causing Mr Williams to push him.\n\nMr Parker described the push as \"a panic push\", and said he could hear Mr Ormerod's head hit the pavement.\n\nMr Williams \"couldn't stop shaking\" and was visibly upset afterwards, he said.", "Helen Ray said: \"Each family has received an unreserved apology from me on behalf of the trust.\"\n\nAn ambulance service has apologised to families following a review into claims it covered up errors by paramedics and withheld evidence from coroners.\n\nThe families of a teenager and a 62-year-old man were not told paramedics' responses were being investigated by North East Ambulance Service (NEAS).\n\nThe deaths, in 2018 and 2019, were raised by a whistleblower last year.\n\nNEAS chief executive Helen Ray said she was sorry \"for any distress caused to the families\" by past mistakes.\n\nAmong the findings of the independent review carried out by Dame Marianne Griffiths, were inaccuracies in information provided to the coroner, employees who were \"fearful of speaking up\" and \"poor behaviour by senior staff\".\n\nThe study, commissioned by the former health secretary Sajid Javid in August, examined four of the five cases that were highlighted by the whistleblower, initially in The Sunday Times.\n\nIt found two bereaved families were left in the dark about investigations into the response of paramedics called to help their loved ones.\n\nQuinn Milburn-Beadle was declared dead by paramedic Gavin Wood, who did not follow guidelines\n\nThe family of 17-year-old Quinn Milburn-Beadle, from Shildon, County Durham, only found out what happened when a family liaison officer visited a few days before her inquest in April 2019.\n\nThe review said a rapid response paramedic - who has since been struck off - \"did not adhere to national and local guidelines\" in stopping CPR and declaring her dead.\n\nIt found that \"however small the probability of recovering was\" the teenager \"deserved that chance and so did her family\". A narrative verdict was recorded by the coroner almost two years after her death.\n\nIn the case of 62-year-old Peter Coates from Dormanstown near Redcar, he had called 999 in March 2019 when a power cut meant his home oxygen supply stopped working. The review discovered crews arrived 36 minutes after his call.\n\nIt found one team had stopped to refuel the ambulance en route and another was unable to make the three-minute journey because a power cut had prevented the gates at the ambulance station from opening.\n\nMr Coates' family, who eventually learned what happened via the whistleblower, believe if the crews had reached him sooner \"he might still be alive\".\n\nPeter Coates died before an ambulance arrived at his home\n\nAnother call highlighted in the report was in November 2019 when a 62-year-old man had fallen on to a wooden laundry basket.\n\nDespite his niece telling 999 operators she feared he had suffered a punctured lung and was struggling to breathe, it took more than an hour for an ambulance to arrive. In that time the man was in cardiac arrest and died.\n\nThe review found there was a \"trend\" for NEAS to provide coroners with \"confusing or conflated\" information rather than the original material and there was \"no independent communications with families\" which would have \"lessened the trauma\".\n\nIt also found opportunities for learning were missed, with established processes not being followed by NEAS.\n\nIt noted \"leadership dysfunction\" and \"antagonism\" between leadership teams. Staff were \"fearful of speaking up\" and those who did raise concerns were left \"anxious, frustrated and stressed\", it said.\n\nIncluded among the recommendations were:\n\nThe review also stated that NEAS - the second smallest ambulance trust in the country - required additional funding.\n\nThe review into North East Ambulance Service was announced by the government last August\n\nDame Marianne Griffiths paid tribute to the families for sharing their testimonies.\n\n\"It is clear that they are not only devastated by the loss of their loved ones but also by the ambulance service's response to the legitimate questions about their care,\" she said.\n\n\"The families' primary motivation remains to spare others this pain.\"\n\nShe added the NEAS \"co-operated fully\" with the investigation and the current executive team was \"committed to making the recommended changes\".\n\nNEAS chief executive Helen Ray said she had written to the families involved to apologise and invited them to meet in person, adding that the 15 recommendations were being \"actioned at pace\".\n\n\"There were flaws in our processes and these have now either been addressed or are being resolved. We are grateful the report recognises that we have a new leadership team committed to addressing the issues,\" Ms Ray said.\n\nShe added governance, systems and processes relating to investigations and coronial reports had been \"strengthened\" and resources had been increased allowing issues of concern to be \"easier to be flagged\".\n\nEarlier this month, health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) identified improvements to NEAS services were needed during a fresh inspection of emergency and urgent care services.\n\nHowever, the CQC said NEAS had made \"some improvement\" and moved its rating from \"inadequate\" to \"requires improvement\".\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Thomas Cashman was sentenced to a minimum of 42 years for murder\n\nThe gunman who shot dead nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool has been refused permission to appeal against his sentence.\n\nThe schoolgirl was caught in the crossfire when gun-wielding Thomas Cashman, 34, chased a fellow drug dealer into her home August 2022.\n\nHe was jailed for life with a minimum term of 42 years for her murder.\n\nThe Court of Appeal said Cashman's application for leave to appeal against sentence had been refused.\n\nIt was rejected by a judge without a hearing, Court of Appeal staff confirmed.\n\nThis means Cashman is still able to renew his bid for permission to appeal at a full court hearing.\n\nThe Court of Appeal had previously confirmed Cashman's legal team planned to argue his sentence was too harsh and he should serve less time before parole.\n\nAn separate application to refer Cashman's sentence to the court under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme has previously been thrown out.\n\nThe bullet that killed Olivia was fired through the front door of her home\n\nHis trial heard how Cashman \"lay in wait\" with two guns to attack Joseph Nee, 36, on the evening of 22 August in Dovecot, Liverpool.\n\nFleeing the gunfire, Nee ran towards the open door of Olivia's home after her mother Cheryl Korbel went out to see what the noise was.\n\nCashman continued shooting and a bullet went through the door and Ms Korbel's hand, before hitting Olivia in the chest.\n\nHe was branded a \"coward\" for his refusal to come into court for the hearing.\n\nIt has prompted calls for a change in the law to force criminals to attend their sentence hearing or face extra years in jail.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nike Canada is one of two companies being investigated by the Canadian watchdog\n\nCanada's ethics watchdog has launched investigations into allegations that Nike Canada and a gold mining company benefitted from Uyghur forced labour in their China operations.\n\nThe watchdog's probes stem from complaints filed by a coalition of human rights groups.\n\nNike says they no longer have ties to the companies accused of using Uyghur forced labour.\n\nDynasty Gold says these allegations arose after they left the region.\n\nA United Nations report in 2022 found China had committed \"serious human rights violations\" against Uyghurs, an ethnic Muslim minority population living in the region of Xinjiang, that \"may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity\". Beijing denies the accusations.\n\nThis is the first such investigation announced by the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (Core) since it launched its complaint mechanism in 2021.\n\nThe agency alleges that Nike Canada Corp has supply relationships with several Chinese companies that an Australian think tank identified as using or benefitting from Uyghur forced labour.\n\nIn 2020, the think tank, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), published a report estimating that over 80,000 Uyghurs had been transferred to work in factories across China.\n\nThe report says the company has not taken \"any concrete steps to ensure beyond a reasonable doubt that forced labour is not implicated in their supply chain\".\n\nThe Uyghurs are the largest minority ethnic group in China's north-western province of Xinjiang\n\nNike says they no longer have ties with these companies and provided information on their due diligence practices.\n\nAccording to the report, Nike turned down meetings with the ombudsman, but sent a letter saying \"we are concerned about reports of forced labour in, and connected to, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)\".\n\n\"Nike does not source products from the XUAR and we have confirmed with our contract suppliers that they are not using textiles or spun yarn from the region.\"\n\nThe report on Dynasty Gold suggests it benefitted from the use of Uyghur forced labour at a mine in China in which the gold mining company holds a majority interest.\n\nThe mining company says it does not have operational control over the mine and that these allegations arose after it left the region.\n\nDynasty's chief executive Ivy Chong told the CBC the initial report was \"totally unfounded\".\n\nThe ethics watchdog has a mandate to hold Canadian garment, mining, and oil and gas companies working outside of the country accountable for possible human rights abuses that arise from their overseas operations, including in their supply chains.\n\n\"On their face, the allegations made by the complainants raise serious issues regarding the possible abuse of the internationally recognized right to be free from forced labour,\" Ombudsperson Sheri Meyerhoffer said in a copy of her initial assessment, made public Tuesday.\n\n\"It is our mission to resolve human rights complaints in a fair and unbiased manner in order to help those impacted and to strengthen the responsible business practices of the companies involved.\"\n\nThe watchdog looked into complaints filed by a coalition of 28 civil society organisations in June 2022.\n\nThere were 11 other complaints, besides the ones against Nike and Dynasty Gold, which the watchdog will release reports on soon.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to both companies for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC presenter 'needs to come forward now', says Vine\n\nThe presenter at the centre of claims about his private life could be sacked now that fresh allegations have been made, Jeremy Vine has said.\n\nBut Vine - unconnected to the claims - said even if the presenter was sacked he would still not be named by the BBC and urged him to name himself.\n\nThe BBC and the Sun published new claims following the original allegation that the presenter paid a young person for explicit photos.\n\nThe BBC has suspended the presenter.\n\nAppearing on his programme on Channel Five on Wednesday, Vine, who also hosts a programme on BBC Radio 2, said allegations had reached a \"dangerous point\" for the presenter.\n\n\"Look at the damage to the BBC, look at the damage to his friends,\" Vine said.\n\nHe added: \"The idea that he could just remain anonymous forever, and then walk back into the building with his ID pass? Oh no, that's not going to happen.\"\n\nThe initial allegations, first reported by the Sun on Friday, were that the presenter paid a young person for explicit photos, beginning when they were 17.\n\nThe paper quoted a mother as saying her child, now 20, had used the money paid for explicit photos to fund a crack cocaine habit, and she was worried they could \"wind up dead\".\n\nA lawyer for the young person has since said the accusations were \"rubbish\" but the family are standing by the account.\n\nThe Sun declined a request from BBC News for an interview with a representative, and did not answer a series of questions about the story, including what evidence it had seen for the claims.\n\nThe presenter is not being named because of concerns about defamation and breaching his privacy.\n\nOn Tuesday, the BBC published an investigation in which an individual in their 20s said they said were sent abusive and menacing messages by the presenter.\n\nThe Sun then published another story claiming the presenter broke Covid lockdown rules in February 2021 to meet a 23-year-old he had met on a dating site, and sent what they described as \"quite pressurising\" messages.\n\nIt said it had seen messages suggesting that as well as visiting the 23-year-old's home, he sent money and asked for a photo. He was sent a semi-naked photograph.\n\nThe Sun has also published what it says is an Instagram chat between the presenter and a 17-year-old, where the presenter sent messages including love heart emojis.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify these messages.\n\nVine is one of several high-profile stars at the corporation who say they have been falsely accused of being the presenter at the centre of the claims by people on social media.\n\nHe told viewers the presenter's name not being public could risk the safety of other presenters.\n\nHe spoke of his wife worrying about him going to a Bruce Springsteen concert at the weekend. \"She gave me a baseball cap, and said 'you'd better wear this,\" he said.\n\nVine said on the programme that he knows the presenter concerned but had not spoken to him.\n\n\"I am very worried about his state of mind,\" he said. \"And what this is doing to him. I haven't spoken to him but I gather from somebody who has that he is described as angry and keen to play long.\"\n\nVine said that it was possible that the presenter was in \"some sort of terrible crisis where they've been unable to judge what's right and what's wrong anymore\" - but the longer he remained anonymous, the worse it would be for him.\n\n\"I think this is very very dangerous point for the presenter,\" he said.\n\n\"You could almost say anything about the person... if this [story] isn't closed off.\"\n\nVine cited the case of Carl Beech - a notorious fantasist behind false allegations of a VIP paedophile abuse ring in the heart of government who was subsequently jailed.\n\n\"We will have a Carl Beech figure arrive without a doubt, and you will have some extraordinary, untrue allegation which won't be answered.\"\n\nHe added the recent additional allegations made him think BBC director general Tim Davie \"could sack him\".\n\nSpeaking to a reporter following his show, Vine said: \"I never, ever want to go through this again. We are all waiting. We are all just waiting to play itself out.\"\n\nFollowing a virtual meeting between corporation executives and detectives on Monday the BBC was asked to suspend its internal investigation into the matter.\n\nThe Met Police said it was reviewing the claims \"to establish whether there is evidence of a criminal offence being committed\".\n\nIf the presenter obtained sexually explicit images of a young person when the young person was under 18, that could be investigated as a possible criminal offence.\n\nA police force has confirmed it was contacted by the family in April and that \"no criminality was identified\".\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Taylor Swift is heading to the UK next year on a stadium tour\n\nTickets for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour are the most in demand in the UK right now.\n\nBut for disabled fans trying to grab a place for shows at Wembley Stadium, it's been an even tougher experience.\n\nAccessibility places for the shows there aren't sold by Ticketmaster, with people needing to call the venue directly.\n\nComplaints include being kept on hold for several hours, with some people saying they were unable to get tickets.\n\nWembley Stadium has told BBC Newsbeat that demand for tickets has been \"unprecedented\" and that waiting times were longer than usual.\n\nSaryna Glazebrook says she called over 200 times to get on to the access line.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who has Ehlers Danlos syndrome, describes the experience as \"frustrating\" and feels it shouldn't be so hard for disabled fans to get tickets.\n\n\"I know getting tickets for this show and tour is going to be difficult, but having thousands of disabled people and one phone line just puts about 20 more hurdles in front of us,\" she says.\n\n\"Especially because I've bought accessible tickets online before.\"\n\nEventually, Saryna says she was told by another fan to call Wembley's hospitality line and ask to be transferred - though she says not all fans were put through.\n\nSaryna's condition means she needs a ticket for her companion.\n\n\"I need someone with me at every point, especially when I leave the house,\" she says.\n\n\"Because alongside my physical disabilities, I also have tendencies of blacking out, forgetting where I am and getting overwhelmed very easily.\n\n\"It's really helpful as well being able to sit in a space that doesn't require a lot of stairs or a lot of walking to get there.\"\n\nIndia works as a commissioning coordinator at the BBC but is also a massive Swiftie\n\nFor 27-year-old India, who is the creator of the Swifties with Disabilities Network, it took two days of trying before she was able to get tickets.\n\n\"I need accessibility requirements because I have cerebral palsy, a disability from birth, so I struggle with balance,\" she says.\n\nShe also tried to get tickets through Ticketmaster, but says she wouldn't have been able to sit in the seats they were selling.\n\n\"Without the disabled options I pretty much have no options,\" she says.\n\nTicketmaster are selling accessibility tickets for the shows in Edinburgh and Cardiff.\n\nIndia says she's disappointed disabled fans have had to buy tickets over the phone for Wembley.\n\n\"I just feel really disheartened because I'm lucky enough to have had a connection with Taylor Swift over the years.\n\n\"She's been really generous to me as a person. And I know she'd hate this.\n\n\"She'd be really disheartened that disabled people have basically just been excluded because the phone lines aren't adequate.\"\n\nA Wembley Stadium spokesperson added: \"For those customers unable to wait on the phone we have a call-back system in place which can be accessed via our website.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said Ukraine belongs in Nato\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky may or may not be a Rolling Stones fan - but after this Nato summit, he is probably familiar with their song entitled You Can't Always Get What You Want.\n\nUkraine's president came to Vilnius, Lithuania, with high expectations.\n\nHe was looking for an assurance that his country would join Nato after the war with Russia was over. He wanted membership of the world's most powerful military alliance to be a beacon of hope for his people, the ultimate peace dividend that could ensure that never again would Russian troops despoil the Ukrainian homeland.\n\nInstead, Mr Zelensky was simply told Ukraine would be invited to become a member \"when allies agree and conditions are met\". So far, so noncommittal.\n\nNot surprisingly Ukraine's president hit the roof, saying it was \"absurd\" for Nato leaders not to give even so much as a timetable. The conditions, he said, were \"vague\".\n\nAnd he was furious at the idea that somehow Ukraine's membership of Nato would somehow be a bargaining chip for post-war negotiations with Russia.\n\nBut once President Zelensky met Nato leaders face-to-face, the diplomatic dust settled. They fell over themselves on Wednesday to assure him that things had changed, that Ukraine would join Nato.\n\nUK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the country belonged in the alliance. Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said they met as equals on Wednesday, but would do so as allies in the future. And President Joe Biden - who had done so much to limit what Nato said officially about potential membership - told Mr Zelensky that it was going to happen. Ukraine, he said, was moving in the right direction.\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the summit showed there was now a cultural acceptance that Ukraine belonged in Nato. He said that there were no longer any countries asking \"if\" Ukraine should join, only \"when\".\n\nThat is a lot of warm words for Mr Zelensky to take home to Kyiv in his summit goodie bag.\n\nAdded to that are several other tangible gains: a promise that the process of applying to join Nato will be curtailed, the creation of a new Nato-Ukraine Council which Kyiv can use to summon meetings of the alliance, and, perhaps most significantly, the promise of new, long-term security guarantees made by some of the world's biggest powers.\n\nG7 leaders said they would agree a package of new bilateral assurances of military and economic support for Ukraine, to deter Russian aggression before it joins Nato. That will include more air defences, long-range missiles and even warplanes, as well as more training, intelligence sharing and help with cyber technology. Mr Zelensky called this \"a significant security victory\".\n\nThe one discordant note came from Ben Wallace, who gave a briefing to reporters warning Ukraine it should show more gratitude for the support it has already given.\n\nThis was not a fit of undiplomatic pique, but rather candid advice from a supportive ally. He was saying that Ukraine should do more to understand better the political pressures constraining countries giving them military aid, especially the United States. Turning up in Washington with a shopping list of weapons, treating the US like a branch of Amazon, was, he said, inevitably going to cause a few \"grumbles\".\n\nNot surprisingly this caused a bit of stir in Vilnius.\n\nThe remarks were certainly undiplomatic at a summit designed to demonstrate Nato unity. Rishi Sunak had to disown them publicly, insisting Ukraine had always been grateful. And when Mr Zelensky was asked about the remarks at his own press conference, he looked puzzled and asked his own defence secretary - sitting the stalls - to ring Mr Wallace to find out what he meant.\n\nAll this will prompt some headlines that Nato - and the British government - might regret.\n\nBut perhaps Mr Wallace has unwittingly shone a spotlight on an interesting moment in this war.\n\nFor almost a year-and-a-half, Ukraine's demands have been heard and largely acted upon in western capitals. Kyiv has always been unsatisfied, it has always asked for more, and eventually the west has delivered - from shoulder mounted missiles, to armoured vehicles, to main battle tanks, and now even to cluster munitions.\n\nYet in Vilnius, no meant no. Nato - led by the United States - did not give in to Ukraine's demands and chose strategic caution over an automatic fast-track to membership of the alliance.\n\nSo for President Zelensky, perhaps a diplomatic reality check, that domestic political pressures are beginning to bite in the West and that will shape the global political environment in which he must now operate. A lesson that you can't always get what you want.", "UK wages have risen at a record annual pace fuelling fears that inflation will stay high for longer.\n\nRegular pay grew by 7.3% in the March to May period from a year earlier, official figures showed, equalling the highest growth rate last month.\n\nHowever, despite the record increase, pay rises still lag behind inflation - the rate at which prices go up.\n\nThe pace of wage rises has come under increasing focus by the Bank of England as it tries to control inflation.\n\nThe Bank has raised interest rates 13 times in a row in an attempt to reduce the rate of inflation, but it has remained stubbornly high.\n\nIt currently stands at 8.7%, well above the Bank's target of 2%.\n\nThe concern is that strong wage growth will increase costs faced by companies and force them to push up prices for their goods even higher.\n\nOn Monday, the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said reducing inflation is \"so important\" as people \"should trust that their hard-earned money maintains its value\".\n\nWhile pay is growing at record rates, it is still not increasing fast enough to keep up with rising prices in the shops. Regular pay fell by 0.8% after the effect of inflation was taken into account.\n\nThe latest wage figures were higher than expected and Ashley Webb, UK economist at Capital Economics, said this \"won't ease the Bank of England's inflation fears significantly\".\n\nLast month, the Bank of England raised interest rates by more than expected, lifting its key rate to 5% from 4.5%.\n\nMr Webb said that while he expected the Bank to push rates to 5.25% at its next meeting in August, he added \"we can't rule out\" an increase to 5.5%, saying \"much will depend\" on next week's inflation figure.\n\nDeutsche Bank said that an increase in rates to 5.5% next month \"now looks more likely than not\".\n\nForecasts of more rate rises by the Bank have helped to push mortgage costs to their highest level for 15 years.\n\nIn January, when the UK's inflation rate was above 10%, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to halve it by the end of the year.\n\nMel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, told the BBC's Today programme that while forecasts still suggest that would happen, \"it is not going to be easy\".\n\nThe figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also showed:\n\nThere are indications that what is called \"tightness\" in the labour market - where there are too few workers to fit the jobs available - is starting to ease.\n\nHowever, business groups have continued to stress the difficulty of finding the right workers, despite the slight rise in unemployment and fewer vacancies.\n\nThe government is now offering all workers a \"Midlife MOT\" on their careers to help those in their mid-40s and above to retrain.\n\nThe ONS data showed that pay rises were highest for those in better paid sectors such as finance, and were lower in retail.\n\nThe most up-to-date figures for just the month of May seem to show wage rises beginning to slow. This raises the possibility that pay increases have now peaked, which could lead to a calmer path for inflation.\n\nKitty Ussher, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said that while wage costs remain \"very acute\" for companies there were some \"hopeful signs\" in the latest ONS figures, \"with the number of vacancies falling and more people coming out of inactivity back into the labour market\".\n\nThe Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, said: \"Our jobs market is strong with unemployment low by historical standards. But we still have around one million job vacancies, pushing up inflation even further.\"\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the figures were \"another dismal reflection of the Tories' mismanagement of the economy\".\n\n\"Britain is the only G7 country with a lower employment rate than before the pandemic and real wages have fallen yet again,\" he added.", "\"Sadly, unlicensed breeders often prioritise profit over animal welfare,\" said Caerphilly councillor Philippa Leonard\n\nIllegal breeders have been convicted of keeping dozens of dogs in \"appalling\" conditions in a family home.\n\nJulie Pearce, 57, and her daughters Rosalie Pearce, 33, and Kaylie Adams, 24, received suspended sentences after admitting unlicensed dog breeding.\n\nThe two daughters were also sentenced for failing to protect 54 dogs from pain, suffering, injury and disease.\n\nThe women, of Glyn Terrace, Bargoed, Caerphilly county, are now disqualified from owning animals for 10 years.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard the women had been breeding and selling puppies from their home since 2019.\n\nCaerphilly council and RSPCA inspectors found the animals were kept in a \"filthy environment\", contaminated with faeces and urine, at the family's home.\n\nMost dogs had to be shaved as their coats were so matted with faeces and urine\n\nEvidence showed between March 2020 and March 2022 a total of 27 litters of puppies were born and up to 28 breeding bitches were kept on the premises.\n\nThe council said a conservative estimate for the profit made from selling the dogs was calculated to be in excess of £150,000\n\nDozens of dogs were found in \"appalling\" conditions surrounded by faeces and urine\n\nSara Rosser of dog charity Hope Rescue, which took the dogs in after the council's investigation, said it was \"shocking to see so many dogs living in such awful conditions\".\n\n\"The majority needed to be completely clipped off by our staff at the centre because their coats were so matted in faeces and urine and many were covered in fleas,\" she said.\n\nBunny, pictured with Hope Rescue's Sara Rosser, was one of the dogs rescued\n\n\"We are pleased to say that all of the dogs have now gone on to find wonderful homes where they have become much loved family members and able to live the lives they deserve,\" added Ms Rosser.\n\nCaerphilly councillor Philippa Leonard said: \"Sadly, unlicensed breeders often prioritise profit over animal welfare.\n\n\"Unlicensed dog breeding is a serious matter and it is hoped that the outcome of this case will serve as a strong deterrent to those who operate in this manner.\"\n\nThe three women have been banned from owning, keeping or transporting all animals for 10 years\n\nJulie Pearce received a year's suspended sentence and was ordered to complete 8 days of rehabilitation activity.\n\nKaylie Adams and Rosalie Pearce both received a 66-week suspended sentences and were ordered to complete 100 hours each of unpaid work.\n\nKaylie Adams was also ordered to complete eight days of rehabilitation activity.", "A volcanic eruption has sent lava and smoke pouring out of the side of Mount Fagradalsfjall, near Iceland's capital Reykjavik.\n\nIt comes after intense earthquake activity in the area. Local authorities said on Monday there was no imminent hazard to people in the region.\n\nThe volcano is located in the country's southwest, on the Reykjanes Peninsula, which is known to be a seismic hotspot.\n\nDomestic flights were delayed after the eruption created a plume of smoke over the road connecting the capital to the country's largest airport.", "A giant panda gave birth to twins for the first time in South Korea on Tuesday.\n\nThe babies - both female - were born hours apart, one weighing 180g (6.3oz) and the other 140g (4.9oz). The Everland theme park zoo says mother Ai Bao handled the delivery well.", "Edwards, who joined the BBC in 1984, is one of the UK's most high-profile broadcasters\n\nBBC News presenter Huw Edwards, who has been named as the presenter at the centre of an explicit photo row, is one of the UK's most high-profile broadcasters.\n\nHe has been the BBC's choice to front coverage of major national events, a reflection of how well-regarded he is by the corporation.\n\nTrusted by viewers, he has over decades built a reputation as a reliable and calming presence on screen.\n\nLast Wednesday, on what transpired to be his last day on air for BBC News before the scandal broke, Edwards was broadcasting from Edinburgh as Scotland prepared to greet King Charles.\n\nLess than a week later, the 61-year-old's broadcasting career is under serious pressure, after his wife issued a statement naming him as the BBC presenter facing a series of damaging allegations.\n\nHe joined BBC News as a trainee in 1984 and he eventually secured a job as political reporter for BBC Wales. Just two years later, he became BBC Wales's parliamentary correspondent.\n\nBy the early 1990s he was the BBC's chief political correspondent at Westminster.\n\nHe became a regular face on the BBC News channel, then called BBC News 24, after it launched in 1997.\n\nEdwards became one of the main anchors on the Six O'Clock News in 1999\n\nIn its early days, the channel was plagued by technical difficulties, but Edwards' confident and level-headed performance in challenging circumstances was said to have impressed BBC bosses.\n\nAround the same time, Edwards was working as an occasional cover presenter on BBC One's Six O'Clock News, one of the most-viewed television news bulletins in the UK, becoming one of the programme's main anchors in 1999.\n\nFour years later, he was promoted to the Ten O'Clock News, widely seen as the BBC's flagship bulletin, and was increasingly asked to present and commentate on major national events for the BBC.\n\nThey included the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (as they were known at the time) in 2011, the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh (2021), the Queen's Diamond and Platinum Jubilee (2012 and 2022) and the coronation of King Charles (2023).\n\nHe was also on air when Nelson Mandela died in 2013, and co-hosted the results of the Brexit referendum in 2016.\n\nBut perhaps the biggest single moment in Edwards' long presenting career came last September, when he announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nHe had started his shift early that day following rumours of the Queen's declining health, presenting rolling news coverage from 14:00 before confirming the Monarch's death to the nation that evening while wearing a black tie.\n\nHe went on to front coverage of the late Queen's funeral. He was widely praised by viewers, and the coverage won Edwards and his colleagues a TRIC award, presented last month.\n\nEdwards has presented the flagship News at Ten bulletin for the last 20 years\n\nAs well as major royal events, Edwards had recently become the face of the BBC's general election coverage.\n\nThe Welsh broadcaster was one of the BBC's top earners. In 2017, the first year the BBC was compelled by Parliament to publish the salaries of its star presenters, it was revealed Edwards made £550,000.\n\nFollowing a flurry of negative headlines about the amount of money the BBC spent on top talent, and the disparity between some of its male and female stars, Edwards took a pay cut, and six years later his salary stands at £435,000.\n\nEdwards made a cameo appearance as himself in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, presenting a BBC News report on a fictionalised attack on the British intelligence service MI6.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio Cymru in 2021, Edwards indicated he may not have many years left as the corporation's chief news anchor due to the demands of the role.\n\n\"The nightly news business, after 20 years, that can be taxing, even though I still enjoy the job,\" he said. \"But I don't think I'll be doing that for long… I think it's fair for the viewers to get a change.\"\n\nEdwards was named as the BBC presenter by his wife Vicky Flind on Wednesday\n\nIn the same year, Edwards made a Welsh-language documentary about his career, during which he revealed he had suffered bouts of depression over 20 years, and had been left \"bedridden\" by his struggle with his mental health.\n\nBut after a distinguished career at the BBC, there are now serious questions about Edwards' career.\n\nAfter the Sun published allegations on Friday that an unnamed BBC presenter had paid large sums of money for explicit images of an individual, there were days of speculation about who the presenter might be.\n\nOver the following days, the Sun, and later BBC News, released further allegations, keeping the story in the headlines.\n\nFinally, on Wednesday, his wife Vicky Flind confirmed Edwards' identity on his behalf, saying she was doing so \"primarily out of concern for his mental well-being\" and to protect their five children.\n\n\"Huw is suffering from serious mental health issues,\" she said. \"The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.\"\n\n\"Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published.\"", "As claims and counter-claims surrounding a BBC presenter continue to dominate the headlines, there are still many questions about what happened and how the story has been handled.\n\nOn Friday, the Sun newspaper reported that the unnamed BBC personality had been accused of paying a young person tens of thousands of pounds for explicit images, starting when they were 17.\n\nThere are still few firm facts, however. One area under scrutiny is how the Sun has reported the story.\n\n1. What evidence has the Sun seen that the young person sent explicit photos to the presenter when they were 17?\n\nThe Sun originally reported the presenter gave the teen \"more than £35,000 since they were 17 in return for sordid images\".\n\nIn more recent stories, its language around this detail has subtly changed, with one recent report saying: \"It is understood contact between the two started when the youngster was 17 years old.\"\n\nBut did that initial contact involve explicit photos? The age is a significant element of the story because if such images were exchanged before the teenager was 18, that could be a criminal offence.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Guardian reported that sources at the Sun were \"distancing themselves\" from the original line about the age and were \"claiming the story was not really about potential criminal activity\".\n\n\"Instead, they suggest it was more about concerned parents trying to stop payments to a vulnerable child with a drug habit,\" the Guardian reported.\n\n2. Did the Sun attempt to contact the young person before publication?\n\nThe lawyer for the young person said in a statement: \"Nobody from the Sun newspaper appears to have made any attempt to contact our client prior to the publication of the allegations on Friday 6 July.\"\n\nThe primary sources in the Sun's early stories were the mother and stepfather, who it said had given sworn affidavits.\n\nThe young person tried to contact the Sun themselves on the evening the newspaper published its first story, to tell them that it was \"nonsense\", their lawyer later said.\n\nSome have suggested the newspaper did try to contact the young person prior to publication.\n\nFormer Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"They have been trying to contact the kid for ages, and in the end, suddenly the young person pops up out of the woodwork and says 'This is all untrue', and funnily enough replicates those statements 48 hours later [via] expensive lawyers.\"\n\n3. Once it had the young person's denial, why didn't the Sun add that to the story?\n\nThe young person's lawyer said the individual sent a denial to a Sun reporter by WhatsApp on Friday evening to tell them the statement their mother had made was \"totally wrong and there was no truth in it\".\n\nNonetheless, the lawyer said, the newspaper proceeded to publish \"their inappropriate article\".\n\nThis raises the question of why the Sun didn't include the denial in its story, given that the young person is central to the story and it would be normal journalistic practice to include key information from someone in such a position.\n\n\"If you've got an alleged victim, and that victim has made contact with you and said there's nothing in this story, and you run the story without including that, that's pretty extraordinary,\" former BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman told 5 Live on Tuesday.\n\nBut MacKenzie said the paper's reporters may not have been prepared to give weight to \"a WhatsApp out of nowhere saying 'this is all cobblers'\" at late notice before publication.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the Sun said: \"This has always been a story about concerned parents trying to stop payments to their vulnerable child which was funding a life-risking drug habit.\"\n\n4. Why did the Sun not name the presenter?\n\nThe newspaper has not explained its decision to keep the presenter anonymous in their stories.\n\nIt will have been likely to have weighed up its evidence of wrongdoing, and whether that was strong enough to name the man in the public interest.\n\nThe Sun said the story \"was always squarely in the public interest\", adding: \"That is beyond dispute now as explosive new claims are reported by the BBC itself.\"\n\nIt continued: \"Here was a powerful household name, handsomely salaried via the licence fee, allegedly paying £35,000 to a vulnerable young person with a history of drug use who was sending him sexual pictures. That alleged abuse of power is central to this scandal.\"\n\nBut there are powerful legal reasons why naming the presenter could cause big problems. Legally, everyone has a \"reasonable expectation\" of privacy, and defamation law protects people's reputations from unsubstantiated allegations.\n\n\"We've had five days of headlines from the Sun and each day they have chosen not to name,\" BBC home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani said on Wednesday.\n\n\"I think the reason is... because of this enormous potential risk that if something in this is wrong, there could be a potential defamation case there. But also there could be a separate case alongside it for an invasion of privacy, because there's a real risk that that's where the courts will go.\"\n\nThe Sun has addressed its position in print and in statements, but editor Victoria Newton and the reporters who worked on this story have not done any interviews.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Sun several times with a variety of interview requests and invitations to appear on several programmes. The Sun has so far declined those requests.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Salman Rushdie says he is physically \"more or less OK\" nearly a year after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in New York.\n\nHowever the 76-year-old told the BBC he was still processing the incident, which left him blind in one eye.\n\n\"I have a very good therapist who has a lot of work to do,\" said the novelist. \"I have crazy dreams.\"\n\nSir Salman said he was in \"two minds\" about whether to face his alleged attacker in court.\n\nAnd he remains unsure if he will ever appear at a public event that isn't invitation-only and \"controllable\".\n\nLast August, the Indian-born British-American author was put on a ventilator and spent six weeks in hospital after being stabbed up to 10 times on stage at an event in New York state.\n\nThe injuries resulted in damage to his liver, lost vision in one eye and a paralysed hand caused by nerve damage to his arm. The multiple prize-winning author said \"the human body has an amazing capacity to heal. And so I'm fortunate to be well on that way\".\n\nSir Salman Rushdie before receiving his outstanding achievement award at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards in London earlier this month\n\nThe suspect, Hadi Matar, has been charged with attempted murder. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.\n\nWhen asked if he will attend the trial later this year, Rushdie said it depended on whether Matar changes his plea.\n\n\"A couple of thousand people saw [it happen]. I'm led to believe that [his plea] is just a holding play and that might well change. If I was his lawyer, I would advise him to do so.\n\n\"If he changes his plea to guilty then actually there's not a trial, there's just a sentencing, and it may well be that then my presence isn't required.\n\n\"I'm in two minds about it,\" he continued. \"There's one bit of me that actually wants to go and stand on the court and look at him and there's another bit of me that just can't be bothered.\n\n\"I don't have a very high opinion of him. And I think what is important to me now is that you're able to find life continuing. I'm more engaged with the business of, you know, getting on with it.\"\n\nSir Salman is currently writing a book about the near-fatal stabbing incident as a means of processing what he has been through. He told the BBC it won't be more than a \"couple of hundred of pages\" long.\n\n\"There's this colossal elephant in the room and, until I deal with that, it is difficult to take seriously anything else,\" he added.\n\nIn a pre-recorded virtual appearance at the Hay literary festival in the UK last month, the author told the audience \"it's not the easiest book in the world to write but it's something I need to get past in order to do anything else.\"\n\n\"That's the thing writers can do. They can outlast the thing that opposes them.\"\n\nThe author, who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s after his novel The Satanic Verses was published, currently has residency in both the US and the UK.\n\nHe told the BBC that in America he employs security on certain occasions and that the UK still offers him state protection \"like the good old days\".\n\n\"Writers don't have much power. We don't have armies,\" he told the BBC. \"What we have is the ability to write about the world, if we're any good, that might endure.\"\n\nThe author's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic\n\nSir Salman said the world had changed dramatically since The Satanic Verses was released in 1988, but that the radicalisation of religion remains a threat to society.\n\n\"You've got to distinguish between people's private faith, which is kind of none of our business, really, and the politicisation of any religion... In America right now, you've got a highly weaponised version of Christianity, which was responsible in very large part for the reversal of Roe versus Wade, for the whole abortion debate.\n\n\"I'm not a religious person. I never have been, and came from a family that wasn't particularly religious and we did alright... It's not a thing I need for myself but if there are people who need it, that's their business, not mine, until it becomes politicised.\n\n\"When it becomes politicised, it becomes everybody's business, as all political things do. I think we just have to be clear about that distinction.\n\n\"So the kind of person who goes off and chooses violence, in my view, is not a representative of that religion but a representative of violence and has to be treated in that way.\"Salman Rushdie: The writer who emerged from hiding\n\nThe Satanic Verses' depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and its references to religion were considered blasphemous and banned in multiple Muslim-majority countries, including Iran. The controversial novel also led to violent demonstrations in Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region.\n\nIran's then-leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa - or religious decree - calling for Sir Salman's assassination and placed a $3m (£2.5m) bounty on the author's head. The fatwa remains active via a quasi-official religious foundation.\n\nAs a result, Sir Salman was forced into hiding for nearly a decade and required an armed bodyguard due to the number of death threats he received.\n\nSir Salman Rushdie was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour earlier this year\n\nHe has been largely absent from public life since the attack, with only a handful of media interviews and appearances at awards ceremonies and literary festivals.\n\nHis latest book, Victory City, was finished just before last year's attack and was well-received by critics. It revolves around a young child in medieval India who has a divine encounter that changes the course of history.\n\nSir Salman, who won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his second novel Midnight's Children, recently appeared in person to receive an outstanding achievement award in London for his body of work over the last fifty years.\n\nEarlier this year he also made a rare in-person appearance in New York to receive the Centenary Courage Award from the non-profit organisation PEN America where he served as president from 2004 to 2006.\n\nSir Salman has long been an advocate for the freedom of expression and warned that it is coming under attack in the West.\n\nIn his wide-ranging BBC interview, the novelist also paid tribute to Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, who has died aged 94 in Paris following a long illness.\n\n\"I've been thinking about him,\" Rushdie said. \"[Milan Kundera] talks about laughter as being the way to deal with atrocity.\n\n\"Of course, in his case, the atrocity he's thinking of is communism and so on. But I think it's not bad advice.\"\n\nSir Salman, who has been married five times, named his second-born child after the Czech-born author.\n\nListen to the full interview from Newshour on BBC Sounds", "Claims relating to allegations about an unnamed BBC presenter have been dominating the headlines after the Sun newspaper reported that the presenter was alleged to have paid someone for sexually explicit photos, beginning when they were 17.\n\nOn Monday, that young person's lawyer said nothing inappropriate or unlawful had taken place.\n\nRos Atkins explains what we do and do not know about how the BBC's handling of the complaint and what might happen next.", "The London Taxi Company was bought by Geely in 2013\n\nA new global company being launched by French motor giant Renault and Chinese carmaker Geely says it plans to have its headquarters in the UK.\n\nThe firms will invest up to €7bn ($7.7bn; £6bn) to develop low-emission petrol, diesel and hybrid engines.\n\nIt will employ about 19,000 workers at 17 plants and five research and development hubs on three continents.\n\nThe deal comes even as much of the global motor industry is shifting its focus to developing electric vehicles.\n\nRenault and Geely said in a statement that the new company will use its UK headquarters to \"consolidate operations, build on synergies, and define future plans.\"\n\nThe firms said that the new company's operational centres will be in Madrid, Spain for Renault Group and Hangzhou Bay, China for Geely.\n\nIt will be launched later this year and supply engines to car makers such as Volvo, Nissan and Mitsubishi.\n\n\"We are proud to join forces with a great company like Geely... to disrupt the game and open the way for ultra low-emissions ICE [internal combustion engine] technologies,\" Renault chief executive Luca de Meo said.\n\nGeely Holding Group chairman Eric Li added that it planned \"to become a global leader in hybrid technologies, providing low-emission solutions for automakers around the world.\"\n\nThe firms also said Saudi energy giant Aramco may join the venture and that it was \"evaluating a strategic investment\".\n\nAramco - which is the world's biggest oil and gas company - is a major emitter of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.\n\nEarlier this year, Aramco's president and chief executive Amin Nasser said the company would increase its investments in lower-carbon technologies.\n\nThe Renault-Geely deal comes as demand for electric vehicles continues to grow in countries around the world, including the UK.\n\nHowever, a typical new electric vehicle (EV) is still more expensive than an equivalent petrol or diesel car.\n\nIn recent years, Hangzhou-headquartered Geely has also been investing in making EVs.\n\nIn 2017, the cab maker was renamed the London Electric Vehicle Company, to highlight its focus to switch to EV technology.\n\nIt developed London's first electric black cab, with around 5,000 of the vehicles now on the capital's streets.\n\nUpdate 27 July 2023: This story was amended with further information from Renault about its plans for a UK HQ, sites of operational centres and workforce employment details.", "Republican Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds will sign the bill into law on Friday.\n\nIowa's Republican-led legislature has passed a bill banning most abortions after six weeks.\n\nBoth the state's Senate and House passed the legislation on Tuesday night after Republican Governor Kim Reynolds called for a rare special session to hold a vote on the restrictions.\n\nThe bill is expected to face legal challenges.\n\nIn a statement after it passed, Gov Reynolds said the Iowa legislature had voted to \"protect life\".\n\n\"Justice for the unborn should not be delayed,\" she said.\n\nThe bill blocks most abortions after early signs of cardiac activity can be detected in a foetus or embryo - around six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.\n\nIt includes some exceptions for cases of rape, incest and foetal abnormalities, as well as when the mother's life is in danger.\n\nIt would go into effect as soon as Gov Reynolds signs it on Friday unless it is blocked by a court.\n\nAbortions are currently allowed through to 20 weeks of pregnancy in Iowa.\n\nIowa is set to join a growing group of Midwestern states that have enacted abortion restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade decision, including neighbouring states of Missouri and South Dakota.\n\nLast summer, that US Supreme Court ruling ended the constitutional right to an abortion, paving the way for individual states to ban the procedure or bring in new restrictions.\n\nThe Tuesday vote sparked protests at the Iowa Capitol building in Des Moines. Several demonstrators were escorted out of the building by state troopers after they screamed profanities at Republican lawmakers, according to local outlet Des Moines Register.\n\nThe legislation is nearly identical to a six-week abortion ban that the Iowa legislature passed in 2018, which was blocked by the state's supreme court in June.\n\nThe vote on the abortion bill sparked a heated debate on Tuesday, with Democrats lambasting the bill and Republican lawmakers defending it.\n\nRuth Richardson, president of Planned Parenthood North Central States, said this week the organisation will challenge the new law in court.", "The governor of the Bank of England has said it is \"crucial that we see the job through\" to slow soaring prices in a speech to the world of finance.\n\nAndrew Bailey said reducing inflation to 2% is \"so important\" as people \"should trust that their hard-earned money maintains its value\".\n\nCurrently, inflation, which is the rate prices rise at, is 8.7% - more than four times the Bank's target of 2%.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said government would work to cut inflation.\n\n\"We will do what is necessary for as long as necessary to tackle inflation persistence and bring it back to the 2% target,\" Mr Hunt said at the start of his first Mansion House speech as chancellor.\n\nAbout 400 people from the financial and business industries attended the dinner at the 18th Century building, which is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London.\n\nIt comes at a time when businesses, as well as households, are being hit by higher costs due to inflation remaining stubbornly high in the UK.\n\nMr Hunt suggested companies should show restraint on profit margins, adding \"margin recovery benefits no-one if it feeds inflation\".\n\nThe Bank of England has steadily been increasing interest rates in a bid to combat inflation.\n\nIts base rate - which has a direct effect on borrowing costs for things like mortgages and credit cards, but also influences savings rates - is now 5%, up from close to zero 18 months ago. Some analysts have predicted interest rates will peak at 6.5%, but some have said they may rise to as high as 7%.\n\nThe theory behind raising interest rates is that by making it more expensive for people to borrow money, and more worthwhile for people to save, people will spend less, which will in turn lead to price rises to slow.\n\nMr Bailey said in his speech to executives at the same Mansion House event \"it is crucial that we see the job through, meet our mandate to return inflation to its 2% target, and provide the environment of price stability in which the UK economy can thrive\".\n\nHe added that while the UK economy has failed to grow beyond its pre-pandemic level, there had been \"unexpected resilience\" in the face of external shocks, such as Covid and the war in Ukraine, with low levels of unemployment and avoiding a recession to date.\n\nBut the Bank of England's boss highlighted that \"tightness\" in the labour market, with many businesses struggling to find enough workers, has contributed to price inflation being \"more sticky than previously expected\".\n\n\"Both price and wage increases at current rates are not consistent with the inflation target,\" he added.\n\nThe Bank of England has previously warned big pay rises are contributing to the UK's still-high rates of inflation, but there have also been accusations that some sectors have been profiteering by overcharging customers.\n\nLast week, the Competition and Markets Authority revealed supermarkets had sought to increase profits from selling fuel, increasing their margins by 6p per litre on average between 2019 and 2022.\n\nThe chancellor said \"delivering sound money is our number one focus\", before he delivered his speech focusing on plans for pension fund reforms.\n\nMr Hunt pledged the plans could provide a £1,000-a-year pensions boost to the typical earner who starts saving at 18.\n\nWhile UK pension pots are the largest in Europe, worth £2.5trn, defined contribution schemes currently invest 1% in unlisted equity, limiting returns for savers and funding for businesses, the Treasury has claimed.\n\nThe chancellor revealed an agreement with leading pensions firms to put 5% of their investments into early-stage businesses in the fintech, life sciences, biotech and clean technology sectors by 2030.\n\nThe so-called \"Mansion House Compact\" has been backed by Aviva, Scottish Widows, Legal & General, Aegon, Phoenix, NEST, Mercer, M&G and Smart Pension.\n\nAhead of the event, Mansion House organisers said talks had taken place about security at the venue over concerns of protests. A source told the BBC the event was not disrupted.", "Mabli Cariad Hall was \"beautiful, smiley and happy\", a family friend said in a tribute\n\nAn eight-month-old was in her pram outside a hospital when she was hit and killed by a car, an inquest has heard.\n\nMabli Cariad Hall was struck by a white BMW outside Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire in June, along with a pedestrian.\n\nShe died from a severe traumatic brain injury at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children four days later.\n\nIn a statement, her family said the loss of Mabli had changed their lives forever.\n\nThe inquest at Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire Coroner's Court was told that at 11:50 BST, the police received an emergency call of a crash involving a car and pedestrians.\n\nIt happened in front of the hospital's main entrance.\n\nDuring the inquest opening, coroner Paul Bennet said: \"I extend my sincere condolences to Mabli's parents and also to her grandparents who are here this morning.\"\n\n\"And to say how sorry I am that we have to meet in such difficult and tragic circumstances for you and the family,\" he added.\n\nMabli Hall died after being hit by a car outside Withybush Hospital\n\nMabli, from Neath, was airlifted from the hospital to Cardiff before being transferred to hospital in Bristol.\n\nHer funeral was held a week ago in Tonna, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nThe driver of the BMW suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital, along with their passenger and pedestrian, who was also hit.\n\n\"The pain and grief we are suffering as a family is indescribable,\" Mabli's family said in the statement.\n\n\"During this terribly painful time, we still have no answer to the central question we inevitably ask regarding the tragic loss of our beautiful baby girl.\"\n\nA damaged BMW was removed from Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest\n\nThey added that the opening of the inquest and the Dyfed-Powys Police investigation would hopefully provide the information they needed to explain why the tragedy happened.\n\n\"As a family we also hope that the outcome of this process will help reduce the risk of such a tragedy happening to others in future,\" the family said.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned until 25 January 2024, pending a full investigation.", "Tewkesbury Academy was locked down following the attack on Monday morning but reopened on Tuesday\n\nA teenage boy has been charged after a teacher was stabbed in a corridor at a school.\n\nThe 15-year-old was charged with attempted wounding with intent and possession of bladed article following the attack at Tewkesbury Academy.\n\nMaths teacher Jamie Sansom was wounded just after 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named due to his age, remains in police custody and will appear at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nHe was arrested in Stoke Orchard, some three miles (4.8km) from the school, about two hours after the stabbing.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Mr Sansom, who has taught at Tewkesbury Academy since 2017, said he had not been breaking up a fight between students when he was wounded.\n\nHe said he was \"recovering well\" from his injuries and hoped to be back in the classroom before the summer break if doctors gave him the \"all-clear\".\n\nPolice said he suffered a single stab wound and was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and was discharged later the same day.\n\nJamie Sansom said he had received more than 100 messages of support, which he described as \"a big boost\"\n\nThe academy was locked down and two neighbouring schools were also asked to shut their doors as a precaution following the incident, Gloucestershire Police said on Monday.\n\nIt added there would be a police presence at the school over the coming days to provide reassurance to pupils.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukrainian refugees living on a cruise ship in Leith have been moved into new accommodation.\n\nMore than 1,000 Ukrainian refugees had been housed on the MS Victoria however, the Scottish government’s contract with Forth Ports ended on Tuesday.\n\nA lack of sufficient accommodation meant that not all people on board could stay in Edinburgh.\n\nPeople without a home to move to will be temporarily housed in hotels, supported by the Scottish government.\n\nOne of the residents, Natalia Pidruchna, told BBC Scotland how she was feeling about the move.", "Mr Zelensky holding a Ukrainian flag from the destroyed city of Bakhmut\n\nNato states have said Ukraine can join the military alliance \"when allies agree and conditions are met\" after President Volodymyr Zelensky criticised the \"absurd\" delay to accession.\n\nIn a communique, Nato said it recognised the need to move faster but would not be drawn on a timeframe.\n\nEarlier Mr Zelensky said there seemed to be \"no readiness\" to invite Ukraine to Nato or make it a member.\n\nHe is now in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where the summit is happening.\n\nKyiv accepts it cannot join Nato while it is at war with Russia but wants to join as soon as possible after fighting ends.\n\nBut Mr Zelensky, tweeting before Mr Stoltenberg's comments, said that the lack of an agreed timeframe meant his country's eventual membership could become a bargaining chip.\n\n\"A window of opportunity is being left to bargain Ukraine's membership in Nato in negotiations with Russia. Uncertainty is weakness,\" he said.\n\nNato might not have said when and how Ukraine might join the alliance. But diplomats emphasised that they had set out a clearer path to membership, and the onerous application process had been shortened significantly.\n\nThe alliance had recognised Ukraine's army was increasingly \"interoperable\" and more \"politically integrated\" with Nato forces and it would continue to support reforms to Ukraine's democracy and security sector.\n\nDiplomats also highlighted the creation of a new Nato-Ukraine Council, meeting on Wednesday for the first time, which will give Kyiv the right to summon meetings of the whole alliance.\n\nBut the decision to give no sense of timescale will be seen as a setback for Ukraine.\n\nEven though such detail was always unlikely, Mr Zelensky's decision to say the absence of a timetable was \"absurd\" only emphasised his diplomatic failure.\n\nSome member states fear near-automatic membership for Ukraine could give Russia an incentive to both escalate and prolong the war.\n\nThe focus now will move to what long-term security guarantees Nato members will promise Ukraine as an alternative to early membership.\n\nIn the past, Western security pledges failed to deter two Russian invasions. Nato allies hope a third round will be robust and explicit enough to persuade the Kremlin that further aggression would be too costly.\n\nAddressing crowds in Vilnius later, Mr Zelensky said: \"Nato will give Ukraine security. Ukraine will make the alliance stronger.\"\n\nMr Zelensky also presented a battle flag from the destroyed city of Bakhmut - the site of the longest, and possibly bloodiest, battle in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe Vilnius summit comes a day after Turkey dropped its opposition to Sweden joining the military alliance.\n\nTurkey had previously spent months blocking Sweden's application, accusing it of hosting Kurdish militants. The country will now become the alliance's 32nd member after Finland - which borders Russia, joined in April.\n\nBoth countries announced their intention to join Nato after Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nA series of military packages for Ukraine were also announced at the summit on Tuesday.\n\nA coalition of 11 nations will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made F-16 fighter jets at a centre to be set up in Romania in August, officials said.\n\nIn May the US gave the go-ahead for its Western allies to supply Ukraine with advanced jets, including the long sought F-16s - a significant upgrade on the Soviet-era planes it is currently using.\n\nUkraine had repeatedly lobbied its Western allies to provide jets to help with its recently-begun counter-offensive aiming to retake territory seized by Russia.\n\nHowever experts say the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly and operate Western jets will take some time.\n\nMeanwhile Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying that Moscow would be forced to use \"similar\" weapons if the US supplied controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine.\n\nThe weapons release bomblets over a wide area and are banned by more than 100 countries over their impact on civilians.\n\nMr Shoigu said Russia had similar cluster weapons but had so far refrained from using them.\n\nRights groups say Russia and Ukraine have already used cluster munitions during the 17 months of war since Russia invaded last February.", "Smoke was pictured billowing over hills on the Spanish island on Saturday\n\nThousands of residents of La Palma in the Canary Islands have been urged to leave their homes as emergency workers try to bring a wildfire under control.\n\nThe blaze began early on Saturday and has already consumed 4,500 hectares (11,100 acres) of land and at least a dozen homes.\n\nAround 400 troops from various agencies are on the ground tackling the blaze.\n\nOfficials said some 4,255 people had been evacuated but that others were declining to leave.\n\nIt comes less than two years after a volcano erupted on the island, destroying thousands of homes.\n\nFernando Clavijo, president of the Canary Islands regional government, said there was \"resistance to abandoning the houses\" but that the priority had to be saving lives.\n\n\"People come first, then the houses, and then [extinguishing the fire],\" he said.\n\nThe blaze began in the area of El Pinar in the north-western municipality of Puntagorda, before spreading south towards the town of Tijarafe.\n\nMr Clavijo attributed its quick spread to \"the wind, the climate conditions as well as the heatwave that we are living through\".\n\nLate on Saturday, he said its progress had slowed but that it remained out of control.\n\nA seaplane was used to tackle the fire before nightfall. A second will join the operation on Sunday, local media have reported.\n\nThe Spanish army has deployed 150 of its firefighters and a further unit is expected to follow. The Red Cross has also set up a facility to assist evacuees.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Spanish president Pedro Sánchez said he had spoken to Mr Clavijo to convey his \"solidarity with the people affected\" by the fire and put \"all the necessary means\" at the disposal of La Palma's authorities.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC World Service, resident Leon Barreto expressed a reluctance to evacuate.\n\n\"The civil guard comes here and wants to force you to leave your home,\" he said.\n\n\"They want to force you to lose everything you have worked for all your life, and to leave and let it burn because it's protocol. But then they don`t have the protocol to act the way they should act.\"\n\nThe fire comes amid a heatwave that has brought soaring temperatures to much of southern Europe and which is expected to continue into the coming week.\n\nPeriods of intense heat occur within natural weather patterns, but globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global warming.", "Twitter has lost almost half of its advertising revenue since it was bought by Elon Musk for $44bn (£33.6bn) last October, its owner has revealed.\n\nHe said the company had not seen the increase in sales that had been expected in June, but added that July was a \"bit more promising\".\n\nMr Musk sacked about half of Twitter's 7,500 staff when he took over in 2022 in an effort to cut costs.\n\nRival app Threads now has 150 million users, according to some estimates.\n\nIts in-built connection to Instagram automatically gives the Meta-designed platform access to a potential two billion users.\n\nMeanwhile, Twitter is struggling under a heavy debt load. Cash flow remains negative, Mr Musk said at the weekend, although the billionaire did not put a time frame on the 50% drop in ad revenue.\n\nIn a tweet he said: \"Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else.\"\n\nLucy Coutts, investment director at JM Finn, told the BBC's Today programme she thought Mr Musk would be able to turn Twitter around \"but it is just going to take longer\".\n\n\"But unfortunately he has got $13bn of debt to pay by the end of July so we may see more pressure on the shares in Tesla if he has to sell more of his stake in that company.\"\n\nMr Musk is also the chief executive and majority shareholder of electric car-maker Tesla, which will report its latest quarterly financial results on Wednesday.\n\nAfter laying off thousands of employees and cutting cloud service bills, Mr Musk said Twitter was on track to post $3bn (£2.29bn) in revenue in 2023, down from $5.1bn in 2021.\n\nThe development is the latest sign the aggressive cost-cutting measures have not been enough to ignite a return of advertisers who fled after changes to its content moderation rules.\n\nThat is despite an interview Mr Musk gave to the BBC in April, in which he suggested that most had returned to the site.\n\nHowever, Meghana Dhar, the former head of partnerships at Snap and Meta, which owns the new Twitter rival Threads, said the company had been struggling prior to Mr Musk's buyout.\n\n\"Elon and Twitter are in a candidly tough position right now,\" she told the BBC's Today programme. \"To be fair to Elon though, we've seen that decline in Twitter revenue and growth in revenue since pre-Elon - there's been kind of a steady decline.\"\n\nLinda Yaccarino, previously head of advertising at NBCUniversal, was taken on as chief executive of Twitter in June - a move suggesting advertising sales are still a priority for the company.\n\nMs Yaccarino has said Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships. It is said to be in early talks with political and entertainment figures, payments services, and news and media publishers.", "As well as rising numbers of post-Covid illnesses, those suffering from mental health and back issues account for many on long-term sick\n\n\"Written off\" and \"ashamed\" - this is how one woman described the experience of being on long-term sick leave.\n\nEmma - not her real name - from north Wales, said she wanted to return to work but had lost her self-esteem and confidence.\n\nIt comes as official data shows those not working due to long-term sickness remain at record levels in the UK.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was working to help people with ill health back into employment.\n\nEmma has been away from her healthcare role since contracting Covid and said she felt ashamed about not being able to return to her job.\n\nShe said: \"I feel written off. I feel a lot of it was blamed on mental health.\"I was told that I should be mindful and getting out in the fresh air, which felt very patronising.\"\n\nEmma said she believed that if her employer were to make some changes, she would be able to return to her role.\n\n\"I was told I'd need to complete a high number of hours on my first week of return - not all illnesses can accommodate strict policy,\" she said.\n\nNicola Allen has recently returned to work with a friend's company\n\nNicola Allen from Whitchurch, Cardiff, started experiencing health issues during pregnancy and was later diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.\n\n\"I always had the plan that I would return to work when my son was in school full-time, but that didn't happen,\" she said.\n\nNicola had worked in London for many years as an assistant buyer for a popular high street clothes shop.\n\nAfter about eight years out of work, Nicola was recently offered a part-time employment opportunity through a friend's company.\n\nShe said: \"My previous career was demanding so I was nervous, but they were clear they wanted me, as me - and they understood my conditions.\n\n\"I even told them I was frightened, because I didn't want to let them down, or myself down.\"\n\nThe support Nicola is given means she can manage her health as and when she needs to.\n\nShe said she felt more confident as a result.\n\n\"Long-term sick doesn't mean we don't want to work, we do - we're just unfortunately not being given the opportunities that work with our illnesses,\" she said.\n\nAbout 2.5 million people in the UK are not working due to health problems, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nIt said an increase in mental health issues and people suffering back pain, possibly due to home working, were the main causes of the rise.\n\nTypically, for every 13 people currently working, one person is long-term sick.\n\n\"Figures had started going up before the pandemic but that trend continued into the pandemic and accelerated in 2021 to reach a record high,\" said David Freeman, head of labour markets and household at the Office of National Statistics.\n\nHe said there had been a change in types of illnesses - including post-viral fatigue \"which could be linked to long-Covid\". He also described rising cases of people affected by back and mental health issues.\n\nHead of Wales at Federation of Small Businesses, Ben Cottam, said: \"Illness costs businesses financially across the UK £5 billion a year, so there is a definite economic impact, which is why we'd like to see government-targeted intervention.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Welsh government said: \"We are working to help people suffering with ill-health back into work. Our plan for employability and skills prioritises people most in need of help.\n\n\"This includes supporting people to stay in work and those further away from the labour market to find employment.\n\n\"Furthermore, in February 2023, we announced the Out of Work Service to support 10,500 people recovering from mental ill-health and/ or substance misuse into education, training or work by March 2025.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said: \"We know for many people there are significant benefits to being in work, including for their wellbeing. We're investing £3.5 billion to help millions, including those with long-term illness, to start, stay and succeed in work.\n\n\"Our plan is working - inactivity in Wales has fallen since last quarter - but for those who can't return to work yet, employers can choose to pay more occupational sick pay for longer, while Universal Credit provides a strong financial safety net for those needing extra support.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLionel Messi's biggest beef - when it all kicked off against the Netherlands Argentina forward Lionel Messi has signed for American side Inter Miami on a deal that runs until the end of 2025. The seven-time Ballon d'Or winner, 36, left French champions Paris St-Germain at the end of the 2022-23 season. \"I'm very excited to start this next step in my career with Inter Miami and in the United States,\" said Messi, who led his country as they won the World Cup in Qatar last year. Inter Miami co-owner David Beckham said the signing was a \"dream come true\". Messi, who has not previously played for a club side outside Europe, added: \"This is a fantastic opportunity and together we will continue to build this beautiful project. \"The idea is to work together to achieve the objectives we set and I'm very eager to start helping here in my new home.\" On securing the services of a player expected to win another Ballon d'Or this year, Beckham said: \"Ten years ago, when I started my journey to build a new team in Miami, I said that I dreamed of bringing the greatest players in the world to this amazing city. \"[I wanted] players who shared the ambition I had when I joined LA Galaxy, to help grow football in the USA and to build a legacy for the next generation in this sport that we love so much. \"Today that dream came true. I couldn't be prouder that a player of Leo's calibre is joining our club, but I am also delighted to welcome a good friend, an amazing person and his beautiful family to join our Inter Miami community. \"The next phase of our adventure starts here, and I can't wait to see Leo take to the pitch.\" Messi will be available to play for Miami against LIGA MX side Cruz Azul on 21 July in their opening match of Leagues Cup. He will play alongside former Barcelona team-mate Sergio Busquets, who has also signed for Inter Miami until 2025. \"We are overjoyed that the greatest player in the world chose Inter Miami and Major League Soccer, and his decision is a testament to the momentum and energy behind our league and our sport in North America,\" said MLS commissioner Don Garber. \"We have no doubt that Lionel will show the world that MLS can be a league of choice for the best players in the game. We look forward to seeing his debut for Inter Miami in our Leagues Cup tournament later this month.\" Messi won the last of his seven Ballon d'Or awards for the world's best player in 2021, and could win it again this year after leading Argentina to World Cup success in Qatar in 2022. He scored 32 goals in 75 games for PSG and ended last season with 16 goals and 16 assists in Ligue 1. Messi joined the French side in 2021 after spending 21 years with Barcelona. Messi is Barcelona's record scorer with 672 goals and won 10 La Liga titles, four Champions Leagues and seven Spanish Cups. Meanwhile, Busquets joins Inter Miami after spending his whole career at Barca. The 35-year-old won nine La Liga titles, three Champions League trophies and seven Copa del Rey finals. He also helped Spain win the World Cup in 2010.\n• None Can you trust your best mate to be your best man? Find out in Jason Manford and Steve Edge’s new podcast\n• None Can certain foods make you hungrier? Professor Tim Spector takes Michael Mosley through his top food and nutrition tips", "London-born Birkin became world famous alongside her partner, the French musician Serge Gainsbourg\n\nThe singer, actress and fashion icon Jane Birkin has died at the age of 76.\n\nThe English-French star was known for her personal and artistic relationship with songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, recording the iconic track \"Je T'aime...moi non plus\" with him.\n\nShe also inspired Hermès' Birkin handbag, which is popular around the world.\n\nBirkin was born in London but found fame singing in French, relocating there in the 1970s.\n\nHer relationship with Gainsbourg made her internationally famous following their hit song \"Je t'aime... moi non plus\", which he originally wrote for former girlfriend Brigitte Bardot.\n\nThe duet was recorded in 1968, months after they met on the set of the film Slogan.\n\nIt was banned on radio in several countries and condemned by the Vatican because of its overtly sexual lyrics but introduced the pair to a new international audience.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron described Birkin as a \"French icon\" and a \"complete artist\" who \"bequeaths us tunes and images that will never leave us\".\n\nBirkin and Gainsbourg were together for 12 years but remained friends after their split, with Gainsbourg - who was 18 years older than Birkin - still writing songs for her years later.\n\nThe couple had a daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, who is an award-winning actress and singer.\n\nTheir relationship has been frequently described as \"tumultuous\", and Birkin wrote about violence between the two in her 2020 diaries, as well as the challenges of Gainsbourg's alcoholism.\n\nBut she frequently defended the man she became so closely associated with - including against charges by one singer that he was a \"harasser\" in an interview in the Times in 2020 - and continued to promote his work long after his death in 1991.\n\nAsked by the same newspaper about their lifestyle last year, she said: \"I don't know how easy it was for the children to have a mother who was naked in magazines and a father burning 500 franc notes. I hope one did some things right.\"\n\nShe starred in around 70 films in an acting career spanning six decades\n\nThe pair split in 1981 and Birkin continued her acting and singing career, releasing albums including Baby Alone in Babylone in 1983 and Amour des Feintes in 1990.\n\nShe was also a model and came to be widely seen as a fashion trendsetter, inspiring the Birkin handbag, a style put into production by luxury French brand Hermès in 1984.\n\nIn a chance encounter on an Air France flight, Birkin happened to be sitting next to Jean-Louis Dumas, the then-CEO of Hermès, when she spilled the contents of her bag.\n\nWhile bemoaning the lack of large bags on the market, especially for mothers, Dumas \"immediately sketched a supple and spacious rectangular holdall with a burnished flap and saddle stitching\", according to the Hermès website.\n\nAnd thus, the Birkin was born. One of the most exclusive bags, some styles cost many tens of thousands of dollars and have waiting lists of months, if not years.\n\nThe style became a fashion hit and has spawned several imitations - but in 2006, Birkin told the Guardian: \"I love it, but I lug so much stuff around in it that I believe it is part of the reason I have tendonitis.\"\n\nBirkin campaigned for numerous causes throughout her life - including asking Hermès to drop her name from its product in 2015 over animal welfare concerns.\n\nPrior to moving to France and meeting Gainsbourg, Birkin was married to the British composer John Barry until the late 1960s.\n\nThe Birkin bag was designed to her personal preferences\n\nTheir daughter, Kate Barry, was a fashion photographer who worked for Vogue and died in 2013 at the age of 46.\n\nBirkin has a third daughter - the musician, model and actress Lou Doillon - from her 1980s relationship with French film director Jacques Doillon.\n\nBirkin's acting credits included films such as the 1966 classic Blow Up, Death on the Nile (1978) and Evil Under the Sun (1982).\n\nShe released a self-penned album in 2002 called Arabesque and a collection of live recordings in 2009 under the title Jane at the Palace.\n\nMenna Rawlings, the British ambassador to France, paid tribute to her on Twitter, describing her as \"the most French of British artists\".\n\nShe was treated for leukaemia in the late 1990s and it was reported in September 2021 that she had suffered a stroke, forcing her to cancel a planned appearance at an American film festival.\n\nBirkin continued to perform into her seventies", "\"Osian has continually amazed the doctors and nurses with his resilience,\" say his parents\n\nThe parents of a teenager who received a heart transplant after developing a rare complication of Covid say he has been on a \"courageous journey\".\n\nOsian Jones, 16, had three heart attacks after developing MISC-C (Multisystem Inflammatory syndrome in children associated with Covid).\n\nOsian, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, first became unwell in February and received his transplant on 30 June.\n\nHe remains in intensive care at Middlesex's Harefield Hospital.\n\nOsian was not aware he had Covid when he first became unwell and was taken to A&E.\n\nHe went on to have three heart attacks and was rushed from Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales to the intensive care unit at Bristol Children's Hospital.\n\nOsian's family and friends have been raising money to support the family while he remains in hospital\n\nHis family were told he had MISC-C, a rare inflammatory syndrome associated with the virus that causes Covid-19.\n\nWith scarring on his heart he was put on an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine and began dialysis treatment.\n\nOsian appeared to be recovering at first, but after facing a number of setbacks the decision was made to move him to Harefield Hospital in Middlesex where he received the lifesaving heart transplant.\n\nHis parents have been staying in Middlesex to be close to him in hospital and hope to stay there until he is discharged.\n\n\"Osian has continually amazed the doctors and nurses with his resilience, his positive attitude and most of all the way he has faced every step of this journey with bravery. We are so incredibly proud of him,\" said his parents.\n\n\"We are now focused on his recovery journey, and ultimately getting him home so that he can return to Stanwell sixth form where he will be doing his A levels with his friends.\"\n\nOsian's family and friends have begun raising money to support the family while he remains in hospital.\n\nOsian's school, Stanwell, in Penarth, has put on a non-school uniform day which raised more than £3,300.\n\nOsian's school raised in excess of £3,300 from a non uniform day\n\nA fundraising walk that took place in his hometown on his 16th birthday also raised over £2,000.\n\nHis supporters hope to raise more funds with a 5km (3 mile) walk around Penarth planned for 15 July.\n\nThanking their local community, Osian's parents Alexis and Andy, said: \"Knowing that you are all behind us has given us enormous strength\".\n\nThey said they had been \"completely overwhelmed by the support for all the local events\".\n\n\"Your efforts mean we can continue to focus on providing maximum support for Osian with his courageous journey to getting back home,\" they said.\n\nA GoFundMe page has also been launched and aims to raise £30,000. Once the cost of Osian's parents staying with him during his recovery have been met, any additional funds raised will go to the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity.\n\nAlso sometimes called Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS), the rare complication of coronavirus occurs mainly in children of school-age, but occasionally in infants or young adults.\n\nAccording to NHS Inform, children with the condition generally develop mild to no symptoms at the time of their coronavirus infection, and usually start to develop MISC-C symptoms about four to six weeks later. Children with MISC-C have a temperature over 38°C (100F) that lasts for at least three to four days.\n\nOther common symptoms include a red rash (spots or blotches) which may be there all the time or come and go, red eyes (conjunctivitis) which are not sticky or itchy, abdominal pain which might be severe, vomiting and/or diarrhoea, sore throat, cough, breathlessness, swollen glands, sore red mouth, swollen hands and feet, headache, dizziness, sleepiness or confusion.\n\nThere are no specific tests for MISC-C. Doctors diagnose by looking at levels of inflammation in the body through blood tests, and at how well parts of the body are working, alongside common symptoms.", "Several Nato members, including the US, are thought to be lobbying for current chief Jens Stoltenberg to stay on\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace has said he is out of the race to become the next Nato chief.\n\nAsked about leading the alliance from the end of September, when Jens Stoltenberg's term ends, he told The Economist: \"It's not going to happen.\"\n\nSeveral Nato members, including the US, are thought to have been lobbying Mr Stoltenberg to stay on.\n\nBut on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said his country was not \"promoting any particular candidate\".\n\nNato - the West's defensive military alliance - has 31 members who agree to help one another if they come under attack.\n\nSpeaking to German media about the top job last month, Mr Wallace said: \"I've always said it would be a good job. That's a job I'd like. But I'm also loving the job I do now.\"\n\nDespite his obvious enthusiasm to succeed Mr Stoltenberg as the next head of Nato, he appears to have failed to get the backing of key allies.\n\nUS President Joe Biden described Mr Wallace as \"very qualified\" for the job when he met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Washington recently.\n\nBut in private, the US is believed to be one of the nations trying to persuade Mr Stoltenberg to stay - at least for another year. This was echoed by Mr Wallace in comments to The Economist.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has re-focused diplomatic attention on Nato's role in the 21st Century and whether it can deter Russian aggression.\n\nMr Wallace proved popular with a number of countries on the alliance's eastern flank because of his leadership in supplying weapons to Ukraine.\n\nBut others have argued for continuity in a time of war, or that the job should be reserved for a former head of government.\n\nMr Stoltenberg, who has been the alliance's top boss for nine years, has neither confirmed or denied his intentions to continue in the job.\n\nHe told reporters last week: \"I am responsible for all decisions that this alliance has to take except for one. And that is about my future. That is for the 31 allies to decide.\"\n\nAnother contender for the role is Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who - if elected - would be the first female Nato chief.\n\nIn his interview with The Economist, Mr Wallace said whoever takes on the role would need to deal with \"a lot of unresolved issues in Nato,\" including differing demands from US and French leadership.\n\nFrance believes Nato's secretary general should come from within the European Union.\n\nWith less than a month to go until the Nato summit in Lithuania, it looks increasingly likely that Mr Stoltenberg will be asked to extend his tenure again.\n\nNato was formed in 1949 by 12 countries and its original goal was to challenge Soviet expansion in Europe after World War Two.\n\nMore recently, Russia has used the expansion of Nato as a pretext for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv is not a member, but has received support from alliance members.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was disappointed his country had not been invited to join Nato at next month's summit in Vilnius, adding that Ukraine would be the strongest member of Nato's eastern flank.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Preparation sessions for Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday are a crucial couple of hours in the Westminster timetable.\n\nThe prime minister and the leader of the opposition sit down with their key advisers to try out attack lines and taunts, master the facts and, crucially, come up with some jokes.\n\nYes, politics is a profoundly serious business, but humour can be a deadly verbal weapon, and create a moment that will leap into the headlines.\n\nAnd for opposition leaders, that chance to grab the country's attention is what PMQs is all about.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, publicly, is not exactly known for cracking gags.\n\nHis early performances at PMQs were not full of levity, one columnist joked back then that even a smile was a collector's item.\n\nBut now, more than three years into the job, after many months ahead in the polls, one of Sir Keir's confidants tells me he is coming up with more of his own jokes.\n\n\"He wouldn't accept 'I can't do humour'\", they tell me, and now will increasingly suggest wisecracks rather than rely on others' lines.\n\nIt is a small, but revealing change in what insiders describe as his strict political regime, a sign of his growing ease, and \"fiercely competitive\" nature, a refusal ever to accept that he can't do things to get better at the job.\n\nThe Labour leader has good reason to be increasingly confident that he will one day walk through Number 10's shiny black door.\n\nA lot has gone right since he took over back in spring 2020, a political lifetime ago.\n\nA Labour source says his three phase plan - \"fix the party, trash the Tories, then develop an offer\" - has been \"vindicated\", recalling in the early days their many critics said he was \"being too slow\", or \"trying to bounce us early\" into making big decisions.\n\nRemember too, when Sir Keir won the leadership there were warnings that Labour might even cease to exist.\n\nThey had been absolutely hammered in the 2019 election. There had been years of vicious infighting, and agonies over antisemitism.\n\nBy any measure, restoring the party to a credible political organisation is an enormous accomplishment.\n\nWithout question, Sir Keir has been helped by the Conservatives' rolling series of crises - the chaos of Boris Johnson's downfall, the market meltdown of Liz Truss' several dozens of days in office, and now the profound problems in the economy.\n\nThe Starmer smile is on show more often at PMQs\n\nBut even with the much more ordered regime of Rishi Sunak, Labour has managed to stay significantly ahead in the polls, making important advances in local elections, and soon to be tested again in a flurry of by-elections you can read about here.\n\nAs a result of a solid and sustained opinion poll lead, Labour is thinking not just about how to win anymore, but in detail about what they would do if they get there.\n\nSir Keir is the first to warn of complacency, repeatedly telling his team to fight \"like they are five points behind\".\n\nBut there is no question he is mulling over how he would govern.\n\n\"He is thinking, I want to be ready and I want to be a good prime minister,\" says an ally.\n\nAnother source tells me he is already using a red box system, like a prime minister would.\n\n\"Everything goes in by late afternoon with a hard deadline and he spends his evenings poring over papers, ideas, drafts, or submissions\", all dealt with by the morning.\n\nBut it may be more than a year still until he has the chance to swap the bag that holds his papers for a real government red box. And there is still an awful lot that could go wrong.\n\nSensing the opportunity and worrying it could go south is \"scary as hell\", says a shadow minister.\n\nThere is a widespread awareness that Labour's massive lead now is likely to narrow as a general election comes closer.\n\nThe Tories \"aren't dead\", says one shadow minister and their party HQ has one of the most successful campaign fighting records in the Western world.\n\nAnd the first rule of politics is always, learn to count.\n\nLabour's poll lead over the Conservatives is expected to narrow\n\nA whopping national poll lead does not automatically translate into winning many more seats in a general election, as one Labour MP in a tightly-fought constituency worries - \"The biggest danger is that you rack up big majorities and don't seal the deal with enough of the seats\".\n\nSir Keir's team can't change the fact that Labour fell so far behind in 2019 that winning an overall majority isn't just climbing a mountain, more scaling the Himalayas. They also of course, like any political organisation, can't control unforeseen events that can shape how voters make decisions.\n\nNot much however is without risk, even issues that ought to be within Starmer's control.\n\nFirst, one source half jokes what could go wrong is \"The Labour Party\"!\n\nThe danger is \"it loses discipline and focus and makes unforced errors\", they tell me.\n\n\"It's been 20 years since we won a general election\", they add, and the party simply doesn't have the habit.\n\nA shadow minister says \"we have to hold our nerve\" and not make any mistakes, or give into pressure from the left of the party.\n\nThe leadership has been accused of control freakery, trying to suppress the left, expelling party members unfairly.\n\nBut a source says the danger of disputes with the left is \"way down the risk register\", the focus has to be on potential voters.\n\nOne shadow minister believes Sir Keir thinks \"I can't be in government and dependent on these people\".\n\nThe logic goes that battles with the left over who gets to run as a Labour MP now are well worth having to avoid having an awkward squad that could make life difficult in Parliament later. Particularly if Labour has to try to run the country as a minority government or with a tiny majority.\n\nThe Labour leader has his eyes firmly on Number 10\n\nThe leadership's most central strategy is one of the reasons why there are grumbles on the left - and that is risky too.\n\nAs we heard from Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves last week, and Sir Keir is likely to argue in our interview on Sunday morning, Labour has put watching the pennies strictly at the top of its list.\n\nWith the economy in serious trouble, they share some of the ethos of the current government, however uncomfortable that might feel, that now is not the time for huge spending or huge tax cuts.\n\nThat discipline means the party has dropped or watered down some promises that activists loved - the plan for free university tuition in England, delaying big spending proposals for green projects.\n\nNo-one is getting promises from Rachel Reeves' cheque book, as we talked about last week.\n\nIt has had an effect on the leader's reputation.\n\nOne union leader says Starmer has \"had the blame for shifts in policy that have made him look a bit shifty\".\n\nAnd there is concern that all the talk of keeping a lid on spending on what Keir Starmer once described as \"good Labour things\" will lead voters to wonder what Labour really would offer.\n\nAnother senior figure tells me: \"The economy is on its knees - sitting there saying, we are very sensible, who is going to listen to that?\"\n\nThere is also a question of the political argument being made.\n\nKeir Starmer and his team have made the case for many years that the deep roots of many of the country's problems relate to the austerity of the coalition years, when George Osborne kept strict limits on spending.\n\nBut if Labour's plan does not include filling in the holes financially to undo that damage, does that stack up?\n\nOne of his MPs, not from the far left of the party, ponders \"it is pretty hard to criticise this government without acknowledging the damage that austerity has caused, and then not say you would spend more… no-one really believes that he wouldn't spend more\". As Labour approaches its National Policy Forum next week, an important powwow with activists and unions, calls for more ambition, like from the leader of the Unite union, Sharon Graham, may become familiar.\n\nStressing the importance of reforming and improving public services, and getting the economy growing without spending billions extra and certainly not borrowing without good reason.\n\nLabour's top team is stuck like glue to the idea that they have to show they would keep a tight grip on public spending, almost as if they are traumatised by past elections when the Conservatives have run the attack that they would splash the cash.\n\nA senior figure suggests the leadership is \"very nervous about making any wrong moves on the economy\".\n\nBut those at the top believe the messiness of the past few months, particularly the rising cost of mortgages, make discipline even more important.\n\nOne shadow minister says: \"The mortgage stuff hits homeowners in places like Stevenage and Luton, swing voters, who are looking for people who are serious on the economy.\"\n\nBut insiders acknowledge turning discipline into electoral excitement might not be easy. Making promises about abstract reform doesn't necessarily get voters running to the polling booths.\n\nAs Parliament packs up for the summer, there is no question that Sir Keir Starmer has cause to be confident. His party is well ahead, but risk is all around.\n\nThere are traps to avoid, big decisions to take, many thousands of miles of campaigning still to go.\n\nWith less time to play football, the Labour leader now tries to stay in a hotel with a gym, to run on a treadmill.\n\nAfter more than three years in the job, even having clocked up many successes, he knows the journey to the job he craves in Number 10 is still a marathon, not a sprint.", "Sir Keir Starmer has refused to say whether a Labour government would spend more money on public services.\n\nThe Labour leader told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg his party would always invest in public services but to do this it needed to grow the economy.\n\n\"That has to start with responsible economics and it has to be coupled with reform,\" he added.\n\nSome, including Labour's biggest union backer Unite, have called for the party to be more ambitious in its pledges.\n\nHowever, Sir Keir insisted his promise to reform public services was bold.\n\nHe told the BBC he did not just want to offer \"sticking plaster\" solutions.\n\n\"If our horizon and focus is only on the immediate problems, we will never fix the fundamentals,\" he said, adding that the NHS was \"a classic example\".\n\nHe also gave the example of building more homes, which he said could be achieved not by spending taxpayers money but by reforming the planning system and restoring housebuilding targets.\n\nAsked repeatedly if he believed public services needed more money and if a Labour government would offer this, Sir Keir would only say: \"A Labour government will always want to invest in its public services.\"\n\nSir Keir's message to his party was that he would not promise to spend lots of money ahead of the next general election, which is due next year.\n\nFor political reasons, he wants to head off any attacks from the Tories and for economic reasons, he and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves think it would be the wrong thing to do.\n\nThat is a hard message for many in his party to hear, and likely, many members of the public too, who want answers to the problems they face right now.\n\nAs the election approaches, the pressure on Sir Keir to make expensive promises is only going to grow and the party is trying to manage expectations of how much they would actually be able to do if they win power.\n\nEarlier this year Sir Keir said there were \"good Labour things\" the party would not be able to do immediately in government because of the economic backdrop.\n\nNow he has spelt out even more clearly that spending huge extra sums would only happen once the economy improves.\n\nThe Labour leader also refused to say whether his party would offer junior doctors a higher pay offer to end strike action, saying only that a Labour government would \"be around the table negotiating and we would settle this dispute\".\n\nHe added: \"This is the government's problem. They as good as broke our public services, they've created a situation in which wages have been stagnant for many, many years and they need to sort out this mess.\"\n\nPublic sector workers including teachers, police and doctors have been offered pay rises of between 5% and 7%, with junior doctors in England in line for 6%.\n\nFour education unions said the deal would allow them to end their pay disputes and that they would advise members to accept the offer.\n\nHowever, junior doctors in England have asked for a 35% rise to make up for years of below-inflation increases.\n\nTheir latest walkout, which lasts five days, runs until Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: We would negotiate and settle pay dispute\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the pay offer is \"final\" and a \"fair deal\" for workers and taxpayers, adding that the government was supporting the NHS with record funding.\n\nA Liberal Democrat spokesperson said: \"The Conservatives' reckless mismanagement of the economy has driven our public services into the ground.\n\n\"Liberal Democrats would invest in our NHS, schools and local services, to give people a fair deal and get our economy back on the right track.\"\n\nSir Keir also confirmed his party would not change the two-child benefit cap, which generally restricts tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in a family.\n\nHe had previously supported scrapping the cap before he was Labour leader.\n\nHe would not commit to unfreezing housing benefit, saying the party would set out its policy before the election.\n\nMomentum, the left-wing campaign group set up to support Jeremy Corbyn when he was Labour leader, said fixing the \"mess\" left by the Conservatives \"requires real ambition\", \"real investment in our decaying infrastructure\" and \"an end to the scourge of low pay\".\n\nIt described the two-child benefit cap as \"a heinous policy\" and called for it to be scrapped.\n\nMick Lynch, head of the RMT union, which is not affiliated to Labour, said many people could not \"spot the difference\" between Labour and the Conservatives.\n\n\"He's got to show that he's on the side of working people and progressive politics, and I don't think we're seeing that,\" he told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.\n\nSir Keir was also challenged over his commitment to combatting climate change,after the party rowed back on a pledge to invest £28bn a year in green industries if it wins power.\n\nInstead the party says it will ramp up investment over time, reaching £28bn a year after 2027, arguing it needs to be responsible with the public finances.\n\nThe Labour leader insisted he still had \"a massive agenda when it comes to climate change\" and that the party was committed to its aim of generating all electricity without using fossil fuels by 2030.\n\n\"It's the outcome that matters… the funding isn't the sole issue,\" he added.", "Images have emerged purportedly showing Wagner fighters training Belarusian soldiers at a base south-east of Minsk\n\nUkraine's border guard service has confirmed that Wagner mercenaries have now arrived in Belarus from neighbouring Russia.\n\nThe DPSU says it is assessing how many \"militants\" are in Belarus, which also shares a border with Ukraine, as well as their exact location and goals.\n\nOne unconfirmed report said a convoy of some 60 Wagner vehicles rolled over the border into Belarus early on Saturday.\n\nA deal ended the 24-hour rebellion, which saw the troops seize a city and march on Moscow - aborting it just 200km (124 miles) from the capital.\n\nUnder the agreement, Wagner fighters were told they could join either the regular Russian army or go to Belarus, a close ally of Russia. The Wagner leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was also offered a move to Belarus, however his current whereabouts are unknown.\n\nWagner is a Russian private military company made up of mercenary fighters - many of whom were recruited from Russian prisons. They have fought some of the bloodiest battles since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year.\n\nDPSU spokesman Andriy Demchenko confirmed Wagner's presence in Belarus in a short statement on Saturday.\n\nHe said Ukrainian border guards were \"continuing to monitor the situation\" across the country's northern border. He provided no further details.\n\nEarlier in the day, a Telegram channel associated with a prominent Belarusian opposition blogger reported that a large Wagner convoy entered Belarus from Russia.\n\nBelaruski Hajun channel said the vehicles - including pickups, lorries and buses - were being accompanied by Belarusian traffic police as they headed to the town of Osipovichy, about 85km (53 miles) south-east of the capital Minsk.\n\nThe Belarusian authorities - which view Belaruski Hajun as an extremist channel - have not commented on the issue.\n\nOn Friday, Belarus' defence ministry said Wagner troops were now acting as military instructors for the country's territorial defence forces. It said the fighters were training Belarusian forces \"in a number of military disciplines\" near Osipovichy.\n\nEarlier this week, President Putin revealed that Prigozhin had rejected an offer for his fighters to join the Russian army as a regular unit.\n\nHe told Russia's Kommersant newspaper that many group commanders had backed the plan, to be led by a senior Wagner figure, during talks in Moscow on 29 June.\n\nBut he said that Prigozhin's reply was \"the guys [Wagner troops] do not agree with this decision\".\n\nMr Putin also said that under Russian law, Wagner \"does not exist\", because mercenary groups are not officially recognised. But that \"difficult issue\" should be discussed in parliament, the president added.\n\nThe Kremlin appears to want to differentiate between the Wagner chief and regular Wagner fighters, driving a wedge between them, says the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.\n\nHe adds that this would explain the attempts in Russia's state media to discredit Prigozhin.\n\nSince the 23 June mutiny, there have been conflicting and unconfirmed reports of Prigozhin's whereabouts.\n\nHe is a former Putin loyalist and once even nicknamed \"Putin's chef\" for his catering contracts with the Kremlin. But public infighting between Prigozhin and Russia's ministry of defence over the conduct of the war have put him at steep odds with Russia government.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said on Thursday that Prigozhin should be careful of poisoning following the mutiny.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The day Wagner chief went rogue... in 96 seconds\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Police were called to the shooting school on Friday\n\nA man and a woman have been found dead at a North Lincolnshire shooting school, prompting a murder inquiry.\n\nPolice said they were found at the White Lodge Shooting School in College Road, Thornton Curtis, on Friday but added no-one else was being sought in connection with the deaths.\n\nOfficers were called to the property at about 15:40 BST amid safety concerns.\n\nPolice said inquiries were ongoing but said there was no risk to the wider public.\n\nOfficers said they responded to a call about concern for safety\n\n\"A homicide investigation has commenced, and both deaths are being treated as suspicious at this time until we establish the facts,\" he said.\n\nFurther details about the man and woman have not yet been released. The next of kin of both victims have been informed, police say.\n\nThere is no risk to the wider public, said detectives\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Part of the 219-bedroom Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton is Grade II*-listed by English Heritage\n\nA 200-year-old fire-hit hotel in Brighton faces partial demolition \"as soon as possible\", according to a council.\n\nThe fire at the Regency-style Royal Albion Hotel - which overlooks Brighton Pier - broke out on Saturday evening.\n\nBrighton and Hove City Council said parts of the building were \"no longer structurally safe\" and the demolition work would take two to three weeks.\n\nEast Sussex Fire and Rescue Service (ESFRS) said no-one was injured.\n\n\"Difficult conditions\" meant people had to be evacuated from nearby buildings, the service said.\n\nThe Old Steine and Kings Road were shut with people told to stay away due to \"significant smoke\" made worse by wind.\n\nESFRS said on Monday that the A259 - the road outside the hotel - will remain closed for at least the next 72 hours.\n\nBrighton and Hove City Council opened a rest centre to provide support for people evacuated from their homes.\n\nOne resident of Old Steine said the fire started when they were out and when they came back, their flat was full of smoke.\n\nThey had to rush their pet kitten to the vets and put them on oxygen.\n\n\"My home is covered in black soot and smoke damage,\" the resident told the BBC.\n\nOn Monday morning, the fire service said crews were beginning to scale back operations from the blaze, which at its height had 15 fire engines at the scene.\n\nSurrounding buildings were evacuated due to the fire\n\nGeorge O'Reilly, of ESFRS, said the structure was \"unsound\".\n\n\"I'm not going to send my crews into the building, as the building could potentially collapse on them,\" he told BBC Radio Sussex.\n\n\"We're going to be demolishing part of that building and extinguishing the fire as it is being demolished.\"\n\nOf the approximately 100 people evacuated from the surrounding area, it is believed they have either found another place to stay or are being supported by the council to find a temporary alternative, incident commander Chris Baker said.\n\nIt is understood the hotel has found other accommodation for all its guests.\n\nFirefighters at the scene in Brighton after a fire at the Royal Albion Hotel\n\nThe scene in Brighton after a fire at the Royal Albion Hotel\n\nCouncil leader Bella Sankey said: \"These are incredibly sad scenes for our city.\n\n\"I've got nothing but heartfelt praise for our emergency services, who have worked so diligently in the most difficult of circumstances for two nights now.\"\n\nBrighton Kemptown MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle said: \"Restaurants were having to shut their outside areas and it was difficult for people to breathe.\n\n\"It will need to be re-built with the traditional aspect that it had so that the heritage is maintained.\"\n\nFirefighters from Preston Circus, Newhaven, Hove, Lewes, Eastbourne, Pevensey and fire engines from West Sussex were brought in to help.\n\nThe 219-bedroom hotel, which was built in 1826, is run by Britannia Hotels.\n\nPart of the building was Grade II*-listed by English Heritage and suffered a previous fire in November 1998.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC One from 13:00, BBC Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nDefending champion Novak Djokovic believes his eagerly anticipated Wimbledon meeting with top seed Carlos Alcaraz is \"probably the best final\" there could have been.\n\nSerbia's Djokovic, 36, and 20-year-old Spaniard Alcaraz meet on Centre Court at 14:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nSecond seed Djokovic goes for an eighth men's title and 24th major - which would both be record-equalling feats.\n\n\"He's hungry. I'm hungry, too, so let's have a feast,\" said Djokovic.\n\nThe pair have been two of the leading players on the ATP Tour this year and jostled for position as the world number one.\n\nDjokovic has won the Australian Open and French Open in 2023 to move ahead of Rafael Nadal's tally of 22 major titles.\n\nNow he needs one more to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 triumphs.\n\nAlcaraz, who missed Melbourne through injury and lost to Djokovic at Roland Garros, has won a tour-high five ATP titles this year and no man has won as many matches in 2023.\n\nHe is looking to win a second major title after claiming a first at the US Open last year.\n\nThe triumph also made him the first teenager to become the men's world number one.\n\n\"Judging by the performances we have seen from all the players, I think this is probably the best finals we could have,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"We are both in good form. We're both playing well.\n\n\"This is probably the most anticipated finals I guess from the beginning of the tournament, from most of the people.\"\n• None 'My most painful loss' - tears flow again on Centre\n\nWith the players being the top two seeds on the basis of their world rankings, Djokovic and Alcaraz were put in the opposite sides of the draw and only able to meet if they both reached the final.\n\nThe pair being at the opposite ends of their careers is one of the reasons the emerging rivalry is so intriguing and exciting.\n\nDjokovic has a wealth of experience at the All England Club and a formidable record.\n\nAmong a list of mind-boggling statistics, Djokovic is aiming for:\n• None a fifth successive men's title, with only Bjorn Borg and Roger Federer having achieved it\n\nBy contrast, Alcaraz is playing in his first Wimbledon final - in only his fourth professional tournament on grass.\n\nGrowing up in Murcia, clay courts are seen as his most natural surface and hard courts are where he won his first major at Flushing Meadows last year.\n\nAlcaraz won the Queen's title in June and has further underlined his prowess on the grass at the All England Club.\n\nNow he is bidding to become the third youngest man to win Wimbledon in the Open era.\n\n\"It is a dream,\" said Alcaraz after beating Russian third seed Daniil Medvedev in the semi-finals.\n\n\"This one was probably one of my best matches, not only on grass but on the tour.\n\n\"I rate it like eight from 10, something like that. It was amazing for me. I showed a great level.\"\n\nWhile Djokovic and Alcaraz have been considered as the two best men's players in the past year, meetings between the two have been rare.\n\nThey finally met for the first time at a major in the French Open semi-finals last month.\n\nThe prospect of the match had the tennis world licking its lips - and the quality in the opening two sets did not disappoint.\n\nBut Alcaraz started cramping early in the third set, which he said was caused by the stress of facing an opponent as daunting as Djokovic.\n\nDjokovic went on to win 6-3 5-7 6-1 6-1 and beat Norway's Casper Ruud in the final.\n\nAlcaraz says he thinks he will \"be better\" this time.\n\n\"I will try to get into the court with not as much nerves. I'll do something different,\" he said.\n\n\"I will prepare the match a little bit different from French Open. It's going to be different for me. I hope not to get cramp during the final.\n\n\"Physically, I'll do the same that I was doing before the matches.\n\n\"Probably in the mental part I will do something different to stay calm. I'll do some exercise to stay calm and to forget - or I'll try to forget that I'm going to play a final against Novak.\"\n\nMore on the line than just the trophy\n\nDjokovic is aiming for a seventh victory in the past nine majors he has played, with the carrot of regaining the world number one ranking also dangling.\n\nHe and Alcaraz have been jostling for position this season, already swapping places six times at the top of the rankings.\n\nThe winner of Sunday's final will be the world number one on Monday.\n\n\"I want to take this title without a doubt. I look forward to it,\" said Djokovic.\n\n\"It's going to be a great challenge, greatest challenge that I could have at the moment from any angle really: physical, mental, emotional.\"\n\n'Djokovic playing the best tennis of his life' - analysis\n\nDjokovic is aiming to become the oldest man to win Wimbledon in the Open era and the first player to win multiple titles after turning 35.\n\nFour-time semi-finalist Tim Henman believes Djokovic is playing \"the best tennis of his life\".\n\n\"He is so complete in every area. At 26 there were weaknesses,\" said former British number one Henman.\n\n\"His slice backhand wasn't so good, he wasn't so comfortable at the net.\n\n\"His serve was nowhere near as good as it is now, and he's got that extra 10 years of experience. So for me he is playing his best.\"\n\nAmerican seven-time major champion John McEnroe agrees Djokovic - who joked after his semi-final win over Jannik Sinner that \"36 is the new 26\" - is playing better than ever.\n\n\"This will be a tall order for Carlos, especially after what happened in Paris,\" said McEnroe.\n\n\"Of course, he has a chance in the final. If he does his thing and does it well I think he can win Wimbledon, absolutely. I think he will win Wimbledon on more than one occasion.\n\n\"I think he's ready to potentially win it this year. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what happens.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can you trust your best mate to be your best man? Find out in Jason Manford and Steve Edge’s new podcast\n• None Can certain foods make you hungrier? Professor Tim Spector takes Michael Mosley through his top food and nutrition tips", "NHS consultants in England have announced two more days of strikes over a long-running pay dispute.\n\nThey were already due to strike on Thursday and Friday - and now they will also walk out on 24 and 25 August, the British Medical Association (BMA) said.\n\nThe fresh dates were in response to a \"derisory\" 6% pay rise, said the BMA, a trade union for doctors.\n\nThe government said the rise, announced last week, was fair and called the new strike dates disappointing.\n\nDuring this week's strike and on the new August dates, consultants will provide so-called \"Christmas Day cover\", which includes emergency care and a small amount of routine work.\n\nLast week, the government announced the 6% pay rise for NHS medics just as junior doctors began their own five-day strike, which is due to end on Tuesday.\n\nThe BMA said the pay award amounted to \"another real-terms pay cut\".\n\nFor consultants, the below-inflation pay rise was \"nothing short of insulting\", the BMA said, and would actually boost pay by less than 6% once \"all elements of pay were considered\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government valued NHS staff, \"which is why we're giving consultants a fair and reasonable pay rise\".\n\n\"We've made it clear this pay award is not up for negotiation and it's disappointing the BMA are continuing with disruptive industrial action,\" they added.\n\nThe 6% pay rise is in line with pay review body recommendations, but far below what doctors are asking for.\n\nConsultant pay has fallen 27% since 2008 once the Retail Price Index (RPI) - one measure of inflation - is taken into account but the BMA says the cut is 35% once changes to tax and pension contributions are factored in. The government said it had acted on the BMA's request for pension reform, increasing the tax-free threshold on pensions contributions.\n\nUnlike junior doctors at the start of their dispute, consultants are not asking for full pay restoration in one go. Instead, they want the government to start at least giving pay rises that match inflation.\n\nDuring 2022, average NHS earnings exceeded £126,000 for consultants - this includes extra pay for additional hours and performance.\n\nDr Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA consultants committee, said the strikes were a last resort and that the union had \"been left with no choice\".\n\nHe said the government was \"devaluing consultants' expertise\" and showing a \"lack of regard for the impact this is having on the NHS\".\n\nHe said the pay body recommendation of a 6% pay rise showed \"the need to reform the pay review system\" and that the increase was a \"savage real-terms pay cut\".\n\nDr Sharma warned of further strikes after August, saying consultants were \"in this for the long haul\". More than 85% of BMA members backed walkouts in a previous ballot.\n\n\"The future of the NHS depends on there being consultants within it, but attacks on their pay will drive them away - from the health service and from the country - with devastating consequences,\" he said.\n\nAre you a consultant with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Italian government advised anyone in areas covered by red alerts to avoid direct sunlight for most of the day\n\nSouthern Europe will continue to swelter next week as an intense heatwave shows no sign of abating.\n\nItaly, Spain and Greece have been experiencing high temperatures for several days already.\n\nThe Italian health ministry issued a red alert for 16 cities including Rome, Bologna and Florence for the weekend.\n\nThe heatwave is expected to continue well into next week, with 48C (118.4F) possible in Sardinia, according to Italian media.\n\nSuch a temperature would, however, fall short of the European record high of 48.8C (119.8F) - which was recorded in Sicily in August 2021.\n\nThe Italian weather service said Sardinia would be at the \"epicentre\" of next week's heatwave - which weather forecasters have dubbed Charon, after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology.\n\n\"Temperatures will reach a peak between 19 and 23 July - not only in Italy but also in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans. Several local heat records within these areas may well be broken during those days,\" Italian meteorologist and climate expert Giulio Betti told the BBC.\n\nItaly's government has advised anyone in the areas covered by Saturday's red alerts to avoid direct sunlight between 11:00 and 18:00, and to take particular care of the elderly or vulnerable.\n\nIn Rome, tour guide Felicity Hinton, 59, told the BBC the soaring temperatures combined with overcrowding has made it \"nightmarish\" to navigate the city.\n\n\"It's always hot in Rome but this has just been consistently hot for a lot longer than normal,\" she said.\n\n\"My tour guide friends and I are extremely stressed out. People have been fainting on tours and there are ambulances outside everywhere.\"\n\nRome resident Elena, 62 told the BBC that she has noticed a \"marked change\" in summer temperatures since around 2003, and that they have been growing exponentially since.\n\nMeanwhile, Greece has hit temperatures of 40C (104F) or more in recent days. The Acropolis in Athens - the country's most popular tourist attraction - was closed during the hottest hours of Friday and Saturday to protect visitors.\n\nIn Spain's Canary Islands, a forest fire that broke out on La Palma on Saturday morning forced the evacuation of at least 4,000 people and has so far destroyed 4,500 hectares (11,000 acres) of land.\n\nFernando Clavijo, president of the Canary Islands regional government, said at least 12 houses had been destroyed and attributed the quick spread of the fire to \"the wind, the climate conditions as well as the heatwave that we are living through\".\n\nPeriods of intense heat occur within natural weather patterns, but globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global warming.\n\n\"Heatwaves increase every year in number and intensity... and they are among the most tangible, evident, documented and clearly observable signs of climate change,\" Mr Betti said.\n\n\"European summers have gotten much, much hotter in recent years... What should worry us is that summers without intense and prolonged heatwaves simply don't exist anymore. 'Normal' summers have become a rarity.\"\n\nLast month was the hottest June on record, according to the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC forecaster Helen Willetts looks at the coming week across southern Europe\n\nWhat do you want to know about these heatwaves? We'll be putting your questions to experts in our coverage this week, so let us know what you're wondering or worrying about. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Kemi Badenoch discussed the upcoming gender guidance for schools on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg\n\nParents should be aware of what is happening with their child, the equalities minister has said ahead of gender guidance for England schools.\n\nKemi Badenoch told the BBC she \"can't go into specifics\" of what will be in the new guidance, expected next week.\n\nRecent reports have suggested schools will be told to tell parents if students are questioning their gender.\n\nMs Badenoch said \"what is right is that parents know what is going on with their children at school\".\n\nShe told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg that the guidance would bring \"clarity\" for schools on \"how to deal with children experiencing gender distress\".\n\nShe added: \"There's quite a lot of confusion about what the law says and it is important that parents are aware of what's going on with their children and what's happening to them at school, so what we're doing is making sure we have robust guidance that's going to be able to stand up to scrutiny. That will be coming shortly.\"\n\nWhen asked whether trans students may feel that their teachers will be \"outing\" them to their parents against their wishes, Ms Badenoch warned against speculating what will be in the guidance, adding that \"it's best read in totality and within context\".\n\nMs Badenoch added that the government's guidance will ensure \"everyone is getting the balance right\".\n\nThe Department for Education is expected to publish a draft for consultation, before the final guidance is then issued.\n\nThe guidance may also look at issues such as whether single-sex schools are legally obliged to allow transgender pupils.", "A wildfire raging earlier this month in British Columbia - where another firefighter lost her life in recent days\n\nA second firefighter has been killed in Canada as the country battles its worst season of wildfires on record.\n\nThe person, who has not yet been named, died from injuries sustained while fighting a fire near Fort Liard in the Northwest Territories on Saturday.\n\nIt comes just days after 19-year-old Devyn Gale was killed while working in neighbouring British Columbia.\n\nNearly 900 wildfires are currently burning across Canada, about 580 of which remain out of control.\n\nSo far this season, the fires have burned more than 10m hectares (24.7m acres) of land, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.\n\nThe figure is higher than for any previous year on record and more than three times the average for the previous 10 years.\n\nOn Sunday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was \"incredibly saddened\" by the news that a second firefighter had lost their life, and sent his condolences to their family.\n\nCaroline Cochrane, premier of the Northwest Territories, said the death was a \"tragic loss for the entire territory\".\n\n\"I extend my heartfelt condolences to their family, friends and colleagues,\" she said.\n\n\"The bravery and selflessness of our firefighters is an incredible gift to us all. Thank you for your service to our territory and to our country.\"\n\nMs Gale's death was the first death on the ground since the start of Canada's wildfire season - and reportedly the first in British Columbia since 2015.\n\nAfterwards, Mr Trudeau said Canadians \"must never forget the risks these heroes take every time they run toward the danger\".\n\n\"To firefighters... across the country who are doing just that to keep us safe: Thank you. We are inspired by your courage, and grateful for your service,\" he said.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nCanada is estimated to be warming twice as fast as the rest of the world and in recent years has seen extreme weather events of increasing frequency and intensity.\n\nThe wildfires have also sparked pollution alerts across North America as smoke is blown south along the continent's eastern coast.\n\nNineteen-year-old Devyn Gale was killed while fighting a fire in British Columbia", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCarlos Alcaraz won the Wimbledon men's singles title for the first time by ending Novak Djokovic's recent dominance with a stunning victory.\n\nSpain's Alcaraz, 20, fought back from a nervy start to win 1-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 3-6 6-4 against the defending champion.\n\nDjokovic was going for a fifth straight win, an eighth men's triumph and a 24th major - all record-equalling feats.\n\nBut the 36-year-old Serb was outlasted by top seed Alcaraz, who underlined his class by winning a second major title.\n\n\"It is a dream come true for me,\" Alcaraz, who was playing in only his fourth grass-court tournament, said.\n\n\"Even if I lost, I would have been proud of myself. To be able to play in these stages of these occasions - as a boy of 20 years old - is really fast.\n\n\"I'm really proud of myself.\"\n\nAlcaraz, who won his first Grand Slam title at the US Open last year, celebrated by falling flat on his face after taking his first match point and kicking a ball into the crowd.\n• None 'Wimbledon win the happiest moment of my life'\n• None 'Tough one to swallow' - Djokovic tearful after loss\n\nThe majority of a packed Centre Court, which included the Prince and Princess of Wales, actor Brad Pitt and two-time winner Andy Murray, rose to their feet to acclaim the All England Club's newest champion.\n\nAs tradition now dictates, Alcaraz ran up the stairs from the court to his box and embraced coach Juan Carlos Ferrero, along with his family and friends.\n\nAlcaraz is the third youngest man to win the Wimbledon title in the Open era after 17-year-old Boris Becker in 1985 and 20-year-old Bjorn Borg in 1976.\n\n\"You never like to lose matches like this but I guess when all the emotions are settled I have to still be very grateful,\" said 23-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic, who broke down in tears during his on-court speech.\n\n\"I won many tough matches here. Maybe I have won a couple of finals I should have lost so maybe this is even-steven.\n\n\"It is a tough one to swallow when you are so close. I lost to a better player, I have to congratulate him, and move on - stronger hopefully.\"\n\nBefore an eagerly anticipated men's final between the top two seeds, Djokovic further ramped up the excitement by predicting a \"feast\" between a pair with equally \"hungry\" appetites for success.\n\nA compelling contest - full of quality, drama and momentum swings - lived up to the hype.\n\nThe pair have been two of the leading players on the ATP Tour this year and jostled for position as the world number one.\n\nDjokovic won the Australian Open and French Open this year to move ahead of Rafael Nadal's tally of 22 major titles, knowing another victory would equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 victories.\n\nAt the opposite end of the career scale, Alcaraz was aiming to prove not all of the younger generation can be overawed by Djokovic's greatness.\n\nThe Spaniard had already been dealt a chastening experience when facing Djokovic, having suffered body cramps during their French Open semi-final last month because he was so overcome by nerves.\n\nOne of the plotlines going into the Wimbledon final centred on Alcaraz's state of mind.\n\nAlcaraz was confident that fear was out of his system going into Sunday's showpiece - but that did not look to be the case in a one-sided first set, which Djokovic won after just 34 minutes.\n\nDjokovic suffocated his opponent with his deep and consistent returning, forcing Alcaraz into hurrying his shots and making too many mistakes.\n\nAlcaraz slowly grew into the contest, finding more rhythm with his groundstrokes and introducing an increasing number of the drop shots for which he is becoming known.\n\nAfter turning the deficit into a lead, helped by edging a mammoth 27-minute game early in the third set, Alcaraz produced two loose errors at a crucial time in the fourth and Djokovic went on to level.\n\nHowever, Alcaraz's composure returned in the decider.\n\nHe broke for a 2-1 lead which led to Djokovic smashing his racquet on the net post and, continuing to play with power and variety, served out a stunning victory after four hours and 42 minutes.\n\nDjokovic still well placed to create further history\n\nThe tears from Djokovic after the match were indicative of the physical and mental effort he puts into creating even more history.\n\nThe defeat meant he was unable to equal Roger Federer's men's record of eight Wimbledon titles and Court's all-time record of 24 major wins.\n\nDjokovic also saw two mind-boggling runs - 34 successive match wins going back to 2017, and 45 straight victories on Centre Court stretching back to 2013 - ended by Alcaraz.\n\nDespite the disappointing manner of the loss, there was plenty to suggest the veteran is still well placed to at least equal Federer's and Court's tallies.\n\nHis game, physicality and elasticity remain as good as ever.\n\n\"I hope this will be the beginning of a rivalry for some time - for my sake,\" said Djokovic on the prospect of more duels with Alcaraz.\n\n\"He's going to be on the tour for quite some time. I don't know how long I'll be around.\n\n\"I hope we get to play at the US Open. I think it's good for the sport, one and two in the world facing each other in a five-hour, five-set thriller.\n\n\"It couldn't be better for our sport.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can you trust your best mate to be your best man? Find out in Jason Manford and Steve Edge’s new podcast\n• None Can certain foods make you hungrier? Professor Tim Spector takes Michael Mosley through his top food and nutrition tips", "Crews have been pumping the water out of the flooded tunnel in a desperate rescue mission\n\nAt least 40 people in South Korea have died after a weekend of severe rains caused widespread flooding and landslides across the country.\n\nThe disasters have prompted calls from President Yoon Suk Yeol to \"overhaul\" how the country combats extreme weather arising from climate change.\n\nOn Monday, the nation was reeling from a tunnel tragedy where at least 13 people died in their vehicles after becoming trapped by floodwaters.\n\nThe full death toll is still unknown.\n\nBut on Monday, responders were still working to drain the 685m-long (2,247ft) tunnel in the central city of Cheongju - with divers deployed to retrieve victims.\n\nAt least 15 vehicles - including a bus - were trapped in the underpass on Saturday, when floodwater from a nearby burst riverbank poured in.\n\nNine survivors have been found so far. Meanwhile, families of those missing have waited anxiously for information at a local hospital.\n\n\"I have no hope but I can't leave,\" a parent of one of those missing in the tunnel told local news agency Yonhap.\n\n\"My heart wrenches thinking how painful it must have been for my son in the cold water.\"\n\nPolice said they will launch an investigation into the fatal flooding of the underpass.\n\nRescuers approaching the flooded tunnel in Cheongju on Saturay\n\nElsewhere, at least 19 people died in the mountainous North Gyeongsang region in central South Korea after landslides swept away whole houses.\n\nSome 6,400 residents were evacuated early Saturday after the Goesan Dam in North Chungcheong began to overflow.\n\nA number of low-lying villages near the dam as well as many of the roads connecting them were submerged, leaving some residents trapped in their homes.\n\nSong Du-ho, one of these residents, told the BBC he had never experienced rain like that which fell this weekend.\n\nThe water was up to his waist by the time rescue workers came for him in the middle of the night, along with his wife, who has problems with a bad back, he said.\n\n\"I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared when the water was coming in. I could have died,\" the 87-year-old said.\n\nSouth Korea is experiencing one of its most intense summer monsoon seasons on record, with heavy downpours in the past week causing floods, landslides and power cuts across the country.\n\nMore torrential rain is expected this week - with showers forecast to Wednesday.\n\nPresident Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday vowed to \"completely overhaul\" how the country responds to such extreme weather events.\n\n\"Extreme weather events like this will become commonplace. We must accept that climate change is happening and deal with it,\" he said.\n\nHe also stated that a lack of proper management in flood-prone areas had caused many casualties.\n\nDuring a visit to victims in the flood-hit North Gyeongsang province on Monday, Mr Yoon walked past piles of fallen trees and other debris.\n\n\"I've never seen something like this in my life, hundreds of tonnes of rocks rolling down from the mountain. How surprised you must have been,\" AFP reported him telling the villagers.\n\nIn Cheongju where the tunnel flooding occurred, victims' families had criticised local authorities for not shutting off access to the tunnel earlier, when flood warnings were already in place.\n\nPresident Yoon has ordered military deployments to managing the aftermath of downpours across the country. He also announced the designation of hard-hit areas as \"special disaster zones\" eligible for state support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlmost 300mm (11.8in) of rain is reported to have fallen across South Korea on Saturday alone.\n\nThe country typically sees 1,000mm (39.4in) to 1,800mm (70.9in) a year, according to the Korean Meteorological Association - much of that falls during the summer months.\n\nIn the past fortnight, extreme rain has caused floods and landslides across several countries - including India, China and Japan.\n\nWhile many factors contribute to flooding, scientists say a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely.\n\nThe warmer it becomes, the more moisture the atmosphere can hold, resulting in more droplets and heavier rainfall, sometimes in a shorter space of time and over a smaller area.\n\nLast year, South Korea saw record-breaking rains and flooding which killed at least 11 people. These included two women and a teenager trapped in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul.\n\nFollowing this, Seoul authorities banned the construction of such flats, which were featured in the Oscar-winning film Parasite.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "More than 30m tonnes of grain and other foods have left Ukraine under the deal struck in July 2022\n\nThe last ship to sail under a deal allowing Ukraine to export its grain has left the country's Black Sea port of Odesa, a day before an extension deadline, MarineTraffic data site says.\n\nIt says the TQ Samsun left on Sunday - a claim backed by Reuters news agency.\n\nRussia has not agreed to extend the UN-brokered deal unless its demands on its own grain and fertilisers are met.\n\nThe 2022 deal was struck amid fears of global food shortages after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBoth Ukraine and Russia are among the world's top grain exporters.\n\nMarineTraffic says the Turkish-flagged ship left Odesa just after 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT) and was heading south to the Turkish city of Istanbul.\n\nUkraine has so far not publicly commented on the issue.\n\nOn Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said commitments to remove obstacles to Moscow's own food exports and other key provisions had not been met, signalling that Moscow could suspend its participation in the agreement.\n\n\"The main goal of the deal, namely the supply of grain to countries in need, including on the African continent, has not been implemented,\" the Kremlin leader said in a phone call to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nMoscow also wants its Rosselkhozbank - a bank that handles agricultural payments - to be reconnected to the global Swift payment network.\n\nEarlier this year, the European Union said it was not considering reinstating Russian banks sanctioned because of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was confident the deal would be extended again, after speaking to Mr Putin.\n\nThe deal is meant to be extended for 120 days at a time, but in March and May 2023 Russia agreed to extensions of only 60 days.\n\nSeveral days before the last extension, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held urgent talks with UN Secretary General António Guterres.\n\n\"We are interested in ensuring that there is no hunger in the world,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nUkrainian exports by sea from the country's Black Sea ports were initially blocked by Russian warships following the invasion in February 2022.\n\nMore than 30m tonnes of grain and other foods have left Ukraine under the deal providing a safe corridor across the Black Sea.\n\nMr Putin has criticised Ukraine for not exporting more to developing countries.\n\nBut the UN says the grain deal has benefited people throughout the world because it has brought more food products onto the global market and therefore reduced global prices.", "Formal identification of the boy who died has yet to take place\n\nAn 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed following a birthday party in north-west London.\n\nPolice and London Ambulance Service were called to Granville Road, Kilburn, at 23:22 BST on Friday following reports of a fight and a stabbing.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nAnother teenage boy and a woman in her early 20s were treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.\n\nFormal identification of the boy who died has yet to take place.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Rogers said: \"We believe that there was a fight following a birthday party, which would have been attended by a number of people.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who was there, and who has not yet spoken with officers, to please come forward.\n\n\"It is vital that we establish what happened.\"\n\nCh Supt Dan Knowles, in charge of the North West Command Unit which polices Kilburn, said: \"I know that the community will be shocked by this incident in which a young man has lost his life.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan has told BBC News that taking part in the show in 2012 felt like being in \"an abusive relationship\".\n\nShe has revealed the reason she left the ITV show abruptly after week three was because she had been raped, and was not ill, as reported at the time.\n\nThe singer-songwriter says the industry needs to change to better protect people taking part in reality TV shows.\n\nBoth ITV and Fremantle say they are evolving their duty of care processes.\n\nX Factor was made for ITV by Talkback Thames - part of production company Fremantle - and Simon Cowell's company Syco.\n\nSimon Cowell has described what happened to Spraggan as \"horrific and heartbreaking\".\n\nSpraggan has waived her legal right to anonymity, granted to victims of sexual offences, to speak to the BBC in her first broadcast interview.\n\nIn 2012, X Factor was one of the UK's most-watched TV shows and Spraggan became an overnight sensation when millions watched her audition.\n\n\"From that moment on, my life changed forever,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"From the beginning, they kind of make you into a caricature of yourself. It's almost like there's a storyline written for you,\" she adds.\n\nLucy sang a song she had written herself at her 2012 audition\n\nSpraggan, who was 20 at the time, says the contestants were immediately put under huge pressure.\n\n\"From the very first stage that message was reiterated and reiterated and reiterated to the point where that's all you believe - [that] 'this is the biggest opportunity of my life,'\" she says.\n\nNow 31, she says she has never since experienced a situation where \"somebody completely takes the reins of my life\".\n\n\"If I had experienced that again, as a normal human being, I would have said that I would have been in an abusive relationship.\"\n\nSpraggan details her experiences on the show in her new memoir, Process: Finding My Way Through, including the sexual assault.\n\nIt happened at a hotel where she and her fellow contestant - the broadcaster Rylan Clark - had been moved to, away from the others.\n\nThey had initially been staying at the luxury Corinthia Hotel in central London, where Spraggan says they were guarded by 24-hour security.\n\nShe says the show's producers told her the hotel had asked the pair to leave because they were \"causing too much trouble\". Headlines had branded them \"party animals\".\n\n\"So Rylan and I always sort of were under the impression that we were removed, because that supported the narrative,\" Spraggan says.\n\nThe pair were not given additional security at the new hotel, she adds.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story, please visit BBC Action Line.\n\nThe night they were moved, Spraggan attended Rylan's birthday party at a club in Mayfair.\n\nSpraggan says she can't remember what happened that night and has pieced together the incident through information from the police and others.\n\nShe knows she was not conscious - because she had been drinking alcohol at the party - when she was escorted back to the hotel by a member of the production team.\n\n\"The hotel porter that had offered his help to get me up to bed… got a key card, let himself into my room and raped me,\" she explains.\n\nIn 2013, the porter pleaded guilty to the attack and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\nRylan was the first person Spraggan told about what happened. \"He was unbelievable,\" she says, describing him as \"an angel\".\n\nSpraggan says being examined by police for evidence was \"one of the worst experiences\" of her life. But she also knew that the show - which turned unknowns into singing stars - was the biggest opportunity of her life, and the fourth live show was due to be filmed the following day.\n\n\"It was like, this extraordinary thing's happened. The police are here, I've just had this examination. And people still asking me, 'What do you want to do? What do you want to do?' And I was like, 'I want to carry on with the show.'\n\n\"It kind of shows you what kind of world you are in, in what kind of mindset you are in, to not be able to really measure what has happened, and what you should do now.\"\n\nLucy says the day after the attack she was put in another hotel room, with a security guard outside.\n\n\"I remember sort of having to peel myself away from jumping off the balcony. Like having to consciously do that.\"\n\nSpraggan's next album, called Balance, will be released in August\n\nShe decided to leave the show after week three of the competition. But she wasn't voted out by the public or the show's judges - she realised that mentally she couldn't continue.\n\nTo explain why she had left, ITV announced that she was ill. Spraggan says she feels she had to go along with the narrative at the time, but says she is now relieved she can tell the truth.\n\nSpraggan felt like she didn't get enough support in the aftermath of the attack - and in the following years her mental health deteriorated considerably and she abused alcohol and drugs. She has now been sober for nearly four years.\n\nFremantle said: \"Whilst we believed throughout that we were doing our best to support Lucy, as Lucy thinks we could have done more, we must therefore recognise this. For everything Lucy has suffered, we are extremely sorry.\"\n\nThe star is now calling for all production and broadcast companies to better consider employees' and participants' mental health - by setting aside a portion of their budgets to invest in mental wellbeing services.\n\n\"I don't want to destroy anything. I want to build a better infrastructure,\" she says.\n\n\"We need these shows, because there's a thriving community of talented people who just don't have the funds and the opportunity to get there.\"\n\nX Factor's creator, Simon Cowell was not a judge in 2012 because he was in America launching X Factor US. Spraggan says she was ready to give him \"a piece of my mind\" when he called her, after she had contacted his people to say she was writing her book.\n\nShe says he said, \"Lucy, before you or I say anything else, the first thing I need to tell you is that I am sorry.\"\n\nSpraggan reflects: \"It makes me emotional because no-one else said sorry. And all it took was this one man to treat me like a human being, 11 years later.\"\n\nIn 2021, Ofcom, the broadcast regulator, announced changes to its Broadcasting Code to better protect people made vulnerable by their participation in TV shows. The changes were introduced after suicides involving contestants from Love Island and The Jeremy Kyle Show in 2018 and 2019.\n\nEarlier this year, the BBC and ITV announced they were joining forces to recruit more registered psychologists to support TV programmes in their duty of care to contributors.\n\n\"My voice is extremely inconvenient for a lot of people. I've been petrified of telling the truth, because I'll lose what I have,\" Spraggan says.\n\n\"If I have to be the first person who says 'I'm actually not scared to stand up against you [the industry]', I will. And hopefully it inspires other people to be a little bit braver too.\"\n\nIn a statement, ITV said it had \"the deepest compassion for Lucy\". It said the production companies, Fremantle and Syco, were primarily responsible for the duty of care towards all of its programme contributors.\n\nBut it added it \"is committed to having in place… robust oversight procedures, to [ensure] that independent producers employ the correct processes to protect the mental health and welfare of participants\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nEgan Bernal, the Tour de France winner in 2019, came down in the crash A spectator taking a selfie caused a crash of about 20 riders on stage 15 of the Tour de France. The stage was won by Dutchman Wout Poels as defending champion Jonas Vingegaard maintained his 10-second lead on Tadej Pogacar. Sepp Kuss, Vingegaard's Team Jumbo-Visma team-mate, had his handlebars knocked by a fan holding out a phone. Kuss went down with team-mate Nathan van Hooydonck and brought down a large group in the peloton. \"There was a narrowing in the town and a spectator in the road, and I guess he just clipped my handlebars,\" said Kuss. \"Luckily I'm OK and hopefully the other guys in the crash are all right. It's not ideal. \"I think it's fatigue. It's been such a hard race and everybody is a bit tired. You lose a bit of alertness and there's always things out of your control as well.\" All the riders who crashed completed the 179km stage from Les Gets les Portes du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc. Dane Vingegaard was unaffected, while stage winner Poels was in the breakaway several minutes up the road. 'Please pay attention to the riders' Shortly after the incident, the official Tour Twitter account posted a slow-motion video of a rider ducking under a spectator's outstretched arm with the message: \"Please pay attention to the riders.\" Jumbo-Visma tweeted: \"Please be always aware when watching cycling at the side of the road.\" Team Confidis said: \"Please be careful. So that the party remains a party for the runners but also for you. You don't need a cell phone to create mind-blowing memories.\" Ineos Grenadiers said: \"If you are spectating at this amazing event, please give the riders room to race.\" The crash took place with about 50km into the stage One of the Tour's worst crashes involving a spectator occurred in 2021, when a woman holding a sign with a message in German to her grandparents clipped rider Tony Martin on the first stage. Two riders pulled out and eight others were treated for injuries, including Spain's Marc Soler, who broke both arms. The woman turned herself in to police and went to court over the incident. She was ordered to pay a symbolic one euro fine but, after receiving a barrage of abuse, her identity was withheld. A the time, Tour director Christian Prudhomme said: \"We just want people to take care when they come to the Tour and remember they are there to see the champions - and not to get on television.\" 'We've seen this before' - analysis Following 2021's 'Omi & Opi' scandal, in which a young woman caused a huge pile-up on stage one of the Tour, riders have been more wary of fans wanting to get close to the action. Cycling's world governing body the UCI introduced a range of measures under the SafeR banner just before this race, which incorporates better assessments of high-speed descents following the death of Gino Mader last month, and more management of crowds. At the top of the Col de Joux Plane climb on Saturday, Pogacar was held up by motorbikes and penned in by crowds standing inches from their heroes. Across a season, the list of rider casualties is too long, but road cycling is a unique sport, growing in popularity, and trades on the volatility of competing out in the open. Poels' stage win was his first in a Grand Tour, with the Team Bahrain Victorious rider finishing two minutes eight seconds ahead of Wout van Aert and Mathieu Burgaudeau in third. Vingegaard finished alongside Pogacar six minutes and four seconds behind Poels. Despite attacking inside the final kilometre of the 7km climb to the finish, Slovenian Pogacar, riding for UAE Team Emirates, could not open up a gap on Vingegaard. Monday is a rest day, before the 21-stage race resumes with a 22.4km time trial from Passy to Combloux on Tuesday.\n• None Watch all episodes of We Hunt Together on BBC iPlayer\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "The Prince and Princess of Wales watched on from the royal box alongside two of their children, Princess Charlotte, eight, and Prince George, nine.", "The search is taking place along the River North Esk near the village of Edzell in Angus\n\nA search is under way for a 15-year-old boy who got into difficulty in the River North Esk near the village of Edzell in Angus.\n\nSpecialist search teams are searching the area near Gannochy Bridge.\n\nEmergency services were first made aware of the incident at about 17:10 on Saturday.\n\nPolice Scotland said emergency crews remained in attendance and searches were ongoing. The teenager's next of kin are aware.\n\nA separate search at the River Dee was launched on Sunday.\n\nPolice, firefighters and paramedics were sent to Banchory after a man was spotted in difficulty in the fast-flowing river just after 15:30.\n\nWater rescue units from Aberdeen and Dundee were sent to the scene along with fire crews from Banchory and Aboyne.\n\nPolice have confirmed the man has been traced safe and well.", "Kemi Badenoch (second right) signed the deal in New Zealand on Sunday\n\nThe UK will only see the full benefit of a new trade deal with 11 Asia and Pacific nations if we use it, the Business Secretary has told the BBC.\n\nKemi Badenoch's comments came after she signed off the deal with a trade area that covers about 500 million people.\n\nThe agreement is predicted to only bring marginal gains to the UK economy.\n\nHowever, Ms Badenoch told the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that the key thing was how businesses \"utilise the agreement\".\n\nThe Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - or CPTPP - was established in 2018, and includes Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.\n\nMembership of the CPTPP loosens restrictions on trade between members and reduce tariffs - a form of border tax - on goods.\n\nIt is hoped that joining the group will boost UK exports by cutting tariffs on goods such as dairy and meat products, cars, gin and whisky.\n\nTogether, the 11 members account for about 13% of the world's income and the UK has become the first European country to join.\n\nDespite this, the government's own estimates indicate being in the bloc will only add 0.08% to the size of the UK's economy in 10 years.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which provides forecasts for the government, has previously said Brexit would reduce the UK's potential economic growth by about 4% in the long term.\n\nHowever, Ms Badenoch said that the government estimate of the impact of CPTPP \"doesn't look at the future growth that's coming in and it also doesn't look at how we utilise the agreement\".\n\n\"If we don't use it, then it'll become a self-fulfilling prophecy,\" she added.\n\nMs Badenoch said there was \"so much potential\" from joining the group.\n\n\"This is the fastest growing region. The Asia Pacific is going to be responsible for at least 50% of global growth that we're expecting between now and 2035.\"\n\nThe treaty will be scrutinised and ratified by members before coming into force, which could take at least a year.\n\nAs it announced the signing of the deal, the government said CPTPP-owned businesses employed about 400,000 people across the UK.\n\nIt also said that CPTPP companies \"punch above their weight economically\", as while they account for 0.3% of all businesses in the UK, they generate 6.1% of total turnover.\n\nBusiness lobby group the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said the deal was \"good news for UK businesses to enter or upscale their trade in these markets\".\n\n\"We see particular relevance for small- and medium-sized businesses in reduced costs to import components from member countries to use in manufactured goods for export,\" said William Bain, the BCC's head of trade policy.\n\nHowever, there have been some doubts expressed. Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC trade union body, said the pact was \"bad for workers at home and abroad\".\n\n\"Once again, Conservative ministers have turned a blind eye to egregious human and workers' rights abuses in their pursuit of trade deals,\" he said.\n\nConcern has also been expressed over how the UK intends to make sure that environmental and animal welfare standards are met.\n\nThe chair of the John Lewis Partnership, Dame Sharon White, told the Laura Kuenssberg programme that she would like to hear more on the impact on British farmers.\n\nShe said she would want to be sure that \"we're not undercutting British farmers, we are not undercutting great animal welfare standards in this country that we've had for many, many years\".\n\n\"I think that matters to many people.\"\n\nOverall, she said that while signing the CPTPP was \"obviously a positive… I don't think it's going to be a gangbusters substantive shift\".\n\nQuestioned on why the UK has not yet signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US, Ms Badenoch said that was due to the change in government.\n\n\"Yes, it was expected that we would sign an FTA with the US, but that was with a different president. You cannot force a country to do something if its administration changes.\"\n\nOn the issue of whether China should be allowed to join the CPTPP, Ms Badenoch said that was \"one of the things that we have been discussing\".\n\nHowever, when pressed on whether the UK should veto China's membership, as some have suggested, she said: \"When you join a club, the very first thing you don't do is tell the other club members who should be or shouldn't be allowed to join.\"\n• None UK agrees to join Asia's trade club - but what is it?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. About 55 whales were stranded on Sunday morning\n\nAn entire pod of 55 pilot whales has died after a mass stranding on a Western Isles beach.\n\nOnly 15 were alive after they washed onto Traigh Mhor beach at North Tolsta on the Isle of Lewis at about 07:00 on Sunday morning.\n\nMarine charity British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) attempted to refloat one of the more active whales but it was then restranded.\n\nThe decision was taken to euthanise the remaining whales on welfare grounds.\n\nWestern Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - has asked people to avoid the area as a clean-up operation began.\n\nThe BDMLR released an update on Sunday evening which said that one of the dead whales appeared to have had a vaginal prolapse.\n\nThis led them to suspect that the whole pod stranded due to one female giving birth.\n\nPilot whales are known for their strong social bonds, so often when one whale gets into difficulty and strands, the rest follow.\n\nAttempts continued throughout the day to give the surviving whales first aid.\n\nBut after the attempt to refloat one of the whales, it was found further down the beach.\n\nA further three whales then died, leaving 12 still alive - eight adults and four calves.\n\nA statement said: \"At about 15:30, the local vet along with the Coastguard, Fire and Rescue, and a forensics vet came to the conclusion that the shallow beach and rough wave conditions made it too unsafe to refloat the remaining animals.\n\n\"Considering how long the pilot whales had been out of the water in addition to the poor conditions, it was decided that they should be euthanised on welfare grounds.\"\n\nMembers of the Lewis community, Stornoway Coastguard, Stornoway and Shawbost Fire and Rescue, the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS), the Scottish SPCA, and Civil Air Support were all involved in the rescue effort, with vets and marine experts being flown in to help.\n\nSMASS will now carry out post mortem examinations of the bodies to conclude the cause of the stranding.\n\nPilot whales are small whales characterised as part of the dolphin family.\n\nPilot whales are social and therefore more likely to stick together when one gets into difficulty\n\nEarlier BDMLR's Welfare and Conservation Director Dan Jarvis told BBC Scotland that the longer the whales were on the beach, the less likely it was that they would survive.\n\nHe said: \"They have evolved to not have the ability to support their own weight on land. So when they are stranded they can crush themselves to death.\n\n\"Pilot whales don't usually come in to shore. They would be potentially disoriented, distressed from what has led to the stranding, and distressed from the stranding itself and being surrounded by family members who have died around them.\n\n\"This is one of the biggest incidents we've had in the last couple of decades.\"\n\nA Comhairle spokesperson said: \"Comhairle nan Eilean Siar asks that the public follow police advice and avoid Traigh Mhòr.\n\n\"The Comhairle has engaged with professionals and is now working with partner organisations to clear the beach.\"", "Ben Wallace says he will step down as defence secretary at the next cabinet reshuffle after four years in the job.\n\nHe told the Sunday Times he would not stand at the next general election, but ruled out leaving \"prematurely\" and triggering a by-election.\n\nMr Wallace has served as defence secretary under three prime ministers and has played a high-profile role in the UK's response to the Ukraine war.\n\nSources told the BBC they expect the next reshuffle in September.\n\nRishi Sunak is reportedly planning to shake up his top team, but no date has been confirmed.\n\nMr Wallace said he was quitting frontline politics due to the toll it had taken on his family, and allies of his have said the decision was not a reflection on Mr Sunak's leadership.\n\nHis Wyre and Preston North constituency is set to disappear at the next election under upcoming boundary changes and he told the newspaper he would not seek a new one.\n\nThe 53-year-old's confirmation of his plans to the Sunday Times comes after days of speculation that he was considering leaving government.\n\nHe has always been popular with Tory party members and his decision is likely to be seen as quite a blow for the party by some Conservatives.\n\nIt also leaves a big vacancy in government, which Rishi Sunak will have to fill.\n\nLast week, the prime minister disowned comments from Mr Wallace in which he suggested Ukraine should show more \"gratitude\" for the military support it has been given.\n\nThe comments were made at a fringe event at the Nato summit in Vilnius, after Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky said it was \"absurd\" that Nato would not give a timetable for his country securing membership of the bloc once the war with Russia is over.\n\nOn Twitter on Saturday evening, writing in Ukrainian, Mr Wallace said his comments had been \"somewhat misrepresented\", and he was making the point that in some parliaments there \"is not such strong support as in Great Britain\".\n\nHe said his comments had not been about governments but \"more about citizens and members of parliaments\".\n\nHe noted the strong support for Ukraine amongst the British public, and added he would \"continue to support Ukraine on its path for as long as it takes\".\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Wallace informed the prime minister on 16 June of his decision to stand down from the cabinet.\n\nMr Wallace, a former soldier, told the Sunday Times: \"I went into politics in the Scottish parliament in 1999. That's 24 years. I've spent well over seven years with three phones by my bed.\"\n\nHe suggested in the interview that he would continue to call for higher defence spending, something he has campaigned for throughout his time in the role.\n\nIt comes weeks after Mr Wallace said he was no longer in the running to be the next secretary general of Nato, a role he was widely reported to be seeking.\n\nThe announcement that Jens Stoltenberg would be continuing in the job effectively ended his hopes of becoming the next head of the military bloc.\n\nMr Wallace has played a vocal role in supporting Ukraine, including overseeing the transfer of weapons and vehicles to its army.\n\nHis position as defence secretary when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine saw his profile increase at home and abroad.\n\nMr Wallace has served longer in the role than any Conservative defence secretary before him, but told the Sunday Times he was conscious of the impact the job has had on his family.\n\nMr Wallace told the newspaper: \"While I am proud to have worked with so many amazing people and helped contribute to protecting this great country, the cost of putting that ahead of my family is something I am very sad about.\"\n\nBefore entering politics as a member of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Mr Wallace served in the Army as an Officer in the Scots Guards.\n\nHe was first elected to the Commons in 2005, and previously served as a minister in the Northern Ireland department and in the Home Office.\n\nWhat is next for him is unclear.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation in a deal between Sony and Microsoft, ending a fight over its future.\n\nIt comes after a US judge rejected calls to block Microsoft from taking over games publisher Activision Blizzard.\n\nMicrosoft's Phil Spencer said the tech giants agreed to a \"binding agreement\" to keep Call of Duty on the gaming platform.\n\nPlayers would have \"more choice\", he said.\n\nMr Spencer signalled the development on Sunday, bringing to an end a protracted battle between the two companies since Microsoft announced its intended acquisition of Activision Blizzard in early 2022.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMicrosoft has confirmed to the BBC it is a 10-year agreement with Sony, similar to the reported deal it struck with Nintendo.\n\nMicrosoft's proposed $69bn (£52.6bn) purchase of Activision would be the biggest of its kind in gaming industry history.\n\nThe US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been trying to block Microsoft's buyout of Activision, in a deal that has divided regulators globally.\n\nThe decision by a US judge to reject a request by the FTC late on Thursday to temporarily halt the deal means the merger could be completed by Tuesday.\n\nHowever, the US regulator, arguing the deal would reduce competition, has since asked a different court for a \"temporary pause\" on the deal.\n\nBut Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said she did not think the regulator would win in its case.\n\n\"The FTC has not shown it is likely to succeed on its assertion the combined firm will probably pull Call of Duty from Sony PlayStation, or that its ownership of Activision content will substantially lessen competition in the video game library subscription and cloud gaming markets,\" Judge Corley wrote in her decision.\n\nIt comes after the deal was approved by the European Union, while a bid to block the merger in the UK is currently under appeal.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which had initially blocked the takeover, has now said it will spend six weeks giving \"full and proper consideration\" to look at the \"detailed and complex\" submissions from Microsoft.\n\nThe CMA has given itself until 29 August, though it said it \"aims to discharge its duty as soon as possible and in advance of this date\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nParts of the US are expected to see record temperatures on Sunday, with warnings of \"dangerous\" heat levels into next week across the south-west.\n\nNearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories, from Florida to California and up to Washington state.\n\nThe country's National Weather Service (NWS) has urged people not to underestimate the risk to life.\n\nOn Saturday, a sweltering 118F (48C) was recorded in Phoenix, Arizona.\n\nIt means temperatures have hit 110F (43C) for 16 days running, which is almost a record.\n\nMobile clinics there have reported treating homeless people suffering from third-degree burns.\n\nMeanwhile, Death Valley in California - one of the hottest places in the world - is forecast to reach 129F (54C), nearing the hottest temperatures ever reliably recorded on Earth.\n\nThe NWS has said that local records could also be set on Sunday in the San Joaquin Valley, Mojave Desert, and Great Basin regions.\n\nIts Saturday-evening update said the temperatures would \"pose a health risk and are potentially deadly to anyone without effective cooling and/or adequate hydration\".\n\nAbout 700 people are estimated to die each year from heat-related causes in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nEnergy consumption in Texas has surpassed records, as many in the state scramble to stay cool.\n\nIn neighbouring Canada, officials say wildfires stoked by above-average temperatures - which have covered parts of the US in smoke - have now burned nearly 10 million hectares (25 million acres) of land.\n\nThe temperatures in America's south-west are the result of an upper level ridge of high pressure, which typically brings with it warmer temperatures, the NWS said earlier, adding that the heatwave was \"one of the strongest\" systems of its kind to hit the region.\n\nLas Vegas, Nevada, may also match its all-time high of 117F (47C) in the next few days.\n\nWeather officials there warned locals who thought they could handle the temperatures that this was \"not your typical desert heat\".\n\n\"'It's the desert, of course it's hot'- This is a DANGEROUS mind set!\", the NWS in Las Vegas tweeted.\n\n\"This heatwave is NOT typical desert heat due to its long duration, extreme daytime temperatures, & warm nights. Everyone needs to take this heat seriously, including those who live in the desert.\"\n\nA woman suffering from heat exhaustion is taken into a medical centre in Texas\n\nThe NWS also warned that \"strong to severe thunderstorms, heavy rain and flooding will be possible in several locations,\" including America's north-eastern New England region.\n\nParts of the south-western US have already grappled with intensely hot temperatures over the past week. In El Paso, Texas, temperatures have been in the triple-digits Fahrenheit for 27 consecutive days.\n\nAir conditioner use in the state has topped its previous record for power consumption as people try to stay cool, while parks, museums and zoos have either closed or shortened their hours.\n\nHospitals were also seeing heat-related admissions.\n\n\"We're getting a lot of heat-related illness now, a lot of dehydration, heat exhaustion,\" said Dr Ashkan Morim, who works in the emergency room at Dignity Health Siena Hospital, outside of Las Vegas.\n\nOvernight temperatures were expected to remain \"abnormally warm\" in some areas, offering little night-time relief from the heat.\n\nThe US heatwave mirrors similar searing conditions in Europe, which forced Greece to close one of its major tourist attractions, the Acropolis, on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe first week of July saw a global average temperature of 63F (17.23C), according to the UN - the highest ever recorded.\n\nScientists say the temperatures are being driven by climate change and the naturally occurring weather pattern known as El Niño, which happens every three to seven years and causes temperatures to rise.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Paolo Ceppi, a lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, said higher global temperatures were undoubtedly contributing to the increased incidence of extreme weather.\n\n\"Of course it's not unusual to have a heatwave in the summer, per se, but what's becoming really unusual is the collection of heatwaves,\" he said.\n\n\"We have this event in southern Europe, but at the same time, we're having another major heatwave in the southern US. Recently we had heatwaves in south Asia, India, China and so on. And unfortunately, this is not surprising.\n\n\"We have the baseline temperatures shifting upwards, and so you are shifting the odds towards more severe extreme events, and fewer cold extreme events.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the extreme heat? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "One week on from the Sun's first allegations about Huw Edwards, there are still major questions and unresolved details about the six chaotic days of claim and counter-claim.\n\nThe Sun's telling of the story subtly shifted over the week, particularly in the prominence given to one crucial detail, which has left it facing serious questions.\n\nThe media faced an almighty balancing act between privacy and the public interest in reporting claims of serious wrongdoing. BBC News examined more than 40 online stories, as well as print editions of the Sun and other papers, to look at how the media - including the BBC itself - handled the most complex aspects of the story.\n\nIt all began with a story in the Sun last Friday, a story that featured a very important phrase.\n\nThe paper said that a high-profile BBC presenter had given a young person \"more than £35,000 since they were 17 in return for sordid images\".\n\nWording to this effect was used at least seven times online over the next three days, out of dozens of articles published on the subject by the Sun.\n\nThat line rang alarm bells among readers and the media, partly because it hinted at criminality.\n\nIt suggested the man - who we now know is Edwards - may have committed a criminal offence, if such images were sent before the teenager was 18.\n\nOther outlets including the Sunday Times and BBC News made that connection explicitly, and it was one factor that fuelled the story.\n\nIt is worth saying Edwards has not yet addressed this, or any of the further claims that emerged during the past week. In her statement on Wednesday, his wife Vicky Flind said he would respond to the allegations when he is well enough. He will stay in hospital for the \"foreseeable future\" after recent events triggered a \"serious\" mental health episode, she said.\n\nOn Sunday evening, in an editorial, the Sun began to refer to \"contact\" between the pair having started when the young person was 17, but did not specify what the nature of that contact was.\n\nThe last time the Sun used the key phrase with the direct allegation (that the young person had been paid for \"sordid images\" since they were 17) online was on Monday evening.\n\nThis was when it reported on a letter from the young person's lawyer to the BBC denying the substance of the Sun's story, and their parents' response, which formed the basis of a story in the following day's paper. This print story also repeated the phrase.\n\nThe publication of this letter, which was adamant that \"nothing unlawful\" had taken place, might have changed the equation.\n\nFor example, after this an online Sun editorial on Tuesday evening made no mention of the age the payments started or what the money was for. On Wednesday the paper stated the young person was 17 when they first received money, but did not say it was for explicit images.\n\nThe Sun has said the story was \"always squarely in the public interest\".\n\nIts statement on Wednesday, after Edwards was named by his wife, said its original story did not allege criminality and further added that connection was only made by other outlets.\n\n\"From the outset, we have reported a story about two very concerned and frustrated parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and payments from him that fuelled the drug habit of a young person.\" it said.\n\nThat initial story did not explicitly mention criminality but, if the details within it were correct, then it suggested the presenter had broken the law.\n\nQuestions remain about how the media, including BBC News, covered the story about Edwards, pictured here in 2018\n\nThe paper also followed up comments in the Sunday Times from former chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal, who said that the presenter could potentially be charged with sexual exploitation under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.\n\nIts resulting story was headlined: \"Top BBC star who 'paid child for sex pictures' could be charged by cops and face years in prison, expert says.\"\n\nThe Sun was approached for this story but did not wish to comment further, referring BBC News to its statement issued on Wednesday.\n\nWhile its first story reported claims from the young person's mother, it is not clear whether the Sun had seen evidence proving the allegations before publishing.\n\nDid Sun journalists see and verify bank statements allegedly containing payments from the star, or the so-called \"sleazy\" messages?\n\nOr were they relying on the family member's word? The paper said family members had signed a sworn affidavit when sharing their story.\n\nIt is not clear what the Sun meant by this, as an affidavit is a document overseen by a solicitor for use in legal action.\n\nOn Monday, in response to the young person's denial, the Sun said in a statement that it had seen evidence supporting their family's concerns.\n\nA dossier of evidence has reportedly been passed by the family to the BBC, but BBC News has not seen its content, nor any of the Sun's evidence.\n\nBacked up by a legal affidavit or not, this account was to be firmly challenged by the young person at the heart of the allegations.\n\nThe letter from the young person's lawyer, sent to the BBC on Monday evening, called the allegations \"rubbish\" and said \"nothing inappropriate or unlawful\" had taken place.\n\nFurthermore, it said the young person had sent a denial to the paper on Friday evening via WhatsApp, saying their mother's account was \"totally wrong and there was no truth to it\", but the \"inappropriate\" article was still published.\n\nBut if the paper received a denial, many asked why it was not published, as is routine journalistic practice?\n\nWith the young person's lawyers dismissing the claims, and no response yet from the unnamed presenter, eyes were on the BBC and police to investigate.\n\nOn Monday, the BBC met the Metropolitan Police, who advised it to pause its investigation while police made enquiries.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sun had published an interview with the parents who said the BBC were liars and that they had told the BBC about the presenter's contact with the young person.\n\nThe BBC has published a timeline of events and director general Tim Davie has said it is handling the situation \"responsibly and judicially\".\n\nThe parents also told the Sun they had referred the matter to a police force, who told them there was no criminal case to answer.\n\nWe now know two forces have concluded there was no evidence of criminality.\n\nSouth Wales Police - who the young person's parents first approached in April - said the allegation related to \"the welfare of an adult\", as opposed to a child.\n\nOn Wednesday evening the Metropolitan Police said there was no information to indicate a criminal offence and they would take no further action.\n\nMedia critics were quick to point out that this cast the story - and the balance between public interest in publishing the allegations and the presenter's right to privacy - in a very different light.\n\nJacqui Hames, a board member of press campaign group Hacked Off, said a \"suggestion of criminality... screamed out\" at readers day after day.\n\nIn the Sun's statement later that evening, reiterating that it did not initially allege criminality, it said its claims \"were always very serious\".\n\nFormer Sky News anchor Adam Boulton called the question of illegality \"a side issue\".\n\n\"The issue is behaviour that many people would - potentially if it's true - disapprove of,\" he told Newsnight.\n\nMeanwhile, in the wake of the Sun's story, journalists began investigating the presenter and further allegations about his behaviour began to emerge.\n\nBBC News told the story of one young person who claimed they were placed under repeated pressure to meet the presenter after first being contacted anonymously by him on a dating app. They said they received abusive and menacing messages from Mr Edwards that left them frightened after they hinted online they might reveal his name.\n\nSeparately, the Sun said the presenter broke Covid lockdown rules to meet a 23-year-old who he had contacted on a dating site.\n\nThe paper also published messages it claimed were from the star to a 17-year-old on Instagram, including love heart emojis.\n\nShortly after Edwards was named by his wife, BBC News reported that three current and former employees claimed Edwards had sent messages that made them uncomfortable.\n\nThese alleged interactions raise questions about whether there was an abuse of power, and whether it would be acceptable behaviour for one of the BBC's highest-paid presenters and someone the nation is asked to trust during coverage of both the daily news and major national events.\n\nThe Sun said the young person's parents only approached the paper after taking their concerns to the BBC.\n\nIn mid-May, they spoke to the BBC customer services team, who passed them to the corporate investigations unit, which investigates alleged criminal and illicit activity involving BBC staff.\n\nWe don't know exactly what these allegations were - the BBC has said they were \"very serious\" but not illegal, and different to those reported by the Sun.\n\nThe investigations unit sent the parents one email and tried to phone them once in the subsequent seven weeks.\n\nWas that a sufficient response to a \"very serious\" complaint about one of the BBC's biggest names?\n\n\"That's a fair question,\" Mr Davie, director general, said when asked on BBC Radio 4.\n\nHe also promised to \"immediately\" review how quickly \"red flags\" are raised internally after such complaints.\n\nThe BBC has also said no executive directors were made aware until the Sun approached the corporation late last week.\n\nSome have questioned why the BBC did not discuss the allegations with Edwards earlier and give him a chance to respond - he was only made aware of the claims last Thursday. But Mr Davie has said: \"You don't take that complaint directly to the presenter unless it has been verified.\"\n\nThe decision to air fresh claims of inappropriate messages from BBC colleagues - on the day of Edwards' wife's statement - has also been criticised. The Sun said it would not publish any further allegations.\n\nSir Craig Oliver, former editor of the BBC News at Ten - the programme Edwards has fronted for so long - said the corporation's journalists had mostly done a good job, but \"in the desire to make sure that they look like they're covering this in a fair and impartial way, they perhaps have gone too far\".\n\nEdwards' wife made clear the impact of the days of fevered reporting and speculation on her family - and that will be a weighty factor as the debate develops about the balance between publishing in the public interest versus the right to privacy.\n\nHer statement \"acted like a dash of cold water to the face of all journalists\", Sir Craig told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"I think both the BBC and the Sun are now looking at themselves and asking themselves questions about: is it possible in a frenzied environment where there are so many different elements coming together and it's making people's heads spin... can you, in that environment, have a duty of care to the person involved? And can you allow due process to take place?\"\n\nFormer ITN editor-in-chief Stewart Purvis said it raised questions around when it is legitimate to report on the private life of a high-profile individual.\n\nBut Mark Damazer, a former controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7, said on Thursday that BBC News journalists had used \"reasonable judgement\" to cover the story as they would any other.\n\nBBC News was willing to \"try and give the BBC an extremely good kicking, especially the boss class\", he said - because it did not want to be accused of being \"soft\" on the wider BBC.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said the country has to start \"investing in defence properly\" as he defended the UK military's readiness for war.\n\nHe said the army had been \"hollowed out\" over 30 years and the Ukraine war had \"exposed our vulnerabilities\".\n\nMr Wallace said he wanted a bigger budget, amid reports he is asking for a £10bn rise.\n\nUK and European officials have raised concerns over the state of the British armed forces.\n\nMalcolm Chalmers, a British defence expert who advises MPs on national security, told the BBC the UK military \"would run out of ammunition in days if we faced a war, such as the ones the Ukrainians are facing right now\".\n\nWhen asked his reaction to those concerns, Mr Wallace said the UK government was going to spend £34bn on modernising the army.\n\nThe defence secretary said the UK military was \"not any less ready than others\", but added: \"We just need to make sure we get back to spending on our defence properly.\"\n\nMr Wallace spoke to the BBC from Brussels, where he is meeting Nato defence ministers for a summit at which Ukraine will top the agenda.\n\nCalls for increased spending on defence have been growing ahead of an expected spring offensive by Russia in Ukraine, and warnings about the threat from China after a suspected spy balloon was shot down over the US.\n\nWhen asked if he was requesting £10bn more in the upcoming budget, Mr Wallace said the Ministry of Defence - like all other departments - had been affected by rising costs.\n\nBut he said he would \"make the case to the Treasury that I will need some money to insulate myself\".\n\nDespite inflation and military budget cuts in the past, the UK has been one of the biggest supplier of arms to Ukraine in its war against President Vladimir Putin's invading forces.\n\nThe UK is set to become the first nation to start training Ukrainian pilots on Nato-standard aircraft, but the government has indicated that lending jets to Kyiv is a long-term prospect.\n\nAt the end of this year, the UK will be taking over the leadership of Nato's Response Force (NRF) from Germany.\n\nMr Wallace rubbished reports about Nato chiefs asking Germany to stay in charge of the organisation's rapid-reaction force.\n\nThe defence secretary said: \"I mean, to be honest, the simple reality is Nato leadership did not approach anybody. We are taking over the NRF as scheduled and it's interesting that story is based on a source on a German website I've never heard of.\"\n\nDowning Street has confirmed that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will travel to Munich this weekend, joining fellow world leaders for a conference on international security.\n\nLast year's conference, held just before Russia invaded Ukraine, was dominated by concerns over the prospect of conflict in the region.", "Greek authorities closed the Acropolis during the hottest part of the day\n\nMuch of southern Europe is baking in extreme heat, with Greece seeing temperatures of 40C (104F) or more.\n\nThe Acropolis, the country's most popular tourist attraction, was closed during the hottest hours of the day to protect visitors.\n\nPotentially record temperatures are expected next week as another heatwave approaches.\n\nThe European Space Agency (ESA) says Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland may see extreme conditions.\n\nThe ESA monitors land and sea temperatures via its satellites.\n\nThe hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C in Sicily in August 2021.\n\nThere are also fears in Greece of a greater risk of wildfires, especially in areas with high winds. It suffered major wildfires in 2021 in another exceptional heatwave.\n\nIn Croatia, fires broke out on Thursday, burning houses and cars in at least one village, Grebastica, on the Dalmatian coast. Officials told Croatian TV on Friday morning that the fire had been brought under control.\n\nHigh temperatures have also been reaching into central parts of Europe, with Germany and Poland among countries affected.\n\nCzechia's meteorological office issued a warning that temperatures at the weekend could go above 38C, which is exceptionally high for the country.\n\nMeanwhile in the UK, heavy showers and gusty winds are expected in parts of England on Saturday.\n\nMeteorologists quoted by PA suggested this was because the southern shift of the jet stream which was fuelling the hot weather in Europe, was also drawing low-pressure systems into the UK, bringing unsettled and cooler weather.\n\nVolunteers from the Hellenic Red Cross hand out water bottles\n\nEarlier this week, a man in his forties died from the heat after collapsing in northern Italy - while several visitors to the country have collapsed from heatstroke, including a British man outside the Colosseum in Rome.\n\nThe cause is the Cerberus heatwave - named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that features in Dante's Inferno.\n\nItalian weather forecasters are warning that the next heatwave - dubbed Charon after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology - will push temperatures back up above 40C next week.\n\nHeatwaves are also being seen in parts of the US, China, North Africa and Japan.\n\nItaly is one of the countries experiencing soaring temperatures\n\nGreece's Culture Ministry announced the closure of the Acropolis on Friday from 12:00 to 17:00 (9:00-14:00 GMT), saying similar measures were likely to follow on Saturday.\n\nTemperatures were expected to peak at 41C in central Athens on Friday, but the Acropolis sits on a rocky hilltop and is usually hotter.\n\nThere is little shade on the hill for respite.\n\nEarlier on Friday at least one tourist was stretchered out of the site after falling ill due to the heat, local police said.\n\nSeveral other tourist sites around the Sacred Rock where the Acropolis stands remained open throughout the day.\n\nIn recent days the Greek Red Cross has been deployed to provide water bottles and help people feeling nauseous and dizzy in the heat.\n\nPeople have been advised to drink at least two litres of water a day and to avoid coffee and alcohol, which are dehydrating.\n\nLast month was the hottest June on record, according to the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus.\n\nExtreme weather resulting from warming climate is \"unfortunately becoming the new normal\", the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned.\n\nPeriods of intense heat occur within natural weather patterns, but globally they are becoming more frequent, more intense and are lasting longer due to global warming.\n\nHow have you been affected by the extreme heat? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The government is likely to miss its target to build 40 new hospitals by 2030, the spending watchdog has said.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said in a report that the project had been beset by delays. It also warned that cost-cutting and inaccurate modelling of future demand could mean new hospitals are too small.\n\nThe health department remained \"firmly committed\" to delivering the England building pledge, a spokesperson said.\n\nThe hospitals plan was a Conservative manifesto commitment during the December 2019 election campaign, and it was made policy the following year.\n\nWhen the health department officially set out the plan in October 2020, eight hospital construction projects already under way were not included in the target. But recent government statements about building 40 new hospitals include these eight projects, referred to as \"legacy hospitals\".\n\nAnd in May, the government changed the scope of the scheme to include hospitals in urgent need of repairs, including five judged to be at risk of collapse because of crumbling concrete infrastructure.\n\nNow the National Audit Office has analysed the plans and found that, by the definition set out in 2020, the target will be missed, and only 32 will be built in time. The NAO said the government has used a \"broad\" definition of \"new\", which includes refurbishment of existing buildings as well as completely new hospitals.\n\nThe 32 that will be built in time include 24 from the original new hospitals programme, five that were added in May, and three new mental health hospitals.\n\nIt said a further eight do not count towards the original definition of \"new\" because they were already under way when the commitment was made.\n\nQuestions have been asked for some time about whether the programme is on track and it is significant that the watchdog has now ruled that, judged by the original template, it is not.\n\nIn May, a BBC News investigation found that building work had not started on 33 of the projects.\n\nThe NAO said staff shortages mean a planned design for a standardised hospital has been delayed until May 2024.\n\nIt also warned that a push to meet the target at the lowest possible cost - combined with optimistic forecasts about how much care will be outside hospitals in the future - could result in new hospitals that are too small.\n\nThe government had failed to achieve good value for money, the NAO said, as it called for a review of the underlying assumptions behind the plans to make sure the new hospitals are fit for purpose.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay had already told MPs in May that some of the original group included in the new hospitals programme might not be completed by 2030.\n\nHe made the admission as he updated the department's building plans to deal with hospitals built with a lightweight concrete that was used in the 1980s and is now judged to be unsafe.\n\nBut he restated the commitment to deliver 40 new hospitals by the end of the decade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says delivering 40 new hospitals is \"one of the many things\" the government is doing for the health service.\n\nThe Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has also said the target will be met.\n\nHe described the plans to build the hospitals as one of the \"many things we're doing\" to improve healthcare, citing \"community diagnostics in local communities\" and the workforce plan as \"all ways we're backing the NHS\" and \"cutting waiting lists\".\n\nGareth Davies, head of the NAO, said the programme included \"innovative plans\" to improve efficiency and quality. But there are important lessons to ensure future major projects were affordable, transparent and delivered on time, he said.\n\nSir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, urged the government to \"shift gears\" to get the hospitals built and warned that costs had \"spiralled due to high inflation\".\n\nHe said many NHS trusts were \"deeply disappointed\" by delays and said the government \"could have better managed expectations about the funding available, given the uncertainty involved and the impact of inflation\".\n\nNHS leaders have warned some buildings desperately need to be upgraded\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said the \"utterly damning report demolishes the government's claims to be building 40 'new hospitals'\".\n\nShe called on the health secretary to make an urgent statement in Parliament addressing its findings, saying \"the public deserves answers\".\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: \"The Conservatives have overpromised, under-delivered, and they've been found out.\n\n\"Meanwhile patients are being treated in outdated, crumbling hospitals.\"\n\nA health department spokesperson said: \"The NAO's report acknowledges that despite changes to the original programme, 40 new hospitals are still expected to be delivered by 2030 and praises the programme's innovative plans to standardise hospital construction, deliver efficiencies and improve quality.\n\n\"We remain firmly committed to delivering these hospitals, which are now expected to be backed by over £20 billion of investment, helping to cut waiting lists so people can get the treatment they need quicker.\n\n\"Three new hospitals have already opened and more will open this year so patients and staff can benefit from major new hospital buildings, equipped with the latest technology.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Sounds, BBC Radio 5 Live and the website and app, where there will be live text commentary and in-play video clips (UK only). Highlights on iPlayer and Red Button.\n\nIt's time to dare to dream.\n\nVery few thought Heather Knight's England could get to this position - levelling the multi-format points-based Ashes series after Australia raced ahead with a 6-0 lead.\n\nKnight and England were perhaps among the only ones who did believe.\n\nThe captain said her team would \"fly\" after overcoming the psychological hurdle of getting one win on the board against the world champions, which they did in the second T20 at The Oval.\n\nBut England are not just flying.\n\nThey are soaring, and in a fascinating twist, Australia are the ones succumbing to the pressure.\n• None 'She's just an off-spinner' - how England demystified Australia\n\nThere was a sense after England's 2-1 series win in the T20 leg that they had already achieved enough, that they had exceeded expectations and now normality would resume in the 50-over format.\n\nAfter all, it is Australia's strength: they are world champions, and England had not previously beaten them in the format since 2017.\n\nAnd in a fitting coincidence, that win came at Bristol, also where Knight's side reached parity with Australia with a tense two-wicket win.\n\nEngland still face a tough task, needing to win their two remaining games (or one, if the other is tied or washed out), while just one win sees current holders Australia retain the trophy.\n\nBut despite the hype, England are keeping their feet firmly on the ground.\n\n\"We're not taking them lightly, they're not pushovers whatsoever,\" said England batter Tammy Beaumont.\n\n\"But we're playing good cricket. We've gone toe-to-toe with them.\n\n\"We've always felt we can beat them, but in the past we probably wouldn't have thought we could achieve that after going 6-0 down.\"\n\nEngland's aggressive style of play has provided much of the thrill throughout the series, sparked by Lauren Filer's raw pace in the Test match and accelerated by the brutal hitting of Alice Capsey and Danni Wyatt with the white ball.\n\nAnd there is plenty to improve, too - England dropped five chances at Bristol and missed a stumping, and ended up chasing at least 40 more than they needed to.\n\nBut throughout it all, Knight has remained calm, Sophie Ecclestone has been world-class and quite ominously for Australia, Nat Sciver-Brunt is yet to really fire.\n\nThe world's best preparing for the unknown\n\nPerhaps the most intriguing element of it all is how Australia are going to handle the pressure.\n\nWhile England are basking in the joy of unfamiliar territory, there is no precedent for how this Australia side will react.\n\nAfter the T20 defeat that allowed England to creep back in to contention, captain Alyssa Healy said it was a \"kick up the bum\" - but the performance that followed at Bristol suggested the kick had not quite been hard enough.\n\nThey have built themselves a reputation of a team with immaculately high standards under skipper Meg Lanning, who is absent from the tour for medical reasons.\n\nThey grind bowlers down with the bat, frustrate batters with their consistency and pull off athletic saves in the field when everyone in the ground is assuming that it's gone for four.\n\nBut in the first ODI, balls slipped through legs to the boundary, fielders were giving up on achievable chases (for them), bowlers gave away 17 wides and some batters threw away their wickets cheaply.\n\nIt is difficult to say whether this is down to Lanning's absence, or whether England's aggression has landed a psychological blow.\n\nAnd yet, Australia's brilliance is shown in the fact that they are probably still favourites, and that even in their poor performances, England have had to work very hard for the wins.\n\nThey are not be used to being the wounded tiger, and England, so often the prey, are not used to being the hunter.\n\nHistory beckons for England, or else world order will be restored.", "Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, has reached at least as high as 128F (53.9C)\n\nA heat dome over the US south-west has translated into extreme heat warnings from coast to coast, which continue to affect more than 110 million people.\n\nTemperature records could be broken in as many as 38 cities.\n\nIn Las Vegas, the intense heatwave was threatening to break or tie the city's record high of 117F (47.2C).\n\nIt comes as soaring temperatures are also hitting southern Europe and Canada is battling the worst season of wildfires in its history.\n\nScientists have long warned that climate change linked to human activities will lead to an increase in the severity and frequency of extreme weather events.\n\nElsewhere in the south-western US, hundreds of firefighters have been battling brush fires in blistering heat and low humidity on the outskirts of Los Angeles.\n\nTemperatures in Death Valley in California hit 128F (53.9C) on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). It is the site of the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth: 134F (56.7C).\n\nThe usually crowded streets of Las Vegas were considerably emptier than normal on Sunday, with security guards monitoring the fountains of casinos and hotels to prevent people from jumping in.\n\nThe famous strip was a quiet inferno. Some people walked outside, but mostly just to cross the street to the next casino. And those who did exit were mostly intoxicated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen one couple was asked why they were outside, they said referring to one of the most popular hotels and casinos on the strip: \"All roads lead to the Bellagio.\" Another group of young men shouted: \"It's Vegas baby! The heat's not going to stop us!\"\n\nBut elsewhere in Las Vegas, people were hanging on to any bit of shade, whether it came from the shadow of a building or even a small tree. At a taco shop on the strip, the tables were all full of patrons dripping with sweat and looking utterly wiped out from the heat. Workers too were draped in the booths, not speaking to each other, but fanning themselves down.\n\nInside the casinos, though, business continued. The air conditioning was blasting so high, people were wearing jumpers to stay warm, and there was no indication of devastating temperatures, other than the people walking in off the street with sweat streaming down their faces.\n\nEl Paso, in Texas, has seen temperatures of 100.4F (38C) and above for more than a month now, with no respite in sight.\n\nIn Phoenix, Arizona, temperatures have remained above 109.4F (43C) for 17 days. Thick cloud cover on Sunday meant the city was granted a modest reprieve from recent peaks, but daytime temperatures still reached highs of 114F (45.5C).\n\nThe heat is set to continue for the foreseeable future, and authorities are warning that vulnerable people - including children, pregnant women and the elderly - are at serious risk of heat-related illness.\n\nMobile clinics report treating homeless people suffering from third-degree burns. Public buildings in some parts of California and Nevada have been turned into \"cooling centres\" where people can take refuge from the heat.\n\nAmid the extreme temperatures being seen in Death Valley, Park Ranger Matthew Lamar said: \"We hadn't hit 130F (54.4C) here for over 100 years. And then in 2020, we got 130, in 2021 we got 130, and then we might hit it again this weekend.\"\n\nHe added that the weather was attracting tourists who wanted to \"experience the extremes\".\n\nBut some visitors said others should not lose sight of the fact that those extremes are a symptom of climate change.\n\nSpeaking to Reuters on Saturday, Tom Comitta said: \"People are coming out here to celebrate this. People are excited. It's not a milestone. I'm calling it Happy Death Day.\"\n\nA heat dome occurs when an area of high pressure pushes air towards the ground, compressing it and causing it to heat. The warmer air then rises again, setting up a cycle in which air sinks through the centre of the 'dome' and rises up its sides.\n\nThe pressure also prevents other weather systems that would cool the area - such as rain clouds - from forming.\n\nThe NWS has said that the current system in the southwestern US is \"one of the strongest\" of its kind to hit the region.\n\nThe Weather Channel has said the dome will expand across the nation's south by the middle of next week - meaning other southern US states will see temperatures rise.\n\nMeanwhile, other parts of the US are bracing themselves for severe thunderstorms and flash floods - and north-eastern states could experience another bout of poor air quality as a result of the continuing wildfires in Canada.\n\n\"As if the rain coming out of the sky isn't enough, if you start looking up tomorrow, you're going to see a similar situation in what we had a couple of weeks ago because of the air quality degradation [from the wildfires],\" New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a press conference. \"And as I said before, this is possibly our new normal.\"\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nAre you in the area? How have you been affected by the extreme temperatures? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nottinghamshire Police have released footage of the moment officers caught a speeding motorcyclist.\n\nThe video from April 2022 shows the biker trying to evade arrest by running through gardens and jumping fences in Kelham village. Officers were guided to his location by the force's aircraft.\n\nThe 23-year old biker, who was driving without insurance, has been handed a nine month prison sentence suspended for two years.\n\nPC Sarah Clifton said: “This was an appalling display of riding that could easily have ended in tragedy.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nAustralia retained the Women's Ashes with a dramatic three-run victory over England, who so nearly pulled off a remarkable victory through Nat Sciver-Brunt's masterful unbeaten century.\n\nSciver-Brunt, who scored 111 off 99 balls, dragged England from 203-7 to a position where they needed 15 runs from the last over and five off the final ball.\n\nHowever, Australia and Jess Jonassen, who bowled the final over, held their nerve to retain the urn with one match to spare by virtue of being the holders.\n\nThe points-based series, which is now 8-6 in favour of Australia, concludes at Taunton on Tuesday.\n\nAustralia owe plenty to number eight batter Georgia Wareham, who smashed 26 from the last over of the tourists' innings, bowled by Lauren Bell, to drag them from 240-7 with three overs remaining.\n\nWhile it was a match-defining over, England were also left to rue another sloppy performance in the field, dropping all-rounder Ellyse Perry three times in her innings of 91.\n\nIn the second ODI at Bristol, England levelled the series with their highest-ever run chase and were set the task of breaking that record again to keep their hopes alive once more.\n\nEngland started positively, with opener Tammy Beaumont continuing her fine form with 60 from 62 balls before Australia's spinners once again proved the difference.\n\nAll seven England wickets fell to spin as leg-spinner Alana King and off-spinner Ash Gardner took three each to unravel the middle order.\n\nSciver-Brunt stood firm with a chanceless knock, her third unbeaten century in her past four ODI innings against Australia, but she slumped to her knees in devastation as she could only manage a single from the final ball.\n\nEngland can still draw the series with a win in the final ODI, but were visibly distraught by the defeat having dragged themselves back into contention after Australia initially raced into a 6-0 lead in the points-based series.\n• None Pick your team of the 2023 Women's Ashes\n• None Ashes has been best ever in women's cricket history - Knight\n\nIn the 2022 World Cup final Sciver-Brunt hit a sublime 148 not out in England's pursuit of a mammoth 356 against the same opponents.\n\nThere were echoes of the same innings at Southampton: Australia favourites, but England's talismanic all-rounder standing between them and glory.\n\nAt 144-5, few had hopes of an England comeback, as ruthless Australia reverted to their best - which has been absent throughout the series.\n\nBut Sciver-Brunt found company in Amy Jones, who scored 37 in a stand of 57, until the game tilted back towards the visitors when Jones and Sophie Ecclestone departed in the same Gardner over.\n\nShe then found perhaps more unlikely company in Sarah Glenn, who played her number nine role expertly as she nudged and nurdled her way to 22 from 35 balls to give England hope, needing 21 from the last two overs.\n\nSciver-Brunt found the boundary at key moments to keep England in the game, and her fitness allowed her to run singles and twos between the wickets against Australia's incredible fielders.\n\nAs England's star player, there is more pressure on Sciver-Brunt and there were signs she was feeling it, without a half-century in the white-ball series until now.\n\nShe saved her best for when it mattered most, with the Ashes on the line, but once again fell cruelly short and had to watch even more jubilant Australian celebrations.\n\nSpin the difference as Australia serve reminder of class\n\nAustralia's spinners have been excellent throughout the series, even in defeat, but it has actually been a rare triumph for them.\n\nEngland have attacked them, and unsettled their usual dominance, and it has shown in the performances with the bat, in the field and from the seamers.\n\nA brave selection call was made, dropping pacer Darcie Brown for another spinner in King, and it proved pivotal.\n\nKing bowled with variation, deception of pace and changed the game with a beautiful turning delivery to bowl Beaumont and disrupt England's free-flowing scoring.\n\nGardner has had a phenomenal series, kick-started by her eight wickets in the Test, while Jonassen showed all her experience to expertly close out the game.\n\nThey also corrected their mistakes in the field, exemplified by Phoebe Litchfield's stunning full-length dive to turn a boundary into two runs, which may not have looked significant at the time but given the margin of victory, it was crucial.\n\nEngland once again fought so bravely, but were ultimately edged out by moments of greatness.\n\n'We showed all our grit and determination' - what they said\n\nAustralia captain Alyssa Healy: \"It was a really, really good game of cricket. Both sides really hung in there and Nat Sciver-Brunt, yet again, played an incredible innings - I thought she was going to take it away from us at the end.\n\n\"But full credit to our girls, they showed all their grit and determination again and we got ourselves over the line.\n\n\"To know that the Ashes are coming home with us is hugely exciting.\"\n\nEngland captain Heather Knight on BBC Test Match Special: \"It's been a ridiculous series, and has to go down as the best ever in history.\n\n\"How Nat played to get so close was brilliant. To nearly chase down that total was really good.\n\n\"Our focus now is to win both white-ball series. We're gutted we weren't able to keep the momentum.\"\n\nEx-Australia batter Alex Blackwell on TMS: \"I haven't seen a tighter series between these two, it's been outstanding. England should be very, very proud. They were 6-0 down after the first T20 and they found a way to level it.\"\n• None Can you trust your best mate to be your best man? Find out in Jason Manford and Steve Edge’s new podcast\n• None Can certain foods make you hungrier? Professor Tim Spector takes Michael Mosley through his top food and nutrition tips", "Iran's controversial morality police are tasked with enforcing the country's strict dress code (file image)\n\nIran's morality police are to resume controversial street patrols to enforce the dress code requiring women to cover their hair and wear loose clothing.\n\nIt comes 10 months after mass protests erupted in response to the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, who was held for allegedly wearing \"improper\" hijab.\n\nWomen and girls have burnt their headscarves or waved them in the air at the anti-establishment demonstrations.\n\nMany have even stopped covering their hair in public altogether.\n\nAuthorities attempted to enforce the dress code using other measures while the morality police patrols were paused, but they have been met with derision on social media and open defiance on the streets.\n\nUnder Iranian law, which is based on the country's interpretation of Sharia, women must cover their hair with a hijab (headscarf) and wear long, loose-fitting clothing to disguise their figures.\n\nSince 2006, special police units formally known as the Guidance Patrols (Gasht-e Ershad) have been tasked with enforcing those rules.\n\nMahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was detained by the force in Tehran on 13 September. She died three days later in hospital.\n\nThere were reports that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles while taking her to a \"re-education centre\". However, authorities blamed her death on an underlying health condition - something her family denied.\n\nMany Iranians expressed outrage and protests against the morality police and the wider clerical establishment swept across the country in its wake.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed and thousands more have been detained in a violent crackdown by security forces, which have portrayed the protests as foreign-instigated \"riots\". Seven protesters have also been executed following what a UN expert has called \"sham trials marred by torture allegations\".\n\nAs well as demonstrating on the streets, videos and photos posted on social media suggested that an increasing number of women and girls were not covering their hair in public.\n\nAuthorities responded by installing surveillance cameras to identify them and closing businesses that turn a blind eye to dress code violations.\n\nWomen and men who supported the rules also appeared to take enforcement into their own hands. Earlier this year, a video emerged showing a man throwing a tub of yoghurt in the face of two unveiled women.\n\nOn Sunday, police spokesman Saeed Montazerolmahdi confirmed that morality police patrols had resumed across the country to \"deal with those who, unfortunately, ignore the consequences of not wearing the proper hijab and insist on disobeying the norms\".\n\n\"If they disobey the orders of the police force, legal action will be taken, and they will be referred to the judicial system,\" he added.\n\nHowever, a university student identified only as Ismaili expressed doubt that the officers would be able to impose the dress code as they had before Mahsa Amini's death.\n\n\"The number of people who do not obey is too high now,\" she told Reuters news agency. \"They cannot handle all of us, the last thing they can do is use violence and force against us. They cannot do it.\"\n\nThe reformist newspaper Hammihan warned that the resumption of patrols could \"cause chaos\" in society, while reformist politician Azar Mansouri said it showed the \"gap between the people and the state is widening\".\n\nIranians also took to social media to condemn the move as well as the arrest on Sunday of an actor, Mohammad Sadeqi, after he urged women to defend themselves when accosted by morality police.\n\nMr Sadeqi claimed in an Instagram post that the state had \"declared a war\" on them and advised women to carry \"machetes\" to fight back. \"Trust me, people will kill you,\" he warned officers.\n\nHours later, the actor partially live-streamed a raid by plainclothes security forces on his home in Tehran during which he was forcefully detained.\n\nThe judiciary's Mizan news agency said he was accused of \"instigating violence through unconventional and unlawful comments online\".", "One care home in Scotland is closing every week on average, industry leaders have warned.\n\nScottish Care, which represents private operators, said the industry was in an \"incredibly difficult\" position due to funding and staffing challenges.\n\nAnd smaller, family-run homes in rural areas are the most vulnerable to closure, the body added.\n\nA new funding deal between care homes and council umbrella body Cosla has been agreed.\n\nBut care homes argue the 6% uplift does not go far enough to cover increased energy and recruitment costs.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Scotland Sunday Show, Karen Hedge, deputy chief executive of Scottish Care, said the deal was the best Cosla could realistically offer but still \"doesn't cut it\".\n\nShe said: \"It is incredibly difficult right now, I'm having phone calls from our members in tears who are having to close what has been a family business for them for many years.\n\n\"What we are seeing as a result of that is the impact on the residents and their loved ones, who in some places are having to drive up to two hours to go to another care home in a different community.\"\n\nAs well as more homes closing, Ms Hedge said care at home packages were also being impacted by private operators not being able to meet the increased costs in what she described as another example of \"the way social care is a Cinderella service compared to the NHS\".\n\nAdam Stachura, head of policy and communications at Age Scotland, said the care home closure figures \"should be setting alarm bells ringing across the country\".\n\nHe added: \"Social care is critical to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people - it is incredibly worrying and I actually don't understand how it will get better.\n\n\"The vast majority of care homes are provided by private organisations, there are very few council-run care homes any more.\n\n\"So one closing every week is devastating because where on earth do these people go?\"\n\nThe National Care Home Contract (NCHC) was set up about 15 years ago in response to disputes over rates between care homes, local and central government.\n\nThose fees are now set through annual negotiation between Scottish Care and Cosla, which represents local authorities.\n\nA 6% uplift has been agreed but some in the industry say this was borne out of sheer desperation for more funding to keep going.\n\nPlans for a new national care service in Scotland, which would see a series of regional care boards set up that would operate in the same way as health boards, have been postponed.\n\nThe new service would see Scottish government ministers directly responsible for social care services instead of local councils.\n\nHowever, uncertainty about the costs involved in setting up and running the new service and the implications for local decision-making remain.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"The national care home rate is not set by the Scottish government and is negotiated by Cosla and Scottish Care.\n\n\"We are pleased that Scottish Care members have agreed to accept the 6% uplift offer from Cosla to agree the national care home contract.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details\n\nMarketa Vondrousova became the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon women's singles title as Ons Jabeur's wait for a major goes on.\n\nVondrousova, 24, is ranked 42nd in the world after missing six months of last season with a wrist injury.\n\nBut the Czech handled the nerves of the occasion better than 2022 runner-up Jabeur to win Saturday's final 6-4 6-4.\n\nSixth seed Jabeur, 28, has now lost all three major finals she has played in and was in tears at the end.\n\nVondrousova, who came to Wimbledon as a fan last year wearing a cast after wrist surgery, fell flat on her back as the magnitude of what she had achieved sank in.\n\n\"I don't know what is happening - it is an amazing feeling,\" said Vondrousova, who beat five seeded players to lift the Venus Rosewater Dish.\n\nAfter sharing a warm embrace with Jabeur at the net, she knelt on the grass again and looked close to tears as she drew the acclaim of the Centre Court crowd.\n\nThen, as is tradition these days, she clambered up to the players' box to hug her team and family - including husband Stepan, who arrived in London to watch the final after previously staying at home in Prague to look after their pet cat.\n\nBy contrast, Jabeur looked heartbroken as she sat on her chair with her head bowed.\n\n\"This is very, very tough. The most painful loss of my career,\" said Jabeur, who had been aiming to be the first African or Arab woman to win a Grand Slam singles title.\n• None New tattoo for Vondrousova after etching name into history\n• None 'My most painful loss' - tears flow again on Centre\n\nVondrousova becomes 'most unlikely' Wimbledon champion\n\nVondrousova reached the French Open final as a teenager in 2019, where she lost to Australia's Ashleigh Barty, before seeing her progress hampered by two wrist surgeries.\n\nClay courts have long been considered the Czech's best surface and she admitted before her semi-final she \"never thought\" she could do well on grass.\n\nBut her game style - using a top-spin forehand to good effect, the ability to play with variety and regularly able to keep the ball in play - has translated to the grass courts.\n\nVondrousova came into Wimbledon having won only four grass-court matches in her career.\n\nEven after winning under the Centre Court roof - which was closed because of winds predicted to reach speeds of 50mph - still owns an 11-11 win-loss record on the surface.\n\nIt led American former world number one Tracy Austin - who was working on BBC Sport's television coverage of the final - saying Vondrousova was the \"most unlikely\" champion.\n\nNerves get better of Jabeur\n\nHistory was at stake for both players, but particularly for Jabeur, who has become a trailblazer for African and Arab women.\n\nBut the Tunisian, who was the pre-match favourite, looked overwhelmed by the weight of expectation.\n\nWhile both players managed beaming smiles for the camera as they posed for the traditional pre-match photograph, the nerves associated with playing in a Wimbledon final quickly became apparent.\n\nJabeur seemed more stressed than her opponent in a tense opening set, even after she took an early break to lead 2-0.\n\nShe stayed rooted to the baseline as she looked to find rhythm, rarely employing her favoured drop-shot and was broken straight back for 2-1.\n\nThree successive breaks of serve - in favour of Vondrousova - were indicative of the tension that remained on both sides of the net, but particularly for Jabeur, who saw a 4-2 advantage disappear.\n\nJabeur, who has an effervescent and engaging personality, is known as the 'Minister of Happiness' back home and usually plays with a smile on her face.\n\nBut her body language became increasingly negative, head bowed and shoulders slumping, clearly unable to compute what was happening.\n\nAfter Vondrousova served out for a one-set lead, Jabeur took a short break in the locker room. When she emerged, she lost serve again before finally growing in confidence and playing more freely to move 3-1 ahead.\n\nHowever, uncertainty quickly reappeared. Vondrousova broke back in the fifth game of a match which continued to provide twists and turns.\n\nJabeur, who lost to Elena Rybakina in last year's final after winning the first set, has become a crowd favourite at the All England Club in recent years.\n\nEncouraging shouts of support came her way after she lost serve again for 5-4 and, despite briefly wobbling with a double fault on her first match point, Vondrousova sealed a famous win.\n\n\"It's going to be a tough day but I'm not going to give up. I will come back stronger,\" said Jabeur, who beat four Grand Slam champions to reach another final.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can you trust your best mate to be your best man? Find out in Jason Manford and Steve Edge’s new podcast\n• None Can certain foods make you hungrier? Professor Tim Spector takes Michael Mosley through his top food and nutrition tips", "The OfS says nearly three-in-10 graduates do not progress to highly-skilled jobs or further study 15 months after graduating\n\nUniversities in England could be restricted in recruiting students to poor quality courses, under new government plans.\n\nMinisters will ask the independent regulator to limit numbers on courses that do not have \"good outcomes\".\n\nEducation Minister Robert Halfon said imposing restrictions would encourage universities to improve course quality.\n\nLabour said the move would \"put up fresh barriers to opportunity in areas with fewer graduate jobs\".\n\nThe advocacy group Universities UK said university was a great investment for the vast majority of students.\n\nA spokeswoman for the organisation warned any measures must be \"targeted and proportionate, and not a sledgehammer to crack a nut\".\n\nAre you a student or recent graduate with a view on this story? Get in touch.\n\nThe government said courses that do not have \"good outcomes\" for students would include those that have high drop-out rates or have a low proportion of students going on to professional jobs. It will also look at potential earnings when deciding if a degree offers enough value.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"The UK is home to some of the best universities in the world and studying for a degree can be immensely rewarding. But too many young people are being sold a false dream and end up doing a poor-quality course at the taxpayers' expense that doesn't offer the prospect of a decent job at the end of it.\"\n\nNearly three-in-10 graduates do not progress into highly-skilled jobs or further study 15 months after graduating, according to the regulator, the Office for Students (OfS).\n\nThe OfS already has the power to investigate and sanction universities in England which offer degrees falling below minimum performance thresholds - but the new rules would permit the regulator to limit student numbers for those courses.\n\nThe current thresholds for full-time students doing a first degree are for:\n\nThis announcement does not change these criteria, and other aspects of the policy are unclear, such as how many students may be denied a place at university in future and which subjects would be most affected.\n\nThe Department for Education would not say which courses would be at risk of recruitment limits as this would be for the OfS to determine.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Education Minister Mr Halfon said putting limits on underperforming degrees would mean those courses \"will then improve\".\n\n\"Students will be able to make informed choices,\" he said. \"If a course has poor outcomes they might choose to do another course at university, they may still decide to do that course but will have the recruitment limits on it.\"\n\nHe suggested the OfS would use \"existing powers\" to look into poor quality courses, saying: \"We can't order the Office for Students to do anything.\"\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said the announcement was \"an attack on the aspirations of young people\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says apprenticeships are an “equally high alternative to universities”.\n\nBut Mr Halfon dubbed that accusation as \"nonsense\".\n\n\"The Labour party has been obsessed with quantity over quality and had been party of poor standards in education,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson said the prime minister was \"out of ideas\" and had \"dug up a policy the Conservatives announced and then unannounced twice over\".\n\nShe said: \"Universities don't want this. It's a cap on aspiration, making it harder for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to go on to further study.\"\n\nUniversities UK said the UK had the highest completion rates of any OECD country and overall satisfaction rates were high.\n\n\"However, it is right that the regulatory framework is there as a backstop to protect student interests in the very small proportion of instances where quality needs to be improved,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe idea originated in a 2018 review set up under then-Prime Minister Theresa May. The same review also suggested that more money needed to be pumped into education and that tuition fees needed to be cut - but these are not being implemented.\n\nThe new pledge comes ahead of three by-elections in Conservative-held seats on Thursday.\n\nThe government also announced it would reduce the maximum fees universities in England can charge for classroom-based foundation-year courses, from £9,250 to £5,760. In 2021/22, 29,080 students across the UK were studying a foundation degree.\n\nFoundation year courses are designed to help prepare students for degrees with specific entry requirements or knowledge, such as medicine and veterinary sciences.\n\nHowever, the government said research suggested too many people were encouraged to take a foundation year in some subjects like business, where it was not necessary.\n\nUniversity Alliance, which represents professional and technical universities, said cutting fees for foundation year courses was \"disappointingly regressive\" and \"makes them financially unviable to deliver\".\n\nChief executive Vanessa Wilson said: \"Disadvantaged students and the 'Covid generation' will lose out if this provision is reduced or lost.\"\n\nShe added that the government had chosen \"to berate one of the few UK sectors which is genuinely world-leading\".\n\nUpdate 28 July 2023: This article was amended to make clear government plans apply to universities in England only.", "Keir Starmer’s megaphone message to his party: We’re not going promise to spend lots of cash as we head into the next election.\n\nFor political reasons, he wants to head off any attacks from the Tories. For economic reasons, he and the shadow chancellor think it would be the wrong thing to do.\n\nBut when he repeatedly won’t say if Labour would spend more money on the public services than the Conservatives, that is a hard message for many in his party to hear. And likely for many members of the public too, who want more cash to be spent on the services around them.\n\nHis answer is to use the ‘r’ word - reform.\n\nBut when it comes down to brass tacks it is hard to understand what that really means. The labour leader gave an example of digitising paper files when he was the boss of the Crown Prosecution Service, and he emphasised again and again that he wants to fix the country’s long term problems.\n\nThe tricky bit is that many voters want answers to problems they face right now. As the election approaches, the pressure on Sir Keir to make expensive promises is only going to grow.\n\nThat’s why with a year or so to go, part of what the leadership is trying to do is manage expectations of how much they will actually be able to do if they win.\n\nA few months ago, Sir Keir said, there were “good Labour things” he would like to do in office, but they would have to wait.\n\nToday he spelt out even more forcibly that spending huge extra sums would only happen once the economy improves.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I am very disappointed by Labour's lack of ambition, says union leader\n\nLabour needs to be \"bolder\" and \"more ambitious\", rather than \"tinkering around the edges\", the head of the UK's second largest union has told the BBC.\n\nUnite leader Sharon Graham warned that otherwise \"apathy\" would be the winner at the next general election.\n\nThe union gives more money to Sir Keir Starmer's party than any other.\n\nMs Graham saw off a bid this week by some members to end Unite's affiliation to Labour, which guarantees the party nearly £1.5m a year.\n\nShe argued it would be the worst time to leave the Labour Party when it was \"within touching distance of power, because that would reduce union influence\".\n\nMs Graham's membership spans public and private sectors, so what influence does she want to exercise?\n\nNext Saturday, Labour's National Policy Forum meets behind closed doors in Nottingham.\n\nIt brings together trade union representatives with MPs, grassroots members, and some shadow ministers.\n\nAlthough any policies agreed there are not guaranteed to be included in the next election manifesto, trade unions can make very clear where their priorities lie.\n\nFor Unite, taking energy companies and the struggling steel industry into public ownership are near the top of its agenda.\n\nDuring a number of meetings with the Labour leadership, Ms Graham has pressed her case that it would be cheaper to buy a steel industry that has lost much of its market value, than to bail out its private owners.\n\nThe Labour leader was publicly urged to do this when he spoke at Unite's policy conference in Brighton this week.\n\nBut while he has talked of \"preserving\" the industry if Labour wins power, he would not commit to acquiring it for the state.\n\nMs Graham is now intending to take a less conventional approach to policy-making.\n\nThe plan is for \"hundreds of organisers\" to go to marginal seats and talk to voters there about the case for taking key industries into public hands.\n\nThe message will be reinforced by Unite-funded billboards.\n\nThe hope is that then voters will press local Labour parties and local candidates to commit to backing nationalisation.\n\n\"We will take our ideas to the people,\" Ms Graham told me.\n\n\"The real decision-makers are the voters. If they push those ideas, politicians tend to move when they speak to voters.\"\n\nHer over-arching criticism is that Labour's leadership is not setting out a distinctive enough alternative to the government, and feels too constrained by the state of the economy.\n\nShe argued that \"we need be as bold as the 1945 Labour government\" which created the NHS. \"There wasn't much money about then, I can tell you,\" she said.\n\nThe next Labour government could leave a lasting legacy, she suggested.\n\n\"People will say they remember when energy companies were privatised and when they paid massive bills, and it was a Labour government that stopped all that.\"\n\nThe Labour leadership would argue that unless the party is trusted on the economy, many of the things trade unions want - like increased employment rights - simply won't happen.\n\nIts strategists also believe that it has to be seen to be moving away from Corbyn-era policies to win back voters who abandoned the party in 2019.\n\nBut Ms Graham told me that abiding strictly by shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves's \"fiscal rules\" had led to \"inertia\", and people were beginning to ask: \"What's the difference?\" between government and opposition.\n\n\"If Labour are saying what's happening now is awful, and it is absolutely awful, they have to come out with solutions to that.\"\n\nWhile Labour is criticising the number of children in poverty, its shadow ministers have been told they can't commit, for example, to provide free school meals for all primary children, because that would be a spending commitment.\n\nMs Graham said the party must \"talk about what they can do to change Britain. People want something to vote for.\"\n\nShe told her members this week that maintaining Unite's financial link to Labour would give her \"maximum leverage\" with the party.\n\nBut so far she hasn't moved policy on energy and steel. So by guaranteeing funds to Sir Keir Starmer, wasn't she actually reducing her bargaining power?\n\n\"The affiliation fee is what you pay to be part of the club. But most of the money we gave Labour traditionally was outside the affiliation fee,\" she said.\n\nFor example, the union donated an additional £3m to Labour before the last election.\n\nBut Ms Graham warned there were \"no blank cheques\".\n\n\"I want to see some movement if we are going to give what we usually give... We would be better off with a Labour government, but I am very, very disappointed with the lack of ambition.\"", "Lucy Spraggan, now 31, has told how she was sexually assaulted by a hotel porter during the X Factor 2012\n\nFormer X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan has revealed she was raped by a hotel porter during the production of the ITV show in 2012.\n\nShe withdrew from the show, citing an illness at the time, but told the Guardian the real reason was because she was attacked.\n\nSpraggan said she felt let down by the programme makers.\n\nSimon Cowell, creator of X Factor, said what happened to Spraggan was \"horrific and heart-breaking\".\n\n\"When I was given the opportunity to speak to Lucy, I was able to personally tell her how sorry I was about everything she has been through.\n\n\"Lucy is one of the most authentic, talented and brave people I have ever met.\"\n\nSpraggan, who was 20 at the time, said the assault happened after a night out in central London celebrating the 25th birthday of fellow contestant Rylan Clark.\n\nIn her new memoir, Process: Finding My Way Through, the 31-year-old waives the right to anonymity granted to victims of sexual offences to tell her story for the first time.\n\nShe said she was escorted back to the hotel by a member of the production team when a hotel porter offered to take her to her room.\n\nShe told the Guardian: \"I woke up the next day with this sense of sheer dread.\n\n\"I don't think I've ever felt that level of confusion since. I knew that I'd been raped, but I could not process that. So I put my clothes on and went into autopilot.\"\n\nAlthough the production team called police and an arrest was quickly made, Spraggan said she believed they were \"unprepared\" to deal with what had happened.\n\nSpraggan received financial and medical support in the immediate aftermath of the crime, but the singer said she wasn't given any support after the trial in which her attacker was convicted.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson praised Spraggan for her \"resilience and bravery\", adding the series was produced by Thames (part of Fremantle) and Syco, owned by Simon Cowell.\n\nThey said it was those two companies which were \"primarily responsible for duty of care towards all of its programme contributors\".\n\nA spokesperson for Fremantle said \"to our knowledge, the assault was an event without precedent in the UK television industry\" and they \"believed throughout that we were doing our best to support Lucy\".\n\nBut they added: \"As Lucy thinks we could have done more, we must therefore recognise this. For everything Lucy has suffered, we are extremely sorry.\n\n\"Since then, we have done our very best to learn lessons from these events and improve our aftercare processes.\n\n\"Whilst we have worked hard to try and protect Lucy's lifetime right to anonymity, we applaud her strength and bravery now that she has chosen to waive that right.\"\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues raised in this story, support and advice is available via the BBC Action Line.\n\nYou can see an exclusive broadcast interview with Lucy Spraggan on the BBC on Sunday at 22:00 BST.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Former Somerton and Frome MP David Warburton says allegations of sexual misconduct against him have been withdrawn.\n\nMr Warburton was suspended by the Conservative party in April 2022 when claims of sexual misconduct were made against him.\n\nHe resigned as an MP last month. He admitted drug-taking but denies any sexual misconduct.\n\nA by-election is being held this Thursday to elect his successor.\n\nThe House of Commons Independent Expert Panel (IEP) had ordered a reinvestigation into the allegations earlier this month.\n\nThe IEP panel found the first investigation had not been carried out to a sufficient standard, but it did not pass judgement on the allegations themselves and said those questions remain \"open\".\n\nHowever, on Sunday a spokesperson for the House of Commons confirmed \"the investigation will no longer be proceeding\".\n\nMr Warburton said: \"I know it's extremely rare for the Independent Expert Panel to fully uphold an appeal by an MP.\n\n\"I'm, of course, delighted but the past year has been extraordinarily painful for my family and for me, and the personal cost has been incalculable.\n\n\"As a result - and in order to speak out about the appalling injustice I have experienced - I have had to step down as an MP.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: Bristolbristol@bbc.co.uk", "Susan Hall has been a councillor in Harrow since 2006 and a member of the London-wide Assembly since 2017\n\nThe Conservative Party has complained to the Evening Standard about its \"contemptible\" front-page coverage of the selection of Susan Hall as the Tory candidate to be London's mayor.\n\nDeputy party chairman Nickie Aiken said the full-page picture of the London Assembly member the newspaper had used was a \"clear mockery\".\n\nShe said there was a \"whiff of misogyny\" about the paper's coverage.\n\nThe Evening Standard has been approached for comment.\n\nMs Hall was announced as the Tories' candidate earlier, after winning 57% of the vote from members.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a letter shared on Twitter, Ms Aiken wrote to Evening Standard editor Dylan Jones, saying: \"I am writing to you to express my sincere disappointment in your front page today.\n\n\"Your choice of photo of Susan Hall is a clear mockery, and it is contemptible, especially as the first female candidate for London mayor from either of the two main parties.\"\n\nParty chairman Greg Hands backed Ms Aiken's complaint, saying the coverage was \"extremely disappointing\".\n\nMs Hall was running against only one other hopeful, Mozammel Hossain, after David Cameron's former special adviser Daniel Korski dropped out of the race.\n\nHe was accused of groping TV producer Daisy Goodwin at 10 Downing Street in 2013, an allegation he denied.\n\nMs Hall will go up against Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan on 2 May.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The boss of one of Britain's biggest banks has apologised to the former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage after a row over the closure of his Coutts bank account.\n\nAlison Rose, chief executive of Natwest, which owns Coutts, said comments made about him were \"deeply inappropriate\".\n\nMr Farage said his account had been closed because his political views did not align with the bank's values.\n\nThe government has announced that banks will now face tougher rules over closing customer's accounts in a move designed to protect freedom of expression.\n\nThe BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at the dispute in more detail.", "A large male (in the background) sticks close to his post-reproductive mother\n\nOlder, \"post-menopausal\" orca mothers protect their adult sons from fights, according to new research.\n\nThe study examined tooth rake marks on the animals' bodies - inflicted in confrontations with other orcas.\n\nIt revealed that, when an adult male's post-menopausal mum is with him, he is much less likely to be harmed.\n\nBut, while four or five-tonne males benefit from this maternal protection, female offspring do not receive the same attention.\n\nLead researcher Charli Grimes from the University of Exeter told BBC News that the protection from these older mothers was very targeted: \"Mum is definitely, in some way, trying to protect her sons.\"\n\nFor the research, published in the journal Current Biology, scientists used photographs of orcas in a population that lives off the Pacific coast of North America. Ms Grimes and her colleagues found there were far fewer \"socially inflicted injuries\" on the bodies of male offspring which were with their mothers, but only when they were post-reproductive.\n\nThe work is part of long-term research on these \"southern resident\" killer whales. One of the key questions biologists have been asking, is why the females of this species stop reproducing part-way through their long lives.\n\nCeasing reproduction - or menopause, as it's referred to in human biology - is very unusual in the animal kingdom. It is limited to humans and a few whale species.\n\nFemale killer whales live up to 90 years in the wild, and most live more than 20 years after menopause.\n\nDecades of research on the southern residents has suggested that - instead of competing with their daughters to breed - these older female killer whales evolved to play a vital, matriarchal role long after they ceased to have their own calves.\n\nThey give particular attention to their sons. \"Males can breed with multiple females, so they have more potential to pass on their mother's genes,\" explained Ms Grimes.\n\nThe dorsal fin of an adult male orca showing tooth rake marks from a fight\n\nThis has resulted in mature, five-tonne male orcas sticking close to - and being very dependent on - their mothers.\n\n\"These sons are really reliant on their mums for their survival,\" said Ms Grimes. \"Mothers will even directly feed their sons salmon that they catch.\n\n\"[So] it could also be that mum is present in a situation of conflict, and can signal to her sons to avoid the risky behaviour they might be participating in.\"\n\nAdult males can weigh up to five tonnes\n\nThe ongoing study of this threatened killer whale population, which lives in the coastal waters between Vancouver and Seattle, was started by Dr Ken Balcomb. Initially, he wanted to examine the threats to their survival, particularly as the population was targeted for capture and sale to some marine parks.\n\nAs well as garnering the southern resident killer whales official protected status, the ensuing years of work and observations went on to reveal insights into killer whale life that could only have come to light through decades of study. The studies have revealed, for example, the vital role of killer whale grandmothers and how much the females sacrifice to support their sons.\n\nProfessor Darren Croft, also from the University of Exeter explained: \"We've got hypotheses, but we need to test them by seeing what's happening under water when these different groups interact. We've learned so much from this population, but we've still got so much to learn from them.\"", "A shooting has left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand, hours before the city is due to open the Fifa Women's World Cup.\n\nSix other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident at 07:22 (19:22 GMT) on a construction site in the central business district.", "Martock is a large village in the Somerton and Frome constituency\n\nAt the half-way point of the campaign to elect a new MP for Somerton and Frome, things are hotting-up on the by-election trail.\n\nBBC Somerset has been speaking to people across the constituency to hear what will be on their mind come polling day on 20 July, when former MP David Warburton's replacement will be confirmed.\n\nAt Martock's weekly community social club, Sharon O'Callaghan-Evans has strong thoughts for the candidates.\n\n\"There's a lot of poverty in rural areas that affects opportunities for education, housing, and (NHS) services are being rationed so much now they're hoping people die before they get a medical appointment,\" she said.\n\nSharon O'Callaghan-Evans, pictured with guide dog Quinn, wants to see more disabled people in employment\n\nMs O'Callaghan-Evans, who is registered blind, said: \"I want to still work, I've worked since I was 14, but there are assumptions about people like myself and there's a lot of talent being wasted and people being denied opportunities.\n\n\"Clubs like this are worth investing in because without clubs like this people like me would just fall through the cracks.\n\n\"What happened to the humanity in this green and pleasant land? The only green I've got is the mould on my bedrooms walls.\"\n\nAmong others at the club was a woman whose husband is having to move away to earn more money as a lorry driver due to the cost of living, another calling for British Sign Language to be taught in schools and a man who wants more support for community allotments like the one he has helped set up in the village.\n\nIan Banks recently retired to Martock. What will be in his mind come polling day I asked.\n\n\"The complete powerlessness of anyone in authority,\" he said.\n\n\"It's going to take a particularly impressive leader to begin to put their foot down and have the courage of their convictions.\n\n\"We have with the NHS, for instance, this aversion to privatising any part of it and yet if you look in France and Germany, who privatise big parts of it, there are no waiting lists.\n\n\"We have this ideology that says 'you cannot have profit in the health service' and we live with our queues as a consequence,\" added Mr Banks.\n\nDaisy Bell wants an MP who will think about the community\n\nAt Somerton Tennis Club, Daisy Bell and her mum Barbara Foster are regular players.\n\nThey are among those who seem angry at the situation with the previous MP who was suspended from the Conservative Party for more than a year over allegations of drug taking and sexual harassment.\n\nMr Warburton has now admitted to taking cocaine, and stood down in June.\n\nMs Bell said: \"I want someone who will be fair and think about the communities they are serving and not be disingenuous.\"\n\nOn the priorities for the new MP, Ms Foster said: \"I think children have suffered hugely in the last few years and older people as well - there's a lot for him or her to get to grips with.\"\n\nPenny Richardson welcomed the by-election but said she had not heard too much from candidates.\n\nShe added: \"I'm very glad it's come - it can't come fast enough as far as I'm concerned.\n\n\"I think I've seen two posters for the Lib Dems and I've had one flyer through the door for the Conservatives.\"\n\nNeil Driver thinks mental health should be a priority for the new MP\n\nNeil Driver was coaching the ladies' training session and wants mental health to be made a priority.\n\n\"I think mental health is very important.\n\n\"Post-pandemic where a lot of people's mental health was stressed and now with the cost of living crisis, mental health and the NHS is very, very important,\" he said.\n\nPamela Slater says the Liberal Democrats are \"flooding\" her hometown of Wincanton\n\nOn the southernmost boundary of the constituency, members of Blackmore Vale U3A were gathering in Henstridge Village Hall.\n\nPamela Slater lives in Wincanton where she said the Liberal Democrats were \"flooding us with leaflets and knocking on doors\" when in the past she had seen very little activity from the party.\n\n\"Things like transport are a big issue. They're encouraging us not to use our cars but cutting public transport.\n\n\"Access to doctors is also a big thing. They're building more houses but we don't have the capacity in the surgeries, so it's very difficult,\" Ms Slater added.\n\nThere are eight candidates standing in the by-election and the learn more about them click here.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Virgin Money will close 39 of its UK banks as fewer people use bricks and mortar branches and move to online banking, the firm said.\n\nThe news comes after several High Street banks including Lloyds and Halifax have shut branches.\n\nThe Unite union said \"access to a bank and cash is a fundamental need\" for local High Streets.\n\nVirgin Money said the closures amount to a third of its banks and 255 workers will be at risk of redundancy.\n\nChief operating officer Sarah Wilkinson said the firm would \"pursue all options\" to retain as many staff as possible within alternative roles.\n\nThe banks that will close are: Belfast, Croydon, Harrow, Newton Stewart, Bournemouth, Derby, Hexham, Norwich, Brighton, Durham, Irvine, Oxford, Bristol, Ellon, Kendal, Reading, Bromley, Enfield, Kensington, Southampton, Cambridge, Exeter, Kingston, St Albans, Cardiff, Fort William, Liverpool, Swindon, Chelmsford, Golders Green, Lochgilphead, Turriff, Cheltenham, Gosforth Centre, London Haymarket, Wolverhampton, Chester, Guildford and Milton Keynes.\n\nLast year, Lloyds Banking Group said it would close 66 branches between October 2022 and January 2023.\n\nIn a further announcement in January, the group said Halifax would close 18 sites, while Lloyds would shut another 22 between April and June.\n\nBut closures have led to cash shortages in some instances. When Lloyds Bank in Herefordshire closed traders were forced to travel miles with their takings.\n\n\"The number of customers using bank branches for day-to-day transactions has been on a downward trajectory for a number of years,\" Virgin Money said. It added that the branches closing had seen a reduction of 43% in customer transaction volumes.\n\nSome 96% of customers use the branches less than once a month, it added.\n\n\"Each store closing is less than half a mile from the nearest Post Office, which customers can use to carry out day‐to-day transactions,\" Virgin Money said.\n\nIn May, Age UK said older or vulnerable people could struggle with online banking and called for more \"banking hubs\", which are spaces shared by several High Street lenders, meant to help communities that have seen all their bank branches close.\n\nVirgin Money said that after the closures it would have a network of 91 stores across the UK.", "Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey was \"tried by social media\" after he was accused of sexual assaults, a court has heard.\n\nHe is charged with nine sexual offences relating to four men allegedly committed between 2001 and 2013.\n\nThe 63-year-old American sat in the dock on Thursday at Southwark Crown Court in London as defence barrister Patrick Gibbs KC gave a closing speech.\n\nMr Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner, denies all of the charges against him.\n\n\"What the defence suggests is that three people have lied and they have lied in ways and for reasons which, ultimately, will only ever be known to themselves,\" said Mr Gibbs, who suggested the fourth complainant was intoxicated.\n\nHe told jurors: \"It's not a crime to like sex, even if you're famous and it's not a crime to have sex, even if you're famous, and it's not a crime to have casual sex.\n\n\"And it's not a crime to have sex with someone of the same sex because it's 2023 not 1823.\"\n\nHe challenged the Crown's claim that there was a \"pattern of similarity\" between the accusers because three claim Mr Spacey \"grabbed\" them by the crotch, a term Mr Spacey previously told the court he \"objected\" to.\n\nHe told the jury it was \"easy\" to lie convincingly, especially when it is about someone such as Kevin Spacey who he described as a man \"who is promiscuous, not publicly out, although everyone in the businesses knows he's gay who wants to be just a normal guy to drink beer and laugh and smoke weed and sit in the front and spend time with younger people who he's attracted to\".\n\nHe said perhaps Mr Spacey had led \"a bit of an odd life\", but that it was \"a life that makes you an easy target when the internet turns against you and you're tried by social media\".\n\n\"That's when these claims were taken to the police, when it was, I suggest, only too easy to do and the prospects of a pay-off from the bandwagon were at their most irresistible.\"\n\nMr Gibbs praised Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish for risking the \"wrath of the internet\" to be called as defence witnesses after they gave evidence via video link from Monaco on Monday.\n\nMr Spacey pleaded not guilty in January to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nA further charge of indecent assault, an alternative count, was added mid-trial - taking the total number of alleged offences listed on the indictment to 13.\n\nOn Wednesday, the four indecent assault charges, which were all alternative counts, were struck off by the judge, due to a \"legal technicality\" and not as a result of the prosecution abandoning any allegation.", "Russia's foreign ministry has imposed tight travel restrictions on British diplomats working in the country.\n\nIt said they must give at least five days' notice and provide extensive travel details if they want to leave a 120km (75-mile) \"free movement zone\".\n\nOnly the British ambassador and three senior diplomats are exempted from the measures, the ministry said.\n\nIt comes amid worsening relations between Moscow and London following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nDespite the two countries being at odds over the war, both have continued to operate diplomatic missions on each other's soil.\n\nThe Vienna Convention - which the UK and Russia are both signed up to - is clear that governments must give accredited diplomats \"freedom of movement and travel in its territory\".\n\nSo governments rarely actually stop diplomats from travelling - but they can make it very difficult by imposing rules and regulations, such as the Russian government has.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said British diplomats will have to provide details of accommodation, transport, planned contacts and the purpose of any trip before travelling within Russia.\n\nThe restrictions will also be applied to diplomats working at the British consulate in Yekaterinburg, a city around 1090km (880 miles) to the east of Moscow.\n\nThe resulting bureaucratic demands are time-consuming and onerous but are just within the letter of the Vienna Convention.\n\nIn truth, this is just one of many irregular ways of making life difficult for diplomats.\n\nThey could find visa applications take time. They and their families could be subject to greater or lesser surveillance.\n\nOne diplomat once told me that she returned to her flat in Moscow one evening to find the magnetised letters on her fridge had been re-arranged to spell FSB, the Russia security service.\n\nAnother found her cat frozen to death outside her flat. She suspected it had been shut out deliberately.\n\nSo it is not unusual for authoritarian states to make life difficult for diplomats. For many, it goes with the territory.\n\nThe announcement was made shortly after the UK's interim charge d'affaires attended a meeting with Russian officials and was informed of the decision.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has disputed the Russian foreign ministry's claim that the senior British diplomat had been \"summoned\", describing it as \"disinformation\".\n\nA spokesperson for the department said: \"This was a planned meeting, held at our request, as part of standard diplomatic practice.\"\n\nIn a statement confirming the restrictions, Russia cited the UK's support of the Ukrainian government.\n\nIt accused the UK of conducting \"hostile actions... including the obstruction of the normal functioning of Russian diplomatic offices in the UK\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has not said how it will respond to the move.", "Members of the RMT union at 14 rail companies are striking on Thursday as part of a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.\n\nPassengers should expect large areas of the rail network to have little or no services, National Rail said.\n\nThe operators are based in England but some run services into Wales and Scotland.\n\nIn addition, train drivers in the Aslef union are not working overtime at 15 train companies between 17 and 22 July.\n\nThe extent of Thursday's RMT disruption will vary around the country, with some services starting late and finishing much earlier than normal.\n\nThere will be further strikes on 22 and 29 July.\n\nAslef's action, which will run until Saturday, is not a full strike but could cause some reduced timetables and last-minute cancellations.\n\nMeanwhile, rail users have sent in 100,000 responses to a consultation over proposed ticket office closures in England.\n\nThe plans, which have faced criticism, are the latest flashpoint for train operators, which are also in a deadlocked dispute with unions over reforms.\n\nFollowing the impact of the Covid pandemic, the industry faces pressure from the government to cut costs.\n\nThe latest proposals presented by the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators, included a backdated pay rise of 5%, followed by 4% this year.\n\nThis was in exchange for changes to working practices to be discussed with individual operators.\n\nThe dispute reached an impasse when the RMT rejected the offer in April. The RDG continues to call on the union to give its members a vote on the offer.\n\nRMT boss Mick Lynch said \"there are conditions in this offer that we can't live with\", and ministers had not granted the operators permission to negotiate further.\n\nBut RDG boss Jacqueline Starr said the existing \"very good\" offer remained on the table, and the RDG was \"very open to continuing conversations\".\n\nShe added that the industry \"can't afford for the industry to stand still\", and would \"continue with reform\".\n\nTrain firms are pressing ahead with plans to close the majority of ticket offices in England.\n\nThe plans have faced criticism from disability campaigners and unions which are trying to block the reforms.\n\nThe Transport Focus watchdog called the response to its consultation, which is running until Wednesday 26 July, \"huge\" so far.\n\nHowever, it said it was too soon to say whether the responses were mostly for or against the proposed closures.\n\nInside London, the consultation is being run by London Travelwatch.\n\nFive Labour mayors are preparing a legal challenge, saying the 21-day timescale for the consultation was \"totally inadequate\".\n\nUnder the proposals, some ticket kiosks would remain in large stations, but elsewhere staff will be on concourses to sell tickets, offer travel advice and help people with accessibility.\n\nHowever, Mr Lynch said that some stations would \"only get staff for two hours, so if you're an elderly person travelling off-peak, there will be no-one there to assist you\".\n\nHe added that 2,300 station staff are \"not being moved from behind glass to assist passengers\" but instead would be made redundant \"en masse\".\n\nCampaigner Natasha Winter says ticket office closures will affect people who can't use new technology\n\nLast week, Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle challenged rail minister Huw Merriman over the planned closures.\n\nMr Merriman had said \"no currently staffed station will become unstaffed\" as a result of the proposals.\n\nBut Mr Hoyle said the railway station in his constituency, Chorley, would effectively become unstaffed after 4pm.\n\nMs Starr said on Wednesday that the planned closures were \"about people bringing people out from behind the glass screens\".\n\nStaff would be \"on the concourse, enabling a conversation with customers, enabling them to assist customers, have a dialogue, and also, when necessary, helping customers to navigate the ticket vending machines which would be on the platform,\" she said.\n\nMs Starr insisted the industry was \"genuinely listening to the accessibility groups that have a number of concerns\", and she was having meetings with the rail minister and disability groups.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC on Wednesday if she would promise that every ticket currently available at ticket offices could be found on at a machine or online, including the least expensive, Ms Starr replied: \"I'm not going to make promises that I can't keep.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are working hard to ensure that where possible, every ticket is offered by a ticket vending machine\".\n\nCampaigner Natasha Winter, who set up the Save Stourbridge Ticket Office group, said when she found out about the consultation on the ticket office closures she was \"absolutely outraged\".\n\n\"We're talking about punishing and penalising the members of society who maybe can't use new technology,\" she said.\n\n\"The station is going to become less user-friendly for the whole community,\" she added.", "The latest season of Never Have I Ever helped to fuel subscription gains\n\nA burst of people signed up for Netflix this spring, after the streaming giant cracked down on password sharing.\n\nThe company ended June with more than 238 million subscribers, adding 5.9 million members since March.\n\nThat was bigger than expected and follows efforts by the company to re-ignite growth following unusual subscriber losses last spring.\n\nIt is also facing challenges from ongoing strikes in the US by writers and actors.\n\nNetflix said it would spend less on content this year than expected as a result of the walkout - the industry's biggest in six decades, while boss Ted Sarandos said \"we need to get this strike to a conclusion\".\n\n\"This strike is not an outcome that we wanted,\" he said. He said the company was committed to reaching an \"equitable\" agreement that helped the industry move into the future.\n\nBut he added: \"We've got a lot of work to do.\"\n\nNetflix has been wrestling with a sharp slowdown in growth since the pandemic, as competition heats up, households grapple with rising costs and it reaches what analysts see as saturation point in some of its biggest markets.\n\nIn the first half of last year, it shed roughly 1 million accounts. Though it later more than made up those losses, the declines jolted the company and sent it scrambling to shore up its growth prospects.\n\nThe latest season of the Witcher has been popular with Netflix viewers in July\n\nNetflix said customers were enticed by new options it has introduced that cost less than a standard subscription.\n\nThe company introduced its \"paid sharing\" programme in the UK, US and other major markets in May, charging an extra fee if users want to share passwords with people outside their households.\n\nIn the UK, it asks a little less than half of the £10.99 cost of a standard subscription.\n\nThe programme is now present in more than 100 countries.\n\nThe company also launched a less expensive streaming plan with ads last year and cut prices in dozens of countries in February.\n\nNetflix said few people had cancelled as a result of the password changes and it believed the programme would fuel similar subscriber gains in the months ahead.\n\nIt has estimated that more than 100 million households share passwords in breach of its official rules.\n\n\"While we're still in the early stages, we're seeing healthy conversion of borrower households,\" the company said in a quarterly update to investors. \"Now that we've launched paid sharing broadly we have increased confidence in our financial outlook.\"\n\nPaolo Pescatore, analyst at PP Foresight, said the subscriber gains were robust and a \"strong endorsement\" of Netflix's strategy.\n\nBut he called the password crackdown a short-term measure, saying the company would need to fine-tune its pricing in the months ahead.\n\n\"The company is still in a far stronger position compared to rivals and remains the benchmark,\" he said, noting that Netflix's streaming plan with advertising is much cheaper than many current offerings from rivals.\n\nAnalysts said the company's big library and the scale of its international production may help it in the months ahead, as Hollywood wrestles with the impact of the strikes.\n\nThese have already disrupted production schedules for a number of films and series.\n\n\"Of everyone in the entertainment industry, Netflix appears to be the best positioned,\" said Brandon Katz, entertainment industry strategist at Parrot Analytics, which tracks streaming demand, noting that the company still leads its peers, despite strong competition.\n\nDespite the subscriber gains, the $8.18bn (£6.32bn) in revenue Netflix reported disappointed investors, rising just 2.7% from last year. Profits were $1.49bn.\n\nNetflix said that it has limited its price hikes in recent months, leading to a slowdown in revenue growth that gains from its password crackdown and new advertising were not big enough to offset.\n\nIt said it expected that to change by the end of this year, as advertising revenue increases.\n\nIt has stopped offering its least expensive commercial-free plan in the US, UK and Canada in a bid to push price-conscious customers to the ad-funded version.\n\nMembership of its ads plan \"nearly doubled\" from March - though from a \"small base\", the company said.\n\n\"Netflix needs to squeeze as much juice as it can from different avenues, given a recent lack of price increases could suggest that inflation is starting to bite Netflix's ability to crank up its subscription price, as households look to trim their spending,\" said Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"Initial progress seems positive, but we are realms away from knowing for sure if this venture is the cash cow it's been sold as.\"\n\nShares, which have surged 60% this year amid investor enthusiasm for the company's plans, dipped in after-hours trade.\n\nMs Lund-Yates said the company had delivered a \"sturdy\" performance and the fall reflected the high expectations for the company.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew Zealand is in mourning after a shooting in Auckland left two people dead, hours before the city opened the Fifa Women's World Cup.\n\nSix other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident at 07:22 (19:22 GMT) on a construction site in the central business district.\n\nPM Chris Hipkins said the attack was not being seen as an act of terrorism.\n\nThe tournament would go ahead as planned, he confirmed.\n\nWhile no political or ideological motive for the attack had been identified, police had neutralised the threat and the public could be assured that there was no ongoing risk, the prime minister said.\n\nAuckland Mayor Wayne Brown said the shooting was not in any way related to the Women's World Cup.\n\nThe shooter, 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, tore through a construction site with a pump-action shotgun, plunging the busy centre of New Zealand's largest city into lockdown.\n\nThe man was known to police and had a history of family violence and mental health issues. He had been subject to a home detention order but had an exemption to work at the site. He did not have a license to own a firearm.\n\nMr Hipkins addressed the victim's families in a televised speech, saying, \"The whole nation is mourning with you\".\n\n\"The victims went to work this morning as they do every morning, but they won't be coming home tonight,\" he said.\n\nPolice will look specifically into how the man got hold of a firearm despite New Zealand's strict gun control laws.\n\n\"I've got confidence that they will investigate fully what happened here and they will be able to provide answers to questions we have in time,\" he said.\n\nAll Fifa personnel and football teams are safe and have been accounted for. Earlier, he had warned people to stay home and avoid travelling into the city, Mr Brown said.\n\n\"I can't remember anything like this ever happening in our beautiful city. This morning's events have been tragic and distressing for all Aucklanders, as this is not something that we are used to,\" Mr Brown wrote on Twitter.\n\nFifa expressed its \"deepest condolences\" to the victims' families and said it was in communication with New Zealand authorities.\n\n\"The participating teams in close proximity to this incident are being supported in relation to any impact that may have taken place,\" it said.\n\nThe opening match between New Zealand and Norway in the city's Eden Park got under way at 19:00 local time (07:00 GMT).\n\nSport Minister Grant Robertson said there would be extra police in the area to provide reassurance.\n\nThe ninth Women's World Cup is being co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia.\n\nPolice said they heard reports of a person discharging a firearm inside the construction site, and the gunman moved through the building and continued to fire.\n\nThe man then went into a lift shaft and police attempted to engage with him.\n\nFurther shots were fired by the man and he was found dead a short time later, police said.\n\nFollowing the shooting there was a large armed police presence in the central business district not far from the waterfront and the fan park.\n\nTatjana Haenni, chief sporting director for National Women's Soccer league USA, is staying close to where the shooting happened.\n\nShe told BBC News she had woken up to sounds of police cars arriving and was told to stay inside. \"So far we feel safe,\" she said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Chris Heaton-Harris says the UK government now has more clarity on DUP demands\n\nSecretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris has said he is \"very hopeful\" that the Stormont executive will return in the autumn.\n\nHe said he believed a resolution of the difficulties was \"getting much closer\".\n\nBut Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said she did not hear any urgency on the part of the UK government to restore Stormont during her talks.\n\nThe DUP has insisted new legislation is needed before it will end its 18-month boycott over post-Brexit trade rules.\n\nThe party walked out of Stormont's power-sharing executive in February 2022 in protest over a Brexit deal which introduced new checks and restrictions on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary was speaking after holding a series of talks with the main political parties this week.\n\nHe said new legislation may be required at Westminster and the government now has \"a lot more clarity\" about what the DUP is seeking.\n\nSpeaking after her meeting at Hillsborough Castle on Thursday, Ms O'Neill said she made it clear to the secretary of state that the current political vacuum at Stormont was \"totally unsustainable\".\n\n\"All it is serving is to punish the public,\" she said.\n\n\"Whilst people in the DUP take themselves off on summer holidays, families are left struggling; workers and families are left struggling and worried about how they are going to deal with the cost of living.\"\n\nIf you'd asked me where we're at earlier today I would have said in a very bad place, but that's before we heard the optimism pouring out of Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nHe, let's face it, is in a better position to know than us.\n\nLet us see what happens in September before popping any Champagne corks.\n\nWe have to see what the DUP says, because no matter how much people don't like it, there will be no deal unless the DUP says there's a deal.\n\nWe are certainly not there yet.\n\nEarlier, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Doug Beattie predicted the executive would be restored by the autumn.\n\nMr Beattie said his delegation had \"a good conversation\" with the secretary of state at Hillsborough Castle but said he was a realist and admitted that \"the timings are getting tight\".\n\nMr Beattie said there would be a couple of weeks in September when a decision would have to be made and insisted \"that's down to the DUP\".\n\nThe UUP's Robbie Butler and Doug Beattie also met the NI secretary at Hillsborough\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), SDLP and Alliance Party met the secretary of state in London on Wednesday.\n\nAfterwards, the DUP said that the onus was on the government to introduce new legislation at Westminster from September.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak negotiated the Windsor Framework with the EU to address some of the problems created by the post-Brexit Irish Sea border.\n\nBut the DUP said it still had many concerns and submitted an 18-page document to the government outlining its demands before it will return to Stormont.\n\nThe Sinn Féin delegation told reporters that the party has not seen that document because, so far, it had only been shared with the government.\n\nThe talks are aimed at restoring Stormont's devolved institutions at Stormont which collapsed in February 2022\n\nSpeaking after meeting Mr Heaton-Harris on Wednesday, the DUP's deputy leader, Gavin Robinson, said the government knows what steps are needed to restore devolution.\n\n\"They are going to have to bring forward measures in the House of Commons that address the constitutional issues that we have highlighted,\" he added.\n\nHowever, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the DUP had been given \"far too much road\" and that it was time for the government to get much tougher on them.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, the Foyle MP said the DUP \"need to get back to work\" as local people are frustrated.\n\n\"We have a quarter of the population on hospital waiting lists and we have the DUP playing games,\" Mr Eastwood said.\n\nColum Eastwood says he is downbeat about Stormont being restored soon\n\n\"We are in this sort of de facto direct rule situation where the British government is making decisions when we need local people making those decisions.\"\n\nAlliance's deputy leader Stephen Farry said he was \"not entirely sure that the government and the DUP are on the same page\" in terms of requests for new legislation to deal with the DUP's concerns over the Windsor Framework.\n\nStephen Farry from Alliance said he was concerned about Stormont's worsening finances during the wait to restore devolution\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster that he too did not know exactly what the DUP has asked for.\n\n\"I hear the rhetoric at times from the DUP. I hear demands at times that are unrealistic,\" Mr Farry said.\n\nThe North Down MP added: \"I am concerned - and the longer this drifts, the worse the current financial crisis gets in Northern Ireland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Footage shows the impact of attack on Odesa grain terminals\n\nRussian missile attacks on Ukraine's Black Sea coast have destroyed 60,000 tonnes of grain and damaged storage infrastructure, officials say.\n\nAgriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi said a \"considerable amount\" of export infrastructure was out of operation.\n\nRussia has pulled out of a deal guaranteeing safe passage for exports across the Black Sea.\n\nLater on Wednesday Russia's President Putin accused the West of using the grain deal as \"political blackmail\".\n\nHe added he would consider rejoining the international agreement, in place since last summer, only \"if all principles under which Russia agreed to participate in the deal are fully taken into account and fulfilled\".\n\nHis comments came shortly after Russia's defence ministry declared that from midnight on Wednesday night (21:00 GMT), any ships heading to Ukrainian ports would be viewed as potential carriers of military cargo and party to the conflict.\n\nSome north-western and south-eastern areas of the Black Sea would be temporarily dangerous for shipping, it added.\n\nRussia began targeting Ukraine's ports in the early hours of Tuesday within hours of its withdrawal from the grain deal.\n\nMore strikes followed overnight into Wednesday, targeting grain terminals and port infrastructure in Odesa and further down the Black Sea coast in Chornomorsk, two of the three ports that were included in the export deal.\n\nAt least 12 civilians, including a nine-year-old boy, were wounded during the attacks, which also caused damage to blocks of flats, military officials said.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said each missile strike was a blow not just to Ukraine, but to \"everyone in the world striving for a normal and safe life\".\n\nFrance and Germany also condemned the attack. Germany Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that by covering Odesa with a hail of bombs, Russian President Vladimir Putin was robbing the world of any hope of Ukrainian grain and \"hitting the world's poorest\".\n\nThe infrastructure ministry published a series of photos showing damage to silos and other grain facilities. Officials said there had been damage to wharves and reservoirs, but it was international and Ukrainian traders that had suffered the most.\n\nRussian war commentators said the damage proved that Kyiv was unable to shoot down the majority of Russian missiles and drones.\n\nOfficials said the co-ordinated attack involved Kalibr cruise missiles, Onyx supersonic and Kh-22 anti-ship missiles as well as kamikaze drones, fired from the Black Sea, Crimea and southern Russia. Although 37 Russian missiles and drones were shot down, a number did penetrate Ukrainian defences, they said.\n\nRussia had called its initial attack on Odesa a \"mass revenge strike\" for an attack on the Russian-built bridge over the Kerch strait linking occupied Crimea to Russia.\n\nSeaborne drones were blamed for Monday's bridge strike that knocked out a section of bridge and killed a Russian couple.\n\nExplosions were reported for several hours from the ammunition depot in Crimea\n\nCrimea saw further disruption on Wednesday. Some 2,200 residents were evacuated from four villages near a military training range after a fire triggered hours of explosions at a nearby ammunition depot.\n\nRussian-installed officials also shut a 12-km (7.5-mile) section of the Tavrida motorway that links the cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol in southern Crimea to the bridge over the Kerch strait. Construction of the road by Russia's occupation authorities began in 2017.\n\nA series of explosions were heard in the area from about 04:30 (01:30 GMT) on Wednesday.\n\nOfficials did not explain the cause of the fire near the city of Staryi Krim. But unconfirmed reports on social media spoke of three Ukrainian strikes.\n\nRussia's appointee boss in Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said the cause of the fire at the military range was being investigated, but that no-one was hurt.", "Tobias Ellwood is a former army veteran who served with British forces\n\nAfghan women have derided a British Conservative MP for being naïve after he referred to the country as peaceful and \"transformed\", but barely mentioned human rights following a recent visit.\n\nIn a widely criticised video, Tobias Ellwood urged the UK to re-engage with the country and reopen its embassy.\n\nThe Taliban welcomed his remarks - seen as a rare PR coup for their government, which no country recognises.\n\nSince retaking power 2021, the Taliban have restricted many Afghans' rights.\n\nThere has been global condemnation of their mistreatment of women in particular.\n\nOn Wednesday Afghan women held a rare protest against the Taliban's decision to shut female beauty parlours and salons.\n\n\"The British politician says that he is optimistic and he's happy about the situation in Afghanistan… Today we went on the street to ask for our rights and they try to stop us and beat us. You have seen the videos,\" said one of the women taking part in the protest in Kabul.\n\nAnother woman asked if Mr Ellwood knew that people in the country were \"hungry and unhappy\".\n\n\"There's no suicide attacks any more, but poverty is at its peak, businesses are collapsing,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Ellwood, the chairman of Parliament's defence select committee, visited Afghanistan with the Halo Trust, a de-mining organisation.\n\nEarlier this week, he tweeted and shared a video following his trip, which prompted some to compare it to a promotional video.\n\n\"It's about time you prepare to move in with your Taliban brothers. After all, it's safe and thriving,\" Afghan activist Nilofar Ayoubi said on Twitter.\n\nIn his video, Mr Ellwood said security in Afghanistan had \"vastly improved\" since the Taliban returned to power, and suggested the West encourage the uptake of women's rights \"incrementally\".\n\n\"After Nato's dramatic departure, should the West now engage with the Taliban? You quickly appreciate this war-weary nation is for the moment accepting a more authoritarian leadership in exchange for stability,\" he said.\n\nThe video contains one reference to women and girls at the end.\n\nThe MP told the BBC \"we need to engage more directly, more robustly\" with the Taliban.\n\nInterviewer Yalda Hakim, who is of Afghan origin, had asked him: \"Do you think it sends a certain message when it comes to things like human rights, women's rights, if you just say, 'They've got solar panels now, they've got less violence and therefore we should open up our embassy and be back in the country'?\"\n\n\"You're simplifying what I'm saying,\" Mr Ellwood replied. \"The current strategy of shouting from afar is not working.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Afghan women had been barred from sitting university entrance exams this year - the latest move curtailing what they are allowed to do.\n\nAfghan women protesting in December 2021 - since then such opposition to the Taliban has become rarer\n\nFawzia Koofi, the first ever female deputy speaker of the Afghan parliament, told BBC Newshour she was angry at the MP's remarks.\n\nShe said it showed ignorance of how restricted life had become for Afghan women.\n\n\"Women literally are not even allowed to, I think, breathe normally in the streets. When they are out, they [the Taliban] ask them, 'Why are you in the streets?' If you're not allowed to go to university and school and work, why are you in the street? That's a feeling I think only those women and their families would understand.\"\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have criticised the remarks by Mr Ellwood, a former soldier who served with British forces.\n\nOne senior Tory colleague on the committee he chairs said the MP had posted an \"utterly bizarre video lauding the Taliban's management of the country\". Mark Francois said it had been described by a fellow member of the committee as a \"wish-you-were-here video\".\n\nMr Francois raised the issue at prime minister's questions on Wednesday.\n\n\"I and some of my colleagues on the Defence Committee were absolutely stunned to see a video posted by our own chairman lauding the Taliban's governance of Afghanistan, not mentioning they're still trying to identify and kill Afghan civilians who sided with Nato forces, and also not mentioning the fact they don't like girls to go to school,\" he told the house.\n\nUK PM Rishi Sunak said he would look into Mr Ellwood's visit.\n\nCorrection 11 August 2023: This article was amended as we wrongly said Mr Ellwood had served in Afghanistan. After leaving the British Army he visited the country and region over a dozen times. We apologise for the error.", "NHS consultants in England have announced two more days of strikes over a long-running pay dispute.\n\nThey were already due to strike on Thursday and Friday - and now they will also walk out on 24 and 25 August, the British Medical Association (BMA) said.\n\nThe fresh dates were in response to a \"derisory\" 6% pay rise, said the BMA, a trade union for doctors.\n\nThe government said the rise, announced last week, was fair and called the new strike dates disappointing.\n\nDuring this week's strike and on the new August dates, consultants will provide so-called \"Christmas Day cover\", which includes emergency care and a small amount of routine work.\n\nLast week, the government announced the 6% pay rise for NHS medics just as junior doctors began their own five-day strike, which is due to end on Tuesday.\n\nThe BMA said the pay award amounted to \"another real-terms pay cut\".\n\nFor consultants, the below-inflation pay rise was \"nothing short of insulting\", the BMA said, and would actually boost pay by less than 6% once \"all elements of pay were considered\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government valued NHS staff, \"which is why we're giving consultants a fair and reasonable pay rise\".\n\n\"We've made it clear this pay award is not up for negotiation and it's disappointing the BMA are continuing with disruptive industrial action,\" they added.\n\nThe 6% pay rise is in line with pay review body recommendations, but far below what doctors are asking for.\n\nConsultant pay has fallen 27% since 2008 once the Retail Price Index (RPI) - one measure of inflation - is taken into account but the BMA says the cut is 35% once changes to tax and pension contributions are factored in. The government said it had acted on the BMA's request for pension reform, increasing the tax-free threshold on pensions contributions.\n\nUnlike junior doctors at the start of their dispute, consultants are not asking for full pay restoration in one go. Instead, they want the government to start at least giving pay rises that match inflation.\n\nDuring 2022, average NHS earnings exceeded £126,000 for consultants - this includes extra pay for additional hours and performance.\n\nDr Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA consultants committee, said the strikes were a last resort and that the union had \"been left with no choice\".\n\nHe said the government was \"devaluing consultants' expertise\" and showing a \"lack of regard for the impact this is having on the NHS\".\n\nHe said the pay body recommendation of a 6% pay rise showed \"the need to reform the pay review system\" and that the increase was a \"savage real-terms pay cut\".\n\nDr Sharma warned of further strikes after August, saying consultants were \"in this for the long haul\". More than 85% of BMA members backed walkouts in a previous ballot.\n\n\"The future of the NHS depends on there being consultants within it, but attacks on their pay will drive them away - from the health service and from the country - with devastating consequences,\" he said.\n\nAre you a consultant with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nThe waiting is almost over. The biggest Fifa Women's World Cup - featuring European champions England and debutants the Republic of Ireland - will finally get under way on Thursday.\n\nAustralia and New Zealand are co-hosting the ninth edition, which for the first time will feature 32 nations including defending world champions the United States.\n\nIt is the first Women's World Cup with two co-hosts.\n\nNew Zealand launch the tournament against Norway at Eden Park (08:00 BST kick-off) before Australia play the Republic of Ireland at Stadium Australia, Sydney, on the same day (11:00 kick-off).\n\nBut what should have been a day of celebration of women's sport was overshadowed by an early morning shooting in Auckland, which left two people plus the gunman dead, and six others injured.\n\nSupporters getting ready to head to a fan park near the waterfront, which was close to the incident, expressed their shock and sadness at the news.\n\nFifa said the tournament would proceed as normal and organisers hope the opening two games will attract an aggregate crowd of 100,000 fans.\n\nIt is on course to be the most-watched Women's World Cup, with more than 1.3 million tickets bought in advance for the 64 matches at 10 venues across nine cities.\n\nOrganisers are targeting a record two billion television viewers for the 2023 edition, a figure that would double the audience that watched the 2019 World Cup in France.\n\n\"The future is women. Thanks to the fans for supporting what will be the greatest Fifa Women's World Cup ever,\" said Fifa president Gianni Infantino.\n\nAs well as the Republic of Ireland, seven other nations are making their debuts at this World Cup - Vietnam, Zambia, Haiti, Morocco, Panama, the Philippines and Portugal.\n\nWhile the United States - who are chasing a fifth world title - are the number one side in the world, Zambia lie 77th and are the lowest ranked team at the tournament.\n\nThe final takes place at Stadium Australia on 20 August (11:00 kick-off).\n• None Are world champions USA still the team to beat?\n• None Ten players to watch at the Women's World Cup\n\nThis Women's World Cup has been labelled the biggest women's sports event ever to be staged. One thing is certain: the tournament will be huge in terms of showcasing - and growing - women's football around the world.\n\nFor the first time, Fifa will directly pay players at the Women's World Cup. Amounts increase for the deeper that teams progress, ranging from about £24,000 per player for the group stage to just over £200,000 allotted to each champion.\n\nThese are significant sums at a time when the average salary in the women's game worldwide is £11,000, according to last year's Fifa benchmarking report. Overall prize money has increased from £23m in 2019 to £84m.\n\nIn another first, referees will announce the reasoning for video assistant referee (VAR) decisions to fans in stadiums and television audiences via a microphone and loudspeakers.\n\nAs at the men's World Cup in Qatar last year, referees are also encouraged to stop time-wasting, so added time is likely to be lengthy while long goal celebrations will also extend stoppages.\n\nMeanwhile, captains will be permitted to wear armbands with messages about inclusion, gender equality and peace after rainbow armbands were not allowed at the men's tournament last year.\n\nNone of the eight available armbands, however, explicitly advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusion.\n• None What do stats say about chances of USA v England final?\n\nWho will win this Women's World Cup?\n\nThe last time the United States lost a World Cup game was in 2011 when they were defeated on penalties by Japan in the final in Frankfurt, Germany.\n\nSince then they have won 13 out of 14 on the global stage and they head into this edition chasing a record third successive success following triumphs in 2015 and 2019.\n\nHowever, boss Jill Ellis has stepped down since guiding the Stars and Stripes to World Cup glory in France in 2019, while two-time World Cup and Olympic gold medal winner Carli Lloyd has ended her international career.\n\nWith 14 of the 23 players appearing at their first World Cup, and Megan Rapinoe - regarded as a genuine American icon - announcing this will be her fourth and final World Cup, will there be a changing of the guard at the top of women's football?\n\nEngland's unforgettable Euro 2022 success has rightly placed them in conversations when it comes to predicting World Cup favourites.\n\nHowever, injuries have hit hard and the Lionesses are without several key players including Beth Mead, who was named Euro 2022's best player and won the Golden Boot award given to the tournament's top scorer.\n\nSpain have the best women's player in the world in Alexia Putellas, while two-time winners Germany have a strong and experienced squad.\n\nFrance are led by experienced manager Herve Renard, while co-hosts Australia will be backed by large crowds and have Chelsea's prolific forward Sam Kerr.\n• None Get to know the England World Cup squad\n• None Who will win Women's World Cup? Rita Ora & co have the answer\n\nOlympic champions Canada are also hoping to go deep in the tournament, but they are one of several nations whose World Cup preparations have been disrupted by domestic issues.\n\nSpain and France have also made headlines in recent months as rows between players and federations have escalated, although France's issues appear to have been resolved with the appointment of Renard.\n\nJamaica - and even Nigeria's head coach - have taken action or called out their federations over issues such as pay, resources and personnel.\n\nEngland's players are frustrated with the Football Association over its stance on performance-related bonuses.\n\nMeanwhile, the South Africa squad selected by coach Desiree Ellis did not participate in their final warm-up fixture on home soil before leaving for the World Cup, meaning a back-up team, which included a 13-year-old girl, was hastily assembled to face Botswana in order to avoid a fine.\n• None Women's World Cup: Why some players are shunning their teams\n• None Lionesses to pause bonus talks until after World Cup\n\nWith 32 teams at this edition, - up from 24 in 2019 and 16 as recently as 2011 - there are 736 players at this World Cup.\n\nThree of those players are appearing at the tournament for a sixth time - Marta (Brazil), Onome Ebi (Nigeria) and Christine Sinclair (Canada).\n\nHaving turned 40 in May, defender Ebi is the oldest player in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nBut she still trails Brazil's Formiga, who holds the record as the oldest player to take part in the competition at 41 years and 112 days in 2019.\n\nMeanwhile, there are a number of players who are barely out of high school.\n\nSouth Korea's Casey Phair, 16, will become the youngest ever player at a Women's World Cup if she appears in either of her country's first two group matches against Colombia or Morocco.\n• None Three legendary players turned managers at the World Cup\n• None From working in a supermarket to Women's World Cup\n\nThe United States, Netherlands, England, France and Canada are among the nations who will be without key players due to injury.\n\nAs well as captain Becky Sauerbrunn (foot), the United States' injury list includes forward Mallory Swanson (torn patellar tendon), midfielder Sam Mewis (knee) and forward Christen Press (knee).\n\nVivianne Miedema, the all-time Netherlands leading scorer, is out with anterior cruciate ligament damage - the same injury that has prevented England's Leah Williamson and Mead from taking part.\n\nAttacking midfielder Fran Kirby (knee) is also missing for the Lionesses.\n\nFrance are deprived of midfielder Amandine Henry (calf), five-time Champions League winner Delphine Cascarino (ACL) and striker Marie-Antoinette Katoto (ACL).\n\nAnother player ruled out because of an ACL injury is Canada forward Janine Beckie.\n• None Women's World Cup: Football Australia head calls for more research into ACL injuries\n\nHow to follow on the BBC...\n\nThe BBC is your destination for coverage 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\n\nWith 33 live games on BBC TV and iPlayer, alongside coverage of the key matches on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds, football fans can enjoy the Australia and New Zealand Women's World Cup wherever they are.\n\nWith first pick of the last-16 stage, the BBC will show England's first knockout game if they make it past the group stage.\n\nThe BBC is the only place you can watch both semi-finals on 15-16 August. The final, on Sunday, 20 August, will be broadcast by both the BBC and ITV.", "Nigel Farage has launched a fresh attack over Coutts bank's decision to close his account.\n\nThe BBC had previously reported Mr Farage had fallen below the financial threshold needed for an account, citing a source familiar with the move.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4 on Wednesday, Mr Farage said the BBC had fallen for \"spin\" and restated that he had been \"cancelled\" for his political views.\n\nCoutts said decisions to close an account \"are not taken lightly\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the BBC was told dropping under the wealth threshold could prompt the bank to conduct a wider review of the customer's profile, including reputational and legal risk.\n\nIn the Commons on Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it \"wouldn't be right\" for financial services to be denied to those expressing lawful free speech and said the government would be \"toughening the rules around account closures\" following a consultation.\n\nThe BBC has been told the government is preparing to announce tighter regulations on banks, which is expected to include giving customers more notice of planned account closures, and the rationale behind them, and therefore more ability to appeal decisions.\n\nFormer leader of the UK Independence Party Mr Farage spoke to BBC Radio 4's World at One after he obtained a report on Tuesday that had reviewed his suitability as a client of Coutts, and which has since been published in the Mail.\n\nHe told the programme that the report had mentioned Brexit and his alleged links to Russia.\n\n\"Apparently, I'm a risk to them. I have virtually no links of any kind to Russia whatsoever. This is political. There is no other way of looking at it,\" he said.\n\nThe document also gave examples of Mr Farage's views, including his retweet of a Ricky Gervais joke about trans women and his friendship with tennis player Novak Djokovic, who is opposed to Covid vaccinations, to flag concerns that Mr Farage is \"xenophobic and racist\".\n\nHe said the 40-page document shows that in November 2022, Coutts' reputational risk committee \"met and said, I did not align with their values, that somehow I wasn't part of their diversity and inclusion agenda and that for those reasons there should be a glide path to closing my account\".\n\nThe document - which the BBC does not have a copy of - makes disclosures including:\n\nMr Farage said the report stated \"very clearly\" that he had met the bank's commercial criteria.\n\n\"For them to try subsequently to pretend that it's for commercial reasons just is not true.\"\n\nHe later told BBC Newsnight he was \"literally shocked\" when he saw the report, which he described as a \"personal hit job\". \"This bank is behaving now like a political campaigning organisation,\" he said.\n\nEconomist Frances Coppola told the same programme that \"having read the report, I actually don't think that's the reason why they closed his account. The report makes it clear that the reason they closed the account was that Nigel paid off his mortgage and the house was released as a security and that brought him below the criteria for an account at that bank.\"\n\nThe bank, owned by NatWest, says customers must borrow or invest £1m or have £3m in savings. Mr Farage previously did not dispute that he did not meet Coutts' threshold but said the bank had not had a problem with this for the past 10 years.\n\nCoutts said on Wednesday it recognised \"the substantial interest\" in Mr Farage's case.\n\n\"We cannot comment on the detail given our customer confidentiality obligations. However, it is not Coutts' policy to close customer accounts solely on the basis of legally held political and personal views. Decisions to close an account are not taken lightly and involve a number of factors including commercial viability, reputational considerations, and legal and regulatory requirements.\n\n\"We recognise the critical importance of access to banking. When it became clear that our client was unable to secure banking facilities elsewhere, and as he has confirmed publicly, he was offered alternative banking facilities with NatWest. That offer stands,\" it added.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it was discussing the situation with NatWest.\n\nFCA chief executive Nikhil Rathi told MPs: \"You'd expect that we are talking to NatWest Group about this.\n\n\"A specific adjudication on an individual case is a matter for the Financial Ombudsman Service.\"\n\nHe told the Treasury Select Committee: \"If a complaint is made and it is determined that there has not been an appropriate consideration of this case, that would then of course be relevant for us from a supervisory perspective.\"\n\nThe BBC's previous report, published at the start of July, cited people familiar with Coutts' decision to shut his account as saying it was a \"commercial decision\".\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Farage called for the BBC to apologise for its previous reporting, and said he would be making a complaint.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday former Brexit secretary David Davis accused the bank of lying about the \"commercial viability\" of Mr Farage's account in anonymous briefings to the BBC.\n\nSeparately, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, called for an inquiry into what happened to the Coutts bank account.\n\nMr Sunak's press secretary said after PMQs it would be \"incredibly concerning and wrong\" if Mr Farage's account was closed due to his political opinions.\n\n\"No-one should be barred from bank services for their political views,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said elsewhere that this \"exposes the sinister nature of much of the diversity, equity and inclusion industry\".\n\n\"NatWest and other corporates who have naively adopted this politically biased dogma need a major rethink.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA HM Treasury spokesperson said: \"It would be of serious concern if financial services were being denied to anyone exercising their right to lawful free speech.\n\n\"We will soon set out plans to crack down on this practice by toughening the rules around account closures, protecting freedom of expression.\n\n\"In the meantime, people can complain to the Financial Ombudsman Service which has the power to direct a bank to reopen an account.\"\n\nThe government since January has been taking evidence on how private companies' right to commercial independence is balanced with individuals' rights to freedom of expression.\n\nGovernment insiders have told the BBC the government's view is that the balance has \"tipped\" too far in companies' favour.\n\nCoutts said: \"We understand the public concern that the processes for ending a customer relationship, and how that is communicated, are not sufficiently transparent.\"\n\nThe bank added that it welcomed the Treasury plans to prioritise the review of the regulatory rules relating to politically exposed persons.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Brianna Ghey died after she was found with stab injuries in a park\n\nOne of two teenagers accused of murdering 16-year-old Brianna Ghey has pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe transgender girl from Birchwood, Warrington, died after she was found with fatal stab wounds in Culcheth Linear Park on 11 February.\n\nTwo 16-year-olds, a boy and a girl, who cannot be named due to their age, were charged with her murder.\n\nOnly one of the defendants entered the plea at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court in a brief hearing earlier.\n\nReporting restrictions prevent the identification of which of the defendants entered the plea.\n\nParents of both teenagers, who appeared separately in the dock, were in court for the hearing.\n\nMrs Justice Yip told the court: \"It's a case in which I know emotions are likely to run high, that's very understandable. There has been a lot of publicity about it already.\n\n\"We're going to make sure that this case proceeds in a calm manner in court in a way that is going to be entirely fair to everybody.\"\n\nA further hearing will be held on 4 October.\n\nA trial has been set for 27 November and is expected to last three weeks.\n\nCandlelit vigils were held across the UK after Brianna's death\n\nThe girl, from Warrington, and the boy, from Leigh, are both currently held in secure accommodation.\n\nThousands of people attended candlelit vigils across the UK after Brianna's death.\n\nIn a tribute, her family described her as \"beautiful, witty and hilarious\".\n\nThey said she was \"strong, fearless and one of a kind\" with a \"larger-than-life character\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Boy and girl in court accused of Brianna murder\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Tom Scholar had been the official in charge of the Treasury since 2016\n\nThe top official at the Treasury who was sacked days after Liz Truss became prime minister received an exit payout of £335,000.\n\nSir Tom Scholar was fired after Ms Truss pledged to change \"Treasury orthodoxy\" during the Tory leadership campaign last year.\n\nHis dismissal was criticised by former officials, who said it was an attack on the impartiality of the civil service.\n\nAt the time, the Treasury thanked Sir Tom for his \"dedicated service\".\n\nThe details of Sir Tom's severance payment for \"loss of office\" were included in the Treasury's annual report and accounts for 2022-23.\n\nThe figures show Sir Tom's total pay for 2022-23 was more than £550,000 ($700,000), including salary and pension benefits.\n\nThe Treasury's latest accounts also revealed the severance payments made to ministers during the 2022-23 period.\n\nMs Truss and her predecessor as PM, Boris Johnson, both received £18,660 after resigning, while the former Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, was given £16,876.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak received a payment of £16,876 after resigning as chancellor in July 2022, but later repaid this amount.\n\nSeverance payments of £7,920 were handed to three ministers, including Chris Pincher, who resigned as deputy chief whip in June 2022 over allegations he groped two men at a club in London.\n\nThe deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Daisy Cooper, called for the payouts to be given back, while Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the former Tory ministers should not be \"walking away with an enormous payoff\".\n\nMinisters are entitled to a \"loss-of-office\" payment amounting to a quarter of their ministerial salary if they leave their role and are not appointed to a new one within three weeks, providing they are aged under 65.\n\nA government spokesperson said there are long-standing rules about what ministers are entitled to receive as severance pay. \"Under those rules, it is for ministers to decide whether they wish to accept it,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSeparately, government accounts showed that severance payments totalling £2.9m were paid to special advisers between April 2022 and March 2023, a period of political turmoil featuring three prime ministers.\n\nLarge exit payouts to senior civil servants have proved controversial and Sir Tom's is higher than those handed out to other senior officials in recent years.\n\nFor example, the Department for Education handed former permanent secretary Jonathan Slater a £277,780 payout after he left in 2021.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said Sir Tom's payment was a \"contractual amount resulting from the Civil Service Compensation Scheme - the payment is based on length of service and includes pension payments\".\n\nThe Treasury says Sir Tom left his role as permanent secretary on 8 September, two weeks before the then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a financial statement widely known as the mini-budget.\n\nThe mini-budget caused turmoil on the financial markets and after a period of political and economic turbulence, Ms Truss resigned as prime minister after 45 days in office.\n\nJames Bowler, who was appointed as the permanent secretary to the Treasury in October last year, told a committee of MPs that Sir Tom's departure \"wasn't normal\".\n\nMr Bowler said: \"I think the then-chancellor of the exchequer said he didn't want Tom to continue as the permanent secretary, so Tom stood aside and the process was undertaken to appoint someone in his stead.\"\n\nSir Tom had served as the permanent secretary to the Treasury for six years before his sacking brought an end to his career in the civil service.\n\nIn a brief statement following his dismissal, Sir Tom said: \"The chancellor decided it was time for new leadership at the Treasury, and so I will be leaving with immediate effect.\n\n\"It has been the privilege of my career to lead this great institution since 2016. I wish the Treasury all the best for the times ahead, and I will be cheering on from the sidelines.\"\n\nThroughout her campaign to be Tory leader, Ms Truss blamed \"Treasury orthodoxy\" for slow economic growth over recent years.\n\nMs Truss, a former Treasury minister, accused her old department of promoting an \"abacus economics\" and insisted there needed to be a greater focus on stimulating economic growth.\n\nShe promised to boost the economy through \"bold\" tax cuts - a move that her leadership rival and successor as prime minister, Mr Sunak, predicted would stoke further inflation.\n\nMs Truss was ultimately forced to ditch her economic plan and quit as as prime minister after a Tory revolt sapped her of authority.", "The UK is falling behind in protecting workers from artificial intelligence (AI), a trade union group has warned.\n\nThe TUC said the UK had no plans, like the EU's AI Act, to regulate its use in hiring, firing and setting work conditions. The union has asked a taskforce to draft legal protections.\n\nThe government said it was committed to improving and upholding worker rights.\n\nIt comes as the boss of Octopus Energy told the BBC its customers prefer emails written by AI over his staff.\n\nBusiness leaders are hailing the potential of AI to spur innovation, productivity and improve customer service.\n\nBut unions say they are \"deeply worried\" that UK employment law is not keeping pace with the AI revolution.\n\nMary Towers at the TUC said it had launched a taskforce to draft its own AI legal protections\n\nMary Towers, employment rights policy officer at the TUC, said: \"The types of decisions that are being made by AI are significant and life changing - for example, who should get a job, how work is carried out, where it's carried out.\"\n\nA lack of AI specific legislation meant the UK was being left behind, she said. \"For example, in the EU, they are in the process of passing an AI Act. In this country, we don't have any equivalent.\"\n\nAt Octopus Energy, AI is used to read, interpret and answer customer service queries. Chief executive Greg Jackson said it was doing work that would otherwise need an extra 250 people.\n\nHe said customers appeared to prefer dealing with the AI than with a human.\n\n\"An email written by our team members has a 65% satisfaction rating from customers,\" he said. \"An email written by AI has an 80 or 85% satisfaction rating. And so what the AI is doing is enabling our team to do a better job of serving customers at a time of great need.\"\n\nOctopus Energy boss Greg Jackson said emails written by AI score higher for customer satisfaction than those written by humans\n\nHe added that a human commanding an AI to write an email \"saves a lot of tedious typing\".\n\n\"But we have to ensure this is all done responsibly. And we need governments and economists and businesses to be ensuring that we're doing this by enhancing and creating jobs, not replacing them.\"\n\nAI could lead to huge breakthroughs in science and medicine according to the boss of drug giant GSK. Emma Walmsley told the BBC that the speed with which AI could process data and see patterns would revolutionise drug development.\n\n\"Biopharma is difficult. It takes sometimes a decade, billions [of pounds], and it has a 90% failure rate,\" she said.\n\n\"But we are in the business of data at the heart of what we do. AI is helping us see things in this data faster.\"\n\nShe said this meant drug and vaccine discovery and development should become \"more predictive and improve our probability of success\".\n\nAnd she said that could mean better health outcomes for hundreds of millions of people.\n\n\"One in three of us is going to be battling with dementia, there are still many cancers that don't have have solutions, infectious diseases are still causing one in six deaths in the world,\" she said.\n\nEmma Walmsley at GSK said AI could help bring better health outcomes for millions\n\nThere was \"no doubt\" that AI would \"help us unlock better solutions to these challenges\", she said. \"And that's got to be something worth investing in with optimism whilst regulating responsibly.\"\n\nMs Walmsley thinks improving productivity through the use of AI will create more jobs and \"change some jobs quite meaningfully\".\n\n\"I think some will need maybe some less headcount on but there'll be other spaces where we need a lot more,\" she said.\n\nIt is sometimes assumed that the creative arts will be the least affected by AI as machine learning will struggle to replicate human creativity.\n\nBut that's wrong according to actress and voice over artist Laurence Bouvard who said that AI is being used to sample, analyse and replicate human voices without paying the original artist.\n\n\"When we do a job, in order to get paid, we have to sign away all our rights,\" she said. \"And these AI companies are just taking it without asking who it belongs to.\"\n\nShe said AI was a particular threat to the \"army\" of lesser known artists who voice cartoons, video games, dictionaries and other audio work who could see their careers totally destroyed.\n\n\"A writer and an artist and a photographer, even if their work is stolen, they can create new work. If my voice is stolen, if my career is over,\" she said.\n\nAI has great power and is already changing industries and the work place. Last week the OECD said the world was \"on the cusp of an AI revolution\".\n\nThe Paris-based body said: \"Urgent action is required to make sure AI is used responsibly and in a trustworthy way in the workplace.\"\n\nWith great power comes great responsibility - and it is not yet clear in the UK or internationally - who will or who should take on that responsibility.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"AI is set to fuel growth and create new highly-paid jobs throughout the UK, while allowing us to carry out our existing jobs more efficiently and safely.\n\n\"That is why we are working with businesses and regulators to ensure AI is used safely and responsibility in business settings.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Nigel Farage says he 'wants answers' after bank apology\n\nBanking boss Dame Alison Rose has apologised to Nigel Farage for \"deeply inappropriate\" comments made about him in a document on his suitability as a Coutts customer.\n\nThe boss of NatWest Group said in a letter to Mr Farage that the comments did not reflect the bank's view.\n\nUKIP's ex-leader has said his Coutts account was closed because the bank did not agree with his political views.\n\nMr Farage said Dame Alison should now be questioned by MPs about the issue.\n\nDame Alison's apology came after the government announced new plans to force banks to explain account closures.\n\nShe said that as well as apologising to Mr Farage, she was \"commissioning a full review of the Coutts' processes\" on bank account closures. Coutts, a private bank, is owned by the NatWest Group.\n\nIn the letter to Mr Farage she said she believed \"very strongly that freedom of expression and access to banking are fundamental to our society and it is absolutely not our policy to exit a customer on the basis of legally held political and personal views\".\n\nMr Farage had put in a request to the bank to see documents relating to the decision to close his Coutts account.\n\nThe BBC had previously reported that it had been told that Mr Farage had fallen below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, citing a source familiar with the move.\n\nThe 40-page document given to Mr Farage, published by the Daily Mail, included minutes from a meeting in November last year reviewing his suitability as a client.\n\nIt stated continuing to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts's \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nIt mentioned Mr Farage's retweet of a Ricky Gervais joke about trans women and his friendship with tennis player Novak Djokovic, who is opposed to Covid vaccinations.\n\nIt gave several examples, including his comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to the Taliban, and his characterisation of the RNLI as a \"taxi-service\" for illegal immigrants, to flag concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\".\n\nOn Thursday Dame Alison also reiterated her offer to Mr Farage of alternative banking arrangements with NatWest and said she wanted to ensure they provide \"a better, more transparent experience for all our customers in the future.\"\n\nFollowing her apology, Mr Farage was asked if he thought that she should now resign.\n\n\"I think what needs to happen is the Treasury select committee needs to reconvene, come out of recess, and let's give her the opportunity to tell us the truth,\" he told reporters.\n\nMr Farage also said the Telegraph had reported how the BBC's business editor Simon Jack had sat next to Dame Alison at a dinner on 3 July and the next day he had then been called by Mr Jack and told \"the reason my bank account had been closed was that I had insufficient funds in the account.\"\n\nHe said: \"I want to know, did Alison Rose breach my client confidentiality? Did she break GDPR rules?\"\n\nParliament is now in recess until September.\n\nAsked whether it would reconvene in the meantime to discuss the issue, a spokesman for the Treasury Select Committee said it will be calling on \"relevant people as witnesses and keep our programme under constant review at our regular meetings\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe apology to Mr Farage came after the Treasury announced plans to subject UK banks to stricter rules over closing customer accounts.\n\nBanks will have to explain why they are closing accounts and they will have to give a notice period of 90 days before closing an account, to allow people more time to appeal against the decision.\n\nThe new rules are likely to be brought in after the summer, the BBC understands.\n\nThe changes will not take away a bank's right to close accounts of people deemed to be a reputational or political risk.\n\nInstead, it will boost transparency for customers, the Treasury said.\n\nTreasury minister Andrew Griffith said: \"Banks occupy a privileged place in society and it is right that we fairly balance the rights of banks to act in their commercial interest with the right for everyone to express themselves freely.\"\n\nDame Alison said she welcomed the plans and would implement the recommendations.\n\nThe Treasury began looking at the issue in January after PayPal temporarily suspended several accounts last year.\n\nOn Wednesday Rishi Sunak warned it \"wouldn't be right if financial services were being denied to anyone exercising their right to lawful free speech\".", "Radio operator Emma Riley was discharged from the Navy for being a lesbian in the 1990s\n\nRishi Sunak has apologised for the historical treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the military for being gay.\n\nThe PM called the ban an \"appalling failure\" of the British state.\n\nIt was illegal to be gay in the British military until 2000 - with thousands of veterans thought to be affected.\n\nA report into their treatment recommended they be given a financial reward and that the PM publicly apologise.\n\nAddressing MPs, the prime minister said: \"Many endured the most horrific sexual abuse and violence, homophobic bullying and harassment all while bravely serving this country.\"\n\nThe LGBT Veterans Independent Review, led by Britain's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experiences of 1,145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.\n\nHomosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 but a ban continued in the armed forces. According to the report, the Ministry of Defence said at the time that justification for the policy included \"maintenance of operational effectiveness and efficiency\" - but the report said there had been an \"incomprehensible policy of homophobic bigotry\" in the armed forces.\n\nIt heard shocking accounts of homophobia, bullying, blackmail, sexual assaults, \"disgraceful\" medical examinations, and conversion therapy.\n\nIt makes 49 recommendations to the government including:\n\nThe government said it would respond in full after summer recess.\n\nSome of the veterans affected watched the PM's public apology.\n\nOne of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy radio operator for three years before she was arrested and discharged for being a lesbian after telling a colleague her sexuality in the early 1990s.\n\nShe told BBC News she welcomed the report, and hoped it would be put into place \"swiftly.\"\n\n\"Having our history, experiences and enormous pain acknowledged and apologised for, hearing that the armed services and government that perpetuated institutional bullying will now be held accountable to finally support LBGT+ veterans, is a relief,\" she said.\n\nVeterans have previously told the BBC how their lives were devastated by the ban.\n\nCarol Morgan, who was dismissed after telling her bosses she was gay in 1978, kept her sexuality secret for another 30 years and said she had been \"robbed\" of her life.\n\nKen Wright, 62, served in the Royal Air Force Police before losing his job when his bosses found out he was gay.\n\nHe described how losing his position in the military had left him feeling as though \"his country didn't want him.\"\n\nHe added: \"After being denied the opportunity to defend one's country, being told you aren't good enough to wear the uniform, it takes huge inner strength to feel reconciled all of a sudden today.\n\n\"Carrying that insult for 35 years scars you for life.\"\n\nOlympian Dame Kelly Holmes, who served in the army and came out as gay last year, called the publication of the report a \"historic moment\", while Catherine Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said it was \"an important step towards justice\" for those whose military careers were \"ruined\" because of their sexuality.\n\n\"Many were imprisoned, experienced corrective violence and lived with the stain of criminal convictions because of who they loved and which left some homeless and many unable to work,\" she said.\n\nThe report says many faced invasive medical examinations, intrusive police investigations and in some cases, as recently as 1996, were sent to prison for their sexuality. Many still have a criminal record to this day.\n\nIt also details how some veterans faced a complete loss of income, while others were deemed ineligible to claim their pension because of their dismissal.\n\nThe report comes more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for being gay, won a case in the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the ban.\n\nThe armed forces charity Royal British Legion called on the government to accept the report's recommendations in full.\n\nThe charity's director general Charles Byrne welcomed both the report and Mr Sunak's \"landmark apology\", saying many people who had dedicated their lives to the country were \"forced or felt pressured to leave the armed forces, and this mistreatment destroyed or shortened their career\".\n\nFollowing the report, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he was \"deeply sorry\" on behalf of the government and the armed forces.\n\n\"I say again to the veterans' community I'm deeply sorry for what happened to you. The very tolerance and values of western democracy that we expected you to fight for, we denied to you - it was profoundly wrong,\" he said in the House of Commons.\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer also said he was pleased with the apology and that it was a \"significant moment\" for the LGBT community.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"On behalf of the British state I apologise\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe White House has confirmed that Ukraine is using US cluster munitions against Russian forces in the country.\n\nNational Security Spokesman John Kirby said initial feedback suggested they were being used \"effectively\" on Russian defensive positions and operations.\n\nThe munitions scatter multiple bomblets and are banned by more than 100 states due to their threat to civilians.\n\nThe US agreed to supply them to boost Ukrainian ammunition supplies.\n\nUkraine has promised the munitions will only be used to dislodge concentrations of Russian enemy soldiers.\n\n\"They are using them appropriately,\" Mr Kirby said. \"They're using them effectively and they are actually having an impact on Russia's defensive formations and Russia's defensive manoeuvring. I think I can leave it at that.\"\n\nThe US decided to send cluster bombs after Ukraine warned that it was running out of ammunition during its summer counter-offensive, which has been slower and more costly than many had hoped.\n\nPresident Joe Biden called the decision \"very difficult\", while its allies the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Spain opposed their use.\n\nThe vast majority sent are artillery shells with a lower than 2.35% \"dud rate\", a reference to the percentage of bomblets which do not explode immediately and can remain a threat for years.\n\nThe weapons are effective when used against troops in trenches and fortified positions, as they render large areas too dangerous to move around in until cleared.\n\nThe Ukrainian counter-offensive has been slower than many hoped\n\nRussia has used similar cluster munitions in Ukraine since it launched its full-scale invasion last year, including in civilian areas.\n\nReacting to the US decision to send the weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country had similar stockpiles and they would be used \"if they are used against us\".\n\nOleksandr Syrskyi, the Ukrainian general in charge of operations in the country's east, told the BBC last week that his forces needed the weapons to \"inflict maximum damage on enemy infantry\".\n\n\"We'd like to get very fast results, but in reality it's practically impossible. The more infantry who die here, the more their relatives back in Russia will ask their government 'why?'\"\n\nHe added however that cluster munitions would not \"solve all our problems\".\n\nHe also acknowledged that their use was controversial, but added: \"If the Russians didn't use them, perhaps conscience would not allow us to do it too.\"\n\nA Russian bomblet fired in Kharkiv earlier in the war", "Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash on 22 May\n\nTwelve people have been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a memorial ride to commemorate two boys whose deaths sparked a riot.\n\nThe event happened on 10 June and involved large numbers of bikes and other vehicles travelling between Barry and Cardiff.\n\nIt came after the deaths of Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, who were killed in a crash on 22 May.\n\nPolice said some of those involved put road users and pedestrians at risk.\n\nSouth Wales Police said, 23 vehicles, including 11 quad bikes and two all-terrain vehicles, were seized from a unit in Wilson Road, Ely, Cardiff on 16 June.\n\nTwo men, aged 28 and 41, were previously arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods and other offences, and were released on bail.\n\nSouth Wales Police added that 11 people were to receive notices of intended prosecution (NIP) for alleged motor offences.\n\nNIPs have been sent to three others to confirm who was using their vehicle at the time alleged offences were committed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the CCTV tells us about teens' final moments\n\nKyrees and Harvey died when the e-bike they were riding crashed shortly after they were followed by South Wales Police officers.\n\nThis sparked riots in Ely that saw 15 officers hurt and 27 people arrested.\n\nForce commissioner Alun Michael was criticised for claiming the teenagers had not been chased by officers after CCTV showed police following the pair.\n\nPolice subsequently admitted they had followed them after several doorbell cameras captured footage of the e-bike and police van.\n\nTwo police officers are under investigation for their conduct prior to the deaths of the boys.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said gross misconduct notices had been served on the driver and passenger seen in the police van.", "The firebombing campaign lasted from 1979 until the early 1990s\n\nA convicted firebomber has admitted for the first time how he was involved in burning down cottages 30 years ago.\n\nSion Aubrey Roberts, from Anglesey, described how he was part of Meibion Glyndwr, which set fire to 200 English-owned holiday homes in the 1980s.\n\nDuring a 12-year campaign, Westminster and English cities were also targeted.\n\nNobody was ever convicted of being a member, while it is alleged officers tried to gain a false testimony that MP Dafydd Elis-Thomas was involved.\n\nRoberts described how he had a poster of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands on his wall as a child, and that his first order on joining Meibion Glyndwr was to \"break into a house and burn it\".\n\nWhile he was jailed aged 20 for 12 years in 1993 for sending incendiary devices in the post and possessing explosives, police were not able to prove he was part of the wider conspiracy.\n\nBut he admitted his full involvement on BBC documentary series Firebombers, saying: \"The movement was five years old when I joined.\n\n\"Growing up, Meibion Glyndwr were my heroes. We couldn't afford to buy houses in our own area, it was impossible.\n\n\"As more and more were being sold, prices kept going up, and local people couldn't afford them.\n\n\"We agreed one thing - something had to be done and we had to strike.\"\n\nSion Aubrey Roberts described targeting a holiday home alongside two other men\n\nAs the campaign gained widespread publicity in the 1980s, Roberts said \"police were watching everywhere\", but by using timers on devices, the firebombers could evade arrest.\n\n\"We were off the road by nine at night, we weren't at it late at night,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't want to draw attention to ourselves. It was hours before they caught fire.\"\n\nHe said they had \"disappeared\" by the time the holiday home was alight, adding: \"We were just shadows.\"\n\nThese are what police were chasing from the first two attacks in Pembrokeshire on 13 December 1979 until the early 1990s, according to former BBC journalist Alun Lenny.\n\nHe described finding out who was behind Meibion Glyndwr (Sons of Glyndwr) as something that would have been \"one of the greatest journalistic scoops\".\n\nBut he said it was \"impossible\" to even get a lead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first victim of arson attacks, Pembrokeshire-based cottage rental business owner Leonard Rees, said: \"The whole property had gone up in flames. It incinerated remarkably quickly.\n\n\"The whole roof was consumed and collapsed along with the internal floors.\"\n\nA further two properties were targeted on 13 December 1979, with three more in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, the next day.\n\nWithin six weeks, 17 second homes in north and west Wales had been destroyed, and police now warned all those owned by English people were at risk.\n\n\"It was total devastation,\" said Kelvin Griffiths, who was a North Wales Police officer.\n\n\"Because they were so remote, these houses were burning down unbeknown. It was only when someone drove past and thought 'oh the house has been burnt down'. Nobody had even seen it.\"\n\nThe remoteness of properties in counties such as Gwynedd made it easier for the group to carry out the attacks\n\nHe described it as a \"nightmare\" for policing, adding: \"The percentage chance of getting caught was zero and they knew it.\"\n\nTourism had boomed post-war, with visitors, often from wealthy parts of England, starting to buy holiday homes in what were predominantly Welsh-speaking areas.\n\nBy 1978 this had become a problem, according to activist Adrian Stone, with villages empty for large parts of the year.\n\n\"Suddenly there wasn't a post office, pubs were closing, suddenly houses that maybe people's grandfathers and grandmothers had lived in were being sold to people who behaved with a lot of cultural insensitivity,\" he said.\n\nIn the next decade, second homes would number 20,000, according to Welsh Office figures, with 50,000 people on the council house waiting list.\n\nAttacks increased, with 20 in just over three weeks in February 1980.\n\nMargaret Thatcher was now in power, and bombs unsuccessfully targeted Tory offices in Porthmadog and Shotton, Flintshire, as well as the home of Welsh Secretary Nicholas Edwards in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.\n\nMore than 50 people were arrested, most released without charge, as police tried to find who was responsible, and Mr Stone went on trial along with others believed to be members of organisation Workers Army for a Welsh Republic.\n\n\"They wanted Dafydd Elis-Thomas who was an MP at the time,\" he said.\n\n\"They wanted me to say quite untruthfully that Dafydd was head of the second home campaign.\"\n\nWhile two men were found guilty of being in possession of detonators, there was no evidence anyone was part of the wider campaign.\n\nDafydd Elis-Thomas (left) - with other Plaid Cymru politicians Gwynfor Evans and Dafydd Wigley in 1974 - was mentioned in police interview, according to Adrian Stone\n\nResponding to Mr Stone's allegation, South Wales Police said: \"Investigations then were totally different.\n\n\"Today's investigations are supported by technology, forensic evidence, disclosure rules and safeguards.\"\n\nBy the mid 1980s more than 100 properties had been firebombed, including one owned by Ben Davies' family - who described his mother being in tears after it was attacked.\n\n\"Obviously we didn't have a lot of sympathy for the people who did it, we thought it was grossly unfair, rather cowardly, burning people's property while they weren't there,\" he said.\n\nThere is a mural of Bobby Sands in Belfast - he was an Irish Republican who died in prison in 1981 after a 66 day hunger strike\n\nRoberts, who joined Meibion Glyndwr around 1984, said Thatcherism was why so many people were inspired to join the movement.\n\n\"In 1979, Wales voted four to one against devolution, and Thatcher had taken over,\" he said.\n\n\"It was the Thatcher effect in the 80s that created people like me. I started with the Welsh Language Society but I knew that was not going to be enough for me.\n\n\"I wanted to do something far more than that.\"\n\nHe described going on protest marches while growing up in an Irish family in Gwalchmai, Anglesey.\n\n\"Even when I was 10 years old, I had pictures of the hunger strikers on my bedroom wall,\" he said.\n\n\"Bobby Sands talks about the 'undauntable thought', the thought that says you're right, the conviction that you know what you're doing is right.\n\n\"That's why there's no fear.\"\n\nThe population of Abersoch, in Gwynedd, jumps from 600 to 30,000 in summer\n\nAttacks were set to move into England, and Roberts added: \"In any campaign, you have to adapt.\n\n\"Once a hundred or so had gone up, it's not news, is it?\"\n\nIn February 1988, three bombs went off at estate agents in Chester, with another 20 following in places including Warrington, Bristol and Cheshire.\n\nJulian Beresford Adams - whose company was targeted - said 85% of his sales in Abersoch, Gwynedd, were second homes.\n\nDozens of businesses were targeted in the town between 1988 and 1990.\n\n\"At the end of the day people are born in one area and a lot of people don't end up being there because they can't afford to be there. That's life,\" he said.\n\n\"That's nothing to do with second homes.\"\n\nGraffiti had appeared in rural Wales during the 10-year period of the campaign\n\nWith nobody charged for being part of Meibion Glyndwr, singer Bryn Fôn - who wrote a song about the movement - said the police's attempts to identify members became viewed as a \"farce\".\n\n\"After 10 years of investigating, all they had to show was a plimsoll and cagoule that everyone wore,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone was talking about the police and everyone was laughing at them across the country, so I thought I'd crystallise that feeling.\n\n\"I just thought it was a farce.\"\n\nWhen a device was allegedly found in the dry stone wall of his home he was arrested, along with his partner, and questioned for more than 50 hours before being released without charge.\n\nThe whole thing \"stank\", he said, with it never discovered who planted it.\n\nIn summer 1990, suspect packages were sent to Westminster for three Tories, including Welsh secretary David Hunt.\n\nPembroke MP Nicholas Bennett said a package \"would've blown my head off\" had he opened it, adding: \"It is terrorism pure and simple.\"\n\n\"One device in London was worth more than 50 devices in north Wales,\" Roberts said.\n\n\"You'd get more publicity from it and that was the whole point.\"\n\nIn 1991, a breakthrough came. Roberts, David Gareth Davies and Dewi Prysor Williams were all arrested after being filmed at a protest march in uniform.\n\nSion Aubrey Roberts was cleared of being part of the Meibion Glyndwr movement, a charge that would have carried a longer prison sentence\n\nJanuary 1993 saw the three men appear at Caernarfon Crown Court for what would eventually be a 40-day trial.\n\nProsecutors said Roberts had been seen in forensic clothing and assembling devices, but the defence questioned the accuracy of surveillance and found inconsistencies in MI5 reports.\n\nAll three were found not guilty of the conspiracy, but a jury did find Roberts guilty of sending four incendiary devices in the post and possession of explosive substances. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.\n\n\"You have to be ready to go to jail before you start,\" he said.\n\n\"If I'd been convicted of conspiracy, I'd have got 25 years. I thought I'd be out in eight years, that isn't too bad.\"\n\nNo Meibion Glyndwr attack has happened since Roberts' conviction.\n\nHe was eight when the firebombings started, and so was not a ringleader. He has instead been described by some journalists as \"a foot soldier\".\n\nFormer reporter Alun Lenny said he doubts the identities of others who were involved will ever be revealed.\n\n\"We may never know who any of them are unless we get a deathbed confession from someone,\" he said.\n\n\"But Meibion Glyndwr, like Owain Glyndwr who they get their name from, have disappeared into the mists of history.\"\n\nBoth episodes of Firebombers are currently available on iPlayer. The second episode transmits on Thursday 27 July on BBC1 Wales at 21:00 BST iPlayer.", "The stolen gold coins were discovered near Manching in 1999, and are thought to date back to the first century BC\n\nFour people have been arrested in Germany over the theft of a hoard of Celtic gold coins worth about €1.6m (£1.4m).\n\nHundreds of coins were taken from a museum in Manching, Bavaria, during a night raid in November.\n\nMany of them dated from around the 1st Century BC.\n\nThe authorities say there is \"overwhelming evidence\" in the case and that investigations are continuing. More details are expected on Thursday.\n\nThat includes whether part of the horde of coins has been recovered.\n\nThe arrests were made on Tuesday during a search operation in the northern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.\n\nBavaria's interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said the suspects were \"professional burglars\".\n\n\"The mission continues,\" Ch Insp Ludwig Waldinger from the Bavarian police told the Bild newspaper.\n\n\"We are searching properties in several federal states.\"\n\nThe coins were unearthed during a 1999 archaeological dig near Manching - considered to be the biggest discovery of Celtic gold in the 20th Century. They had been on display since 2006.\n\nPolice at the time of their theft suspected that those involved sabotaged the museum's alarm system. Just before the break-in, nearby internet cables were cut, causing widespread outages.\n\nThis meant the alarm system was not triggered when a door was pried open, although it was able to record when the robbery, which lasted less than 10 minutes, took place.\n\nThe authorities had been exploring whether the theft involved organised crime and was linked to previous raids.\n\nIn 2017, a hefty gold coin weighing 100kg was snatched from a Berlin museum. Two years later, thieves took 21 pieces of jewellery and other valuables in a dramatic diamond heist at Dresden's Green Vault museum that was caught on CCTV.\n\nThe loss of the coins devastated the museum and the wider community.\n\nRupert Gebhard, head of collections at the State Archaeological Collection in Munich, said it felt \"like losing an old friend\".", "When Dame Alison Rose landed the top job at NatWest she became the most powerful woman in UK banking.\n\nIn the notoriously male-dominated sector, women at her level are still incredibly rare.\n\nDame Alison oversaw a bank with about 19 million customers in the UK and 60,000 employees globally.\n\nDame Alison spent some decades climbing the ranks, starting out over 30 years ago as a trainee at the bank after graduating from Durham University.\n\nWhen she secured the top job in 2019, she carefully cultivated her image and was frequently heard on the airwaves and appeared in print.\n\nIn interviews she was typically careful, reciting lines which had clearly been prepared and at times she could sound wooden.\n\nIt was part of a media-savvy strategy to be visible and open, but also very careful - she never put a step wrong and never said anything she wasn't supposed to say.\n\nThat's why the latest development is so surprising - Dame Alison made what she admits was a \"serious error\" in speaking about Nigel Farage's relationship with Coutts, the private bank owned by NatWest.\n\nIt is out of character and a shock misstep in a career which, until now, has been remarkably flawless.\n\nDanni Hewson, head of financial analysis at stockbroker AJ Bell, said Dame Alison was \"massively respected\" and her actions had \"caught a lot of people by surprise\".\n\n\"She held her employees to a high standard. She was pushing NatWest to achieve higher standards, to be more inclusive, to deliver more for the customer. And, you know, with one comment, she has undermined years of hard work.\n\n\"She has been hugely instrumental in changing the culture of banking and propelling forward the reputation of NatWest from a time when the banking sector was really persona non grata. So, I think it is incredibly surprising that she has been so careless.\"\n\nWhen NatWest, then called Royal Bank of Scotland, almost collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis and had to be rescued by a £20bn taxpayer bailout, Dame Alison was integral in rebuilding the bank and its reputation.\n\nIn contrast, the then-chief executive Fred Goodwin was blamed for expanding the bank too rapidly and was subsequently stripped of his knighthood.\n\nDame Alison is one of the few senior bosses to have survived at the bank after the public fallout.\n\nShe has also been lauded for her work to boost the number of female entrepreneurs and leaders.\n\nIt was this work which helped her be named as a Dame Commander of the British Empire by King Charles III at the start of this year.\n\nAs boss at NatWest, she has drawn headlines for changes, such as granting up to a year of leave to new fathers and ending new loans to oil and gas companies.\n\nAnd she was a relatable role model. The 53-year-old mum-of-two told the Daily Telegraph in 2021 that running NatWest during the pandemic, despite its challenges, \"was much easier than managing home schooling\" during lockdown.\n\nShe called the financial crisis in 2008 a \"pretty traumatic period\" for the industry.\n\n\"There was the experience of watching everything we had been working on change, and the terrible situation that RBS found itself in,\" she told the Evening Standard in 2016. \"That was a pretty emotional and difficult experience.\"\n\nIt's likely that this latest episode will prove more traumatic.", "Fourth LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Emirates Old Trafford (day two of five):\n\nZak Crawley's astonishing 189 stunned Australia and kept England on course for an Ashes comeback on an exhilarating second day of the fourth Test at Old Trafford.\n\nCrawley cracked the highest score by an England batter in a home Ashes Test for 26 years to give the hosts the perfect chance of levelling the series at 2-2.\n\nIn a 182-ball stay, he crunched 21 fours and three sixes to help England to 384-4, a lead of 67.\n\nCrawley shared a stand of 121 with Moeen Ali, who was superb in making 54 at number three, then a riotous double-century partnership with Joe Root, the former captain unlucky to fall for 84.\n\nThough Crawley and Root were both bowled by deliveries that kept low, Harry Brook and Ben Stokes laid a platform to attack on Friday morning with an unbroken stand of 33.\n\nOn a perfect day for the home side, James Anderson removed Pat Cummins with the first ball of the morning and Chris Woakes completed his maiden five-wicket haul in an Ashes Test to dismiss Australia for 317.\n\nWith the series on the line and bad weather closing in at the weekend, England not only wanted to build a lead, but do so swiftly enough to leave time to force a result.\n\nThey did so in a fashion that was barely believable and now have a golden opportunity to level the series at 2-2 and set up a delicious Ashes decider at The Oval.\n• None England aiming to bat once in fourth Test - Crawley\n• None How a staggering day two at Old Trafford unfolded\n• None Quiz: Name players to have 3,000 runs and 200 wickets in Tests\n\nEven the most optimistic England fan could not have predicted this. Their day-one performance with the ball, reducing Australia to 299-8, created the prospect of one good batting innings levelling the series. There was also the danger of one collapse surrendering any chance of lifting the urn.\n\nWhat transpired was England's best day of the summer - a celebration of everything good about the cricket they have played under Stokes and Brendon McCullum, lapped up by the Old Trafford Party Stand.\n\nIf Australia were yet to be fully Bazballed, they have now, steamrollered by Crawley and co in a trail of destruction that scattered fielders, frazzled minds and did horrific damage to bowling figures. Off-spinner Todd Murphy, the notable absentee from the Australia XI, would have been relieved to be running drinks rather than bowling.\n\nTo compound an awful day for the tourists, fast bowler Mitchell Starc struggled with a hamstring injury then hurt his left shoulder diving in the field.\n\nAnderson had Cummins caught at cover while Woakes needed two goes at having number 11 Josh Hazlewood caught in the slips - the first was a no-ball. It proved to be the only blight on England's day.\n\nWith heavy rain forecast for Saturday and Sunday, England knew they had to score quickly. They did so with controlled aggression, glorious strokeplay and urgent running. The hosts could feel in a position to have Australia batting again before lunch on Friday.\n\nAny tilt at victory will have to come with the weather looming and on a pitch starting to show some signs of sharp variable bounce.\n\nBut England have engineered a huge opening. They have never returned from 2-0 down to win an Ashes series. The comeback is on.\n\nDespite his modest record, England have always believed Kent's Crawley is a match-winner. This innings, an Ashes knock for the ages, was spectacular vindication.\n\nEngland were nervy in the spell to lunch. Ben Duckett edged Starc behind for one and Crawley had to overturn being given out lbw to Cameron Green on 20.\n\nBut Crawley and makeshift number three Moeen intelligently built their century partnership and Crawley exploded into life after the break.\n\nWith flamboyant whips, handsome drives and some mighty slog sweeps, Crawley eviscerated the Australian bowling. He moved from 50 to 100 in 26 balls, a 93-ball ton England's fourth-fastest in Ashes cricket.\n\nCrawley crashed 106 runs from 82 balls in the session between lunch and tea. A stand of 206 with Root was racked up in only 186 deliveries. The Australians rifled through plan and after plan, their fielding became ragged and bowlers weary.\n\nJust as Crawley looked primed for a double ton, Green got one to keep low and he played on, leaving to rapturous applause from a crowd who had witnessed one of the all-time great hundreds.\n\nThis was a superb effort from Moeen, who came out of retirement for this series and finds himself as the only frontline spinner in the match and filling an important gap in the England order.\n\nHe batted with composure and displayed the odd touch of style. The standing ovation for reaching his first Test half-century in four years recognised Moeen's selfless service this summer. He was unlucky that a full-blooded pull off Starc was sharply taken by Usman Khawaja.\n\nRoot arrived with the score at 130-2 and the game in the balance, but was instantly at his impish, imperious best.\n\nHe dealt with Australia's short-ball plan by expertly executing hooks and pulls. His intent to score brought 40 off his first 30 balls - Root's fastest-ever start to a Test innings. He played his trademark reverse-scoops off Mitchell Marsh and Cummins.\n\nRoot deserved a century of his own, only to be bowled by a scuttler from Hazlewood - keeping even lower than the one that got Crawley.\n\nThe way in which Brook and Stokes calmly played for the morning is ominous for the Australians. The sight of 'nighthawk' Stuart Broad padded up late in the day was a sign of England's intent.\n\nEngland opener Zak Crawley, speaking to Test Match Special: \"I rode my luck at times and played some really good parts in the innings and there were other parts where I was really streaky but I'm happy with how I have played. It was a special day.\n\n\"I just keep backing my game and I've done that well this series where I just keep trying to play the way I play. That's the only way that is going to work for me.\"\n\nAustralia assistant coach Daniel Vettori: \"It was obviously a taxing session because Crawley was so dominant and played so well from the onset. We had some clear plans but he was too good.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"England play a certain brand that completely suits Crawley. That innings has put England on the front foot and this moment will be spoken about for a long period of time, particularly if England go on to win the Ashes.\"", "The proportion of students in England awarded first-class degrees has fallen for the first time in over a decade, the university watchdog says.\n\nThe Office for Students (OfS) says 32.8% achieved top grades in 2021-22, down from 37.4% in 2020-21.\n\nBut the percentage remains higher than before the Covid pandemic and concerns remain about the overall increase since 2010-11, when it was 15.5%.\n\nUniversities say they are \"committed to addressing unexplained increases\".\n\nThe National Union of Students (NUS) said it \"regrets\" students were having \"doubts cast upon their achievements\".\n\nUniversities UK, which represents 140 institutions, said they were \"rowing back on increases that occurred during the pandemic\".\n\nIn a statement, it referred to guidance it has published on how universities should classify degrees to \"protect the value of qualifications\".\n\nThe fall in the proportion of top grades in 2021-22 coincided with many universities ending \"no detriment\" or \"safety net\" policies designed to protect grades from being negatively impacted by disruption during the pandemic.\n\nThe policies often meant students' grades were based on their performance up until the pandemic.\n\nThe OfS report does not analyse the impact of policies and guidance.\n\nIt does look at whether differences in students' \"characteristics\" from year to year might explain the long-term rise in first-class degrees - such as their A-level or equivalent grades or choice of subject.\n\nBut OfS chief executive Susan Lapworth said half of first-class degrees remained \"unexplained\".\n\n\"We are encouraged to see a reduction in the proportion of unexplained top grades but universities and colleges know that they need to continue to take the steps necessary to protect the value of their qualifications, now and over time,\" she said.\n\n\"We recognise there are likely to be a range of factors - including improved teaching - that could lead to an increase in the number of firsts awarded.\n\n\"But the sustained increase in unexplained firsts and [upper seconds] since 2010-11 continues to cause us concern.\"\n\nUniversities UK said universities \"remain committed to addressing unexplained increases in their degree-classification awards\" but the research \"must be careful not to assume that those with lower entry grades, typically from more disadvantaged backgrounds, cannot achieve first-class degrees\".\n\n\"Some of the improvements are certain to be attributable to increased investment into teaching from universities and the hard work of students,\" it added.\n\nChloe Field, of the NUS, said it \"regrets the suggestion that students who have worked hard, received quality teaching from excellent staff and have achieved good results have doubts cast upon their achievements\".\n\nThis \"distracts from the real problems\" in higher education, such as the cost of living, she added.\n\nThe OfS report comes as some students face delays receiving their grades this summer because of a marking boycott by staff.\n\nThe University and College Union says it could affect more than half a million graduations.\n\nMore than half the universities that responded to a survey by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), said some of their students would be affected. The UCEA estimates that 13,000 students - 2.6% of final-year graduates - will be affected\n\nUniversities are taking independent decisions about how to minimise the impact, so the effect on students will vary.\n\nGrade inflation - especially since the pandemic - has also been a concern for schools and colleges.\n\nThe proportion of top GCSE and A-level grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2022 was lower than 2021 but still higher than before the pandemic.\n\nOfqual says it expects this year's GCSE and A-level results to be similar to 2019.", "Big meat eaters' diets result in almost twice the carbon emissions per day of those who eat small amounts of meat\n\nHaving big UK meat-eaters cut some of it out of their diet would be like taking 8 million cars off the road.\n\nThat's just one of the findings of new research that scientists say gives the most reliable calculation yet of how what we eat impacts our planet.\n\nThe Oxford University study is the first to pinpoint the difference high- and low-meat diets have on greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say.\n\nThe meat industry said the analysis overstated the impact of eating meat.\n\nProf Peter Scarborough, of Oxford University, who led the new research, told BBC News: ''Our results show that if everyone in the UK who is a big meat-eater reduced the amount of meat they ate, it would make a really big difference.\"\n\n\"You don't need to completely eradicate meat from your diet.\"\n\nProf Scarborough, who is part of the Livestock Environment And People (LEAP) project surveyed 55,000 people who were divided into big meat-eaters, who ate more than 100g of meat a day, which equates to a big burger, low meat-eaters, whose daily intake was 50g or less, approximately a couple of chipolata sausages, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans.\n\nWhile it is well established that producing meat has a bigger environmental footprint than plant-based food, it has never been calculated in such detail, according to Prof Susan Jebb, who is head of the Food Standards Agency and a world leading nutrition scientist at Oxford University. She was not involved in the research.\n\n\"What makes this assessment different is that it takes real people's diets and is based on the various production methods we have at the moment,\" she said. \"The researchers have assessed at a much more granular level than has been done before the environmental footprint of what they are eating.\"\n\nThe research shows that a big meat-eater's diet produces an average of 10.24 kg of planet-warming greenhouse gasses each day. A low meat-eater produces almost half that at 5.37 kg per day. And for vegan diets - it's halved again to 2.47 kg a day.\n\nThe analysis is the first to look at the detailed impact of diets on other environmental measures all together. These are land use, water use, water pollution and loss of species, usually caused by loss of habitat because of expansion of farming. In all cases high meat-eaters had a significantly higher adverse impact than other groups.\n\nBritain has some of the most sustainable methods of meat production. And the sector employs nearly 100,000 people making £9.5bn a year for the UK.\n\nNick Allen, CEO of the British Meat Processors Association says that such assessments were incomplete.\n\n''One of the frustrations with a report like this is that it looks just at the emissions from livestock production. It doesn't take into account that carbon gets absorbed into the grassland, trees and hedgerows [on farms]. If they took those sums into account you would probably have a different picture,'' he said.\n\nIn response Prof Scarborough said that a number of studies, including this one, had concluded that the taking up of CO2 by grasslands only have a ''modest impact''.\n\nA separate study also published in Nature Food in 2021 concluded that food production was responsible for a third of all global greenhouse gas emissions. And an independent review for the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) called for a 30% reduction in meat consumption by 2032 in order to meet the UK's net zero target.\n\nBut according to Prof Jebb, little has been done to achieve this aim.\n\n\"In the UK it is still not accepted that we are eating an amount of meat which is inconsistent with our environmental goals. At the moment, the conversation is not how we are going to do this, but whether it is really necessary,\" she said.\n\n\"In the case of obesity people know they shouldn't be eating confectionary cakes and biscuits. They may not want to hear it, but they know it to be true. With meat they are not wholly convinced.\"\n\nShe adds that as well as encouraging people to change their diets, the government also needs to support farmers through the transition, by protecting their livelihoods.\n\n\"Our farmers are trying pretty hard to be sustainable, more so than in many other countries, and yet we in the UK are putting... more pressure on our farmers to change, and that is pretty tough if you are a farmer,\" she said.\n\nIn response a Defra spokesperson said ''people should make their own decisions around the food they eat\".\n\n\"Achieving the net zero target is a priority for this government, and whilst food choices can have an impact on greenhouse gas emissions, well-managed livestock also provide environmental benefits such as supporting biodiversity, protecting the character of the countryside and generating important income for rural communities.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board said ''AHDB is disappointed to see, once again, a study conveying simplistic conclusions to a very complex topic. Foods fulfil different roles within our diets and therefore cannot be fairly compared by weight, calorie or even nutrient contribution. Limited intake of animal-based foods has also shown to increase nutritional inadequacy, an area often overlooked by these kinds of studies''.\n\nThe study has been published in Nature Food\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The research is still being used in US legal cases about limiting women's access to abortion\n\nAn independent panel resigned in a row over controversial research about the impact of abortion on the mental health of women, BBC News has been told.\n\nThe research, which is still being used in US legal cases about limiting access to abortion, was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, in 2011.\n\nLast year the panel, which was set up to investigate complaints about the paper, recommended it be withdrawn.\n\nBut journal-owner, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, overruled it.\n\nThe Royal College said the work had already been fully investigated.\n\nHowever, BBC Newsnight and the BMJ understand all three panel members, and two other members of the journal's editorial board, resigned in protest. They have called into question the journal's editorial independence.\n\nThe 2011 paper is a systematic review conducted by US psychologist, Prof Priscilla Coleman. It concludes that women who've had an abortion have an 81% increased risk of developing mental health problems.\n\nProf Coleman worked for 20 years as a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, at Bowling Green State University, in Ohio. Her research appeared in a brief submitted to the US Supreme Court as part of successful efforts to overturn the historic Roe v Wade judgment, which guaranteed a constitutional right to an abortion in the US.\n\nIn April, the paper was also cited by a judge in Texas, when concluding one of the two main drugs used for medical abortion in the US, Mifepristone, should have its approval suspended. The case is ongoing.\n\nWhen Prof Coleman's paper was first published in 2011, 10 letters were sent to the British Journal of Psychiatry criticising the quality of the research. Two called for its retraction.\n\n\"We don't believe that the results are reliable or credible\", said one signatory, Prof Julia Littell, an expert at Bryn Mawr College. She argued it did not meet best practice standards of the time.\n\n\"I've never called for the retraction of a paper before,\" she has since told the BBC. \"This is a very serious lapse of scientific integrity.\"\n\nA review published three months later in December 2011, co-authored by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, also found that methodological problems brought into question the paper's results and conclusions.\n\nStudents celebrating the overturning of Roe v Wade, a ruling that ended the nationwide right to abortion\n\nIn 2022, with the research influencing women's healthcare in the US, some of the same scientists wrote again to request the work be retracted.\n\nThe British Journal of Psychiatry then formed an independent panel, which spent four months assessing the complaints. The panel questioned the methodology used in the research - one concern was the data had been combined in a way that saw women counted multiple times.\n\nUltimately the panel recommended the paper should be retracted. However, that never happened.\n\n\"Our recommendation basically disappears into the ether,\" panel member and Harvard psychiatrist, Dr Alex Tsai, told the BBC.\n\n\"At some point we receive a letter from the communications director at the Royal College of Psychiatrists saying that the case is closed and the retraction is not going to be implemented.\"\n\nFellow panel member Dr Aileen O'Brien said intervention by the Royal College was \"concerning\". \"Usually you would have expected that to be an editorial decision,\" she said.\n\nSome panel members have expressed concern that legal threats may have influenced the College's actions.\n\nWhen the British Journal of Psychiatry told Prof Coleman they wanted to put a notice on her article to raise awareness about a possible problem, her lawyers responded that any such notice would cause \"serious harm and direct damage to her reputation\".\n\nThe letter, seen as part of an investigation by Newsnight and the BMJ, said Prof Coleman would take \"any and all legal options available\".\n\nA second legal letter, sent a month later, repeated the threat, if the journal was to retract the paper. Ultimately no notice of concern was placed on the work.\n\nProf Coleman has started legal action against another journal, Frontiers in Psychology, after it retracted one of her earlier papers. So far those actions have been rejected by a Swiss court.\n\nDr Tsai said the row risked undermining confidence in the journal's ability to \"police the content that it publishes\", adding: \"[A] journal that does not uphold editorial independence is probably not long for this world.\"\n\nNewsnight approached Prof Coleman for comment. In reply, she supplied details of her career qualifications, as well as material that she said supported her research.\n\nProf Coleman said she had published 63 peer-reviewed journal articles, with the majority related to the psychology of abortion. Based on this, she often serves as an expert in civil cases involving abortion.\n\nShe said her career had spanned three decades with publications in highly reputable academic journals and that criticism of her work was driven by the political nature of the topic.\n\nA spokesperson for the Royal College of Psychiatrists did not address questions about whether the threat of legal action had influenced its decision.\n\nThey said: \"After careful consideration, given the distance in time since the original article was published, the widely available public debate on the paper - including the letters of complaint already available alongside the article online, and the fact that the article has already been subject to a full investigation - it has been decided to reject the request for the article to be retracted.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Police are searching for an animal they believe is a lioness in the south-western outskirts of Berlin.\n\nA police spokeswoman said they received calls and a video alerting them to the wild animal at about midnight on Wednesday, and immediately began their search.\n\nAt least 30 police cars were deployed, and veterinarians were called to assist in the search for the big cat.\n\nResidents were told to stay indoors until it is found.\n\nOn Thursday evening, police told a local resident that they had \"just seen\" the lioness and that the search for the animal had entered a \"hot phase\", German outlet Bild reported, adding that officers shouted at joggers to \"get out of the woods quickly\".\n\nHowever, the animal remained elusive after nightfall on Thursday as police hunted with night vision and thermal imaging equipment.\n\nWhile the number of officers has been reduced, Beate Ostertag of Berlin police told public broadcaster RBB that police would \"be in action until the animal is found\".\n\nKleinmachnow Mayor Michael Grubert earlier said authorities had not been able to verify the initial reports of the animal sighting.\n\nA video shared on Twitter - which police believe is real - also appeared to show a lioness in a heavily forested residential area of Kleinmachnow.\n\nHowever, it is unclear where the animal came from. Local zoos, animal sanctuaries and circuses said no lions have escaped from their facilities.\n\nPolice spokesperson Daniel Keip told RBB that \"in the summer you often hear reports of crocodiles in swimming lakes and then it turns out all it was, was a big duck. In this case it's obviously totally real. We're dealing with a lioness that's roaming freely through Teltow, Stahnsdorf and Kleinmachnow.\"\n\nBut Michel Rogall, a circus director in Teltow who was woken by police at 02:00 local time, is not so sure.\n\n\"If it's a lion, I'll eat my hat,\" he told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. In addition, he told Reuters that there was no circus with wild animals on the road in eastern Germany, \"and they wouldn't escape either [if there was]\".\n\nResidents have been advised to stay indoors and keep their pets with them. Police have also told people to avoid the forest and seek shelter immediately if they see the lioness.\n\nMr Grubert said authorities were focusing their search on a large area next to a wood where people walk their dogs. Authorities believe the lioness may be sleeping there.\n\nHe added that there was \"no panic, no hysteria... but we do urge people not to go running or cycling in the woods\".\n\n\"Our hunters... are also equipped with ammunition,\" he said. \"The first objective is to capture. Other measures will only be taken by police officers if their lives or the lives of others are endangered.\"\n\nHelicopters have been deployed to find the elusive animal as well as drones and heat-seeking cameras, Mr Grubert said.\n\nVeterinarians and hunters with tranquiliser guns are also involved in the search, while local media reported that police were using an armoured vehicle normally deployed in anti-terrorism operations.\n\nFlorian Eiserlo of the Four Paws animal welfare organisation told the Rheinische Post newspaper that if anyone runs into the animal, they should not panic.\n\n\"Stand still, stay calm, try to head to a safe area such as a car or a building,\" they said.\n\nBerlin's local press is also full of tips on what to do if one does run into a lioness - which includes not running or panicking, and slowly backing away from it.\n\nVanessa Amoroso, head of the wild animals in trade unit at Four Paws, said if the animal was a lioness, it is likely to have been kept as a pet.\n\nShe said inconsistent laws across Europe made the trade of big cats much easier, as they are allowed as pets in many countries.\n\nMs Amoroso called on the German government to regulate those trading and keeping exotic animals.\n\n\"Germany's position as one of the world's largest markets for wild animals as pets demands effective measures to counteract the ease with which potential buyers can acquire animals through online platforms and exchanges,\" she added.", "Adil Iqbal was told he was guilty of \"the most indescribable reckless driving\"\n\nA driver who filmed himself speeding at 123mph before hitting and killing a pregnant mother-of-two has been jailed for 12 years.\n\nAdil Iqbal admitted causing the death of Frankie Jules-Hough, 38, by dangerous driving on the M66 in Bury, Greater Manchester, on 13 May.\n\nThe 22-year-old also admitted causing serious injury to her son, aged nine, and nephew, aged four.\n\nThe family's solicitor described the sentence as \"insulting\".\n\nManchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard how Iqbal, from Accrington, Lancashire, was driving his father's BMW with one hand and holding his phone with the other to film himself, possibly to upload to Facebook, as he tailgated and undertook other vehicles and swerved across lanes.\n\nMs Jules-Hough had pulled over on the hard shoulder with a tyre puncture, with her two sons and nephew in the car.\n\nShe was making a call to say she would be late when she let out a \"blood-curdling scream\", the court heard.\n\nThe BMW 140i undertook a motorbike then swerved, over-compensated and hit a crash barrier before spinning around and ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's Skoda Fabia at an estimated 92mph.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adil Iqbal filmed himself speeding at 123mph before ploughing into Ms Jules-Hough's car\n\nShe was 17 weeks pregnant with her first daughter, Neeve, and suffered unsurvivable brain injuries.\n\nThey both died two days later in hospital surrounded by family, with Ms Jules-Hough having never regained consciousness.\n\nHer son and nephew were left in a coma suffering serious brain injuries with their long-term outcomes remaining uncertain, the court heard.\n\nBoth spent weeks in intensive care in hospital. Her youngest son, who was also in the car, was relatively unscathed.\n\nDashcam footage and film from Iqbal's phone was shown to the court, watched by relatives of Ms Jules-Hough, some of whom gave emotional victim impact statements before the defendant was jailed.\n\nThe court heard from drivers who had seen Iqbal on the motorway, including Johnathan Hoyle who saw him six minutes before the crash and thought he was \"an accident waiting to happen\".\n\nAnother driver, Sophie Dodswell, was said to \"scream out\" as he came within inches of her car at about 120mph.\n\nFrankie Jules-Hough was taken to hospital after the crash but later died\n\nFrank Hough, Ms Jules-Hough's father, said his family had been devastated \"all because a young man wanted to show off, wanted to show his friends on social media how daring and cool he thought he was\".\n\nHe added: \"Our worlds have been torn apart and for what? So this boy could try to make himself feel like a big man.\"\n\nCalvin Buckley, Ms Jules-Hough's partner, said in a victim impact statement: \"What I witnessed that day, that weekend, those hours of desperation, those minutes praying for a miracle or those seconds watching my partner take her last breaths, will stay with me for a lifetime.\"\n\nTom Spencer, her nine-year-old son's father, described arriving at the scene. \"Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw,\" he said.\n\nThe court was told Iqbal had been convicted of driving without insurance in 2019 and in December 2021 posted a video to Facebook after filming himself speeding in a Lamborghini Huracan in Dubai.\n\nTwo months before the M66 crash, he was given a warning by police after being stopped while racing an Audi on public roads.\n\nEmergency services attended the crash scene on 13 May\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Maurice Greene told him: \"She was killed as a result of the most indescribable reckless driving by you Adil Iqbal, leading to the devastation of a family.\"\n\nHe was also banned from driving for 14 years.\n\nSolicitor Rose Gibson-Harper, who represents the victim's family, said the sentence was \"insulting and an injustice\" due to \"an act of sheer stupidity\".\n\n\"Last year, judges were given the power to hand down greater sentences to those convicted of death by dangerous driving,\" she said.\n\n\"Previously, the maximum tariff was 14 years but it was increased to life imprisonment.\n\n\"This case stands as one of the worst examples of dangerous driving I have witnessed in my 27-year career as a catastrophic injury lawyer, and we expected the justice system to fulfil its duty and utilise its new-found powers.\"\n\nFollowing Ms Jules-Hough's death, a GoFundMe appeal was set up by a friend and has raised more than £50,000 for her family.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why there's more than meets the eye when it comes to applying sun cream\n\nThere is no such thing as a healthy tan, according to a dermatologist who treats hundreds of cases of skin cancer every year.\n\nOne in four men and one in five women in the UK will be diagnosed with skin cancer during their lifetime.\n\nIn Wales it made up 46% of all new cancers diagnosed in 2019 - the highest rate of all UK nations.\n\nThe damage is caused by overexposure to ultraviolet radiation, or UV, produced by the sun.\n\nDr Rachel Abbott, consultant dermatologist at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, said: \"There is such thing as a healthy fake tan. But unfortunately, to induce tanning in the skin, you have to induce damage to the DNA in your skin cells.\n\n\"So there's no way of getting a healthy tan from the sun or from a sunbed.\"\n\nToo much UV exposure can lead to tanning, sunburn, premature ageing and eye damage. It is also the main cause of skin cancer.\n\nWe cannot see or feel UV and it does not have to be hot for UV levels to be high - we can still burn when it is cloudy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC meteorologist Sabrina Lee shares her top tips on how to protect yourself from UVA and UVB rays\n\nDr Abbott said medical professionals were particularly concerned about UVB and UVA, two parts of the UV spectrum.\n\n\"We know that they can cause damage to the cells in our skin which can accumulate over time. And as our immune systems become less effective as we get older then the risk of skin cancer increases,\" she said.\n\nWhile some sun exposure is needed to get vitamin D, which helps maintain strong bones, it does not mean people need to stay out in it for hours.\n\n\"In the UK between April and September, it takes about 15 minutes to 30 minutes for us to produce adequate amounts of vitamin D,\" said Dr Abbott.\n\nWe can also still get the benefits of vitamin D when wearing a high-factor sun cream. Dr Abbott said two tablespoons (30ml) is the recommended amount to cover your body.\n\n\"If you don't have a tablespoon with you, you can just put sunscreen on your two fingers and then apply. That should be enough for your whole body. For the head and neck, it should be a teaspoon,\" she said.\n\nDr Abbott said factor-30 protection blocks about 97% of UVB rays if applied appropriately, whereas factor 50 blocks about 98%.\n\n\"So it's actually very little difference. The key thing is to make sure that you put enough on.\"\n\nRhian Moore was diagnosed with skin cancer, which returned two years after being removed\n\nRhian Moore was diagnosed with skin cancer four years ago, after finding a suspicious looking mole on her back, despite never being a fan of sunbathing or sunbeds.\n\nThe cancer was \"cut out\" in surgery but, two years later, she was told it had come back.\n\n\"I found a lump under my right arm. They did a biopsy. They did a CT scan. Then I had a phone call to say it's cancer. It's the same one. It's spread. We need to cut it out,\" she said.\n\nMs Moore, who works for Great Western Railway, was taken to Morriston Hospital in Swansea for surgery, and then received immunotherapy every six weeks for a year.\n\nShe has now been given the all-clear and is back to doing the things she loves, such as outdoor activities, being chief commissioner for Scouts in Wales and raising awareness for Cancer Research UK.\n\nRhian is much more cautious about skin protection as she returns to outdoor activities\n\n\"The moisturiser on my face every day, even in the winter, has SPF in it. If I'm going out shopping or on the beach it's about making sure I have all-day sun cream on,\" she said.\n\n\"I love playing in the sea. I like paddle boarding and kayaking. So it's not about going out in my bathers, it's about going out in shorts and T-shirt and making sure I'm wearing a hat.\n\n\"I'm lucky I'm a survivor. There are people who aren't as lucky as me. It's about raising awareness and do what we can to prevent cancer before it gets us.\"\n\nSunproofed, a research project run by Dr Julie Peconi and a team of scientists at Swansea University, aims to help schools educate children about the dangers of the sun and how to enjoy it safely.\n\nIt also looks at how schools are providing protection for children while they are at school.\n\nAn exhibition at Oriel Science in Swansea offers visitors a chance to have their photo taken with a UV camera, to show them the difference sun cream makes to their skin.\n\nReporter Sabrina Lee's UV camera pictures. L: Daylight mode; R: UV mode - SPF applied earlier that day has rubbed off in the lighter patches, highlighting need for reapplication\n\nThe camera takes three pictures. The first is daylight mode - what you would see if you looked in the mirror.\n\nThe second is UV mode - how your skin looks under ultraviolet light. If you are wearing any sun cream or makeup with a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) in it, this will look darker on the photo.\n\nBefore taking the third picture, sun cream is applied. The lighter sections on the face reveal where sun cream might have been missed or not applied well enough.\n\nDr Peconi said: \"I think that more needs to be done in terms of teaching children from a young age. The thinking behind this exhibit is that if we can show kids why they're putting on sun cream. They are much more likely to engage with safer sun behaviours.\"\n\nDr Julie Peconi from Swansea University says more needs to be done to teach children about sun safety\n\nDr Peconi said sun safety was a mandatory part of the school curriculum in England, but it is up to individual schools in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"The new curriculum for Wales framework ensures that sun safety can be included in learning about health and wellbeing.\"\n\nDr Abbott added: \"We're trying to get the key message out to people to look after their skin throughout their lifetime, because sun damage is cumulative.\n\n\"We want people to go outside and enjoy the sun.\"", "Tracy and Wayne Phillips were able to spend the last three weeks of Jean's life with her in their home\n\nA son whose mother died while at a hospice has pledged to cover the salary of a nurse who helped care for her.\n\nWayne Phillips and wife Tracy donated an initial £10,000 to St David's Hospice Care in memory of Wayne's mum Jean, 82, who died in March.\n\nThey will also pay nurse Faye Russell-Jones' wages - over £60,000 - until 2025.\n\nIt comes as hospice charities say the cost of living crisis is badly affecting fundraising.\n\nJean Phillips moved from her house in St Brides, Newport, into her son's home in the Bassaleg area of the city as her health deteriorated in early 2023.\n\nWayne, 46, said his mother had cancer in her liver, stomach and bones, and had asked that she be able to stay with them.\n\nTracy, 41, said: \"[Jean] was petrified of the unknown. She'd wake up panicking.\"\n\nThe couple, who have six children, were referred to the hospice by Jean's GP and received a call the next day from palliative care nurse Faye.\n\nTracy said of Faye: \"[She is] amazing, fantastic. If I could bottle her up, turn her into a perfume and stick her on the shelf I would.\n\n\"We were already doing a lot of care at that point. There was a lot of [being] up in the night.\"\n\nWayne, a strategic planning consultant, said: \"The decision we had to make was if we were able to cope with Mum basically dying in our house. That's where the miracle of St David's comes in.\"\n\nFaye arranged for equipment to be brought to the house and for nurses to care for Jean, give the family respite, and help with difficult conversations such as preferred funeral arrangements.\n\nWayne said: \"You've only got one shot at this, when you're looking after someone at the end of life. There's no replay.\n\nJean Phillips died at her son's Newport home, surrounded by family, on 17 March\n\n\"That in itself causes great stress, because you don't know if you're getting it right. You need somebody there to reassure you.\"\n\nTracy, who is a counsellor, added: \"Jean wouldn't accept she was dying, and it was very hard for us to actually have that conversation.\n\n\"It was breaking us, it was breaking her. We were trying to protect her and little did we know she was trying to protect us.\"\n\nTracy said the care also gave them a chance to \"enjoy\" time spent with Jean, adding: \"The nurses being there not only gave us time for a break but to spend those magical times with Jean and the fun times where we were able to laugh\".\n\nWayne added: \"We'd sit with her and she'd be joking and reminiscing.\"\n\nIt shocked the couple that all of the services provided to them by St David's were free.\n\n\"To have other people help you when you have somebody you love dying in front of you, they don't know what they're coming into,\" said Tracy.\n\n\"We both feel lighter now, calmer, knowing that we did everything that we possibly could for Jean. We have no regrets.\"\n\nWayne added: \"When they left our house they had to go and do it again somewhere else. Psychologically, it must be absolutely gruelling.\"\n\nWhen the couple mentioned the proposed donation to Jean, she made them promise that they would follow through with it.\n\n\"She had it in her mind and she was very much [saying] 'you make sure you do that',\" said Wayne.\n\nThe couple decided to be the first to take part in a new nurse sponsor initiative, which will see them cover Faye's salary until 2025.\n\nTracy and Wayne Phillips have sponsored nurse Faye Russell-Jones, who cared for Jean in the last three weeks of her life\n\nTracy added: \"They were so grateful, but we were so grateful because they gave Jean and us our last days together.\n\n\"Illnesses don't stop because the cost of living goes up. Cancer doesn't stop. And they carry on. It's unbelievable.\"\n\nWayne said: \"If what we do puts another nurse out there tonight, that's a wonderful thing.\"\n\nEmma Saysell, chief executive of the hospice, said the charity gets 25% of its funding from the NHS, but costs £9m a year to run.\n\n\"We have always said we would like someone to sponsor a nurse. They are such a dedicated, compassionate team that try to go the extra mile,\" she said.\n\nToby Porter, chief executive of Hospice UK, says charities are \"really squeezed\" at the moment\n\nMs Saysell said that earlier this year the charity's energy bill increased from £155,000 a year to £450,000, and its 38 charity shops saw reduced custom.\n\n\"It's very hard to fundraise. Communities don't have the disposable income that they might have had to give to charities five years ago,\" she said.\n\nHospice UK estimates a collective deficit of £186m across the country's hospice charities.\n\nIts chief executive Toby Porter said: \"This is a beautiful and profoundly touching gesture - what a wonderful way to honour Jean's memory.\n\n\"Right now hospices' funds are being squeezed. I hope this beautiful story will inspire others to support St David's, or the many other charitable hospices serving communities across Wales.\"", "The candidates for the upcoming by-election in Uxbridge and South Ruislip have been announced.\n\nThe by-election was triggered when former Prime Minister Boris Johnson quit ahead of the judgment of the Privileges Committee.\n\nThe election has been confirmed for 20 July.\n\nAll voters are now required to bring photo ID with them to the polling booth.\n\nThese are 17 candidates running in the election (listed alphabetically).\n\nThis page will be updated as we learn more about the candidates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Blaise Baquiche on why he should be the local MP\n\nHe is a former policy adviser to the Conservative Party in the European Union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Danny Beales on why he should be the local MP\n\nA Camden councillor and cabinet member responsible for planning and regeneration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Cameron Bell on why he should be the local MP\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Count Binface on why he should be the local MP\n\nA self-proclaimed interplanetary space warrior, who stood against Boris Johnson in 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Piers Corbyn on why he should be the local MP\n\nA long-term weather forecaster who is the older brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Laurence Fox on why he should be the local MP\n\nAn actor who set up the Reclaim Party in 2020 and came 6th in the 2021 London mayoral election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Steve Gardner on why he should be the local MP\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Ed Gemmell on why he should be the local MP\n\nAn independent councillor in Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire and leader of The Climate Party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Sarah Green on why she should be the local MP\n\nA local campaigner who runs a boat trip business on the Grand Union canal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Kingsley Hamilton on why he should be the local MP\n\nAn independent candidate standing on an anti-ULEZ platform.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Richard Hewison on why he should be the local MP\n\nMr Hewison, an anti-Brexit campaigner, runs a company that offers training courses in the financial sector.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Howling Hope on why he should be the local MP\n\nThe leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: 77 Joseph on why he should be the local MP\n\nKnown formally as Tom Darwood, he is a writer from Southend-on-Sea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Rebecca Jane on why she should be the local MP\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Enomfon Ntefon on why she should be the local MP\n\nMs Ntefon is a nurse who works in Uxbridge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Leo Phaure on why he should be the local MP\n\nAn Uxbridge based father who is a business analyst.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uxbridge by-election: Steve Tuckwell on why he should be the local MP\n\nThe Conservative Party candidate has been a councillor for South Ruislip since 2018.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Voters in England are going to the polls in three constituencies in London, North Yorkshire and Somerset to elect new MPs.\n\nThe three seats in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Selby and Ainsty, and Somerton and Frome were won by the Conservatives at the last general election in 2019.\n\nPolling stations opened at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00, with results expected from early on Friday morning.\n\nConstituents will need photo ID in order to vote.\n\nThere are 17 candidates in Uxbridge and South Ruislip:\n\nThere are 13 candidates in Selby and Ainsty:\n\nAnd there are eight candidates in Somerton and Frome:\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Underwater footage captured the moment divers freed five whale sharks from fishing nets in waters off Indonesia.\n\nWhale sharks are the largest species of fish but their numbers are decreasing, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.", "Tesco could be breaking the law over how it displays Clubcard prices, according to consumer group Which?.\n\nThe group says Tesco does not explain the unit price of deals clearly enough to shoppers, making it hard for them to determine the cheapest product.\n\nWhich? has reported the supermarket to the regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).\n\nIn response, Tesco said it complied with all current rules and called Which?'s claims \"ill-founded\".\n\nHeinz tomato ketchup was one of the items that Which? highlighted in its report into pricing at Tesco.\n\nIt found a 700g bottle in Tesco for which the label showed the standard price to be £3.90, or 55.7p per 100g.\n\nA prominent Clubcard label showed the same size bottle on offer at £3.50, but the unit price, which would be 50p per 100g, was not given.\n\nA 910g bottle of the same ketchup on the shelf below was priced at £3.99, or 43.8p per 100g, for all shoppers, making it the cheapest option per 100g.\n\nWhich? argued many shoppers would wrongly assume the Clubcard option was the best deal available.\n\nThe Tesco Clubcard is a loyalty scheme that offers members discounted prices on products.\n\nWhich? said Tesco's decision not to display unit pricing on its Clubcard offers could be breaking the law.\n\nAccording to competition rules, unit prices could be seen as \"material information\" which most people would need in order to make an informed decision about how to get the best value from what they are buying.\n\nWhich? head of food policy Sue Davies said given the backdrop of a cost of living crisis, supermarkets should not be cutting corners.\n\n\"They have a duty to ensure pricing is clear so that customers can get the best value. Tesco's unclear Clubcard pricing is at best confusing for shoppers struggling with soaring food inflation and at worst, could be breaking the law,\" she said.\n\n\"This is simply not good enough from the UK's biggest supermarket. Tesco should think of its customers and act now to introduce clear unit pricing on all offers, including Clubcard promotions, so shoppers can easily find the best value items.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Tesco said the company had sought advice and approval from its local trading standards office in Hertfordshire where its headquarters are based.\n\n\"Providing great value and clear pricing is really important to us, we are supportive of calls for greater clarity on the regulations in this area,\" it said.\n\n\"However, given that we are complying with all the current rules, we are disappointed that Which? has chosen to make these ill-founded claims against our Clubcard Prices scheme, which helps millions of households get great value week in, week out.\"\n\nThe CMA is already investigating whether supermarkets are making excess profits through inflated prices.\n\nIn May, the boss of Sainsbury's, Simon Roberts, told the BBC that supermarkets were not profiteering from high inflation.", "Travis King, the American soldier who fled to North Korea, had been detained for getting into fights in South Korea before he crossed the border.\n\nCourt documents showed he also damaged a police car and had recently spent time in a detention facility in Seoul.\n\nThe 23-year-old serviceman had been recently released and was being sent back to the US when he escaped.\n\nHe joined a tour of the Joint Security Area and fled into North Korea, which has not commented so far.\n\nIt remains unclear what his intentions were for crossing the border. US authorities have said that he did so \"wilfully, of his own volition\" and expressed concern about his well-being.\n\nPrivate 2nd Class (PV2) King's mother Claudine Gates told ABC News she could not imagine her son doing such a thing. He \"had to be out of his mind\", she said.\n\nMs Gates said she had last heard from the US soldier \"a few days ago\", when he told her he would soon be returning to Fort Bliss, his army base in Texas.\n\nPV2 King was reportedly investigated for assault in South Korea in September 2022. According to local media, he was suspected of punching a Korean national in a nightclub in Seoul.\n\nHe was fined 5m won (£,3,000; $3,950) for \"repeatedly kicking\" the back door of a police car and screamed \"foul language\" at the officers trying to apprehend him.\n\nLocal reports quoting officials said he was released on 10 July after serving two months in jail on assault charges, but did not elaborate.\n\nTravis King, dressed in a black shirt and black cap, is seen on the tour before he crossed the border\n\nAfter his release, he was placed under military observation for about a week in South Korea.\n\nHe was escorted to the airport in Incheon, near Seoul, for a flight back to the United States, where he was to face disciplinary action.\n\nBut he did not board the plane. The Korea Times, quoting an airport official, said he arrived at the boarding gate alone as military police officers were not allowed to accompany him all the way to the plane.\n\nAt the gate, he reportedly approached an American Airlines official and claimed his passport had gone missing. An airline employee then escorted him out of the departures area.\n\nAfter parting ways with his escort, he is reported to have left the terminal to embark on a tour of the Demilitarised Zone, or DMZ, between North and South Korea, where foreigners can visit via tour companies.\n\nIt is not clear how PV2 King managed to get on one of these tours, as it typically takes between three days and a week for an individual to be authorised, and the trips are usually closely monitored.\n\nAn eyewitness on the same border tour described hearing the soldier laughing loudly before making a run across the border.\n\nThe United Nations Command, which operates the DMZ, said it believed the soldier was now in custody of the North. A senior US commander said there had been no contact with the soldier and the incident was being investigated by US Forces Korea.\n\nRetired General Robert Abrams, a former commander of United States Forces Korea, told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight he believed we were \"seeing the opening act\" of a \"tragedy of the utmost proportion\".\n\n\"I've got serious concerns for [PV2 King's] health and welfare... I was actually glad they didn't shoot him on sight when he came sprinting across the military demarcation line,\" Ret. Gen Adams said. \"He's in for a very rude awakening on how North Koreans treat people who unlawfully enter the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nRepublic of Ireland manager Vera Pauw says her side have shown \"they are ready for this level\" after a narrow 1-0 defeat by co-hosts Australia on their World Cup debut in Sydney.\n\nSteph Catley scored a second-half penalty for the Matildas, who were frustrated by the solid Irish defence.\n\nThe underdogs had a number of chances to equalise in the closing stages but the hosts held on.\n\n\"We've shown we can play against the best teams in the world,\" said Pauw.\n\nIn a goalless first half, the Republic frustrated Australia, who were without captain Sam Kerr with a calf injury sustained on the day before the game.\n\nCatley's penalty came after Marissa Sheva pushed Hayley Raso in the area on 52 minutes and the stand-in captain fired an unstoppable penalty into the top corner.\n\nThe Republic rallied after the goal and were unfortunate not to score what would have been a famous equaliser with Megan Connolly, Katie McCabe and Louise Quinn all going close.\n\n\"It was a game in which a point could have gone our way,\" Pauw added.\n\n\"I'm really proud. Our game plan worked and they couldn't do what they wanted to do.\n\n\"Our tactical approach worked well also, and until the last second we put them under pressure. I'm really proud.\"\n\n'We do not fear anyone'\n\nAfter falling to defeat on their debut, the Republic will face Olympic champions Canada on 26 July before their final group game with Nigeria on 31 July.\n\n\"Next is Canada, Olympic champions, but we do not fear anyone,\" Pauw added.\n\n\"These players adapt so quickly and we need to see where we stand again.\n\n\"We went into this game to get a result and it will be the same again (against Canada). We pressed until the last second.\n\n\"We got more space to play, could switch play. You couldn't in first half, in second we could, when we made changes.\n\n\"We are a team battling, Irish DNA is battling.\"", "Vattenfall has shelved plans to develop the Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm after winning the contract last year\n\nWork has stopped on one of the UK's largest offshore wind farms after its developer said it no longer made financial sense to continue.\n\nThe Swedish energy giant Vattenfall is to shut down development of the Norfolk Boreas site, off the Norfolk coast.\n\nMarket conditions had deteriorated since it signed a contract to fix the price of electricity it sells for 15 years, the company said.\n\nTwo other sites, known as Vanguard East and Vanguard West, will be reviewed.\n\nChief executive Anna Borg said: \"Offshore wind is essential for affordable, secure and clean electricity, and it is a key element of Vattenfall's strategy for fossil-free living.\n\n\"But conditions are extremely challenging across the whole industry right now, with a supply chain squeeze, increasing prices and cost of capital, and fiscal frameworks not reflecting current market realities.\n\n\"Vattenfall believes in the strong fundamentals and rationale for the Norfolk projects.\n\n\"However, considering market conditions today, we are stopping the current development track for Norfolk Boreas and evaluating the best way forward for all three projects in the Norfolk Zone.\"\n\nThe Swedish energy giant blamed market conditions for its decision to shelve the Norfolk Boreas plan\n\nThe move will cost Vattenfall 5.5bn Swedish krona (£415m) on its earnings, Vattenfall said, as it released its second-quarter financial results on Thursday.\n\nIt said the market conditions were challenging, as costs for the offshore wind industry had risen by 40%.\n\nIt has become more expensive to borrow money to build the wind turbines, and supply chains are also struggling, the business said.\n\n\"We have attractive wind power projects in the pipeline, and investment decisions will always be based on profitability,\" the company said.\n\n\"We are convinced that offshore wind power is crucial for energy security and meeting the climate goals in Europe.\"\n\nJess Ralston, head of energy at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said the government needed to take into account rising costs for wind farm companies when it awarded contracts.\n\nFor much of the past decade, offshore wind farms have been promised a fixed price for the electricity they produce through a so-called contract for difference (CfD).\n\nThis means that if electricity prices are below the promised price then companies get a subsidy to make up the difference.\n\nEqually, if prices rise above that level then they have to pay back their additional gains.\n\nLast year, Vattenfall won one of these contracts to build the Norfolk Boreas wind farm at a joint record-low strike price of £37.35 per megawatt hour.\n\nBut since winning the auction, Vattenfall and others have warned that costs have increased far too fast for these projects to be economical anymore.\n\n\"Costs of wind farms have been driven up by ongoing high gas prices causing supply chain inflation, just like for other industries,\" Ms Ralston said.\n\n\"If the government gets the policy wrong on the current round of renewables auctions and doesn't keep pace with increasing costs, the UK could end up even more reliant on foreign gas, leaving households on the hook with higher bills.\n\n\"Doubling down on renewables, which remain much cheaper than gas, means in future price spikes we'll be less exposed.\"\n\nThe business will be banned from putting the same project forward for a new contract in next year's government auction.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The scenes at the end of both games on the opening day of the 2023 Women's World Cup told the story.\n\nFans danced in the stands as players shed tears of joy after New Zealand got their Women's World Cup campaign off to a winning start on an emotional and historic night at Eden Park.\n\nFor Australia a few hours later, it felt more like getting the job done as they beat Republic of Ireland through a Steph Catley penalty, the Arsenal player taking the captain's armband after Sam Kerr was dramatically ruled out shortly before kick-off with a calf injury.\n\nTwo 1-0 victories, two different perspectives - with the New Zealand perspective one of \"tears\" and \"goosebumps\".\n\n\"Seeing them have tears in their eyes and enjoying it in front of their family and friends at the end, I will never forget these moments,\" New Zealand boss Jitka Klimkova said after Hannah Wilkinson's winner against Norway.\n\nEven Prime Minister Chris Hipkins joined in the New Zealand celebrations, hours after he addressed the nation following the deadly shooting in Auckland that had cast a shadow over what was supposed to be a day of celebration.\n\n\"He came to the locker room and was very proud for this team,\" added Klimkova, the Czech coach who was appointed in August 2021 and spent the first few months of her reign unable to step foot in New Zealand due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe Football Ferns had waited a long time for Thursday's big moment.\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n\nThey had failed to win a game at their previous five World Cup appearances and few outside New Zealand gave them much hope against Norway.\n\nIf they defeat World Cup debutants the Philippines on Tuesday then New Zealand can start planning for the knockout rounds for the first time.\n\nIn front of a passionate crowd of 42,137 - a record crowd for a football match in New Zealand - they produced a memorable performance that will live long in the memories of those present.\n\n\"I still have goosebumps and emotions,\" Klimkova said an hour after the final whistle.\n\n\"We have waited for this moment for such a long time. Hearing our fans getting behind us like that, it's an unforgettable moment for me. It's an incredible feeling.\"\n\nExcitement had been building across Auckland as the city prepared to kick off the Women's World Cup, the culmination of years of effort to bring the largest ever standalone women's sporting event to its shores.\n\nThe Football Ferns have been hard to ignore as they stared down from giant billboards, while some of the players' faces were projected onto the city's Sky Tower - a 328-metre tall tourist attraction - on the eve of the tournament.\n\nWilkinson, whose goal earned her country a famous win, spent the last few minutes of the match with her head in her hands, sitting on the bench as Norway threatened a late equaliser.\n\nThe hosts had to endure 10 minutes of stoppage time before they were able to celebrate.\n\n\"There were a lot of doubters because of the [recent] results we had, but we believed - we believed in ourselves this entire game,\" said veteran defender Ali Riley, who is playing at her fifth World Cup.\n\n\"This is what dreams are made of.\"\n\nThere was plenty of emotion at Stadium Australia too as the co-hosts also got off to a winning start, thanks to Catley's coolly taken spot-kick seven minutes after half-time.\n\nThis was more like a pressure valve being released. Catley steamed away to the sidelines in celebration, her nine outfield team-mates trailing after her like a yellow comet tail.\n\nHowever, Australia could never quite shake off the threat of a disciplined Republic side, and the pressure valve was back on by the time keeper Mackenzie Arnold had to make a low sprawling save from Irish captain Katie McCabe in the sixth minute of stoppage time.\n\nNevertheless, three points are the same no matter the fashion of the win. At Euro 2022, England started with a scrappy 1-0 victory over Austria before going all the way to a historic triumph as hosts. Australia will now look to do the same.\n\nHow much of the on-field mission Australia will have to negotiate without captain, all-time top scorer and talisman Kerr remains to be seen.\n\nThe 29-year-old - winner of three successive domestic doubles with Chelsea and twice on the Ballon d'Or podium - was a shock absence from the team as it emerged she had suffered a calf injury in training on Wednesday.\n\nKerr will also miss Australia's second game of the World Cup against Nigeria on 27 July, and Catley indicated the Matildas are preparing to be without their focal point for even longer.\n\n\"We were losing the best player in the world, and for her as a person we were heartbroken,\" Catley said. \"We had to gather ourselves quickly, and use her spirit - that's what it will take for however long she misses.\n\n\"She is our spiritual leader, her role will be massive, whatever it will be.\"\n\nThe big screen at Stadium Australia cut to Kerr barely a minute into the match, and went back to her several times during the game as she looked at various stages of pensiveness.\n\nAustralia must be less reserved for the remainder of their World Cup if they are to reach their goals - while for New Zealand, the expression of joy following an uplifting win could be the beginning of something special.", "A leading British climate scientist has told the BBC he believes the target to limit global warming to 1.5C will be missed.\n\nProfessor Sir Bob Watson, former head of the UN climate body, told the BBC's Today programme he was \"pessimistic\".\n\nHis warning comes amidst a summer of extreme heat for Europe, China and the US.\n\nThe UN says passing the limit will expose millions more people to potentially devastating climate events.\n\nThe world agreed to try to limit the temperature increase due to climate change to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels at a UN conference in Paris in 2015. That target has become the centrepiece of global efforts to tackle climate change.\n\nClimate scientists have been warning governments for years that they are not cutting their countries' emissions quickly enough to keep within this target.\n\nBut it is surprising for someone as senior and well respected as the former head of the UN climate science body the IPCC to be so frank that he believes it will be missed.\n\nProfessor Sir Bob Watson is currently Emeritus Professor of the UK's Tyndall Centre for Climate Research - having previously worked at the UN, Nasa, UK's Department of Environment and the US White House - and is perhaps one of the foremost climate scientists in the world.\n\nIn the interview aired on Thursday he said: \"I think most people fear that if we give up on the 1.5 [Celsius limit] which I do not believe we will achieve, in fact I'm very pessimistic about achieving even 2C, that if we allow the target to become looser and looser, higher and higher, governments will do even less in the future.\"\n\nHis comments although candid were supported by Lord Stern, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, later on Thursday during an interview with BBC's WATO programme.\n\nHe said: \"I think 1.5 is probably out of reach even if we accelerate quickly now, but we could bring it back if we start to bring down the cost of negative emissions and get better at negative emissions. Negative emissions means direct air capture of carbon dioxide.\"\n\nBased on current government commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Climate Action Tracker predicts that global temperatures will rise to 2.7C.\n\nThe figure is not a direct measure of the world's temperature but an indicator of how much or how little the Earth has warmed or cooled compared to the long-term global average - and even slight changes can have significant impacts.\n\nThe UN climate body, the IPCC, has said keeping temperature rises below 1.5C, rather than 2C, would mean:\n\nProf Sir Bob Watson said that the world was struggling to prevent temperature rises as we are not reducing emissions fast enough.\n\n\"The big issue is we need to reduce greenhouse gases now to even be on the pathway to be close to 1.5C or 2C. We need to reduce current emissions by at least 50% by 2030. The trouble is the emissions are still going up, they are not going down,\" he said.\n\nHe told the Today programme that setting targets was not enough and countries needed to back these up with action: \"We need to try and hold governments to start to act sensibly now and reduce emissions, but even governments with a really good target like the United Kingdom don't have the policies in place, don't have the financing in place to reach those goals.\"\n\nIn March the UK's watchdog on climate change, the UKCCC, said the UK had lost its leadership on climate issues. It said the government's backing of new oil and coal projects, airport expansion plans and slow progress on heat pumps showed a lack of urgency.\n\nIn response to comments from Lord Stern and Professor Sir Bob Watson, a government spokesperson said: \"The UK is a world-leader on net zero, cutting emissions faster than any other G7 country and has attracted billions of investment into renewables, which now account for 40% of our electricity.\"\n\nBut Lord Deben, who until last month was chair of the UKCCC, said the government was \"entirely wrong\". Talking to BBC's WATO programme he said that other countries like the US and China were moving much faster, and that the UK was setting \"the worst possible example to the rest of the world\".", "The film stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken\n\nAn Edinburgh macaron maker has spoken of her surprise at being asked to produce hundreds of sweet treats for the new Barbie film.\n\nMademoiselle Macaron sent 300 French meringue confections to the film set in Hertfordshire last year.\n\nStaff were sworn to secrecy after receiving an email requesting an order from Warner Brothers Studios.\n\nMademoiselle Macaron founder Rachel Hanretty said staff \"let out a little shriek\" when the order arrived.\n\n\"We weren't 100% convinced that this was the Barbie set,\" she told BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live programme.\n\n\"But we were speaking to one of the set designers and, lo and behold, the delivery address was simply: Building One, Barbie Set, Warner Bros Studios, Leavesden.\"\n\nRachel Hanretty is the founder of Mademoiselle Macaron\n\nIn keeping with the movie's colour scheme, the sweets they supplied were flavoured with rose, raspberry, lemon, orange blossom and caramel.\n\nHowever, Rachel does not know how the film's producers found out about their business.\n\nShe said: \"It just seems so far removed from our kitchen in Edinburgh.\n\n\"We do sell macarons around the UK, but the fact that they could've been near Ryan Gosling is something to think about.\"\n\nThe film, which is released in UK cinemas on Friday, stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken and was directed by Greta Gerwig.\n\nThe cast also includes Scottish actors Sharon Rooney, who plays a lawyer Barbie, and Ncuti Gatwa, who wears a denim jacket for a cowboy-inspired take on Ken.", "A senior Tory has expressed regret for posting a video in which he said Afghanistan had been \"transformed\" under the Taliban.\n\nSpeaking to TalkTV's Piers Morgan Uncensored, Tobias Ellwood said he \"got it wrong\" and had subsequently deleted the clip from Twitter.\n\nHe had initially tweeted the video during a trip to Helmand province.\n\nMr Ellwood now faces a motion of no confidence in his position as chair of the Commons Defence Committee.\n\nBut the motion, signed by four committee members - Conservatives Mark Francois and Richard Drax, and Labour's Kevan Jones and Derek Twigg, can not be voted on until the Commons returns from its summer break in September.\n\nIn his TalkTV interview, the Bournemouth East MP said the days after he posted the widely-criticised video had been his \"most miserable\" as an MP.\n\nIn the film, Mr Ellwood said corruption in the country was falling and security had improved.\n\nHe praised the appearance of solar panels in Afghanistan and noted that the country's opium trade had \"all but disappeared\".\n\nHe also urged the UK to \"re-engage\" with Afghanistan diplomatically and argued that re-opening the British embassy would be a way to \"incrementally\" improve women's rights.\n\nFellow defence committee member Mark Francois called the video \"utterly bizarre\" and accused it of \"lauding the Taliban's management of the country\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Fawzia Koofi, the first ever female deputy speaker of the Afghan parliament, said Mr Ellwood's comments showed ignorance of how restricted life had become for Afghan women.\n\nAsked about the video on TalkTV, Mr Ellwood said: \"It's important to put your hand up and acknowledge errors, however well intentioned.\n\n\"I stand up, I speak my mind. I try and find solutions especially on the international stage, and I'm very, very sorry that my reflection of my visit could have been much better worded and have been taken out of context.\"\n\nDowning Street said the views expressed in the now-deleted video were \"not an assessment that the UK nor the prime minister agrees with at all\".\n\nAsked whether Mr Ellwood was still fit to lead the defence committee, Mr Sunak's spokesman said: \"I think that is first and foremost a decision for parliamentarians themselves and not one for the prime minister to seek to influence.\"\n\nIn February Mr Ellwood said the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan was \"a dark chapter\" for the UK, and the defence committee which he chairs warned that the country was again becoming a haven for terrorists.\n\nIn 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, US-led troops - including British forces - invaded Afghanistan and ousted the Taliban government.\n\nTwenty years later, America and its allies, including the UK, pulled out of the country - leading to the sudden collapse of the Western-backed Afghan government and the resurgence of the Taliban.\n\nBritain's 20-year military presence in Afghanistan cost nearly £30bn and the lives of 457 British military personnel.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's Stuart Broad has become just the second pace bowler to take 600 wickets in Test cricket.\n\nBroad, 36, reached the mark by removing Australia's Travis Head on day one of the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.\n\nEngland team-mate James Anderson is the only other quick bowler to achieve the feat.\n\nBroad is fifth on the all-time list and Anderson third, with spinners Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne and Anil Kumble completing the top five.\n\nNottinghamshire bowler Broad made his debut against Sri Lanka in Colombo 2007, going on to make 166 Test appearances to date and be part of four Ashes-winning sides.\n\nHe began the Old Trafford Test on 598 wickets but moved to 599 when he trapped Usman Khawaja lbw, before bringing up 600 when Head was caught by Joe Root on the boundary.\n• None How many of Broad's Test victims can you name?\n\n\"Never in my dreams did I think this would be a thing,\" Broad told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Michael Vaughan was the skipper that gave me my first cap and my ultimate feeling there in Sri Lanka was never that this was the end game but instead that I wanted to win series and create memories.\n\n\"Some players feel like they have achieved what they wanted to after getting a Test cap and I've been fortunate enough to create memories. Never did I think I would be up there with the greats of the game.\"\n\nIn taking his 600th scalp, Broad surpassed Ian Botham to become the highest wicket-taker from any nation against Australia, with 149.\n\nOnly Australians Shane Warne (195), Dennis Lillee (167) and Glenn McGrath (157) have taken more in Ashes Tests.\n\nBroad is known for his devastating spells of bowling that turn matches in England's favour, including famously at his home ground Trent Bridge in 2015 when he took 8-15 to bowl out Australia for 60.\n\nHe also took 5-5 in just 5.1 overs against India at the same ground in 2011, including his first Test match hat-trick as MS Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar fell in successive deliveries.\n\nRank these five magic spells of Stuart Broad bowling.\n\nBroad, who is the son of former England batter Chris, is also well known for the hold he seemingly has over David Warner, having dismissed the Australia opener 17 times during his career.\n\nOnly two other players have dismissed a single batter more in Test cricket.\n\nA second hat-trick against Sri Lanka in 2014 also means he is the only England bowler to take two Test hat-tricks.\n• None David Warner on the Ashes, sledging and Stuart Broad rivalry\n\nBroad has also played 121 one-day internationals and 56 T20s in his career. Overall, he has taken 843 international wickets across all three formats, putting him seventh on the all-time list.\n\nIn 2016 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to cricket.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nCo-hosts New Zealand opened the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup in stunning style against Norway as they won on the global stage for the first time.\n\nOn a memorable night in Auckland, the Football Ferns produced a huge upset after Hannah Wilkinson swept home Jacqui Hand's cross in front of an ecstatic crowd of 42,137 at Eden Park - a record for a football match in New Zealand.\n\nEven Ria Percival's 89th-minute missed penalty, after a handball by Tuva Hansen, failed to dampen the celebrations.\n\nFans turned up in their tens of thousands to cheer their side who had failed to win any of their previous 15 World Cup games.\n\nThey were rewarded when Wilkinson broke the deadlock in the 48th minute to spark joyous scenes in the stands.\n\nNorway, the 1995 world champions, should have equalised soon after Wilkinson's goal but Arsenal's Frida Maanum poked a glorious chance wide.\n\nNew Zealand went toe to toe with their opponents and it required a diving save by Aurora Mikalsen to prevent Ali Riley from doubling the lead.\n\nThere was a minute's silence before kick-off for the victims of a deadly shooting in Auckland earlier on Thursday.\n• None How the action unfolded between New Zealand and Norway at the Women's World Cup\n• None Daily quiz: How much do you know about the past 24 hours?\n• None Go here for all the best Women's World Cup content\n\nNew Zealand had waited three years for this moment since being named co-hosts with Australia in 2020.\n\nFifa predict this tournament will be watched by two billion people globally on television and, with the eyes of the world on Eden Park for the opening game, the home crowd lapped up the occasion.\n\nThere were emotional scenes as Percival and Riley, who are both appearing at their fifth World Cup, fought back tears during the national anthems.\n\nWhen play did start after an opening ceremony that ended with a spectacular fireworks display, Mexican Waves broke out in the crowd.\n\nThere were screams from the stands each time the home side threatened, while Brighton defender Rebekah Stott received a standing ovation for a wonderfully-timed challenge to deny Ada Hegerberg the opening goal of the tournament.\n\nBut it was nothing compared to the noise that greeted Wilkinson's goal.\n\nWilkinson was the last New Zealand player to score for her country at a World Cup - back in 2015 in Canada.\n\nThe home side had to endure ten minutes of stoppage time before they could celebrate an unforgettable night.\n\nNorway boss Hege Riise said on the eve of the tournament that her team was relishing the challenge of playing in front of a partisan home crowd.\n\nYet her side failed to deliver and now face a tough match against Switzerland in Hamilton next Tuesday as they look to avoid another early tournament exit after a lacklustre performance.\n\nRiise revealed after the game that the squad had woke up to \"helicopters and police outside the team hotel\" following the shooting in Auckland.\n\nHowever, she refused to blame that on her team's under-par display.\n\n\"Some players slept through it,\" added Riise. \"It hasn't affected us in how we performed in the game. We didn't get any momentum at all.\"\n\nAt Euro 2022, Norway were embarrassed 8-0 by England and lost to Austria.\n\nThey find themselves playing catch-up once again in New Zealand despite the array of individual talent at their disposal.\n\nNorway had 12 attempts, including two in the final few moments, but could not find the net.\n\nOn a miserable night, Tuva Hansen had a shot tipped onto the bar by Victoria Esson while Guro Reiten scuffed a late attempt.\n• None Attempt saved. Ingrid Engen (Norway) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tuva Hansen.\n• None Attempt blocked. Guro Reiten (Norway) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anja Sønstevold with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Guro Reiten (Norway) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ada Hegerberg.\n• None Attempt missed. Ada Hegerberg (Norway) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Emilie Haavi with a cross.\n• None Offside, New Zealand. Paige Satchell tries a through ball, but Betsy Hassett is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Norway. Anja Sønstevold replaces Thea Bjelde because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Thea Bjelde (Norway).\n• None Offside, New Zealand. Catherine Bott tries a through ball, but Paige Satchell is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Indiah-Paige Riley (New Zealand) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Penalty missed! Still New Zealand 1, Norway 0. Ria Percival (New Zealand) hits the bar with a right footed shot.\n• None Penalty conceded by Tuva Hansen (Norway) with a hand ball in the penalty area. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A new drug, a new story, a new era: LA's streets are about to get even more dangerous...\n• None Manipulation, murder, and the dangers of isolation: The Sixth Commandment is a chilling true-crime drama based on a true story", "An Australian police officer charged with tasering a 95-year-old care home resident acted in a \"grossly disproportionate\" way, prosecutors in the case say.\n\nClare Nowland died in May, a week after the incident which was prompted when she was found holding two knives.\n\nNew court documents allege Kristian White said \"bugger it\" before firing as she slowly advanced using a walker.\n\nHe is yet to enter a plea on grievous bodily harm and assault charges.\n\nDetails of the incident in the town of Cooma - about 114km (71 miles) south of Canberra - have been outlined for the first time in police facts tendered to court.\n\nJust after 03:00 local time on 17 May, Ms Nowland was spotted walking along a corridor in Yallambee Lodge while holding two knives.\n\nTwice, the dementia patient was asked by a nurse to drop the knives, police say, to which she replied \"no\".\n\nShe was later found holding them while standing inside another resident's room.\n\nAfter failing to reach Ms Nowland's family, staff called emergency services with the intention of having an ambulance come to sedate her, the police facts say.\n\nIt was around that time that workers allege the dementia patient threw a knife at one of her carers.\n\nAfter police and ambulance workers arrived on the scene, Ms Nowland began moving \"very slowly\" on her walker towards them with the remaining knife raised.\n\nMr White asked Ms Nowland to drop the knife and stop moving four times before discharging his weapon from 1.5-2m (4.92-6.5 feet) away, police allege.\n\nThe senior constable also warned her that he was pointing a taser at her chest.\n\n\"Clare, stop now, see this, this is a taser, drop it now, drop it, this is your first warning,\" he said, according to the documents.\n\nMs Nowland suffered a fractured skull and a serious brain bleed from falling and hitting her head after she was tasered.\n\nProsecutors say Mr White - who has been suspended from duty without pay pending the outcome of the criminal investigation - used \"excessive force\" given Ms Nowland's age and physical state.\n\nPolice procedures dictate that a taser \"should not be used against an elderly or disabled subject unless exceptional circumstances exist\", the documents added.\n\nThe Nowland family have asked for \"privacy and space\" while they digest the police facts, according to a statement released by their lawyer.\n\n\"The facts alleged against Mr White are extremely confronting and shocking,\" it said.\n\nKristian White - who is on bail - is due to appear before a Cooma court again on 6 September.", "Beethoven, who suffered from several ailments, had asked for his body to be studied\n\nA US businessman has donated fragments of what is believed to be Ludwig van Beethoven's skull to a Vienna university for study.\n\nPaul Kaufmann said he felt \"very privileged to be able to return the Beethoven skull fragments, which I inherited, to where they belong\".\n\nAn Austrian coroner said the fragments, which have already been studied in the US, had \"great value\".\n\nThe composer suffered ill health all his life and died in the city in 1827.\n\nThe businessman said he found the fragments in 1990, in a small box with \"Beethoven\" scratched on it inside a family safety deposit box held by a French bank.\n\nIt is thought that Mr Kaufmann's great-great-uncle Franz Romeo Seligmann, a Viennese doctor, received the fragments in 1863 after Beethoven's bones were exhumed for study.\n\nThere are 10 fragments in total, including two bigger pieces - one from the back of the head and one from the right side of the forehead.\n\nMr Kaufmann shows the fragments to journalists at the Medical University of Vienna\n\nThe Rector of Vienna's Medical University, Markus Mueller, said that it was of paramount importance to handle the remains in an ethically responsible way.\n\n\"It's about finding the right balance between understandable public interest and respect for a deceased person,\" he said.\n\nAustrian coroner Christian Reiter said the fragments were \"really valuable material\" that they hoped to continue to research over the coming years. \"That was Beethoven's wish too,\" he added.\n\nBeethoven, was born in Bonn in December 1770 and died on 27 March 1827. He had suffered ill health for much of his life and reportedly explicitly asked for his body to be studied after his death.\n\nEarlier this year, researchers led by Cambridge University analysed five locks of hair to sequence the composer's genome and revealed that Beethoven had a likely genetic predisposition to liver disease and suffered a hepatitis B infection months before his death.\n\nHe first began suffered hearing loss around 1795, a condition that worsened throughout his years and was exacerbated by severe tinnitus, leading him to be functionally deaf by 1818.", "Alex Belfield was jailed for five and a half years for stalking four people, including Jeremy Vine\n\nA former BBC radio presenter convicted of stalking Jeremy Vine has agreed to pay damages to the broadcaster.\n\nAlex Belfield was jailed in September for five and a half years for harassing four people online.\n\nThis included the BBC Radio 2 presenter, who launched separate civil action over Belfield's \"campaign of harassment\", the High Court was told.\n\nVine's lawyer said Belfield made false allegations in nine YouTube videos and eight tweets, published in 2020.\n\nGervase de Wilde told Mrs Justice Steyn that Belfield - a former BBC Radio Leeds presenter - posted \"entirely false\" allegations between May and August of that year.\n\nThis included the false claim that Vine was \"seriously and demonstrably dishonest\", because he had \"publicly and repeatedly lied\" about his knowledge of the circumstances in which the BBC donated £1,000 towards a memorial fund for radio executive John Myers.\n\nMr Myers, who died in June 2019, was one of Vine's \"closest friends\", the court was told.\n\nMr de Wilde said Belfield also sought to obtain \"private information concerning [Vine]\", including the phone numbers of family and friends, \"for the purposes of publishing and disclosing that information online\".\n\nThe court heard Belfield also encouraged members of the public to contact Vine during his broadcasting work and during \"his day-to-day life\".\n\n\"[Vine] was also made deeply upset and anxious by the defendant's harassment of him, and he became concerned for the safety of his family,\" Mr de Wilde said.\n\nVine allowed Belfield to cross-examine him during the criminal trial\n\nGiving evidence during Belfield's separate criminal trial, Vine said \"the saddest thing\" was when one of Belfield's followers called him a \"thieving toe-rag\" under a Facebook tribute to his late father, who died with Parkinson's disease in 2018.\n\nVine described the harassment as \"like an avalanche of hatred you get hit by\", and \"absolutely Olympic-level stalking, even for broadcasting\".\n\nBelfield was convicted of stalking BBC Radio Northampton presenter Bernard Spedding, known as Bernie Keith, and videographer Ben Hewis.\n\nIn relation to Vine and theatre blogger Philip Dehany, Belfield was found guilty of two lesser offences of \"simple\" stalking, which does not require serious alarm or distress to be proved.\n\nBelfield was found not guilty of stalking Rozina Breen, Liz Green, Helen Thomas and Stephanie Hirst.\n\nMr de Wilde said following Belfield's criminal conviction, Belfield accepted \"the defamatory and seriously harmful allegations of dishonesty which he made against [Vine] are entirely false\".\n\nBelfield, he said, had \"agreed to pay [Vine] substantial damages, as well as his legal costs, and to give undertakings subject to a penal notice in respect of future publications and conduct concerning [Vine]\".\n\nThe exact amount has not been disclosed.\n\nAlan Robertshaw, representing Belfield, originally from Mapperley in Nottingham, added: \"He wishes to apologise unreservedly for the damage and distress caused to [Vine] and his reputation by his publications and express his profound and unreserved regret for all of the harm for which he is responsible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Footage shows the impact of attack on Odesa grain terminals\n\nWheat prices have risen sharply on global markets after Russia said it would treat ships heading for Ukrainian ports as potential military targets.\n\nMoscow pulled out of a UN deal on Monday that ensured safe passage for grain shipments crossing the Black Sea.\n\nFor the past three nights Russia has bombarded Ukraine's grain facilities in Odesa and other cities.\n\nMoscow also warned that from Thursday any ships going there would be seen as siding with \"the Kyiv regime\".\n\nWhite House spokesman Adam Hodge suggested Russia was planning to hit civilian ships and blame Ukraine.\n\nRussia had laid more sea mines in the approaches to Ukrainian ports, he said, as part of a co-ordinated Russian effort to justify attacking civilian ships.\n\nThe Kremlin did not immediately respond to the allegation.\n\nMeanwhile in a similar warning to Russia's, Ukraine has said ships heading towards Russian or occupied ports on the Black Sea could be viewed as carrying military cargo.\n\nWheat prices on the European stock exchange soared by 8.2% on Wednesday from the previous day, to €253.75 (£220; $284) per tonne, while corn prices were up 5.4%.\n\nUS wheat futures jumped 8.5% - their highest daily rise since just after Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPrices in shops will not immediately increase when market prices go up. But if the interruption in supplies leads to a prolonged period of higher prices, the impact will make itself felt around the world in the coming months.\n\nThe sharp increase in grain cost after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year lead to rising prices - not just for food items based on grains, but also for meat and poultry, as animals are often fed with grain.\n\nCountries which depend most heavily on Ukraine's supplies are likely to be most affected. Before the war Lebanon received nearly three-quarters of its grain from Ukraine, while Pakistan, Libya and Ethiopia are also very heavily dependent.\n\nEarlier, President Vladimir Putin said he would return to the international grain agreement immediately if his demands were met. They include lifting sanctions on sales of Russian grain and fertiliser and reconnecting Russia's agricultural bank to a global payment system.\n\nRussian air strikes on the Black Sea coastal cities meanwhile continued for a third night, leaving more than 20 people wounded in Odesa and Mykolaiv.\n\nMykolaiv regional governor Vitaliy Kim said 19 people had been hurt in the regional capital, including children. Apartment blocks were targeted and in one building the second and top floor were partially destroyed.\n\nSeveral people were also wounded in Odesa, when a four-storey building was badly damaged.\n\nOdesa was targeted for the third night running\n\nRussian-occupied Crimea was also hit overnight, according to its Russian-appointee leader Sergei Aksyonov.\n\nA teenage girl was killed when a drone hit four administrative buildings in the north-west of the peninsula.\n\nCrimea has been hit on three consecutive days. A suspected Ukrainian drone attack from the sea damaged a bridge from the occupied peninsula to southern Russia on Monday. Part of a key motorway was also shut on Tuesday because of explosions at a nearby munitions depot.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure and putting vulnerable countries at risk.\n\nAgriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi said strikes had destroyed 60,000 tonnes of grain and damaged considerable parts of the grain export infrastructure.\n\nThe Black Sea grain deal enabled the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) to ship more than 725,000 tonnes of wheat from Ukraine to countries facing acute hunger, including Ethiopia, Yemen and Afghanistan. So Ukraine provided more than half the WFP's wheat grain last year.\n\nMore than half the total grain shipped under the deal was corn, however. Of the nearly 33m tonnes exported, the biggest amount went to China (8m tonnes), then Spain (6m tonnes) and Turkey (3.2m tonnes), UN data shows.\n\nTurkey has been milling grain into flour for the WFP. Corn is used as biofuel and animal feed, besides human consumption.\n\nThe defence ministry in Moscow said that from Thursday all vessels sailing on the Black Sea to Ukrainian ports would be regarded as \"potential carriers of military cargo\" and that the ships' \"flag states... will be considered to be involved in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Kyiv regime\".\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Putin accused the West of using the grain deal as \"political blackmail\". Moscow has accused Ukraine of using the Black Sea grain corridor for \"combat purposes\".\n\nUkraine's options for exporting grain by rail are also very limited: rail capacity is smaller than shipping volumes and several EU countries in Eastern Europe are blocking Ukrainian grain, in order to protect their own farmers.\n\nSome Ukrainian grain may now be shipped via the Danube, using Romanian territorial waters, though again the volumes are likely to be relatively small.\n\nMarex Capital analyst Charlie Sernatinger said Russia's threatened escalation could \"cut all of the waterborne grain shipments off from the Black Sea, both Russian, and Ukrainian\", which would cause a similar situation to that at the start of the war.\n\nUkrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko called on the UK, US, France and Turkey to protect the grain ships with military convoys and provide Odesa with air defences.\n\n\"Clearly Putin has an aim to disrupt food security and cause a peak in world food prices, which in the developed countries will lead to inflation, but in developing countries that will lead to social destabilisation, starvation and new waves of migrants.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Jess McDonald joined the force in 2018 as a trainee detective\n\nThe Metropolitan Police was recently described as institutionally misogynist in a review by Baroness Casey, who found that a \"boys' club\" culture was rife and the force was failing to protect the public from officers who abuse women.\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has told the BBC that the force is undergoing its \"biggest doubling down on standards\" in 50 years, as it tries to address the issue of its internal culture.\n\nTo try to get a sense of what policing can be like in London, the BBC has spoken to a former special constable and a detective, both of whom have written books about their experiences.\n\nThey have shared their accounts of some of the things they witnessed, and given their thoughts on what the future might hold.\n\nJess McDonald joined the Met in 2018 as a trainee detective on a pilot scheme aimed at people wanting a career change by joining the police.\n\nShe said she witnessed chronic under-resourcing, \"overwhelming\" workloads and a \"broken\" justice system. In one place she was deployed, she said the facilities were so poor there was no space for staff to store their food, so people kept their lunches in a fridge-freezer that also contained evidence for rape cases.\n\nAnother officer who is no longer with the force is Matt Lloyd-Rose, who from 2012 to 2015 worked as a teacher alongside serving with the Met as a special constable - a volunteer role with full police powers including those of arrest.\n\nMatt Lloyd-Rose said for many officers there was a \"lack of a sense of mission and clarity of purpose\"\n\nMr Lloyd-Rose, from Lambeth in south London, said some things he witnessed during his time with the force \"stunned\" him, including an occasion when his team had been out patrolling in a police van in Clapham.\n\n\"We'd been dealing with all sorts - stopping people for drugs, helping people who were drunk and confused, and chasing after illegal hotdog vendors,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the regular officers then said that we would we be going 'talent spotting'\", he added, and the team then drove \"back and forth along the high street\" while the regular officers were \"making comments about the women outside of the window, having some sort of group discussions about who is most attractive, about who they would be most interested in having sex with\".\n\nMr Lloyd-Rose said he witnessed some unacceptable behaviour while he was on patrol in Clapham - stock photograph\n\nOn another occasion, he said a young woman approached the team after her bag had been snatched on the bus.\n\n\"She was really upset; she was sobbing and was visibly extremely distressed,\" Mr Lloyd-Rose explained. \"And then the regular who's been dealing with her rolled his window back up again, and immediately said 'she'd get [sexual expletive]'.\"\n\nMr Lloyd-Rose said that while he didn't witness \"overt aggressive discrimination\" there was a consistent \"reinforcing of norms and boundaries, something insidious\" that frequently involved targeting female staff.\n\n\"There was a real expectation the people who objected would be cut out of things, or would be provoked to try and overcome that objection,\" he said.\n\nMr Lloyd-Rose added that this attitude wasn't only displayed by frontline officers but also by those leading training.\n\n\"One of the trainers was telling us about a female officer he had been on patrol with and he said: 'Before you ask, I have seen her naked when we were playing strip poker.'\n\n\"The culture was openly expressed in front of diverse groups of officers who that trainer didn't know at all, and he was kind of quite happy and confident that he could express that culture without anyone objecting.\n\n\"The institutional misogyny and sexism seemed ludicrously blatant, basically.\n\n\"That kind of culture both provides cover and and space for individuals with the most noxious views and others who have real intent to do harm, but it also provides a culture in which terrible things can become normalised.\"\n\nJess McDonald said there was a feeling of futility among some Met staff\n\nAs a detective, Jess McDonald's experience was different from Mr Lloyd-Rose's - although perhaps no less worrying in terms of what it says about the Met Police and the criminal justice system more widely.\n\nDuring her time with the force, she was posted to the Community Safeguarding Unit, which deals with among other crimes cases of domestic and sexual violence.\n\nShe said the department was \"internally known as the most difficult area of policing\" due to the \"trauma and the intensity of the role\".\n\n\"I would liken it before to kind of trying to fight a raging fire with a chocolate teapot.\"\n\nMs McDonald said she eventually left the Met due to bullying\n\nShe said that a sense of \"hopelessness\" was evident, \"because you're investigating rapes day in day out and so few of them are actually being taken further\".\n\n\"It's the demoralisation of having to be the face or the person who turns round to someone who's going to have gone through the whole investigative process... and saying, 'you know I'm really sorry but it's not even being charged'.\"\n\nMs McDonald said the feeling of \"futility\" among Met staff doing this work was so widespread that on several occasions female colleagues said they wouldn't bother reporting a sexual offence committed against them.\n\nOn one occasion, a training leader even admitted she felt this way to an entire room of trainees learning how to investigate rape, Ms McDonald said.\n\n\"Whilst we were learning about it all theoretically she says something along the lines of, 'look, I probably wouldn't report it if it happened to me'.\"\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said the force has \"a practical plan for turning things around\" in how it deals with violence against women and girls\n\nAsked if she saw or heard of any women being treated poorly within the force, Ms McDonald recalled a time when a female colleague said she knew was filmed by a man \"about to join a ranking of sergeant\" on a rape team, while woman used the shower in police accommodation.\n\n\"Luckily, there was a third officer [a witness to what happened] and he was a superintendent of the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards,\" she said.\n\nMs McDonald said the offender had met her colleague the night before and \"knew exactly when she was going to be in the shower\".\n\n\"He films her using the shower through the glass window above the door. She was able to sort of see the phone in his hand when she passed out the shower and confronted him.\"\n\nMs McDonald said the senior officer witnessed the confrontation and arrested his colleague for voyeurism.\n\nThe offender went on to be convicted of voyeurism, but Ms McDonald said: \"I can't help thinking if the other guy hadn't seen that and jumped into action and knew what to do, I don't think my friend would have taken it further.\"\n\nWithin the Met, she believes there should be a focus on \"empowering people to speak up internally on the front line\" in cases where vetting fails to exclude those officers who joined the police to abuse their power.\n\n\"Internally, people know who the bad ones are... people who are doing frontline work get a feel for people; who's creepy, who makes a comment,\" she said.\n\n\"We're currently doing nothing proactive... there is just this culture of silence and no-one really rocks the boat, nothing is really done. If you do speak up it's huge.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said: \"The commissioner has been unequivocal about his commitment to reform the standards of the Met - he set out his plans following the publication of the Casey Report.\n\n\"We recognise that we have let down Londoners and our own staff.\"\n\nThe spokesperson also highlighted the work the force has been doing \"to improve standards and root out officers who do not meet these\", including a review of sexual and domestic abuse allegations against more than 800 officers and a project to utilise counter-terror tactics to catch predators who target women.\n\nMatt Lloyd-Rose is the author of Into the Night: A Year with the Police, and Jess McDonald is the author of No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known about Becoming a Detective.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers are considering putting extra conditions on banking licences after a row over the closure of Brexiteer Nigel Farage's account at Coutts.\n\nIt follows reports that lenders could lose their permits if they cut ties with customers because they disagree with their political views.\n\nMr Farage has accused Coutts of lying about its decision, saying he was \"cancelled\" by the bank.\n\nCoutts says decisions to close an account \"are not taken lightly\".\n\nGovernment sources told the BBC that the possibility of putting conditions on banking permits was being explored, although no decision had been made.\n\nBanks would also be required to explain why an account is being shut, and give a longer notice period, under tougher rules to be brought in.\n\nAccording to the Times newspaper, licences could be stripped in order to protect customers' right to free speech.\n\nThe BBC understands that the Treasury is also seeking clarity on the handling of Mr Farage's accounts from Alison Rose, the boss of NatWest, which owns Coutts.\n\nIt comes after Mr Farage obtained documents, which have been shared with the Mail newspaper, from minutes of a Coutts meeting where both \"commercial\" reasons and \"reputational risk\" associated with his political views are cited as reasons behind terminating his account with them.\n\nThe 40-page report mentioned Brexit and his alleged links to Russia.\n\nBanks do have the right to what's known as \"commercial independence\" to make decisions about their company, and who their clients are.\n\nFor example, Coutts very openly advertises that it excludes anyone who is not a millionaire.\n\nDropping under the wealth threshold could prompt the bank to conduct a wider review of the customer's profile, including reputational and legal risk.\n\nBanking commentator Frances Coppola said that, according to the report, Coutts did not feel Mr Farage's views were the issue, more his public behaviour and how it might reflect on the bank.\n\n\"Nigel Farage was very public about his relationship with Coutts. He has also made lots of controversial comments, and when you have a bit of loose cannon like that, they could bring you into disrepute, even though it's not intentional.\n\n\"That risk has to be very closely managed because it might come with a financial cost. If the returns on the account do not justify the costs, then the bank will see no point in carrying on the relationship.\"\n\nThe report stated that Coutts had been happy to carry on banking Mr Farage while he had a mortgage with them, but once he had paid it off they planned to terminate the relationship.\n\nHowever, Angela Knight, former chief executive of the British Bankers' Association, told the BBC's Today programme she found what had happened to the firmer United Kingdom Independence Party leader \"somewhat uncomfortable\".\n\n\"It is somewhat uncomfortable to see a situation arise where because of somebody's legitimate views, even though you don't agree with them, it somehow has resulted in a service being withdrawn and they are not being told about it.\"\n\nShe added: \"In this instance what seems to have happened is nothing was really said to the individual concerned and then when they put in an application [to the bank to see the evidence] they suddenly find that there's a whole series of reasons which seems to centre around what they have said.\"\n\nOn Thursday Mr Farage welcomed reports of a government crackdown, saying closing bank accounts for political reasons could stop people from going into public life.\n\n\"Refusal to open [accounts] and closures have happened to several members of my family... Which is perhaps, above all, what has made me angry, really angry and motivated me to [speak out].\"\n\nOn Wednesdday Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted that shutting someone's account over their views was \"wrong\", calling free speech the \"cornerstone of our democracy\".\n\nMeanwhile, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said elsewhere that the Coutts row \"exposes the sinister nature of much of the diversity, equity and inclusion industry\".\n\nThe BBC had previously reported Mr Farage had fallen below the financial threshold needed for an account at Coutts, citing a source familiar with the move.\n\nThe former politician accused the broadcaster of falling for \"spin\" and restated that he had been targeted for his political views.\n\nHe cited the report by the bank's reputational risk committee which states that the Brexiteer's views did not \"align with our values\".\n\n\"Apparently, I'm a risk to them. I have virtually no links of any kind to Russia whatsoever. This is political. There is no other way of looking at it,\" he said.\n\nHe later told BBC Newsnight he was \"literally shocked\" when he saw the report, which he described as a \"personal hit job\". \"This bank is behaving now like a political campaigning organisation,\" he said.\n\nCoutts has said it has offered Mr Farage an alternative account at its sister bank, NatWest and the offer still stands.\n\nAnyone concerned that they have not been treated fairly by their bank can appeal to the Financial Ombudsman Service.\n\nCity regulator the Financial Conduct Authority is also talking to NatWest about the handling of Mr Farage's accounts, its boss told MPs on Wednesday.\n\nNikhil Rathi said that current rules made clear banks should not discriminate on the basis of political views.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Greg Rutkowski's name has been used as a prompt in AI tools that generate art more than 400,000 times - but without his consent\n\n\"My work has been used in AI more than Picasso.\"\n\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is changing life as we know it, but for digital artist Greg Rutkowski it is causing big problems.\n\nHe said his name had been used as a prompt in AI tools that generate art more than 400,000 times since September 2022 - but without his consent.\n\nWhen he checked, his name had been used as a prompt more times than the artists Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci.\n\nPolish-born artist Greg has had his work used in games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, but said his new found AI fame has caused concern for his future work.\n\nSites like Midjourney, Dall.E, NightCafe and Stable Diffusion are known as generative AI because they can make new, artificially-generated artworks in seconds from prompts that users type in.\n\nThey have learned to do this by scraping billions of existing images from the internet. Artists are complaining this has been done without their consent.\n\nGreg Rutkowski says even he would struggle to distinguish between the AI versions of his work and his own\n\nGreg said: \"The first month that I discovered it, I realised that it will clearly affect my career and I won't be able to recognise and find my own works on the internet.\n\n\"The results will be associated with my name, but it won't be my image. It won't be created by me. So it will add confusion for people who are discovering my works.\"\n\n\"All that we've been working on for so many years has been taken from us so easily with AI,\" he added.\n\n\"It's really hard to tell whether this will change the whole industry to the point where human artists will be obsolete. I think my work and future are under a huge question mark.\"\n\nWhile the problems are clear, there are some ways AI tools can be used to benefit artists, according to Cardiff-based animator Harry Hambley, who is the creative force behind internet sensation Ketnipz.\n\n\"I think for me the biggest thing generative art can solve is tedium,\" he said.\n\n\"But it can be scary and the internet's already a wild place, and you mix AI in with that… we don't know where it's going to go.\n\n\"Do I think that my job will ever be sacrificed to AI or AI will do it better than me? I don't know. I hope not.\"\n\nArtist Harry Hambley says the biggest problem is we do not know how far AI will go\n\nHarry said he thought there was more to art than how it looked.\n\n\"At the end of the day I think that there's a bigger reason why people are invested in Ketnipz and I don't think it's just the mere aesthetics of it.\n\n\"I think there's a personality behind it that I don't think someone imitating can really tap into.\"\n\nJames Lewis's brush control has made him a hit on TikTok\n\nArtist James Lewis, from Cardiff, creates videos of his painting technique for more than seven million followers on TikTok and Instagram.\n\nHe has yet to find out if his work has been used by the tools, but said because AI has learned from billions of artworks, it would be hard to trace which artists' works have been used in each image.\n\n\"If there was a way to go back and figure out who inspired this style of image that was generated, I think it would be fair for that artist to receive some sort of compensation,\" he said.\n\nJames Lewis' piece, Kaboom: \"If there was a way figure out who inspired this style of image... it would be fair to receive some sort of compensation\"\n\nIn the meantime he thinks artists should keep being creative.\n\n\"I do have hope that as much as AI art will develop and it'll get better, but it will never be able to capture that true human essence, that true creativity that we have as people,\" he said.\n\n\"You will still need your own creative ideas, your own initiative.\"\n\nArtist Caroline Sinders says she will be exercising her copyright rights\n\nFor artist and human rights researcher Caroline Sinders, it is for AI companies to address the problem.\n\nShe said: \"Part of the argument we hear from companies is, 'we have so much data, it would be impossible for us to tell, like searching for a needle in a haystack'.\n\n\"I would like to say, well, that's a 'you' problem, not a 'me' problem.\n\n\"I have a copyright on the images and I plan to enact my copyright if my images are used without my consent.\"\n\nShe said she was also worried about the bias that these tools created and how it meant AI art was not reflecting the real world.\n\n\"Let's say we ask an image generation AI system to generate a doctor assessing care to a family,\" she said.\n\n\"Most likely that doctor will be generated as male and probably as white, and the parent will probably be generated as female.\n\n\"And this is not an example I'm randomly making up. There have been tests done by asking these sort of blanket questions without gender being in the text prompt and, more often than not, it's reflecting these stereotypes.\"\n\nThis extends to racial bias and also ableism, said Irene Fubara-Manuel, a lecturer at the University of Sussex.\n\nWhile they said they were excited about the possibilities provided by generative art, issues such as racial and gender biases in some images created were hard to overcome.\n\n\"I was trying to dye my hair over the summer, and I was just looking up 'people of colour, blonde locks',\" they said.\n\nIrene Fubara-Manuel says they noticed bias when searching for images to try out new hairstyles\n\n\"What I got in response was this regal, I would say, fetishised image of black people. You know, chiselled jaw lines, their skin was iridescent.\n\n\"It's like, there are black people who are that beautiful, but the images that you see commonly in a lot of AI are very, very fetishised representations of people.\n\n\"You would not see people who are plus size, or people who have visible disabilities, for instance.\"\n\nArtists are now calling on regulators in the UK and worldwide to take more action to protect artists and the industry.\n\nIrene said artists were not against AI but, \"the argument is against exploitation\".\n\n\"But I'm hopeful that it will contribute to human creativity in general, just like how the creation of computers added more to creativity. I'm excited for its contribution,\" they said.\n\nCaroline said more regulation of the emerging AI industry in the UK would not \"stifle\" innovation.\n\n\"It makes things safer and that's why we have certain laws,\" she said.\n\n\"That's why right now we have seatbelts and airbags for cars and a lot of rules about them. When they were first invented, we didn't have any of that.\n\n\"So it's not at all out of step to sort of ask for, or to create, guardrails and protections.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Labour grins in North Yorkshire, Liberal Democrats' delight in Somerset, beaming Conservatives in outer London. But beneath that made-for-the-cameras joy, a more complex picture to unpick.\n\nThe landscape remains bleak for the Conservatives. A trouncing in two former rural strongholds leavened mildly by narrowly clinging on in a suburb of the capital.\n\nBut Labour’s record-breaking triumph in rural Yorkshire was punctured by public awkwardness from both the party leader and Labour’s Mayor of London over the soon-to-be-expanded emissions scheme the Mayor is blamed for.\n\nThe Lib Dems are jubilant – proud to have rediscovered and solidified electoral vitality after the near-death experience of much of the last decade.\n\nIn truth, this set of elections probably leaves all three of these parties where they already were psychologically.\n\nThe Lib Dems asking themselves how much they can replicate this at a general election, when their efforts are more thinly spread. Labour - starting to believe they can win but with lingering jitters about what might stand in their way. The Conservatives - up against it.", "A pedestrian in Argentina was caught between two cars that collided before careening away in opposite directions.\n\nThe crash happened as the woman crossed the street at an intersection in La Plata a city in Buenos Aires Province.\n\nLocal authorities reported that the woman and drivers were not seriously injured.", "Miranda Dickson was frustrated after an anonymous complaint about her off-white shade of pink\n\nAn Edinburgh woman who has faced a lengthy battle over the colour of her front door has won permission to keep its latest shade of pink.\n\nMiranda Dickson, 49, was ordered by city planners to change the colour last year after painting it bright pink.\n\nShe repainted it green - but after further complaints, it was changed again to an \"off-white\" shade of pink.\n\nThat colour also sparked a complaint, but has now received the approval from officials.\n\nIn a letter granting permission, City of Edinburgh Council said: \"The proposals have special regard to the desirability of preserving the building and its setting and will not adversely impact on its special architectural and historic interest.\n\n\"The proposals will preserve the character and appearance of the conservation area.\"\n\nMs Dickson first received an enforcement notice in September last year, which said the bright pink door on her Georgian townhouse did not meet the standards of a listed property in a World Heritage Site.\n\nIt stated she must repaint it to its original white colour or formally apply for planning permission.\n\nShe submitted a retrospective application after facing a £20,000 fine if she did not change the colour.\n\nMs Dickson was ordered to repaint the bright shade of pink last year.\n\nMs Dickson repainted the door green, but this was also rejected by planners\n\nMs Dickson said at the time that she was confused about being ordered to change the colour scheme, as there were many other brightly coloured doors in Edinburgh's New Town.\n\nIn April, she painted the door green and applied for planning permission for this colour.\n\nThis was also rejected, so she painted it an off-white pink and applied again for planning permission - but another anonymous complaint was then made.\n\nHowever, this shade has now been officially approved by Edinburgh city council planners.\n\nMs Dickson's case made international headlines after it was covered by the BBC in October last year.\n\nShe said she was shocked by the enormous reaction to her pink door.\n\n\"I don't understand why it has caused them to be so angry, I can't understand that emotion about the colour of a door,\" she said.\n\n\"These homes were built as entertainment spaces. They are incredible spaces and I have leaned into the bones of the rooms to maximise their beauty.\n\n\"I have restored all the windows and kept the cornices and mouldings as well as the shutters. I have been much more sympathetic than more modern refits.\n\nMs Dickson spent 18 months renovating her childhood home in Edinburgh's Drummond Place after her parents died.\n\nThe mother-of-two, who is a brand director in the drinks industry, moved back to Edinburgh two years ago after working in the US for nine years.\n\nShe said she had looked up the council's guidelines online before she first painted the door.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon.\n\nThe government is seeking to update the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016.\n\nIt wants messaging services to clear security features with the Home Office before releasing them to customers.\n\nThe act lets the Home Office demand security features are disabled, without telling the public. Under the update, this would have to be immediate.\n\nCurrently, there has to be a review, there can also be an independent oversight process and a technology company can appeal before taking any action.\n\nBecause of the secrecy surrounding these demands, little is known about how many have been issued and whether they have been complied with.\n\nBut many messaging services currently offer end-to-end encryption - so messages can be unscrambled by only the devices sending and receiving them.\n\nWhatsApp and Signal are among the platforms to have opposed a clause in the Online Safety Bill allowing the communications regulator to require companies to install technology to scan for child-abuse material in encrypted messaging apps and other services.\n\nThey will not comply with it, they say, with Signal threatening to \"walk\" from the UK.\n\nApple has also opposed the plan.\n\nThe government has opened an eight-week consultation on the proposed amendments to the IPA., which already enables the storage of internet browsing records for 12 months and authorises the bulk collection of personal data.\n\nThey are \"not about the creation of new powers\" but making the act more relevant to current technology, it says.\n\nApple has consistently opposed the act, originally dubbed a \"snooper's charter\" by critics. Its submission to the current consultation is nine pages long, opposing:\n\nCyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward, from Surrey University, said technology companies were unlikely to accept the proposals.\n\n\"There is a degree of arrogance and ignorance from the government if they believe some of the larger tech companies will comply with the new requirements without a major fight,\" he added.\n\nThe Home Office told the BBC that the Investigatory Powers Act was designed to \"protect the public from criminals, child sex abusers and terrorists\".\n\nIt added, \"we keep all legislation under review to ensure it is as strong as it can be and this consultation is part of that process - no decisions have yet been made\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland begin their Women's World Cup campaign against Haiti on Saturday, but who do you think should be in the starting XI?\n\nManager Sarina Wiegman named an unchanged side throughout Euro 2022 as England went all the way, beating rivals Germany in the final.\n\nHowever, injuries to key players and the retirement of experienced duo Ellen White and Jill Scott mean there will be changes in Australia.\n\nWe asked you to select your first XI and this was the most popular team selection...\n\nAgree with this team or think someone else deserves to start? Select your England starting XI against Haiti below...", "Last updated on .From the section Women's World Cup\n\nThe BBC will show live coverage of England's Round of 16 tie against Nigeria at the Fifa Women's World Cup.\n\nSarina Wiegman's European champions face Nigeria on Monday, 7 August at 08:30 BST in Brisbane.\n\nThe tie will be live on BBC One and there will be commentary on 5 Live and BBC Sounds.\n\nThe game will also be shown on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.\n• None All the best 2023 Women's World Cup content in one place\n\nThe BBC is the only place you can watch both semi-finals on 15-16 August. The final, on Sunday, 20 August (11:00), will be broadcast by both the BBC and ITV.\n\nThe tournament is the biggest yet with 32 nations taking part, and more than one million match tickets were sold in advance.\n\nKnock-out phase fixtures and broadcast coverage to be confirmed.\n• None Is it a good idea to fix your mortgage and energy bills?\n• None Can a man ever beat a horse in a race? Every year since 1980, a small town in Wales has been trying to find out", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What's next for captured US soldier in North Korea\n\nThe Pentagon says it considers army private Travis King to be \"absent without leave\" in North Korea after he crossed the border during a tour.\n\nOfficials also admitted they had no idea of his condition or where he was being held.\n\nEarlier the White House said the US had tried to contact Pyongyang through \"multiple channels\" but had had no response.\n\nPV2 King dashed across the heavily fortified border area on Tuesday.\n\nIt is unclear if he has defected or hopes to return.\n\nThe Washington-based news website the Messenger said it had seen an internal US government report which described PV2 King's actions when he crossed the border.\n\nIt quoted the report as saying PV2 King sprinted up to a building on the North Korean side.\n\nHe is said to have banged vigorously on the door, and when there was no answer, he ran around the back and got into a van. He was then immediately driven off, according to the website.\n\nExperts say such a low-ranking soldier would have little propaganda and intelligence value, which may prompt North Korea into releasing him - but what will happen to him remains highly uncertain.\n\nChristine Wormuth, head of the US Army, has expressed \"deep concern\" for PV2 King and how he may be treated.\n\nShe told the Aspen Security Forum: \"I worry about him, frankly.\"\n\nThe crisis comes during a particularly tense time with the North. Relations with the US have plummeted in recent years, as it has tested dozens of increasingly powerful missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.\n\nOn its travel advisory, the US tells its citizens not to travel to North Korea - one of the world's most isolated states - due to \"the continuing serious risk of arrest\" and the \"critical threat of wrongful detention\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Travis King's mother speaks about her son in North Korea\n\nPV2 King had been due to fly back to the US from South Korea, where he was based, to face disciplinary action.\n\nBut the 23-year-old did not board the plane when he parted ways with his military escorts at Incheon Airport near Seoul on Tuesday and instead embarked on an apparently pre-booked tour to the border - the details of how he managed to do that are still unclear.\n\nThe demilitarised zone (DMZ) at the border has separated the two countries since the Korean War in the 1950s, in which the US backed the South.\n\nThe war ended with an armistice, meaning that the two sides are still technically at war. Tens of thousands of US troops remain in the South.\n\nAs the US and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations, the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang tends to negotiate on behalf of the US. Currently its diplomatic staff are not in the country, because of the ongoing border closure since the pandemic.\n\nBoth the UN Command, that runs the border area, and the South Korean military have direct phone lines to the North Korean military, that they call daily to check in, though the North Koreans do not always pick up.\n\nIn recent years, a number of American citizens who illegally entered North Korea - excluding those convicted of criminal activity there - have been released within six months.\n\nPyongyang could use PV2 King as a propaganda tool to criticise the US military, said James Fretwell, an analyst at Seoul-based specialist site NK News.\n\n\"King may well show up in North Korean state media at some point in the near future. But a lot depends on how long his interrogation, and maybe his Covid-19 quarantine, lasts,\" he added. North Korea still maintains a strict border lockdown in response to the pandemic.\n\nBut Jenny Town, director of the Stimson Center's 38 North Program, believes Mr King \"does not make for a very ideal or compelling soldier story\".\n\n\"There have also been cases long ago of US soldiers who defected and were allowed to stay… But in those cases, there was political value to [their stories] and it was a very different time, and a different leader,\" she said.\n\nSome experts feel that the tensions between North Korea and the US and the impasse in bilateral talks means the North has little to gain in holding on to PV2 King.\n\n\"For Pyongyang, it makes sense to find a way of extracting some compensation and then expel an American for unauthorised entry,\" said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.\n\n\"In the best-case scenario, the American soldier will return home safely at the cost of some propaganda victory for Pyongyang, and US and North Korean officials may have an opportunity to resume dialogue and contacts that went stagnant during the pandemic.\"", "The monarch has been at the centre of bitter feuds within the royal family\n\nSouth Africa's Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini is being treated in hospital for suspected poisoning, his traditional prime minister has said.\n\nThe king sought medical attention in Eswatini as he is uncomfortable with seeking treatment in South Africa, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi added.\n\nThis follows the sudden death of one of his senior advisers, also of suspected poisoning, Chief Buthelezi said.\n\nHowever, the king's official spokesman said he was in \"perfect health\".\n\nThe monarch was currently not in hospital, and \"unnecessary panic\" should not be created, Prince Africa Zulu said, in what appeared to be an indirect reference to Chief Buthelezi's statement.\n\nKing Misuzulu was crowned in front of thousands of his subjects last October.\n\nBut a vicious power struggle has been raging within the royal family over the 48-year-old's accession, and tensions have also recently surfaced between the monarch and Chief Buthelezi.\n\nThe Zulu king does not have formal political power and the monarch's role within broader South African society is largely ceremonial, but he remains hugely influential with a yearly government-funded budget of several million dollars.\n\nA faction within the family is challenging his claim to the throne in court, insisting that he is not the rightful heir of his late father, King Goodwill Zwelithini.\n\nThey insist that another son of the late king, Prince Simakade, should be the monarch.\n\nKing Zwelithini had six wives and at least 26 children.\n\nHis will has also been challenged in court by his first wife, Queen Sibongile Dlamini-Zulu, and her two daughters.\n\nA court dismissed their case last year, but they said they would appeal against the ruling.\n\nThere is no suggestion that any members of the royal family are behind King Misuzulu's suspected poisoning.\n\nThe South African police have not yet commented on the claims.\n\nIn his statement, Chief Buthelezi said King Misuzulu's senior aide, Douglas Xaba who stayed with him, \"passed on quite suddenly and that there are suspicions that he was poisoned\".\n\n\"When His Majesty began to feel unwell, he suspected that he too may have been poisoned.\n\n\"He immediately sought out medical treatment in Eswatini. I am informed that His Majesty felt uncomfortable seeking treatment in South Africa, as his parents had both received treatment in South Africa and subsequently died,\" Chief Buthelezi said.\n\nChief Buthelezi added that while the king had recently appointed Prince Africa as the head of communications in his office, he, as the traditional prime minister, had an obligation to inform the Zulu nation of \"this worrying situation\".\n\n\"Our immediate concern is the King's wellbeing. We as the Zulu nation pray for His Majesty's full and swift recovery.\n\n\"Should there be any reason for further investigations, that will be attended to by the authorities,\" Chief Buthelezi said.\n\nIn his subsequent statement, Prince Africa said there appeared to be an \"orchestrated agenda and a desperate narrative to communicate defamatory and baseless claims\" about the king's health.\n\n\"Ultimately, this creates unnecessary panic and perceptions of instability in the Royal Crown,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Prince Africa confirmed the monarch had undergone a thorough medical examination in Eswatini while visiting his uncle, King Mswati III.\n\nThe checks were carried out because of \"our current times of pandemics such as Covid-19 and other dangerous ailments\", and also \"to mitigate against any untimely eventuality, given the reports of Mr Xaba's sudden passing\".\n\nKing Misuzulu's accession to the throne was sooner than expected, and he has been at the centre of palace intrigue.\n\nHis father died during the Covid pandemic in March 2021 of diabetes-related complications.\n\nHe was the Zulu nation's longest-reigning monarch, having served on the throne for almost 50 years.\n\nKing Misuzulu's mother, Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, then became the regent, but she died a month later.\n\nShe was the sister of Eswatini's King Mswati III - Africa's only absolute monarch.\n\nAt the time, Chief Buthelezi dismissed rumours that she had been poisoned.\n\nHe had backed King Misuzulu's accession to the throne after her death, but recent reports suggested that sharp differences had emerged between the two.\n\nIt followed a dispute over the chairmanship of the Ingonyama Trust Board, which manages vast tracts of land controlled by the monarch.\n\nThe king appointed Chief Thanduyise Mzimela as its chairman, but this was opposed by Chief Buthelezi who felt he was inexperienced for the post, according to local media.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeven Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested while trying to halt the annual Pride parade in central London.\n\nImages on social media showed police removing demonstrators who managed to briefly stop the march.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said seven people were arrested for public nuisance offences.\n\nBefore the parade started, LGBTQ+ Just Stop Oil members called on Pride to stop accepting sponsorship money from \"high-polluting industries\".\n\nOrganisers estimate more than 30,000 participants from across 600 organisations took part in the parade.\n\nSpeaking after the arrests, Will De'Athe-Morris, from Pride in London said he did not want the protest to overshadow the parade's core message.\n\n\"Pride is a protest and pride is a celebration,\" he told the BBC. \"We are protesting for LGBT+ rights and for our trans siblings, who must never march alone.\"\n\n\"So for us anyone who tries to disrupt that protest and parade is really letting down those people who use this space once a year to come together to celebrate and protest for those rights.\"\n\nProtesters stopped in front of a Coca-Cola float in Piccadilly\n\nPolice said the parade was briefly delayed for around 17 minutes while officers dealt with the protesters at Piccadilly's junction with Down Street.\n\nBBC Radio London's Rob Oxley said the protesters \"sat down in front of the Coke float for around 20 minutes\".\n\n\"The DJ on the float continued to play music and the crowd cheered as they were removed.\"\n\nOrganisers estimated around 30,000 participants from across 600 organisations took part in the parade\n\nBefore the parade started, LGBTQ+ members of Just Stop Oil called on organisers to condemn new oil, gas and coal licences.\n\n\"These partnerships embarrass the LGBTQ+ community at a time when much of the cultural world is rejecting ties to these toxic industries,\" they said in a statement.\n\nLGBTQ+ people are \"suffering first\" in the \"accelerating social breakdown\" caused by climate change, they added.\n\nMayor of London, Sadiq Khan, says many people involved in the parade are passionate about tackling climate change, but disruption isn't the right approach\n\nThe procession started at midday at Hyde Park Corner and people peacefully made their way through Westminster's streets - it finished at Whitehall Place.\n\nA number of stages hosted performances from LGBTQ+ acts as part of the celebrations.\n\nThe parade began at Hyde Park Corner and weaved its way through central London - it is due to end at Whitehall Place\n\nMr De'Athe-Morris urged protesters not to \"rain on this parade\".\n\n\"There are so many more opportunities during the year to share your messages, please don't try and rain on this parade,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't want to see a day marred in any way by people trying to disrupt it.\"\n\nEarlier, Sadiq Khan described Just Stop Oil as a \"really important pressure group\" despite the disruption threats.", "There is no hiding the fact that millions of people are having to wait for NHS care that they need.\n\nAmanda Pritchard, the boss of NHS England, didn’t deny that lots of people are not getting treatment that they require right now.\n\nAnd she acknowledged that it would be several years before the situation returned to anything like good enough. No surprise that Pritchard wanted to emphasise the work that the service is doing to try to improve the situation, and bring waiting lists down.\n\nBut she made no secret too of matters being made worse by continuing industrial action in the NHS, with consultants soon to join junior doctors in walking out. She said that “patients were paying the price” for industrial action.\n\nMore than 600, 000 appointments have already been cancelled , and the ongoing failure of the government and some of the medical unions to find agreement is only going to crank the pressure up still further.\n\nPritchard was also clear that the NHS is having to pick up the problems caused by other changes in modern society, like the new gambling clinics that are opening soon.\n\nShe stopped short of calling for more regulation, too diplomatic a public servant perhaps?\n\nBut she did imply that ministers should think harder about the system, and asked football clubs to think about their links with the gambling industry.\n\nAs it heads to its 75th anniversary, the NHS is having to deal with a society unimaginable at its birth.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Nahel's family say violence won’t bring justice for the boy they lost\n\nA relative of the French teenager shot by police has told the BBC the family did not want his death to spark riots, but insisted the law around lethal force at traffic stops must change.\n\nNahel M was shot point-blank by police after failing to stop for a traffic check last Tuesday.\n\n\"We never called for hate or riots,\" the relative said.\n\nFrance has seen five days of violent rioting.\n\nBut the unrest ebbed again on Sunday night, with 157 arrests reported by the early hours of Monday morning.\n\nThe previous night, there had been more than 700 arrests.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC near the family home in Nanterre, the relative said the rioting - which has seen thousands arrested, shops looted and hundreds of vehicles set alight across France - did not honour Nahel's memory.\n\n\"We didn't ask to break or steal. All of this is not for Nahel,\" they told the BBC, speaking on condition of anonymity because tensions are so high following Nahel's shooting.\n\nThey said they had called for a \"White March in the street. Walking in memory of Nahel. Walking, even being angry in the street, demonstrating, but without outbursts\".\n\nNahel M was shot dead by police on Tuesday, sparking days of protest and unrest\n\nThe relative said French authorities must now change the law that allows police officers to shoot during traffic stops.\n\nNahel's relative called for \"better training for the French police, weapons regulation for police, and reviewing the law that allows police to use lethal force if a young person refuses to stop at a traffic stop\".\n\nFrance's penal code was changed in 2017 to allow for a broader use of firearms after police said they were facing increased levels of violence.\n\nCritics argue the increase in traffic related shootings is a direct result of that change, which they say is much too vague because it leaves officers to determine whether the driver's refusal to comply poses a risk.\n\nSo far this year, three people have been killed during police traffic stops - following a record 13 people killed in traffic stop incidents last year. According to Reuters news agency most of those victims have been of black or Arab origin.\n\nAnais, a family friend and neighbour also told the BBC that being a young black man in France's suburbs meant being subject to racism, violence and racial profiling on a daily basis.\n\n\"They [the police] humiliate, insult and don't speak properly to them. And now they kill them! Nahel was covered by the press, but it's not the first time this has happened,\" she said.\n\nNahel's relative said as a result of the ongoing chaos, the family had not had a moment to sit down together and remember him.\n\n\"We want everything to calm down. Social media, riots, everything needs to calm down. With all of this, we haven't had time to sit down for five minutes together and think about how he's gone now,\" they said.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Nahel's grandmother also called for an end to the violence and accused rioters of using Nahel's death as an excuse.\n\n\"Don't destroy the schools, don't destroy the buses. It is other mothers who take these buses,\" Nadia, Nahel's grandmother, told BFMTV.", "Violence has erupted across France since the killing of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop on Tuesday\n\nA French policeman has been charged with homicide and is now in custody over the killing of a teenager during a traffic stop near Paris on Tuesday.\n\nThe 17-year-old, named as Nahel M, was shot at point-blank range as he drove off and crashed soon afterwards.\n\nAnger at his killing has sparked violence across the country. A march led by the boy's mother was marred by clashes on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIn a third night of unrest, 667 people were arrested, French officials say.\n\nIn Paris, shops were ransacked and cars set on fire overnight despite a heavy police presence.\n\nAcross France, 40,000 police officers were deployed, with 249 of them injured in Wednesday night's clashes, according to the interior ministry.\n\nEarlier, bus and tram services in Paris and the wider region stopped operating at 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Thursday. Night-time curfews were in place in some suburbs.\n\nIn the town of Nanterre, where the teenager was killed, a huge fire engulfed the ground floor of a building where a bank is located.\n\nVideo and pictures on social media also appear to show piles of rubbish ablaze in several places.\n\nOfficers were injured on Thursday afternoon as well, during violence in Nanterre that followed a largely peaceful march calling for justice. It was attended by more than 6,000 people.\n\nPrime Minister Élisabeth Borne said she understood the outpouring of emotion following the 17-year-old's death, but condemned the riots.\n\n\"Nothing justifies the violence that's occurred,\" she said.\n\nThe teenager's death has sparked a wider conversation about the power of the police and the relationship between the authorities and people from France's suburbs, who feel segregated from the country's prosperous city centres.\n\n\"We have a law and judicial system that protects police officers and it creates a culture of impunity in France,\" Nahel's lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme.\n\nBut Nahel's mother said she did not blame the police in general, or the system, for the killing - just the officer who fired the lethal shot that killed her son.\n\nThe officer accused of killing him said he had fired because he felt his life was in danger. His lawyer told French radio station RTL that his client discharged his firearm \"in full compliance of the law\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Friday morning, Thierry Clair, deputy secretary general of Unsad-Police trade union, said an investigation would \"determine whether this is a case of a legal or illegal use of a weapon\".\n\nHe said that by law, police officers may use their weapons in certain circumstances.\n\n\"The key thing is the principle of proportionality with the nature of the threat,\" Mr Clair said. \"For instance, one of the cases refers to stopping a vehicle whose occupants refuse to comply and present a risk for someone else if they attempt to escape.\n\n\"And the incident we're talking about - in which a weapon was used - might fall into that category.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'They've taken my baby' - Mother of teen shot by police", "Energy prices could spike this winter forcing governments to step in and subsidise bills again, the head of the International Energy Agency has said.\n\nIf the Chinese economy strengthens quickly and there is a harsh winter, gas prices could rise, putting pressure on consumers, Fatih Birol said.\n\nHe added that governments should push for energy-saving and boost renewables.\n\nHowever, a UK government spokesperson said annual energy bills are set to fall by an average £430 this month.\n\nGas prices soared after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, driving up energy bills around the world.\n\nA number of governments then stepped in with support for households, including in the UK, to try to soften the blow to consumers.\n\nThe IEA is an agency that works with governments and industry to provide data, analysis and recommend policies.\n\nMr Birol told the BBC's Today programme that many European governments made \"strategic mistakes\", including an over-reliance on Russia for energy, and that foreign policy had been \"blindfolded\" by short-term commercial decisions.\n\nHe said this winter \"we cannot rule out\" another spike in gas prices.\n\n\"In a scenario where the Chinese economy is very strong, buys a lot of energy from the markets, and we have a harsh winter, we may see strong upward pressure under natural gas prices, which in turn will put an extra burden on consumers,\" he said.\n\nThe Chinese economy had been bouncing back after Covid restrictions were lifted, but recently its economy has been slowing down.\n\nRatings agency S&P Global this week cut its forecast for Chinese growth, saying \"the risk is that its recovery loses more steam amid weak confidence among consumers and in the housing market\".\n\nInvestment banks including Goldman Sachs have also been cutting forecasts for Chinese growth.\n\nNevertheless, Mr Birol said governments including the UK should \"continue to push measures to save energy, especially as we enter the winter\".\n\nThey should also push renewable technologies so they \"see the light of day as soon as possible\" and cut the time it takes for them to get permits, and look for \"alternative energy options\", he said.\n\nHe said he \"wouldn't rule out blackouts\" this winter as \"part of the game\".\n\n\"We do not know yet how strongly the Chinese economy will rebound,\" he said.\n\nNational Grid said last winter that short power cuts were a possibility - in the end, this was not necessary.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"We spent billions to protect families when prices rose over winter covering nearly half a typical household's energy bill, with them set to fall by around £430 on average from this month.\"\n\nDomestic gas and electricity bills in the UK fell at the weekend after a change to the energy price cap came into force, and a further, smaller fall is expected this winter.\n\nHowever, with the annual energy bill of a typical household set to be about £2,000, costs are still much higher than the pre-pandemic norm.\n\nLast week the head of Centrica, which owns British Gas, warned energy bills were likely to stay high for the foreseeable future.\n\nRussia's war in Ukraine led to a \"gold rush\" of new fossil fuel exploration, and the UK defied climate warnings by issuing a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas.\n\nMore than 100 applications have been submitted to drill for new oil and gas in the North Sea.\n\nThis was at odds with international climate scientists who say fossil fuel projects should be closed down, not expanded.\n\nThey say there can be no new projects if there is to be a chance of keeping global temperature rises under 1.5C.\n\nMr Birol said \"if the world is serious\" about the \"climate cause\" then \"we have to reduce the use of oil and gas significantly in the next years to come\".\n\nIf we can reduce consumption, existing oil and gas fields will be enough to meet declining demand, he added.\n\nHe said he has discussions with the chief executives of UK oil companies.\n\nMr Birol said he has \"no problem\" with oil firms making profits, but if they say: \"I am going to increase my production by four million barrels per day, and my company's strategy is in line with the Paris Climate Agreement - it doesn't work, there is a problem here.\"\n\nThe Rosebank field in the North Sea, which has the potential to produce 500 million barrels of oil, could be approved by the government within weeks.\n\nThe UK government said it was \"committed to reaching net zero by 2050 and have already come a long way to meet that target, cutting emissions faster than any other G7 country while keeping the economy growing and with low-carbon sources like renewables and nuclear providing half of the UK's electricity generation\".\n\nBut a spokesperson added \"the transition to cleaner energy cannot happen overnight and we will continue to need oil and gas over the coming decades, as recognised by the independent Climate Change Committee\".\n\nEmma Pinchbeck, the chief executive of Energy UK, which represents British energy companies, told the BBC's Today programme that the long-term solution to high bills \"is to invest in renewables and energy efficiency to make sure that we're not reliant on volatile international gas\".\n\n\"We expect that investment in more infrastructure in renewables and energy efficiency and alternative technologies to deliver cheaper bills in the long run... and that's why it's so important that we move quickly, particularly with increased international competition for these technologies.\"\n\nHere are some energy saving ideas from environmental scientist Angela Terry, who set up One Home, a social enterprise that shares green, money-saving tips:\n\nAre you struggling to pay your energy bills? Are you concerned about a potential spike in prices this winter? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice are searching for multiple suspects after a shooting in the US city of Baltimore left two people dead and 28 others injured.\n\nFifteen children were among those wounded when gunfire erupted at a block party in the Brooklyn Homes area of the city on Sunday.\n\nIt is not clear whether the attack was targeted, police said, and officers are hunting for at least two suspects.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday police announced a reward of $28,000 (£22,000) for information on the suspects.\n\nAuthorities said multiple weapons and bullet casings were recovered from the scene of the crime.\n\nPolice have yet to name a suspect, but said a young man who has been seen in footage circulating on social media appearing to pull a semi-automatic weapon from a backpack is one of the suspects.\n\n\"Anyone who had a weapon at the scene will be one of our suspects until we eliminate that they are not,\" said Baltimore Police Department acting commissioner Richard Worley.\n\nThe shooting began at about 00:35 local time (04:35 GMT) in a courtyard between a pair of rowhouses in the south of the city. Investigators spent hours on Sunday combing a large crime scene for evidence.\n\nPolice said 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez died at the scene, while 20-year-old Kylis Fagbemi was pronounced dead at hospital.\n\nThe victims were mostly teenagers, ranging in age from 13 to 19. The others were aged 20, 22, 23, 31 and 32, according to police.\n\nAs of Monday afternoon, seven victims remained in hospital, including four who are in critical condition.\n\nHospital officials said they worked under stressful circumstances with the assailants still at large to treat 19 patients, many of whom were minors and critically injured.\n\nBaltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said his office was dedicating every resource possible to finding those responsible.\n\n\"We will not stop until we find you - and we will find you,\" he said. \"This was a reckless, cowardly act that happened here.\"\n\n\"I hope that with every single breath that you take that you think about the lives that you took and you think about the lives that you impacted here tonight,\" he said.\n\nMr Worley told reporters on Sunday that the block party - an annual community gathering known as \"Brooklyn Day\" - was \"unpermitted\", because police were not warned about it ahead of time.\n\nHe added that officials would examine what actions officers took once they found out about the gathering.\n\nWitnesses said hundreds of people were at the party when the shooting unfolded\n\nWitnesses at the scene said hundreds of people were at the party when the chaotic scene unfolded.\n\nDanny Gonzalez, 57, who is not related to the woman who died in the shooting, told the Washington Post that he heard gunshots from his home and saw young people running away.\n\n\"It was at least 40 or 50 rounds,\" he said, adding that he and his neighbours were no strangers to gunfire in the Maryland port city. \"It's just another killing weekend. This is Baltimore, Murderland.\"\n\nThere have been 140 homicides this year in Baltimore, according to the Baltimore Sun newspaper. In 2022, the city reported more than 300 killings for the eighth year in a row.\n\nLocal authorities said the shooting would result in long-lasting trauma for the community, while Mayor Scott called for stricter gun laws across the US.\n\n\"This is our longest standing public health challenge, and we need to focus on gun violence regardless of where it happens,\" he said on Monday.\n\nThe US has seen more than 330 mass shootings this year, according to the non-profit Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed.", "Strike action, like this one in 2019, could take place in September, according to Nipsa\n\nCivil servants in Northern Ireland feel so insulted and angry that they are considering a general strike over pay in September, the general secretary of the Nipsa trade union has said.\n\nCarmel Gates told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme a recent pay offer of £552 has left union members feeling \"very badly treated by a secretary of state\".\n\nShe said civil servants felt they needed to \"make a bigger noise\".\n\nSome are questioning their futures.\n\nNorthern Ireland's civil servants \"have been treated worse than any other public servants and yet they're the ones who are now carrying the can for all the extra work [Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris] has given Stormont departments,\" due to budget cuts, Ms Gates said.\n\nShe added: \"Unless there is additional funding, not just for the services but for the professionals and the people who work in them, then the services are going to suffer.\"\n\nMs Gates said cuts have already had a huge impact on services and that workers including teachers, health workers and civil servants are beginning to doubt whether they should remain in the public service.\n\n\"If you want to decent public services then you have to pay public servants a decent wage,\" she said.\n\nCarmel Gates says she has spoken to all of Northern Ireland's main political parties about the pay issue\n\nIn January, workers were offered a pay rise of £552, backdated to August 2022.\n\nIt is worth less than two percent to a typical member of staff.\n\nTrade unions had called for a rise in line with inflation, plus five percent, and thousands went on strike in April.\n\nMs Gates said there is currently no prospect of a better pay offer for staff.\n\n\"It [£552] amounts to seven or eight pounds a week - absolutely negligible in the overall scheme of things and how everything has increased,\" she said.\n\nShe added that civil servants in Great Britain who had already received a bigger pay offer than their Northern Ireland counterparts had been offered a compensatory payment of £1,500, but unions in Northern Ireland had been given no indication that extra payment will be forthcoming.\n\nAsked about plans for a general strike in the autumn, Ms Gates said: \"I believe that we need to take wider action to ensure the message gets across.\"\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Office said the UK government had no authority to negotiate pay in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The secretary of state's priority is to see the return of locally elected, accountable and effective devolved government, which is the best way for Northern Ireland to be governed,\" they added.", "A previous vote in 2017 did not back full independence for Orkney\n\nThe Orkney Islands could change their status in the UK or even become a self-governing territory of Norway under new proposals.\n\nA motion will go before the council next week to investigate \"alternative forms of governance\".\n\nCouncil leader James Stockan said Orkney does not get fair funding with its current relationship within the UK.\n\nHe wants to look at Crown Dependencies like the Channel Islands and overseas territories like the Falkland Islands.\n\nHe suggested another possible future could be like the Faroe Islands - which is a self-governing territory of Denmark.\n\nCouncillor Stockan told BBC Radio Scotland there were many areas where Orkney was being \"failed dreadfully\" by both the UK and Scottish governments.\n\nHe said: \"We are really struggling at the moment, we have to replace the whole ferry fleet which is older than the CalMac fleet.\n\n\"We are denied the things that other areas get like RET (Road Equivalent Tariff) for ferry fares.\n\n\"And the funding we get from the Scottish government is significantly less per head than Shetland and the Western Isles to run the same services - we can't go on as we are.\"\n\nCouncil leader James Stockan says Orkney does not get fair funding within the UK\n\nMr Stockan said an in-depth study of the finances had never been carried out.\n\n\"We know that we have contributed for the last 40 years through north sea oil, and the dividend we get back isn't sufficient to keep us going,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got a unique opportunity right at the heart of all the wind projects round our waters.\"\n\nMr Stockan is urging councillors to back his idea to find new ways for Orkney to get greater financial security and economic opportunities for Orcadians.\n\nOrkney Islands Council previously voted in 2017 to look at whether the islands could have greater autonomy.\n\nWhile they wanted to have a \"stronger voice\", they did not back full independence for Orkney.\n\nMr Stockan's motion also cites British Crown Dependencies Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man as potential models to follow.\n\nOrkney was held under Norwegian and Danish control until 1472\n\nBut he warns that a large amount of staff resource would be needed to investigate the options and consult the public.\n\n\"The council will decide whether it supports this motion and from there we will take our time, because we don't want to do this emotionally,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to look at all the practical implications and then we'll evaluate the results.\n\n\"We are looking for the very best position for future generations and our place in the world.\n\nMr Stockan also suggests that the council should investigate how Orkney could secure a \"Nordic connection\" with Denmark, Norway or Iceland.\n\nOrkney was previously held under Norwegian and Danish control until it became part of Scotland in 1472.\n\nThe islands were used as security for the wedding dowry of Margaret of Denmark, the future wife of King James III of Scotland.\n\nMr Stockan said: \"We were part of the Norse kingdom for much longer than we were part of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"On the street in Orkney people come up and say to me when are we going to pay back the dowry, when are we going back to Norway,\n\n\"There is a huge affinity and a huge deep cultural relationship there. This is exactly the moment to explore what is possible.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was providing £2.2bn to level up UK communities, including £50m to grow the economies of Scotland's Islands - including Orkney.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We will always be stronger together as one United Kingdom, and we have no plans to change the devolution settlement.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said in 2023-24 Orkney Islands Council would receive £89.7m to fund services, with an extra £4.6m from an increase in council tax by 10%.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said it was \"committed to supporting island communities\".\n\nThe motion will be discussed by Orkney Islands Council on Tuesday.\n\nAdditional reporting provided by Andrew Stewart at the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n• None Orkney steps up calls for more autonomy", "Emmanuel Macron has accused protesters of exploiting the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range.\n\nAt a crisis meeting, France's president said more officers would be deployed to contain the violence, but stopped short of declaring a state of emergency.\n\nHe urged parents to keep rioting children at home and social media platforms to remove certain content.\n\nFrance has been rocked by three nights of unrest after Nahel M, 17, was killed as he drove away from a traffic stop.\n\nMore than 915 arrests were made on Thursday night alone, officials said, and the government announced it would deploy 45,000 police officers in a bid to contain further violence.\n\nMr Macron said that about a third of those arrested for rioting were \"young, or very young\", with Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin later clarifying that some were as young as 13.\n\nImploring parents to take action, he said it was their \"responsibility\" to keep any child intending to protest \"at home\".\n\nMr Macron condemned the violence of the last three days \"with the greatest firmness\" and said Nahel's death had been used to justify acts of violence - calling it an \"unacceptable exploitation of the adolescent's death\".\n\nHe also urged social media companies such as TikTok and Snapchat to take down \"the most sensitive types of content\" that had been posted, and supply authorities with the names of people using their services to organise violence.\n\nA spokesperson for Snapchat said it had a \"zero tolerance\" for content that promoted violence and hatred, and would continue to monitor the situation closely.\n\nFrom Lille and Roubaix in the north to Marseille in the south, shops were ransacked across France on Thursday night, streets were badly damaged and cars set on fire. The interior ministry said there had been more than 3,880 fires on public roads, compared with 2,391 on Wednesday.\n\nPolice in Marseille, France's second-largest city, had already arrested 80 people by Friday evening. It followed more clashes between protesters and riot police.\n\nPublic transport halted early in some places and curfews were enforced, with a nationwide curb on buses and trams running from 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT).\n\nThe damage in cities such as Roubaix became apparent as night turned to day on Friday\n\nSome public events have also been cancelled, including two concerts by French pop star Mylène Farmer, due to take place at the Stade de France just outside Paris on Friday and Saturday night.\n\nFrance's capital has been at the heart of the unrest because Nahel lived in Nanterre, a north-west Parisian suburb, and was killed there just after 09:00 on Tuesday.\n\nHe was shot after refusing to stop for a traffic check and died after emergency services attended the scene. A video, shared online in the hours following Nahel's death, showed two police officers trying to stop the vehicle and one pointing his weapon at the driver.\n\nThe officer who fired the fatal shot has since been charged with voluntary homicide and apologised to the family. His lawyer said he is devastated.\n\nNahel's death has reignited debate around the state of French policing, including a controversial 2017 firearms law which allows officers to shoot when a driver ignores an order to stop.\n\nMore widely, it has led to questions of racism in the force. The UN's human rights office said the unrest was a chance for France \"to address deep issues of racism in law enforcement\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA spokeswoman pointed to a recent report by the UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination, which last December expressed concern at aspects of French policing, including what the report suggested was the disproportionate use of identity checks and imposition of fines on specific ethnic groups.\n\nNahel's mother, Mounia, made her own accusations, saying the officer who shot her son \"didn't have to kill\" him.\n\n\"He saw the face of an Arab, of a little kid, he wanted to take his life,\" she told broadcaster France 5. Nahel was of Algerian descent.\n\nOn Thursday, Mounia led a largely peaceful march of more than 6,000 people in Nanterre. Wearing a white T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan \"Justice pour Nahel\" (\"Justice for Nahel\"), she said she hoped the tribute would be an opportunity for the community in and around Paris to remember her only child.\n\nBy late afternoon, the march had descended into violence, sparking the third night of unrest. Police fired tear gas at masked protesters who set fire to various objects, with people thought to have been out on the streets until the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nNahel's funeral is due to be held in Nanterre on Saturday morning.\n\nIn the UK, travellers have been warned to expect disruptions when trying to reach France over the weekend. The Foreign Office told people to \"monitor the media, avoid protests, check the latest advice with operators when travelling and follow the advice of the authorities\".", "Intense and widespread rioting has been taking place across France, following the shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop.\n\nVideo on social media showed the moment the police shooting of Nahel M took place, in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on 27 June.\n\nRiots erupted later that same day and have continued each day since, spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe officer involved has apologised to the family and been charged with voluntary homicide.", "Rail passengers are being warned of disruption for the next six days, due to an overtime ban by train drivers in the Aslef union.\n\nFifteen train companies based in England will be hit from Monday until Saturday, in the latest move in the long-running pay dispute.\n\nMany will reduce their service levels, and passengers are being advised to check before they travel.\n\nAslef said the latest pay offer was like a return to \"Victorian times\".\n\nStrikes by other rail workers in the RMT union are set to take place later this month, on 20, 22 and 29 July.\n\nMost train companies rely on drivers working overtime to run their full schedules.\n\nAmong the disruption expected this week:\n\nThe long-running pay dispute by train drivers centres around union members accepting a deal worth 4% two years in a row, bringing drivers' average pay to £65,000. This offer has already been rejected by Aslef.\n\nIt would have been contingent on changes to working practices, which the employers and government - who dictate what is under discussion in talks - say are needed to cut costs and modernise how the railway runs.\n\n\"They wanted to go back to Victorian times, in relation to how we roster, how we recruit, how we do things,\" Aslef general secretary Mr Whelan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"The word 'reform' is 'want productivity for nothing'.\"\n\nThe union argues members, who have not had a pay rise in four years, should not have to sacrifice working conditions in return for a below-inflation wage increase.\n\nLast month, Aslef members at 10 operators backed further strike action, meaning it could last for another six months if there is no settlement.\n\nMr Whelan said the situation was a \"Westminster ideological problem\" and claimed the union did not have issues in Scotland, Wales, with freight, the London Underground, Crossrail or Eurostar.\n\n\"We did 14 pay deals in the last 12 months. The only place we can't get a pay deal is with the Westminster government,\" he added.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said Aslef had rejected a \"fair and affordable offer\" without putting it to its members. \"We ask Aslef to recognise the very real financial challenge the industry is facing and work with us to deliver a better, more reliable railway with a strong long-term future,\" it added.\n\nAslef does not have any further strikes planned at present but said more dates could \"quite possibly\" be added soon.\n\nMeanwhile, workers such as train guards in the RMT union are expected to walk out later this month in their dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions.\n\nThe strike action has now lasted over a year. With no resolution in sight, the train companies are preparing to move ahead with plans to close hundreds of ticket offices.\n\nThe RDG said only 12% of tickets were now sold at station kiosks.\n\nIts spokesperson said under proposed changes staff would be moved on to concourses to help and advise more customers. They added that employees and the public would be consulted about any changes.\n\nBut RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said last week his union would not \"meekly sit by and allow thousands of jobs to be sacrificed or see disabled and vulnerable passengers left unable to use the railways as a result\".\n\nThe union suggested it could take further industrial action over the issue.", "William J Burns said the failure of the Ukraine war risked undermining Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia\n\nThe Ukraine war is having a \"corrosive\" effect on Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia, according to the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).\n\nRussian disaffection over the war is providing new opportunities for the CIA to collect intelligence, the agency's Director William J Burns said.\n\nAmerica's top spy made the comments while delivering the annual lecture at the Ditchley Foundation in the UK.\n\nHe was speaking a week after the mutiny by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\nMr Burns said everyone had been \"riveted\" by the scenes last Saturday of Prigozhin's \"armed challenge\" to Moscow, when his Wagner mercenary forces marched towards Russia's capital.\n\nPrigozhin's actions were \"a vivid reminder of the corrosive effect of Putin's war on his own society and his own regime\", he said.\n\nThe CIA director said the impact not just of Prigozhin's actions but also his statements - which included an indictment of both the rationale and execution of Russia's invasion - would play out for some time.\n\n\"Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership,\" Mr Burns said in his prepared remarks.\n\n\"That disaffection creates a once in a generation opportunity for us at CIA,\" referring to the role of the agency in recruiting human agents to provide intelligence.\n\n\"We are not letting it go to waste,\" he said to laughter from the audience. \"We are very much open for business.\"\n\nThe CIA has recently launched a new social media campaign to try and reach people in Russia, including a video posted to the Telegram social media site, which is widely used by Russians. The campaign provided instructions on how to contact the CIA on the dark web without being monitored.\n\nThis video gained 2.5 million views in the first week.\n\nDirector Burns also reiterated the message other US officials have previously made in public that the US had no part in Prigozhin's mutiny.\n\nHe did not directly address recent reports in the Washington Post that he made a secret visit to the Ukrainian capital before the mutiny.\n\nIt was reported that discussions included the possibility that progress in Ukraine's counter-offensive might open the way for negotiations from a position of greater strength if substantial territory was taken.\n\nMr Burns - who previously served as the US Ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008 - said spending much of the last two decades trying to understand Russian President Putin had given him a \"healthy dose of humility about pontificating about Putin and Russia\".\n\nBut he added that one thing that he had learnt was that it was always a mistake to underestimate Mr Putin's fixation on controlling Ukraine.\n\nThe Russian leader believed that without Ukraine, Russia could not be a major power and Mr Putin himself could not be a great leader, he said.\n\n\"That tragic and brutish fixation has already brought shame to Russia and exposed its weaknesses,\" Mr Burns said.\n\n\"Putin's war has already been a strategic failure for Russia: its military weaknesses laid bare, its economy badly damaged for years to come, its future as a junior partner and economic colony of China being shaped by Putin's mistakes.\"\n\nTurning to China, the CIA boss said it would be foolish for the US to attempt to decouple because of the deep economic interdependence between the two countries.\n\n\"China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and increasingly the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do so,\" he said.\n\nThe US should instead \"sensibly de-risk and diversify by securing resilient supply chains, protecting our technological edge and investing in industrial capacity\", he added.", "This week, scientists published evidence that supermassive black holes send shockwaves which distort space and time as they orbit each other.\n\nOne of the groups that made the discovery is the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOgrav) Collaboration, which is chaired by Northern Ireland native Dr Stephen Taylor.\n\nThe 35-year-old credits his love of all things space-related with seeing a partial solar eclipse during the summer of 1999, which also happened to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the first moon landing.\n\n\"The combination of those things and us learning about it at school - it just really sparked my imagination,\" Dr Taylor said.\n\nHe continued his education at Wallace High School in his home town of Lisburn and his passion for science, he says, never left him.\n\n\"I was always fascinated by it and that really played a big role in what subjects I chose for GCSE and A-level,\" he said.\n\nArtist impression: Supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies spiral in on each other, sending gravitational shock waves across the Universe\n\nWhile studying for his A-level's, Dr Taylor went for work experience at a laser laboratory in Oxford.\n\nIt is there that he had a chance encounter with another Northern Ireland scientist whose work played a large role in his later research.\n\nWhile at Oxford, he had the opportunity to attend a talk by Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell who discovered pulsars while a grad student at Cambridge.\n\nPulsars are dead stars which rotate and send out bursts of radio signals at extremely precise intervals.\n\n\"She gave a fantastic talk and I went up afterwards spouting the popular science I had read, thinking I knew everything,\" he said.\n\n\"But she was just really nice and kind of humoured me, if I am honest.\"\n\nPulsars would then be measured by Dr Taylor and his team in this latest paper.\n\n\"I think it's really nice that Northern Irish people are on both ends of this - because I certainly didn't hear accents like mine giving these kind of science interviews or talks,\" he said.\n\nDr Taylor then went on to do his undergraduate degree at Oxford, followed by a PhD at Cambridge looking at gravitational waves.\n\n\"At the time the idea was still theoretical. There were mainstream projects such as Ligo\" - the US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory - \"but people were more focused on other aspects of physics.\n\n\"But my philosophy was, if I am going to do this I am going to enjoy it and this was what fascinated me most.\"\n\nThe first in his family to go to university, Dr Taylor said his parents always encouraged him to make choices that made him happy.\n\nFrom there, the \"Nasa-mad\" Dr Taylor had the opportunity to work at the space agency's jet propulsion laboratory before spending some time at the California Institute of Technology.\n\nThis led him to begin taking up leadership roles, chairing a working group looking at gravitational waves and getting a permanent position at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.\n\nHis team have been studying the signals which are emitted by pulsars and the affects of gravitational waves on their frequencies.\n\nDr Taylor described the radio beams from pulsars as being like light beams from a lighthouse. When the frequency at which they hit Earth changes, this shows gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein.\n\nHe said the most plausible cause of these waves is the orbit of supermassive black holes.\n\n\"We've seen loads of hints along the way but this is the first evidence in this kind of data set which is really exciting.\"\n\nDr Taylor said that, due to the frequencies, these black holes would be billions of times as massive as the sun and sit at the centres of galaxies.\n\n\"I never thought I would be involved in something like this. It was fun to be part of the physics and maths problems but I never thought it would get to this point,\" he said.\n\nDr Taylor said that the support of family, friends and his schools played a vital role.\n\n\"They never put up road blocks. I mean, if someone said they wanted to be a theoretical astrophysicist and try to make a big discovery, many would say, 'Catch yourself on'.\n\n\"But no-one ever really said that.\"\n\nBut it is not all plain sailing for people in Dr Taylor's field.\n\n\"It is not like in the movies, with a load of scientists around a computer saying, 'We got it; we're in'. There is no eureka moment.\n\n\"In this line of work it is a lot more about the small successes. The big breakthrough moments rarely happen and are often a long time coming.\"\n\nDr Taylor is looking forward to collaborating with similar projects around the world, combining their readings in order to learn more about these black holes and their gravitational affects.", "Water cremation is set to be made available for the first time in the UK.\n\nThe process, known as resomation, uses a mix of potassium hydroxide and water to break down human remains in what is billed as a more sustainable option.\n\nIt takes four hours - the bones remain, and are powdered then returned to loved ones in a similar way to ashes, in an urn.\n\nResomation is used in Canada, South Africa and many US states.\n\nIt will be the first alternative way to dispose of a body in the UK since the introduction of the Cremation Act in 1902 - and Co-op Funeralcare will be the first to offer it, starting later this year.\n\nThe British company Resomation, which supplies the equipment, claims the process produces a third less greenhouse gas than cremation and uses a seventh of the energy.\n\nAccording to the founder of the company, Sandy Sullivan, the liquid used in resomation is \"safely returned to the water cycle free from any traces of DNA\".\n\nAnti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu chose the process for his funeral arrangements in South Africa - he died in late 2021.\n\nGill Stewart, managing director of Co-op Funeralcare, said that \"land for burials is running out\", and that resomation could help the industry \"improve its carbon reduction targets and meet the capacity challenges of a growing population\".\n\nThe funeral provider anticipates that the cost of resomation will be similar to that of a traditional cremation.\n\nInitially, resomation will only be offered in certain locations - which are yet to be announced - with the intention of expanding it across the UK, the funeral chain said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Labour government would give £2,400 to teachers in the very early stages of their career in England to try to stop them leaving the profession.\n\nThe party says it would also make it compulsory for new teachers to have a formal teaching qualification or be working towards one - a requirement scrapped by the coalition in 2012.\n\nNearly one in five teachers who qualified in 2020 have since quit, according to government figures.\n\nTeacher vacancies have doubled in the last two years, according to the most recent official data for England, while more than 40,000 left their jobs in the last year.\n\nThe plans to improve retention rates, announced by Labour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson on Sunday, would see new incentive payments awarded once teachers had completed a training programme known as the Early Career Framework, which covers their first two years in the classroom.\n\nAppearing on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show, Ms Phillipson said she would introduce extra payments for teachers who have completed their first two years of the early careers framework - a package of training and support for newly qualified educators.\n\nShe told the the programme, payments to get teachers to stay in the profession will \"recognise\" their \"really important development and training\".\n\nMs Phillipson said she aims to \"reset the relationship\" between government and the profession.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg emphasised how previous governments have offered one-off payments and repeatedly asked the Labour MP how her new plans would make a difference.\n\nMs Philipson responded, saying, it is about \"respecting and valuing\" the profession.\n\n\"Teachers and school leaders want the status of teaching restored once more,\"she said.\n\nLabour says the payments would be funded by removing tax breaks for private schools.\n\nIt also said it would offer more professional development to teachers and merge the \"complex network\" of different funds that provide financial incentives to teachers into just one, which it says would make it easier to fill shortages in specific subjects or geographical areas.\n\nAdditional measures for all new teachers to have qualified teacher status would drive \"high and rising standards\" in England's schools, the party said.\n\nEducation is a devolved issue, which means the governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland set their own rules.\n\nThe current starting salary for qualified primary and secondary teachers in England is a minimum of £28,000 outside of London, rising to £34,502 in inner London.\n\nSince 2018, the government is already offering teachers in subjects hit by staffing shortages - Maths, chemistry, physics and languages - early-career payments of between £2,000 and £5,000 based on how long ago they completed their training. Teachers are eligible to apply for the payments from September 2023 and March 2024.\n\nAcademies and free schools in England have been able to recruit teachers without formal teaching qualifications since 2012, when the requirement was scrapped by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government.\n\nIt is unclear if the new policy would affect private schools, which are also able to recruit teachers without formal qualifications.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), welcomed Labour's plans but said the party could still do more.\n\n\"Schools are in the middle of a recruitment and retention crisis, so it is right that Labour should make this a high priority,\" he said.\n\n\"The ambition for every class to be taught by a qualified teacher is also welcome - every parent should be able to expect that their child is taught by someone with the requisite expertise.\n\n\"Plans to improve early career training and ongoing professional development are sensible but Labour will need to be prepared to go further if they are to begin to solve the current crisis.\n\n\"We know that issues such as uncompetitive pay and a punitive inspection system are key factors in pushing people out of the profession, and it is only by tackling these that we will see teaching and school leadership become an attractive proposition once again.\"\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Conservative Party said: \"We have seen yet more evidence this morning that Labour cannot be trusted on a word they say.\n\n\"Labour have flip-flopped so many times on education policy there is no guarantee they will actually stick to this latest announcement.\n\n\"Only the Conservatives are delivering on education and driving up literacy rates - putting parents and pupils first.\"", "The M6 was closed for most of the day after the tanker crash and spilled milk\n\nThe M6 was closed after a large quantity of milk spilled on to the carriageway when a tanker crashed.\n\nIt hit the central reservation while travelling north between junctions 31 and 32 near Preston at about 07:00 BST and then crashed through into the southbound carriageway.\n\nLancashire Police said the motorway was closed for \"most of the day\" after the spillage, but later reopened.\n\nThe male driver and woman passenger were injured and taken to hospital.\n\nA male driver and his female passenger were injured in the crash which caused a large milk spillage\n\nCh Insp Patrick Worden said emergency teams had need time to recover the tanker and \"due to the large scale milk and diesel spillage\", the motorway's surface had to be \"treated appropriately\".\n\nDrivers were advised to make plans for alternate routes while the closure was in place.\n\nA police representative said even though the road had reopened, traffic was \"expected to be slow moving and congested for some time so please avoid the area where possible\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Floral tributes could be seen outside the property as investigations continued on Sunday\n\nThe child who died in a house fire in Swansea was a three-year-old boy, police have said.\n\nEmergency services were sent to an address on Gonhill in the West Cross area at about 13:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nThree people were taken to the city's Morriston Hospital where a 51-year-old man remains in a serious condition.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a girl, 13, and a woman, 39, suffered smoke inhalation and added that its investigation into the incident was ongoing.\n\nSiany Martin, whose home overlooks the house, described the people living there as a \"beautiful family\" who are \"loved by everyone\".\n\n\"All of us, the community, we're just praying for them we just want them to know that we're here. We're just sending our love to them,\" she said.\n\nFloral tributes and a teddy bear have been laid near the scene of the fire\n\nMs Martin said she heard a bang shortly after 13:00 BST, about five minutes after she had returned inside from watching planes fly over as part of the Swansea Air Show.\n\n\"I thought it was part of the air show, and then just heard screaming,\" she said.\n\n\"After that it's kind of a blur, just black smoke coming out, people running everywhere trying to do something.\"\n\nNeighbour Siany Martin said she heard \"screaming\" coming from the house\n\nThe exact circumstances of the fire, which was contained to one house, were not yet know, South Wales Police said.\n\nDet Insp Carl Price said: \"Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of the young boy who sadly died at a house fire in West Cross, Swansea.\"\n\nHe thanked members of the community who helped at the scene and those who came forward with information.\n\nA child has died and a man is in a serious condition in hospital\n\nSwansea council leader Rob Stewart described what happened as \"tragic\".\n\n\"Our thoughts, condolences and sympathies are with the family and friends at this very difficult time,\" he said on Facebook, adding that the council would \"assist and support\" those affected by the fire.\n\nCouncillor Rebecca Fogarty, who represents West Cross, said the community was in mourning.\n\nShe said: \"It's absolutely devastating news. It's everybody's worst nightmare, isn't it?\n\n\"The loss of a child - I cannot express more sincerely my sympathy for the family, for the friends and for the neighbours.\"\n\nAn online page set up to raise money for those affected has raised more than £13,000.\n\nGas network Wales and West Utilities said it was not called to the property following the fire.", "The privacy trial brought by Prince Harry (left) and others did not hear from former Mirror boss Piers Morgan (right)\n\nThe seven-week trial into allegations of phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers journalists has come to an end. Is the evidence against the tabloid stacking up?\n\nAt times during the hacking court case it seemed as though we had travelled back in time, to the days before social media, when people got their news from pages of ink, printed on actual paper.\n\nBack to the 1990s and 2000s, when stories about Prince Harry - barely out of school and falling for his first girlfriends - could fill newspapers day after day.\n\nThe tabloids were also fascinated by soap stars. Two Coronation Street actors were claimants in this trial. Michael Turner played mechanic Kevin, and Nikki Sanderson, hairdresser Candice.\n\nThe fourth claimant was Fiona Wightman, dragged into the red-tops by her marriage to Paul Whitehouse, whose TV comedy sketches on The Fast Show had catapulted him to fame in the 90s.\n\nActors Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell (left), and Nikki Sanderson (right) were also claimants\n\nWhat became clear during the trial was Mirror journalists didn't just make up their stories as many critics of the tabloids might believe. They pursued accurate reporting of celebrity secrets as vigorously as another journalist might investigate a corrupt politician.\n\nBut their most precious commodity was sensitive personal information, some of it obtained illicitly from phone hacking. This is no longer disputed by the newspapers, because this trial was not the first.\n\nIn 2015, the publisher of the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People (now known as Reach PLC) admitted journalists used phone hacking and other unlawful methods during a previous landmark case, brought by another Coronation Street actor, Shobna Gulati and others.\n\nThe High Court judge, Mr Justice Mann, ruled that for seven years, from 1999, there had been \"widespread, institutionalised and long-standing\" phone hacking at the newspapers and editors knew - in particular, the editor of the Sunday Mirror, Tina Weaver. The publisher apologised.\n\nTina Weaver, who led the Sunday Mirror for 11 years, gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics in 2012\n\nIn the latest trial, which concluded on Friday, the claimants were trying to expand the legal action to more potential victims, and prove the scandal reached the top of Mirror Group - to its board and its lawyers. If Mr Justice Fancourt finds they knew - and did nothing - the company could be hit with massive bills for compensation.\n\nDuring this trial, the claimants attempted to make a new case against Piers Morgan, the television presenter who was Mirror editor between 1995 and 2004, who had emerged largely unscathed from the 2015 trial.\n\nThey brought together a series of incidents, which they said suggested he knew quite a lot about phone hacking and blagging - the reckless obtaining of personal information such as addresses, phone bills or bank statements - in the hope of creating an unbreakable thread of evidence.\n\nThere was the lunch where Mr Morgan urged a phone company executive to tell his customers they should change the PIN numbers on their mobiles, because journalists could listen to their voicemail messages.\n\nThere was the former intern who told the court he overheard a journalist reassuring Mr Morgan that a story about the singer Kylie Minogue was accurate because it had come from her voicemails.\n\nA former Guardian journalist who said in a statement that Mr Morgan had explained to him most people didn't change the default access code for their voicemails, so they were easy to guess.\n\nAnd the agent for TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson, who couldn't work out why Mr Morgan seemed to know so much about her client.\n\nBut neither side called Mr Morgan to the witness box to defend himself. In civil trials, witnesses only tend to be called if they can help one side or the other. The Mirror Group argued Mr Morgan's appearance would have been an \"unnecessary distraction\" from the issues the judge has to decide.\n\nRemember, a key question was what executives knew. Piers Morgan was not on the board of Mirror Group Newspapers, the company said, and only attended two meetings over nine years.\n\nBut towards the end of the hearings, the judge put Mr Morgan at the top of a list of 29 journalists who hadn't come to court and perhaps \"could and should\" have given evidence.\n\nAfter all, Mr Justice Fancourt pointed out, the former editor had been happy to talk about phone hacking outside court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"I've never hacked a phone, I wouldn't even know how\" - Piers Morgan (interview filmed in March 2023)\n\nMr Morgan recently told the BBC: \"I never hacked a phone. I wouldn't even know how. I never told anybody to hack a phone.\"\n\nHe also insisted he didn't know phone hacking was going on, but also that he couldn't be sure stories hadn't been published which used unlawful methods.\n\nBut will the judge \"draw an inference\" that Mr Morgan not giving evidence suggests he was involved? He could decide he doesn't have to make any ruling at all about the former editor.\n\nSo what else did we learn? The trial lifted the lid on a network of private investigators, or PIs, who specialised in feeding personal information to the tabloids.\n\nFor the first time, a handful appeared in court. Ageing veterans of the information trade, sometimes scoffing at the questions they faced, sometimes confused by them.\n\nBetween 1996 and 2011 the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People spent at least £9m in payments to PIs. We heard that reporters on the Mirror papers regularly subcontracted the process of obtaining information to these PIs.\n\nA reporter might get one to find an address and phone number from credit reference agencies, or from the Electoral Roll, potentially breaching data protection laws.\n\nIt was claimed journalists might use these details to hack a celebrity's phone themselves, or pass them onto another specialist investigator, who would in turn know the right \"blagger\" able to get more information.\n\nThere were people who would pose as bank customers to get financial records, or NHS staff to obtain someone's medical status. Some were experts at digging through credit records, others at digging through rubbish. Literally, the contents of celebrity bins.\n\nThe information would then be passed back up the chain, and presented to the reporter. The claimants argued this would allow the journalist to say it had been provided by \"sources\", and to deny knowing it had potentially been obtained unlawfully.\n\nQuotes lifted from phone hacking would be written up as the words of anonymous \"insiders\" to disguise their source, the court heard.\n\nMirror Group's barrister, Andrew Green KC, accepted there were some investigators who broke the law - \"rotters\" as he called them several times. But most of the time they were using legitimate databases, he said.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex gave evidence in the hacking trial in June\n\nThe three alleged victims of \"unlawful information gathering\" were chosen as test cases. Prince Harry picked himself as the fourth by simply refusing to settle with the Mirror.\n\nTheir time in the witness box was mainly spent defending their cases against Mr Green. He tried to get them to accept that the stories the newspapers published about them must have come from publicly available sources, from friends, \"insiders\", other newspapers or even interviews they had willingly given.\n\nHe argued the four cases had been \"wildly overstated\" and, in the case of Prince Harry, it was \"entirely speculative\". Unlike the 2015 case, Mr Green added, there was very little evidence phones were hacked or that information was unlawfully obtained.\n\nPrince Harry's approach in the witness box was to suppress his anger and suggest it was for the journalists to explain how they got their stories about him.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyer says newspaper coverage of his client and ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy meant \"they were never alone\"\n\nAt the time, he didn't read all 33 articles in his case but said \"every single article has caused me distress\" - saying they tainted his relationship with friends he suspected might be leaking information.\n\nThe stories about him were so accurate he was \"incredibly suspicious\" they had been sourced illegitimately, especially by phone hacking. He was unable to say which voicemails had been accessed. It was all a very long time ago.\n\nThe emotional damage done by tabloid reporting became clear when Fiona Wightman entered the witness box.\n\nIn 2000, her split from comedian Paul Whitehouse and her cancer diagnosis were both of interest to the Mirror newspapers, which, it is alleged, tried to use a \"blagger\" to check her medical condition.\n\nSometimes in tears, she told the court: \"I've had to discuss some of the most personal things I have had to go through. The most difficult times in my life.\"\n\nBeing involved in the case meant, she said, that \"ironically it can now be reported. At the time I chose not to discuss any of it.\"\n\nDon't expect a quick decision about these cases. It may be months before Mr Justice Fancourt gives a judgement and more than 100 potential claimants are waiting on his words.\n\nIt is now more than a decade since well-known people began to take on the newspapers they say have tormented their lives. Hundreds of victims have received damages in legal settlements and only MGN has been prepared to let the battle extend to a public trial.\n\nBut the case of Sussex v MGN is not going to be the last trial. Next year, actor Hugh Grant will take on the publisher of the Sun newspaper. Prince Harry may join him. Round two for the Duke.\n\nAnd an even more aggressive legal battle is on the horizon.\n\nAssociated Newspapers, whose top selling title is the Daily Mail, is gearing up to fight off new allegations made by Elton John, Doreen Lawrence - mother of murdered Stephen - and, of course, Prince Harry. They include the use of phone-tapping and bugs.\n\nThe publisher has denied any involvement in what have become known as \"the dark arts\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with comprehensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website, BBC Sport mobile app and Red Button.\n\nNick Kyrgios has withdrawn from Wimbledon 2023 with a wrist injury.\n\nThe Australian, 28, lost to Novak Djokovic in last year's men's singles final and has only played one tournament this year because of a knee injury that required surgery.\n\nKyrgios announced on Sunday evening that he had torn a ligament in his wrist during his comeback.\n\n\"I'm really sad to say that I have to withdraw from Wimbledon this year,\" he posted on Instagram.\n\n\"I tried my hardest to be ready after my surgery and to be able to step on the Wimbledon courts again.\n\n\"During my comeback, I experienced some pain in my wrist during the week of Mallorca.\n\n\"As a precaution I had it scanned and it came back showing a torn ligament in my wrist.\n\n\"I tried everything to be able to play and I am disappointed to say that I just didn't have enough time to manage it before Wimbledon.\"I'll be back and, as always, I appreciate the support from all my fans.\"\n\nKyrgios was seeded 30th in SW19 and was set to face Belgian David Goffin in the opening round.\n\nWimbledon responded to Kyrgios' withdrawal by wishing him a \"swift recovery\" on social media.\n\n\"Sorry to hear your news Nick Kyrgios. Wishing you a swift recovery and hope to see you back on our courts next year,\" Wimbledon tweeted.\n• None Who's playing who? Details of the Wimbledon draw\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nThe start of an injury-hit season saw Kyrgios pull out of the Australian Open in January, a decision made on the eve of the tournament that left him \"devastated\".\n\nSurgery on a cyst growing in his meniscus quickly followed and he was not able to return to competitive action until June.\n\nKyrgios suffered a first-round loss to China's Wu Yibing at the Stuttgart Open, struggling with his movement during a straight-set defeat, then pulled out of the Halle Open the following week.\n\nHe had been practising at the All England Club this week, saying his body felt \"OK\" after sets against fellow Australian Jordan Thompson and American Maxime Cressy.\n\nKyrgios, known for his fiery temperament as well as his exciting tennis, reached his maiden major final at Wimbledon last year. He took the opening set before losing in four sets to Novak Djokovic.\n\nBritain's Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram, three-time major men's doubles champions, were due to face Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinaki in their opening doubles match.", "The Euclid telescope has successfully launched into space on a mission to understand some of the Universe's greatest mysteries.\n\nThe €1.4bn (£1.2bn) telescope was primed to go up on a Falcon-9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday.\n\nEuclid's goal is to make an immense 3D map of the cosmos in a bid to better understand so-called dark matter and dark energy.\n\nResearchers know virtually nothing about these phenomena, which appear to control the structure and expansion of the cosmos.\n\nAlthough primarily a European Space Agency project, the mission also has significant scientific and engineering inputs from the US space agency Nasa.\n\nEuclid will carry out its work from an observing position on the opposite side of our planet to the Sun.", "A video still from the fatal Paris traffic stop shooting\n\nProsecutors have begun piecing together what happened before the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M by a police officer.\n\nThe officer has been charged with homicide and remains in custody.\n\nIn their outline of events after questioning eyewitnesses and reviewing CCTV footage, prosecutors say the teenage driver had already ignored a police demand to stop, when officers caught up with the car and drew their weapons.\n\nMeanwhile an account has been posted online by one of the passengers, which French media say they have verified but the BBC has not.\n\nIn this account the passenger, also a teenager, says the officers hit Nahel M with the butts of their guns three times, causing him to take his foot off the brake of the car.\n\nProsecutors are due to talk to this witness on Monday.\n\nAround 08:00 on Tuesday, two policemen on motorcycles spotted a Mercedes with a Polish number plate driving fast in a bus lane, Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache told journalists.\n\nTurning on their siren, the officers caught up with the car at a traffic light. Three young men were inside.\n\nThe officers told the driver to stop but the vehicle pulled away, ignoring the red light. The officers gave chase and notified their unit by radio.\n\nAt 08:16, the Mercedes stopped in heavy traffic. Both officers got off their motorcycles, drew their weapons and approached the car.\n\nThey later told prosecutors that they pointed their guns at the driver to \"deter him from driving away again\".\n\nThey asked the driver to turn off the ignition, but the car moved forward. One of the officers fired, fatally wounding the young man in the chest.\n\nAfter the car ran into a roadside barrier, one of the passengers was arrested and the other fled on foot.\n\nThe passenger says the three friends were driving around Nanterre when the car strayed into the bus lane and was chased by two policemen on motorcycles.\n\nAfter Nahel stopped the car, the young man says in his video and in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper, one of the officers hit the teenage driver with the butt of his gun.\n\nHe alleges that the second policeman also struck Nahel before the first officer again hit him.\n\nHe told Le Parisien that the blows left Nahel M \"a little stunned\".\n\nThe third blow, according to this account, caused Nahel to take his foot off the brake and the vehicle to move forward. After the officer fired, Nahel M slumped forward and his foot pressed on the accelerator, the passenger said.\n\nWhen the car came a standstill, the passenger said, he decided to flee because he was afraid he would be shot too.\n\nQuestions have been asked about the car, a Mercedes A class AMG. Officials describe it as a rented vehicle.\n\nThe passenger who fled said that someone had lent it to the three youths, without giving any details.\n\nAccording to the French motoring website Autoplus, German sportscars with Polish number plates can be hired for €300-3,000 (£260-2,600) a day.\n\nThis type of short rental is popular with young men in French housing estates, Autoplus says.\n\nNahel M did not have a criminal record but was known to police.\n\nHe had previously been cited for driving without a licence - he was too young to have one - and for refusing to comply with an order to stop.\n\nHe was due to appear before a juvenile court in September.", "A mayor of a small Mexican town has wed a caiman bride in an age-old ritual for prosperity. He could be seen kissing the reptile, whose snout had been tied shut.\n\nThe seven-year-old caiman, nicknamed 'little princess', is thought to represent a deity linked with mother earth. Her marriage to the local leader symbolises the joining of humans with the divine.\n\nThe tradition likely dates back centuries to Oaxaca state's Chontal and Huave indigenous communities. \"It is the union of two cultures. The union of the Huaves and the Chontales,\" Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa told reporters.", "One of the UK's largest private pension funds has backed Thames Water to turnaround its finances and performance after fears the firm could collapse.\n\nUniversities Superannuation Scheme (USS), a major investor in the water firm, is the first to publicly support it as it looks to secure extra funding.\n\nThames Water is billions of pounds in debt and there have been calls for it to be nationalised.\n\nUSS said the firm \"could benefit\" from having it among its shareholders.\n\n\"We know that leakage and sewage remain major issues, but we also know there are no quick fixes where a complex network of pipes stretching for miles - some of which have been in the ground for 150 years - need to be replaced,\" said USS group chief executive Bill Galvin.\n\nMr Galvin added improvements would \"take time\" and added \"significant investment is needed\".\n\nThames Water, which serves a quarter of the UK population, has faced heavy criticism over its performance in recent years due to sewage discharges and leaks. The company leaks more water than any other water company in UK, losing the equivalent of up to 250 Olympic size swimming pools every day from its pipes.\n\nIts chief executive, Sarah Bentley, resigned last week, weeks after she was asked to forgo her bonus over the company's handling of sewage spills.\n\nThames Water is a private company, owned by a group of investors, with the largest being the Canadian pension fund, OMERS, with 31.8%.\n\nOMERS has declined to comment on the water firm's current situation, but USS, a pension fund for UK academics and the second biggest investor with a 19.7% stake, is the first to announce its support.\n\n\"We have given our backing to Thames Water's turnaround plan and Net Zero roadmap and engage with them regularly to support their long-term strategy,\" Mr Galvin said in note to staff, which was first reported by the Financial Times.\n\n\"We remain of the view that, with an appropriate regulatory environment, the long-term objective of repairing important UK infrastructure and paying pensions to our members are in strong alignment.\"\n\nThames Water said last week that it was trying to raise the cash it needs to improve.\n\nIt said it was keeping water regulator Ofwat informed on progress, and that it still had \"strong\" cash and borrowing reserves to draw on.\n\nThe government has said it was ready to act in a worst case scenario if Thames Water collapsed.\n\nRegardless of what happens, water supplies will continue as normal to customers.\n\nLast year Thames Water's owners - including USS - pumped £500m into the business and pledged a further £1bn to help it to improve.\n\nBut the company is understood to be struggling to raise the remaining cash which it needs to service its substantial debt pile, which is around £14bn. Interest payments on more than half of its debt are linked to the rate of inflation, which has soared over the last year.\n\nOther water firms are also facing similar pressures due to higher interest payments on their debts and rising costs including higher energy and chemical prices.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Duwayne Brooks \"certain\" he could have identified sixth murder suspect\n\nStephen Lawrence's friend has said he could have identified a sixth suspect in his friend's murder if he had been given the opportunity.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Duwayne Brooks said he would have picked out Matthew White, who died in 2021, in a line-up.\n\nOn Monday, White was named as the sixth suspect in the racist killing 30 years ago, following a BBC investigation.\n\nStephen, 18, was killed in Eltham, south-east London in April 1993.\n\nMr Brooks was waiting for a bus with Stephen at the time.\n\nThe failure of the first police investigation prompted a landmark public inquiry which concluded the Met was institutionally racist.\n\nAsked whether pictures of White broadcast by the BBC investigation were of the same person he had described to police, Mr Brooks said: \"100%. Not only did I describe him as best I could, you had other witnesses at the bus stop who also described him.\"\n\n\"I am 100% certain that if that person was put before me, and the other witnesses, in the initial stages of the investigations on an ID parade, we all would have picked him out.\"\n\nIn 1993, Mr Brooks and eyewitness described an attacker who bore a plain resemblance to Matthew White, but police did not treat White as a suspect for years.\n\nThe BBC investigation included statements and artists' impressions from the time.\n\nMr Brooks said it would now be \"impossible\" to remember what the attacker looked like from memory, but \"there is no doubt in my mind, from what I described, from those drawings, what you can see from the other witnesses, that that is the person who was there. At the scene, on the night.\"\n\nAn artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\", Matthew White and a police e-fit\n\nHe said the way his evidence was dealt with in 1993 involved \"corruption\" and \"decisions made back then were a deliberate act of sabotage\".\n\nWhen approached for comment the Met said it would not be issuing a new statement.\n\nMr Brooks originally spoke to the Sunday Mirror, before being interviewed by the BBC.\n\nThe Met Police has consistently said there were six white men involved, as Mr Brooks said on the night.\n\nFive prime suspects became widely known after the murder, but the public inquiry said there were \"five or six\" attackers.\n\nDavid Norris and Gary Dobson were given life sentences for the murder in 2012. The other three - Luke Knight and brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt - have not been convicted of the crime.\n\nWhite was arrested twice, in 2000 and 2013, and files were sent to the Crown Prosecution Service in 2005 and 2014. But on both occasions prosecutors said there was no realistic prospect of conviction.\n\nIn May and June 1993 Mr Brooks and eyewitnesses to the murder attended identity parades which included the prime suspects in the case, but Matthew White was not part of the parades.\n\nIn the same BBC interview, Mr Brooks said the criminal justice system doesn't work for victims \"at this moment in time\". He added that an apology from the Met would be a \"tick-boxing exercise\".\n\n\"The way I have been treated is a disgrace. My experience should never have happened.\"\n\nBaroness Doreen Lawrence, Stephen Lawrence's mother, has also criticised the police handling of information about a sixth suspect in her son's murder, saying there should be \"serious sanctions\" against the police officers who failed to investigate White.\n\nIn response to the naming of Matthew White as a suspect, the Met Police confirmed he was seen again in 2020, but there was insufficient witness or forensic evidence to progress further.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said: \"Unfortunately, too many mistakes were made in the initial investigation and the impact of them continues to be seen.\n\n\"On the 30th anniversary of Stephen's murder, Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologised for our failings and I repeat that apology today.\"", "Football clubs should think about the impact on fans when accepting sponsorships from gambling firms, the head of NHS England has said.\n\nAmanda Pritchard said the deals send a message to children that gambling was OK.\n\nHer comments came after the news that the NHS is nearly doubling the number of gambling addiction clinics to 15 after a record number of referrals.\n\nSome 1,389 patients were referred for gambling support in 2022-23.\n\nThis is up from 775 two years prior.\n\nSeven new facilities are to be opened this summer on top of the eight already open.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show, Ms Pritchard described severe gambling addiction as a \"cruel disease\" and a \"life destroyer\".\n\n\"It would be really great to see the gambling industry, and also organisations like football clubs, really think seriously about their responsibilities here,\" she said.\n\nShirt sponsorship deals mean \"that it's kids that are seeing every day now messages that say gambling is OK\", she says.\n\nShe also highlighted the fact people can bet every hour of the day on their mobile phones, leading to a \"really significant increase\" in demand for NHS gambling addiction services.\n\nIn a separate statement to announce the new clinics, Ms Pritchard said children and adults were being \"bombarded\" with gambling adverts.\n\nThe NHS announcement follows a coroner's verdict on Thursday that one betting firm could have done more to help a gambler who took his own life in 2021 after amassing huge debts.\n\nThe company in question, Betfair, said it had met all the regulatory standards which were in place at the time, but conceded in hindsight that it should have done more.\n\nMeanwhile, a campaign group this week urged the UK government to \"step in\" after three Premier League clubs announced new shirt sponsorship deals with betting firms.\n\nWhen the full set of 15 NHS facilities are open across England, the health service hopes to be able to treat 3,000 patients a year, using techniques such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).\n\nThe seven new clinics are in Blackpool, Bristol, Derby, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, and Thurrock in Essex.\n\nThese are in addition to others already running in London, Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent and Telford.\n\nAn eighth clinic in London exists to treat not only gambling but also gaming addiction in children and young people.\n\nPublic health minister Neil O'Brien said the government had set out plans to tackle gambling, including a commitment to introduce a statutory levy so gambling companies pay their \"fair share\" towards treatment services.\n\nThe publication of the government's white paper in April marked the biggest shake-up of regulation in the sector since the advent of the smartphone.\n\nAmong the measures proposed were a stake limit of £2 on online slot machines for young gamblers - but campaigners attacked a lack of action on adverts.\n\nThe new addiction facilities were described as \"heartening\" by the charity Gambling with Lives, whose strategy director Will Prochaska said the clinics \"couldn't come at a more pertinent moment, whilst gambling advertising lures more people into harm\".\n\nThe announcement was also welcomed by Matt Zarb-Cousin, the director of Clean Up Gambling, who said the current business model was built on \"harm\".\n\nThe Lib Dems said news of record addiction referrals showed the Conservatives were not doing enough to protect gamblers.\n\n\"Far too many people are suffering from gambling harms,\" said health spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP, accusing the government of \"dragging their feet\" on the issue.\n\n\"These new figures must be a wake-up call to ministers to stop dithering and act now, before more lives are ruined.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article you can visit the BBC's Action Line for information and support.", "Footage widely shared online shows police using tear gas against people in the city of Marseille, in southern France.\n\nThe video is from Saturday evening and shows clashes taking place on La Canebière, which is the city's main avenue.\n\nFrance has been rocked by five nights of unrest after police fatally shot a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent, Nahel, in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.", "A number of workers at the RNLI have raised some concerns about sexist and bigoted behaviour at the organisation.\n\nInternal surveys from 2021 and 2022 on the attitudes of staff and volunteers working at the UK lifeboat charity cite sexism and bullying.\n\nThe documents, first reported by the Times, have been seen by the BBC.\n\nThe RNLI told the BBC it was sorry to anyone who had faced \"behaviours and actions that no one should have to tolerate\" and \"will act\".\n\nThe organisation, which has more than 30,000 staff and volunteers, had about 3,600 survey responses over two years, mostly positive comments.\n\nBut the survey results show concerns also included \"blame\" culture, misogyny, being overworked, and a lack of space to openly call out inappropriate behaviour.\n\nIn the 2022 survey, one female respondent recounts being \"repeatedly\" called sexist terms by male colleagues.\n\n\"I have not once felt like the RNLI supports women or minorities,\" she said, adding that she would not recommend it \"as an employer to anybody\".\n\nA comment in the previous year's survey described the level of sexism at RNLI stations and around the coast as \"abhorrent\".\n\n\"I have never been at a station/around a branch and not heard an inappropriate comment or joke regarding race, sex or sexual orientation\".\n\nMatters reported to senior members were \"not dealt with effectively and timely,\" the person said, leading to some individuals getting away with \"disgraceful behaviour\".\n\nA respondent to the 2022 survey said their mental health has been affected by many factors, including a lack of holding people to account, being overworked and \"awful misogyny\".\n\nBullying was mentioned in a number of survey responses. There were no specific examples given but a respondent to the 2022 poll talked about experiencing a \"culture of bullying and harassment\".\n\nBut colleagues were praised for being \"caring\" by many survey respondents, and one comment says the RNLI is \"very inclusive of everyone and the relationships in the team make it a great place to work\".\n\nThe RNLI's Code of Conduct says volunteers must not \"participate in any form of inappropriate behaviour or activity\", including bullying, harassment or unlawful discrimination.\n\nSue Barnes, RNLI's People Director, said: \"We are sorry to our volunteers and staff who have faced behaviours and actions that no one should have to tolerate.\n\n\"There is no place for misogynistic, sexist, and non-inclusive behaviours at the RNLI and we are committed to taking action and tackling such behaviour.\"\n\nShe added that it has a \"range of methods\" members can use to report unacceptable behaviour, including a whistleblowing reporting line.\n\n\"We know we have more work to do to ensure we become the truly inclusive lifesaving charity we strive to be,\" she said.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Patients paying the price\" for strikes, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard says\n\nThe head of NHS England has warned that July's planned strikes in the health service could be the worst yet for patients.\n\nAmanda Pritchard said industrial action across the NHS had already caused \"significant\" disruption - and that patients were paying the price.\n\nThis month's consultant strike will bring a \"different level of challenge\" than previous strikes, she said.\n\nJunior doctors and consultants will strike for a combined seven days.\n\nMs Pritchard told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that the work of consultants - who are striking for the first time in a decade - cannot be covered \"in the same way\" as junior doctors.\n\n\"The hard truth is that it is patients that are paying the price for the fact that all sides have not yet managed to reach a resolution,\" she said.\n\nLast month, junior doctors in England voted for five days of strikes in mid-July - their longest strike yet.\n\nThey will walk out between Thursday 13 July and Tuesday 18 July after rejecting a government pay offer.\n\nA few days after that strike ends, on 20 and 21 July, hospital consultants in England will strike over pay.\n\nNegotiators for consultants and junior doctors have been asking for a 35% pay increase to make up for what they say are 15 years of below-inflation rises - a figure Health Secretary Steve Barclay called unaffordable.\n\nInstead, junior doctors have been offered a 5% rise this year, which was rejected, while there has been no offer so far for consultants.\n\nConsultants are also calling for reforms to the doctors' pay review body to ensure the issue is \"fixed for the future\". Mr Barclay told Laura Kuenssberg he is \"ready to have discussions\" on other issues, such as how consultants' pay progresses over time.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said he was prepared to negotiate with consultants\n\n\"There's things we're open to discussing, but we need to get the balance right,\" he said.\n\nThe health service has been plagued by strike action throughout this year, with doctors, nurses, ambulance workers, porters and others walking out in disputes, mainly over pay.\n\nA breakthrough came in May, when unions representing all NHS staff except doctors and dentists backed a deal to receive a 5% pay rise.\n\nHowever, junior doctors and hospital consultants have still not reached an agreement with the government.\n\nHealth is a devolved issue, meaning this only relates to the NHS in England.\n\nMs Pritchard acknowledged that it would be several years before the situation in the health sector returned to anything like good enough, and stressed that the service was doing all it could to bring waiting lists down.\n\nNHS England says more than 600,000 appointments have been cancelled in previous strikes. The ongoing failure of the government and some of the medical unions to find agreement is only going to crank the pressure up still further.\n\nMs Pritchard called for the industrial action to be brought to an end as soon as possible, saying it cannot become \"business as usual in the NHS\".\n\nShe also discussed NHS England's new 15-year workforce plan, which she introduced alongside Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier this week.\n\nThe NHS currently has one out of every 10 posts unfilled, creating major pressure on staff and leading to long waiting times for patients.\n\nThe new plan is focused on training and retaining more staff. Ms Pritchard said the plan is not an \"overnight\" fix , but that it is part of efforts to \"treat people as quickly as possible, without delay\".\n\nAlso on the show was former Conservative health minister Lord Bethell who described the current approach to treatment in the NHS as \"rationing\".\n\n\"If someone has a need for an operation and you simply don't have the resources to give them what they need then you are going beyond the important protocols of allocating scarce resources in the best way possible and you are being defined by the amount of resources that you have available,\" he said.\n\n\"I think that there is a difference between reasonable allocation of resources and making tough decision which is part of every day life, and having to cope with a system as overwhelmed with illness.\"", "Police cars were parked outside the temporary housing unit in Sidegate Lane on Friday\n\nA man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a two-year-old girl was found at a property, police have said.\n\nSuffolk Police said the toddler's remains were found at a temporary housing unit on Sidegate Lane in Ipswich at about 11:45 BST on Friday.\n\nThe force said a Bedfordshire man and a woman of no fixed abode, who are both 22, were arrested in Bury St Edmunds.\n\nA representative said the pair were \"known to the victim\".\n\nThey added that officers were \"not seeking any other suspects in connection with this case at this time\".\n\nAppealing for information, Supt Jane Topping said the force was \"still looking to establish the exact circumstances leading to the death of this child\".\n\n\"Clearly, such a discovery is extremely distressing for everyone concerned,\" she said.\n\n\"We'd ask people not to speculate on social media as to the identity of the child or to the circumstances surrounding her death.\"\n\nIpswich Borough Council, which operates the housing unit, has declined to comment\n\nShe added that a \"highly visible presence of officers\" would \"continue in the area for the next few days with reassurance patrols\".\n\n\"These officers are available to speak to concerned members of the community,\" she said.\n\n\"This is a fast-moving investigation and we are appealing to the local community for any information which may aid this investigation.\"\n\nIpswich Borough Council, which operates the housing unit, has declined to comment.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Attackers in France tried to set fire to the home of a suburban Paris mayor's home overnight and fired rockets at the official's fleeing wife and children.\n\nThe incident has caused widespread shock and is being treated as attempted murder. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne described it as intolerable.\n\nMayor Vincent Jeanbrun was not at home, but his wife suffered a broken leg and a child was also hurt.\n\nFrance has seen violent protests after police killed a teenager on Tuesday.\n\nThe suspects in the incident in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, south of Paris, have not been identified.\n\nMr Jeanbrun said he had been in his office overseeing the situation when the attack on his home occurred at 01:30 (23:30 GMT on Saturday).\n\nThe attackers used a car to ram through the gates of their home before setting the vehicle on fire so that the blaze would spread to the house, the mayor said in a statement.\n\nThen when his wife, Melanie Nowak, tried to flee with the children, aged five and seven, they were attacked with firework rockets.\n\n\"A line has been crossed,\" he said.\n\n\"If my priority today is to take care of my family, my determination to protect and serve the Republic is greater than before,\" he added.\n\nAttackers used a burning car to try to set Mayor Jeanbrun's home ablaze\n\nThe mayor, from the centre-right Les Republicains, has received widespread support from across the French political spectrum.\n\nThe public prosecutor's office has started an investigation for attempted murder.\n\nThe attack on Mayor Jeanbrun's home came during the fifth night of violent protests across France over the death of Nahel M, 17, who was shot by police at point-blank range during a traffic stop.\n\nAround 45,000 police were deployed in France on Saturday to control the protests and the interior ministry said Saturday night had been quieter, with fewer arrests overall.\n\nHowever there were more than 700 arrests across the country and more than 800 fires were lit by rioters during the course of the night, officials said.\n\nMr Jeanbrun had urged the French government earlier to impose a state of emergency in response to the riots, which President Emmanuel Macron has so far declined to do.\n\nThe French leader is due to meet with top officials later to discuss the crisis.", "Labour MP Jess Phillips is not racist, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson has said, following a social media row involving Ms Phillips and a prominent headteacher.\n\nKatharine Birbalsingh - from the Michaela Community School - has accused Ms Phillips of racism and bullying.\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Phillipson said Ms Birbalsingh should raise any concerns through a formal parliamentary process.\n\nMs Birbalsingh had already written to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThe Twitter row began after Ms Birbalsingh posted a picture in May of the late popstar Tina Turner alongside Ms Turner's abusive ex-husband, Ike Turner, with the caption: \"Good times.\"\n\nIn response, Ms Phillips, who is shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, wrote: \"Domestic abuse is never OK and we will defeat those who prop up the status quo.\"\n\nShortly afterwards Ms Birbalsingh deleted the tweet, then posted: \"To the lunatics accusing me of celebrating wife beating - I tweeted a gif with a number of photos of Tina.\n\n\"For some reason it rested on one photo which I didn't notice when I tweeted... nor did I know that was Ike.\"\n\nShe added that \"the explanation is not that I like wife beating\".\n\nLater that same day - 24 May - Ms Phillips wrote on Twitter: \"Seems that far from holding any kind of line that headteacher woman seems not to be able to take criticism of her actions. I'd be keen to hear of domestic abuse policies she has in her school or teaching plans, perhaps I'll write.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Ms Birbalsingh posted an open letter to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on her Twitter account, writing that Ms Phillips' behaviour was \"a clear example of 'unconscious bias'\".\n\nIn the four-page letter, she wrote that Ms Phillips \"hates me, despite not knowing me, because she subscribes to the idea that black and Asian individuals in public life owe a duty to voice opinions that match with a left wing view of the world, or they are worthy of her contempt\".\n\nMs Birbalsingh said that she was not suggesting Ms Phillips \"hates all people of colour\".\n\nShe added that Ms Phillips called into question her school's safeguarding policies \"in a deliberate attempt to challenge my competence as a headteacher\".\n\nShe said that after Ms Phillips' tweets, people contacted her institution saying it was \"unsafe for female teachers and pupils\". She said the Teaching Regulation Agency had been contacted with a demand that she be struck off.\n\nAsked on Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday show whether she thought Ms Phillips was racist, Ms Phillipson said: \"No, I don't. But I think it's important that, if people have concerns, if they're unhappy about the conduct of a member of parliament, that can be investigated as part of that process.\"\n\nMs Phillips did not refer to Ms Birbalsingh's ethnicity in any of her posts.\n\nMs Birbalsingh - dubbed Britain's strictest head teacher - attracted controversy during her time as the chair of the Social Mobility Commission between November 2021 and January 2023.\n\nShe came under fire last April for saying girls are less likely to choose physics A-level because it involves \"hard maths\" - later admitting her remarks had been \"clunky\".\n\nShe resigned as the government's top social mobility adviser in January saying that she was doing \"more harm than good\" in the role.\n\nMore recently, Ms Birbalsingh - who describes herself as a \"floating voter\" - spoke at the National Conservatism conference.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Ms Phillips for comment.", "Esther Wang disappeared on Tuesday at Golden Ears Park in the province of British Columbia\n\nA Canadian teenager has been found two days after she went missing in the wilderness of a vast provincial park.\n\nEsther Wang, 16, disappeared after she was separated from her hiking group in the 555sq km (214sq mile) Golden Ears Park in British Columbia.\n\nBut the teen emerged uninjured from a trail on her own on Thursday.\n\nPolice said Ms Wang was recovering with her family.\n\n\"She's healthy, she's happy, she is with family. That's the best possible outcome for us,\" Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt Wendy Mehat said in a statement.\n\n\"Esther's family has expressed sincere gratitude to all first responders and Search and Rescue groups,\" Supt Mehat added. \"They are very thankful for this outcome and request privacy at this time.\"\n\nOfficials said Ms Wang emerged from the East Canyon trail on which she had initially gone missing at around 21:30 local time on Thursday (04:30 GMT Friday).\n\nIt is unclear how she was separated from her group. Local media reported that the group left a lookout point around 14:45 on Tuesday, and realised that Ms Wang was not with them around 15 minutes later.\n\nThe group leader returned to the lookout but could not find her, and so raised the alarm. A search was launched soon after.\n\nMs Wang was checked by emergency services, who determined that she was unharmed during the ordeal - with the exception of some mosquito bites. She was then permitted to return home with her parents.\n\n\"We're elated at the outcome of the search and Esther being returned to her family is what our objective was,\" search and rescue spokesperson Ryan Smith said.\n\n\"We used as many resources as we could. I'd like to thank our partner organizations, the RCMP, other first responders, the helicopter companies that assisted us in this exhaustive search.\"", "Staff sickness in the NHS in England has reached record levels.\n\nFigures for 2022 show an absence rate - the proportion of days lost - of 5.6%, meaning the NHS lost the equivalent of nearly 75,000 staff to illness.\n\nThis is higher than during the peak pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 - and a 29% rise on the 2019 rate.\n\nMental health problems were the most common cause, responsible for nearly a quarter of absences, the Nuffield Trust analysis of official NHS data shows.\n\nBig rises were also seen in cold, coughs, infections and respiratory problems, likely to be linked to the continued circulation of Covid as well as the return of flu last year.\n\nThere were three categories covering these types of illnesses. If combined, they would be responsible for more sickness than mental health.\n\nThe think tank warned the NHS was stuck in a \"seemingly unsustainable cycle\" of increased work and burnout, which was contributing to staff leaving.\n\nThe analysis, exclusively for BBC News, comes ahead of the publication of the government and NHS England's long-awaited workforce plan.\n\nNuffield Trust senior fellow Dr Billy Palmer said: \"The health service is grappling with a difficult new normal when it comes to staff sickness leave.\n\n\"There has been a lot of focus on recruitment but we need more endeavour to improve the working conditions of existing staff and protect them from illness.\n\n\"The workforce plan needs to have concrete support to enable employers to improve NHS staff experience if the service is to break this cycle of staff absences, sickness and leaving rates.\"\n\nThe NHS sickness rate, the highest since records began, in 2010, is above the public sector average of 3.6%.\n\nThe Nuffield Trust warned it was likely to be an undercount of the true figure as not every absence would have been recorded.\n\nAnd while recording systems differed in Wales and Scotland, it was clear those nations were also seeing increased levels of sickness in the NHS.\n\nMiriam Deakin, of NHS Providers, which represents health managers, said the findings \"laid bare the psychological strain on staff\".\n\nShe said the absences came on top of 110,000 vacancies in the health service and warned the situation was having a \"knock-on effect on patient care\".\n\nUnison head of health Sara Gorton said the rise in illness was due to the \"unrelenting pressure\" on the NHS.\n\n\"Until the NHS has sufficient employees to care for and treat all the people needing its help, absence levels will keep going through the roof. If there's to be a healthy NHS, it first needs a healthy workforce.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said high rates of Covid at the start of 2022 would have had an influence on the figures.\n\n\"For those staff that need it the NHS provides physical and mental health support - including targeted psychological support and treatment,\" she added.\n\nDo you work for the NHS? Have you needed to take time off sick? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lord Kerslake, a former head of the Civil Service, has died at the age of 68.\n\nLord Kerslake, who had been diagnosed with cancer, died on Saturday, his sister and daughter announced on Twitter.\n\nHe led the Civil Service between January 2012 and September 2014, during David Cameron's coalition government.\n\nHe had recently been working with the Labour Party on its preparations for the next general election.\n\nBath-born Lord Kerslake started his career in local government with the Greater London Council, and was knighted in the 2005 New Year honours list for services to local government.\n\nAs Bob Kerslake, he served as chief executive of Sheffield City Council between 1997 and 2008, before heading to the Homes and Communities Agency.\n\nHe was permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2015 - he retained this role when he became the head of the Civil Service.\n\nHe left the Civil Service in 2015, he became chair of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and chair of the board of governors at Sheffield Hallam University.\n\nHe was also president of the Local Government Association from 2015 to 2021, and chaired the independent investigation into the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, which reported in 2018.\n\nHe was introduced as a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords in 2015.\n\nFollowing the news of his death, senior Labour figures paid tribute, including party leader Sir Keir Starmer, who described Lord Kerslake as a \"talented public servant, utmost professional, and a good man... rightly respected across Westminster for his experience and wisdom\".\n\nShadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy described him as \"an endless source of advice and encouragement,\" adding that his knowledge of both central and local government was \"unparalleled\".\n\nThe chairman of the FDA union, David Penman, said he was \"an engaging and committed leader of the Civil Service\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said Lord Kerslake's \"kindness and commitment to improving our city and country will always be remembered\".\n\nAs well as his political commitments, Lord Kerslake was the chair of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. The theatre group said they were \"deeply saddened\" by his death.\n\n\"Lord Kerslake guided the organisation with generosity, passion and kindness,\" the statement from the Crucible Theatre added, \"we are so grateful for his huge contribution to our theatres and our city\".", "The Nikolay Zubov LNG tanker, docking in the UK in 2021\n\nShell is still trading Russian gas more than a year after pledging to withdraw from the Russian energy market.\n\nThe company was involved in nearly 7% of Russia's shipborne gas exports in 2022, according to analysis from campaign group Global Witness.\n\nOleg Ustenko, an adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, accused Shell of accepting \"blood money\".\n\nShell said the trades were the result of \"long-term contractual commitments\" and do not violate laws or sanctions.\n\nAs recently as 9 May, a vast tanker capable of carrying more than 160,000 cubic metres of gas compressed into liquid form - liquefied natural gas or LNG - pulled out of the port of Sabetta, on the Yamal peninsula in Russia's far north.\n\nThat cargo was purchased by Shell before heading onwards to its ultimate destination, Hong Kong.\n\nIt is one of a number of LNG cargoes that Shell has bought from Yamal this year, according to data from the Kpler database analysed by Global Witness.\n\nLast year Shell accounted for 7% of Russia's seaborne LNG trade, Global Witness calculates, and was among the top eight traders of Russian-originated LNG that year.\n\nIn March 2022, in the weeks following the invasion of Ukraine, Shell apologised for buying a cargo of Russian oil, and said it intended to withdraw from Russian oil and gas.\n\nIt said that it would stop buying Russian oil, sell its service stations and other businesses in Russia,which it has done. It has also ended its joint ventures with the state energy giant Gazprom.\n\nAnd it said it would start a \"phased withdrawal from Russian petroleum products, pipeline gas and LNG\". But it warned that it would be a \"complex challenge\".\n\nShell said last year it would close all its service stations in Russia\n\nAt first, it kept taking cargoes of LNG from two Russian ports, the one at Yamal and one at Sakhalin in the far east.\n\nShell used to be a minority investor in the Sakhalin gas project, but abandoned that claim in September last year after the Russian government transferred its shares to a local business - and since then has taken no gas from Sakhalin.\n\nBut it still honours the contract with the Russian LNG company Novatek, which obliges it to buy 900,000 tonnes a year from Yamal until the 2030s, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nNovatek is Russia's second biggest gas company, and the taxes it pays are a significant contributor to the Russian government's budget.\n\nOleg Ustenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said: \"It is quite simple: by continuing to trade in Russian gas Shell is putting money into Putin's pockets and helping to fund Russia's brutal aggression against the people of Ukraine.\n\n\"The vast sums that Shell and the whole oil industry have made in Russia should be used to help fund the reconstruction of Ukraine, rather than lining the pockets of their shareholders.\"\n\nA spokesman for Shell said: \"Shell has stopped buying Russian LNG on the spot market, but still has some long-term contractual commitments. This is in full compliance with sanctions, applicable laws and regulations of the countries in which we operate.\n\n\"There is a dilemma between putting pressure on the Russian government over its atrocities in Ukraine and ensuring stable, secure energy supplies. It is for governments to decide on the incredibly difficult trade-offs that must be made.\"\n\nShell is the world's largest trader of LNG, which is not subject to European sanctions, making billions of dollars in profits trading oil and gas last year.\n\nRussia massively reduced its deliveries of gas by pipeline last year, but it has increased the amount of gas it supplies by ship, including to Europe.\n\nThe UK has not imported any Russian gas for over a year, while EU politicians are trying to reduce the amount of Russian LNG the bloc imports. In March, the EU's Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson called on countries and firms to stop buying Russian gas, and not to sign new contracts.\n\n\"It's long overdue that the trading of Russian LNG is looked at with the same disgust as Russian oil trading. Targeting Putin's energy income cannot be about symbolic measures but must concretely put a stop to the huge fossil fuel sums that cement his power,\" said Jonathan Noronha-Gant, senior campaigner at Global Witness.\n\nThe France-based energy company TotalEnergies is a minority shareholder in the Yamal project, and was also a major trader in Russian LNG, the Global Witness analysis reported.\n\nThe BBC has approached TotalEnergies for comment.\n\nUpdate 25 September 2023: Since this story was published, Kpler has updated its data and reduced its assessment of the number of cargoes of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) traded by Shell. Some trades were assigned a probability of Shell being involved by artificial intelligence, based on trading patterns prior to the invasion of Ukraine. Human analysts have subsequently determined that Shell was not involved. As a result of these changes, Global Witness revised downwards its assessment of the proportion of Russia's LNG traded by Shell, and its assessment of Shell's rank among companies trading Russian LNG. The text has been edited to reflect these changes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was speaking at an awards event\n\nA senior detective has said that children present when he was shot at a sports complex in Omagh in County Tyrone in February witnessed \"horrors that no child should ever have to\".\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell was speaking at the Sunday Life's Spirit of Northern Ireland Awards on Friday night.\n\nThe shooting happened in front of schoolchildren, including his son.\n\nReceiving a special award at the event he also praised the \"amazing\" medical staff who treated him.\n\n\"I am just sorry that these innocent children, including my own son, were subjected to such a harrowing ordeal,\" he said.\n\n\"I am so glad that my son and his friends were not injured, although I appreciate that any psychological trauma will take longer to recover from.\n\n\"We will get through it together,\" he added.\n\nThe shooting happened at a sports complex in Omagh\n\nHe also thanked those who helped him on the night he was targeted.\n\n\"To the brave people who ran to help me when I was shot - that took some guts as they were putting themselves in harm's way,\" he said.\n\n\"And thank you to the emergency services and the amazing medical staff who looked after me in many ways, for many months.\"\n\nIn a pre-recorded message played at the event, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the detective as \"a true hero of Northern Ireland\".\n\nMr Sunak visited him in hospital and met his family in April.\n\n\"When I visited him in his hospital bed, he was still thinking about the future of the society he loves,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nThe event was Mr Caldwell's second public appearance since he left hospital in April.\n\nIt is understood he had a private meeting with King Charles during the monarch's first official visit to Northern Ireland after the coronation.\n\nThe chief constable said the PSNI was proud of Det Ch Insp John Caldwell\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne also paid tribute to the senior officer.\n\nIn a recorded message, Mr Byrne said he was \"proud of his determination and stoicism\".\n\n\"As an organisation, we are so proud of what you have done and what you represent for us, both now and going forwards,\" he added.\n\nThe dissident republican group the New IRA said it carried out the shooting.\n\nSeven men have appeared in court charged in relation to the attack.\n\nThey were remanded in custody to appear before Omagh Magistrates' Court on 27 June.", "A statue of Hachiko has stood outside Shibuya station in Tokyo since 1948\n\nThe Chinese tagline on the movie poster says it all: \"I will wait for you, no matter how long it takes.\"\n\nIt tells the true story of Hachiko, the faithful dog that continued to wait for its master at a train station in Japan long after his death.\n\nThe cream white Akita Inu, born 100 years ago, has been memorialised in everything from books to movies to the cult science fiction sitcom Futurama. And the Chinese iteration - the third after a Japanese version in 1987, and the Richard Gere-starrer in 2009 - is a hit at the box office.\n\nThere have been tales of other devoted hounds such as Greyfriars Bobby, but none with the global impact of Hachiko.\n\nA bronze statue of him has stood outside Shibuya Station in Tokyo, where he waited in vain for a decade, since 1948. The statue was first erected in 1934 before being recycled for the war effort during World War Two. Japanese schoolchildren are taught the story of Chuken Hachiko - or loyal dog Hachiko - as an example of devotion and fidelity.\n\nHachiko represents the \"ideal Japanese citizen\" with his \"unquestioning devotion\", says Professor Christine Yano of the University of Hawaii - \"loyal, reliable, obedient to a master, understanding, without relying upon rationality, their place in the larger scheme of things\".\n\nHachiko was born in November 1923 in the city of Odate in Akita prefecture, the original home of Akitas.\n\nA large-sized Japanese dog, the Akita is one of the country's oldest and most popular breeds. Designated by the Japanese government as a national icon in 1931, they were once trained to hunt animals like wild boar and elk.\n\n\"Akita dogs are calm, sincere, intelligent, and brave [and] obedient to their masters,\" said Eietsu Sakuraba, author of an English language children's book about Hachiko. \"On the other hand, it also has a stubborn personality and is wary of anyone other than its master.\"\n\nThe year Hachiko was born, Hidesaburo Ueno, a renowned agricultural professor and a dog lover, asked a student to find him an Akita puppy.\n\nHachiko became nationally known in Japan after a newspaper article in 1932\n\nAfter a gruelling train journey, the puppy arrived at the Ueno residence in Shibuya district on 15 January 1924, where it was initially thought dead. According to Hachiko's biographer, Prof Mayumi Itoh, Ueno and his wife Yae nursed him back to health over the next six months.\n\nUeno named him Hachi, or eight in Japanese. Ko is an honorific bestowed by Ueno's students.\n\nUeno took a train to work several times a week. He was accompanied to Shibuya station by his three dogs, including Hachiko. The trio would then wait there for his return in the evening.\n\nOn 21 May 1925, Ueno, then 53, died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Hachiko had been with him for just 16 months.\n\n\"While people were attending the wake, Hachi smelled Dr Ueno from the house and went inside the living room. He crawled under the coffin and refused to move,\" writes Prof Itoh.\n\nHachiko spent the next few months with different families outside Shibuya but eventually, in the summer of 1925, he ended up with Ueno's gardener Kikusaburo Kobayashi.\n\nHaving returned to the area where his late master lived, Hachiko soon resumed his daily commute to the station, rain or shine.\n\n\"In the evening, Hachi stood on four legs at the ticket gate and looked at each passenger as if he were looking for someone,\" writes Prof Itoh. Station employees initially saw him as a nuisance. Yakitori vendors would pour water on him and little boys bullied and hit him.\n\nHowever, he gained nationwide fame after Japanese daily Tokyo Asahi Shimbun wrote about him in October 1932.\n\nThe station received donations of food for Hachiko each day, while visitors came from far and wide to see him. Poems and haikus were written about him. A fundraising event in 1934 to make a statue of him reportedly drew a crowd of 3,000.\n\nHachiko's eventual death on 8 March 1935 made the front page of many newspapers. At his funeral, Buddhist monks offered prayers for him and dignitaries read eulogies. Thousands visited his statue in the following days.\n\nHachiko's statue is a popular spot and often a place for political protests\n\nIn impoverished post-war Japan, a fundraising drive for a new statue of Hachiko even managed to raise 800,000 yen, an enormous sum at the time, worth about 4bn yen (£22m; $28m) today.\n\n\"In retrospect, I feel that he knew that Dr Ueno would not come back, but he kept waiting - Hachiko taught us the value of keeping faith in someone,\" wrote Takeshi Okamoto in a newspaper article in 1982. As a high school student, he had seen Hachiko at the station daily.\n\nEvery year on 8 April, a memorial service for Hachiko is held outside Shibuya Station. His statue is often decorated with scarves, Santa hats and, most recently, a surgical mask.\n\nHis mount is on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo. Some of his remains are interred at the Aoyama Cemetery, alongside Ueno and Yae. Statues of him have also been cast in Odate, Ueno's hometown Hisai, the University of Tokyo and Rhode Island, the American setting for the 2009 movie.\n\nOdate also has a series of events lined up this year for his 100th birthday.\n\nWill the world's most loyal dog still be celebrated a century from now? Prof Yano says yes because she believes the \"heroism of Hachiko\" is not defined by any particular period - rather it is timeless.\n\nMr Sakuraba is equally optimistic. \"Even 100 years from now, this unconditional, devoted love will remain unchanged, and the story of Hachiko will live on forever.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrance has seen a quieter night of protests over the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range, the interior minister says.\n\nThere were fewer arrests compared to previous nights - 719 - with the worst clashes in the southern city Marseille.\n\nIn the Paris suburb L'Haÿ-les-Roses, attackers rammed a car into the house of the mayor, injuring his wife as she tried to flee with their two children.\n\nFrench cities have seen unrest since the police shooting of a teenager.\n\nNahel M, 17, was shot during a traffic stop on Tuesday. Large crowds turned out for his funeral on Saturday.\n\nIn a tweet, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin praised law enforcement for their \"resolute action\" which had led to a \"calmer night\".\n\nAround 45,000 police were deployed across the country for a second night on Saturday.\n\nMore than 1,300 arrests were made on Friday night and more than 900 on Thursday.\n\nOfficials hope that a turning-point may have been reached - that rioters are losing energy thanks to the security crackdown and the massive unpopularity of their exactions.\n\nHowever, until more nights of quiet confirm the trend, no-one is assuming anything.\n\nIn Marseille, heavy clashes took place between police and rioters throughout Saturday evening.\n\nIn footage circulating online, police can be seen using tear gas against people in the city.\n\nThe video shows the clashes taking place on La Canebière, the main avenue in the heart of Marseille.\n\nFrench media report that fighting took place between a large group of rioters and officers.\n\nThere was a heavy police presence along the iconic Champs-Élysée in Paris\n\nIn Paris, large numbers of police were seen along the iconic Champs-Élysées avenue.\n\nThere had been calls on social media for protesters to gather there but the police presence seems to have kept most of them away.\n\nThe capital's police said they made 194 arrests. The Paris region stopped all buses and trams after 21:00 for a second night running.\n\nL'Haÿ-les-Roses Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun said his wife and one of his children had been injured when fleeing an attacker who had rammed his house with a car and then set the car on fire.\n\nHe called it \"a murder attempt of unspeakable cowardice\".\n\nIn the northern city of Lille, police special forces were seen on the streets. Images from the city overnight showed firefighters extinguishing blazes in cars that had been set alight by rioters.\n\nTwenty-one people were arrested in the city of Lyon. Clashes were also reported in Nice and Strasbourg.\n\nNahel's funeral service was held at the mosque in Nanterre earlier on Saturday.\n\nSupporters of the family told the news media to keep away. All filming - even on phones - was banned: \"No Snapchat, no Insta,\" mourners were told.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNahel was shot after refusing to stop for a traffic check and died after emergency services attended the scene. A video, shared online in the hours following Nahel's death, showed two police officers trying to stop the vehicle and one pointing his weapon at the driver.\n\nThe officer who fired the fatal shot has since been charged with voluntary homicide and apologised to the family. His lawyer said he was devastated.\n\nNahel's death has reignited debate around the state of French policing, including a controversial 2017 firearms law which allows officers to shoot when a driver ignores an order to stop.\n\nMore widely, it has led to questions of racism in the force. The UN's human rights office said the unrest was a chance for France \"to address deep issues of racism in law enforcement\".\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron condemned the violence on Friday \"with the greatest firmness\" and said Nahel's death had been used to justify acts of violence - calling it an \"unacceptable exploitation of the adolescent's death\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'They've taken my baby' - Mother of teen shot by police\n\nThe killing of Nahel M, 17, has sparked riots in cities across France as well as the town of Nanterre to the west of Paris where he grew up.\n\nAn only child brought up by his mother, he had been working as a takeaway delivery driver and played rugby league.\n\nHis education was described as chaotic. He was enrolled at a college in Suresnes not far from where he lived, to train to be an electrician.\n\nThose who knew Nahel, who was of Algerian descent, said he was well-loved in Nanterre where he lived with his mother Mounia and had apparently never known his father.\n\nHis record of attendance of college was poor. Nahel had been in trouble before and was known to police, but family lawyers stressed he had no criminal record.\n\nHe had given his mother a big kiss before she went to work, with the words \"I love you, Mum\".\n\nShortly after nine in the morning on Tuesday he was fatally shot in the chest, point-blank, at the wheel of a Mercedes car for driving off during a police traffic check. At 17 he was too young for a licence.\n\n\"What am I going to do now?\" asked his mother. \"I devoted everything to him,\" she said. \"I've only got one, I haven't got 10 [children]. He was my life, my best friend.\"\n\nHis grandmother spoke of him as a \"kind, good boy\".\n\n\"A refusal to stop doesn't give you a licence to kill,\" said Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure. \"All the children of the Republic have a right to justice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNahel had spent the past three years playing for the Pirates of Nanterre rugby club. He had been part of an integration programme for teenagers struggling in school, run by an association called Ovale Citoyen.\n\nThe programme was aimed at getting people from deprived areas into apprenticeships and Nahel was learning to be an electrician.\n\nOvale Citoyen president Jeff Puech was one of the adults locally who knew him best. He had seen him only a few days ago and spoke of a \"kid who used rugby to get by\".\n\n\"He was someone who had the will to fit in socially and professionally, not some kid who dealt in drugs or got fun out of juvenile crime,\" Mr Puech told Le Parisien.\n\nHe praised the teenager's \"exemplary attitude\", a far cry from what he condemned as a character assassination of him painted on social media.\n\nHe had got to know Nahel when he lived with his mother in the Vieux-Pont suburb of Nanterre before they moved to the Pablo Picasso estate.\n\nShortly after his death an ambulance man, Marouane, launched a tirade against a police officer, explaining later that he knew the boy as if he was his little brother. He had seen him grown up as a kind, helpful child. \"He never raised a hand to anyone and he was never violent,\" he told reporters.\n\nHis mother believes the police officer who shot him \"saw an Arab face, a little kid, and wanted to take his life\". She told France 5 TV she blamed only the one person who fired the shot, not the police: \"I have friends who are officers - they're with me wholeheartedly.\"\n\n\"May Allah grant him mercy,\" read a banner unfurled over the Paris ring road outside Parc des Princes stadium.\n\nFlowers were left at the site where Nahel died\n\n\"Police violence happens every day, especially if you're Arab or black,\" said one young man in another French city calling for justice for Nahel.\n\nBut the family's lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, said this was not about racism, but about justice.\n\n\"We have a law and judicial system that protects police officers and it creates a culture of impunity in France,\" he told the BBC.\n\nNahel had been the subject of as many as five police checks since 2021 - what is known as a refus d'obtempérer - refusing to comply with an order to stop.\n\nWhen he was stopped by police, he was driving a Mercedes with Polish number plates, with two passengers and no licence.\n\nAs recently as last weekend, he had reportedly been placed in detention for refusing to comply and was due to appear before a juvenile court in September.\n\nHis name was on a police file called a Taj, used by authorities for a variety of investigations.\n\nLast September a judge imposed a \"disciplinary measure\". Most of the trouble he got into involved cars: driving without a licence or insurance and using false number plates.\n\nBut Nahel had never been convicted, said family lawyer Jennifer Cambla, and had no criminal record. Being known to police was not the same as a criminal record, because he had never been tried for anything listed on his police file, she told French TV.\n\n\"I think in this kind of suburb it's pretty rare that a young person hasn't been stopped by police or hasn't been in custody,\" Ms Cambla said.\n\nThe riots that his death has provoked are a reminder for many in France of the events of 2005, when two teenagers, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, were electrocuted as they fled police after a game of football and ran into an electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.\n\n\"It could have been me, it could have been my little brother,\" a Clichy teenager called Mohammed told French website Mediapart.", "Johnson was \"kind and wonderful\" and always had \"a twinkle in her eye\", her family and representatives said\n\nActress Meg Johnson, who appeared in three of the UK's most popular soap operas, has died at the age of 86.\n\nA soap stalwart, Johnson was Coronation Street's Eunice Gee and Brookside's Brigid McKenna, before joining Emmerdale as Pearl Ladderbanks in 2003.\n\nIn a statement, her family, talent agency Jorg Betts Associates and ITV said she had been \"kind and wonderful\" and always had \"a twinkle in her eye\".\n\nThey said she had dementia in recent years, but \"battled on\" regardless.\n\nThey said it was with \"great sadness\" that they had to announce she died \"peacefully\" on Saturday evening, \"surrounded by her family\"\n\n\"Meg was a kind and wonderful lady, full of warmth and always with a twinkle in her eye,\" they said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emmerdale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThey said she had had \"an outstanding career\" and had \"battled on personally and professionally regardless\" after her dementia diagnosis.\n\n\"She will be greatly missed by everyone who knew her,\" they added.\n\nA host of soap stars took to social media to pay tribute to Johnson, including her Emmerdale co-star Danny Miller, who said he was \"truly devastated\".\n\n\"Pearl was a fair way to describe our lovely Meg,\" he said.\n\nHe said she was the creator of the phrase \"pig's bum\" which she would say whenever she forgot her lines and had been \"a loved soul throughout the building\".\n\nFormer cast member Gemma Oaten said the \"late and great\" Johnson had been a \"beautiful woman inside and out, who was always so kind to me\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Manchester in 1936, Johnson had a number of TV roles before making her Coronation Street debut in 1976 as Brenda Holden.\n\nShe went on to jon the soap's cast as Eunice Gee in 1981, a role she returned to several times for the next two decades.\n\nShe was also part of the cast of Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV in the mid-1980s, alongside the late comedian, as well as Dame Julie Walters and Celia Imrie, and in 1997, she took to the stage in the original cast of the London revival of Chicago, playing prison warder Matron Mama Morton for more than a year.\n\nIn 2000, she was cast as Brigid McKenna in Channel 4's Brookside, playing the role until the soap's cancellation in 2003, when she moved on to Emmerdale, where she portrayed the much loved character Pearl Ladderbanks for 17 years.\n\nJohnson was married to ITV Granada continuity announcer Charles Foster, who was widely reported to have died earlier in 2023.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The US president will meet King Charles III in London for the first time since he was crowned King. Here Mr Biden is seen with the then Prince of Wales at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.\n\nUS President Joe Biden is to travel to the UK to meet King Charles and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak later this month.\n\nIt is the first time the US president will have met the King since the Coronation in May.\n\nMr Biden's overseas diplomatic trip - in which he will also travel to Lithuania and Finland - will take place from 9 to 13 July.\n\nBuckingham Palace confirmed King Charles was due to meet the president at Windsor Castle on Monday, 10 July.\n\nMr Biden did not attend the King's coronation in May - but his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, and his granddaughter went instead.\n\nThe Bidens were at Queen Elizabeth's funeral at Westminster Abbey in September. On the eve of the funeral they attended a reception hosted by the King for world leaders.\n\nHis visit follows Mr Sunak's two-day trip to Washington in June, where both leaders discussed Ukraine, a post-Brexit economy and the pros and cons of Artificial Intelligence.\n\nThis month's meeting would \"further strengthen the close relationship between our nations\", the White House said.\n\nDowning Street put out a similar statement, saying that Mr Biden's upcoming visit \"reflects the strong relationship\" between the UK and US.\n\n\"The prime minister looks forward to welcoming President Biden in the UK later this month,\" a No 10 spokesperson said.\n\n\"This reflects the strong relationship between the UK and US, building on a series of bilateral visits and meetings earlier this year.\n\n\"We'll set out further detail in due course.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Biden stopped in Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, and briefly met Mr Sunak.\n\nAfter the UK, the US president will travel to Vilnius in Lithuania for the Nato summit, which takes place on 11 and 12 July.\n\nOn his final day, he will visit Helsinki, Finland for a US-Nordic Leaders Summit, where the focus of the talks is expected to be the Russia-Ukraine war.", "New measures aimed at curbing protest methods often used by environmental groups have come into effect.\n\nPolice in England and Wales now have powers to move protesters who disrupt transport, while offenders could face three years in jail for tunnelling.\n\nThe Home Office says the Public Order Act 2023 will target \"a selfish minority\" but critics argue they threaten the right to protest.\n\nGroups such as Just Stop Oil have continued with high-profile protests.\n\nUnder the new laws, those found guilty of tunnelling or \"being present in a tunnel to cause serious disruption\" could be jailed for up to three years.\n\nTaking equipment to a tunnel carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison, as will obstructing major transport works.\n\nThe digging of makeshift tunnels has been used for many years as a form of protest, against projects such as the building of the HS2 rail project, as well as by groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.\n\nThe British Transport Police and the Ministry of Defence Police will now have powers to move static protests, a common tactic of campaign groups.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said the heightened measures will target \"selfish protesters\" who cause \"mayhem\" on the streets.\n\nIn recent months, the government has also introduced new powers to tackle tactics used by protest groups, including slow-walking and \"locking on\".\n\nDespite the enhanced measures, environmental groups have continued to take action, including briefly halting Saturday's annual Pride parade in central London in a protest against one of the event's sponsors.\n\nA Just Stop Oil spokesperson told the BBC the \"draconian\" measures were targeting young people who \"just want a liveable future\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion urged the government to stop curtailing the right to protest and instead \"stop issuing new licences for oil, coal and gas\".", "Several schools have been targeted by the rioters. One of them is Nursery School Albert Samain – its canteen was severely damaged by the flames.\n\nSome of the pupils wrote a sign and hung it outside the main entrance. It reads:\n\n“Please do not burn the schools. It’s super important. Thank you.”\n\nMarie is a mother-of-four, and spoke to us outside her home.\n\n“We are scared for our children. They cried all night long, because of the fire and the explosions.”\n\nHer son chimes in: “I couldn’t sleep because of the explosions. I thought they were going to burn our home. I thought they were going to burn me too.”\n\nYesterday we reported from an office building that was burned to the ground.\n\nToday, residents told us that some of the people who set fire to it were directly related to the people who worked there. Several of them were their cousins.\n\nThe 500 employees who had offices there are likely to be temporarily laid off.\n\nKamel, a man in his 40s who’s lived in Roubaix his whole life, summed up what so many people in this area feel:\n\n“These people are destroying their own communities and their own neighbourhood. The riots are incomprehensible.”", "Second LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Lord's (day five of five)\n\nYet another staggering century from Ben Stokes was not enough to carry England to an astonishing second-Test victory over Australia at Lord's in one of the most incredible and controversial finishes in the history of the game.\n\nIn an effort up there with his match-winning knocks against Australia at Headingley four years ago and in the World Cup final against New Zealand on this ground, England captain Stokes belted 155 in what threatened to become the greatest innings ever played in Test cricket.\n\nSupported by the courageous Stuart Broad, Stokes added 108 for the seventh wicket in little more than 20 overs, but finally miscued Josh Hazlewood with England 70 adrift of their target of 371.\n\nHe left to a rousing standing ovation and, without their inspirational skipper, England were bowled out for 327 to give Australia victory by 43 runs and a 2-0 series lead.\n\nStokes and Broad, the fiercest of Ashes competitors, were fuelled by a hugely contentious stumping of Jonny Bairstow, which left England needing 178 runs with just four wickets in hand.\n\nBelieving the ball to be dead, Bairstow wandered out of his ground as wicketkeeper Alex Carey under-armed the ball at the stumps. Australia celebrated and Bairstow was given out by TV umpire Marais Erasmus.\n\nAs the furious Bairstow departed, Lord's showered Australia with boos that would last for the rest of the day - some players were confronted by spectators in the Long Room, for which the Marylebone Cricket Club issued an apology.\n\nOn the field, Stokes channelled his frustration into some stunning hitting, hammering 38 runs from the next 16 balls he faced after the Bairstow dismissal and clubbing Cameron Green for three successive sixes to reach his century.\n\nStokes, who was dropped on 77 and twice on 114, made Australia pay with a total of nine maximums - a record for an Ashes innings.\n\nBut this was a miracle beyond even Stokes and Australia now need to win only one of the remaining three Tests to take victory in an Ashes series in this country for the first time in 22 years.\n\nSomehow, players on both sides must regroup for the third Test at Headingley on Thursday.\n\nPace bowler Matthew Potts and leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed, who was called up as cover for Moeen Ali, have dropped out of England's squad for the third Test.\n• None How an astonishing final day at Lord's unfolded\n• None I wouldn't want to win in that manner - Stokes\n• None TMS podcast: Super Stokes goes down in vain\n\nAustralia almost pay for poking the bear\n\nEven by the standards of past Ashes dramas or daring Stokes feats, this was utterly sensational and will last longer in the memory than the eventual outcome of this series.\n\nWhether or not the Bairstow decision was correct, or within the spirit of the game, Australia made the error of awakening Stokes and almost paid the ultimate price.\n\nFrom England's 114-4 overnight, Stokes had to overturn being given lbw to Mitchell Starc on 39 in a stand of 132 with Ben Duckett, who played one hook too many and was well caught by Carey off Hazlewood for 83.\n\nThe wicket punctured English hope and seemed to put Australia on course for victory, only for the Bairstow controversy to change the course of the final day.\n\nWith Broad's determination to survive matched only by his eagerness to antagonise the Australians, Stokes slipped into a gear not seen since Headingley 2019.\n\nWhen he belted a return catch through the hands of Pat Cummins, it felt like a personal blow directed at his opposite number.\n\nTime and again he swatted enormous blows over the leg side. The three hits off Green, one of which was dropped over the boundary by Starc, were celebrated by increasingly loud cheers from a Lord's crowd that had reached fever pitch. The third six gave Stokes his 13th Test ton - he had taken 35 from 10 Green deliveries.\n\nThe arguing continued as the players left for lunch, Australia jeered all the way. Usman Khawaja and David Warner confronted spectators in the Long Room.\n\nThe break could have derailed England's momentum, but Stokes imperiously hit Hazlewood's second ball after the resumption back over his head for six and, in the same over, Steve Smith dropped a sitter at deep square leg, while a diving Carey just missed a glove down the leg side.\n\nWhen Stokes was on strike, Australia had all nine fielders on the boundary, so he hit the ball into the crowd - twice more off Hazlewood. The fired-up Broad was trusted with one or two deliveries each over, bravely fending off bouncers. Australia, without injured spinner Nathan Lyon, had their minds scrambled into poor plans with the ball and mistakes in the field.\n\nJust as Australia were out of ideas and Stokes was in complete control, an error came out of nowhere. A miscue off Hazlewood looped up for Carey and the excitement and expectation in Lord's was instantly deflated.\n\nOllie Robinson was out on the hook to Cummins, Broad in the same way to Hazlewood for 11 from 36 balls.\n\nJames Anderson, in what could be his last Lord's Test, was cheered all the way to the crease and took a sickening blow to the helmet off Starc.\n\nAnderson added 25 for the last wicket with Josh Tongue before Tongue was bowled by Starc and the victorious Australians were again barracked off the field.\n\nThe Bairstow decision has already become one of the most infamous incidents in Ashes history, a moment that incensed the usually genteel Lord's crowd. On more than one occasion, there were chants of \"cheat, cheat, cheat\".\n\nThe laws of the game state: \"The ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the bowler's end umpire that the fielding side and both batters at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play.\"\n\nCarey clearly did not think the ball was dead - he threw it as soon as he could. Bairstow did believe it to be dead, with the added variable being the end of the over.\n\nThe key seems to be standing umpire Ahsan Raza, who was not watching the action and preparing to return a cap to bowler Green as the ball hit the stumps.\n\nThough the decision appears correct by the letter of the law, Australia could have opted to withdraw their appeal.\n\nThat they did not almost cost them the match. It may yet have longer ramifications in this series.\n\nEngland on the brink despite Stokes heroics\n\nThis is already an Ashes series for the ages, but the fact remains that England have to come from 2-0 down in order to lift the urn - something they have never done before.\n\nThe heroics of the final day came too late at Lord's. On the previous four they failed to take advantage of bowling on a dank first day and threw away wickets in their first innings with some infuriating batting. England dropped catches and, even at the beginning of Australia's second innings, had favourable conditions in which to bowl.\n\nMoving forwards, England have problems to solve. There are fitness doubts over Ollie Pope, Mark Wood and Moeen Ali, and there is a need to refresh a pace attack that includes a tired-looking Anderson.\n\nBut, what has the final day at Lord's done to galvanise England and damage an Australia team that previously looked unstoppable?\n\nThe teams head to Leeds knowing England will receive fervent support and the Australians a hostile reception.\n\nHeadingley is the home of famous Ashes comebacks. England now need to start the most unlikely of them all.\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special: \"There is a lot to talk about but the bottom line is that Australia are 2-0 up in the series with three more games to go.\"\n\nEngland captain Ben Stokes: \"\"We nearly got there but nearly is not enough unfortunately. All we are thinking about is 3-2.\"\n\nAustralia captain Pat Cummins: \"Another wonderful game, right down to the wire. Stokesy gave us a few heart-stopping moments and the crowd seemed to enjoy it.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"I said it from day one, England were too friendly. This has really shown England they can't be like that.\"\n\nAustralia batter Steve Smith: \"Stokes is an unbelievable player, some of the things he can pull off. He's a freak.\"", "Police said a \"peaceful protest\" was held \"without incident\" before the event\n\nThirteen protesters have been arrested over an attempt to disrupt the English Greyhound Derby, police have said.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said a \"peaceful protest\" before the Towcester Racecourse event \"passed off without incident\", but activists later made a failed attempt to disrupt the race.\n\nThe force said 10 people were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass and going equipped to lock on.\n\nIt said three Animal Rising members had been arrested earlier in the day.\n\nThe animal rights group said it had targeted the race over the \"harm\" caused to \"thousands of greyhounds every year\".\n\nA force representative said the first three arrests were on suspicion of aggravated trespass after activists broke \"into the race circuit shortly after midday\" and climbed on to scaffolding around a big screen.\n\nThey said \"specially trained protest removal officers were deployed\" and three men were removed prior to the event starting.\n\nProtesters climbed scaffolding around a big screen on the site in an effort to disrupt the racing\n\nThey said a \"peaceful protest, facilitated by police, passed off without incident\" ahead of the start of the racing, but a \"small number of protesters attempted to make their way on to the track ahead of the final, main race\".\n\n\"They were prevented from doing so by police officers who made 10 arrests for offences of aggravated trespass and going equipped to lock on,\" they said.\n\nThey added that three activists had also been arrested before the event on Friday.\n\nCh Insp Pete Basham said it had been \"a well-planned operation\" on what the force had expected to be \"a challenging day\".\n\n\"I'm pleased to say there was no actual disruption to the event... and the spectators were able to see all races completed as scheduled,\" he added.\n\nA Towcester Racecourse representative said about 4,000 people had attended the event and the \"entire evening proceeded with no disruption\".\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British have a love-hate relationship with the NHS.\n\nAccording to researchers at the King's Fund, the public gave the NHS its worst rating since records began 40 years ago. Just 29% said they were satisfied with the NHS in 2022.\n\nAnd yet we still love it. A whopping 90% of the public agrees the service should be free and available to everyone.\n\nBut with more than seven million people on waiting lists, almost everyone knows someone who isn't getting the care they need.\n\nAs the NHS approaches its 75th anniversary, politicians are falling over themselves to praise the service.\n\nBut when the cameras aren't rolling, the message you hear can be a very different one. Just like us, politicians have a love-hate relationship with the NHS.\n\n\"The whole system is paralysed and not improving - all the progress is going backwards.\" That's not the kind of thing you're likely to hear a minister say in public but it is the candid verdict of a former health minister talking privately.\n\nThey say the NHS chief executive has become the \"rationer-in-chief\" tasked with \"spreading the jam more and more thinly\" as the demand for care races ahead of what's available.\n\nAnother Conservative former minister tells me the \"National Health Service is an oxymoron\", a contradiction, because \"the leadership is incredibly patchy and outcomes are mixed\".\n\nFor Labour, a source says there is increasing \"anxiety and jeopardy\" about the future of the service and \"it really is a case of change or die\".\n\nYou'd be hard pressed to find a politician who would admit that services are being rationed but in off-the-record conversations that word comes up again and again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Are you in a parallel universe on economy and NHS? - PM asked\n\nOne of the former ministers says \"people have to understand that there is rationing according to wait\" - saying that is the \"trade-off\" with the traditional model.\n\nA former government adviser says \"people know there is rationing - the service is pretty good when you get it - but you might not\".\n\nYou won't find health rationing on any political leaflet or Facebook ad.\n\nBut the public's attachment to the concept of the NHS remains extremely strong. Before and after the pandemic voters are in no mood for a discussion about changing its core principles - despite all the problems.\n\nThe former government health adviser tells me that any serious conversation about fundamental change is nigh on impossible.\n\n\"Any sophisticated Tory politician knows they'd sign their own death warrant\" if they raised the prospect of a wholesale change, they say.\n\nRemember Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's proposal to fine patients if they missed a GP appointment? It was ditched almost as soon as it was suggested.\n\nAnother former official describes the public's strong emotional connection to the idea of the institution itself, saying: \"It's like your family. I'll moan and moan and moan about it, but if someone else from outside has a go at them, I'll have them on toast. It's like criticising your football team - they can naff off!\"\n\nPlenty of politicians talk about reforms to the service - whether that is working with the private sector or this week's workforce plan. But whether it is required or not, it is almost unthinkable now that any mainstream politician would argue for a sweeping change to the whole system.\n\nOf course, that has an impact on what governments choose to do to try and improve the service, which might not be the most effective long-term focus.\n\nOne former official suggests: \"Politicians want solutions with easy metrics like cutting waiting lists.\n\n\"If you do cut them in the short term, that just means more operations, it doesn't address stopping people being ill in the first place.\"\n\nA former minister says rather than go for bold reforms after the pandemic \"we have gone straight back to the voodoo land of heroic pointless commitments that will never get met because as a country we are so ill\".\n\nAnother suggests ministers are actually scared of telling the public hard truths about increasing cost pressures in the health service. \"The public has unrealistic expectations of what we can deliver - the government is frightened of that,\" they say.\n\nAnd as we've talked about many times here and on the show, unless and until governments confront the aching gaps in care for the elderly and vulnerable, the rest of the health service has to absorb the costly consequences of social care system that to a large extent just doesn't work.\n\nOne of the former ministers I've spoken to is intensely frustrated that it is so hard to have a full conversation about the NHS, saying that \"it's a political problem, not a resources problem. Our politicians just aren't finding the space\" to talk about really bold changes.\n\nOne former adviser agrees, saying \"everyone of all stripes is scared to take it on\".\n\nYet the fact politicians find it almost impossible to talk about alternatives is also a tribute to the longevity of the NHS and the public's belief in it.\n\nThe former adviser suggests that while people have to wait and outcomes vary \"as a system it is extraordinarily fair and that has to be worth something\".\n\nLove it and hate it. It is most certainly here to stay.", "Victor Lee died from stab wounds, the Met Police said\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Victor Lee, who was found dead in a canal in north-west London last Sunday.\n\nVictor's body was pulled from the Grand Union Canal after police were called to reports of a stabbing. He was declared dead at the scene.\n\nThree boys, aged 14, 15 and 17, were charged with murder and robbery on Saturday.\n\nThey are set to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA post-mortem examination on Wednesday concluded that the 17-year-old from Ealing died from stab injuries.\n\nPolice are continuing to appeal to the public for information and witnesses, earlier asking for dashcam footage of anyone driving near Scrubs Lane between 17:15 and 18:15 on Sunday.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nThe Marylebone Cricket Club has suspended three members over altercations with Australia players at Lord's on day five of the second Test.\n\nTelevision footage appeared to show clashes between Usman Khawaja and David Warner and spectators in the Long Room as Australia walked off for lunch.\n\nThe incident came after England's Jonny Bairstow was controversially stumped by Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey.\n\nThe MCC said it had apologised \"unreservedly\" before confirming it had suspended three members identified from the incident.\n\n\"They will not be permitted back to Lord's whilst the investigation takes place,\" the MCC added in a statement.\n\n\"We maintain that the behaviour of a small number of members was completely unacceptable and whilst there was no suggestion by [Australia captain] Pat Cummins in the post-match press conference that there was any physical altercation, it remains wholly unacceptable to behave in such a way, which goes against the values of the club.\n\n\"MCC condemns the behaviour witnessed and once again we re-iterate our apology to Cricket Australia.\"\n\nKhawaja said the behaviour of the members was \"really disappointing\", while Cummins added he thought some could lose their memberships as a result.\n\n\"Lord's is one of my favourite places to come,\" said Khawaja. \"There's always respect shown at Lord's, particularly in the members' pavilion in the Long Room, but there wasn't today.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that was coming out of the members' mouths is really disappointing and I wasn't just going to stand by and cop it. So I just talked to a few of them.\n\n\"A few of them were throwing out some pretty big allegations and I just called them up on it and they kept going, and I was like, well, this is your membership here.\n\n\"It's pretty disrespectful, to be honest. I just expect a lot better from the members.\"\n• None Superb Stokes century not enough to deny Australia\n• None I wouldn't want to win in that manner - Stokes\n• None TMS podcast: Super Stokes goes down in vain\n\nAustralia asked the MCC to investigate, initially saying players had been \"physically contacted\" as well as verbally abused.\n\nBased at Lord's, which it owns, the MCC acts as custodian and arbiter of the laws and spirit of cricket.\n\n\"We have unreservedly apologised to the Australian team,\" the MCC said in a statement.\n\nTempers flared after Carey threw down the stumps to dismiss Bairstow, who left his crease after seemingly believing the ball was dead at the end of the 52nd over in England's second innings.\n\nAustralia's players were booed and players from both sides exchanged words as they walked off the field at lunch before Khawaja and Warner appeared to be confronted by members.\n\n\"MCC came and apologised for the behaviour of some of the members,\" said Cummins.\n\n\"I think some of them might lose their memberships over the way they behaved. Other than that one time, they were fantastic all week. Normally fantastic, really welcoming.\n\n\"They were just quite aggressive and abusive towards some of our players, which I know the MCC weren't too happy with.\"", "Ukraine found the remains of British World War Two Hurricane aircraft in a forest outside Kyiv\n\nThe rusting remains of eight British Hurricane fighter planes dating back to World War Two have been found buried in a forest in Ukraine.\n\nThe aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1941.\n\nThey were part of a package of allied military support for the USSR, paid for by the United States under the so-called Lend-Lease scheme.\n\nSimilar legislation is being used by the US government today to send military aid to Ukraine as it seeks to expel Russian forces from its country.\n\nAviation experts say this is the first time the remains of so many Hurricanes have been found in Ukraine.\n\n\"It is very rare to find this aircraft in Ukraine,\" says Oleks Shtan, a former airline pilot who is leading the excavation. \"It's very important for our aviation history because no Lend-Lease aircraft have been found here before.\"\n\nThe UK sent some 3,000 Hurricanes to the Soviet Union during the war against Nazi Germany\n\nThe Hawker Hurricane was the workhorse of the Battle of Britain - the air campaign of 1940 when the Royal Air Force (RAF) defeated German attempts to invade the UK. Although its role has often been overshadowed by the newer and more adaptable Spitfire plane, the Hurricane actually shot down more than half of all enemy aircraft during the battle.\n\n\"The Hurricane was a strong, easy to fly machine,\" Mr Shtan says. \"It was stable as a gun platform and suitable for inexperienced pilots. A reliable aircraft.\"\n\nIn total, about 3,000 Hurricanes were sent to the USSR between 1941 and 1944 to support the Soviet war effort. Most were either destroyed in combat or dismantled later for parts.\n\nBut some Hurricanes were deliberately broken up and buried after the war so the Soviets did not have to pay back the United States. Under the Lend-Lease legislation, the USSR was required to pay for any donated military equipment that remained intact after hostilities ended.\n\nThis was the fate of the eight Hurricanes found buried in woodland south of Kyiv - now the capital of independent Ukraine, but until 1991 part of the USSR.\n\nUkraine is now painstakingly cleaning and repairing the planes, so they can be put on display\n\nThey had been stripped of their instruments, radios, machine guns and any useful scrap metal. They were then dragged by tractors from a nearby airfield, broken up and dropped without ceremony into a shallow ravine. It is thought they were then covered with earth by bulldozers.\n\nThe remains were discovered recently after an unexploded bomb dating from the war was found nearby. The rest of the ravine was checked using metal detectors and the Hurricanes were found.\n\nThe National Aviation Museum of Ukraine is now in the process of painstakingly excavating the site by hand. Staff there aim to identify as much of the aircraft as possible so they can be reassembled and put on display.\n\nValerii Romanenko, head of research at the museum, says the Hurricanes played an important part in Ukraine's history.\n\n\"The Hurricanes are a symbol of British assistance during the years of the Second World War, just as we are very appreciative of British assistance nowadays,\" he says. \"The UK is one of the largest suppliers of military equipment to our country now.\"\n\nThe Hurricanes are a symbol of British assistance... just as we are very appreciative of British assistance now\n\n\"In 1941 Britain was the first who supplied fighter aircraft to the Soviet Union in mass scale. Now the UK is the first country which gives Storm Shadow cruise missiles to our armed forces.\"\n\nIt is thought there are just 14 restored Hurricanes able to fly in the world today.\n\nAfter the German invasion, the USSR lost many warplanes and was in desperate need of fighter aircraft. Initially several RAF Hurricane squadrons were sent to the Arctic to help.\n\nBut soon the British pilots left and the aircraft were taken over by Soviet airmen. Records show that many disliked the Hurricane, considering it under-powered, under-armed and under-protected.\n\nBy the end of the war it was considered obsolete and was used mainly for air defence work. The eight Hurricanes found south of Kyiv were used to defend major transport hubs - especially railway stations and junctions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Explosions and gunfire as BBC reports from Jenin\n\nThere have been intense exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and armed Palestinian militants in Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe Israeli military began what appears to be one of its most extensive operations in the territory in years with drone strikes early on Monday.\n\nNine Palestinians have been killed and 100 injured, health officials say.\n\nIsrael said it was putting a stop to Jenin being \"a refuge for terrorism\". Palestinians accused it of a war crime.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent says its crews have evacuated 3,000 people - including patients and the elderly - from the camp to hospitals.\n\nIt says dozens of people had been detained by Israeli forces in their homes since early Monday, without being provided or allowed any food or drink.\n\nThe Israeli military said there was no specific timeline for ending the operation, but that it could be \"a matter of hours or a few days\".\n\nJenin has become a stronghold of a new generation of Palestinian militants who have become deeply frustrated by the Palestinian Authority's aging leadership and the restrictions of the Israeli occupation.\n\nThe city has seen repeated Israeli military raids in the past year as local Palestinians have carried out deadly attacks on Israelis. Other Palestinian attackers have hidden there.\n\nIn 2002, during the second Palestinian intifada, Israeli forces launched a full-scale incursion in Jenin. At least 52 Palestinian militants and civilians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed during 10 days of intense fighting.\n\nHundreds of Israeli soldiers were still operating inside Jenin on Monday night, more than 20 hours after the operation began.\n\nAs well as the hum of drones overhead, regular bursts of gunfire and the loud thuds of explosions came throughout the day from the densely populated refugee camp, which is home to some 18,000 people and is now declared a closed Israeli military zone.\n\nAcrid smoke from burning tyres lit during protests also hung in the air above the city centre. A few young Palestinians were out on the streets, standing close to shuttered shops and staring nervously in the direction of the camp.\n\nThe Israeli military has cut off telephone communications and the electricity supply to the camp, making it difficult to get an accurate picture of what is happening. Palestinian medics have also been struggling to reach the dozens of injured there.\n\nAt the Palestinian hospital by the main entrance to the camp the mood was grim.\n\nOne man told the BBC: \"I met my brother's friend. I went up to him and had barely said a few words when he dropped on the ground. I went to run away, then I got hit by two bullets.\"\n\nAnother man said there was a \"massacre\" in the camp.\n\n\"There are children and civilians and they're not letting them out,\" he added. \"Our electricity is cut, they have dug up all our roads. The camp will be destroyed.\"\n\nJovana Arsenijevic of the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières told the BBC she was at a hospital that had seen more than 90 patients wounded by gunfire or shrapnel from explosive devices.\n\nThe Israeli military said it was acting on precise intelligence and did not to seek to harm civilians, but many have been caught in the crossfire.\n\nThe military allowed about 500 Palestinian families to leave the camp on Monday night. Some raised their hands or waved makeshift white flags in a gesture of surrender.\n\nPeople told the BBC that some men and teenaged boys had been stopped by soldiers, and kept behind.\n\nHundreds of Israeli forces are on the ground in Jenin, said to be seizing weapons and explosives\n\nThe first drone strike overnight targeted an apartment that the military said was being used as a hideout for Palestinians who had attacked Israelis and as a \"joint operational command centre\" for the Jenin Brigades - a unit made up of different Palestinian militant groups including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.\n\nDrones were used for further air strikes and a brigade-size force of troops was deployed in what a military spokesman described as a \"counter-terrorism operation\" focused on seizing weapons and breaking \"the safe haven mindset of the camp, which has become a hornet's nest\".\n\nIn the past year and a half, Palestinians behind some 50 attacks targeting Israelis have come from Jenin, according to the military.\n\nAs armed Palestinians began fighting back from inside the camp, the Jenin Brigades said: \"We will fight the occupation [Israeli] forces until the last breath and bullet, and we work together and unified from all factions and military formations.\"\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry said nine Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces, including three in the overnight drone strike. They all appeared to be young men or in their late teens - some confirmed as belonging to armed groups.\n\nThe ministry warned that the death toll might rise because 20 of the injured were in a critical condition.\n\nAnother Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during a related protest near the West Bank city of Ramallah, it added.\n\nThe Israeli military said the Palestinians killed in Jenin were affiliated to militant groups.\n\nTroops had also apprehended some 50 militants during the operation, and seized weapons and ammunition, it added.\n\nOn Monday evening, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised its forces for entering what he called the \"nest of terrorists\" and asserted that they were doing so \"with minimal injury to civilians\".\n\n\"We will continue this action as long as necessary in order to restore quiet and security,\" he added.\n\nThere was a furious response to the operation from the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh.\n\n\"What's going on is an attempt to erase the refugee camp completely and displace the residents,\" he said.\n\nNeighbouring Jordan said the operation was \"a clear violation of international humanitarian law\", but the US expressed its support for what it called \"Israel's security and right to defend its people against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups\".\n\nIsraeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said the plan was not to expand the military operation outside Jenin, but already Palestinian protests have reached the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip. And the longer this action goes on in Jenin, the greater the risk of another dangerous, wider escalation.\n\nThe Jenin Brigade group has said its militants will fight back with their \"last breath and bullet\"\n\nThere has been a surge of violence in the West Bank in recent months.\n\nOn 20 June, seven Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin which saw the military's first use of an attack helicopter in the West Bank in years.\n\nThe next day, two Hamas gunmen shot dead four Israelis near the settlement of Eli, 40km (25 miles) to the south.\n\nA Palestinian man was later shot dead during a rampage by hundreds of settlers in the nearby town of Turmusaya.\n\nThat week also saw three Palestinian militants from Jenin killed in a rare Israeli drone strike.\n\nSince the start of the year, more than 140 Palestinians - both militants and civilians - have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, while another 36 have been killed in the Gaza Strip.\n\nTwenty-four Israelis, two foreigners and a Palestinian worker have been killed in attacks or apparent attacks by Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. All were civilians except one off-duty serving soldier and a member of the Israeli security forces.\n\nAdditional reporting by Rushdi Abu Alouf in Gaza City and Robert Greenall in London", "The Wagner group entered the country via Rostov-on-Don in a bid to get closer to Moscow\n\nA week on from the dramatic mutiny by Wagner forces, residents in Rostov-on-Don - the city the mercenary troops seized - have been reflecting on the events that rocked Russia.\n\nIn just 24 hours, leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, staged an insurrection, sending troops into the city of a million people and further on towards Moscow.\n\nDue to the current laws against criticising the so-called \"special military operation\" in Russia, the BBC has chosen to protect the identities of the citizens who spoke to us.\n\nOne Rostov-on-Don local - who the BBC is calling Vadim - described the moment he spotted Wagner forces in the city.\n\n\"I had to leave my home that day just to pop out and get something from the shop. About ten or eleven, I saw these armed people that had closed off the road. They were checking cars, asking people for documents but passers-by were simply allowed to carry on walking,\" he told the BBC World Service's Weekend programme.\n\nIn Rostov, troops were positioned around the city\n\nWhen Vadim got home, he started receiving calls from worried friends asking him if he was okay. He decided to stay at home for the rest of the day.\n\n\"If I am to speak of the feelings I experienced that day, I suppose you could say I was alarmed and perhaps even scared. We knew that Prigozhin had planned to do something and Wagner is known for its crimes in various countries.\n\n\"The association that we have of Wagner killing someone with a sledgehammer caused me to be afraid,\" he added.\n\nVadim says the war in Ukraine has changed the city completely. Its become more militarised and has a number of military hospitals and wounded people.\n\n\"The city is really quite close to the front and that's how it feels.\"\n\nAnastasia, who was in Moscow, said that the uncertainty of the situation made her anxious\n\nAs Vadim sat at home in Rostov-on-Don, Anastasia was visiting Moscow from St Petersburg.\n\n\"We were checking the news together through the night and we woke up in the morning and there was even more news,\" she said. \"That was intense\".\n\nAnastasia, also a pseudonym, was staying with a friend in the southwest of the city, where preparations for the arrival of Wagner forces had started. She wasn't frightened that the troops would overtake the capital, she said. What made her anxious was the sheer uncertainty of the situation.\n\n\"All these things that seemed unreal previously, were beginning to happen. And it was completely unclear what was coming next. It was kind of scary, that uncertainty,\" she recalled.\n\n\"When Prigozhin started his march to Moscow, we didn't have any optimistic scenarios or what will happen. No one around me was happy about Prigozhin taking Moscow,\" Anastasia said.\n\n\"All scenarios seemed pretty bad. And the only thing that kind of felt hopeful was that something seemed to be changing. Some factors were making it possible to change. And then it ended.\"\n\nBy the end of Saturday, Prigozhin called the advance off and ordered his men back to base. His troops had come within 124 miles (200km) of reaching Moscow.\n\nThey retreated and by Monday, Wagner troops started leaving the city of Rostov-on-Don.\n\nIn Rostov-on-Don, some Russians greeted the Wagner troops with open arms\n\nVadim said life in the city has returned to normal but everyone has been joking about the events of the past week.\n\n\"We've been saying that on Saturday there was a mutiny, Sunday there was a day off, Monday there was a fire in the zoo, Tuesday there was flooding because of heavy rain and on Wednesday there were some people fighting with knives.\"\n\nIn regards to the political situation in Russia right now, Vadim says there hasn't been stability in the country since the invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"You know there's a saying in Chekov that in the first scene, the gun is hung on the wall and in the final scene, it fires. And you reap what you sow. So none of this is very unexpected.\"", "Maya Forstater found herself out of a job after tweeting \"gender-critical\" views\n\nA woman who lost out on a job after tweeting gender-critical views is to get a £100,000 payout after a decision from an employment tribunal.\n\nTax expert Maya Forstater did not have her contract renewed in March 2019 after writing tweets saying people could not change their biological sex.\n\nShe was found to have experienced discrimination while working for the Centre for Global Development (CGD).\n\nThe think tank said it would continue to try to build an inclusive workplace.\n\nIn their decision on Friday, three London judges said Ms Forstater should receive compensation of £91,500 and interest of £14,904.31.\n\nThe sum is to reflect lost earnings, injury to feelings and aggravated damages after the CGD's decision not to renew her contract or fellowship.\n\nMs Forstater, the founder of campaign group Sex Matters, believes biological sex is immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity.\n\nShe told The Times on Friday that the ruling \"sends a message to employers that this is discrimination like any other discrimination\".\n\nMs Forstater was congratulated in a tweet by Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who has courted controversy with her own statements on trans issues.\n\nThe contentious and high-profile case even proved divisive in the courts.\n\nMs Forstater lost her original case in 2019, when she was told by a tribunal judge that her approach was \"not worthy of respect in a democratic society\".\n\nBut she appealed, and won the backing two years later of a High Court judge - who said her views were protected by the Equality Act 2010.\n\nA fresh tribunal was ordered, and ruled last year that Ms Forstater experienced \"direct discrimination\" related to her beliefs.\n\nCommenting on the July 2022 ruling, charity Stonewall said the decision did not \"change the reality of trans people's workplace protection\".\n\nIt added: \"No-one has the right to discriminate against, or harass, trans people simply because they disagree with their existence and participation in society.\"\n\nResponding to Friday's tribunal decision, a CGD representative said the organisation \"has and will continue to strive to maintain a workplace that is welcoming, safe and inclusive to all\" and would now be able \"once again to focus exclusively on our mission - reducing global poverty and inequality through economic research that drives better policy and practice\".", "Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day, owner Elon Musk has said.\n\nIn a tweet of his own, Mr Musk said unverified accounts are now limited to reading 1,000 posts a day.\n\nFor new unverified accounts, the number is 500. Meanwhile, accounts with \"verified\" status are currently limited to 10,000 posts a day.\n\nThe tech billionaire initially set stricter limits, but he changed these within hours of announcing the move.\n\nMr Musk said the temporary limits were to address \"extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation\".\n\nHe did not explain what was meant by system manipulation in this context.\n\n\"We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users,\" Mr Musk explained on Friday, after users were presented with screens asking them to log in to view Twitter content.\n\nThe move was described as a \"temporary emergency measure\".\n\nIt is not totally clear what Mr Musk is referring to by data scraping, but it appears he means the scraping of large amounts of data used by artificial intelligence (AI) companies to train large language models, which power chatbots such as Open AI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard.\n\nIn simple terms, data scraping is the pulling of information from the internet. Large language models need to learn from masses of real human conversations. But the quality is vital to the success of a chatbot. Reddit and Twitter's huge trove of billions of posts are thought to be hugely important training data - and used by AI companies.\n\nBut platforms like Twitter and Reddit want to be paid for this data.\n\nIn April, Reddit's chief executive Steve Huffman told the New York Times that he was unhappy with what AI companies were doing.\n\n\"The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,\" he said. \"But we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.\"\n\nTwitter has already started charging users to access its application programming interface (API), which is often used by third party apps and researchers - which can include AI companies.\n\nThere are other potential reasons for the move too.\n\nMr Musk has been pushing people towards Twitter Blue, its paid subscription service. It's possible he is looking at a model where users will have to pay to get a full Twitter service - and access to unlimited posts.\n\nSignalled by a blue tick, \"verified\" status was given for free by Twitter to high-profile accounts before Mr Musk took over as its boss. Now, most users have to pay a subscription fee from $8 (£6.30) per month to be verified, and can gain the status regardless of their profile.\n\nAccording to the website Downdetector - which tracks online outages - a peak of 5,126 people reported problems accessing the platform in the UK at 16:12 BST on Saturday.\n\nIn the US, roughly 7,461 people reported glitches around the same time.\n\nInitially, Mr Musk announced reading limits of 6,000 posts per day for verified accounts, 600 for unverified accounts, and 300 for new unverified accounts.\n\nIn another update Mr Musk said \"several hundred organisations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively\".\n\nHe later indicated there had been a burden on his website, saying it was \"rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis\".\n\nA server is a powerful computer that manages and stores files, providing services such as web pages for users.\n\nAdam Leon Smith from BCS, the UK's professional body for IT, said the move was \"very odd\" as limiting users' scroll time would affect the company's advertising revenue.\n\nMr Musk bought the company last year for $44bn (£35bn) after much back and forth. He was critical of Twitter's previous management and said he did not want the platform to become an echo chamber.\n\nSoon after taking over, he cut the workforce from just under 8,000 staff to about 1,500.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, he said that cutting the workforce had not been easy.\n\nEngineers were included in the layoffs and their exit raised concerns about the platform's stability.\n\nBut while Mr Musk acknowledged some glitches, he told the BBC in April that outages had not lasted very long and the site was working fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser."], "link": ["http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66252061", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66263104", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66273287", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66273898", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-66268013", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66254908", 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